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6 NEW YORK HERALD NEW YOKK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1872.—TRIPLE The Georgian State Hiection—Its Effect Upom the Presidential Canvass. Although the returns published this morn- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ing concerning the Georgia election make a JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yonx Hiznaw. fm Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume EXXVMssecesescsessseseseee NO, 97S AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 54 Broadway.—Vanierr Eyrertateuent. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth fAvenue,—ARnau-NA-POdUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ern; or, Barone Tar Asenpuents—Carivorsta Diamonns, &c. D'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtioth st.— pk FROM Sixg SinG. Atternoon and Evening, if JUARE THEATRE, Broad way, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth ntreeta—Acnns. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Dianonps. 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'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald, EDITORIAL LEADER: “THE GEORGIA STATE ELEOTION—ITS EFFECT UPON THE PRESI- DENTIAL CANVASS" —SixTH Page. WILLIAM BUTLER DUNCAN FOR MAYOR: THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ON THE NOMI- NATION; A FAVORABLE REPORT—TurRp Pace. THE GEORGIA STATE ELECTION: 40,000 DEMO- CRATIC MAJORITY—POLITICAL INTELLI- GENCE—Tuinp Pace. THE BURNING OF THE ESCURIAL—CABLE TELE- GRAM® FROM EUROPE AND ASIA—THE RUBINSTEIN CONCERT — WASHINGTO) NEWS—SEVENTH Page. * GRAND OVATION TO PENNSYLVANIA'S WAR GOVERNOR—LARGE MEETING OF NEW YORK’S “SWARTHY ELEMENT: GRANT ENDORSED—Turrp PAGE. 6@ HORDE OF SAVAGE CHIEFS ON THE WAY TO INTERVIEW “GREAT FATHER” GRANT: WHY THEY COME—THE TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD—SHIPPING—TENTH PAGE. WERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE EAST TEN- NESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAIL- ROAD—PERSONAL NEWS—SEvENTH PAGE. TENNESSEE'S ORATORICAL TERNARY : INTER- VIEWS WITH JOHNSON, MAYNARD AND CHEATHAM—THE STRAIGHT-OUT GCON- VENTION ENDORSE O’CONOR : NO STATE TICKET—Fountn Pace. HOW THE PATENBURG RIOTS COMMENCED : NEGROES EXHUMED—ARCHBISHOP BAY- LEY'S FAREWELL—THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS—Firra Pace. THE HORRORS OF WARD'S ISLAND: FAR- RELI’S STORY—GREELEY AT THE SUF- FOLK COUNTY FAIR—Firti PagE. SENATOR BUCKALEW’S OPINIONS ON THE REAL ISSUES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CANVASS—FourtH PacE, THE WALL STREET BOARDS: THE FINANCIAL SITUATION; DECLINE IN STOCKS; GOLD, 1154%—MUNICIPAL—THE COMPTROLLER’S REPORT—EieuTH Pace. LOCAL NEWS—CENTRAL PARK HIGHWAYMEN— POISONING—NintH Pace. A Goop Brornrve is the safest and surest way to a good ending; and so, as in the cause f city reform the election of William Butler can as Mayor will bea good beginning, fo can be no mistake or hazard in electing Wao Is To Brame ?—So far as they have gone Mhe official investigations into the burning of 6 Bienville and the explosion on the Dean iohmond do not succeed in eliciting very tory evidence. Such disasters are of fe frequent occurrence. They cannot properly called accidents, being the natural results ‘of certain conditions which should be sedu- guarded against. The travelling public on the transportation companies to assure j by carefully obeying those physical laws ‘which govern combustion, explosion and other (perils to which passengers are always exposed carelessness is permitted. To ascertain @learly the facts, and place the blame where it \belongs, is the duty of those in charge of the jPaveatigation. No whitewash is required. Tax Srnatcut-Ovr Democnatic Convention t ALBaNy does not appear to have set the Hud- River on fire. So far, indeed, these straight- in behalf of their independent Presiden- ticket seem to be in the precarious and perplexing position of Mr. Micawber, when he was ‘waiting for something to turn tp.” Thus it is probable they will await the tesults of the State elections of Tuesday next, nd then mysteriously disappear. Tent Coxoressionat Disraict.—The old Mozart war horse, Fernando Wood, again melleth the battle afar off, and is on his Pccustomed mettle with a fair prospect of ing the goal. He has done well in Con- and in the present division of parties ps it would be as well to keep him in fashington out of harm’s way. Hosea B. erkins thinks otherwise. Mr. Perkins is a candidate. Mr. Perkins is an ont- d-outor in eloquence, and, ag he has not yet an opportunity to ventilate his great gift in sayeth Bunsby. and beyond that deponent th not. considerable reduction upon the sanguine ostimates of the night of the struggle, there is sufficient left yet to allow of considerable jubilation in the liberal and democratic camps. Georgia is now said to have gone for the lib- eral candidate, James M. Smith, by a ma- jority of at least thirty thousand, over Walker, the republican. The figures first quoted by triumphant partisans in the flush of victory will generally bear the application of the pruning knife, and Georgia is no exception to the rule. Last year’s elec- tion gave a democratic majority of close to twenty-seven thousand. This would show a clear gain of three thousand—something for the liberal coalition to delight in, certainly. There is every evidence that this campaign for the Presidency will, in many respects, be one of the most curious on record. The most striking thing in this relation will undoubtedly be the fluctuations of popular opinion on the voting strength of the two parties. We have never before, apparently, had so many citi- zens in that state of doubt as to how they will cast their votes for President, known in common parlance as ‘on the fence,” Thus the variations in the estimates of national strength tell more readily upon the masses and excite a keener interest than here- tofore. The liberal movement was in every respect an experiment which, having proved successful in a single State, is in process of being applied to the Union. While, there- fore, the various Fall election States register their voices for one or the other side with increased or diminished force, the voters of the other States make nice calculations about the prospects of the coalition and the adminis- tration parties. In olden times, when strict party lines were drawn, the citizen who espoused a party and its cause held a heart of grace and deposited his ticket with the faith of a martyr. Now, in addition to the novelty of the main or national question at issue there are local questions at stake in so many States that there is great difficulty in deducing an exact mpral from their votes, Is it the ferment of the popular mind on the eve of a quiet, political revolution, or is it merely the increased value of the great offices at stake which makes the simple man of business, as well as the grasping office-holder, as sensitive to the effect of a State election as a magnetic needle to an electric storm? The difficulty of answering this query would not be great, if it related alone to the feelings of the office-holder; but to account for the widespread nervous tension of the people is not 50 easy. To appreciate the forces at worklt is neces- sary to look back over the series of quotations, so to speak, in the Presidential market, since the baby liberal movement was first christened at Cincinnati, This sturdy offshoot of repub- lican opposition to President Grant's adminis- tration grew so amazingly fast that in less than a couple of months it had won the ad- miration and affection of the democratic party, who,,secing that its parents were poor but honest, forthwith proceeded solemnly: to adopt ‘it at Baltimore. It came out of the Convention as fully armed as Minerva out of the brain of Jupi- ter, and was hailed as the heir apparent to Jefferson and Jackson all over the land by the professing disciples of that school. It was curiously and comically regarded at first, and public opinion at once took opposite sides in its regard. One side regarded it as the young Arthur who was to rise up and clear the land of the heathen—é. ¢, the carpe&bagger, the corruptionist and the incapable; the other re- garded it as Ginx’s Baby in a state of prema- ture manhood—a thing to be the pet of bogus philanthropists and coddled and cuffed alter- nately by its wealthy protectors until one night early next November it was to be driven to suicide by a plunge in Salt River. Never, probably, in the history of American politics, were the sages so quaintly divided in their prognostications. But time was going ahead. The young Arthur was sent down with shicld and spear to North Carolina, and when the struggle came on and the battle was fought both sides claimed the victory. ‘He is the true King Arthur,’ shouted the lib- erals, ‘for has he not carried more Congressional districts and reduced the victory of the Governor?” ‘Bah!” replied the Grant men, “‘he is Ginx’s Baby, for the State has gone republican.’”” Among the Green Mountains was his next essay. There was no hope for victory there, and, although the Young Liberal fought but little among the hills, it was voted all the more that he was Ginx’s Baby. The battle in the Bor- der State, among the pines of Maine, where he fought a plucky fight, sent him away with little comfort, and some who called him Arthur a week before were joining in the outcry against Ginx's Baby. This was saddening to the phi- losophic onlooker, and gave much cause for comfort to those who had scoffed from the beginning. It was concluded among the friends of the stripling that his foremost ban- ner-bearer should go forth and do combat among the States where the Young Liberal would have his greatest fight. So Greeley went forth, as his Merlin, and by the weight of his name and his sturdy blows that smote the enemy often twenty times a day, through Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, made a good impression in the Liberal’s favor, Mr. Greeley proclaimed him the true Arthur, and the shout against him as Ginx’s Baby became sensibly fainter. The young man, however, was not allowed to rest, for far down South the enemy was waiting to be beaten in Geor- gia. With no uncertain effect did he strike there, as the election returns show with the list of the radical dead and wounded. So the revulsion has set in, and the cry is once more rolling back that he is not Ginx’s Baby, but Arthur, after all. All this, although it rehabilitates him, is not enough. It certainly restores him with its refluence to the higher water mark, which he touched after his adoption at Baltimore, and sends him into the three battles of next Tuesday with an increased prestige and a better morale than he owned after his tribulations in Maine, | he is just now anxious to get there. | There, indeed, will he find foemen worthy of his steel, There will it be decided whether his | banner is fat of the king or merely the pla- | card of the foundling; whether, in fine, he is | in the course of human events, he should get | the Arthur of the nation or the surplus baby » then he will be found, but not before, | of a political Ginx. Dropping the fanciful illustration and re- \ turning to whence we started-—the Georgia elec- tion—it is evident that the effect of Wednesday's work will solidify the Greeley party throughout the entire South. It will induce the faint- hearted or the indifferent to come into the campaign with a greater certainty that their labors will not be thrown away. It will ani- mate the spirits of the contestants on that side in the three great Middle States and vivify once more the energies of those who will have to wait until the first Tuesday in November before taking part in the war on the adminis- tration. It is fortunate in every way that this should be the state of public feeling as the sun rises which is to witness the de- cision of Tuesday next. Were it other- wise the liberals would have gone in heavily weighted and depressed, and the result would scarcely have been reached on its actual merits. In such a close State as Indiana, for instance, the pressure of outside opinion might so dishearten the element which, by its indecision, really holds the State in its hands that Hendricks might have been defeated on the merits of the Maine election. As it is, the equilibrium is restored, and what should be dear to all lovers of fair play, namely, a fair fight, will take place. The in- creased majority in Georgia will, as the latest coup in the campaign, doubtless tend to turn the balance of enthusiasm in favor of the lib- erals, who, in the face of their powerful and resolute opponents, will need all they can muster. So the fight goes on. The Late Lake and Tele- graphic Mismanagement. The late multiplied disasters to lake naviga- tion are among the most serious that have been recorded for some time. On the night of the 28th ultimo four vessels were sunk, a propeller and many rafts and scows wont ashore on Lake Erie, and numerous vessels out of reach of assistance were flying their signals of distress. he intelligence of the 30th ultimo showed fatal casualties to fourteen large vessels on Lake Erie and the total destruction of numerous smaller craft and barges, with considerable loss of life. But the telegrams of the Ist instant prove that there was much greater loss of life and property on Lake Huron than on Lake Erie, Several steamers were overwhelmed in the gale, and the waters of the lake must have presented a fearful spectacle of wrecks. The probability is we have not yet heard the worst. It is certainly a matter of surprise that shipmasters, in the cquinoctiel season, should be so reckless of life as to be so exposed when these lake tempests come on in their well- known punctuality and fury. The goverament weather telegrams cover the main parts of the lake region and have not failed to give timely warning of impending danger, and have fre- quently announced these gales thirty-six hours in advance of their arrival. The approach of the late storm was duly forewarned, and cautionary signals were or- dered to be displayed at Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Grand Haven, Mil- waukee, Oswego and Rochester many hours before the storm reached these places. The orders for Milwaukee and Grand Haven did not reach their destination, it is said, the negligence of the telegraph company entrusted with their transmission—a eriminal gmission, for which tho conipaiy should be ‘held re- sponsible by the public who sustained damage from their neglect. There can be no doubt that shippers and seamen on the lakes would gladly avail themselves of the meteorological forecasts if furnished promptly by the tele- graph companies, and, if the latter know their own interests, they will do well to spare no pains to trazshit these storm warnings, with the utmost possible despatch. The American public have endured until their patience is ex- hausted the inefficiency of our telegraph cor- porations. These overgrown monopolies ean- not expect the people quietly to submit to mismanagement which entails not only vast loss of property but also involves, gs in the present instance, great loss of life. Disasters Lucca’s Marguerite. All who had the great pleasure of seeing Pauline Lucca as Marguerite in the opera of “Faust? on Wednesday night will long remember that extraordinary performance. It has been well said that the impression left upon the mind by the highest works of art is a joy forever, and Lucca’s delineation of the beautiful creation of Goethe as adapted by Gounod to the opera can never be effaced from the memory. We make no comparisons, invidious or otherwise, between the art of Lucca in this representation and that of other prime donne. Several have afforded the public much gratification in their per- formance of the character of Marguerite, and though differing in the conception of it and in style of acting and sing- ing, have had their excellences, but Lucca gives us the poet’s idea. The acting and the singing were in perfect accord and were really superb. The vast and critical audience was thrilled with delight. There has never been any performance in the Academy: of Music, or in opera at any time in this country, superior to that of Lucca on Wednesday night. Indeed, we remember nothing equal to it: We can now understand the enthusiasm ofthe Berlin, St. Petersburg and London audiences over this charming prima donna. Wedo not know which to admire most, her clear, rich, and, as the Berlinese call it, velvet voice, used with consummate skill, or the unsur- passed dramatic power of her action. How- ever opinions may differ as to the most agree. able representation of Marguerite, none can deny the surpassing excellence of Lucca’s per- sonation of it in accordance with the poet's idea, end all must accord to her the highest merit, both as a singer and actress. This was evidently the verdict of the audience at the | Academy of Music, and will be of the Ameri- | can public everywhere. Gamperta, the irrepressible Gambetta, is, it appears, by his stump speeches in Fase, building up a powerful party in oppositiom-to: the present pro fempore compromise republican | government of President Thiers. The ‘lt mate view of the partisans of Gam isto make their champion President, and | though apparently secure in his place, is a very old man. No wonder, therefore, that Gam- betta’s speeches are creating some alarm panong: the conservatives and business classes of | France. Another storm is brewing, Tue Russtan Army iy THE Cavcasvs ‘may find congenial professional employment at an early day if the cable news reporting the hos- | tile demonstration of His Majesty Alexander against the Khan of Khiva be verified, The Burning of the Escurial. The magnificent structure erected by Philip IL. of Spain to commemorate his victory over the French at St. Quentin has been destroyed by fire. The scanty details furnished by the telegraphic despatches give reason to fear that the building has been reduced to a complete ruin, and that the priceless treasures of art and literature which were deposited in the Escurial are lost forever. The fire is said to have been caused by lightning, and there is something appalling in the rapidity with which the grand old monument succumbed to the devouring element. Among the many landmarks which within a few years have been lost to posterity none had go deep an interest for the thoughtful mind as this temple-tomb of the gloomy Spanish King. Its history is strangely en- twined with the glory of Spain in the days when the shadow of her haughty flag was cast over half a conquered world. It was the creation of a grand, austere and gloomy age, and reflected proudly the character of its creators. How the majesty of that stately pile, in the midst of the desolation that surrounded it on all sides, struck the beholder with awe! Even the vulgar sight- seer, wandering without reverence at the bid- ding of an idle curiosity, was wont to speak in subdued tones in the mysterious twilight of its cloisters. There was about this noble structure such an air of majestic grandeur as humbled mere human pride. It was impossible not to feel how insignificant were men in presence of the tombs of kings before whom the world had trembled. But the majestic temple frowned down on the generation of the hour as it had done on their ancestors three centuries before. Time seemed only to increase the awe which the pile inspired, and while all else changed and passed away amid the shock of ages it remained unshaken, The loss of this monument cannot be too deeply regretted, for it was one of the links that bound us to the past. Under its shadow the moderns could call up the remembrance of a time when men worshipped other gods than Mammon and soulless fashion. However much the stern faith of the sixteenth century may revolt the modern conscience, there is an im- pressiveness in the whole-souled belief of that age which compels our admiration. Religion in those days was something more than a for- mality, and the monuments the ages of faith have left behind by their grandeur and noble severity of aim dwarf the efforts of modern genius, Itis sad that these evidences of the past should be doomed to disappear one after another until in the far distant future no trace of these grand monuments shall remain for the instruction and delight of the unborn genera- tiops. The Tuileries and the Hotel de Ville have been destroyed, and it is only a few months since the venerable Cathedral of Canterbury narrowly escaped from the fate that has befallen the Escurial. It is evident from these examples that thero is no power in civilization capable of preventing the destruction of ancient monuments, and we may speculate on a time when there will remain no more trace of the art and architec- ture of the early Christian ages than we can discover of the forgotten Phoonician civiliza- peat shel ie tbiectyaine AE et Mth more so as the cause is due in chief part to the indifference of the moderns, who take no adequate precautions to preserve the monu- mental treasures they have inherited. Had only reasonable precautions been taken to pre- pare for such an accident as has befallen the Escurial, that magnificent structure could have been saved for posterity. The solid nature of the materials from which it was constructed offered a strong guarantee against the ravages of fire, and had there been some means at hand to struggle with the flames in all probability they would have been extingfshed before any serious damage had been done. But it was not so decreed, In a few short hours the fire fiend reduced toa heap of shapeless ruins the temple the all-powerful Philip had watched growing slowly for one and twenty years, He vainly hoped it would remain forever to bear witness to his piety and power. When the light of life flickered sadly out of his weary heart he found a resting place in the shadow of its crypts. Now his dust is mingled with the ashes of the temple he raised, and the glory of both is at an end forever. The Spaniards, with natural pride, were wont to call the Escurial the seventh wonder of the world, and the beauty, magnificence and imposing gran- deur of the structure went far to justify the pretension. All this greatness is now at an end; the stranger no more will wander awe- struck over the marble pavement of the silent cloisters or linger on the jasper steps to listen to solemn music reverberating through the lofty aisles. The masterpiece of Bantista de Toledo and his pupil, Juan de Herrera, has crumbled to ashes before the electric flame, and one of the grandest ex- amples of human genius brought forth in any age is lost to posterity. Unfortunately the loss is not confined to the structure. The library has suffered severely, but according to the latest accounts hopes were entertained of sav- ing the greater part of the books and manu- scripts. It is inconceivable that these literary treasures should have been placed where no adequate precaution against fire existed. If there are other collections in Spain similarly sitanted-we hope this example will have the effect of having them transferred to places of security. This is particularly desirable in Spain, whieh is unusually. rich fi valuable manuscripts. Pewnsvivasta—Anoraze Lirr for Bucka- tew.—W. P. Schell, the labor reform candi- date for Governor in Pennsylvania, has retired in favor of Mr. Buckalew, tho democratic and liberal republican candidate. This movement will doubtless give Buckalew some thousands of votes which he would have lost. had Schell continued in the field. All parties and, fac- tions in Pennsylvania, however, understand that their October fight between Hartranft and Buckalew is a fight in which Hartranft repre- sents General Grant and Buckslew stands for Mr. Greeley, and this retirement of Schell as 4 Sprrbing Some will only intensify the eS Grav To Kan In—That the Indians of Utah: have all returned to their reservations, aw all peaceful and quiet, and that General Morrow's policy of pfovisions’ and blankets is ‘a perfect success, We are glad of it, among. other rea- sons, because now Licutenant, Wheeler's ex- plorations in the unexplored portions of Utah; Nevada and Arizona will go on, and because from this edition we anticipate very in- teresting oud Y valyable discovories, > SHEET. The Reform Canvass in New York William Butler Duncan for Mayor. The people of the city of New York have as deep an interest in the approaching municipal contest asin the Presidential election itself. No more important question can be pro- pounded at this time than who shall be the next Mayor of New York. If we are to har- vest the fruits of last year’s reform it can only be done by the selection of an honest, earnest man for Mayor. Anything short of this would be going backward to the time when ward organizations and rings controlled the city. Party affiliations -and party fealty must not be allowed to intervene against a good candidate, supported by the best men in the metropolis. Such a candidate is Mr. William Butler Dun- can, and such is the character of his support- ers. The columns of the Hegaxp to-day show that of the members of the Committee of Seventy a majority are favorable to Mr. Dun- can’s nomination. Those who waver are only hesitating because with them the claims of a party are superior to the best interests of the city. In the heat of a Presidential canvass it is next to impossible for many persons to for- get partisanship even ina matter which in no way concerns the Presidential contest. But we insist upon it that our Mayoralty election, by the movements of last year, has been divorced from national and State politics, and stands out boldly as a separate issue involving no question but the purity of local govern- ment and the true interests of the metropolis. Whether Grant or Greeley shall be President is not a matter to be considered in connection with the question whether Mr. Duncan shall be Mayor, The reform movement began by ignoring extrancous issues in municipal affhirs, and democrats voted with repub- licans in the interest of reform. Now republicans and- democrats must again vote together or we shall lose everything which was gained by the provious contest, and the reform movement will fall to the ground. In Mr. Duncan the people of New York will have a candidate whom all can support with- out regard to party, and his nomination or endorsement by this or that party is no argu- ment against his nomination and endorse- ment by all parties. He is a man to whom the trust can be trustfully confided, and we are confident that the tide of popular opinion has set so completely in his favor that his nomination will sweep aside every wave of opposition, When a man like Judge Edwards Pierrepont, known to be among the firmest supporters of the administration and one ot the strongest enemies of Tammany, declares himself content with Mr, Duncan as the can- didate of the people, and is ready to strike hands with ex-Mayor Tiemann and others of like character to Kecuré an honest adminis- tration of the city government, we may be as- sured that party ties do not bind sufficiently to destroy the best expectations of the com- munity. At the same time we cannot over- look the fact that there is hesitation and even outright opposition. Some men are waiting to see whether this popular movement will jeopardize partisan success, and others are seeking to make the municipal contest a path- way to partisan victory. It would be idle to expect anything else from politicians who make the Gry of reform only a stepping stone for themselves or their party. Even men who call themselves reformers would put the veriest rogue in office if thereby they could better their own fortunes. There area few such in the Committee of Seventy, and they, of course, speak doubtingly of Mr. Duncan, ~because they know he would carry out to the letter their own pledges in the name of reform, What we want in our next Mayor is a character for integrity ‘beyond reproach and basiness capacity of tise first order. Politics do not enter into the canvass except in so far as @ pure administra- tion of tha city government is concerned. Indeed, politics are so far from entering into the canvass at all that we want a Mayor who is not a politician—a Mayor who will at once be true to the people of the metropolis and capable of exercising the trust they are willing to repose in him. It is the possession of these qualities and the popular recognition of these facts which have brought Mr. Duncan so prominently forward for the Mayoralty, and which will enable him to overrideall opposition. The esteem in which he is held is apparent from the opinions of many prominent gentleman, as expressed in this day's Heratp, No one doubts him or would be unwilling to entrust the best interests of the city in his hands. Whatever opposition exists or may be found to exist is due solely to partisanship and the de- sire to confine the work of reform to the nar- rowest channels, Any one not completely blinded by mere party rancor can see that the effect of such a course would be to defeat re- form altogether. Reform is not a work for any one political party. The past has proved that in this city it is the work of the people. Bad men were hurled from power because the people willed it. Good men will be elected to office because the people are determined to have only good men. The people are urgently in favor of Mr, Duncan, and: the politicians who oppose him will themselves feel the rebuke of the people: The work of reform must not be stopped for any paltry or partisan reason, and the views of many of our leading citizens as they are read this morning will convince the doubters and those who seek to put obstacles in “the way of an honest administration of the city government that every offort’of that natare will prove futild. Reform has triumphed in New York, and William Butler Duncan is the candidate of thé true reformers, His election is not only assured but demanded. The people want him because he'is able and honest and identified with all the great interests of the municipality. They know that he not only sympathized with but contributed largely to the reform move- merit last year, and the determination to make him the noxt Mayor of New York is only the embodiment of the popular desire for the permanent swiccess of all that was good in that movement, There must be no step backward, and in his election the metropolis is assured that there shall beno backward step, at the same time that the Empire City of America will ‘have reason to, be proud of tho high character of ita chief public functionary, Exoura Conenesstonat, Dierrtor.—James Brooks, who is never tired of miuning, is once more in the field for Congress, He has three competitors opposed to him, but when. the lookout on election evening responds to the inquiry, Where are they? the angwer will be, “Ne where” ‘The Tennessee Congressional Duele In another part of to-day’s HEnatp we pres sent our readers with a graphic pen picture of the contestants in Tennessee for the position of Congressman at Large. In a trio of inters views the renowned triplet aro held up to ad- miration. It cannot be urged that Andrew Johnson is an unfamiliar character, but he bat not been heard from with great frequency during the past three years, and it will be in- teresting to learn, now that he has broken the shell of silence, that he bangs and thwackd away as lively as ever at his foes, and finds tha old-time consolation in himself ag the one wholesome individuality in the entire world. He can still perform as many tricks with the constitution as Herman could with a, lady's watch—i. ¢., hammer it to pieces, pull out its works, burn ‘it, scatter the ashesand@ then take it out of the vest pocket of the rival conjuror in a restored state. It is pleasant to mow that he has lost none of his and none of the force of stinging personality with which he was wont to accompany his well-known feats of politicallegerdemain. Be- side this sledge-hammer fighter we see the smiling, dileltante face of Maynard, who secks negro votes in one gentence and prophecies their extinction in the next. This gentleman acts on the pleasant policy of Louis XE of France, who saw no necessity for honesty while he was King, and replied to appeals for reform with a shrug of contempt, remarking, “The monarchy will last my time.’ The nigger vote will last his time, he thinks, and the carpet-baggers of futurity must take care of themselves, But Louis XL. is despised for his selfishness, and, as events move faster now, Maynard may share that fate before he dies, even at the hands of ‘the inferior race’ whom he cajoles and scorns, Of the bluff Confede- rate soldier, Frank Cheatham, the Convention democratic candidate with a rebel record, which he honestly believes to be without a blot, we can only say that he is an odd con- trast to his able opponents. His strength, he thinks, is very great, but he cannot hope for # thorough and hearty support from even hia own party while there is such a decidedly dis- turbing influence as Andy Johnson kicking vigorously around. Taken altogether, the his- tory of this old-fashioned three-cornered stamp duel in staid old Tennessee will be found to present as many humorous and suggestive points of interest as any other State canvass im this great national campaign of side-splitting oddities, The Indian Exhibition. Since the days of the ‘lamented Generah Jackson the occupants of the White House have had a taste for indulging in Indian! shows. The object first proposed was, no doubt, a good one, as it was hoped by show- ing the braves the wealth and resources of the the white man poor Lo would be induced to abandon the custom of adorning himself with the scalps of white gettlers. Whatever, hopes on this point may have been indulged inat first, time, we regret to say, has proved them to be utterly #lusory. “The noble says ages were very willing to be féled and whis- keyed and powwowed, if pt, the ond of the tiregomé cdicnionies they wera’ supplied with brand-new rifles and su perior tomahawks, which would be turned against the unfortunate frontiersmen on the first favorable opportunity. This burlesque has absolutely been gone through time after time with an unpleasant and unpromising sameness of result. Latterly it has been car- ried to such an extent that it has becomea nuisance. If it is to be continued we hope that the system of making these cunning and bloodthirsty savages presents of arms, that are certain to be one day used for the slaughter of the frontier population, will soon be brought toanabrupt end, Good Indians ought not to want guns, and bad ones should only be served with plenty of bullets. As a practie cal illustration of the dignity of labor, we would suggest to the Washington authorities tho desirability of making each. brave a present Of '# g x6 receive @ hint at the same fas reqtire him to prove his civilization order by using it. Until he has ® proficiency with this arm of peaseeful we shall be willing to feed him, but if ie wilt insist on being a vagrant and a nuisance we shall be compelled to put him’ under arrest or where the labor question will trouble him no more. This is what ought to be impressed on the minds of the Indians by the Great Father, and in the end it would have more effect than the powwowing at present indulged in, which: leaves matters very much as they were before and fails to give peace or security to the frontier. The Advance in Gold. The gold market advanced to 115} yesterday on the news that the Bank of England had raised the discount rate to five per cent, This procedure was wholly unexpected in Wall street, and, an explanation being sought, the, conclusion was reached thet’ England had be- come alarmed at the nature of her trade and advanced the rate to prevent a threatened: movement of specie in this While watching Germany all Summer to forestall the cashing of the drafts given London by France in payment of the in: , she gave no heed to the efflux of capital to this country, and has only lately perceived that with our enormous exports of wheat and cotton this ‘Winter and the reduction of our imports to their usual Winter standard the rates for ster+ ling exchange must speedily cause a flow of specie hither—a reversal of the direction of the specie current, which she must stop at all hazards, Hence the first application of the screw on the money market yesterday. The emigra- tion of capital is only a natural sequence of the long emigration of labor to America, and fol-. lows it a8 naturally og water seéks its level. The present relations of the United States and Europe in these matters are very interesting: and worthy of profound study. PR: hls SALES Nuemt Concarsstonat Dasrptot.—A new set sented a portion of the district, but it wns so that he had no longor’n local habitation ora name in it, and he took on himself the réle of Congressman at large. Johh Hardy and Roswell D. Hach ara com- petitors for the prize, but cos are that a thifd mati will put in anAippearance in time’ { to swallow ‘the Oongrosfonal oyster they are endeavoring to onon.