NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMCS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume 310 AMUSEMENTS TH.S AFTfRNDJ* AND EVENING. WOOP'S MI'SEl'M, corner 80th KOBO Euoentbioitirb, Buklf?I41Eb, Ac. Matiueo at 2\. BOMERY1LLE ART GALLERY, 82 Fifth aysnue.-CxT LIN'e Indian Cabtoonb. NBW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. Sob nbs IK TUB Rino, AOSOUaTS, AO. MatiQft! at 1%. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Saturday, November 11, 1871. errors of to-diy's ihkald. PAOB. l? Advertisements. 1i? Advertisements. 3? War lor the Ballot: Grand Mass Mooting at tho Brook lyu Academy of Music; Tho City of Churches Aroused; Election Frauds De nounced in Tones of Thunder; ltepeaiers to be Mude Repent; The Citizens Pledged to Ex terminate the Culprit*; Speeches by Mayor Kaiofleiscli, General It. F. Tracy, Captain Tonny, (;eneral islociiin, Uev. Theodore cuvler and others? Brooklyn Election Frauds: How the Bepubllcan Ticket was Defeated in the City of Churches; Henest Men Aroused; How the ballov Boxes Were stuffed Before the Polls Oiiened: Tho Election Laws Delectlvc. 4? Effects of the Election lluw the Officeholders Talk Keflei tious on the Bradley-O'Brien Con test Indignities In the Election Elsewhere Resignations of Judge Hilton and Commis sioner Isaac Bell The Aldermnnie Canvass Mayor llall Will Stand by the Present Incum bents The Exquisite Ignorance or the City Fathers? Victors and Vanquished The Municipal Reform Young Men After tlio Election Frauds Tom Fields Challenged The Lawyers of the Keforin? The Foundling Asylum? Running Notes, Political and Gen eral? A Sao Tragedy. 5? Kossuth and Hungary Interview of a Herald Correspondent with the Hermit of Turin? The black and Caspian Seas? Waiting for tho Muscovite Life in the Reception Squadron still no Tidings of the Russian Fleet? Tlie Journey of the Czar: A Triumphal March? APtron< mical? MacomVs Dam? Newark's Ef florescent Eflle? Serloug Accident at a Negro Meeting in Montgomery, Ala.? Calvary Cemetery? Destructive Five In Plalnfleld, K. J.? Carroll's Coat. 6~Edtcoriaifl Leading Article. "Tlio Brooklyn Bing and Its Robberies and Election Frauds? The Reformers and Their Couimitieo of Firty"? Amusement Announcements. 7? Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)? Euro pean Cable Telegrams: Herai.p special He ports from Loudon, Pans and Dublin? Interest ing from central aud south America? Weather Beport-The Southern Ku Klux War? Musto aud the Drama? Personal Intelligence? Mis cellaneous Telegrams? Business Notices. 8? Jim Irving: He Remains 1'nder the Ban of the Law, and the Iaw Will Try Him on Wednes day Next i Dowley, the Deputy Marshal, Seriously Injured: General McDowell Inter viewed; Coroner Young and Jim Irving? The Courts? Tom its Polico Court? New York City M'ws? Spain and Cuoa: The Cuban Debt and How Spain Proposes to Meet It? General Slgel's Thanks? A speculative Cotton Firm Falls? Brooklyn Affaire? The Apaches and tho Indian Commission? Executive Clemency? The Fighting Freeholders? Army and Naval Intelligence. 0? South Carolina Bonds: A Bear Among tho Carpet Baggers? Foreign scientific Notes? The Jersey Railroad Lease? A Disappointed Thief? Financial and Commercial Reports European Markets? Marriages and Deaths. iO? News from Washington? The Decay of Alsaoe: proscriptive Kuln of a Great Industrial Dis trict? Ihe Storm? Perils of tho Sea? Miscella neous Telegrams? Shlpplug Intelligence? Ad vertisements. Jl? The International: Mr. George Wilkes on tho Coming Issues of American Politics: Down with Monopolies; American Society Wrongly Organized? A Counterfeiter's Defenco? The Travels of an Escaped convict? The IIooslo Tunnel? The Double sulciuo at Lcwlsion, Mulne. _ 13? Racing in England: The Newmarket Houghton Meeiuig? Advertisements. Since the Recent Election it has been discovered that the ferry companies are not the only frauds Id Brooklyn. Tns Atlantic and Great Western Railway is likely to be a lire institution once more, what with the reorganization of the company and the subscription yesterday in London of five millions of dollars to provide new equipment Our special cable telegram from London reports the latest progress of the enterprise. Secretary F?n ia Still Corresponding with the Spanish Minister on the subject of the Hornet. So long as that vessel files the American flag she is under American protec tion, and Spain had better not touch her. We have not so many ships Qylng tlie S tar Spangled Banner that we can afford to stir render the rights of this one unjustly. TnE Smallpox in PniLADiLPmA, accord ing to Washington gentlemen of reliability, originated in the use of buffalo robes formerly worn by the Piegan Indians when they were afflicted with that dread disease. If the state ment is at all true it is to be hoped the mer cenary wretch who sold the robes originally has received his just proportion of the epi demic. Tan Chicago Germans express themselves disgusted at the niggardly gifts of Emperor William and the Crown Prince to the sufferers by the great fire, and Indignantly fling them t>*ck in their faces with a small dona tion of their own thereunto appended for distribution to the maimed German soldiers of the Franco-Prussian war. Look ing a gift horse in the mouth is another Chicago peculiarity but in this case, consid ering that Chicago furnished a pretty generous sum to the German sick and wounded during the war, and that one thousand thalers from the Kaiser and five hundred from the Crown Princ are all their returns for the same, we don't doubt that they are righteous In their In dignation* The Brooklyn King and Its Kobberlea and Election Fraud*? The Reformers uud Their Committee ot Fifty. Brooklyn, our goodly city of Brooklyn, a day alter the fair, is waking up from her lath argy. Plundered right and left by her rapa cious officials^ and cheated and outrage hoi elections, alio lias taken lo indignation mass meetings, and there are hopes of her salva tion. There was a corrupt "ring" of spoils men a powerful, corrupt and desperate ring but it is broken and scatttered to the winds. There was and tbero is a shameless ring of corrupt spoilsmen across the East River, known as the Brooklyn Ring, for it "still lives.1' Against the New York Ring a Holy Alliance was formed in the late election of the solid and honost men of both parties, repub licans and democrats and between these two powerful forces, working together, the New York, or Tammany Ring, was pulverized as between the npper and the nether millstone. In Brooklyn, on the other hand, the republi cans bad one ticket and the reform democrats bad another ticket, and between these two armies, each fighting its own battle regardless of the other, the compact army of the "Ring" marched In and gained ao easy victory. The figures of the Brooklyn election for Mayor tell the story. In round numbers they may be stated as follows For Powell, ring candidate 27,000 For Booth, republican 22,000 For Kulbflelsch, reform democrat 16,000 Plurality for the Ring 6.000 Now, If the anti-Ring men of Brooklyn, democrats and republicans, had only put their fieads and hands together and formed a com bination ticket, say with Kalbfleisch for Mayor, the allied vote against the "Ring" would have been: For Kalbfleisch *?>000 For Powell auu the King Giving an antl-Rlug majority of 11,000 and a reform victory just as decisive as that of New York. Failing to enter into this vic torious combination, however, the Brooklyn reformers aro thrown back to our starting point ot the Cooper Institute meeting of tbe 4th of September. They bad on Thursday last their first citizens' indignation mooting on the Ring frauds perpetrated In the late elec tion, and last night they had another meeting, and the disclosures of these meetings in refer ence to those frauds and the spoliations of the Brooklyn Ring show that, in proportion to his means, Instruments and opportunities, "Bosb McLaughlin" is worthy to sit at the head of the table with "Boss Tweed." Mr. Tracy, the United States District At torney, stated at Thursday's meeting that proofs of frauds by "the Ring" were abun dant; that ropublican inspectors had been walked out and ballot box Btuffers put in their placos 5 that "the Ring" by this box stuffing had counted out Assemblymen who were honestly elected. lie charged that there was in Brooklyn an organized system of frauds perpetrated in this late election, and that the police were In league with the swin dlers. Mayor Kalbfleisch declared that If American citizenship Is worth anything In Brooklyn "something should be done." In Illustration of the frauds committed In tbe late election he said that in 18G8, when a Gover nor was elected, "the democratic vote in tbe Fifth ward was 2,900, against 4,100 this year, when there was no Governor to be elected? an increase of 1,500," without any increase in the population of the ward, beyond five hun dred souls, men, women and children. In the Second ward tbe vote this year had been In creased 1,100? an Increase whlcb was Impos sible except by heavy frauds. The Mayor further stated that "on the ticket on which I ran In 18G0 there was a gentleman elected who ran nine thousand behind me, and when J made an Inquiry of Mr. McLaughlin, the reply was, 'We elect all our men,' and then I understood that there was another modus operandi for electing men." These specifications will serve to indicate to some extent tho fraudulent devices and prac tices of "the Ring" in the Brooklyn elections. They are quite up to the mark, as far as needed, of tbe repeating and ballot box stuff ing for which the Tammany Ring has become so infamous. In the next place, the frauds of the Brooklyn Ring upon the city treasury are boautiful to contemplate. The Brook lyn Water Board in these robberies has filled tbo place of Mr. Tweed's Board of Supervisors. As far as discovered these Brook lyn robberies amount to at least one million five hundred thousand dollars a year In cash appropriated, and, as with us, they have ope rated to bring about a dangerous enlargement of the city debt, and with a heavily Increased taxation In different Bhapes and forms. It is asserted, too, that an examination of the olty books of Brooklyn will show a plentiful lot of raised vouchers and forged endorsements, and all the other tricks connected with the tremeu dous expenses of our new Court House. But the very worst feature of this awful system of municipal robbery and corruption, and of frauds and rascalities of all descriptions, lies in the melancholy fact, as reported, that not a single newspapor In Brooklyn dare speak its honest mind on the subject, because tbey are all in the stocks or the pillory of the "Ring." This 1% Indeed, a gloomy inside view of the City of Churches, the city of Brother Oeecher aod his pious Puritans. It is as de pressing a? a walk in a cemetery nay, It has none of the soothing coiftolatlofts of a morning ride in Greenwood. But can It be true that there Is no press in Brooklyn equal to the crisis If this Is true, If there is no publio journal over the river which can be secured or trusted by honest citizens in the cause of city reform, the Independent press of New York must go to their rescue. Having "smashed the Tammany machine" and cleared the track for the work of a thorough purification of the Augean stables on Manhattan Island, we must go to the assist ance of our neighbors, still In the "Slough of Despond," on Long Island. They have been blundering about In the dark; they have missed their golden opportunity In the late election; but they have at last got a Citizens' Executive Committee of Fifty, and if five good men and true would have sufficed to save the wicked city of Sodom, these fifty, perhaps, may save Brooklyn. But our neighbors have appointed another committee a Committee of Five to look Into these election frauds, to prosecute all re peaters, ballot box stuffers and fraudulent counters they may detect to see that they are Indicted, tried and punished, and to see that where republican candidate# haye b??u fairly elected and falsely counted out their rights shall be secured to them. ThiB looks like business, and with a republican two-thirds vote secured in both branches of our new Legislature we cannot doubt that thy boasting remark of "Bos* $pLaughlin" that "we elect all our men" will soon, with the Boss him self, be knocked in the head in Brooklyn. The great lawyer of the people in our cause of city reform, Mr. Charles O'Gonor, said substan tially, a few days before our late glorious election, fnat, "with a thoroughgoing reform Legislature you can do everything, while without it you can do little or nothing." The Legislature elect has the power and the will to do the work before it thoroughly, with or without the aid of the Governor, by legislation and by impeachment and Brooklyn, though failing in her duty iu the election, will not be overlooked in this legislative work of mu nicipal purification and reconstruction. Let Mr. Backhouse and his Committee of Fifty work up their schedules of Brooklyn Corporation spoils and plunder appropriated by "the Ring," and secure the vouchers and let the oo-operating Committee on Election Frauds carefully sift these alleged ballot stuff ings, repeatings and false countings, whereby men elected have been counted out and men rejected by the people have been counted in, and let these committees submit their com plaints and their testimony to the Legislature, and before the end of the winter the honest voters and taxpayers of Brooklyn may rejoice over their beautiful city rescued from the brink of destruction. "As the old cock crows the young one learns," and so the Brooklyn Ring democracy have learned the wicked ways of Tammany, and the city is disgraced and its saints are scandalized thereby. But let the honest men of Brooklyn stand erect and let her guilty public servants tremble. The people of New York city and State have risen in their strength and majesty, and we are in the midst of a glorious revolution and Brook lyn, though neglecting to fry ber own fish in the late election, will surely be released from her sackcloth and asbes. General Grant has been doing a good thing for her in rooting out her illicit whiskey distilleries but in root ing out her ballot stufTers and ring robbers a greater work will surely be done for Brooklyn this winter at Albany. Give thanks, oh ye people, soon to be delivered from the Brooklyn Ring, and forget not that Thanksgiving Day is the 30th of November. New Jersey and tlie Presidency. The Trenton Gazette republican organ commenting upon the election of Joel Parker, democratic candidate for Governor of New Jer fiey, by such a large majority, while the State went so heavily republican for members of the Legislature, expresses the opinion that his astonishing success places "that gentle man at the very head and front of the demo cratic politicians of the country as an available Presidential candidate next year," and says it would not be greatly surprised "if Mr. Parker should head the democratic national ticket next year." This Is not a bad suggestion for as the defeat of the democrats in Connecticut laid out Governor English as a candidate for the democratic nomination, bo has their defeat in Pennsylvania shelved Hancock, in Ohio laid out Pendleton, in Indiana squelched Hendricks, and in New York put a quietus, for the present at least, upon the Presi dential aspirations of Governor Hoffman. Besides, little Jersey has never enjoyed the honor of having a hand in any Presidential race, with the exception of the time when Frelinghuysen ran for Vice President on the Henry Clay ticket, and therefore is entitled to some consideration. She ought to be allowed to set up a candidate next year, if only to be knocked down by General Grant, and Gov ernor Parker would make as good head pin as any other man. Boss McLaughlin boasts that he and his "Ring" have elected all their men. But Herr Kalbfleisch will show the Brooklyn Boss what be and his German legion are going to do about It. Is Ireland Irreconcilable to Britain V A IIebald special cable telegram from Dublin, dated yesterday, makes known the fact that the Green Isle, from the metropolis "all round to the sea," was in a state of universal excitement, occa sioned by the jury acquittal of a man named Kelly, who had been indictod and tried on a charge of having murdored a head constable of polioe named Talbot. The occurrence took place in Dublin in the month of July, at which time Talbot was killed and Constable Mullins almost murder?d in the street. Kelly was arrested and held for the perpetration of the crime against Talbot. The injured men, both deceased and wounded, were accused by the people of suborning informers to testify falsely in the courts against persons charged with political offences. Kelly, who was tried by a special judicial commission in Dublin, was escorted by military on his way to the Court each day. He has now been acquitted. The nation appears to have gone wild with joy over the result. Does this jubilation spring really from a love of justice the people knowiug Kelly to be ianoceot? or is it prompted by that animus which has been classed as urging to the "wild justice of re venge" in Erin? The exhibitions which took place yesterday in Ireland must be demoraliz ing to the public mind, no matter whence their source. They prompt a reiteration of the inquiry, Is Ireland irreconcilable to Britain Eminent Counsel fob the Ko Klux. The Baltimore American is advised that Reverdy Johnson is to go to Columbta, S. C., to defend the Kn Klux prisoners to be tried there at the November term of the United States Circuit Court. Mr. Johnson is a gentleman of eminent legal abilities and pos sesses profound knowledge of constitutional law. In the conduct of these fcu Klux cases no better man could have been selected. This is a different matter from dining and hob bobbing with the nabobs of Great Britain, and will afford Mr. Johnson ample opportunity to develop bis talents as an advocate and as an exp under of the constitution. Tire International, ?We print on page eleven of the Herald this morning another communication from Mr. George Wilkes. In this letter the writer analyzes the Interna tional Society of Workingmen, and reviews in his own peculiar vein the progress of the great socialistic society of Europe. Blnmarck nud Beuodottl. The Bismarck-Benedettl correspondence Is one of the leading sensations of the day. Some few weeks ago Benedetti, as the world thought, iu$4? a 9lean breast of it and told ua all he knew. The Benedotti volume held up Bis marck before the eyes of European diploma tists as a great malefactor. It did not leave the French government spotloss, but it proved that Bismarck, not Napoleon or Napoleon's Minister, was the flrst to suggest that France might seek in the little kingdom of Belgium suitable compensation for the gains which Prus sia made by Sadowa. Poor Benedetti, when he published his little volume, was under tne impression that certain documents, which would give a different version of the affair, were hopelessly lost or safe in M. Rouher's hands. He did not know that these very documents were in Bismarck's hands. Last autumn, it so happened, the country seat of M. Rouher was occupied by the German troops, and it is suspected those very docu ments were found and transmitted to Bismarck, at the headquarters of the German army. The official journals of Berlin have replied to Bene detti's charge, and in doing so have made a liberal use of the papers which M. Benedetti vainly imagined would never see the light. The German reply, though It leaves some gaps yet to be filled up, is crushing. Benedetti has had sufficient time to deny the genuineness of these doouments but be has not done so. On the contrary, he is represented as being extremely indignant that bis friends should have allowed him to get into such a mess. After all, it is a paltry affair. Who cares who was the first to propose that France should have Belgium The great fact which stands prominently out, and which neither the ono party nor the other can deny, is that Prussia and France, Bismarok and Napoleon, were for some time in 18G6 diplo matically cutting and carving Europe at will. At one time France demands Saarlouis, Saar bruck, Landau and Luxemburg. If Beneditti could not get the three former "his public agreement was to be confined to the Duchy of Luxemburg and the secret treaty to the re union of Belgium with France. At one time during the process of negotiation it seems to have occurred to the minds of the principal leaders in the affair that England might make some objection, and so it was proposed, as a sop to that Power, that Antwerp bo declared a free city. On the 26th of August, 18G6, both parties seem to have been prepared to con clude a treaty about Belgium, Luxemburg, Mayence and the others having been given up as beyond the region of the practicable but on the 29th Bismarck's views had completely changed and Benedetti began to dream of a Russo-Prussian alliance. It is difficult to say whether Prussia or France Is more to blame it is impossible to say which ot the diplo matists first spoke of Belgium, but it is abundantly plain that the vietory remained with Bismarck. If anything else remains to be Baid, it is this that Beuedetti has made worse than a mistake in writing what he has written. The sin, if there be any sin, must be divided between the two offenders 5 but tho world, the European world particularly, should profit by the lesson. History repeats itself. The next repetition may be more serious and alarming. The Cnndnrnns* llumbng. Our correspondence from Ecuador, South America, published yesterday, throws a good deal of light on what may be now termed the cundurango humbug. The writer travelled over the region where tho cundurango of dif ferent varieties grows, and was particular in his investigations in that part where specula tors were gathering the plant for exportation. He found that the exaggerated accounts of wonderful cures of cancer by this plant had no foundation. There were doubtful reports of two or three cases of syphilis having been cured years ago, but that the patients died shortly after being cured. This cundurango business has all the appearance of being a grand humbug and fraud, worked up by cun ning speculators to make money. The parties interested have, no doubt, adroitly deceived the State Department at Washington, which has given a sort of quasi endorsement to the reported wonderful properties of cundu rango. Before the government goes any fur ther in advertising what we are inclined to believe is a fraud it ought to ascertain from competent men, chemists and physicians, who could not be influenced by the speculators, the nature and properties of the plant, and if it has any curative virtue. It is more incum bent on the government to do this, and to prevent imposition and evils that might arise from using cundurango, since it has been the medium of advertising the pretended curative nature of the plant. Tire Aldebmanio Question. ?It appears from the statements ofTMayor Hall, and of such of the Aldermen as are willing to say anything on the subject, that the old Board of Aldermen are determined to contest the right of the newly elected Board to the seats they will claim as soon as the votes cast in the recent election shall have been canvassed, and that the Mayor will stand by the present Board. The contest cannot, however, be pro longed much beyond the meeting of the next State Legislature, which will promptly settle all such matters and make an entire new de parture in our municipal affairs. Tom Thumb used to love to personate Napo leon the First. McLaughlin and his Brooklyn Ring delight in making themselves miniature representatives of Tweod and bis co-consplra tors. But Tom Thumb was not so mighty as Napoleon, and McLaughlin is not so powerful as Tweed. It will require less effbrt to uproot the Brooklyn model than it takes to move our own original Boss. The Legislature will settle McLaughlin very speedily and very effect ually. ___________ "Jim" Irvino was indicted by the Grand Jury yesterday for an alleged assault upon Deputy United States Marshal Dowley, thus taking the case out of Judge Woodruff's hands, before whom it was to have been beard yes terday on a writ of habeas corpus. It came up regularly before him, however, and, Mr. Ir?ing having pleaded not guilty, and the Deputy Marshal being reported as not very seri ously injured, he was released on giving ten thousand dollars bail, Chamberlain Bradley and Mr. Forbes Holland qualifying in that amount. President Thiers' Vindication of the French Republic? The New* of the American Election* la Prance. The special IIekald telegram from Paris, which is published in our columns to-day, brings news of the very highest import In the shape of a brief but pointed despatch. President Thiers had just accorded a special interview to our correspondent. During its progress the Chief of the French Executive announced that on the occasion of the assem blage of the Legislature, early in the month of Decembor, ho will propose to the members of the National Assembly a measare for the ter mination of the provisional system of govern ment which now prevails in France, and another for the deQuitive establishment of the French republic. President Thiers was authoritative in his diction, as he is, no doubt, in his resolution for the attain ment of a speedy accomplishment of his inteut. The President of France is, we need scarcely say it, a historian. He is more than _ a mere chronicler or compiler, however. lie is a careful annotator of public events as they transpire, and an able logician, both in his analysis of their present effects and bis inferences as to their conscquences in the future. Thiers, we have no doubt, had the main facts of the result of the American elections, particularly of the election In New York, transmitted to him by oable. He was already made aware of the triumphant vindication of the republican prin ciple on this side of the Atlantic, despite the power, the interest and influences of corrupt rings, political factions and family suasion. The news afforded him courage. His deter mination to establish the republio finally and unequivocally in France was taken almost immediately. He will place the cause of the French people against the cliqulsm of placemen and dynasties. He will call on France to proclaim her democracy in the face both of the Bourbons and the Bonapartes, and to come forth in her democratic disinthralment to the work of repairing the disasters caused by the gov ernments and the battles under and by which the liberties of the people were "cloven down" and their citizen rights temporarily offered up on the altar of a subtle but woll masked slavery. The News from Central and South America. By telegram from Kingston, Jamaica, and Havana we have a later and interesting news report from the Central American territory and the States of the South Pacific. The Spanish naval officers persevered In their attempt to police the Colombian coast in their effort to seize the steamship Virginius, despite the independent action of the New Granadian government and the sympathetic protest of the consular representative of the United States at Aspinwall. Guatemala was still disturbed by the coexistent agencies of political division and priestly assumption. The Archbishop and Bishop had been expelled the coun try for complicity in fomenting the late revolution against the government. Honduras was also agitated by the native politicians. Costa Rica had com menced work on the Costa Rica Railroad, and San Salvador had forbidden the coolie carry ing traffio in vessels sailing under the flag of the republic? two evidences, and about the only ones which we have, of the existenoe of a desire for the realization of a solid, comprehensive progress on the part of the peoples. Chile entertained plans of territorial extension and for the build ing and repairing of railroads. Lima was being ravaged by smallpox. General Prado won the Peruvian Presidential election, but we have advices of protests against his return, of army terrorism and of an expectation of revolution in oppo sition to the fulfilment of the will of the people as expressed at the ballot boxes. Six persons were killed and seventy wounded during an election riot in Lima. The repub lics of Central and South America appear to have too many politicians, both lay and cleri cal and in this we may find the cause of the origin and perpetuation of very many of their public troubles. French Democracy add Turkisii Im perialism. The French republican govern ment appears determined to limit the system of imperialism In the Old World to the pre sent representatives of the existing royalties until democracy becomes sufficiently powerful to render the system of popular rule diffusive. This fact is made patent by our special cable telegram report from Constantinople, pub lished to-day, in which we are assured that the French Ambassador in the Turkish capi tal has protested to the Sultan against His Majesty's firman according hereditary sovereignty to the Bey pf. .Tunis. This diplo matic action betokens again the existence of a full-blooded and almost full-fledged democracy in France. It shows forth the French people talking to the most imperialistic throne, un awed by fear of death in "sack" and then to the Bosphorus as of old. More Resign ations of Public Officers.? Judge Hilton yesterday resigned his office as one or the Commissioners of Publio Parks? a position in which he has labored diligently and faithfully for the interests of the city. The reason assigned is that the business of the department is blocked for the want of funds, which Deputy Comptroller Green neglects to furnish, despite repeated requisitions made upon him. Mr. Isaac Bell also sends to Mayor Hall his resignation as a Commissioner of the Department of Education, stating that his duties as a Commissioner of the Department of Charities and Correction are sufficiently arduous to occupy all his time and attention. Tn* Bank of Francs gained yesterday, according to our cable despatches, the sum of seven millions three hundred thousand francs in bullion for the week then closed. This ac cumulation of specie In the French capital will, doubtless, serve to allay some of the ap prehensions of the "Old Lady in Tbreadneedle street," who was ready to go into spasms over the threatened absorption by Bismavck of all the loose sous in the conquered empire. The announcement produced a decline in gold to llli. South Carolina Is just now agitated about an alloged over-issue of Stato bonds, and a Charleston paper charges Governor Scott with fraud in the matter and demands the re fudiation of the dobW Phil Nfaerli'u Under Fire. Of all men in the United States General Phil Sheridan "Little Phil," as the people love to call him is the last againBt whom the shafts of malice and envy can hope to prevail. There is about the Hero of the Shenandoah a sol dierly singleness of purpose, a sturdy patriot ism And honesty which m*y always set calumny and detraction at defiance. As in the war his principle was to dash straight on to the enemy's lines, so in his civil duties bis practice is to go directly to the point to bs reached, without any tortuous windings or by ways. Too independent for a politician, he is yet a genuine statesman by virtue of his quick perception, his unfailing judgment and bis sound good sense and hence, when an emer gency arises wherever Phil Sheridan is in au thority, be is certain to be equal to the occa sion. This was especially the case during the trying and dangerous hours of the burning of Chicago and for the few succeeding days, when a starving and houseless population sought immediate relief and when desperato men threatened to add the terrors of a murderous, plundering mob to the horrors of fire. Id those eventful moments, when the authorities of the city and State were paralyzed and pow erless, when the local police was disorganised by anxiety and porsonai suffering, the cool brain and ready hand of Sheridan came to the rescue. With a soldier's instinct he saw the necessities of the occasion, and with a soldier's promptness be applied the remedy within his reach. By his order tents, the property of the United States, were bronghl on to the ground for the shelter of homeless women and children, and food, provided for the troops, was divided among the hungry people. Fortunate was it for the good citi zens of Chicago that "Little Phil" was no! then "twenty miles away." He did not pause to request the red tape permission of the War Office to UBe the property at his command be fore applying it to the pressing need befora his eyes, any more than he would have dreamed of applying for orders before he spurred oo to Cedar Creek to save his gallant army from Early's bold attack. In like manner, when the desperadoes and thieves of the city sought to make a harvest during the confusion of the conflagration, they found in Phil Sheridan an unpleasant obstacle In the way of tbeir enter prise. He and bis men had a disagreeably summary method of dealing with ruffianism and lawlessness. Their proceedings lacked the procrastination and uncertainty of tha Courts, and tbey were as prompt in their judgments as they were effectual in their pun ishments. In such extremities accidents can scarcely be provided against by any fore thought or care, and by one of these unhappy casualties Colonel Grosvenor, the Attorney General of the State, lost his life. He was shot by one of the volunteers under Sheridan's command, and while it is needless to enter into an expo*6 of the causes which led to the deplorable event, It is sufficient to Bay that to no person could It have givon more Bincere grief than to Sheridan himself. In the eyes of the world at large the acts of General Sheridan during these days and nights of terror sbone with the brilliancy of precious gems. Every honest man who read the accounts of the horrors by which the Queen City of the West was threatened ex claimed, in the fulness of his heart, "Thank God that Sheridan was there 1" And now, when the trial is virtually over; when the munificence of all the civilised nations of the earth has come to the relief of the stricken people, the Governor of the State of Illinois steps forward Into unenviable notoriety and accuses Phil Sheridan of military usurpation, of violation of the laws of the Common wealth and of complicity in "the unlawful killing of Colonel Grosvenor." When the Courts were In ashes; when the mighty power of the resistless flames had thrown open the prison doors and liberated the convicts and criminals awaiting trial; when thieves and ruffians from other cities were pouring into Chicago to swell the ranks of their brethren already there when the looal police were either prostrated by their unusual labors or torn away from their duties by the sufferings and dangers of those near and dear to them when citizens were driven to the neces sity of trusting to the first law of nature for the protection of their families and their property when the water sup ply was gone and the .olty was shrouded in darkness, this punctilious and law-loving Governor Palmer visited the scene, but had no advice to offer and no effec tive aid to tender. Then he expressed hla gratitude, as the Chief Executive of the State, to those who had saved the city from worse calamities than the fire, and who had done so much to relieve or lighten the inevitable load of misery heaped upon the people. Now he seeks to brand as criminals and arraigns be fore the authorities of the general government the very men to whom he and his fellow citizens owe such a heavy debt of gratitude. The course of Governor Palmer would be in explicable but for the knowledge that he baa an old personal grudge to satisfy against General Sheridan, and he seeks now, by a technical application of the law, to prove thai the General exceeded his legal authority in stretching forth his band to rescue and protect the city which the Governor would hare abandoned to its fate. No words are needed to expose at once the absurdity and the in gratitude of Governor Palmer. It is as thongb President Lincoln had arraigned Phil Sheri dan after the war for an invasion ol the South and a violation of State rights when he swept with his troopers the valley of the Shenandoah. It to consoling to feel assured that Governor Palmer will reoeive from Gene* ral Grant all the encouragement he deserve^ and no more. Tim Gborgia. People are frightened at a threat of martial law. They fear the ven geance of Bullock, Let them behave them selves and trust in Providence and a just ad ministration. The Vnrrui of an "If."? Shakspeare says, "Your 'if' is your only peacemaker." If the republicans bad not carried two-thirds majority of the State Legislature the Brooklyn election frauds might have succeeded, and the "Ring" over the East River might have continued to break the heads of all honest voters and to hold sway over the pothouses; oyster saloons and public offices of our sister city. But as the republicans have accom plished that Uttle uolitical object there is a