The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ee temenanet 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 sent 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 subseribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. Letters ond packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, poles aati 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.--- pai: NO, 259 AMUSEMENTS “T0- NIGHT, I ES SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Now Opera House, Broudway, corner of Twenty: “ninth street, a8 P. AMERICAN EXGETIO RE, ‘Third avenue.—Day an BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue —HAMLET, at 8 POM.” Mr, Barry Sullivan. DARL) Twenty-third street MINSTRELS, at 5 P. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Yo. 924 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 "3 OPERA HOUSE, ixth avenue. pooTToN @BEED'S clones wt 10 P.M. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDE} eT Barnum's Hippodroue. sRAND POPULAR CON. Cher, atsP.M.; Clowes at iP. M METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ape West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to5 Ewenty-eighth Mores i alway SARATOGA, + 8 eighth street, near Brondway.—S. a BOE ee ak to ru. Min Vaeny Devenpertsce Mr. Jamos Lewis. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and swantanecres street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.: closes at 10:45 P. M, K GARDEN, ERT, at 3 P.M, CENTRAL THEODORE THOMAS’ © WALLACK’S THEATRE, Thirteenth street.—English Comte Opers— GIROFLA, at 8 P.M. Miss Julia Mathews, Mr, jermott. GrROREE Gt THEATRE ¢ fo ,pis Broadway.—VARIETY QUE, SP. ML; closes at 10:45 of Phtetieth ‘ THE NEW Be Droatwer, corner of Thirtieth FIREMAN. at2 P.M MARKE LIFE, at 8 closes at 10:45 P.M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, By th avenne, corner of Twenty third street.—PIONEER TRIOTS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Mr. Harry Wathing METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth _ street. pigeneh Opera Bouffe—MADAME DanCuibod: a8 P. PARISIAN VARIPTIES, Bixteenth street and Broadway.—VABIETY, at 8 P. M, HOWE & CUSHI fat of Houston street, East iiv performances, #8 CIRCUS, —Afvernoon and evening ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 1d Fourteenth street.—AROUND THE ITY DAYS, hee 8 anol dain Work. IN El TRIPLE SHEET. TEMBER 16, 187 NEW YORK, THU! SDAY, rom ow our reports this n morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with light rains. sn Warn Srreer Yesrenpay.—The stock market was feverish and lower, Pacific Mail and Lake Shore being the objective points. Gold opened and closed at 1167-8. Money was in request on call at 21-2 and 3 per cent. Bencn axp Ban yesterday united in pay- ing their homage to the memory of the late Judge Woodruff. An Amvsmxc Verpicr was yesterday re- turned in a civil suit by the jury appointed to try it. Humor is always entertaining, but if there is a place where we could dis- pense with it it grec efully it is in the jury box. Tuer Enouisn Srockuoupers in Erie have taken a decided step, as will be seen by a cable telegram forwarded by their solicitor in London to President Jewett. Whether it will secure the end in view remains to be yeen. We Pveusn in another column an in- teresting letter on the origin of the Herze- govinian trouble. It is the old story of oppression—the Turks, like the Bourbons, forgetting nothing and learning nothing. Little by little the Christian communities are, however, escaping from their intolerable tyranny. Aw Aprrat has been made by the Bankers’ Committee of the Centennial to persons pos- sessing rare or curious specimens of our coinage to send the same to the Centennial for exhibition. We hope the appeal will meet with a hearty response from the pos- sessors of numismatic treasures, as a com- plete collection of the coinage of our coun- try would help to illustrate our history, and could not fail to be of great interest to foreign and native students. Tae Arua: Lavpen.—It is now freely charged that the adoption of the aerial ladder was secured by corrupt means, and some of the Fire Commissioners advise the abandon- ment of a system which is declared to be un- reliable. Ifthe allegation of corruption can be sustained the guilty parties should be held ap for public reprobation. They cannot, perhaps, be punished as they deserve, but they can at least be gibbeted morally. public have aright to know the men who, for the sake of personal gain, exposed reck- lessly the lives of the firemen, a body of public servants whose devotion and gallantry have earned for them the admiration of the community. ~ The | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1875.—-TRIPLY SHEET, A Convention in Leading Strings. Our politics have a grotesque side which might contribute to the public amusement if our people were not so earnest in their at Syracuse, as everybody knows, is soft wax in the hands of. Governor Tilden, and yet it will go through all the forms of deliberation, | as if it were a deciding and not merely a reg- istering body. By the theory of our institutions the delegates, fresh from the people, assemble for consultation with one another, in order to determine after due deliberation and a fair comparison of views what the party ought to do in every emergency. But what takes place in fact is a ridiculous contrast to the theory. A majority of the delegates at Syracuse stand still and await orders, like militia assembled fora parade. They have no mind of their own on any subject, and hang around the corridors of the hotels expecting the word of command from the party chief whose will they have assembled to obey. The proceedings of the Convention on essen- tial points are cut and dried in advance, and its only office is simply to do as it is bid. Sen- ator Kernan, as the authorized representa- tive of Governor Tilden, goes to Syracuse to manipulate the Convention, and when he has stated the wishes of the Great Mogul they yield the same unhesitating obedience as the Light Brigade did at Balaklava:— Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, The dying at Syracuse is only metaphori- cal; they die as delegates after discharging their function as puppets, and will return to their homes to mingle with their fellow citizens, never to be heard of again in poli- tics. The greater part of them are new in the business of political conventions, never having attended one before. They are mere tools in the hands of the experienced mana- gers. When the platform, drafted before they meet, is reported by a packed committee on resolutions, they are expected to vote for it with applauding hurrahs. When such mem- bers of the ticket as Governor Tilden chooses to dictate are proposed in the Convention their votes and applause are equally ready. The real work of the Convention is ent out by one man and his confidential advisers, and the great body of the delegates are his obsequi- ous clagueurs, who practise as little discrimi- nation as if they were performing a similar part ina theatre. The things which Gov- ernor Tilden cares nothing about he leaves to the decision of the Convention, but he will dictate the platform and the important nominations. This satire on democratic ideas provokes no ridicule, because it is so slight a deviation from ordinary usage. The wishes of the Governor being known, the action of his Convention can be pre- dicted, although it will flounder through a two days’ session to reach the foregone con- clusions settled in his mind before the dele- gates assembled. The whole of to-day is likely to be consumed in a sham inves- tigation of the claims to contested seats, although nobody at the scene of action doubts that Governor Tilden wishes, nor that the Convention will decide, to give the seats to the Tammany delegates. The solemn farce will be enacted of appointing a committee on resolutions, although the platform certain to be adopted has existed for several days in the legible handwriting of a delegate from this city, and has been passed upon and approved by the Governor and his con- fidential counsellor, Senator Kernan. Gov- ernor Tilden long ago decided that Mr. Fairchild should be the democratic candidate for Attorney General, and the speculations in relation to this office were mere blinds to veil the fact that the Governor is usurping one of the functions of the Convention in dic- tating candidates. The name of Mr. John Bigelow to head the ticket is another of his pet selections, and if Mr. Bigelow will con- sent there seems no doubt that the Conven- tion will gratify its master. This subservient willingness to gratify Governor Tilden creates some situations which are more dramatic than judicious. The case of Mr. Fairchild may serve as an illustration. This gentleman is a subordi- nate of Attorney General Pratt, to whose friendship he is indebted for his appoint- ment as Deputy Attorney General. To array a subordinate against his official chief is so gross a breach of official etiquette and propriety that Mr. Fairchild declared several weeks ago that he would not be a candidate against the official superior who hed ap- pointed him, and all who were aware of the fact expressed approval of Mr. Fairchild’s honorable loyalty. This creditable sense of loyalty and sense of personal gratitude seems to have been overcome by the urgency of Governor Tilden, who has not scrupled to upset the subordination which is essential to a correct civil ser- vice. Attorney General Pratt and his deputy, Mr. Fairchild, are rival candidates for a nomination to which the latter felt that it was dishonorable for him to aspire against his chief until Governor Tilden overcame the scruples of an ingenuous young lawyer. Such a contest is not in keeping with either official or personal morals. It is inconsis- tent with gratitude, because Mr. Fairchild owes his present position to the friendship, of Mr. Pratt. It is subversive of just ideas of official subordination, because from this time forth the Deputy Attorney General will feel himself entitled to treat the Attorney General as an inferior, Mr. Pratt will remain in office until the Ist of January, and will be in a humiliating po- sition of dependence on the courtesy of his subordinate for protection against insolence, To be sure, Mr. Pratt has remedies, but he cannot avail himself of them without violat- ing his sense of propriety as a gentleman. He is as free to dismiss Mr. Fairchild as he was to appoint him, but he would not wish to expose himself to the charge of mean jealousy which would be made by Governor Tilden’s supporters. He has another remedy for the humiliation which Mr. Tilden’s Convention will put upon him in a resignation of his office. But although | the first impulse of a high-spirited gentleman would be to take this course, he may be un- willing to recognize the power of the Gover- nor to drive him out of an office to which he was elected by the people. In forcing this nomination on Mr, Pratt's subordinate Governor Tilden is perpetrating a refined insult, which subverts the proper relation party contests, The Democratic Convention | | between the head of a department and his | subordinates. There aro at least fifty dem- ocratic lawyers in the State who are as com- petent for the office of Attorney General as Mr. Fairchild, and if the Governor wishes to get rid of Mr. Pratt he might easily have | done so without subverting discipline in the office of the Attorney General, The Gov- ernor makes it too evident that ‘he desires a pliant tool in this place instead of an inde- pendent officer. But he might have found a tool without interfering with tha discipline of the office, Another of the nonibumaeas which the Governor wishes to dictate is that of Mr. Bigelow for Secretary of State. Of Mr. Bigelow’s admirable personal qualifications there can be no question, but there would be an incongruity in putting a republican at the head of the democratic ticket, Certain it is that this would never be done by the spontaneous action of the Convention. It bears too close a resemblance to making Mr. Greeley the democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1872. If Mr. Bigelow is nominated the universal feeling will be that this is Mr. Tilden’s doing, “and it is marvellous in our eyes,” It cannot be justi- fied on the plea of wishing to conciliate the liberal republicans, for Mr. Bigelow has never been associated with that faction. Such a nomination will be regarded by the party as one of Governor Tilden’s freaks, for it is a nomination which the New York democrats would never think of making if the Con- vention were to act freely without guberna- torial dictation, Asa device for gaining re- publican votes it is futile, If Mr. Bigelow accepts the nomination it will be regarded by the republicans as a proof that he has gone over to the democrats, who will gain only his single vote ; for Mr. Bigelow has no political or personal following. Governor Tilden weakens himself by foisting on the party a personal favorite, who is a stranger in the democratic ranks, and would merely illustrate the proverb that ‘‘poli- tics make strange bedfellows.” Gover- nor Tilden abuses his position as dictator when he forces the Convention to do things so contrary to what the party would do in the exercise of its free choice, A statesman who cares more for the ostentation of power than for power itself is liable to commit blunders of vanity or favoritism which weaken his in- fluence. Ex-Governor Seymour has saved Mr. Tilden from one conspicuous blunder which he was on the point of committing. The ex-Governor has a promising young nephew who gave some testimony against the canal thieves which pleased Mr. Tilden, and he thereupon determined to make this witness the demo- cratic candidate for State Engineer. Mr. Seymour, Jr., has no pretensions to that office which the State Convention would have recognized if Governor Tilden had not pushed him, and his judicious and expe- rienced uncle has counselled him to decline the nomination. But if ex-Governor Sey- mour had not given this wise advice to his young kinsman Mr. Tilden would have perpetrated the blunder of forcing the nomi- nation of a man whom the party would never have thought of for so responsible a position. In view of these obvious mistakes we doubt whether it is ever expedient for a political convention to surrender its freedom of ac- tion into the hands of an aspiring party chief. Reports—Cum Grano Salis. No event of recent times has been chron- icled with such persistent alternations of contradiction as characterize the reports of the trouble in Herzegovina. One day we are told, with some excitement, that the country is up; that the insurrection has gone beyond all peaceful control; that Croats, Bosnians, Servians, Montenegrins and even Albanians are swarming to the struggle, and that Tur- key cannot face her numerons foes. On the morrow comes a despatch as if from some placid sphere of lotus eaters, from which the picture of these swarming rebels could never be created by the liveliest imagination, and in which the revolt appears scarcely more than a quarrel at a country ferry. All great events are necessarily reported with contra- dictions of this sort, because the hostile par- ties inspire the different reports; but we have hardly seen a case where the differences were so flagrant as in the chronicle of this revolt of the mountaineers, The reason is that reports reach the European capitals from two sources as different as Belgrade and Con- stantinople. Ifthe world at large had heard the story of our civil war, one day from Richmond and the next fram Washington, the contradictions would have been equally marked. From Belgrade every fact comes tinctured with the fervor of sympathy with the revolt; from Constantinople comes only the spirit of the impassive Moslem, to whom a revolt in those distant mountains is of less consequence than a fly in his cof- fee. Hence it follows that neither extreme of the contradictions is to be accepted too freely by the reader. The picture that presents the revolt as without importance is not to be trusted ; neither is that an accurate statement which represents it as sweeping everything in its path. Mr. Apams Deciines.—A good many peo- ple, seeing the confusion into which both political parties seem to be falling, have looked to some contingency in which Mr. Charles Francis Adams might become a Presidential candidate. These will be dis- appointed on reading the letter from this distinguished statesman which we print elsewhere. Mr. Adams thinks he would rather write history than make it. He sees nothing in public life which ‘promises happy results within a short time,” and he is busy with the politics of other days, It is but fair to say that Mr. Adams has served | the nation honorably and with benefit to the general interest many years, and in arduous positions. He has earned exemp- tion from further public service, if he de- sires it, and may decline to re-enter the po- litical field without incurring the charge of neglect of duty. Tux Direct Caste is an accomplished fact, and yesterday the messengers of the new company made their appearance in the city and attracted a good deal of attention, The organization of the new company has The Water Supply and Proper Economy. A fastidious stranger from Europe once visited this country and, of course, wrote a book giving his experiences among us, In a chapter on “hotels,” he complained that in all the hotels of the United States he was unable to get enough water to wash himself. An indignant American critic retorted that if the assertion was true the traveller must have been a very dirty fellow. We have on hand just now a difficulty in the matter of our water supply, which threatens to reopen the question raised by the visitor from Enrope, the only difference being that it is among ourselves that the controversy is being waged, and while one side calls for more water to wash with, the other asserts that with proper economy the present rate of supply is sufficient for the next twenty years. The solution of the whole difficulty lies in the interpretation put on the ‘‘proper economy.” To the ordinary mortal, we mean of course the simple citizen of New York, to whom the mysterious records of the Water Bureau are as Egyptian hieroglyphics, it seems incredible that we consume daily in this city a quantity of water exceeding three hundred millions of gallons, or about three hundred gallons per inhabitant. To those who only use water in their matutinal ablutions this is especially startling, for it awakens horrible suspicions associated with their daily and nightly potations. People ask, Where is the water used? For what purposes can such a vast quantity of water be needed? The answer to these questions is simply that about sixty per cent of our daily supply of water is not used at all, but wasted, ignorantly or wantonly, through the sewers of the city. In a well regulated community water is valued as a necessity to life and healthful cleanliness, and not as something to be wasted in every conceivable manner and at every point. The Romans used water supplied from distant sources through aqueducts of great length and grandeur of construction. They con- sumed over three hundred gallons per in- habitant daily, but they were a cleanly peo- ple, rich and poor frequenting the baths every day. Besides, they needed a vast sup- ply of water for use in their public gardens and for the gladiatorial naval combats at the several periods set down for these displays. But here the conditions are widely dif- erent, and it therefore needs explanation where all this water goes to. Let any one visit the docks and wharves of this city and notice the constant waste of water going on day and night wherever a hydrant can be left running. Go to the breweries and fac- tories and see the continuous outpour of the precious fluid into the sewers and gutters without object or benefit. Examine the pri- vate dwellings and the hotels and tenement houses and see the water flowing from con- stantly open taps in kitchens, bathrooms and water closets, and then add the loss from leakage of pipes into the sewers or the earth, and the sum total of waste will astonish the investigator. The trouble about this waste of water is that it is of no benefit whatever to the hygienic condition of the city. The streets are as dirty, the gutters as foul, the sewers as ineffective, as if the supply only equalled the actual demand, and types of disease that owe their virulence to want of cleanliness are as general and fatal in New York city as if the people suffered from some- thing approaching to a water famine. We leave to the responsible officials the defini- tion of ‘‘proper economy; but we do not be- lieve that the words mean in this instance the purchase of another watershed and the expenditure of more millions in putting up additional reservoirs, from which the water will be wasted just as it is at present, Literary Property. 7 Our courts of law have recently been en- gaged in discussing the rights of authors and managers to manuscript plays. Charles Reade, the novelist, has also discussed them lately in the columns of a contemporary. Enough has been said and written to show that, whatever may be the law upon the sub- ject in other countries, yet in this State, as in England, stage right in unpublished plays remains as a species of property capable of transfer in whole or by parts, and as a sub- ject for contract and traffic like any other possession. So extremely have the English courts, our federal tribunals and the Court of Appeals at Albany extended and pro- tected this stage right that the copyright in dramas has fallen out of favor with authors, and managers. The existence of this stage right presents the reason why the great ma- jority of modern plays cannot be purchased at bookstores. Stage right is simply the phrase for the protection given plays which are not published to the world as books, Copy- right isthe term applied not only to the mode of protecting books against piracy, butto the manner of protecting within the author's discretion the time and place of representing a play that may also be pur- chased for reading in book form. The ad- vantage of stage rights is that an alien author of Germany, France or England may, by assignment to one of our citizens, protect his unpublished play, while only a citizen or resident alien can copyright. The courts have also incidentally ruled in this State that performing s drama is not publishing it, and that no one can either stenograph or memorize it for representation against the author’s wishes. Nor need the unpublished play to which stage right attaches remain in penmanship manuscript. Reproductions by the type machine, by lithography, and, in- deed, by printing for private circulation, are modes which the law recognizes under the name of manuscript. It is thus evident that while the law remains under present au- thority there is no necessity for an inter- national copyright in dramatic works, Pisror, Practice.—In the testimony given in the case in Brooklyn, in which ao policeman shot # negro through the brain for disobedience to a command given by the officer, is exhibited the sin- gular fact that our policemen, with much use of the pistol against citizens, have be- come so startlingly expert that they cannot miss a man even when they want to, and that the police bullet finds its way into an offender's brain even when the policeman does not mean to shoot, There is a pro- already had a good effect in lowering the rates for ocean messages. ficiency in this that may well alarm any citi- zen who is not a burglar or a murderer ; and we do not seo that this skill can be provided against in the public interest ex- cept with a rope. If one of these good shots were hanged we believe the nex} policeman would miss his man or keep his pistol in his pocket, This occurrence in Brooklyn is simply a murder. There is only a colorable difference between it and any other murder. And if a man deliberately draws out a pistol and shoots another without any reason that can justify such an extreme act we do not see that he should escape the proper penalty merely because he wears a policeman’s but- tons. Music in Our Public Gardens. The great success which has attended our music gardens during the summer now closing is an illustration of the fa- cility with which New York might be made @ summer city as attractive and bright as any of the great capitals of Europe to which our people are in the habit of resorting in such numbers every year. Our mistake is that during the summer we deal with New York as an abandoned city. Our people hurry away to the seaside, to the mountains, to Europe, Our churches are closed, and fash- ionable pastors, who do not seem to believe that souls are to be saved in the summer time, rush away to the trout streams and the forest. Our libraries and opera houses.are shut up. Our club houses are abandoned to an occasional wandering business man who cannot leave the city, and who spends his twilight looking out upon the abandoned street through the dusky pane. Our theatres are given over to negro minstrels and foolish opéra bouffe companies and comedians from the country. A midsummer walk from Wash- ington square to the Fifth avenue entrance to Central Park is like a stroll through a de- serted village. Yet all this time the natural resources of New York are surpassed by those of no other city. Woe have the rivers, mountains, forests and the sea all within an easy range. We know of no other great me- tropolis in the world where the people can within an hour find themselves breathing the pure air of hill tops or tumbling in the roll- ing breakers of the sea, Our music gardens have shown how one form of summer amusements can be made a success. Mr. Thomas has done a great work at his Central Park Garden. He has earned a national reputation. He has taught the million the deep meaning and beauty of classical music. Mr. Gilmore in his new garden has given us popular music, and his success has been as great as that of any public entertainment since the time of Jenny Lind. Yet Thomas’ and Gil- more’s gardens are only experiments, and not what they should be, Mr. Thomas’ place is too far away. It lies on a most uncomfort- able railway route. A journey to his concert is as tedious almost as a jour- ney to Albany. Mr. Gilmore’s garden is in some respects attractive, but, after all, it is only a temporary affair. Asan experiment it has been a great success because it meets the want of summer amusement, and because in the summer we have a large population who cannot go away and who are only too glad to go to any entertainment that is de- corous and innocent. The Young Men’s Christian Association. The managers of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association of the city of New York publish their autumn announcement. We are informed that they have a reading room supplied with several hundred papers and magazines in various languages; a library, open day and evening, containing ten thou- sand volumes; classes in French, German, Spanish, writing and vocal music. Their literary society hold weekly meetings. There is to be a social reception every month, includ- ing one or two concerts or musical exhibi- tons. There will be a course of thitgeen lec- tures during the winter, a gymnasium, a bowling alley anda bath. Furthermore, we are told that for an annual ticket admitting its holder to all of these privileges the price is five dollars, and that “all young men of good moral character, upon recommendation from employer or other responsible person, are eligible for membership.” We rejoice in the success of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Its managers are doinganoble work. The temptations that surround the great number of young men who come to this city and those who are growing into manhood are incessant. We have al- ways thought that it would be better for those of our moralists who preach virtue and temperance to our young men togive them an opportunity of instruction and amusement. Haunts of sin abound in all great cities, There is scarcely a block on our public high- ways where some pleasant light does not invite the passer by to dissipation. Sometimes, we are sorry to say, our theatres and places of amusement are not calculated to improve the morals of youth. The managers of the New York Christian Association see that the way to lead our young men into a Christian life is to instruct them, to compete with places of doubtfal morality and open a build- ing in which the resting hours may be spent with comfort and advantage and propriety. We think that they might even go farther.: Why should not the Young Men's Christian Association, with its capa- cious hall, have every evening, including Sundays, some lecture or entertainment or interesting discourse? It would be an easy matter to arrange that, during the whole win- ter, say from the Ist of October to the Ist of May, on every night this hall should be open free to all comers at a nominal rate of admis- sion. If it could be understood that the Association Hall would be surely open, and that there would be something worth hearing or seeing, music or speaking, an exhibition of science or magic, or even of a drama of the higher character, it would be an advantage to our New York life anda constant stimulus to our young men to avoid those temptations which so unfortunately meet them at every step in this great city. Tux Nox Munrper.—With the termination of the inquest on the late Mr. Noe we, in all probability, lose sight of one of the boldest | crimes lately committed in this city. That | a citizen could be murdered in his own house at atime of the day when people were moy- ing about and his cries for help could be heard by the neighbors without any arrest being made argues a want of vigilance on the part of the police which justifies the serious complaints against the want of efficiency of the force, Not the slightest progress hag been made toward the discovery of Mr. Noe's assassin, and after all the time that has elapsed since the commission of the crime Police sagacity is as much at fault as ever. Bonapartist Plottings. The eyes of France are just now turned to- ward Arenenberg, where the leaders of the Bonapartist faction are assembling to plot for the restoration of the Napoleonic Empire, The friends of young Louis are very active, and it is said that serious efforts are being made to tamper with the army. There does not seem to be much chance of these plot- tings resulting in anything very serious, as the army cannot be very enthusiastic about the restoration of an Empire that buried the military glories of France at Sedan. It ig certain, however, that the leaders of the Bonapartist faction are capable of resorting to any baseness to secure their ends. They would not even hesitate to plunge theix country into civil war if they thought they could come victorious out of the conflict. There is some danger that this party of coups d'état may again try their hands at street slaughter and attempt to build up a throne on the mangled bodies of their fellow citizens, They feel just now that France is slipping through their fingers. The Republio daily grows stronger, and even the fanatic peasant begins to see that the Empire is not so necessary to the welfure of France as he had been taught it was. As the monarchical party drop from their seats republicans take their place, while the Bonapartists make na serious gains in the elections. Hence the party is becoming desperate, and unless they can secure an immediate return to power the Napoleonic Empire is likely to pass into a legend. Eart Russent anp Tursex.—There are few persons in the world capable of such an Arcadian simplicity as this ancient and badly decayed statesman has just exhibited before the London public. He has subscribed fifty pounds to help the ‘in- surgents against Turkish misrule” and hag published in the London Times his regret that it is too late in the season to ‘‘call a public meeting.” It is to be presumed that the meeting would be asked to take action more strenuously in the same direction in which the Earl takes it feebly with his fifty pounds. In other words, this superfluous yeteran of the English Cabinet that made the Crimean war would like some hun- dreds or thousands of his countrymen ta denounce the Turkish barbarism and ta subscribe funds toward its abatement; ta fulminate wrath and cant against a Power that only remains in Europe through the assistance that England gave. Only Earl Russell could be capable of such a ridicue lous impertinence. Yzuvow Fever wy Port.—It is not pleasant to hear suddenly in this autumn weather that the yellow fever is so near to us as to be at Quarantine. From the very exceptional summer it has been thought we might have in this neighborhood an unhealthy autumn; but we do not see that the spectre suddenly found to be at our doors can add to our troubles in this respect, unless September should give us the heat of August. Cool September days are a security, if not a guarantee against the malady, and the nipping frost that may not be long delayed will end all chance for Yellow Jack. ‘Tue Portce Commissioners are giving daily new evidence that they are the lineal des scendants of Dogberry. Their last display of want of sense was made yesterday, in tha prosecution of a police sergeant because ha was thought to have shown a disposi« tion to be courteous to a Commis« sioner of Excise by discharging a woman who had been arrested without sufficient warrant during a raid on some liquox saloons. If the Police Commissioners wera as energetic in discovering crime and arrest ing criminals as they are in the assertion of their prerogatives it would be a great advane tage to the citizens. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Secretary Robeson returned to Washington yesterday morning. Senator Charles Wilson, of Montreal, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General James L. Donaldson, of Baltimore, is regise tered at the Windsor Hotel. The Paris Liberté says that Georgo Washington wag “something of a gobe-mouche.”” M. Chevalier, French Consul General for Canada, ig residing at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Commander John Schouler, United States Navy, 18 quartered at the St. James Hotel. Mr. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor James B, Groome, of Maryland, arrived in this city last evening, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Lieutenant Colonel ©. G@. MeCawley, of the United States Marine Corps, has arrived at the Everett House, Baron du Jardin, of the Belgian Legation at Washing ton, bas taken up his residence at the Brevoort House, é . Mr. Carl Schurz goes from here to-day for St. Louis, and not, as previously reported, to participate in the Ohio campaign. «J. G Broeksmit, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (ono of the earlier railroad pioncers of the West), is stopping at th¢ Stevens Honse, Mr. J. N. McCullough, Vice President of tho Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company, 18 at tha St. Nicholas Hotel. Yoshida Kiyonari, Japanese Minister at Washington, and Hangiro Assano, of the Japanese Iegation, have apartments at the Windsor Hotel. It seems hardly possible that Hon. Matt Carpenter, during tho whole discussion on tho “gag law,” wag ignorant what law was referred to, Mr. J. A. Warner, of New Orleans, the Southern pane senger agent of the Erie and Atlantic and Great Westera railways, is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel, Mrs. General Sherman and family returned to thia city yesterday from the Whity Mountains and took up their residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotol, Mr. ©. K. Lord, the General Passenger Agent of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Short Railroad Nine, has arrived in this city to make arrangements for the extension of the fast newspaper line to Kansas City and Omaha They aro excited in Berlin over a military case. The soldier said he was very ill, but the officer said ho wat only shamming to have an easy time in the dospital; so he kept him at bis duty, and the soldior died on the drill ground, They cannot find anything on the subject in the military code, Kladderadatsch has a happy touch on the French pretenders, The Republic drives her cab, MacMahon lays back as a passenger, and little Prince Louis steals a surreptitious ride, while Henry V. amt the Count ot Paris join in the shout against the Prince, “Cut bo hind! Cut beliina 1 Kladderadatsch, the Berlin Punch, does not often deal very plainly with politics, but It evide ntly fool ho restraint with regard to Turkey, It pictures that Tower as taking her place on the stage asa mombor of the European concert troupe, while a lackey hands heq tho request of “the direction” that she should leave “Out of Europe with her’ is the legend,