The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK K HERALD —— STREET. BROADWAY AND AN JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXxIx., AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—BEGONE DULL CARE, at$P. M.; closes at 10 P, M, Frederic Maccabe. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street —SCHWBRT DES VAMOCLES, at & . My; closes at 10 30 P.M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Somer of Twenty-third street snd’ Sixth avenue — MACBETH, at P. M.; closes at 1W3y P.M. Miss Oush wan. y ATRE, Broadway.—THk KUMANC oF A ‘POOR YOUNG | MAN, atSP. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, | Mz. Montague.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—SYMPHONY CONCERT, at 2:30 P, M Theodore Thomas. NIBLO’S GARDEN, PBroadw: » between. Prtege and Houston streets, —TITE, DELUGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. 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Miss veiison, Mr. Barpes, AMPRIVAX INSTITUTE, Third avenu wee Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth | streews—IND sTALAL EXHIBITION, | alacrity, | life of the party. | highly distinguished man before the party and NEW YURK HEKALD, THURSDAY, The Republican Canvas:—The fice of Dix. We have looked earnestly in the columns Sacri- profound impression upon those of our people who are not concerned in politics. As matters looked a few weeks since the repub- licans in New York had victory within their reach. They had, to be sure, their own bur- dens, There was the burden of long-wielded power, which rusts and corrodes the best of administrations. There was the burden of reconstruction, which came with the responsi- bility of emancipation, and from which the cape. There was the burden of the third term, which is now the dominant issue of the canvass, as the Heranp prophesied it would become two years ago. There was the bur- den of inflation, for which Western repub- | licans made themselves responsible. There | were other burdens, manifold, heavy, need- less; but Grant was strong in his vast per- sonal strength—strong also as the head of a party which obeyed him with uncomplaining There was the fear, and by no means the causeless fear, that the success of the democratic party would revive the dormant flames of the rebellion. Above all there was the immense strength which General Grant had gained by his veto of the inflation bill and the desire of financial men not to risk any changes in the administration of State or national affairs. To crown all Governor Dix had proved himself a most capable Executive, and in the financial discussions attending the inflation measures had, even beiore Grant acted, put himself on the record against infla- | tion and repudiation as became the Governor of a great State like New York. When the canvass came all the plans and hopes of the republican party looked above Governor Dix. He had never been a favurite with the leaders. His record ran beyond the He had been a useful and most of its leaders were born. He had little | personal sympathy or association with the | leaders. He was nominated to aid the election | of Grant, and, having contributed to that re- | sult, he was of no use to the mere politicians. | So it was proposed to shelve or retire the Governor and nominate Aionzo B. Cornell, a young man of fair ability and re- spectable character, whose principal claim to COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-fifth street STORM OVER PARIS oe MES. Sk JARLBY’S WAX WORKS, at zi P. WOOD'S MUSEUM, ‘Broadway, corner of ‘hirtieth Ce ta tes LIVE PHANTOM. at 2 B M.; closes at 4:0 P.M. EAST LYNNE, at § P. M.; closes at 10:0 et “M.” Lucille ‘Western. Sophie Miles. | | betas ROMAN Al | closes at 10-45 Twenty-sixth street and Thi Menagerie. OLYMPIC THEATER, 0% Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M.; avenue.—Circus and | PARK THEATRE, between, Iwenty-trst and Twenty.second Broaaway, ate. M.; closes at 10:90 P. streets. —GILD&: dir. John T. ‘Raymon, HEATRE COMIQU Roy Bros¢way. VARIETY, ats P. ih closes at 1030 SOMERVILLE GALLERY, BATTLE OF LOOK OUT MOUNTAIN, every afternoon | nd evening. TRIPLE SHEET. prominence in the party was the affectionate appreciation of Roscoe Conkling. Mr. Cor- | nell was simply one of the political whims of | Mr. Conkling, but when the Senator proposed to indulge it by commanding his nomination tor Governor the common sense of the country and the State protested. The spectacle of John A. Dix being deliberately sacrificed for the fame and emolument of Alonzo B. Cornell was not what the republican party would | quietly endure. Furthermore, the added popularity of the Governor was necessary to the canvass, and, although his years, his honors, his already long and active service all pleaded for his release from active official duty, there was no escape. General Dix was nominated and Mr. Cornell passed into a con- dition of political coma, in which he has re- | mained ever since the assembling of the Qon- vention. Certainly no party ever owed a leader as New York, Thursday, Oct. 29, 1874, loyal a support as the republicans owed Gov- From our reports this morning the probabilities care that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with possible rains. Wat Sraeer Yzsterpay.—The stock mar- ket was without feature except that it was characterized by a firm close. Money con- tinues easy. Gold advanced to 110}. ‘“Rememper Drx!'’ may be the vengeance ery of the next political canvass. Tae Story or ‘“Uncte Dick's Daguixe’”’ proves, in the end, nothing but a dream. The story of Uncle Dick's great run will have a more substantial ending. Tae Man Wuo Lavaas isa new character for Ulysses the Silent. The third term contro- versy tickles him, and he cachinnates ‘‘cracked and thin, like a man’s laughter heard in hell, far down.’ Like Victor Hugo’s hero, the laugh may be on one side of the face only— the wrong side. Ms. McPuenrsox, Clerk of the House of Representatives, sends us a telegram from Washington stating that the despatches con- cerning Louisiana printed in the Hzratp two days ago are apocryphal and that he knows nothing of the transactions to which they wefer. When a gentleman denies all knowl- edge of documents to which his name or initials are attached we are, of course, bound to believe him. Dawes Wu Bz the father of the next ses- sion, Uncle Dick the uncle and Ben Butler the step-father and quarrelsome brother-in- law. F. D. Movtton has been allowed ten days more in which to answer the complaint of Miss Edna Dean Proctor. This means, most likely, that there will be o settlement of the case and no trial. Tae Tammany Men cannot understand why Tilden should have remained away from their meeting. But thisis easily explained. A res- olution was passed at this meeting indorsing the nomination of Jimmy Hayes for Register. Hayes was a member of the Board of Super- visors who aided Tweed in robbing the city, Even Tammany could not expect Mr. Tilden to indorse that nomination. Ir Is Now Sam that unless Tilden indorses Jimmy Hayes for Register, Morrissey will oppose Tilden. Verily, this New York comedy of politics is a problem. We Usvenstaxp that Welcker, the Wash- ington Delmonico, has doubled his order for this winter's supply of champagne and cham- ernor Dix. He had in no way burdened their canvass. There were twenty acts of Grant’s administration for which his friends were only too ready to explain and apolozize. There were St. Domingo, salary grab, office appointing achievements, which kept the party leaders busy excusing. But there was nothing requiring explanation or apology in the record of Governor Dix. From the time when, sixty years ago, he defended the flag against a foreign enemy until when, thirteen years ago, he defended 1t against treason, his life has been loyal, useful and true. But his nomination has not suited the exigencies of the party leaders. These men, like the Senators of the Lower Roman Empire, or the adventur- ers who made the Napoleonic coup d'état, did not want Dix. They have never concealed their chagrin over his nomination. His advice was not taken in the Convention. He has been ig- nored in the canvass. The Convention was managed to suit Grant; the canvass has been managed to suit Morgan. It is an open secret that the republican contest in New York is to secure Mr. Morgan the succession to Fenton, and all the polit- ical activity is in the Assembly districts. In New York, by that mysterious process of barter and trade which forms so essential a feature in our politics, the Governorship is being swapped off for Assemblymen. The leaders of the party are silent or apathetic. At the democratic meeting the other evening we had all the leading men in the party. Mr. Tilden remained away, as was becoming in a New Yorker who did not wish to take part in charter politics; but we had Seymour and Blair, Kernan and Parker. Here was the genius of democracy as represented in its trusted leaders. What did we see at the re- publican meeting? There was Mr. Orton, who can scarcely be called a politician, and who seems to have stumbled in, in a friendly way, and was at once made President. There was Edwards Pierrepont, who has been so hardly used by the President in the award of high office that he seems resolved to make himself a martyr to his own magnanimity. There was also the Governor, who made the only point that has been made in the canvass, by his electric declaration against the third term. This is a fair illustration of the canvass. Where are all the leaders of the republican party? Why should Governor Dix be aban- doned by the very men who not long since were on their knees to implore him to accept @ republican nomination? Why should all his fair hopes for success be darkened by the bertin since he heard of the coming of Unele Dick as the patriarch of the New York dele- gation. Nw?ep wm tue Bup.—Mexico has been in- dulging in another revolution. The people, however, seem to be getting impatient with the military adventurers; so when the insur- at.Cape St. Lucas the citizens par angers pa muskets and made short work of the revolution. Thirteen of corruptions and weakness of Grant's adminis- tration and by the apathy and conflicting am- bitions of struggling rivals? We should be well enough pleased to see Mr. Morgan Sena- tor. nor do we see any violent reason why New York should not have Mr. Conkling for its Presidential candidate; but Mr. Morgan cannot re-enter the Senate, nor Mr. Conkling attain the Presidency, over the prostrate form of Governor Dix. History permits the suc- ces of many expedients in the way of ambi- the revolutioniste were killed. This occurred in Lower California, and we strongly com- mend the example of the good people of St. Lucas to the reat of Mexico. tion and preferment, but it has never per- mitted treachery. Governor Dix is certainly an abandoned, if not betrayed candidate. Whatever chances he had far tha Governor- of the representative republican newspapers | for some explanation of certain features of the | republican canvass which have produced a | republican party could not even wish to es- | ° . | ditch by the hireling adventurers of modern should have been his supporters. ‘The lesson we learn from it is that no profes- sioa, no ealling of modern times is more heartless than the profession of politics. The spectaele of this venerable, celebrated and very meritorious citizen—his gray head crowned with the gathered honors of a half century of honest public service, a hero in two wars, and always at the call of the people when a special work was necessary—forced | into a canvass to sustain Grant's administra- | tion and abandoned in the heart of the strife to serve baser and personal ambitions, is one | of the saddest even in these sad days of modern politics. It is hard tosee a gentleman of the old school ruthlessly thrown into the partisanship. As the canvass now stands, if Governor Dix wins, as win he may, it will be in spite of Mr. Conkling, Mr. Morgan and their followers, because of his name, his services and the high place he holds in the affections of the people of New York. If he fails, as seems very probable, it will be because bis failure seems to be necessary to the ambition of Mr. Morgan to be Senator and Mr, Conkling to be Presi- dent. Ture Is Onz Question upon which the venerable head of Uncle Dick is level, and that is Cuba. Organized Charities Poor. The organized charities of the city are por- severing in their demands upon the generosity of the citizens, and during the year they realize a very large amount of monoy from voluntary contributions. The aid they re- ceive, if devoted wholly to the cause of the poor, would relieve much suffering. But, un- fortunately, the professional charitable associ- ations are imposing institutions, clothed with purple and fine linen, and can only be main- tained with becoming dignity at a heavy cost. If they collect a hundred thousand dollars eighty thousand of the amount will be ex- pended on secretaries, managers, clerks and other self-denying Christians, while tho proportion of twenty-five or thirty per cent will probably find its way to the starving poor. It is no doubt very gratifying to read the glow- ing reports of the organized charities and to learn of the extent of their good works, es- pecially when one enjoys also the opportunity to read of his own liberality in print. But the experience of last winter shows that if the poor of the city are to have substantial and efficient relief it must come from some inde- pendent source, and not from the profes- sional dispensers of the people’s charity. We shall probably have great distress among the poorer classes in the coming win- ter. If there should be as many thousand persons out of work in December as were idle in the winter of 1873 they will clamor for assistance, and the people will be forced to take heed of their cry. The prospeet before the laboring classes is not very eficourag- ing, and the indications favor the belief that we shall have what is called a “hard win- ter.” It will be well to take heed of these warnings in time, and by an early movement to provide against the danger of a starving Yhultitude in a rich city. Last winter, while the organized charities did their best to dis- credit outside efforts for the relief of the poor, a vast amount of good was accomplished by such volunteer movements. Had the high- salaried red-tapeism of the regular institutions been left to provide for the starving and freez- ing thousands we should probably have had bread riots in the city. As it was, a season of danger was happily bridged over. The evil is again upon us, and it will be well tor our prominent merchants and business men like August Belmont, William Butler Duncan, L. P. Morton, A. T. Stewart, William B. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt, 8. B. Chittenden and others to organize an early movement, to call a public meeting and to provide some well considered and efficient plan for the protection and relief of the poor. What. is needed is a simple, prompt and inexpensive method for the distribution of the gifts of charitable citizens, so that the poor may reap the full benefit of the public generosity, and so that no dollar of the money contributed fora sacred object may be diverted into the pockets of greedy secretaries, managers and clerks. Our business men should take early steps in this direction, and devise some effec- tive plan for guarding the city against the danger of idle and starving multitudes, for extending prompt and direct assistance to the suffering, and for protecting the poor against the ignis fatuus of organized charities. Tue Rrrvaustic Question.—Rumors had, it appears, much to do with the defeat of Dr. Seymour's aspiration to the bishopric | of Illinois, From the evidence of an illustrious divine we learn that he was “liable to rumors’’ and wanting in frankness. We do not pretend to know what this ecclesi- astical language may mean exactly, but we suppose it must be something very serious since it shat Dr. Seymour off from his pros- pective bishopric. The suspicion of ritual- istic practices also weighed heavily against the Doctor. It is evident his coat is not of the exact heavenly cut of his fellows. Perhaps he burns more candles than is consistent with sanctity. In either case his chance of becom- ing a bishop seems to be at an end, unless church fashions change within a reasonable time. and the City Tue Creamer Movement against the bosom friends of Tammany grows in strength and enthusiasm. The honest democrats do not care to be voted in bulk by a ring; and, whether Creamer and his triends win or not, one thing is certain, that Tammany will be taught a lesson, and we shall see no more of “bosom friendship” in the management of that party. Surra M. Lane is good man for the As- sembly. He is a democrat and a gentleman, and Tammany did well to nominate him. Why does not Tammany send to Albany a delegation of men like Smith M. Lane, and not the bullet-headed, whiskey-drinking and gin-peddling “rounders” who are so generally nominated, and who are bonght and sold like cattle in the shambles of the lobby ? Every Conoressman who values a good din- ner, and every New Yorker who hopes to have a good time in Washington this winter, hopes for the triumphant election of Uncle Dick. It would just be like New York to give the sage of Bhinebeck a nnanimous election, ship have been thrown away by the men who | OUTUBER 29, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Von Arnim and Bismarck. The case of Von Arnim has passed from the state of semi-mystery in which it was in- volved into the German law courts. There seems to be on the part of the government-a firm resolution to invoke the full penalty of the code against the offending Ambassador. Von Arnim, on his side, appears not less resolute to maintain his position, Our special despatches trom Berlin give the substance of three important letters, which show the positions taken up by the parties in contro- versy. By these we learn authoritatively that the proceedings against Von Arnim have no other end than to secure the return of papers extracted from the archives of the Embassy at Paris. Von Arnim maintains stoutly that the letters in question are his private property, and refuses to give them up. He offers to try the question before the civil courts of the country, but this prop- osition does not agree with the views of the man of blood and iron. Bismarck has evi- dently very strong reasons of his. own for wishing those papers back in the archives, and Von Arnim, who loves him not, is very indisposed to allow him to regain posses- sion, Fora very able man Bismarck makes a good many serious mistakes, but manages to pull through them in a rough-and-ready way which cannot fail to excite admiration. In the present case he evidently failed to gauge correcily his opponent, and the result of this error of judgment has been very dumaging to the great German statesman. His arbitrary action in reference to Von Armin was too suggestive of barrack discipline and a guard- house administration of justice to be received with favor outside of Germany. As a conse- quence there was a startling unanimity in its condemnation by the press of the world. Peo- ple do not like to be forced to look upon Ger- many as a huge garrison under the arbitrary rule of Prince Bismarck. ‘The possession of so much power by a subject who is practically frresponsible tends to foster distrust among foreign nations who see the process of law overridden by the personal will of the man who sways the destinies of his country. In this aspect the severe treat- ment of Von Arnim and the seeming arbitra- riness of the proceedings taken against him have been unfortunate tor Germany. Even the tardy act of the Court in admitting bim to bail under a heavy amount will only con- firm the opinion that no man in Germany, however exalted his position may be, 18 safe if he happen to incur the ill will of the all- powerful Chancellor. If the offence is now tardily admitted to be a bailable one Von Arnim has been unnecessarily subjected to personal indignity asa punishment for his opposition to Bismarck. Von Bilow, in his | letters to Von Arnim, refuses to admit that the correspondence in question can in any sense be regarded as private. This ques- tion is still surrounded with much doubt, and | the proposition of Von Arnim to submit it to the courts for legal decision appears the most reasonable and just course to be pursued. By taking the case into the criminal courts Von Biilow and Bismarck seek to avoid the question of ownership by substituting a ques- tion of discipline, which is the real point at issue between the parties, and which cannot be settled except in the courts of law. The release of Von Arnim is a check for his oppo- nent, and may have the effect of modifying the tendency to arbitrary action which is such an unpleasant feature of German govern- ment. From THE Vicorous Manner in which Uncle Dick is working, and the rapidity with which he is reducing his weight, it might be supposed that he was in training for a con- test with the most powerful statesman in New York or for a walking match from New York to Washington. But he is not. He is only determined to beat the expectations of his best iriends, and he goes to the National Capitol by railroad. The Drives in Central Park. In many respects New York is a glorious city and perhaps in nothing more than its Central Park. But even the Park is in many respects an experiment. There is an English proverb that it takes two hundred years to make a gentleman and three hundred years to make a lawn. When we criticise our Park we must remember that it is the creation of a very few years, and that nature while build- ing surely builds slowly. But while we aro about it we should take care to copy the best points of the famous parks of the Old World. Furthermore, we should have a real park, and not a Jandscape picture seen at its best from a soaring balloon. The office of a park is to comfort, brighten and invite the people, to give tired humanity a breathing place, to coax men, women and children into wholesome communion with nature. In some respects cur Central Park fulfils this office very im- perfectly. Take the bridle-path, which is such a feature in the Bois de Boulogne, the Vienna Prater and Hyde Park. We have no great ride, drive or social exchange, where everybody cam see everybody, which is one of the purposes of a park. In Hyde Park, for instance, there is the Rotten row, where all London that is London asssmbles for observation and interchange of courtesies. There ig what is called the Tour of the Lake in the Bois de Boulogne, no less fashionable and attractive. But our bridle-path and our car- riage drives are something like “wildcat” Western railroads, they begin nowhere and go nowhere, The drive is isolated and solitary, and sentimental people who have views about ghosts avoid it. Then there are queer bridges, which frighten the horses, and while the carriage drive goes in one direction the bridle-path goes in another, instead of run- ning parallel, as should be. In the policy of growth and improvement, which we trust always to see characterize the management of the Park, this should be amended, and we should have a Rotten row or a Tour of the Lake, or, what is even better, a wide, shaded, spacious drive like the Prado in Madrid. where people could see each other, and with @ contiguous bridle-path for horsemen who desired to join the gay and friendly throng. Frepertce. W. Szwanp, the son of the late Secretary of State, and Hamilton Fish, Jr., the son of the present incumbent of that high office, are candidates for the Assembly, They are men of dignity, character. and acquire- ments, and their entrance into politics is a good augury of the time when gentlemen will form our Legialature General Grantien the Third Term. General Grant lofily rejects all considera- tion of the third tern beeause it is an issue “raised by the neyspapers,"” and he is of opinion that it “dos not comport with his dignity os Presidentof the United States to publish his views oy the subject.” And five members of General Grant's Cabinet ‘‘heartily approve” of these expressions, while one, more imbecile than the rest, declares his pri- vate conviction that the newspapers have in- vented the third term issue solely to *‘create the impression that they are a power in the land greater even than the Executive.”’ Alas! what little, what very little men wo are gov- erned by. If there were any honesty or any real dignity in these declarations of five Cab- inet officers and a President, even then the assumption of superiority in this attitude would be a piece of ridiculous impudence. Granting the sincerity of Grant’s declaration that the newspapers have raised this issue; yielding for the moment our own position that the newspapers have exposed this issue, not made it; atcepting Grant’s own ground, we may justly inquire out of what sort of supe- rior human clay is he made that he stands so far above the newspapers? What is the exact shade of the blue blood which animates these distinguished gentlemen? What atmosphere do they breathe? ‘Upon what meat doth this our Cwsar feed, that he has grown so great?’ One might suppose from the tone assumed toward the press, which stands on @ level with the people, that all these men were not merely the representatives of genera- tions of kings, but creatures of seme superior order exempt from the ordinary conditions of humanity, Whence comes the dignity which lifts General Grant so far—so very far—above other men? Was it given to him by some wily politician in the scramble for places? And, if so, which lucrative office was it that he bestowed on the donor? Or, if not given, did he buy it, and from which one of the purses given him by office-seekers did he take the money? Since he displays his dignity so bravely we should like to know more about it. ‘Was it a sense of his dignity os President of the United States, and of what comported with that dignity, which induced him to go on a junketing trip on the City of Peking—a show steamer of a company, that applies for government subsidies and gets them? It was not contrary to the dignity of Waching- ton to say that he did not wish to be Presi- dent again, for he did not wish to, and would not have dodged behind his dignity if he had had a further inclination for office. But he had none of the kind of dignity which trou- bles Grant It is strange that men who have reached high station understand the press so little. ‘Do these people really believe that the newspapers of a country invent subjects for discussion? Dothey fancy that each man invents and creates separately the air he breathes? It would be just as reasonable to believe one as the other. No newspaper is vital that does not stand at the level of the people and does not deal with the topics that make up the daily life of the people. All the newspapers in the world could not have given the third term the importance it has in our politics to-day. It is the perception by the people of what the newspapers pointed out to them which has made the topic a terror to these Cabinet drivellers. There is no con- cealing that the republican party is splitting on this issue into fifty thousand pieces, and the men to blame are General Grant and his advisers. If republicanism goes down, and if the country suffers from the accession to power of the democrats, the men responsible before history will be those who preferred themselves to the cause in whose service they rose to distinction, and the most flagrant offender will be Grant himself. Unciz Dick is making so successful a can- vass in his district that we cannot even learn the name of his opponent. He runs like a prairie fire ; and if he keeps on we shall cer- tainly have the Arctic and Antarctic Railway bill early in the session. The Orleans Princes War. The interesting and instructive volumes of the Comte de Paris, reviewed in our columns a few days since, vividly recall the period, almost exactly thirteen years ago, when the two grandsons of King Louis Philippe came to this country and offered their services on the Union side. The generous ardor of those princely youths is one of the most pleasing reminiscences of that successful struggle. It recalled at the time the services of the illus- trious Lafayette, who also put aside the fashionable gayeties and festivities, which are so attractive to young men of high birth and splendid connections, to engage ina struggle for great principles in a distant land. When the Princes of the House of Orleans offered their services in our late civil war they acted part which should endear them to their own beautiful country—the France which they so love and cherish. The prompt dedication of their swords to the cause of the Union was a rebuke to the despot ‘who then ruled their country. Napoleon III. was the most dan- gerous and the most insolent of our Euro- pean enemies during our great struggle to maintain the national unity. Itis a notori- ous part of the history of that period that he kept urging Great Britain to unite with him in recognizing the independence of the South, and if the British aristocracy had not stood in fear of the British people the French Empe- ror would have carried his point, When the Orleans princes crossed the Atlantic to fight tor the Union they made a noble protest against the despotism which then held France in helpless paralyzation at the same time that they performed a generous act to the Ameri- can Republic, whose birth had been assisted in Our Civil j by the chivalrous Latayette, Accordingly it did not surprise us to find in the Comte de Paris’ able history of the war that he so fully appreciates the free institutions which enabled our country to triumph. It is the uniform and admiring testi- mony of such of our citizens and army officers as enjoyed opportunities of intercourse with the Orleans princes while they served on General McClellan’s staff, that they deported themselves with the modesty, reserve and propriety which befitted their princely birth and contingent expectations. ‘The younger of the two brothers—the Duc de Chartres—was under less restraint than the heir apparent of the House of Orleans, and his intercourse with the officers of our army was as free, companionable and hilarious as it would have been with military officers of rank | in his own country if his elder brother had been the reigning sovereign and he had en foyed the freedom which belongs to s prince who has only a remote and very distant expec- tation of a throne. The Comte de Paris, as the head of the House of Orleans and inheritor of the throne if that house should ever be restored to power, maintained the dignity of such expectations with faultless propriety while he served in the American Army. It is the testimony of one of his own countrymen, an officer of rank in the Army of the Potomac, that no one ever suc- ceeded in drawing the Comte de Paris into # conversation having the remotest bearing om his elaims or prospects as heir apparent tothe crown of France. He was always ready te converse on any questiom of general politics, and on such subjects his views were remark- able for sagacity and intelligence, but he never permitted the conversation to take a turn from which any inference could be drawn as to his sentiments respecting the title of his family to the throne of France. His good sense, good taste, amiable temper, perfect urbanity, and high princely reserve on this topic, in which he might be supposed to take the deepest interest, seoured him the respect and affection of all Americans who had the honor of his acquaintance, and cause him to be recollected with lively pleasure after the lapse of so many eventful years. Tae Tre May Come when the political ghost of Dix will be as distressing to Roscoe Conkling as was the ghost of Banquo to the ambitious Macbeth. Aw, tHe Oxp Knickersocnern Famnags have registered so as,to vote for Knicker- bocker Uncle Dick, who has more ideas in his brain than any man now in Congress. Is Wriuzam M. Evanrs prevented by his re- membra2ce of Grant's failure to make him Chief Justice from giving Centennial Dix that support to which the Governor is entitled from every republican ? Ir Wourp Bz a lamentable confession of weakness on the part of John Morrissey to withdraw Hayes. John will not do it. He will stand up to the scratch until Tuesday next, Tue Intsamen in New York seem to, be making a national fight against Hayes. The memory of Miles O'Reilly is the talisman which is invoked by the followers of Jones. Ir Is Now Orvicrauty Announce that Alonzo B. Cornell will support Governor Dix. The fact that there should be any doubt on the subject comes from the singular apathy shown by Mr. Cornell during the canvass. Ir Ber Van Wrveze had taken any interest in politics and were now to awake from his twenty years’ sleep nothing would surprise him more than to see the position of Fernando Wood as a democrat and a reformer. Time has vindicated Fernando Wood. Recent Mayors have shown us how good a Mayor he was in his day. He has also been a good Congressman, earnest, attentive, patriotic and believing in New York. There seems to be no doubt of his election. Ir Any Onz Surroszs that Uncle Dick is not hard at work it isa mistake. His friends are surprised and alarmed at his activity. He has fallen off nearly twenty pounds in ten days. But his eye is bright, his face serene and confident, and he tramps about his dis- trict arranging matters in as lively a manner as Centennfal Dix atter ducks on Long Island or Granduncle Tilden taking his morning gal- lop to Harlem. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mrs. General Sherman 1s as the Astor House, Mayor J. H. Sprague, of Hartford, is registered as the Grand Central Hotel, Ex-Governor Sidney Perham, of Maine, is stay- ing at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Jerome B. Parmenter, of the Troy Press, has arrived at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Congressman 0. B. Matteson, of Utica, is stopping at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Mr. David A. Wells, of Connecticut, has taken ap his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, of Connecticut, has apartments at the Albemarie Hotel. Mr. Joho B, Gough, of Worcester, Mass., is among the latest arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel. Professor Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, arrived last evening at the Everett House. Professor ©. 8. Peirce, of the United States Coast Survey, is residing at the Brevoort House. ‘The return of the Governor General to the Do- minion capital has been deferred until the 7th prox. * &x-Governor J. Gregory Smith and ex-Congress- man W. Q, Smith, of Vermont, are at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore, formerly United States Minister to Mexico, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Senators Pease, of Mississippi, and Sargent, of California, were among those who visited the President at the White House yesterday. Vice President Wilson, General Hancock, Hon. M. Blair, Bishop Hancock and Mr. 0. jarrison, occupied @ box at the Park Theatre last evening. Several French artists sent checks to Déjazet's benefit in this form:—“Good for @ picture,” and signed with their names. These sold for good prices. ur. A. B. Meacham, who narrowly escaped death while holding a peace conference with the Modocs in the Lava Beds last year, is alive at the Metro- politan Hotel. Richard Grant White will contribute to the pab- lications of the New Shakespeare Society an easay “On the Advantage to Snakespeare’s Poetry of the Obsolescence of Language.” At the Paris Morgue there was exposed this month the body of a young woman, aged about twenty, so wondrously beauttfal that the authori- ties caused a mould to be taken of her. She was seen to throw herself into the river. Major General Wright, Generals Alexander ana Comstock and others were at Bucharest at the end of September, en route to the mouth of the Danube to study the works in progress there for possible use at the mouth of the Mississippi. The Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the Czar, was at Paris on his returo from Biarrita, saa was recalled to St. Peteraburg so urgently that he was compelled to apologize for failure to keep an engagement at dinner ior the next day with Mar- shal MacMahon. ‘The sixth volume of the “History of the Franco. German War,” written vy the members of the general staif,has just been published. The new volume describes in detail the battles of Grav- elotte and St. Privat, two of the most sanguinary encounters of the war. On the Amoor River they have a queer pian of periorming capitai executions. They give the culprit Chinese brandy until he becomes uncon- scious, and then they bury him alive. Before he recovers Consciousness he 1s, of course, smothered by the earth, and so it is a merciful pian, Rev. John King, a vicar in the diocese of Lin- coin, in England, believes that horse racing im- proves the breed of horses, and hasan animal of his own ‘n alinost every important race; but the Bishop of Lincoln is of a different opinion on thé subject of racing, and there ts a lively correspond: ence,