The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1874, Page 3

THE TAMMANY CONVENTION, Indication of Opposition to the Slate Candidates. Threatening Clouds in the Tammany Sky. ’ A FOX IN THE HEN ROOST. Prospect of an Independent Democratic Ticket. ‘The Tammany County Convention meets at three | o'clock this afternoon, to nominate democratic candidates for tne offices of Mayor, Register and Aldermen-at-Large. The “Convention” now-a- days if & mere form, through which the leaders place before the people, with a seeming indorse- ment by a representative body, such persons as | 70 they see fit to nominate for public positions. The “slate” is the blackboard from which the children im the Vonvention read their lesson as it is set down for them by their teachers, The local poli- tuclans, who assume great influence in their sev- eral districts and affect to be great politicians among the people of their wards, will meet at the Wigwam to-day; but scarcely one of them will venture to say that his political soul is his own or will have the courage to make a protest egainst the programme forced down his throat, no matter what may be; tho feelings ef democrats in the locality he represents. The alate, as made out by the Tammany leaders, con- tains the names of William H. Wickham for Mayor and James Hayes for Register, The tormer is the office of political importance; the latter is one of the rich plums of the local government, like the offices of Sheriff and County Clerk. It is very well known that Mr. Jonn Kelly makes Mr. Wickham the nominee and that Mr. John Morrissey names Mr. Hayes. Mr. Kelly, tt is said, would have pre- Jerred another candidate than Hayes for Register; Mr. Morrissey would have chosen some otner democrat than Wickham for Mayor. But aquar- rei between the two great leaders of reformed Tammany would have operated like the last effort | of Samson on the temple of Giza and brought the edifice down about the ears of its votaries, burying the Wickhams. and the Bayeses, the Kellys and the Morrisseys indiscriminately be- meath the ruins, So the short-haired Samsons , of democracy, instead of exerting their strength against the pillars of the Wigwam, shook hans, agreed upon a division of the spoils, and the re- sult 1s a slate such as is stated above—William H. Wickham for Mayor, and James Hayes for Register. THE SPLKIT OF THE OPPOSITION. It is notorious that this ticket, like that forced upon the State Convention by Tammany, is not the choice Of a majority of the democrats in the city ot New York. While Mr. Wickham ts a citizen of character and respectability, and is well known among the merchants of New York, as well as among the old “fire laddies,” with whom tn his early days he was associated, he is so entirely identified with Mr. Kelly that the people regard his | Bomination as that of the Tammany leader | behind a mask, Many of those wuo have been op- posed to Mr. John Kelly’s dictatorship declare that they would rather forego their opposition and support him as Mr. Havemeyer’s wuccessor than be cheated, as tt were, into voting for bim benind the portly form o! William H. Wick- ham. Mr. Ke'ly, they say, is too big a mao Dimselt to bide behind a screen. No one doubts that the ofMfcral conduct of Mr. Wickham would be ruled and shaped by Mr. Kelly; that the Mayor would be @ mere puppet, moved by the wires pulled by the Tammany ieader. This is said not in disparage- ment of Mr. Wickham, but because itis an admit- ted and patent fact. Mr. Wickham as Mayor could no more resist the influence that would move him than Mr. Kelly’s right arm could retuse to perform the thotion required of tt by the will and muscles of its owner. Now, the old line active democrats of the several wards, patient, sell-sacrificing souls, bave waited a long time for oficiat bread. Since the over- throw of old Tammany they have sat out in the cold, seeing the fat offices distriputed among a set of people unknown at primaries and scarcely ever heard of ina ward meeting; pets and cronies of the venerable Havemeyer or seli- constitated reiormers. A ticket for labor, even with the prospect of being kept out of the pay by | Comptrolier Green, has been a luxury to an old | democratic politician, and he has had to beg for it | as he wouid beg for his life. The men who used to figure prominently in elections do not feel confi- dent of the recognition of their claims by Mr. Kelly, and hence they would have preierred the Somination for Mayor of some person less blindly under the dictation of the present Tammany powers than Mr, Wickham is likely to be. The more disinterested portion of the community, who desire good local government, fear the influences of Tammany on such a candidate S Mr. Wickham, and condemn the wutocratic and selfish spirit manifested in his nomi- nation. The Register’s oMce has less politicel importance, and is simply a rich, juicy cut out of the municipal joint for a lucky friend of the con- trolling powers. Its patronage is comparatively insignificant and its fees are large. No principle is involved in the selection of a candidate for such an office, as there is in the nomination of a Mayor of the city. Ifapopniar citizen had been named for Mayor Mr. Morrissey might have appropriated | the office of Register tor Mr. Hayes without a mur mur, except (rom those disappointed individuals who expected to secure the prize; but it 1s felt that the Mayoralty and Registership were com- bined, and that the ‘slate’’ is merely the division of the two offices between the two leaders. This teeling has created an opposition to Mr. Hayes as the slate candidate for Register on the principle involved, and not from any doubt of his fitness for the office or from any prejudice against Mr. Morrtssey. The feeling thus engendered i@ widespread, and the question of inte rest is whether the opposition ‘will manilest itself in to-day’s Convention, and, if 1t does, will it accomplish any practical result WILL THR CONVENTION BE HARMONIOUS ? It is scarcely to be expected that entire har- mony will prevail in the Tammany Convention. | Indeed. it 18 prevey, certain that the trouble in Senator sohn Fox's district will come to the sur- face. Last year Mr. Fox withdrew his claims to the office of Sheriff in favor 01 Sherif Conner, and contenied himself with the Senatorahip trom the Fourth district. There was then a serious dis+ affection im the district, mainly showing itself, however, in the First Assembiy district. Mr. Walsh’s influence and interests in the rest of the Senatorial district were suficient to quiet over the trouble. Senator Fox claims that nis course last year was self-sacrificing aud in the interests of the Tammany leade: indeed, that without such action as 00K the euccess of Conner and Walsh would have been very doubtful at the polis even if they could have been nominated over nis head by the Convention, Mr. John Kelly has been, and still professes to be, # warm friend to Mr. Fox; bat the Tammany Jeaders have not since the last election shown any disposition to favor the Senator from the Fourtti. His revirement irom the General Committee would not have taken place had they evinced @ desire to stand by him. Senator Fox carries these griev- g@nces with bim Into the County Convention to-day, and is not unitkely to open the bail by leading off 40 opposition to the slate. It is said that ne is repared to propose Alderman Ottendorier tor | or and Alderman Flanagan for Register. While it seems almost certain that the candidates, ag stated, will be carried | through. ‘It {3 impossible to predict how Jar the trouble mignt extend if the ground | sbould once be broken for an overthrow of she plans of the leaders, Senator Fox feels that a nara ‘ht is belore him in bis district, but he believes he can WiD on the Assembly aud the Aldermen. “This confidence, it is suid, is not shared by tne Jeaders Of Tammany, including Mr. Kelly, and efforts have been made to compromise matters with the disaffected elements in the First Assem- bly district, which may, i! carried out, deprive Senator Fox of his privilege of dictating these noamvations, The Senator is a fighting man, and the siuation convinces him, it is said, of the im- rtance of showing his muscle, The singular prospect 18, therefore, presented to Mr. John Kelly of an overt OF 36 least a Spsp renee of his, | port from Ww lan of battle, through the revolt of one who has Pitherto Leen one of june most eMcient and trusted uten: fra Yolawsog latter shows that Sonatar Pox ia NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1874—TRIPLE SHEXT. ee 1m dead earnest. It y addressed to the Chairman of the First Assembly district General Commitiee:— New Yous, Oct. 9, 1876. Bon. Enwarp Howan:- od ntigreny reamn as member of the Tammany Hall sbiucimentivaddt te ‘THE PERIL OF DISSENSION. The B ott attending any open outbreak of op- pone io to-day’s Convention is concedea by rv. Ketly, Mr, Morrissey and ali nanda, There is such an unguiet, disaffected feeling permeating all democratic classes 1n the city trom the Battery wo hy VG arg 2. for ea DAEAT Oe a fit condition tor & ration 11 a spar’ should fall on its combustible materials, It ts like ‘ne dried up, pine buult city of Chicago, and Mf an unruly cow, tike Senatar Fox, for instance, should refuse to be milked and kick over the lamp, there is no knowing where the fire might end or how Duiny democratic houses might ial! to ruing like so many buildings of cards. Admitting these facts, the Tammany leaders were busy all yestervay striving to Ax up matters, to pacify the unruly, to satisiy the disappointed with romises tor the future, to excte the alarm of the timid and to tutensity the loyalty of friends. Senator Fox was approacved and teft the city in order to avoid tmporvanity. Alderman Flanagan, who 1s sadly cuagrined at his defeat Jor the Register Domination, was offered a renomination for Aiderman tn hand, with a piedge of the first vacant Police Commissionership in re- serve. Judge Shandiey had already been fixed, and is @ devotee of the slite. Uttendorier was also approached with the batt of Aiderman-at- Large, but he would accept no such compromise. In every district the leaders were instructed to see every delegate to to-duy’s Convention, and e certain of their ailegiance to the slave. These etforts are Peportag, to have been eminently satisfactory, and ata late hour last night the re- headquarters was @ calm sea, a clear sky and no breakers ahead. Morrissey, at all events, was confident last night of victory, and offered to bet $1,000 even several times over that Wickham will get more votes than will be cast for all the otner candidaies combined, no matter who they may be, even if one of them happens to be ai mrgepengent” indarred by the republicans. 1 making this bet the honorable Jonn was liberal enough to concede 42,000 votes to the republicans, basing his coufiaence on the belief that at least 125,000 votes will be polled, 83,000 of which will be sure to be democrats. THE PROBABILITY OF A THIRD TICKET. The apprehension in relation to an inharmonious Convention arises from the strong probability of independent democratic nominations in case of the slightest encouragement. The disaffection against the slate is within the Tammany organ vation, Ex-Sheriff Brennan and ex-County Clerk Loew are known to be opposed to the dictatorship of Mr. Kelly, and are as much rebels at heart as any Ku Klax youth under twenty-one years of Mr, Loew has been Seto eg eet lirtation with the republicans, looking is HOMination for iter by that,party, on a ticket witn Public Works Commissioner George Van Nort for Mayor. Brennan, who is out Of active politics on account of indifferent health, is, nevertheless, said to ve patting Ottendorfer on the back and en- couraging him to run on an independent emosratic ucket, with Alderman Flanagan or Edward Donnelly for Register. Waterbury, Charles G. Cornell, Thomas Creamer, Jacob Colin and other active ward politicians are prepared to call a meeting, as soon as Wickham and 8 are fairly in the fleld, to tender the bomination of the indepenaent democrats to Ottendorier. Brennan and Loew, with their friends, would support the movement. All tbat 1s needed is the 1unds neces- sary to carry such an organization into practical effect. A storm in to-day’s Tammany Convention, Or any serious breeze against the candiaates of the slate, would kindie into @ flame the smouldering embers of opposition and cause the political caul- dron to boii and bubble. The slightest prospect of success would CHa aD opposition democratic ticket all the material aid it could require, THE ALDERMEN-AT-LARGE. The Convention will, no doubt, give to the Ger- man democrats two Aidermen-at-Large and award the remaining two to the silk stocking democracy. Mr. Magnus Gross and Mr. Gunzer are said to be likely to be the German candidates, and their as- sociates will probably be Mr. Edward Cooper and Mr. Voorhees—not Comptroller Green's Police Commissioner, but @ sterling democrat from the Harlem district. THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONVENTION. The resolutions of the Convention will be briet, but outspoken, The State ticket will be warmly indorsed; the future of the present “reform” poor mee will be strongly dwelt upon and il- ustrived by allusion to Havemeyer’s ap- poimtment, the indictment of the Pouce Commissioners and the presentment of the Commissioners of Charities. and Correction; the charter tinkering at Albany will be de- nounced, and the restoration to the peoyle of the right to elect their municipal officers will be in- sisted upon. Mr. Kelly opposes a resolution de- nunciatory of Comptroller Green’s official course, but @ plain spoken Tesolution to :hat effect will probably be introduced outside the platform and pressed to @ vote. TALK OF AN ADJOURNMENT. It has been rumored that an adjournment will be likely to take placé until next week; but this 1s Not probabie, unless in the event of arow. The adjourument would be positive proof of the weak ness ahd unpopularity of the slate candidates, and would break dowu the leaders either im the Con- vention or before the people, ‘The nominations mus; be made to-dey, or fammany will be gen- erally conceded to be an exploded bubble. ea THE sfA?K COMMITTEES. What Enthusiastic Democrats from the Country Have To y About the Party’s Chances—Is Tilden Gaining “Slowly, but Surely ?—The Effect of the Withdrawal of Groo As One of the Temperance Candidates. The republican and democratic Centra) Com- mittees, the one at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the other at the Metropolitan, held open house, as usual, yesterday. Among the visitors at the de- mocratic headquarters were Asher P. Nichols, formerly State Comptroller and now the democratic candidate for Congress against Lyman K. Bass in the Erte district. Mr. Nichols reported everything working to a charm in the district in favor of the democrats. A gentleman who has been canvassing Erie county very thoroughly, who visited the committee, as- serted that the county would surely go demo- cratic, and that A. P. Laning, who is ranning against Alberger for the Senate (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Ganson), was almost certain of success; that Alberger was very strong in his own Assemoly district, but weak outside of it, A well informed politician from Monroe county said that the county would not give Dix within 2,000 votes of the vote cast for nim in 1872, when it gave him 8,242 majority. Much gratification was expressed by the members of the committee and others present at Mr. Whitehouse’s acceptance of the Congressional nomination in the Columbia district, This nomination, they believed, secures the dis- trict for the democrats beyond a doubt, and the. election of the democratic Assemblymen in both Dutchess and Columbia counties, which together form the Congressional district, The committee say that all the reports they have received from the interior show that Tilden ts slowly bat surely | gaining strength everywhere, and that THE GERMAN VOTE in every county where it has any very great hold will be thrown solid against Dix. ‘Tne Germans and the liquor dealers are down on Dix,” sald a utieman from Erie, “because he signed the Clyil amage bill, and the temperance men because he vetoe ocal Prohibition bill.” Between the two fires he thought the General would be laid | low. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, It was also announced in the committee that Groo, the candidate of the Good ‘Memplars and Sons of Temperance, who was nominated to run against Myron H. Ciarke, the temperance candi- date who was first in the field, had withdrawn tn favor uf Clarke. It was the general opinion of the gentlemen that the temperance ple were m ead earnest this election, and that they meant to stand together in order to give botn raeen ee lesson by showing them that the Feaily an organization in the State whici could not be laugted down in the tuture. It was said that 68,000 temperance campaign documents against Dix had already been sent into the intertor Le one temperance coepuisavton of this city alone. The republican committeemen had nothing new to talk about yesterday, “If we get ali our vote out,’ said one of them, “we are SURE OF A HANDSOME VICTORY for Dix.” When asked what he meant by a “handsome” victory, he repited, “a majority ot 26,000." ‘To show just how the probable results of the campaign in the State are forecasted, to sult the politics of the prophets themselves, it'may be of interest for enthusiastic democrats who are red to swallow every story about the “certainty” of Ttlden’s success, to learn that one of the members of the democratic committee who has been travelling through the State, be- Meves the State will give @ majority for the demo- cratic ticket outside of New York county, that is, without counting the majority this city will give ‘Tilden. 1t is hardly necessary to remark that the republican comimitteemen when they neard of MN atone (?) did not look very much right ened, LIBERALS IN COUNCIL. od The Liberal County Convention—A Con- ference Committee Appointed to Confer with Other Organizat The Liberal County Convention met last even- ing at No. 463 Fourth avenue, There were about 100 delegates present, among them two colored men. The Convention was called to order by Mr. Thomas E. Stewart. Mr. Horatio N. Twombly, of the Seventh Assembly district, was made perma- nent chairman. On taking the chair he revurned hie thagks to the Oonvention for the honor they had conferred spon bim in selecting him to Preside over their deliberations. He trusted that | the result of the proceedings would subserve the | interests of reform and the jurtnerance of the | principles on which the hberal republican party | were founded, It was necessary that wisdom, pru- dence and a catbolic spirit should prevail during their deliberations. Other organisations existed | in the city which had the same reiorm objects in | view as they nad, and it was the part of patriot | ism for them to extend to these organizations the right hand of fellowship and to co-operate with them to secure an Mmprovement in the admunis- tration of our local afairs. Aiter the credentials of the delegates had been | handed in, and a little difficulty in the delegation | | from the Ninth Assembly district had been settled, | | General Cochrane moved toat a committee to con- | fer with other organizations, consisting of ove | member from each Assembly district, be appointed. | This motion was carried, and the tollowing com- | | Mittee appointed, the chairman and secretaries | | being added to it:— Dist. 1. P. J, Stuyvesant. 14, John Cochrane. 2. M. Lanigun. 15, Edward C, Lee. 3. Thos. Mulligan, 16, Wm. Atkinson. | 4. Wm. H. Townley. 11. Geo. P, Bradford, | 5. Isaac H. Hunter. 18. D. O, Johnstone. 6. Hugh Nesbitt. 19, M. B. Wilson, 7, Thos. E. Stewart, 20. Benj. A. Willis, 8 Fred, Gugel, Jr. 21, Robert Beatty. 9, 8. L. Macomber, 23d ward—Ph. Bender. 10. Jacob Harberger. 24th ward—W. W. Niles, 1. B. F. Manierre, H. N. Twombly, Pres’t. 12 J, P. Jardine, James McCarthy, , 13, Henry Comstock, ‘A. Barnett, } Secret's, On motion of Professor Glaubensklee the com- mittee was authorized to appomt a sub-committee. The Convention then adjourned, to meet at the call of the Chair, The committee then held a meeting and appointed, as the sub-committee, General Cochrane, Thomas F. Stewart, Benjamin F. Mamerre, William W. Niles, Robert Beatt Toom.s Mulligan and Frederick Gugel, Jr., Twombly being made chairman. it was th decided that the sub-committee should meet at the St. Denis Hotel at ten o'clock to-day, and that the entire conierence committee meet there at two P, M, to hear the sub-committee’s report. The Bighteenth Assembly District. The Liperal Republican Assembly Convention of this district met last evening, and ajourned after appointing a committee, consisting of Christopher Pullman, Jobn 0. Johnson and William C. Taylor, to conier with other organizations, 16 Ip provac | ble that the Convention will nominate Thomas Cooper Campbell, who is to be nominated for As- sembly by the Tammany Oonvention of tie district. REPUBLICAN STATE OOMMITTEE, The Republican State Committee met yesterday | afternoon at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, ex-Governor | Morgan in’ the chair and a full representation of | Members present. The different members reported about the prospects of the canvass in their respec- | tive districts, and opinions were freely expressed | that Governor Dix would be re-elected. The Com- mitvee adopted certain measures to promote their cause, but nothing regarding them Was made pub- | Ne. jane Executave Committee tnen held a private | session, | THE TEMPERANCE PARTY, At @ meeting of the State Executive Committee ofthe Independent Temperance Party, hela yes- day, the following preambie and resolutions were adopted, viz:— Whereas it was the earnest desire of the several rep- resentative temperance committees which met at Albany, (on the first day of October instant, that there should be ‘@ cordial union ot all prohibition voters in tne nVass upon such a popular and representative would command the largest support, and, i efforts to secure such a union upon such a ticket have fatied, and it is believed that unity of pur- pose and action is of more importa | the — particular nthe to be voted, and whereas the candidates for Gover- and Lieuteaant Governor nomimated ry conference have deciined such nomination, m_ the interest of conciliation and ‘mony; and whereas the gentiemen composing ticket first in the fleld are recognized a: earnest friends of prohibitory legisiation and as irre- proachable citizens, theretore, Resolved, That the deciension of Judge Groo and Dr. Sutton be accepted; that the entire ticket nominated at Albany be withdrawn and that this «xecutive Commit. | tee do now nominate the following ticket as the ticket of the independent temperance party, vis. :~For Gov- Myron H. Clark ; for Lieutenant Governas, James L. Bagg: for Judge of the Court Cl} lorace V. Howland; for Canal Commissioner, Daniel Walford ; for State Prison Inspector, Ira Belk Resotved, That we ask our friends throughout tne State to unite with usin a systematic ry vigorous can- | vass, tothe end that the Jargest possible vote may bo | cast for the ticket thus nominated. Arrangements were made to issue an address | and the first number of a campaign paper in atew days, also for the prosecution of a vigorous cam- paign. The Independent Temperance headquar- ters ure at 68 Reade street. t { | union of the English and American Protestant | present ana the sense of brotherhood he had feit | ture room, After the customary services of prayer nee than | are domg. Mr. Brune, of Maryland, also opposed any star chamber session of the Convention. Bev- eral others took part in the discussion, which ended in the adoption of the substitute by a vote of 181 to 90, and the consequent closing of the Dr. Fulton, of Alabama, moved that the Secre- tary be authorised to have etenographic reports taken of al} discussions and proceedings in such secret sessions, But tne Mouse has such a dread of riers it preferred a Star Chamber secresy to ‘i 3 even chis act of common justice and right vo a brother in the Chureh. PTION OF VISITING DELEGATBS. At two o€i. ck the foreign delegates now visit ing the Convention were fntrodueed by the com- | mittee, and the President, Dr. Oratk, then mtro- duced them severally, and each made a few gratu- latory remarks, Bishop Selwyn, of Lichfield, England, reierred to the importance of the ‘Lambeth Conference and the necessity of a closer Episcopal cburches. He was toliowed by the | Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan 01 Canada, | who expressed the joy that it gave nim to be while among them. The Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica, W. f., aud the Bishop of Quebec followed with gratulations, as did also Bisnop Tozer, of Z zibar; Procurator Geddes, of Vanaoa; Archdeaco! Faller. Archdeacon Balch, Dean Kdwards, of Eng- h.nd, und Others, who were in turn introduced | and warmly greeted. A committee wi ppointed to conier with the Bishops’ Committee and the Canadian Deputation on Unity, and the Conven- tion adjourned, The Wiinois Bishopric Question. CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 1874 The Chicago Tribune states that a movement is on foot to prevent the confirmation by the Epis- copal Convenvion now in session in New York of the recent election by this diocese of Dr. George F. Seymour as Bishop of illinois; and that it has as sumed sucha shape that a petition is in circula- tion and being rapidly signed against soch a con- firmation. The reason given by those engaged in the movement is that since the lection OLDE. Sey- | monr it has been ascertained beyond question | fhatgne charge made against him in tne Diocesan | | | ConVention of being an extreme High Churchman has some ioundation, and that if the facts now Known had been understood by the Convention at the time, he could not have been elected, PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. Christian Activity for Use, and Not for Show. ‘Tne astendance at Piymouth prayer meeting last evening was so large that the deacons con- cluded to hold it tn the charch iusvead of the lec- | and song Mr. Beecher said:—It is not often that | @ clergyman 1s obliged to gay he is sorry so many people want to come to prayer meeting. [ am both glad and sorry. lam glad so many want to | | enjoy the prayer meeting; for, setting aside all | | transient feeling which brings some, I believe the | most of youcomé because you feel the need of it. Now, the Cuurch is like a piece of artillery, most ad- mirable in its place; but the lecture room is like a rifle or pistol. Each has its own work, and I don't know how you could make an audience so large as this 60 homelike as in the lecture room; but we | | must take this misfortune and make tho best of it, | I wanted to speak to-night on the subject of Christian activity, and {am afraid I shall be un- derstood to inculcate professional activity, Far | fromit. There is @ great deal of Christianity that men flourish as a dandy flourishes his cane. Now, | Wuen one is rescued from the spirit of death he is to begin to live for Jesus; but how is he to do it? | How can he personally live for Christ? By living in such away as that God shall feel that he is seeking to do his will. And I think in doing this : BVERY FACULTY SHOULD SHINE, Every part in man has something to do with it. To begin with, those nearest to you have a rignt to demand that your negative and afirmative hie shall be sweet and pure, Inother words, “Let your light so shine that men, seeing your good works, shall glorify God.’ Men live so sometimes that others seeing them damn, God. Many are imper- tinent; matly act as if 1t were contamination to associate with their fellow men. The reply is, that the wicked hate the good. is not so, The wicked love the good. Bad men don’t like say that to be restrained, but to bad mea don’t appreciate trath and purity is to | say what is not true, Religion makes men sometimes unsocial, ascetic; it empowers them sometimes to rule men’s consciences in a way inconsistent with freedom, and becanse men are repellant is not because they are Christians, but because they are so little Christian, Many JERSEY OLTY DEMOORATIO NOMINATIONS, Ex-Mayor O'Neil) has refused to accept the demo- cratic nomination for Congress in Hudeon county. ‘The choice now lies between A. A. Hardenberg and Hermnan D. Busch, of Hoboken. The latter is Pop. ular not only among the Germans, but every other section of the people, while the record of the for- mer stands unimpeacbed. Either would be a tower of strength to the democracy. POLITIOAL ASSESSMENTS, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Why do not the firemen and policemen rebel against the proposed assessment for political pure poses? [ am sure they cannot be compelled to give a part o! their hard earned wages to any body of politicians. They are the servants of the poopie, not of the Police Commissioners or Park jommissioners. Let them resist; the Reople will A CITIZEN. stand by them. New York, Oct. 9, 1874, EPISCOPAL GENERAL CONVENIION. Third Day’s Session—A Star Chamber Discussion and Actio; The Convention had an interesting, and, in part, animated session yesterday. The Committee on Elections reported that they had received reports trom forty-one dioceses and the reports were in every case correct. The Committee on the’ Recep- tion of Visitors reported, fixing the hour for that session at two P.M. The Committee on New Dio- ceses reported favorably on the division of New | Jersey and the admission of the new diocese into aMuation with the Convention. The division is to be effected November 1, 1874. The committee's report was, however, laid over until to-day. The diocese of Texas presented a memorial in favor of the amendment to article V, of the constitution, permitting dioceses to set off part of their terri- tory under missionary jurisdiction. Several at- tempts were made (o get in petitions touching the Nicene Creed, but the order of the day—the con- sideration of the rules of order—prevented. On Thursaay the Convention had got along with their Rules of Order as far as No. 16, all ot which, Rule No. 17, on which the Convention spent nearly three hours on that day and one or two hours yes- terday discussing its merits, is as follows :— THB OBNOXIOUS RULE, Whenever any nomination for # isslonar; bishopric, Sousideration, the House shall eit with ctoted doors. This rule, innocent enough apparently in its phraseology, was found to contain a kernel which it required the united strength and skill of the Convention to crack or dispose of, Amendments were made to it, giving it a larger scope, soas to include not only missionary but other bishops, upon whose cases the House might be called to act, The word “shall” was objected to as too im- perative in its character, and “may’’ was pro- posed in its stead. But all these amendments were ignored or voted down, and sttil the discas- sion went on. The Rev. Dr. Adams, of Wisconsin, moved as & substitute :— That it any subject whatever comes before this House necessitating the discussion of personal character, this House may, upon motion, sit with closed doors, s Abd on this savsetitute the Convention spent most of its time Thursday afternoon and yester- | dar. ‘The pertinency and importauce of thig rule will be understood when !t ts taken in connection ‘with @ telegram from Cutoae. yesterday, declaring that petitions and memorials are in cirodiation iu that city against the confirmation of the Rev. Dr. | Seymour, of New York, as Bishop elect ofthe dio- cose of filinois, His confirmation is opposed on the ground of nis known or alleged ritualistic pro- clivities, and the probability is he wiil not pe con- firmed. A DENUNOIATOR OF THE PRESS, On this substitute Dr, Adams, the wover, took occasion to Make two speeches tn denunciation of the press and its editors and reporters as in some sense disreputable. He was amazed and shocked at the way ministers and bisnops are reterred to by tne ress, He did not say, however, bow much afllicted © was a few months ago by the breaki ip ab- raptly of his own Diocesan Conventi jed for | the election of a Bishup. Nor did he protest | against the confusion which prevatied for awhile yesterday im this Convention. He had not a goed word to say for the press or its conductors and Managers, but he Nad « large store of vituperation for both, He was, thereiore, strongly in favor of shutting out the press. Against his theort nd arguments the Rev. Dr, DeKoven, whose a8 @ high churchman and a candidate lately for the Ls oom of Wisconsin is well known, presented weignt ht to heve had much more vention than they had, as result, The ‘Conversion, With slight modifications, were adopted sertatim. | persons have cheerful, birdlike dispositions, and when they become Christians they ieel that they must put away such trifing things. Now, why Not sanctity these things? It is# godsend in this world, wuere there 1s so much trouble, to have a SINGING NaTURE, | Wuat power there is in it! And why not sanc- j tly 1% for Christian uses? Then there aro those who have imagination and humor and wit. Well, these are the body guards God has set ‘round the ascetism Of men’s consciences, Conscience is an indispen- sable thing. So is a backbone, bones were stripped bare. Bi clothed with flesh, and conscienc« clothed also. Besides this, t{ Christ! gitts by which they can infidence People by their Personal experience they ought to talk to others of their life. This can be dune without ostenta- tion. If by che goodness of God he has led you through strange ways, why not speak of them in & simple, natural way? It 1s salvation to men. Then, beyond that, there is given to man power to inculcate Christian ideas, ow, m the early doctrine of the Church all were brethre: but later came the idea that the diffusion of the knowledge of trath was an official right, and to-day, if you were to begin justas a minister does with a hymp, and then a long prayer then anotner hymn, then a sermon, fullowed by bymn and benediction, people would go away and say, “That man is perfectly audacious; he has never veen or- dained.” I should like to Know why the man who has the power to preach has not the right to do it. Aman has a right to all hisown gilts, and nothing 1M religion 1s withheld from any. if you want to partake o! the Lord’s Supper you need not send for @ minister, It isan though the Idea that Feligion belongs to an ord mn belongs to an order, | & class, still clings. Any One who has the puwer the to aj has the right, nay, the duty to speak. Just a8 soon as the laymen feci tnat it is their duty to teach Christianity there will come into the Church a feeling of light aud warmth never felt before. In such @ great city as this, [know there are many persons overworked, but there are many who are indolent on the Sabbath day who might spend the day in visiting the poor and sick with great poset to their own religious experience. Mr. Beecher here gave a chance for any one who chose to speak, and Brother Bell, Superintendent of the Mayfower school, m: quite a lengthy ad- dress, urging the great need Of teachers and beg- ging all who were able to offer their services, After he had finished Mr, Beecner said, ‘I don’t Want to scold the Church, I don’t want to scold the young people and yu Bre all young till you | are sixty, I only say I hope every person who | has the gift and is not engaged in this work will | have @ good and sufficient reason. 11 is nota Matter Of convenience, but of duty, and if apy of | you have a light hidden under a bushel there isa personal remark made about you in the Bible.” THE AMERICAN TRACT SOOIETY. 4 jubilee address has just been issued by the American ‘Tract Society, which dates {ts existence from May, 1625, The annual | issues of the society during the fifty years of its work have averaged more than | 10,000,000 of publications, which have been dis- | tributed throughout the entire known world. | During the last thirty-three years tie society has | employed 500 colporteurs to seli and give away its books aod tracts, which have thus been brought | into 140,000 families, This work cost during the ae year eee The society hopes that its jupi- lee year will find its treasury so enlarged that it may enter its second haif century enabled to give Teatly wider scope to its efforts in enlightening and Christianizing the world, and to that end so- licits donation: be sent to 0, R. Kingsbury, ‘Treasurer, Tract House, No. 150 Nassau strect. “FOREIGN MISSION. Liberal Efforts to Establish Christianity in Japan. RUTLAND, Vt., Oct. 9, 1874. The sixty-filth annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners jor Foreign Missions came | toa close here this morning. A prayer meeting was held in the Baptist cnurch at eight A. M. The farewell meeting, held in the Congre; church at nine A. M., waa largely attended was presided over by Dr. Hopxins, President of the Board, Final resolutions were passed, and a number of farewell addresses made. Rev. Joseph Veesuna, of Japan, made a pathetic appeal for money to estabiisk a Christan institu tton in Japan. Rev. Peter Park Governor P¥ S sums were subscribed, 1 half past eleven o’clock, and the members of tho Board wok the noon trains home, ipeneapaesicidinettteiatn BUBIAL OF DR. EDDY. A very large attendince was attracted yester- day aiternoon to St, Paul's Methodist church, Twenty-second street, to solemnize the obsequies of Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Eddy, one of the most promi- nent preachers of Rea Methouist Episcopal connec- e 5 =! e Es ° =z z I = g 2 by £ g. | him with whom we differ, | Packards who tempted him into error, THE CREAT CONUNDRUM. Attitudes of the Disagreeing | Jurists Reviewed. Sriticism of O’Conor and | Johnson. . The President Freer to Do Right Tow- | ard Louisiana Than Before. BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 9, 1874, To TH# EpiTox or THE HkKaLp: When two lawyers, so able, so eminently learned | and experienced, as one says of the other, ana as both are conceded w be, such as Charles | O’Conor and Reverdy Johnson, differ on a point | of public law, it becomes us of the outer lay werld | to be cautious in the expression of opinion, if not absolutely silent, With tbis reserve, then, do we speak. In one relation of the matter we are con- scious of our ability frankly to express our opin- ions, and if we side with the stranger rather than with our own jurist no one will impute to us any other than the kindest personal feeling toward The New York press, or that portion which has spoken, inclines to Mr. Johnson, No one will hence blame us for a favor- ing feeling to Mr. O’Conor and his views. But first a word a8 tothe diferent attitudes, both in whe past and present, of the men. We cannot better describe Mr. O’Conor’s posi+ tion than by adopting the New York HeBaLp’s vigorous sketch, each line of which is expressive of the subject:—‘‘Mr, O’Conor,” says this ad- verse critic, “looked upon secession and all the events resulting as the unhinging of the American system, His mind was so severely logical; he had knelt at the shrine of the constitution with so sin- cere & devotion that the infractions of the supreme jaw which the suppression of the rebellion made inevitable flied him with pain, From this he has never really recovered. Better that the Union had fallen to pieces on the rocks of extreme constl- Vutionalism than to ilve as it has lived—the ex- | pression of legislative shifts and party expedi- ents.” And then, as if involuntarily, the HERALD adds:—“It would be better for the moral tone of our public affairs if we had more statesmen like Charles 0’C@Aor.”” To us who also think the war was not merely the “unbinging,” but the disloca- tion of the federal American system as created by the constitution, such portraiture is very captivat- ing. Our townsman, Mr. Johnson, would, however, be very sorry to have such a@ portrait painted of him. His mind is logical or he woald not have been able to command his great professional suc- cess, but it can hardly be said to be severely so. He, too, has worstipped at the shrine of the con- stitation with a “faith sincere,” but in the inter- vals of bis devotion he has gone out apd mingled with publicans ‘and sinners, who scoffed at all reverance for organic law. Tne New York devotee would have perished at tne stake rather than hold communion with the ungodly and compromise his conscience, Our mild, intermittant worshipper was nota little unlike Gobeland him of Autun and other secular priests of tne French Revolution, who went to mass and yet on occasions offered incense to the Goddess of Reason. Mr. Johnson held bigh oMce under Abraham Lincoln’s military Governor of Tennessee, and recetved mstructions Jrom William H. Seward. During the war Mr. O’Conor’s silence was an eloquent protest against all the wrongdoings. When occasion presented for him to protest against specific outrage he did so, and when it Was over he, with other men as brave as he, one ® Baltimorian now honored by iederai promotion, volunteered to defend the President of the talen coniederacy. if our distinguished townsman ranged himself publicly by the side of Roger B. Taney when in the case of Merriman he defied ex- ecutive will, if when the chosen men of Maryland 3 conctusion—cut bono ? Who ‘or an instant imag- ines that the patient wi!) be induced to swallow either wr. O’Conor’s honest tonic—his “iodide of iron” to purge the blood and invigorate the zys- tem, or Dr, Johnson’s superauous soothing syrup? The President has no idea of changing bis mind whetner be has @ right to do so or nut, and we re- gret that our townsinan gives him even an excuse Jor bis obatinacy. VINDEX. BavtimoBe, Oct, 8 1874. The President’s Power Constabular and Not Judicial—Reverdy Johnsons Opin. jon Criticised. To THe Epivor oF THE HERALD:— Mr. Reverdy Johnson's opinion seems to me very Strange. Mr. Jolnson appears to think that the legal stat us of the Governor of a State may be af- fected by the action of the national Executive; that the Jegisiative or executive recognition by the United States of the Governor of a State Is & species of adjudicauon that passes upon and sei- tles the legal rights of rivai claimants. The genera! government is vested with no suck omMce or duty. The United States government is bound on the call of the Legislature or Executive of @ State (when the Legislature cannot be convened) to protect the State “agains’ domestic violence.” In a case of insurrection and war in a State, the generai government must, 02 request, inter/ere, and, 1D doing this, ity must, ace cording to its best judgment, decide which offic’ to sustain. From this decision there can ve no- appeal, for it i# followed by military force. Prac- tically 1t seate the favored claimant in the Gover- nor’s chair; but such a Governor, if nat legally elected, is none the less a usurper by being recog- Dized by the general government. The United States government ts only authorized to act in cases of violence, when the people are in arms; and although a fearful duty, a wrong de- cision might be the least of two eviis. It 1s simply decision for @ terrible emergency, and after peace ues the people of tho State are iree to unseat the “recognized” Gov- erhor if they can do so peaceably. The general government is merely a conservator of tue peace In such cases, and {8 obliged to select between rival parties; vu it is only to stop violence, There ts nothing in tue nature of umpirage 1D the busi- ness, DOF anything judicial in the proceeding. The decision states nothing bul the question 0 peace. The Governor must still look to the laws of the State tur his rigut to the vce, and, if not legelly elected, his being “recognized” by the general government has no effec: upon his iegal status, Whenever a case ot ‘domestic vioience” occurs 1 is the duty of the generai government to interfere, Altuough it is no part of the duty of tne United States goverament to decide on State elections, it is by ire necessity obliged, in putting down domestio violence, to select whom it deems the legai oilicer. Should some time elapse and anotuer insurrection arise against the recoguized Governor, it will again be the duty of the general government to act, and it sbould sustain what it believer to be the rightful oMcer. It would be monstrous to sa; that, because a usurper nad once been recognized, the general government must always uphold the wrong knowingly. The chtef executive officer must do what he thinks is righteacn time, Consee quences must take care of themselves, If disas- trous to the State the Stat. is responsible, not the Execative of the nation. It must be kept in mind that this duty of the general government to interfere is only a war Necessity, never to be exercised except in case of imminent violence. It is an extreme duty to save the effusion of blood. Lf the people of a State Fise against an acting Governor the general gov- ernment should, if called on, ioteriere; but must do so before the contest is over. If the people by violence unseat one claimed to be @ usurper, and peace and gutet ensue, the occasion for interven- tion hag gone by. It is not forthe general gov- ernment, when the people of a State are nt arms, and domestic violence not imminent from bande of armed men, to declare who shall be Goy- ernor, and orderout the United States forces to enforce the surrender of one eaccably holding the R. MCKINLEY URMS: ofice. ws Y. Naw YoRK Ciry, Oct. 9, 1874 ANOTHER EXTINOT MONSTER. Remains of an Enormous Animal Exca. vated in Michigam—A Species Unlike the Mastod: Canannalcua, Mich., Oct. 5, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— On Thursday, October 1, while scraping out the county ditchon his farm, in Seneca township, Lenawee county, Michigan, Mr. Oramon Tuttle came in contact with an obstruction which over. turned his scraper. On examination it proved to be an Immense horn, the remains of some extinct were kidnapped and plunged fn prison to rot there | animal. Further digging has developed the other for fourteen months he raised a voice or finger wo avert their doom, we certainly never neard of it, Brave Philadelphia lawyers went to Boston to try horn, part of the skull, collar bones and a number of ribs, also one tooth. The water running back into the excavated pit has puta temporary siop by jadicial process to rescue one Maryland prisoner ; | to the digging, but it will be resumed this morning butwe never heard ofanyBaltimore intervention for | Baltimore men. Then, too, we note another con- trast, which is to the credit of the New York Jarist. Mr. O’Conor has been relatively a re- served and silent man. Meditative as he is by nature, he has either in bis modesty shrunk from obtruding his opinions, or, in self-complacency we cannot condemn, thought the pubitc incapable of ‘appreciating them, Rarely has he spoken, though when he did, always with effect--as when he de- nounced the Greeley folly—or, more recently, gave his views on the science of government. Not #0 our Maryland ‘jurist.’ There is hardly a subject on which we have not been Javored with Mr. John- son’s opinions, always plausibly and forcibly put. He was or seemed to be the Deus ex machina, even at the Fifch Avenue Hotel, when General Grant was talking to the speculators about infi tion. He now volunteers on the Louisiana ques- tion. Such being the individual teachers—and we have endeavored to run tne parallel fairly—it is naturally matter of moment to weigh the opin- jons they inculcate, When Mr. Johnson’s letter first appeared we intimated a modified dissent, and now Mr. O’Conor’s letter, as it were, comes to re- inforce our doubts, The point of difference may be easily and clearly stated. Both agree that Kel- logg is not, except by force of tederal Executive recognition, the lawful Governor of Louisiana, and that Grant made a grievous mistake in soc n- sidering him; but they differ as to the finality of that recognition. Mr. Johnson, wit! a character- istic tendency to vigorous and persistent Ex- ecutive action and reverence for Presidential judgment once formed, thinks there can be no change. Mr. O’Conor repudiates utterly this notion of finality, and cannot conceive why Prest- dents, like other folks, may not change their minds.. Mr. Johnson holds to the faith stat pro ratione voluntas, Mr. O’Conor, perhaps sarcastically, asserted the honest common sense doctrine that the President, himself convinced that it is so, is for ali time, during this term and it may be the next, if a Kei- logg’s usurpation were so long to exist, pound to maintain jt? 1s lt meant if General Grant were todie to-morrow, and that nonentity, the Vice President, were to succeed, that he is bound by his dead predecessor’s wrong decision if he hap- pens to think it was wrong? Nay, further, ts it pretended that, the present state of things contin- ing, @ democratic President would be compelled to send troops to the Kelloggs of his hour when in | his conscience he Knows there was no cause for | an appeal to him? Ali this results from what we are compelled to term the Baltimore tory doctrine of prorogation that if a President finds himself misled, entrapped into an obvious blunder, especially in the perilous case of intervention in State matters, he owes tt to his own character to set bimself right. Even Kings, Who do no wrong, 40 not always act on Mr. Johnson’s courtly principle. The HeRaLp, com- menting on Mr. O’Conor’s theory, sees peril not only in the change of one man’s action, but what might occur were there to be a change in the Executive. It is easy to see which of these pol- iticul theories will be most acceptable at Head- quarters. The O’Conor dogma is a disturbing one, ‘The President knows as well as anyone that ne made a fatal mistake for himself, his party and the country in recognizing Kellogg. But he knows, | too, that it is un awkward, ungraceful thing pub- liely to say 80; and besides he knows that recanta- tion involves the extirpation of the Caseys and He ail this by the John- that he has no right tochange, The Italians have a proverb which is Mr. Johnson's text, Preso u parito cassato Vaffanno—Once resolved the trouble is over,’ O'vonor concedes that had Congress acted in ac- cordance with the President's views there would have been no relief, but from their all a in- activity he deduces ® conclusion that the Presi- 8 «saved §6from son = Opiate tt Bishops Simpson a af ne me Janes conducted the sould ev thee press What they jon, Eviceg, rikingiy simpie and affect- tr. @ remains were deposit Marble Cemetery, Second street. LAOS dent is now freer to Jo right than be was before, But alter all, for we are compelled to hasten tos and measures taken to ‘he animal had evidently died standing up. Ihave just visited the spot and examined the bones and the place from which they were taken. | Alarge number of physicians and proiessors of the Hillsdale and Adrian Colleges pronounce them horns and not tusks, They have an outside shell and a distinct pith. The space occupied by the skeleton is over twenty feet long, and the tips oi the horus were about tweut, tapart. The ends of each are decayed, but they uow measure eight feet nine inches in length, and must have measured about ten feet when whole. Three feet irom the large end they are twenty-two and a balf inches 1 cite camierence and they weigh 175 pounds each, Some of the ribs were seven feet long. The tooth preserve the bones. | secured 1g & trontal tooth, three inches square, | and weighs tour and a half pounds, They have been viewed by several thousand people, many of whom have seen the tusks of the mastodon, which are quite common in this State, and all those ree that these bear No resemblance to them. ‘ne animal’s horns must have measured twenty feet across. His height was probably about fiteen Jeet, ana ae A independent of horns, neari: twenty. The above statement 1s periectly rel abie. There is no canard about it; and, if you think proper, you are free to publish it. From your regular subscriber, E. HALLENBECK, GERMANY ABD THE SPARISH OBOWN. {From the Liverpool Post., Sept. 22.) Prince Leopold of Bavaria, the alleged Germa: nominee for the turone of Spain, has received the Order of the Biack Eagle from the Emperor Wil- lam. Al pecial mark of distinction, the order was personally bestowed by His Majesty. Let the yee rman party in Spain take note tlat “this ie ie man whom the emperor-king delights to honor,” LITEBARY REUNION. The reception of the Literary Society of the Young Men’s Christian Association last evening at Association Hail was largely attended, the audience having that distinctive literary charac- ter belonging in ensemble rather to les coteria dleus of Boston than New York. Appropriate masic introduced the charming essays and dis- cussions of the evening. Professor Robert Elder, the blind organist, gave an overture to “Tan- endl a ne Style, and afep ine. been 4 of . Carr played some selections 1, “La Sonnambale”” (dotably “Stil 60 gently o’er me stealing”) with @ tenderness an expression truly admirable. After the music Mr. Rueh delivered an oration on “The Heroic of Mod- ern History,” which was rather stilted and prosaic. He was sollowed by Mr. H. 5. Oarr, whose sopho- more effort was appreviated by num! friends. This was followed by a debate :—‘Is the Duty of the American Scholar to Engage actively in Potiticay” — Mr. H, Steele took the aMrmative of the question, He has a polished, suave style which convincés. Mr. St. Joun, who jollowed him on the negative side, was dogmatic and did not seem to enliet the attention of the audience. After the addreas of the President, Mr.. John B, Skinner, the society adjourned, EMBARRASSMENT OF A FLOUR HOUSE, . L. Roberts & Co., n old and much-esteemed flour house in South street, announce that they are compelled to ash a temporary extension of their maturing obligations. They have been the largest receivers of fourin the United States for many years, and have enjoyed & wide reputati tor basiness integrity aud sagacit 5 The cause of this suspension 18 s@id to be real estate tnvest- ments, ramors of which bave unfavorably affected thetr discount credit, Mach Sympathy vis expressed for the firm, and hopes are ined Ofa speed: resumption of business. The assete of the firm the individual property of its members are sul- ; fclent to pay their obligations in full and leave a handsome surplus. OLVIL MARRIAGE IN PRUSSIA. Obligatory civil marriage, as ts known, was ine troduced into Prussia on the Ist of October. “The publication of the banns having to precede the marris by @ fortnigh Tevingto. yy, ‘a eae! it, and that announcement er functionarics appointed for new law, but whose mis- co until the ist inst., the tage a0 be solemnized’ ‘oth of October. Im order to remedy this state of things, which im some special cases might have some incol ‘ekiences, tne proposal was made that the padi banns by the ministers of the varioug ed valid until the 16th of rior authority did not think demand. However, dispen- be granted in cases in which tho of proceeding to the marriage before lemonstrated. ‘the pur) sin < neowsity whe fate Gxed snail be