The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly scaled. i" Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Bera gy THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription nrice $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, overy Saturday, at FIVE Cents per copy. Annual subscription price :— One Copy.... Three Copies. Five Copies.. Ten Coptes.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- {eenth and Fourteenth streets.—AGnss, . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—La Pericnous. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Everraopy's Prienp. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tux Sitver Demoy, Atternoon and Evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Itatian Ovrna—La Favorita. 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'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ON THE VERGE OF THE GREAT BATTLE! THE GENERAL OUTLOOK AND THE PROBABLE RESULTS IN THE ‘EMIPRE STATE’”— LEADING EDITORIAL—SIxTH PaGE. EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS! THE HIPPORHINOR- RHEA IN ENGLAND: PRUSSIAN RULE AND RESENTMENT OF FRENCH THREATS: THE COSTS OF THE SAN JUAN ARBITRATION— SEVENTH PaGE. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH™ AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES—PER- SONAL AND PULITICAL PARAGRAPHS— SEVENTH PaGE. TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS! CORRECTED LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR THE NATIONAL AND STATE OFFICES—Turep Pace. THE LOCAL POLITICAL OUTLOOK! A QUIET ELECTION PROBABLE—Tuirp Pace. THE EMPIRE STATE! THE FUN AND FEA- TURES OF THE CANVASS: A FORECAST— SHIPPING NEWS—TENTH PaGE. SAMUEL ‘J. TILDEN’S VIEWS ON PROMINENT POLITICAL TOPICS—NORTH CAROLINA: THE STATE CONCEDED TO GRANT—TuiRD Pace. NEW JERSEY'’S POLITICAL STATUS! A CLOSE CONTEST: THE POTENT RAILROAD IN- TEREST—FirtTa PaGE. THE CANVASS IN KINGS COUNTY: THE NOM- INEES AND POLICE DUTIES ON ELECTION DAY—FirTH PaGE. HOW SCANNELL, THE DONOHUE MURDERER, WAS CAUGHT AND IS KEPT! NO VISITORS ALLOWED—Eicura Page. LIVINGSTONE’S DISCOVERIES AND RE- CENT LETTERS—HONURS BY THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHERS TO THE HERALD'S LIV- DR. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. om the Verge of the Great Battle—The General Outlook, and the Probable Results in the “Empire State.” We are on the verge of the great Presidential battle, in which six millions of men will be engaged to-morrow, from the rising to the setting sun, and over a field embracing half the Continent of North America. ‘From camp to camp,"’ as on the night before the decisive day of Bosworth Field, “the hum of either army stilly sounds,” — And from the tents ‘The armorers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The immediate issues involved are our Chief for the next four years from and after the 4th of March; but the general resulta of this national election may fix the supreme law of the land and shape the destinies of the coun- try for generations to come. From recent manifestations of the public sentiment on this subject from different sections of the Union, it may be said that the issue of this con- test is already determined, and that to-morrow’s election, as universally regarded, will be only the formal ratification of the voice of the people already expressed in favor of another Presidential term to General Grant. We need not here recite the well-known events which, from July last to October, mark the decline and collapse of the hopes, the calcula- tions and the possibilities of the new opposi- tion coalition. But still the causes of this collapse may be profitably considered in.clos- ing up the record of this remarkable Presiden- tial canvass. General Grant had alienated from his administration many of the most ac- tive, ambitious and conspicuous leadérs of the republican party, and the democratic manag- ers were induced to believe that these desert- ing leaders, in some general movement com- manding their support, would be strong enough to carry away from the administration the popular balance of power in this national contest. Upon this captivating idea of fusing with this supposed anti-Grant republican balance of power the democratic party of the Union, this new opposition campaign was formally agreed upon at Cincinnati and as formally adopted at Baltimore. And with two such original radical republicans for this joint oppo- sition Presidential ticket as Greeley and Brown, brought forward upon the formal dem- ocratic acceptance of negro civil equality and negro suffrage, as concessions of equality estab- lished in the national constitution, there was surely some ground for anticipating a fearful diversion from the party in power. The issues settled by the war thus being accepted by the opposition alliance as finalities, this alliance ‘was placed on the same footing upon the war and reconstruction as the administration itself. Next, in the proposition for a universal am- nesty to the South, it was widely believed that Greeley and Brown represented the general wish 6f the people of the North; and next, in the matter of the alleged manifold abuses and corruptions of the dominant party, there were at least materials sufficient for an active ag- gressive canvass. Above all, Mr. Greeley’s universal reputation as a radical republican apostle, as a leading republican editor whose word had been the law to his party, as a teacher and an oracle among the farmers of the country, and as an honest reformer and a popular man, was relied upon as the republi- can lever which, upon the fulcrum of univer- sal amnesty, would overthrow the administra- tion. The stubborn fact is now established, how- ever, that in all these promising estimates the opposition elements counted without their host. We see that Mr. Greeley was shorn like Samson of his locks in betraying the secret of this strength; that his followers, and the followers of Messrs. Sumner, Trumbull, Schurz, Fenton, Curtin, McClure and others from the republican camp, in their new de- parture, may be counted upon our fingers; that many of the old line or Bourbon demo- crats, to use their own terse expression, “though sold would not be delivered ;’’ and that universal amnesty, and the alleged abounding corruptions and despotic acts of the administration are as feathers in the balance against the weighty financial interests of the country and the public services of General Grant; and against the prevailing conviction that while there is no danger of any violent financial convulsion or shock with his re-election, our whole monetary and busi- ness system, from the banks of Wall street to the vineyards of California, may be thrown INGSTONE- RELIEF COMMISSIONER—E1cuTa PaGE. INTERESTING NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—RE- PORT ON THE CITY AND COUNTY FINAN- CES—TeNTH PaGE, USING THE KNIFE IN BOSTON! AN EXCITING CHASE—AN ATROCIOUS MONSTER~—TenTa Pace. WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN’S SUNDAY ENTER- TAINMENT—CONVICT ESCAPES—COOLIE MASSACRE—EicHTH Page. THE HOLIDAY OF THE HORSES! DESERTED STREETS: A MORE HOPEFUL STATE OF THE DISEASE—NINTH Pace. FINANCIAL RESUME! THE EPIHIPPIC AND LOCAL TRADE: THE GOLD DECLINE: THE SOUTHERN STATES’ INTEREST PAY- MENTS—NINTH Paces. WONDERS OF THE WEST! DISCOVERIES BY THE WHEELER EXPEDITION IN SOUTHERN UTAH—ELEVENTH Pace. SPREADING THE GOSPEL! SABBATH DIS- COURSES AT THE DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN TABERNACLES—Fourta Pace. LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF ST, PATRICK'S CHURCH 1N WASHINGTON—MUSIUVAL AND LITERARY REVIEWS—Firru Pace. OOMMERCE, IMPORTS, EXPORTS AND TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES—AFFAIRS IN HAYTI—ELEVENTH Pace, ‘Tas or Caxprmates.—We give to-day a earefully revised list of the various principal pandidates, national and State, to be voted for fo-morrow. It will be a useful statement for future reference as Well as of practical utility bo voters generally. into chaos by a too hasty change of the head of the national government. In short, a ma- jority of the people of the United States, and a heavy majority of those whose interests, more or less, are in banks, and bonds, and stocks, and a fixed, uniform and universal currency, evidently believe that their interests are identified with the established policy of the administration, and opposed at this crisis to the financial policy of the opposition, un- known except as the policy of a sweeping revolution. Such, then, are the great and weighty considerations which will settle this Presiden- tial contest“¢n favor of General Grant—his pre-eminent public services, his established patriotism and honesty in the government and the safety of all our vast financial and busi- ness interests, for four years more, under his supervision. Against these prevailing ideas the scandalous personal accusations of the opposition party press have reacted against his accusers, as in the cases of all our most distinguished Presidents, including Jackson and Lincoln. Grant is not infallible, any more than was Jackson or Lincoln; but, like them, he is stronger than his party, from the conditions of the situation in which he stands the leading figure. And as against all opposing facts and arguments the re-election of Jackson and of Lincoln was held neces- sary by the people for the completion of some important work in hand, soit is in the case of Grant. We think that the saving good Hear Aut Srpes.—Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. wrence have both made speeches on Wall to large audiences representing the ealth and commerce of the city. It is but ir that the remaining candidate, James "Brien, should be heard by the same citi- ens. There is ‘time this afternoon for a ppeech from the leader of Apollo Hall to the ager brokers and merchants of the: city. is proper that they should hear what he has to say in regard to their important interests, and we suggest that he address them this afternoon. He is certain of a good welcome and a patient hearing. sense and vigilance of the American people are equal to all emergencies, and that hence there would be no danger to be apprehended, whatever the issues of this election. As the sovereign people, however, have indicated their will to ‘det well enough alone,” we bow to their judgment. We seek to reflect rather than to dictate the will of the people. ‘ Turning from the general contest to the State of New York, what here is the prospect as between Grant and Greeley and Dix and Kernan? 4t was believed by the supporters [ote Greeley, with his nomination st Balti- more, that he was good for New York by fifty thousand majority. Now in the election pool sellings there is a premium offered on: Grant and a premium on Dix. Wherefore? Because it is found that the republican followers of Mr. Greeley in this State have been over-estimated, and that the intractable democratic Bourbons have been under-estimated; and because the October elections have disheartened Augustus Schell and John Cochrane and turned over the floating elements here from Greeley and Ker- nan to Grant and Dix. But even under the first opposition flush and fluttering from Mr. Greeley’s nomination it was not satisfactorily shown why or how he was sure of New York by fifty thousand majority. We turn to the figures of some of our State elections for information. In the Presidential election of 1868 the vote of this State, as recorded, was :— Borgia Sera Seymour’s majority... But then Seymour's majority, as rendered in from this city, was 60,568, a majority which, even in July last, nobody supposed to be within the possible reach of Mr. Greeley in this contest. In our election for Governor in 1870 the yote of the State was For Hoffman.... 399,532 For Woodford. .. 306, 436 Hoffman’s majority. 33,916 In this city, however, Hoffman's majority was 52,277, which nobody expects will be ap- proached to-morrow by Greeley or Kernan, Again, let us take our revolutionary State election of 1871, against the corruptions of the old, exploded Tammany Ring, and see what its figures signify on the vote for Secre- tary of State :— For Scribner (republican) For Willers (democrat) .... 368,212 Scribner's majority..........-cs.0.2sessee4 18,907 Here is a revolution, and we see that it changes the aspect of things very much in the city, where the democratic majority of 60,000 in 1868 is cut down to 29,000 in 1871; but still the full popular vote of 1868 is the safest test for our guidance, and upon this test we see that unless Greeley and Kernan go out of this city with over fifty thousand majority they will be swamped in the State, assuming that outside of this island the Grant democrats will neutralize the Greeley republicans, which, we learn, is a safe assumption. But in the very outset we pronounced the nomination of Mr. Kernan for Governor a foolish experiment and a fatal blunder to the opposition. We know it was made to concili- ate that powerful democratic element in this city which Governor Hoffman had mortally of- fended; but this gain, we apprehend, will be overwhelmed by losses in the rural districts on the school question, But, apart from this question, General Dix’s popularity as a Union soldier, and General Robinson's, will con- tribute to strengthen Grant in New York, while the popularity of Grant. will strengthen Dix and the whole republican schedale of can- didates, national and State. Mr. Kernan for Governor in this canvass was a mistake, with his unpopular record as a peace man during the war, against the popular Union soldier, General Dix; and so, for the general and the specific reasons given, we apprehend that in the ‘Empire State’ to-morrow a majority, and a heavy majority, will be cast for Grant and Dix. We anticipate a fair day for the election; but, rain or shine, we shall, doubt- less, have a very heavy vote polled throughout the Union, and such emphatic and decisive re- sults—national and State—as will mark the opening of a new period in the history of our political parties. The Medical Geography ot the Equine Epidemic. The great horse epidemic, which is ravaging the eastern half of the Continent and has just made its appearance in England, seems to be intimately connected with certain well- marked meteorologic phenomena. It is of the utmost importance to the proper management of the disease, as well as to the discovery of its physical relations and its anticipation in future years, to ascertain its causal links, In the public equine calamity it has escaped popular observation, and even the press, that this epidemic was not unforeseen by scientific men, and was distinctly foreshadowed, in ac- cordance with physical or cosmical law, some months ago. Since the solar researches of Secchi, Smith, De La Rue and others have demonstrated the close thermal and atmos- pheric relations of our globe with the recur- rence of sun spots, in supra-annual cycles, it has been possible to name the period of nearly twelve years as one which brings the greatest aerial and electrical derangements to our planet. Last year several of our scientists, counting 1848 and 1860 as late historic periods of maximum sun spots, predicted for 1872 the present prevalence of the numerous vegetable blights and the present scourges of the animal kingdom. The striking simultaneity of the epihippic in this country and the cattle dis- eases now raging in the countries of South America, on opposite sides of the Equator, would induce the belief that the cause is not terrestrial, but planetary and cosmical. This helps to unravel the mystery and is a step in the right direction. But it seems also clear that cosmical agencies operate upon our planet through its great atmospheric machinery. Thus, according to the high authority of the English physicist, Keith Johnston, the northeast wind is dis- tinctly catarrhal in its influence; the south- west wind is singularly malarial, and the dry northwest wind, from the higher continent, sweeping over the Northwestern States and Territories lying west of Lake- Superior, is the vitalizing current which corrects the evil effects of the others. This distinction is now the well-accepted tenet of the ablest expositors of medical geography and is highly practical and suggestive. The northeast wind which for some time has descended over our country from the Canadian borders and the western side of the North Atlantic Ocean is apparently charged with climatal conditions favorable to the develop- ment of influenza, catarrh and similar affec- tions. It reaches us atter passing over Canada, but originally comes from the further ocean beyond, having, doubtless, traversed the great Polar current and ice stream which descends southward through Baffin’s Bay and Davis Strait, and on the other side of Greenland, in the channél between that frozen continent and Iceland. In both the latter countries catarrhal fevers and asthmatic diseases of the lungs are notoriously severe and common, and it is oaid that Icelanders seldom outlive 387,110 fifty years, owing to the prevalence of such will move. Sach a result would be of profound interest to the whole world. The Importance of the Municipal Contest-Who Shall Be the Next Mayor of New York? All the readers of the Hznatp, as intelli- gent, well-informed citizens, will, no doubt, cast their ballots for municipal officers to- morrow with a full appreciation of the im- portant influence the choice of the people in the present election may have upon the future interests of the city. We have kept the local issues of the campaign prominently before the public for months past, because we believe that the metropolis is on the turning point of its history, and that upon the character of the administration now to be initiated will de- pend, in a great measure, the degree of pros- perity it will reach in the next ten years. We have faith in the future greatness of the city of New York. With the development of the Asiatic Continent, the settlement of our own vast territories, the construction of railroads between the Pacific and the Atlantic, and the establishment of American lines of ocean steamships, it must one day become the central depot of the world’s commerce and news. One of the candidates for Mayor, a native of New York and yet young in years, tells us that within his own remembrance the city has grown from three hundred thousand inhabitants to over a million, and has stretched out from Fourteenth street to Harlem Bridge. We cannot believe that it is in the power of scheming politicians or of narrow-minded economists to destroy its future progress. But while misgovernment, either by corruption or parsimony, cannot prevent the fulfilment of the grand destiny in store for the metropolis of the Western World, it may so retard it that many of the present generation may fail to share in the advantages of the general prosperity. At this particular time a vigorous, enterprising and honorable administration of our municipal affairs is especially desirable—first, because the local government, disorganized by the revolution of last year, has not recovered that compactness of responsibility and that har- mony essential to its efficiency, and, next, be- cause we have reached that point when we must furnish accommodations for our swelling population or drive away from among usa large amount of capital and of valuable business qualities. We, therefore, regard it as a matter of self-interest that every elector who hasa stake in the prosperity of the city should cast his vote for whichever candidate for the Mayoralty he may deem the best calculated to harmonize the several mu- nicipal departments, to push vigordusly for- ward those works of public improvement now under way, as well as those imperatively de- manded by the public necessities, and to prac- tise honesty and proper economy in the gov- ernment without suffering his action to be controlled by personal prejudices or unwise parsimony. We have kept the charter election and its issues constantly before the people in order that these important points might be properly impressed upon their minds and not lost sight of in the whirl and turmoil of a Presidential contest. A great deal of noise has been made during the last two or three weeks over the old ques- tion of municipal reform, but the people are now sensible to the impositions practised upon them by those who assume to speak in the name of the reformers. Last year they were told before election of the great services that would be rendered to the cause of reform if the republican party should obtain control of the State Legislature. Tweed was to be at once expelled from the Senate; an honest charter was to be passed for the city; the whole government was to be reorganized under honest men, and the official criminals were to be consigned to the State Prison. ' Tweed re- tains his seat in the Senate at the present mo- ment; the charter was made the football of the corrupt Assembly and more corrupt Sen- ate, and the guilty officials and their fellow conspirators are laboring politically for the party that is ‘treating them well’’ and contriving to push over their trials until “after election.” This year the Committee of Seventy, impudently assum- ing to speak for the independent voters of the city, have betrayed the cause of reform by entering into bargains and intrigues for the advancement of one of their own body to the Mayoralty. A number of names were offered to them early in the campaign for their en- dorsement. They might. probably have ob- tained the valuable services of Mr. William Butler Duncan in that office if they had chosen to do so; or they might have endorsed Mr. J. Grenville Kane, Colonel Henry G. Stebbins or the great merchant, Alexander T. Stewart. They rejected all these, and when at last Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence—a candidate whose capacity and honesty they guaranteed by striving to induce him to decline the Mayor- alty and accept the Committee's nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court or District Attorney—was put into the field by the democracy in opposition to James O’Brien, they persisted in nominating Mr. Have- meyer, and thus, by seeking to divide the reform vote, risked the election of O’Brien, whose they deliberately de- clare would be a ‘‘disgrace and calamity’ to the city. As might have been expected, their intrigue has recoiled upon themselves, and they have been made the tools and scapegoats of the politicians, who have used them only to cheat them inthe end. Itis now beyond question that the venerable Mr. Havemeyer has been grossly deceived, and that he is to be sold out by the republicans, on whose votes he relied. The full republican ticket, with James O'Brien for Mayor, is already printed, and will be issued from all the boxes to-mor- row that can be controlled by the republican managers. Itis this treachery to Mr. Have- meyer upon which James O’Brien and his friends rely for success, and it is the certainty felt in the carrying out of the arrangement that made the gamblers at the pool selling establishment where the brutal murder of Thomas Donohue was perpetrated last Satur- day night so eager to bet their money on O’Brien. These well-known facts will no doubt de- / stroy all the influence the Committee Seventy - y have exercised had they carried good faith the intention of the reform ment of last year, and will induce the people to form their own judgment as to the qualifi- cations and merits of the candidates. If we may judge from the experience of last year, it yi will be better for the interests of the city that | intelligent electors should choose their own candidates than that they should seventy respectable wirepullers to they shall vote, Asthe Hznatp is dent of all parties and candidates, it £ fli : Seventy; but it will be necessary that they should read their ballots and seo that Mr. Havemeyer’s name is in the list of those on the General Ticket, No. 2, or they will be very likely to put in a vote for some other candidate, Besides, if the contem- plated sacrifice of Mr. Havemeyer is carried out successfully—and shrewd political jugglers are at work at it—all votes cast for that venerable citizen will be cast in reality in aid of O'Brien. It is more desirable that all intelligent men should vote with their eyes open, and should support whichever of the three candidates they may select—Lawrence, Havemeyer or O’Brien—than that they should be made the victims of a political trick, no matter whom it may benefit or whom it may We believe the qualifications of the Tespective candidates are now well un- derstood. They are personally known to many of our citizens and the speeches and newspaper comments have supplied all the in- formation needed. It is to be hoped that the votes may be cast dispassionately, intelligently, honestly and without prejudice in regard to outside issues. One thing, however, may be properly said in advance of the contest. The Committee of Seventy, claiming to speak in the cause of reform, have chosen to assail one of the candidates, James O’Brien, as’ ‘unfit for the” exalted office to which he aspires and into which he is being pressed by all the dangerous elements of society.”” They have declared that his election would be a “disgrace and a calamity.” But by nomi- nating Mr. Havemeyer and dividing the re- form vote they have risked the triumph of “all the dangerous elements of society” and have done their bestto entail this ‘disgrace and calamity’ upon the city. The withdrawal of their candidate alone can atone for this treachery to reform, for should he continue in the field they would be directly responsible for James O'Brien’s election and for all the acts of his administration, good or bad. The republi- can politicians, who, having naméal Havemeyer, will cheat him and vote for O’Brien, would of course share the responsibility ; but the new city ring, under the ‘‘boss-ship” of Tom Mur- phy, would be indifferent to this. They would share the profits and the honor with equal satisfaction. The Committee of Seventy, how- ever, profess regard for the honor of the city. How are they satisfied with the position into which political intrigue and personal ambition have enticed them? The Railroad Question in Mexico. Mexico has been and is behind most other countries in railroad enterprise and develop- ment. Her constantly recurring revolutions and mountainous territory have been great obstacles to railroad progress. Then, the Mexicans are a slow and unenterprising people. But there appears to be an awaken- ing in that country on this subject. By our telegraphic news from the city of Mexico, pub- lished yesterday, we learn that the railroad question was becoming an exciting one. There had been a lively controversy about the claims of rival parties who had obtained concessions to build railroads and upon the broad and narrow gauge question. We learn at the same time that the Vera Cruz Railroad was nearly completed, there being only two leagues of rails to be laid) A good railroad system in Mexico, particularly in connection with the Texas border, the Southern Pacific Railroad and the lateral railroads which are being pushed along and through the mountain ranges of our own territory to the Mexican line, will do more to bring peace and develop the resources of that tich neighboring Republic than anything else. Weare glad to see there is some move- ment in that direction. The present contro- versy will have the eftect, at least, of throwing light upon the necessity and value of railroads in Mexico. Results of the Recent English Munic- ipal Elections. In the elections held on Friday in the prin- cipal cities of England large conservative gains are reported. Our cable despatches as- sign as a reason for this the very general antipathy elicited by the stringent enforce- ment of the new Licensing act, which very much interferes with the sale of spirits, par- ticularly at night and on Sunday. This meas- ure of the liberal administration naturally receives bitter opposition from certain publi- cans and those of their customers whose habits are disturbed by it, and in revenge John Barley- corn has instigated them to cast their votes for the candidates of the opposition party. But there are many other causes of growing dissatis- faction with Mr. Gladstone’s government. Not the least of these is the termination of the Alabamna difficulty. Britons as a race are not generous enough to relish being fined for the laches of their government, even though they are told that the amercement will purchase for them the good will of Brother Jonathan. An ample surplus in the Exchequer enables them to pay the sixteen million dollars for which they were cast in damages by the Geneva Court without a special loan or extra tax; but John Bull don’t quite think his case was thoroughly defended by the Cabinet and its agents, and he takes the earliest opportunity to testify his disgust by voting against liberal nominees for city offices. Whether the defeo- tion is of sufficient proportions to threaten the life of the Ministry cannot be decided at pres- ent, Still it is obvious that much of the popularity the Gladstone government origi- nally enjoyed hes been alienated. We are told that the experiment of the Ballot act works aa, it is loyal to vote for the G who is now in the White House, it is not disloyal to vote for the other G. who desires to get in, He would not vote fora Roman Catholic because they and their Church set the Church above the State, and, by implication, he commended his own example to his hearers, while he at the same je urged them to bolt party and vote only for the best men. Mr. Havemeyer he did not think gained any credit by his denial of the circular published last week by the Council of Political Reform, and he feared the city gov- ernment was again to be handed over to the men who have heretofore ruled and robbed us, and that the Bible would be driven from the public schools. Altogether the picture was rather a gloomy one for a campaign speech, and the difficulty of riding two horses at once is apparent in Mr. Boole’s endorsement of the democratic principles and nominee, while he claims to be a stanch republican and to have rendered good and efficient service to the party. The difficulty is not in a man changing his opinions, but in trying to hide that fact afterward. The Rev. Henry Asten was greatly troubled because of the gradual tendency of a union of Church and State among us, which union he considered a curse for any nation. The Catholic element, he thought, was to be feared in its corruptibility and in the amount of pecuniary help it re- ceived from the State. But there isa remedy — namely, in a political waking up of good men and a vigorous discharge of duty, at the ballot box. Mr. Asten, in terms as well as by implication, denied patriotism to Roman Catholics, This is both ungenerous and untrue, There are thousands of Catholics in this land who do not place Rome above the United States and whose patriotism cannot be measured by fealty to religious dogmas and creeds. If these were the tests of patriotism we fear a great many now ardent patriots would be wantiilg when the time of trial should come. But true patriotism and true religion go hand in hand the world over. It is certainly to be regretted that religious opinions should have. been dragged into this political campaign, and to proscribe other- wise good men for their faith is neither patriotic nor charitable, Should this rule be adopted by the other side there is scarcely a shadow of doubt that not one in ten of the candidates of the opposite creed m this city would ever be elected. Mr. Froth- ingham had some general remarks on the cor- ruptions of governments and of our own in particular. And the cause of itis that busi- ness men here have no time to devote to political affairs, and the immense facilities for making money by millions and getting rich rapidly diverts their attention wholly from other interests. What we want here is ‘moral courage to come down to the simple struggle of principle against that without principle.’” Mr. Hamblen believes that the people of this State are virtually disfranchised and their suffrages made a farce by men of each politi- cal party, and that there is just as much cor- ruption in one party as in another. The corruption of Legislatures, the increase of taxation and of intemperance he deplored, and then, by way of a good finish-up, launched into a furious tirade against Catholics, who, he said, should be energetically opposed. But he put in a saving clause by coupling the names of Dix and Havemeyer with Kernan and O’Brien, and urging opposition to the former as well as the latter if they are bigots or opposed to the Bible in the public schools. Alas for us! bigotry is as much on one side as on the other. So much for the politics. The Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s discourse was a purely theological ome and related to the pro- gress of Christianity and the value of the Lord’s Supper as a Christian ordinance. Dr. Bellows thought men did not give the here- after sufficient consideration. The concerns of time crowd out those of eternity. There is a natural dread to think of death; but Christ, by his coming, has divested death of many of the terrors it once possessed. Bishop Potter preached yesterday in the new church of St. Bartholomew, on Madison avenue, which was opened for the first time. The Bishop contended for the faith delivered once for all to the saints against the materialistic tendencies and teachings of this age. The Jesuit Fathers opened a ‘‘Mission'’ yes- terday in St. Stephen's church, at which Rev. Father Glackmeyer preached a sermon calling the religious sleepers to arouse themselves for work and attend on the services thus inaugu- rated. Ridicule is convenient weapon to have and to wield sometimes, and we are told that Father Burke yesterday, in maintaining the right of prayer to saints, ridiculed the Protestants’ disbelief in their power. He denied the charge of idolatry made against Catholics, for praying to saints, and illustrated the power of the ex- ample of their. holy lives upon others and drow a picture of the intimate relations that exist between the Church militant and the Church triumphant. The corner stone of a new Catholic church was laid: yesterday in Washington, D. ©., at which’ Arch! Bayley delivered an address and ‘Rev. Boyle preached a sermon appropriate to occasion. Father Taylor, in Brooklyn, sented tho Catholic Church and her of sanctification to the attention of his