The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1875, Page 6

6 The Gathering of the Clans. The mutinous tribes of Tammany have gathered in council and made their prelim- imary arrangements for the campaign. We published a full report of this demonstration, and upon reading it we find that the ex- Sheriff O'Kelly has a more difficult problem to NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and poe dt py meat egal splits after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | elements. The meeting was remarkable not editions of the New York Henaup will be | only for those who were present, but for those sent free of postage. who were absent, Conspicuous for his absence 2 was the ex-Congressman O’Morrissey, whose THE DAILY HERALD, published every | lion heart would have brought encouragement jay in the year, Four cents per copy. and zeal to the assembled Convention. But Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per how could the O'Morrissey support amove- NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. month, free of postage, to subscribers. 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Tue Fast Mam Tratys.—Newsdealers and the prbblic throughout the States of New Fork, ‘New Jersey and Pennsytvania, as well as in the ‘West, North and Southacest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Perm- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Taz Henan, free of post- age, by sendimy their orders direct to this office. Watt Srnzzr Yesrrnpay.—Gold fluctuated between 116 1-2 and 116 3-4, and closed at 116 5-8. At the latter price $100 in currency 3s worth only $85 74. Foreign exchange was mweaker. Money on call 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. @he stock market was lower and irregular. Yettow Fever is said to have reached Brooklyn in the person of a poor sailor, home from a cruise at the West Indies. Jack, however, has been carefully quaran- tined in a ward in the City Hospital, and there is little or no danger of the contagious disease affecting the City of Churches. Governor Auuey’s Way To Sprcte Par- | @ents.—They have just resumed specie pay- ‘ments in Montevideo. yovernment to issue more paper money has (proved a complete failure. jit, and gold is the only medium of circula- tion.” That is precisely the way Governor | federates, the Transcendentalists and the | interest he has spoken, will rally to his sup- ‘Allen’s platform would bring the United | Paper Collar Democrats form a large part of | port. | the peculiar city of New York. What these | 'Btates back to hard money. Tae Cantists continue to meet with mis- fortune. Twenty-five hundred of them, according to the London Times’ correspond- ent st Bagneres, are blockaded by ten thou- wpand Alfonsists at Viella, and will probably be obliged to take refuge on Fyench terri- ‘tory. The star of Don Carlos is evidently waning. ‘Tuxne Is a Deartu or News from the re- “olted Turkish provinces. Instead of the ‘usual supply of rumors of skirmishes and \Purkish atrocitics the cable informs us that >| ERNOON AND EVENING. “The attempt of the | ment headed by the O’Creamer, remembering the details of their last controversy, when these two Irish princes were in deadly war- fare? We fear the O’Morrissey’s mutiny is not so much in the interest of the party as of himsetf, and that he refrains from taking active part in the movement because the leaders will not recognize the dogma of political infallibility and elect him Pope. The anti-Tammany army is a curious, motley combination. At its head we have Field Marshal Von Shafer, a distinguished German citizen of Westphalia, a country celebrated for its hams. Von Shafer's speech in taking command showed that, in imitation of his great master, Bismarck, he believes in the policy of “blood and iron.” If he is to conduct the campaign upon the plat- 4 form laid down in this extraordinary phi- lippie we shall have the liveliest canvass ever mown in the city of New York. Von Shafer’s army is like some of the Euro- pean contingents which used to fight under the Duke of Marlborough—of all classes and all nationalities. The right wing is commanded by ex-Congressman O’Creamer, an Irish prince, descended from Heremon, son of Milesius, that mon- arch of glorious memory, who now rests with God, O'Ureamer’s army, recruited from ave- nue A and Tenth avenue, proposes to have the great question decided whether by the laws of New York the poor man who steals a ham shall be sentenced to twenty years’ im- prisonment while peculators like Tweed and ‘“‘restorationists” like Jay Gould shall be allowed immunity. This is a question that goes deep into our modern political sys- tem and the administration of our justice. On this platform the O’Creamer and the Ham- Stealers will make a fierce and angry contest. The next division is under the command of Major General ex-Surveyor Rufus F, An- drews. This is composed of teetotalers who believe that rum is the ruin of our race. This contingent is not as large as we might expect; but Major General Andrews is an efficient and busy politician, and when the time comes for action his regiments will be futl. Then we have the Con- federates, under the command of Major General ex-Congressman Benjamin Wood, a statesman, novelist, editor and finan- cier, composed of the gallant sons of the South, who stood by the lost cause until it found the last ditch, and who desire the same recognition in the dispensation of the patronage of the Treasury as is given to their comrades by Tammany Hall. The next contingent, the Paper Collar Democ- racy, is under the command of Field Marshal Richard Schell, known all the world over as ex-Congressman and ex-banker Uncle Dick, a celebrated statesman and financier. The Paper Collar Democrats be- lieve that paper collars are much better than linen, are in favor of an irredeemable cur- rency and a circulation based on clam shells, and propose to give every voter a thousand dollars in greenbacks on election day. Uncle Dick's contingent will be much larger than it is now if he can only inspire his followers with confidence in the integrity of his pro- fessions. But, as there is no pleasure so enduring as that of hope, he may feef that his party rests upona firm tenure. Thenextcon- tingent, the Ultramontanists, is commanded by Major General ex-District Attorney John McKeon, an old Jacksonian democrat, who fought under @eneral Jackson at the battle of New Orleans in 1815, and who has never forsaken his flag. This party demands the division of the school fund among the different churches, and, although it has not taken an active part thus far, when the trum- pet sounds the banner of this leader will be far in the front. Then we have a very small, very respectable, very enthusiastic and a very confiding party under the com- mand of the Hon. ex-Legislator and ex- Statesman Theodore Tomlinson, called the Transcendentalists, who are in favor of a general reformation of mankind. In this party we have statesmen like N. Hill Fowler, and ex-Judge Busteed, and Dan Conover, and ex-Register Michael Connolly, ex-Judge Dowling and Harry Murray, of Harlem. The next contingent is the Knickerbockers, com- manded by the ex-Congressman O'Roosevelt, who propose to restore the old Dutch supre- macy on Manhattan Island. | An army thus composed will require great | tact to command. Whether Field Marshal | Von Shafer can reconcile the conflicting interests of his host is a question. When it comes to dividing up the spoils we are | afraid there will be much heart-burning, but Von Shafer must adopt the policy of Bis- | marck and make everything subordinate to No one will take | victory. The Ham-Stealers and Knicker- | not be left alone to bear the burden of such a bockers, the Ultramontanists and the Con- | hordes want isa leader. Von Shafer is new | to his work, and it remains to be seen how far | hecan inspire confidence. All this while the, | ex-Sheriff O'Kelly stands apart, inscrutable, | infallible, deigning no response, quietly | meditating until the time comes to act. | choose between the the compact battalions in the dogma of political | If we were to two armies, | who believe its Supreme Pontiff, and who would vote for | Goldsmith Maid or s hippopotamus if they | were so commanded, and the picturesque infallibility, and regard ex-Sheriff O'Kelly as | ® fighting priest has collected o force of and hungry factions of Von Shafer's army, ‘poven thousand insurgents, and is preparing | we should be disposed to believe in the suc- ito attack cortain towns that may or may not | cess of discipline against enthusiasm. But Pe of some strategic importance. This | New York is a strange city, and no one comes from Sclavonic sources, and probably | knows what it will do until after the Pofers to something which will turn out to | ballots are counted. In the olden times, tbe of small account. From Servia we learn | under the empire of Tweed, when the ballots that two members of the Ministry voted for | were counted before election day, there was war during the late division on the address jto Prince Milan, : O'Kelly found when he endeavored to elect the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 18 bosom friend of O’Morrissey, Hayes, eve Tammany Hall cannot control this metropolis, If ez-Sheriff O'Kelly nominates an unexceptionable ticket for the judiciary, if ho keeps in office the men who have been worthy and adds to the list others of high character and attainments, there is no reason with the impulse given to him by the suc- to men who follow him that he may serve their turn. The alliance under Von Shafer j is dangerous enough to compel O'Kelly to do his best to meet the wishes of New York: Although it is now composed of con- tending and diverging elements, and men who have no interest in common, who lack money and organization and power, still, parties like this, under the impulse of a sudden enthusiasm, may accomplish great results. Therefore, although the battle looks as though it were a sure victory for Tam- many Hall, its leader must remember that the battle is not to the strong alone, nor the race to the swift, and that, unless he con- duets his canvass with perfect sincerity and respect for the popular will, the crest of Von Shafer may be seen at the close of the poll riding triumphantly over a well fought field Count Von Bex«s« on the Eastern Question. In another column will be found, in a Vienna letter, an interesting résumé of the comprehensive views of Count Beust on the relations of the troublesome countries in the border land between Turkey, Austria and Russia to the general politics and peace of Europe. This experienced statesman is of opinion that, in the present conditions of national existence, small States are impossi- ble in that part of the world, simply because small States cannot maintain the military force that is necessary to keep down a tur- bulent population. For this reason, there- fore, he has no faith in the proposed solution of the Servian and Bosnian difficulties by giving those States a semi-independence; for, if his view be correct, they would then be more troublesome neighbors than they now are. But for this presumed danger Austria would make no objection to their possession of autonomy ; but Austria must have peace on her frontiers and safe navigation of the Danube, and would regard these as im- perilled by the erection near her of severad small self-governed States constantly in a turmoil of local feuds and little wars. All that country, therefore, must belong to one of the three great Powers near. Austria does not desire more territory; neither does Russia. Turkey may, therefore, retain it, and, with some modifications of her relation to the people, these would be better contented under her au- thority than in any other way. Count Von Beust’s opinion of the only modification of the Turkish system that would be practical involves his project of an Indo-European railway. He would vivify Turkey by send- ing the great tide of traffic and travel across her desolate plains and down her abandoned rivers. He conceives the city on the Bos- phorus as becoming once more the great emporium that it was in the earlier days of human history, and of the barbarism, ignor- ance and bigotry of Moslemism as melting away in the presence of commerce and in- dustry. All this is the settlement of polit- ical problems by economical forces—a set- tlement that is in the spirit of the age ; but we fear that for the present occasion this- must be regarded as a visionary remedy. The Red Men and the Green Ones. Itis proposed to put such a tremendous coat of whitewash on Secretary Delano and the Indian Ring men that the country will be actually forced into recognizing them as men with characters to lose—therefore as men who can be libelled—and then upon this foundation to build a fine fabric of libel suits with which to crush Professor Marsh. It is, of course, confidently believed that an exhibition of this sort will deter any other publio spirited citizen from meddling at any time in the future with the little games of the powers that be. In reading the en- thusiastic bulletins of the people who pro- pose this campaign against Professor Marsh the public will for a moment have its mis- givings of that gentleman’s position, and may naturally wonder whether he has been imposed upon; whether he has been ver- dant enongh to become the tool of any hostile interest, and so has put forth charges that cannot be sustained. But @ moment's reflection will convince every one that if there is any glaring verdancy in this case it is not on the side of Professor Marsh, but on the side of those who have persuaded themselves that they can get rid ofgublic opinion in this manner. There is no room to hope that any of the parties con- cerned in Indian frauds will sue Professor Marsh for libel, because they know that courts are one thing and investigating com- mittees quite another. But if there should | be among them any such faith in legal tech- | nicalities as will lead them to take this step we shall then see the unusual spectacle of an administrative attempt to crush a man who has denounced corruption in the interest of public honesty. In that case the man will duty as his defence, but the public, in whose | From Russia it is reported that the Cos- sacks of the Ural are resisting the conscrip- | tion law, and that some hundreds of them | have been sent toa penal colony in Turkes- | | tan, It is added that more are likely to | follow. The new military law in Russia is | | exteremely rigorous, and must press very heavily on the families of the poorer classes, | But individual suffering will not be allowed | to stand in the way of State necessities, and | | Russia has a stern and summary method of | dealing with disobedient subjects. Tux Cortston between the Rockaway steamer Americus and a steam launch, which | Nw York Docs are likely to be a bone of contention among engineers for many years to come, They have long been an eyesore to the city when represented by crazy struc- tures of wood that yielded to the slightest took place on the North River over a month | ago, is now undergoing investigation at the hands of the United States anthorities, important point has been established so far why he shouid not sweep New York, especially | ¢y, cessful administration of Governor Tilden. | jg ney, But the O'Kelly cannot give away these high | gon’g places to favorites and flatterers, to parasites, | cang One | The State Canvass in New York. The political campaign in this State has this remarkable peculiarity—that the race is ot so much between the New York demo- ‘ats and the New York republicans as be- tren the democracy of New York and the An ocracy of Ohio. As a mere State contest ‘% is such a preponderance of chances in favoof democratic success that the canvass y devoid of interest. Governor Til- arty does not fear anything the republi- Olhis State can do; but they are full of anxiety\nd apprehension as to what the supporte; of Governor Allen may accom- plish, ‘Ley droad the success of their political bithren in Ohio more than that of their party .pponents in this State, Their newspapers 4e beginning to denounce Allen and his inflatonists with a strenuous vigor for which they ind no occasion against their immediate advermries, Some of them go 50 far 48 to advise Ohio democrats to insure the defeat of Gayernor Allen by voting for the republican C@M%date, ‘This advice is as sagneious a8 it ~ told. Those who gire it are not so stupid as, imagine that it will be taken by the Ohio tamoorats to whom it is addressed, nor is it Ox,eq with this expectation. Its purpose is to pntoct the party in New York from the damag,..,, effect of Governor Allen’s victory on the can- vass in this State. If, as seems probable, the democratic infla- tionists carry Ohio, it will be proclaimed by every republican journal and stump orator that the repudiators have control of the democratic party, and are on the broad high- way to success in the Democratic National Convention. If it is said that many of their State conventions have pronounced for hard money, the ready reply will be that the Pennsylvania democrats, who adopted a hard money platform last year, took the first opportunity to reverse it after Ohio had led the Way, and that if a mere declaration produced so great a change a triumph at the polls will have a still more mighty effect. The Pennsylvania democrats re- nounced their hard money principles of last year and adopted an inflation plat- form by a majority of two to one on the strength ofa mere experiment in Ohio, If that experiment is crowned with triumph by Governor Allen's election, who can tell how many other democratic conventions will likewise change front and go over to the inflation side? The example of Pennsyiva- nia proves that hard money declarations put forth previous to the stand taken in Ohio cannot be trusted even in an Eastern State. It deeply concerns the New York democrats to meet such republican inferences with a solid rebuttal ; for if the citizens of this State can be convinced that the inflationists are likely to control the democratic party as a national organization Governor Tilden’s ticket may be defeated in spite of its great advantages. This is the one vulnerable point in the democratic canvass, and the party journals which are opening the State cam- paign by discharging their heaviest guns against their own party in Ohio evince a true estimate of the situation. The most impor- tant thing for them to do is to convince the people of New York that Gov- ernor Tilden and his supporters will stand their ground against the inflation- ists in every contingency and at all hazards. The advice given to Ohio demo- erats to vote for Mr. Hayes and defeat the democratic ticket menaces a bolt and split if the inflationists should get control of the party. Any position less decided and de- fiant would not allay fears that the New York democracy may be drawn into the infla- tion vortex if the rag money men capture the National Convention. If Governor Allen should be defeated in Ohio the New York democratic canvass will take care of itself. The currency ques- tion would thenceforward have but little in- fluence on the election, which would be fought out on the reform issue, upon which Governor Tilden has the great advantage al- ways possessed by performance over pro- fessions. The reform issue is of hisown cre- ating, and nobody can take from him or be- little his just title to leadership. On this issue all that the republicans can do is to imitate his goods and counterfeit his trade mark. The people will prefer the genuine article tothe imitation. Both tickets aro re- spectable, and nothing is to be gained on either side by personal assaults on the op- posing candidates. Political Ideas of Georgia Negroes. The Henaty's Augusta correspondent sends, in a letter printed elsewhere, some extracts from the testimony of several col- ored men. who were witnesses in the recent conspiracy trials in Georgia. What they said is very curious reading. It shows ex- traordinary ignorance in the blacks, anda capacity to be easily misled by designing and unscrupulous men. It discloses also, as it appears to us, the fact that there are men capable of misleading these negroes by vague talk about their “rights” and about the necessity of asserting them. Such dem- agogues appear to fill the minds of the blacks with exalted notions of General Grant’s power. They connect his namo with the old story of ‘‘forty acres and a mule,” and persuade the negroes that they must depend upon the federal government for “justice” and have no need to care for the State government or State laws, In fact, the negroes have taken literally the oft-repeated cry that they are ‘the nation’s wards,” and they prefer to live under such a guardian and entertain very absurd ideas of what the federal power can and will do for them. It is very necessary to disabuse them of such notions, which can only lead them into troublous waters ; and the duty of the real friends of the black man, just now, is to explain to him very clearly that he has been made a citizen; that he has all the tights and responsibilities of a citizen, and no more, and that the federal government is neither going to give him land nor protect him in idleness or evil doing. 75 TRIPLE SHEET. have been sinking the foundations ot a) A Very Serlous Matter. wall in the North River which was sup- In the year 1870 Henry Clews & Co., bank- posed to resist any action of the tide. But | ers, of New York and London, were appointed the present chief engineer says it will not, | financial agents of the United States in Lon- and he ought to know. He objects to the | don, the deposits of the government being plans of his predecessors, and warns the | taken from the house of the Barings, who had Mayor against adopting a system of sea wall | held this confidential and responsible posi- which his divers have proved to be unsafe | tion almost ever since the foundation of our and unsatisfactory. government. The change, made suddenly, Se ee and, so far as the public knew, without The Water Supply and the Factious | conse, attracted unpleasant cpmments at the Aldermen. time. It was commonly said that the ap- The water supply controversy, now occupy- | pointment of Clews & Co. was the reward of ing the attention of our Aldermen, is very | political service, and during the panic of well understood by the people of New York. | 1873, when the house failed, Mr. Clews was The city has outgrown the supply and the | conspiculously spoken of as the personal means of delivering the Croton water. With | friend of the President and the Secretary of the increased demand we need larger mains and more of them. In many localities the consumers are put to great inconvenience daily through the lack of a sufficient head of water, and the engineers of the Fire Depart- ment declare that, with the present inade- quate supply and the inadequacy of the mains, some of the most crowded and hazardous neighborhoods are in danger of total de- struction in case a heavy conflagration should occur, Weare approaching the cold months, when it will be impossible to lay down pipes, and when the lighting of furnaces tn- creases the risk of fires. The necessity of “ereasing the means of distribution does not ~st on the assertion of the Department of Pubs, Works alone. It is urged by the Fire Depatenent, by the insurance com- Panies, by the Sanitary Department, and is apparent to every -osident in the insuffi- ciently supplied distnu, But the work of laying new mains and Duking the other necessary improvements must bx done under the Treasury. On Thursday, ona hearing of creditors who opposed the discharge of the firm of Clows & Co. under bankruptcy proceedings, appeared Benjamin H. Cheever, of Washing- ton, and on his own account and that of James Van Buren presented an unsatisfied claim for one hundred and forty thousand five hundred dollars for each as their share of the profits mado by the house of Clews & Co. through being financial agents of the government, and as a voucher for this claim exhibited the following agreement:— ae Should we be appointed by the United States gov- gramant ie Gnsooims eras to divide no profs of the same with B. H. Cheever and James Van Buren, one- it ‘tners in such proportion. quarter each, thoy being PartTENRY CLEWS & CO. Wasurwotos, D. C., March 27, 1869. It is not pretended, we believe, that Cheever and Van Buren were partners in the house of Clews & Co. What, then, is the nature of their claim? For what reason should Clews & Co, promise them one-lalt the control of a democratic public sqjger— | their profits from their dealings with the the Commissioner of Public Works—.nq | government? Mr. Boutwell was Secretary democratic laborers would be employea| of the Treasury when Clews & Co. were thereon. Hence the republican Aldermen | ™=4e financial agents in the place of the Bar- oppose the ordinances providing for the | ings. Tf the document shown to the credit- work. They are willing that the consumers ors is genuine will it not be necessaty for should be inconvenienced, that the health of | Mr. Boutwell wv explain? The selection of the city should suffer, and that the destruc- | Clews & Co. in place of the Barings excited tion of whole blocks by fire should continue | astonishment when it was made. Now, in to be an jmpending danger, rather than that | View of these agreements, if they shall pxove a few hundred democratic laborers should | #uthentic, it will excite even less agreeable find employment under a democratic city feelings. ‘ Ree government. The leaders of the factious Is Spar the principal topic of public in- movement are Aldermen Vance and Morris. | terest is still the extraordinary demands of It is idle for these Aldermen to pretend | the Papal Nuncio. The Ministry, it is that they are without proper information | said, will make no concessions prejudicial to from the Public Works Department, or that | the independence of the magistrates in deal- their opposition to the necessary improve- | ing with the bishops, and especially the no such difficulty; but now, as ex-Sheriff | by the testimony—the danger incurred by | pressure as if they wore made of india rub- any small craft in venturing upon the river | ber, without, however, its elastic qualities, after dark without lights. The most lament- able feature of the disaster was the drowning | of the engineer of the launch operation the question of reliable docks seems to pe no mearer galution, Jhew Since the sea wall project has been put in | ments is occasioned by the incapacity of those having control of the Croton Bureau. A few months ago, when a republican was at the head of the department, they lauded its management, professed to know afl about the affairs of the water bureau, and favored the very work they now oppose. The Croton Bureau is practically under the same manage- ment now as it was under Commissioner Van Nort, and three or four months cannot have obliterated Aldermen Vance and Morris’ knowledge of its condition and necessities. They are simply playing a partisan game, at the expense of the people and at the risk of a destructive calamity. It is fortunate that their term of office is so near its expiration, Stonewail Jackson. The gift of a monument or statue of Stone- wall Jackson by some distinguished English admirers of the Confederate chieftain has made a pleasant impression upon Vir- ginia. There is no reason why America should not honor this soldier, who will be remembered with the great men of history and honored by all who respect valor and fortitude and sincerity, even thongh they may spurn his cause. The erection of a statue to Stonewall Jackson in Richmond isan event which excites as much interest among Northern men as among the late Confederates. The war is past, and is far enough remote for us to accept Stonewall Jackson, not as a rebel, not as an enemy of the Union, but as a citizen of whom the country may weil feel proud. His place will be in our Wathalla, in onr hall of fallen heroes. It is, therefore, with regret that we note in thé ceremonies attending the reception of the English gift in Richmond that the statue was veiled in the flags of Great Britain and Virginia. It seems there was no place for the flag of the United States, and yet it was under the flag of the United States that General Jackson ‘was born and educated, In “its army he served asa young man, and the bronze which will for ages commemorate his career will be under the protection of this flag. It does not give us a pleasant feeling to think that in an honor paid to Stonewall Jackson there is no place for the flag of the country which ho opposed as a valiant and courageous soldier, a country which would never hesitate to do his memory honor. Tae Oup-New Wonuv.—The prehistoric times, hitherto shrouded in a veil of impen- etrable mystery, are becoming faintly lighted up by the researches of science in these mod- ern days, and the more oultured minds throughout the world are on the tiptoe of expectation for new and startling develop- ments in this branch of human knowledge. Perhaps no more interesting and suggestive localities for these researches can be found than in those vast barren wastes in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, where are presented innumerable evidences of a race, or, more properly speaking, a series of races, which ages since passed into oblivion, and which range from the lower order of cave dwellers toa people considerably advanced in the arts of civilization. But recently a division of the Hayden surveying ‘party has morning publish a letter from our corre- spondent with the expedition, giving a graphic account of what has been discovered there, \ Tue Fatt River Sreme,—The manufac- turers of Fall River, who, in the present condition of their stock and of the market, are somewhat indifferent to the resumption of operations in their mills, have taken ad- vantage of the necessities of the operatives toaim a blow at the combination among them, which, if successful, will place their employés entirely at their mercy in the future. A meeting of the weavers took place yesterday, in which significant allusions were made to the bread riots in England and Wales and open and covert threats of violence were resorted to, The men are fiercely determined not to submit to the de- mands of the owners, and if these are per- sisted in it is evident the end is not yet. entered this interesting locality, and we this | Bishop of-Seo de Urgel. It is probable the indictment hanging over the head of that dignitary had a good deal to do with the attempt to revive, in favor of ecclesiastics, an immunity from civil and criminal punish- ments that has long ago fallen into disuse, These repeated promises of firmness and vigor on the part of the Ministry, coupled with the delay in taking action, savor of timidity. The Nuncio has been replaced and eeturns to Rome. Tse Arrmn Fie Lapvper Jov.—Now that the inquiry into the aerial fire ladder calam- ity has closed it will be well to institute an inquiry into the whole scandalous job of ita purchase by the city. Were any other offi- cials than the chief clerk of the Fire Depart- ment interested in the arrangement by which the profits were divided between the reputed owner of the patent and Secretary White? Whose money was paid to Mrs. Scott-Uda by the chief clerk? How did the claim happen to be paid immediately after the pur- chase by White? Are there not checks in the Finance Department by which, before a claim is paid, its bona fide owner can be dis- covered? These and other questions are of interest, and certainly the--whole affair is suspicious enough to demand some sort of an investigation. hg Tae Leorstatrve Commirrezs on Crome wasted a great deal of valuable time during yesterday’s session in discussing questions relating to their counsel, Mr. Townsend, and the hero of the Harlem flats, Commissioner Disbecker. They also consume much time in investigating crimes of the past, and for- get to look around and see for themselves the frightful condition of the city at the present time. Murder, burglary, highway robbery and other offences against the law are now more prevalent than during the period of which the committee seem so desirous to know all about. Lovistana Wuics.—The Louisiana repub licans are busy trying to prove to the whigs in that State that the republican party is substantially the old whig party. The Louisiana whigs reply with some show 01 justice that it may be the same ship, but she seems, down there, to be in possession 0 pirates. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Life insurers’ motto—While there's life thore’s Prest- dent Hope. Paymaster Asa B. Carey, United States Army, is quar- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Charles Turner, of Alabama, is among the late arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Rev. Dr. H. G. Batterson, of Philadelphia, arrived last evening at the Coleman House. Assemblyman George West, of Ballston, N. ¥., it stopping at the Grand Central Hotol. Dr. D, M. Burgess, the well known American physi- cian of Havana, is at the Grand Hotel, Sir Charles Hartley, of England, has returned to his old quarters at the Hotel Brunswick. Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, is residing temporarity at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Gounod is engaged on a new opera, constructed from Dumas’ ‘Henry II. and His Court.” Viscount Gueronniére has in press @ book on the “Law of Nations in the Nineteenth Century."’ Colonel Malachi Martin, Inspector of State Prisons tn Florida, and wife, are stopping at the Grand Hotel, Mr, H. H. Porter, General Manager of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, 18 registered at the Wind- sor Hotel, Mr, Henry ©. Hall, American Consul General at - Havana, Cuba, isin the city, on his way to meet hig friends at Poughkeepsie, Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware, and Professors Theo. dore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, and 0. M, Moad and J. H. Thayer, of Andover, Mass., arrived in this city yesterday to attend the meeting of the committee en- gaged in the revision of the Bible. They are at tifo Everett House. Vice Admiral George Greville Wellesley and his wife and daughter, with Flag Lieutenant Brackenbury, of the Admiral’s staff, and Captain William Gore Jones, of the British Legation, arrived in this city yesterday mofning from Newport, and took up their residoace at | the Clarendon Hotel. President Grant and wife, accompanied by ox Secre tary Borie and wife, General Babcock and Colonel Fred. Grant aud wife, arrived at St. Louis yesterday, and are quartered at the Lindell Hotel. Tho President will visit his farm to-day and arrange for the sale of bia stock, and leave for Des Moines, Iowa, Monday evening, to be present at the soldiors’ reunion there, Tho party 1 WH Hien slant or Denver, Via Omaba aud Qyaxenue,