The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1874, Page 6

8 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. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK BERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions aud Advertisements will be | received and /orwarded on the same terms | as in New York. Folume XXXIX... —————— — = AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Pe Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. TONY PASTOR": OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.—VARIET arsP. a A er 0 Eis TRELSY, ate P. M. LYCEUM TUEATRE, Fourtee street d ue—MUCH ADO | SBOUT Nor HING, a joses at 10:45 P.M. Miss | ellison, Mr. Barnes. O MINSTELS, wenty-ninth street—NEGRO cluses at 10 P.M. ITUY Third avenue. hind E, between third and Stxty4ourta | streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. | COLO: er of Thirt 3 (ORM C PARIS and MES JARLEY'S Wax WORKS, at 2: eet—MAB, at P.M; | at 3 P.M; closes at OLY: HEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—VARIETY, ats ?. Mo; PM. THEATRE COMIQUE, fo,sl Broadway.—VAGinTY, at PS; closes at 10:90 RE re te eee at Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second | frets RILDED AGE, ats P.M; closes at 10.30 P. Mt. Mr. John T. Raymond. STE Fourteenth street.— closes at 10P.M. F: HALL, DULL’CARE, at 8P. M.; | abe. | GERMAD HEATER. Fourteenth strect.—VOLK WIE’s WEINT UND LACHT, Bt8 P. M. ; closes at 10:3) P. M. HEATRE, street and Sixth avenue.— closes at 1030 P.M. Miss | BOOTHS corner of Twenty-th: HENRY VIII, at 8 P. Cushrean. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broa¢way.—THE KiVAL t 8 P.M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Lewis, Mr. Gil ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Italian Overa—KUY BLAS, at 8 P. M.: closes at 11 P.M. signora Potentini, Miss Cary, Signor Carpi. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Frince an Houston streets.—THE DELUGE, ‘at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M, She Kiralty Family. FIFTH Twenty-eighth, street an 8, THE DOUBLE DDING, a8 ‘M." Miss Fanny Dawenoort, Miss s: dames MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. FRITZ, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. Jos. K. Emmet. een Bre way ai aan Psmeneasarrbtatre Soere te reaveoe BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, im sthird street, near Sixth avenne.—NEGRO | ST! lose BROOKLY: CATO VON EISED, at 8 P. TRIPLE Closes at 10:0 P. SHEET. | New York, Monday, October 19, 1876, | NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the great pressure on our adver- | tising columns, advertisers would favor us by | sending in their advertisements early in the | day. This course will secure a proper classifi- | cation, helping the public and the Hzrarp. Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue may be sent with great advantage in the earlier | days of the week; it will prevent confusion | and mistakes arising from the immense | quantity of work to be done on| Saturdays. Advertisements will be re- | oeived daily at this office, the branch office, No. 1,265 Broadway, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, and the Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum | streets, up to nine P. M., and at the Harlem | branch office, 124th street and Third avenue, up to half-past seven P.M. Let advertisers | remember that the earlier their advertisements | are in the Heratp office the better for them- gelves and for us. From our reports this morning the probabilities | ere that the weather to-day will be clear and | cooler, AFaicetrct Crctoxe has swept over the Presidency of Bengal. A season of floods in India has followed its long season of drought. But the famine is at an end. Tax Lovistana Conference Committees meet to-day, and it is to be hoped that the resigna- tions of radical members will be handed in | and the Election Board organized on an im- | partial basis. A Dancrxc Erizootic.—A terrible disease mong the horses, called the ‘tarantula,’ has broken out at Minatitlan, Mexico. It is perhaps only the.late northern epidemic in a tropical development. Mr. HL M. Stanuzy has arrived at Zanzibar, and is now probably on his journey into the interior of Africa. The Sultan of Zanzibar has received Mr. Stanley and his companions in a friendly manner. Batcuam Youno's health is reported as fail- ing rapidly, and it is believed that his life | will soon be closed. And then? Doubtless his departure will be followed by an impor- tant reconstruction of Mormondom. It is sven now in progress. New Jersey Pourrics are fully discussed in our letter from Trenton, which indicates the nature of the respective opposition to the candidates for Governor. The democrats are much encouraged by their recent success in Newark. Tar Exzctions in three departments in France for members of the Assembly were held yesterday. The returns are not com- plete, but in the Department of the Alpes Maritimes the candidate of the French nation. alists was elected by a large majority. This is important, as there was in Nice @ strong pasty inclined towards the restoration of that ity to Italy, an M. Piccm advocated some time ie = | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1¥, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. | me New Phase of the Third Term Discussion. Within the last ten days, and especially since the election returns were received from Ohio and Indiana, the discussion of the third term question has passed toa new stage of greater interest, in some respects, than any of the preceding. For some time previous to these elections several leading journals, and notably the Tribune, which had treated the third term controversy as a political bubble, came to regard it as a question of the utmost gravity, virtually acknowledging that the Henan was fifteen months in advance of the public thought in descrying a formidable danger to our institutions. Since Tuesday's | elections the flurry of the republican | journals on the third term is Indic- rous, They have become suddenly clam- orous to have President Grant and Gov- ernor Dix declare their hostility to this | alarming innovation. The Herarp, which | takes time by the forelock, pressed this ad- Mi; closes atl | vive upon them at a time when compliance | would not have been open to the suspicion of torted from party fears. In politics, asin | | other affairs, much depends on timing things | rightly. It makes a great difference whether | avoided, | mouth of ao harbor it inust be floated over at | | and if our friendly suggestion had been fol- | should be relieved of this load. | mndulgence in ‘third term” taik by the President's seed is put into the ground in May or in | August. Had President Grant heeded the | nounced all third term aspirations five months | ago; or had the Utica Convention taken our | rect STORM OvB# | advice and passed a resolution favoring an | mitted that he wrote the play of ‘Richard IL” “| amendment of the constitution limiting the | President to a single term of six years; or nation in the republican journals, which are “wise behind time,” might have been men.” Ifa ship is to be got past a bar at the | high tide. If it misses the opportunity it | will remain landlocked, and its more enter- prising competitors will get a start in the voyage which no extra burning of pitch and coal after it gets at sea will enable it to re- cover. The Heratp kept giving good advice, and the way it was rejected may remind one of the fable of the Sibylline leaves, which con- stantly rose in price in proportion’ to the number which were scattered by the winds and lost. The whole collection could have been purchased at first fora lower sum than was finally demanded for the remnant. Had General Grant spoken five months ago, as the Heraup advised, the third term question would not have cost the republican party a single vote. When that opportunity was squandered by delay we advised the Utica Convention to indorse the one term principle, lowed the third term controversy would have been extinguished and have given the repub- licans no further trouble. ‘[hat opportunity was also lost ; but the Hzrazp, persisting in its desire to do good, then advised Governor Dix to save his party and himself by publicly “There isa tide in the affairs of | Henatp claims credit not only for the sub- stance of its advice, but for its timeliness The frightened republican journals which at | last indorse the advice cannot turn back the | wheels of time and restore the condition ot | things when it was first given, A shot at | it has fled to a greater distance. It is not our fault that the fairest opportunities have been | wasted by slowness of perception on the part of our republican contemporaries; but even | Governor Dix may perhaps arrest the ruin | which he might have forestalled, | shakespeare and Bacon—A New Point im the Discussion. | Although we had closed the discussion of the authorship of Shakespeare, by the consent | of those who had conducted it ip our columns, we are well pleased to make room for a | letter from the writer of the article in Fraser's Magazine upon which the recent debate was founded. As he introduced the subject to | our American readers it is proper that he M.;closes'at 19P.M. | being forced by political necessities or ex- | should have the last word; yet in printing his interesting communication we beg leave to point out what seems to us an extraor- dinary misconception both on his part and that of Professor Holmes. In the book of the latter, as quoted by the author of the Fraser | sound advice ot the Hzratp and publicly re- | article in his letter to us, Bacon's account of aninterview he had with Queen Elizabeth is | cited as evidence that Bacon indirectly ad- This argument, we think, deserves con- sideration, and therefore we must ask the | had Governor Dix adopted our later sugges- | close attention of our Shakespearian students H tion and declared his opposition to the third | to the letter of the writer in Fraser, in which closes at 1045 | election of a President, the flutter of const it is unfolded. Upon the interpolation of the | following sentence from Bacon the whole question depends:---‘‘About the same time,” Bacon says, ‘I remember an answer of mine in a matter which had some affinity with My Lord’s cause, which, though it grew from me, went after about in others’ names." Professor Holmes believes that the matter which had some affinity with the cause of the Earl of Essex was the play of ‘Richard IL” He believes that ‘Richard IL’’ was used by the Essex party to make the rebellion they planned against Queen Elizabeth more popu- lar. He says that the subject of ‘‘Richard IL.” was identical with that of the history of the | first year of the reign of ‘Henry IV.,” a book written by a Dr. Hayward, and dedicated by him to Essex. He shows | that Dr. Hayward was arrested for writing this book, which the Queen thought to be treasonable. Then he says that the Queen was also incensed at the author of ‘Richard IL,’’ and suspected Bacon to be the real author. He argues that ‘Richard II.’’ was “the matter which had some affinity with My Lord’s cause,” and that it was this ‘‘matter’’ which, ‘though it grew from him, went after about in others’ names.’ Finally, he concludes that the Queen suspected Bacon of having written the play, and that Bacon en- deavored to parry her blow with a jest. Thus we are asked to accept the sentence we have declaring his opposition to a third term. | Had he done it then he would | bave hit the tone of popular feeling in | a critical moment, and have won strength and applause. General Dix also failed to float his ship out to sea in the flood | tide. There may still be water enough on the bar for him to get over by throwing out a little freight, and it behooves him to make the trial. But if he had discerned the drift of | public sentiment as early as the Herarp did he would have been spared the embar- rassment of making a decision under cir- cumstances which expose his motives to mis- construction. It is amusing to witness the sudden impor- tance attached by the republican journals to the third term question since the elections of | last week. The sedate Evening Post thinks it | is now too late for Governor Dix to accept the advice seasonably tendered him by the Heratp and repeated by the Times “‘a day after the fair."’ The Evening Post said on Saturday: — Since the Times now repeats its advice to Gover- nor Dix, we also will go @ step iurtner and say that its advice had better be bestowed upon President Grant. It is by the mouth aod the pen of the President himself that the republican parcy It is the continual office-holders, and the toleration of such talk by the President uimself, that aeepens a popular mistrust which ihe Times now recognizes had much to do with the great republican reverses in | Ohio and Indiana and tears will endanger a repuo- lican success in New York. We do not believe that there is a voter in this State, o! either party, irom Fort Niagara to Montaak Point, who suspects | 1n good earnest that Governor Dix favors a “third | term.” But we do believe, and so also manifestly tne Times beiieves, that there are thousands ot republican voters whom the sycophantic talk of | those office-holders, who would nave rebeiled | against Governor Dix at Utica had they dared, combined with the tacit assent of the President himself, readers uneasy and anxious, For our part we think the Times’ tardy ad- vice to Governor Dix is still good, although it would have been better timed if that journal had sooner recognized the sagacity and pressed the views of the Hzrazp. A declaration by General Dix would have been worth infinitely | more when we first urged him to make it than | | it can be at this late day. ‘The Times has the | | grace to say that the third term talk “can no | longer be deemed ridiculous.’’ If our con- | temporary had had the courage to say two | weeks ago what it is coerced by thick-coming | quoted as meaning that ‘Richard II.” had some affinity with the treason of Essex, and that the play, though it grew from Bacon, | went about in others’ names—that is, under the name of Shakespeare. To us this seems a complete misconception of the text and of the entire story which Bacon relates. We think it porfectly plain that it was not the ‘‘matter which had some affinity with the cause of Essex’’ which went about in others’ names, but that it was the answer | of Bacon which was attributed to others. Reference to the anecdote will show this. The Queen questioned Bacon as to the treason in Dr. Hayward's book and as to the possibility of punishing Hayward for that crime. Bacon answers there is no treason in the book, but a great deal of felony—that is, Hayward had stolen his ideas from a Latin author, Tacitus; had translated h‘s sentences into English and put them into his text, He says that this answer was his, and that afterwards it was attributed to others. In the first place, there is no allusion to “Richard IL’’ in the anecdote. In the | for his book, and the Queen was angry that | the play treated of the same subject, why | was not Shakespeare arrested also? If she suspected Bacon of having written a play which was by the public ascribe to Shake- | speare the surest way to discover the truth was to examine Shakespeare. In the third place, ‘‘Richard II.’’ was claimed by Shake- speare only, and not by a number of persons; but Bacon speaks of something which grew from him but which was attributed to others. The play was never attributed to more than one; the answer might have been to many. In the fourth place, Bacon distinctly states what was ‘“‘the matter which had some affinity with My Lord’s cause.” It is in the very next sentence shown to be “that book which was dedicated to My Lord of Essex, being a story of the first year of King Henry Iv.” It was the book of Dr. Hayward that the Queen was angry abont, and it was Bacon’s witty answer to her that he says was attributed to others. His purpose in telling the anecdote was to claim his joke, which, | political calamities to say now it would have done a better service. But tardy wisdom is | | better than persistent blindness. The Times | confesses its slowness to catch the temper of | | the public mind, and treads, though far in the | | rear of events, in the footsteps of the Heraxp | in the following passage: — | We have, indeed, been rather disposed to laugh | atthe whole thing; but if the peuple iook at it seriously it ceases to be a laughing matter, and | | thereiore we uuvised, and still advise, General Dix to speak out whatever may ve in his mind concerning tt. Why should he be injured or tie State ve deprived of his Invaluable services on ac- count Of the Wild schemes Of a lew toadies or the administration ¢ Aud if the democrats are deter- mined to exhibit him as an advocate of the turd | term craze Why should he not be at liberty to say what he really thinks about it We quite agree with our contemporary that it is not too late even now for Governor Dix | to follow the advice given him by the Heraxp | at a period so early that his action would have proceeded from his own free choice, and when | party malignity could not have charged that | of distress extorted But better late than third teym question tied to the neck party, and is easier to cut loose from it than to go down with it, even after the sinking process has be- wun. It would have been still better to have it was a signal from his fears, never. The is a millstone of the republican it fore being flung into the water, but e tardy | kenife is better than certain downing, The | necessary that we should explain. | | untied the knot, as the Heraup advised, be- | though it grew from him, went after about in others’ names. Professor Holmes himself | sayr, ‘So capital a joke did this piece of wit appear to Bacon that he could not spare to record it among his Apo- | thegms,” and there it will be found under the number 58. We have explained this passage at this length because Professor Holmes and the writer of the Fraser article dwell so strenyously upon it as an indirect confession of Bacon that he wrote “Richard IL." It is a singularly strained construction that they place upon it, and shows how easily and unconsciously o | plain meaning may be perverted when the mind judges of facts in the light ofa pre- conceived theory instead of forming the theory from the facts. The general argument of our English econ- tributor we need not examine, as it will cer- tainly receive the respectful attention it de- serves; but Professor Holmes’ astonishing mis- conception of the language of Bacon it was The other points of the letter, the scrawling of Shake- speare upon manuscripts of Bacon and the search now being made in the Probate Office of London for the speare’s goods, which, it is thought, may exist among those musty records, are in- teresting, and may, perhaps, hereafter become important. | game within easy range is worth a dozen after | now the adoption of the Hzraxp’s advice by , second place, if Dr. Hayward was arrested | inventory of Shake- | Mr. Curtis in Reply. We print this morning another letter from Mr. George Ticknor Cnrtis, in which he | : | the house of worship and devoting the Sab- speaks of our criticism as an argument ad hominem. We think our quotations trom Mr. Webster were very different in logical force from a mere personal hit. If Mr. Webster had no other weight in this controversy than is derived from the admiration of his prin- cipal biographer Mr. Curtis might have said | with truth that we had resorted to the argu- mentum ad hominem. But Mr. Webster is too resplendent a legal luminary to shine with borrowed light. No jurist, dead or living, who has written on this question can be thought to rank as his superior. We might have quoted him with as much logical force, though not with quite the personal pertinence, against Mr. O'Conor as against Mr. Curtis. Mr. Webster's opinions on this difficult sub- ject derive peculiar weight from the fact that they were formed under a sense of official and professional responsibility—first as the chief adviser of President Tyler during the Rhode Island troubles, and afterward as counsel in the celebrated case before the Supreme Court. It became his duty to probe this question to the bottom, and the ‘opinion of the pro- foundest constitutional lawyer of the last generation has a value quite independent of the indorsement of any admirer. In Curtis’ ‘Life of Daniel Webster” (vol. ii., pp. 126-7) we find a letter written by Mr. Webster, in the height of the Dorr contro- versy, from which we take this statement:— “The government of the United States pledges itselt to maintain the existing consti- tution and laws till regularly changed.’’ This is an admirable specimen ot Mr. Webster's clear perception and apt language. It pene- trates to the very pith of the controversy. The de facto government of a State is to be supported by the President ‘till regulerly changed.”’ There are several ways by which the existing government of Louisiana might be “regularly changed,” but its displacement by the rude hand of violence is not one of them. One method of deposing State officers destitute of a valid title is by a writ of quo warranto or other suitable proceeding in the State courts. When a hearing has been had, and the Court issues its decree, force may then: be employed if the spurious officers resist. But Penn could not pretend in the recent affair at New Orleans that his followers were acting as a posse comitatus to enforce a judicialdecree. They were engaged in a mere act of unauthorized violence. An- other regular method of displacing an illegal de facto government is through the subse- quent elections. This method requires patience and delay, but it is thoroughly effec- tive if fair elections are permitted. Yet as usurpers in possession might repeat their usurpation and render their power per- petual, the federal constitution has provided a third method of dispossessing an illegal State government by giving Congress power to decide whether a State government is re- publican, and to replace it if itis not. This is the only remaining way of making a “regular change’’ in the existing Louisiana government, unless the people prefer to en- dure Kellogg until they can put him out by a new election. Mr. Curtis asks if it would have been the duty of President Tyler to uphold Dorr if Dorr had got illegal possession of the govern- ment of Rhode Island. That would depend on circumstances. If Dorr had re- mained in power, as Kellogg has, for nearly two years; if there had been meanwhile no other actual government in the State; if illegal violence had been stirred up against him, as was done against Kellogg, we jhave no doubt that it would have been the duty of the President, on proper application, to ‘maintain the existing government till reg- ularly changed,’’ and to forbear giving his official sanction to so dangerous a precedent as that mob violence is an appropriate pro- ceeding against officers illegally ‘in power. The duty of the President is defined in the federal statute. He is to employ force to sup- press an insurrection in a State “against the government thereof;” the law does not say “against the legal government thercof,”’ or ‘against the rightful government thereof,” but nakedly against the gov- ernment of the State; and from language Mr. Webster argued that the exist- ing or de facto government is always the one to be protected by the President ‘‘till regu- larly changed.’’ The President has no power except that with which Congress has expressly clothed him, which is limited to cases of do- mestic violence against the actual government of a State. If the government thus protected, owing to illegality, usurpation or any other cause, is not republican, that is a ques- tion which Congress has reserved to itself for its own decision, and has never delegated to the President. It was necessary to clothe him with the other to meet sudden emergen- cies requiring prompt action, but his duty is confined to maintaining the existing govern. meut for the time being. He must leave Con- gress to judge of the necessity of other inter- ference. Chief Justice Taney said in the Dorr case:-—‘‘It rests with Congress to decide what government is the established ono in a State; for, as the United States guarantees to each State a republican government, Congress must necessarily decide what government is established in a State before itcan determine whether it is republican or not.”” Applying this to Louisiana, Congress must recognize the Kellogg government as de facto before it can proceed to determine its validity. It is the simple duty of the President to main- tain order and save the State from anarchy until Congress takes the subject in hand, or until the existing government is in some other way “regularly changed." The most pungent passages iu Mr. Webster's great argument are those in which he exposes and ridicules the pretence that the Dorr affair was ever ade facto government. hd learned by an article elsewhere upon our local campaign that duty. This is upon the principle that the better the day the better the deed, for if by neglect of political duties on Sunday any immoral men should be elected, clearly their opponents would be responsible. Yesterday, therefore, was passed by these conscientious gentlemen in hotels and barrooms instead of {in the churches, and the situation was thor- oughly examined. The opinion was unan- elected, but on what constitutes goodness this | Tue Poxrrictans Yesterpar.—It will be | the politicians con- | sider wirepulling upon Sunday a religious H imous that none but good men should be | | Ohio. there was considerable difference, We cone | and they will be fully supported by the demer gratulate all these gentlemen upon their spirit of self-sacrifice in absenting themselves from bath to such disinterested service. Truly the laborer is worthy of his hire. Has Bismarck Retreated? If the statement in our cable despatch from Berlin to-day be confirmed—viz., that the charge against Count Von Arnim has dwindled down to one of insubordination only because Bismarck dreads the further spread of the scandal—then it is plain that the Prince made a grave blunder in ordering the arrest of the ex-Minister. The attention of the whole world has been directed to this bold and exceptional step, and it was naturally thought that the Count Von Arnim had been guilty of some terrible crime. These are not the days of the great Frederick, when military law ruled the State and when the imprisonment of dignitaries and envoys was nota matter of surprise. The arrest of Von Arnim was startling, and required an ex- treme situation to justify it either on the ground of policy or that of right, But if, after the parade of Count Von Arnim’s offences, the seizure of State papers, the efforts to again embroil France and Ger- many, the attempt to use his position as Am- bassador to promote the interests of an ultra- montane monarchy, Bismarck is alarmed at the prospect of the revelations which would follow a trial based upon these charges, he certainly is in no enviable position. His effort to browbeat the Count has failed, and prudence prohibits the execution of his threats. If Von Arnim, at the trial, which it is announced will take place three weeks hence, is to be accused only of insubordination, then Von Arnim is practically master of the situation. But it is rarely that Bismarck retreats, and his character is so well known that it seems almost impossible that he should have at- tempted to force his game with Bunt Von Arnim without calculating upon the results of a failure as well as those of success. Miss Cushman’s Farewell Engagement. At atime when our stage has been taken possession of by the sumptuously dressed ladies of the society drama the reappearance of a great actress is an event that must stir the hearts of all who look on the theatre as some- thing more than a place of elegant leisure. The return of Miss Cushman to the stage is an event of great importance. Under her influence grand pictures of human passion will replace the degrading ecnsationalism of the physical drama, and the theatre become once more the resort of peo- ple seeking intellectual amusement. Miss Cushman’s genius and power are so widely known and recognized that it is not necessary for us to bespeak for her the respectful attention of the public. This she will command and more—the love and admiration which must ever attach to a life of honorable endeavor and triumph. The great successes of this foremost American actress belong almost to another generation, but the fire of her genius has continued to burn brightly, while the great stars that once illumined the dramatio firmament have dropped one by one from view into the in- finite space of eternity. ' Miss Cushman, too, takes her farewell of the stage, and her present engagement will be the last opportunity afforded to the people of New York to wit- ness the great creations which have secured for Miss Cushman whatever immortality the stage can give—a resting place in the memory of mankind with the Bettertons, the Siddonses, the Rachels, the Keans and the Macreadys. The disappearance from our stage of such a noble and commanding figure will leave a gap which must long remain unfilled. The public will not fail to mark their appreciation of the great artist who in her old age bids adieu to the scene of her triumphs in all the ripe maturity of her genius. Time, which has withered all else, seems but to have mellowed her intellectual gifts, and though the snows of winter have fallen on her brow she preserves the fulness of dramatic power which ordivarily belongs only to the earlier years of life. ‘The three characters chosen for representation are Queen Katharine, Lady Macbeth and Meg Merrilles. In all three Miss Cushman has won world-wide fame, and it is peculiarly appropriate that she should select those réles in which she achieved renown for her farewell engagement. We have no doubt that the public will pay its tribute of homage in @ manner worthy of the great actress, and that she will carry with her into her retire- ment substantial proofs of the public favor. The Financial Question in the West- ern Elections. We think it a great exaggeration tor the republican press to represent the democratic victories in Ohio and Indiana as a triumph of inflation and repudiation. It is true that the democratic platforms in those States give color to such representations ; but platforms go for little against facts. In Indiana tho most splendid success of the democracy was in the Third Congressional district, which elected Michael Kerr “py two thousand ma- jority. Mr. Kerr rejected and scoffed that part of the State platform which favored financial heresies, and yet he made the most brilliant and successful canvass of any candi- date for Congress in Indiana. If inflation and Pendletonism were the popular issues in Indiana Mr. Kerr should have been the weak- est, instead of the strongest, candidate in that State. A part of his strength is, of course, dus to his personal char- acter, which is highly esteemed; but he is one of the soundest and most outspoken men in the country on the whole range of financial questions. So, too, in Ohio, the most brilliant and remarkable democratic vic- tory was won in the Twentieth Congressional district, where Paine, the democratic candi- date, was a pronounced anti-inflationist and anti-repudiationist. Had these been tho popular issues inthe West Paine and Kerr should have been deteated or have stood low- est on the list of successful candidates, instead of leading the canvass in their respective States. The position of Senator Thurman should count for something in the politics of He is the ablest democrat in public life, and he is a well-known opponent of the financial heresies which found expression in the democratic platform of his State. most influential democrats who have been elected to Congress in Ohio and Indiana are totally opposed to all wild schemes of finance, The | cratic members from the Eastern States. A Day of Doctrinal Discourses. The pulpits yesterday were not graced by so mapvy Episcopal robes, Dr. Robertson, the Bishop of Missouri; Dr. Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana, and Dr, Williams, Lord Bishop of Quebec, being the only divines of superior dignity who delivered discourses, Most of the sermous were of the doctrinal kind, even Mr. Beecher and Mr. Frothingham confining themselves to the discussion of principles. That the former should discuss individualism in the Church and the latter the inseparabil- ity of goodness and happiness are as charac- teristic in their way as that Father Salter should insist upon the real presence of God in the sanctuary and the sacrament at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. We can scarcely give more than a catalogue of the discourses, which is the less to be regretted since in each case the title of the sermon indicates the argument The Rev. Dr. McGlynn, at St. Stephen's church, in Twenty-eighth street, preached upon the parable of the unmerciful servant, entorcing the duty of the forgiveness of ine juries; Dr. Wild, at the Methodist church in Seventh avenue, spoke of God’s supreme love for sinners; at St. Mark’s church Dr. Vinton took issue with the Darwinian theory; Dr. Warren, at St. John’s Methodist church, discussed the question raised by Professor Tyndall as to whether prayer would prove efficacious in set ting aside natural laws, and Dr. Snodgrass, at the Phillips Presbyterian church, in Madi- son avenue, chose as his subject God's love tor the Church. Even Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, confined himself to the lesson of St. Stephen’s martyrdom, though perhaps he offended somewhat against taste in saying the apostle was stoned because of ‘a rousing sermon’’ he had just preached. There were only two exceptions to the general rule of doctrinal teaching, that of the Rev. R. 8. MacArthur, of the Calvary Baptist church, who chose botany as his subject, and of the Rev. Dr. Fulton, who mixed a little politics with a dis course upon stealing. Yesterday was indeed a day of doctrine to the churches. Tue Grant Wevprnc.—The ladies especi- ally will be pleased with our letter from Chicago to-day, as it gives the latest news of the marriage of the President’s son next Tuesday. Who is Mr. Honore, the father of the bride, and what he has done; his stand- ing as a citizen; how Lieutenant Colonel Grant first met Miss Honore, and when he proposed; the arrangements for the wedding; the fortunate clergyman who is to officiate; the names of the bridesmaids—these and other important ,matters are fully detailed. The trousseau alone remains a mystery, but of the wedding dress a vague though exciting idea is given by our correspondent. Axasxa does not seem a good place to go to, according to the report of special agent El liott, a summary of which we give to-day, That gentleman suggests several important changes in the government system, and ob. jects to the effort made to induce Icelanders to settle in the Territory. Puget Sound is a better place, he thinks, but Alaska is hardly worth the seven millions that we paid the Czar. The Czar can only regret that bargain on the same principle of the Chatham street merchant, when he exclaimed, ‘‘O mein Gott ! Tis ruined! I sold a $3 coat for $20, when I might have got $25 !"’ A Genznat Rezaction.—The democrats have elected the whole Congressional delegation in West Virginia. Is it that long expected and long, long delayed ‘tidal wave?’ We shall know when New York and Pennsylvania are heard from in November. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mommsen is travelling in Hungary in searoh of Roman inscriptions. Skinner keeps a hotel in Chicago. name to Keep a hotel with. Mr. F. S. Chantfrau, the comedian, yesterday arrived at the Astor House, The Burgundy vintage is good for fine wine, for the lower grades a poor crop. In Vienna a second Arctic expedition, to sail next summer, is in preparation, Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, left this city for Washington last evening. Captain R. F. Ward, of Governor General Duffe- Tin’s staff, 18 sojourning at the Brevoort House. Emile de Girardin will take charge of the jour, nal La France, apparently without abandoning La Livert’. M. Guizot lived to fnish his “History of France,” after all, ‘The fifth and last volume wili shortly go to press. In Tripoli the plague is so severe this year that arepetition of its famous passage into Europe is apprehended. Captain Philip Walker, of the Irish team, ar- rived in this city yesterday from Canada, and is at the Windsor Hotel. Mgr. Dupanioup has given up Chambord, and now he is no longer called the Bishop of Orleans, but the Bishop of the Orleanists. Guilford Onslow is prepared to bet his soul that the claimant is the real Tichborne. This {¥ not re garded 03 a very great wager. The family of General Sherman leave Washing: ton to-day, escorted by Mr. John Sherman, Jr., for New York, en route for St. Louis, Peaches are cultivated at Montreuil especially for the Paris market, and this year the crop summed Up 60,000,000 of peaches, valued at $400,000, Edwin De Leon contributes to the Southern Magazine, of Baltimore, a series of papers on the “Ruin and Reconstruction of the Southern States,” The London Daily News discusses the third term and holds that “General Grant may probably be as good a candidate as any other man of third rate ability.” The Marquis de Beaufillan, aged 101 years, died lately at his residence, Rue Geraudot, Parts, Twenty years old in the Retgn of Terror, anc uved to know the Commune ! ‘The first actually complete edition of the worka of Eugene Scribe is now appearing in Paris in fifty volumes. Tis prolife dramatist wrote upward of 400 plays, and died in 1861. Commodore John Guest, Commander James A, Greer, Captain Jonn C, Beaumont and Medtew Director R. T. Maccoun, United States Navy, are quartered at thé Metropolitan Hotel. Two gentiemen, described by tne Figaro a, “well known,” quarrelled Mercely at the exhidi- tion in Paris of a tattooed man, whom one of them deciared was only paiuted. Cards were exchanged and a duel ts imminent over this droli dispute, “They have lied about it!" This was what the late Emperor of France said in regard to the ag counts of the origin of the war, and the Bonaparte ists have just published in Paris a “dossier with documents to establish how villanously numeroug are the falsehoods on that subject, It has a fine morai sound that report that Samp son has been removed irom tne financial editors ship of the London Times for his relations with “Lite Emma; but the moral emfect would be better if his operations of that character had no’ been somewhat notorious in London for many years. Tt is a good