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The New York herald., 1871-09-15

THE DISARMAMENT OF THE FRENCH Ma
TIoNAL GUARD.-The disarmament, accord
ing to cable despatch, Of the French
National Guard has commenced throughout
France. The work is quietly progressing, no
resistance to the enforcement of the decree
Of the National Assembly dissolvipg 1t is
interposed in any of the departments, and
everywhere tranquility prevails. The antici-
pations at one time were that the measure
could rot be successfully carried out without
provoking disturbances which might lead to
bloodshed. Happily for France, and fortu-
nately for the chances Of still better accom-
plishments in the future, tho people have
acquiesced In the decision Of the National
Legislature, and have interposed no barriers
to the dissolution Of the national militia
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

THE CONFESSION OF MAJOR HODGE, the de-
Eaulting paymaster, is about as manly state
nent as he could make under the circum-
stances. 1t is, moreover, touching state
ment. He says his life has been ''hell on
earth" for years, burdened as he was with the
consciousness Of his crime, and that it is q
relief to be arrested.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15
Tho Labor Agitation in England.

As will be seen from this mornings cable
dispatches, the Associated Masters Of Newcas-
tie have, in letter to the London Times, in
formed the public that four thousand one hun
dred and sixteen workmen are now engaged
daily, and that the additions to the force of
workmen are such that the town and neigh
borhood will, in consequence, soon resume
their former activity. 1t was only yesterday
that we printed cable announcement to the
effect that the Strikers League was plentiful
of cash, that eight shillings week would be
paid for every man and one shilling week for
each child during the continuance of the fight,
and that it was the determination of the str-
kers that there should be no concession.
Then, again, we know that the employers of
labor are in league; that their agents are
bringing men from all parts Of Europe to fill
up the vacant ranks, and that on their part
there is no disposition to submit to defeat. 1t
is almost necessity for us to believe that the
vacant ranks are being filed up with knob
men from all parts Of the three kingdoms and
from many sections of the Continent in which
skilled labor can be bought. We do not much
believe in ''strikes." We believe much less
in 'knobbing." To ''strike" is often just, but
as q general rule it defeats its purpose.
''Knobblng" is essentially wicked; it is one
man of no principle robbing another man who
las. So between the two-between the s'stri-
ker" and the "knob"-we go in for the ''stri-
ker" as the honest man, and pronounce the
''knob," If not fool scoundrel.
How the Newcastle troubles may end we
know not. This, however, we do know, that
''striking" is the order of the day, and that
''knobbing" is the weapon which the master
uses to put the ''striker" down. We know,
too, that, as rule, the ''striker" is an honest
man and that the ''knob" is q coward or a
knave. This, also, we know: we know that
the ''strker" is Of the workingmen, and that
the workingmen are in sympathy with the
International. The International is an insti-
tuition which is popular, not in Europe alone,
but in free America. Witness our demon
stration of Wednesday. The times are full of
danger. The railroad and the telegraph have
done much for the millionaire; but, although
the millionaire has been the first to reap the
benefit, they have done much also for the
workingmen and the workingman is now
giving good and substantial evidence that he,
too, means to use his sickle and to gather in
his harvest. The people against the aristoc-
racy is almost played out. The workingmen
against the capitalists--that is the question of
the hour; and it is question quite as inter-
esting here in free America as yonder in dy-
nastic, aristocratic Europe. what's TO be the
result? Nothing but fair play can set matters
right
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

BOUTWELL, AND THE GOLD GAMBLERS The
Secretary of the Treasury loosened bis purse
strings again yesterday, and gave the "bulIs"
in the gold market plentiful shower of the
yellow boys. The amount sold was four
millions of dollars. This, by the way, was
the amount which smashed the gold pool on
the memorable Black Friday.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

AFFAIRS IN MEXICO have taken turn in
favor of Juarez. According to a special de-
spatch to the HERALD the political horizon in
the city of Mexico is becoming clearer, the
darkened clouds of threatened revolutions
which have so long hung over the republic
appear to be passing away and the sun Of
prosperity once more beams forth for the Presi.
dent. The preliminary Junta was installed
yesterday, one hundred and forty-seven men,
bers out of two hundred and twenty seven
the entire number of delcgates-being present.
Juarez was elected President of the temporary
organization and Chief of the Committee of
Credentials. Out Of the members assembled
Juarez had majority Of eleven, and this 80
alarmed the members of the opposition that
they left the hall and destroyed the necessary
quorum for the transaction of business. The
latest mail dispatches state that General Por-
ario Diaz has assembled twelve hundred men
and started for the State of Oajaca for the pur-
pose of suppressing some disturbances which
are reported at titan and Tehuantepec.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

the city. To-day our citizens would gladly
pay increased taxation for increased embel-
lishments and improvements. They want
good roads, good docks and beautiful parks
at any necessary cost In no city in the
world are taxes paid more cheerfully and
promptly than in New York, and those poll
ticians who appeal tQ The supposed par
simony Of our taxpayers commit o
great blunder. On the contrary, our
taxpayers approve of broad liberaIity and in
telligent enterprise on all public works, and
are not disposed to stint the money so long as
they are assured it is honestly expended. But
they do not desire to be robbed; and it is pre-
ciscly because they believe that these official
millionnaires of moments growth-these men
who have suddenly become sporters of large
diamonds and dashing carriages, and owners
Of lands and stocks-have robbed them, that
they desire their retirement from the city gov
ernment.
In laboring to secure reform, then, the peo-
pie should bear in mind the history and expe-
rience of the past, and should carefully guard
against corrupt political bargains and affla-
tions. There is great danger that the present
agitation may be manipulated by men worse
than some of the present Objectionable
ofice-holders for their own ends, and
that on the eve of election we
may find unworthy candidates put forward
for positions of Importance, through the same
description of dickering that has heretofore
brought so many evils upon the city. The
best method of preventing such q perversion
of a popular movement is to initiate at once
in New York new political organiza-
ton in connection with the democracy
and the Independent republicans of
the rural districts. Tammany Hall is
not in good odor in the State at
the present moment. The leaders of that Or
ganization, since they have been free from
opposition in State conventions, have lorded
it over the country delegates and forced Tam
many states down their throats. Honest
members of the State Legislature have for
years found themselves overridden at Albany
by means Of the corrupt combinations made
by the Tammany magnates with republican
I"SiSlatOrS. 1O-uay Inc peSC OeInOcrhtic
papers in the State are denouncing the action
Of the municipal plunderers in New York,
and limiting at reputation of Tammany in
the next Convention. The republican party
is also broken to pieces and foul
with corruption and dishonesty. The
mission of republicanism is ended, and
many of the members Of that party who
were formerly democrats should have no hesi-
tation in returning to renovated and purified
democracy. Such o grand movement in New
York would sweep the State and city this fall
and form the nucleus of new party in
the Southern States in time for the
Presidential election. But to insure sue
cess the old hacks, corruptionists and
leaders on both sides should be discarded and
driven from the ranks. Then, with Legisla-
ture elected under the new movement the
people of New York could insure thorough
reform in their municipal charter and honest
men to carry the law into effect.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

THE EMPRESS EUaENIE has arrived at Lis
bon, where she received visit from the
King and Queen of Portugal prior to her
departure for Madrid.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15
President Theirs aud the Prospect fol
France.


France.
The message which President Theirs has
just sent to the National Assembly of France
has startled many; but it has justified the
opinions Of not few. There is no mistaking
what he means by reconstruction based on
the glorious traditions of thousand years."
1t is as little difficult TO understand what he
means by ''the abandonment of the ship of
State to torrent leading to an unknown
future" The President asks the Deputies, on
the eve Of dissolution, to 60 home and con-
suit their constituents and ascertain on which
ton should proceed. What the Deputies
thought while the message was being read we
know not. What the constituents may say
when the Deputies do consult them we must
wait to know. But no sensible person is in
doubt as to what President Theirs means or
as to what he wishes. The GLORIOUS tradi-
tions of thousand years" means the restora-
tion of the monarchy; the ''torrent leading to
an unknown future" means the establishment
of republic; and President Theirs prefers the
former to the latter. The Presidents hint
| may be taken and the monarchy may be re-
stored; but if it should be 80 it will only
prove that while Theirs was for the time the
only available man in France for the Execu-
tive chair he was not the man to establish the
republic. In spite Of the Presidents tortuous
ways this we have always clearly seen and
this we have always fairly stated. Now that
Theirs has pronounced himself it remains to
be seen how Gambetta and his friends will
act. The recess may reveal the true senti-
ment Of France.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15
ADJUSTMENTS TINS EVENING.

NlBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and
Houston sta-TME DRAMA FRITZ.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18Th street,
The PRINCESS TRBDIzoSDE.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE rwenty-fourth street.
TIE NRw DRAMA or DIvoEcE.
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GRAND OPERA ROUSE. corner OF ssh av. ana Esd st.
NARCIssf.
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.--TuE BALLET PAN.
TONNE OF HUMPTY DUMrTy
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

LIMA EpwN's THEATRE No. 7sO Broadway.-KELLr
A LFoNss NNsTRrIR
The New York herald., 1871-09-15

BOOTHS THEATRE, 2:d ST., between stu and 9Th ava
PET OF TUE PRrTIcoArs-FAMILY JAEe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10
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THE QOAR1NTINE THEF1S.

Sill VIC have no answer from DIR. CarnOchan
or his chief assistant DIR. Reide, although the
allegations which we made of corruption were
specific enough to extOrt q reply from men
who have any defense to offer.
The demand cannot have taken them by
such surprise as to silence them. They cannot
have failed to hear the grave charges atloat III
mercantile circles against them. For weeks
past the resistance to their extOrtiOns has been
growing stronger and more determined, and
extending to merchants who have heretofore
been compelled from the nature of their trade
to submit to any exactions rather than land
their cargOes at other ports. Many have deli
antly refused to pay the exOrbitant bills Tor
unnecessary towing by quarantine tugs, and
in every instance the pirates have reduced
them to something reasonable or abandoned
all hope of collecting the charges. Last year
not five shipping firms dared refuse to pay
quarantine charges for towing and lighterlng I;
this year scores of them owe bills which they
never intend to pay, and which the quarantine
rogues burst not attempt to collect through the
courts. Only the threat to quarantine for
month the next ship of the refractory firm
which comes into port is employed to force
payment of these illegal charges. Other MGR
chants have been forced to land cargOes at
Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, and to
be content with those less active markets or
transport their goods by rail to New-YOrk.
Against exactons and regulations which thus
injuriously affect every commercial interest,
general and united action is necessary, and Is
threatened by prominent and influential mer-
chants. These men must indeed be confirmed
in their evil and dangerous course il they re-
main blind to the preparations making to
expose their guilty practices and to reveal the
extent of the injuries which they have inflicted
on commerce. These pirates of the Lower Bay
are doubly guilty They not only rob- but
destroy Our merchants pay tribute to men
who are driving their commerce to other ports; ;
and the State maintains at extravagant outlay
a set of leeches who suck at its most vital
point. They are of that insane and vOracious
class of rogues who kill the goose that lays
their golden egg. The legitimate fees of the
Health Officer are reported to be double
the salary of the President Of the United
States, but the illegal exactions from COM
merce by the present officer seem to quad
ruple his honest income. At the same time
they ruin commerce and drive orr marine
to other ports. Against such misrule our mer-
chants must at last revolt, and the powers that
placed these men in position to rob the port
be yet compelled to remove them. They may
i1cfs"s"; for the present, to reply to the charges
which we have already made, but they cannot
hope to evade still stronger ones which are
preparing, backed by ample and specific proof
We trust to present them in abundant detail,
with names, dates, and circumstances, to-
morrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10
FRIGHTFCL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

A PASSENGER TRAIN PRECIPITATED THROUGH A
BRIDGE-Two KILLED AND THIRTY WOUNDED.
BANGOR, Me-, Aug. "a frightful accident
occurred tonight the Maine Central Railroad just as
train was entering this city by the giving away of
bridge across the Hampden Road The train consisted
the engine tender mail and express smoking car
three passenger and one Pullman sleeping car.
The train about half an hour behind time, and
running at a good rate Of speed TO make up. The
engine and tender had got the bridge and p0r
of the mail and express when the structure
went down taking the trucks of the mail but
the strength OF the shackcs kept it upon the track
The smoking car plunged down into the street. dis
OF feet. and completely demolished. This
followed by passenger car, which came down upon
its side, and was also completely wrecked.
second passenger shot the ,stroet at right
angles with the first and was also demolished The third
and last regular passenger plunged down the abyss
striking upon the forward end crushing 1t in, while the
end suspended at angle of As degrees by the
broken timbers and abutments
The Pullman ear, the last in the train, remained upon
the track but the end somewhat damaged by
contact with the preceding None OF the passengers
! in it, however, were injured.
William Pcrcval :of Waterv.le was brakeman OF the
third passenger and stood at his post ON the front
platform. when the plunged down through the bridge
and instantly killed. There u very small mum
her of passengers otherwise the loss OF life must nave
/ been fearful.
Thirty persons were more less severely injured but
only one fatally. Thomas Gallagher, boer-maAof DC
longing at No. Union place East Boston, hut NJ present
employ in this ely was fgorilJ crushed and dled
The following is list OF the injured 80 lar 1S mas peen
/ posSbl, to ascertain Tonight:
A. l.. Hudreth OF Bangor, bead cut and hand crushed
/ Mr., tl,Iu, W nlard of B9.gUc, h'Gt cat ana Sc
we're con, Il. ION al trr neck rtuG ring her mscusDle
! Miss Maria Woodland, severely bra, ed .,.
! Capt. William Andrews, worlds OiO"ch ana sofsseS
/ cut and Dru7 Il.
| his dIugi cr ADJ. arm hrUtea.
| Mrs. Brown oi Blth. severely bruised.
Miss Wagoun of Bath, slt,u,iy bruised.
Peer ilophin, Of BuuyO., srNrrsl} WGl'ei'
! Gcorg, G. Roberts o. Bl,tOa, S.2ulf oru!5ct,
| Gtorg, \. Mead ot Boston. slight bruised.
! ". H. seymour .! Nv,f-locE, III ~ntlF bruised. -
-. WAlt6 uf Nrw-lUrK, s.dr i-inicd; LIS VIE VIVID
him, Ma uuu',tifd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10

Louisiana Republicans are in deplorab.e
state of confusion and anarchy. Two parties
one under the lead of Federal appointecs,
and another led 10y State Oiicers-are
wrangling over the political machinery of the
party. Two conventions were organized yes
tcrday the Yarmouth or State party leaving
the other after being repelled at the Custom
House Convention by the presence of United
States soldiers. Whatever may be the
real merits of the quarrel it must
be confessed that the conduct of the Casey
wing in bringing political convention into
so unsuitable a place as the Custom-House, for
the sake of getting plausible plea for en-
gaging United States troops to protect it, is
not to be justified on any possible pretext.
This action of the anti-Warmouth party is de-
Tended in Washington dispatch; but we
should be sorry to believe that any influential
officials at the capital sanctioned the pro-
cpplipVS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10

The wonderful character of the scope Of
territory over which our system of metcoIo-
logical observations has already been extended
was fOrcibly illustrated yesterday at the in
spection of the Headquarters Bureau in Wash
ington. Dispatches and weather signals were
repeated back and forth between the Atlantic and
Pacific and other widely removed points, without
error, and with scarcely any appreciablc con-
sumption of real time. This system is yet in
its infancy, but, when we consider that it Will
eventually be spread over both Canada and
the United States, We can conceive the minute
ness and unique nature of statement made
up from reports gathered from the 55th to the
25th parallel of north latitude, and from the
Goth to the 13Oth meridian of west longitude.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10

INDUCED in those morbid exercises Of vivi
section which have made the recent literature
of Europe so exciting and unwhOesOme.
There Is no writer who is at once 80 strong
and 80 safe. A boy may browse among tho
Waverley Novels and Minstrelsy through his
whole vacation. and he will gain from them
nothing but lessons Of honor and courage and
purity.
His life was in harmony with his work. He
asks from the world no immunity from its
censure on account Of the license of genius.
He lived and died hearty, Christian gentle
man. There is nothing more admirable than
the open handed use he made OF his vast
prosperity-nothing more heroic than the way
in which he faced the adversely which so ter
ribly assaulted him in his age. AT
time when his battle should have
ended when he was justly entitled
to the repose of those who have fought good
fight he resolutely sat down to pay half a
million of dollars of debts by the labor of his
pen. His hand fell paralyzed in the task.
His overworked brain gave way, and he
dropped in the harness he had himself put on
at the bidding of honor. If no could nave
foreseen this day, his eager thirst for honora-
bic repute would have been satis1ed. Inc
halo of this hour would have Frightened
even the dense spiritual darkness IN
which he passed away. Tie world Is
kneelng at the sepulcher. The theaters are
filed with his creations. His statue is crowned
with garlands in hundred capitals But
dearer to his heart than all these testimonials
of the homage of mankind would have been
the thought of the social recognition his MEM
ory has received. He was not a man OF our
leveling age. lie thoroughly hOnored and be-
leved in the caste and the splendor Of
feudalsm. He would have been glad
to foresee that millions would honor
and love him after his DEATH but he would
have felt he had not lived in vain could he
have known that the Royal Family would one
day 60 to a ball dressed ont of the Waverley
tales, and that at the great banquet in Edln-
borough the heir of the Duke of Buccleugh,
Chief of the clan Of Scott, would preside to
do honor to Scott of higher rank than his
own,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10
DIR. OPDYEE'S POSITION.

TIE World says of eXMayOr Opdyke'S letter
To Messrs. Hall and Connolly that
at betrays an impulsiye and forcgone conclusion to
deprive accused officers Of the fair and honest nyestga
ton which they ask for the yinicaton of their limo
cence. Dir. Opdyse's letter is piece OF chicaning
sophistry to the Chamber OF Commerce for re-
iusing to perform act OF Justice"
We find nothing in the letter to justify
these harsh ncupati0nS. Mr.. Opdyise does
not even refuse what is sought. lie states the
facts that he is not authorized to call meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce-that its
members are now mainly absent, enjoying
their annual vacatiOn-and that there is quite
enough that is unGisputcd in tie case against
tie City authorities to Justify the gravest sus
picOns. He further urgcs-as every impartial
thinker had urged before him-that the publ
cation in detail of the disbursements FROM the
City's treasury during 1869, 20, and the former
half of II, should precede any investigation
whatever In all this, Mr.. Opdyke seems to
be sustained by unqUeSt!onable facts. And he
adds,
"When such statement shall have been published, a
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce might, per-
haps, be uSeuly appointed to examine the books and
determine as To its accuracy"
Does not that refute Tie U'orld's imputa-
ton
But it is mistake TO allege Gas The World
does) that it is in the power of Mr.. Opdyke or
the Chamber of Commerce to deprive accused
"oficers" of "a fair and honest investigation"
If that could be done, then Law would be Il
fraud and Character at the mercy of every
reckless libeler But The Times, in printing
its earlier developments, broadly charged
Mcssrs Hall, Connolly & Co. with stealing
large amounts of public money and diriding
them among Observation-Disclosures much stronger
than we should like to base upon the facts
within our knowledge. Ii challenged those
whom it thus arraigncd to bring an action
for libel, plcdging itself thercupon to prove
its charges true to the letter. THE TRIB-
UNE and other journals advised the in
Culpatcd functiOnaries to accept the issue
thus made, and appeal to the proper
legal tribunals to yindicate their seriously
damaged regulations. 1t was not necessary
that they should sue for damages they might
proceed by Indictment; but, if they chose the
alternative, there could be no doubt OF the
reality of their damage nor of The 7ig,es's
abundant responsibility. Yet they refused to
prosecute in any way, as II was their right to
do I; but it is not right to tel the public that
the accused are denied opportunity to invcsti-
gate The charges and establish their innocence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10

The State Committee of the Massachusetts
Labor Reform party held meeting in Boston
Yesterday. Wendell Phillips was, for FORMS
sake, asked by Mr.. Chairman Cummings if
he would again be willing to be the candidate
of the party for Governor Mr.. Phillips re-
spectfully declining and intimating with great
plainness that the party could probably do
better under under the lead Of Gen. Butler.
1t was stated that the Gloucester champion
had declined to bind himself to the Labor
Reform party, further than to accept their
platform. The Committee decided to post
pone their Convention until the other con-
ventions had been held; but it seems evident
that Butler will be their man.