The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1877, Page 4

MR. BERGHS CASTLE. The Museum of Humanity and Horrors. HIS REPLY TO HIS CRITICS. Defence of His Clients and Their Cause. FIGHTS IN AMERICA. —_—-—— NO BULL It rained eats and dogs the other duy when, in re+ eponse to a kind invitation, a representative of the HxxALD entered the castle of Mr. Bérgh at the corner ol Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street. The day was uot propiious, and Mr. Bergh was, as usual, grand, gloomy and peculiar. He wore a wet overcoat and @ non-expensive bat, and, probably having an en, ement with some injured animal, had little time to waste upon a mere haman being, In the absence of the custodian of the castle our tine wus occupied by an inspection of the Museum, in which Mr. Bergh has coliected ali the horrors which the society over which he presides hus discovered. ‘The castle is always open, aud the visitor 18 first de lightet with the staffed figure of a magnificent dog, called Fido, who smiles upoo bim tn the antechar- ber. Passing this sptenaid creature, one enters tbo Chamber of Disgust, where, in the shape of avimal relics und dreadiul pictures, Mr. Bergh’s triumphs are revealed, There isa stuffed bulldog, rescued, all too late, from 4 prize Oght, which at once catches at- tention. chicken bone, his lower lip is gone, his’ whole head is Rained with blood, and it is a great satisfaction to know that the men who used the courage of the aa mal for gambling ends were, through the eflorts of Mr. Bergh, sent to the prison, which is their proper home. Then wo turn to those instruments of torture which are used wo make the dull horse appear spirited. The pictures which hang upon tho walls aro as painful as Mme TUS.) Googie affairs during tbe saud’s Chamber of Horrors, and the dilapidated cows, which are fed upon garbage and supported by belts from the ceiling, do not increuse the desire of the spec- tator tor milk, Two gamecocks, victor and van- guished, next arrest attention. They are equipped with murderous steel gaifs, about three inches longq and their appearance indicates the miserable cruelties of the cockpit, Anybody who desires may inspect this collection of crimes, but it 1s more repulsive than amusing. It is usetul, however, as it shows to what crucl uses man degrades the courage of the animals he should protect. MR. BERGH IN US CASTLE. The other afternoon the sun smiled upon the city, and u little bird sat upon the stone fountain in tront of the castle and sung a sweet melody of thanks to the champion of the feathered species, his room above the Museum, ready to give an answer li questions. This mysterious apariment is differ- entitrom what the visitor would naturally expect to #ee. ‘There are no ger skins on the floor as rugs; uo dcer’s horns or stuffed alligators to show Mr. Berg's KKill with the rifle, nor other trophies of the chase. Noteven a tox tail adorued the walls, but instead a tulland serious gentleman who looked as 1! the woes of the entire brute creation rested upon bis head, sub in 4 comfortable arm chair, like on 4 monument, smiling at grief? A large hbrary fliis the left band sido of the room as ono enters, and its shelves ure stored with beastly cor- Tespondence from all quarters of the world. The sor- rows of many @ walrus unable to obtain an Ulster, of a obliged to walk barefooted for the want of Arctic overshoes, and of Spitz dogs unjustly suspected of hydrdphobia, were doubtiess embalmed among those pleasant records. Tho ac- counts of cruelties inflicied upon the feathered species were appropriately preserved in pigeon holes. Over the library hung the coat of arms, imagined to be a Third avenue car steed passant, a Spitz dog rampant and u swil! milch cow couchant, all ona field of gore, wih a turtie inverted and « bear sinister on an ice- bergh, Near the windows 18 the original cull tor the society, engrossed with excellent taste upon muocent lamb skin, and signed by many prominent citizens. Some of the Signatures are as bad as that of Christo- pher Columbus, whose penmanship, according to Mr. Mark Twain, would be looked on with pity by an American schoolboy. Over the broad fire- place was a mantelpiece, and upon it numbers of pic- lures, among them the portrait of the French gentle- mun who left to the society the usetul sum of $150,000, Tuis portrait Mr, Bergh should have reproduced in an oil painting, for, us iL 1s, 16 is hardly uoted, aud the neglect looks like want of gratitude on the part o! the society. A picture of a bull fight im Spain is hung where Mr. Bergh can always see it as he sits at his desk and writes letters to tie newspa- pers, aud is probably intended to be aspur to arouse sentiments of indignation, Such are the principal ob- jects of interest in U om, but there ig nothing as formidable sg the towering figure of Mr. Bergh him- Bell, THE CHIRVTAIN OF TUK CASTLE. Surrounded by these relics Mr, Henry Bergh sits, like bis prototype, Don Quixote, wuiting for ad tures ‘Tho ferocity which he displays in court is relinquished when he receives visilors at home, With the left foot resting on the right knee and both hands gesticuiating in the air—his favorite attitude— be does not much resemble the terrible champion who alirighis the owvers of aged borses and dilapidated cows m the balls of justice. You see a long, jean, cadaverous man, avout fifty years old, with a luce ke that of a tmustifl. scowling at you like a thunder eloud, will talk for bours upon his favorite themes quen miles are not frequent, but when they do ure a8 amusing as inughter at a funeral, i$ a8 solemm as an echo from a sepuicure, and when be becomes interested bis eyes gluier | ike stars on & wantry night. Mr, Borgh’s manger, however, {8 supernaturally solemn, aud if it were not for bis oratory he would be just the man for a mute at ku old-tashioned intermon?. Loug familiariiy with the suftering animals bas given him a dejected look, aud tho only way to rouse him would scem to beto cry “Rats |?” when probably ho would Jeap trom his Beat in Wrath. The reason for the interview which occurred will be found in the appended levter:— MR. BERGH’S CHALLENGE. TOR oF THe HERALD — © to remark that you either draw on your im vt your prejudice when you say, as in your day, that Mr. Bergh son of “bis mis- 3, applications of law, lus vro lity of all who w. previously in ed many whe were with nim in se y, the public has lost faith and tury Hagen a were to Dass only of this society a: gradually melt into mildnesa with his own e ot To me Ep! Permit ¥ world, wher f hourly eve'y civilized State in t unyualitied approv exprosned, you would more liberal, man. itn fuce away,” ti tently ‘turning ite f in it by every meui public eau employ, While popular sentiment the cour! ana by th sit wincorse the its transactio whieh were once turned h ity," are now tu i appr there'is no honest r F thelr do) Injury ts Huble to result from » Appears in your columns this may be misled by the inp when it fy but the opinic wholly based on proper into: davle motives. Kesprctfuily, New York, April 19, 1877. THE SOUIKTY AND ITS SLCC. Alarmed by the dignity of Mr. Hergl’s presence and disarmed by his politeness, te representative of the His right Ing seems tobe paivertzed like a | Mr. Bergh was in | “Patience | Unless he is interruptea Mr. Bergh | | | Lixnato hardly dared to reply to this extriordinary | The Heat Keryp challenge, But the tssne wi had said that the peculiar course of impeded the progress of the useful s had created and of which be sii) romaine the heal, and this assertion was denied with emphasis. ‘i statements of the HxkaLD,” said Mr. Bergh, “are not founded upon iwcis;’? and in proof of this t reluted the whole history of the society “in its obscure birth to the present day. He sald that thirty three States have adopted the jaws of the New York society, and from ail parts of the world Mr, Bergh has receivod letters in approval of his course, Lo Italy, Rome, Florence, Milan and other towns have or tions for the prowetion of dumb creatures, wud, in Mr, hud | ty whieb be | prool, Mr, Bergh exlibited archives of documents | whieh, in his kindness (o humanity, be did pot insist that bis auditor should read. ‘The Society for the Prevention of Crueity to Animals, he said, was never as popular as no Wills bad been made in its {uvor and its influence was coustantly increasing. To admit this Was easy enough, but whether a more hu- mune course toward the people might not still more add to the usefulness of the avsociation m this city 16 still @ disputed issue. When Mr. Borgh pointed to these mauy documents his manner was one of triumph, ME. BRUGH'S OPINION OF THK HERALD, “Lt ig the greatest paper in the world, It did me, without intending it, the greatest service I have ever had, Twolve years ago 1: represented mo as presiding over an assembly of beasts, and that ridicule awakened the public trom ite = apathy. The next day million people understood my purpose snd in @ week twenty millions knew of ih | rights, 18 utte | | der.?? la | woieh Ihave travelled many parts of the world, and every- where I have tound the Heeatp, The iofuence of such « paper should be in favor of this society and vot against a to these articies,”’ und here Mr. Bergh pro- duce ebormous book, apparently tiled with critical articles upon bis course, which he read aloud with expression and strong emphasis, evidently enjoying those portions which Were moat severe upon himsell. “This is complimentary,” Le oceasionally said, “and therefore I will pass it by.” BULL FIGHTS IN AMKKICA, “AD empt was tnade some time ago,’ said Mr, Bergh, “to introduce bull nghting into this exty, 1 opposed it, because 1 knew that it would become wiihin a year the most popular of all amusements. It would ruin this country ag it has ruined Spain. Ceu- tral Park couid be filied with spectators at head to pever sec thesport, So long a8 I livea bull fgbt | uwke place in this city, The majoruty of the people sustain me in my efforts to protect the interests of humanity.”? At this pomt Mr. Bergh was asked how it happemed thatif the majority of our citizens sus- tained him, bull fighting could become so popular, Mr, Bergh replied that the reason would be the tural curiosity of mankind, You yourself would have to be present,” remarked the visitor, Mr. Bergh besi- tated, “1 suppose | would—ofliciatiy.” MK. BERG'S KESPONSINILITY. “Jt is no pleasure to me,” said Mr. Bergh, ‘to wago the weary War which seems to be never ending, but 1 must Continue tt Until a better champion of the rights of dumb antmals can be found, | atm ready to resign my vitice mow—this very Saturday uight—if better man can be found to take It Will you bave itr’? he said to the siurtled hearer, who nantly answered “Nol’? Mr. Bergh smiled utly, “Why should you not deliver the whole sucicty over to the charge of the Hxraty, which you | seem toadmire so much?” asked the visitor, Mr. Bergh frowned, He placed bis band upon a recent editorial aud said, ‘Not with its present views.” “TAM Not A GORGON,”” ‘The conversation then passed to general subjects, and the president of the society expressed bis wish that he might enjoy his time ta London or Paris in- stead of io the diugy court room in the Sessious. He deprecated the ridicule of tbe press, on the ground {hut it might prejudice ignorant voters against the ¥ und defeat necessary legislation, “Kor myself re nothing, but for my aims everything.” 1am uot | w Gorgon, 48 many have been led to believe me, | tis smug, ax Ue conversation ended, appeared to re- fect Che Buulight Mat at the moment beained from the cloated sky, OBITUARY. WILLIAM G, BROWNLOW. Ex-Senator William G, Brownlow died at dig rest, dence on Cumberlund street, Kuoxville, Tenn., at five minutes after two P, M. yesterday, He had been ufflicted for years with paralysis agitavs, and the 1m- ediute cause of bis death was the extension of this disease to the bowels, paralyziug thetr acuion, During the last two months bis health had been better than usual, and be had taken more tuterest in just week thun for a year previous, He had workmen employed ro- pairmg bis porches and fences, superintending the matter Iu person and walking about the premisos With more (han bis accustomed vigor, Saturday utters noon he paid off the men bimselt and retired at his usual hour, During the night be was taken tll, when two doctors wero summoned, and though his system at length yielded to the effect of remedies, yet the acute pain endured nad so wedkeped bis nervous sys- tem that he never rated, and refusing to take stima- lants, nis family realizod that his tune had come, and in their presence, bis wife aad children standing around his bedside, bis spirit passed calinly and painlessly away. His remains were placed im a casket lust night apd funeral services will take place Tucsday afternoon at Gray Cometery, His death took the community by surprise and the sorrow {s geueral, Mig WIKTHPLACK AND ANCESTRY. On tho 29th of August, 1805, William G. Brownlow was born in Wythe county, Va, his tather, Josepn A, Brownlow, being # genUleman of standing and re, spectability ia fils community, At an early age he Jost both parents, Lis mother dying some three mouths Jater than bis father, Her relatives took the orphan in ecbarge, aud they appear to have becn persons of slunder means, for the boy was reared up to bard labor, receiving no greater umount of educatron than enabled him to read, Until he attamed his eighteenth year he led this life, und a sorry ove it must have been, if all accounts be correct, In return for tho slender support he received be was made the drudge of his relatives, All kinds of work that he was able to do were given to Lim; but finally, at the age men- tioned, he launched into life on his own account, Removing to Lynchburg, he apprenticed bim- self wo a house curpenier, irom whom he learned the trade. Here, for the iirst ume im his carver, be found bimselt possessed of leisure hours, aud these were devoted to removing the educational disadvantages under which he labored, ‘The deficiency was in a great measure filled, but not altogether, Tnroughout Mr. Brownlow’s carcer his Jack of learning was painfully evident in the manner in which he yielded to the dictates of his temper, Singu- larly enough, too, the occupation of a carpenter was abandoned for the profession of a preacher of the Gospel, in spite of the fact that but few men were, or aré, less fitted for a religious life than was the de- ceased, It was related of bim that he was attending & protracted camp mocting of Methodists, and the religious exercises affected him so profoundly that he felt ‘called upon to preach the Gos ‘The recogni- tion by Methodism of these **calls”? led him to ob. tain a license to pres HIS MINISTERIAL CAREER. Having been duly crdained, Mr. Brownlow entered the travelling ministry, and’ for ten years went from point to point preaching to the people. His sermons were remarkable specimens of oratorical literature. They were more noted foi pr than for their elegance, although there was a rade cloquenco avout them which was not without evidence ot considera- bie natioval ability, The class to whom he preschea was, itigtrue, not the most refined in the south, comprising, a8 it did, the mountaineers ef Ten- nessee, Norh Carolina and Georgia, hovest and brave, both illiterate men and women. However, ‘it is undeniable wat he becamo immensely popalar with his congregation, By keeping up a perpetual warfare against the devil and abolitionists the Parson”? soon made himself famous throughout the country Theological questions were propounded in what might be called primitive English, if tt Were certan that the early Anglo-Saxons indulged solely in expletives a8 & means ol controverting ihe logics of their opponents Poliutcs were imixed up -With religion in au extraurdinary manner. On one oc casion Parson Browulow did not hesitate to declare from the pulpit his conviction that the souls of aboli- tionists no sooner left their bodies than they were seized by Satan und hurried to the inferoul regions, but saying Unis in much plainer lauguage than the foregoing. THR KNOX To a man constituted us the parson the pulpit as too finited aspbere, For the double purpose of extending bis influence und making money he started the celevrated Knoxville Whig—a journal whose vdi- torials can be tmildly designated as “blood and thun- It the energetic editor believed it, be did not hesitate to express his conyicuion that ‘this or that man was a “damned scoundrel,’ a ‘a whelp of heli,’? or ‘ta lying wretch, Wuo would rather lie for nouning than speak the truth for cash,’ which cnoice seu- tences in quotation marks bave been culled from We copious vocabulary of the deceased parson, Tuis youemont siyie of writing Was pre-emimenuy calcu- lated Lo endear the writer to ab exceedingly large class (Be WHIG. of persons in Kast Zenuessee, wlio regarded the tlery adjectives as emvyodying incontesuvie arcum Consequently Mr Brownlow attained nt. arity among iis Mouutainver fellow citizens etaiued Uli nis death, In polities the Knoxville Whig supported, as 1t6 name tudicated, the wiig party. It can safely be asserted that it stood alove among the Journals of tts political jaith, The irrepressible editor could not be silenced by the demo- racic ress, When he tuiled to win by culm reasoning, words was jet fly agaiust the enemy, invariably proved too powerful tor further sistance, Not even the ‘red-hot’ democratic news- papers of those days, and for that matter of the pres- evt time, could compete with the Whig. it was a compound of vituperation, stirred by Brownlow iuto a white heat, 18 POLITICAL CaAnRMR, jot close observers of the career of our 1d Suppose Parson Brownlow ever to ‘yeu State Rights politician as ever Calnoun was, This was long alter the days of the xreat apostle of secession, however, for im 1832 Mr. Brownlow was 4 stauucn Unionist and strongly op- posed tue action of South Carolina im the nulliication business. During the same year be published a pamphe jet vindicating fis course and predicting that, alter the tarifl, the slavery question would threaten ‘the over Utrow of the goveruwent, At a laver date, however, he becume inveusely pro-slavery, aud through the col: umns of the Whig Uireatened the North with untoid horrors of war it any interference was attempted with the “pecuiiar institution” of the South. Lt is undem- abe that as us 1806 Mr, Brownlow was as in bie denuvelations of abolitionists and as extreme in his views apon state riguts as the most pronounced fire eater could possibly bave been. His celebrated controversy in New York and Philadelphia with Mr, nivionist, will long ve remembered, A silion broke out, however, he ¥ jinbued with Union princi plos and adhered to Uicin to the end. It is due to the truth of history to say that the statement which has b extensively lated to tho effect that Mr, Brownlow cvasiste: dl the doctrine of State y stoer he believed in it or } that he ones supported it THK REBELLION From the secession of South Carolina in 1860 to the close 0) the coutest in 1866 Mr, Brownlow was bitterly opposed to the rebellion, He shared with ex-President Jobuson the popularity of the East Tenne: ans, and their influence Wes successiully used against the seces> Few persons public wen wo huve been ast not, iis certa sion of Tennessee When the question was first submit- ted to the pie, Alter Mr. Lincolo’s call tor troops Was made (he yiorm of revolution swept throagh we middie and Western section: erything befor 1. of the State, currying Such Union men as Mr, Stokes, who was subsequently the defeatod radical candidate for Governor, bent before it, and declared thomaeives im favor of the Southern cause. Mr. Brownlow, with grim couarge, resisted (he storm, Through the col. fire upon the avathemas leat for the called upon to by their vote whether nessee would stand by the Union or throw herself into the vortex of revo- lution. Middle and West Tennessee voted by an over- whelming majority for immediate secession; but the mountaineers of East Tennessee, strengtveved by the redoubtable parson and his fery editorials, stood irm wou voted against the measure. Until the 24th of October, 1861, Mr. Brownlow con- tinued the publication of the Whig in Knoxville Every week the Confederate gov: t came in fora sound castigation, Atlength the authorities refused to travsport the paper by the mails; next they threat- ened to suppress it, and finally the proprietor received an intimation that unless he al- tered the tone of his artic he would be arrested, Brownlow respov'ied in a card addressed to bis subscribers, in ich he announced the suspension of the Whig. He then for some ume alter remained in retirement at Knoxvill many indiguities from bis enemies, who by his refusal to give any aid OF countenance to the confederacy, At length, believing his Iife in danger, he gave heed to the entreaties of his tamilyand friends and fled to the mountains for safety. Walle in conceal- ment he wrote to Richmond asking for permission to leave the confederate lines, and received an answer to the effet that the authorities would be giadto learn that be had feit the State. Mr. Benjamin, the Conted- erate Secretary of War, also wrote to General Critten- den authorizing bin to furnish Mr, Brownlow with a sale conduct to the federal lines. Abont this time it was that the Union meo of East Tennessee destroyed several railroad bridges of im- portance. Rumor charged the Parson with participate ing in the act, aud when he presented himself betore General Crittenden, insiead of receiving the expected pass he was arrested and seotto jail. Mr. Brownlow denied all knowledge of the bridge-buruing, aud in a curd which he published at the time deciared that he condemned the act “10 the tost unqualified term Nevortheless, he was detained in prison until Maret, 1862, when he was ullowed to pass through the ho On bis arrival in the Noribero States sir, Brownlow made a tour, speaking to large audicnces in bebalt of the Union cruse. Upon the reoccupation of Kuoxville by the Northern forces, he returned there, previously aunouncing bis purpose to revive bis paper under tho ttle of Brownlpw's Knoxville Waig and Rebel Venii- lator, Previous to this ho had written and publisbod Yurson Brownlow’s Book,” coniaiming an ac- count of bis adventare in the Contederate Mnes darmg the carly days of the rebel- liou, Ag soon a8 the pros.ectds of his paper y appeared sympathizers at tue North tiberas iin with funds ($50,400, it was said), an} money thus obtuine It neéa bardly be said that all of 1s previous literary productions wero thrown completely ino the shade when he returned to Knoxville, I ‘the Contederacy could have been overthrown by vehement abuse it would have been utterly annibilated by the first num- ber of the revived paper. MIS CARKER AS GOVERNOR AND SkNATOR. Shortly betore the war eaged Mr. Brownlow was elected Governor of Tennessee by the loyal voters of the State, Great as his services had been to the coun- try, in a moral poiut of view, lis election to oflice proved a most untortuoate occurrence, Ut a bitterly Tevengetul disposition, he used bis powers to pay off oid scores with lis evemies, The ex-rebels were treated in the most rigorous manner possible. sooner had they returned to their bomes than the pionists began to persecute them, In this emergency ‘a number of bighly respected aud intiuential eiizens of Eastern Tennessee”? memorialized the Governur so isgue a proclamation soldiers and cilizeug in that section of the State to cease, under a sense of pgrsonal wrongs, to resort to the tu. fliction of violence upon the persons of others who sytupathized witt the late rebellion, aud also to cease threats aguinst persons who have returned under pa- rolo to their homes ugrecably to the terms accorded to the armies of Lee and Jobuston.”? Governor Brown- low complied with the request so fur ay to Issue a proclamation, but tusteed of counselling peace and amity he distinetly announced his sympathy with tbose who sought vengeance on the ex-rebels, declar- ing, ‘tl am mol among those who would restrain their vengeance against their oppressors.” His rule was one of iron, With an obedient Legislature at his back, be organized a large jurce of miitia and lured it upon the people. Voters were distranciised by tens of thousands, Couvties that cast 8,000 votes ut the Prosidential election of 1869 were reduced to less than one hundred, Men who bad been consistent Unionists throaghout the war were disfranchiged Lecause they refused to support tne Gov- ernor. By the exercise of the most urvitrary power he re-elected himself in 1567, and soon after was chosen a Senator tn Congress to succeed Mr. Patterson. When the contest between the President aud Cou- gress began the Governor sided witn the latter, Jn a speech Which he made in Kuoxville in March of 1806 he suid;—"l am in favor ol the test oath, and don’t want it repealed—and it wou't be, thank God!’ there are crippled rebels in Washington who want to govern this country, and L am opposed to letting them Yhey woulda’t beip govern the country. President Jobnson can’t carry a single Staté north of Musoa’s Ime but Kentucky, aud I wish he would carry that State to hell” Almost to the last be cherished im- placable animosity for the ex-rebels. By bis speeches and his writings the State of Teanessee was kept in ubsolute anarchy. He encouraged the persecution of ex-rebeis, and when they retaliated ho sent bis militia tu bunt down and murder them. Tbere was no punish- meat, in bis estimation, too severe for them, To give the reader a cieur idea of the virulence he exhibited tho following public utterance of his soon alter the war closed is appended, Speaking of the ex-rebels, he Baid:— Ampoverish the villains—tako ull they have—give their effects to the Union m ey bave crippied and iimprisoued, and let them have their “Southern righis.” They swore id curry on the war until they exhausted their last ound lost their lands. Put itto them, is our ad- ly—teece them and let them know u rovbed of ull they have! Let them be be iinpoverished, let them be sluin, Jain, let them be damned! When next Mr. Brownlow took bis seat in the Senate he was asad spectacle of pnysical debility, Shaking from palsy, he took the outh of oflico und then sank back Io bis cushioned seal, ¢xhausted by the effort ‘The tew votes that be cast during tbe session were all partisan, Almost bis last appearance in the political areoa was bis support of Mr. Senter, the conservative candidate for Governor of Tennessee against Colonel Siokes, His action surprised all persons who were aware of the extreme views of the Governor, as the = issu on which the canvass was made was the eniranchisement of tho ex-revels, It 18 not unlikely that the old man had begun to relent, Standing, as he did, at the verge of the grave he must ave perceived that it was time for him to muke his peace with all men, to forgive ui enemies and in bis last days to display a little of that magnanimity to which be had veen a stranger during the whole of his public hfe. But, whatever bis motive, it is certain tbat his action and the result of the election con- tributed greatly to restore Tennessee to peace and tranquillity, After yeurs of bloodshed and disorder that State was at length restored to quiet, and if t! deceased contributed even indirectly to this he de- erves the credit for so coutriouting. While nothing but praise can be given for the uo- flincuing toyatty of William G. Browniow to the Union during the darkest and most critical days ot the Ke- public, it cannot be said that bis death will seriously aifoct the country. His personal feelings entered too largely into nis public career to render his services of signal beneiit, With less of ability than Thad Stevens, he possessed more than the “Great Com- moner’s” bitterpess of temper. With him tho gracilication of a revengetul ieeling was paramount to all considerations !ounded on a statesmanlike pohey. Moderation was unknown to him; magnanim- ity Was not one of his virtues, Still it must be said that he was as warn a friend ag he Wus an implacable enemy. His private charactor was also good, But he ‘was no statesman, anda, a politician he will only ve remembered by the extreme views he held aud by the almost tyrannical manner in which he exercised te power placed in hiv hands, wit EDWARD SEYMOUR. Mr. Edward Seymour, of the firm of Scribner, Arm- Strong & Co,, publishers, died at Bloomiueld, N, J., on Saturday evening iast, alter a short but severe lines, Mr. Seymour was one of the best knowa and most highly respected and esteemed of our literary men. He was about forty years of age, the son of a clergy- man, and a graduate of Yale College, For many years he held responsible positions on a leading New York newspaper, In 1564 he associated himself with the publishing firm of which, two years later, he be- came and has siuce continued a member, Mr. Soy- mour belonged to the Presbyterian communion and enguged actively in the work o1 the Suuday school, fils genuine ‘kindness of heart and bis cor- diality oi manner made for him a wide circle ot iriends, not ouly atnong those engaged in the book trade, but with authors, both at home and abrowd, and indeed among all classes of the com- munity, He was a inember of the ‘Century,’ of this city. Mr Seymour was a man of literary tastes, @ good public spovker and a clear and entertaining writer, As a@ publisher he was fall of sQggestion and of enterprise, uid & hard and conscientious worker, Ho seldom Wrote over his own name, but critical arti- cles irom his pea have irequently appeared during the last few years both in the newspapers and in Scribner's Monthly. Ove of bis latest snd most valuable piecos of literary lubor was the editing and condeusation of the ‘Motmoirs of Canon Kingsley.” Mr, Seymour leaves three children and a wile—the daughter ot the Rev. J. M. Sherwood, editor of the American Presby- terran and Prinecton Quarterly COLONEL CHARLES M'CORMICK, Colonol Charles McCormick, surgeon United States Army, Who had been sick 11 this city for the past two or three montha, died at the Sturtevant House, on Saturday, April 28, from cardiac dropsy, His boay bas been removed to Governor’s Island, whence the fuueral will take place, He will be interred at tho Governor's Isiand Cemetery on, probably, Tuesday. Dr. McCormick entered the army as assistant surgeon in 1836, and on wccount of his long and faithful service was appointed colonel under a late act of Congress. Colonel Chambers, the commanding ollicer, and Surgeon Smiuh, post surgeon of Governor's Island, will have charge of the funeral ceremonies, CAPSIZED IN THE KASE RIVER, By a sudden flaw in the wind a sailboat belonging to James Carey, of No, 90 Eayle street, was capsized in the East River, off Freeman street, Greenpoint, yos- terday afternoon, aud Mr. Carey, Mra, Carey and Jobn Goulding, who were on board, were thrown into the water, Mrs. Carey threw hor arms around Goulding, 80 that he could do nothing to save himself or her, They would both have been drowned but lor the efforts of Joseph Corcoran, of the schooner K, G. Sawyer, who rescued them in a@ senseless condition, from which they were resuscitated by Doctor Snell, Cal stuck to the boat until it was towed ashore, he resumed his editorial duis. | No} ‘calling upon returoing federal | | whig party by William M. Evarts. APRIL 30, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET: LINES OF NEW DEPARTURE. Albany Solons on the Future of Parties. THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE DEMOCRACY. General McQuade on Pharisees and Sumptuary Laws. THE MAN WHO WAS BORN A WIIG. Atpany, April 28, 1877. Tho statesmen to be found in this cily either as per- manent residents or called bither by oflicial position are not favorable tothe new departure, Indeed, there js po line or tint in it which finds favor tn their eyes; nor is there any Moses to be found of suificient per- suasivencss as a leader to draw them away from the fleshpots of Egypt upon which they are at present re- guling, aud which they fud so toothsome that no vision of the promised land, though secn trom a Pisgah of never so great a height, affords the slightest temp- tation, The democrats see in the present divided con- dition of their opponents an assurance of enue suc- cess in the near future, while the republicans seem to realize that though just at present their old craft may not be entirely seaworthy, the waves are running rather too high to justily a transfer to another, The following is the result of intetviews with a number of the most prominent of both parties:— AMASA J. PARKER Hon. Amasa J. Parker, the old and trusted leader of the deuocratic party in New York State, suye “There will be no new purty, The democrats iu this State are uow absolutely solid and will remain so, ‘There were some prominent democrats who wero opposed tw the Presidential candidacy of Governor Tilden, but Mr, ‘Vilden’s candidacy 1% a thing of ihe past. The campaign of this tall will sow the full strongth of tue democracy of the Stu No demo- ruts are going to turn republicans now, and the repubs licans are not going to change their organization without any prospect of muking converts, The two parties will remsio as beiore, aud Mr, Hayes’ will only result 1a strengthening our party by show. ing that democratic principles were mgt aud repubil- can doctrines wrong. ‘Lhe country ts indebted to Mr. Hayes for his course in Louisiana und South Carolina, but the credit of it belongs really to the democracy, who bave always advocated the policy of conciliation and justice, and not to the republican incumbent of the Presidential chair, who bus been forced by necessity to take a course 1p opposition to the principles of his cauvass.’? JAMES M’QUADK. General James McQuade’s views are expressed in the following conversation with your correspondent :— Coxgksvox DENT—General, What do you think of the new departure? GuxexaL—New departure; what is that? some change iu the time tuble, we night boats, or atresh raid of fhe Black Horse Cavairy in pastures new? CoknEsroxpest—No; 1 mean the new political de- parture? Guxenat—Oh, the proposed resuscitation of the ola Weil, L think it is like the fuimous description of the snakes in ireland— there are no snakes tn Ireland. There won’t be any new departure to speak of. There is a democratic party and there will be an opposttion, It is called by difleront numes at uifferent periods, but it is nothing but opposition to the democratic party after all. The Tepublican party has accomplished is mission; it Junctus offic, Slavery is abolished; the war 1s over ‘the’ last ropublican and the tirst fraudulent President is in the chair, ‘I'he republican party was ou ite last legs ia 1875, lis ‘life waa projonged by the election of Hayes over Allen as Governor of Ohio. If Alien had been elected the republican party would nave veen hope- lossly demoralized, 1t was beaten lust year, and ‘Ciiden was lairly elected; but politics is often like a game of billiards—you do not win so much by your own good play as by the poor play of your adversary. The tmidity and vacillation of the leading democrats, coupled with the soutiments of a quota of the Southern contingent, prevented ‘iiden from reaping the Iruity of the victory that had been won tor nim, Until re cently there were some tew peuple, perhaps, outside of tho office-hoiders, who thought that there was some doubt abuut Tildeu’s election on the 7th of Noveiwver last, but the Louisiana affair has convinced even these. The recognition of the Nicholls goverament present irrefragable proof that Tilden was elected President There is uo argument to meet the inexorabie logic of the event, ‘Tilden and Nichoils received the same vote tn Louisiana, 1f Nicnolls is Governor Tildea ought to be President. “Hayes may make as many efforts at n jepartures as he pleases, but be will get no followers outside of the oifice-hotders and political bummers. A majority of the peopio believe that he was vot elected President of the United States. The democrats uli believed it before; they reiniorced vow by a large portioa of the republicans, who see in the recognition of Nicholls au acknowledgment that Tiiden carried Louisiana. No purty ever succeeded by mere organization and tuo possession of the spoils, It is something like au army composed of all officers aud baggage wagons. ‘There must be some principle ynderlying the organization— some fundamental idea, ‘Tho republican party Lad tor its Vital principle at the outset opposition to slavery ; subsequently 1 was the war party; and tie history of the world shows that war parlies succeed in every country. But what would Hayes have as the founda tion of the now departure? Nothiog but the traditions of the old wuig party, which have no hold upon the people. “You can’t dig up the mouldering bones of whig- gery and clothe them with flesh and blood by dipping them in the vat of political patronage. Hayes wouid have the oillces, but officers don’t strengthen a party, For overy one appointed to a position there are ven disappointed, Bexides the attempt to transter whoie- saie the entire republican party to a new machine would bea iailure. A large proportion of the repub- licans are old democrats, who lett the party on tue slavery question, und were strong autagonists of the whigs. They would bo apt to seek their old aifiliations rather than antagonisms. On the contrary, the old whigs wno are now in the democratic orgunizaion would be apt to remain, 1 was a whig myselt. I bee cume a meuber of the party shortiy beiore its decease, Dut {have great respect for its memory. 1 want to keep that respect. 1 don’t want its record desecrated by an attempt to boister up a fraud ou tue people. It aim entirely well satisfied to reimaim in the democratic party, notwithstanding my belief tuat it requires a Hiutie more brains and pluck im the leadersmip, But the masses of the democracy are rizbt. Democracy means | self government, no sumptuary laws, uo Stupid pharisuical legisiavion, no infrimgement on per- sonal rights, no charlatanism, “The humbug relorm hypocrites ani impracticables are always iound arrayed against the democracy. 1 want to (rain with the pubdlicans and sinners, 1 done like the meddling Pharisees, 1 believe in the right of every man to go to Old Nick in his own way. Lubink it Was Sum Cox who said that the Puritan’s idea of heil was a pluce Where every man had to mind bis own business. Now the democratic party 1s not moddie- gowe enough to suit a great many well meaning people fu the rural districts. Nice people in the rural ise tricis, They are sometimes not meddiesome them selves. Lt you make a mistake im weighing a loud of wheat they won't meddie with il—if it should bappen to be in their favor; but they will interfere toprevent the people of Now York from going to perdition, They think that the democratic party 18—not to put too fue @ point on it—just hell, “ihe new departure will take all the fanatics, visionaries, pseudo retormers, Chrisuans who don’t believe in the ible, toial abstainers who drink behind the door, ¢trong-minded mothers who don’t want to be children, desiccated old maids and all the rag-tag and bob-tail of virtue’s apposition to sintul democracy. Sensible peopie will continue to support the democratic party, wuicb, as it tukes in sinners, will ave a large majority for years to come. “Ty sum itup, the repubhieun party ts played out, and there is nothing to take 118 piace at present. There will be an opposition in time, and it may be succexs- fui, Lt ought to be, occasionally, A change is goo for the people. But my opinion of it is the new departure ig no departure.” JAMES W. HUSTED, Ex-Speaker James W. Husted bad evidently not made up bis mind whether to be born again just yet or ot. The interview waa brief, if not witty, as fol- lows :— Conkesroxpeyt—Goneral, what do you think of the new departure? Mr. Husten—Ob, the old whig party redwvivus, Why, I was born a whiy, CoRRESPONDENT—But are you going to be a whig again? Mr. Husrep—I distinctly said I was born a whig. Excuse me; am wanted in ihe House. Going down to- ight? Suppose you won’s be up again for some tine 7 Goody. CoRKKSPONDENT—But, General, you don’t answer my question. Mr. Husrev (with dignity)—Did I not tell you 1 was born awhig? Must really hurry, Goodby. A VARIRTY OF OPINIONS, Assemblyman Luke F. Cozans says:—"I believe that tho policy adopted by the President on the seiti ment of the Southern question, if faithtully carrie out, will remove from future political contests this heretolore i important of issues and oblige the leaders of the republican party, like Morton, Blaine & Co., to seek for somo other subjects of national in- upon which to rally their disheartened fol tor I consider that Hayes’ course so tar bas dono more to demoralize the republican party than a dozen defeats, and that such result wiil benelit tho whole country.’ Assemblyman Rooney says cannot believe that there be wny new departure in the formation of a course | | | such a foundation. or tho revival of an old party, in wh: decent Gemocrat would participate wi B President Hayes; tor & man Whe could accept an olfice to which new he was fraudulently elected and then broke fait! th the conspirators who committed the fraud could never be trusted by any decent or honest mun, be he democrat or republican.” : Colove! Van Baren, the Nestor of the former coun- cils of the democracy, sententiously says:—‘Parties are not made, but grow, Senator Loomis says :;—‘'As at preeent advised I will bave nothing to do with uny new departure, 1 stand by the old democratic party. Hayes can’t patch up his cracked title by any such scheme, The movement will veexecedingly unpopuiar with the people in the rural districts. It will be an utter failure in this State, T think.” Dr. Polar Hayes says:—"'I am in favor of the Hayes’ party every time. General Barnum says:—The pew departuros is a goo thing to complete the destruction of the repub- lican party.” E. K, Apgar, Deputy Secretary of State, the Stentor of the democratic stump, says:—'*The whig party was the grandmother of republicanism, They can’t exist together again, As Grace Greenwood says, ‘A man can’t marry his grandmother.’ THE PEOPLE AND THE ADMINISTRATION—AN OLD POLITICIAN’S IDEAS—PARALLELS BE- YWEEN HAYFS AND FILLMORE, AND HAYES AND JOHNSON—THE DEMOCRATIC FUTURE, ‘The policy of President Hayes isa subject of pecu- liar avd especial interest at this juncture. He 18 variously criticised in different circles, For example, one coterie declares that Mr. Hayes has done only what a good man ought to have done in regard to the Southern question: that he should be regarded as an employ6é who bas been engaged by the people to carry out certain plans, and that it is duty todo so, Others give bim credit for an enlarged patriotusm that is not circumscribed by party ties and limits to the por- formance of certain prescribed actions, As to his building up a new party, or that the oid whig party shall be revived under his auspices, are matters that ews different cousiructions amony our citizens, Some declare thut to build upa new party Mr. Hayes must, iu order to get the benefit of it, make it known to Congress and the country, The scheme of Southern improve- ments suggested by Secretary Thompson will not do, it 1s thought, for the reason that it makes a way open for broadcast corruption; and no new party, in these days of relorm and retrenchment, cun be sustained upon Ibis believed that the democrats will not give Mr, Hayes any trouble, and that anything calculated to perplex bim or binder the policy of his ad- ministration will Spring trom bis own party. Mr Hayes is regurded by a good many of our pvop.¢ as 4 cous entious but neta great man; tuat he will be ruied by u nim, and that the opposition of any of tbe republican party may, make that leader prominent put never Presiuent, There are some active fepubiicuns in this city, and some of the radi- cal school, Loo, who openly aver that Mr, Hayes 1s just the wun for tbe erisis; that he will surrouad himself with the great men of the nation; resuscitate the South and give peace and prosperity to the whole coun- try, I'he Suggestion of the probable revival of the old whig party does got seem to gain much head. way among our old silver grays—those who ‘sul tive,’” They consider that there is no Henry Clay or Daniel Webster, or any statesman of their exalted patriotism and abilities to lead them, The parallels which are drawn iu the interview given below are interesting in this councetion, Mr. Joan i. llaskin, an old time democratic leader in Congress, is peraps one of the best informed political tuinkérs of the day and the ad- ministvations to which he refers, His view: laatevening to a Hany reporter, are bri lows:— JONN DB. HASKIN'S VIEWS, “The policy of Mr. Hayes,” said Mr. Haskin, ‘4s the ad uatioval policy ol President Millard Fillmore. Historical parallels are appropriate when similar events produced them, At tie close of tuo Mexican war, he admmustration ot Mr, Polk and suc- cessiully terminated by the great abilities of Governor Marcy, Secretary of War, and Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary faylor, the country, grateful ior the | patriotic services of General Taylor, rewarded bim with the Presidency and Miliard Filimore with the Vice Preai- dency. After the inaugaration of General laylor—a war- rioraud pola statesmau—the perplexities of the Prest- dential situation were such as to overwhelm him with nervous debility, Disease set in and he suddenly died, Jeaving Fillmore as bis successor in the Presidenual chair, Fillmore was the representative of the dominant party of the country—ihe whig party. He, hike Vresident Hayes, surrounded bimself with a trunscondently sbie Cabinet, Daniel Webster betng recognized as the head of it, Fillmore had the same generous and patriotic desire to harmonize all the dis- cordant elements in the nation that President Hayes in his inaugural and 1m his treatment of the corp! tions in South Carolina and Louisiana has indicated as bis policy. “The Mexican war had given, as its triumphant re- sult, Texas with its foar States—two treo and wo siave—to be carved out of it as the people might de- termine; and California, with its golden wealth, to enrich an impoverished people. The country prospered under Mr. Fillmore’s whig aamministration, His policy and that of his Cabinet was peace and prosperity to every section of the Union, The fi pstiiation was to be observed in all tw pat ‘to the en- forcement of that provision which Was obnoxious to the North, the rendition of fugitive slaves, The foreign affairs of the government were settied under Danwl Webster in the celovrated McLeod case (the Curotine affair) and in the adoption of tne Ash. burton tréaty. The country was prospering and to prosper in consequence of the golden fields of California, ‘Tho mission of the Republic was then, indeed, peace. AGITATING STATESMEN, “Yet, notwithstanding the geueral ‘prosperity the agitating statesmen of the North, led by Seward and Sumner, destroyed the prestige of Fillmore, Mr, Webster and the remaindor of h's Cabinet, and built up on the ruins produced by bate and fanaticrsm the republican party. The clectioa of Pierce and King in 1852, with the South exacting the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and the unjustifiable repeal of the Missouri C romise, followed by the election of Buchanan, and 18 imbecility on the Kansis-Lecompton tssue, pro- duced the rebeliion with ail its woes, TUB HISTORIC PARALLELS. “Since then the country has been spasmodically prosperous, but a national debt bas been forced upou us amounting now to over $2.100,000,000, with State and municipal debts io audi- tion amounting to $1,200,000,000, with business enterprises stagnated, with individual and corporate bankruptcies existing to the amount of ut least $1,000,000, 000, with « loss of confidence of the peopie in the general legislation of the country, with banking capital hoarded up and not circulated tor the beuelit of lavor and the people, with a republican party electing its candidates by the machinery of legislation and tho Judiciary, with the corner stone of tne principles of that party the hatred of the Southern people and Southern institutions ag they existed belore the re- bellion, How, then, alter reviewing all these things, how, I ask, can Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet, with the active opposition of Blaine, of Morton, of Cameron, and those Who butit up and have controlled the repab- lican party of the past, upon {ts hates, its prejudices and its tapaticism—how can he expect ‘to receive any other result of bis administration than that which at- tended similar patriotic desires and movements ot President Fillmore? HAYES WON'T RE TYLERIZ “It has been stated that Mr, Hayes’ ministration will be ‘fylerized.’ 1do not agree to this, , President ‘Tyler, Upon the death of General Harrison, sigoalized bis Jacksonian demvcracy by vetoing the Fiscal Agency vill, This vetotost to him the support of the entire Whig party o/ the North, who then controlled the capitai of the country; and, having stricken a blow at the then existing banking Interests of the country, the entire vody of the wuig party left him, and he waa forced to full into the arms of the oppositio: His ad- MinistFation was cconomical and patriotic, but his party never forgave hun for what they proclaimed was his treachery to the bankimg interests of the whig party. DUTHERN LEADERSHIP IN TUE COMING CONGRKSS, ow the South in the coming Cougress, under the abic leadership of Senators Gordon and Hill, of Georgia, Lamar of Mississippt and Bayard, of Delaware, will not quarrel with Mr Hoyes and bis policy, but, op the contrary, they will yield to both ther generous and Wise support, bucaure, having been deceived by the Noribern democracy into an attempted and most dis- astrous revellion for Lhe imterests of their people, they now {vel that as their Stutes are tmpoverished aud sulleriog It is necessary that tho material weulih of them sould be fostered and protected. This ts the cB sential salesmanship whieh now controls the South in all ts movermouts ‘They bave accepted peace with al the bavetits expected to flow irom it, They want local seti-goverument, and in ail their State afiairs to be lett alone” Tos has been proffered them by Mr. Hayes «i tus Cabinet, have accepted it in goo taith and will be bound by its results. They bave ho QuixUE lights in the future, rely upon themselves and the first law of nature—ineir soit preservation —as underlying all their future development and pros- perity. HAYRS AND JOHNSON IN PARALLEL President Joinson’s policy was caiculated to con- chiate hrs own section, but in his attempt to do this hy lost the confidence of the party that elccted him, and was ground to powder evewween the two mill: stones. Tho resnit of the policy of Hayes and his Cabinet will prove be I io the interes: 1 the whole country during the term of bis administration, Yet it will array agaist it the underlying principles of the republican party, and the active, energeue and able statesmen of that party, headed vy Blaine, which will destroy tum as the rep tative of tie party, butearn for him enduring tame historically, as the patriouc Executive of the whole peopie, His tame, like that of Miiard Fillmore, will be at the expense of his party aod of hs party ati ations, THR DEMOCRATIC PUTORE, “The democratic party is ike the organization of the Catholic Church, Hut it wauts statesmen as leaders, With wise men and measures its future is bright with hope and success; but 1o accomplish both it requires bold and fearless leaders like Jackson and Douglas, and not timid champions, who lately-so cowardly de- serted it in the moment of its compiete triumph.” SENATOR SARGENT ON HAYES, [From the San Francisco Chronicle, April 21.) Revorrer—Senator Sargent, what do you think of President Hayes’ policy? Senator Saraent—It is rather early yet to express a very decided opinion, but I see no reason to doabt that it will have the effect to pacity the Soutu, It is avery conservative one aud seems to give salistaction, Rerorrer--What effect will it have on the republican party ? intimate, any split of a sectional character In the party; that is, # division between the ropublicaus of the Nerth and South ; but if there is apy faction created it will have {te adborents everywhere in general and nowbere in Particular, But this is something which cannot be made the subject of an opinion at present, The next month will go far to prove the success or failure of the President's policy, I am of the opiniouthat the extra session of Congress will witness some very warm devate on the subject, but I do not believe there will be auy factious opposition by the party. Sbould there be, and should there be a secession from the part 1@ administration, 1 think, would be quite as generally supported, so far us that goes; but the real. injury would -be the ect on repuviican principles, avd any division in the party is to be regretted, tor no other reason than thut, should the events of the next month not prove to be auspicious aud events should arise which might be interpreted into a belief that the policy ig not or will not prove successful, there will be a groat deal of warm debate, but 1 think the very policy and tenets of the repubitcan party will prevent tactious Opposition, PRESIDENT HAYES’ POLIOY, RevorteR—W hut sort of a man is President Hayes? Senator Sarcxyt—He is a man who desires to do just what is right, He will ask advic id place him. self on the right track so ‘ar as be is able, aud then will carry out bis measures without regard to any pressure which may be brought to bear upon him. Suil, with ali nis drmness, he 18 pot so obstinate man bat that he appears to be open to conviction ‘aod willing to change"bis plans if tbey prove to be unwise, Revorrex—Are you going to run again for Senator? Senator Sarcuxt—I am; and I have announced ig thas curly because 1 desire my friends throughout the State to Know it and render it impossible for them te say alter election, 1m case the purty should be beate: that they would have worked harder to carry the Sta: if they had known I intended to run, But Tl think 18 premature to talk about this matter until we get a Legislature. If we succeed next fall, then the ques. tion, Who shall be Senator? will be next in order. But at present [ think that all these questions should be Jnid aside, and all the candidates do their part to ine sure @ republican success at the tall election, In Seat words, “first catch your hare, and then cook it” RerortkR—How about General Miller, Mr. Boruck and the other candidates? = * Senator SARGENT (quickly)—Oh, pfoase don’t ask me for au expro-sion of iny opinion, ' You must excuse ma from answering that question, There are now but three Unitea Stutes Senators in this city—Sharon, Booth and Sargent, Sbaron bas not heretofore taken an active part in political matters during bis term as Senator, nor is he likely to; Booth ts known to bo in sympathy with the policy of Presie dent Hayos; and the whole story as to the action of ras pubitcan Seaators adverse to the pressut administration: ig undoubtedly false, THE REPULLICAN PARTY. (From the Chicago Times, April. 27.) “There is notruth in any report that the” repubs lican “party is likely to divide on this policy of the President. On the contrary, it is really healing the divisions of the party, and itis everyday gaining in the confidence of the people,” Expressions of this sort abound these days in the columns of newspapers wear. ing toe republican label, But there isa sort ol inco» berency and dolefulness about them that go to show what misgivings are harbored by the writers thereof, How is it possible for tho President’s policy to strengthen the combination of politicians called tho republican perty? What is that party, anyway, unless there is a ‘nigger in tho wood-piley”” What reason has it for existence any more than the opposing combinution of politicians when the “southern question” is setied? Wien there is no bleeding Ethiopian to excite compas+ sion, when there iano uight-riaing bull-dozer tor Pope Bob to heap wrath upon, whut business iu life u republican combination? The sagacious heads of the party—the Pluined-Kuight Biaines, the indignane Ben Wades—see cleariy enough that the President's policy deprives their party of everything cohesive except the spoilk Hence they still hold alott the old sign under which they have heretofore conquered, and iv o litte while you shall see them delivering such ane as they can upon the President's devoted bi Where, pray, is the President’s policy strength- ening the party that eleciea bim? Is it iu South Carolina? 1s itin Louisiana? Li he were a candidate to-morrow not a thousand of those wbo supported bim last fail would vote for him in both of these States combined. , He has aunibilated bis party in the South, and he has divided it in the North by quenching ite in- forming and animating spirit. Both of tho party num may survive, but the parties themselves will not the same in either their constituents or their purposes. It the Southern question’ is really settle, as 16 seems to be, new issues must necessarily arise, and parties will organize with reference to those new Is- sues, No one necd be surprised to see party lines drawn along the Mississippi lovees and tho l'exas Pa- cil Railroad within a year, and to seo both of th ane parties divided by that line nearly in the middle, THE DUTY LAID UPON THE SOUTH, [From the Nashville (Tepn.) American, April 27.] Upon the prople of the Southern States now falls @ responsibility which they have not had heretofore. So Jong as a government in which they were scarcely represented was assuming to deal with and settlo local questions through an organizod arm alien to the peo. ple, hostile to their interests, and having no object but power und plunder, the white people in the South were excusuble for feeling that they wero relieved in great measure from responsibility, They have shown a great courage and fortitude, a remarkable calmness, all things considered. They have had their faults and committed their blunders. They have not been saints, ‘They have been men under a burning sense of wrong and a humiliating and exasporating sense of impotence, but they have struggled with a heroic patience anda noble bope. The peculiar surroundings stifled the potent force of the public opinioa formed by the best elements and tos- tered that of the worst. Where the vest elements of Southern society were powerless to act, to create law abiding sentiment or law, powerless to mal public sentiment or to do anything but heroically to endure, the worst elements were able to act because ned by law, or by patience or hope for the tu« this is atan cud. [twas the inevitable re- sult of war, itself an inevitable thing. 1t should all be forgotten, The past cannot proilt usnow, The future is our own to make what we will of it, The Southern people are now lett tace to face with these quostions, to be settled with reference to ourselves alone. 8 well that we feel our periect independence and deal with them with self-reliance—unconstrained by what people may think here, there or elsewhere— uncontroiled by any notion of any obligation owed to anybody else. We have been already too much accus- tomed to have itasked among ourselves, ‘*What eflect will our action bave upon our political prospects, or what will Tom, Dick or Harry elaewhere gay?” Such a rule of conduct ® degrading and contemptibie one, and the best reasen for hope is that it bas vever bad the slightest effect. 14 bas been rejected and scorned, We have pow the opporvunity to foliow a beter rule—tho plain, practical one of strict right, of exact justice to all men—the golden rule of doing Unto others us we would have others do uuto us. Asa mere matter of selfish policy the most enlightened seiishoess could never have framed, tor its own good alone, a better rule, Exact jastice, strict and equal enforcement of the laws, the protection of the weakest and Lumbiest, the growth of a strong public sentiment in favor of exact equality before the law, will conduce to our own prosperity. 1t is this we bave to attain before we are a prosperous, orderly, law-abiding people—vefure wo enjoy all the ' blessings ol law and order and the full measure of prosperity. The sooner we are about it the better. There is no longer any excuse for the want of a law. abiding spirit, or for the presence of a lawless class, able at times to break over all restrain. The law is now able everywhere in the South to protect all; it must restrain all In every community she law abid- ing and moral class can create a strong public senti- javor of law and order and of exact and equal Justi It is for their own protection and well being, wud Witbout it we can have no permanent prosperity, The jaw aviding‘and orderly, the moral elements must grapple with that other clugs, the disorderly and the Tush and splevetive, and trample them under foot, even if they must be crushed and annihilated to be correcied, ibe South bas not escaped the danger of reactionary sentiment and policy. Lt bas only reached the period where the better elements of society can control the reactionary and compel tho enforcement ot those prin- ciples which are nocessary to our future peace, stabil- Ny @nd prosperity. ‘Tbe bardest part of our work bas Just begun, We have just bad our own salvation and Juture development committed into our own bands, Fortunatoly, in the long struggle tor the attainment of this end wo bave acquired patience and fortitude and We are vetter prepared for ing the next end—rightly asing the liberty we have so as to build up the most orderly and prosperous com- munities POOR LOST ROSETTE, Mrs. Dovey, an English woman, lives at No, 8Greeno street, and d in live specimens of the dog, monkey and other household pots, A Fronah lady living 2 tbe neighborhood was possessed of a favorite lapdog which she bad named Rosette, but tn anevil hour Rosette strayed from ber protector and eluded all ate vempts at discovery of her whereabouts, The regular detectives having failed, the disconsolate lady employed ove Rénué Leroux to wid in the recovery of the lost durliug, Im bis earnest neas Réné visited various places and finally conceived the idea that the favorite was concealed io the catablighment of Mrs, Dovey, He accordingly entered the piace and persisied, in spite of ali remon- strance, in calling out in various yore ‘Rosette, Rosette,” bat Rosette did now respond, Still dissatie fed, be refused to leave until @ policoman waa sum moued and be was forcibly ejected. Yesterday he was arraigned before Judge Murray at Jefferson Mar- ket Court, Judge Murray sympathized with the lady in her joa, but was compelled to punish Mr. Lerous for bis breach of the peace. He was fined $5 and cau- tioned not to allow his zeal to lead him to excesses 19 the future, Poor Rosetve ts still migsing, IRELAND'S WKONGS AND GLORIES, Rev. Fath O'Farroll delivered a lecture last even= ing in St. Peter's Church, Barclay street, on the ““Wrongs and Gloriés of Ireland,”” The lecture was attended by a large audicnes, fully in sympathy with, Senator Sak@uxt—I don’t think there will be, as you the views of the apeaker,