The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1872, Page 6

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BROOKLYN RINK, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle.— | INDUsTRiAL Farr, NEW YORK | MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— | ‘TRIPLE SHEET, Now aSeey Pacsday, b ese THE NEWS _OF YESTERDAY. *To-Day'’s etiniteonte of the Herald. Oct. 1, EDITORIALS : LEADER, “THE HUMBUG OF LITICAL REFORM AND POLITICAL RB FORMERS''—Sixra Page. OPENING NIGHT OF ITALIAN OPERA: GROWNS THE DIVINE § FLORA EATRI- ESS‘ rr re NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OUTUBER 1, 1872—TRIPLE SHERY. The Hambag of Political Reform and Polttical Reformers. Those who take an interest in the doings of that section of the community whose public acts are mainly chronicled under the head of police reporia and Courts of General and Special Sessions, will no doubt have noticed that credulous people are constantly falling victims to awindles so repeatedly exposed in the newspapers that we might well suppose all the world to be familiar with their features and sufficiently guarded against them. It is diffi- cult to conceive how any person of inary intelligence can be taken in by the drop- pocketbook game, the patent-safe game, the confidence game, the “‘little joker,’’ three-card monte or any other of the many threadbare re- sorts of ordinary thieves and sharpers, Yet we find new dupes constantly added to the already long list of the innocents who have for the last quarter of a century been victimized by such frauds, and it is a well-known adage of the fishermen who angle for flats in the surg- ing waters of the metropolis that there are “as good fish in the sea as over came out of it.” In like manner the adventurers who make a living out of politics, and whose busi- ness itis to impose upon the unsuspecting and the careless voters year after year, appear never to be at a loss for followers who can be made to believe in the honesty of thoir profes- sions and the purity of their patriotism. There are some men in the world who seem anxious to be imposed upon, and there are others who are too thoughtless or too much absorbed in business to heed the leasons of experience. All of these form available capi- tal for the political impostor, who assumes his mask of honesty and disinterestedness on. the eve of each recurring election, only to lay it aside as soon as the polls are closed. Thus we find thousands to-day listening complacently to the professions of politicians who are alike conspicuous for the clamor with which they advocated reform a year ago and for their unfaithfulness to their pledges after the storm which carried them into power had passed away; we hear to-day from a handful of political intriguers the same impudent boasting with which a year ago they sought to claim as their own all the credit of the victory over official corruption won by the honest and independent electors of the city. The people at large areas well aware that there isa great deal of humbug in political reform and political reformers as they are that there is fraud in the dropped pocket book, the patent safe, and the cup of the thimble-rigger. The adherents of the party out of power will always discover dishonesty in their more for- tunate opponents, and the adherents of the party in power will never fail to warn the country against the evil designs of those who — | are anxious to supplant them. The former 72, | are always liberal in their promises of reforms == | if only they may be allowed the opportunity to carry them into practice, while the latter are just as profuse in their pledges of amendment provided they may be suffered to retain power. Whichever side may succeed | in imposing upon the people the result is the | same. There may at first be some apparent effort at a cleansing of the Augean stables, but the reigning king of our political Elis, | whoever he may be, is never so fortunate as | to discover a Hercules powerful enough to let | loose the purifying waters upon the cribs at which tho official oxen are fattened, and in CAL CRITIQUE: . PERSONAL NEWS—LITERARY CHIT-CHAT—SixTH Paas. MABLE TELEGRAMS—NEWS FROM WASHIN ‘ TON—STANLEY’S AMERICAN LECTL SEVENTH Page. MHE PARTY CA IN THE OLD KEYStONE— | LOCAL POLITICS—Tuiky Pads. \ fONVEILING THE STEUBEN MONUMENT at | STEU N. ¥.—BROUKLYN BALLOT-BOX | STUFFIN MERICAN JOCKEY CLUB— | TROTTING—THIRD PAGE. THE WARD'S ISLAND INSANE VESTIGATION—APPOINTING OF ELECTION—THE COURTS—GRAND Pa. RADE OF BROOKLYN MILITIA—Focrta Page. THE SIEGFRIED POISONING INVESTIC THE BARCLAY STREET MU RIOUS HOMICIDE—Fourtn Pac THE GRAND JURY AFTER THE JE! NIOIPAL RINGS—THE PATENBU! MUNICIPAL — YACHTING STATEMENT—SHIPPING. ON 'CHANGE: ADVANCE IN GOLD MENTS, DECLINE IN STRINGENT; Firtit Pace, | Y MU- | lors— | ASURY Tre Ovrstanpina Curnency at the present ‘date roaches close to four hundred million Gollars. Of this three hundred and filty-six ‘millions are legal tender notes and nearly forty and a half millions fractional currency, Mrs. Laura “Fan has e escaped the gallows. ‘The jury deliberated for nearly sixty hours, | And then came into court with a verdict of “not guilty.” Such a result may not have been entirely unexpected; but it would have | been hailed with more confident approval had | the jurors been drawn from a rank of the | ‘community somewhat higher than this appears Ao have been in intelligence and education, Tur, Avnican Jocaey Cuvs's Fant Meer. xN@ will open to-morrow at Jerome Park under the most favorable auspices. The insetting tide of wealth and fashion will furnish a quota | of on-lookers the peers of any meeting in the | world. The stable owners promise to do | their share in making the event worthy of ‘the course and the company. There will be no less than six races to-morrow. In the third event, called the Nursery Stakes, there is an unusually large number of entries, | of which it is thought probable that at least twenty will be starters. Let “Old Probabil- ities," then, only give Gotham a fine day and we shall have such sport as only the turf can boast. Stamp Tax Repuctiox To-Day.—The inter- nal revenue stamp taxes abolished by the Tariff and Tax bill of the 6th of June last cease to exist on this day. These abolitions comprise all stamps on mortgages, deeds and promis- | sory notes. The main exception to the repeal is the two-cent stamp upon bank checks, or- | ders or drafts exceeding ten dollars. This completes the reductions by the act. The taxes on tobacco were reduced—that is, made | uniform—on the Ist of July. The gas tax was repealed, the spirit tax reduced and a majority of the customs duties reductions took place on the Ist of August. The contemplated reduce tion of the internal revenue districts will now roe with. The number is not to ex- cightys It wonld be too great a demand | ‘n patriotism to expect that any of the doomed | office-holders should receive their walking pa- rs Lotore election day. | eceptionally effective. | cians were shrewd enough to avail them- the end the country finds the foulness and im- purity undisturbed. The shilsboleth of tke ~ | campaign is forgotten by either party as soon as the election is over, and if there has been achange it is soon seen that it is only from one set of political leeches to another. Last year the reckless and lavish corruption of some of our city officials occasioned a political revolution in which the people were the avenging power, and the reform they won at | the polls promised on that avcount to be ex- But professional politi- selves of the swelling tide of popular indignation to ride into power, and it is | notorious that a legislature elected under the | banner of reform and strengthened by a party majority greater than ever before known at the State capital, proved to be as criminally cor- rapt as any of its infamous predecessors. Even the Committee of Seventy, with all the excellent service it rendered in the crusade against the powerful municipal ring, was used | ina great measure by designing men for the advancement of their own personal fortunes, and the unssemly spectacle was presented of a violent srcamble among these clamorous re- formers for the offices they had labored so | ardnously to vacate. Every citizen will re- | member the noisy declarations of the politi- cians pending last year’s campaign in relation to the punishment that was to be meted out to the guilty officials and their outside ac- complices, yet to-day we find the corruption- ists unpunished except by the loss of power, | former enemies fill the air, and the woxst of | them impudently announce their intention of giving their support to the party that will | “treat them best.’’ Indeed, the criminal in- | dictments found against the offenders were | obtained without the assistance of the self- constituted leaders of the reform movement, and despite the sneers and covert opposition | of some of the political reform organs, It needs no extraordinary acuteness to dis- cover the fraudulent character of reform pro- fessions in the mouths of trading politicians | and strictly partisan journals, these, malversation is a crime that can only be committed by a political opponent. They can discover no corruption in the festering spots | on their own body, If they cannot boldly | deny or plausibly excuse the misdeeds of their | political friends they are silent on the subject of their offences. Their accusations are hurled indiscriminately at all who are not of their | own faith, and they let loose a flood of per- sonal abuse upon their adversaries in the | hope of sweeping away the evidences | of their own transgressions. The most blatant among them in last year's cam- paign failed to recognize any but venial | offences in the legislative conduct of one of their own members of the State Senate and of the Clerk of that body, and apparently re- | mained in entire ignorance that an Albany printing firm of their own stripe had been in | the habit of paying ten-thousand-dollar bribes to lobbymen to push questionable claims | through the Legislature. In the present election the course of the party organs has been extravagant to ludicrousness in this direction, Tho democrats certainly occupy & better position than tas eapublicans, foe tho while rumors of secret alliances with their | With both of | organization in the city, whose name will be at reason that the party has been in a more quiescent state. The Baltimore Convention carried with it the great bulk of the party, and the peculiarity of the situation has im- posed a sort of restraint upon the democratic journals. The absurd failure of the Louisville movement prevented any noteworthy bitter- ness within the ranks of the unterrified, and tho object of the party organs has been rather to win over refractory members by argument and reason than to take up arms against them. It has beon different with the republicans. In that demoralized organization the rebellion has been decisive and the war bas been fiercely and re- morselessly waged. The consequence has been a terrible revelation of the secrets of the party and a malignancy of personal attack heretofore unknown in the most heated of our political contests. In one conspicuous instance in our own city the columns of a daily journal have for months overflowed with scurrility. Scarcely an epithet in the vocabulaty of abuse that has not been hurled at the head of Mr. Greeley, from traitor down to idiot. Independent of the sing-song cry of ‘Tammany corruptionist applied to.such dem- ocrats as Belmont, Tilden, Schell and their associates of the regenerated Wigwam, each ro- publican who has deplared for the liberal cause has been marked with some one of the ready-made brands of all sorta of villany. Sumner, Banks, Trumbull, Curtin, Schurz, Fenton, have all in their turn been made criminals of a greater or less degree, and the world has been led to believe that the heretofore most honored members of the republican party, its founders and champions, have been for years among the vilest of our population. On the other hand, counter assaults are made by the liberal organs against those republicans who still remain true to the faith, until the people, if they credit the tales of both sides, must arrive at the conclusion that more dishon- est political organization than that of republicanism never had an existence in this or any other country. The humbug of political reform is shown in ‘the fact that whatever promises may be made before elec- tion the successful party is always found to run in the old rut as soon as it obtains power. The humbug of political reformers may be seen every day during the present campaign in the recklessness with which abuse is showered npon all political opponents and the virtues that are claimed indiscriminately for all po- litical friends, -As an independent journal, laboring for the prosperity of the city and the interests of the people, the Hrraxp earnestly desires reform, without regard to the politicians, and will sup- port any party that will in honesty and sin- cerity carry out the work of official purifica- tion. In the national administration we find good evidence that Congress is but little less corrupt than our own notorious State Legisla- ture, We have no charges to make against any individual; but it is undeniable that the Pacific Railroad schemes, the Crédit Mobilier and other jobs have been carried to success only through the corruption of legislation and at the expense of the people. In the federal offices there is foulness at every step. Custom houses in all out-of-the-way places, as the democratic contemporary has been recently showing, are made the excuse for farming a horde of idle pensioners upon the public Treasury. The business of all the departments could, no doubt, be done as efficiently as at the present time with a very material reduction of the force and a great saving of expense. The national bank system might be profitably overhauled. In our State government there is doubtless ample room for improvement. The Canal Ring, of which the people know nothing and care little, is a heavy swindle upon the people. The Legislature is, of course, in the lowest depth of depravity and dishonesty, and can scarcely be worse than at present. In the city we know what is needed, and the urgent neces- sity of good government. So far as the present campaign is concerned, the national and State issues are already joined, and the people are called upon to choose in the one case between Grant and Greeley— in the other between Kernan and Dix. General Grant is known as a national Executive. For what there is to praise and for what there is to blame in the general government he is accountable. We have already shown that reforms are needed, and we are promised a complete overhauling of the civil service in case ofa re-election of the Presi- dent. Mr, Greeley, on the other hand, is the professed candidate and champion of reform in the federal administration. Pledged to a single term of office, with a reputation to make, with unfriendly predictions to falsify, he | would seem to have especial reasons for | carrying out his pledges should he be | successful at the polls. Between these eandidates the people are to choose. In the State the rival tickets have about an equal claim to public confidence. General Dix has a rec- ord which needs no comment. Mr. Kernan is pronounced by all who know him as a/| man of strict integrity and high moral worth, As Governor of the State either of these candidates would doubtless do his duty conscientiously and honestly. The city nominations remain to be made, and in these the people have the deepest interest. It is because we have no faith in the profession of politicians that we desire to see a candidate | put into the field for Mayor by the strongest once a guarantee that he is nota politician } and is entirely independent of political | ties and associations. Let us have at the head of the city government a plain, | competent, successful business man ; one who | | understands the wants of the city, appreciates the magnificent destiny in store for it, and does not fear to take the respon- | sibility of aiding it on; one who is ac- | tive, energetic and independent in every | sense of the word, aud real reform will be | secured. If we suffer political intrigues and combinations to prevail, and place | our trust in political reform and _ political re- | formers, we shall only repeat in our municipal | government the unfortunate experiment that gave us the infamous Legislature of last Win- ter. Ifthe strongest political organization in the city, now regenerated into a reliable reform party, puts forward for the Mayoralty such a candidate as we demand, none but the openand secret enemies of reform will oppose him, The | political reformers who desire to use the ery | Roundell Palmer. again this year, as they did last year, for the advancement of their own personal “nds, will no doubt howl — noninat such a nomination. It will not suit their purposes. It will not give them tho Legislature of 1872. But the people have had enough of such reformers and of such re- forms, and will guard against being again made the tools of designing adventurers in their effort to aecure an honest, liberal and efficient municipal | government, Opening Night of the Italian Opera, The Academy of Music looked bright and pleasant last night. The occasion was.a mo- mentous one—no less than the first appearance in America of the favorite prima donna of Berlin, London and St. Petersburg. The name of Pauline Lucca was wafted across the Atlantic on the wings of fame, and the beauty, wealth and intelligence of New York came out in all their bravery of attire and fulness of enthusiasm to do honor to her American début. They were not disappointed either, for the tal- ented little prima donna appeared in her best réle, Solika in “‘L’ Africaine,” and roused the audience to a pitch of excitement unusual with the staid opera goers of the Academy. The death scene of the fifth act was an idyl and a dramatic and melodic poom that is rarely seen on the operatic stage. The. com- pany also proved satisfactory, especially in the: case of Mile. Leveilliand Sigaor Abrugnedo. The Inez of the former and the Vasco di Gama of the Intter were genuine artistic triumphs. Great careseems to have been taken with the chorus and orchestra, and there was & perceptible will and earnestness productive of excellent results about both of these depart- ments, Altogether it was very promising opening night. ‘L’Africaine’’ is an opera which is very difficult te handle in its stage details, and when the réles of Selika, Vasco and Nelusko are taken from it the rest of the characters and the sensational scenes are not calculated to inspire interest. Meyerbeer bestowed more attention in the creation of this work than he did on any of his other operas, and marks of excessive labor are constantly apparent. But the Selika of Mme. Lucca is an inspired feature in the work which must always make it interesting with her as the heroine. Signor Abrugnedo, the Spanish tenor di forza of the troupe, achieved a notable success in one of the most trying réles in the operatic rdpertoire. Mile. Leveilli, who was the leading prima donna of Alhaza’s opera troupe in New Orleans for an entire season, was another genuine suc- cess in the réle of Inez last evening. The interest taken by the New York public in music this season cannot be overesti- mated. Wo have the cream of the European opera houses and concert halls here. There is Rubinstein, who ranks first in the world asa pianist since Liszt quitted the field and since the early demise of poor Tausig, and who, as a composer, may be placed beside the great Wagner; Wieniawski, who acknowledgus only one rival on the violin, Joachim; TQeodore Thomas, our own apostle of music, whose orchestra stands unrivalled in America and unexcelled in Europe; and now Pauline Lucca, the favorite of the public in Italian opera everywhere. That music is fast becoming an indispensable attri- bute of polite society is evident from the liberal patronage bestowed upon these artists and the number of conservatories of music springing up in every part of the city. The piano manufacturers—and they form ao brigade iu themselves—find it difficult to sup- ply all their orders. A family, nowadays, consider that there is a very essential article of furniture and enjoyment wanting in the absence of a piano. But, with all this great desire for music on the part of the public, it is the province of the critic to see that it is well directed. Therefore artists, instrumental or vocal, who now court the patronage of the American people must pass through a severe ordeal be- fore they become permanent favorites. The time has gone by when a mere name could create a furor. The audience at the Academy of Music may be attracted by the interest and curiosity attached to a great name, but they are very chary of their applause and enthu- siasm until they are satisfied from their own judgment of the justice of the claims of any artist to fame, Hence the solid grounds on which the merits of Mme. Lucca are founded. She placed herself last evening as a candidate before the metro- politan public, and by the sheer force of talent, independent of European renown, she won her way to their hearts and became at once a favorite in New York, as she has been long the reigning queen of the lyric stage in Europe. On Wednesday she will essay a réle which is perhaps the most familiar of any in the entire range of charac- ters in Italian opera to American ears— namely, that of Marguerite, in Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ On Friday evening Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will present herself for the first time in two years on the operatic stage as | Violetta, in ‘La Traviata’’—an emotional and trying character which never fails to excite interest and attention here. Altogether the season has opened auspiciously, and we trust that the management will continue in the ood ag and carry it through successfully to je end, The New Lord Chancellor of Eng« land. The London Times confirms the report of | the resignation of Lord Chancellor Wood. It is silent, however, as to the appointment of | his successor, although there is every reason to believe that the Observer spoke with a knowl- | edge of the facts when it said that the high office when vacated would be filled by Sir It is well known that Sir Roundell Palmer would have become Lord | Chancellor in 1868 but for some difference of | opinion between him and Mr. Gladstone at | that period. Our readers will remember that Sir Roundell gave Mr. Gladstone but indifferent support in his two great Irish Reform measures. In his Army Reform meas- | ure, however, when Mr. Gladstone made a questionable use of the Crown warrant, Sir Roundell came to the rescue, and contributed | mightily to the saving of the Ministry. As counsel for Great BritaMm at the Geneva Court | of Arbitration Sir Roundell has again ren- dered the Ministry great and valuable ser- vices. As a lawyer he has no superior in England, and he enjoys the reputation of | being one of the most accomplished scholars and refined critics of the age. Ashe is now in secord with Mr. Gladstone on all the great questions of the day his appointment to the high office of Lord Chancellor may be con- sidered certain, and there can be no doubt but that it will command general avoroval, Our Ouben Filibusters—A Spanish Case for Another | ‘We have a report from the other side of ‘the big water” that the Spanish government has resolved to submit to the other European Povers the question of the justioe of its claims against the government of the United States for damages sustained by filibustering expedi- tions from American ports, operating against the Spanish authorities in Cuba. ‘Here's richness.” It is possible that the Spanish government has seized this brilliant idea of making a case upon these claims from the re- sults of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration on our Alabama claims. For the depredations on our commerce of those Anglo-rebel cruisers, the Alabama, the Shenandoah and the Georgia, and their tenders, during our late civil war, the Geneval Tribunal has awarded us somo fifteen millions of dollars as indemnity, under those three new rules of neutrality adopted in the Treaty of Washington as the rules for the government of said tribunal op these claims; and the Spanish government may, perhaps, suppose thate similar Tribunal of Arbitration, in reference to our Cuban filibusters, would be bound under the same rules to onter judg- ment against usin a good round bill of many. millions of Butif the government of Spain has really resolved upon any such settlement an appeal to the European. powers is not the proper way to proceed: to business, The question of the justice of the claims of Spain against the United States cannot be settled by that pro- cess. If Spain would have another Geneva ‘Tribunal ¢he must begin at the beginning. King Amadeus, following the example of Queen Viotoria, must write to President Grant a friendly letter proposing a Joint High Com- mission for the settlement of these filibuster- ing claims. President Grant, in arg will doubtless propose that the Joint Hi Commission be empowered to settle all the existing differences and difficulties between the two governments, and King Amadeus will rejoin, “All right,’’ aad the Joint High Com- mission, let us suppose, will then be appointed and will meet in Washington, and, after a round of friendly dinners, will proceed to business. Spain will put in her bill of damage against our Cuban filibusters, and from the ill-fated Lopez expedition, in the full bloom of Presi- dent Fillmore’s administration, down to this day, the schedule of these filibusters and fili- bustering forays upon Cuba from the United States will be something appalling to the eyes of Secretary Boutwell. But, on the other hand, as this Joint High Commission will be charged with the settlement of all outstanding accounts between the two countries, when our Joint High Commissioners come to put in our bills of expenses incurred in maintaining our neu- trality in the ever-rebellious Island of Cuba, and the claims of American citizens on the island despoiled of their property and pun- ished as felons, and a demand for the imme- diate abolition of slavery and the African and coolie slave trade in the island, and finally a demand for a vote of the people of the island, including its people of African and coolie im- portation and descent, on the question of in- dependence or adhesion to Spain, we think the tables will be turned upon King Amadeus. But let us suppose that upon all these and other questions a treaty is made—a second Treaty of Washington, embracing the aboli- tion of slavery and the African and coolie slave trade in Cuba, and a plébiscite, on the plan of universal suffrage, on the question of Cuban ‘independence—we cannot perceive what objection could be entered against an- other Geneva Tribunal for the settlement of these aforesaid Spanish claims on account of damages incurred from our Cuban filibusters and filibustering expeditions from time to time for the last twenty-five years. Let King Amadeus, then, write his friendly letter to General Grant for another Joint High Com- mission, and let us, by this delightful process of dining, wining and defining, have a com- plete settlement of all the existing difficulties between the United States and Spain, includ- ing the question of ‘manifest destiny,’’ and then the happy accord between the two coun- tries directly concerned will be as lovely as that established between John Bull and Brother Jonathan on our Alabama claims, Let us have this settlement and ‘“‘let us have peace.’” The Old Catholics in Germany—What Do They Wantt The Old Catholics, regarding whom we have been hearing so much for the last year anda half, have had a meeting at Cologne. From all we can gather, the different sittings have been well attended and by audiences of | the respectable classes, It was something for the world to learn that among those who took part in the proceedings were some Anglican bishops and at least one bishop of the Episco- pal communion of America, It is pleasing to find that the Old Catholics are strong enough to make a respectable demonstration in the old Cathedral town. But the world wishes to know what the Old Catholics want. What are they driving at? A great reform party must have a progtamme. They must havé & plat- form, There are many who wish the Old Catholics well pnd yould like to see them | prosper; but their well: wishers d do not know | what their German friends would be at. It | was not difficult to know what Luther wanted. His immortal Theses nailed to the door of the Schloss-Kirche at Wittenberg left the world | inno doubt. The meaning was plein. But the spirit of Luther is not present with the Old Catholics. Withont some such spirit we | fear Old Catholicism must die. The religious | world really wishes to know what the Old i Catholics want. Tue River Front ar Honsoxen-—A Bro | Jop.—It would seem that the spirit of dis- | honesty and fraud has taken such firm hold of politicians that it is useless to expect honora- ble dealings from this class. Hoboken has been engaged for some time in a struggle to maintain her riparian rights against a wealthy corporation. At the very moment when the rights of the public were ina fair way to be established the politicians, by a | skilfal manceuvre, are endeavoring, under the | cover of a pretended compromise, to sell out tights of the taxpayers, worth millions, for | @ nominal consideration representing some | twenty thousand dollars. In the worst days of ‘Tammany no such flagrant violation of public interests was attempted, and we hope the citizens of Hoboken will take steps at once to prevent tho alienation of thoir property by acheming volitional rings Dr. J.8, Mosher, of Albany, Ciarendeal aah: 7, haa arrived at the Judge E. 0. of Cincinnat atoppiag St. Nicholas pews aoe a — Juage Mosely, of Buffalo, is sojourning at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Ex-Congressman Joho B. Alley, of Massachusetia, is at the Astor House, General T. C. Sturms, Of the United States Acmay, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Speaker James G, Blaine, of Maine, ts on 4 visit to his relations in Elizabeth, Pa. Police Commissioner M. S. Smith, ef Detroit, Mich., is stopping at the Astor House. General George R. Smith, of Sedalia, Mo., has tet On & visit to hia daughter, ia New York. General Daniel Tyler, of the United States Army, ia in quarters at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governer Randoiph, of New Jeraoy, 6 among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Captain Samuel Brooks, of the steamship City of Brussels, is in haven at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Lorenzo Deimonico has been Ill, but ls convaies- cent, aud out for bis usual airings in the Park, Mra, Theresa Black, Byron’s “Maid of Athens,” is aged and in extreme want at the Golonghi, Greece, Seoretary Robeson has left Washington for New York, on account of the iliness of Mra. Robeson te this city. Qeréley stock ts again looking up at Saccacappa,- . Me., consequent upon the Philosophor'’s admirahte apeevhes out Weat, The Brooklyn Sunday Same 14 the mourning border title of a amart looking wee8fy just started ‘goross the East River. Commander R. B. Lowry, of the United States Navy, is at the Everett House, Tho Jommauder has rather a bad weather namo. ‘The Corner Stone—a Masonic organ—suggente Smith Ely, Jr., whom it calls “the terror of corrap tlon and advocate for reform," for Mayor. A married man, with @ large family, recently ran om with a neighbor's daughter in lowa. A West- ern paper says a father anda shotgun are in pure suit, Joha B. Gough marries bia brother at tis ‘‘Htlt- aide Homestead,” oF rather he opens it for the pur- pose ofa wedding, in which his brother (a the party of the Orst part. President Porter, of Yale, delivers the address at the Centeunial anniversary of the foundation of the Congregational church bullding-at Farmiagton, Conn., October 17, 89 many colored, iotere have lately e008 fromm Covington, Ky., to Cinclanatt, to “work, that la— to vote—that there i scarcely @ akilied tonsortat artist left in the village. There are & hundred thousand women in Parts, it is guessed at, who are named “Marie.” There are, no doubt, as many tn New York who are ready ta conjugate the verb “to marry." According to the Philadelphia Age a wealtig centenarian in Delaware 1s closely watched te prevent his getting married, The old fellowa here- abouts do not get quite so old before they are aub- jected to a aimilar interference, Is tt not about time that those Washington polt ticians, who think they have a perpetusi lease of the lobbies of the national Capitol, were turned out and honest men put in their places, if such # thing as an honest lobbyist can be found any- where ? A strange death occurred near St. Omer, Mil., last week, A young man named Roberts commenced bleeding at the nose, then at the lungs, and Qnatty the blood oozed out of the pores of the skin, In this condition he lingered three or four days, whem he died. Some of the prominent politicians of the present day—witness John H. George, of New Hampslire, and Chauncey M. Depew, of this State—are coua- sel for powerful ratiroad corporations, the former of the Boston, Lowell and Concord and the latter of the New York Central, Mr. Alfred Wilkinson writes to us to gay that he ig not a member of any secret political or religious organization, the statements made by a morning contemporary to the contrary notwithstanding. When will the partisan press ceas2 ascurrility aad learn to stick to the trath ? The Albany argus is right in saying that Judgé Requier struck the fight chord when he declared in a recent speech that “a man who sold his vote War agreater traitor to his country than he who as- sailed his government with a gun in his hand.” ‘The gunning season commenced in Maine about the Ist of September this year. Sergeant Gilbert H. Bates, who travelled throug the South with the American flag unfurled at a perilous period immediately succeeding the late war, left Saybrook, Ill, on the 80th ult., en route for New York and England, through which latter country he proposes to march under the flag the same as he did through the South. ¥ Robert W. McCreery, son of ex-United Statea Senator McCreery, of Kentucky, recently wedde@ Miss Orlean Athy, of Owensboro. Owensboro is a good place for brides to come from. Rich old fathers there have a weakness for presenting theit children occastonally with $5,000 checks under dia ner plates, Ailop-Athy ts the beat mode of treat- ment in such cases. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tae Latest Curiostry of medical literatura wil be “Doctors and Their Doses; or, The Mysteries 0 Medicine, presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice, exposing Humbugs, Quacks and Charlatans in all Ages and Countries, by A. D, Crabtree, M, D.," soon to issue from the flart- ford press. Mra. Magy CLEMMER AMRsis writing, and Hurd & Houghton will publish, “A Memortal of Allce and Phoebe Cary.” The volume will contain some later poems of the two sisters, and steel portraits of both. TAR LATR CHARLES LEVER was under mortgage (tna literary sense, to a publisher, and this bomd- age once saved his life. The novelist had taken passage for America on the ill-fated Arctic.when his publisher refused to release him from his contract to produce so much “copy” per month, The arctl¢ sailed and went down wi th all on board. A GERMAN TRANSLATION of “The Life of James Fisk, Jr.,”’ has been prohibited in Austria. 4 VicrorigN Sarvow's copyrights fof “Le Rol Carotte,” upto July 1, amounted to 90,000 franca, No doubt he finds the drama more Somes than literature. THE YALE 5 Gor editorship ot short-lived but brilliant Chicago magazine, Braminer. Tue CoNcLUpING Portion of Mr, Tennyson's “Arthurian Legends” will shortly be published by Strahan & Co, in a new volume of poetry. Mr, CaakLes Reape Will furnish the Christmas story for the Graphic, occupying, as did Wilkte Col- ling’ story, the whole paper. A Work or Even More INTEREST than Popyst or Evelyn's “Diary,” although of the samo sort, ts soon to be published, It is the journal of a German student, G. W. de Bolzheim. It recounts in plata phrases the St. Bartholomew massacre in Orleans, where the author was at the time, Ir 18 SatD THAT Mak Taatn intends remataing in England a year, to famillarize himself with the English character, preparatory to writing 8 boo’ on its oddities and eccentricities; a precaution which English humorists might well have takea in America, THE Naw oficial Gazette, Issued weekly by the United States Patent Office, has reached its second volume, It js an invaluable aid to inventors and patent lawyers, and not without interest to the reading public. Each number contains a fult list of the latest patents, the most recent decistons of the Commissioner and of the United States Courts tn patent cases, and eight pages of accurate tIlustra- tions of new patent models, reduced by the Osborne process, and elegantly printed. Tho pertodical costs $5 a year. SANsON'S “Mysteries of the Scadold,” commonly supposed to have been written by Alexander Dumas, haa sold to the amount of 400,000 coptes in France. Kladderadatach, the Berlin Punch, eatavliahed twenty-five years ago on $20 capital, has mado halt @ Million doviarg for [ta oubtisheras, Atte 6. Towne, forther editor of the tue LEGE Covrant haa assod Into un? a