The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1874, Page 8

1 ann CR A tn i nl A a alae i a i de a at NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. re NEW YORK HERALD 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. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your Herat. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. OO LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be zeceived and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. vi olaaon XXXIX. No, 250 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ACADEMY OF M fonrteenth street and Irving place. tatian Opera—LA peanes DEL BEGGIMENTO, at 6 P. Leilbroa. M. Mie, Marie LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street’ and ix FILLE DR MADAME ANGOT, at 3 P.M MM.” Mle. ‘umes, Mile. THEATRE COMIQUE, Xo,SM Broadway. —VARIBU'Y, at 5. 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Avi THE Sicns indicate more religious ac- | tivity than has been known for many years. Wo Wu Start the next reform move- ment? Tae CicArMAKERs are very indignant about the filthy tenements in which many of their craft live and decay, and call upon the health authorities to suppress them. Perhaps that accounts for the queer flavor of some of their cigars, Yacutrna is especially enjoyable in this lovely month, when a bracing breeze swells the sails and lends a bloom to the cheeks. The race between the schooner yachts, Clio | and Meta, of the Brooklyn Yacht Clnb, an account of which will be found in another column, resulted in the triumph of the former | boat. A Rerormep Tammany Maxra. —Thus saith | the prophet Tweed: ‘‘All offices for ourselves first, and for our cronies, relatives and bosom friends afterward.” And the honest Johns say “Amen !”’ Inpiuan Travers have long enjoyed the un- enviable notoriety of being the cause of many | of the savage outrages that disgrace our fron- | tier. A despatch from Cheyenne informs us that these worthies are still at their tricks and, by defrauding Red Cloud's people of their rations, are laying plans for a fresh war with the redskins. A long rope and a short | | sympathy with the Irish people, Now and | shrift would cure the evil most effectually. Tue Mrvens’ Rior at Moosic, Pa., is likely to be resumed to-day with redoubled fury. The absurdity and positive danger of preju- dice on the score of different nationalities is here shown in its worst light, When Lrish- men and Welshmen fall out because they were not born on the same side of the Irish Sea little sympathy, but a great deal of stern chastisement, should be extended to them. Ir asx Bosom Frtexps have been over- tooked in the distribution of juicy morsels let them apply to the Honest John Morrissey and \be Honest John Kelly. Waite Tae Prorestant Dexomrattons are making strennous exertions to demonstrate the morality of famed clergymen the Catholics are using extraordinary efforts to propagate their faith. We hear rumors of the great suc- cess of the missionary priests among the negro communities in the South. Would it not be well for a mighty corporation like Trinity, with ita millions, to consider this serious question and spend a little money in | The Kiralty | Tammany Hall. Weare tired of Tammany Hall! Fer menths and months we have had all manner of pro- testations as to what was to be donoin the new organization. We were called upon to celebrate the regeneration of the old party, to welcome it as having been born again. To be sure it had been wicked, but all of its wickedness had gone to Blackwell's Island with Tweed, or to Paris with Sweeny, or to Belgium with Tom Fields. The apostles of this conversion were those bosom friends John Pythias of the metropolis. There was to be | no more chicanery in caucuses, no more trifling with the will of the people, no more sordid attempts to use place for pelf. Our court houses would not cost a thousand dollars a brick, and Garvey’s plastering accounts would formed, purified, redeemed, regenerated, | would once again be the bulwark of the de- | the party to such a victory in New York that a Presidential victory in the nation would be inevitable. The Henatp is a somewhat indulgent | journal, and disposed to take meu as they seem, So we have accepted those proffers of reform, and have done what we could to aid Mr. Kelly in his work of regeneration. We have told the people that chastened and puri- fied Tammany would now show its true char- | | acter; that there would be an honest recog- | | nition of the Irish element, and the German | | | cements and the American element in our | polities ; that we should have a Mayor who was a merchant and truly representative of a merchant city; in the other offices persons | of honor and probity. Above all things we have rejoiced that the democratic masses of | New York would no longer be stifled at the | polls ; that there would be no absorbing, suf- | focating, insatiate ring; that the masses would govern the party. But what do we seo? The same spirit, the same purpose, the | same ambition, the same disregard of the | people. The exile of Blackwell's Island | | Kelly and John Morrissey, the Damon and | no longer be precedents. Tammany, al mocracy, the Imperial Guard that would lead | under the reigning bosom friends Tammany bad really found a new dispensation ? Those who look cheerfully on politics must not be amazed at these phenomena. If we confess ourselves as the victima of misplaced confidence we have the comfort of knowing that we are not alone in our blighted hopes. We ought to have known better! For six months we have seen these new saints in tho high places of the Tammany sypagogue—their hats labelled with their honesty, their voices full of devotion, the air vocal with their | promises. How could we help believing? | We might have known that nothing was more ; useful before an election or more use- | less after than an Irishman—but we could not believe this of Honest John Kelly. We might have noted that all of our modern politics is based upon the benevolent principle of bosom friendships—from Grant, | who begins his administration by exhausting | the domestic records of his own family Bible ; who sent Mr. Jones to Belgium, Mr. Jewell to Russia, Mr. Kremer to Denmark simply on the score of personal intimacy, down to Dog- berry Havemeyer, who nominates Verges Mat- | sell and Charlick to high office because they are his cronies. Tammany now follows in the same direction, and the present Ring par- cels out its honors to croniesand companions, as Tweed did in his bediamonded days. Tweedism is not dead. The master isin ex- ile, but the shadow remains—just as when | Napoleon was in St. Helena Napoleonism was the accepted and in time became the ruling | element in France. MacMahon’s Opportunity. The recent elections in France decide two questions—namely, that there is an irrepar- able breach between the two branches of the House of Bonaparte, and that the feeling of | France is true to the idea of a republic. We should, think that the Bonapartists | would naturally husband their strength and win the throne before quarrelling about im- perial honors and precedence. A party whose | chef is a pretender to power would | | may feel like the exile of St. Helena, | that he has done his work well. | Napoleon was absent, but Napoleon- | ism ruled in France. Tweed is | but Tweedism dominates Tammany Hall. | We mean Tweedism in its political sense, | for we | the ruling saints in Tammany. That is to | | say, we do not say they bave swindled the treasury as Tweed swindled it, and are they | not all “honest” men? ‘Honest’ John Kelly, “Honest” John Morrissey, ‘‘Honest’’ Jimmy Hayes, “Honest” Ned Shandley, do they not | wear their honesty like a uniform, conspicu- | ously labelled on their hats, lest the world might be in doubt of the fact? There was a | cynical philosopher who once said that he had | his own views of a woman who declaimed | about her virtue, and of the man who ostenta- | | tiously proclaimed his honesty. We do not | apply this to the reformed Tammany, although | had we any unkindness in our heart we should hasten to do so. Tweedism reigns in Tammany Hall.. The small knot of daring, greedy men who hold power are as resolute as was ever Tweed in his glory. There is the same overmastering disci- | pline, the same bending of all wills to one will, | the same yearning for ‘bosom friends.’’ The inside ring parcels out its offices just as they were parcelled out by Tweed and Sweeny. | Honest John Kelly and Honest John Morrissey are as imperial in their policy as their predeces- | sors. The Henan, in its season of trust ina | reformed Tammany, suggested for the Mayor- aity some such men as William Butler Dun- can and John K. Hackett, because their char- | acter and capacity would be the best assurance | of a reformed Tammany Hall. But Duncan | end Hackett have not learned what may be called the ‘Ring step,’’ the trick of marching to the crack of any ‘Bosses’"’ whip, nor are they the bosom friends of Kelly and Morris- sey. So they were not even considered, and in their place we are to have Mr. Wickham, who is simply the bosom friend of Honest John Kelly and will keep any time in his paces that is marked for him. We have suggested for the Registership some able, worthy, honest, needy man, who | had served the party well, a gallant soldier, or | representative Irish or German citizen, to whom the office with its vast revenues would | be a recompense and a comfort. We could name a hundred men in New York upon | whom it could be properly bestowed, just as, | in spite of Tammany Hall, it was once be- | | stowed on the lamented and brilliant Miles | O'Reilly. Tammany names Honest Jimmy | Hayes, the bosom friend of Honest John | Morrissey, a rich man who does not need the | money, and whose principal claim to favor is that he has transferred to Morrissey the bosom | friendship he showed to William M. Tweed. | We have said that nothing could be more | graceful than to show some recognition of the | Irish and German element in this city. Tam- many has always been loud in its devotion to the Irish cause until the time came for nomi- nating candidates to office. Then the Irishmen | were forgotten. In the old time, when men | were singled out for honor, it was Fernando away, | do not attribute dishonesty to | | Wood and Hoffman and Gunther who were | chosen—who were not Irish, and had no real | then, under some strong pressure, a bone would | be tossed to the Irishmen by the nomination of | | an O'Gorman for the Corporation Counsel, or an O’Brien for Sheriff. But this was never | done willingly, and, during the domination of the old Ring, the only use ever found for the Irishmen was to vote. The same may be said of the Germans. They were never really considered in the award of party | honors, and under the present holy, reformed, regenerated dispensation the ‘same facts hold true. The Irishmen and the Germans will be summoned like | sheep to the shambles, to “rally” and ‘‘flock’* | the Emperor. naturally attain power before the leader deci- mated his following. But Prince Napo- leon has labored for the disruption | of the family since the death of his cousin It became necessary for the | followers of the Prince Imperial to decide be- | tween the heir to the throne and his cousin, | They made the issue in Ajaccio, the home of the great Napoleon, where Napoleonism is not merely a principle but a religion, The result | is that the Prince has been defeated and an- other Bonaparte more loyal to the Prince Im- perial has been elected. There are now two factions in the Bonaparte family, just as there | have been two factions in the Bourbon family since the time of Louis Philippe. This alienation must aid the Republic. Prince Napoleon will act with the republicans as far as they will allowhim. In the mean time the republicans, in spite of the opposi- tion of MacMahon and the Assembly, have been largely successful in the elections. We cannot commend too highly the wisdom, the patience, the steady, silent, orderly discipline of this party, especially since the advent of Gambetta to its leadership. His politic good sense is the highest form of genius, and in the end it must win. If MacMahon were wise he would read events at their true meaning, place himself at the head of the republican movement and found @ permanent conservative republic. In doing | this he would become the Washington of France and win a title to immortality more enduring because more patriotic and self- denying than that of Napoleon. A Rerormep Tammany Maxru.—‘Nothing is more useful before an election, or more use- less after, than an Irishman.” Lovrstana.—The Conservative Committee in Louisiana have issued an address, the purport of which is that all conservative people should take hold and vote and endeavor to overturn the Kellogg government. The address is a little bit wild and declamatory, and is too feverish in its tone to be accepted as a calm statement of the condi- tion of affairs in Louisiana. But some- thing can be pardoned to the spirit of resistance, especially to a government like that of Kellogg. We trust the con- servative men will accept the advice of the committee. There will be a fair hearing for Louisiana when Congress meets. The public opizion of ‘the North is too earnest on this subject to permit any more injustice to the people of this and other suffering Southern Commonwealths. There is a more potent in- fluence at work than Kellogg’s checkbook, Tre GLENDENNING case will come to a trial to-day before the authorities of the Church of which Glendenning is a minister. The ses- sion will be secret, we are informed. This will be a blunder. This extraordinary case is one that requires the utmost publicity, and for the sake of mo one so much as that of Glendenning himself. If he ig innocent he cannot have too speedy ao deliverance. As it is, Christianity is now suffer- | ing from the moral epidemic that seems to pervade the ministry. More souls are led into doubt, despair and ultimate wrongdoing by the Glendenning and Beecher scandals thanjby alljthe other evil influences of Satan combined. Would it not be well for our pastors to think of these solemn facts ? So rar as the third term is concerned | General Grant may feel that he owes the re- publican party nothing, and that he is under no obligation to make any sacrifices in its in- terest, If the republican party bad not taken {him up he would have been the success. ful candidate of the demoocracy. From this | point of view Grant may be right. We Leann that extensive preparations are | making by many prominent Methodist clergy- and “support,” to “vote early and often,’’ and | the earlier and oftener the better. But now, | when the rewards and trophies are to be dis- tributed, nothing is heard of them. Here, for | instance, is Sigel, a German soldier, who is | to be turned out of his office. Is there no German soldier of approved democratic princi- ples, and to whom 2 little beer money would | be welcome, to take his place? Is ‘Honest’ Jimmy Hayes the ripest consummation of a teformed Tammany? Has he served his coun- try th the field, or even his party on the side- that direction ? MA a walk and in the caucus, so conspicuously as to selected and honored in preference to a A Rerormep Tammany Maxim. —‘‘Sweet are | | thoneand other men, whose nates would be a the inflaences of bosom friendships.” | recognition of worth and a quarantes that men for o general revival and awakening of | the spirit. The members of this powerful | and noble Christian body are always earnest and advanced in their missionary zeal, They have taken the note of warning and are | making ready. | A Rerormep Tammany Maxne. —“The juicy | slices and tenderloins for bosom friends; the bones for the party."’ | Ir Wouup be very odd if the ambition of Grant for a third term should be the mill- stone around the neck of Centennial Dix Henry Wilson feared as muci the other day when conversing with @ reporter, har Henry Wilson should know. | in-law Casey in New Orleans as commander | phy as Collector ; Honest Tom, the bosomest | editor Medill, and other learned American | “Bosom #riendship.” There is a touching little story in a morn- ing newspaper of our venerable Mayor, and his bosom friend, Matsell, wandering through an uptown fair—Matsell affectionately ad- dressing His Honor as ‘‘William,”’ and ulti- mately purchasing o plaster cast of the Mayor for twenty-five dollars. | When the bust came to Matsell’s office the Commissioner “re- mained in profound contemplation for nearly an hour.’ Then Disbecker came in, when, according to our historian, the admiring Matsell slowly raised his index finger and, pointing to the storied features of Havemeyer, said, ‘There, dook! ‘The noblest Roman of them all !!1!'"" We cite this beaatiful and affecting narra- tive as illustrating the new sentiment that has come into our politics—namely, the divine pnaciple of “bosom friendship.” The founder of this dogma was the Honorable William M. Tweed, now in a state of suspended ani- mation as a leader of Tammany, but who erystallized the glorious maxim that “office is first for one’s self, and then for one’s cronies, relatives and bosom friends,” See how this maxim has flourished. We look to Washington, and in the Presidency we have’ that illustrious bosom friend Ulysses 8. Grant. Think of the cronies he has called around him and gent off to foreign honors. His Cabinet is a group of bosom friends, and with one, or perhaps two, exceptions, {men who have no claim on the party, the country, or the office but the per- sonal preference of their doting chief. See how this principle has influenced our dip‘o- | macy. Bosom friend and _ brother-in-law Kremer is in Copenhagen; bosom friend Jewell was in Russia the other day, but the affectionate Ulysses could not stand the separation, and now he is in the affectionate Cabinet. We have bosom friend and brother- of the army and navy in the interest of Kel- | logg, while in New York we had Tom Mur- | of bosom friends, and iar dearer to Ulysses than any brother-in-law, Not only do we see this divine principle in the Mayoralty, where our venerable Have- meyer lives a life of rapture with his Matsell and Disbecker, and in the Custom House, whero the spirit of love beams like a Mediter- ranean sky, but in our reformed Tammany Hall. Honest John Kelly and honest John Morrissey have regenerated Tammany. But the regeneration means simply that other people's bosom friends shall go out and their own goin. For was not this the golden prin- ciple upon which the absent Tweed acted, and which he proclaimed os a dogma of | Tammany faith? And who ore Morrissey and | Kelly, ‘‘honest’’ as they are, that they dare | qyestion this sacred commandment? In Tam- | many, under the new régime, bosom friends will be first served. For them the tender- | loins and juicy morsels. As for the bones, | they will come eventually—if there are any | bones left, which we doubt—to the hungry and expectant multitude who really believe they control Tammany Hall. The Arrest of Von Arnim, The arrest of Count Henry Von Arnim in | Berlin is an event of so startling a character that without farther information we shall not presume to explain it. Minister Bancroft, travellers, have been telling us so much about \ the “freedom” of Germany, the respect for | personal rights, the resemblance of the new Empire to the United States, the liberty, en- | lightenment and progress that have come with the new dispensation, that it is hard to com- prehend this sudden arrest of a great noble- man and diplomatist and his imprisonment in a Berlin police station like a common thief, simply because of a political quarrel with Prince Bismarck. Count Henry Von Arnim is one of the prominent statesmen of Ger- many. He signed the treaty with France at the close of the war. He was Minister to France in a time of peculiar embarrassment, nnd he ‘showed the utmost loyalty and delicacy of feeling in | that mission. But he quarrelled with Bis-- marck, who disgraced him. He now proposes to vindicate himself in a publication, and Bismarck suddenly arrests him, seizes hig papers and locks him up in a police station. All of this is extraordinary, and we wish | Minister Bancroft, editor Medill or some of | the eulogists of the new Empire would explain it We can understand how a statesman like | Bismarck would, to use an American phrase, ‘shave no nonsense’’ from his foes. But what shall we say of the freedom of a country which enables any minister, no matter how powerful, to send a rival minister to a police station like a common felon? | When Voltaire left Berlin with a copy of | Frederick’s poems, which he meant to print, | that great King had him urrested at Frank- | fort, and kept him under duress until he re- turned the volume. But this was done by an absolute King, at a time when kings were ab- solute, and, notwithstanding, it made a groat | scandal. ho arrest of Von Arnim, a pro- ceeding no less arbitrary than the arrest of | Voltaire, takes place under a free empire, “much resembling the United States’’ in its | laws and customs ! We are afraid freedom and personal rights in Germany means—when it suits the interest or the pleasure of Bismarck. In any aspect of the case the arrest of Von Arnim is so high-handed o proceeding that it must do Germany great harm in the public opinion of other nations. Mayor Havemeyes still broods over his state- ment. Tue Unstrep States Conaress of tho | Episcopal Church assembled yesterday. Rev. Dr. Vinton in his address called attention to | the missionary work necessary for the ad- | vancement of the cause of Cbrist—a point upon which the reverend divine dwelt with | special emphasis. Dr. Smith read a paper on a church question which led to an interest- ing debate. Bishop Whipple said the true point betore the Church was, ‘What are we going to do with the millions of sonls that are to be saved?’’ There could be no graver question than this, and our reverend friends cannot too carnestly discuss it. We Have tae Sappest Kixp or News rnom Buenos Aynes.—The insurrection makes head. way and all useful government seems to havo come to an end. It would be a blessing toseo | signed with magnificence, but the cast will be | hope to attain. This may afford a clew to the | | land and America, and unless our Protestant | this. | relief works. | of modern times. Wallack'’s Season. We are delighted to find that the manage- ment of this favorite house have resolved to present such a series of attractions this season as must command success. New plays will be produced from the pen of the foremost living dramatist, and old ones that have won for themselves the undying affection of the popu- lar heart will be presented with a splendor and completeness never before witnessed on the metropolitan stage. But what will give most satisfaction to the public will be the to- tal exclusion of the prurient drama which some speculative managers imported from Paris in the hope of naturalizing it in America, Wo are happy to say that the attempt has proved an utter failure in those theatres that sought to achieve popularity by pandering to the coarsest passions, We have had strong proof that public opinion will not snffor the produc- tion on the stage in this country of im- moral lessons thinly covered over by sickly sentimentality. Our people want to be amused, but not at the expense of decency. Fortunately, too, we may depend on the severe censorship of the press in the absence of any governmental control of the stage. How powerful that censorship may be made for good we have seen in the withdrawal of the “Timbale d’Argent,"" under the protest of the press. Other pieces, still more un- healthy in their moral tone, have been im- ported ; but, instead of the splendid success anticipated by the hawkers of the depraved drama, the public have turned from their doors with disgust. It is true these enter- prising showmen threaten us with further ex- hibitions of the vile stuff, but they are likely to find a difficulty in disposing of their wares which will bring its own punishment. Wo turn from the contemplation of this unpleas- ant subject to the consideration of the sound, healthy food provided by the Wallack man- agers for their patrons with a feeling of relief. ‘Partners for Life,’ one of H. J. Byron's best efforts, opened tho season last night. It is a charming comedy, without one objectionable line. A play which ladies can sit out without a blush and | withal not wanting in interest. It will be fol- | lowed by a new Irish drama by Dion Bouci- | cault, which will give pictures of Irish life differing widely from those with which the stage has familiarized the public. The scenes, too, will be laid in one of the most Torrantic spots in Ireland, giving full scope | for the introduction of scenic effects. Two | plays are promised from by the same dramatist | for Mr. Lester Wallack, in which characters | specially drawn to suit the peculiarities of that favorite comedian will be introduced. In | addition the ‘School for Scandal” will bo produced with a completeness and splendor not hitherto witnessed on this side of the water. Not alone have the settings been de- one 8f the strongest on record. With such | bright promise does Wallack’s begin the season that we feel justified in prophesying | tor this house splendid success. The Jerome Park Races. When the brief season of watering place life is past and the metropolis once more re- | gains its accustomed appearance of bustle and gayety those lovely autumn days can nowhere | be enjoyed with such a keen zest as at the charming park devoted to equine contests and embosomed amid the hills of Westchester. The fall meeting of the American Jockey Club comes opportunely for those who are fresh from the mountains or the seaside, and who do not desire to be enclosed at once within the murky atmosphere of the great city without a parting visit to the coun- | try. Nature is now clothed in her choicest reiment, and a drive through Central Park and across the hills beyond Harlem | River reveals scenes of beauty that the eye | can long linger on with delight. Then there | is the gay scene on the road and at the course itself—beauty, fashion and exciting sport—un- marred by a single objectionable feature. The smallness of the attendance on the opening day of the meeting was to be regretted on ac *) count of the positive attractions of | the occasion, and it is to be hoped that the splendid programme | offered for to-day, comprising six races, will induce more people to leave the dust of the city and breathe for a day the pure, brac- | ing air of the road and Park. The first race will be fora five hundred dollar purse, the distance being one mile; the second for the | Hunter Stakes, one mile and three-quarters; the third for the Maturity Stakes, three miles; the fourth for another purse, five furlongs; the fifth for a third purse, one mile and a half, | and the sixth will be a handicap steeplechase. | The management of the meeting should not | have the race days so far apart. Spreading a | meeting at Jerome Park over two or three weeks is calculated to cause dissatisfaction. In the early seasons of the course the arrange- | ments were different, and one gala week sufficed fora meeting. There is no sufficient reason | why the same plan should not be followed to-day. One grand race week would be more | successful in attracting a large attendance | each day than the present system can ever scanty attendance on the opening day of the | present meeting. We Snovip Like to see a “‘revival’’ among | the Protestant clergy. The Pope seems to be | laying bis plans for a grand campaign in Eng- friends cleanse out the pending scandals and purify their churches strange results may hap- pen. Letthe Episcopal Convention think of We Learn rrom Inpra that the famine is | Virtually at on end and the blessed rain is | | failing. At the same time six hundred thon- sand natives are employed on the government So happily passes away what | threatened to be the most appalling calamity | Braptaven, the famous | agitator, has been defeated for the borough of Northampton. But the fact that he polled more than one- fourth of the votes cast indicates the growth of a public opinion in England not very favor- able to the payment by Parliament of the | debts of the Prince of Wales. There were | ‘disturbances arising out of the canvass, and the military were called out. A Broopy Coniston between hostile politi- cal factions has been barely averted at Colum- such a man as old Francia governing this country. bia, 5. ©., as will be seen in our special deanatches elsewhere. =. Governor Hoffman's Return. Governor Hoffman is reported as due in this city on his return from an extended foreign tour. He has inspected the Pyra- mids of Egypt and puzzled himself over those heavy riddles with the aid of » guide. book. He has contemplated fallen Rome in what remains of her Colosseum. He has, indeed, gone over a great deal more ground than old Rip Van Winkle did in that famous ramble which led to his absence for so many years; and, like Rip, he once more returns to the scene of his former activities, There are some relations which may suggest that his sur- prise will likely be as great as Rip’s was when he saw that famous picture of a gentleman in a -blue coat with brass buttons con- spicuous on a signboard that once gloried in the effigy of His Majesty George IIL. There have been a great many changes, and yet, what is different? Men of the same type and style as those he knew are waging the same politica! warfare in the same way, and animated by the same motives. There are little differences in the names in some cases— unessential and unimportant variations on the great theme—but the ‘‘principles” are in the same characteristic activity. And no doubt when he hears from one side and tho other that all the candidates are rogues together, and observes the small tactics of chicanery and vilification and the earnest activity for spoil that is so universal, he will feel thor oughly at home and be oppressed with the comparison between our republican liberty and tyranny abroad. Arren every great war there has always been a great revival of religion. Tuer Anz New Sarvs in Saint ‘Tammany church. But the gospel is the same—the gos- pel according to Tweed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is at the Bre voort House, + Jimmy O’Brien declines to run for Congress. His head is level. Archdeacon Balch, of London, Ont., is registered at the Everett House, Bishop Henry ©. Lay, of Easton, Md., has arrived at the St. Denis Hotel. Hlodge’s confidence in Beecher is ‘firm as the hills.” Important if true, Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is re- siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman James S. Negley, of Pittsburg, is staying at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Rev. Dr. W. C, Cattell, of Lafayette College, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. State Senator F. W. Tobey, of Port Henry, N. ¥., yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor George 8. Mallory, of Hartford, is among the latest arrivals at Barnum’s Hotel. Mr. J. D. Cameron, son of the Pennsylvania Sen- ator, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House, An enterprising downtown restaurateur an- nounces “paroxysmal stews” as a specialty on his Dill of fare. A Frenchman named Jacolliot has written 8 book on the customs and mode o! life of the women of the Far East. Mr. John Wiiliam Wallace, President of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Belknap will on Monday next attend the angual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, at Springtield, Ill. “Thomas Peascod” is on trial in England. Shake- speare, like Dickens, seems to have taken his oaa names trom real people, It 1s reported by cable from Rio Janeiro that Bis Majesty Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is likely to visit this country next year. Bishop Richard H, Wilmer, of Alabama, and Bishop Joseph P. B. Wilmer, of Louisiana, have apartments at the New York Hotel. A history of the savings banks of the United States has been prepared by Emerson W. Keyes, of New York, and 19 on the eve of pubitcation. It is reported in Ireland that an aoswer will be published, on the authority of the Roman Oatholio priesthood, to the arguments of Tyndall and Hux- ley. Hitzig, the learned German critic, has pub- lished @ coummentary on the book of Job, Nothing he writes should be overlooked by the biblical student. How do you like fhe Republic? Would preter ours wit less Ku Klux and Southern “reign of terror,” if you please. Moreover, we never ad- | mired the make up of the country weeklies. A charming book about the rights of cage birds | {sjust outin London, entitied -‘Cage Birds; Their ‘Cages and Their Keep,” by K. A. Buist, who, we venture to assert, i8 alady, and is both eloquent and accurate on her pet theme. “All that’s bright must fade,” and even the dog pound has reached the period of its existence. It is closed to-day, and the dogs are happy. Bergh also would be happy if so many otner antmal miser- jes did not sit heavy on his liver. Rev. Drs. Lewin and fubard, of Maryland; Rev. Dr. Stringfellow; of Montgomery, Ala., and Rev. | Professor &. E. Johnson, of Hartiord, delegates to the Episcopal Convention to be held in this city to-day, are at the Grand Centra! Hotel. F. Diaz Covarrubin, Francisco Timenes, Manuel Fernandez, Francisco Bulnes and Agusten Bar- rozo, the MeXican astronomicai commission sent out to observe the transit of Venus, arrived at the New York Hotel yesterday from Philadelphia, ‘They are on the way to China, _Senator Thurman, who has just returned to Washington irom the White Sulphur Springs, was taken with the chills yesterday while at the Capt- tol. He hopes to be able to fulfil his engagement in Baltimore on Thursday, where he 1s to deliver the annual address beiore the Maryland Agricul- | tural Society. Mr. 8, Baring-Gould, whose researches among crypto-religious documents have been very exten- sive, Will publish ‘Lost and Hostile Gospels,” being an account of two Hebrew Gospels circulat- ing among the Jews in the Middle Ages, with a critical examination of the notices of Christ in the | Yalmnd, In Josephus and in Justus, Evidently all the roguery in the Police Depart- ment is notin the precincts, It appears that an | order of the Commissioners forbade the captains lJast year to interiere with gambling establish- ments, policy shops, &c, What was the precise in- tent ol that order? Who proposed it—who voted tor it—and how many millions were in it? Several conundrums together. * Mr. Hepworth Dixon is at the Brevoort House, He bas come htther on @ lecturing tour, and will lecture first on the 20th inst. His suceesses in Ilt~ erature cover @ wide field, and are such as neces- sarily involve extended experience in their author, His contribution, therefore, to the entertainment of the lyceum will be knowledge of permanent value in au attractive form, Kelly to Havemeyer:—I have to say in six col. utns in answer to yours in three columns that you are an oid ass, and that your imbectlity makes you pre-emineutly ridiculous. [f you had been avie to understand piain subjects you would nave discovered {n the matter of those accounts that they are according to law and state the exact number of persons on whose crimes I was entitied to-collect a fee. Yours, KELLY. Compliments of the season. Mavemeyer to Kelly :—-1 have to inform you in turee or four columas that you are a rogue, and while you were Sheriff of this county you fraudulently drew from tne publie treasury $30,000 by falsely representing that a very much larger number of your countrymen were sent to prison than really were. You are there fore no more honest tuan anybody else. Yours, HAVEMEYER.