The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1875, Page 6

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Lorp Mavor’s Day.—London celebrated once again yesterday, in fog and sunshine, the great civic festivities of the accession to office of another Lord Mayor. Spars ann tan Vatican,—From Ronie comes a denial of the existence of that pithy letter by which it was reported some time ago the Pope had protested against the ir- religious condition of the government and the country. Axormzn Joszru.—Pharach is once more in want of an honest man who can count; in other words, the Khedive wants some one to go through his books and tell him how much | Stanley was there as the leader of a New | yes——good for the republican party / he is in debt, and has called upon England for experts who understand finance. ‘Tux Sure on Fine.—The disaster off Gal- | yveston Bar seems an odd event in some re- and it has at least the one interesting point for the insurance companies, that the ship was loaded with kerosene in « manner forbidden by law. Tunxey.—The recent Ambassador of the | Sultan at Vienna has been called home to Constantinople to become Minister of Foreign Afirs. This is a change in the interest of reform, as the Ambassador has faith in the | finding, involved several necessary impos | ing the public is fully exhibited elsewhere propositions made by Ryssia ond Austria / yin such a country and with such a people, Our African Expedition—Stanley Ex- piorations. Our London special gives an account of the contents of the two letters just received from Stanley on the shores of Lake Niyanza, where he has thoroughly disproved the erroneous view that Livingstone had taken of the geography of that part of Africa, and | has sustained the contrary view that Speke gave as the result of his observations— | namely, that the Victoria Niyanza was one body of water—one great inland sea. In the view toward which facts and opinions in geography seem equally to tend, that all the great water system described in Living- stone's last journals is discharged by the Lomame into the Albert Niyanza, the two Niyanzas would then stand as enormous reservoirs in the Nile system. Livingstone, it will be remembered, constantly heard, as he followed down the Lualaba and the Lomame, of a great lake far to the north, into which all that immense body of water fell. He did not live to follow the flow of the river down to that great lake that he might identify it with water already known or announce a new discovery. Baker, on the othet hand, did not folly examine the Albert Niyanza, but in his outline of it left a hiatus at the | southwestern extremity, with a note that the | natives told him he could follow there a great body of water far to the westward. | Baker, following far to the westward a great | stream connected with the Albert Niyanza, | and Livingstone, following to the northeast- | ward, weary months and years, a gigantic | river to connect it with a great lake to him | unknown, look singularly like two travellers groping blindly toward one another in the maze of the African wilderness—one follow- ing the river that the other wanted; the other standing by the lake of which the first was in search, If this connection shall be eventually made, as is so highly probable, the world will then be in possession of the whole Nile system, and the labor next in or- der will be to acquire a more thorough and satisfactory knowledge of the separate parts and greater features of that system. One important part of that labor is now antici- pated by Stanley's examination of the Victoria Niyanza. In their geographical aspect strictly, there- fore, his recent letters are of great value; but the romantic interest of these two later de- spatches will be their greatest attraction to the general reader. The tragic fate of Colonel Debelleford may well intensify the notion that the correspondent himself bears a charmed life. He comes and goes through districts where the fever poison rises from the whole surface of the earth almost like the smoke from a smouldering fire, and that silent scourge which spares so few white men leaves him untouched. Through an ordeal equal and even similar to that of the upas tree he passes with safety. In his first expe- dition he went throngh certain of those malarious regions that were eventu- ally the death of the veteran Living- stone; and the white men who then went with him were buried in the country. In his armed encounters with the natives he has been equally fortunate—an event that, of course, itis not in any man’s power to se- cure—but against the treachery of the natives he has been protected by his own vigilance and resolute spirit. Debelleford, less inured to African travel and less acquainted with the savage character, was, perhaps, less on his guard against treachery, and thus fell a victim to a soldierly faith in hisenemy. It may prove, however, that this gentleman fell avictim to one of a series of revolts that seem to have occurred in the White Nile country, in one of which, as recently reported, at least a hundred of the Khedive’s troops were killed. But through revolt and war and treacherous assault and atmosphere saturated with the fever poison Stanley always goes safely. His welcome with all the barbaric ceremony and splendor of Mtesa’s court at his hunting camp and his capital carries the fancy into other ages. In the century of discovery, when America, with its savage tribes and the Mexican and Peruvian wonders, were made known, such stories of welcome by bar- baric rulers became familiar in the civilized world and have been little heard since. But there was no ruler of Northern Indians who had two million subjects as Mtesa has, and Montezuma himself did not ven- ture upon the extravagance of three hundred wives. Altogether such a weleome though picturesque, quaint and strange by its contrast with our everyday world, has its oppressive aspect; and if Stanley shall escape from Mtesa’s hospitality as safely as he has done from open foe and insidious fever he will be more than trebly fortunate. In 1871 Livingstone had not been seen by any white man for six years. It was four years since the report had reached England that he had been killed by the natives, An | expedition was sent out from England to find him, but its endeavors were anticipated | by letters from the traveller in 1868. Again | he was heard from in 1869, and then, as a silence of two years followed, the impression became very general that calamity had como to him in some remote corner of the inex- tricable wilderness, Sympathy and curios- ity are strangely mingled in the interest the world takes in such o name as his, but the curiosity to know what had become of him was not more ardent than the wish to | accept it, Hence the Royal Geographical Society, as the organ of the British mind in geographical subjects, pronounced Stanley an impostor, and adhered to its declaration till Lord Granville, her Majesty’s very clear- headed Secretary for Foreign Affairs, de- clared the contrary, aad Her Majesty invited Stanley to dinner. From that moment his expedition and its results were consecrated facts in that country. In this country journalism was better understood, -and there never was any doubt in the public mind, nor in any quarter in sympathy with the public mind, of the reality of our expedition that Stanley had carried tg a happy conelu- sion by the same qualities that serve him now in the continuation of that labor of dis- covery through devotion to which Livingstone, died in the harness. In a world in which everything changes it ought not to surprise men that the sources of scientific expedi- tions should, change. Kings once set them on foot ; but we have no kings, and our gov-* ernment is wisely restricted in expenditures. Once the Church supplied the patient ex- plorers of the wilderness, Something of the royal and something of tho ecclesiastical characters combined falls in this regard to the newspaper press of our day, which is the organization of great inquiries and devotion to the enlightenment of the people; and | thus, whether one of our correspondents | plods his way through Eqnatorial Africa or another rattles through the ice in the Arctic Circle, they perform equally a legitimate function of the journalist of this century. Aretic Explorations. Admiral Richards, in a letter published in yesterday's Hzratp commenting upon the expedition of Captain Allen Young in the Pandora, points out the fact that Lady Franklin to the end of her life entertained an unalterable conviction that some records of her husband’s expedition still lay buried on King William's Island, off the shores of which his ships were abandoned in 1848, The points of interest to Arctic navigators are the discovery of these records and the opening of a southwest passage. Those who study the subject believe that Sir John Franklin left his journals on King William's Island, and that, if the island could be searched by reaching it in the latter part of August or the first of September, these records might be discovered. The search of Sir Leopold McClintock was made in May, when the ground was for many feet deeply covered with snow. The reasons for this theory on the part of Arctic navigators are logical. Sir John Franklin died in June, 1847, when the Erebus and the Terror, his two ships, were blocked up in the ice fifteen miles from Cape Felix. As everybody at that time was in good health on board these ships, it seems probable that, instead of burying him in a hole cut in the ice, they would have carried the body to land and there interred it. The Erebus and Terror were abandoned the following spring, in April, 1848. One hundred and five of the late officers and crew landed at Point Vic- tory, a few miles south of Cape Felix, with the intention of trying to reach the great Fish River. That is all that is absolutely known of the fate of Sir John Franklin’s ex- pedition. These facts, recorded on a scrap of paper in ten lines of writing, are the only results obtained by forty ships, sent out on many different expeditions. This one scrap of paper is the single record of the fate of the great explorer. Some critics have alluded to the curious fact that the English, after having searched over the whole Arctic Zone, after having spent millions of pounds in the search and after having finally demonstrated the fact that Sir John Franklin’s party was lost on King William’s Island, should sud- denly abandon the search at the point of success. The fact that a summer search had not been made before is, according to some authorities, because McClintock discouraged it. He had made his glory out of the Arctic regions, and reasoned that if anybody were to go and do more he would thereby be eclipsed. And it is quite possible, according tosome of the writers, that this feeling of tenderness toward McClintock may have actuated Captain Allen Young, of the Pan- dora. It seems to us that the papors of the Erebus and Terror are somewhere on King William's Island. If they were properly put up in barrels there is no reason why they should not be in as good condition now as when the ships were abandoned, nearly thirty years ago. Some writers think that the Esquimaux may have found them and burned them for fuel; but when Captain McClintock was on King William’s Island it is very certain that no Esquimanx had ever been so far north as Point Victory, where he landed. At least McClintock says as mutch in his narrative of the expedition. His reasons for so believing were that he found too many relics of the last expedition in the shape of wood, iron and clothing—things of the great- est value‘ to the Esquimaux—which they never would have left behind them. Alto- gether, the problem of finding the logbooks, records and journals of Sir John Franklin's expedition is as interesting now as it was nearly thirty years ago. We agree with Ad- miral Richards in his letter to the London Russia and the Centennial. We print elsewhere a letter from St Petersburg in reference to the Russian gov- ernment and the Philadelphia Centennial Ex- hibition, The fact that this government has at last consented to take part in this Exhibi- tion will be gratifying to every American. We esteem Russia so highly and have so much regard for her friendship that her ab- sence from any festivity in which our people took part would result in more than usual sorrow. Our correspondent explains the causes of the previous refusal of the Russian government to participate in the Centennial, and in doing so clears away many misrepre- sentations, It seems that the invitation from the American government, through the red tape belonging to all great nations, fell into the hands of a subordinate officer, who dreaded sea sickness and remembered Vienna with mortification. He reported against the advisability of participating in the Exhibi- tion. This report was approved, and through the process of red tape passed into the records of the government. The Minis- try of Finance opposed the expense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also, upon some technicality about the Exhibition not being national in its character and not worthy of the recognition of the Czar. It was not a matter of doldness upon the part of Russia, as our correspondent shows, but a mishap that will arise in any government so vast in its pro- portions and trammelled by routine and de- tail and red tape, As soon as the Emperor and Empress came to know of the matter a revision of the decision took place and a formal acceptance was given and a commig- sion appointed. This was due largely to the influence of Mr. Boker, our new Minister to St. Petersburg, who deserves credit for his energy and sagacity. The Russian organ of the Foreign Office, alluding to the fact, says, gracefully, that Russia has the noble privi- lege of celebrating with the United States “the centennial of a constant, uninterrupted friendship, which has united the two coun- tries as well in years of distress and mis- fortunes as in times of national victory and triumph.” It alludes to the presence of Russia at Philadelphia as a favorable occa- sion for strengthening ‘‘the bond of friend- ship which attaches Russia to the American Republic,” We can only repeat our satisfaction that Russia has expressed her intention of being present at this great celebration. No coun- try will be more welcome. The absence of no nation would be more regretted by our people. Universal Suffrage in Cities. The World thinks we were unjust to Mr, Hewitt in our quotation from his speech and the use we made of it. Wo think otherwise. The World cannot dispute that Mr. Hewitt employed the language we attributed to him, for we copied it very exactly from the report of his speech in its owncolumns. The World is equally prudent in making no attempt to show that our inferences did not logically follow from the quotation we inserted. But it affirms that fairness to Mr. Hewitt required us to quote a different passage. We repro- duce that passage out of the World's edi- torial, and are prepared to maintain that it also warrants every inference which we drew from the other authentic quotation. Mr. Hewitt said:— But if from blind prejudice or cold indifference the educated, respectable and wealthy classes fail to unite with the hard working and middie class element now controlling Tammany Hall, its leadors will bo forced from sheer exhaustion to give up the struggle against fraud and crimo, and the attempt to govern the city on the basis of universal suffrage mast be abandoned as a dream of the political enthusiast, For one I do not despair of the intelligence of the people. Here is a distinct assertion that “the at- tempt to govern the city on the basis of uni- versal suffrage must be abandoned asa dream of a political enthusiast,” unless the people of the cify accept the control of Tammany. This does not contradict, it does not even qualify, Mr. Hewitt’s bold assertion that there is no possible choice but between Tam- many and a vigilance committee or a strong central authority. The passage which the World says we ought to have quoted puts a finishing touch on the picture by telling our citizens plainly that they will have to give up universal suffrage if they do not submit to the rule of Tammany; by which it is evi- dent that Mr. Hewitt has no faith in univer- sal suffrage per se, but only on the condition that citizens will consent to vote as Tam- many bids them. The World asserts that the Hznanp ‘‘advo- cates a system of suffrage independent of the limitations of party.” This isatotal miscon- ception of our position. In the very article which the World notices we said, explicitly enough, “every form of free government is necessarily a government by parties.” Does our neighbor maintain that a self-created political cabal like Tammany is the only legitimate form of party organization? We could easily convince it out of the writings of the most eminent democratic statesmen of tho last generation, and notably those of Jackson, Benton and Calhoun, that every kind of party machinery which bears even a distant resemblance to Tammany is abhor- rent to the genius of democracy and an in- vasion of the rights of the people. In the language of Mr. Calhoun, party organization “should be so constit as to utter fully and clearly the voice of the people, and not Times, that the solution of this question is now the most interesting duty awaiting | Arctic explorers. assist him if there should yet be time. Finally scraps of reference found their way | into the English papers that dealt with the expedition in Africa of ‘tan American named Stanley.” They were vague and wild and | mostly ungenerous. They sneered at the, notion of an American in Africa as an imper- | tinence, and when it came fully out that Youx Henaup expedition in search of the | | lost explorer the well-bred gentlemen of the | Royal Geographical Society could not con- | ceal the enormous degree in which this fact amused them, Then came the news that | Stanley had found Livingstone, The gentle | men of the Royal Geographical Society | | stopped laughing immediately. They | | became serious, They became indig- i nant, The notion that an Amerk | can had run out to Africa and ran up to | Ujiji and there found the dying old man that all England had so long talked of sibilitios, and the British mind xefused to Taenz Is a Soremy Question as to what General Grant meant in his recent election speech when he said:—‘We have an assur- ance that the republicans will control this government forat least four years longer.” Does the President mean that the late eleo- tions left the field clear for the election of a republican successor to General Grant? If M. Micuaxris Is Sarp to have received sixty-eight ‘plays on the subject of the American Revolution’ for examination as competitors for the prizes. The awards will not be made until December. Thé cablo says that several of the dramas possess ‘‘re- markable merit.” But alas! will poor Michaelis be expected to read them all? Risa Roppentes.—The now familiar pro- cesses by which banded conspirators rob public treasuries under the pretence of serv- that of political managers or office-holders and office-seekers.” Tux Des Ancrs Casz.—Robert Des Anges, formerly a Deputy Collector of the Customs at this port, was yesterday found guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the government by the undervaluation of imported goods. Tho principal evidence of his complicity with the smugglers was that his duties in the Custom House were performed to the minutest par- ticular in such a way as to further and assist their plans. His condemnation on this charge is of very great interest as bearing on the case of Lawrence, Lawrence was are rested in England and brought hither under the Extradition treaty. It appears to be a pretty well recognized rule of international relations that a man surrendered under an extradition law must be tried for the offence for which ho was extradited, and for no other. But the offence of which Des Anges has been found guilty is not named in tho Extradition treaty. Lawrence was brought | out on a charge of forgery, and if it is en- deavored to try him on the case made against jn an article on the Brogklyn plupdexers, . Des Anges we may expect a protest from Lithia NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. Sennen eee The Third Avenue Savings Bank Re- coivership. The depositors of the Third Avenue Savings Bank are not aiding their cause by the want of harmony’that has hitherto distinguished their meetings. They have generally spent their time in wrangling discussions, appar- ently ignorant of the fact that the agents of the bank by which they have been de- frauded are the promoters of the discord. ‘The public interests involved in this failure are too great to be frittered away in any such useless demonstrations. The whole com- munity, as well as the special depositors in this bank, is concerned in ascertaining whether the laws in regard to savings banks will permit of such operations as those by which this suspension has been marked. The Bank Superintendent suffered the Third Avenue Bank to continue its business “long after he knew it was hopelessly bankrupt, When the bank decided to close its doors it procured the setret appointment of a receiver without the knowledge of the de- positors. This receiver was the secretary of the bank, the officer and appointee of the trustees, and had signed and verified a false statement of the condition of the bank, showing itto be solvent and enticing new depositors into its meshes, The question is whether such proceedings are authorized under the law and whether the Court will allow such a receiver to hold the property of the depositors in his hands. In this ques- tion the whole public is interested, as well as those who have been victimized by Mr. Car- man and his associates in the broken bank. If anything were needed beyond the cir- cumstances connected with his appointment to convince the Court and the people of the outrage of allowing Mr. Carman to remain a single day in the position of receiver, it would be supplied by o pretended meeting of depositors favorable to his retention al- leged to have been held last week. .Tho whole affair is a transparent fraud. A few persons get together with locked doors in Mr. Carman’s office and undertake to approve his action and to favor his re- tention as receiver, without the slightest reference to the interests and wishes of the seven thousand eight hundred depositors who have been victimized by the rotten bank to the amount of nearly one million five hundred thousand dollars, The proceedings of the so-called ‘meeting” are clearly de- signed to influence the Court in favor of Mr. Carman's retention. They will have a directly contrary effect, for they betray an eagerness to prevent the appointment of a fair, independent receiver, which is, to say the least, suspicious. Mr. Carman proves his own unfitness for the position when he confesses to have signed and verified a bank statement without knowing anything of its truth or correctness. His ill-timed boast that he will ‘see the fight through” implies that he recognizes his antagonism to the victimized depositors. There should not, as we have said, bea single day's delay in his removal by the Court. He was an officer of the broken bank, and, by his own showing, a reckless and unreliable one. He was ap- pointed receiver by a secret, under- hand process, at the instigation of the trustees, without the knowledge of the depositors, who knew nothing of their danger until the bank doors were locked, and the assets, books, papers and all evidences of fraud, if any frauds have been perpetrated, were safe in the keeping of the old secretary of the bank, and securely hid- den from sight. Above all, the property belongs to the seven thousand eight hundred depositors whose one million and a half of savings have been enticed from them by Mr. Carman and his associates. They have a right to say who shall be the custodian of this property for them. The trustees and officers of the bank have no title to interfere in the matter. Any capable, honest man— and none other will be appointed by the Court—can manage and wind up the affairs of the bank at least as well os Mr. Carman. The anxiety to retain that person in posses- sion is full of suspicion. It does not seem that the Court should have any discretion in the matter. Justice and equity demand Mr. Carman’s removal, while not a single legit- imate interest can be subserved by his reten- tion. ‘Tammany.—We want no more of Tam- many Hall and none of this secret political order of Indians which really control its discipline. So long as the democratic party of New York is controlled by the Tammany Society, with its Sachems and Wiskinskies, and its hunting seasons and its moons, and its other nonsense and tomfoolery, the dem- ocratic party throughout the country will suffer. The recent election did not mean that one set of Sachems should go out headed by John Kelly, and that another set should come in headed by Morrissey and O’Brien. It did mean that the democratic party of New York should be reorganized upon the glorious principles of popular sov- ereignty, and that all true democrats who believed in the principles of that great party—Mr. Kernan, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Kelly himself, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Shafer and the rest, with their following—should as- semble, bury past grievances and reorganize the party upon a comprehensive basis. This is the plain lesson of the victory so far as the democratic party in New York is concerned. If the democratic victors of this contest be- lieve that their duty is simply to reorganize Tammany Hall and to carry out the old | régime they will be overwhelmingly beaten when they come before the people. An Unvorrusate Porrriciay.—The result of the recent election in this State has been particularly unfortunate for Senator Fenton, About four years ago Mr. Fenton took him- | self and his fortunes outside the republican party and enrolled the liberals as a sort of ‘Hessian reserve to support the flanks of the democratic army. Last summer he broke his free lances, laid them at the feet of Gen- eral Grant and ex-Governor Morgan, and renewed his oath of allegiance to straight republicanism. His return to the ranks has been signalized by the defeat of the republi- can State ticket by a good round majority when cverything was adverse to the demoe- racy. Mr. Fenton has thus proved. that he is of no value to any party. He could not save | the republicans under the most fayorable circumstances, and now he can have no claim onthadamaener. Roor Mx Fenton | Rapid Transit. The completion of the Greenwich Street Ele- vated Railway to Forty-second street and the unusual success this achievement show the real value of rapid transit to New York. This generally despised and not very attractive line, which has had its own mis- fortunes in the hands of deputy sheriffs and court officers, is gradually taking rank as a swift communication of the most important character, The resident of Murray Hill can reach his office on Wall street in less than a half hour, This includes the walks from his house and his office to the depot. The com- pany proposes to run a line of stages from the Forty-second street station to the Hud- son and Harlem depot. This will make almost coniplete steam communication between the Battery and Westchester. The link between the Forty-second street station and the Harlem depot is all that is now necessary to complete a continu- ous, ifa slender, line of rapid transit in New York. The fact that this has been done without ostentation, and that it has been of so great an advantage to the people, shows the real necessity of this improvement. If by tunnelling one of the uptown streets the Greenwich street lino could be connected with tho Vanderbilt depot it would largely increase its advantage as a rapid transit line. Unless the incorporators of the new line will hurry their work along the Greenwich street road will increase so much in public favor as to be- come the principal means of communication between the Battery and Westchester. Berrrva Opps.—The man who bets $1,000 to $5 that Genet would be convicted is now sued for the $1,000 which he neglected to pay. As this bet was made in the hope that it would induce a jury to hold out against conviction the trial would be of greater in- terest if it came before the public as an en- deavor to punish an attempt to tamper with a jury. In roe Recent Sprxcn of the President at the White House he said that the result of the elections assured the continuance of the republican party in power for four years more, Are we to infer that the President felt the course was open fora third term? If yes——bad for the republican party ! Av tue Onurcu Coneress yesterday, at Philadelphia, ultramontanism and the pub- lic school question were under discussion. The ‘irreverent farc@¥of the perfunctory reading of the Bible” in the schools was recommended for abandonment. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Surrogate Van Schaick, whose election insures the continued able and honest discharge of the duties of that important position, has determined not to-allow the patronage of his office to become the spoil of the politicians, He will retain all the present employés whose experiencé renders their services valuable, and whon it becomes necessary to make new appointments his selections will be controlled by considerations of character and capacity and not of political influence. Mr. Royal Phelps, who is himself aright royat sports man, deserves credit for his spirited efforts to enforce and improve the laws for the protection of game, As President of the Association for Protecting Game ho presented to the meeting held at his residence, on last Monday evening, a series of amendments to the present laws, which it is proposed to submit to the next Legis- lature. The most stringent Jaws best suit the true sportsman, and Mr. Phelps and his associates are re solved that when laws are passed no effort shall be spared to insure their enforcement. Sister Irene has hit upon a happy idea in determin. ing to give the usual annual entertainment in aid o the Foundling Hospital at the building instead of at on¢ of the theatres. The friends of the asylum will thus have an opportunity to see the excellent manner in which it is conducted and to witness the happy life o {ts little inmates. The entertainment, in which musie will form the prominent feature, takes place this and to morrow afternoon. Tho Duke of Sutherland owns 1,170,463 acres in Scot land. Secretary Ghandler is worth $2,000,000, made in the dry goods trade. Important private setters relating to the Napoleon family and belonging to the Count Lepic have been stolen. The San Antonio (Texas) Herald nominates Senator Bayard as the next democratto candidate for the White House, Vice President Wilson arrived in Washington this afternoon and will remain several days. He is in good health, Sam Bowles thinks that Charles Francis Adams would be just the man to reorganize the democratic party in New York. Mr, Nicholas do Votgt, First Secretary of the Russian Legation, arrived from Washington last ovening, at tha Clarendon Hotel. Aroyal Bengal tiger is tobe shot by the Prince ov Wales. It is beng carefully fed and groomed, and will havo its claws gilded. Phil Sheridan drives a carriage team of four black mules, of great beauty and speed, and they are the ob Jects of universal admiration in Chicago. Carl Schurz has written a letter to a friend in Wash- ington, in which he states that he has decided to reside permanently in New York. Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Washington, and Mr, Ford, of the International Fisheries Commis. sion, have apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. “Long John” Wentworth, of Chicago, though not voting at the recent election, stood fuil seven teot at tho polls and challenged hundreds of repeaters of both par. ties, Kansas is bleeding still. The republicans carried the whole seventy-two counties “except threo,” John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave; His soul is marching on. Secretary Belknap is described as brusque and bus ness-like—“a man with a bead full of pigeon holes, im which he has filed away in their proper order every event in his memory.” The government of Spain hag opened a competition for a national air, The one selected ts to be adopted by the State and all the regiments of Alphonso XIL It should berealled Isabella, Herbert Spencer, Peter Boyne and G. H. Lowes are to start a new philosophical magazino, to be called “The Mind.’? What we need in this country is a maga- zino to be called “Mind Your Own Business.” The London Court Journal welcomes Mr. Sanford and his horse Preakness to England, agd says it is by no moans iyprobable that Preakness tify next year win the Goodwood Cup, a8 Starkie, another American horse, did in 1861, ‘The Association for the Protection of Game is rapidly becoming # most useful institution, ander the spirited ‘and intelligont presidency of Mr, Reval Phelps. The recommendations made at Mozday™s mocting deserve the support of all good men, Les our game bo pre- served by all means. Lord Houghton arriva at the Brevoort House last evening, from Philadtyata, Ho will leave this morn- ing for Washington, and thence will proceed as far * South: as Richmcad, On Feway of next weok he will return to this ety, and on tho following Wednesday will sail for Ragland in the steamship Bothnia .o Weshington Chronicle asks why the South does not mexnfacture her own cotton goods, Because sustent capital for tho manufacture ts already invested eisowhere, But the Soath is slowly developing that in- dustry, and we predict that In five years a few threads, at least, will be spun north of the James River. The Mobilo Register, writing of tho approaching Presidential campaign, says:—“The question in that struggle will not be whother greenbacks shall be re- coiwed or more be issued, but whether the enormous invasions apon personal liberty made in the Force ‘vill are to be sanctiond andto become part of the com pgm Jaw of this Republic,”