The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1871, Page 6

ae 4 peuo Seymour .. 6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LINA KOWIN'S THEATRE. No, 726 Broadway.—Prenon Orera—Fisun Detar. AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-foarth street. Tur New Duawa or Divorce, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tas BALLET Pan. voutwe oy Hoxpry DU: SY, JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- way.—Litrouky AND PRivzcney, &0. WALLACK'S THEATRE. A Contous Cask—Tuk Ceri WOOP'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st,—Perforim- ences afternoon and evening—Tus Bor DErRorivE. ut way and U3th street. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 st, between Sth and 6th avs. — Dot; Of, 108 CRIOSET ON THE HeaRru. ROWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cnums—AunT CHAR Lover’ Maw, tts ee ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtoénth street—IraLtan Ovuna—Yaver. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strects.—OUR AMERICAN UOUMIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th ay. ang 284 st— Eu.ren Vox, STADT THEATRE, Nos, 4 and 47 Bowoery.—OPERa Brason.—Tar HUGUENOTS. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hail, Brooklyn.—Fan KS, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourreenth st. and Broad- way.—NEGHO AOTS—BCRLESQUE, BALLET, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Cowlc VocaL- Teme, NEGRO ACIS, £0. HOOLEX'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Vanzigty En- TRRLAINMENT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL Haut, 585 Broadway.— ‘Tur SAN FLANOISOO MINSTRELS. W OPERA HOUSE, Bd st., betwoea Gb RYANT'S MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NEOQRO CCORNTRICITING, BUBLESQUES, 40. 5 NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sireet.--SozNKS IN TAR BING, ACROLATS, £0. New York, Monda: CONTENTS OF TO-D. Paas, ae sai 1—Advertisements, as > apo ae 3—Political: allots for StuMng; How the Pottti- cal Wirepuilers Spent the Sabbath; Fitting ‘Things in the Senatorial Districts and Smooth- ing the Way to the Assembly; Adroit Manipu- lations of Metropolitan Jeremy Piddiers; Fun an the Fourth Senatorial and Mystery in the Filin; Tall Talk, Soft Promises and Intercat- ing Conversaitons; The Campaign im the State. @—Religious: Services and sSermuns in the whurehes Yesterday: Topics of the Day Dis- cussed; fatner Clancy ca “The Ring;” The Relation of Political Corruption to the Work- ingman aud His Wages; Dr. Pellows Calis All citizens to Activity ai tne Polls; Mr. Hep- worth on the Gang of Piuuderers Who Drive Fast Horses; A Methodist Minister Denounces the Commutee of Seventy—Tired of Lule— Stabbing Affray in Wiltamabaurg. 6—Vinancial and Commeretal Reports—Dry Goods Market—The Courts—Great Fire at Hunter's Poimt—Caivary Cemetery—Matriages and Deaths—Advertisements @—Eaitorials: Leading Article, ‘Politics the Curse of the Country—|s There a Remedy *""—Amuse- ment Announcements. Q—Editorials (Continued trom Sixih Page)— RKuropean Cable Telegrams—News from the West Indies and Venezuela—Interesting from. Austratasia—Washington News—An--arctic Disaster—Miscelianeous _ Tetégrams—Inim1- gration—Business Noliets, 8—Advertisements, ~~ G—Advert te, to} ical (Coutinned from Third Page)—The jormons—Masic and the Drama—Obituary— Charges Against Thomas C, fields: Amdavits Alleging Fraud on His Part in Regard to the Fire Department Fand—Shippiwg luteili- gence—Auvertisements, . 91—Adveriusements. $2—Ac vertisemenis., November 6, 187l. eRALD, 3 Workiemeys, the Tammany disclosures explain to you the secrets of your high rents and high prices for everything. ‘What are you going to do about it?” Present Grant is determined upon no compromise with the Mormon criminals in Utab, slihough he has instructed Judge McKean, while acting firmly, to enforce the laws judiciously, The Judge so far has shown excellent discretion. Tur Jocxkys who are running Judge Led- with would do well to remember the warning given to the Duke of Norfolk on Bosworth field :— Jockey of Norfolk, be not too vold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold, “‘Rigat Azout, Faoz.”—The special organ of Judge Ledwith, which was all enthusiasm for O'Brien and all fire and fury against the corruptions of Tammany, has turned its guns upon Jemmy, and does not ‘fight mit Sigel.” Your political huckster is a slippery customer. Taxpayers, you have been fleeced to the extent of twelve millions for our new Court House, and it is still unfinished. The United tates Capitol at Washington, that magnificent structure, cost less than this sum to build it, and yet, at the rate we have been paying for the building and equipment of this new Court House, the cost of putting ap our national Capitol would be about five hundred millions of doilara. Mowrevipro, in South America, is said to be a fine point from which to take a view of official corruption in New York city. The best and most exiraordinary part of it is that no extradition treaty exists with the govera- ment of the United States, hence tourists of necessity remain unmolested iu their medita- tions, Tor TRIANGULAR Ficar in Brooklyn for Mayor, between the “honest old democratic Dutcbman” as the anti-Ring candidate; Pow- ell, ex-Mayor, the Ring candidate, and Booth, ex-Mayor, republican candidate, waxes fhot and heavy. A glorious fusion between anti-Ring Germans and Irishmen is said to be in progress on the independent Datchman, and the republicans on Booth are very enthusias- tic, and so between these two stools it is pro- bable the Brooklyn Ring will come to the gro’id. “A Vaux Lance Vore for a purely local election wili doubtless be polled in this State to-morrow. On the Presidential question ia 1868 the State vote was For General U. s. Grant Seymour's majority... Total popular vote. —Or, in round numbers, 850,000. morrow, if a fair day, will probably not be less than 750,000, and, with the dead weight of Tawmacy on the shoulders of the demo- eracy, there would be no doubt in the work. But they are not united; aud &@ few scattering and absentee Fenton and Greeley votes in each Assembly district, as ‘‘a @lsp in the face” of General Grant, may give sha Btate ticket at least to the Democrats, to those of all parties and factions. all alike; and we only regret to seo that the famous ‘‘Committee of Seventy”—to which the people supposed they could look for honor and decency—has had the indecency to en- dorse and recommend to public support men who have certainly notuing else to recommend of a republican victory if that party were united NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET. Politics the Curee of the Oountry—Is There @ Remedyt At no time, perhaps, in the history of the American people has the plague of low politi- cians been more mischiovous than at the present period. Every community, from Maine to California, suffers from it, in a greater or lesser degree, but none of them to the same extent as the city of New York. The plagues of Egypt were tolerable compared with this American scourge; and it may not be an undue stretch of the imagination to suppose that if, after the latest punishment inflicted on Pharaoh and his people, they had atill kept their hearts hardened, the plague of the poli- ticians would have been unloosed upon them as the direst of evils, until they would have been too glad to get rid of the Israelites on any terms. “In our own country we havo oot been with- out other and grievous sufferings, We have been tried by civil war, pestileacs and fire; but from these as from all other scourges that afflict humanity, recovery is possible and re- cuperation easy. But this plague of politics poisons the whole body politic, and, if no remedy can be found and applied, it will as certainly bring decay and death to our entire fabric of government as the most virulent poison will to the human system, This is no imaginary danger; it is a realone, Already we find every department of government pol- luted and rotten. We find our grand and beautiful city a byword and a reproach among men, a prey to all the thieves and ras- cals who, under the deadly banners of party politics, invade our public places, plunder our treasury, fill our seats of justice with their partisans, turn over our schools to the control of the low, the ignorant and the vicious, and, in a word, destroy everything that is most dear and necessary to civilized society. And as in the city, so in the State, where the legisla- tive body has fallen so low in public opinion, has become so tainted with vileness and cor- raption that no decent citizen ever thinks or need think of entering it. Ascending from State to nation we find the same evil existing ; and if not to so marked an extent it is only because the poison is slower in iis operation upon the larger and stronger than upon the smaller and weaker organism. But even Congress itself is becoming deeply tainted with the national vice. It is but a week or two since one of the most ‘‘iruly loyal” Con- gressmen from the South—Stokes, of Tennes- see—was arrested on a serious charge of conspiracy and fraud on the goveroment, in the carrying out of which other eminently loyal representatives from the same section alded.and abetted. Within a day or two past the name of an Iowa representative has been mixed up with an equally discreditable trans- action of a like character. the corrupt sales of military and naval cadet- ships by various members of the last Goagress The exposures of are still fresh in the public memory. And as for other proofs of the laxity of public virtue in our national represen- tatives need we go farther than- to point to the wholesale granting away of the public domain to railroad corporations within the last twenty years? It needs x0 testimony to prove that such legislation was not in the pub- lic interest, but for private gain and spolia- tion, and that it must have been, to a large extent at least, promoted by corruption. And how is it that we have drifted into this abyss of public infamy? Is it that the Ameri- can people are less virtuous, less honorable, less influenced by high and noble motives than the people of any other county? We hope not; we believe not. On the contrary, it has been our boast, perhaps too vainly enter- tained and put forward, that in education and in all that elevates and honors a nation we are In the advance and ascendancy. then, that in all our legislative assemblies and in all our public departments, whether of town, city, State or nation, corruption and in- competency are the rule and honesty and fit- ness the rare exception? It is because we have bowed so long to the Baal of politics, There néver was a more stupid, grotesque or maleficent idol set up before mankind to be worshipped and knelt down to. terest of the politicians, those vulgar priests of an obscene idolatry, to perpetuate the de- lusion that the existence of a faith in them- selves and In the systems which they repre- sent is necessary for the continuance of so- How is it, It is the in- ciety. And so long as they are able to keop up this delusion and so shackle public and private judgment the reign of fraud and cor- ruption will continue and flourish, Look at our own city to-day! What a disgraceful spec- tacle it presents, with its principal thorough- fares arched by banners, which flaunt in the eyes of the passing crowds the names and effi- gies of candidates for public honors who are ut- terly unfit by education, position or character in the community to hold any place of trust or emolument! We do not confine oue strictures to the candidates of one party. They apply They are them as fit custodians of the people's trust. An intelligent stranger coming among us, and ascertaining the standing and reputation of the candidates for legislative and other positious, might well ask, with astonishment, whether we had no decent and respectable men in our midst. And this is the pass to which we have been brought by the sham and delusion of what is called party politics. There would be as much sense in a division of the community into Swift's famous factions of Big-enders and Little-enders, quarrelliag over which end of the egg should be broken, as there is ia our voting for candidates because they use the shibboleth of democrat or republican, There never was any sense at all ia letting such a quesiion enter into municipal elections, and there is very little meaning in it now, even in respect to members of State or National Legis- latures. The whole thing, as we said before, is a mere delusion, as gross a3 that by which Mokannab, the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, deluded his credulous victims and maintained his abominable power. It is, then, our inexcusably stvpid adher- ence to the idolatry of party that is poisoning our public life, and bringing us into shame and disgrace among the nations, If we would emerze into a better and vurer oublig life we f must awake our judgment, realise the delusion to which we have so long been victims, ignore party politics as a qualification for office, remit the trading politicianato honest indus- trial pursuits, and select as candidates for offices only men of good standing and repute in the community, When the necessity of this course becomes manifest to our decent and respectable citizens (and we hope they are in a majority in this and every community) the mode of putting it into operation will be found easy and simple enough. When it is found and practised, then, and not before, we may hops to see our municipal, State and national affairs administered with the same honesty and ability that distinguish our people in carrying on commercial, manufacturing and financial enterprise. Tammany’s Tactice—Police Justice Ledwith aod Ex-Sterif Jommy O’Brien. That desperate diseases require desperate remedies is aa true of political parties as of the human system, and to this aphorism Police Justice Thomas A. Ledwith, a chronic oppo- nent of Tammany, owes his nomination on the Tammany ticket for Justice of the Supremo Court, Actuated by that humane and Christian spirlt which delights in giving counsel and consolation to the afilicted, the Heraip some time ago advised the unhappy sages of the Wigwam to seck certain of their candidates in the ranks ef the patriotic reformers, ao many of whom were willing to serve their country in the several offices to be filled at the election to-morrow. The advice was taken, but, uo- fortunately, the ‘'ammany managers had not sufficient breadth of political intellect to grasp the subject in its full extent and bearing, and hence they stopped at a single nomination, instead of going further and transferring to their own side some of the really strong men whs are now in the field under the banner of their opponents, Thoy took Ledwith, with very little capacity and very limited influ- ence, and they left to the Seventy Jemmy O'Brien, with his powerful " gangs of adherents, his brulsers, repeaters and bullies, whose services at the polls are of incalculable value. They have thus hampered -themselvos with a Supreme Coart candidate whose judicial acquirements are confined to the ordinary cases comprising a budget of night charges—potit. larceny, drunkenness, assault and battery and the like—and who is much more at home at Jefferson Market than in the new Court House, while the active ex-Sheriff, with his little unsettled account of two hundred and eighty thousand dollars against the city as an incentive to extraordinary exertion, is leading off thousands of the old broken- nosed, crop-haired .adherowts of Tammany into the pure-ranks of the reformers. This stupid policy seems to indicate that the shrewd wire-pullers of Tammany are confused by the hard blowa they have recently received, and are losing that sharpness which has ea- abled them so long to rule the city. They shouid have taken back Jemmy O'Brien, who really belongs to them, gven him the Senatorial non@nation in place of John J. Bradley, promised him the prompt payment of bis bogus claim of two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, which he now expects to get from the reformers, and set him to work at the repeating business, of which he is the acknow- ledged bead, and which he has so often practised forthe bonefitof Tammany. Atl they can hope for from Ledwith is the Catholic influence he is supposed to wield as a prominent member of that Church, and which they expect to make available against the Orangeism with which the name of Barrett is identified. But. this will bs but a drop in the ocean as compared with what they could have accomplished had they placed Jemmy O’Brien on their tickets for Senator; and O’Brien is as fit for the Senate as Ledwith is for the Supreme Court. Tne Svuprrior Covrt.—Judge Spencer, who is renominated for the Superior Court, is one of the few judicial officers who ‘‘cannot be spared” from the Bench. Succeeding one of the ablest and most popular judges ever in tbat Court, he has fully justified the expectations of those who were aware of his bigh qualifications for the office, and has satisfactorily filled the place of Judge Robertson. As a lawyer Judge Spencer has long been distinuguished in this oity and in Norihern New York, and since his elevation to the Bench his reputation has largély in- creased, from the dignity and courtesy with which he presides over his Court, as well as from the legal acumen and fine intellect displayed in his ralings and decisions. It is a libel on the name of reform when men who profess to have the good of the community at heart fail to do honor to distinguished ability, integrity and independence in the judiciary by uniting in the support of such a nomination aa that of Judge Spencer. Nota ballot should be cast against such a candidate, Tae Waa.ina Freer in the Arctic seas has met with a great disaster. In September last, while chasing an immense school of whales beyond Cape Bebring, the fiset was hemmed in by ice floes, some of the vessels being sunk at once or driven ashore. Finding their lives in imminent peril the captains concluded to abandon all the vessels moat dangerously situ- ated and betake themselves to those that bad & chance of getting out safely, This they did, and arrived at Honolulu safe, The number of whalers lost is thirty-three. InmigRation.—A synopsis of the report of Mr. Meyers, the special United States Com- missioner to investigate the subject of immi- gration, will be found in another column. Mr. Meyers makes some very commendable suggestions relative to this important subject. Taunpgr ALL Rounp Tar Sxy.—Elections will be held to-morrow in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Mis- sissippi, Wisconsin and Liliaois ; but the eyes of all the country, including ‘‘the eyes of Dela- ware,” are fixed upon the election in New York, as directly involving the test question of the capability of the people to govera them. selves. Tae Sovrn Nonwarx (Cona.) Sentinel having pronounced ‘‘many of the published facts” in regard to E. A, Woodward “‘ficti- tious,” the Norwich Advertiser remarks that, as that is Woodward's place of residence, the Sentinel ought to know, Ho bas probably gone whore the woqdward twineth, ¥ A, ae et Pe ee The Parsoes on Pelltios. Io a time like this we should expect the pulpit of this city to be eloquont over the approaching elections and the duty of the hour, Buta tamer batch of sermons on any special and public subject has never before come under our notice, If we except one or two the reat are so weak that they resemble the tafts of grass which the old farmer in the fable threw at the thief in bis apple tree. There are no stirring appeals to Christian voters, no strong denunciations of city plunderers, no very cleat statements of the requirements of the present hour nor of the coming days and weeks. The great Apos- tle of Plymouth passed by the event of Tues- duy as if it was of no moment compared with drunkenness and gluttony. Dr. Talmage, too, go far as we are apprised, kept quiet, and the leading ministers in this city whose utterances on any subject carry weight with them to the community were voiceless in such a crisis as this, Perhaps they were afraid of the bugbear of ‘“‘politics in the pul- pit” or deemed that the voters of New York had already decided whom they should choose by their ballots to-morrow, and that anything said to them on this head would be worse than wasted, It is only when politics is made the trade of the pulpit that it becomes a nuisance of the worst kind, and with such a glaring example of negligence before us we are inclined to think with Mr. Frothingham that the Church is now the only power which does not work for the regeneration of society, His own view of our condition and our duty was hardly as vigorous and outspoken as might be expected from such a3 he. Dr. Hepworth, too, was mild in his treatment of the subject. He would maintain municipal integrity by educating pub- lic opinion, but he forgets that the other side have more educators of vice, and more dili- gent ones too, who can more than neutralize all that we can teach. Our first aim should be to get rid of the falso teachers, and then we can fill their places with the true, But from present appearances we shall hardly do this on Tuesday. We agree with the Doctor, that our labors should not cease until every criminal, whether in high or humble office, meets his deserts in State Prison. ‘‘The prison for the guilty and public trusts for honest men” is a good motio if sternly adhered to; but the men who have the power to make the sentiment a fact will soon tire of their task and let it fall again into the hands of unprincipled men. As Rev. Mr. White declared, the professional politician sacrifices peace and rest and honor itself to grasp at powor. We must make cor- responding sacrifices ifwe would keep him from it. The noblest utterances reported from any pulpit by our representatives yesterday come from Rev. James M. Clanoy, of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, The workingmen, his auditors, have moat to lose or gain in this fight with corruptionists, and their pastor rose to the importance of the occasion. “Half of those whom you have sent time and again,” said he, ‘‘to represent you in the Legislature, have never read the constitution of the United States, or that of the State of New York, and probably are not aware of its existence. And no business house in New York, the meanest or poorest, would take them as agents, and, with all their boldness, they themselves would never be guilty of such an absurdity after the training they have re- ecived by listening to the speeches of the session to apply even for a clerkship; and the very smallest item of these things which you entrust to their care is the enormous wealth of the Empire State.” ‘Depend upon it," he added, “every workingman spends half of his earnings when he sends a corrupt man to the Legislature. He could afford to spend a week instead of a day for electioneering purposes if he was sure of putting in capable men.” Never was a greater truth than this uttered, and if the men to whom they were spoken could have the luxury of honest gov- ernment for ten years they would see and feel the difference, and would not grudge a day or a week at any time tosecure it. What a striking contrast those words present to the advocacy by the Rev. B. Gleason, of St. Anne’s Roman Catholic church, Brooklyn, of men for office who, upon hia own showing, are unfit to be placed in power !. But some of his congrega- tion showed that he had insulted their intelli- gence and integrity, and we hope they will show it more determinedly on election day. The Rev. Mr. Boole, of the Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church, who “knows how itis himself,” let bis congregation peep through a hole in the wall, and showed them the creeping things and the abominable beasts which our rulers have portrayed on our city walls. Yet he was free to confess that years ago the men in authority were just as bad as now. He had very little faith in the Com- mittee of Seventy or its selection of can- didates, and desired his people to look well to them before voting for them. The election matters were treated of also by Dr. Bellows, Mr. Evans and othera, a synopsis of whose remarks will be found in other columns of the Herat to-day. “Two States To His Bow.—Jamnes Irving fs running for Assemblyman and Alderman. When our great men are scarce the few we have must expect to do double duty, you know. The good old democratic rule of only one office to one man is not the rule of the “Ring.” Hence those missing tweaty millions of the people’s money. Ir Is Not Propasie that the extreme rigor of martial law will be extended to any of the Southern States except South Carolina, It is quite likely that the moral influence of the decisive action of the Executive in that State will suffice to keep the Ku Klux very quiet and orderly elsewhere. ‘Tne Berrine Poors up town on the elec- tion represent Shandley, for Register, as standing in the relation of one hundred against forty for Sigel; O'Brion as fifty to forty against Bradley fur Senator; Ledwith doubt- ful, no pool made on him; State ticket, two hundred and sixty-five for the republican, against two hundred and thirty-five for the democratic ticket. On ‘the Jorsey election there was a pool of one hundred for Parker, democrat, for Governor, against seventy-five for Walsh, republican, These are the straws which, in the sporting world, show the drift of the wind; bat the favorites at a race course are freauently beaten. Te es ate ioe Bp) >. Pe et ‘The Election aud the Reform Movomont— “The Commitcec’s Fallare. The registration of one hundred and fifty- two thousand voters in this city—ten thousand more than last year—is an evidence of the interest takon in to-morrow's election. There will, no doubt, be a full vote out, and the probability now appears to be that the contest will be close on’ the county ticket, although the chances seem to favor the success of Tam- many by a reduced majority. This is mainly owing to the incompetency of the Committee of Seventy, who took upon themselves the man- agement of the reform movement and who have been mere puppets in the hands of politi- cal wirepullers, The members of the Com- mittee when they stepped out of their counting houses, banks and offices ought to have been aware that they knew nothing of political intrigue and party management, and to have steered clear of all cliques snd factions, directing their efforta solely to the delection, exposure and punishment of fraud. If they determined to put a ticket of their own into the field they should have nomi- nated a complete set of officers from Supreme Court Judge to Aldermen, chosen from the great body of the people, on the con- sideration of merit alone. With such candi- dates, if beaten, they would have planted in the soil of New York an honest reform move- ment that could not have failed to bring forth good fruit in due season. Upon such can- didates they might perhaps have rallied a powerful independent vote, irrespective of party, numerous enough in the divisions and scrambling of the rogues to have even secured success, As itis, liko men suddenly elevated to fortune, they have been the vic- tims of designing sharpers, The men who desired to make political capital out of the reform movement, not for the good of the city, but for their own selfish and corrupt ends, have turned tho Committee round their fingers and manipulated the nomi- nations to suit themselves. The consequence is that instead of finding candidates to vote for outside of all corrupt rings and gangs the people discover that to vote sgainst Tammany they must in many iostances support men who have been them- selves among the worst specimons of Tammany roughs and robbers, and who are only now in opposition to the Ring in conse- quence of a falling out among the thieves. It is true that the success of Tammany will be a disgrace to the city, and may seriously demor- alize and damage the cause of reform. In this view it would be a good | thing should the Tammany ticket be beaten. But otherwise there is little to choose between most of the candidates, and the action of the Committee has disappointed the hopes of all honest reformers, News From Tae AntiPpopss.—The news from Australasia which reached us last night by telegraph from San Francisco is of an interesting character. Material progress and territorial development went hand in hand under the colonial governments. Wool, gold and tin were plentiful and in demand. Heavy purchases of wool were being made by Amer- ican buyers for the New England mills. Evi- dence was being diligently sought fur use on the trial of the Tichborne baronetoy case in England. Breadatuffs were dull in price. Durpricare Battot Boxrs‘are talked about as among the cunning devices of ‘the Ring;” but this trick f& so shallow that it will hardly be attempted. Mr. Twexp's CLosina CamPaion SPEEOH to his constituents, at the Walton House, Grand street, on Saturday night last, was a model of its kind. He makes bis cause the cause of bis constitaents. He tells them that he and they are in the same boat. He has no favors to ask of his accusers. He made a good hit with certain quotations from ‘“‘a morning paper claiming to be democratic,” charging that ‘‘the Fourth (Senatorial) dis- trict is the most loathsome political scab on the United States ;” that, with few exceptions, “it is nob the residence of people who have any regard for the decencies of life,” but that “the very dregs and scum of our population, the offscourings of this country and all others, inhabit it.” True or false, ‘the Boss” turned this indictmont of his friends to a good ac- count with the mass meeting conceraed, in making bis cause their cause. But in closing his capital electioneering appeal the enthu- siastic orator made one promise which we are afraid, when put to the trial, will not be found fireproof, He said:—‘‘Rest assured that all the ante-election charges that have been made against me will dissolve as dew before the rising sun when they are subjected to the calm, dispassionate, impartial investigatiod of the courts of law.” We suspect that before the courts these charges will not ‘‘disyolve like the dew before the rising sun,” but will be apt to harden into stone walls and iron portals, And yet why, in these times of gon- eral corruption and demoralization—why may not a man of many millions accumulated from nothing in ten years be as bold, defiant and confident as the third Napoleon in his march to the Rhine? Tse VENEZUELAN REVOLUTIONARY CausE was vastly depressed by the vigorous action of the government forces, directed by Presi- dent Guzman Blanco in person, at the date of our latest advices from Curagoa, The Execu- tive was operating with unusual vigor and the insurgents were more than usually unfor- tunate, on land and at sea, as will be seen by our despatches this morning, A Coon Hunprep Trovsann, according to Mr. Greeley, is the price that was paid by Tammany for Winans in our last Legislature. This was a high figure for an Assemblyman; but still it is a case which should warn the people against the election of lawmakers who are in the market for sale to the highest bidder. Tas Governor ‘On Deox.”—We expect to-morrow @ quiet and orderly election. We think the roughs realize the fact toa great extent that they are on their good behavior; but in order to be fn readiness for any riotous experiments Governor Hoffman has come down from Albany, and will remain in the city dur- ing the day of the election in close communica- tion with the National Guard. paianentemateoaeeeseh ee? we) Rergaters Ang Pouring Iv, they say, in the shape of gangs of ‘Philadelphia bullies,” to give “the Ring” a lift on election day. Look, = for them, are the attractions that it is a matter of aston- )ishment how the public can support thom all. Yet fow of the managers have reason to com- plain, and certainly those who have been en- terprising enough to secure the best talent in the amusement line have reason to late themselves on their foresight and to thank the public for their open-banded liberality. No manager need fear after this season te indulge in the ‘most extravagant expense in securing the best talent for New York, as the public are gure to reward his enterprise, Take the opera, for instance. Madame Parepa-Rosa introduced in the Academy of Music the best English opera company that has ever been organized either here or im England. A three weeks’ season of crowded houses testified the appreciation of her efforts by our public, The firat six subsoription nights of the Nilsson Italian opcra seasom have proved beyond doubt that Italian opera, even at advanced prices of admission, can be sustained in this city, An impresario can now bring the best artista from Europe and give Italian opera ia the style it is presented in London and St. Petersburg, and, no matter how great his financial risk may be, a fortune awaits him here. Wachtel, the German tenor, at the Stadt, has, in 2 season of nine weeks, netted for himself alone nearly thirty thousand dol- lars. The two performances of oratorio given at Steinway Hall by the Mendelssohn Union and Harmonic Society, were thronged with enthusiastic admirers, and the concerts _ of the Santley troupe and Mra. Moulton showed ano less earnest desire on the part of the public to patronize true art, The remarkable attractions in music this season might lead one natarally to suppose that the drama would suffer neglect at the hands of the public. But the case is far otherwise. That standard temple of comedy, Wallack’s, which has become a household word for all that is excellent in art, has never enjoyed a success equal to that of the present season. Those admirable artists, Mathows, Brougham, Gilbert, Fishor, Stoddart, Mont- gomery and Miss Mordaunt, are more than ever firmly fixed in the affections of the pub- lic, and still greater attractions are promised at this theatre. Tom Taylor's comedy, “A Nice Firm” and Sheridan's uproarious sketch, “The Critic,” will introduce Mr. Mathews in his boat parts this week, and thei comes the highly successful play of ‘‘Rosedale,” im which Mr. Lester Wallack makes his firat bow this season, The well known dramatist and actor, John Brougham, has written a new play specially for Mr. Wallack, of which report speake very highly. Three comedies, entirely new to our boards, were produced at this house during the past fortnight or three weeks. Report bas it also that negotiations are on foot to secure Lord Dundreary for the company next season. Sothern comes back to us, after years of absenoe, a ripened artist, aud his Lord Dun- dreary and David Garrick are inimitable. It is a pity that such a fine comedian should not be presented at a theatre better calculated to show off bis talents to advantage than Niblo’s, This is a house admirably suited for spectacular or sensational plays or for classic tragedy, but it is rather too large for the suc- cessful presentation of light comedy. Even now many of the admirers of Mr. Sothern miss many of the best points and delicate nuances of his acting, owing to the great size of the stage and auditoriam. Yet, large aa the house fs, it is scarcely adequate to accom- modate the number of visitors who flock thither to see Lord Dundreary. The other theatres are, as a general rule, splendidly patronized this season, and few complaints have been made agatast the public on the score of lukewarmness. As the season advances atill greater at- tractions are promised. The Philharmonic concerts will shortly commence, and Thomas’ orchestra will return in & few months from their successful tour io the West, Avery sirong combination in Italian opera is said to have been organized for a season at the Academy during the Easter holidays. Among the principal artists of this combination are mentioned Madame Parepa- Rosa, Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Mrs. Jenny Van Zandt, Wachtel, Castelmary and Herr- manns. In a week more. Prince George Galitzin, an eminent Russian musician, will commence a series of concorts at Steinway Hall, and this evening Wachtel appears for the first time as Raoul in “Les Hugueaots” at the Stadt, Tho third week of the present Italian opera season will consist of repoti= tions of the thre last operas given at the Academy. This evening Nilsson appeara in her very best réle, Marguerite in ‘Faust ;” on Wednesday she repeats her magnificent impersonation of ‘La Traviata,” and on Fri- day we are promised “Martha” again, ‘Don Giovanni” was on the bills at first in place of “Martha,” but was dropped on account of the fiasco of Friday last. The public of New York have proved this season that Italian opera is the most fashionable of all our amase- ments and that they are desirous to patronize it to the fullest oxtent when it is represented by real artists, The success of Mile, Nilsson has been of such an unequivocal character that it should encourage all managers who may in the future essay Italian opera in this city to secure the best talent at any cost and rely upon the metropolitan public for a favor- able response. Now that Italian opera has hada fair start {n this clty we trust that it will be sustained, and that we shall never again endure the disgrace of having a magnifi- cont Opera Honse closed for an entire season because there was no manager courageous enough to attempt opera in it, If Italian opera fails again the public are not to blame ; they are willing to do everything for it, Give them only the best talent, Messrs, Improsarii, and charge what you please,for it. New York is as fully capable of paying for the best operatic company as either London or St, Petersburg. No matter how great the genius of a prima donna may be, {t is not sufficient to carry a season through successfully without foranetent artista to assist her, When the