The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1875, Page 6

5 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henatp will be sent free of postage. oo THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Your cents .per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravy. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. Rejected commiunications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—-RUE SCRIBE, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. +oNO. 251 VOLUME, AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, 3 THEATRE COMIQUE, a a Broadway.—VARIBTY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, corner of Thirtieth street.—SIN AND SORROW, Broadway, wt 2 P.M FACE TO FACE, at & P.M; closes at 10:43 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, avenue, corner Twenty-third street.-OTHELLO, at j closes at 11 P.M. E. L. Davenport. Fighth ce METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M, LYCEUM THEATRE, street.—French Opera Fourteenth Bouffle—-MADAME WARCHIDUC, at 5 P.M. HOWE & CUSHL foot of Houston street, East Ri performances. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, and Fourteenth street.—-AROUND THE frviny at SP. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Ince Wo! . IN EIGHTY DA SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, wae House, Browdway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, at 8 P. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avence.—Day and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—RICHELIED, at 8 P.M. Mr. Barry Sullivan. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, § ee Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M:; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S MER GARDEN, late Barnum's Hippodrome. AND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Ree Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M, to5 TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third aven —VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FTH AV! Twenty-eighth street, near Broadw: ILE OPERA TROUPE, at 5 P. jad Unda y Moron. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. COLONEL SIN RK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at loses at 10:45'P. M, at 10:30 P. M. Ls THEATRE, Broadway and Thirtecuth street.—English Comic Opera— GRAND DUCHESS, at 8 P. os Julia Matthews, Mr. G. Hf. Macdermot NEW YORK, WED) DAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and clear or partly cloudy. Wat Srreer Yesterpay.—Gold was firm at 115. Stocks quiet, with prices a trifle higher. Moncey easy and foreign exchange weak. ‘Tue Prospect Park Races began yester- day under favorable auspices. There wasa good attendance and excellent sport. A Parat Conststony is announced for Thursday, when, it is understood, six new cardinals are to be created and the vacant sees in Spain provided with bishops. Tue American Team left many pleasant memories behind them, both in Ireland and England, and it will be seen from our cable news this morning that their praises are still uttered abroad. Canuism 1 Sparn is growing weaker day by day. General Dorregaray is in retreat, and disaffection and mutiny are reported in the Carlist strongholds, All this shows that the end is near, and it is to be hoped the rumors of peace will soon be » reality. Turkey seems to have learned a lesson from Spain and is very active in ending her insurrections by proclamation. We are again told this morning that order has been re- stored in Bosnia and that thé rebellion in Herzegovina is nearly ended@ It is not safe, however, to accept either of these assertions as true. ‘Tur Sunimx at Lounpes is attracting Ger- man pilgrims, and, to the surprise of every- body, there have been as yet no hostile demonstrations against the party in Belgium or France. ‘These pilgrimages are of no sig- rerap-onge amp onongge sages yee } ought to understand that the Northern peo- and to make them the exense for political disturbances is anwise unger any circum- slunces, Reconpen Hackerr’s Cuanoe to the Grand Jury yesterday is characteristic of a judge who is a terror to evil doers, The Record- er’s instructions to the jury are in keeping with his own conduct, and no judge who | ever sat on the Bench in this city has done so much to prevent the commission of crime by law. Sika ‘Tae Knoxanp Reseuiion.—Tho news of the Khokand rebellion and of General Kauf- mann’s victory over the rebels is confirmed. Ttussia’s new subjects in Central Asia are likely to find that rebeilion isa dangerous experiment, and though their first experience was a severe one it is not probable it will be their last. Even the present struggle is not over, and if all cause for harsh treatment has the necessity of striking the its continuance for some time longer, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESD Mississippi and Georgia. We advise the decent white people in Mis- sissippi to keep an eye on the blackguards of their own color, and try to restrain the law- lessness of these creatures somewhat. There is no doubt at all that the great mass of the Mississippi whites are honest, law-abiding citizens; but there is no doubt either that they have among them a considerable num- ber of swaggering, whiskey-drinking, pistol- shooting bullies, and that they give to this rufianly class a great deal too much license. Take as a case in point the Clinton aflair last Saturday. The colored people at Clinton held a barbe- eue on that day, and there being a large assembly they very wisely prohibited the sale and use of liquor on the grounds. They showed, as everybody must acknowledge, a fine sense of propriety in this regulation, which one might be surprised to find among a people so recently enslaved, and still so generally ignorant. They had also, it seems, officers on the ground to maintain order and see that the regulations of the day were ob- served. All this is very creditable to the colored people ; and the day appears to have gone on quietly, as was to be expected under the cireumstanées, until some of the so-called “superior race” came, uninvited, upon the ground, and, being ruffians—or ‘‘gentlemen,” as in our despatch they are called—at once proceeded to ‘“‘take a drink.” The Marshal, a colored man, told the ‘‘gentleman” to put away his bottle of whiskey, which he was flourishing around in the manner of one of the “superior race” in those parts; and when the Marshal attempted to take the bottle of whiskey away he was struck over the head with it. Thereupon a colored State Senator came forward to restore order. ‘The demo- cratic account says that he was followed by twenty indignant negroes, whom, however, he ordered back; but a crowd quickly gath- ered, into which Sively, the white hlack- guard, who had just broken his whiskey bottle over the colored Marshal's head, proceeded to fire all the shots in his re- yolver; and this pleasantry over, we read, “the gentleman surrendered and immedi- ately had his brains knocked out,” thus rid- ding the State of Mississippi of at least one of a too numerous class of white ruffians, whose impudent lawlessness does more to keep wealth and population out of that State than all her good citizens can do to bring them in. There followed a general battle, in which, we are glad to noti¢e, whites as well as blacks were killed; and after more or less promiscuous shooting dur- ing Saturday night and Sunday, done, so far as we have any accounts, altogether by the “‘superior race,” quiet was restored, But not until the white people of Clinton had used the occasion to ‘‘organize for self-pro- tection” and send to Vicksburg for reinforce- ments—an absurdity which reminds us of the early days of the late war—when, no sooner did the enemy run away, than the victorious party began to intrench itself and send word home that everybody was now safe. Unfortunately for Mississippi this is not an isolated case of unprovoked outrage upon colored people within a few months. On the Fourth of July, when the blacks of Vicks- burg met quietly in the Court House to cele- brate the day, a few white ruffians intruded on the meeting, and after insulting and noisy demeanor, began to shoot right and left and broke up the assemblage. There was not the least excuse for this; but we do not remem- ber that any one was punished for it, though the men were very well known. Within the last month there have been several little “scrimmages” between whites and blacks in the State, showing a good deal of bad blood and a readiness on the part of the ‘‘superior race” to shoot the inferior on very slight provocation, or none at all. Now, we beg the good people of Missis- sippi to compare this condition of affairs in their State with the recent conduct of their neighbors in Georgia, under what was to hundreds of them a very real provocation to bloodshed and abuse of the blacks. Nothing is more natural and almost inevitable, wher- ever two races occupy the same territory, than that rumors of conspiracy and intended insurrection by the lower and more ignorant should arouse the higher race to a relentless fury which exhibits itself in unreasoning bloodshed and murder. This has been a common incident in other countries than our own, and with us the Coushatta massacre is a notable instance in point. But in Georgia the people of the counties in which a negro | insurrection was apprehended conducted themselves with remarkable calmness ; the Governor promptly took the whole affair in his own charge; all attempts at lawlessness and abuse of negroes were put down, and the courts proceeded with conspicuous impar- tiality to investigate the matter. The reason for this difference is that in Georgia the substantial, law-abiding citizens | appear to have assumed and kept the control | In Mississippi | of affairs in their own hands. these sit still and suffer the lawless class to do its murderous will. Public opinion su- pinely tolerates these outrages on the weak and the unoffending. That isa bad thing just now in several | ways. In the first place, it is easy to see that such ao brutality as this Clinton out- | | Mississippi, becanse the regimen of the rivers rage is of the greatest use to Northern demagogues who want to ‘hoist the bloody shirt.” The white people of Mississippi ple are very impatient under such things. They do not wish the least harm to the Southern whites. We are all ready here to say that the war is over, and to let bygones be bygones. But such outrages as that of the Fourth of July at Vicksburg and at Clin- ton on Saturday arouse bad blood here in the North. We remarked the other day that the folly of the Ohio democrats was scaring the | | Connolly that official cruelty continues in the swift and certain administration of the | Lich iadsape gies “ae om Naren was putting that party into the hands of its least scrupulous men. But these Mississippi brutalities do even more than Allen and Pen- | dleton to this end. Again, the whites of Mississippi would do well to remember that it is not prudent to goad even a long subject and naturally mild race to extremes. By such wanton attacks on peaceable colored people as are but too frequent there they are arousing a devil that some day may rise upon them in fury. They cannot go on forever disap, | permitting injustice and outrage toward a wretched Asiaties with terror would compel | weaker race. Already in this Clinton affair we geo the marks of bad blood among the blacks. They begin to strike back—as they ought todo. Unfortunately, being ignorant and used to subserviency, there is danger that if ever they are goaded to retaliation they will not know where to stop. Finally, Mississippi has a fertile soil and a fine climate, It needs, as everybody down there says, more people; and it has a State emigration society which prints pamphlets and employs agents and uses various means to draw Northern farmers to the State. But one such outrage as this at Clinton does more to keep away the kind of people whom Mississippi needs than all the ef- forts of all her citizens can do in years to draw them thither. No Northern man who would make avaluable citizen for Mississippi will remove there while such things happen. He would be a fool if he did. There is great complaint in the State that property is de- preciated and unsalable; but why should it be otherwise? It is still less salable in Mexico and Central America, and for the same reason. Nobody cares to own property in a country where lawlessness ‘is tolerated and where there is not public spirit enough to defend the weak and protect the peaceable and orderly citizens against violence, The Associated Press and the Cali- fornia Failure. There isa great deal of complaint heard from some interested sources in regard to the Associated Press reports of the late California calamity. It is even alleged that the general agent of the Associated Press has falsified the news, forthe same reason for which a certain animal once went mad—‘‘to gain some private end.” This private end is said to have been not merely the furtherance of his quarrel with the California Bank people, by the transmission of untruthful reports to all the papers that print the Associated Press news, but worse still, the creation of a financial panic in the East through gross exaggeration of the facts. These reports we say we heard, but they are not heard from any of the papers that make up the Asso- ciated Press copartnership. These journals do not complain; and therefore they are, in all probability, satisfied with the news their agent gives them. If they are satisfied who else is entitled to complain ? Evidently this is a matter between the agent and his employers, and if the agent has any little games on foot that may be assisted by a despatch or two, and his employers are satisfied to help his little games by printing his despatches, then, in accordance with the happy morality that seems to prevail in these days, he is right, we suppose, in making the most of his opportunities. But perhaps all this complaint is only the envy of people whose own despatches were poor. Nobody has ever yet satisfactorily impeached this gentleman's despatches, and he can doubt- less defend them now. If he can, he should do it. We know his natural disinclination to such a course, and are fully aware with what difficulty he brings himself to write to the papers, But on this occasion he should lay aside his naturally retiring disposition and explain. 2 |The Mississipp! Bar. It is evident from the critical examination being given to ‘‘the jetty plan” for the im- provement of the navigation of the mouth of the Mississippi, by the Commission of En- gineers now in session in this city, that no hasty decision will be arrived at regarding the merits or otherwise of the system pro- posed. The Heraxp, while strong!y in favor of this grand undertaking, is desiroug of having it carried out in the most. successful and permanent manner, and has already urged on the Commission the necessity of ‘‘making haste slowly” in its final adop- tion of the plans of operation. The condi- tions surrounding the improvement of the Mississippi at its mouth are different from those attendant on similar operations on any other river. A glance at the map of the world, showing the character and direction of littoral currents and descriptive of their physical phenomena, furnishes no similar instance of a great river discharging its mud- laden waters into a tideless sea and at the same time being affected by the action of an oceanic current. The mouths of the Nile, the Danube, the Po and other rivers empty- ing into inland seas are not washed by litto- ral currents like the Mississippi, and exhibit in the development of their respective deltas aunifgrm distribution of the alluvium brought down by their waters. The peculiar con- formation of the Bay of Bengal protects the mouth of the Ganges from the wash of the current generated by the westward equatorial current from the East Indian archipelago. Consequently there js no diversion of the deposit from the axis of discharge. Experience has proved that all attempts at secking to alter the operation of natural forces react un- fayorably on the efforts to attain the object in view and create additional complications, The most that can be expected from an im- provement such as that proposed forthe Mis- | sissippi mouth is a modificatign of the diffi- culties of navigation, and this can only be obtained by paying due regard to the opera- tion of the physical laws that govern the case, The plans that would be admirably success- falon the Danube may fail utterly on the | is different. In this case let us have a well | matared plan; it is well worth waiting for. It is better that the Mississippi bar should | continte to exist for another year than | that it should become a permanent ob- struction, owing to an abortive effort at its removal. Orrictat, Crvertr.—It is not long since the Stockvis case surprised and terrified the community, and yet it now gppears by the verdict of the Coroner's jury in the case of the public institutions, and that the Com- | missioners of Public Charities and Corree- tion exercise but little care in the selection of proper persons for keepers in the hospitals and prisons. Geary, Cowenhoven, Reese and Hardy were all unfit for the positions to which they were appointed, and their brutal conduct is as discreditable to the Commis- sioners as it is reprehensible in itself. The worst feature about it is that there is no ex- euse for this neglect, the crnelties prac- tised in the public institutions being an ab- sorbing theme at the time the present Board came into office, AY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Republican Candidates, If it be true, as reported yesterday, that the Saratoga Convention intends to put Mr. John Bigelow on their ticket as candidate for Comptroller it will be one of the shrewdest movements ever executed in our State polities. Mr, Bigelow, who has ex- cellent qualifications for the office and would make a popular candidate, is the head of Governor Tilden’s famous Commission for in- vestigating the canal frauds. or the re- publicans to put him on their State ticket would be a manwuvre equal to anything ever devised by Mr. Thurlow Weed in the most active period of his life. It would trump Governor Tilden’s trick and cause equal amusement and admiration. A pretty figure the democrats would make in opposing Mr. Bigelow and denouncing him as an enémy of Governor Tilden’s great work of reform! With all the honest men in the State of both political parties to choose from Governor Tilden singled out Mr, Bigelow, whom he has known long and intimately, as the fittest citizen he could find to place at the head of a Commission charged with the duty of exposing frauds and finding evidence for the coming prosecutions. Nor has Mr. Bigelow shown any slackness in the per- formance of this duty. He has been the soul of this investigation. He has been the most rigorous and relentless examiner of the wit- nesses, He has been the author of the re- ports made from time to time by the Com- mission and lavishly praised by the whole democratic press. The Democratic Conven- tion can find no man to put on their ticket who is so actively and prominently identified with reform or has rendered the cause such signal services as Mr. Bigelow; for, of course, Governor Tilden cannot go on the ticket himself. There would be a touch of cémedy in,such a nomination, but none of the laughter would come in on the demo- eratic side, There is no reason why Mr. Bigelow should not accept such a nomina- tion. He has always been a republican, and did not cease to be one when Governor Tilden made him the head of the Commis- sion to shield it from the charge of being partisan, He is as free to act with his own party as he ever was, It is easy to detect the skilful hand of Mr. Weed in this affair. It is of a piece with his nomination of General Dix at Utica, three years ago, thereby disconcerting the democrats and rescuing the republican party. Shrewd as Governor Tilden is, he is not yet a match for Mr. Weed in political strategy. Mr. Weed and Mr. Bigelow have always been friends, and the veteran politi- cian has another friend whom he wishes to serve in this canvass. It is agreed that Mr. Frederick W. Seward will head the republi- can ticket, and since the death of his em- inent father there is no citizen whom Mr, Weed would be so anxious to save from a mortifying defeat. But there is no way in which to aid theson of his deceased friend so much as by procuring the nomination of Mr. Bigelow on the same ticket. Moreover, it is such a brilliant piece of strategy that Mr. Weed should be in love with it for its own sake. We shall know in the course of the day whether it succeeds. France and Russia. One of the stories in circulation in the foreign journals is to the effect that M. Thiers has gone to Geneva to have a confer- ence with Prince Gortschakoff, the Chancellor of the Russian Empire. One of the theories is that the ex-President of the French Re- public has gone to confer with the Prince upon the complications that’ will naturally arise out of the Eastern question. There is no great Power that has as much interest in the Eastern question as Russia. In the past, when France was a leading Power in Europe, her interests in the Eastern question were identical with those of England. Since the time of Napoleon, and even before that time, French statesmanship has always looked to the East as a field for new enterprises. The first Napoleon invaded Egypt, and in his idle moments talked of invading India. M. Thiers came near quarrelling with England on the Syrian question, and Napoleon was the ally of England against the ambition of Russia in the East. The theory has been ad- vanced by some thinkers that France will be disposed to remain neutral in any further discussion of the Eastern question, or per- haps take sides with Russia against England. Ever since the fall of the French Empire Russia has been assiduous in her attentions to France. It has been the dream of the modern Russian statesman to make an alli- ance between France and Russia. We find Continental newspapers diligently nursing this hope. If Russia could sueceed in an alliance with France, or an assurance of French neutrality during a war for the pos- | session of Constantinople, there could be little doubt, we think, as to the result of the strife or as to the fate of the Turkish Empire. But why should France take sides with Russia in any such contro- versy? When France was fighting for existence Russia ostentatiously took sides with her foe, But for the threat that Russia would interfere Austria would have joined France. At the close of the war the Em- peror Alexander congratulated his uncle, the | Emperor of Germany, upon his success in overthrowing the French Empire. then the relations between the rulers of Russia and Germany have been ostentatious in their cordiality. Having, therefore, stood by while France | was dismantled, Russia now proposes to ask her help to further her own purposes, The true policy for France is to dili- gently attend to her own business; to | disdain all alliances with the great | Powers of Europe. She has learned now =s she learned in the time of the great Revolu- tion that she can have no hearty alliance with the other Powers unless upon a basis that is offensive to the wishes of her best | people. England was glad enough to have | France assist her in the war against Russia, | which ended in the fall of Sebastopol. But when Germany had her foot upon the neck | of France England did not raise a finger in her aid. Russia would be only too happy to have France assist her now in furthering her progress toward the south. But when | German cannon were at the gates of Paris the Russian Emperor was telegraphing his congratulations to the commander of the German troops. France has shown that she Since | is great in spite of her enemies, in spite of the follies of her own political leaders. The highest wisdom would be for the rulers of that interesting, powerful and unfortunate country to announce that henceforward and for all time their policy will be to build up the glory of France, to remain aloof from all alli- ances and combinations, and allow Russian and German and English ambition to work out their own problems, while they build up the Republic upon peace, education and liberty. Excessive Taxation of New York City by the State. We print this morning a document which challenges the attention of the whole body of our city taxpayers. It was prepared to be laid before the Board of State Assessors who met in Albany yesterday. It has for several years been felt that this city pays an unjust and exorbitant proportion of the taxes raised to support the State government and discharge State obligations. The injus- tice has been constantly growing, and for the last three years fully one-half of the State annual burdens have been assessed on the city. The local assessors of the rural counties have been appraising property at a small fraction of its value, while the city assessors have appraised property on a scale approximating its real value. It is obvious that the assessors should proceed by some uniform rule of valuation throughout the State, and it would make little difference whether they assessed property at thirty per cent or fifty per cent, or at its full value, provided the same proportion was observed in all the counties. ‘Tie evasion of taxes in the rural counties by low assessments has shifted so inequitable a burden upon this city that a few weeks since Mayor Wickham, in pursu- ance of aresolution by the Board of Alder- men, appointed a committee to attend the meeting of the State Board of Equalization with a view to secure an equitable dis- tribution. A more competent commit- tee could not have been found than that selected by the Mayor, con- sisting of George H. Andrews, Wilson G, Hunt and Isaac Sherman. The striking body of facts presented in the document they have prepared shows that they are discharging their duty with as much fairness and cour- tesy as intelligence. Their comparisons and tables of figures are arranged with such clearness and skill as to make bare facts do the work of argument. Among other illus- trations of the enormous discrimination against city property there is a curious one founded on the assessment of the three Westchester towns lately annexed to the city. When annexed the assessment on these towns was raised from $9,578,230 to $23,047,540, and to heighten the absurdity the former assessment was said to be at the rate of about thirty-five per cent of the value, and the latter at the rate of thirty- eight per cent, The rules of arithmetic and the principles of justice were alike set at de- fiance, and the committee aptly say, in their courteous way, that ‘This is one of the rare instances where mathematical demonstration is possible.” The interests of the city are in excellent hands, and after supporting their printed statement by oral argument before the Board we shall be surprised if a commit- tee so intelligent and so candid do not secure valuable results. The Row About the Commissioner of Jurors. The peculiar ambiguity of some of the laws governing this city is very well exempli- fied in the case of the rival claimants to the position of Commissioner of Jurors. Mr. Douglas Taylor refuses to yield up the oftice to Mr. Thomas Dunlap, and bids defiance to the latter, the Mayor and the Board of Alder- men. He basis his action on a special inter- pretation of the law governing the question, which, in his opinion, entitles him to retain the position he has held for a number of years. Mr. Dunlap relies upon the legality of his appointment by the Mayor last July, and the confirmation of the same by the City Fathers. Both claimants are in the field with an array of legal authorities, and are determined to fight it out to the bitter end. Mr. Dunlap opens fire with a formidable document, addressed to the Board ‘ to select persons to serve as grand jurors at the courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Sessions, to be held in the city of New York,” which is about to convene. He designates the place where the Board shall meet, as provided by law, and then enters into @ lengthy argu- ment showing that he is the rightful clerk of said Board, and therefore the ouly Commis- | sioner of Jurors who should be recognized. Mr. Taylor will probably issue another pro- nunciamento and hurl ,constitutional bomb- shells into the opposite camp. Our worthy Mayor finds that the municipal chair is any- thing but an easy onc, and that the appoint- ing power cannot be exercised without, a | fight on the part of those who decline to be | removed. The question between those rivals would appear to be one easily solved, were the qualities of promptness and firmness brought to bear upon it by those authorized to decide it. Too Much Guessing About Ohio. If any one nowadays wants to know how Ohio is going in October he may literally ‘“‘pay his money and take his choice.” The democratic newspapers have at least once a week letters promis- ing the triumphant election of Allen and Carey. The republican journals, on the other hand, are at similar intervals favored with correspondence predicting the election | of Hayes. It is a little early yet for sensible and prudent prophets to come in. The election takes place on the 12th of October, more than a month from now, The main work of the canvass remains to be done. ‘There are a great many Ohio voters who have not yet made up their minds, ahd between now and election day several things may happen to change the minds of those who are | now determined, For instance, one or two more such exhibitions of lawlessness and vio- lence toward negroes as that at Clinton, in Mississippi, on Saturday, might turn the State republican by a very, great majority; | while on the other hand, if the President | should continue to protect Mr. Delano in the face of a few more trenchant letters by Mr. Welsh about Indian affairs, like tho one we print to-day, Governor Allen may be re-etected in spite of his folly. In California they say of things like this Ohio election, essentially uncertain, that “you can't sometimes most generally tell.” It will be time enough a couple of weeks from now to prophesy about an event which both parties seem to think of supreme im- portance, Resuscitation of the Bank of Calix fornia, The despatch from Mr. D, O, Mills, former President of the Bank of California and still’one of its most influential directors, is the: first really authentic statement re« specting its affairs. The reports from San Francisco have been so contradictory and some of them so unintelligible that tha Henatp sought information yesterday of Mr, Mills, and notwithstanding his official re« serve his despatch is of great, value and in« terest. The officers of the bank are engaged in an investigation which is not yet com pleted, but enough is known to enable Mr, Mills to state that the assets of the bank ara more than sufficient to enable it to meet all its liabilities without using any of the new capital which the directors are attempting to raise. “Success,” he says, “is now assured beyond’ ‘any doubt and we confidently expect to resume regular business in a short time:” “'The#toekholders of the bank are no doubt wealthy enough to put the bank again on its feet, and they have every motive to do so. They have large interests in Califor« nia. They must continue to reside in tha State to take care of their local property, and will need to make an extensive use of éredit to render it productive. By reorganiz, ing the Bank of California they will revive confidence aud strengthen their individual credit in that enterprising communi- ty. If, as Mr. Mills . states, the bank has assets above its liabilities, without drawing upon the private resources of the stockholders, its franchise and its business connections are too valuable to be sacrificed. A supply of new capital will be much better invested than in a new bank which has its connections yet to estab« lish and to gather around it aset of cus« tomers. Mr. Mills’ statement in relation to the late president of the bank is important. ‘Mr, Ralston,” he says, ‘was largely indebted to the Bank of California, but he leaves a con« siderable private estate, the proceeds of which will go far toward paying his liabilities.” It appearg from this trustworthy despatch that the early reports were gross exaggerations, The bank will pay all its creditors in full and soon resume its customary business, That's What’s the Matter, At a meeting of the British Medical Association, in Edinburgh, the other day, Professor Gairdner gave a remarkable ex. planation of some of the democratic speeches to which our fellow citizens in Ohio have been listening for the last four or five weeks. ‘Emotional aphasia,” he said, ‘is an obseure disease, in which the patient, whenever he opens his mouth, speaks only nonsense.” ‘Che learned Professor, not having received any reports of the recent speeches of Allen, Carey and Pendleton, waa obliged to recite an experience of his own, When going through the wards of the Glas« gow Infirmary, he said, after a deal of pro« fessional work, he lost command of his tongue, and found himself talking nonsense absolute nonsense. He knew it was non- sense, yet he could not help it; he felt that for the time being he must speak nonsense, How exactly this describes the case of Gover« nor Allen. He is suffering from ‘emotional aphasia,” and it isa great comfort to know the name of his disease. We feared it might be something worse. Professor Gairdner adds that the attack, in his case, did not recur, and we accordingly hope for Mr, Allen’s recovery. As to ‘“General” Carey, he comes under the same head with a Scotch sheriff, mentioned by the Professor, wha always, all his life long, talked nonsense, “This unfortunate gentleman, if he talked at all, could not help speaking nonsense.” That is Carey's caso, exactly; and Pig Iron Kelley's, too. By the way, ‘emotional aphasia” comea from extreme fatigue. We trust Governor Tilden will be a little careful of himself, This ‘‘swinging around the circle” is danger ous work in hot weather. Tax Snoven Murper is one of the most brutal on record, and for once the polica have arrested the criminals. and caused them to be committed to the Tombs for trial. Thig is something for which the community ought to be thankful, especially if a speedy trial and speedy punishment follows the unpro« yoked murder. 4 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Rey. John C. Backus, of Baltimore, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel, General John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, is staying ab the St. Nicholas Hotel, Rev, John De Witt, of Boston, is among the late arrivals at the Hoffman House, Surgeop Benjamin H. Kidder, United States Navy, ia stopping at the New York Hotel. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of Now Jersey, ta registered at the New York Hotel, Mrs. General Sherman and family are residing tems porarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, of Connecticut, are rived last evening at the Albemarle Hotel, Surgeon Daniel MeMurtrie, United States Navy, hag taken up his quarters at the Everott House. Associate Justice Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Baron von Gutschmid, of Germany, arrived in thie city yesterday and took up his residence at the Claren- don Hotel. It is argued from a Catholic source that tho Catholia Church saves society from the Commune, But there never have been “Communes” anywhere save in Cathos lic countries, Goorge A. Halsey, ex-Congressman and republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey at tho last elecs tion, is among the late arrivals at the United States Hotel, at Long Branch. ‘ 1f the woman suffrage poople hal thirty-two more yotes in the Massachusetts Legislature t tate would plunge headlong into the great experiment—if she didn’t change her mind, Mr. Ismay, senior member of the firm of Ismay, Imrie & Co., owners of the White Star line, has apart. ments at the Filth Avenue Hotel, He will leave for California in a few days, to transact business connected with the establishment of a line of White Star steamers to trade be en San Francisco and China, More trouble in the Ross family, Preston Ross, three years old, fell into a fissure of the trap rock fountain at the Passaic Falls, The fissure was from twelve to eighteen inches wide and eighty feet deep. He. struck at several points, but fnally went to the bottom, and wae got out with great difliculty—not badly hurt,