The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1872, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVIL. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Venue. —ARRAH-NA-POGUE. YIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street — Diamonos. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauian Orkna—L' APRICAINE, BOWERY THEATRE, Bor Scarver Dewon—My Saran —CAaGLIosTRO; OR, Tax 3. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—PYGMALION AND EA. GRAND OPERA HOU ay.—Ror Canortx. enty-third st. and Eighth BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Granp Strakoscu Concert. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourtecnth streets.—Aanxs, Wood's M , Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Escarep riko: a Sing. Afternoon and Evenii THEATRE COMIQUE, ENTERTAINMENT. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Diamonps. 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LUCCA CHARMING THE SAVAGES—AMUSE- MENTS—ART MATTERS—STANLEY'S LEC- TURES—NINTH Pace. EXCITING RACES AT JEROME PARK! MONARCHIST BEATS HARRY BASSETT: UNPARALLELED ENTHUSIASM; THE IN- DIAN ViSITORS—SEvENTH PaGE. SIX LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE! THE COMING YACHT RACE AT CAPE MAY: THE RAM- BLER-MADELEINE AND DAVIDS-MAUD CUNTESTS—SEVENTH PAGE. MAYORALTY: OUR LEADING FINANCIERS | CONSIDER WILLIAM BUTLER DUNCAN “A | THE GOOD MAN FOR THE POSITION”’—FirTH Par. THE CITY JUDGESHIP: STERLING ENDORSE: | MENT OF JUDGE BEDFORD'S TNESS— | NEW YORK AND KINGS COUNTY POLI- TIOS—THE REGISTRATION—Firru Pace. ANDREW G. CURTIN WELCOMED BY PHILA- DELPHIA: A DEFENCE OF BUCKALEW— NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL— NintTH PaGE. BTARTLING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE JERSEY CITY BANK ROBBERY! ARREST OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND A DETECTIVE FOR PARTICIPATION—SHIPPING—TWELFrH Pacs. EDITORIAL LEADER: “OUR NEXT MAYOR—THE PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE CITY'—EIGHTH PAGE. ON CHANGE: VIOLENT FLUCTUATIONS AND PROTRACTED MONETARY STRINGENCY; A | 90 PER CENT RATE ON CALL—WHAT ARE LEGAL TRADE MARKS—TENTii Pace. MALTREATMENT OF THE INSANE BY THE IN- EFFICIENT OFFICIALS OF WARD'S ISLAND: MISERABLY KEPT RECORDS—TeEntH Page. WHE RIOTING AT PATENBURG, N. J.: DAMAGING | EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION—TentH | PAGE. THE RELIGIOUS BUDGET: PROGRAMME OF SER- | VICES AND CORRESPONDENCE-—-ZAV | UNION-SERVICES AT THE JEWISH TEM- | PLE—LOCAL NEWS—Srxri Page. A MURDER MYSTERY—THE MURRAY HOMI- | CIDE—ELEVENTH Pa Aw Important Triat took place in Jersey City yesterday. Two men were brought be- | fore a jury on a charge of attempting to rob | the First National Bank of New Jersey, and | the evidence disclosed some ugly complica- | tions, involving the Chief of Police and a detective. It is as yet too early to express an | opinion as to the guilt of these latter parties, but enough has been shown to compel a | thorough, searching and rigid investigation. | Coat Frenps is Asta.—From Calcutta we | ere informed that coal has been found in Tur- | kistan, near the Yusaf Pass, and that three | hundred camel loads of the fuel had just been delivered at Kabul for use in the Ameer's | foundries. This fact will have a very im- portant effect, not only on the progress of the work of developing the industrial resources af the far East, but also in abating the current | exigency which prevails in the law of supply | and demand as regards the article of coal all | | over the world. Tae Russtan Marco Acainst Karva.—By | advices from Calcutta we are informed that | Russian troops were advancing on Khiva and | Kandar on the 27th of August, and that the soldiers of the Czar had previously occupied | Urgenj and razed it to the ground. ‘here are two towns named Urgenj in the dominion of the Khan of Khiva. One is situated on the banks of a canal near the Oxus; the other some miles northwest of Khiva. The first enjoyed great commercial importance at one period, and is, no doubt, the objective point of the present march of the soldiers of the northern Emperor. The movement is of very great importance. Russia wishes, it may be, to seize the great Eastern hive of manufac- ture for silk, cotton and yarn, and thus be- come, to a very great extent, independent of the looms of France and England, besides obtaining a good strategic foothold for her armies in the event of a war clash with the power of Britain in the East, | our shipping seeks the Jersey shore. | begin to decay before its time. NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEBT. Oar Next Mayer-The Progress and : Prosperity ef the City. The election in this city assumes its chief importance from the fact that it is identical in spirit with the growth of the me- tropolis. Our next Mayor ought to be a man as active and progressive in his ideas as the city is lusty and vigorous in its growth. There must be no failure in the development of the material interests of New York on account of a slow and imbecile municipal administration. We want honesty and capability, but these fall short of the full measure of our requirements. A close-fisted policy will not do for a growing maritime municipality. The spending of money is as negessary in making a great city as are a proper regard to economy and a wise discrim- ination in its distribution, Much as we may sigh for the good old times when Mr. Have- meyer was Mayor, and when the city govern- ment did not spend a tithe of what it spends to-day, we cannot forget that the city has changed while Mr. Havemeyer was growing old. That was more than a quarter of a cen- tury ago, and then the Central Park and other gigantic works of recent years were only among the possibilities of the future. A quarter of a century has witnessed a growth only rivalled by the growth of London, and an improvement in streets and avenues and public and private buildings which is nowhere equalled except in the Paris which the two Napoleons gave to France. Even a parsimonious city government could not stop the rapid strides of the metropolis, but it could retard the progress of New York and destroy the symmetry and beauty of a great city. All this is apparent from what we have seen in the last year. A system of com- prehensive and necessary improvements, not alone along our magnificent river front, but in the parks and highways of the city, has been languishing because of a stinted and un- generous policy. To reform is not to retard, and to be honest and economical is not to stand still while the world moves. Young blood is required in our municipal administra- tion, and our next Mayor must be a man as capable of appreciating the wants and require- ments of the city as in rendering a just account of his stewardship. Such aman is presented in Mr. William Butler Duncan, and we have urged his nomination and election because these considerations are bound up with the progress and prosperity of the city. Our readers will remember the glowing pic- ture which Macaulay drew of the growth of London since the time of Charles II. As vivid a parallel might be drawn between the London of Lord Macaulay’s time and the even more wonderful London of to-day. It is buta few years since the great historian lived and wrote, and yet the great capital which he loved to explore would now be new and strange to him. The underground rail- way from Paddington, the Thames tunnel, the Holborn Viaduct, the bridges at Westminster and Blackfriars and the grand and broad streets which have opened up a new city in the heart of the old would be to him as a rev- elation. A narrow and ungenerous policy, mistaking parsimony for economy, could have prevented this growth and dwarfed the grow- | ing London, on which the world looks with admiration not unmixed with awe. New York is to-day in danger of making the mis- take which London avoided. Where there was prodigality before there is a baleful econ- omy now. Dulness takes the name of honesty, and narrowness is mis- taken for economy. It is even doubt- ful whether we are to have the new system of docks and piers, with the grand wide river streets running round a city imperial in its proportions and great in the magnificence of private enterprise, which has been promised us so long. If the policy of parsimony triumphs the requirements of commerce will be set aside and the progress and prosperity of the city disregarded. The river front will continue as unsightly and inconvenient as before, and the ragged and broken wharves will be allowed to buffet with the waves while Nothing | will be done for rapid transit through the island while New Jersey and even Connecticut swallow up our population. The age of sloth will have set in and the city will grow old and How would such a policy and such a fate compare with the glorious growth of spreading and roaring and rattling London? A dwarfed future will | be the result of a dwarfish policy, and it is the fear of this which makes us anxious that a mistaken notion of reform shall not intervene against the true interests of the city. That New York has a future as glorious as has been her past no one can doubt. Most of us have seen it reaching out like the tendrils of a young and vigorous vine and covering with great storehouses and palatial mansions what a few years ago were only the resorts of | vice or the outskirts of a growing but com- end to its growth and no limit to its grandeur, | if the people of New York are true to them- selves. What matters the spending of money if it is spent judiciously and with the certainty of making us greater and richer? Only the miser hoards and grows poor by hoarding. The population of New York can afford to give of their abundance to make their city great and to entice tribute from every part of the world. The progress and prosperity of the metropolis require a wiser and more compre- hensive policy than ever Congress has shown in the affairs of the nation. Liberality, | wisdom and integrity must go together in our municipal administration. We would especially impress upon the readers of the Heratp that reform is not any more than prodigality is good gov- ernment. To keep the city up to the steady march of improvement is what we re- quire of our local rulers. Ward politicians and political adventurers are unfitted for any such task as this. Lither they are corrupt or they are unequal to the occasion. Only a man of strict business habits and strict business integrity—a man whose conduct of a private business shows that he is fitted to manage the affairs of the public—is worthy of considera- tion in this canvass. Our next Mayor must be a business Mayor. He has to look into and care for the finances of a great city, sadly de- ranged by the mismanagement and prodigality of the previous masters of the treasury. He has to see that the city is beautified and adorned at the same time that its ap- proaches are made better and more in- viting. The Department of Docks needs his assistance in carrying out the plans which General McOlellan bas doveloved and parsimony | which promise such grand results for our commerce with other nations and our trade at home. The work on the parks and streets and boulevards must not be stopped, and it must not lack the oversight of an active and efficient Mayor. In a hundred ways is tho Mayoralty more important than ever, and rich and poor are alike interested in it, be- cause our whole population is equally in- terested in the progress and prosperity of New York. In this connection we do not urge the ‘claims’ of any man for Mayor. The interests of the people are too nearly allied to the people's choice to make the ‘‘claims’’ of any man worthy of a moment's consideration. But the Mayoralty has claims upon the citizen if the citizen has no claims upon the Mayoralty. We want the best man for the place at this particular time, and we ask all the rest to stand aside. Many good men have been sug- gested, but Mr. Duncan fills the whole bill more nearly than any of the others, For this reason, and for the additional one that he is generally acceptable to the earnest, working, progressive -men of the city, we have supported and urged his nomination. The other day we printed the opinions of a number of the leading members of the Com- mittee of Seventy, generally acquiescing in the choice of Mr. Duncan for Mayor. To-day we publish the views of some of our principal bankers and presidents of banks, and these it will be found accord with the opinions of the more active politicians among our business men. Onevery hand it is conceded that no bet- ter selection can be made, and it is unmistak- ably the true interests of the city that men of all parties who are the true friends of reform, and at the same time of a wise and progressive policy, should unite upon him. Politics are out of the canvass and reform and progress are the watchwords. We must go forward and not backward, that our city may fulfil its des- tiny and not fall short of its greatness and glory. The election for Mayor this year isa crisis in the history of New York, and its re- sult will be a signal for narrowness and parsi- mony or for renewed progress and prosperity. Spain—The Attitude of Sagasta. Sefior Sagasta, according to one of our latest telegrams, has decided, with the full consent of his party, to abstain from active participation in political affairs. It is only a few weeks since Castelar, the acknowledged chief of the republican party, announced a similar intention. The Carlists and the Montpensierists are also resolved to follow out a policy of indifference in the Cortes. To those who know nothing of the internal con- dition of Spain and the workings of Spanish politics these may seem serious and somewhat troublous truths, but to those who know how things are in Spain this fresh intelligence will bring no surprise and little disappoint- ment. In view of the great fact that Zorrilla, the present head of the Spanish Cabinet, can confidently count on a faithful two-thirds of the Cortes, what does it matter how Sagasta decides, whether Castelar rebels, or what Don Carlos intends? A more than two-thirds majority makes Zorrilla master of the situa- tion, while it justifies the judgment and choice of the young stranger King. It is not to be denied that the present Spanish govern- ment is strong. Since the attempted assassi- nation the King has been popular, and Zorrilla has, it must be admitted, caught the popular sentiment of the hour. While, however, we admit the popularity of the King and the suc- cess of his chosen Minister, we cannot say that we are satisfied that Spain has seen the end of her troubles. In Spain officials are numerous and elections can be manipu- lated. This is always a bad fact against the government of the day in Spain. The Church, we know, is against the present government; and the Church is, in reality, the greatest unit of power in Spain. The Church detests the Savoyard; it little likes the republicans, but it is the great power behind Don Carlos. When ihe Cortes meets we shall look for sharp fighting. Our best hopes may be blasted. Amadeus may find Zorrilla as weak as he found Sagasta; a change of Ministry may be the fruit of the first week; and it will not be wonderful if the first month gives us a change of Ministry and possibly a fresh election. Welookforward anxiously to the reassembling of the Cortes. If Amadeus can weather another Winter in Spain his dynasty is secure. ae Trade Marks—Important Decision on the Subject. A St. Louis miller sought to register as his trade mark a brand in which the familiar Masonic symbols of the ‘‘square and compass’’ are combined with the name of the streets in which his mills are located. On appeal from the decision of the Examiner of Trade Marks the case went before Acting Commissioner paratively insignificant city. Now we see no | Thacher, who has just affirmed the judgment against the applicant. In support of his posi- tion he states that the words of the brand do not come within the legal definition as con- stituting a trade mark, being ueither the name of any person, firm or corporation, nor de- scribing the commodity upon which the mark is placed. With reference to the Masonic em- | blems used the Commissioner suggests that the antiquity and widespread existence of the fraternity and its flourishing condition might be considered to withdraw its universally rec- ognized symbols from the category of devices, whose use could be appropriated as exclusive property of individuals and endowed with the sanctions and privileges of a registered trade mark. In the craft these figures are under- stood to have certain mystic signification. To connect the commodities of manufacture there- with might be held by some to give them a certain qualification or endorsement, while by others it might be held to establish an unde- sirable suggestion of matters repulsively occult and forbidding. To use such recognized sym- bols as trade marks would constantly work de- ception and dissatisfaction; and were they sanctioned they would defeat the object of the merchant, which is to enlarge and advance his trade. Mr. Sewarv, our venerable and venerated ex-Secretary of State, in a letter to R. P. John- son, of San Francisco, has declared himself substantially as adhering to the administration of General Grant and his party against the hos- tile coalition supporting Mr. Greeley. Well, as Mr. Greeley declared against Mr. Seward at the Chicago Republican Presidential Conven- tion of 1860, this declaration of the “Sage of Auburn”’ against Mr. Greeley is only “a Row- land for on Oliver.” Peoansylvants, Ohio and Indiana. This dey and to-morrow, and then comes the tug of war in the all-important State elec- tions of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. It will be remembered that in 1868 these October elections were accepted in advance by the democracy as involving and determining by their general results the Presidential issue, and that when, on the day after these State elections, the fact was proclaimed that they were lost to the democrats, the election of General Grant in November was on all sides accepted as a question settled. So now, if on Tuesday next Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana are carried by the administration party hardly a doubt will remain of the re-election of General Grant. If these three great States, however, in these local contests are carried by the opposition coalition there will be an im- mediate enlargement of the prospects anda revival of the confidence of Mr. Greeley’s sup- porters, which may change the fortunes of the general battle along the whole line. Should Pennsylvania and Indiana be carried against the administration on Tuesday there will be, no doubt, a general popular reaction in favor of Greeley and Brown, which will make this coming Presidential election the most exciting and the most uncertain in any political history since that of 1844 between James K. Polk and Henry Clay. Indeed, if the supporters of Mr. Greeley in these Octo- ber trials of his strength carry only the great State of Pennsylvania they may possibly gain thereby a foothold which will render the November national contest exceedingly des- perate and uncertain. But Mr. Greeley has given it as his opinion, from his late prospect- ing Western tour in behalf of the opposition alliance, that ‘Ohio is with us,” and that ‘Indiana will be with us,” and that ‘‘Pennsyl- vania is ours, if we can have a fair election.”’ Leading republican campaigners are equally confident that all three of these States will pro- nounce for General Grant on Tuesday ; but none of these prophets know what is coming in either State. The late elections in Vermont and Maine indicate that the administration lines are not materially shaken by this new hostile party of liberal republicans and democrats on a repub- lican platform. But in Pennsylvania the dis- cordant and rebellious elements in the admin- istration camp are very serious, and the fusion of all the opposition fofces is very strong. In Ohio there are reported some heavy defections and desertions from the regular republican camp, and likewise in Indiana, while in both these States the straight-out or Bourbon demo- ctats will vote for their regular party nomina- tions in October, whatever they may do to express their repugnance to Greeley and Brown in November. Briefly, then, while on both sides it is conceded that Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, two days hence, will settle the question whether General Grant is to be re-elected or left in doubt, more or less, for the general November contest, it is ‘sitaply impossible, from any past elections, for any political astrologer to foretell the general results of these elewagns, because of the changed conditions in the elements of the two great parties of the country. As to the gains or losses to either side from these new complications, thefy can be determined only by these impending elections. Indiana, from present appearances, will be very close; Ohio will, most likely, go for the administration; while in Pennsylvania the chances on the test question of Governor seem to be in favor of Buckalew. Imperial Republican France. The Russian Ambassador in the French capi- tal has, it is said, received a Cabinet note from St. Petersburg commissioning him to with- draw the congratulations which he lately pre- sented to President Thiers in the name of the Czar, and also to assure the chief of the French executive of “the dissatisfaction of His Majesty Alexander at the aggressive attitude of the radical party in France."’ This news is really important, if it be exactly correct as stated. It goes to show that the impe- rialist assemblage in Berlin was not, after all, a mere affair of pomp and vanity, but a deliberate coalition of the great military monarchies undertaken with the intent of pitting the governmental system by ‘divine right’’ against that of the democ- racy as established in France under the proc- lamation that the vox populi is the vox Dei, and superior, consequently, to the tradi- tional assumption of heavenly authority to the Crowns. President Thiers cannot control the tendency of the political will of the people of France. He is himself merely a venerable embodiment of the revolutionary principle vin- dica‘ei toa grand public triumph after the en- durance of years of fearful battle and of intense sorrow by the people. The Czar would ap- pear rude in the eyes of the world to despatch such a message couched in language such as we quote from the cable telegram. But even monarchs can be rude at times. Witness Na- poleon’s sudden rebuff to the Austrian Minister at the Tuileries, and on New Year's Day, too, when the French ruler had decided on the war which was terminated at Villafranca. We can scarcely believe, notwithstanding, that the Emperor of Russia has been chosen for the hazardous duty of throwing down the gauntlet of monarchical insult and defiance to the dem- ocracies of Europe in the moment of their new inspiration from Paris. Still less can we be- lieve that His Majesty has accomplished the fact in such a deliberately pointed manner. The Dean Richmond Explosion. It is understood that the report of the offi- cial investigation was completed yesterday and forwarded to Washington. What its conclu- sions are was not divulged, but, from the tenor of the evidence elicited on Friday, there can be little reason to doubt that the inspectors who conducted the inquiry will censure the use of boilers so defective as to imperil the lives of passengers by the hundred. That one of the large flues should only have had the thickness of one-sixteenth of an inch of iron, weakened by the rusting of months of disuse, readily enough explains the rupture. Indeed, it suggests the wonder that even twenty pounds of steam could have been raised with- out bursting the weak tubes. Public senti- ment demands that every precaution should be used to promote the safety of passengers. Now the inspectors, if practical men, know that when a boat has been lying still for months her iron is apt to be eaten by rust. Then thoy owe it to the publicand to their sworn duty to insist that all boala shall bave mence. running after having been “laid up.” their boilers thoroughly tested when they com- ——_—+—_— We look for the report in question with inter- | General A. E. Burnside sailed for Burope yester- est, hoping that it will point directly to those who are responsible for what, only by Provi- dential deliverance, failed to be a wholesale slaughter. Scintillations of the Religious Press. Our religious contemporaries, usually care- ful, but a little slow in observing passing events, have, with a few exceptions, this week studiously avoided a discussion of the promi- nent topics of the day and hour. For ex- ample—and this is one of the exceptions—the Golden Age asks, ‘Who shall be Mayor of New York?” and responds to its own ques- tion—“A. T. Stewart.’ In support of this nomination the Golden Age affirms that Mr. Stewart is more than a merchant. He isa graduate of Dublin University. That fact ough™o insure the serious consideration of those who think a foreign-bred education better than a home-bred or a Graham-bred one. And perhaps some of the hundred chil- dren from a Grammar school in Brooklyn, who laughed themselves almost to death at the ex- hibition of “King Carrot” yesterday after- noon, might, after their prayers and when they winked themselves to sleep, have murmured— “These politicians are all beats, anyhow.” The Age continues: —‘‘We.have no arithme- tic. man.” It makes a mistake. There are plenty of arithmetic men, theologically as well as financially and politically. There is an “arithmetic man”’ writing to us who will show you an “irrational quantity,’’ an ‘‘im- aginary root of an irrational quantity,’’ and the ‘eternal difference between a square and an irrational quantity.’’ Taking all these quantities together, cannot Brother Tilton, abandoning religion for the time, find his way, by arithmetical calculation, out of the laby- rinth of politics in which he finds himself so unfortunately involved? The way isas clearas , the track that sent Monarchist over Jerome Park course yesterday afternoon in the race with Harry Bassett. But it is not the race on Jerome Park or any other mundane park that we have at this mo- ment under consideration. It is the course of religion throughout the country we. have to trace, and show by the religious sentinels on the route what is being done in that direction. The vangelist (Presbyterian), discusses “Lay Co-operation,’’ ‘Our Church and Our Work,’”’ and, more potent than all, “A Great Subject.’’ On the fotmer topic the Evangelist observes, ‘that the task of Christian aggression which is assigned us in the prov- idence of God in connection with evangeliza- tion of the land is to be found in our cities.”’ Hence the necessity of co-operation. Upon the second topic the Evangelist announces that the number of churches under the care of the Presbytéfian Assembly is four thousand seven hundred and thirty, with a membership of nearly halfa million, and adds, ‘‘We do not and cannot commend a measuring and com- paring ourselves with others.’’ Why not? With a half million adherents, and brimstone coming in every day by the cargo from the Mediterranean, why should the Presbyterians falter in the good work for man’s redemption ? The ‘Great Subject’ of the Hvangelist is always a live and an earnest one in every civilized community. It is the subject of education, and in concluding an article per- tinent to the occasion, reflective upon action in Connecticut in the same connection, the Avangelist thinks that ‘many of the older as well as newer States take measures to protect themselves against those evils of defective edu- cation which have been introduced not only by foreign immigration, but by the new forms of industrial effort which are congregating tens of thousands in all our large cities.’ The Observer, with its sextile staff, does not enunciate a new idea. Has its observing faculties been clouded, or has its corps of writers not yet returned from their Summer tourings ? The Independent, for a marvel, does not dic- tate who shall be President of the United States, the Governor of the State, nor the Mayor of New York. In lieu of this, how- ever, we have a lesson upon the ‘Interna- tional Congress at The Hague,’’ in which its readers may learn what they have learned before—to wit, that it did not do much toward the accomplishment of its ends, and that its conductor is opposed to Greeley. The Examiner and Chronicle (Baptist) ex- presses its views upon the ‘Theology of Libe- ral Education,’ and takes the proceedings of the late National Baptist Educational Conven- tion as the text for its observations. ‘Let Jupiter and Olympus retire,” it says, ‘“con- dense literature, abridge history,’’ and then, it continues, ‘there will cease to be ignorance of the nature of theological science, which at the present time is the ‘dishonor of our edu- cated classes.’ Educated orators will read and make a note. The Liberal Christian (Rev. Dr. Bellows) portrays a burlesque, entitled ‘Feed my Sheep.’’ The principal actors are the Rev. Mr. Scratchaway, the Rev. Mr. Persistent Dullard, young Mr. Earnest Faithful, the Rev. Mr. Ko-nack, the Rev. Mr. Take-it- easy, and the Rev, Mr. Liveman. It isa satire, and certainly a very amusing one to those who know what it is all about. On the stage it would be a failure, but in the pulpit or in the lecture room one can hardly say what would come of it—unless it should be upon the universal principle that nothing shall be damned. The past has been a Jewish holiday week— the usual Hebrew new year holiday. It has been observed in the accustomed festive man- ner by our fellow citizens of the synagogue. Our Catholic contemporaries, the Tublet, the Freeman's Journal, the Catholic Review, the Boston Pilot are filled with their usual | amount of ecclesiastical intelligence. “Tas Eves or Detaware.’’—The republi- can organs are boasting that in their ‘‘little election’’ in Delaware the other day they re- duced the democratic majority of 2,000 in | 1870 down to 82, Can it be possible that the | “eyes of Delaware” are closed and that she is sleeping with the Bourbons? Seventa Conanesstonan Districr.—In this district Smith Rly, Jr., intends to run again. He has a fair start and the odds are in his favor, though his competitor is ex-State Sena- tor Thomas J. Creamer. The latter is young, with a long stretch and exhaustless wind, and has won in the political race with worse odds than are at present paainst him, Cotonel G, A, Allen, of Georgia, is at the Gran@ Central Hotei. Judge 0. A. Lamareaux, of Washington, ta at the Sturtevant House, Colonel J. B, Stewart, of Washington, is stopping at the Astor House, Baron Von Verson, of Berlin, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Robeson left the Fifth Aveaue Hotel for Washington yesterday. Professor M. W. Whitnay, of Boston, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge E. C, Kattell, of Binghamton, 8 among the sojournera at the Astor House. Ex-Congressman L. I, ‘Trimble, of Kentucky, is Staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Captain MacKinnon, of the British navy, yeater- day arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, A lisping lady had the intrepidity the other day te describe & camphor box a3 a mothoicum. ‘The lady sophomores at Ann Arbor, Mich., haze the handsome freshmen by biindfoiding and kiss- ingthem. Ann Arbor ought to be ashamed of herself. i A New England lady was recently shown ont of the dining room of the Chinese students in New Haven for examining too closely the young fellows’ pigtails. Filis Van Meer, a sawmill hand in Bay City, UL, undertook to have a little trial of strength with the gang belt the other day, aud all that was leit of Van Meer were mere atoms, ‘They used to fatten hogs on mast out West, but now the bears are fattening on hogs. To carry out the nautical idea, farmers inquire, ‘How's your bearings this morning, neighbor Jones ?" Bismarck believes in the adage, ‘“‘Recreants are ever most bitter against their first faith.” His most trusted functionaries were radical democrats. He 18 about to cap (Kapp) them with a former Commissioner of Emigration of this city. E. H, Caldwell, of Mobile, a son of the weil-kaown “Shakspeare” Caldwell, of New Orleans, for many years manager of the St. Charles Theatre, as weit as the originator of a number of public improve- ments in the Crescent City, died at the Metropoll- tan Hotel yesterday. Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, one of the travelling companions of the old farmer of Chappa- qua, received the first telegraphic despatch that was ever sent over the wires in his State. It waa @ despatch to make the head and heart of young romantic manhood swim. It was from a lady and consisted of but one word—‘“Yes.” The Louisville Courier-Journal has just revived this litte incident. The enterprising scribe of the Waverley (N. Y.) En- terprise states that afew days ago he encounterea @ man on the cars with one eye about half an inch above the level of the other and a small hole like a puckered up auger hole in the southwest corner of his face, for his mouth, and with short hedgehog hair like Senator Tipton. He looked so like @ poli- ticlan, continues the scribe, that wg thought we would ask his politics. We commenced thus:— Samuel J. Randall, Chairman of the Pennsyivania Democratic State Committee, denies.that that com- mittee has been sold out to Cameron, and declares that when “heaven and earth come together that report may be true.” The idea of these politiciang having anything to do with heaven is certainly very amusing. Ifthe earth and the “other place” had been tne comparative points of separation there might have been some chance of the report proving true, Sergeant Bates, who some years ago was notori- ous from having carried the American flag through the South to demonstrate that a feeling of a(fec- tion for the colors of their country had returned to the Southern people, is now in this city. A desire for pedestrian exercise, and a laudable wish to practically test the feeling of the people of England towards these United States, are impelling him to visit that country and carry the American flag through tts length, from the north to London. This project of the Sergeant has grown out of an argument ne had with Mr. T. J. War- ren, of Saybrook, Ill, some time ago. Mr. Warren differed from Sergeant Bates’ ex- pressed opinion that the friendship of the English people for the United States had not been abated by the result of the Alabama claims arbitration, A bet of $1,000 to $100 was offered by Mr. Warren that the Sergeant could not perform the journey through England without having his colors insulted and taken by the latter. The Sergeant will sail for Enziand on Wednesday, and will immediately on arrival proceed to the performance of his project, which he expects to accomplish in safety, and alter the fallest expression of good will by the English people. ART MATTERS. tascbanflintinditaie Notes About Art Workers. David Johnson, whose delightful sketches of Lake George have won for him a deserved reputa- tion, has changed hjs base of operations to the Hudson River. That delightful region could not have a truer or more worthy exponent. We may, therefore, look forward to a collection of pictures in which all the spirit and sentiment of that most charming river have been seized and transferred to canvas. Robbins has returned to his usual haunt on the Farmington River. It is to be feared that some- thing more than the scenery attracts him. Report says, however, that he is hard at work—but how? Satterlee, whose works are marked by a poetic spirit sufMiciently rare among our native artists, has returned to town. He Is busy with a number of small subjects, the most important being a fisher girl, which is treated with naturalness and a sense of the picturesque which is full of promise for the future. Bispham has been enjoying his Summer in the neighborhood of Narragansett, and has quite aban- doned his animal studies for landscape and marine studies. We cannot fn truth compliment him om the change. A study in his old line of a dog is worth attention, and we would advise Mr. Bispham “to stick to his last.”? William Hart is in the Adirondack region, watch- ing for golden Autumn skies. The gods have hitherto frowned on him, as Jupiter Pluvius has ruled the roast in the mountain region during the past Summer. He is certain, however, to turn ay he bg these days, with a wallet of sketches well Ned. Wordsworth Thompson, tired of making expedi- tions in the backwoods, has flown to the fair land of Italy. At the latest accounts he was at the Lago Maggiore. Marshall has ne to Europe. Uygtin the portraits of all the possibly, make his fortune. ay return, James Hart has been in the Catskill region making studies Kad 4 of cattle. He intends to make a “spread” on his animals this Winter. If we may judge of his success by the care he has bestowed on his sketches he will eclipse all his former efforts. The two Smiliies are roughing {t in camp and in the lake region. They are pretty certain to come back laden with sketches, Lawrie has returned to town, and is engaged on some landscape subjects and portraits, Julta Beers also has come to town, reinvigorated by the Summer work. She has Prednig of sketches, and will go to work vigorously during the Winter. William de Haas spent his Summer in the Isle of Shoals. He has brought back an important sketch for a picture of the sea after a storm. The com- position is very strong, and we have no doubt that the sketch will develop into a striking picture. Irving has selected an historicat subject for tlius- tration—“ Washington Paying a Visit of Condolence to the Hessian General Rani.” The composition ts good, and the treatment quiet, but meritorious. M. F. De Haas has laid in a picture of & moon- bs a on the Sound. The subject is @ novel one, but alfords Veta Ad room for technical treatment of the highest piste? will bave for motive “Star's Istand by Moontight.”” Van Ktten has mt this Summer in the neigh- horhvod of New Milford, Conn. He returns with a number of clever and interesting sketches. Holberton has amused himsel! fishing aod paint ing near Rolston, Pa. Ryder, whose studics of heads deserve more a/ tention than they receive from the public, ls e/ gaged painting some female studies that are full interest for the art lover. This is an artist of y usual merit, and yet ts comparatively tgnor Men of the advertising kind, who have not q tenth of his power, are rich and famous, while art patrons pass him by because he is not a o* latan. KE. H. Henry ts at work on a landscape ahi ind. A companion “Grant's Headquarters at City Point, on the River.” The scene has been well treated pict? at the same time that an almost photogié truthfulness has been preserved. Brevoort has returned from Lake Duamors Witteridge is in the Catskills, Church has just delivered a tropical tand/® & Hawes, of the Fifth Avenus Uotei, Sontag 4 ia Fairyland.