The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OUTOBER 2, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, tons. NEW YORK HERALD} Pennsylvania and the October Elec. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms New York. aa’ Volume XXXIX... —— AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. es eee COLOSSEUM roadway, corner of Thirty-tttu street—PARIS BY NIGH i, ab 745 PM WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street R DICK’S | DARLING, ats P. M.; closes at 11 P. 3 les WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thi h street —~HANT ND GLOVE, at 2 P.M. : ek P.M. Mr. Left joses at 4: H DAMON AND PYTHIAS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 M. Mr. BE. L, Davenport, Mr. John MeCuligugh. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bo, 624 Broadway.—VAKISTY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 M. 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The prevalent disposition is on the side of buying. | Gold advaaced, but upon higher rates for borrowing. | Tae Sirens indicate that the intemperate temperance men are resolved upon a political | spree. Tre Lrqgvor Deatexs’ ConvENTION met at Albany yesterday, and, after adopting an ad- | dress, aijourned. Tue S:natoca Horets had a narrow escape from fire yesterday, but fortunately the Grand Hotel was the only one destroyed. Tue Manuarran Yacut Cuve held its fifth annual regatta yesterday, and prizes were won by the Carrie, Skip Jack and Zephyr. Cvunan Lorausts are not permitted to be lukewarm in the votion to the interests of the Spaniards. They are fined heavily for not | reporting to the authorities the very first | symptoms of an insurgent movement in their | district. Tue Mayor has read Mr. Kelly’s statement, and, as will be seen in another column, appeals to the citizens of New York to judge between | them. He promises on Tuesday next to pre- sent to the public an overwhelming array of proofs of all the charges he made. Tae Preswent or Mexico is pleased with the present condition of affairs in the Republic and very hopeful of the future of the nation, Industry is being encouraged, and, it is said, that cautions German capitalists are disposed to speculate in the construction of an inter- oceanic railway. Mr. Brarne’s speech on national finances, delivered at Oshkosh, Wis., yesterday, is fully reported in ourcolumns. It comes just in time | to be read in connection with the public debt | statement, and we are gratified to learn that | Mr. Blaine gives us a solid assurance for the | future. se+e-NO. 2375 | | Pennsylvania will have no part in the | | October elections of this year, and this fact ! is in itself almost as important as the elec- | tion which, under her new constitution, she will hold in November. The simple change of the month for an election would not have | in any other State such important results. | But in this case, by this act of her people, Pennsylvania has relinquished her ancient | | place in the politics of the United States. | | She is no longer of greater weight in the | | councils of the people than Massachusetts or New York or Illinois, excepting so far as she | is superior in statesmanship or patriotism, which just now does not constitute much of 4 | title to pre-eminence, | Formerly, when nearly all the States held | their elections in November, Pennsylvania | was one of the few exceptions, and of these by | | far the most important. In all periods of po- litical excitement, when a President was to be chosen, or the character of a Congress deter- | mined, the nation eagerly awaited the aetion of Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday of October as a revelation of its own purposes. Nations, like individuals, need ao glass in which to see themselves, and Pennsylvania was this mirror to the North. Outside of party politics and their machinery of great | | conventions, wigwams and torchlight parades, | exists a power in the people which none of | such methods can touch. It is invisible in the canvass; it is suddenly disclosed at the polls. This is the service which the October elections in Pennsylvania rendered—to show in one representative and powerful State what was the moral sense of the people upon national questions of men and measures. Nor only was the moral conviction to be thus shown, but also the drift of that political enthusiasm or party panic which often his more to do with the determination of results. | Here, too, Pennsylvania was valuable as an indicator; for her politicians were wonderfully | clever, as the Yankees use the word, though never quite clever enough as it is defined by the English. Now, this career of political supremacy is ended. Pennsylvania steps down and out, and becomes as commonplace a State in a@ canvass as New Jersey or New York. She will be powerful henceforward only by her vote, and not by her example. The time is past when Presidential candidates sat up late in the cool October nights to hear the returns from the Key- stone State, and cried ‘‘We are beaten’’ or “We have won,” as the balance inclined against or for their party. She has ceased to | be the guide of her sister States in the North ond West. The fact is rather confusing, and leaves our fall politics all at sea. Indeed, it is as ita fleet of vessels, which, returning from annual voyages, had always found a pilot out- side of Sandy Hook ready to take them into the bay, should suddenly find themselves obliged to find port unaided. We perceive the effect of this change now, as the October elections approach and Pennsylvania is silent. Turning from this dumb oracle, once so elo- quent of future contingencies, we may interro- gate Ohio, or Indiana, or Iowa, for their prophecies of November, but not with the same faith that we were taught to repose in | the old Keystone State. The sensation is very much like that which would be produced if the weather predictions were discontinued | and no one should know whether to take out his umbrella or weara white hat. Neither | democrats nor republicans can judge any | more by Pennsylvania whether it is to be | “cloudy and threatening over the New Eng- land and Middle States” in November, or whether political sunshine is to gleam upon their hopes in the West and South. Thus it will be seen that fhe transfer of the State election from October to November in Pennsylvania affects to a considerable extent the politics of the whole country, and, alto- gether, we think the change is for the general good. The belief that as Pennsylvania went so must the country go was frequently proved to be correct, but it often amounted to a political superstition, It is not for the interest of the country that na- tional questions should even appear to be determined in advance of the time appointed for their settlement, or that one State should have so great a moral influence over the others. We saw in 1872 what the example of the Keystone State coulddo in a national | canvass. Mr. Greeley and his friends had | been making prodigious efforts in the West | and South, and he himself was then speaking | night and day through the press of the United | States and performing the feats of Hercules. | | The democratic and liberal future was bright | with rose color and the confidence of the | united parties was unshaken. Even in the | republican ranks were signs of doubt and dread. ‘There were thirty thousand liberal republicans in Pennsylvania, we were told, not counting Colonel McClure, who made thirty thousand and one. Suddenly came the October election in that State, with a republican majority of thirty or forty thou- sand, and Mr. Greeley and his friends fell at once into absolute despair and ruin. Their whole canvass was abandoned; every poli- | tician from Maine to Texas. who had hesi- tated rushed to swell the enthusiastic legions | of Grant. Men who were really for Greeley | were afraid to say so; his friends gave up the battle, and he was left almost alone to face in- Tae Frexcu Assempty MeMBers OF Tur Panry or THe Ricu are still opposed to Mac- Mahon’s foreign policy, particularly the di- plomacy which is observed toward Italy, Spain and the Papacy. All ticklish subjects, The Marshal President says nothing, but holds on. Lowpon Apvices, which in Spanish matters are more trustworthy than those from Madrid, represent that the Carlist army shows signs of dissolution. But this, of course, needs con- firmation. We know that at one period in our own history the Continental army was so badly depleted by desertions that the cause was in danger. The approach of winter may cause a partial disbandment of the Carlists. Dvexs Tuat Don’t Come Orr continue to alarm the police. The latest is that of General William Mahone and General Bradley T. Johnson, who quarrelled in Richmond about politics, and wanted to vindicate their honor | Pennsylvania can get up no more political | tune, is here unsurpassed. The stanzas which | by fighting. They both had proved their courage in the war, and the proceeding seemed superfluous, The arrest of General Mahone at Norfolk probably puts an end to pe ridiculous aduix, evitable and fearful overthrow in November. | And when the Presidential election came where was the liberal cause? Paralyzed by | the October stroke it barely dragged itself to | | the polls, and expired as it handed in its bal- lots. The States that bad been considered | sure for Greeley were now overwhelmingly | | for Grant, and calling that beggarly roll, | | which began with a mockery of tri- | umph in Maryland and ended with an un- | meaning dispute about Louisiana, was like counting the carriages at afuneral. That this | tremendong collapse was due to the panic pro- duced by Pennsylvania in October no one will | | deny. Mr. Greeley would have been beaten in any case, but he would not have been, so | badly beaten had Pennsylvania reserved her vote till November, and a more honest ex- | pression of publie opinion would have been | obtained. This is one respect in which the | change will be a benefit to the country. panics, But besides the freedom of thought which | results from the custom of holding the | elections simultaneously in the impor- } tent States this | lican electors for President. Thus the State | will tend to produce a healthier polit- ical condition in Pennsylvania herself. Because of the outlying position she occu- pied in a campaign Pennsylvania has been the battleground of parties, and her choice of State officers has been influenced by interests entirely disconnected with her own. New The administration has always taken a heavy ticians have made the most of the opportu- Every October both parties appealed to the country for aid, with the plea that ‘‘we can't afford to lose Pennsylvania.” Thus a wide field for corruption existed. Money was poured into Harrisburg and Phila- delphia from other States, not to carry Pennsylvania alone, but that by making sure of Pennsylvania New York might elect a democratic Governor, or Ohio choose repub- was debauched and made to serve foreign pur- poses. Its party organizations were like two devil fish, each with its ravenous beak and all- digesting stomach, reaching out long arms to grasp the prey, and holding in its deadly em- brace, with suckers that never let go, the | national administration itself. It was York, Ohio and even States far from her bor- | | ders have fought their battles on her soil. part in the October fight, and her poli- | have | | poesy. ‘The description of the baby, in the third vision, to which we have referred, the | condensed brilliancy with which the passion | of youth is expressed in the fifth, and the verses which tell of Some great herote deed On battlefeld, where thousands vieed, To Ut one hero into iame— aro all exquisite. “The Hanging of the Crane" will bring happy memories to many ja household, and it ts given to the public at an appropriate time. The youth and the maiden who were yesterday wedded, with a nation gathered around the altar, could ask no more beautiful epithalamium than this. A Novel Plan for Resuming Specie Payments, When Dr. Franklin was once asked what was the use of some new scientific discovery | his reply was, “What is the use of a new- born infant? It may become aman." Of the millions born many never grow up to use- fulness, as in the vegetable kingdom there are many blossoms which do not mature into fruit. We think it expedient to give the en- couragement of at least a friendly hearing to every new projector who has anything new to offer on questions that agitate the public impossible under such a system for Penn- sylvania to hold fair elections. Not | only was money used to corrupt the pub- | lic, but men were employed to illegally | control the ballot. Hundreds of repeaters | from New York and Baltimore annually ap- | peared at the polls of Philadelphia and Pitts- | burg, hundreds more were scattered through the mining counties, and after the slave re- ceived the power to vote a little army of ne- groes crossed the boundary line of Maryland every October and added materially to the power of the party which controlled them. These evils are to a great extent destroyed. New York and Baltimore will need their own repeaters, Maryland will need her negroes, and every State from which Pennsylvania has | drawn a subsidy will now keep its money for itself. We therefore part with the great his- torical October canvass in the Keystone State without reluctance; it no longer con- | trols a timid public opinion nor tends to depress and demoralize sincere political move- | ments elsewhere. State politics are not ob- truded into national affairs, good citizens are more free to vote as they think right, and not as it seems expedient ; and, best of all, a great and influential league of the politicians is broken. The people of Pennsylvania deserve to be thanked for their wisdom in making this important change, and both the great parties are to be congratulated that this long nightmare of the October elections has at last been lifted from the country. In another | year it is to be hoped that Ohio will follow the example. The Sherman Wedding. With a splendor that rarely attends an American wedding the daughter of the Gen- eral of the Army was yesterday united in marriage to an Engineer in the service. The pomp of the religious ceremonies clothed with solemnity and beauty the simplicity of a re- publican union. It was attended by all the dignitaries of the government and the Church, but the only American titles were those won by valor or service to the country. Yet no marriage in the courts of Europe could more thoroughly move the heart ofa nation. General Sherman stands so high in the estimation of his countrymen that the marriage of his daughter necessarily com- mands their sympathy and regard. The illus- trious deeds of the father are reflected on the fair young face of the child like the flashing of a shield transformed to a softer lustre. Of the thousands who were present at the cere- monies yesterday there were few who forgot how Sherman marched through Georgia, or how in the hour of the nation’s danger he stood faithfully between the Union and its foes, Miss Sherman is herself well known to the best American society—not that of fashion merely, but that society which is based upon learning, culture, intelligence and eminence in military or civil ser- vice. Not long, but long enough to be appreciated and loved, she has been a leader of such a social circle as this in the capital. The gallant young officer who becomes the son-in-law of the General is said to be worthy of such a bride, and to their new home in St. Louis they will be followed by the warm wishes of the American people for their hap- pinesss We give to-day a full account of the wedding ceremonies in the Church of St. Aloysius at Washington. The President was there, Archbishop Purcell performed the rite, and the Cabinet, the officers of the army and navy, Judges of the Courts, Senators and Representatives, foreign Ministers, and men and women celebrated in science, literature and art, made this event worthy of the com- memoration it finds. Longfellow's New Poem. Professor Longfellow’s contributions to American poetry, which he has in great part created, have been of late so seldom that we must welcome with more than usual warmth the new poem which adorns the edifice he has helped to found, but which no man of this century nor the next can complete. ‘The Hanging of the Crane,” which we publish to- day, is one of the most beautiful lyrics that even Longfellow has produced. ‘The title is merely the French expression for a house warming, and trom _ that suggestion he has created a lovely and touching picture of domestic happiness which deserves a place in his own luminous gallery. It reminds us of the “Building of the Ship” in its idea and treatment, though it wants the parallel which has made that poem famous. Here is nothing but the poetic tracing of a household from the be- ginning, when the wedding guests hung the iron crane in the chimney and celebrated merrily the feast, to the golden wedding, when the ancient bridegroom and the bride serenely smile upon their descendants. Two | charming portraits of children are included in this poem, and though that of the first born, ‘who ruleth by the right divine of helpless- ness,”’ is not strictly original, it is none the less perfect and beautiful. The tone of the poem is delightful; that grace in which the verse of | Longfellow always moves, as if to an inward introduce the visions, each with its separate | day | somewhat ambitious mind, since in the multitude of such propo- sitions something may perchance be sug- gested which may prove a valuable contribu- tion to public thought. We print to- the most striking portions of o letter to the chair- man of the Senate Committee of Finance, proposing and explaining a new path to the resumption of specie payments. The subject is so important that every writer who assists us to look at it from anew point of view confers a sort of benefit, even if we aro compelled to condemn his proposal. It is a service even to keep attention alive and stimulate other minds to re-examine an im- portant question. The central idea of Mr. Friquet’s plan is the complete substitution of a government currency for our mixed currency of green- backs and bank notes. He would have the greenbacks withdrawn and replaced and the bank notes also withdrawn and replaced by a new and uniform currency, which, in his estimation, would bring us to specie payments at once. The retirement of the greenbacks being an essential feature of his plan we will first explain how he proposes to deal with them. He thinks they should be redeemed at once, but not at their face value. They aro really worth but about ninety cents on a dollar, and if the government were to make immediate payment it ought in equity to pay no more than their real value, But he would not have them redeemed in actual specie. Instead of this he proposes that they be received in exchange for five per cent gold bonds, bonds -of this description being, at present, very nearly at par. According to this plan any person might purchase a $100 five per cent gold-bearing bond for $110 in greenbacks, and Mr. Friquet thinks it prac- ticable to fund all the greenbacks in this manner. Supposing this done, the result, if nothing further were in contemplation, would be simply the conversion of the floating debt of the government into funded debt, with a slight contraction of the currency. But Mr. Friquet does not propose to stop here. He would have these bonds immediately deposited in the Treasury and ninety per cent of their amount issued to the owners in the form of a new currency redeemable by the government on demand in gold. The effect of the change up to this point would be merely the substitution for the irredeemable greenbacks of a new redeemable currency in- ferior in amount but equal to gold in value. But if the plan stopped here it would amount to little. It would merely transform the greenbacks into an equivalent of gold certifi- cates, and derange the currency by making it consist of two kinds which could never circu- late together. But Mr. Friquet’s plan requires a complete withdrawal of the national bank notes as well as of the greenbacks, and the replacing of both by a uniform paper currency. The banks would have to surrender their present circulation and receive instead notes issued on the simple credit of the government and payable on demand in specie at the national Treasury. They would rest on a somewhat different basis from the present bank notes. They would resemble the present bank circulation by a pledge of government bonds for security, but would differ from them in the circumstance that the banks would be under no obligation to re- deem them. The banks would have to keep no reserves to meet them, and the holders could always get specie for them at the na- tional Treasury. Every bank could receive as much of this new currency as it chose té employ onasimple pledge of the requisite amount of bonds. The safeguard against an excessive circulation would consist in a new feature—which we incline to think the really valuable part of the plan, if it has any value— which abates the interest on all bonds pledged for the security of circulating notes. Mr. Friquet thinks the whole public debt could be consolidated into uniform five per cent bonds, and in this supposition he is no doubt correct. While these bonds were de- posited to secure circulation we would have the interest on them drop from five to three per cent, thereby creating a motive for withdrawing them, and with them a corre- sponding amount of circulation whenever money was abundant and the rate of interest low. By this scheme there would be two checks on a redundant circulation. One of these checks would consist in the converti- bility of the notes into specie at the pleasure of the holders, and the other in the interest of the banks to withdraw their circulation when the loss of two per cent on the pledged bonds could not be made up by the interest on loans. We can perceive many practical objections to this plausible scheme, but it is s0 novel and suggestive that we are willing to submit it to the financial thought of the country without captious objections, Its author, Mr. Friqnet, as we understand, was educated as a French jurist, and has been the counsellor of more than one European financial syndicate, His evident familiarity with financial questions is his title to the space we give him and to the consideration which may be due to his ingenious scheme, | simile, are singularly contrasted with the rhythm they interrupt, like stones in a gently running stream, and there are passages which Tue Cuamver ov Commence yesterday lis- | tened to an address by Mr. Bonamy Price, | Professor in Oxford University, which will exchange of months | are destined to become classical in modern | be found elsewhara. i Mr. O’Conor’s Opinion on the Louisi. a Case. The very able letter of Mr. O'Conor which we published yesterday is one of those signal exhibitions of legal acumen which cannot fail to stir and stimulate professional thought on a disputed question. His argument is too acute and masterly not to provoke examination on the purely legal grounds on which he places it. While awaiting the judgment of the pro- fession we venture to indicate some of the points which the intelligent part of the com- munity would like to see more fully discussed. Mr. O'Conor's error—if after full examina- tion the legal profession should think him in error—will probably be found to consist in not strictly pursuing the ingenious and really illustrative analogy which he suggests in proof of the President's right to reverse his first decision. The reference to the Supreme Court, which reversed its own decision in the legal tender cases, is specious and _ striking; but it seems to us that Mr. O’Conor has not closely followed his instruotive analogy. Undoubtedly a court of justice may reverse itsown adjudications, although, as Mr. O’Conor states with characteristic can- dor, ‘at is true that a court of last resort will generally refuse to reconsider a question which it has once directly adjudicated.” But when such a question is reviewed it must be done in strict conformity to law. In the case to which Mr. O’Conor points for illustration the Supreme Court did not reverse its previous judgment in the same suit between the same parties, nor was it legally posmble that the same suit could have been again brought before it. Mr. O'Conor’s reasoning ignores the distinc- tion—with which no lawyer is more perfectly familiar than himself—between what Mr. Calhoun, in discussing a similar question, called the “subject matter’’ of a legal contro- versy and the “parties litigant.” With regard to the subject matter of a suit the decision of a court does not bind its subse- quent action, but as between the same parties litigant it cannot reverse its decision. This is abundantly proved by the history of the legal tender adjudications. The first decision was pronounced in the case of Hepburn against Griswold, and as between these parties the judgment of the Court was absolutely final. It was legally impossible for this contro- versy ever to come into court again, although other suits involving the same principle might and did. The first decision was reversed, in relation to the same principle or ‘subject matter,’’ but not in relation to the controversy between the same “‘parties litigant.” It was necessarily brought into court a second time by new parties, and could not otherwise have obtained a hearing. The case of Hepburn against Griswold had been forever disposed of, and the new decision arose out of new cases—those of Knox against Lee and Parker against Davis. Mr. O’Conor’s analogy, there- fore, fails, because the parties litigant, as well as the subject matter of controversy in this Louisiana business, were precisely the same in 1874 as in 1872. Mr. O’Conor likens the President to an in- ferior court and Congress to a court of final jurisdiction in the Louisiana controversy. But he does not accept the logical conse- quences of this apt comparison. When an in- ferior court has decided a case the proper re- course of the defeated party is to the higher tribunal. It would be absurd for him to ex- pect a different decision from the inferior court. Congress has unquestioned authority to over- rule President Grant's decision in the Louisi- ana case. The President has not obstructed, but has done all in his power to forward an ap- peal to the paramount authority of Congress, Conceding the analogy suggested by Mr. O'Conor to be pertinent President Grant is bound by the same rules which apply to a lower court after rendering a decision between litigant parties. The Court cannot entertain the same suit between the same parties again, and if they choose to appeal it can only await the judgment of the ultimate tribunal. If the dissatisfied party cannot gain a hearing before the higher court there is nothing for the infe- rior court to do but to adhere to its decision. President Grant has twice called the attention of Congress to the Louisiana controversy at two different sessions, and he is justified in regarding their inaction as at least a provis- ional indorsement of his judgment. We can- not believe that Mr. O'Conor would have an inferior court reverse its decision in a liti- | gated case when the court of last resort has repeatedly refused to grant a rehearing. The Season. To be entirely poetic we should announce to our readers that ‘the melancholy days have come;” for this is October, and the summer of 1874 is dead, and we see in the falling leaves, the shortening days, the keener winds that come with the rain, the beginning of the end of the year. But it is unjust to speak of these as melancholy days or to infer that they will be by any means ‘‘the saddest of the year.’’ Our amusement columns show that we are to have our share of enjoyment, Hero is the opera, which has come with more than the usual flourish of trumpets. ‘Traviata’ we have had, a preliminary cordial to enable the singers to try their voices, and “Aida,” a re- membrance of last season’s triumph, and “Faust,’”’ which is always popular because it is noisy, and has marches which please the ruder taste like the marches in ‘Richard IL.” and “Macbeth,” which always fill the theatre on Saturday nights. A “great feature’ of the present troupe is that it has no stars, and Mr. Strakosch in- forms us that all his singers are stars, and | that he has improved upon the old plan when one prima donna carried all the honors, A troupe, dramatic or operatic, in which the actors are all stars, reminds us a good deal of the company raised by Artemus Ward, in which there were none but brigadier generals, It might be safe to say that a company com- posed of brigadiers would need nothing so much as a commander, and an acting or sing- ing troupe composed of stars would need nothing so much as a good actor ora good singer. Mr. Strakosch has no doubt done the best he could. He gave us Nilsson asa star last season, and would like to give us Patti asa star next year; and the reason he has no star in his present troupe is because none happened to be available. This, we presume, is the truth, and Mr, Strakosch is keen enough to make o merit of it, We see a real star company in Mr. -Wallack’s theatre. When | Mr. Strakosch does as well relatively he may ask us to agree with him that he has really formed a star company. But wo have only geen the apera in the be- Pe iM sai Pee oe Ea es wl ate TN ginning, and there is no knowing what will be done before we aro through. Mr. Strakosch is a man of his word, and he, of all men, is the most interested in the success of the opera, But the season will not only bring us music and indoor pleasures. It is hardly time to seek the root shelter, and we have a few glorious weeks of sunshine inviting us into the fields before they aro encompassed with forbidding frost and snow. First of all wa have an autumn Derby at Jerome Park. The fall meeting will open to-morrow, and will continue every Wednesday and Saturday until the 17th. It is rather a tax on the mind to have so many races. Whatever interest these meetings contain could be exhausted in a week. The only argument in favor of re- peated meetings is the gate money. If gate money is the object of the Jerome Park then we should have races all the year round, the effect of which would be to reduce our American Derby into. the proportions of a trotting phrk—the one thing which its managers have striven earnestly to avoid. If October weather will only continue in as gen- tle and relenting a mood as was shown to Miss Sherman on her day of destiny we may look for a brilliant meeting this season. ‘Times are not the best, we are sorry to say, but times would have to be bad indeed when we would not feel the deepest interest in the races at Jerome Park and our people would hesitate to spend a day amid the beautiful scenery, the splendor and the life of the mul- titude, and the keen spirit of emulation which will be shown by the noble animals who await the moment of struggle and triumph. Altogether our season, indoors and oute doors, opens with unusual animation and in- terest, andif the crops continue as fine as they promise, and business sustains the indi- cations which already burden the columns of the Henatp, we may sail blithely and pros- perously toa merry Christmas and a happy New Year, The Third Term. The Evening Post, in commenting upon the present condition of the third-term move- ment, reminds its readers of a letter addressed by President Grant, when General of the Army, to J. N. Morris, of Illinois. This letter was wrilten in January, 1864, during Mr. Lincoln’s term of office, and in it the General said : — This (to be President] is the last thing in the world i desire. I would regard such @ consumma- tion as being highly unfortunate for mysell, 11 not tor the country. Tnrough Providence I have at- tained to more than I ever hoped, and with the position I now hold in the reguiar army, if allowed to retain it, will be more tian satisfied, I cer- tainly shall never shape a sentiment, or the ex- preva ol @ thought, with a view of being a can- idate for office, ‘ The Evening Post aptly says that the “letter shows a great deal of political sagacity, whether it is made to apply to the events of 1864 or to those of 1874; but since the writer has been prevailed upon twice to accept an office which he regarded as ‘highly unfortunate’ to him- self, it is uncertain whether he would not con- sent to continue his self-sacrificing course for another term of four years. His assurance that he will ‘never shape a sentiment, or the expression of a thought, with a view of being a candidate for office,’ bears more directly on the decision of the third-term question.’"”’ We entirely agree with the views expressed by tha Evening Post, and congratulate that journal upon the growth of its opinions. This third- term discussion, for a mere ‘(HERALD sensa- tion,” generated in the silly summer season, as was alleged, has shown a vitality possessed by no question in our politics since slavery was settled. Politicians may dread it and sneer, caricaturists may ridicule it, but the people will talk about it, and they have talked, until now it dominates all other issues, The reason is that the question had life in it, was an honest question, and would not die. It was not a Herap sensation, but a Herarp prophecy, and among the journals hastening to confirm the wisdom of the prophecy is the respected, sagacious and independent Evening Post. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Marquis of Lorne has taken to lecturing. General A, C. McClurg, of Chicago, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Kellogg's evidence as to his own honesty is con- clustye—to his own mind, Mr. Benson J. Lossing 1s among the recent ar- rivals at the Coleman House, General Thomas J. Wood, United States Army, ta quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman James R. Lofiand, of Delaware, ts sojourning at the Sturtevant House, General Thomas W. Sherman, United States army, has quarters at the Hofman House, State Senator William Johnson, of Senecs Falls, N. ig stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Ex-Governor Alexander R. Shepherd arrived at the Gilsey House yesterday, from Washington, Ex-Governor Jacob 1), Cox and General George B. Wright, of Ohio, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Ex-Congressman Theodore M. Pomeroy, ot Auburn, N, Y., is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Emperor William has ordered 10,000,000 rounds of cartridges. mean? Inspector General Edmund Schriver, United States Army, has apartments at the Brevoort House. In view of retainers, &c., may we be permitted to inquire whether it is @ white house or a whited sepulchre. One good delegate forthe third-term conven- tion will be Pack-bard. That’s the way they'd do it if at all, Mr. D. W. Middleton, Clerk of the Unitea States Supreme Court, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Attorney General Dantel Pratt, whose home is at Syracuse, is temporarily residing at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Signor Braga, the violoncellist of the Di Murska company, 18 the composer of nine operas; yet Braga doesn’t brag about tt. Punch says that rougee: now still flourishes near the Rhine, but the rouge ts put on the cheeks and the noir on the eyebrows. Some fond father who has a little girl and n@ name for it invites “some rich maiden jady te name it after her. Sly fellow, that. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnatl and Indianapolis Ratiroad Company, 18 at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Yesterday (October 1) the Post OMco city deitvery stamped letters November 1, They are not apt to bein too greata hurry down there; but tnis looks as if some one had drawn an extra month’s pay. If Governor Dix had removed Havemeyer from office beiore he hed the opportunity to make a foot of himself in his blundering charges against Kelty, it would have been to the advantage of the poor old gentleman's reputation. ‘The moral of the Havemeyer-Kelly correspond. ence 1s that whenever any discreparicy whatever is found between two financial statements of the same subject, the difference 18 in these days im mediately and spontaneously attributed to robe bery and corruption. No other explanation oc curs to the common mind, and this is because we are so thoroughly used to fudyy@ that this expiae tian iq the correct one. in England What does it Al