The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1875--TRIPLE SHE. NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET, BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henaxp will be sent free of postage. PE SEI EEE THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Fonr cents, per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per. month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. a LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be jreceived and forwarded on the same terms va8 fo New York. ——— = ‘VOLUME NO, 263 ‘AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGHT. * OLYMPIC THEATRE, ro Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M); closes at 10:45 ~ De pes PARK THEATRE, ‘Brogdway and Twenty second street.—THL a Thule tee num’s “Hi —G OP : CBRT, at 6 P.M; Clowes at li P.M. hat METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A M. to 5 “Mo. 128 PM TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue. —VARYETY, at 8 P. M. ‘ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, “Twenty-cighth street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 F, M.; closes at 10:30'P. M. COLON, Brooklyn.—VARIE be ~2 THEATRE COMIQUE, = Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.; closes at 10:45 ? z PARK THEATRE, WOOD'S MUSEU: corner of Thirtieth street.—DEAD TO THE 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 Proadway, WORLD, ‘at P OPERA HOU f Twenty-third closes at 11 P. M GRAD Eighth avenue, cor: BLACK, at 3° P.M; ok. .—RED AND Mr. Joseph METROPOLIT. Nog. 585 and 587 Broadw: THEATRE, RIETY, at 8 P.M w LY THEATRE, 4 Fonrtoenth street Front Opera," Boutle-MADAME L'aRCHIDUC, at 8 P.M ’ PARISIAN VARIETIES, Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving piace and Fourteenth street.—AROUND THE Wo: LN EIGHTY DAYS, at 3 P. M.; closes at 1i P.M. 2 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, be ‘Degre House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—RABAGAS, at 8 M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ‘Third avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ty-third wtreet and BCUD, at 8PM. Mr. Gi OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P.M: TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with areas of rain. Canprxat. McCtosxey has received further honors from the Pope, having been appointed a member of several important committees, Tue Nationar Counc of the Catholic Church, in Ireland, is notable for the fact that it is the second that has been held in that country for seven centuries. Our corre- spondence from Dublin gives an interesting account of its purposes, which relate princi- pally to education and Church property. Temperance Meerres are frequently dull, but that held yesterday at Robinson Hall cannot be accused of any want of liveliness. It would have been livelier, no doubt, if the liquor dealers who were invited to attend had been present, but they seem to have thought discretion the er part of valor. Tur Equine Invivenza.—The horses, like men, are suffering from colds in their heads. | We report the progress of the disease in the stables of the principal street car companies of the city, and are sorry to learn that, unless there is a favorable and speedy change in the weather, the epidemic is expected to become more serions. Geyenat Guant's Views ox Ixriation.— The President does not fear the triumph of inflation at the fall elections, nor does he anticipate that even the success of that doo- trine could affect the legislation of Congress for two years to come. He will veto any act The Southern Democrats in the National Con 5 We notice that a good many partisan jour- nals are busy with calculations regarding the influences likely to affect the Republican National Convention next year, and among the speculations one statement figures promi- nently—that “the South” will come up to | the Convention prepared to vote in a solid | body. This would be only for the Southern | republicans to pursue the political strategy years to control the republican majority in Congress. It has been a singular spectacle in Washington to see a handful of men, mostly political adventurers, with no solid diminishing political power there, and una- ble last year to carry more than two out of the twelve Southern States—to see this handful of Southern republicans control the gress by mérely presenting a solid and un- broken front of opposition to all reforms which would affect them, united with an unhesitating and unquestioning support of all the pet schemes of their ‘Northern friends.” In the republican caucuses last winter every proposed reform was choked by the opposition of the Southern men ; and these were the leaders, the speakers, the actors, the conquerors, in every caucus or other meeting for private consultation held succeeded not more by their misrepresenta- tions of Southern affairs and theirappeals for support, than by their superserviceable zeal in abetting the schemes of their Northern allies, which enabled them readily to divide the Northern men of their party. That they will pursue similar tactics in the next National Convention and thus control, if they can, its policy, if not its nomi- nations, there can be little doubt; though the fact that they will come up as the repre- sentatives of States which they cannot carry, and all but two of which are sure to go dem- ocratic, will doubtless weaken their power. We are surprised, however, that it has not occurred to the speculators in the political future that the Southern democrats may in their turn come up into the National Demo- cratic Convention prepared toact together and to cast a solid vote. They will, of course, be numerically as strong in the Democratic as the Southern republicans will be in the Republi- can Convention. Morally they will be infi- nitely stronger, for they will be the repre- sentatives in their Convention of a great body of strongly democratic States ; of a popula- tion which will swell the democratic vote, and without whose help no democrat can hope to be elected. The Southern republi- cans, on the contrary, will appear in their Convention as the representatives of rotten boroughs or of hopeless minorities. This being so, it seems not unnatural that the South should exercise a great and even preponderating influence in the next Demo- cratic Convention. It is the more likely todo so because the Northern democratic party is divided upon some of the most important issues of the day, and because in the last two national conventions the South has felt that it was slaughtered by the mismanagement of its Northern allies, in whose hands it unre- servedly placed its fortunes. In 1868 and 1872 the Southern democrats came into the Convention as the representatives of republi- can States, as men who could not carry their States for their party; and they were natu- rally modest. To-day all this is changed ; and it would be surprising, and argue less political tact and ambition than Southern men are credited with, if now, under greatly changed circumstances, they should once more commit their political fortunes unre- servedly to their Northern allies. But supposing, what is thus probable, that the Southern members acting in a body will be able to control the Democratic Con- vention—it becomes a matter of great inter- est to inquire how they are likely to use their power. It may be taken for granted, in the first place, that they will not desire the nomination of a Southern man to either place on the ticket. The imprudence of doing this is universally agreed upon in the South. But, holding the balance of power, and being strong enongh if they act together to nominate such men as they select, they will be able to survey the whole field ; and, what is of great importance, they can if they please prevent the nomination of unfit men. As to a platform: the Southern democrats adhere more strictly and generally than their | Northern allies to the old traditions of their party. They are generally free traders or revenue reformers. They have had a bitter experience of the monstrous and intolerable evils of a redundant and irredeemable cur- rency, and their industrial and commercial condition makes resumption of specie pay- | ments a much less complicated affair to them than to some Northern communities; they have fewer debts and a much smaller debtor class than we. Of course they hold to local | self-government. Wherever they have ruled for the repeal of the law providing for resumption in 1879, and thinks that a two- thirds vote against the veto cannot be secured in either the Senate or House. Tue Torsisn War.—The news from Bos- ia is unfavorable to peace. The insurrec- tion is said to be spreading in the western part of that province, and a general rising is expected. and, for geographical as well as political rea- gons, is more credible than the more en- couraging despatches from Turkish sources. It is admitted, however, in Constantinople that Servia will certainly declare against Turkey, and the Porte complains that insur- gents escaping into Austria are not disarmed, ‘all of which looks as if the war were but be- Mn. Biortow's Sense or Garatrtupe has {nvolved him in contradictory obligations. He owed something to Governor Tilden, who him to his partnership in the Hvening but he also owed something to the i i mitmory of the late Secretary Seward, who ‘gave him first the Paris Consulship and had him appointed Minister to If his com for the office to w bos just nominated were any in their own States—notably in Georgia—they | have shown themselves honest and economi- | cal administrators; the finances of Georgia are to-day in a better condition than those of most Northern States. As to civil service reform, they are probably as favorable to it as any class of Northern politicians in either party. Suppose, then, the South should come up This information is from Vienna, | to the Democratic National Convention next | year in asolid body: it is possible that it may exercise the power which its numbers will give it; and there is no reason why it should not back to its trae and traditional ground. It is certain that the Southern democratic leaders, many of whom are men of undoubted politi- cal sagacity, have here before them an oppor- tunity which, if properly used, would re- establish them not only in their own party, but in the confidence of the country. The whole country is ready for sound reforms. The Northern people desire nothing so much as ® permanent settlement, an open, final acceptance of the constitutional amend- ments; and with this precisely those reforms which the Southern democratic leaders can promise, because their experience of past evils would naturally lead them in that direction. A sound currency, an honest and ‘other than Mr. Seward’s son there ‘would have been no conflict of personal obli- gations; but it is rather en ungracions \thing for o gentleman who ‘has accepted im- \ favors from the father to be a com- ! paainst the son, economical administration, a wise revision of the tax and tariff laws, removing needless obstructions on commerce, internal and ex- years naturally leads them—if it has taught | The- Rebellion in Turkey. them anything. : The admirable and exhaustive letters from Whether the Southern democrats will be | our special correspondent in Vienna on the | equal to their opportunity remains to be yeyolution in the Principalities, another of seen, Many of them have been inclined | which we print this morning, give a clear | rather to accegt a subordinate place in the | igea of the singular revolution wbich has Convention ; to declare themselves ready tO | drawn tho attention of the world to the stand on any platform which may Be offered ; | Herzogarina, If this were mercly the rising to abandon prin#ples and agatind policy if | of g sparsely #ttled and not very intelligent which has enabled them during the last four | influence in their States, with constantly | great body of their fellow partisans in Con- | by the republicans during the winter. They | only they can thys defest the republicans. | But of late theve are signs that this po¥cy is losing adheraata in the South. The quar- rels of the Northern democrats and thefr follies are seen to make their success more | and more hopeless if they are allowed to con- | trol the party; and some of the wisest of the Southern democratic statesmen begin to think that to save their party it is necessary | that they shall control the Convention and | dictate the platform and the nominations. | Undoubtedly this is their true cource, and its Success depends only upon the qu¢stion whether they have among them statesman- ship and organization enough to send th i ablest men to the Convention and to agree upon principles which shall commend them- selves to the country 1 and shall restore them to public conidonce, ~ The Great Storm in Heras, The special despatches which ¥ day give the first intelligible repo | tremendous damage done by the recen. in the Gulf of Mexico, Not merely Galveo.. suffered, but the tornado extended as far as Austin, and avast region, extending more than two hundred miles from the coast, felt its fury. The violence of the wind exceeded that of any gale known for many years, and immense quantities of water fell. Along the coast of Texas the tide rose twenty feet, and the prairie became a sea. Railroads were submerged, bridges destroyed, cattle drowned, little towns absolutely swept away, immense damage was done to the cotton crop, and the streets of Houston, Galveston and Austin were flooded. It is probable that Corpus Christi, Indianola, Matagorda and other towns on the coast have been equally unfortunate. Southern Texas for an area of thousdnds of miles has evidently been del- uged with water and swept by the tempest, and its condition is not unlike what would be the state of Holland if her dikes should break and the Zuyder Zee come rushing upon her plains. Galveston, as the principal port of Texas, has experienced the greatest loss in ship- ping, but fortunately precautions were taken to save the goods stored in her warehouses. Still the loss in Galveston alone .is five millions of dollars. Houston's loss is probably one million, and it is impossible to estimate’ the damage done tothe smaller towns. A vague idea can be formed from the disconnected and im- perfect reports we have received, When the railroads and telegraphs are repaired, and communication is restored, it is likely that the losses will be found to exceed the figures we have given. * Fortunately the loss of life ap- pears to have been much less than might have been expected; but when the isolated towns are heard from, and the wrecks upon the coast are known, we fear that hundreds of people will be missing. Such a calamity as this is national, and must com- mand for its victims the sympathy of the whole country. Thousands of people must suffer from the destruction of their homes and property, and we need not urge the citi- zens of New York to once more extend a helping hand to their unfortunate fellow countrymen. The duty is plain and its per- formance should be prompt. Tilden and the Two-thirds Rule. Governor Tilden is aware that the ‘‘two- thirds rule” has been the standing law of democratic national comventions for nearly population against the rule of the Turk it would make no more impression upon the | outer world than a revolt in the Cancasus or Algeria or the long-smou ldering disturbance | in the Biscay mountains. The world is too | much occupied with graver matters to care | about the fate of a people partly Christian | and partly civilized, lying on the border | lines of Islam and Christianity. But mighty | issues are at stake here, and the Principali- ties may again become the scene of startling events. _ Some time ago an English theo- logical ® writer, who claimed to read t »s with the eye of the seer, hesied thet the batflg of Armageddon will Wl ptely in the country | embracing All che wars 'that have ever taen place here have been more or lésé elighous. An are not sur- prised to sea réligion play so prominent a part in this revolt. ind it we have the riptn be fought * Rorzegovina, | ambition of Russit-Aistria and Germany, 1 the feeble power of the decaying Otto- van Empire. BR yearns for Constanti- nople the of her sovereignty. And ‘ supreme city lies through the a es. Austria, driven out of Ger- mary and Italy, looks to them for new dominions. Germany would gladly pave the way to annexing the few millions of Ger- mans who now rest under the Austrian rule by aiding Austria to extend her Empire in the direction of Turkey. If Austria would take the Principalities in exchange for her German provinces Bismarck would, no doubt, strengthen her with all the power of the Fatherland. In the meantime we have it proposed that there shall be a new Sclavonian empire, com- posed of Croatia, Sclavonia and Dalmatia, with a Russian prince on the throne. This would be another name for the aggrandize- ment of Russia, another step toward that sovereignty of the world which continental politicians seem to regard as implied in the occupation of Constantinople. A new Scla- vonian empire would only be another king- dom of Poland. It would be a plaything and a scandal, as Poland was, and in time Smith claim that the Red Cloud Commission will make a unanimous report exonerating them from any fault or crime. We do not believe this. Government committees are generally capable of any outrage upon the laws of evidence ahd any insult to the common sense of the people, but it is in- credible that in this case a verdict of not guilty should be unanimously rendered. If the investigation should have such a termi- nation we might as well bid farewell to any hope of Indian reform so long as the present administration is in power. Mr. Bigelow emocratic Candi- date. A pretty political comedy in two acts, with Mr. John Bigelow as the hero, might be writ- ten by some dramatic genius with cleverness enough to sketch the conversations which took place between him and the republicans who offered him i nomination at Saratoga, and between him and Governor Tilden, who persuaded him to be a democratic candidate, A witty writer might make a great hit by feigned dialogues between Mr. Bigelow and the parties who have successively courted him, Had he accepted the republican offer the comedy would have been exquisitely di- verting. The Chairman of Governor Tilden’s Canal Commission, running on the repub- lican ticket, would have been equal to the fable of the hen that sat upon ducks’ eggs, and was thrown into a clucking flutter when the supposed chickens straightway took to the water, This amusing feat did not suc- ceed, for reasons which are beginning to be understood. Governor Tilden had estab- lished a right of pre-emption on the coveted candidate. His claim upon Mr. Bigelow was prior to every other. Had the republicans understood the personal relations between him and Mr. Tilden they would not have pressed him to accept a place on their ticket. When, in 1850, Mr. Bigelow went into the Evening Post as associate editor and part proprietor, he needed pecuniary assistance in paying for his purchased interest, and that assistance was given by Mr. Tilden. There was nothing dishonor- able to either in that affair. The Post, in 1850,4vas an accepted democratic organ; Mr. Bigelow was a democrat who had been appointed to office by Silas Wright and who belonged to the political coterie with which Mr, Tilden was associated. Mr. Til- Club to get Mr. Pendleton to address them, and it would be a good idea for Mr. Pendle- ton to repeat the speech from which we havo quoted. We doubt if he could state the case in better language. The Pulpit Yesterday. No one who knows the vast amount of labor performed by clergymen during the greater part of the year, and the necessity they have for mental rest, would grudge them their brief holidays in the summer. It is in these periods of repose or recreation that they gather renewed strength for their great work. The majority of our preachers have already returned to the city, and in a few weeks every pulpit will be occupied by its regular incumbent. Our reports to-day present ser- mons, the first of the fall season, from a number of the most popular ministers of New York. Among these is the discourse of the Rey. George H. Hepworth, of the Church of the Redeemer, upon the need men have of being periodically roused from a condition of indifference—an argument which may be regarded as a friendly and liberal plea in behalf of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, who are expected before long to begin their evangelical labors in this city. Mr. Frothingham also preached fer the first time this fall upon the purposes of his peculiar Church. The sermons of Rev. Mr. Harrower upon the joy of doing right; of Bishop Beckwith upon an individual! hell, of the Rey. Dr. Alger upon church going, of Rev. Mr. Hall upon the brotherhood of men, of Rey. Mr. MacArthur on the resurrection of Lazarus, of Dr, Thompson upon the uses of adversity, of the Rey. Dr. Flattery upon the confessional and the power of absolution, and other admirable discourses, will be found of value to the public. Bap Lwex,—It is said in that the Disraeli administration is like to fail because of its bad luck. It received a most unlucky and un- expected rebuke in the House of Commons in the Plimsoll affasr; it lately lost an iron- clad, which was sunk »y one of its own fleet in a fog; and the sinking of the Mistletoe by the royal yacht, the Alberta, and the bunglo made by coroners’ juries in the case cap the climax.’ A public man or a party is often en- dangered by bad luck. General Grant and the republicans have had a long period of re- England den is wary in pecuniary matters, but as the | markable good fortune. “But luck seems to Evening Post was a valuable property and turn against them, too, at last. Surely it Mr. Bigelow's talents were indisputable it | would be the unkindest blow of ill-fortune would fall as Poland fell. The proposition to unite the three countries into the new kingdom recalls the idea which so strongly possessed the Russian Alexander after the battle of Waterloo, that he should reunite the dissevered fragments of Poland and take the Polish crown, Our correspondent dismisses the idea as not in any sense practical in the present condition of European affairs. He shows, however, that Bismarck is supporting with strenuous energy the position of Aus- tria. If he can strengthen Austria in the south he draws her from France; he makes he binds the Emperor closely to him in the controversy with the Holy See—a controversy that threatens to assume greater proportions. As for England, she would like to see Russia so muchtemployed in Europe that she would find no time to pursue her conquests in Asia—conquests which begin to excite alarm in the minds of the rulers of India. In the meantime the revolt assumes a commercial aspect.. London holds a large amount of Turkish bonds, and the question of interest is one dear to the Lendon mind. When the revolt first came upon the money market there was a panic in Turkish shares, which, for a moment, seemed to threaten all the other continental securities. Despatches from the insurgent district have become as the extension of the Fatherland more easy; | Mr. Bigelow’s side which he has never before was a safe as well as a friendly act to give him the needed help. It is creditable to Mr. Bigelow that he never forgot this service of his benefactor, which gave him his first start in an honorable career. The fact to which we have alluded explains a great deal which might otherwise seem mysterious. The severity of the republican journals on Mr. Bigelow’s acceptance of a democratic nomination is not quite justifiable in view of this old relation between him and Goy- ernor Tilden. A personal friendship of a quarter of a century, with obligations on had an opportunity to discharge, accounts for Mr. Bigelow’s recent conduct. Had the republicans been cognizant of all the facts they would not have offered him a nomina- tion. Their journals accuse Mr. Bigelow of political tergiversation, and it must be con- fessed that he has not been as frank and open assome other men might have been in the same circumstances. They accuse him of masquerading as a republican atter he had deserted the party. When Governor Tilden appointed his Canal Commission he pro- fessed to make it non-partisan by selecting two democrats and two republicans, Mr. Bige- the whole period since national nominating | frequent and sensational and false as the conventions came into vogue in our politics. | despatches about Pacific Mail and Pacific A bare majority will be of no more service | Shares with which Jay Gould is in the habit to him in 1876 than it was to Mr. Pendleton | of instructing the financial mind of New in 1868, Unless he can control two-thirds of | York when he begins his stock gambling the delegates he has no chance of a nomina- | Taids. The revoltthus far is something be- | from his Presidential rivals. | nor Tilden cannot be nominated. use that power to force the democratic party | tion. The strong and admirable position his convention has taken on the hard-money question makes him the inevitable candidate if the democracy of the country adopt his views in the proportion of two to one, but not otherwise. All his rivals for the demo- cratic nomination understand the two-thirds rule as well as he does, and whether they are hard-money men or rag-money men they have acommon interest against him. Men like Thurman, men like Hendricks, who dare not take bold ground on this question lest it should impair their chances, are not likely to extinguish their chances utterly by favor- ing Mr. Tilden. He can expect no support His success must come from the democratic masses, and | it will require great activity and address to enlist enough of them to insure two-thirds of the delegates. Unless the anti-inflation- ists of the democratic party shall be next year in the proportion of two to one, Gover- If the inflation democrats lose Ohio in the coming election this will be possible, but if they carry Ohio the New York candidate will not ‘walk over the course.” Morrissey vor THE Senate.—Defeated at Syracuse, Mr. Morrissey, with the instinct of a true tactician, has resolved to seek his ad- vantage where he can count on success with something like certainty. Boss Kelly and his crowd of would-be respectable politi- cians may give the ex-pugilist and active gambler the cold shoulder, but the great “anterrified” will rally to the support of their friend and champion. The working- | men affected by the economy of the Tam- | many leaders are about to send Mr. Morris- | sey to the State Senate, where, no doubt, he will distingnish himself as a popular legis- tween a revolution and a speculation. Europe wants peace but at the same time is ripe for war. The armies of Austria, Russia and Germany are in good condition, and if Tur- key lacks a fine army, it is not because she has not borrowed money enough to raise one. The best assurance of peace for the present lies in the fact that the autumn is upon us with winter following after. And no military Power will care to begin a campaign which would be one of hardship and suffering. New Facts About the Indian Frauds, The Indian Ring, forced upon the defen- sive, has demanded, with great fear of being answered, more definite charges against its members. This request is complied with in @ very positive way in the letter from our correspondent at Fort Berthold. Dakota, published to-day, and in Mr. William Welsh’s sixth letter to Professor Marsh. Our correspondent deals particularly with “the model agency,” as it is called, at Fort Berthold, and with Mr. L. B. Sperry, the agent. He charges Mr. Sperry with robbing the Indians and the government, and gives the facts upon which the accusa- tion is made. His relations with J. W. Ray- mond, his business partner, are explained, and we are told of the latter that there is low figuring as one of the republicans, The republican journals now assert that the non-parti pretence was a sham, since Mr. Littlejohn, who proposed Mr. Bigelow’s name in the Syracuse Convention, indorsed him as a democrat, and stated that he voted tho | democratic ticket last fall. Assuming that Mr. Littlejohn told the truth, there would seem to be some ground for the republican charge of tergiversation, The Albany Journal asserts that prominent republicans had con- ferences with Mr. Bigelow on the 6th and 7th inst., previous to the meeting of the Saratoga Convention, and that although they urged him to accept a republican nomination, he gave them no intinuition that he had aban- doned the party. If we credit these allega- tions we must admit that the conduct of Mr. Bigelow and Gove Tilden has not been “square.” We await explanations. Meeting of the Legal Tender Club. The New York Legal Tender Club are to hold an important public meeting next | Thursday evening at the, Cooper Union. Mr. Peter Cooper will preside, and Mr. Wen- dell Phillips, General Banks and Mr, Pen- | dieton are named among the speakers. It | \ | oceurs to us that the exigencies of the Ohio canvass ay keep Mr. Pendleton at home, But if he should not be able to appear in person the club might do well to cause one of his ablest speeches to be read by some one with a good loud voice. The speech we have in mind was delivered by Mr. Pendleton in | Congress in 1862. In it he opposed the H creation of legal tender notes by the govern- ment as unconstitutional, and then gave the following admirable description of their na- ture and effects upon the public prosperity :— “no man in Sing Sing who can do & more | quiet piece of villany than he can.” Orville Grant, the President’s brother, and recently the official agent of the government ap- pointed by the President, is charged directly with blackmailing other agents and plun- dering generally, and our correspondent | during his visit who do not despise him.” He | is the third partner ip the firm with Sperry | and Raymond. When wo learn that the In- dians address Mr. Sperry as “tho Little But, even if] believed this bill 1o be constitutional in | both aspects, I yet see enough in it to mertt, as I think, the hearty condemnation of the House, It provides , that these notes shail be redeeinadie only at the pleasure ! of the United States The gentleman from New York | called them demand notes. They have been so called | throughout the country. They do not bear a single | | characteristic of # demand note, Thore is no time, | if, after having continually expanded the currency during the whole of General Grant's term of office, they should now be defeated on the charge, encouraged by themselves, of being contractionists. There could hardly be an unkinder stroke than that. Acarmst Sxcyssion.--Montgomery, Ala., was the first capital of the ‘Confederato States,” and there the Confederate Congress met and the Confederate government planted itself, It is an odd and at the same time a gratifying circumstance to find that the Ala- bama Constitutional Convention, now in ses- sion at Montgomery, a body overwhelmingly demoeratic, has just unanimously adopted the following as a part of the Bill of Rights of the new State constitution it is framing:— “The people of this State accept as final the established fact that from the federal Union there can be no secession of any State.” And yet there are republicans, like Senator Boutwell, who talk about a ‘‘new rebellion.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr. William Center, of the British Army, is regis- tered at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant Governor A. A. Glenn, of Illinois, is so- journing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Edwin Adams, the tragedian, has taken up his residence at the Sturtevant House. Congressman George W. Hendeo, of Vermont, is staying at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel. Lieutenant Commander A. H. Wright, United States Navy, is quartered at the New York Hotel, Mr. James R. Partridge, Unite States Minister to Brazil, is residing temporarily at the New York Hotel. Senator George 8. Boutweil, of Massachusetts, who has been campaigning in Obio during the past weck, arrived last eveniny at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr, Stephen H. Rhodes, Insurance Commissioner for Massachusetts; Mr. J. M. Forster, Insurance Commis- sioner for Pennsylvania, and Mr. Orrin T, Welch, In- surance Commissioner for Kansas, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. We are to have a biography of the historian Michelet from the pen of M. d’Haussonville, who has just written a piquant book on Sainte-Beuve and his literary cbar- acter and productions, which has won a prize from the French Academy. Hore is an editorial article complete trom a Georgia paper:—“Ever and anon the hydra-headed problem of the gurernatorial ghou! raises itself just high enough to proclaim one more victim for the grand affray of next summer. ” All the members of the Cabinet are now in Washing- ton except Secretaries Fish and Robeson, Although the President will vacate bis cotiage at Long Branch this week, he may, before returning to Washington, visit his farm near St, Louis. Tne Princess Zened Hamoum, daughter of the Khedive, aged seventeen, died at Alexandria, August 18, She grieved at the departure of her husband and brother for Paris, and died from cerebral congestion on. the third day of their absence, Chateaubriand said, “Mme. Chateaubriand would nob dine later than five, J was nover hungry till seven But we compromised and dined at six, so that we could nefthor of us enjoy it; and that is what people call the happiness of mutual concessions." Abbé Riche has just told how Notre Dame was saved from the heroes of the Commune. Powder and petroe Joum enough were stored in it to blow itup, and a Communist just caught and ordered to be shot con- fessed the fact. By very energetic action the powder was got out after the train had been lighted, and the culprit was pardoned by the intercession of the Abbé. In 1872 Maine gave Grant 32,000 majority, In 1873 the republican majority was 10,000; im 1874, 11,000; in 1875 it is less than 5,000; and it is believed that if Mr. Morton had femained in the State threo or four adds, ‘I have seen few men who met Orville | lator. There is in this action a significant | ppief’ and “the Little Liar” it is evident hint to Mr, Kelly and his friends that, | that if dircet charges are wanted at Washing- | though they may control the place-seekers | ton plenty of them may be obtained by in- | and professional politicians, there is outside | of their combinations an independent po- litical force which is bound to make itself | felt. Tue Fat. River Srarez is a very serious one, and unless some agreement is effected must result in great suffering among the | operatives this winter. Fifteen thousand persons cannot stop work in the mills with- out general injury to society. Our corre- | quiry in Dakota, Mr. Welsh’s letter is a strong summing up | of his case against Secretary Delano, Indian Commissioner Smith and General Cowan, and a valuable statement of the measures | necessary to reform. His facts are plain enough, and the charges based upon them are certainly direct enough to satisfy the most insatiate appotite for scorn, All these officers are accused of violation spondent carefully analyzes tho situation, of law and complicity in the frends. Yet we ternal, an improved civil service—to all | but does not seem to think ‘hat the end of | are informed by despatches from Washing- these the exverience the last twelve the strike is near ton that the friends of Messrs. Delano and from the hour when they shall pass into the hands of | days longer the democrats would have elected their | the holder, when he can by their terms demand that | oerati ral committee that | Shey caball: be redecmed.” There ta to aime when | Vox Aly demoeratic gzse ben | the government is pledged to their enw | | The holder may present them, and bere tod | linen will perform an incalculable service to its party. that the time has not arrived at which, | ° an association for the protection of gentlemen travel~ | 4 the face of the bill, they are to be paid They will inevitably depreciate The wit of man has never discovered a means by which paper money can be kept at par value, except by its speedy, cheap con- | reribility into gold and silver, 1 need not cite gentle. | men to history or authorities—writers on political economy—to prove it, Unless convertible they have always depreciated; they always will depreciate; they ' ought to depreciate, because they are only valuable as the representatives of gold and silver; and if they are not convertible Into that of which they are representa | tives they must necessarily jose their value, You send these notes out into the world stamped with ir. redeomability. You put on them the mark of Cain, and like Cain they will go forth to be vagabonds and fug+ tives on the earth, What then will be the con- | sequence? It requires no to tell what will | be their history. The currency will be expanded; prices will be inflated; fited values will depreciate; in- comes will be diminished; the savings of the poor will vanish, the boerie of the widow will melt away, | bonds, mortgages and notes, every fixed value will loge their value; everything of j the Tneceasartos of value will bo recrated of life will rise tn ling in railway carriages bas been formed in London. | The circular dilates on the frequency of extortion prac tised by females in railway carriages, and quotes a num- ver of cases which have transpired in law courts where the intimidation bas been resisted. Among others the Duke of Wellington is spoken of as having been vice timized. Tho association hopes to have an influence through {ite mere existence in giving men who are threatened devrmination to resist extortion and re. tallate on the assailant ‘The French Court of Cassation has just given ade cision of interest to gleaners (French farmers are as close fisted as our own typical New Jerseyman), and they have in this goncration driven the gleaners out of their flelds as thieves. It is now decided as contrary to law for a farmer to turn sheep into his fields for two days afver-harvest or to glean the fields himself, or to well the right, because tl» poor would thus be de. i Tarely morotthan Hhocgh ie Seg hese H. goea inte, | PAVE of the benefit which trumanity and law have re- the market to buy; ‘and silver will be driven oat of | served to the indigent’ Is there any other country ‘the country, where the pitiful thrift. of a gleaner could become a It is an excellent idea of the Legal Tender |, subject of 1ittention? secure the services of Mr, Morton and the ensanguined —