The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY ANC JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and — after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henaxp will be | sent free of post PRE CER THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, free of postage, to subseribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic | flespatches must be addressed New York | Hear. | Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—NO. 61 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. 5 YCEUM THEATRE, street.—French Opera matitibedtars Pat HOWE & CUSH of Honston street, East Iti formances. Bouffe—MADAME $3 CIRCUS, Afternoon and evening ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place and Fourteenth street-AROUND THE WORLD'IN EIGHTY DAYS. at 8'P. Me) closes wt ll Pa SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, wee, rey agl House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ITUTE, BOOTH’S THEATRE, yr street and Sixth aveuue,—THE GAMESTER, SPM. My. Barry Sullivan. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street snd Sixth avenuc.—( “OrTON 4REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. Pee ‘SP. M.; closes at 10:45 OLYMP Ko, 62% Broadway. —VARIE GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum’s Hippodrom RAND POPULAR CON- CERT, erie eres 11 P.M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Bod 128 West Fourteenth street.—Oyen from 10°A, M. to TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATR' Twentweighth street, near Broadwa ATETRATOGA, at 8 M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport and Mir. James Lewis. GLOBE THEATRI Pia Broadway.—VARIETY, at OB M. ; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, army 4 and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- 3P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence, COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VANIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. CENTRAL P. THEODORE THOMAS’ CO GARDEN, RT, at 8 P.M. TRE, Broadw: nglish Comic Opera— Ginor LE Ci OthorLa’ atsP. M. iss Julia Mathews, Mr, jermott. THEATRE MIQUE, No. Skt Broadway.—VARIETY, 2. M. at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 HOUSE, ‘ 7 third wreak ‘AVRIOTS, ot 8 P.M; closes at 11 P. ‘atkins. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 penne —VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEP’ BER 1, 1 e= From our septs this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, clearing up later. Ixpran Fravps.—Mr. Walker was up for examination on Saturday in reference to his charges against the Indian Ring. He re- peated his former assertions and gave his au- thority. The evidence against both Dr. Saville and Secretary Delano will be very damaging unless successfully refuted. Tax Prnnsytvanta Rartnoap has set an excellent example by the establishment of a “lightning” express for the conveyance of letters and newspapers and a limited number pf passengers. We hope special trains of this nature will be generally used for the tonveyance of the mails. Escape or Communtsts.—More escapes of Communist prisoners are reported from New Caledonia. The ‘‘reds” are resolved to give the officials no rest, and they certainly man- age to make them pass some very unpleasant hours. Danger of disgrace stares them con- stantly in the face, so that it is hard to say whether the deported Communists or their guardians occupy the more unpleasant posi- tion. un Bosnta remains quiet, and no confirmation comes of the alarming rumors rife yesterday of the spread of the insurrection. We pub- | lish an interesting letter on the subject of | the present troubles, which shows how these dangerous little wars are played with by the diplomatists of Europe. The foreign Powers have at length decided on using their influ- ence with the insurgents to persuade them to lay down their arms and submit to the Sultan. The leaders will be informed that | there is no hope of foreign intervention in their behalf, and it is hoped this declaration may dispose them to accept the terms offered by the Porte. Sraix.—Spain has a new Ministry, This gews will scarcely surprise any one, for Spain | Is the land of the unforeseen and unexpected. The late Ministry disagreed on the subject of the election of a new Cortes. The liberals were anxious that the election should take | place under universal suitrage, but the re- | actionary party demurred. From ‘the com- position of the new Cabinet it seems certain that the liberals have carried their point. The new Cortes will, in all probability, be elected by universal suffrage. It is to be hoped that no new folly will be committed by the members of the liberal party to en- danger the results already obtained. Spain, in spite of her sanguinary civil quarrels, has | advanced in political knowledge and freedom and with a little tolerance may secure perma- nently what she has already achieved, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, Governog Tilden’s Convention, No political convention has ever assembled in this State so entirely subservient to one man, and that man not a member, as the Syracuse Convention, to meet on Thursday, will be to Governor Tilden, Almost every local convention to choose delegates has passed a resolution of eulogy and virtually in- structed its delegates not to cross the wishes of the Governor. A sense of official pro- priety will prevent his going to Syracuse ; but he will be represented there either by Senator Kernan or some other democrat of high standing, who possesses his confidence. The platform, drafted in advance by the most skilful pen in the party, will be sub- mitted to the Governor for approval and emendation. The action of the Convention on essential points will be ‘cut and dried,” and the public expects a harmonious body, whose well oiled machinery will run without friction and consume little time. Consider- ing that Governor Tilden is a prominent candidate for the Presidency, it may be doubted whether it is quite wise for the local conventions to proclaim that the State Convention wil] be wax in his hands. On the whole and in a large view we think it is wise. There is no room for doubt on this point in respect to local New York issues. So far as the reform question in- volved in Governor Tilden’s vigorous war on the Canal Ring is concerned it is good tactics for the party to promise a strong sup- port to the Governor. But the nation at large feels little interest in the New York Canal Ring, and it is absurd for Governor Tilden and his friends to suppose that . this local question can eclipse national questions of universal interest. If Mr. Tilden were not a Presidential candidate, if everything done or omitted by his State Convention were not to be planned with reference to his Presidential chances, it would do very well to obscure and subordinate the financial ques- tion, But in the list of national questions this stands first, and it would be fatal for a Convention which Governor Tilden will control to ignore or belittle it, especially since the democrats of Pennsylvania have indorsed the Ohio inflationists. The people of the United States will look to the Syracuse plat- form for an expression of Governor Tilden’s views on the question which is likely to be paramount in the Presidential canvass. They will regard its declaration on the currency as the expression of his personal views. If the Syracuse Convention shirks this ques- tion, or speaks with bated breath, the coun- try will regard it as a proof that Governor Tilden has ‘‘caved,” and as a proof of his willingness to run for the Presidency on an inflation platform. The indorsement of the Ohio inflationists by the Pennsylvania dem- ocrats concentrates public interest on this point. Outside the State of New York the misdeeds of the Canal Ring are a bagatelle in comparison. We should have no misgivings as to the action of the Syracuse Convention if Gov- ernor Tilden were nota candidate for the Presidency. Nobody doubts that New York isa hard money State, or that in this State both political parties favor a sound currency. In a contest waged with sole reference to New York opinion neither party would be tempted to falter on the inflation question. Unfortunately Governor Tilden is looking outside of the State. Besides wishing to de- monstrate his personal strength by carrying the New York election, he is trying to recom- mend himself to the Democratic National Convention. Success in that body is likely to depend on the position of the candidate with reference to the overshadowing question of the currency. If the Syracuse Convention should denounce the inflation heresy of its party in Ohio, indorsed by the Pennsylvania, Indiana and Missouri democrats, Governor Tilden’s Presidential hopes would go into a hopeless eclipse. Will he sacrifice them for principle? When we recollect that his friend, Governor Seymour, accepted, in 1868, a Presidential nomination on a Pendleton platform, which he scorned; when we recollect that Judge Church and Governor Hoffman supported that platform on the stump against their convictions, we fear that Governor Tilden will not be their superior in public virtue. The Presidency is so tempting and dazzling a prize that nobody can safely predict what any politician will do who has got that ‘‘bee in his bonnet.” Our doubts as to Governor Tilden are jus- tified by several circumstances. In the first place he has maintained a studied silence on the inflation question since it was flaunted in the eyes of the country by the Ohio demo- crats. He has evinced the same lack of polit- ical courage as Mr. Thurman and Mr. Hen- dricks, his two most formidable rivals for the Presidential nomination. Like them, he dares not speak out and denounce the inflationists; and if they should not be denounced and defied in the Syracuse plat- form Mr. Tilden will be classed with his Western rivals. His silence, when he has so good a chance to speak through a convention which he will control, would be regarded as a proof that the inflationists had subdued every prominent democrat and that the Ohio platform is the accepted party creed, If any democrat is ever to speak out in strong denunciation of inflation, that act of political courage is reserved for Governor | Tilden in the opportunity afforded him by a political convention obsequious to his wishes, If the Syracuse Convention dodges, Governor | Tilden will be regarded as one of the several inflationist competitors for the Presidential nomination, We fear that he will make the fatal mistake of attempting to belittle the question. His organ at the State capital, the Albany Argus, eomments on the Pennsylvania platform in a strain which betokens that the Governor is weak-kneed on the most vital question of the time. If the reasoning of th® Argus were applied to New York, it would follow that, in Governor Tilden’s estimation, the Syra- euse Convention should be silent on the in- | flation question, or, if it should speak, that part of the platform would be of no couse- quence. ‘In view of the reform issue,” says Governor Tilden's Albany organ, “how un- blushing becomes the effort to make the can- vass in Pennsylvania turn upon the financial platform ! disaster of any kind as a consequence. Not a single officer is to be chosen who will be in a position to act upon the principles of finance laid down in the platform. But every man will be able to do decisive work against the rotten ring which has debauched Pennsylvania, and which is upheld by the republican party with all its power.” It is equally trne that not a single officer to be chosen in the approaching New York election will have anything to do with the national currency, and the logical consequence would be that the Syra- euse Convention should say nothing on the subject. If Governor Tilden’s Albany organ expresses his views, the Syracuse Convention will say nothing on inflation and confine its declarations to State issues. Such a course, intended to relieve the Presidential candi- date from a painful dilemma, would prove him to be as wanting in courage as Senator Thurman and Governor Hendricks, It is easy to see where so cowardly a course would land the democratic party. The democratic inflationists are bold, ag- gressive and defiant, and if, in the whole party, no conspicuous man dares confront them with a resolute gpposition, it is too | clear that the democratic party is already in control of the inflationists. Every other prominent democrat having been cowed, if Mr. Tilden does not permit his convention to fling defiance in the teeth of the infla- tionists, it will be evident that they are masters of the democratic party. If Gov- ernor Tilden has conrage enough to fight them he will deserve the plaudits of honest men, although he may forfeit his Presidential hopes. We would fain believe that there is one eminent democrat who ‘would rather be right than be President.” The Sermons Yesterday. Reinvigorated by the health-giving coun- try air, the religious shepherds return to the care of their flocks filled with energy and anxious to do battle with the EvilOne. The people, too, are beginning to return to the city and the churches are again filled with worshippers. At the Fifth avenue Presby- terian church yesterday there assembled a crowded congregation to hear the Rev. John Hall discourse on the necessity of unpreju- diced scrutiny of the Scriptures, lest the Tempter should induce the pro- fessing Christian to pervert the Word of God to the ruin of his own soul. The reverend gentleman devel- oped this important text with his accustomed ability and broadness of view, and showed that in proportion to the authority which men attach to the Bible will be the cunning with which some people will use specious Bible readings to Iure others to destruc- tion. The Rev. Dr. Tyng preached to the congregation of the Holy Trinity on ‘The Narrow Pathway to Heaven,” which, he pointed out, required care and watchful- ness to pass through. There — is but one road, and it does not suffice to make a fair start. If we would ar- rive safely at the goal we must watch our course and avoid the obstacles to eternal life. The Rev. 8. M. Hamilton, of the Scotch Pres- byterian church, took for the subject of his sermon “The Christian Transfiguration,” and showed the superiority of Christian ethics over the worldly systems of morality, which, he said, were only ‘‘a collection of customs that differ in different countries.” The Rey. Father O'Kelly preached in St. Bernard’s Catholic church on the origin and purpose of the ‘Forty Hours’ Adoration,” which the lecturer declared to be one of the most beautiful of all the Catholic devotions, Dr. Armitage discoursed in the Fifth avenue Baptist church on the elements of successful prayer. True intelligent simplicity he de- clared to be the element which was needed to pray with understanding. Join with this faith and humility and we have all the ele- ments of successful prayer. In all the Cath- olic churches of Brooklyn Bishop Loughlin’s letter promulgating the Papal Jubilee notice was read. Over the whole religious field the same activity is visible. The husbandmen of souls are busy reaping and gathering in their harvest, so that all may be safely bestowed before the day of wrath has come. “The Banking Business.” In reading the report of the trial of Theo- dore W. Brown in connection with the lar- ceny of the public treasury we are impressed with an observation made by Ottman, one of the accused party, to a detective. Ottman, as our readers will remember, is charged with having taken from the Treasury $47,000. For this robbery he is now under arrest. When Ottman took the money he scarcely knew what to do with it, and in his anxiety to have it suddenly out of his hands he led to his own capture. Detective McDevitt says that ‘‘Ottman was anxious to invest the money in the banking business, and em- ployed witness for that purpose.” This reso- lution of Ottman to become a great banker only shows the condition into which our business has fallen. We have no doubt that if Ottman had come to New York, established a banking house and gone into business he might have made a great deal of money; that he might have, like Jay Gould, made restitu- tion to the Treasury of the $47,000 he took from it, and might have become a ‘great power” in the street, a ‘“‘king” among railroad brokers, his name a “‘terror” to the market. Ottman desired to enter into the banking business, but he was too precipitate. He did not make haste slowly. He got into the hands of the police and was arrested. Instead of becoming the Jay Gould of Washington and making “restitution” to the Treasury he will proba- bly go to jail and think over the opportu- nities he has lost. Trent Comxzs a Romor from France that the Orleans Princes are about to renounce all claims to the throne and ask their friends | to support the Republic. It is very thought- ful of the Orleans Princes ; but is not their abandonment of any claim to the throne of France quite needless? Such a move at | this moment would do much to embarrass The rogues in that State may be | driven from power, and without financial | the Republic without aiding it in any way. Breathing time is what the Republic needs | in France, and whatever tends to create ex- tement or disturbance only aids the ene- | nies of popular liberty. en delivered sterday to a There were the usnal floral offerings, and the proceedings were marked by the singing of some of the Moody and Sankey hymns, which promise to become as popular in this country as they did in Great Britain, Tue Hesny Warp Bero his sixth mountain sermon large andience, Our Harbor Defences. In no particular has the art of war under- | gone such marked changes as in its relation | to the attack and defence of harbors. Form- | erly the tacties of an attacking fleet were to enter the channels leading to the points of | defence, and, by a persistent and vigorous | cannonade or a vigilant blockade, to reduce | the defensive works. There was nothing to be feared from the defenders’ side but a powerful artillery response or a stealthy ap- proach at night of incendiary fireships, im- provised to destroy the attacking squadron. Redhot shot were sometimes fired at ship- ping when the action was fought at close range. When it was discovered that by reason of certain improvements in artillery forts were no longer able to resist the fire of | shipping, or prevent the entrance of a hostile | flect into fortified harbors, obstructions. to the channels of approach were adopted as auxiliary defences, notably at the siege and blockade of Sebastopol. ‘These in turn have been found to be unreliable against heavy iron-plated, sharp-prowed war ships, armed with long range rifle guns, and a new.system of harbor and channel defence has gradually come into use. The torpedo system,*which, judging from the results obtained at Cron- stadt during the late war between the allies and Russia and the defence of the North Ger- man coasts against the French fleet in 1870, but more particularly and completely during the war of the rebellion in this coun- try, promises to revolutionize naval tacties in the attack and defence of harbors. A marine torpedo is a portable mine, loaded with the most powerful explosives, and submerged during time of war in such portions of the channels of approach to harbors as are prac- ticable for the enemy’s war ships. They are divided into two classes, one of which em- braces all torpedoes fired by electricity from the shore or from boat stations; the other, the torpedoes which carry with themselves the means of ignition by friction, and explode by contact with the attacking ships during their progress through the torpedo-defended channel. The former class are positively re- liable so long as the insulated conducting wire or cable which connects them with the electric battery remains intact, ind can be fired at any moment desired by the operator. The latter class must be actually touched by the object to be destroyed, and by reason of their necessarily delicate arrangement of friction fuses are very liable to derangement or premature explosion during handling or by floating wreck. The effects of torpedo explosions under, or even at: a considerable distance from the hull of a ship, are terrific; they completely shatter and disable the vessel, when they do not annihilate her. During the late war of the rebellion several of the heaviest gun- boats were literally blown to atoms by the explosion of torpedoes beneath them, and so complete and instantaneous was their destruction that scarcely any of their crews survived to tell the tale, while even the sur- rounding ships were made aware of the loss only by the sudden disappearance of their consorts in a wild whirl of smoke and water. While the recent torpedo experi- ments at Newport have been most satis- factory, both as regards their management and results, and reflect the highest credit on the officers who conducted them, we do not consider that such public exhibitions are expedient or bene- ficial to that branch of the service. We would much prefer that foreign nations that may become future enemies should learn our system of harbor defence at the expense of their navies. This may seem to be an un- generous sentiment, but really it is a very safe one to be guided by in this particular instance, Virginia. The statement we published the other day from John Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, in ref- erence to the work of the Virginia Immigra- tion Society, will be read with deep interest and with that respect which we are always glad to pay to men as eminent as General Lee. The General came to New York, as we understand, for the purpose of attracting the attention of our citizens to the resources of his State. Many of the leading citizens of Vir- ginia since the war have felt the necessity of inducing immigration. The resources—agri- cultural, mineral and commercial—are so vast that it seems a pity, not only for our own interest but that of Virginia herself, that they should not be utilized. Before the war, when slavery was a dominant power in this country, the tide of immigration ran toward the far West, This arose largely dur- ing the Kansas and Nebraska time, when immi- gration became a political movement, when the Northern and Southern leaders were struggling for the control of the Territories, and when large parties left New England under the tutelage of politicians and anti- slavery leaders, carrying, in the cant of that day, ‘Sharp's rifles and Holy Bibles.” Since slavery is dead there has been a disposition to go into the seaboard States, in many of which land can be found as cheap as in the West. In fact, the legend “Go West” has lost much of its attractiveness, It never, at any time, was thoroughly sound advice. The Western States have grown too rapidly. They are too dependent upon the East for railroad facilities, commer- cial privileges and the Post Office. We do not see the wisdom which attracts emigrants into the Platte Valley, for instance, or into Western Kansas or Dakota, when we have great States awaiting them like Vir- ginia, North Carolina, Georgia and even parts of New York and Pennsylvania, where land is cheap and the climate is healthy, where the immigrant is within easy range of the markets and of opportunities for the education of his children. We are glad to see General Lee speaking with so much fairness and frankness of the. social and political condition of Virginia. He looks upon the negro as intelligent and industrious. He dwells upon the friendly spirit existing between labor and capital. The free school system is liberal, and there is a disposition on the part of the old Virgin- | ians to welcome all those who really go to cast their lot with the people of that great | and noble State. the General Agent of the Associated Press, repelling certain statements concerning his | telegraphic reporta from San Francisco relam tive to the Bank of California failure, Wr Privt in another column a letter from | SEPTEMBER 13, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEKT, The Infallibility Idea im Politics, We observe thut some crudely thinking ed- itors complain of the O’Kelly’s manage- ment of Tammany Hall. They say that he is too dogmatic and that he nominates can- didates to suit himself, that he carries the party in his hat, and that there is no longer any universal suffrage in New York. They point out that Tammany Hall is a secret order and its influence upon polities perni- cious. They show that there is ‘really no public opinion in New York, that we have “parties” or “rings” who obey the will of some one experienced and andacions ; member. We do not accept these criticisms as altogether sound. The -O’Kelly, instead of assuming arbitrary power, is really follow- ing out a great idea, an idea that has made a profound sensation in our modern times— that of the dogma of infallibility, The.O’Kolly is a dutiful son of the Church. He has been studying its recent history. He sees how the Holy Pontiff has strengthened his power by proclaiming as a dogma that in all matters of faith his will is supreme and his judgment infallible. As O'Kelly is a learned man, who has been much abroad in early years, and not only a learned but a devout man, who is said by his admirers to have once contemplated a life of retirement and meditation in a monastery, like Charles V., we can easily see how he would naturally adapt to New York politics this great idea of the Holy See. If our people will only look at the matter a moment they will see how-. wise and sound it is. Ifthe dogma of infal- libility becomes a part of the Tammany creed it will save a great deal of trouble. O'Kelly will be Pope. He will dictate the policy of the party when in power, A great deal of acrimony will be ayoided. Once politicians learn that from the power of their Supreme Pontiff of the Tammany Hall democracy of New York there can be no appeal, there will be peace. If O’Morrissey, who is also a devout member of the Church, could have seen the real drift of the O'Kelly policy he never would have made his unfortunate movement. Let us have the dogma of in- fallibility by all means in our city politics, and since O'Kelly is in the Tammany Vati- can let the mandate be issued to all the faithful that he is supreme, that his word is absolute, and that from it there can be no appeal, Georgia. In a letter from our special Sonthern correspondent, Mr. Nordhoff, which we print elsewhere, he expresses the belief that the emigration movement which has been be- gun in Georgia of late is not likely to haye im- portant results. Negroes, as well as whites, have been removing westward from the State in considerable numbers for several years. He gives an interesting account of a conver- sation with a colored emigration agent on this subject, and adds some particulars of the industrial condition of the blacks and of the common schools and the State finances, The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle remarks of a previous letter of Mr. Nordhoff, that he ap- pears to underestimate the prosperity of Georgia, and points out that the State has an excellent and economical government and low taxation. ‘We do not pretend to coms pare the old lands of Georgia with the rich, alluvial lands of the Mississippi,” says the Chronicle ; “but we submit that we have man- aged our affairs generally as well as the peo- ple of the States named in his letter.” It will be seen that in his communication printed to-day our correspondent points out ciearly the fact that Georgia has had, under democratic auspices, an economical and ex- cellent administration, showing that the State debt is trifling, the State credit high, the taxes low and the counties almost ex- empt from debt. September. We are told in many despatches of the pleasant days that have fallen upon our sea- side resorts and our summer watering places, and yet the further story is that our summer sojourners are hurrying home; that the hotels which were merry with bright faces and dancing groups and music and song and chat are abandoned, People leave New York city for amusement or recreation. Why, should they return in September ? Nature is as inviting in September as it is in the earlier summer days. The greenness has a sober tinge. There is a ripeness in the foliage, a deepened beauty in the fields and hills, and cooler breezes from the sea. If we were selecting the one month which would be most attractive at Saratoga or Newport or Long Branch, it would be September. Yet September is the season when everybody comes home. We are a great deal like sheep in ourmovements. We follow in flocks and find ourselves doing things which we do not approve, merely because it is the custom. Our whole summer life has become meaning- less, Thus we abandon New York, which is as attractive really during the summer months as Paris or London, as we would a plague. It becomes a dead city. If we really dealt generously with New York and utilized our natural resources, we could make it as attractive a summer me- tropolis as any in the world. The fact that everybody leaves New York in June and re- turns to it in September shows that we are governed by awhim. We trust that next | year this question of making Now York a summer city will be considered by those who have charge of our affairs, and that the suc- cess that has attended the experiments of Mr. Gilmoro and Mr. Thomas will result in the opening of music gardens in various parts of the city. , Tre Unrramontane P: ness. —Our Dublin letter will be read with interest, as contain- ing an excellent exposition of ultramontane journalism. The views of the Voce della | Verita on the proceedings at the O'Connell celebration in Dublin are amusing, as dis- playing a mole-like blindness to the true | motives and significance of the protest made by the Catholic people of Ireland against | priest rule. That a man as intelligent ‘as Mgr. Nardi, the Papal auditor, is | presumed to be, can find no explanation of | | the defeat of Cardinal Cullen's plan for aj great ultramontane demonstration, except | that the “liberals” of Europe desired a row to be organized, would be amusing if it were | not pitiable. One is unwillingly forced to | the conclusion that either Mgr. Nardi is a very disingenaious man or that Papal audi- tors are made out of very poor material, | Just died at Montpelior, France, aged ninety-two, “A New Way to Pay Old Debts.” Our politicians are paying a good deal of attention to the observations of Mr. O'Morrissey, one of the descendants of the Trish kings, who claims to revolutionize New York and issues his proclamation in various uptown barrooms. O’Morrissey is anxious te have a personal controversy with O'Kelly, also a descendadt of an Irish king, the grea! Brian Boru, of glorious memory, whe reigned in Limerick centuries ago, but whe now rests with God, ‘The O’Kelly has not shown any readiness to accept the challenge of the O’Morrissey, which indicates that he is an intelligent man and well read in the eventsof the. O’Morrissey’s tumultuous. life and somnewhat prominent peculiarity. If the controversy in New York politics, this un- happy strife between these Irish princes whe now rule New York, could be termi. nated by a personal encounter between the O’Morrissey and the O'Kelly, we should be willing, even at the risk of conniving at a violation of the law, to see such an event. A meeting of this kind could be arranged in Central Park under the rules of the London prize ring, and it could be made a pecuniary success. We could have on one side such seconds as Wickham, our modern Demosthe- nes; Judge Dennis O’Quinn, candidate for the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Appeals, and that discerning Irish prophet and jurist who first saw with alarm ‘‘the growth of the German element in this country of ours.” We have on the other side two experienced and athletic sports like O’Creamer and O'Brien, who would see that fair play was awarded to their principal. Altogether the more we dwell upon this proposed method of settling the quarrels in the democrati¢ party in New York the more we are pleased owith it as the best solution that has yet been offered, Te Marz Exxcrion, which takes place to-day, is of slight interest in the general polities of the country. There is no reason to doubt that the republicans will retain control of the State, and an increase or diminution of their majority will have little influence on the ensuing elections. Both parties in Maine favor hard money, anda victory on local issues will be of no signifi- cance in national politics. If a distin- guished citizen of Maine were not a candi- date for the Presidency the election in that State would hardly cause a ripple: An in- crease of the republican majority would help Mr. Blaine, and loss of the State would destroy such Presidential chances as he may have. We have no doubt that the republi- cans will retain their hold on the State, but there will be no reason for surprise if their majority is diminished, The univer- sal stagnation of business extends to Maine, and the discontent which accompanies poverty always weakens the party in power, The Pennsylvania platform comes too late to have much inflnence on the election Amatevr Rowine is attracting so much at- tention in this country that the résumé of the ‘season’s sport which we print this morning will be read with interest. A few years ago there was not a boat club on the Harlem or the Charles River, and amateur boating was almost entirely confined to the crews of the two universities, Harvard and Yale. Now nearly every city has its boat clubs and its amateur oarsmen, and the success of the present season is a strong proof of the skill acquired in the short time since rowing be. gan to be practised. The practice is one that is in every way deserving of encourage- ment, and we cannot doubt that even better results will be attained in the future. Sunpax Liquor Trarric.—The advocates of temperance are making a strong effort to suppress the Sunday traffic in liquors. There can be no doubt of the admirable intentions of the promoters of this reform; but, unfor- tunatély for their success, it is one of those questions in whi¢h much can be said on both sides. Legal interference with the lib. erty of the individual citizen to do whatever he likes, so long as it involves no interfer ence with the rights of others, can never be- come popular among a free people. The poor cherish the right of drinking their begr with- out annoyance from any set of enthusiasts, and most reasonable people are inclined ta support them in maintaining their rights. Mermains.—The latest sensation is a lady swimmer, and a young lady at that, who aims at rivalling the feats of Captain Webb, This is really toa bad. If this sort of thing is to con- tinue all distinction of sex must disappear and woman achieve the grand privilege of buffeting the world and being buffeted —with- out gloves. We fear the dear creatures would find out when too late that their victorice were as dangerous to themselves as to their great enemy—man. Better stay at home and cook than breast the muddy Thames with Webb; better be a useful woman than a mermaid. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Baron yon Gutschmid, of Germany, has taken up hit residence at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel William M. Grosvenor, of St, Louis, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotol, Mr. A. B. Mullett, of architectural notoriety, is among the late arrivals at the Astor House, Mr. R. B. Angus, Manager of the Bank of Montreal is residing temporarily at the Brevoort House, Mr. G, BakhindteM, of the Russian Legation at Wash. ington, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. James Cochran, a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Burling: ton and Quincy Railroad Company, is registered at the Windsor Hotel, General Rufas Ingalls, of the Quartermaster's De- partment, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington, M. Laugel has collected into one volume, under the title of “Grandes Figures Historiques,” his sketches of William of Orange, John de Barneveld, Charles Sum- ner, Josiah Quincy, Sylvan Van de Weyer and John Stu- art Mill. If the Cincinnati Commercial is really opposed te William Allen, why does it say that he is “more ofa pagan than Marcus Aurelius, and less of a Christian, theologically speaking, than Constantine?” Tho demo- erats n't understand all that, ane it will help William ood deal in their estimation to compare him with old. Romans who bore such fine long names, Better call him a damned old heathen next time, —Chicago Times. Jacques Roussel, a soldier of the First Empire, a He Was on guard duty in the island of Rugen when it was evacuated by Davoust's corps and was forgotten and not relieved. He married and lived there, Five youre Jater a French, man of-war was coming in, and Ronssel donned his uniform and went on guard, challenged dae landing party and told bis story. He was hqnoceably Felieved of the charge of desertion,