The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1874, Page 6

al ‘NEW YORK HERALD —-_—_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | wual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yonx Hrzaw. paneer tee, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | for recent silence will not be accepted | as in New York. Volume XXXIX.......ccceeceeseseeees- NOs 301 — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE. Foye Broacway.—VaRiery, Oe AL. ; closes at 10 30 STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—BEGON: LULL CARE, at8P. M.; loses at 10 P.M. Frederic Maccave. RMANIA THEATRE, fry? sree WESPE, at 3'P. M,; closes at oP. M BOOTH’S THEATRE, ynty-third street and Sixth svenue— { eth, apoE Mw. closes at 1 P. a, Miss Cush- BATRE, | CK's THEATRE, roadway.—THE “ROMANCE. U?_A ‘POOR YOUNG Breer ayes closes at 1080 P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, Mr. Montague. oe lian Ope MURIGOLETTO, at 8 F +1 —{talian Opera—' . 4 ee ee TO Me Mile, Emma Albani, Mise ADnic Louise Cary, Sig. Carpi, Sig. Tagliapetra. road so Brince ‘abd. Houston streets, THE a een Prince an out —" BrOceny at's eM; cleses at IP. M. ‘Ihe Kiralty Famiiy. FIF1H AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.—mMOORCROPFT; | OR, THE DOUBLE WEDDING. at 8 7. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Miss Fanny Daveuport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis James. MRS. CONWAY"! THE HUNCHBAC P.M. Mrs. Bowers, J BROOKLYN THEATRE. at 6 P. M.; closes at MeCollom, 100 Pree treet, pevweat Broadway and Fifth avenue.. a ween - TARIBTY, at 6 P. 3. BRYANT’S OPE A HOUSE ‘West Twenty-tnird s near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO Pitermeley, ac. at P.M: closes at WP, M, Dan METBOPOLITAN THEATRE, ae Broadway.—VARIE.Y, at 8 P.M; closes at 10 PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bo m1 ower -VABIE VY, at8P, M,; closes as 10P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of Twenty ninth street —NEGRO LY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. nth erect ond. sisth avoube. ROMEO AND sixth “a —BO} [etn ae. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Mass Newson, Mins: Se ee slaty. ‘Third aven tween Sixty-t! a fourth sereots INDUSTRIAL EXUIBINUN. COLOSSEUM, way, corner of Thirty-titth street -STORM OVER "ARIS and MES. JARLEY’S WAX WORKS, at 5:30 P. and 7:45 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, vhirtieth street—THE LIVE .M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. EAST .; Closes at 10:0 P. M. Lucille THEATER, t5 P. 3; closes at 1045 ROMAN HiPPODROME, ‘Twenty-sixth street aud Third svenue.—Cireus and Menagerie. £, and Twenty-second W.; closes at 10:30 P. M. PA Broadway, between eta GILDED AGE, avs D IPLE SH Sew York, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1874 From our reports this morning the probabilities ase that the weather (o-day will be clearing. Wat Srrezr Yzsrerpay.—No noteworthy change occurred in the stock market yeater- day. Bulls and bears alike were apparently afraid of each other. Gold was steady at 110, and money loaned on call at 2) per cent. Roscoz Coxx.1Nc remains silent in Utica. Cotvonz, Muisexry Szuuers will support Uncle Dick. Tz Rvsoz that Alonzo B. Cornell means to vote for Governor Dix lacks confirmation. Taz Hon. ‘Joux Monnissey did not speak Jast evening. Mr. Morrissey is a modest as well as a strenuous leader. Ir Iz Is Trvz that Austria proposes to con- elude commercial treaties with the Principali- ties in spite of the Sultan it means that a great stride has been taken in the Eastern question. Save J. Trupex did not attend the meet- ing which indorsed Jimmy Hayes. Would it be pertinent tor us to ask Mr. Tilden whether he will support Hayes? Now Ir Is Sam that Von Arnim will be Yeleased. The Emperor evidently feels he cannot sustain his Minister against the pub- lie opinion of Europe and Germany, which regards the arrest of Von Arnim as an act of | capricious and impulsive tyranny on the part of Bismarck. Ir tHe Prestpent has any mercy end isnot too much absorbed in domestic felicities he will ‘‘recognize"’ Pierrepont, Taz Ustox Lracve in Washington has passed resolutions complimentary to General Grant. Can anybody tell us what is the Union League? Ir Jou Swrxroy, the Communist candidate Yor Mayor, would only promise to burn the sity Court House, the old Post Office and the Falton Market, what a tremendous vote he | would obtain ! Tne Crzamzn Movement against Tammany grows more and more formidable. The Irish- men show a sentimental feeling for the mem- ory of Miles O'Reilly, which gives Jones nusual strength. Tae Eriscora, Convention is getting so @eep into the kernel of ritualism as to dis- | cover that it is Romanism ; but judgment has mot yet been formally pronounced upon it. He Cnres “Exoven!"—Mayor Havemeyer, | fm respectfully declining the nomination of the people’s party for Mayor. He asks to be counted out, and we suppose the people will aay, ‘Even so let it be.” Cuarces M. Scurerrenix is a candidate in the Secoud Assembly district of Westchester, He is of unimpeachable character, decided ability and the highest sociai standing, and his election ought to be assured by an over- whelming majority. To elect gentlemen like Mz. Schieffelin would be to raise the character ed the State Legislature. sve NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1874,-TRIPLE SHEET. term Monday evening when a voice cried out | term, General?” Either not hearing oraffect- | ing not to hear, the Governor brought his the platform when further cries of “Third term! third term!” caused him totarn and face the question, His answer was distinct and satisfactory so far as it related to his personal sentiments; but if he has always held the view which he now proclaims his excuses | by the people. He says the third term discus- | sion is ‘premature.’ | discussion is “premature” implies that it | would be in order at a later period, but if the | third term question has got to be met at some | time it should have been met at once the | moment the danger began to appear. Ifithe | third term question is coming upon us, a6 Governor Dix seems to admit, he cannot jus- tify himself for not meeting it on the frontier. It is the duty of an elected representative of | the people, like Governor Dix, to stand.as a sentinel on the watch tower of liberty and raise the earliest note of warning when danger approaches, In the language of the greatest American orator, ‘‘Is he to be blind though visible danger approaches? Is he to be deaf though sounds of peril fili the air? Is he to be dumb while a thousand duties impel him to raise the cry ot alarm? Is he not, rather, to catch the lowest whisper which breathes intention or purpose of encroachment on the public liberties and to give his voice breath and utterance at the first appearance of danger? Is not his eye to traverse the whole horizon wit the keen and eagervision of an unhooded hawk, detecting, through all disguises, every enemy advancing, in any form, toward the citadel which he guards?’’ This eloquent portrayal of the duty of an appointed senti- nel on the watch tower of liberty is not & 4escription of the recent comduct of Governor Dix in relation to the third term. Instead of “this watchfulness for public liberty, this promptitude and bold- ness in defence of established landmarks, this fearless resistance of whatever would transcend or remove them,”’ Governor Dix has hung back and shrunk from the office of a sentinel of liberty until the pressure of cir- cumstances extorted trom him a belated dec- laration. It comes too late to help his can- | vass, and yet it is noteworthy and valuable as bearing on the general subject. The speech of Governor Dix is s virtual re- buke to the office-holding sycophants-and the unthinking journalists who have scoffed and belictled the third term question. His line | of defence is more remarkable for what it implies than for what it asserts. It asserts that Governor Dix has been for forty years advocating an amemlment of tue federal constitution limiting the President toasingle term of six years. Of course, the inference he draws from this fact is. perfectly legitimate, that his steady opposition to the second election of a President precludes hiza from favoring a third. But if it were a mere question of personal consistency it would not be worth discussing. Governor Dix has not for forty years been advocating the Limitation of the President to a single term without solid reasons, and if those reasons were tally stated it would be found that they leave him without excuse for his apathy on the third term ques- tion. The propriety of permitting:a second term and the propriety of permitting a third term are questions of the same order, and are to be determined by the same kindof argu- ments, except so faras tradition and usage permit one and forbid the other. When, theratore, Governor Dix asserts that' he has been for forty years keenly alive to the danger of allowing a President to be re-elected once, he leaves himself without excuse for/his indiffer- ence to the greater danger of a secand re-elec- tion. The stress of the objecnon, in both cases, lies against the employment-of the fed- eral patronage by a President in office to fore- stall the real choice of the people. If a Pres- ident may make an improper use of the dis- ciplined and subservient band of dependent office-holders to secure a second election it is equally in his power to employ the same agency to procure # third election;;and as the only obstacle is a mere usage, and:not a con- stitutiona] prohibition, no popular President need despair of overcoming the usage when he wields the present enormous patronage of the government. The third term, or rather the:perpetual re- eligibility of our American Presidents, as per- mitted by the constitution, is a question which has been silently growing beneath the sur- face of our politics for half a century. It resembles the growth of coral islands in southern seas. Millions of small creatures, as naturalists inform us, work industriously for long periods in laying the foundations of future islands; and when these islands rise above the surface of the ocean they seem like a sudden creation, although their foundations have been silently built up for an indefinite period. In like manner the patronage in the hands of the President has been silently growing until it has at length risen above the | surface of politics in the formidable | shape of the third term question. In its essence it is merely the old question | of the ability of a President in office to re-elect himself by his control of the ma- chinery of his political party. The danger has expanded to colossal proportions since the war, because the patronage wielded by the President has become s0 overshadowing. At the beginning of the government the patron- | age rested on a revenue of only two millions; it rests at present on a revenue of nearly four may easily sweep down a usage resting on mere precedent, but having no sanction in the | constitution, As Governor Dix has been for | forty years protesting against the danger of permitting a President to employ the patron- age of the government to secure one re-elec- tion, he is the last of our public men who has any valid excuse for indifference to the greater | danger of the same kind which besets our | politics at present. | The peril of allowing a President in office to use the public patronage to re-elect himself PAAR... CQ. OE cal courage. He had almost concluded his | short speech at the ratification meeting on | * from the audience, “How about that third » speech to a sudden close, and was moving off | The employment of | | this word is an admission. To say that a | hundred millions, So prodigious a patronage | Sea. ==—_ ported by a very able committee of the Senate, to amend the constitution in this respect. In every one of President Jackson's eight annual messages bo recommended on amendment | limiting the President to a single term of six years. Henry Clay; who belonged to the op- posite political party, zealously urged an amendment restricting the President to one term of four years. De Tocqueville, the most enlightened and philosophical foreigner who has written on our government, devoted a ' chapter of his great work to prove that the re- | eligibility of our Presidents is the weak point of the federal constitution, The:testimony on | this point is of superfluous abundance. When the Contederate States, in the hope of a new nationality, readapted the federal con- stitution, they made such changes‘in it as they thought experience demanded, and they adopted, without question or debate, a provision limiting the President toa single term of six years. When Governor Dix says that he has been for forty years the steady advocate of such a change he concedes that | the third term fear is not unreal, because the same abuse of patronage which may be di- rected to o second term is still more to be deprecated when employed to secure a third term, and it is just as available for one pur- pose as for the other as soon as the tide of patronage is swollen to such a height that it may sweep down all but constitutional obstacles. The third term question has hung as a dark cloud in the horizon of our politics for many years, although its fall significance was not understood. The machinery by which Presidents attempt to re-elect themselves onco is precisely the same machinery which would be put in requisition for a third term, and the protest during half a century by our most eminent statesmen against one form of the danger is in substance a protest against tho other and more alarming form of the same daager. It would puzzle Governor Dix, and would puzzle anybody, to state any reason against one re-election of a President which does not apply with greater force against a thirdterm. Ifa President in office, byan abuse of his patronage, can secure his re-election it is equally in his power, by a further abuse of the same patronage, to re-elect himself per- petually, except so far as usage and tradition stand in the way. Usage and tradition are frail barriers in an age like the present, when 90 many venerated rules have been trampled under toot, As Governor Dix was of opinion forty years ago that the re-eligibility of our Presidents was an evil which ought to be cor- rected he is utterly without excuse for un- dervalning a worse form of the same evil now, when the federal patronage, which can be per- verted to such an end, is so enormously increased. If second terms were a peril to liberty torty years ago, as Governor Dix con- tends, third terms must be a more formidable danger when the patronage of the President and his means of controlling nominations and elections have been multiplied tenfold. Mr. Dix’s sincerity in the past efforts he describes can be vindicated only by a resolute opposition to the third term. But his hesitating reluc- tance to thwart the wishes of General Grant shows that even he truckles to thse Presi- dent, that even he has become infected with the spirit of subserviency and man worship. His courtly doubts respecting Grant’s inten- tions will not help him with the voters of this State, who believe that Grant would eagerly take a third term it he saw his way clear to get it. To pretend that Grant has no such ambition, as Governor Dix doesin his speech, is so contrary to the public opinion of the country that the people are more likely to condemn him as the President's apologist than to commend him for his correct personal opinions. Uncrz Dick will not make a speech upon the endowment of the Arctic and Antarctic Railway until after the Ist of December. Administration Tactics in Louisiana. The United States Army in Louisiana has taken the place of the civil authorities in the enforcement of law and order, not only in New Orleans but throughout the State. Major Merrill, with his squad of cavalry, has been raiding in and around Shreveport and along the line of the Red River, arresting citizens in their houses and carrying them off under cover of the night, just the same as he would do under the license of an actual state of war; and detachments of troops appear to be quite as busy in making arrests and in carrying off their prisoners in the southern as in the northern parishes of the State, and apparently for no other purpose than to strike terror into the hearts of the White Leaguers in reference to the approaching State election. For some years past terrorism against the blacks has been denounced by the republi- cans as the main object of the Ku Klux and other similar organizations of the Southern whites; and by these processes it has been de- clared, over and over again, the pvor blacks in most of the Southern States have been frightened away from the polls. Can it be that the national administration has adopted this policy of terrorism against the whites of Louisiana, the strategy and tactics of de clared outlaws, for clectioneering purposes? Attorney General Williams, as commander-in- chief in these military operations, is cer- tainly enforcing ‘the Entorcement act” in Louisiana with a high hand, and with as little regard for civil rights as for the civil authorities of the State, though these authori- ties are his own creatures and established in their offices by military power. Can the President suppose that in turning over the re- constructed States to the care of his Attorney General he is relieved of the responsibilities of the Executive in the premises? In any event we would still admonish the President that this military policy of riding roughshod over Louisiana is an outrage upon the State aud its people and an offence to the whole country. ‘Tue Hovorasiz Jonn Mornissey is said to | be very anxious. His heart yearns for his Jimmy Hayes. We Presvme Governor Dix looks upon the | republican canvass very much as Louis XVI. | looked upon the condition of French affairs | as he was led up the guillotine steps to the bascule, Unciz Dick is said to be pledged to vote Delmonico an appropriation to enable him to | xemove up town, Governer Diz's Publie Declaration om | hss excited the anxiety of patriots for half a | Tre Sematers of the Lower Empire. the Third Term. Pees In 1826 there was # proposal, sup- General Dix has at last spoken on the third | explicitly enough, perhaps, | but so tardily and with such evident reluctance | that robody can regard it as an act of politi- | The present aspect of the republican can- vass is not in sume respects unlike the spirit which was seen in the dark days of the Lower Roman Empire. The extraordinary abandon- ment of the canvass by leading republicans under the lead of Senator Conkling bas had a depressing effect upon the spirits of the rank and file of the party. The meeting at Cooper Institute on Monday evening, which was to be the final gathering of the clans before the summons to action, was a dismal and sad affair. There were people enough, and the people who came were buoyant and noisy in their loyalty. But where were the leaders? True, we had the always amiable and ready Mr. Orton, but Mr. Orton is more of a business man than a politician, and he seemed to have been called in at the last moment as one sure friend who would act as pall-bearer after all other friends had declined. Then we had Edwards Pierrepont, o statesman who seems destined to immortal fame as the representative of self-denial and mag- nanimity. Judge Pierrepont has done more for the party and received less than any of its leaders, and his appearance on the platform was rather that of a memento of Grant’s in- gratitude than as a living, active, hopeful leader. True, there was the Governor; but he came, like Leonidas, to save the gap, and to hurl Cassarism in the face of Casar. But where were the leaders? Where was Alonzo B. Cornell, the counterpart of Pierre- pont, as a man who has done less and received more than any leader in the party? Where was the Collector, General Arthur, to beam upon the Custom House boys, and show that he appreciated their fidelity and patient at- tendnance? Where was William M. Evarts, traditional leader of Sewardism, not without honor under Grant, and his own name on the bead-roll of Presidential candidates? Where was Lyman Tremain, to tell us all about the undying obligations the country owed him for the conviction of Tweed? Where was Major General of Militia, the Honorable Jimmy Husted, the Bald Eagle or the Crow- ing Rooster or some sort of bird of West- chester? Where were Ellis H. Roberts and John M. Francis and the republican jour- nalists, always so ready with counsel and en- couragement? Above all, where was Roscoe Conkling, and where has he been all these days of preparation and strife? Is he sulk- ing in Utica because of the disappointed hopes of his henchman Cornell? It was never his way to be absent froma fight. He was always wont to march toward the firing of the cannon, He of all men, it would seem to our unskilled and impartial eyes, has the deepest interest in this canvass, for if the re- publicans win they will feel justified in presenting his name as New York’s can- didate for the republican nomination to the Presidency. So practically we have an abandoned canvass. Strange stories fill the air. We are told that these leaders, like the Senators of the Lower Roman Empire, are afraid of our new Cesar, and dread to make their wishes known against athird term. We are told that they do not desire the election of Dix, except by a majority so small that he will be seen to be an emascu- lated statesman ; that his defeat would not be an overpowering sorrow, and that all the energies of the canvass are bent toward the election of Mr. Morgan as Senator. We are told that Mr. Conkling did not want the Governor nominated, preferring Cornell, and that he dreads Dix as an immediate rival for the Presidency. These stories may not be true, but they are in all men’s mouths, They are not indicative of anything but disintegration and defeat. If the canvass is saved it will be by Centennial Dix. If it is lost it will be due, so far as the party is concerned, to Mr. Conkling, his followers and friends. Ir 1 Unpzrstoop that Comptroller Green will support Mr. Wickham for Mayor. Any pronounced action on the part of Mr. Green will make it easy for the laboring classes of New York to decide upon their duty. Dorcness County Poxrrics.—It gives us great pleasure to chronicle the interest which is shown by some of our leading citizens in the local politics of the river counties. One representative from Putnam, as our readers are well aware, is Colonel Hamilton Fish, Jr., the son of the Secretary of State, and his ex- ample has been followed in more than one in- stance by young gentlemen of his own rank in life. Noticeableamong them is Mr. Thomas Newbold, of Poughkeepsie, who has re- cently entered the field of politics, not on the same side with Mr. Fish, it is true, but having in view, no doubt, the same end, to wit, o reform in the administration of public affairs, whereby honesty and fair deal- ing may be made to take the place of the bare- faced robbery which has too often character- ized the conduct of our representatives. Mr. Newbold has so far advanced only to the dig- nity of a delegate to the Democratic County Convention, but if ability and high character meet the reward they merit many of us may live to see him occupying a high seat in our national councils. Mayor HavEmMer Ex really does not want to ran again for Mayor. This is because some one has asked him to become a candidate. If some one had asked him not to run he would now be in the field. Tess Rervsuican canvass is really for the Senatorship. Dix is the poor relation in the contest. There was no driving him from the table, and there is no disposition to help him with anything to eat. Joms Sworton.—The Hon. John Swinton ac- cepts the nomination of the Masonic Hall as- sociation for Mayor. John is a wild man, with fiery principles, and a Communist. We do not mean that he would shoot a priest or burn the palaces. If John as Mayor would only promise to burn half of New York he would do a great service to art and true progress and obtain a large vote. But we do not under- stand him as making any such proposition. John Swinton is decent and able man. He has written a good letter. Candor compels us to admit that he does not appear to be in any danger of election. Ir Grant keeps on he will soon have as sub- servient and reckless a crowd of adventurers around him as Napoleon III. had after the coup d'état, It would not be very hard to find parallel for Fleury, St. Arnaud, Maupas and m~ the gang in the republican leader- ship. Good Men for the Assombly. There is no one thing more essential than the election of honest men for the Assembly. As we look down the list of “regular” nomina- tions by the regular parties we are pained to find the character of the majority of those se- lected. The Tammany list is largely composed of liquor dealers and political adventurers ; the republican list of Custom House officers and political adventurers, Tho names ot s few good men are thrown in, but they are so rare that they actually seem to have fallen into the canvass by accident, ‘There is, of course, ® great prejudice in the minds of our re- spectable citizens against service in the Legis- lature, Albany has such an ill reputation that to go there seems like the forteit of one’s good name. For this reason we should like to see the whole system reformed. Honest, respect- able and aspiring citizens, especially young men who have their own hopes and ambitions, should make it a merit to seek service in Albany. When we see such men in nomina- tion, no matter by what party, we feel that they should be supported. Here, for in- stance, to make a few selections, we have Frederick W. Seward and Smith E Lane in New York, Charles M. Schieffelin in Westchester, Hamilton Fish, dJr.,in Putnam. Mr. Seward is the worthy heir to an illustrious name, the son of the great Seward, his chief assistant when Lincoln’s Secretary of State, a citizen of courage and experience. Mr. Lane is a lawyer of probity, character and ability. Mr. Schieffelin is a gentle- man of high social standing, of ability and fitness for public affairs, Mr. Fish is the son of the Secretary of State, and bears an honorable and highly respected name, which he did not sully in Albany. These are the kind of men we desire to see in the Assem- bly. They will not steal, nor vote for crude nor mean legislation, nor in any way bring dis- honor to the State. They should be voted for without distinction of party, and the result will be that all parties will nominate sugh men for Albany in the tuture. There are not many fit men on the list of candidates, and when they are found the people should elect them, Ir Unctz Dicx goes to Washington he will be the foe of all picayune jobs. Nothing but a big job for Uncle Dick. Somehow a small job is wrong, while a vast job is called statesmanship; and Uncle Dick, as all the world knows, is a statesman. More Social Madness. At last the Free Lovers are on theeve of hav- ing a local habitation as well as on infamous name. If Orrin Shipman, who seems to look upon things spiritual with a carnal eye to business, can be persuaded to sell his part of the island of Valcour, in the beautiful waters of Lake Champlain, at eight dollars per acre, this new community proposes to blossom like the rose by next summer. That price is cer- tainly too cheap for land on which to try such an experiment. Free love and spiritual wives, with a reservation in the marriage contract whereby either party may be free at a month’s notice, cannot be purchased in any part of the community at the ridiculously small price of eight dollars per acre. The general ferment in the community which has hitherto assumed shape in Oneida and Wallingford has at last taken unto itself another, and probably its last, as it surely is its most disgusting phase. Every society has a certain amount of moral pesti- lence, in the shape of theories wild aud fanatical and in open rebellion against the laws of order and decency ; and, once in a while, these theories become solidified into an organization. But it is left to our own novelty-loving age to recklessly organize the lusts of the discontented under the name of a new and higher order of things. The only peculiarity of this Valcour com- munity is its moral filth. It is the fanaticism of our wildest moments frozen into disgusting shape; the ultimate result, not of freedom, but of license, degenerated into licentious- ness, assuming to itself the contour of a society; social orgie, in which all the guests are drunk with immorality, and slip under the table in a promiscuous heap of obscenity. Its foundation stone is easy divorce. Marriage isa civil contract, which holds good during the pleasure of the con- tracting parties. So longas the honeymoon is at the full all will beas merry as @ marriage bell; but the moment more sparkling eyes fiaxh on the domestic scene and the moon becomes partially echpsed the father or mother, as the case may be, packs up, bids an affectionate farewell to former triumphs, and goes off to keep house with the pew party who owns the fatal black eyes that have done the business of cap- ture, and the new moon begins to grow to the full. This luminary, however, like the last, may suffer eclipse when the same good-byes and packing up are repeated. With a suffi- cient amount of fickleness as o capital in trade, backed by good looks and winning ways, a man might beso much married in a few years that he would have to begin again at the beginning. But the children? asked our correspondent of the half-undressed priestess of Valcour. She stammered, hesitated, and at Iast acknowl- edged that the community would solve that problem in good time. The peculiar theories of this human menagerie have reference at present only to their own passions, and if they succeed in buying Valcour at eight dol- lars per acre they will find in a few years such a snarl of mutual relationship, such an inextricable tangle of family and social ties, that they will go to pieces by atomic repul- sion, Wise men try no experiments without reviewing and preparing for consequences, but fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Tne Sovrnern Curvatny, once so ably represented in Virginia, has lamentably de- generated from the good old times when political differences were settled by pistols or rifles. Candidates nowadays employ common glass tumblers as missiles, and that, too, with- out seconds. The code of honor or the reputa- tion of belligerent politicians has become very frail when glass projectiles are brought into requisition. A Lrrriz Breeze of political excitement has been raised in the city by the republicans at | Cooper Institute and by the democrats at Tammany Hall ; but still this State canvass is comparatively flat and heavy, and General | Apothy holds the balance of power. Tue Demecratic Gathering. The Tammany mass meeting last night wag a striking contrast to the republican gathering of the evening previous. There was unbounded enthusiasm, although that does not amount ta very much, for ‘unbounded enthusiasm” is the commodity which the Tammany bosom friends are capable of supplying. In this de- partment of political management Boss Murphy and his cohorts trom the Custom House can do as much as the followers of Boss Morrissey or Boss Creamer. Woe note, however, that the democratic leaders were all in place—Seymour and Kernan, Governor Parker und Montgomery Blair. Mr. Seymour bas held the highest honors of his party. and the fact that he should be willing to enter into the heat and fury of the canvass shows how much he is interested in the success of his party, and forms a strike ing contrast to the apathy of Mr. Conkling, who holds to the republicans a relation like that of the Governor to the democrats. Mr Kernan made an gloquent speech, especially devoting himself to the third term, an issue which, like Vice President Wilson, he regards as of unusual importance to the country. We honor these statesmen for their bold declarations of hostility to the third term, This was the chorus of all the addresses, and it shows that the democrats will never assent to Cesarism. Among the other points was the absence of Mr. Tilden. The democratia candidate for Governor probably did not want to indorse Jimmy Hayes and John Mow rissey, “Beauty for Ashes.” It was reported some time ago that the body of Lady. Dilke, the recently deceased wife of Sir Charles Dilke, of London, was subjected to the process of cremation, and this report is now repeated circumstantially and even minute details of the fact are given. All this, however, has been positively denied in Lon don, and, apparently, on the authority of the family. Perhaps it may prove that the denial did not come directly from a source so likely to be well informed, and that the report is true despite the contradiction. Certainly if the event has occurred Sir Charles Dilke himself will not deny it, and, as lively comment is likely to arise, we shall hear in all probability formal and authentic declarations one way or another. In that little circle in Chelsea there is certainly a revolutionary spirit, and though it has hitherto manifested its restiveness on the public and political arena it is as likely to distinguish itself socially as otherwise. If there is any particular point in English sos ciety where we might anticipate that an inno~ vation like the adoption of cremation would be first taken up it is the one indicated, where thought is what is called liberal on every conceivable subjectand where thereis cer- tainly no lack of boldness to act what may be thonght, and where, in fact, a given course is very likely to acquire an additional charm trom the circumstance that it will be against the common current of opinion. It will not sure prise us, despite the contradiction hitherto given, to learn eventually that the cremation reported at Dresden really occurred and to find, in consequence, a new impulse given te the general discussion of the subject. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Robeson arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, is regis- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Charles B. Sedgwick, of Syracuse, if sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Major J. B. Burbank, United Staves Army, ia quartered at the Hoffman House. The Spanish Admiral Topete has had a relapse of sickness and is now serlously ill. A. M. Watson, of New York, ex-Presiaent of th¢ Erie Ratiway Company, is at Montreal, Ex-Governor Ezekiel A. Straw, of New Hamp. shire, is staying at the St. Nicholas Horel, Pay Director J. G. Harris, United States Navy, ta among the latest arrivals at the Astor House, General J. Meredith Read, Jr., United States Minister to Greece, is residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Sir Francis Hincks, formeriy Finance Minister of Canada, has apartments at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson was in this city yesterday, on his way irom Washington to Boston, Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Duane, of the Enginees Corps United States Army, has quarters at tne New York Hotel. Mr. B, L. Farjeon’s new Christmas story, in cone nection with Tinsley's Magazine, will be entitled “The King of No-Land.” Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, who arrived in Washington on Monday, will call on the Président and other Cabinet officers before leaving the city. One of the consequences of Major Merrill's operations in Louistana will probably be tne re duction of the army to five thousand men within the next five years. W. B. Kelly, of Dublin, will publish this fall “4 Description of Ireland, and the Present Stave Thereof, A. D. 1508,’’ printed tor the first t.me from a highly curious manuscript, Since the Brussels Nord denies that there is an amicable understanding between France and Russia on certain potnts of public policy the re. port that sach an understanding exists becomes important and may be true. Mr. Evarts is evidently one distinguished repub. ican who agrees with Washington and Jefferson in the opinion that it is not derogatory to the Presidential dignity for the President to say he is not acandidate for a taird term. ay Amid the avalanche of trash which pours from the steam presses of the day, it ts rofresning ta find a reprint of “Essays, Moral, Political and Lit erary,” by David Hume. The book ts full of ideag, written in clean cut, vigorous English. John Crossley, member o1 the British Parlia- ment and member of the Mississippi Valley So ciety, of London, was received at the Chamber of Commerce, New Orleans, on Monday night by tne members and the Valley Society of that city. A visit late last evening at the summer resi dence of Mr. William Butler Duncan, at Castictea Heights, 8. L, revealed the fact that the report o/ the death of the Earl of Charleville, who is stop ping there, ts not true. The Earl is, however, ing terribly debilitated condition. His physician, Dr, Day Loveil, of London, and his aunt, the Hon. Mrs Bury, are in constant attendance upon the sufe ferer. Fox hunters must take the modern world into consideration, Recently the dogs lost a fox near to the station of Ferté Saint auoin, tn Fraace, and, though they beat up the neighborhvod for two hours, could get mo trace, It was thought vory strange that an old dog was missing also, Next day it was ascertained tnat tae fox had leaped into the baggage car of a train just going out, and the dog had followed and killed him, Another additton to the history of the Franco- German war is shortly to be made by Marshal MacMahon, under the title, “Ye Chalons & Sedan.” This book was in the press while Thiera was President, and the proof sheets were sent in order to obtain the authorization to publish. These sheets were returned to the author, ‘with corrections.” He retused to publish it withthe corrections, and it has, consequently, not yet seen the light, —