The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1875, Page 10

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Tue Fast Mam Tramws.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the States 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 Tux Heraxp, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. | civilized neighbor of China, must take a deep NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET: The Chinese Question. The English journals for some time past have been discussing with anxiety the re- lations between Great Britain arid China. This discussion arises out of the murder of a Mr. Margary, which took place on the 21st of February near the Burmah frontier. Mr. Margary was engaged in the opening of a route between Burmah and the Chinese province of Yunnan. This was to be a trade route between India and China It is a traditional policy of the Chinese government to repress all intercourse with foreigners. England has opened treaty ports on the coast and for a long time has been anxious to have a route to! the western Chinese frontier. This “opening of the Western Gate of China,” as it has been called, has long been resisted by the Pekin authorities. In so doing they have had the active support of the King of Burmah, who has gone so far as to proclaim himself a vassal of the Celestial Empire. The English Minister, when he made a demand for the punishment of the murderers of Mr. Margary, and for such satisfaction as was due tothe British government for the outrage upon its flag, was treated with indignity and compelled to ‘stand waiting in the mud” | by an insolent Chinese official. For this there was due apology. Then came news of a treaty in which China prom- ised to send a special ambassador | to England; to punish the murderers of Mr. Margary; to open a trade ronte between Yun- | nan ond Burmah and to regulate the levy of taxes at Pekin so as to put an end to the op- pression of foreigners which had been going on under the name of taxation. We now learn that the Chinese government avoids the performance of the terms of the treaty, and that the British Minister threatens to leave Pekin on October 13, unless a satisfactory settlement is conceded. This will be to suspend diplomatic relations be- tween Great Britain and Chima, and may entail consequences of the gravest possible character. The Chinese question must in time become one of the most important in the world, It | is a question in which America, as the nearest interest. England has ruled her Indian Em- pire by “prestige.” The civilized nations | have imposed their will upon the Asiatics in the most arbitrary manner. They have never ! dealt with China or Japan or Turkey as equal Powers, but as inferior, subordinate, half- barbarous nations. Yet in most of the essen- tials of empire and civilization, in ancient splendor, in knowledge of the arts and sciences and literature, and in population | and general cultivation China may compare with any country in the world. China was | a ‘blaze of light,” as has been well said, eens “Europe saf for the most part in dark- ness.” It is, next to Russia, perhaps the largest state that has ever existed. Itisa country containing most of the mineral and natural products known to the world; ac- cording to an suthority as high as Sir John Bowring, of between three hundred and fifty | and four hundred millions of human beings, Lord Macartney more than eighty years ago gave ita population of three hundred and thirty-three millions. The great masses of the peopleare employed in productive labor, about two-thirds being engaged in agricul- | ture and the fisheries. They are a self-de- | pendent people. They import little besides cotton goods and opium and export great | quantities of tea and silk ; they practically | supply tea for all the world. China is very necessary to our civiliza- | tion. Probably no country is less dependent upon outside nations than this extraordinary Empire. The efforts of Eng- land and the great Powers to control it have | resulted in various wars. In 1839 the | | year in our Northern climate. We think | that the true time for racing is the autumn. | and in the low countries of Northern France. | date who stultified the platform, or adopt a aspect. One of the anxious problems of our politics is the tendency of Chinese emigra- tion to pour into our Pacific Territories, With an overflowing country on one side, and one practically uninhabited on the other, and only the sea intervening, what must be the result ? There will be an irresistible tendency on the part of the Chinese to seek a home under our flag. If we are wise we shall so conduct our- selves in this complication as to strengthen | our influence in China. England controls India by virtue of what was done by Clive and Hastings and the cruel men who, in seizing that Empire, indelibly stained the English name. Let America so act that out of these complications, ever occurring and | inevitable, we shall gain a paramount influ- ence over her rulers and people, an influence based upon kindness, generosity and fuir play. The Autumn Races, If our magnificent weather continues the autumn meeting at Jerome Park, which be- gins on Saturday, will be an event of un- usual interest. The preparations for the meeting are nnusual. The track is in excel- lent condition and the stables are full of | good horses. The leading turfmen of the country will be present and most of the famous horses of the season will take part in | the contests. There was a discomforting rumor to the effect that the horse disease was troubling the racers. There has only been a slight foundation for this | story, and if the present weather continues no danger is apprehended from it. The autumn meeting will be for seven days, be- ginning on the 2d of October and ending on the 16th. This will take the best half of the month, the most glorious month of the It has been our custom, in imitation of the French and the English, to run the great races in the spring. This is because the Derby takes place in the spring. Spring, pleasant as it is, does not compare with October. May and June are more agreeable in the humid climate of England The English and French select their own month for races, and we should select ours without regard to their example. October is the ripe fall season. Nature is in her best mood, rich and full, with enough of the early tinges of autumn and winter to give the scenery new life and new color. The breezes are fresh and strengthening. A ride from New York to Jerome Park in April or May is a languid experience compared with a ride in October, with the sharp sea air coming over the Sound andthe cool breezes from the Palisades and the Westchester hills and the long-extending reaches of forest and plain, the trees turning into yellow and brown as though they had been dipped in | wine. Judge Pershing’s Canvass in Penn- | sylvania. The democratic rag money canvass in Pennsylvania does not open brightly. Dis- satisfaction is expressed with Judge Per- shing’s letter, accepting the nomination for Governor, and especially with his declared | determination to retain his seat on the bench and take no part in the canvass. We do not see how Judge Pershing could very well have acted otherwise, except on the single point of resigning his judicial office. The blunder of the campaign lies at the door of the Convention. To nominate a candi- platform which stultifies the candidate, was | not a promising road to success. For a} hard money candidate to take the stump and go about the State making inflation speeches would be too preposterous. Instead of standing on the platform Chinese endeavored to suppress the opium | trade, and opinm to the amount of twenty thousand chests was seized from merchants | and destroyed by the government. This was | followed by an edict prohibiting all trade | with England. The English government sent a fleet and captured several cities, and | compelled China to pay twenty-one millions | Want Srneer Yesrrnpay.—Currency at the | closing price of gold yesterday was worth | only 85.57. The latter opened at 116 3-4, | advanced to 117 and ended at 116 7-8 | Stocks were firmer. Moncy casy and foreign | exchange dull. Sem1-Cenrennian.—In another column will be found an interesting history of the projec- tion of the first English railway, the opening | of which has just been celebrated at Dar- lington, England, on its semi-centennial | anniversary. We Ane Ixvonmep by our special cable | despatch from Vienna that the Porte has no- | tified the Great Powers that it cannot afford | to keep a hundred thousand men watching the frontier, and that a conflict with Servia and Montenegro appears unavoidable. And when the inevitable conflict comes, who can | see the end of it? | Furexps rm France.—A Paris despatch announces the formation of a committee to | celebrate the Centennial by the erection ofa | monument ‘‘on an island in Long Island | Sound.” Possibly this points to an inten- | tion to commemorate the operations of Ad- | miral D’Estaing in Narragansett Bay in 1778. If so, Long Island Sound is a little out of the reckoning, but perhaps near enough for a transatlantic Fass River, —There were no further riot- nus demonstrations yesterday, but the quasi | hostile attitude was maintained on either sile—the mill owners insisting upon their | extravagent conditions and the large majority | of the operatives preferring beggary to sub- | mm ssion to terms that seem to them disgrace- ful. It is not yet obvious how the trouble is to end or how the illogical and obstinate par- Aics to this unfortunate dispute are to come to any agreement, ‘Tae Price or Wates.—The British ship Berapis hae sailed to take the Prince of Wales pn board for his trip to India, This is the | first time a Serapis has become famous under the British flag since Paul Jones sent a frigate of the name to the bottom of the | Meoteh coast in the bloody battle with the | ‘on Homme Richard. Evidently no un- fortunate omen in connection with the name has dampened the ardor of the official mind in the brilliant preparations for this visit, # fall necount of which is given in ancther columa, - | Hong Kong. This was followed by a treaty | | ever since. | war. vf dollars indemnity, to open several ports for trade and accept just tariffs and to cede | between America and China conceding to | the United States almost as much outside | of territory. There was another war in | | 1856, which ended by a treaty granting | freedom of trade, toleration of Christianity | and a Chinese Embassy in London. But the | Chinese, once removed from the pressure of actual hostilities, refused to carry out the | | provisions of the treaty. This was followed | by another campaign, which ended in the oc- cupation of Pekin, the burning of the Sum- | mer Palace and the signing of a new treaty in Pekin in 1860, which has been in force | But since this humiliating defeat the Chi | nese have been learning the lesson tanght by their enemies. During the fifteen years of peace the rulers of China have been steadily improving their armies. They have been building a fleet and buying the best eannon and arming their soldiers with improved arms. They have been taking | counsel from skilled soldiers of other nations. They have the raw material and all the means necessary for prosecuting a gigantic China could raise an army of ten mill- | ions of men with infinitely less strain upon her resources than America felt when she raised the armies with which we conquered | the great rebellion. As the Pall Mall Gazette | well remarks :—‘‘If China can find a Lee or | a Sherman and only has sense enongh to give | | him unfettered authority, who can say what | a ruler of China might not accomplish within the next ten years ?” We have said that the Chinese question is | one which directly concerns America, We | have no interests in the East but those of peace. Wo have no “prestige” to maintain in Asia, no great Empire like India to hold by terror. Nor do we care to force trade upon | the Chinese or to treat them as an inferior race or to insult their rulers. We should | adopt the same policy toward China that we did toward Japan, and which has given our country such prominence in the councils of that interesting Empire. Our interests are | not imperial, but commercial. The great- | ness of China—its independence, its progress | in modern sciences and the arts, the happi- | ness of its people--are all matters in which we havea profound concern. The Chinese | question comes to America in almost @ social | ulous attempts to he would be compelled to make ridic- | straddle it, as he has done in his letter of acceptance. Such speeches would damage the canvass more than they could help it. The Ohio Conven- | tion, lacking all other merit, had the merit of | consistency. It did not attempt to put a square man ina round hole, In Ohio the candidates match the platform, and a wrong- headed campaign is prosecuted with concen- tration and vigor. The democrats will be badly beaten in Pennsylvania unless the re- sult in Ohio should give them a tremendous | boost. Judge Pershing’s retention of his office is | consistent with the maxim that ‘‘one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” | But he has a respectable precedent to | keep him in countenance. Judge Bedle of New Jersey adopted the same course last year, and although the republican press | tried to make # handle of it he retained the respect of the people and was elected | Governor. But there is an obvious im- | propriety in judges mixing in the strife of | parties and running for political offices, and | the constitution of New York, as amended | in 1869, prohibits it, by declaring that all | votes given to judges for any other than | jndicial offices, whether by the people or the Legislature, shall be void and not counted. It was this provision of the constitution that | | Prevented Chief Justice Church from taking | ' the democratic nomination for Governor, | which he could have had on the slightest in- timation that he would accept it. Important.—-Mr. Morris, a friend of one plan for rapid transit in the city, has in- formed one of our reporters that the rejection of his scheme will be the death of all our | hopes for rapid transit; fh fact, that he | (Morris) and two or three other tailors from | Tooley street have made up their minds that if the public want their kind of rapid transit ! they may have it, but if they do not want their kind they shall not have any. It is well that we know this in time. Fast Trarys.—Superintendent Bangs yes- | terday addressed the Board of Trade on mail deliveries, pointed out that the government can only run one fast train a day, and gave | good reasons why, as it can only run one, that that one should start in the morning. His remarks are reported elsewhere. New Jensey.—Over in New Jersey the | vote on the constitutional amendments, re- cently submitted to the people, was 96,000, Of this the so-called Catholic opposition to | free schools reached » grand total of 2,000 | votes. Not enough to frighten us about the encroachments of Rome, | between the two. The Eclipse of the Sun. This highly interesting astronomical event occurs to-day, and extensive preparations have been made by our scientific men for the | observation of the phenomenon at several points where variations in its partial and annular phases will be apparent. The care- ful calculations of astronomers have ren- dered the relative movements of the heavenly bodies familiar to science, The universal interest displayed in the recent transit of Venus clearly shows that astronomical re- search, either regarded as a necessity to our progress or a scientific luxury, is recognized by all civilized peoples as affording a useful as well as peaceful field whereon friendly international rivalries conduce to the general good. An eclipse of the sun may be briefly described by stating that it is occasioned by the complete or partial interposition of the moon's disk between the earth and the sun, by which the moon’s shadow is projected on a part of the earth’s surface. This circular shadow cast by the moon during a total eclipse of the sun is divided into two con- | centric parts of different degrees of dark- | ness. The inner and darker one is called the umbra, and is formed by the interception of the sun’s dfrect rays by the moon; the outer and lighter shadow, or penumbra, is formed by the interception of the rays tan- gental to the relatively opposite portions of the circumferences of the sun and moon, and which converge and intersect in the space The orbit of the moon around the earth is elliptical, like that of the earth around the sun, and consequently its distance from the earth varies. When near enough to the earth to produce a total eclipse of the sun the moon’s umbra covers an area in proportion to its apparent increase of diameter over that of the sun; but when, owing to an increased distance from the earth, the moon's apparent diameter is less than that of the sun, and the disk of the lat- ter is not covered by the concentric disk of the former, the eclipse assumes an annular phase, so called from the ring of the sun’s bright surface that surrounds the black disk of the moon, and no umbra is_ pro- jected on the earth, neither is the sun’s eclipse total. The absence of the moon’s umbra is due to the fact that the rays which converge from the larger disk of the sun and are tangental to the moon meet before they reach the earth. The pro- longation of these imaginary ray lines from their point of intersection to the earth’s sur- face will embrace the area within which the annular phase of the eclipse is visible; out- side the partial phase of the eclipse becomes apparent in the crescent form of the un- covered portion of the sun’s disk, The eclipse to-day will be annular and partial. The annular phase will be visible within a belt of the earth’s surface about one hundred | and ten miles wide, and extending from Lake Ontario southeasterly across the Equator to Southern Africa. The partial phase will be visible for a considerable distance to the north and south of the annular belt. Ac- cording to astronomical calculations the rim of the penumbra will touch the earth at sun- rise near Bermuda, while the annular phase will begin at a point on the shore of Lake Ontario. M. de Sejour, an eminent French, astronomer, declares that an annular eclipse of the sun cannot last longer than twelve minutes twenty-four seconds, a total eclipse not longer than seven minutes fifty-eight seconds, and that the duration of any eclipse of the sun cannot exceed two hours. As the sun loses none of his light during an eclipse, and the moon’s shadow being small when compared to the surface of our enlightened hemisphere, a total eclipse may be witnessed in one part of the United States while in another not even a partial eclipse is seen. As stated, a special interest attaches to this particular eclipse, because it is one of a series that come only every eighteen years and eleven days. The phenomenon presents a most beautiful spectacle when viewed from a central point in the belt where its annular phase is visible, and affords an excellent op- portunity for a spectroscopic analysis of the | solar protuberances which have long puzzled our scientific investigators. Anprtnation.—By our London letter it will be seen that the uniformity of the con- clusions against England in international dis- putes submitted to arbitration seriously affects the popularity of this method of set- tling disputes. England lost the Alabama arbitration, the San Juan arbitration, and now has lost her hold on Delagoa Bay, |-which she disputed with Portugal. Evi- dently she had not a foot to stand upon in any one of these cases, But no Ministry | dared to boldly take that ground and relin- quish the claims. They required the cover of a verdict from some tribunal of arbitra- tion. But it isa pity that a method of set- tlement which might be useful in important cases should thus be bronght into disrepute on trivial ones because of the moral cowardice of the Ministerial committees which govern | England. Fasntoxs.—‘‘Princes and kings may flour- ish and may fade,” but the regular succession of fashions will go on just the same without | regard to any such small facts. Constitutions will crumble and disappear, but the bonnet that is made beautiful by the head it pre- tends to decorate will merely vary in color, shape or size. Dynasties will disappear, States will be reduced to geographical ex- pressions, but sashes, polonaises, skirts, | bodices—these will go on forever, subject to mere aggravations of piquancy that are sim- ply the pretexts for renewéd assaults on the family purse. How itis all done this year will be found elsewhere in an article espec- ially dedicated to wives, daughters and hus- bands. 2 a Drscovertes on Lone Isuanp.—An account is given in another column of a subterranean river on Long Island, which seems to indi- cate that we have at our doors a natural curiosity as great as that of ‘Divine Alpheus, who by a secret sluice stole under seas to meet his Arethuse.” There is no good reason, perhaps, why a subterranean river should be so much more wonderful than the myriad subterranean streams that flow from springs and feed our wells in every part of the country; yet such stories have always an interest allied to the mar- vellous. Some years ago a philanthropist in | France gave a great deal of attention to the study of subterranean streams. and as a re- . publishing sult of his investigations supplied with water districts previously much distressed for want of it. He was, however, never re- garded as a public benefactor, but was contemplated with superstitious awe as ‘‘a witch,” and perhaps may have thanked the nineteenth century for immunity from a hot death. In the Interest of Peace. The tendency of the clergymen to criticise the newspapers seems to be contagious. A Cincinnati newspaper is under the ban of one of the churches for some ‘‘offence,” the nature of which does not clearly appear. In Philadelphia a leading newspaper is held up by fervid Protestant critics as the organ of the Jesuits, while in New York journals like the Hzraxp, which strive to be at peace with all mankind, are sometimes overhauled by Protestants and sometimes by Catholics. To newspapers desiring comfort and rest and the privilege of enjoying in contentment the benefits of universal circulation these criticisms are distressing. We have thought the matter overa great deal, and, in the interest of peace, we have a prop- osition to make. Let there be called an ecclesiastical council, composed of the lead- ing clergymen of the various denominations. Let these clergymen lay down a code calcu- lated to make the newspapers satisfactory to their flocks. For this council we shall propose Bishop Janes, of the Methodist Church; Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers; the eloquent and scholarly Fa- ther Preston; the Rev. Dr. Hall, of the Presbyterian Church; Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn; the Rev. Dr. Chapin, of the Universalists; the Rev. Dr. Bellows, of tho Unitarians, and the Rev. Morgan A. Dix, of the Episcopal Church. We have thought of the Rev. Dr. Porteous and the Rev. Mr. Frothingham as men who would make the debates comprehensive and interesting. Mr. Beecher would naturally occur as @ vital member, but it is feared that the pressure of existing and prospective en- gagements would make his attendance im- possible. Now, if this council will only meet and settle the relations between the press and the clergy it will be a blessing all around, This being ‘under discipline” is disheartening to well meaning editors, It is a hardship to be asked not to print the news ; but even that is a point which, for the sake of peace, we should be willing to submit to an ecclesiastical council. The question whether Freemasons are murderers or as- sassins, as one of the Hernanp’s critics alleged when we were censured for an account of the open- ing of the Freemasons’ Temple, might be discussed, and the difficulty which has arisen in reference to the publication of let- ters from foreign capitals unfriendly to cleri- cal minds might be avoided by appointing some competent member of this council to edit the various letters that come to the secu- lar journals. If these clergymen, therefore, will accept the nomination which, on behalf of the Amer- ican press we thus tender, and take up the whole question of the relations of the press and Church, we stand ready to abide by their decision, and we have no doubt that our brethren throughout the country will do the same thing. We are certain of one fact, that whatever the conclusions of the council may be, the reports of its deliberations would be as interesting a chapter of news as we have published for many a long year. Is Not This Gambling? One of the questions before the courts is a suit brought by one David Van Emburgh against Daniel Drew to compel Mr. Drew to pay him nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, It seems that in March last Mr. Drew sold Mr. Van Emburgh what is called a “put” for one thousand shares of Lake Shore at seventy. On July 20, the stock having fallen to sixty, Mr. Van Em- burgh tendered the shares at Mr. Drew’s office. They were not accepted. He sold them in the Stock Exchange for sixty and three- quarters, and brought snit against Mr. Drew for nine thousand three hundred and seventy- five dollars, ‘net difference, including brokerage.” Mr. Drew answers that there was no proper ‘‘tender” of the stock; that he was ill; that the stock offered by the plaintiff was not his own, but borrowed from a corporation; that the Exchange is a close corporation, and its sales do not fix the value of the stock, and that Mr. Drew, not being a member of that board, cannot ‘‘buy stock to | protect himself.” Into the merits of this action or this defence it is not our purpose to enter. Wehaveonly to say that the whole business of selling “puts” and ‘‘calls” is the worst form of gam- bling. We do not really see why Mr. Van Emburgh should have any other remedy than what is open toaman who loses money ab gambling. The law expressly declares that the winner of money at gambling cannot col- lect his debt by a legal process; that the act in itself is a violation of law and the person so- erring cannot claim its protection to enforce his rights. Now, if Mr. Van Em- burgh could not collect nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars from a gam- bler who had lost this sum to him at faro there is really no reason why he should col- lect on a ‘‘put” or a “call.” The world will have its own opinion about Mr. Drew’s moral- ity in dishonoring his ‘put,” just as it has of a man who dishonors a gambling debt. There is a rude sense of honor among | men of the world that dishonoring a gam- | bling debt is'a peculiarly mean transaction. It should be so in ‘‘puts” and “calls.” But a business that rests upon “puts” and “calls,” as much of our Wall street business has done for the past few years, is false and corrupt. To it we attribute mnch of our finan- cial embarrassment. Without caring very much whether Mr. Van Emburgh wins or loses his money, it seems to us that it will be well to lay it down as a rule that whoever | deals in “puts” and ‘‘calls” is simply a common gambler, no better than a player at faro or roulette, and entitled to no more pro- tection under the law. Tue Lrxcoun Tower.—There area great many different kinds of Englishmen, and those who have just built a monument to the memory of that grand figure in our troubles, Old Abe, are as sincere as were, in- doubtedly, those who, in pursuance of Earl Russell's tactics, tried to break us down with a few pirates like the Alabama thrown In the scale against us. Of the existence of these warm sympathizers with our cause the Lincoln monument in London, now 8° nearly completed, will always pleasantly re- mind the wandering American. The Extradition Case. The correspondence in the case of Law- rence, the alleged silk smuggler, and the state- ments of the accused, which we publish to- day, develop some interesting points. In her extradition treaties with other countries than the United States England provides that per- sons extradited must be tried on the charges upon which they are returned to the govern- ments claiming them, In her treaty with usno such provision exists, but Parliament passed a Jaw in 1870 requiring that alleged crimi- nals surrendered to the United States should be so surrendered only on the implied agree- ment that they were to be tried for the offences mentioned in the requisition. Law- rence was extradited on the charge of forgery ; but the authorities decline to put him on trial for forgery, and intend instead to try him for smuggling—an offence not recognized in the treaty. Everybody believes that tho prisoner i is one of a gang who have defrauded the United States of a large Amount of money, and who deserve punishment as much for the injury they inflict on honest business men as for their violations of the laws of the country. At the same timo it would be a very “dangerous precedent to establish should we persist in our right to claim the extradition of a person on ono charge and try and convict him on another not covered by an extradition treaty. The United States government cannot afford to resort to such a trick even for the satisfac- tion of punishing a bold gang of public rob- bers. Pro Bono Publico. As a part of the fall campaign it is said the Custom House republicans are getting up an investigating committee to look into demo- cratic corruptions in the State and city. This isan excellent idea, and we hopa they will carry it out vigorously. If there is anything rotten in the democratic camp the public ought to knowit. If there is anything rotten in the republican camp Governor Tiiden and a good many other democrats are determined the public shall know it. Where there has been corruption or maladministration by the democrats in Ohio the republicans are showing it up in a very lively manner. No doubt when Con- gress meets the democrats will begin to in- vestigate the Indian Bureau and some other bureau. Byall means let us have all the fraud, waste, corruption and maladministration o1 both sides thoroughly exposed; it is the most useful work the politicians can engage in for the next six months. If they do this work thoroughly on both sides they will enable the people to shut out the rogues and the in- capables, and perhaps the honest men may get together next year and elect good federal, State and city officers, It would be odd if the political millennium should come about by the help of the politicians. Texas.—The official report of the recent storm in Texas shows the necessity of our people doing what they can to alleviate the distress which has fallen upon our brethren in that State. ‘Thousands of drowned cat- tle,” says the report, ‘are strewn over the prairie south of Indianola, where they wero carried by the current, and several light coasting steamers are lying in the same di- rection from six to ten miles inland, having been left high and dry by the receding wa- ters.” This is only a part of tho distress en- tailed by the recent storm. We trust that our people will do what they can toward making easy the terrible burden which has fallen upon the Texan people. Av Woncestenr, Mass., the republican party exhibits in its demeanor the natural conse- quences of too much success. Disorganized, demoralized, with no other conception of the objects of party organization save the capture of the spoils, the Massachusetts fac- tions stand paralyzed it the prospect of ab- solute failure in the presence of a vigorous and confident democracy, and yet cannot relinquish their pitiful plundering schemes for a moment of patriotic purpose. Carrrorn1a.—Our San Francisco despatch gives with the facts the very satisfactory as- surance that the Bank of California will re- sume on Saturday next or within a few days of that date, as may be found convenient, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In the hundred years since 1775 there have been only six Popes. Mr. T. Bailey Aldrich, of Boston, is staying at the «| Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. H. J. Montagne, the actor, is among the late ar- rivals at the Gilsey House, Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, has apart. ments at the Brevoort House. Commander E. P. Lull, United States Navy, is quar tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Pay Director J. George Harris, United Statos Navy, is | stopping at the Everett House, State Senator William B. Woodin, of Auburn, N. Y., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Captain E. J. Gormain, of Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Argus, is sojourning at the Clarendon Hotel. Lieutenant Commander A. 8. Crowninshield, United States Navy, arrived last night at the Sturtevant House. ‘Thero will be a Bourbon family party at Frohsdorff to-day to celebrate the Count de Chambord’s birthday.- ‘They are alarmed in Franco lest they shall eab them- selves out of crabs. They eat five and a half mil year. ‘ Among the passengers for America by the steamship Parthia yesterday, for Boston, is Hans von Bilow, the pianist, Mr. George B. McCarteo, Superintendent of the Print- | ing Division of the Treasury Department, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. James E. Harvey, of Washington, formerly | United States Minister to Portugal, is registered at the New York Hotel. ‘The Karl of Dunraven, of Ireland, arrived from Liv- erpool yesterday, in the steamship Scythia, and is at the Brovoort House. Herr Theodore Wachtel, who arrived from Hamburg yesterday in the steamship Gellert, is residing at the Belvedere House. It isasinguiar fact, which everybody has just dis- covered, that any day of the weck 100 years ago-~ something happened. It was Felix Rouconi who lately died at St. Peters- burg. He nover sang on the stage. The other Ronconi, his brother, is at Madrid, Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell, of Ohio, returned from Europe in the steamship Scythia yesterday and took up bis residence at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel. Mr. Nathan J. Nowwitter, who has just been ap. pointed United States Consul at Osaka and Hiago, Japan, leaves overland for San Francisco on Thursday, ‘and will proceed at once to Yokohama to eater upon the discharge of his duties,