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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVII.,,........ pete cma seseneessNlOe 313 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Ixton: on, Tar Man at tux WeEEL. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—PyGmaLion anD GALaTea, OOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Plat! Bi oa Brown. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Lapy or Lrons— Trow Curst. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth ay.—Roi Caxorre. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth strects.—AGNes. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ay.—INnsrectoR BaaEsic. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—La Grane Ducuxsse. / FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Eveaxnopy's Frienv. ACADEMY Orena—Man: F MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Itatian Ge OF Figaro, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Tux Sitver Demon, Aiternoon and Evening. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third st.. corner €th av.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY cenTRicItY, &c. 718 BROADWAY, EM ‘S$ MINSTRELS.—Grayp Ermiorman Eccunrhicites. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Aran Na Poour. WHITE'S ATHEN#UM, 585 Broadway.—Nearo Min- STRELSY, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! No, 201 Bowery.— Granp-Vantety ENTERTAINMEN St. James Theatre, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTR: ‘THLOPIAN MINSTRELSY. ‘corner of 28th st. and Broadwa: BAILEY'’S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot cf Houston strect, East River. ASSOOTATION HALL, 234 st. and 4th av.—Lec- rurx, “Goon Autnoxs At 4 Discount.” AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 and 64th streets. ' NEWYORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— fcrence anp Art, ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Nov. 8, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. }Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. eit gs “THE PARTISAN PRESS ! PET NAMES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN’—FIRST EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—Srxtu Pace. RETURNS FROM THE NATION, STATE AND i GITY! TABLES OF MAJORITIES: THE ELBCTORAL COLLEGE STATUS: NO RE- TURNS OF THE VOTE IN THE CITY—Tarmp Pace. fUBAN NEWS! SPECIAL REPORT OF THE HERALD COMMISSIONER: BLOODY COM- BAT AND INSURGENT DEFEAT: FORTY- ONE REBEL DEAD: FRUITLESS PURSUIT— SEVENTH PaGE. A TRAIN THROWN FROM AN EMBANKMENT! SEVEN MEN INSTANTLY KILLED AND SIXTEEN MUTILATED—SeventH PAGE, JBOSTON’S MYSTERY OF BLOUD! THE MUTI- LATED BODY DESCRIBED! THEORY OF THE CRIME: SOME CLEWS TO IDENTITY— SEVENTH PAGE. ‘MEXICO! TEJADA ELECTED PRESIDENT: GOY- ERNMENTAL REFORMS—THE MISSOURI AND GUATEMALA DISASTERS—SEvENTH PaGE. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! THE AMERI- ‘ CAN PRESIDENCY FROM FOREIGN STAND- POINTS: LIBERAL ELECTION TRIUMPH IN ENGLAND—SEVENTH PAGE. HONORS TO THE HERALD’S CHIEF EXPLORER! STANLEY RECEIVED BY LIVINGSTONE’S TOWNSMEN—EIGuTH PAGE, WASHINGTON! GRANT ON THE ELECTION: “NEVER DOUBTED THE PEOPLE”: CUFFEE IN THE CABINET—RBPORT OF THE WAR SECRETARY ON THE ARMY—TeENTH Page. A CAMPAIGN RETROSPECT BY OUR NEWLY- CHOSEN GOVERNOR ! WHY SUCCESSFUL : THE REPUBLICAN PARTY : THE FUTURE: SYMPATHY FOR HORACE-—-Tuirp Pace, BRUTALITIES OF WARD'S ISLAND OFFICIALS! HOW HELPLESS UNFORTUNATES ARE KICKED, STARVED AND BEATEN! VER- DICT OF THE SAMUELS JURY: CEN- SURING THE MANAGEMENT: GOVERNOR HOFFMAN'S VISIT—Firtu Pace. COURT PROCEEDINGS! THE WOODHULL-CLAF- LIN-BLOOD HABEAS CORPUS: THE LAW AND REMEDY FOR EXORBITANT SHERIFF'S FEES: MADAME JUMEL’S WILL—Fovurta Page. BLOOD BEFORE THE BAR OF JUSTICE! STRA- TAGEM OF VIC AND TENNIE: MOVING SCENES—Fourta Pace, RACING | THE NEWMARKET (ENGLAND) MEET- ING: THE PRINCE OF WALES ON THE GROUND: SINGULAR COMPLICATIONS— FirTa PAGE. TRANSACTIONS ON ‘CHANGE! GOOD REPORT FROM LONDON: RISE IN ERIE AND CON- SOLS: THE CANADIAN CLIQUE—Nintao Pace. LATEST FROM THE EPIHIPPIC—UONORING THE MEMORY OF GENERAL MEADE—LITE- RARY—Firtu Pac, EXPLOSION ON THE BARK CLARA LAMB— SECOND SESSION OF THE QUEBEC PAR- LIAMENT—FIrFTH Pace. Tae PresmentiaL Exzction ry Mextco aNpD THE Prosrecr or Pzace anp Prorit.-—The Mexican Republic has re-elected Sefior Lerdo de ‘Tejada to the Chief Magistracy of State almost unanimously. He has already defined his course of Executive rule. His standpoint of government is exceedingly, but at the same time excellently, sound and safe—*little politics and much administration.” President has resigned the extraordinary magisterial power with which he was lately in- vested, so that it may be said, on the whole, that Mexico and the Mexicans enjoy another chance for the restoration of peace and the in- nuguration of a system of profitable material progress on the soil of the native domain. General Porfirio Diaz has made his submis- Sion to the constituted authorities, So it may be said that Mexico, according to our present telegram report, enjoys a universal peace in- ternally. In the meantime the Mexico City journals arc engaged in discussing the con- dition of the citizen relations which ist towards the United States, The wrXers con- clude their review by asserting that an im- partial examination of all the circumstances which have just lately transpired on the line of the Rio Grande will result in exonerating their fellow subjects from blame. The railroad building enterprise plans of various companies were being placed before the public in eager competition for a favorable award as to guperior meri The | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Partisan Press=Pet Nemes of the Presidential Campaign, —_ The election is over. The last gun has been fired, the last rocket has been sent up, the last barrel has been consumed by jubilant bonfires, the last sore throat has been ac- quired in shouting or groaning for ‘Grant and Wilson,” “Greeley and Brown,” the last man has paraded the streets for the last time with the last transparency; and now what is there left? “Open my heart,” said Mary of England, ‘and you will see inscribed upon it ‘Calais!’’’ Took at the record of the late campaign, and you will see inscribed upon it names, names, names, and nothing but names. In the history of political warfare there is no parallel to the vituperation of which both armies have been guilty; and standing as we do upon neutral ground, regardless of party favorites, jealous only of the honor of the Republic, we exclaim—‘“A plague on both your houses!’ Shame upon those who have dragged. our good name in partisan mire. Shame upon leaders who, arguing that the end justified the means, have not scrupled to utter untruths to gain a few votes! With sorrow do we say, “Shame upon those journals that have aided and abetted the great epidemic of slan- der which has raged from Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to the Pacifio coast.’ “What is truth?” asked Pontius Pilate, and paused fora reply, To-day we put the same conundrum, anxious for light upon a moment- ous question. Is it true that we are forty mil- lions of fools and knaves led by drunkards andrascals? Is there no such thing as honesty in high places? Are we all going to the bad as fast as Satan can carry us? Are we all mis- erable sinners, and is there no good in us? Is Charles Sumner a rascal and an idiot because he disagrees with his old party? Is Kernan a scoundrel because he is a Roman Catholic? Is Greeley a criminal because he accepted the Cincinnati and Baltimore nominations? Is Grant a monster because he allowed himself to be renominated for the Presidency? Is every- body depraved? Are republican institutions a failure? And shall the Japanese students among us write home that a Presidential cam- paign in a civilized republic means the right to deprive every public man of his character ?— that holding office means the right to steal public money for private benefit ? It is time that the Augean stables of politics were cleansed. It is time that the public real- ized what unmanly weapons have been used in fighting for the control of the government. It is time that journalists were called upon to contemplate the work of their hands and once more asked whether their great power shall be longer prostituted ; and for this purpose, yet not for the first time, we put on record a few of the opprobrious epithets which have been visited upon the heads of the wretched men who have dared either to be candidates for office or have ventured to have political opin- ions. Side by side we marshal. the loud- tongued hosts and show how Presidential fields are won. Vote for one of two men to fill the most exalted position in the country when both ought to be in the State Prison? Does not Grant wear paper collars? Does not Greeley wear an old white hat? Can either of them be gentlemen? But, readers of the Henratp, look at the aliases of the two candi- dates for the last six months—as long as Don Giovanni's list of conquests—and then ask whether the country is safe. GREELEY. GRANT, Atheist. Drunkard, Deist, Loafer. Common liar. Bull pup. Secessionist. Swindler. Southern sympathizer. Treasury plunderer. God-defier. Horse jockey. Traitor. Beast. Communist. Ignoramus. Biown-bread eater. Whiskey cask, Robber. The people have repudiated an atheist, deist, liar, robber and traitor to embrace a drunkard, loafer, swindler and beast. What madness led them to prefer one to the other? What fiend inspired three popular conventions to force upon the nation a choice of evils? Anevening paper declared the late contest to be ‘a campaign of pure falsehood. No man’s character, however long established, however pure, however unquestionable, is a defence against the most outrageous slander, the most unblushing ‘vilification ;’’ which statement the evening paper fully proved by assailing Greeley as a Know Nothing, asthe author of treasonable sentiments which he had denied, as a go-be- tween in the bribery of a Congressman by the Des Moines Improvement Company, asa Presi- dential candidate pledged to favor pensions to Confederate soldiers, Is it a law of nature that one editor shall hate another? Is it an insult to all other journalists that one of their profession should be nominated to the Prosi- dency? Let this question be settled before another campaign, and if in convention as- sembled it be answered affirmatively let the nomination of journalists for office be pro- nounced by Congress a crime against decency. Is it written in the book of fate that partisan journals shall assail all opponents in the lan- guage of Billingsgate? Read again what Greeley and Grant partisan journals had to my Sa” ? Greeley Partisan Journal, Gerrit Smith—A “humbug."? es Lloyd Garrison—An ‘abusive old radi- Speaker Blaine—A “pertinacious young man.” General Dix—A “mercenary old man.” ae D. White—A “tool of the Custom louse, ee Settle—A “minion of power.”’ R. H. Dana, Jr.—A “jackdaw.” Senator Wilson—A “paltry creature.” “We drop Mr. Wilson, No one can mistake him for an honor- able man.’? Grant Partisan Journal. Among the interesting features of this (weekly) edition may be included the following 1. An article bringing together the outrageous slanders upon General Grant which have been circulated under the authority of Horace Greeley, either in his own paper or his other organs, to- gether with am incontestable refutation of these e 2. Mr, Groeley's letters recommending bad met for office, showlng the real drift of his seutiments as sey: ion reply to the attacks upon General Aart! republican candidate for Governor in Bounsyivenis, . Greeley and Tweed, their partnership in a to- bacco mandufacturin: company. The proofs and the facts, showing G met ‘8 close and secret alli- by eb the peed the reign of the “Bogs,” 5 —His dishonesty and bad - sy gs a panne iselesite, geculig:s: ‘uben E. Fentou—A short sketch Which began in embezzlement and Pen ieee ceeded by corruption of the worst kind. Fen- ton’s exploits as @ dishonest clerk and a corrupt Governor will be Partially described in this ar- be gre apie nocenenty by the fact hat Fenton would hold a very high om could insure bis own lection. <j ete 7. Greeley’s Secession Record—A list of his utter- =~ on that subject, with examples, from 1860 to Is it also written that these same journals shall accuse one another of persistently and perennially violating every law, human and divine? One says the other ‘bullies’ James O'Brien because he exposed the fraudulent Accounts ; that it is ‘influenced by corrupt “barefaced fraud upon the public” by printing | stored to herself. It will be well for France | that which Tammany itself possessed in ite account of stecxage abuses 5 that Mr. Greeley “‘inzulted’’ the” soldiers at Pittsburg ; that Mr. Greeley is in a conspiracy with Jeff Davis to -restoro ‘slavery; that the Tribune “proposes to continue its now well established business of manufacturing lies, wholesale, retail and for exportation ;"’ that it ‘frankly owns’ that it only wants to get at Tweed be- cause ‘Tweed advised his friends not to go to a Greeley meoting ; that it ‘deliberately forged’’ the schedule showing the bribery of Mr. Blaine by the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, Eastern Division ; that Mr. Greeley has long been a corrupt lobbyist at Washington. Turning for relief to the religious press we find, alas! that it is not one whit behind its secular brethren in the art of vituperation. The Bishop of Western New York confides to the Observer that Catholio priests ‘turn every church into a centre of political intrigue. The priest sells so many votes for so many dol- lars.’’ Smarting under this impeachment the Catholic Review informs the amiable Bishop that he tells ‘the most downright of false- hoods in the most viciously ill-tempered way;”’ that he is, in short, “committing himself to wilful and deliberate untruths of the gravest kind.”’ Verily, it is the very errors of the moon. - “Let us have peace,” is tho motto of the victorious party. Yesterday morning, twelve hours after the campaign had closed, we read the following peaceful remarks in the leading article of the radical organ: — Although much has been said about the “abuse” and “virulence” which have characterized this campaign, 1t will be found upon a calm review that the inexcusable abuse has all been practised by one side—that of Greeley and his democratic allies. * * * Fenton has sustained his reputation as an bodies unprincipled and knavish schemer. On our side the contest has been conducted on the basis of appeals to justice and the good sense of the people, ue result justifies usin the attitude we have O, wad some power the giftie gie To see oursole as others see ust fet Is there to be no peace? Will not victory Content the victor? Will no partisan journal set an honorable example? The Insurrection in Cuba—Our Com- missioner on the Battle Ground. It would seem by the Herarp special re- ports from the Queen of the Antilles that the insurrection is not quite defunct. A battle has been fought at Viamones, in the Central Department, in which the insurgents suffered severely, our correspondent having counted forty-one corpses on the battle field. The Spanish loss is counted by themselves at four wounded and one bruised. The insur- gents who escaped slaughter appear to have got off cleverly, as at latest accounts the troops were unlikely to overtake them. Having learned all that was possible on the field of the fray, our correspondent retcrned to Puerto Principe, the capital of the depart- ment, whence he was once more about to start in the endeavor to reach the Cuban camp. For the rensons heretofore given he has been obliged to accept female guides, with whom, however, he will be much safer in passing to and fro than in male company. The danger which attends this must not be lightly estimated. It is not a struggle in which prisoners are taken to any extent, except for the purpose of gain- ing information about the enemy’s movements. The sentence which states that nearly all the Cubans killed at Viamones received their quietus with the machete tells significantly that it is a war to the knife and the knife very close to the hilt. In this gallant endeavor to throw impartial light upon both sides of the question of this long and wasting war the Herawp correspondent will receive the sym- pathy of civilization. It is noteworthy that the Spanish authorities still continue to.treat him with courtesy and consideration. Postal Reduction Between France and the United States. It is announced in a Paris journal that the French government has consented to reduce the rate of postage to America, with reciproo- ity of free transit. We suppose this free transit means of ,the mails destined for other countries and passing over French territory. Both this concession and that of a consider- able reduction in the rates of postage will be gratifying to Americans who travel so much abroad and who have a very large amount of letter communication with all the countries bordering France, as well as with France iteelf. There should, in fact, be the most free in- tercourse possible between the two friendly Republics. It should extend to the question of tonnage dues, which we recently noticed; to the tariff, to shipping and navigation and other matters, as well as to postal arrange- ments. There is little rivalry, comparatively, between France and the United States in their products. Each one produces a great deal that the other does not, and each one needs the productions of the other. Then, besides the mutual commercial advantages of free and liberal intercourse, there is an ancient friend- ship, and nowa similarity of institutions, to bind the two Republics together. We recom- mend President Thiers and our government to promote in every way possible this liberal reciprocity, for it will have the best effect both commercially and politically. The Germans ‘Leaving "Franéé@French Rejoicings. Yesterday we announced the fact that the German troops had evacuated the city of Rheims and the town of Vitry-le-Frangais, the last posts retained by the Germans in the Department of Marne. To-day we print the intelligence that the city of Rheims was jubilant, and took occasion to make itself especially merry because of the retirement of the German troops. The buildings were decorated with flags and flowers, and on the evening of the happy day the city was illu- minated, For the first time since the occupa- tion of the city the theatre was opened, and in response to repeated calls from the audience the ‘Marseillaise’’ was performed by the orchestra. We cannot help exulting with France in her joy, and we should be cruel, indeed, if our sympathies did not go out rejoicing with the good people of Rheims. Shamefully was France defeated, as all the world knows. But how nobly has France behaved herself in the hour of her misfor- tune! Within a year France will have paid the invader off; and the time may come, to echo the sentiment of Ducrot, when Germany will have occasion to regret her victory. We know no one who is not willing to rejoice with the good people of Rheims on regaining their liberty, and we feel satisfied that all the if, on the new departure, the French people know how to comport themselves and to keep the peace. France may still be useful to Europe and the world at large; but France can never again be the mistress of the nations. The Municipal Election—The Future Power in New York. The result of last Tuesday's election not only completes the revolution commenced a year ago in the government of New York city, but renders it almost certain that the political complexion of the metropolis will undergo an entire change, and that for the next ten years the large majorities heretofore rolled up for the democracy will be transferred to the re- publican side, It is true that Mr. Havemeyer has been chosen Mayor by a small plurality, and that the united democratic vote is some thirty thousand above the republican vote in a poll of only about one hundred and thirty-five thousand. But the enormous power of the city patronage was divided in the recent contest; some of the municipal departments being on one side, some on the other, and some taking no active part in the struggle, There were also jealousies, suspicions and rival interests among the city officials which prevented any of those powerful combinations by means of. which the Tammany leaders made themselves for so many years invincible. All this will so@n be changed. The republicans now hold possession of every important office in the city government, and have the means of ob- taining supreme control of every depart- ment not already in satisfactory hands. They will soon be armed with the very weap- ons so effectively used by the former demo- cratic managers, and there is no reason to suppose that they will not handle them with a skillfully equal to that displayed by their pred- ecessors in power. It is a popular error to suppose that New York is necessarily a demo- cratic city on account of her large foreign population. . Experience shows that the emi- grant who remains ina city is apt to attach himself to the party in power. He necessa- rily falls first into theirhands. He finds all the authorities with whom he is brought into contact politically of the same way of think- ing, and his self-interest or the natural dispo- sition to be on the strongest side generally controls his decision in his choice of party association. ,The patronage of the pickaxe and spade is a powerful political propagandist, What is known as the ‘‘dangerouselement” in a metropolis also sets toward the party that holds possession of the government and wields the power of the police and the Courts. The republican politicians and their organs have been accustomed for political effect to charge the New York democracy with the fellow- ship of all the notoriously bad char- acters of the city, and evory carica- turist on the same side has adopted the stale idea of portraying Tammany democrats with cropped hair, low brows, broken noses and vicious mouths ; but it is well known that these gentry are invariably to be found on the side best able to pay for their services in pri- maries and at the polls, In Philadelphia, for example, which, comparatively with her size, is a more ruffianly city than New York, the bulk of the disreputable characters are hangers- on of the republican organization, because the republicans are there in power. There is, therefore, every reason to believe that the “foreign element'’ and the ‘dangerous ele- ment’’ and the “lower classes” in this city, all of which we have been taught to regard as the bulwarks of the New York democracy, will turn bodily over to the republicans as soon as all the city patronage is concentrated in the hands of the latter, and will give the new re- publican municipal Ring as powerful a sup- port as they have heretofore given to the old demoeratio pauolcipel Wie. caress Certainly io party hag @vér before been a completely master of the situation in the metropolis as is the republican reform party to-day. Its power is enormous beyond prece- dent, and must soon swallow up the few crumbs that yet remain to the routed democracy. Already it has Mr. Havemeyer for Mayor, Mr. Green in the Finance Department, Colonel Stebbins in the Department of, Public Parks, Franz Sigel in the Register's office, Mr. Van Nort in the Department of Public Works, Judges Davies and Barrett on the Supreme Court bench, Judge Sutherland in the General Sessions, Judge Van Voorst in the Superior Court and Mr. Phelps in the District Attor- ney’s office, in possession of all the pigeon- holed indictments, and with his fingers thus on the throats of the principal ward politi- cians and electioneering bullies all over the city. Above all this they have the State Legis- lature, Senate and Assembly and the Governor, and thus hold the key to the possession of every other city department, big and little, The Legislature will not be as it was last Winter, for the republican major- ity is now a solid administration major- ity, without, 4 gorehend or dissatisfied politicien tn its ranks. The new Presidential term, commences on the 4th of next March, about the time the Legislative session is draw- ing to 2 te virtue zealously displayed by the representa- tives at Albany. Their first business will be to re-elect United States Senator Roscoe Conkling, whose gallant services in the exmpaign against the artful intrigues of his repuilican asso- ciate contributed so largely to the sprondid victory in the Empire State, and who will 5° back to Washington covered with honor and glory. Their next business will be to so amend our present city charter as to vacate every department not now in thoroughly friendly and reliable hands, and to fill it with their own political friends. There will be no more temporizing or hesitation about this work. Before the beginning of March the republicans will hold full possession of the Police Department, retaining only Commis- soner Smith, who has worked with them dur- ing the recent campaign. They will take, in addition, the Tax Commissioner's office, the Department of Buildings, the offices of the Corporation Counsel and Corporation Attor- ney, the Commission of Emigration, the Commission of Charities and Correction, thus securing Castle Garden and the control of the emigrant boarding house keepers and runners ; the Fire Department, the Strect Cleaning Com- mission, the Board of Health, the Board of Education and the Department of Docks, for the sterling honesty and brilliant efficiency of that important department will not deter the victors from sweeping it into their net, with the rest of the booty. Land dishonsst motives :” that it ommitted a | world is pleaned that Exauce ia soon to be re | ‘This glue will, bo a patronage ogual to | di “republican party, which now has supreme its strongest day; but this will not be the limit of the enormous power of the new Ring. In addition to the undivided city rule, it will hold in its grasp in New York the Custom House, the Post Office, the Inter- nal Revenue Bureaus, the United States Courts, Marshalships and all other federal appointments, besides the Quarantine Depart- ment, the Captaincy of the Port, the Port Wardens and all Gubernatorial patronage at this end of the State. No political party has ever before attained such a wonderful and concentrated strength, and it is almost certain, as we have said, that it will completely revolu- tionize the political condition of the metropo- lis and turn over the old democratic majorities of fifty and sixty thousand to the republi- can side, At the next election for Sheriff and County Clerk both of these offices will, in all probability, fall into the hands of straight republicans ; for the party will no longer need trades and bargains with bolting demo- crats, and it will be almost impossible to defeat its candidates, It has shrewdly used democratic quarrels to secure the coveted prize of the government of New York city, and it will now carry off. from its broken and de- moralized opponent the bulk of his once unterrified army, It makes little difference to the citizens of New York by what set of politicians they may be governed, so long as they are governed honestly and well. There is no good reason why the republicans should not take all the offices while they have the opportunity and thus make themselves masters of the whole municipal government. An undivided respon- sibility will be better for the people than a divided responsibility. Let our new rulers be wise, liberal and honorable in their policy, and no one will regret the downfall of the democ- racy. But there must be no small views—no parsimony, no crab-like movement in the new régime. If we are to have a clearing out through legislative aid and a brand-new set of Political officers from top to bottom of the municipal government, they must be men who understand the wants of the city and the wishes of the citizens, and who will not shirk the responsibility of large ex- penditures for desirable public improve- ments, The new republican Ring will be answerable for the future progress of the city and for the general welfare and com- fort of the people. The old Tammany Ring robbed the city of millions, but at the same time it was pushing us all forward to in- creased prosperity. Its corruption was infa- mous, but its progression and enterprise were remarkable. Under its rule wo had splendid avenues opened, handsome parks laid out, and were ina fair way of securing a viaduct rail- way through the city. We must have al] these desirable improvements from the new Ring, coupled with honesty and fidelity to public trusta. That is what the people of New York expect and demand; and if the power in nation, State and city, meets the popular sentiment in this respect it will be welcome to a monopoly of the spoils for years to come, Patronage of American ‘Art, It is of importance to tho healthy develop- ment of art in America that purchasers shall not allow their enthusiasm of foreign works to divert their attention from the merit which lies at hand needing encouragement. We are induced to speak out frankly on this point at the outset of the art season, because wo have reason to know that while the auction room was patronized to an unwonted extent last year the studios were comparatively neglected. In the midst of all the noise and glitter of a really brilliant art season the votaries of the palette were in too many cases wearily waiting in ipoety wade for the advent of some one who Wad willing Ip art and artists in a quiet, unostentatious way. We are willing to make every allowance for the weakness of human nature, and we recognize that it is much more gratifying to patronize art ina crowded and select company, where every one will talk of the purchases, than to go to the studio and buy off the easel. Yet the latter is infinitely the better way. It is cheaper and exerts a wholesome influence by creating pleasurable relations between artist and patron. It is well for the man of business to come in contact sometimes with those who gild life by the sunny influenco of their genius. If this fact were better appre- ciated the studios would have more visitors, and art exercise its educational and elevating influence more directly. We desire to see art intelligently patronized, and are fully con- scious of the good which has been accom- plished by the introduction of foreign works of merit. But we are also anxious that our native artists should receive the attention and encouragement which they deserve. The work they are doing now in the studios is for the most part marked by conscientious study and skilful technical work. It is to be hoped that the public will mark their approval of these efforts by extending a liberal and judicious support to our native art. A Few Morals from Tuesday’s Elec- tion=The Unreliability of Political Hucksters, The result of the municipal contest in this city last Tuesday is singularly significant of the fruitlessness of the intrigues and bargains upon which professional politicians are apt to ely for the success of their schemes. In no election for many years past had there been so much trading and plotting among the lead- ers as in tat which has just been held, and yet when the ballots are counted we find a remarkable steaa:ness in the regular and known strength of ite several contestants. Mr. Havemeyer gots as nearly as possible the full republican vote, witlr probably six or seven thousand added by those democrats who are in favor of honest government, independ- ent of political parties, and who beliewed that the contest was between Mr, Havemeyex and James O’Brien, and that the Tammany candidate would be Inst in the racd Mr., Lawrence received the regular demo- cratic vote of last year, less just the six or seven thousand given to Mr. Havemeyer on the consideration we have stated, while James O’Brien polls the strength of the Apollo Hall organization as shown in former elections. These figures, kept steadily up on all sides, prove that plotting in the dark generally balances itself and makes no perceptible difference in the end—that'where a dickering candidate or party makes n few votes in one the gain iasgt off by a loge ip another, —- ae direction, and that the pro.nises of politicians given under such circumstanc%s are seldom to be relied upon. ; . The lesson of the election will mot be lost war Ea pele Tt teaches them that whem ey Choose to be so they are independent of and more powerful than the politicians, and! that if they ever sgain suffer from corrupt themselves to blame. The republican leaders and organs did their best to elect James O’Brien, but they failed in the Itia claimed now that thoy cheated him at the polls and failed to cast any votes for him af all; but this is disproved by the evidence of the ballots. The Apollo Hall candidate was run on a large number of Grant and Dix tickets, and Grant and Dix were in turn voted on Apollo Hall tickets ; but, as we have said, other combinations were made as a set-off to these trades, and in the grand result they are undiscoverable, The political leaders and ticket pedlers may agree to sell the votes of their respective parties, but they find it impossible to deliver then, We cautioned the people against the com templated tricks and frauds, and we are pleased to have evidence that our warning had the desired effect, We were content to ubide the verdict of the electors; but we were resolved that, so far as our influence could reach, that verdict should be intelligently and honestly rendered. As to the candidates them-' selves, we had no choice between them. Asam independent journal we strove to compel the politicians to make good nominations on all sides, and, that point accomplished, we were: satisfied that, whichever party might win, the interests of the city would be in safe keeping. In an interview with a representative of one of the city journals James O'Brien complaing with some bitterness of the deceptions which, he claims, were practised upon him. He was cheated, he declares, on every side. The in- spectors of election were all against him ; his: ballots were credited to his two opponents ; the “Grant republicans” hoodwinked him into declining the regular democratic nomina- tion and then cheated him; the Germans went back on him and voted for Havemeyer; the republicans gave him no money, but induced him to get eight or ten thousand dol- lars in debt; the Irish deserted him because they thought he was going against Mr. Ker- nan; the English-edited, republican, Know Nothing organ treated him unfairly after he had built it up and put money in its pocket by furnishing it with information of the Ring frauds and manufacturing for it its reform thunder; the office-holders cheated him be« cause he refused to retain them in power should he be elected. In fact, James O’Brien complains that he has been defrauded alk round ; but he is young and intends to adhere: to politics in spite of his present disappoint ment, When he next rans for office he will probably trust more to his own merits and less’ to the hollow promises of political hucksters. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. De Witt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, is at the Gilsey House, Generai S. E. Marvin, of Albany, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. United States Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is at the Hoffman House. Ex-Congressman J. B. Alley, of Boston, has ar- rived at the Astor House. General 8. B, Buckner, of Kentucky, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Dr. Edwin Eldridge, of Elmira, is among the so- Journers at the Hoffman House, Ex-Congressman Rovert H. Pruyn, of Albany, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. S. Barford, of Richmond, fs among the’ late arrivals at the Brevoort House. Mr. E. H. King, President of the Bank of Mon- treal, is in town, staying at the Brevoort House, Ex-Congressmen C. 0. Gilman and J. B. Grinnell, of Iowa, yesterday arrived at the St, Nicholas, Hotel. There was no Koerner in democracy in Illinois last Tuesday, no matter what there may have becn on “stub-tail” corn. “Clasp hands in earnest,” cries a Baltimore ad- ministration paper. Is this not steallng a little Chappaqua thunder ? The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and his party are travelling through the Holy Land. They are to go thence to Egypt. Colonel Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, cor- dially welcomes Mr. Greeley back to the editorial fraternity, ‘‘and so say they all.” Professor D. ©. Gilman, formerly of Yale College, was yesterday inaugurated President of the Uni- versity of California, at Oakland. The death of General George E. Meade ts the subject of eulogy upon the character of the deceased in all our exchanges, North and South, The Crown Prince of Saxony is travelling in the East incognito, under the pseudonym of Professor Morssman. He was lately received by the Sultan in Constantinople. The Bishop of Laybach, Austria, has sent his resignation to the Pope, because he would not subscribe to the dogma of infallibility. The resig- nation has been accepted. President Thiers lately gave a grand dinner at Versailles. Among the guests was Vice Admira Godon, of the American squadron, which was an chored in the waters of Brest. Earl Russell is abont to publish a volume of “Essays on the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the West of Europe, from the Reign of Tiberius to the End of the Council of Trent."” Oglesby is among the most popular Governors of the State of Illinois, not excepting the late Gov- ernor Duncan, who broke his sword rather tham give it up at Hull's surronder to the British, in the war of 1812, Jere. T. Smith, the builder of the New Post omce! and many other substantial buildings, like that of the Equitable Insurance Company, has returned to the Coleman House, after a Southern tour for the benefit of his health. ‘ ‘The Duchess of Teck, with a large party, lately’ paid a visit to the Manchester (England) Exchange. While the Duchess was acquiring technical know edge Teck himself was shooting in the pheasant covers at Heaton Park. Prince Alfonzo, of Bourbon, isin Vienna, study- ing at the Maria Theresa College. The Prince ts & very mild-mannered youth and not over brilliant.’ His partisans in Spain are like Bourbon adherents! everywhere—demonstrative, but not often dauger- ous. The Boston Advertiser (administration) seizes this hour of victory to assure its Southern brethrem of its earnest desire “to partake of all the biess- ings and benefits of our common union.” In the words of President Pierce, “The hour of victory is the hour of magnanimity.” ‘The Emperor William has, at the request of Mgr. Roes, the Bishop of Strasbourg, given orders that the Cathedrai of Strasbourg be left in the pos: session of the Catholics. There was a question of restoring it to the Protestants, to whom it bad be- longed up to the time of the French conquost. Mr. Freeman, the American artist from Rome, is in New York for a short sojourn, and has brought with him several of bis own paintings and three, small works in marble designed and modelled by Mrs. Freeman, His studio is 788 Broadway, corner of Tenth street. His reception days are Mondaya and Thuredays, from ten until four o'clock, ‘The Balttmore American (administration) sayd that Mr. Greeley, althoag®a very indifferent Presi- Gential candidate. is 8 great succeda as an editor,