The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1875, Page 6

vs NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1875.—rKiPLE SHEET. The Fall River Disturbances. The exciting regrettable occurrences at Fall River yesterday establish two points—first, | that a large part of the operatives would gladly resume work at the reduced wages if they were free to act as individuals ; and, sec- | ond, that the leading spirits of the labor as- sociations care less for the welfare of their | class than for their own dictatorial ascend- ancy. We have not a word to say in de- fence or extenuation of the condi- tions imposed by the mill owners. On | the contrary, we think they have made an unnecessary and irritating display of vex- ation at the interruption of their business, But having gained their point by the failure of the strike they ought to have been satis- fied with the victory. Had they permitted the operatives to go to their work without ex acting from them anything beyond what | would have been demanded on the Ist of | August much bad feeling would have been | avoided and the mill owners have been equally | secure. There was no danger that a new | strike would be organized for a long period, and they should have acted on the maxim that ‘‘sufficient unto the day is the evil | thereof.” When the operatives took their | “vacation” at the beginning of August most | of them had a small accumulation in the sav- ings bank, and they expected to bring the mill owners to terms before their temporary means of support were exhausted. It was a grave miscalculation, as the event has proved. The loss of two months’ wages and the con- sumptfon of their previous savings have re- \ duced them to such telplessness and | distress that many months must elapse before they would be in a} condition to make another strike, even if | bitter experience had not taught them wis- | dom. The mill owners should, therefore, | have been satisfied to let them go to work at the reduced wages without further mortifica- tion of their pride. Of the legal right of the mill owners to pur- sue a different course there can be no ques- tion, and the law must protect them in doing | what the law allows. The operatives have | committed as great a blunder in resorting | 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 thé New York Herazp will be gent free of postage. 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M.—OLIVER TWIs' METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 snd 587 Broadway RIETY, at 3 P.M. LYCEUM THEATRE, i Fourteenth street “und Highihe ayence.—Preuch Opera | 0 menance and force as they did | Boutle—MADAME ANG SP. M. in taking their “vacation.” They forfeit | PARISIAN VARIETIES, public sympathy when they have Cxtonahionen ee arcneear rr Ta BIE Or et OP. M. recourse to illegal violence and attempt to restrain people who are willing to work by threats and violence. Those who did not choose to work on the prescribed conditions had a most unquestionable right to stand out, and a right, equally unquestionable, to prevent others by arguments and persuasion. | But no law-abiding citizen can justify them in passing that limit. They put themselves outside the pale of indulgence when they excite disturbances of the public peace. What right have they to throw stones and | damage the property of the mill owners? | By what title do they presume to control | the action of other citizens as free as them- selves, and tell them they shall not work on such conditions as they choose to accept? What is their warrant for threatening bodily injury to persons who exercise the common right of all free people to dispose of their services in any manner they see fit? The | violent proceedings of yesterday are utterly | indefensible. It is the clear duty of the | public authorities to protect the property oe Saas = of the mills and the freedom of willing From our reports this morning the probabilities | operatives against illegal violence and ter- are that the weather to-day will be cool and | rorism; and the calling out of the militia cloudy, with, possibly, rain. | Was a necessary consequence of the disor- | derly mobs. We regret, more for the sake of the opera- tives than of any other class affected by these disturbances, that those of them who did not think fit to comply with the conditions did not keep away from the mills yesterday morning. Had they chosen to hold an or- derly public meeting to give expression to their grievances, protest against the ty- ranny of the mill owners and strengthen | one another in their purpose to refuse ; | employment on the preseribed conditions, | | their attitude would have commanded the respect even of those who might think it mistaken. They had a perfect right to | hold back all whom they could convince by argument or influence by persuasion. They have made a great mistake in stirring up such scenes of turbulence and lawlessness as were enacted yesterday in Fall River. Had | it not been for the exertions of the police and | the presence of the militia what proved to be a day of tumultuous excitement would | very likely have been a day of riot and bloodshed. The visit to the Mayor to solicit pecuniary assistance was one of the most singular features of the stormy events of the day. The Mayor could have made no other reply than he did, that he could give no The summary of the shooting is | relief to persons who refused an opportu- | nity to earn honest wages. Why nT | should the recusant operatives throw thegn- Capinet Cr A well-informed writer | selves as a burden upon the taxpayers and | ‘in Washington gives elsewhere some gossip | degrade themselves into the condition of | about the resignation of Secretary Delano | paupers when work was offered them at | and about the Cabinet in gen which i | rates which were double or treble any relief | interesting at this time. He recalls the fact | that could be doled out to them by the pub- | that Mr. Delano, who has of late been so | jic authorities? These applications for pub- anxious to retire from public life, atone time jig charity in the very midst of | aspired to be Secretary of the Treasury and | siotoug proceedings to prevent other | came very near the attainment of his hopes; people from accepting work and supporting | and he gives a curious*inside view of the | themselves by regular industry give an air | divergent sentiments of the Cabinet. | of farce to this tragedy. Such a short-sighted OF eR A sa «,, | confession of pauperism was a notification to interview: With!) ‘ie rmill owners that tle strike was on ie | last legs and could not hold out. It was as SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Rew Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ate P.M, AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Chird avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day ind evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—THE FLYING SCUD, at 8 P.M. Mr. George Belmore. OLYMP Ss aa Broadway.—VARI) PARK THEATRE, fe and Twenty-seeond street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- AR, at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GILMORE’S SU late Barnum’s Hippodrome. ER GARDEN, | RAND POPULAR CON. { CERT, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 1 M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ff0,22 West Fourteenth ‘street—Open from 10,A. M. to S TIVOLI THEATRE, Righth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at ® P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty eighth street, near Brondway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 PM. at 10:30 M. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 98, Tue Fast Mam, Traivs.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the States of New York, | New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as weil as in the West, North and Southwest, along the lines of | the Hudson River, New Yorle Central and Penn- | sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tux Henan, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. | Warn Srreer§ Yzsrerpay.—Currency, measured by the closing price of gold, was worth only 85.93 on the dollar. Gold opened at 116§ and closed at 116}. Foreign exchange was dull. Money on call easy. Stocks generally lower. Anctic Expronation.—We are glad to hear | a good account of the Swedish Arctic expe- dition. The warm attack mede upon the icy barriers of the Pole this year by so many nations ought to be successful. Some of these days the Pole must surrender, and we hope | the time is not distant. Tur Piczo Snoorrye Hanpicar at Babylon, L. L, was concluded yesterday, after an ex- citing contest, there being three ties at the | close. Mr. De Forest won the first prize for | Mr. Knapp, and the second was gained by | Mr. Earle. elsewhere published. Canpivan =McCrosxey’s Cardinal Antonelli will probably alarm those good and timid people who see in the Pope's me he Catholic Church i | absurd, under the circumstances, as it | peta Se dak "i oe bor peutr saute would be for the garrison of a be predbc< ser tha nines cineca wives sieged town to inform the investing | to overthrow the government ; but nothin, ; could be more area) than that those vais | bri! bea” op, Mag scree spp sco erable dignitaries should consult with exch | S@rrstom: “Be refasal of the public | fiher upon eoelesieations aftirn. The authorities to support the operatives in idle- | majority of people have not yet been able to | oe aes a ie don wes ne | believe thatthe good Cardinal McCloske Pere nares” i ides evil decigne against tho Repabiis | eoteGaeds ap TA reste ‘et aaa Pes whieh he was born. estitution as is implie their application ba icatiea | for relief as paupers on the very day of this | Tax Srrvation mw tHe East.--All the | exciting demonstration. despatches from the discontented provinces | They will be obliged to submit from sheer of Servia, Montenegro and Bosnia show that, necessity; for so large a number of people whatever may become of the war, permanent cannot exist as tramps or beggars, and pub- | peace in Turkish Europe can only be estab- | lic charity being refused them it is not likely lished by concessions from the Porte anda | that they will stand out and starve. When | proper recognition of the changes the last ten | they shall have accepted the required condi- — years have created. The great Powers have | tions and have gone to work let us hope that advised the Porte and the Servian govern- | the mill owners will make some abate- ment to refrain from hasty action, and if| ment of the rigor and arrogance with | moderate eounsels prevail anadjustmentmay | which they confront these wretched peo- | be had of this quarrel with which both the | ple. ‘The employers have’ exhibited | parties will be satisfied. Anything less than | but scant humanity in their attempt | this will simply postpone, not end, the | to mortify the pride of operatives and to trouble, subjugate them into an utter renunciation of | | intelligent employers than in the deluded | proposes to form a political group that will | nation should be expressed, and that it is as | the new Republic by over zeal. i public is not by any means ideal. It will do their sense of independence, Had the em- ployers been wise they would have avoided these troubles by accepting the first offer of submission and refraining from measures which seem more like punishment and humiliation than protection of their own interests. Wilfulness and passion on one side tend to provoke these bad qualities on the other, and they are less excusable in work people. The mill owners should not be insensible that they have kindled resent- ments which will not die with this occasion, but be harbored as an undying grudge in the breasts of people who will take the first opportunity to wreak their revenge. The conditions they so needlessly impose look too much like trampling on the sensi- ilities of the conquered and ‘striking men when they are down.” It is defensible enough in point of legal right, but it is not magnanimons, and we doubt if it is even prudent. It was a triumph of the em- ployers for the operatives to come to their terms and confess that their strike was a fail- ure anda blunder. The loss, mortification and distress of these poor people should have been deemed a sufficient punishment with- out trampling on them when they were down and provoking them to passionate resistance. Divisions in France. M. Louis Blane and others who believe with him have taken ground against the French Republic as it now stands. Louis Blane voted against it in spite of his party and his desire to sustain the party. He now act alone in the Assembly. The enemies of Louis Blane call the new party the ‘‘irrecon- cilables” and say that they propose nothing but chaos and will be content with no form of government. Louis Blane answers that the Assembly now in existence should not have formed a constitution ; that it was not convoked for that task ; that the will of the impracticable to expect a republic from an As- sembly composed of royalists and priests as ‘it would be to expect peaches from an apple tree.” He and his friends tell us they fore- saw that an Assembly of this kind would in- vest the President with even more than royal power; that the Senate which it created “would be one in which Jesuits and the Bonapartists could hardly fail to have their own way ;” that such a Senate, in harmony with an executive like MacMahon, command- ing the army, would be able to stamp out and emasculate the representatives of the people, and that the Republic of France would be governed by men who ‘‘held the Republic in abhorrence,” and would in time ‘make it odious to the people.” M. Louis Blanc argues further in justification of these views that thus far the Republic has done nothing to merit the confidence of the republicans ; that it is reactionary ; that Bonapartists are in office; that the state of siege con- tinues, and that the Assembly is no nearer dissolution than it was a year ago. The logic of Louis Blanc’s position is per- fect. At the same time we think it would be a mistake for him and his friends to injure It must grow slowly, even as it did in America, The men who founded our Republic were as con- servative, comparatively speaking, as MacMahon and Buffet, and there was as much difference between the republicanism of Washington and Hamilton and that of Jefferson as between that of Louis Blanc and M. Thiers. But our early radicals like Jef- ferson saw that it was wise to support the Republic and to strengthen Washington, and to win over the conservative elements of the country by showing them that the effect of republican institutions was not to disturb society, but to give the people liberty and order and peace. Marshal MacMahon’s Re- many things grievous to republican minds ; but after MacMahon, if republicans are wisa, we may have a party and a leader who will do for France what Jefferson did for America—namely, make it possible for a government of the largest liberty to exist in harmony with law, precedent and authority. Txxas.—The movement to raise subscrip- tions for the relief of the suffering Texans continues under the best auspices. We trust that it will be attended with gratifying results. We regret that Mayor Wickham did | not see his way toward taking a prominent part in this work. His announcement that he could do nothing officially is not satisfac- tory. If there is atime when the Mayor of New York should act officially it is in response to the call of humanity. Mayor Hall did not hesitate to do so,when Chicago was burning and the ery came from the West for instant succor. Our Mayor could do a graceful thing on behalf of the city of New York by taking the lead in this Texan move- ment, by imitating the example of his brother, the Mayor of Boston, who promptly sent a despatch to Texas announcing that the people had subscribed a large sum of money for the relief of the sufferers, He gave direction and coherence to the benev- olent impulses of Boston. This is a much more important function than receiving rifle teams and reviewing processions on St. Patrick’s Day. Mx. Dexano, in recapitulating his duties for the last four years, says that they em- braced the supervisibn of the Land Office, the Indian Bureau, the Pension and Patent offices, the Bureau of Education, and ‘‘a mass of miscellaneous business unknown to any except those connected with the public service.” This is true, and it is precisely be- cause that mass of miscellancous business was unknown to the people that they were desirous to have Mr. Delano retire. Aw Exection for members of the Cortes will soon be held in Spain, and its result is likely to make some change in the political com- plexion of the government. ‘The republicans will have a chance to show whéther their in- fluence has declined, as the upholders of the monarchy have recently pretended. Tue Wesverx Coast or Exouanp has suf- | fered greatly from the recent storm. Much damage has been done in Liverpool and Man- | chester, and to the shipping as far north as | Scotland, where a number of vessels were blown from ‘heir moorings in the Frith of Forth, | eloquent and distinguished gentleman began liberal Mr, Schurz at Cincinnati. The admirable speech with which this his tour throngh the State of Ohio yester- day, will command universal attention, not only by the clearness and cogency of his reasoning, but also by the peculiarity of his political position, Mr. Schurz takes pains to impress upon his audience, at the outset, that he does not appear before them as a republican acting in the service of that party and aiming to promote its success in | the Presidential election, but as an independ- ent citizen seized with alarm at finan- cial heresies whose success in Ohio would subvert the public credit and ruin the business of the country. He reserves his right to vote for or against any candidate who may be nominated for the Presidency by either pariy next.year. He stands by all he has ever said against the mistakes of the present administration, and thinks the republican party ought by this time to be convinced that it would have acted more wisely had it paid greater def- erence to the views of himself and his as- sociates. He approaches the financial ques- tion not as a partisan, but as a patriot and a political economist, and discusses it on higher grounds than its bearing on the great party struggle of next year. Mr. Schurz does not attempt, like the hard money democratic press of the Eastern States, to belittle the importance of the Ohio contest, nor to disguise the tremendous effect Governor Allen’s election would have on the politics of the country. He is too well ac- quainted with Western and Southern feeling to underrate the conflagration which would be kindled if such a firebrand as a great in- flation success in Ohio were flung into the combustible elements which the long stagna- tion of business has made as dry as tinder. He does not conceal his opinion that an in- | flation victory in the most important State of the West would cause this dangerous in- fatuation to spread through thé country like wildfire. He avows his belief that the election of Governor Allen would put the | inflationists on the sure road to ascen- dancy in the democratic party, and that | the gsowth of popular delusion would give | them control of the national government and enable them to perpetrate irreparable mis- chief. His manly recognition of the full extent of the danger shows that Mr. Schurz has not gone to Ohio to practise the arts of a | demagogue. We donot doubt the correct- ness of his judgment as to the boldness and proselytizing vigor which would.be imparted to the inflationists by a triumph in Ohio. No attentive observer can be free from the apprehension that such a triumph would | cause inflationists to start up even in the hard money States, nor that it would give them an irresistible preponderance in the States already infected. We entirely agree with Mr. Schurz that Governor Allen's elec- tion would enable his supporters to control the Democratic National Convention. Nothing is gained by affecting to despise a real danger. - After asserting his political independence and disclaiming any purpose to help either party in the Presidential canvass, Mr. Schurz | addresses his speech to democrats, arguing with them on the basis of their professed principles. It is such a speech as Senator | Thurman ought to have made, but did not, when his party in Ohio embarked in this dangerous campaign. There are none of the main arguments employed by Mr. Schurz which would not have become the month and have been consistent with the antece- dents of Senator Thurman if he had pos- sessed the political courage to stand up and resist the madness of his own party. The substance of Mr. Schurz’s speech will be indorsed by the democratic party of New York, to whose platform he alludes with strong approval, though expressing the opin- ion that it is a barrier which will be swept down by the inflation tide if the democrats elect their ticket in Ohio. It was a happy thought which led Mr. Schurz to argue from a democratic standpoint, address himself to democrats, and make such a speech as would be expected of Governor Tilden if he were to speak in the Ohio canvass, and such a speech as Senator Thurman ought to have made in consistency with his record as a hard money statesman. Mr. Schurz’s apt and lucid reasoning will naturally have a great effect. No man in the country has a greater power of enlisting public attention, and the neat way in which he explodes Governor Allen’s ridiculous fal- lacies should make great impression. There are at least thirty thousand German voters in Ohio and at least thirty thousand republicans who voted for -Mr. Greeley in 1872. All of these will weigh Mr. Schurz’s arguments with friendly candor, and it is to be hoped that they may also find aceess to the minds of fair-minded demo- crats. If Ohio is rescued from the inflation- ists it will be largely due to the speeches of Mr. Schurz, who will continue to take an active part in the canvass until its close. Dean Svsezinsky has joined the Old Catholics in Germany, and signalized his shanged opinions of priestly duties by mar- tying. Now whether he became an Old Catholic in order to become a husband, or whether being a husband he became an Old Catholic willy-nilly is a yet unanswered ques- tion. The result, however, is that the Old Catholics have been obliged to decide that a priest may marry, Martin Luther and Pére Hyacinthe being precedents for that license. The German government, pleased with the opportunity of striking another blow at | Rome, has resolved to protect the Dean in the enjoyment of his temporalities—which means his income from the Church, A greater dean than Susezinsky once said :-- Lonly wish that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year. Our modern dean has more than that, and a wife into the bargain. It is true he will be excommunicated, but as Prince Bis- marck will give him absolution he probably will be contented with his lot. Monrper, on Waar?—An excursion train was ron from Philadelphia to New York on Sunday last. On its return to Philadelphia, when within the city limits, it collided with a passenger carand dummy. Five persons were killed, seven dangerously and thirteen | slightly injured. Such a catastrophe as this | must be the result of criminal careless- | necs, There gan be no conceivable excuse | | Interior months, and he crying all the time to go | for it. It is not, as it has been called, an accident,*but a brutal murder, and, unless the guilty parties can be brought to justice, there can be no safety for the people who are compelled to use the city railroads in Philadelpia, The laws which cover these cases are not sufficiently strin- gent, and it is seldom that any punishment follows these cruel sacrifices of human life. A few severe examples are needed to con- vince railroad officials and others that the special privileges accorded them do not in- clude the right to slaughter men, women and children at their will. Secretary Delano Resigns. In Polynesia the agreement of two" per. sons on any topic is described by the un- imaginative statement that they are ‘made both alike inside;” and the phrase may be borrowed for its apt application to Mr. De- lano and the public respectively. How startlingly they are ‘‘alike inside,” and have been for the last eleven months, no one would ever have guessed if Mr. Delano had not made the matter plain by his letter to the President, dated July 5, and just made pub- lic. Ever since last November, it now ap- pears, Mr. Delano’s only anxiety has been how he should get out of the Cabinet, and how he could be got ont has been for the same period one of the principal anxieties of the people. Never, it seems, was that fa- mous starling described by Sterne so anx- ious to get out of his tight place as this dis- tinguished head of an important department was to get away from the enormous labors» and duties and responsibilities of his place in the Cabinet, and the eager- ness of the people to help him in this re- spect must, we suppose, have been a great comfort to him in all these months, The evident, the undisguised, the notorious fact that the people sympathized extremely with | him in his desire to get out of office, indi- cating, as it did, the attention with which the people note the wishes of those who serve them, was, perhaps, the only relief to the misery he must have endured in these weary months of restraint and enforced re- tention of honor and office. It appears from all this fhat General Grant was the great ob- struction. The press, the public, even the parties on both sides, were eager that Mr. Delano should leave the Cabinet. Mr. De- lano was on his part monstrously eager to leave the Cabinet. General Grant would not hear of it, General Grant was the only man in the United States who wanted Mr. Delano in the Cabinet, | and s0 kept him there, with equal disregard to Myr. ODelano’s feelings and to public opinion. Now, this seems to us to do injustice to General Grant, and be- fore we yield implicit taith to the story thus told we take the liberty to call for the evi- | It is true that General Grant says | this himself; but, then, in the convention- | dence, alities of this complicated life an amiable man like the General is called upon to say so many things for the sake of his friends that we are at liberty to doubt whatever seems in open conflict with! his known char- acter. Now, if there is a fact that is above all prominent in Grant's intellectual compo- sition it is his devotion to his friends, and Delano is one of them. sacrifice to them all considerations of the public service would have kept this poor Delano in the pillory of the Department for eleven mortal home? Again, General Grant is of opinion that “the will of the people is the law of the land,” and it was the will of the people that Mr. Delano should retire to private life, and if General Grant had thought on the subject at all he would have accepted that will as law. No, no. All that correspondence is the kind of printed material which, as the | dry goods people say, ‘‘won't wash.” It has lately become evident by the political exigencies in Ohio that the Cabinet must | purge itself of Mr. Delano, and the President | in his good nature, not wishing to ruin | him for life, too kindly consented to say whatever was necessary in order to give the man a tolerably good character, and so help him to another place, Disinfectants in Politics. Some republicans of Massachusetts are making a serious effort to nominate Charles Francis Adams for Governor. The lesson that party received last autumn has not been lost upon men as wise as Vice President Wilson, Governor Boutwell and others. The “tidal wave” which swept republican Massa- chusetts into the control of the democracy | was too significant to be underrated or over- looked. Since then the republicans have been on their good behavior. administration of Governor Gaston. Massa- chusetts sees that, notwithstanding a demo- crat is in her executive chair, the sun shines, the rain falls, the crops grow and codfish still come to Gloucester. They see that a democrat in office makes very little difference | in the state of affairs, and consequently the | leaders of the republican party feel that the only way to break the power of Governor Gaston and the democracy is to nominate the best men. The republican party is also ina condition | of purification, The old mansion has gone to decay and is overrun with vermin. There have been strange odors permeating its halls, indications of typhoid and malaria. So from the President down there has been a general process of disinfection, the use of quick lime, carbolic acid and other poison-destroy- ing ingredients. In New York the party, after having been quite content with all manner of indifferent people, madea desper- ate effort to put John Bigelow and Governor Morgan and William M. Evarts on its ticket | at Saratoga. That high-minded politician, George William Curtis, was made whitewasher for the occasion. But Mr, Evarts and Mr. Morgan and Mr. Bigelow did not care to be used as the disinfectants of the party which had no use for them in its days of power, when nomination for offic: was election. We question if Mr. Adams will consent to be used as a kind of political carbolie acid, | even to purify the republican sewers of Massachusetts. It is possible that he may regard the currency question as so impor- tant that he will take the lead of the party in the hope of stemming the inflation tide as it | comes from the West. Otherwise there is nothing in the proposed nomination to at- Is it likely that a | man fond of his friends and ready always to | Their task | has been rendered difficult by the admirable | | tract him. The only value of the proposal to nominate him is that it shosvs a disposi- tion on the part of republicans to be wise while it is yet time—if there is really time. Ee Should Governor Tilden ported? Some of our contemporaries are arging the election of a republican Senate this year, on the ground that such a body will hold a wholesome check on the democratic Exeeu- tive. This position might be well taken pro- vided the Governor did not possess the con- fidence of the people and had not signalized himself as a zealous and faithful champion of administrative reform. If we had an Ex- ecutive whose principles were doubtful, or who would be likely to promote and approve corrupt legislation, it might be wise to fetter his hands and block the wheels of govern- ment. In such a case inaction might be better than action. But if any relief is to be afforded to the State, and especially to the city of New York, it must come from the an- doing of what has been done by former Legislatures ; by the repeal of laws passed by republican Senators and Assemblymen in the interest of democrats who have been con- signed to felons’ cells or driven into exile mainly through the well directed efforts of Governor Tilden, New York has never suffered more severely from bad legislation than in years when the political power has been divided, and when neither party has had direct responsibility. The bargains made at such times enabled Tweed and his associates to secure their mill. ions of plunder. If the people believe that Governor Tilden can be trusted to give us substantial reform, to bring the State and city governments back to the principles o1 economy and honesty, and to relieve prop- erty from its present ruinous burdens, the wisest thing they can dois to give hima | legislative majority that will strengthen his hands and enable him to carry out his policy. To be sure, the clection of a democratic Senate would turn out of office a number oi republican harbor masters and port wardens, but the interests of these gentlemen can hardly be accepted as of sufficient impor- tance to outweigh the interests of good government. The atmosphere of the State Legislature has been unsavory for the past | fifteen years, both under republican and democratic control. We have now a Gover- nor who certainly exhibits energy in the | cause of administrative reform, whose influ- ence over his party cannot be questioned, and who seems to possess thé confidence of the people. If he should have to encounter a partisan opposition from the legislative majority next winter he could not be ex- pected to carry his policy to a successful issue. No responsibility would attach ta him in case of failure. On the other hand, if the people strengthen him by giving him good working majority in the Senate and As- sembly, he must fulfil the promises he has made and satisfy,the expectations he has raised, or stand condemned as an impostor. Be Sup+ Tux Corn Manxert rv Evrore.-—An interest ing report of the condition of the corn market in Europe is furnished by our cable de spatches, and it appears that in England, France and Russia there has been a decline in prices, principally owing to the immense foreign arrivals. The Mark Lane Express ex- pects a recovery from this commercial de pression, as the foreign supplies are dimin- | ished. Tramps tn Jam.—Laws to protect the pub | lic against the invasion of tramps are needed in many of the States, but the Jersey authori- ties are actively enforcing the laws they have. It is cheerful to read that ten of the nuisances were yesterday sent to prison, where they will be compelled to earn their living or die a defiant death ; so that, in Jer: sey, at least, the song of ‘Tramp! tramp: tramp ! the boys are marching!” is likely to be heard no more.* PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bates—flag—Canada, Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. | Judge George Hoadly, of Cincinnati, is among the | tate arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. General William Hoffman, United States Army, ia quartered at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Adjutant General Franklin Townsend arrived from Albany last evening at the Hotel Brunswick, General Thomas J. Cram, United States Army, has taken up his quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. James A. Bayard, formerly United States Senator from Delaware, is sojourning at the New York Hotel, Mr, James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad Company, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States District Attorney Calvin G. Child, ot Connecticut, bas taken up his residence at the Everett | House. Colonel R. F. Farrell, formerly United States Consul at Cadiz, is, it is said, to be appointed Public Adminis- trator. Mr. William D. Bishop, President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, is at the St. James Hotel. Mr. John King, Jr., Vice President of the Baltimore | and Ohio Railroad Company, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mrs. Partington is mistaken in supposing that the Titiens shortly to appear bere is one of the Polly- ticians. Her name is Teresa. In Germany they have printed 62,700,000 blanks upom which the returns are to be made for the census, the taking of which begins December 1, Postinaster General Jewell arrived at tho Fifth Ave. nue Hotel last evening from his home at Hartford, and | left on the nine o'clock train for Washington, It will terribly disturb Governor Tilden to learn that there are people in this town who believo that Senator Conkling is a greater man.than Silas Wright was, “Four Thousand Miles of African Travel” is the sixth excellent book published within a few years past, entirely made up from matter previously published in the HERALD as correspondence. “Alexander I]., Emperor and Autocrat pf all the Russias,’ announces to the attendant world the birth of a new grandson, the child of the Grand Duke Viadi- mir, to be called His Imperial Highness, Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, formerly a member of the British Cabinet under the Gladstone administra- tion and now President of the Great Western Railway of Canada, has apartments at the Brevoort House, A letter was received yesterday at the Interior De- partment from Hon. KR, H. Duell, Commissioner of Patents, saying that he would arrive there Ovtobér 2, and immediately enter upon his duties as Commis. sioner. AtSt Petersburg the proposition to make of the dia- turbed districts in Turkey semi-independent States is tegarded as merely an English policy invented to pre- vent the legitimate settlement of the trouble without English intervention, Tn Italy they are laughing rather happily at the Ger. man Monument to Arminius, and they propose in reply 4 monument and inseription as followa:—. To Drusus Tiberius Nero, surnamed Germanicus, whe triumphed over Teutonic barburisin, ator having de feated and put to fight Arininius, aud having avenged like a good soldier the legions of P, Quinuilius Var massacred through treanhery. on \»