The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1876, Page 4

4 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, pwhlished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yous | Henarp. | Letters and packages should be properly | sealed, Rej turned, ted communications will not be re- | | | PHILADELPHIA OFFICE- SIXTIL STRE LONDON OF NO.112SOUTH THE NEW YORK | RET STREET. ICE. UE DE L'OPE i. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, VOLUME XLI. rt 5 | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE. | VARIETY, at SP. dt ROOT! SARDANAPALUS, at & P Booth. . THEATRE, M. Mr. Bangs and Mrs, Agnes wood’ BUM, UNDER THE GASLIGH M. Matinee at 2. M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, ateP.M. BKAGLE THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8P. M. CHATEAU MABILLE. -VARIETY, at 6)’, M. DUNDREARY, at 8?’ OLYMP! THEATRE. FARIETY AND DRAMA, at8 | GULMOR:! 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It is rather late in the day to begin this policy, but Prince Milan's fortunes can- not well be more desperate, and no change tan render his condition worse. Mn. Scorr Lorp is not determined, like Governor Seymour and Mr. West, to decline the democratic nomination for Governor if it is tendered him. It will be seen from the interview with him which we print this morning that he isin an obliging frame of mind, and he has even a kind word for Spriggs. A Potsonovs Lrqurp known as vegetable hydrocyanic acid is used, it seems, to mix | with brandy and other liquors in many of the public bars of this city, and a case of this species of poisoning is reported in the Ifenaup this morning. Not only must this case be investigated by the Board of Health but the extent of the abuse should be ascer- tained. For Pracrican Joxtna Irishmen beat the world. Even tho Bulgarian atrocities were coupled with the outrages of '98 in the Dubiin meeting last night, and the Ameri- can flag was introduced as a feature of the oecasion. Recognition of American service | in Bulgaria in behalf of humanity was only just, but it might have been well to let the events of '98 alone for once. Errscts or tne Stonm.—A special despatch to the Hrratp from Knoxville, Tenn., in- forms us that the raised span of the bridge over the Tennessee River, on the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, at Loudon, was blown down by the terrific force of the storm at that point. | The span was sheeted with weatherboards to protect the frame work from the sun and | rain, and therefore presented a large surface | to the force of the wind, which, judging by the results, must have been equal to that ; of a tornado. The direction of the wind at the time of the occurrence was from the northwestward, showing that the centro of the storm was nearly northeastward of Loudon at one o'clock P. M. yesterday, | which corresponds exactly with the descrip. | tion given elsewhere of its progress, Few or tue Pastons of the city churches have yet returned to their pulpits, but our | usual reports of the Sunday services show a number of interesting features in the ser- mons delivered yesterday. The Rov. Dr. Deems, who has remained with his flock all summer, discoursed on the unselfishness of religion, of which his own example presents o beautiful illustratiov. At St. Patrick's Cathedral the Rev. Father Kearney, before undertaking to illustrate how impossible it | is to serve two masters, discouraged attend- ance upon the public schools, upon the | ground that the children while in the school | wero in an atmosphere of irreligion. Tha | bigotry of this endeavor was well set | off by Dr. McGlynn, of St. Stephen's, | who had the courage to quote from Long- | fellow’s “Golden Legend” to illustrate his | theme, which was the life of the blessed Mary. It is related in our reports that ladies turned away from the doors of one of our churches yesterday because their favorite preacher was not in the pnipit—an incident ‘which suggests the necessity of a strong en- | tertainment to hold such piety. 4 | sembled, and there is a still greater diver- | ter “| candidate and bring their followers into | the New Yors democracy cannot afford a NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. date for: Governor? We give this morning the first instal- ment—and a very copious instalment it is— of interviews had by our reporters with the members of the Democratic State Convention, which adjourned sine die on the 3ist of An- gust and has been called to reassemble on Wednesnay next, It is worth while for our readers to run through this mass of interviews, for they convey a idea of the difficulties with which the reassembled Convention will have to cope. Hardly any two of the multitudinous dele- gates whose erude opinions we have elicited are ofthe same mind. They do not even agree on the merely historical question of the sources of the great blunder perpetrated before their eyes when they were first as- gence of opinion as to what they ought todo, t they are likely to do, when they meet in in obedience to the call of the State Committee. These delegates are in a © of utter bewilderment. They are blindly groping in search of a candidate, not one in the whole number having a fixed choice, but each hoping, or professing to hope, that some name may be found on which the party can agree. They are like sheep without a shepherd, or, rather, they | resemble a faithful pack of hounds, smell- abont in all directions for a trail awaiting the halloo of their mas- and the starting of the expected game to leap forward in full cry. Itis a singular spectacle which these unharnessed delegates, these ‘‘many men of many minds,” present to curious observers, No- body can predict what they will do when they assemble, for not a man in their whole number has any settled intention, There is only one way out of this purpose- less imbecility, and that is for a few influ- ential leaders to combine on some expedient or Ww ing | and ‘line before the Convention meets. When tho ‘great mass of delegates are so undecided it needs but a small nucleus of resolute men acting to- gether with vigorous unity to ‘slate’ a can- didite and carry him through. In this im- becile and purposeless attitude of the dele- gates no other method can succeed. Gover- nor Seymour, in the interview which we printed on Saturday, hints this as broadly as he could without saying it directly. His cautious and guarded phraseology translated in plain, blunt English means that the reassembled Convention will floun- der in helpless confusion unless a slate is agreed on previous to inecting. He feels that it does not become him to dictate, and he hesitates even to suggest ; but if his suggestion has any clear meaning it is that the Convention will find itself in a new muddle if it meets without a prearranged. plan. Governor Seymovr said to our cor- respondent:—‘‘It was a grave mistake when the democratic party increased the number oi delegates from one hundred and twenty- eight to three hundred and eighty-four. This makes consultation impossible. It causes disorder and excitement. It cotm- pels either what is called slate-making in advance or else great confusion before any policy can be marked out. Conventions ought to be occasions for consultation, and the old system should be restored.” It is certain that the ‘old system” cannot “be restored” to meet the present emergency, and the party must face the alternative of “either what is called slate-making or else great confusion.” But in a conjuncture so critical ‘‘great confusion” is certain destruc- tion. The party will be shipwrecked if the reassembled Convention gets into a wrangle and tries to wash the dirty linen which the former session left behind it. Governor Seymour is of opinion that ‘what is called slate-making” is the only alternative to “great confusion” in a body so numerous as to ‘make consultation impossible.” The mistake of making the Convention unwieldy and unmanageable by trebling its numbers cannot be remedied this year, and slate-making is necessary to rescue the party, unless Governor Seymour is mis- taken. The party leaders gave the strong- est evidence that they share this opinion in their persistent efforts to wring an accept- ance from Mr. Seymour, and avoid the con- fusion and demoralization of reconvening so numerous and sprawling a body as the late Convention. They felt the difficulty of slating its proceedings, and perceived tho ruin of leaving it to flounder. Only two days remain before the Conven- tion reassembles, and as yet there is no agreement on a candidate and no plan of action, This lack of preconcerted unity bodes no good to the democratic party. After the Seymour jiasco a contentions, wrangling Convention will shatter every rea- sonable hope of carrying the State. The | weakest candidate in the list or out of the | list, nominated with unanimity, would have better chances than the strongest if nominated after a great and confusing row. Things have come to such a pass that struggle of clashing factions at Saratoga, Governor Seymour has told them this as plainly as propriety would permit him to } say it, but itis so obvious that no sensible democrat should fail to see it without a monitor. But, in spite of warning and re- monstrance, the party is all agog and seems | drifting into the rapids fora fatal plunge over the cataract into the boiling waters below. One reason of this imbecility and want of concert is prevailing doubt as to the inten- tions of Governor Tilden. His professed purpose is to stand aloof and do nothing to influence the choice of the Convention when | it reassembles. Toa certain extent he means this. He desires the support of the anti- Tilden democrats, and would be glad to see their zeal enlisted in favor of a candidate for Governor of their own selection. But he is not willing that they should | triumph over and = diseredit him by nominating one of his known enemies. If | they try to do this he is prepared to thwart | them ; but if they will agree on one of his | friends he will not interfere. All the efti- | cient party leaders understand perfectly well that this is Governor Tilden’s rea! atti- tude, and this is the chief reason why they are so slack in coming to any conclusion. They do not believe that any of Gover- | nor Tilden’s pets is a strong candi- | Who Will Be the Democratic Candt-| date, and if he insists that one of them be nominated they prefer that he should take the responsibility of the selection and bear the consequences of de- feat. They are waiting for him to act and he is waiting for them, and hence the want of energy and unity and the danger that the Convention will be a blind rhinoceros splashing in the mud. ‘The certainty that Tilden is prepared to defeat any candidate not devoted to his in- terests rules out quite a number of promi- uent names. It disposes of Judge Church, disposes of Judge Allen, either of whom would be warmly supported by the democratic masses ; it disposes of Mr. Pot- ter, against whom, for some unexplained reason, Governor Tilden has a bitter repug- nance; it would have disposed of De Witt C. West if he had not seen this obstacle and refused the use of his name; it equally dis- poses ‘of Judge Parker and Allen C. Beach. There are also several of Governor Til- den’s friends who are outside the pale of choice, Lieutenant Governor Dors- heimer is an impossible candidate, be- cause the Convention showed in its first meeting that it would not tolerate him for the first place, and Comptroller Robinson is equally impossible by the fact that Dorsheimer will retain the second place on the ticketand that the party will not consent to give both of the highest places to liberal republicans. The field of choice is therefore greatly narrowed. The successful candidate must be some supporter of Tilden who is not obnoxious to the other wing of the party. Ifa candidate answering to this description could be ‘‘slated” he would be nominated either on the first ballot or by acclamation, and the party would sup- port him with an affected unanimity and enthusiasm which would be deemed neces- sary for wiping out the effect of the Seymour fiasco. Whether a combination is possible on such a candidate is a question which must be determined to-day or to-morrow. Day after to-morrow the Convention re- assembles, and if no ‘‘slate” is agreed on be- fore it is called to order the alternative which Governor Seymour suggests of un- managable confusion will be the inevitable consequence. Is It Really Tweed? The confirmation of Tweed’s arrest at Vigo was contained exclusively in our special cable despatches from London and Madrid yesterday. They made a clear, consistent story out of what had been only a mysteri- ous and unintelligible rumor. How Tweed got to Vigo, why he was arrested and by whose direction, what disposition was to be made of him, why Spain should seize him without the obligations of a treaty of extradi- tion, was utterly unknown. The facts stated in our despatches explained these mysteries. We have authority from London, Vigo and Madrid for saying that Tweed sailed from Santiago de Cuba for Vigo to escape immediate arrest by Jovellar ; that General Cushing notified the Spanish gov- ernment of the fact, and that Spain, as an act of friendship, detained him as a criminal, and will deliver him to the United States government. Of the ac- curacy of these facts there is no question, In Cuba they thonght the tugitive to be Tweed, in Spain they thought so, and the only reason for doubt is the possibility of a case of mistaken identity, and that is remote. There are not many men who look like Tweed, for Nature broke the mould when sho had made the man. There are many wise persons who will never believe that Tweed is captured till they see him in New York. There was a man who knew another man who heard a man say—not that man, but another man— that he wouid bet one thousand dollars Tweed was not a hundred miles away from the city. There was a waiter who was bringing some chops and tomato sauce, who overheard a mysterious conversation begin- ning, ‘‘I've been to see Bill!” There wasa chambermaid in a hotel with a warming pan and very grave doubts about the habeas cor- pus. These are the people of whom Hamlet speaks, who shake their heads and pro- nounce such doubtful phrases as, “Well, well, we know,” or ‘We could, an’ if we would,” or “If we list to speak,” or “There be, an’ if they might.” But they never tell the secret. But whenever Tweed is cap- tured there will be almost as many “I told you so’s” in New York as inhabitants, A Windmill C Nothing could be more dismal or unsatis- factory than the end of the campaign against the Sioux. During the many weeks of sum- mer the troops lay idle with the foe in front of them, only to begin their march asantumn approached to find no foe before them. The Sioux campaign has been only a pretence from the beginning. Nothing like fighting has mpaign, | been even attempted. There have been inae- tivity in camp and hard and severe marching in search of an invisible foe. Terry's unsuc- cessful attempt to find Sitting Bull was re- ported by the Hzxanp some days ago, Yes- terday we printed the story of the equally unsuccessful attempt of Crook. And Crook, itseems, is even more unfortunate than Terry, With a seven days’ march before him he had rations for only two days, and that, too, after much privation and hardship, The story which will follow can scarcely fail to be one of much suffering and, perhaps, of starvation. It is impossible to look back upon this campaign with anything short of chagrin. Had it not been tor the fate of Custer we might well doubt whether there has been war in the Black Hills at all. Cer- tainly the majority of the troops never saw the enemy, and the commanders apparently knew so little of the braves they expected to mect that when they return to find their late foes at the reservations they will not even be able to say who were and who were not in arms against them. Like Don Quixote, they have been fighting windmills, with this advantage in the Don's favor, that he saw the windmills against which he was contending. If we have no stronger evi- dence against the Sioux than Crook or Terry can afford we shall be compelled to forgive our red brothers, and tell them to be good children till they are ready to fight us again. Tur Hawatuan Treaty has been officially proclaimed by the President, and now we may rejoice in beimg in full accord with the subjects of King Kalakaua. Mr. Schuyler's Report on the Moslem @ Massacres. The preliminary report of Mr. Eugene Schuyler, United States Consul General, to Mr. Horace Maynard, our Minister to Tur- key, in respect to the massacres in Bulgaria, is published to-day, and we are not sur- prised at the effect it has had upon the Eng- lish people. The original dispute between the British Ministry and the British press was as to the truth of the information the latter supplied. The correspondent of the London Daily News had written that the Turks had butchered thousands of men, women and children in Bulgaria, that whole villages had been obliterated, and that the devilish work was still going on. Mr. Dis- raeli, when his attention was called to these reports, declared them to be the “exaggerations” of correspondents, and said that the government would await more trustworthy information. He received it, not from his own agents, not trom Sir Henry Elliot, the British Am- bassador at Constantinople, but from this report by Mr, Schuyler. It shows that the correspondents did not exaggerate, but actually underestimated the atrocities of the ‘Turks, As an official report, founded on patient and thorough investigation, it is ac- cepted by the English people as true, and it settles the question between tho Ministry and the press in favor of the press, It was at this point that Mr. Gladstone made his grand attack, Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby stood convicted of indifference or ignorance, or both, and the charge that they had ‘‘com- promised the honor of the British name” was urged with terrible effect. It was seen that the Christians in Bulgaria had been sacrificed for the sake of maintaining a dead or dying English policy in Eastern affairs. The Eng- lish people demanded a change. The Lon- don Times, though it does not demand the re- call of Sir Henry Elliot, condemns him for not understanding the true character of what was happening in Bulgaria, and virtue ally suggests that he shall be superseded as the representative of England in the East- ern question. The Daily News, in reference to Mr, Schuyler's report, declares that ‘‘Tur- key is a tolerated Power and this war a tole- rated war. It could never have entered the mind of any European statesman that the Turks were to be at liberty at this time of day to cut and carve Europe wherever they might prove the stronger on the tield of bat- tle.” All this means: that there is to bea change of English policy in respect to Tur- key. England is to be cut loose from an unholy alliance with the Turk, and this change of policy is not the act of the Dis- racli Ministry, but of its opponents. Mr. Schuyler’s position in this revolution is influential, honorable and independent. He had nothing to do with English policy, but he had the courage, the skill and the power to tell the truth of the Turkish mas- sacre and the outrageous conduct of the Turkish government. He acted for the United States, but in doing so rendered an inestimable service to England and to all the Christian population of Turkey. The independence of his position, the ab- sence of any motive to exaggerate, made his report an authority. ‘We do not know,” said the London Times, ‘‘that anybody now denies the substantial accuracy of the darkest pictures that have been drawn of the atrocities in Bulgaria.” The report describes horrors which will thrill the soul of the reader with indignation, and the moderation of its tone, the exactitude of its statements, make the impression all the stronger. The people of America will be glad and proud that their representative has done humanity this splendid service. Mr. Schuyler has not meddled in the politics of Europe, nor with the questions of war which the Powers of Europe must decide for them- selves, but he has touched with the spear of Ithuriel that squatting toad of Mohammed which sat whispering its lies in the ear of sleeping England, and it springs to its feet like Satan revealed in his own likeness, Judge We print the communication addressed to us by the American Minister at London because we could hardly refuse the courtesy of our columns to so distinguished a person who asks space for self-vindication; but we think Mr. Pierrepont is making too serious a matter of ridiculous and contemptible criticisms which were beneath his notice, He has given a set of small wits and triflers the satisfaction of seeing that they have wounded his sensitiveness and have power to discompose him. Of what earthly conse- quence is it whether a man spells his name Pierpont or Pierrepont, Eliot or Elliot, Franklin or Francklin? Tho implication of the criticasters is that such a change be- tokens levity of character and small personal vanity. But when we recollect that the first French Emperor changed his name from Buonaparte to Bonaparte ; that the great Frederick, who was baptized as Friedrich, signed his name Fred- eric; that Hume, the historian, was the son of Joseph Home; that Dryden was the son of Erasmus Driden; that the progenitors of Byron wrote their name Biron; that our illustrious Washing- ton was descended from a family whose sur- name varied from Wessyngton to Wassing- ton, Wasshington, and, finally, to Washing- ton, and that there are twenty different ways of spelling the name of Shakespeare, it will be seen that a variable taste or even caprice in the form of one’s surname is no proof of lightness or a silly vanity. It is of as little consequence as the color of a man’s necktie orthe form of shirt collar. The fact that Mr. Pierrepont dropped one of his two Christian names is equally trivial and could also be supported by a long catalogue of examples. Another charge on which Mr. Pierrepont confers the unmerited dignity of a reply is that he had recourse to a spiritual ‘‘me- dium” to learn his pedigree. If his curiosity prompted him many years ago to visit this Plerrepont’s Letter. | class of pretenders and try to fathom their performances it is nu more than hundreds of savans and other illustrious men have done in all the capitals of Europe and the principal cities of America. The chief pre- tence of these necromancers is their ability to obtain information from departed spirits, and one of the most ordinary tests is to write letters to some dead person of whom the performers are supposed to hive no knowledge and see whether their answers are consistent with facts known ; to the inquirers. If Judge Pierrepont did this he did what thousands of others have done with just as little belief as he had that the persons addressed would return answers. There is no reason for holding Mr. Pierre- pont up to ridienle for doing what most every man has done who ever visited a medium. The only weakness Mr. Pierre- pont has shown in these matters is the weak- ness of permitting himself to be annoyed, We think there has been more fun than malice in the attacks, and the best shield against such light weapons is indifference. | It is always a mistake to let this order of as- sailants discover that their lilliputian ar- rows can inflict a smart. If a public man is thin-skinned he should affect to have a hide like a rhinoceros when he is accused of nothing worse than mere foibles, May the Best Men Win. To-morrow the grand series of centennial rifle contests opens at Creedmoor with the two individual matches which will serve as first courses to the pitce de résistance of the two days following—the international long range rifle match for the championship of the world. Over the international short range and mid range matches the public may be anxious to hurry, in view of the great match of teams which is to follow it; but there will be fine shooting of its kind to-morrow on the splendid range on Long Island. There, as on the succeeding days, our marksmen will have to look to their laurels, for the personal nature of the contest gives each of the foreign marksmen a chance to win which must be denied to at least three of their teams on Wednesday and Thursday. With these contests out of the way will come the battle of the giants. It is with especial gratification we note that nothing has been left undone to make the meeting in friendly combat before the butts a success in the matter of arrangements for the conduct of the match. Nothing less would meet the needs of the case. Respon- sive to America’s centennial invitation Ire- land, Scotland, Canada and far Australia have sent us the pick and flower of their marksmen—their preuc chevaliers of the rifle—to take part in a passage at arms which will be as memorable in rifle annals as was the gorgeous tourney of the Field of the Cloth of Gold in the thronicles of the times of the lance and the battleaxe, If there is less glamour about the rifle match there is a wider interest, and, what is best of all, a kindlier feeling, than ever formed about the contests of the olden time when ——anon The trumpets blew; and thon did either side, They that assailed and they that held the lists, Set lance in rest. We have grown to better ways, and when, in our sober joy that this Republic has sur- vived a hundred years, we ask the world to send its riflemen to vie with ours, we have no fear that any of the gallant gentlemen now our guests will need such surgical atten- tion as did the fiery Lancelot of the Lake after the day of “sport” at Camelot. There is every promise of a most exciting contest. Among the five teams that will face the ten targets on Wednesday there is none which can stand above its rivals as did Sir Lancelot above his fellow knights. How- ever fondly we may hope to see the prize and the honor of winning remain with us, a careful scrutiny of the practice for the past week forbids anything approaching a fore- cast of the arms to which the victory will fall, If our own sharpshooters cannot win we have no choice to which of the foreign teams we would have the triumph go. We should feel glad if the Irish marksmen who crossed the seas to meet us once before should take the prize to green Erin; we should feel pleased if it went tothe land of the hardy Scot, for that would insure our mecting tho stout McDonald and his men where the scent of the mountain heather was fresh on the air; we should be merry if it went to Canada, for the trip after it would be a short one, and perhaps we should be most pleased if it went to the antipodes for the gallant Australians deserve it most, since they have come the furthest in its quest. Among such kindly rivals there can be no choice for us, save that which is con- veyed in the phrase of chivalry, “May the best win.” Tae Wratuer.—The great rain area to which we have called attention during the past week has now moved so far to the east- ward that it extends over the principal part of the Middle States. Our explanation of the causes which lead to its detention in the Mississippi Valley and of the detachment of a portion of it by the movement of an area of high pressure in the North has been borne out in the fullest degree by the ob- servations of the Signal Seryice, For many years such a general rainfall has not oc- curred, extending as it does over one-half of the United States territory east of the Rocky Mountains. Yesterday morning the rain area extended southeastwardly from Lake Superior to Cape Hatteras, a distance of twelve hundred mil d was over five hundred miles in width, thus covering a surface of sixty thousand square miles, Last evening the rain area became still more extended southward and embraced the South Atlantic States as faras Northern Florida, ‘The centre of the disturbance is now moving over Pittsburg, the edge having touched New York about half-past seven P.M. High winds prevail on its northern quadrant, The weather in New York to-day will be cloudy and moderately warm, with Gampiyrs are a protected class, not less at Rockaway than in New York. Discharge almost invariabiy follows arrest, or nominal bail is taken. It is strange that men guilty of the offences of the three card monte men at Rockaway on Saturday cannot be held and punished. In the The Allen raid some of the prisoners were discharged and some fined in small sums, the rule of law applied by the Court being apparently the ability of the prisoner to tell a “square” lie. These arrests and raids can accomplish nothing unless there is behind them an honest pur- pose to punish the gamblers. ‘Tne Inronenaxce of the Spaniards can only add to the troubles of Spain. The events of yesterday only prove that in that country liberty of conscience is to be denied whenever there is a king on the Spanish throne. The Police and the Gamblers. By the Revised Statutes of this State it is provided that ‘It shall be lawful for any police justice, upon complaint upon oath that any gambling tables or apparatus is kept by any person for the purpose of being used to win or gain money, to issue his war- rant commanding any sheriff or ccnstable, after demanding entrance, break open and enter any house where A table shall be kept ;” and this is the authority under which the police acted in the so-called raid on a gambler’s den in Bleecker street. They | acted in pursuance of the law for the sup- pression and prevention of gambling. Un- fortunately the cireumstances scarcely jus- tify an opinion thatthe enforcement of the law asghe motive of their action ; for the den assailed has been in existence to their knowledge for some time, and many like it are in existence in other streets also to their knowledge, and the Jaw has been the same for some years as it is now; but it has not been enforced. It was not obedience to the law that moved this assault, but only a dis- position to make an offending gambler feel the evil consequences of making himself ob- noxious to the police. He had got the bet- ter of the police ina recent attempt to dis- cipline him—had presented them in a ridiculous light, and caused a cap. tain to be broken for neglect of duty, and they ‘went to get even,” Doubtless it is proper to rejoice when such a place is broken up or only temporarily made disagreeable, even in circumstances like these ; yet we venture to believe that to leave a gambling house alone does less harm than to pervert the law into an instrument of police vengeance. The police must not be administered under the influence of spite and piqnes and passions ; for to suppose that the police may be in a fury to-day is to im- ply that it may be amiable to-morrow. It the gamblers are to be punished, not because the law provides for that, but because thoy have quarrelled with the police, then the clear intimation is that to be safe they have not got to accommodate themselves to the law, but only to make their peace with those who have to enforce it and this is the source of all the evil and of tho general suffrance of gamblers’ dens in every precinct in the city under the favor and protection of the police captains. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Chill ts the Italy of the New World Baron Campe, of Germany, is at the Windsor Hotel Missouri politicians do not nominate anything lesa than a colonol from either army. Senatof Bogy says, apropos of a fast coming winter, “If the stove doesn’t draw, poker.’” Dr. Sigismund Rudolp Blum, of the Austrian Lega tion, is at the Westminster Hotel. Republican processions aro beginning to form, and barrel eggs are only fifteen cents a dozen, A cable despatch from Parts says that General Sickles has loft that city for the United States, According to the latest fashions black pantaloons and a marvon necktie are suitable for suicides, In Missouri cven rcpubiicans praise the democratie nomination of Colonel Crittenden for Congress, ‘Athengum:—“An idyll is a short, simple, yet highly poluhed poem on any rustic occupation or amuse- ment.” Wendell Phillips says ‘there were but two mon in the country prior to 1850 who had brains—Garrison and Calhoun.” A man who swore of on Now Year’s and who believes in Horace Greoley says, “The best way to Tesume 18 to resume.” Winter is coming. Tho leaves ‘are reddening along their tips like a young woman’s ears when she 1s pro- posed to by a man of sixty, Even if the North Pole were discovered the discov- erer would be followed in ton minutes by a Chinaman who could live on icicles at two cents « gross, Councillor of State Charles de Bielsky, Baron He; king, Peter Orlof and Leon Warschawsky, of the Rus sian Centennial Commission, aro at tho Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor John Mf. Paimer eame very near being nominated for President by the democrats, and now he is trying to succeed Logan as United States Senator trom Iilinois. Mr. AinédGo van den Nest, Socretary of the Belgian Legation at Washington, and Seftor Don Luis Poio ae Bernabé, Third Secretary of the Spanish Legation, yesterday arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. Deauville was commencod by the gay and gental Duo do Morney. He hoped to make it the Brighton for Paris, and it seems, from the way in which the place tt extending, that tho idea may yet be realized, and Deaw ville be the momentary relaxation from Paris, Leopold Lichtenburg, a San Francisco boy who went to Europe some time ago to pursue his studies on the violin, bas taken first prize, with distinction, at the St, Petersburg Conservatoire. He played tho seventeenth concerto of Viotts and the third concerto of Vieux. temps. ’ Fun:—“Bill—'Weill, Jacob, I never could understan Yow you got off that ‘ere tater stealin’! Tho case were as clear as a bell agin’ you!’ Jaco’—‘I doan’t think as [should ‘a got off, noteven ‘ere, Bill; but doan’t ‘ee feo, every one o’ them same jurymen had ‘ad some o* thom same taturs.’”” Yardley, the negro candidate for Governer of Ten, nessee, 18 free born, and in personal appearance and intelligence surpasses most of his race. He bas beon practising lawyer in Knoxville for fivo years, Tritune says, “The white man that wakes him up for a fool will find himself wofally mistaken.” Dr. Slade, the New York spiritual medium, has beea Investigated by several scientists in England, whose views are summed np by Mr. Wailace in the expression that while Slade may give his phenomena througd trickery, It is no more probable that be does than that he does not; and he adds that tho tricks are better than the criticiema The Emperor of Germany has just sent to Marsha Wrangol a cavalry sabre the hilt of which ts set wit Ajamonds, to comimemorate the cighticth anniversary of the entry of that veteran officer into the army, The present is accompanied by « letter in which Hu Majesty announces that he intends also to have exe cuted a statue tv the Marshal, In European financial circles thero 1s a feeling of un- easiness because great insurance compuntes that tm vested their money in good times have had thett securities dectine in value, and, like severai Americas Institutions, are compelled to sustain their securitie rather than to force a market. Quiet “croakers” bari hada feeling of the same kind on this side of the Atlantic. Writing to Mr, A. Stowart, of Glasgow, from Carlisle, on his way home, Mr. Spurgeon sends the following characteristic note:--"Dear Friend—I have roturnet to England. 1 had eleven clear week days in Scotiand, | and was asked to preach more than Ofty times. That when I came.for rest! and in a Christian country, too? A merciful man,’ &¢. Gui speed you. Yours, truly, “C,H. SPURGEON”? English garden parties do not impress the Froneh very favorably, if we judge by a letter to the Pane Figaro, “The sole nmusement,” says the writer, “consists im eating strawberries and ices, holding sole ema conversations and watebing royal porsen feed, The entertainments aro conducted with gi andness, and there 18 little difference between, a garden party and a high class funoral, In France there would be games, laughter and general enjoyment? ‘This year at the nne, France, a young fellow named Reinach carried of eight prizes. Among t was ove for rhetoric, And it was the boy's first year of rhetoric, Bat he beat ail the other uldenes, At the last prize was named, with the boy's namo at tached to it, the whole assembly arose and applauded as if a favorite actor bad appeared, His music maste declares he would astonish the world as. composer, and his drawing master predicts a second Michael Am A geloin bim, "