The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1874, Page 8

Ll 8 "NEW YORK HERAL ——__--_—- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR . All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Ginza. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NORBOW. WOOD'S MUSEUM, OO Iniructh. street THE LIVE P.M; closes at 4:30 P.M. EAST P. M2; closes at 10: P. M. Lucille corner of at 2 KE, .; closes at 10 45 PARK EB, between Jwenty-first and Twenty-second . ate P. M.; Closes at 10:30 P, M. Broadway, Streets. GILDED AC ‘Mr. Jobn T, Raymon THEA MIQUE No. 5M Broadway.—VARLATY, ato P.M. rm closes at 10:30 STEI Fourteenth street —#i closes at 10 P.M, Frede Li, CARE, at8 P.M; GERMANL THEATRE, Fourteenth stree.—%d& SERIOUS FAMILY, at3 P.M; closes at 1U 0 P. My BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue — MACBETH, atS#.M.; cioses at 10:3) P.M. Miss Cush man. E, POOR YOUNG WAL Broadway.-THE kK r POM. Miss Ada Dyas, MAN, ats I. M.; clase Mr. Montague. ACADEMY UF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—ltalian Opera—[L TROVATORE, at SP. M.; closes at 1) P.M, Mile, Heilbron, Miss Cary, Carpi, Del Puente, Fiorint. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between ce and Houston streets. —THE DLLUGE, at $F. M.; closes at 11 P.M. The Kiralty Family. Twenty-cighih sire OR, TH: DOUBLE WLEDUI ats P.M. Miss Fanny Dave James. MRS. CONW LADY AUDLEY’. P.M. Mrs, Bowers, J. .; Closes at I ort, Miss Sara Jéwett, Louis Ss BROUKLYN THEATRE. T, at SP M.; closes at 10:30 Collom. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street. between Broadway aod Fifth avenue.— VARUSTY, at 8 P.M. )PE*A HOUSE, BRYAN’ West Twenty-third stre MINSTRELSY, &c.,ats P.M; closes at 0 PM. Dan Bryant. METROPOLITAN THEATRE No,s85 Broadway. —VARLELY, at $F M} closes at 10 | TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.—VARIE P.M. ; closes at 10 P. M. es SAN FRAN u MINSTRELS, Pa roadway, corner ol Iwentv ninth stree.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at P. M.; cioses at 10 P.M. LYCF HEATRE, Fourteenth street and sixth avenue.—ROMEO AND JULIBT, at8P. Mj c.oses at 10:15 P.M. Mass Nelison, Mr. Barves. Peed AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ird avenue, between Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBLILON. ides COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-titth street —STORM OVER PARIS dnd M&S. JAKLEY'S WAX WORKS, ut 5:30 F. M. and 745 P.M SOMERV Fourteenth street and LOOKUUT MOUNTAIS. QUA ULS. GALLERY, Filth avenue.—BATTLE OF Mr. Walker. RUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, October 25, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabil ies are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, foggy and rainy. Wau Srreer Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket closed firm in all of its departments. Money was easy at 2} per cent. on call loans, and gold steady at 110} a 110. Tae Rrrvausrs are getti , into the shadow of the Episcopal Convention, and are threat- ened with a total eclipse. Ovr Crry Cuurcnzs, with favoring skies, will be well attended to-day. Full fall opening. Nor Sare—The Washington safe burglary, from the present appearances of the investi- gation. Woopen and Povurice Pavements.—Dr. Hamilton writes to the Board of Health that they should be taken up and carted off. Tue Ocrosrr Ecurrse of the moon was | very fine, but in November, the astrologers say, we shall have another sort of eclipse, which will be finer. It is a good year for eclipses. A Beavrirun S1cat—Tho fleet of ocean steamers which went down through the Nar- | rows yesterday afternoon, and out on The giaa Watgrs of the dark blue sea. But the collision between the Adriatic and the Parthia was decidedly dangerous. Usvorrunats Lovistana.—I'rom our special despatches from New Orleans it would appear that Kellogg and his supporters are preparing and resolved to carry the approaching State election by registrations, disfranchisementa, judicial decisions, ala Durell, and bayonets, And yet the White Leaguers are not satisfied, Ix Imaty the administration is urging the cause of reform upon the people, while here the people are pushing for reform in the ad- ministration. But the aim of the proposed Italian reformers is rather to strengthen the administration than the people, while here the people think that eight years is enough for any administration. Amenican Dramatists AND Manacers.—In- telligent and sincere efforts to improve the dramatic stage we are always glad to, aid, for | we agree with Bacon that the stage is one of } the few great methods of educating the peo- | ple. We are inclined to believe that this | is the spirit in which Mr. Bronson | Howard, Mr. Augustin Daly and another | theatrical celebrity, each of whom ad. | dresses us to-day, desire to labor, but their letters are not its best possible expres | sions. We do notagree with Mr. D uly that the press discourages the production of o nal American plays; nor with another con tribatcr that the “Gilded Age’ and the “Qc. toroon”’ are the only two American dramas. Managers and authors both care more for im- mediate guceess than for a slow but perma- nent triumph, and this is the great reason— not the hostility of the press—why the Ameri- | ean stave has no worthy literature of its own. | hear sixth avenue.—NEGRO | The Condition ef the City Finances— Our Annual Expenditures. The interest felt in the approaching elec- tion should not be permittted to render the citizens of New York indifferent to the im- portant subject now occupying the attention of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The charter requires that the budget contain- ing the first or provisional estimate of the amount required for the expenses of govern- ing the city for the ensuing year sball be made up some time between the Ist day of August and the Ist day of November in each year. This provisional estimate may be sub- sequently altered by the Board of Aldermen, subject to the approval of the Board of Appor- tionment or by the action of the latter Board itself; but experience has shown that it is never materially changed after ithas once been adopted; hence the law wisely provides ample time for its first consideration. This year the budget for 1875 has only just been taken up, and as the date fixed for its adoption will arrive before the day of election there is somo danger that it may be allowed to pass without proper scrutiny. We desire, therefore, to draw the attention of the taxpayers and of the members of the Board of Apportionment to some points that require consideration. The last financial statement made by Com troller Green showed the bonded debt of the city on September 1 to be one hundred and fifty-three million dollars, including revenue bonds to the amount of fifteen millions. As these latter would be paid out of the incoming taxes the actual bonded debt was one hundred and thirty-eight millions. To this must be added the outstanding claims against the city, or, as it is called, the floating debt, which is said to amount to about twenty mill- ions, making the public liabilities at the pres- ent time one hugdred and fifty-eight million dollars. A portion of this debt, say on an average twenty million dollars, has fallen due each year for three years past, and about the same amount will become due and payable in 1875. If our finances were in a healthy con- dition and managed by competent hands we should provide for the payment of these debts, or at least of a good proportion of them, each year by taxation, as well as for the ordinary expenses of running the city government. This is the more necessary since, in the ordinary course of events, we are compelled to add every year to the debt for the prosecu- tion of those public works which are necessary to the growth and prosperity of the city, and which it would be false economy not to prosecute. Instead of Going this, however, | we have been paying off an amount equal to five cents on the dollar of our indebtedness as our bonds fall due, and have been postponing the payment of the balance of ninety-five cents on the dollar toa future day. At the same time the amount of our tax levy has gone on increasing year after year, until it has at last reached proportions that threaten ruin to every property owner in the city. We do not now care to discuss who is liable | for all this increase of debt and taxation, or into this dangerous “bridging over’’ policy. It is enough that we are paying the ruinous | interest of seven per cent on the greater por- | | tion of our bonds and stocks and driving befora us year after year a load of debt which must in the end prove too heavy for us to man- age. It is the duty of prudent citizens and of those who have authority over the city finances to look the facts squarely in the face and to find a remedy for the eyil. It must be clear fo every business man that the annual budget, the basis of the tax levy of the year, | is the foundation to which we must look for | the commencement ofa desirable reform. | The estimate for the year should show the taxpayer clearly that the government is eco- nomically administered, and that proper pro- vision is made for the payment of the public ‘indebtedness as it falls due, or, at least, of so much of it as the city itself is bound to pay. The estimates for the expenses of the govern- ment were in 1872, thirty-four million dollars; in 1873, thirty-one millions, and in 1874, thirty- to nearly thirty-nine million dollars. four years, out of about eighty million dollars | of indebtedness falling due we pay less than | five millions, inclading the amount for re- | demption of debt included in the present | | budget. Nor must it be forgotten that, out- | side the tax levy, we pay some four million | dollars for the construction account of the | | Central Park and for the whole business of the | | Dock Department, not included in the budget, | a large portion of which belongs to the legiti- | | mate annaal expenses of the city government | | and should properly be raised by taxation. At the. root of this evil lies the political management of the several departments of the | city government. in a majority of instanced use their positions to promote their individual interests, and re- gard their offices as bestowed upon them for | the purpose of making political capital for | | themselves or for their parties -out of | | them. Very few". de artments are con- | | ducted simply as bis nase ffices and | managed as a merchant would i ge the | | affairs of his firm. The people are themselves ina great measure responsible for this; for | the public offices are almost daily crowded | | with politicians and others demanding or beg- | Tho heads of departments | ging employment for their friends and parti- | | sana. Woe to the head of a department who | | should steadily turn a deaf ear to these appli- | | cations and make reply that he had as many | | empioy(s under him as it was proper for the | city to pay. This system of dispensing pat- | Tonage for party or personal purposes has | | grown to be so common in the public service | that the heads of departments have gone on swelling their demands more and more year after year, until the municipal offices have become but little better than asylums for the needy. It is time that a thorough reform should be commenced. It is idle to cut off a | few thousand dollars from this or that appro- priation. Such picayune economy does not touch the root of the evil. More than | this is needed. The departments should all be put upon 4 business basis; not a dollar should be appropriated that is not absolutely reqnired for the proper | discharge of the duties of the office to which it ig given, and the heads of departments l understand that their political patron- must 26 longer be dispensed at the public | expense. A glance at the printed estimates shows the outrageous character of many of the departmental demands, The Finance De- partment, besides other petty pickings, asks , two bnndred and ninety-two thousand dol- | shor ag through whose incapacity we have been led | five millions. This year the estimate swells | In the | | in the Long Island ‘ars for salaries, which would be amply cov- ered by one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Law Department demanded two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a fund out of which to pay favored lawyers namod by the Comptroller to defend suits against the city. The appropriation for this pur- pose would be ample at fifty thousand dollars. The Department of Public Works, although reduced over a million dollars a year from its cost under the old régime, can well afford to give up one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the amount estimated for 1875. The Department of Public Parks should be reduced trom nine hundred and thirty thousand to half a million. This should be ample for the proper main- tenance of the Park in its present condition, and it is good enough as it is for five or six years to come. The pretence that laws have been passed for the construction of unneces- sary and costly works for which the present managers of the department are not responsi- ble is an idle excuse for extravagant expendi- tures, for no law can compel the waste or needless outlay of money, Tho works that are not perishable can be discontinued until more prosperous times. The Department of Charities and Correction should be cut down four hun- dred thousand dollars. The Commissioners can save this amount by purchasing supplies honestly. The Street Cieaning Bureau should be reduced three hundred thousand dollars. The extortionate demands of the courts should be denied and the appropriation cut down to the strict limit of the law. This is the sortof relief that the Board of Apportion- ment should give the overburdened taxpayers, and it is tg be hoped that Mayor Havemeyer will signalize his etiroment from office by the advocacy of such a sweeping and just reform. The Eclipse of the Moon. The gloomy sky yesterday afternoon caused a general fear that the eclipse would be itself eclipsed; but when evening came the moon, round, bright and unclouded, rose in the east above the roofs and glittering steeples of the city. She looked perfectly unconscious of what was so 600n to happen to her, though thousands who watched her travelling through the sky looked upon it as rather a serious affair. When midnight was near the sky was thinly veiled by light mists, and doubts of the complete success of the celestial display were renewed, yot at last it was universally admitted thet this, like all the other Henaup sensations, was founded upon absolute truth, and completely justified the attention we have bestowed upon it. Of the progress of the obscuration of the satellite and the singular changes in its ap- pearance we give a full account. The trans- formation of the disk which is so familiar to us into something sinister and strange was eo gradually effected that none could tell its beginning or end. It was like the sunlight moving on a wall, rapidly, as it seems, if we turn from it for a minute, but imperceptibly if we watch it. The accuracy of the scientific calculations of the eclipse, we need not say, was completely in- dorsed by the moon herself. She acted with all the promptitude that could have been | asked, and the earth and sun were also per- fect in their parts, having, indeed, rehearsed ‘ them many times during five or six million years. Besides the report we give of the peculiarities of the eclipse, we publish engravings of photographs of the moon at various periods of the obscuration. | These lunar portraits are exact. They show the moon precisely as she was at these times, and how tar the shadow of the earth extended over her mountains and extinct craters, and they will be recognized as accu- rate representations by those who carefully observed the phases of the beautiful phenom- enon. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Again we come to notice the topics on which our pastors and their assistants have spent a week's careful thought, and which, having matured them, they will to-day pre- sent in all the beauty of diction and fer- vor of oratory that they can command. It is assumed by many persons that there isa natural and logical conflict between science and Christianity; but this is evidently a false assumption, else Dr. Thompson would not undertake to prove that modern science testi- fies to Christianity, nor would Mr. Shippen attempt to set forth and enforce the divinity and suthority of Christ and of Christianity and inculcate faithtulness to the same, nor Dr. Fulton insist that it pays to serve Ghrist, vor Mr. Kennard call the words of Jesus golden and contend for their | acceptance and obedience to them. There are matters of peculiar and special importance to the Episcopal and Baptist churches on which some of our pastors will give forth their minds. The question of ritualism, whose grave the General Conven- tion seems to be digging deep and wide, is one of great moment to Dr. Ewer and men of i advanced views. Hence he will to-day in- icate the difference between what he is plaased to denominate pulpit religion and sacrn.ental religion. Bishop Tuttle will give | some devils of what the Church is doing and nrast yet ox” for Utah, and Dr. Rylance will show the folly of perverting the forbearance of God. Dr. Fulton, having had a triumph, as he looks at it, over’e)?@9 Communion heresy Baps.'st Association last week, will endeavor to justify she rebuke given to its representatives, Lee averds ond Marcy avenne churches. But if the act of we a666- ciation was in itself just it hardj;,needs eny more arguments to justify it, and the Doctor's effort only serves $0 cast doubt on that act. Dr, will describe Abraham's departure from Ur | of the Chaldees toward Canaan as illustrative of the right kind of faith in a believer, Mr, | Pullman will speak of the open way of regen- eration, Mr. Gunse of the sacred side of trouble, Mr. Paynter of the nature of the } sacramental supper end the synibolical laver and coverings of the Jewish Tabernacle, and | Dr. Porteous, of Brooklyn, will utter some forei« | bie words against the scandal mongers in the eburches. And from these our readers will | be able, we trust, to choose that part which best suits each. Orresponren and Rrrorm—Wickham and | teform-—~ Wales and reform—Swinton and re- form, ‘You pay your money and you take your choice.” ‘Us four and no more.” NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1874.—QUADR ' Deems*s, UPLE SHEET. ‘ A Row on Olympus. Mars and Apollo were never on good terms, according to mythology, and therefore it might have been expected that Mr. Morrissey, as the God of War, would not get along very well with Mr. Creamer. It is s matter of rec- ord that when these two gods met at the Olympic Hotel, to take their nectar, they al- ways went to frowning and sometimes came to words. There wasa natural jealousy be- tween these two swell deities, as they both wanted the same prize. Mars thought that he was the strongest, but Creamer, or Apollo— it isthe same thing—considered himself the smartest. Our political Olympus now shakes, not be- cause Jove nods, but because all the gods and goddesses have got into a heavenly row. Be- sides fierce Mars of Tammany and Apollo, who has became a bolter or a thunder bolter, all the deities have rushed into the field, John Kelly is the Vulcan of the canvass, and forges weapons offensive and defensive, swords, shields, spears and helmets, for the legions. Mr. Hayes, it is thought, will run well, and 1s our Mercury, a very useful personage in a po- litical campaign. Then we have that young Hercules, General Patrick Jones, who tome’ with his olub to do battle with these toss. More for their protection than for his own he approaches with the good look- ing Apollo and Bacchus, Ottendorfer, the god of the vine-wreathed Germans. If this Hercules could cleanse the Augean stable of our politics we should relieve him of the perform- ance of his other labors. Mr. Wickham is the immaculate Diana’ of the Tammany party, to whom it points with pride when reproached with the wild doings of its otber deities. “Yes,” the party mdy say, “Mars is a little gay, and Jimmy Mercury is sly, but Dina is above suspicion. We have nomi- nated Diana as a guarantee of tho perfect purity of our purposes.” Mr. Murpby con- templates these Olympian figures from the walls of the Custom House, a new Minerva, with Collector Arthur by his side, a young Minerva whom he is bringing up in the ways of wisdom. Old wornout Saturn, weary and dethroned, watches far off from Blackwell's Island, and Havemeyer, from the infernal gloom which now pervades the Mayor's office, looks out like Pluto. Thus all the gods seize their arms and leap {nto the field. Og Ove side are arrayed Mars, Vulcan, Mercury, Diana and Minerva, and on the other, equally fierce, are Hervules, Apollo and Bacchus, with hosts of other smaller deities to help them, such as the Muses, the party journals; the Graces, the deparynent clerks; the Furies, Mr. Matsell and the poliv¢; which tells its readers “Why Waterbury is John Kelly's Enemy’—namely, he borrowed money which he has never paid. The most seasonablo and sensible article that has yet appeared on the temperance question is in the Boston Pilot, which, in a word, recommends the four hundred temperance societies con- nected with the National Union to counteract the drinking saloons by opening as pleasant temperance saloons wherever the temperance men have an organization, The suggestion is elaborated in the Pilot, and is well worthy the consideration of temperance organizations. Tho Christian Leader reads a correspondent an essay on the resurrection of the body and indirectly claims Tyndall as a Universalist. The Christian Intelligencer speaks approvingly of the Conference of Old Catholics at Bonn and its results, and expresses the hope that the secular and religious journals of the country will omit the details of the Brooklyn scandal when it comes {or trial before the courts. The Jewish Times thinks the Catholic Church is wise in occasionally putting a miracle or so in its scenes, but the Times thinks the churches had better look out and see whether they can- not stand without thig belief in miracles, for they will be discarded by and by. Tho Mes- senger ig delighted at the ‘“send-off’’ of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, which may well delight the hearts of its projectors, and the Hebrew Leader declares that religion en- hances every employment, utters a word in season to voters and gives sensible advice to men in general and in particular not to be in ahburry. We will, therefore, take it easy. The Seymour Case. The disappointment (it would be inaccurate to call it the defeat) of Dr. Seymour in that hybrid body known as the ‘‘House of Clerical and Lay Deputies” of the Anglo- American Church is a benefit rather than a disaster to the party to which he belongs. His adversaries, who now have great pride so far as it caters to their society, in the body to which they belong, will have reason to rue the day when they did this deed of wrong. We know nothing of Dr, Seymour personally or professionally, and do not care a brass far- thing—if we may venture on 60 homely a mode of measurement—about him or his opinions. But we like fair play. Everybody who speaks the English language does, and we do not think he has had it. If, like the Church of Rome, which in this, as in every- thing, shows its high worldly wisdom, the Anglo-Americans kept all their councils se- cret, no one could have complained of what has been in this instance done. The House of the Harpies, the repeaters and ballot box fountains, and the Fates, the election officers, All of these will take part in this terrible battle of the gods, which has already begun, and their celestial ichor will flow as freely as their stronger liquor before 0) conflict ends, And why do they dispute? Only for the conquest of the fairest goddess of all, for the Venus which rose from the blue waters of the bay, the beautiful city, who, possessing neither weapons nor armor of de- fence, is always the prize for which the rival Olympians contend. Jupiter alone takes no part in the war; but perhaps some time these quarreling deities will discover in the voz populi the stern and commanding tones of their supreme master. Some people may object to this confusion of politicians and Grecian deities, and say that New York politics, and when we reflect upon the situation we are not sure but they are right. The Religious Press on Topics Cur- rent and Uncurfent. The Baptists speak through the Zvaminer and Chronicle about the dreary church debts which press down so many churches of the land, and again about the pretensions of the Episcopal Church, with its 255,000 Episco- palians swallowing up the 1,500,000 Baptists and the rest, and becoming the Church of America. Such pretensions, . it thinks, are worse than Fourth of July bundotitbe. The Baptist Weekly is not half pleased with its con- temporary, because of a law of incorporation for Baptist churches which it advocates, and which the Weekly conceives is illiberal auil' contracted. The Weekly also advocates the division of New York State into two or more denominational conventions by the State Convention which meets at Hor- nellisville this week. The Baptist Union utters itg warning voice against those who are at ease in Zion at this time, and indicates how every man may know whether he is in this condition or not. The Episcopalians, speaking through the Church Journal, contend for large toleration of opinions in the Church. It believes that “a Catholic Church must—unless it be mummy- swathed under an infallible Pope, like the Roman Church, or fossilized by its own past, like the Eastern—have large divergences of sen- timent and opimon in it and allow large room for individualism within the rock wall of the faith.’ The Hpiscopal Recorder, speaking also in the interest of the same body, and mani- testly, too, in the behoot of its doctrine of apostolic or Episcopal succession, makes light of Dr. Bacon's description of the organization of the first church in Salem, Mass., and the ordination of its first pastor by the imposition simply of the hands of a few godly people of the Church, The Recorder calls this ecclosi- astical Darwinism, and after this example has no doubt that men can be developed into any- thing without a creator, provided only certain particles come together by electric affinity. The Christian Union, representing perhaps the Congregationalists, discusses the compul- | sory Education law, which goes into effect on | tho 1st of January, and from the enforcement of which it expects great and important re- | g tits. The Independent, while discussing pouw.s of divergence and of agroement be- | tween denominations, takes occasion to fire a | thies as earnestly as he would affiliation ' broadside“#t the now defeated candidate for | to Buddha, or the Scarlet Lady, or any kin- the diocesan%2onors of Illinois, who, it says, | would be the iat man its editor would choose for that office. ‘He is,” it adds, “about as | objectionable a man‘?$ could be found in the | ' Episcopal communion’s, His sympathies are | completely with the extrewe ritualists.”” Aud | | examples of this sympathy ire given. The Catholics speak their mind through the | Tablet, which places itself in mourning for the | late Bishop McFarland, while it discusses “{nfallibility,” ‘The Month of the Moly | Angels” and ‘‘The Waste Lands of Ireland."’ I, They sveak through the Zreqnan's Journal. |; stuffers; the Naiads, who dwell by the beer’) their doings. they do not believe there is any god at all in | their habitual reserve adds to the dignity of But the Lower House, with its ‘oda efforts to democratize itself, its lay dele- gation, ns votes per capita, and by orders, in- - ita exceptional action, criti- vites even, In | ‘ cism from outside Hence, when it goes into ~articularly when occasional secret sessioti, » “aual ch; the object is the scrutiny of indy, oy misgiving as to fair play which it.docs not require much to stimulate. This sozt of doubt is intensified to an almost morbid. activity mately condemned asking to be heard i his own behalf, and that request reiused. So much for the case so far as Dr. Seymour seen’S Bishops always sits with closed doors, and | acter and conduct and opinions, ‘het Tis > when we find, asin this case, the paaty ulti- | Old Traths Newly Discovered, The other day the Lvening Post informed the President that he had imposed upon the republican party ‘a barbarous alternative.” This is explained to be ‘suicide or his re- nomination—to destroy itself or to be de stroyed."’ This is very true, yet it is only within a short time that we have found it declared in the able columns of our neighbor. It adds, however, that the sacrifice the party will have to make will be compensated for by the lesson it will teach the country—‘‘t will give President Grant,” the Post says, “the unenviable distinction of being the first and the last of our Chief Magistrates who has presumed to look upon a third term to lust after it’? We think both the sacrifice and the lesson would have been spared the party and the country had the danger been earlier admitted by the Post and other republican papers of equal influence with its party. Again, our contemporary says:—‘If President Grant, however, designs to make this New York eleo- tion a Presidential instead of a gubernatorial election, he is pursuing just the course to ac- complish his purpose, And we venture to predict that if he continues his present taci- turn policy he will be satisfied with tho result, but upon the principle that people are gen- erally satisfied when ‘they have got enough.’ "* Thus we learn that if the republican party has no other way to get rid of Grant for a third term it will kill itself to effect his dowa- fall, like a cruelly beaten horse which, driven to desperation, springs over a precipice with its rider. These are the grave prophecies of a republi- can journal to-day. Eighteen months ago, when the Heratp uttered them, it was said they were but ‘moonshine,’ “midsummer madness,” “an insult to common sense.”” It is a pity, and we say it sincerely, that it has taken so long for the republican press to dis- cover that it was the truth we uttered. But it is hard for party journals to discover or to confess the covert plottings and even the un- | patriotic aims of their political leaders. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Richard T. Merrick, of Washington, ts stop> ping at the Gilsey House. General George Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, has | arrived at the Everett House. | Colonel W. L. Yrenholm, of South Carolina, is | registered at the Windsor Hotel. | Judge J. A. Campbell, of Louisiana, 1s among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Baroness Solomon Rothschild is about to build a splendid house in Paris in the style of the days of Louis XVI. | Mir Robert Cowtan 13 preparing for immediate publication “Canterbury trom 1774 to 1874—3 Com , tury of Gleanings,” * mw) Bayon von Bunsen, of the German Legation at Washington, has taken up nls residence at the | Westmoreland Hotel. ‘ Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Astor House from Bogton yesterday, and leit on the evening train jor Washington. : Mr. William Dorsheimer, the democratic candi- | date for Lieutenant Governor, arrived at the Gul- | Sey House last evening from his home at Buffalo. Verdi, upon the periormance in Paris of his mass lan he Sanzini, said, in the words of Henri SE aT pien une mease’—Paris is well | wortn a mas:. : One of Dundreary’s brothers visited Barclay & | perkins’ brewery and reporied that he had ‘‘beem to see the bwemin’; not, bwewin! the bear, but | pwewin’ the beer.” Amelia B. Edwards, novelist, will next appear in the Ole ofa traveller, as author of “A Journey to be the victim of this sort of injustice. There is, however, another personal aspect of the matter, of which whispers only have reached the world without. Dr. Seymour is ‘‘Dean’’ of the Theological Seminary, elected to that post by the constituted authorities of the Church. He supplanted in this function the Rev. Dr. Forbes, and one of the elements of the opposition to the new Bishop arose from this very relation, We do not pretend to say that to this Dr. Forbes lent himself. There were obvious reasons why he should not, and we do not believe he did. But anti-ritualistic, pro-Catholic imputations come with a very bad grace from this quarter. Less than thirty years ago the Rev. John M. Forbes was rela- tively a more advanced churchman than poor Seymour is now said to be. Pusey and Webb and Newman were his trinity; Manning and Faber his twin idols, drifted by a most fiatural process into the Church of Rome, became a priest, and, under influences we shall not pretend to analyze, drifted out again, and as a reward for the atability of his doctrinal views and professional practicos was ,intrusted with the task of ligion in which he* had been educated, from which he had apostatized and to which he had returned. It beaftthe Prodigal Son all hollow. Now it seems to us it is hardly fair that the friends of so conceded a theological girouette should combine to:punish o rival and thies and affections are directed toward one of the several points to which the versatile vein of Dr. Forbes once tended. Yet this seems to have been to a certain extent the case. But again, disguise itas we may, it was a ‘“party”’ victory. There was one reason among many others why confirmation instead of rejection should have been the re- sult, but this blind party feeling refused to consider. With one exception tho delegates, clerical and lay, from the diocese where Dr. Seymour was to preside, supported him. Local sentiment ought to be respected; but here it was not. What cared “party politicians’ (we speak in a thoologi- cal sense) like Mr. William Welsh, of Penn- sylvania, who led the opposition and made the most inflammatory speeches against the initiate Bishop, or Mr. Isaac Harkhurst, whose anti-papistical opinions date as far back as 1854, when he ran as Know Nothing candi- date for Governor—what care they for the local sentiment of Mlinois? Mr. Welsh pre- fers 9 Modoc or a Sioux any day to a ritualist, If he wero asked to what political party he belonged he would renounce party sympa- dred form of paganism, But, in church moat- ters, if ever there was a peftisart he is one, Being then a party victory in every séfse it is* perfeotly obvious it can have no substantial | effect within, as it certainly haa not outside the Church, It will stand by itself a fruitless triumph over an individual. The closesess of the voto shows there can be no coercive canonical legislation in the same direction, | Dr. Seymour is mortified, his friends | disappointed, and just as many ritualistic | churches will be endowed as ever and just as | dna few years he | instructing youmg men in that form of re- | successor whose only fault is that his sympa- | | ofa Thousand Miles Through Egypt and Nubia to } the Second Cataract of the Nile.’” Out in Nevraska they charg: the Governor with acce, ting @ bribe and pardoning a forger. Re- publica.” principles are still «dvanctng—but the people wi'o cannot comprenend virtue are indige ae and Swh.”¢tand submitted a boundary dis. pute tothe arbitem, (02 Ol Mr. Marsh, United states A he has decided it in favor Minister to Rome, &av y ‘i rae ot Italy. It involves’ '° Possession of the Alp Cavatrola in the Vattedaé | "The Publisners' Weekly telid yy ‘at “The Aw | thors? Publishers’ Company, wé s¢3% 18 not | founded on @ rock in taktag up the dip. "stition | of a natural enmity between authors and popu ers. ‘The latter are only too glad to got 00d books.” , At the “cremation party” which they Wad, the | other day at Breslau for the benéft of @ comva® tion of philosophers the liver of tae gentlemm™ who was burned up carried off the honors, It owt lasted all the other soft parts by turec-quarters of an hour. . Thor have found the tomb of a Druid, with the | Druid if tt, on the Moyatain Saint Odile, in Al- sace, atid ancient tionuments om the mountain hitherto thought to be parts of & Roman fortifica- tln. gre fow thought to gppertain to @ former Druidical place of worstup, In that letter in whic the Couns de Chambord requested his irieads to hold themsen’es in readt- ness “or any event,” be especially forbaay them to commit themselves to any recognition of the icf | tennate from which they could not witharsy”* This will increase publio confluence in the Sepe, tennate, J Just now the Paris police is actively investigating the trade ln “phiiters"—not the utensils for purt- | fying water, but potions for exciting the passion ol love, Infusions of five leaved clover gathered ; atmidnight on St. John’s day, and a preparation of toads and moss are in great favor. Ladies of the demi-monde are the best customers. It appears that in regard to the third term Gen- eral Grant bas been constrained to keep silence by his sense of delicacy and propriety. Isn’t it a great pity that his sense of delicacy and propriety Cid not also influence him in regard to Boss Shep- herd; Kellogg, of Louisiana, and other cases of that sort. Thomas Thurlow, a nephew of Lord Thurlow- died tn Engisnd last month, and the British puolie is relieved of its burdens to the extent of $60,000 ayear, He received pensions to that amount in consideration of the abolition by law of certain obsolete Offices formerly held by the Chancellor, hisuncle. By the statute abolishing the offices the emoluments were continued “for three irves,’" The Japanese government expresses its regret to the government of Germany for the murder of the German Vice Consul at Uakodadi by a Japanese subject; and it takes pleasure in explaining that the man of Japan bore no malice whatever toward his victim p mally, and had no complaint to make of his misconduct; but ho had been offended by a foreigner and he sallied our, armed with two swords, t take revenge on the first foreigner he should meet, and this was unfortunately the Vice Consul. M. Thiers has denied at Milan by an energetic letter that he ever regarded the politics of France as hostile to the destinies of Italy. He cone siders such @ Genial due perhaps to tho hospt- talities he receives. But the charge which has brought out this denial was made vy Figaro and ‘was that in the Corps Legislatit Thiers had blamed the berators of Italy and maintained that the saiety of France was in having small States for heighbors; and that charge was literally ana ex- yactly true, he last Wonder{ul canard a: to dynastic com. piléutione in Germany is as foliows:—Louis, of Bavaria, 18 to abdicate, His brother, Maximilian, is incapable and cannot mount the throne, bence it will fail to Prince Leopold, husband of the Ans« trian Princess Gisele, But Leopold has no great notion of Bavaria for @ kiagdom; moreover Bise marck has hold of him, and tn the hands of Bis- merck he is very soft ciay. He also will abdicate | many ritualistic ogremonive practiged. and willbe made King of Spain, while Bavaria, \ WU be “annexed” to the Gomiedaration,