The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1875, Page 6

6 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 Hxnaxp will be gent free of postage. 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 subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorr Henan. 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. VOLUME XL. —_—— AMUSEMENTS TO ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irviny and Fourteenth street—AROUND THE Wo. rN e1cuTY DAYS. at SP. M.; closes as 11 P.M SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, oe House, Broadway, corner of Tweuty-uinth street, Hs CSP. AMERICAN TEREEEOER, ‘Third avenue.—Day and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and el avenue.—THE GAMESTER, atS P.M. Mr. Barry Sulli DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, 1 ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON 4 BEED'S | "RELS, as 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, mesgaate is nts at 5 P.M. closes at 10:45 GARDE ND PoP ‘nan CON. aid M OF ART, POLITAN M . en from 10'A. M. toS METRO! gta 128 West Fourteenth street.: TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH Perse street, near 5 closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport and | ic. Sempctoeee. PARK THEATRE, Es lway and Twenty-second st: THE MIGHTY DOL- atSP.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, gant.) nail at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P.M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE aHowas o T, ats P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, ivey, end. Thirtoonsh street.—English Comic Opera— CrRORE GIROPLA, at 8P.M. Miss Julia Mathews, Mr. ‘H. Macdermott. FE THEATRE HIQUE, Ro, S14 Brondway.—VARIETY, SP. M.; closes at 10:45 .-MARKED FOR woop’s roadway, corner of Thirtieth | st M. Matinee ai 2 P.M. tie" at SP. ML; closes at 10:45 P GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenue, corner of Twenty third street.—PIONEER PATRIOTS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Mr. Harry Watkins. \ METROPOLITAN THEATRE, ‘Nos, 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. LYCEUM THEATRE, agtiaeksPresch Opera” Boutfe—MADAME C, at 8 P. M. arteenth Uoanent ‘DUC, 3 PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth os 3g and Broad VARIETY, at 8 P. M. ws 2 P. HOWE & 7 foot of Houston street, East River.—Afternoon and evening ————s TRIPLE SHEET, NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, EPTEMBER 15, 1871 5, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Wart Street Yestexpay.—The stock mar- ket was feverish and lower. Gold advanced ‘from 1164 to 117, and closed at 116}. Good investment securities remain firm. Ex-Senator Scuvrz returns from Europe a hard money man, but we shall see whether he is able to escape the inflation disease after he reaches his home in the West. It takes a strong constitution to resist that malady just now. ‘Tue Porrrican Srrvatioy, as it is viewed at Long Branch, must continue to be an inter- esting topic, and consequently the letter re- flecting General Grant's views which we print this morning will attract much at- tention. ‘Tue Scanpar Acars,—Mr. Winchester Brit- ton, the District Attorney of Kings county, wrote a letterto Mr. Beecher proposing to quash the indictment for libel against Mr. Moulton. His reasons for this course will suit many persons, but are not satisfactory to Mr. Moulton, who demands that he shall have a trial. Henzrcovina.—It will be seen from onr special cable despatch this morning that the attitude of the great Powers toward the in- surrection in Herzegovina is reacting upon the insurgent cause. In keeping Servia and Montenegro from joining in the revolt thé attempt at revolution is greatly weakened, if not rendered altogether hopeless. This is a very important fact, and if the policy suc- ceeds in these provinces we may soon expect the end of the insurrection. Tae Arr or Frxmo Tutxos is an accom- plishment in which the New York Bar excel. According to the testimony adduced before the Assembly Committee on Crime, it is even in the District Attorney's | office, Mr. Phelps was before the committee | yesterday, and excused his office and its con- duct as best he could; but scarcely had he finished his rather unsatisfactory explana- tions whena new charge was preferred. The | keeper of a disorderly house swore that he immunity from punishment from | Detective Fields in the District Attorney's | office, and it appears he was discharged by one of Mr. Phelps’ clerks. Subsequently he repeated the artifice through a lawyer | named Hummel whenever he got into trou. | ble. Evidently Mrs Phelps must make some further explanations, and while he is about it ‘he might as well try and illuminate the dark | subjects he so carefally avoided shedding | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, The Gathering at ‘iabnicun: Tf the Syracuse Convention shall’ make a “good use of its opportunity it will be more important and more fruitful in good results than any similar body which has assembled since the war. It meets in a great crisis of the demoeratic party, and it would not be an exaggeration to say a great crisis in national affairs. The democratic canvass in Ohio and the democratic platform in Penn- sylvania are of deep interest outside that party. They tend to general demoralization, for there is alsoa body of republican infla- tionists, and the fear of losing their votes would lower the tone of the republican party if Governor Allen should be re-elected in Ohio. The national credit abroad and at home is involved in this dangerous issue. On the New York democracy is laid the responsibility of closing this crevasse, which threatens a desolating inundation of false money. The democrats are likely enough to carry Ohio, and it is the duty of the Syracuse Convention to take such action now as will forestall the effect of such a victory on the November elections and on the politics of the country. The despatches from Syracuse which we print this morning give some rea- son for hoping that Governor Tilden and his supporters appreciate ‘the gravity of the situ- ation and will not shrink from their duty. The ticket is likely to be a good one and we need not discuss it at this stage. It will cer- tainly be a good one if Mr, Bigelow and Mr. Lucius Robinson consent to be put upon it, The point of supreme interest which fixes the attention of both political parties and of the whole country on this Convention is the stand it may take on the vital question of the currency. The utterances of Senator Kernan on this subject tend to lighten the anxiety which has for several days weighed heavily on the public mind. Senator Kernan is the most intimate and the most trusted of Gov- ernor Tilden’s political friends. His confi- dent prediction that the Convention will nail the hard money flag to its mast is reassuring, in spite of Judge Comstock's opinion that the Convention ought to declare against a contraction of the currency as tending to general ruin. Judge Comstock is an eminent and able man, but he is no expo- nent of Governor Tilden’s views, and will have little influence in the Convention, even if he should be elected its presiding officer. Senator Kernan is Governor Tilden’s confi- dential representative—we might almost say his plenipotentiary—at Syracuse, and if Mr. Tilden wants a hard money platform there will be no serious opposition. But whether it will be a bold or a timid hard money plat- form remains to be seen. It will be worth nothing unless it is vigorous and aggressive. There is not the slightest danger that the New York democracy will plunge head and ears, like their brethren of Pennsylvania, into the pool of inflation. Our only fear is that they may have recourse to trimming ex- pedients and belittle the question. This might be done on several pretexts which have @ superficial air of plausibility, The Con- vention might, for example, take the cue given for several days by the Albany Argus (but dropped in its issue of yesterday) that canal reform overshadows all other issues, and that as none of the State officers to be elected will have any control of the currency it would be irrelevant to make that a prom- inent issue in the canvass. This will not pass muster. The question cannot be ignored; even silence would be expressive. If the New York democracy should say noth- ing they would thereby strike the hard money flag and make a virtual surrender to the inflationists. The whole country would put this interpretation on their silence. Why did they speak out so boldly last year if the topic is irrelevant in a State canvass? Why did Governor Tilden devote to this subject thrice the space he gave to any other in his annual Message? This pretext of the Argus is “too thin;” the country would laugh it toscorn. Weare pleased to see that the Albany organ tacitly abandoned it yesterday, and we would gladly believe it did so on an admonition from the Governor. Another trimming expedient, which would expose the Convention to less derision, | would be to begin by saying that, ‘‘Reaffirm- ing the declaration of principles made by their Convention last year, the New York democracy give their unequivocal support to Governor Tilden,” &c., &c., going on to com- plete a platform on the reform question while trying to satisfy the public on the hard money question by a mere reference to what was done a year ago. This would hardly an- swer, even if circumstances had not so greatly changed. An old platform is like an old al- manic. There is a necessity for a new and vigorous declaration on the ourrency, grow- ing out of the dangerous heresy which ig so rapidly spreading in the democratic ranks, exciting profound alarm, both in the party and out of it. If the New York democrats have no more shot in their locker, and are obliged to pick up the spent missile dis- charged in last year’s campaign for reloading their hard-money gun, the enemy will think them reduced to the last extremity. What is needed is increased strength of denunciation proportioned to the new exigencies of the | situation, Anything short of this will bea fatal sign of political cowardice. If all the defiant vigor is on the side of the advancing inflationists it is easy to predict how the con- test will end. Indeed, there will be no con- test at all if the New York democracy makes a display of quailing timidity. If the Convention is disposed to be gentle with the rag baby, to ‘take her up tenderly, lift her with care,” still another method might be the stale device, 80 well known to trimmers, of employing ambiguous language. Even Mr. Pendleton expresses a theoretical preference for specie, and the Convention may go several steps in advance of him without saying anything to the purpose, The declaration on this great subject must must be strenuous, vehement and radical ; it must be in atone of honest scorn and in- dignant rebuke; it must be clothed in language of scathing earnestness; it must “carry the war into Africa.” Unless the hard-money democrats take an aggressive at- titude and stake all their political hopes on their ability to turn back the inflation tide and control the National Convention, the Allen-Pendleton virus will infect the whole party. any real light upon in his address before the Legislative Committea So far as Governor Tilden’s Presidential chances ara in auaihiam the courageous not only be explicit and unequivocal, it | course will be the politie one. If the in- | flationists should get control of the National Convention next year they will nominate a Western candidate. Governor Tilden's suc- cess is staked on the ascendancy of the hard- ymener democrats. They need an intrepid leader. He is in a position to be that leader. But unless his aggressiveness is equal to that of the inflationists ; unless he teaches | them that in this battle ‘there are blows to take as well as blows to give ;” unless he as- sumes the offensive and rallies the people to his support, as he has by his unsparing as- saults on the Canal Ring, he will be swept down by the vigor of his opponents. He may win the fight if he is daring enough, If the Syracuse Convention puts sound timber in its platform, and on the evening after its adjournment Mr. Til- den’s friends compliment him with a sere- nade, we should rejoice to print a speech repeating in relation to inflation his recent language at Buffalo respecting reform:—‘I will follow where any dare lead; I will lead where any dare follow.” He could make no greater mistake than a vain attempt to propi- tiate the inflationists. He must succeed by Geviog and defeating them, or he cannot ucceed atall, Wit ith truth and reaso1 their side all that the trader tere en nee is an indomitable leader, of unshrinking, ag- gressive courage. Mr. Tilden will have no competitors for that position of honor and of danger, and nobody can step between him and the reward if he compels the inflationists to “hide their diminished heads.” The sound part of the public press will hold up his hands in such a contest as Aaron htld up those of Moses during the progress of the battle. The Maine Election. ~ In 1872 Maine gave General Grant over thirty-two thousand majority ; in 1874 the republicans elected Dingley Governor by over eleven thousand majority. On Monday the republican majority was whittled down to less than five thousand, according to the reports at hand as we write; and this in spite of the most vigorous efforts of leading and prominent men, like Blaine and Morton,* the former speaking in his own State, and to his own people, who are personally attached to him. Evidently the speeches did not hit the mark. Why? On the financial issue the people are certainly of the same mind with Mr. Blaine. Both parties in Maine favor specie payments. Where they disagree with the leader they are proud of is on the question of the ‘bloody shirt.” Mr. Blaine, it is said, sent for Senator Morton to shout **Murder!” in the Maine woods; but the people were not scared; even the ex- Speaker could not frighten them. Per- haps this will teach some of the republican politicians elsewhere a little wis- dom. The Northern people seem to have made up their minds that the war is now finally over ; that the negro has had, on the whole, a very fair chance, and must hence- forth take care of himself; that he is abun- dantly able to doso, and only needs to be let alone to get on as well as anybody else. The Maine election, following the demo- cratic victory in California, is disheartening to the republicans. Its effect will be felt in Ohio, Pegpsylvania and this State. The people ar@,tired of old cries and of appeals to their fear of the democratic party. The elections fhis fall cannot be carried by the beating off 4 gongs. That begins to be very plain. wy Police Pistol Practice. The right of a police officer to shoot at an escaping prisoner or a person resisting arrest requirés clear definition. Under the exist- ing system officers of the law become mur- derers on the slightest provocation. The law by virtue of which policemen are armed with deadly weapons and empowered to use them in self-defence was not intended by its framers as,a permission to policemen to pun- ish with death at their own good will every slight infraction of the law. Two cases that have lately occurred exenplify the evils of the reckless use of the pistol by policemen. A colored man in Brooklyn, arrested for some trivial offence, escapes from custody and is pursued by an officer, who, failing to come up with the fugitive, fires a shot and kills him. No right-thinking man will attempt to justify so grievous a punish- ment for so insignificant an offence. | Even had the prisoner esca ho could easily havé ‘been ‘téarrested & few hours later and no failure of justice would have resulted. In Kentucky a police- man attempted to arrest an excited man; the latter, in his anger, slapped the officer in the pe and without a moment's hesitation the cer drew a pistol and shot him. Hada “noted fo in either case he would pre be tried and punished for murder, and a policeman charged with the protection of life should exhibit at least as much for- bearance as is demanded by the law from the vast body of citizens. In the two cases cited the acts of the policemen amounted to wanton murder. It cannot be pretended that either officer was in danger of his life, and we therefore see no Feagon to separate their cases from those of ordinary Muzderers. Police- men must be taught that they have ho ay special right to assume the power of judge, jury and executioner, and the best way toimpress this lesson would be to send officers guilty of using their pistols withont justification to State Prison for ten years. Some check must be put on the murderons instincts of reckless policemen, for citizens cannot con- | sent to hold their lives at the good pleasure of the men who are paid to maintain order, Orvictan Crverty is not confined to New York, and this morning we have an account of the practices indulged in by the officers of the Kings County Penitentiary. The testi- mony adduced yesterday before a committee of the Board of Supervisors indicates both cruelty and lack of discipline, and so our neighbors have a problem to solve which our Board of Charities and Correction would be likely to give up in despair. ; Jensey Crry Orrictats seem especially sux cessfgl in copying the vices of metropolitan politicians. The uproar in the Board@f Education yesterday and revelations in re« gard to the management of the public schools would have done credit to our own Board of Apportionment, with Comptroller Green on the ramvace, The Aerial Ladder Murder. ‘The story which we print this morning of the breaking of one of the famous Uda fire ladders and the consequent death of three of the men who had ascended it is, perhaps, the most painful and inexcusable episode in a long series of calamities. Some excuse may be found for most of the disasters we have ‘recently recorded, but for this there is no palliation. First of all, the adoption of the ladder by the Fire Department was the result of a no- torious job, What was begun in corruption has ended in death, andjit is only due to the foresight of Captain McElwaine that the three murders which came from yesterday's experiment were not supplemented by many more, In the second place the experiment ought never to have been made, not only because it was hazardous but because it was unneces- sary. The corrupt bargain through which the department was induced to purchase the right to uso the contrivance ought to have cast suspicion upon its usefulness, and at least prevented a display of any mere fool- hardiness, The egntrary effect seems to have been the result, In’spile of the exposure of the false and corrupt means by which its adoption had been secured, the Chief of the Fire Department was determined to test it to the utmost, and his efforts have ended ina triple murder. What were Mr. Bates’ motives we know not, and what excuse he may be able to make to his own conscience we care not to inquire, but all the world can see the terrible end of the foolish and useless experi- ments he ordered. We would not condemn him in haste, but the occasion is a bitter one, and he must be able to make some explana- tion more tenable than a whim of his own to test a useless contrivance. The fault may not be his, and in that case we must know where the responsibility ought to rest. We look to the inquest to reveal the whole truth in this matter, and shall be satisfied with nothing short of a complete history of all the transactions which led to this direful murder, Another fact must not be overlooked. Here was a ladder in eight sections and ninety- eight feet in height. Seven men were to climb it ; but, after three of them had as- cended above the third section, it swayed and broke, and the poor fellows were dashed to death on the hard street below. Then came the discovery that it was made of ex- tremely brittle material and that the frail structure upon which these hardy firemen were ordered to expose their lives was only white pine. The wick- edness and avarice revealed by this fact are inconceivable. A -housemaid would not risk herself and her pail upon a structure made of such wood, and yet Nash and his com- panions at the word of command were ordered to ascend a hundred feet into the air upon a white pine ladder. Words can only belittle the terrible facts of this disaster, and we must wait for a calmer moment even fitly to con- demn the cupidity and the recklessness which led to the catastrophe. Russia and Turkey. It is stated on the authority of a London Times correspondent that Russia will en- deavor to combine the influence of the Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris to put such a pressure upon the government at Constantinople as will secure the reforms demanded by the Sclavonic subjects of Tur- key. Russia, therefore, it will be seen, moves cautiously, but does not intend to miss her opportunity. All the diplomatic influence of the world brought to bear at Constantinople in one great diplomatic bat- tery would not change the administration in the troubled provinces; because it is not the good will of the Sultan that is at fault, and diplomacy, which could only effect his good will or only secure pledges on paper, would, therefore, never reach the real source of the evil, which is the system and the machinery of Turkish rule as applied to non-Turkish people. It is the natural barbarism of their rulers that the people have revolted against, which is no worse now than fifty years ago, perhaps, but is less to be tolerated by the people, because they in that fifty years have grown some- what. It is proper, however, for Russia, as the first friend of the insurgents, to exhaust all peaceable means that present themselves, that the resort to arms bias: it comes shall seem to be the only measure left. Hence the “proposition to exact of Turkey a pledge to govern the provinces dfferently. That pledge will necessarily be violated, and that viola- tion will justify, if the papers are properly drawn, on armed interference. The Temperance Cause. Just now the advocates of temperance are suffering from one of their periodic spasms of virtue. They have disinterred tho hatchet and taken to the warpath with the avowed intention of suppressing traffic in liquoron the Sabbath day. They have a strong case, in so far gs the {gaffic under existing conditions of the ty is illegal. The justice and expedi- ency of allowing persons holding a special doctrine on temperance to compel others who do not agree with them to abstain from .the ase al liquor on one day in the week _be questioned. It is a very grave pi ference with the rights of indi- viduals and opens the way to vexatious abuses of authority. The sale of liquor on Sunday is a matter of pttblic convenience and one which touches nearly the vast body of the people. Governments have endeavored to suppress this Sunday liquor traffic, but in no single instance has success attended their efforts; and even could the law be properly enforced tho advisability of making the drinking of a glass of beer on Sunday a penal offence would still be very doubtful. Liquor used to excess is injurious; but, after all, those who use it to excess are but a very small proportion of the popula- tion, and it is not reasonable that the popu- lation of a State should be debarred from the use of refreshments because some few per- sons here and there may drink to excess, It is the more absurd that no legal restrictions will prevent the class disposed to drunken- ness from obtaining liquor, so that the tem- perance advocates who wish to prevent the sale of liquor on Sundays do not so much prevent people from getting drunk as hinder the general public from obtaining reasonable refreshments. The only result likely to spring from the repowad aatinite of the temperance advocates is an agitation for the repeal of the Sunday Liquor law, which was a mistaken and ill-advised act of legis- lation, Our Native Drama. The letter which we have published from Mr. William Stuart upon our ‘Native Drama” comes from one of our most accom- plished writers and makes a plea in behalf of what its author calls “the struggling strength” and “anticipated weakness” of “‘a young na- tional drama.” As he says, ‘The day steals upon our eyesight from the cool gray of the early dawn into the russet which precedes the silver light that leads the golden beams of the day god.” He reminds us that the drama in all countries has been in its begin- ning very rude ; that Shakespeare found an unfinished drama, ‘‘unproportioned and in- expressive,” and that out of this he fashioned his masterpieces. He argues that we cannot expect a great dramatist unless we en- ‘courage essays that tend toward perfection. He recalls the fact that Mrs. Ward Howe's piece, ‘‘graceful in design and exquisite in lan- guage,” was “crushed before it could crawl.” Me tells us that the ‘“Octoroon” was a fail- ure; and yet we agree with him that the “Octoroon” is as fine an American drama as we have on the stage. He refers also to the success of Mr. Raymond as Colonel Sellers and to the attempt of Mr, Florence to create a new character out of the Hon. Bardwell Slote. To the objection of the critics that the Hon, Bardwell Slote is a caricature, Mr. Stuart answers that so are Dundreary and Richelieu, Richard III. and Micawber. We should be sorry.to see any disposition on the part of our critics to “crush” out the American drama. We do not think that any trustworthy newspaper desires to be unjust to American art or American artists, Mr. Stuart has a thought which he evidently feels more strongly than he expresses, that there is a ‘‘combination of critics” in New York who can make or unmake whatever dramatic reputation they please. This may be true in regard to some of the minor journals, — especially those which make a specialty of the drama. It is possible, too, thatan “influence” may be slyly “conveyed” into some minor jour- nals from box offices and agents, but as a general thing the press of New York i is just toany manifestation of talent, dramatic or otherwise. If we believed it possible that a combination of critics could be made a lit- erary ring devoted to destroying or building up dramatic reputations we should feel it our duty to do what we could to put an end to itas dishonorable to our profession and disheartening to the drama. We are interested in Mr. Stuart's estimate of Mr. Florence's new character. But we think it would be better for our native dram- atists to create rather than caricature. We have created many noted works. The “Gilded Age” has one character only which saves it, As a drama it is beneath criticism, almost’ beneath con- tempt. Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle is an American creation, although we can scarcely call it dramatic. Its origin is due more to the novelist than the dramatist. Uncle Tom is a phase of the American character which became singularly successful, and we have often wondered that our native drama- tists did not do more with the negro than they have yet succeeded in doing. Colonel Sellers and Uncle Sam as written by Sar- dou, are caricatures, and so long as our dramatists are content with exaggeration of this kind we can hardly expect them to as- cend to the realms of true art. Mr. Florence, however, deserves credit for having made the experiment of a new American part, whether caricature or not, . We trust that it will have the vitality of Lord Dundreary and Colonel Sellers. We are willing todo our share to encourage the native drama, believing, as Mr, Stuart quaintly puts it, that “lisping is the little life of future speech,” Grant’s Luck. General Grant seems to be the luckiest man we have ever had in American politics, When his administration was running rapidly down at the heels the republicans passed an inflation bill, which gave him an opportunity of vetoing it and putting him- self at the head of the hard money party, al- though at the time he hardly knew the dif- ference between hard money and soft money. When his action on the Southern and other questions seemed to have completely with- drawn from him the confidence of the public the democratic party of Pennsylvania must permit a troupe of tramps and vagabonds to | meet in convention and pass resolutions vir- tually leading to repudiation. The result of this is to Boek a | irant into undis-, “prominen @ leader of the friends of sound tle 2 and financial integrity. And now we have a Jesuit priest, in a sermon delivered in New Jersey last Sunday, publicly denouncing the adminig- tration, and asking God to hasten its end, If anything is calculated to make General Grant the next President of the United States it is declarations like- this and from men of this calling. Once draw this line in politics, once throw out the slightest intimation that it will be for the interest of the Order of Jesuits or of the Roman Church that General Grant shall be defeated and we shall have such an uprising of the Protestant sentiment throughout the bd and West as will com- pel his re-election: Jt does seem as if those who should feel thadeepest interest in the defeat of President Grattt.are by some malign influence conspiring to make his nomination inevitable and to give his re-¢lec- tion every prospect of a certainty. There surely never was a luckier man in our Amer- can politics, Tue Bowarantists.—That “something must be done,” and quickly, becomes daily more evident to the imperial party in France, and the conference somewhat osten- tatiously called at Arenenburg, in Switzer- land—which is one of the places where the imperial family lives when it has no throne—is called, perhaps, to determine a line of action for the immediate future, All the hitherto recognized heads of the party will be there, and Admiral Roncidre-le- Noury, who has just lost the command of the Mediterranean fleet throngh his imperial fervor, will, perhaps, have leisure to join the company and follow the music. It is evident that the Republic grows apace, and the point recapily go wall tavehed by De Tocqueville, that in the present condition all conservatives must be republicans, is evie dently perceived by him as a fact, not a theory. It gives to the Republic that vast party which was once so great a strength to imperialism—the party that stands by the government because it is the government. Imperialists see that the crisis is near, and therefore they actively prepare to meet it ; but whatever course they take we trust they will not determine to send Prince Louis over the frontier with a tame eagle, either on the Strasburg side or at Boulogne, Another General Storm Visitation. The latest advices from Europe announce the occurrence of violent storms in the South of France and much destruction of life and property by the bursting of a waterspout near Montpelier. After the quite recent dis- asters in that country arising from storm vis- itations the conclysion must be arrived at that atmospheric disturbances of extraordi- nary violence, duration and extent have been taking place over the Mediterrancan Sea, influenced by the great evaporation due to continuous high temperature and the heated air waves rolling northward from the sandy wastes of Sahara. As already ex~ plained in our columns, the formation of! these cyclonic meteors, that prove so de- structive in their overland progress, are mainly due to the phenomeha of evaporation and condensation caused by the counter movements of warm and cold currents of air. The South of France is topographically open to these storms, and is therefore more fre- quently visited by them than any other part of Southern Europe. The storm or hurri- cane, which is reported by telegram to have originated in the West Indian seas, and which will in all probability reach our lati- tude in a day or two, threatens to be one of the most severe of the season, It will follow the usual track of these storms along the Atlantic coast, and, fortunately for com- merce, its progress will be carefully watched and signalled by the Signal Service Office, so that timely preparations can be made to guard against disasters to our shipping. We need an extension of our system of observa- tign stations to the West Indian Islands and. the points on the coast of South America north of the Equator. This, with the thor- ough co-operation of the Signal Service de- partments of European nations, will render our meteorological knowledge complete, so far as the advance of that special science, will permit. Hicu Brer.—The prohibition by the British government of the importation of beef into England from the remainder of Europe causes a lively outcry in the press and a general fear of a beef famine. The ‘roast beef of old Eng- land, the old, old English roast beef,” isnow- adays brought from all parts of the world; even Australia and Texas contributing their share, but in ashape not palatable to the average John Bull, who hates stews, and wants a ‘slice off the joint.” The prevalence of cattle diseases on the European Continent makes it imprudent to permit the importa- tion of live stock into England from there. But why should not we send them cattle from the United States and Canada? We already do something in this way, mostly, we believe, in slaughtered carcasses, which are sent over onice or in huge refrigerators. During the winter meat could be carried with’ but little provision against spoiling on the passage, and we call the attention of butchers and stock dealers to this trade, which might, we suspect, be made very pro- fitable. It would be shameful to see John Bull wanting a joint of beef while we have one to sell him. Tue Grear Srauuion Race at Mystic Park yesterday was a very spirited affair, and with a due regard to Centennial considerations it was won by Thomas Jefferson. In another column we give the full details of the inter- esting event, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. , Pesaran a Miss Vinnie Ream is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel Mr. Carl Schurz, of Missouri, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mohammed, son of Abd-el-Kader, has written a book on the Arab race of horses, Professor W. P. Blake, of New Haven, is residing temporarily at the Astor House. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of Now Jersoy, is so- Journing at the New York Hotel. Colonel Lorenzo Sitgreaves, United States Army, is quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. A. P. Boissier, British Consul at Matanzas, Cuba, has arrived at the Hoffman House, The government is urged to put a buoy at “Pull-and- be-Damned Point,”’ on the New England coast. Rear Admiral Fabius stanley, Utited States Navy, has transferred his quarters to the St. Denis Hotel, Robert B. Lee, son of thé late Genétal of that name, ° will retura to Virginia from Europe in a fow weeks, Mr. A. N. Chrystie, Vice President of the Ohio and _Mississippi Railroad Company, ts at the Gilsoy House. Mr. Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, js stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. » Judgo Nathaniel Shipman, of the United States Dis- ‘ret Court for Connecticut, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. « An anosually large number of furloughs -will be granted in the German army this year, for the ake of economy. Mr. William B. Washburn, recently United States” Senator from Massachusetts, has apartments at the Fift Avenue Hotel. Count de la Rochefoucauld, First Seoretary of the French Legation at Washington, arrived at the Brevoort House last evening from Newport, Abram Q. Garretson, of Jersey City, and Trevonian Haight, of Newark, were yesterday apfointed on the staff of Governor Bedle ae'aides-de-camp. Ex.Governor Hoffman téok a trip down tho bay yes- terday on board the Quarantine steamer Nelson J. Hop- kins, passing close to Hoffman and Dix islands. Somebody says that no Sam was ever great in Ameri- can politics, This is a mistake, What would American politics for the last thirty years have been without Sambo? Secretary Belknap returned to Washington yesterday from his Western tour, He will remain there until the 20th inst., when he will leave for Des Moines, Iowa, to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of Ten- nessee, ‘The President, accompanied by Mrs, Grant, Lieuten- ant Colonel Frederick D, Grant and wife and General O. EB. Babcock, arrived in this city last evening from Long Branch, After dining at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the President and bis wife and General Babcock took the nine o’clock train for Washington. The Albany Kvening Journal says, in regard to the nomination of Mr. Bigelow by the Republican Conven- tion, that Mr. Bigelow entertained the suggestion, and engaged in a somewhat extended consultation on the subject, but finally declined, because he had entered upon the work of the investigating commission and ‘was bound in good faith to go on with it, and he thought that to accept a nomination now would expose him to the suspicion or the charge, on the part of his enemies, of having sought or availed himself of his position and opportunity for the purpose of promoting his own por- sonal intorests, and his sense of honor would not per- malt bm ta yo paged inanw auch gikation,