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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 Henarp will be sent 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 Yore Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. : \eapeipehaiennereeeccine LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. WORURE Pests ett Beet ceh NO, 973 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Daonty-thind street and Sixth avenue, —COTTON & REED'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, na Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. 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Sighth street, near Third avenue. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Cwenty eighth street, near Broudway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 @. M. ; closes at 1020 P. RE, ARIETY, at 8 P.M. NEL St COLO S$ PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.—VARIETY 8 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M. BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery.—NECK AND NECK, at 8 P. M. E. T. Stetson. HOWE'S & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, th avenue and Forty-ninth street,—Performances day snd evening. GERMANIA THEATRE, "8 Eonrteenth street, near Irving pixce.—MONSIEUR AL- HONSE, at 8 P. i. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, rvin, ace and Fourteenth strey WoREp'ts prutiry Das. at 8 TRIPLE SHEE SEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 350, 1875, closes From our reports this morning the H The Cloud tm the West. Although the friends of hard money and the Yhati faith are making a gallant fight the a victory for the demotracy. Such a victory will be the most important political event in our history since the Wilmot Proviso first made slavery a political issue. Nothing could be more disturbing to the democrats in New York than the success of the demo- crats in Ohio, We are in this peculiar posi- tion, that the victory of Allen will be the de- feat of Tilden. With the Ohio democracy successful upona platform of repudiation and rag money it will be difficult, if not im- possible, for the republicans to save Penn- sylvania. far found no recognition in the councils of eithér political organization. Democrats and republicans alike have pronounced in favor of the national-integrity and in a man- ner worthy of the great Empire State. We must not suppose from this that there is no sympathy for Ohio in New York. We have a faction, composed of republicans as well as democrats, which looks with friendship upon Ohio, and_ will wel- come the success of Governor Allen. The inflationists of our State are moving, and threaten to resent the action of the Conyven- tion at Syracuse. Even a politician as able and far-seeing as‘Fernando Wood is said to be raising money in New York to assist the friends of Allen in Ohio. If Mr. Wood takes this position it means that he proposes to put himself at the head of the inflationists in New York and to insist upon a distinct political recognition of their doctrines and their leaders. It is significant that at the recent meeting of the anti-Tammany or- ganizations last week no allusion was made to the democratic State ticket. In the past, when there were local controversies in New York, the mutineers were osten- tatioug in their devotion to the State ticket. They were content to claim only “réform in New York.” This was the case when Tilden ran for Governor. Both organizations of the demooracy—that commanded by Creamer as well as that of Tammany Hall under Kelly—earnestly sup- ported the Governor and were treated by him as friends. But the new organization, or what isthe basis of a new organization, studiously avoids saying one word in compli- ment of Governor Tilden or in support of the democratic ticket nominated at Syracuse. The exception isthe German wing under the command of Mr. Ottendorfer. This fragment has indorsed Governor Tilden and proposes to give a special support to the hard Toney plank in the platform. Mr. Otten- dorfer was treated with peculiar malignity and coarseness by the Tammany leaders at Syracuse. He shows an amount of self-denial that is unusual among politicians in support- ing a ticket whose principal defender is ex- Sheriff Kelly. This comes from his devotion to the principle of hard money. Therefore, although Tilden at the head of the democratic party may feel that he is se- cure; that, like Macbeth, he is as broad and general as the casing air, he is still in the presence of danger. If Ohio goes democratic, and if Pennsylvania manifests a disposition to follow, nothing can prevent the formation of an active inflation party in New York. It is well understood that the leaders of this —AROCND THE | movement propose, a8 soon as the Ohio election is over, to organize themselves. TT, | There will be a State central committee . and a local committee, and the inflationists will fight Tilden throughout the State and fight Tammany in New York. Fernando Wood will make his campaign for the Speak- are that the weather to-day will be aarmer and | tship. He will commend himself to the in- cloudy, with rain showers. Tue Fast Mam Trars.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, North and Southarest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New Yorke Central and Penn- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tux Henaxn, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. Tse Report that the late Prinie Minis- ter in Spain had agreed to enforce the con- cordat is denied by the Madrid papers. Wat Srreer Yestenpay.—Sympathy with « temporary advance in Pacific Mail strength- ened the stock market. Currency was worth only 85.28. Gold closed at 117 1-4, after selling at 116 7-8a117 3-8. Money easy at 1 1-2and 2 percent. Investment securities firm. Foreign exchange heavy and unsettled. Jznome Parx.—The Fall Meeting at Jerome Park commences on Saturday next, and the arrangements are such as to promise a bril- liant success. Over one hundred and twenty horses have arrived, including some of the best stock in the country, while some of the most famous stables are yet to report. Tax Eastern Dirricutty.—While the gen- eral despatches from the East have a warlike complexion the Heraxp's special advices in- dicate a disposition on the part of the insur- gents to come to terms. They refuse to treat directly with the Porte ; but they profess to desire the’appointment of a commission by the great Powers to make and guarantee a settlement of outstanding difficulties. As the Porte has expressed a willingness to leave the settlement in the hands of the great Powers there does not appear to be any good reason why the present excitement should not be brought to a close, provided both parties are sincere in their professions. The only question is, Does Turkey really ‘want to press a war with Servia? Neepiess Atanm.—The Alabama Constitu- tional Convention last week adopted as part of the Bill of Rights this clanse:—‘‘The peo- ple of this State accept as final the estab- lished fact that from the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State.” This sen- flationists of the South and West by raising the rag money banner in the metropolis. When we note that, with few exceptions, the democrats in the new Congress from both the South and West are inflationists ; that the eighty ex-Confederate officers who are to be in the new Legislature have very generally accepted inflation as their policy, and that the strongest men in the West-—Pendleton, Allen, Hendricks and others—have gone squarely on the record in favor of inflation, we cannot underrate this movement or the effect it may have upon our political fature. Let us suppose the success of Allen in Ohio and the formation of an inflation party in New York. What would be the result? It does not mean by any means that Governor Tilden will be defeated, even if there should bea large secession from his ranks. Infla- tion would take as many voters from the republicans as from the democrats, and perhaps more. There are as many leading republicans committed to this delusion as democrats. Any attempt to weaken Governor Tilden or to destroy his administration on the currency question would only bring to his side that large element of republican yoters who respect the Governor and believe that he is animated by a desire for reform, and feel that there are no State issues so important as the extirpation of the Tammany and Canal and other rings. In the eyes of the sensible patriotic citizens of this State there is no issne as grave at this time as that involved in the support of Governor Tilden’s adminis- tration. Consequently even strong party re- publicans who honor Mr. Seward and who would hesitate to vote against General Grant will feel that it is no longer a question of party or support of the administration, but of sustaining an honest Governor in the per- formance of high public duties. Nor do we see how even strong friends of the adminis- tration, who believe that Gencral Grant's veto of the Inflation bill was the distinguishing act of his government, can hesitate to give to Governor Tilden their support in this contest. Therefore the formation of an inflation party in New York will not affect directly the ensuing elections so much as the condi- tion of political affairs after the elections. sible acceptance of the situation has caused It is impossible that the democratic party complaint from the Mobile Register, which | can remain united with men like Allen imagines that the Convention is “eating commanding its battalions in the West, and dirt.” It is not so regarded here in the men like Tilden and Gaston commanding North, where people are gratified with the | them in the East. A house thus divided sensible action of the Alabama Convention. cannot stand. We see the first illustra- But we suggest to the Register that the dec. | tion of the weakness of this position in Jaration in question may prove to be very | the hurrying back to the republican party happy some day. Who knows but Massa- | and to active sympathy with its principles, chusetts or Illinois may want to secede somo | notwithstanding their dislike of General day? Then Alabama will have them on the | Grant, of men like Schurz and Grosvenor hiv. and Adama of Massachusetts, and Grow. of best informed of our Fare observers fear , NEW YORK HER Everybody is looking with anxiety to Ohio. | | | | Pennsylvania. If these men were in New York they would, no doubt, feel that their proper place was at the side of | Governor Tilden, just as Mr. Bigelow felt when he declined the nomination of the re- publicans, to whom he owed all the political distinction he had ever received, to accept that of the democracy, and in doing so give the Governor a strenuous support. Altogether the position is full of interest and embarrassment. The success of the in- flation movement in Ohio cannot be under- estimated. It means the control of the next Democratic Convention by the friends of rag money and repudiation, It means that the inflationists will send a tion to the Democratic Convention an bably find admission, It means that there is no The inflationists in New York have thus | Toom in the democracy for Tilden and Gaston and Bayard, and they must follow the path taken by Schurz and Grosvenor and Grow and Adaiis. It does not follow, necessarily, that they must follow that path into the republican ranks or to the support of the administration. That is an Alternative which no democrat and very few patriotic republicans would care to contemplate. We see growing up in both parties, republican and democratic, a belief that the questions tobe decided at the next canvass for the | Presidency are of more consequence than any considerations of office or expediency or patronage. The strong men in the situation at present are Grant and Tilden. It may be necessary for the President of the United States and the Governor of New York to take hands in defence of the nation’s integrity, as, ten years ago, they took hands in defence of the Union. Mr. Delano’s Successor, There has been a general rumor that the President will fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Delano by appointing a Pennsylvanian to the Cabinet, and now a special report assigns that honor to Mr. G. Dawson Coleman, of Philadelphia. The re- publican party in Pennsylvania have long complained that they were not ‘‘recognized” by the administration in the distribution of high offices. Pennsylvania has supported the republican party with a consistency shown by few other States, and its majority for Grant at the last election was something incredible, Yet, notwithstanding this and the fact that Pennsylvania is the second State in the Union in importance and wealth, it has not been found worthy of a representative in the councils of the President. During Lincoln’s administration there were many complaints by the poli- ticians, especially of the preference which Mr. Lincoln showed for Ohio over Pennsyl- yania. Fora long timo Ohio had two Minis- ters—Chase and Stanton—while to Pennsyl- vania was given the brief administration of Secretary Cameron. There has been no Pennsylvanian in the Cabinet since Mr. Cameron retired in 1862, unless we may so credit Mr. Stanton. Pennsylvania politicians during Lincoln's time always resented this credit, and we think with justice. Practi- cally, therefore, there has been no Pennsyl- vanian in the Cabinet since 1862, except dur- ing the brief tenure of Mr. Borie. Wo never much believed that a President should appoint his Cabinet officers from sections. It is the man and not the section we want. When the President can just as well as not select his Cabinet from the various sections he will find his government strengthened. The new Minister might well be taken from the South or the Pacific coast. Mr. Bristow can hardly be called a Southern man, and with his exception we have no rep- resentative of that great section in the Cabi- net, If Mr. Bristow should be considered as enough for the South then it might be well to take Mr. Delano’s successor from the Pacific coast. That section is rapidly approaching imperial proportions. It is growing in wealth and influence, The President would do well to have at his side a statesman from the Pacific. This would even be a better appointment than from Pennsylvania. The only interest to be served by appointing a Pennsylvanian is po- litfeal. That of a Californian would be na- tional. Woodford and Ewing. The Ohio canvass is to be enlivened by a series of political debates, in which General Woodford, of this State, and General Ewing, of Ohio, will meet each other on the same platform and speak alternately. Last week Mr. Woodford challenged Mr. Carey, the democratic candidate for Lieutenant Goy- ernor, to a joint discussion, but the latter thonght fit to decline. Mr. Ewing, a leading inflationist, and a man of much ability, has since challenged Mr. Woodford, who promptly accepts, and the arrangements for the debate have been completed. The first of a series of eight meetings will take place this evening at Shawnee, Mr. Wood- ford opening and closing the debate at this place. General Woodford has long coveted an opportunity to meet a political opponent face to face on the stump. He challenged Governor Hoffman when they were competing candidates for gubernatorial honors in 1870, but Mr. Hoffman disdained to gratify him. Mr. Woodford has at last found an antagonist will- ing to meet him whose talents aro sufficient to test his powers as a debater. General Woodford is a ready speaker, and he has the great advantage of being on the right side of the question; but all that can be said on the inflation side will be forcibly presented by Mr. Ewing, and it will be quite a feather in Mr. Woodtord’s cap if he foils so capable an antagonist. In the last generation such joint discus- sions were quite common in the South, but they took place only between men who were opposing candidates for the same oflice, There was a similar face-to-face contest in Illinois in 1858. between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, when both were can- didates for the United States Senate before the Legislature then to be chosen, That debate was one of signal ability. It gave Mr. Lincoln the national reputation which led to his nomination for the Presidency two years later. But, except between candidates run- ning for the same office and as affording a measure of their comparative fitness, this method of discussion has little to recommend it. It is not probable that Mr. Schurz would deign to speak in this manner even against Governor Allen, although he could not doubt am casy victory. The Republican Convention at Wor- ‘ coster, The proceedings of the Massachusetts re- | Publicans in their State Convention yester- day furnish new evidence of the disintegrat- ing tendencies at work in our politics. In the first place the selection of Vice President Wilson to preside over the Conyentign was a Jmark of coldness toward President Grant. Mr. Wilson has, for a long time, made no secret of his disapprobation of the policy of the President. He has been again and again assailed and sneered at by the republican or- gan at Washington, and treated with marked Aiarespect by every republican newspaper in the country PoVmmenl “advertising. the President of the Convention was a greater personal affront to President Grant than the paying of a honor to Mr, Curtis at Saratoga, be- cause Mr, Curtis’ difference with the admin- istration has receded into the past, whereas” Vice President Wilson has recently been giving public expression to his lack of confi- dence in the President. The speech of Mr. Wilson on taking the chair has no tendency to conciliate General Grant. ‘Trust not, gentlemen,” he said, “to party discipline, for it has failed you; trust not to official patronage, for it has weighted you down in the race.” This is a plain accusation that the President has injured the party in Massa- chusetts by appointing unfit men to office, Distrust of President Grant is manifest in other proceedings of the Convention. Mr. Hoar, former Attorney General, made a pro- posal to confer on Mr. Wilson, the President of the Convention, the appointment of one-half the members of the State Committee, and in a speech on this resolution Mr. Hoar said, ‘The party is in a crisis and must have a new departure.” Considering the nature of his motion, he evidently meant a new departure in the di- rection pointed out by Mr. Wilson—that is to say, inan anti-Grant direction. But Mr. Hoar did not leave this mere inference. He proceeded to say that if he could he would read an article entitled “A New Departure,” written by the President of the Convention. “Because that advice was slighted,” said Mr. Hoar, ‘the party stands where it does to- day.” His proposition to confer on Mr. Wil- son the power to appoint one-half the mem- bers of the State Committee was carried—a mark of.confidence in the Vice President which the supporters of General Grant must swallow and digest if they can, The platform also cast reflections on the President, though softened by a formal en- comium. Civil service reform was strongly indorsed in spite of President Grant's be- trayal of the cause. On the third term ques- tion the Massachusetts Convention scorned the ridiculous pretence of their brethren in New York that General Grant had settled it Which luxupiates jp the glover of | Q To he im similar | by refusing to bea tandidate. The Massa- chusetts Convention says explicitly, without any reference to his letter, that sound reason, as well as uniform usage and the example of Washington, forbids a Presidential tenure beyond a second term—an implied condemna- tion of General Grant's letter, which con- tended that the people have as perfect a right to elect the same President thrice as once. On the currency question the plat- } form is sound and satisfactory ; but it says nothing quite so piquant as the passage in Vico President Wilson’s speech, where ho says, ‘‘We cannot, as Americans, take pride in the singular fact that a stray note from an unknown bank in one of the British Proy- inces can be sold in State street for a pre- mium of more than twelve per cent over one of our legal tender notes, with all the wealth of forty millions of people behind it.” Not the least significant feature of the pro- ceedings was the vote for Mr. Charles Fran- cis Adams, which rose on the last ballot but one to 260. Mr. Adams has long been out of sympathy, not only with Presi- dent Grant’s administration, but with the republican party. He is said to have voted last year for Governor Gaston. Every member of the Convention who voted for him indorsed Mr. Hoar's idea of the necessity of ‘ta new departure,” if the repub- lican party isto be saved, Mr. Rice, the successful candidate, is a gentleman of high social standing, a merchant and a graduate of Harvard College. But the laboring masses of Massachusetts think him a Boston aristocrat, and his election may be deemed doubtful against the very popular democratic ticket. It is certain that his nomination is notin pursuance of “the new departure” which ex-Attorney General Hoar and Vice President Wilson, the two ablest members of the Coaventjon, thought necessary for the success of the party. * Lyxcn Law.—Last week in Ohio num- ber of farmers, infuriated at the murder of oa young girl in the woods, broke open a jail, took out of it the man accused of the murder, and hanged him. The poor creature had been accused by his wife; he solemnly denied, in his last mo- ments, having committed the murder, and asserted that his wife charged him because she was insanely jealous of him. Now it turns out that the man was innocent, Un- fortunately he is dead. Unfortunately the men who in violation of law hanged him are all murderers, who ought to be hanged in their turn, Unfortunately they will all have the unpleasant consciousness, for the rest of their lives, that they are murderers—not a comfortable thought to most of them, prob- ably. It is scarcely necessary to pursue the thought further. Lynch law is always wrong; but this is not all; nine times out of ten the men who take the law into their own hands hang the wrong man, Tue Nortuenrn Pacrric Rartnoap.—A meet- ing of the original bondholders of this road was held yesterday for the purpose of reor- ganizing and electing a new Board of Di- rectors. But the proceedings appear to have b m cutshort by a process issued by the United States Circuit Court at Hartford, Conn., and so it is likely that the now movement will not find entirely smooth travelling. Tue AxyvatL Convention or TH Episco- rat Cuvrcn for the diocese of New York commenced its session yesterday. A sermon on the mission of the Church was deliv- ered by Dr. Rylance, of St. Mark's. The usual standing committees of the dioceso were appointed and the Convention ad- janwned until to-day. ALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. O'Baldwin'’s End. Another of those gentlemen of muscular development who live on their reputation as bruisers has passed away from earth, figura- tively speaking, with his boots on and with a couple of ounces of lead in his inside. O’Baldwin, the Irish giant, whose “arm was as big as another man’s thigh,” and whose brawny fist could fell an ox as easily as itcould be done with a poleaxe, died yesterday morn- ing from the effect of pistol shot wounds, in- flicted by the hand of one of his own breed, who had keen his “pardner” in business. In the good old days of Tammany’s ascen- dancy mon like O'Baldwin could hold high their bullet heads and their broken noses and lord it in the first politi circles of the ‘city. a. y Bindttan how they might be seen ay bright, sunny afternoon, lounging on the Broadway corners opposite the City Hall Park or hang- ing about the steps of the public buildings, reveiving kindly recognition from the “bosses” and homage from the less influen- tial adherents of the “Ring.” Since the old leaders passed away to the seclusion of prison cells, or sought recreation in foreign lands, the crop-haired heroes have been driven fo seek a living in other ways than from the city payrolls. Some of them nat- urally took to the liquor business, and O'Baldwin was one of these. Finding the sale of rum less profitable than he desired he signified his intention of retiring from the concern ; whereupon his associate chose his own method of dissolving the firm, and so drew arevolver and put a couple of bul- lets into his dissatisfied partner. It is probably a good thing for the public that these characters so frequently and so effectually dispose of each other. O’Baldwin was @ young man. Judging by his past career we may fairly congratulate ourselves that the city is thus speedily rid of him, although in the interests of justice the manner of his end may be deplored. Now and then the bullet finds a useful mark, and if the gallows can do its part and put O’Baldwin’'s murderer out of the way we shall be happily relieved of two undesirable citizens by one event. pean ARERR The Regatta To-Day. The regatta to-day for Commodore Kane's cups promises to be one of the most spirited and interesting events of the yachting season of 1875. There are likely to be fourteen competitors for the prizes, and the yachts entered include some of the fastest and finest in the United States. A glance at the list will satisfy every one that there is to be a lively and well contested race, and that the winner will be entitled. to boast of a brilliant victory. In the first class schooners we have such famous boats as the Mohawk, the Alarm, the Palmer, the Resolute, the Atalanta and the Idler. Among the second class schooners that will spread their canvas to the wind are the Estelle, the Comet, the Clio and the Peerless. Then we have those swift first and second class sloops, the Vindex, Addie and Vision, and the Active, Sadie, Madcap and Breeze, while for the challenge cup for sloops the Vision and Madcap are to contend. There must be an exciting race if the weather should be fair and the wind favorable, and the attend- ance will no doubt be large. The yachtsmen of the world may well look with interest on a contest in which so large a number of first class vessels are to compete so late in the season, and the spirit which insures so brilliant a rendezvous cannot fail to be duly appreciated. The arrangements have been admirably conducted, and nothing can be wanted to make the Kane Regatta dne of the most prominent events of the present season save a pleasant day and a spanking breeze, Interesting to Governor Allen, A singular report comes from Europe that some Russian astronomers, armed with a powerful telescope, believe themselves to have discovered a gigantic looking glass in the moon. Their attention, the report says, was drawn to a peculiarly bright spot on the edge of the moon’s disk, and close and pro- longed examination has led them to the con- jecture that the brightness is the reflection of a huge mirror, at least a hundred feet in di- ameter, set up in the moon by the scientists of that satellite, who are supposed to live, with the remainder of the moon's popula- tion—if it has any, which is extremely im- probable—on that side of their planet which we never see. If this report should be confirmed it would overturn one of the oldest of the popular myths dear to the hearts of little children. The Man in the Moon, presented to their sym- pathies for ever so many centuries as a for- lorn old bachelor going about picking up brushwood for his Jonely fire, would turn out to bean undoubted fraud; for the newly discovered mirror*declares, of course, the presence of a Woman in the Moon. Is it possible that out of jealousy, or some equally low motive, the Man in the Moon has hith- erto kept his wife concealed from the prying gaze of our astronomers? If they have really o huge looking glass up in the moon it will be a comfort to Gov- ernor Allen, of Ohio, to reflect that if he were only as big a man as he thinks he is he might be plainly seen in it by the lunarians, They could hardly hear his voice, tremen- dous though it be; but, no doubt, wit® the help of such instruments as they can bring to bear, they could see him open his mouth. It would be an odd, though hardly a sur- prising, blunder if the lunar astronomers should mistake it for a pair of bellows. Tae Rrvat Investications.—Tho Legisla- tive investigations now progressing in the city appear likely to clash, That conducted by the representatives of the democratic Assembly has done good work in exposing the rottenness and rascalities of our polico system, and its curious developments are continued to-day. The fact that its work has been effective is shown by the consterna- tion and anger it has excited in the Police Board, and by the uneasiness. of one of the republican members of the committee, But now the investigating committee of the repub- lican Senate appears upon the scene, and | threatens to hold in check the Assembly Committee on Crime by a raid upon the ex- penditures of the democratic city depart- ments. Yesterday it gave oonsiderable of its | attention to Commissioner of Chrities Bren- nan and to Warden Fox. If both anmmittees will give us a clew to rascalities and point out a path to reform they will deserve the gratitude of the people of New York. At the same time the villany of the Police De- partment is beyond controversy, and the publie safety demands its speedy purification. The Eclipse of the Sun. If one of the fabled inhabitants of tho moon could have gazed through a powerful telescope at our earth about sunrise yester- day he would have beheld the Atlantic seas gleaming like crystal in the solar rays, the coasts of Europe and Africa sinking intg night and the Atlantic shore sparkling with the glow of dawn, wheeling eastward into view. Across the surface of the glitter. ing earth a black ciroutay spot. might have” ‘feen een io glide slowly from North America to Southern Africa, This phe- nomenon was the moon’s shadow sweeping over the earth and shutting out the sunbeams from all the places in its track, Could the: same lunar astronomer have penetrated the clouds overhanging the Eastern States an army of scientific men” would havr been unfolded to his view, with uplifted telescopes, peering eagerly to- ward himself. These were our American astronomers, who endeavored yesterday to scan the celestial wonder in ‘the interests of science and civilization, Every scientific observation of a total or an annular solar eclipse not only tends to ennoble the human intellect by unveiling the mysteries of the universe, but also results in vast material ben- efits to the world of commerce and navigation. It is through such observations that we ap- proach perfection in the lunar tables and astronomical science, which are the guide of the mariner over trackless oceans. It is hence to bo regretted that the efforts of American science to scrutinize the eclipse of yesterday were unsuccessful in consequence of the state of the weather. Neverthe- less, such endeavors on the part of our learned men cannot be deemed wholly fruit- less. They lead to improvements in scien- tific handicraft and bring within the grasp of the popular mind problems hitherto misunderstood. Our ancestors of old beheld in the solar and the lunar eclipse the handiwork of an infu- riated god. The planets which strode across the universe were gods roaming the ficlds of heaven, and the comets were evil spirits, bearing destruction to kings and peoples. The scientist of to-day subjects those com- plex and wondrous phenomena to the opera- tion of a few simple but inexorable laws, The light of truth and progress dissolves the monstrous theories of darker days and pre- pares the human intellect for the reception of those high and ennobling revelations of the works of tho universe which it is the glory of astronomy to unfold. Can a Rao Bany Grow ?—These Pennsyl- vania democrats still stick to their traditions with great obstinacy. Here is Senator Wal- lace, speaking for the Erie platform, and telling the people that, though hard money is the best, we must reach it through a still greater inflation of irredeemable paper money. He evidently had in mind the old saying of President Buchanan that no State had a right to secede, but that nobedy had any right to prevent its secession. The notion that a rag baby can ever grow up into a healthy and respectable human being might find favor in a@ nursery or a kindergarten, but hardly among farmers and other sensible people. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Dr. C, FE. Brown-Sequard, arrived from Boston yester. day, at the St. James Hotel. Congressman Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, is stay- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Governor Tilden loft Albany yesterday to attend the Central New York Fair at Utica, Rey. Dr. R, B, Fairbairn, of St Stephen’s College, ia sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Mr. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor Alexander H, Bullock, of Massachusetts, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Brigadier General George D. Ramsey, United States Army, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Richard Wella, of the British frigate Bellero. phon, yesterday arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Senator Thomas J. Robertson, of South Carolina, hag taken up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Edward G. Loring, of the United States Court of Claims, is residing temporarily at the New York Hotel. Captain J. Smythe, of the Twentieth regiment, Brit- wh Army, is among tho late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel, ‘Licutenants S.C. Holland and W. A. D. Acland, ot the frigate Bellerophon, are registered at the Fifth Ave- uo Hotel. ane State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falls, and Assemblyman Willard Johnson, of Fulton, N. Y., are ‘at the Metropolitan Hotel, It ig rumored that Mr, Daniel R. Liddy, now in Eu- Tope, is to be appointed Assistant Corporation Counsel, He wrote the “Life of John Kelly.’” Hon. R, J. Cartwright, Finance Minister of the Do- minion of Canada, has left for England on business con- nected with the finances of that country, It is quite possible the Now York public will enjoy at some future date the great boon that is now about being vouchsafed the Londoners, of Salvini, Rosst and Ristori appearing togother in “Macbeth,” In return for the delicious beverage of coffee which Western Europe first had from the Levant, France haa now eens thither a first invotce of 800,000 pounds of chicory. Even in Arabia there will be no pure coffea after this. In the abbey of Grotta-Ferrati, noar Frascati, Italy, a palimpsost has just been discovered which contains, under the Gospels, an invaluable manuscript of Strabo that supplies a large number of deficiencies found in all previous manuscripts of the geography. The Levant Herald understands that Mr. Goodenow, Consu! General and Secretary of the American Legation in Constantinople, has resigned his office, and will re- turn shortly t the United States, Mr. Goodenow wag appointed by President Lincoln in 1865, and has since fulfilled the duties of his post uninterraptedly. Nostrum venders advertise in England @ ‘sure cure for the opium habit.’’ This nostrum has been found by analysis to contain two grains per dose of the Sulphate of morphine, The dose 1s to be taken three times aday, Thus tho victim takes the equivalent of thirty-six grains of optum ina day to cure him of the habit of taking opiam. Baudelaire and Murger dined at acountry inn. There was a spider’s web in the window near them, and just ag they sat down a beautiful green fly was caught in it, Murger, with tho impulse of a poet, would have saved this victim from the hideous spider, but Baudelaire said, ‘Tell me, first, by what right you deprive this honest spider of the food he has gained vy bis toil and patience.” M. Thiers’ interview with Prince Gortechakoff fat Vevey lasted threo hours, the two sons of the Russmn Chancellor, Michel and Constantin, being present, The conversation turned on the affairs of Europe and the chances favorable to a mainvenance of peace. Relativa to the internal condition of France, the chief@f the Czar’s Cabinet manifested a fear lost the government o+ Versailles should allow itself to be led away by the cle- Fical reaction, Concerning the Eastern question, al- though the exchange of opinion remained on the ground of generalities, it was said What tts golytion waa tempo- rarily adjourned,