The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1878, Page 6

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Money ou call was more active, lending up as high as 4 per cent and closing at 3 per cent. Tue Heprews begin their new year to-mor- row—5639. The day ushers in some of the most important holidays of the Jewish year. Firreen Removats in the Custom House are under consideration, and next week we shall probably have fifteen more auti-administration republicans, Tuer Is Very Litrie Dancer that any of the patriotic oftice-holders of ‘Tummany will, like the sea captain yesterday, be driven insane by overwork. Tux Aportion of hard money platforms by the two political parties of the State has con- vineed the grcenbackers that they are not quite 80 important as they supposed they were. Ocr Invusrrious TRaveLLen, General Grant, is again back in Paris, where, it will be seen from our special cable despatch, he was warmly welcomed by Minister Noyes and other official and personal friends. Tus Committe: or tux Ban to receive charges against the county officers who are ac- cused of exacting illegal fees appeara to be a dark lantern sort of a body. No information is allowed to be made public. Ix tue Custom Hous inquiry one of the witnesses informed Mr. Wood that he could suggest no improvement in the collection of duties on human hair. The chairman of the Ways aud Means ought to call Sitting Bull. hh the annual pennant re- gatta of the Atlantic Yacht Club was closed yesterday afternoon gave some of the beauti- ful craft an opportunity to show their seaworthy | qualities. All the boats behaved splendidly. Tue Unirep States Steamer Enrerrnise, which has been engaged in the exploration of the Amazon for the last five months, has re- turned to this port. Captain Selfridge, her commander, contirms the report of our corre- spondent, which waa printed yesterday, as to the entire success of the expedition. Tue Reports from the yellow fever districts this morning are not encouraging. At Chatta- nooga the disease is said to be spreading over the city; the country districts of a portion of Georgia are suffering and a similar condition of affairs is reported in Louisiana. In New Or- leans, however, the number of new cases ia steadily declining. Coyxsipertnc that Mr. Gorham, the secre- tary of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, has abandoned ail hope of getting any moncy from the national banks (or political purposes General Butler's advice to those in- ttitutions not to contribute toward his defeat is | entirely unnecessary. They appear to have other use for their cash. Iv tHe Testimony given yesterday by the witness Jones, in the Billings murder trial, to the effect that he saw the accused enter the Washburne house some minutes before the shot was fired cannot be broken down it must, | taken in connection with what is already in, essentially aid in acquitting the prisoner. Some expert evidence in favor of the accused was also presented. é Tur Wratuer.—The storm centre, taking | the course suggested by the Hrratp of Wednesday, has passed through the St. Law- rence Valley districts and is now over the Gulf. It was rapidly followed by a very large area of high barometer, which now dominates the weather trom the Missouri Kiver to the Middle Atlantic States, and from the British posses- | sions to the Gulf coast. Rain has talien in the Middle Atlantic and New England States, the Jake regions and the Gulf districts. In the West and Northwest generally clear | weather has prevailed. ‘The winds have been from fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantic and | New England coasts, and tho eastern section | of the Jake regions, brisk to high in the North- west and elsewhere generally fre: There has been a general fall in temperatures, except in sonic sections of the Jake regions. It continues relatively very warm in the yellow fever dis- triets, and there is very little hopo thata fa- yorable change will immediately occur, ‘The | weather in New York and its vicinity to-d will be cool and fair. To-morrow the same con ditions are likely to prevail. i _ NEW YORK HERALD, . FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. Senator Conkling’s Speech. Mr. Conkling is almost the only states- man of our period who bas acquired such a command over public attention that all his utterances are deemed of sufficient interest to be fully reported by the press. This is as much the effect of eloquence as of po- litical standing. ‘The two statesmen of the last generation—Webster and Clay—whose light and occasional as well as grave and formal speeches were always carefully re- ported as of universal public interest would not have found so eager a body of renders if the force and felicity of their language had not added pleasure to instruction. A Saratoga correspondent of the Evening Post says, disparagingly, that there is nothing novel or original in Mr. Conkling’s argu- ments. ‘It will be seen,” says this corre- spondent, ‘that the Senator's financial views are not so broad and comprehensive as his friends had given the public to understand that he would make them. He suggested no financial policy, nor is his argument in any respect original. The state- ments fnd arguments are familiar from the editorial discussions in the better class of newspapers.” Even conceding this to be true it is not pertinent. There hes un- doubtedly been a great deal of sound and cogent reasoning on the money question. ‘Lhe difficulty has not been in finding the right arguments, but in getting attention to those arguments. A sound financial argument in the Evening Post, for example, is only brought to the notice of such of its own readers as may happen to read the article; but the same argument, when restated by Senator Conkling on an occasion when the whole country hangs upon his lips and scans his meaning, en- lists the attention not merely of the read- ers of one newspiper but of all the readers of every publicjournal, whose curi- osity is sharpened by tho critical occasion, by the great reputation of the orator, and by the singularity of his relations to the administration at Washington aud to ‘his internal foes in his own party in this State. Even if Mr. Conkling’s mode of stating the financial arguments were not better than their current forms his ability to command and even to compel attention to them enables him to render an important service. It is like the difference between gold in the hands of bullion dealers, where nobody sees it, and gold turned out in bright coins from the mint, which find their way into universal cir- culation. Thousands of citizens will read and weigh sound financial arguments as they fell from the lips of Mr. Conkling who would have bestowed no attention on them coming from other sources. It is frivolous and captious to say that his arguments are not novel and origi- nal. There is no place for originality ona subject which has been so exhaustively dis- cussed. ‘Lhe service rendered by Mr. Conk- ling consists in the use he has made of his great position in compelling attention to sound reasoning which has been slighted and undervalued when presented through other channels, Mr. Conkling’s strong and strenuous declarations on the money question are valuable in another aspect. It has been represented by his political enemies in his own party that he has covert leanings to- ward the wrong side, these malicious repre- sentations being founded on the fact that Mr. Conkling took no conspicuous part in the currency discussions of Congress during the last session. No ~ fault can be found with his votes, which were uniformly on the right side; but it has been charged that his silence in the debates, especially on the silver question, indicated a leaning in the wrong direction. If any such suspicions have been enter- tained, the speech of Mr. Conkling at Sara- toga furnishes a shining refatation, His speech shows that he is not merely right but strong and vehement on the great ques- tion of resumption. It is impossible to do justice to the strength of Mr. Conkling’s position with- out quotations from his speech. He pours scorn on the idea that any legislation by Congress can nadd to the real wealth of the country. ‘Property,” he says, “is the product of labor. It must be hewed out of the forest, ploughed out of the field, blasted out of the mine, pounded ont of the anvil, wrought out in the factory and fur- nace. Labor is at the bottom of it all, and the nation in which there are the most laborers and in which labor is best cherished and cared for must be the richest and most prosperous. Capi- tal and labor are natural allies; when they work together both are enriched; when they are hostile or separated both suffer.” This is not only correct {rom the standpoint of science, but itis in conformity to com- mon sense. Nothing is more evident than | that wealth is the product of labor and that no possible legislation can make one bushel of potatoes two bushels, Mr, Conkling proves conclusively enough that the ery for more currency is wild and foolish. He shows that there is a great deal more cur- rency than can find employment. “It is said,” observed Mr. Conkling, “that we should have new and large issues of paper money. What for? Is not currency piled up in every bank and money centre and de- pository? Cannot money be borrowed in millions at the lowest rates of interest? When all the paper and coin in the country is put into active circulation will there not be abundant currency?” Yhere is no valid reply to the argument im- plied in these questions, When there is an abundance of money lying idle-—an abund- ance of money offered to be loaned at the lowest rates and finding no borrowers—it is absurd and ridiculous to pretend that the country is suffering from a dearth of money. The truth is that there is a plethoric sup- ply of money which its owners cannot lend at any rate of interest, and under such circumstances the ery for more money is a freak of the wildest lunacy. We rejoice that Mr. Conkling has exposed this delusion in the convincing forms of argument of which he is so con- summate a master. Mr. Conkling conclusively refutes all the minor delusions which have gathered round the question of the currency. ‘What is to be done,” he says ‘with a new issue of paper? It is to be paid, we are told, to Aon eatienns © What are they to do with it? Will they give it away? They will keep it or loan it, What good will that do? If put into cir- culation it will dilute and depreciate the whole currency and put up prices for the poor to pay, and the wages of labor will not advance fast enough to keep up with the advance of prices of food and commodities. All borrowers with security can borrow at the cheapest rates of interest now—this is all they can do after more greenbacks are issued.” - It is true enough that there is nothing original in this line of argument; but who can dispute that it is calculated to make a greater impression on the public mind when coming from so eminent a statesman as Mr. Conkling? His indorsement of such views is important in a wider aspect. It proves that there is to be abso- lute unanimity in the republican party on the great question of the cur- rency. In spite of the greenback mad- ness which rules the hour one of our great political parties is uvalterably committed to sound monetary principles and honest dealing with the public creditors; and, even if it should suffer in the election of this year, it need entertain no doubt that the “sober second thought” of the people will support it. Senator Conkling makes a felicitous quotation from Lamar- tine on this subject:-“I place my bark on the highest promontory of the beach and wait for the rising of the tide to make it float.” This assumes that the honest money sentiments of the country are @ rising tide and that it is safe to await its incoming flood. We have no doubt. at all that this opinion of Mr. Conkling is founded on a correct forecast of the fu- ture, nor that if the question between sound money and inflation should be the main issue in the next Presidential elec- tion, that the advantage will be on the side of the republican party, especially if resumption next January should prove a success and the business of next year should be successfully conducted on the specie basis. The Rule of the Road. If orders had been given by the mana- gers of the Long Island Railroad to cause what is called an “accident” every other day on that wonderful line its employés would be entitled to the highest praise for their zeal and cfficiency. It may be that such is the fact, and that instead of con- demning we ought to approve the seem- ingly wanton carelessness that yestérday afternoon sent o road train crashing into a regular passenger one on the Southern Railroad. The only thing to make us doubt the correctness of the supposition that the bringing about of collisions and the killing of people is one of the principal rules of the road is that in the accident yesterday the train of that very important official, the pay- master of the line, was one of those that came to grief. It seems that while his train was rushing along at full speed from one end of the line a passenger train was com- ing in the opposite direction on the same track. A telegraph operator at Fresh Pond was instructed to detain one of them, but he was so overjoyed at the prospect of salaries being paid that he forgot all about it and the inevitable collision took place. Fortunately there was no loss of life. The shoulder of a passenger was broken and the paymaster’s hend was cut and probably some of the old rickety locomotives were injured, Since the managers are unable or unwilling to improve the working of the road we desire to suggest in the interest of their patrons that they erect hospitals at convenient distances along the line and send out a good supply of surgeons on every train. The Saratoga Convention, Thore could not be a more conspicuous and convincing proof of the soundness of the Saratoga platform on the money ques- tion than is furnished in the warm and eulogistic speech of Mr. Curtis, Mr. Curtis went to the Convention in a mood to find fault and criticise if he could find an occasion, and the fact that he makes one of his most brilliant and em- phatic speeches in admiring support of the platform evinces the consummate skill with which the dominant™Conkling faction has engineered the proceedings. Senator Conkling has been victorious throughout, as it was a foregone conclusion that he would be as soon as his majority became known, but it was not expected that a Convention controlled by his friends and ran in his interest would call forth warm eulogies from the bitterest of his political and personal enemies. But we are treated to this miracle. Senator Conkling might be justified in re- garding the speech of indorsement made by Mr. Curtis as the proudest trophy of his victory if his former treatment of that brilliant gentleman had not been such as to require him to seem indifferent to anything Mr. Curtis may say. But the pub- lic, which does not share Mr. Conkling’s atfected indifference, will regard the speech of Mr. Cuttis in the Convention yesterday asa bright feather in Senator Conkling’s cap. Courtney's Danger. The almost continuous rough water at Lachine since Courtney's arrival there will, if it lasts, do more than simply inconven- ience and drive him to take his exercise on land—it will seriously endanger his pros- pects in the race, Since his arrival there he has not yet been able to be much on the racing track itself, owing to the heavy weather, and thus he can have but a partial idea of its eddies and currents. The St. Lawrence widens at Lachine into broad water, not unlike the Tappan Zee, and, while the current is doubtless chiefly in the main channel, it can hardly fail to affect all portions of the water. Unless Courtney can get several days practice before next Wednesday on the track itself he is going into the contest plainly handicapped. Han- lan’s former knowledge of this water will prove very valuable now, and, in addition, he was there for several days betore Court- ney’s arrival, and doubtless made good use of the time. While it is unfortunate that less exposed water was not chosen, still, if Courtuey can go early to the front, he is too old a hand to let his antagonist get much choice in the water without himself soon doing the same ; but he should be on the track as much as possible between this and race day. Our Weather Se:vi: in Europes In the number of things that are cabled to and fro between America and Europe there are many that are of no great conse- quence. In the telegrams received on this side it is probable that there is every day some fact of great actual or possible mo- ment; but the correspondents add to it a dribble of news that sometimes stirs the impatience of the reader. But the reader would recover his temper if he should com- pare the cable colamn in any New York paper with the chronicle of small beer that is sent from this side to London. Some time ago it occurred to us that we would help London in this particular. We thought we would send them some news of substantial value, As it appeared to be of great interest to them to know the price of wheat and the price of cotton, and when cargoes of these sailed for Europe, and when other ships with other cargoes sailed, we determined to give them an intimation from time to time of the departure of storms that bade fair to be severe ones ; for it seemed to us thet the news of a storm that might send a hundred ships to the bottom would be of at least as much value as the news of tho departure of a fleet—to put things on a strictly commercial basis. Accordingly we sent to England from time to time news of the storms they were to have there at fixed periods in the future—intimations of the movements of storms that had actually left our coasts and that would reach the British or French coasts on days named by us. Our warnings thus sent cover now a somewhat extended period and were very numerous. There never tas an absolute failure in these predictions. Eighty per cent of them—as a French meteorologist pointed out at the Paris Congress -- were literally verified by the facts. In the re- mainder there were slight lnpses of date—a storm came a day or two earlier or later than we had announced. Everybody will understand that we had no commercial in- terest at stake in this small service to our neighbors. We gave them friendly hints to take care. We sent also news that might be spread abroad in Europe and reath American captains who would use it; for the Henatp as the greatest ship news record in the world is interested in those captains, But it was rather a comical spectacle to see the use they made on the other side of our predictions. hey doubted them, of course ; they laughed at them; they even sneered about them. Newspapers printed the predictions in small type in out of tho way corners, as if, considering that they were probably explosive, they wanted them to do as little harm as possible when they went off. But the predictions came true and that made John Bull like them less than ever. It was a definite piece of im- pertinence for an American prediction to come true, becanse it had no right to disap- point the reasonable expectations of the public that it would fail. English meteorologists — especially official ones—attacked our storm warnings with the admirable pugnacity of their race. They proved the falsity of our predictions in the very height of the storms we had predicted, and did not know enough to get in out of the rain wo had told them would certainly come. But there isa final good quality in our cousin. There is justice in him if you can ever get through the shell of hard prej- udices that covers him, and the well sus- tained fire and just aim of our telegrams has finally compelled him to come to terms, By George, suys ho, we're done, For they‘ve tired a lee gun. Aud tho Yankees struck up Yankee Doodle Dandy 0! In the article from the London Times, of which an account is given in our news col- umns, it will be seen how completely lead- ers of thought on the other side have ac- cepted all the theories on which oar weather service was operated for their ad- vantage, and it will be seen that they make a proposition that may lead to the eventual organization of an extensive service of the same nature conducted under the auspices of the British government. Better late than never, John. The Rifle Team of °78, The shooting by the American team at Creedmoor yesterday and the day betore for the Centennial trophy was of course a mere formality. Disheartened by defeat no foreign team presented itself to contest with our marksmen for victory. No one entered the lists, for the reason that the su- periority of our riflemen was so prominent that the chances of success against them were as one in a thousand. While this failure of a foreign team to compete is one of the highest compliments that could be paid our marksmen it is to be regretted that it should have occurred and that the year must pass away without the annual in- ternational competition which we were be- ginning to accustom ourselves to look for- ward to with so much interest. ‘The record medo during the pro forma shooting of Wednesday and yesterday shows that the hands of oar champions have not lost their cunning. ‘The scores were not all coms pleted, but the total scored and the possi- ble of the shots unfired would still leave the team’s record a little lower than that of last year. Some of the individual scores were the best ever made, For instance, Mr. Blydenburgh, who last year ran up the then unparalleled score of four hundred and twenty-nine points, has been surpassed this year by three of the present team. A gratilying circumstance connected with the present team is that in it some ot the other States are represented, which is an evidence that the interest in this royal amusement is not entirely confined to our own State, but is becoming general all over the country. London Now and then London journals, weary- ing in the effort to reduce the newspapers of the United States, France or Germany to the level of conformity with their sense of what is admirable, turn to considering one another and lamenting each the weak. nesses of its adversary. ‘They find the field a fruitful one, English journalists have Nowspapers. made for themselves a severe and heavy | ‘standard, in virtue of which their news- papers seem® to Americans to have very little relation to the actual daily life of the people and to be made up mostly of exceedingly well writ- ten essays and conscientious narratives of the personal adventures of correspondents, in which narratives the writers often come very nearto a statement of the facts the reader wants toknow. This is 2 standard so different from that peculiar to this coun- try that we cannot wonder that on either side opinions are not altogether complimen- tary to the journalism of the other side. But conformity to a standard actually chosen is readily susceptible of judgment, and it may be readily said that against their own high claims in the matter of honesty in journalism the London journalists are the greatest sinners. For years the financial and theatrical opinions of the London Times were as notoriously purchasable as any com- modity in a London shop window. ‘The crite whom we quote alleges that its po- litical opinions are equally purchasdble to- day—not for money, of course, since the proprietor of the Times has no need of that kind of gear. But if the government pur- chases the opinions of the Times by dangling in the eyes of the proprietor the bauble of a title, the reader who buys it to get an inde- | pendent judgment on public topics is just as much betrayed as if the Times sold its applause for so much money. The Outcome at Syracuse. The proceedings -at Syracuse must be scored as a victory for Mr. Kelly. Aiter the delegates had been chosen and before the Convention met the Tilden faction put forth confident claims that it had a majority and that it would easily shape the action of the Convention. That proved to be a vain boast. By superior strategy, if not by superior numbers, Mr. Kelly gained control of the body, and the result shows that it was not Mr. Tilden’s or Mr. Robinson’s Convention, but Mr. Kelly’s Convention. he power, and the prestige which accompanies a demonstra- tion of power, may be fairly cluimed by Mr. Kelly. Asto the State Committee, which was the great bone of contention, there are coun- ter claims, but the Kelly claim seems the more plausible. Certain it is that Mr. Kelly’s allies in the rural districts will be encouraged and strengthened by tho results of his strategy at Syracuse. But that isa question for next year. Mr. Kelly returns to the city apparently victorious, and his democratic enemies here will despair of foil- ing him in the municipal elections of the present year. But if he should presume too much on his victory at Syracuseand put forward an unfit candidate for the Mayor- alty he may experience in this city a hu- miliation which he escaped in the Conven- tion. We suppose he will have no further hesitation in announcing his candidate, and the press of the city may have something to say as to, whether Mr. Kelly’s candidate ought to be elected. More Water Needod. Twice within several months the Com- missioner of Public Works has asked the Board of Aldermen for authority to set up pumps, fixtures, &c., on high ground near One Hundredth street and the Hudson River, so that Croton water may be deliv- ered at higher levels than itis now. The public affirmatively and strongly indorses the Commissioner's request. Not only is the water supply precarious on the upper floors of residences upon high ground, but far down town there are houses aboye the second floors of which there can be no water drawn between early morning and late evening. The authorities have en- deavored to stop the waste of water, and have succeeded in creating an occasional scare on the subject of a water famine, but this plan has not materially raised the level of the Park reservoir, so the annoyance of imperfect water service has continued. There can be no doubt of the duty of the Aldermen in this matter. Water taxes are collected upon each sta- tionary basin and other place where water is supposed to flow, and the city cannot honorably refuse to supply that for which the citizens pay. Even the overshadowing importance of always supporting the Comp- troller in his opposition to the head of the Department of Public Works should in or- dinary decency be forgotten in the consid- eration of this matter. Public officials may waste people’s time and moaoy in faction fighting and no very serious complaint is made, but when such contentions deprive respectable citizens of drinking water and the principal means of cleanliness the poli- ticians may expect to hear very loud and very long complaints. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Baron vou Friesen, of Prassia, is at the Everett House, Justice Harlan, Suprome Court, is enjoying his navy plog in Chicago, Senator Latayette F. Grover, of Oregon, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is at the Albemarioc Hotel, Senators James G. Biatee, ot Maine, and Ambrose E. Barnside, of Ruode Isiand, are at the Fifth Aveuue Hotel. ‘The Presitont yesterday appolated Thomas bs. Ellis, of Brooklyn, N. ¥., Indian agent at tho Fort Berthold Agency, D. 7. A writer in Fracer saya that the merely practicat manner of viewing life and, dealing with it siways becomes cruel, The appraisora of the estate of the late William 8, O’Brien, of San Francisco, fi'ed their report yesterday, The estate is Valued at over $9,050,000, exclusive of mining stocks, A telegram receive! by Secretary Sherman from Dr, Bastl Norris, the astending physician upon aire, General Sherman, at Atlantic City, ts to the effect that, while his patioot 1 dangerousty sick, he as of hor recovery. arrived at San Francisco yoster- day, and te busy arrangtag plans for a change in the harbor for fortifications, He wiil leave on Sunday morning next and proceed directly to Washington, overland, He is tu good healtb, but feels somewhat alarined by the reporis of bis wife's iliness, Commissioner cf Agriculture Le Dus and Mr Rogers, President Hayes? private , contra. dict the reports that the conduct of the former, while recently visiting Minnesota ia company with the President, elicited from Mr, Hayes the expression of a wish that Le Duc should leave the party. Chioago /nter-Ocean:—'September 15, 18978—To the editor of the inter ocean a while ago a young fellow took a indy ton fair and while thore he let ber out to tuke cure of the found her with @ nother plain or woaid you page it by and say nm Thomeon 1” THE STORM WARNINGS, Scientific Europe Excited by the Herald’s Predictions. SURRENDER OF THE OPPOSITION. An Important Article in the London Times. te [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Lonpow, Sept. 26, 1878. The most lively interest has been created throughout Europe and particularly in England by the recent storm predictions of the Heratp. The Daily News and Morning Post publish very full correspondence on the subject from all parts of the country, showing that it is not alone in the large cities that the Hxnatn’s system is dis- cussed. THE CRITICS ANSWERED. ‘The above papers published several criti. cisms on the verification of the warnings sent for August 29 and September 11, par- ticularly of the latter date, which foretold the arrival of a storm on the Spanish coast, which criticisms Mr. Collins answered in a two column letter, demonstrating fully by the official data of the Meteorological Office the complete fulfilment of the Hzzaun predictions. A NEWSPAPER ON THE SYSTEM. The Times printed a long and very ex- haustive article on the subject of meteor. ology. After sketching the former at- tempts made at weather prophecy by such men as Leverrier, Fitzroy, Airy, Herschel and other distinguished writers on the sub- ject, and giving an idea of the possible cause of their failure, the paper recounted the grent advances made in meteorological science since then. OCEANIC EFFEC1S ON BRITISH WEATHER. The writer stated that the peculiar weather of Great Britain resulted largely from influences of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf Stream, dceanic and atmospheric cir- culation, and adds :— “Now, although doubt has been thrown by some on the connection between the currents of the North Atlantic and the weather of the British Isles and Western Europe generally, it appears to us that the opinion expressed by Sabine many years ago is sound, and that the so-called Gulf Stream does in a most marked manner affect our weather, SUCCESS PROVES THE THEORY CORRECT, “The most striking evidence is found in the success of the storm predictions tele- graphed to this country from time to time by the New Yonz Hxzaup. If the warmer air over the great surface current from North America to Western Europe did not afford a path along which atmospheric dis- turbances can be propagated to great dis. tances without any noteworthy divergence, these predictions would certainly not have been fulfilled in so large a percentage of cases, ADVANTAGES OViB EUROPEAN PREDICTIONS, “These predictions, be it remembered, point much further in advance than any which have ever been based on European observations—a sure proof, if any were needed, thatin the main our weather de- pends altogether upon the Atlantic. We believe that not only wind storms but tem- perature and rainfall will in future, and perhaps before long, be predicted, for certain seasons at any rate, from the far West. THE GOVERNMENT TO FOLLOW THE HERALD, “Tt is true that the regular service of tele egrame formerly received from Newfound. land proved of little value, but, as the direc- tor of the Meteorological Office pointed out several months ago, what we really want is that some thoroughly competent meteorol- ogist on that side should telegraph a daily résumé of the weather prevailing on the Atlantic seaboard of the States, with intel- ligence of any disturbances leaving them which showed signs of an intention to cross the Atlantic.” SURRENDER OF THE OPPOSITION. The remarks of the director of the Meteor- ological Office which are given above indi- cate fully a surrender of the position taken in April last against the Hzratp weather predictions for Europe and show a tacit acceptance of the Heuanp system. HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES, ANOTHER TERRIDLE STORM SWREPING OVER ST. THOMAS AND J\MAICA. HAVANa, Sopt. 26, 1878, It is reported from Santiago de that another hurricane 19 prevail jn tbe of St Thomas, aod is exp ts tour row, At is feared it will sweep aloo, coast of Cuba, A TERRIFIC STORM. Cixcixnati, Ohio, Sopt. 26, 1878. Special despatches give the following additional Particulars of the wicd storm of last evening:—At Docatar, 11L, the roof was torn irom a school bouse, two children being seriously hart by the fulliog débria, large troes succumbed to the tury of the siortn and fences wore mero playthings for the gale. At Fort Wayne an Episcopal church was strack by Nabtning and set on fire, receiving damage to the extent of $4,000. At Crawtordsvi Dlock was untuole At Lebanon, Ind., a unrooted, the Preatiyte ing in town— shape mortar, and the ‘rests are filled wi repoieh oad ‘uprooted trees. i