The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1875, Page 6

* NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN «STREET. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hxnaxp will be gent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —_—_-—__—_ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be egived and forwarded on the same terms gj New York. QLUME XL. ---.sereecersverererenneencesens NO. 270 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ‘Twenty eighth street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 th sti Xi t, near a) at COLONEL SINN'S PARK THEATRE, ‘Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:49 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, mee Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8}. M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Prospects of the Fall Trade. The fall dry goods trade has fairly opened. Western and Southern merchants are making their purchases, and elsewhere will be found a detailed account of the condition and pros- pects of this important branch of trade, compiled from the statements of leading business houses to reporters of the Heraxp. The inquiries thus made within a few days show an extremely satisfactory condition of trade. The fall business doing by the whole- sale dry goods merchants is unexpectedly large. Several of the leading houses ex- press their surprise at its extent, and say past. But it is mot only that there is a livelier demand and that buyers are more numerous, The most gratifying feature of the general testimony, the merchants from the interior who have come here to lay in their stocks are very careful and prudent ments for spring purchases with unusual promptness. trifling and much less than for equal periods that stocks of goods in the country are low, prices to lay in new supplies. The business appears in all its features to be in a healthy condition, and the more prudent and con- servative houses begin to believe that there isa real and active revival of trade, which means, of course, a desire in the people to buy, united with an ability to pay for goods. Lower prices have no doubt their share in this revival of trade, but it seems to be a special feature of the fall business that the country merchants are selecting their stocks with unusual care. The desire for economy evidently continues in the country, and in- stead of buying wildly, as in some years, and taking the risk of being able to selland to they now buy cautiously, expect to pay Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—THE ARKANSAS. TRAVELLER, at 8 P.M; closes at 109 P. A Matinee 6a P, M—OLIVER TWIST, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos, 585 and 587 Broadw: —VARLETY, at 3 P.M. , LYCE THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue—French Opera Boule—MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P. M. * PARISIAN VARIETIES, ‘Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. - SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ae TUTE, jay and evening. BOOTHS THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—THE FLYING’ SCUD, at 8 P.M. Mr. George Belmore. OLYMPIC THEATRE, bed f0,g%4 Brosdway.—VABIETY, at 8 P. SL; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, roadway and Twenty-socond street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- WAR, ut 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, fate Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- promptly and ask for but moderate credits. All this is very satisfactory. It argues pre- cisely such a return toward prosperity as will put us on a sound basis. 4 We are evidently past the period of inflated prices; the country has settled down to a lower range ; products and incomes have be- gun to square with each other; and itis a curious sign of the course of our business and production under lower prices that our export of cotton manufactures to China has considerably more than doubled during the past year. It amounted in 1874 to $218,986, and forthe present year to $552,444, according to an official report which we print elsewhere. Of course even the larger sum is but a trifle, for China imports yearly not less than forty- five million dollars’ worth of cotton goods, almost entirely. from Great Britain. But it CERT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN jo ig West Fourteenth str SEUM OF ART, —Open from 10 A.M. to S TIVOLI THEATRE, ‘Zighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear, or partly cloudy. Tue Fast Mam, Trarys.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the Slates of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, North and Southwest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Penn- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tue Henan, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. Tuz Buack Hu1s.—Somewhat interest- ing, not to say startling, to the Commission- ers must have been the approach of the In- dian tribes, painted and in battle array, to the Grand Council initiated for the purpose of bringing about a cession of the Black Hills. It is to be regretted that amid all this fuss and feathers and paint the proposed treaty ‘is likely to come to the ground, owing to the jealousies and bickerings among the redskins themselves. Tue Currency Questioy.—Rag money, as represented by the platforms of the demo- cratic party in Ohio and Pennsylvania, finds an additional advocate in ex-Senator Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, who, in an interview with our correspondent—the report of which we publish in another colamn—dis- courses at considerable length on the finan- cial disease of the country and the remedies best adapted to its situation. ‘Tue Excuse Rarway Cunrpration.—Yes- terday' the fiftieth anniversary of the estab- lishment of railways in England was cele- brated at Darlington, and our special cable ‘despatches give an account of the ceremonies. The fact that the railway companies have subscribed twenty thousand pounds to pay the expenses of the celebration shows that they appreciate the im- mense revolution which the locomotive ‘steam engihe has created in modern life. ‘That revolution has been concentrated in England, but in this country only has it found its fullest development. Neverthe- less, the English do well to honor the mem- ory of Joseph Pease, and that of the founders of the system, and our railroad kings no doubt have sent by that other marvel of our time, the electric telegraph cable, congratu- lations to their fellow monarchs abroad. Gesreat Burien Has Accertep an invita- tion from the New York Board of Trade to deliver an address on currency and finance in this city on the 14th of October. The day is adroitly selected for securing public atten- dion to General Butler's views. The Ohio lection takes place October 12, and by the | 14th the returns will have been received and ‘be the great topic of the hour. If inflation triamphs General Butler will cast his ‘lot with the inflation party, and perhaps aspire to its leadership. His patent is as old as that of Mr. Pendleton, and his record is more consistent. If there should be a reor- ganization of parties in consequence of a vreat inflation victory in Ohio General But- fee's natural place will be with the inflation- ists, and the vigor of his character will give him o high position among their chiefs. He is satisfactory to see even aslight evidence that some of our products are once more finding markets abroad in increasing quan- tities. The retail dry goods trade seems also to be uncommonly active just now, and it has the same characteristic features of the wholesale trade—caution in buyers; cash payments ; careful selection by purchasers. peculiar features of the fall business, but all over the country, evidences that we are re- covering, if not rapidly, yet soundly, from the commercial and, industrial prostration which began in 1873 ; and that but one thing— such a continued derangement of the cur- rency as Governor Allen and General Butler, Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Wendell Phillips, General Carey and Mr. W. D. Kelley threaten us with—can prevent a general renewal of prosperity next year. It is not probable that the country has yet recovered from the losses of the past few years. In spite of good crops sold at fair rates and of unusual economy in expenditure we must continue for some time to come to feel the burden of the losses inflicted by the great railroad bubble, by the Chicago and Boston fires, by the waste and corruption in many of our city governments, not to speak of the losses by the war. The country is not rich enough to | be extravagant, but it is to-day undoubtedly richer than it was in 1872, when everybody thought himself fortunate. The people since then have saved, have paid off more or less debt, and North and South, East and West, are to-day in a sounder condition than per- haps at any time since the war. It is true that confidence is still disturbed ; capital remains timid, not only because of the losses of 1873, but because of the politi- spicuous industries are still suffering. The atives of the cotton and woollen mills are, to some extent, unemployed. But an exam- ination of the multitude of minor in- dustries, especially in the West, will show any one that, in the main, there is a reasona-, ble activity and prosperity. The farmers of the West aud the planters of the South will this year almost certainly receive satisfactory prices for abundant crops, and these two | classes are not deeply in debt just now. When they have sold their crops most of them will have money in their pockets ; they will be able to buy supplies, to employ mechanics, to make improvements. That is to say, the country is beginning once more to have a surplus over its bare living ex- penses, and that means a revival of indus- try and trade, It wonld set us much more rapidly ahead if only we had a sound currency; if, that is to say, one dofMar had, o fixed and permanent value. In that case there would be no disposition to hoard the accumulations of the year ; money would not lie idle in the banks ; its owners everywhere would be ready to use it, and with reasonable reforms in taxation we might, at the present prices of production, be able to sell our surplus manufactures in foreign markets. Whenever we can do that there will be no unemployed people in the United States. And it is because an irre- deemable and fluctuating currency has de- manfactures profitably in the world's markets that we have seen so long a glut in these pro- ducts, so many operatives out of employ- good crops for several years. A benignant Provtdence has been kinder to this country than its misguided rulers. If, in addition to other grounds of discour- vill make a noteworthy speech if the infla- stion, tide shall seem to be rising; but if Gov- ‘Allen is defeated General Butler will manent that he made phe appointment, p} , 4 agement, the crops had fallen short, our busi- | ness classes would have been brought to the that trade has not been so good for five years | purchasers. They have made their pay- | The losses by bad debts are | during some years past. There is evidence | and buyers are taking advantage of low | make their settlements at the proper time, | There are, ip fact, not only here and in the | cal uncertainties. The greater and more con- | laborers in iron, coal, lumber; the oper- | prived us of the ability to sell our surplus | ment, so general a stagnation, in spite of The foreign demand is unusually large, and a good market for the kinds of commodities | of which we produce most isa great lift. Not | only have the country merchants correctly judged that the ability of their customers | Warrant larger purchases than at any pre- | vious time since the panic, but the great transportation interest is equally encouraged. Fleets of lake vessels which lay idle in the | harbors during the spring and summer have | been manned and put under sail, and expect full employment during the season of navi- gation. The boats which navigate our New | York canals are equally sure of all the freights ‘The railroads will also be taxed to their full capacity and will continue to do a heavy this revival of business is that, according to | business during the winter, This prospect | | emboldens them to, make additions to their | dilapidated rolling stock, and large orders | have already been given for new locomotives and cars, which orders, and the prospect of | more, impart hope and impulse to the iron interest and other subsidiary industries. Of | course we are not to expecta great heyday of | rency, but it is something to have made a be- ginning. We have passed the ebb; and, although the new tide may come in but | slowly, there is reason for congratulation that business is at last giving trustworthy signs of a healthy revival. A Police Suce We are glad that the perpetrators of one murder have been tracked out and captured by our police with reasonable promptitude. Amore inhuman murder than that of the pedler in the town of West Farms has sel- dom been committed nor so great a risk in- curred on so trifling a temptation. The criminals were such bunglers that their de- | tection was comparatively easy, but due praise should be awarded to the officers for their diligence in following the clews. Sus- picion fell at once on the three negroes who had been seen hanging around the neighbor- hood as tramps and were observed seated just outside the wood in which the body of the \ murdered pedler was found. As soon as | they were discovered identification was easy. Two of them had handkerchiefs and one had ona woollen shirt like those found in the pedler’s pack. They all confess to having | been present at the murder, one saying that | he was a mere spectator, having nothing to ; do with it and refusing any share of the plunder, and the others accusing him as the instigator. They are all in a fair way to get their deserts, and we rejoice that for once the police have vindicated their activity and skill by prompt success, and that, too, ina case where they could expect no other reward than the credit of doing their duty. Slow and Sure. There isan old saying to the effect that “slow and sure travels far in a day,” and in reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors we are bound to believe in the doctrine whose motto is ‘Festina lente.” Inspired by this faith the people of New York are entitled to cherish the hope that they may one day enjoy a reformed and efficient government in their city under the auspices of its demo- cratic rulers. A year ago they were promised real municipal reform in exchange for their i votes for the Tammany candidates, and the result of last November's election proved their confidence in the pledges. Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham have now been at the head of the State and municipal gov- ernments less than nine months, and they have already commenced the great work to | they can carry until blockaded with ice. | prosperity in the present state of the cur- | | the Stanley Expedition. | After a long silence Stanley, the gallant African explorer, is heard from again. The facts given in our special cable despatches indicate the complete success of his expedi- | tion thus far, and promise the thorough solu- ; tion of the great problem which baffled the energies of Livingstone, Burton, Speke and , Sir Samuel Baker. To the appreciation of what Mr. Stanley has already achieved a brief retrospect of | his work is necessary, He left Zanzibar on | the 15th of November, 1874, for Bagamoyo, a small town on the eastern const of Africa, whence the caravan departed on its journey into the interior. On the 12th of November Stanley wrote to the Henatp a letter giving full information of the organization and | the intentions of the expedition. He had | provided a pontoon called the Livingstone | to enable him to transport his buggage over | lakes and streams, with a cedar boat, the | Lady Alice, intended for the more rapid | exploration of rivers and large bodies of | water, and with all needful scientific appli- | ances. Sending this message to the civilized | world, Stanley and his little band disap- | peared in the African wilds and were not | again heard from until December 13, 1874, | when he wrote from the district of Mpwa- pwa, in the country of Usugara. In this he informed us that he had left Bagamoyo No- vember 17 and arrived at Mpwapwa on De- cember 12. The journey thus far had been accomplished without much diffi- culty, his principal trouble having been the intoxication of some of his men at Bagamoyo—not a great trouble, however, as the Africans seem to be like sailors, who consider a good spree an indis- pensable preface to a long voyage. ‘‘All right, my sable gentlemen,” said Stanley; “to-day is your day; to-morrow the reign of order and discipline begins.” From the date of that letter, December 13, until the news we print to-day the expedition remained utterly invisible to the eager eyes of the world. Stanley now reappears on the shores of the Lake Victoria N’yanza, one of the principal objective points of his expedition. He reached Kagehyi, a town in the district of Uchambi, country of the Usukuma, at the beginning of March, 1875, and his first letter is dated March 1, He had thus made the wonderful march of seven hundred and twenty miles in one hundred and three days, through an entirely new country, much of which was forest jungle, in which the travellers suffered from hun- ger. They were also attacked by a fierce, treacherous tribe called the Naturas, and in the battle with these savages Stanley lost twenty of his men. With this dimin- ished force he pushed on to the borders of the Victoria N'yanza, where the first part of his great plan of exploration seems to have begun. His latest letter is dated May 15 and all the time from March 1 till then was evidently devoted to the survey of the lake. The exploration of Africa upon the scheme proposed by the Herarp and London Tele- graph expedition is not unlike the voyage Columbus made over the great Atlantic Ocean, which washed unknown regions to the westward. - Just as the voyage of Colum- bus was controlled by events unforeseen when he sailed from Palos, so Stan- ley’s movements will be governed by un- 1 known circumstances. But there are two objects well defined in his plans. The first of these is ‘to reach the Victoria N’yanza and ascertain which they are committed. With profound wisdom they are ‘‘making haste slowly.” The Corporation Counsel who was at the head of the Law Department under Mayor Have- meyer’s imbecile administration has already been removed, and the expediency of displac- ing the Aerial Ladder Fire Commissioners is under consideration. Recent develop- ments seem to make it probable that the de- sirableness of a change in the Police Com- mission may one day claim the attention of the Governor and Mayor, and it is not unlikely that the arraignment of the Build- ing Department by a Coroner's jury at the time of the Duane street church disaster, some eight months ago, may also in due time be considered by the same authorities, When ‘these matters shall have been settled we may expect some effort to revive the real estate market and business generally from the depression consequent upon four years’ policy of suffocation. We may even hope, some time after the Centennial, for a well matured reform in our financial man- agement and a decrease of the heavy bur- den of annual taxation. But Rome was not built in a.day. Our present municipal reformers are certainly slow. Let us hope they are sure. Meanwhile the people of New York must possess their souls in pa- tience, and, adopting the pious Bishop's motto, ‘‘serve God and be cheerful.” Deatus or ArnicaN Expiorens.—The only events to be deeply regretted in the march of the African expedition are the deaths by fever brave and gallant members of the expedition. In his letter of December 13 Mr. Stanley health and spirits. through their seasoning fevers without much trouble.” Their names are now added to the long list of martyrs to science and the cause of humanity, and though they will not share in the triumph of the expedition they so en- thusiastically joined they will have their full part in the fame it will achieve. | Tue Mernopourtan Putrrr.—The sermons we publish to-day are as remarkable for the variety of subjects treated as for the elo- quence and eminence of the clergymen by | whom they were delivered. Nearly all the | creeds have their exponents in the dis- courses we report, and it is pleasing to see how strongly the great religious teachers dwell upon the fundamental truths of Christianity and how little is | found of bigotry and ecclesiastical rivalry. Among the pulpit orators whose views we present are the Rev. R. Heber Newton, Rev. Mr. Hepworth, Rev. Dr. Maury, Rev. Mr. Talmage, the Rev. Mr. Platt, the Rev. Mr. Frothingham, Professor Loutrel, the Rey. Father Kane, the Rev. Father Lynch and others, who treat with signal ability of the verge of desnair. The abundant harvests of | religious auestions ef the day, of Edward Pocock and Frederick Barker, two | said:—‘“I have omitted to state that the | white men, Edward and Francis Pocock*ind | Frederick Barker are enjoying excellent | The three have gone | whether Speke’s or Livingstone’s hypothesis | the present year are especially opportune. | The Exploration of Africa—Success of | to the Attorney General somo days ago that 4 sufficient force of citizens could be got in any county in Mississippi to act under the orders of the Governor in maintaining the peace, We quote the above to show that he was accurate. Evidently Governor Ames does not need federal poops to keep the peace, The Industrial Deadlock at Fall River. We think the millowners at Fall River are pressing the operatives beyond necessity or reason, The willingness of the latter to re- sume work at reduced wages is a confession that their strike was a failure, and, of course, a blunder, as all strikes are which do not ac- complish their purpose. The millowners have lost little by the suspension, as they had a great stock on hand and the market was glutted with their kind of goods. Tho strikers, on the contrary, have lost their wages, have nearly exhausted their previous savings, and many of them are reduced to the last extremity of distress, with hunger and a hard winter staring them in the face. The mortification of going back to work at the same wages which they refused in July is pretty good security that they will be in no haste to repeat their abortive and self-de- structive attempt. The millowners may safely allow them to go back to the looms and spinning mulés without putting upon them the fufther humiliation of giving guarantees for the future. The immediate future is secure enough for the employers, on the homely adage that ‘‘A burnt child dreads the fire.” If these labor- ers were again at work another strike would be improbable for quite a period to come. They cannot attempt one until they shall have reaccumulated their exhausted savings, and the result ofthe present calamitous ex- periment will cause them to think’ twice be- fore again putting their small sums in. the savings banks at hazard, to be risked and lost in a fruitless strike. We appeal to the interest and humanity, of the millowners to put am end to this distress, now that the operatives consent to takesuch wages as the mills can afford to pay. Woe appreciate the wish of the employers to take advantage of this occasion to erect a bar- rier against the stoppage of their mills by the sudden desertion of all their operatives. But their method is injudicious and needlessly irritating. It would be altogether wiser to manage this difficulty by free mutual con- sent. Instead of dictating, it would be better for the millowners to try the effect of concil- iation and seek some friendly arrangement to which the workmen and workwomen should be parties. They go entirely too far, in requiring the operatives to withdraw from and dissolve their protective unions. It is an idle demand; and since these associations cannot be dissolved it would be better to utilize them. The power of binding their members, which they claim and exercise, might be turned to good account if both employers and the employed would con- sent to refer their disputes to friendly arbi- tration. Let equity be substituted for mere will on both sides. There is no fairer way of settling disputes than for the interested parties to refer them to impartial third per- sons. Both parties should have an equal voice in selecting the umpires. If the work- men choose one, the employers one, and these two a third, the Board would be fairly constituted, unless the two selections by the parties should fall upon impracticable ex- tremists. To guard against this each party might offer a list of three or five, owt of which the other party should select one, these two to agree on the other. Before these arbitra- tors both parties should be heard by is the correct one, whether the Victoria N’y- anza consists of one lake or five lakes.” Stanley intended to fix all the important lo- calities by astronomical observations, and to settle the disputed question of the number of lakes by ‘‘complete circumnavigation.” To this duty he addressed himself at once on reaching the lake last March, and it is probably by this time completed. His second objective point was the Lake Albert N’yanza, to which he intended to cross over, and, in his own words, ‘‘to endeavor to discover how far Baker is correct in his bold hypothesis con- cerning its length and breadth.” This question was also to be decided by circumnavigation, and the intrepid explorer will take nothing for granted. “Whether Gordon circumnayigates the Albert or not,” he says, ‘I shall most certainly do so if I reach it, and discover every detail about it tu the best of my ability.” Here the definite plans of travel are ended, but it is not proposed that the expedition shall stop with these discoveries. “Beyond this point,” Stanley says, ‘‘the whole appears to me so vague and vast that it is impossible to state at this period what I shall try to do next.” We are justified by these facts in announc- ing that the African exploration expedition, organized by the Heranp and Telegraph, has thus far succeeded to the fullest extent of our expectations. In little more than three months it penetrated the wilderness over seven hundred miles and reached the un- known region of its operations. For two | months following it had been engaged in the survey of the greatlake. The next news from Stanley, we may hope, will solve the first great geographical question of the African | interior, which neither Livingstone nor Baker | was permitted to decide, Help for Governor Ames, We find the following in Mississippi news- papers :— Narcnez, Sept. 14, 1875, | To Goverson Amus, Jackson :— The undersigned are authorized to tender you the service of 125 mon, armed with Winchester repeating rifles, to aid you ih suppressing insurrection in any part of the State. They are ready when called, and will only ask that the State furnish rations and trans- portation. WILL T, MARTIN, GEO. W: KOONTZ, J. FLOYD K PAUL A. BO! Bovia, Miss, Sept. 10, 1875. To Hrs Exceiuency Governon AMES :— Goverxor—Having learned through tho papers there is domestic violence through many portions of the State, and learning through Your Excellency’s call | upon’ the President that you are powerless to suppress the same, and feeling a most earnest desire that peace and quictude shall reign rather than lawlessness and violence; and learning, further, that the President intimates, in his reply to your call for assistance, that it would be wise and proper to first exhaust all legal remedies within the State before making ‘a formal call upon bim; now, therefore, we, the un- dorsigned, each of us’ citizens of Warren county, State of Mississippl, do hereby tender to Your Ex: celleney forty men ‘each, with side arms, for the pur- pose aforesaid, provided you furnish’ other arms peeessary and rations so long as we shall be employed for the preservation of peace and good order in your State. L. RB. REID, J. & WILKINS. Ex-Senator Pease, Postmaster at Vicks- burg anda radical republican, telegraphed counsel of their own selection, and after a fair hearing the decision should be accepted by both sides for a period of say six months, or until some considerable change should take place in that branch of industry. Such an arrangement would guarantee the workmen against arbitrary reductions of their wages by their employers, and, on the other hand, it would protect the millowners against sudden stoppage of their business at the mere fiat of the leading spirits in the labor unions. An adjustment once made ought to be binding on both parties for some definite period to be mutually agreed on as a perma- nent rule with the adoption of the system, and neither party should be at liberty to reopen the question and call for a néw arbi- tration until after the stipulated period had expired, The decision of the arbitrators should remain in force for six months, or whatever the period might be, and afterward until a new set of arbitrators, chosen in the same manner, had decided the disputes that might subsequently arise. Wasteful troubles between capital and labor will perpetually oceur until this or some similar equitable plan shall be adopted for adjusting their differences. Mr. Deano Restexs.—It is probable that no correspondence between two United States officials could give as much gratification to the country as the letters will give which. we publish to-day from the President and the Secretary of the Interior. In one of them Mr. Delano resigns his office, and in the other General Grant accepts the resignation. The satisfaction which will be felt in this tardy acquiescence in what has for years been the wish of the nation almost forbids criticism. Mr. Delano’s eulo- gies of himself might prudently have been omitted, however, as they only provoke an answer. General Grant, of course, gives the retiring officer a “good character,” explains that he would not accept of the resignation previously because “ofthe persecution which I believed, and believe, was being unjustly heaped upon you through the public press.” But the exoneration and the vindication are now as complete as a whitewashing committee and a complaisant President could make them. Therefore, Mr. Delano retires from the Cabinet, leaving the public the assurance that, whoever his successor may be, the change cannot be otherwise than for the better, Deractna Puptic Scenzny.—The erection of another massive telegraph pole at the side of our palatial Post Office is not only a viola- tion of good taste, buta downright trespass on the rights of the community. The policy which the telegraph companies are pursuing of sub- stituting new and lofty poles for the old supports of the wires running through the city must be condemned as an mawise gna even from the stagdpoint of the companies themselves, for the time is near at hand when the people through legislative enactment will compel the abolition of over ground telegraphs and force their transfer to tubes in the earth. Hence the expensive and elaborate masts now going up will prove so much money thrown away. The evil of their offence as public eyesores is not changed by the fact of their newness and better finish. On the con- trary, the evil is enlarged with their size, for with a brief exposure to the weather they will discolor, gap into seams and become as dilapidated and unsightly as were ever the old ones. We are outgrowing our patience with these and kindred nuisances, and the companies are foolish to believe they can rely upon the public sufferance much longer. The Spanish Situation. The situation in Spain is becoming more and more interesting, and it would not sur- prise us to see that country again command the attention of the world. A new Ministry has been formed. We suppose this Ministry will be something like that of Sefior Zorilla, when he was Prime Minister under Amadeus. The reasons that have led to the change in the Ministry do not appear in the Spanish despatches, which we, by long experience, have learned to discredit. The tele- graph in that country is in the hands of the government, and we receive not the news, but what the ruling powers would have the world accept as the news. The truth is that the new King has had his own share of troubles since he ascended the throne of his sancestors. He has been oppressed on all sides. The army has demanded the restoration of its old franchises. The mon+ archists insist upon the return of all the privileges and traditions of the throne. The aristocracy wish to be indemnified for what they have lost by the revolution and to be strengthened in their titles and emoluments. The Church has been particularly aggressive, demanding all manner of concessions, not only the acknowledgment of the Catholic faith as the religion of thé realm, but the prohibition of every other faith. Not long since the Papal Nuncio addressed the King a@ peremptory note, calling upon him to perform his obligations to the Church and especially to give the clergy the arrears of their pay. Considering that Spanish credit is now at the lowest possible ebb and that the King is sorely oppressed to borrow money at usurious rates of interest this demand seems to us unnecessarily harsh, and has, no doubt, so impressed the country. The London Times prints a letter from Madrid to the effect that the liberal party have obtained control of the King and’ that politics are moving in this direction. Sefior Castelar is quoted as having moderated his opinions and gxpressed a willingness to enter the Cortes as a supporter of the liberal monarchy, In the country there is a feeling of weariness and indifference, ‘little national but plenty of provincial feeling.” The story that Sefior Castelar has become a monarchist is doubtful, and is probably a repetition of the old story so diligently circulated when Alfonso came to the throne, that the republicans were about to accept the king. The truth is the re- publican party in Spain is much stronger now than it has been at any previous time in its existence, and is growing from day to day. The young men of the nation are re- publicans, every college class sends out new missionaries, and with this rising tide, con- stantly increasing from year to year, the end must be a republic, such as we have in France. Sefior Castelar would be guilty of political suicide to cut himself off from his opinions and his followers in this gene- ration, and abandon his fame and the tri- umphs of his genius to endeavor to prop a rickety throne on which there is a boy king, who was only yesterday playing with his tops and velocipedes at a school in England. The Republic in Spain has been arrested ; postponed, not destroyed. Our hope is that the wise men of Spain will see what MM. Thiers and Buffet and the wise men of France have confessed—that even the best form of a monarchy is an impossibility, and that re- publicanism alone means peace. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Israel Vogdes, United States Army, is quar+ tered at the Union Square Hotel. Rev. J. Lockington Bates, of Sussex, England, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, State Senator F. W. Tobey, of Port Henry, N. Y., is registered at the Fifth Ayenue Hotel. Mr. Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama Rail« road Company, is at the St, James Hotel. Secretary Bristow arrived inthe city last evening, and took up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Goorge 8, Bangs, Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service, is residing temporarily at the St. James Hotel. Malmaison, so famous as the residence of Josephine, is to be sold under the hammer “in lots to suit pur- chasers.” Mr. Joseph Hickson, General Manager of the Great Western Railway of Canada, has arrived at the Bro voort House. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Sir Josoph Heron and Mr. John Morris, the English railway capitalists, returned to this city yesterday, and are at the Brevoort House. Lady Thornton, wife of the British Minister, and Mr, Powor Henry Le Poer Trench, of the British Legation at Washington, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Figaro reports the presence at Paris of M. Schischkin, recently Consul General of Russia at Belgrade, and now on his way to the United States to represent the Emperor of Russia at Washington, They moved a Paris menagerie the other day and an elephant, startled by the sights and sounds in the street, ran away. All he did while out, however, waa to steal a loaf of bread from a frighvened boy. From a letter of tho recently deceased General Frois. sard, written in 1867, is quoted this prophetic remark, referring to his pupil, the Prince Imperial:—“He is a prince, so much the better; but he must be prepared tor the day when he may not be a prince,’” France does not love Bismarck, but she claims hig father as her own on the strength of the fact that he fought under the French colors at the Moskwa, at Ber- esina, and was decorated with the Legion of Honor at the battle of Bautzen, He came under the Freneh colors natarally enough, too. He was in the service of the King of Wurtemburg at the time when Napoleom absorbed all the loose German forces, The Princess Domenica Ciarelli was left a widow, with two sons, and the elder died. Almost crazy with sorrow, the Princess was ready to fight the men who brought the coffin, and protested they should not carry away tho boy. ‘In an interval of calm the younger brother, left alone with the body and the coffin, resolved to cheat the men and help his mother to keep Do- menico. He hid the corpse in a closet and got in the coffin himself, He was carried to the church without discovery; but at the church, nearly suffocated, he groaned, and the coffin was opened, but he died in a little while. Now the mother is dead. All this in Paria aly sho other daw,