The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND Ax® STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR MLONDOY OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HEPLD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. SubserPtions snd Advertisements will be recived and forwarded on the same terms 9 in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. pas ER ea, Pape THEATRE, -secbnd Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twen 30 P.M. rece CUBR AGE, ab BP. M.; closes at ‘Mr. John T. Raym EATRE COMIQUE, Bouse Broatwa}. ay anion ate P. M.; cloges at 10:59 STEINWAY H. Fourteenth street —BEGON Bee "CARE, at8P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. Frederic Maccabe. GBRMANIA THEATRE, Rye street.—LB. WESPE, at § P. M,; closes at BOOTH'S Lieto | rer of Twenty-third st and Sixth avenue — MAOBeRh, ats? ‘M.; close: WP. |. Miss Cush ATRI THe os CNG SE ie A poor YOUNG Pho a i ; Closes at 100 P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, Mr. fe Montag ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourt: strect.—Italian Opera—IL TROVATORE, at br. Doge ‘at WP. M. ue. Heilbron, Miss Cary, Carpi, Del Puente, Fiorini, NIBLO’S GARDEN, wy Prince and Houston streets, THE Pah ‘ML; closes at 11P. M. The Kiralfy roadway, ts “ f fTH AVENUE THEATRE, btn etre et and Broadway.—MOOROROFT; orate bocaLe V WEDDING. at 8 &. M.; closes at 11 ‘Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis re LYN THEATRE. 5 CdOses at 1030 MRS. CONWAY'S BROW LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET, P.M. Mrs. Bowers, J. ©. M ROBIN: ALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway sod Fifth avenue.— WARLBTY, at 2:30 P.M and 8 P.M. BRYANT’S OPE '*A HOUSE, West ae oe fre. near sixth avenne. ta apy ea Ee ¥, &c.,at8 P. M.; closes at 10 P, Mt. ry ant METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Fee 585 Broadway.—VABIE.Y, at 8 P.M; closes at 10 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Ko. 20 Bower, —VARiEY, at 2:30 P.M. and 8 P.M.; closes at SAN FRANCI>CO MINSTRELS, roadway, corn r of Twenty ninth street NEGRO Sines” atsP. M.; closes at 10 P.M. oo ‘gyros! Fourteenth str: avenue.—MUCH ADO Azour NOTHING, MSP} eiacss at 105 P.M. Miss Netison, Mr. Barnes. prin AN INSTITUTE, Third avenue, Iween Sixty. ee and Sixty-fourth iroots INDUSTRIAL EXHIBLIION, CoLossE M, Broadway, corner of Thi street —STORM OVER PARIS ane MES DARLEY 'S WAT WORKS, ate: P. Mand 7:45 P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of ‘Jhirtieth Street THB LIVE | PHANTOM, atl P. ML; closes at 430 P.M. east | LYNNE, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:0 P.M. Lucille Western. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 6% Brosdway.—VARIETY, at § P. AL; closes at 1045 LEXINGTON AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Fifty-elghth street and Lexington avenue.—sPr CULA- | FON, 868 P.M.; c.oses wt 104) PM. Mrs. Robert W. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Third avenue.—Circas and Menagerie. — TRIPLE SHEET New York, Tuesday, October 27, 1874, | From our or reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, | with possibly light rains. ‘Wax Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was without excitement. Prices were generally steady. Money and gold show no change. The tone of the street, however, is unsettled with reference to the future. Morz Documentary Reve.ations of a start- ling nature come from New Orleans. They are declared torgeries by Governor Kellogg. Tae Eriscopan Convention was bard at work yesterday on ritualism, and, though it proved a hard nut to crack, they cracked it. Tae Repvsiicans of New York carried in their Governor on a tidal wave rising above fifty thousand majority in 1872. But what is their prospect for 1874? They cannot exactly say, because this is a bad year for republican victories. GewenzaL Sauer is going to Chicago to see what can be done to save the city from de- struction again by fire, and to assist in pro- viding the ways and means for checking a fire on the spot, as we do itin New York. We wish him complete success in his responsible mission, Tue Savoranps, who have been annexed to France, appear to be pleased with the results which have come from the operation. The expression of the President of the French Council General of Savoy is hopeful for the cause of the democracy in Europe. Tae Aoricuurvrnan Lazorens’ Uston or Enauanp appears inclined to place its man- agement in communication with State emigra- tion societies’ representatives from America, with the view of directing the stream of emi- grant labor from Britain to particular loca- tions in the United States. Freperice W. Sewanrp, the son of the cele- brated American statesman, has been nomi- nated in the Seventh Assembly district. Heis a man who is entitled to even more than hered- itary honors, and whose own ments do not need the splendor of the name he bears. If more men of this stamp were sent to the Assembly it would be fortunate for the city and the State. Hammton Fisn, Jn, the son of the Secre- tary of Sta e, is renominated for the Assembly in Patnam county. Should a man of educa- tion, integrity, and intellect, be opposed for merely partisan reasons? We assure the people of New York that if they want good laws they must elect good legislators, and never were both needed more than now. Grome 8s Cauironnia, the land of gold and of wheat and “‘old rye," and oranges, figs and olives, and of the fat cattle on a thousand hills, and of the big trees of Mariposa and Calaveras, and of the wonders of Yosemite and of the premium grizzlies and sea lions, is yet of all lands the premium land for the vine and grape juice. For instance, the wine crop of a single county in our golden State, the county of Napa, this year, is estimated at a million gallons, or nearly two gallons of genuine wine for every inhabitant of the State. With such a a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1874.00 ADRUPLE SHEET. The Aspects of the Canress. We are coming thto the last days of the canvass, “Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble,” for never did Macbeth witches make more disturbance than the political witches who now dance around the seething caldron. The three sisters, Morrissey, Creamer and Murphy, pronounce their incantations and brew their hell-broth. Into the caldron fall the poison- ous ingredients. Slander, defamation, mis- representation, perjury, falsehood, libels, envy, hatred, jealousy, dark ambition, are all thrown in. A free people manifest themselves in flags and banners and pictures. Tho gnarled and oaken face of Centennial Dix looks out upon us from under the folds of the Amer- ican flag, and patriots are called upon to “rally” around the man who wanted to shoot the enemy of the sainted flag. Mr. Til- den's face never looked so handsome and statesmanlike as it does in highly finished wood cuts and lithographs in the cigar store windows, and wondering rural friends look at him as though he were a new comic singer or the latest tenor in the “star troupe” of Strakosch. Candidates who were never famous for personal beauty swing from flapping ban- ners in freshly painted comeliness. We never knew that Jimmy Hayes was an Adonis or Patrick H. Jones an Apollo until we saw them, gaudy, shining in yellow, red, pink and blue, idly swinging to and fro in the gentle breezes of these Indian summer days. This is the harvest time for the boys—the “rounders,” the “‘bummers,’’ the men who strike from the shoulder, the profeasional poli- ticians. They follow the new leaders as they followed the oldleaders. This istheir jubilee week. For them expectant candidates bleed and moaning office-holders pay ‘‘assessments.’’ Ambitious men now unbend and ‘‘love” the people. Politicians smile from house to house and pat the children, and discuss statesmanlike themes to crowded barrooms. For the thousandth time “the country will be saved.’’ For the thousand and twen- tieth time the real “reformers are coming into power.” For just now, with Heaven's gracious help, partisan papers teem with our virtues. One | journal tells us that if we do not indorse Boas Marphy’s machine there will be a new rebel- lion in the South. Another tells us that the | defeat of Boss Morrissey’s machine means that we are to be overwhelmed with the cor- ruptions of Grant’s administration, while still others tell us that Boss Creamer is the only salvation, Ob, friends, what is good and what is evil, and which of thsee incanta- with us in double sense? Is it reform at last, real reform, coming to us resolute, cold, stern and radiant, with retrenchment | like a star upon her brow, and in her hands the pruning knife of economy and thrift? Isit longed and prayed, or, after all, a phantom, a Banquo’s ghost, with gashes on the throatand sinister aspect in its dead eyes? Let us | listen with ear nearer the ground, and there | | sre other cries. Harsh voices come upon us, In every camp we hear contention and mu- tiny. Tammany chafes under the leadership ot the Siamese twins, Morrissey and Kelly. Its honest followers say aloud that between the rule of Tweed and his successors there is really no difference, except what we regard as the difference between an old broom and the new. The old broom is laid up in Black- well’s Island, the new one sweeps along in the direction laid down by Tweed. For ourse)ves we cry welcome to the new brooms, and may they sweep as long as the tightened cords will hold together! For we believe in new brooms until they get old, our experience being that in politics a new broom speedily becomes sn oid one when it once enters into an office. We look into the republican fold and see under all the apparent harmony the bitterest strifes. Well, the republican party has its own troubles, which even a Custom House can- not calm. The inscrutable Sphinx is so busy in domestic journeyings that it will not listen to the wail of the party. Was there ever such a problem? The republican god sits in his Juggernaut car and will not speak ; only the car rolis on and on, crushing the thousands of innocent and believing faithful ones who lie in prostrate submission. If he would only give one word of hope, one small word! But there must be marriages and giving in mar- riage, and domestic festivals on Lake Michigan. And now it is too Iate; the car moves on, performing its crush- ing, cruel will. Centennial D:x would arrest it, and last night at Cooper Iostitute he stood in presence of the shouting followers of Post Office and Custom House and hurled defiance to the third term. Well, it was bravely done, and all honor to the old Dandolo for his frank and manly words. Bat it is too late! The mischief is done! If any one can save this State to the republicans it will be Centennial Dix, but can he save it? Surely never was a plucky leader in a more cruel attitude. Abandoned by the President and by the party, whatcan he hope? The only issue the party now makes is the indorsement of Grant and the election of a United States Senator. The Governorship is nothing. The Governor has been bound on the back of an unruly party, and no more controls it than Mazeppa con- trolled the frantic steed that carried him over hill and plain. He flies like Mazeppa, bound and pinioned, and of what value ali his cries about the third term? Where is Conkling, the eloquent, the fiery, the brilliant Conkling, New York's heir apparent to the Presidency, the Hotspur of republicanism, first in the field and last in the fray? He lives in sulking retirement at Utica, and his friends surround him in gloomy silence. Where are the eloquent followers who once trooped s0 gladly behind his ban- ner? Where is the scholarly and silver-tongued Curtis, whose eloquent periods were to have held thousands spell-bound at Cooper Insti- tute last evening? Where is the keen and logical Edmunds, of Vermont, who was to come all the way from New England toconvince us of our duty? Where are the famous leaders of the party who were wont to hurry into New York to follow the crested banner of re- publicanism to victory? Why should Pierre- | pont, the most unappreciated statesman of republicanism, who has given more and received less than any of them, be left alone of a divided and dormant party? What spell has tallen upon them, what paralyzing doubt developments who can estimate the resources of Qaliforniag? ~ or anxietw seals thoir lions? A sense of foar tions can we accept? Are these “‘jugyling | fiends” to be still believed, or do they palter | true reform, for which we have hoped and , we are all reformers and statesmen. The | in his weary task of exciting the enthusiasm | and mystery and haunting terror over ! their councils, and all we 566 is due brave old man, alone, alone, quite alone, striving to bear burdens that do not belong to him—to carrya standard that has been abandoned by the men who gave it to his charge. If this were a canvass of sentimont or sympathy, then all hearts would go out to Centennial Dix. But sterner issues are at stake. If he wins, to him alone will be all the glory of the triumph. If he loses, he, at least, will keep his honor s‘ainless, and the fault will be with leaders like Mr. Conkling, who sent him, laden witt, cruel burdens, into the fight, and abandoned him before it really began. But whoever loses or wins the Republic will be safe. That is our consolation. The third term may kill the republican party, but the people have killed the third term. That is sure, and that is something. Six months ago the party might have done this, but it is a cowardly, acquiescent, sel- fish party, crawling at the feet of a President it shonld have commanded, and timidly entreating him to do what it should have done, had it been the noble, patriotic party which suppressed rebellion and secured emancipation, What remains for such an otganization but that it should die? Its work is done It may sur- vive this contest, but it will come out too much crippled for further usefulness. When a party is not brave enough to do right its work is at an end. Centennial Dix may save a remnant of the once mighty and puis- sant republican organization, but after what wo have seen in the West it will only be o remnant. From the aspects of the canvass we are not simply on the eve of a political battle, but, as it would seem to us, a great political revolution. The Extra Day at Jerome Park. Jerome Park bears relations to the metrop- olis which are different from those of any other race course, for its completeness and beauty, its admirable management and the easy methods of reaching it make it pre- eminently tho resort of the best New York society. It is not to be likened to the Eng- lish Derby, which represents not ouly the best, but the worst of London life, and is the scene of wild excitement, where lords jostle with costermongers, and booths, shows, jug- glers, Punch and Judy and Aunt Sally give it all the features of a fair. The Jerome Park races offer but one amusement—the legitimate sport of the turf. It is a place to which gen- tlemen take their famities, and where the culture, wealth and fashion of New York meet upon the same cour- | teous conditions and the same secur- ity. from disagreeable interterences that exist in our drawing rooms, The spectators of the races resemble an audience at the opera or Wallack’s or Daly's, and the same polite usages are respected on the grand stand that are observed in the boxes or parquet. These characteristics were never more clearly dis- | played than at the meetings this iall, when the attendance showed that Jerome Park is now, more than ever neces appreciated by our best citizens, The announcement that there will be an extra day at Jerome Park next Saturday will, therefore, be received with general delight. It would have beena pity if this fine October weather, the Indian summer, we presume (though exactly when that season comes there are many diverse opinions), should have passed by without another meeting. The course is in order, there are many fine horses whose owners are ready to enter them, and there are thousands of ladies and gentlemen eager for a repetition of the splendid races which made brilliant the racing annals of this autumn. The American Jockey Club have had every element combined for success, and have wisely taken advantage of the time. There will be five races on Saturday, two of which will be grand steeplechase handicaps—one to begin, the other to end the day. The last steeplechase will be made more interesting by additional weights to be imposed upon the first and second winners. Another extremely attractive event will be the hack race for gen- tlemen riders. As we have many admir- able riders in New York, who, like young Harry, can ‘witch the world with noble horsemanship,” it may be expected that twenty or thirty horses will start in the half mile dash, and the silver cup will be prized by its winter tar beyond its mere pecuniary value. A selling race and a handicap for all ages will give this meeting unusual variety and interest. But while we congratulate the managers upon this proof of their enterprise we would suggest that such Saturday afternoon meetings could be con- tinued regularly during the fine weather, with a certainty of public support. Matinées at Jerome Park could be made as popular as those at the theatre or opera, and there is a large and fashionable class which would en- joy them even more. New York is able to sustain all legitimate and high toned amuse- ments without letting one interfere with the others. ’ Arrarms IN THE OLD Wor.p.— Our Euro- pean correspondence to-day is like a pictu- resque map of Europe, not a map in which countries are shown, but nations. The rela- tions of France, Germany and Russia are discussed with power and breadth by our Paris correspondent, and the probability of @ permanent Prussian supremacy over the rest of Germany is examined. Religious divis- ions appear to be the principal danger to the present political unity. This question, from another point of view, is also debated in our Frankfort letters, and the anxiety of the ultramontane party in Bavaria for the abdi- cation of King Ludwig is depicted. Our other Paris letter, in which the farewell of Dejazet to the stage is fully described, is rich in per- sonal description and includes an account of all the dramatic and operatic novelties in the French capital. The Parisians, it is evident, will not want amusement this winter. A Fesux Heap Cznrae has declined to receive a national subscription for his benefit. The world must have hope in our humanity, despite Professor Tyndall. ‘Tue Frex Love Istanp,— —ot Valcour Island, in Lake Champlain, which has been chosen by the Free Lovers as the scene of the new Garden of Eden they expect to cultivate, we Give a full account to-day, with an exposition of their peculiar doctrines. It is accom- panied by » map which shows tho island and the surrounding shores, perfect | The Gibson County Murderers. The letter of Attorney General Williams to the Governor of Tennessee, communicating the refusal of the President to allow certain prisoners to be tried in the State courts for an offence which was a crime against the State, presents a singular conflict between national and State authority. The prisoners are, or are assumed to be, the parties who took certain colored men from the jail in Gibson county and lynched them by banging them. In other words, if guilty, these men committed the crime of murder, not in any place within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, but on the soil and within the jnrisdiction of a State. They are to be in- dicted and tried in a federal court, under and by virtue of the acts of Congress known as the “Enforcement acts,” 60 called because they purport aud undertake to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the federal constitu- tion, If that amendment, at the time of its adoption, had been generally un- derstood to authorize legislation by which the ordinary crime of murder, when committed upon a negro, could be tried in the federal courts to the exclusion of the State courts, probably it would not, certainly it should not, have been adopted. The life of a nogro is, and ought to be, as sacred in the eye of the law and of reason as the life of a white man ; but to assume that the murderer of & negro cannot be, and is not likely to be, prop- erly tried and punished in the State courts, and must be tried and punished in a federal court, is to make the life of a negro more sa- cred than the life of any white man. But there are two very grave questions involved in this matter. One is, whether the Enforce- ment acts have made the crime of murder of either a black or a white man, when not com- mittod within tho exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, triable in a federal court. Tho other is, whether the fifteenth amendment authorizes such legislation. The fifteenth ameniment is that which prohibits the States from denying or abridg- ing the right of suffrags on account of color, race or previous coniition of servitude, and gives power to enforce the prohibition by ‘appropriate legislation.’’ May 30, 1870, Congress passed a law to enforce this provis- ion. It enacted certain punishments of in- dividuals who may have hindered or ob- structed other individuals in the exercise of the right of suffrage. Whether the constitu- tional power conferred by the amendment authorized any legislation but such as would counteract and nullify the laws of any State that might deny or abridge the right of suf- frage on account of color, race, &c., is certainly a question. But, passing this question by, we call the attention of our readers to what this Enforcement act undertook to do. Its fifth section punished by fine and imprisonment any person who should intimidate or attempt to intimidate any other person having the right to vote from exercising that right by bribery or threats. The sixth section punished with heavier fine and imprisonment, and also with disfranchisement, any two or more persons who should conspire, or go in dis- guise upon the highway, to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or en- joyment of any right or privilege granted or secured to him by the constitution or laws of the United States or because of his having ex- ercised the same. The offences created by this section were made felonies. The seventh section then made the following provision : — “That if in the act of violating any provision in either of the two preceding sections any other felony, crime or misdemeanor shall be committed, the offender, on conviction of violation of said sections, shall be punished for the same with such punishments as are at- tached to the said felonies, crimes and mis- demeanors by the laws of the State in which the offence may be committed.” The eighth section gives jurisdiction to the District Courts of the United States over all offences committed against the act. Now, the natural and obvious meaning of the seventh section would seem to be that if, in committing either of the offences created and punished by the fifth and sixth sections, murder, for example, is also committed, the federal Court may increase the punishment of the offences committed against the filth and sixth sections by adminis- tering the punishment attached to murder by the laws of the State. If the Attorney General supposes that the seventh and eighth sections give jurisdiction to the district courts to enter- tain and try an indictment for murder simply, and he proposes so to indict and try these prisoners, he founds the jurisdiction upona law that hardly seems capable of such a con- struction. He informs the Governor of Ten- nessee that ‘‘no reasonable doubts can exist as to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States upon the facts as stated by the District Attorney."’ But he does not explain, nor has he informed the public in relation to the ex- traordinary powers that he is now exer- cising in the South generally, how the courts of the United States get jurisdiction to try and punish the crime of murder as an | offence against the United States. As an inci- dent or aggravation ot some other offence committed against the United States we can understand how a court of the United States may be authorized to punish for that other offence by adding the punishment which the State law inflicts upon murder. But we are not aware of any law that makes the substan- tive offence of murder indictable and triable in a federal court when not committed within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. There can be no doubt about the general principle of which the Attorney General re- minds the Governor, that when, upon the same state of facts, an offence has been com- mitted both against the United States and o State, the United States is not bound to forego the vindication of its own laws and hand the prisoner over to the State. But whether this principle is applicable to the case of these Tennessee prisoners depends upon what tho offence is for which the Attorney General proposes to indict them in a federal court. If he holds them for indictment and trial for » murder he will, we fear, find very little law for the juris- diction of the federal Court to the exclusion of the State Court. Ii he holds them for indict ment and trial for the offence of obstructing an exercise of the right of suffrnze, in the commission of which offence » murder was also committed, the propriety of refusing to surrender them to the Goveraor of the State for trial for the gravest of all offences, which can only be tried a) scntaeniive olasataa State court, is at least very questionable, ‘The Arnim Case. We print this morning an important de- spatch from our London office containing an official statement from a high German author- ity of the trouble between Bismarck and Arnim. We give the despatch in English and also in the original German, as it comes to us, in order that a document of so much im- portance may have all the value that attaches to it, ‘This statement, as our readers will see, is in many respects a vindication of Count Arnim, and shows how he has been placed by the Prussian Minister in a position from which he could not recede without ad- mitting that he had been guilty of a felony. From other sources we learn that at Berlin they say that when Prince Hohenlihe as- sumed possession of the German Embassy in Paris as Von Arnim’s successor he discovered some singular lapses in the correspondence, and notably in a correspondence regarding the relations of France to Rome. He could only account for it on the theory that im- portant letters were missing. He wrote to his government on the subject; the government referred the inquiry to Count Armim, and the consequence was that the letters were returned by that gen- tleman. Thereupon Prince Hohenlthe insti- tuted a systematic examination of the papers of the Embassy, and discovered that even more important documents ‘‘shone by their absence.” Naturally the inquiry was again referred to Von Arnim, who answered as to thirty or forty letters that he knew nothing about them, ond os to others that they were not public letters but private letters and in his possession. His dispute with authority is therefore that the letters are pri- vate and his property, but Bismarck, who wrote the letters, holds that they are public and pushes legal processes for their discovery. Here, then, are both sides of an extraor- dinary story. We presume we shall know the trath when we have the reault of the legal inquiry. “Uncle Dick.” In the Ninth Congressional district the Tammany candidate for Congress is Uncle Dick. Uncle Dick is one of the charac- ters of New York. For eighty-five years his genial, pensive, Knickerbocker face, rugged with thought and dimpled with humor, his mysterious, absorbed, patient air, as though the burdens of the world rested upon his shoulders, his cunning, his sagacity, his wide acquaintance with men and affairs, have made him the glory and the pride of New York, and certainly make him the proper man for Oongress. Uncle Dick first came into public lite as the power Jehind Thomas Jefferson’s throne. Since then he has been the power behind the throne of every President, more especially Andrew Jackson. Although a democrat, dyed in the wool, and, excepting Havemeyer, perhaps the oldest surviving democrat of the Jeffersonian pericd, Uncle Dick has always held country far above party, and has been the trusted adviser of every administration since Jefferson. We can see his hand in the early features of Grant’s reign. But when we come down to back pay and salary grab and Crédit Mobilier, the third term and the appointment of relatives to. office and the wild whirl of promiscuous jobbery, we reach the new departure of Grant, when he threw himself into the arms of Williams and Murphy and ceased to be advised by Uncle Dick. For Uncle Dick is a singularly prudent states- man who does not believe in jobs and was never in a lobby in his life. He is the power behind the throne of Vanderbilt, a greater than Vanderbilt, and if he is not now as rich aman it may well be believed it is from the aggregation of circumstances over which he has no ccntrol. Uncle Dick is the original of Colonel Mulberry Sellers, the representative Ameri- can of Mark Twain's drama. The annexation of Mexico; the alliance with Russia on the basis of annexing the British Empire; the alliance with Bismarck for the purpose of seizing the Bank of France to pay our French claims; the capture of the Pacific islands; the seizure of Cuba; the building of a new Arctic and Antarctic railway, to be largely endowed with bonds and lands; the negotiation of a seven per cent gold loan for the conversion of the Pope and the extermination of the Ohineso— these, and objects like these, are the gigantic plans which constantly possess the mind of Uncle Dick. In Washington he would become their eloquent advocate—the eloquence of Chambertin and Champagne. For while Uncle Dick is great on Wall street, great on Broad- way, great in the Manhattan Ciub, great when he is “around with the boys” studying ecclesiastical architecture, he is never so great as over an icy bottle of Champagne or a cosey, warm, dust-encrusted bottle of Burgundy. We cannot fancy # more persuasive and convincing sight than Uncle Dick addressing a Carolina delegation, of various colors, in Washington feasting halls, upon the merits of the Arctic and Antarctic Railway bonds, or how to annex the republics of South America by subsidizing the Jesuits and bribing the Pope. We want more statesmen like Uncle Dick in Washing- ton, for good legislation is inseparable from good feeding. Rocky Mountain statesmen, who have never gone beyond a round of corned beet or pork, will rejoice in the com- ing of Uncle Dick. He will spend his money freely. He will never give a poor dinner nor miss a chance of giving a good one. He will make his colleagues such addresses as they have never heard—spicy, fruity, life-giving, blood- enriching addresses—boginning with oysters and winding up with coffee. So we say:— “All hail, Uncle Dick!” And from the West- ern and Southern mountains the echo will respond, ‘‘All hail, Uncle Dick!'’ Our only regret in supporting his nomination is that he has no apparent prospect of running for a third term. Newsrarers Inrenpicrrp.—Judge Hum- phrey, at Washington, admonished the jury yesterday in the safe burglary case that, pend- ing the trial, they must not read any news- paper ; they must noteven look at a newspaper, and must not permit any person to slip a newspaper into their hands or any printed paper; their minds must remain a blank to ie receive the testimony, and 60 on. All of this is, no doubt, correct; but if Justice is blind why cannot she be trusted as to the reading of the newspapers? The Classico Drama, ‘That so great an artistes Charlotte Cushman should now be attracting immense houses et one leading theatre, and that a young tragedi- enne so charming and promising as Miss Neilson should also meet with marked publie favor at another, and that both these ladies should appear nightly in Shakesperian char- acters, is certainly no evidence of the charge that the taste for classical acting and the highest dramatic literature is declining. It is rather proof that the American public ap- preciates excellence, and is ready to give it the fullest support. Shakespeare's best plays never fail to draw, when they are well pro- duced ; but such comedies as ‘Love's Labor's Lost” are not suited to our modern stage, and indeed have a comparatively small number of readers. Now that Miss Cushman’s farowoll to the temple of which she has long been the noblest priestess draws near, ‘‘the sands of time are turned to golden grains," and every night she plays is precious to the worshipper at the altar of art. But New York, the chief home of the drama, cannot part with Miss Cushman’ forever without tribute more worthy than crowded houses and enthnsiastio applause. We are glad, therefore, that the suggestion of the Hzrazp that her last ap- pearance on the metropolitan stage shall be made memorable by ceremonies expressive of the gratitude and admiration of her country- men has been so warmly received. There is no doubt now that the tribute will be worthy of the public, even if it is inadequate to the deserts of the artist, and that New York will not be to Charlotte Cushman as ‘‘a fashion- able host that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,"’ but that ber last night on our stage will be her greatest triumph. A New Moon. The fable of the ‘‘Man in the Moon” is well known, and everybody who has seen @ pan- tomime remembers how the clown perplexes the learned astronomer by holding a turnip before the telescope, or gazing down the big end at the petrified eye at the small one, and finally extinguishing the moon entirely with his hat. Professor Parkhurst experienced simi- lar sensations of astonishment when ho saw ia one of our lunar pictures on Sunday a satellite, four hundred miles in diameter, making its transit over the moon's disk. The Professor no doubt knows that some astronomers have believed that Venus has a satellite which we never see distinctly, but of which glimpses have been obtained at rare intervals. That the Man in the Moon has such a mysterious companion we certainly do not affirm, yet such a satellite of the second order did appear in our fifth picture of the eclipse on Sunday. On Monday, however, this moonlet had dis- appeared from our picture, showing that it had moved away. Some persons may account for this by ‘the mysterious influence of the Heznaxp,”’ of which we hear so much. Yet we were very moderate in our planetary innova- tions. Shakespeare, who has something to say about everything, has a fellow in “King John” who rushes in with the startling ramor, “My Lord, they say five moons were scen to-night!’ yet we had but two. Many por- sons have seen six or seven moons at once, especially at sixteen minutes past three A. M, and none of them were able to conduct themselves properly. This comes of looking at our luminous com- panion through glasses which are toe powerful. Yesterday we restored the heavens to their normal condition, as we, aro satisfied with the sensations we produce on ear:h, and have no desire to meddle with the planetary system. PERSONAL INTELLIGE NCE. Marshal Bazaine has arrived in London. London will have @ medica! school for women, The Empresses of Russia and Austria will pasa the winter in Egypt. Commodore F, A. Parker, United States Navy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain L. A. Kimberly, Untted States Navy, ta quartered at the Everett House. Ex-Congressman Joseph M. Warren, of Troy, is staying at the Ularendon Hotel. Ex-Chief Justice 0. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, ts residing at the Sturtevant House, “social Lie in Greece from Homer to Menaa- der,’ is the title of a new book by Rev. J. P, Ma haffy, Mr, Charies Bradlangh returned to this city from Boston yesterday and 1s at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Hepwortn Dixon is stopping at St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, and will lecture in that city at aa early date. Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse, ef Albany, is among the Jatest arrivals at the Hotel Brunswick. Ex-Governor William Bigler and ex-Congress- man D. J. Morreil, of Pennsylvania, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Captain F, L, Mathews, of the Second West In- dia regiment, British Army, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commander Von Eisendecher, naval attaché of the German Legation at Washington, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Captain Gore Jones, naval attaché of the Brit- ‘sh Legation, arrived trom Washington yesterday, at the Clarendon Hotel. Admiral David D. Porter and Commander Theo- dore F. Kane, United States Navy, have apart- ments at the Hoffman House. General Stewart Van Vliet, of the Quarter- master’s Depurtment, United States Army, has quarters at tho St. James Hotel. Colonel Fred Grant and bride are the guests of their cousin, VW. W. Smith, at Washington, Pa., and will remain there for a few days. Morrissey offered to bet Creamer $5,000 om Hayes; and {1 that doesn’t satisly Creamer Mor- rissey will probably go a buncb of fives, James Stephens, formerly Head Centre of the Fenians in the United States, has written a letter declining & national subscription for his benefit. Mr. Miner, of the Irish team, who in the late match put a snot in the wrong target, did the same thing in @ previous important match at Wim- biedon, A “Shakespeare Dictionary” ts in the press of George Reimer, Berlin. The Germans are the most enthusiastic of Shakespearian students, next to the Americans. General Grant “summarily dismissed” the con- sideration of the third term—perhups for fear he might hear from members of his Cabinet some co- gent arguments against it. Miss Emily Soldene, of the English op¢ra bouge company, arrived from Engiand in the steamship Celtic yesterday, and has taken op her residence at the,iftn Avenue Hotel. . Sir Henry Y. Taompson, the eminent Londoa surgeon, who hag been sojourning at the Brevoort House for several days past, will sail for Engtand to-morrow in the steamship Cuba. Vice President Wilson was in Washington yes~ terday and called at the White House, but did not see the President, a8 the latter was busy at the time. Mr. Wilson jet to-night for the North. A good many peoplo wio sat up to see the eclipse, and didn’t see it, were mortified at dis covering jater that they migut have had the whole thing, and their nignt’s rest beside, by wertiug & copy Of tho SUNDAY HkRALD. Commercial Adan thar.