The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR _ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- gual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorn Hxnawp. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. en Volume XXXIX........00.-sereesseee2-NO, 303 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. Dor Me BOOTH'3 THEATRE, of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth svenue— Wieweta, at8P.M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. Miss Cush- man WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—TH& ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, atSP. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, Mr. Montague. 4 : CU itsian OperaaLA SONNAMBULA, at P.M; closes at'10:45 P.M. Mile. Albani, Signor ssentratelli. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets —THE DELUGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. The Kiralfy Family. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad way.—MOORCROFT; Ok, THE DOUBLE WEDDING, at 8 ¥. M.; closes at 11 ¥, it, Mise Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis james. MRS. gonwaT Eo “BROOKLYN THEATRE. RIENN CIRESS and THE JEALOUS wite ata. Mo; closes at 10-301, M. Mra Bowers, J- ©. McCollom,” ROBINSON HALL, teenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— FARLETY, at 8 P. M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, fest Twenty-third street, near sixth ‘avenue.—NEGRO BiNSTRELSY: &c., at8 PB, Bryant. M.; closes at 10 P, M. Dan METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Fe 885 Broadway.—VARIE.Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Mo, 01 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. x SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Cee pw ‘Twenty ninth street. —NEGRO HIMSTREL Seats POM, jcloses at OE. 3 Fourteenth strect and six'h nvenie.-MUCH &DO tre: “3 avenue.—! BOUT NOTHING, at 8 P.M. closes atldwa P.M. Miss ison, Mr. Barnes. AMERIVAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue. between Sixty a and Sixty-fourth | streets INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. as SThicty-ntth street —STOBM OVER lway, corner of street. — Pants rand Be. TARLEY'S WAX WORKS atsao re WOOD's MUSEUM, ay, corner of ‘Thirtieth ‘street—THK SIN PHASTON, At 2 PM.; closes at 480 F. M, OLIVER Frist M.:'closes at 10:30 P.M. Lucille Western. ‘Sophie’ Miles OLYMPIC THEATRE, ba 6% Brondway.—VARIETY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10-45 ROMAN HIPPODROME, | Shyer street and Third avenue.—Circus and wie THEATRE, ty-Orst and Twenty-second ptr eT Nt NUE SCP: Me; closes at lS Ps Me i John T. Raymond. THEATRE MIQU: Spypittertwns Tass at8 P. M.; closes at 10 30 RVILLE GALLE wes, OF SOO OUT MOUNTAIN, “aatty, from 9 A. STEINWAY BALL See Fourteenth street —BEGO: LL CARE, at 8P. M.; wloses at 10 P.M. Frederic M: be. TIVOLI THEATRE, Fania street, 3 PS close Second ood Third avenues.— TRIPLE SHE ET. New awe Friday, Oct. = oe From our reports this morning the probabilities eve that the weather to-day will be cloudy and wool. Wau Srazet Yesterpar.—The market in all departments was unusually dull. Specula- tion developed no new feature. Gold closed at 110}. Money was easy at 2}a3 per cent on call loans. ‘Tae Preswent has issued his proclamation Tecommending November 26 as a day of thanksgiving. Is there nothing that he can do before that date to make the American peo- ple more grateful ? Brsnor Sermovur, of Illinois, has replied very fully to the charges made against him by Dr. Forbes in relation to his ritualistic ten- dencies, and his remarks will be found else- where. 1874. 30, Mayor Havemeyer is distressed by the wickedness of election pool selling, and has inquired of District Attorney Phelps if it can- not be suppressed under the gambling laws, Mr. Phelps is not quite sure, but intimates that the Mayor might try the experiment. Mason Scnorretp has captured sixty-nine Naconee warriors and two thousand ponies. General Sheridan, says ‘‘This party is of | the worst character,’ and no doubt the ponies | are as bad as their masters. The attempt is also beg made by Special Commissioner | | | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. General Grant’s Dignity and the Newspaper Press. General Grant has discovered that there are acts inconsistent with the dignity of his office—acts which, if they may be committed by common men, should at least not be com- mitted by the President of the United States. Our joy at learning that the President has made this discovery is shadowed only by a faint regret that he did not make it earlier. An earlier perception on his part of the fact that something is due to the dignity of his office would have spared us many scandals. Tt must have prevented acts which the nation has seen with a sense of general humiliation ; acts at which the people have been indignant, and others at which they have been covered with patriotic shame, to see the Chief Magis- tracy of the country fallen so low. It is even possible that if General Grant had thought of his dignity only within a year ortwo past the republican party might not now be paying at the polls the penalty of his offences. He might have reflected that as even Andy Johnson—poor, old, sadly-berated Andy Johnson—refused the gift of a carriage while President, andas John Tyler returned a horse that an office-seeker had the impertinence to send him—in the face of such examples he might have remembered that it became the greater dignity of a greater man to refuse numerous and far greater gifts, and so his dignity would have prevented the establish- ment of the precedent that any office in the gift of the President may be bought if the buyer will only adopt the thin device of call- ing the price'a gift. If the President had thought of his dignity earlier we should have been spared the story of Casey at New Orleans and the whole train of disgraceful conse- quences up to the federal assassination of a sovereign State. Nearly the whole story of reconstruction might have been written dif- ferently; for the support and retention in office of bands of men fit only for the galleys is not dignified in a President. There are several nominations for the office of Chief Justice of the United States which would not have been made, and a Spanish cruiser would not have pulled down our flag at sea. In fact, as the fate of the world might have been differ- ent if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, our recent history might have been far more re- spectable if General Grant had discovered earlier the pinch of dignity which now in- clines him to hold his peace regarding the third term. Although we are naturally rejoiced that Gen- eral Grant now regards his office as one which requires some dignity in the incumbent we are sorry to find that his notions of dignity are neither American nor intelligent. He re- gards it as beneath him to express an opinion on @ subject discussed in the newspapers. | This man whom the newspapers made Presi- dent—may they be able to expiate the of- fence !—now metaphorically pute his heel on the power which created him. He in whom no party had confidence, and whom the politi- cal leaders of every stripe distrusted with a wise prescience which the people did not com- prehend; who, despite his military successes, would, if the parties could have had their way, have been left in the army or legislated | into obscurity, was forced upon the dominant party by the newspaper press of the country declaring the preference and opinion of the people ; and he makes to the press as far as he may the same return that the viper made to the woodman in the fable. Wonderful result of newly discovered dignity! His notice, un- less it be a venomous notice, can barely de- scend to the newspapers. If now there were | Brabmins in ‘this country and other grads- tions of caste down to the Sudras we could comprehend that newspapers might be Sudras and Presidents Brahmins ; and then, of course, the newspapers, treighted with the thoughts and discussions of the people, would be fifty times unclean, and might not come into the atmosphere of an official Brahmin without purification and ‘‘gifts.” Then the attitude assumed by General Grant would be reasonable enough; but we had thought there were neither Brahmins nor Sudras in this country, and that the people and the printed papers which contain their thoughts and ad- vocate their cause are not beneath any man’s notice, but eminently worthy the attention of men in power. Was this an error? What is the position of the newspaper in the social and political fabric of ourtime? It is the mouthpiece of the people. Their thoughts find utterance in its columns. Their aspira- tions, their purposes, their achievements, their antipathies, are the staple of its argument day by day. Dionysius of Syracuse, it is reported, constructed a chamber on acoustical princi- ples, into which was led the sound of every murmur, of every cry of despair and every whispered curse from every cell of the prison in which his victims were secured. And we might compare the newspaper press to that murmur-gathering chamber. It is a reservoir in which is gathered up and retained and re- corded—not the murmur of the prisons merely, but whatever has passed through the minds of the people; what is said in the work- shop and the bank parlor; what is spouted about at party ‘‘rallies” and what is chatted over at tea; what the autocrats of the break- | fast table lay down as the law, and what the oracles of the corner grocery put forth as in- fallible. There is not a wave, not a ripple in the mind of the community that it does not Atkinson to remove the Kickapoo Indiars | refect, And for all this it must beat the level from Mexico, but it is likely the army will | have to do the work in the end. It would be | better to let it take control of the Indians in the beginning. Govenxon Kexxoee is fortunate in his per- | sonal combats. Glory without wounds attends him. Yesterday Major E. A. Burke attacked | the Governor with a cowhide, but whether he | gd struck him or not is a disputed question. The Governor fired a shot or two at his foe and | the Major responded by firing five shots at | in which the Governor was | the carriage seated. But no blood was shed, and we learn that both gentlemen are heartily ashamed of their quarrel. Weshould hee 80. ‘Tre Spanisn GovELNMENT seems anxious to | end the war in Cuba by statesmanship, force having thus far failed. The news from Havana is to the effect that General Concha has gone upon an ostensible tour of inspec- tion, but that his real object isto negotiate with General Garcia for the surrender of the insurgents. Amnesty is to be proclaimed and property to be restored. But these are Span- | ish rumors, and need contirmation from the | it is. natriots, | of the people and in immediate sympathy with must have the faith and the courage its func- tion as the organ of the sovereign power | naturally inspires. Wise rulers have found the usefulness of knowing the condition of the popular mind on one subject or another subjects respectively come to the | surface of the political whirlpool, and keg have studied and valued the press | above all other agencies useful in furnishing such knowledge; and it isa eure, an infallible indication of a narrow and unenlightened mind to find one recurring to the pitiful prejudice that station entertained against the press in the days when power could put De Foe in the pillory for printing those immortal “‘libels’’ in which he criticised its tyranny. In the enlightened countries of Europe the press is regarded as the potent vehicle of progressive thought. It is only in our own country, apparently, that men in power feel themselves infinitely above it; and by consequence infinitely above the people by It is only here that an Executive, who | is ready to respond to a query if presented by | the political conveniences of some demagogue, pretends to regard it with contempt when in the press it comes directly from the people. But we understand this contempt and this Presidential dignity ; for thinner subterfuges, poorer covers for a refusal to declare what the people insist upon knowing, were never put forth, Caught in the endeavor to under- mine the foundations of our government ; ex- posed in his aspirations for o change that would make the Executive s permanent office in his favor, he pretends a dignity he does not feel to cover the chagrin and sullenness of a detected schemer. And what opinions his supporters write on this theme! Here is the Mail, an ordinarily intelligent republican journal. It says that General Dix killed the third term topic on Monday night, and fur- ther: — “Whoever started the delusion, it was the Henaup which gave it its dimensions and influence, and we are tree to admit that, as a journalistic enterprise, and as a means of ‘bedevilling’ politics, it has been a success, But it has been nursed and kept alive by the enemies of the present national administration.’’ How was it nursed and kept alive by the enemies of the adminis- tration for upwards of a year if General Dix could kill it in five minutes? If two or three sentences from a distinguished republican could lay the topic out cold was it not, per- haps, his silence that kept it alive so long? And if so how much more the silence of the President himself? What enemy was it that kept alive atopic the President could have slaughtered with a sentence at any hour of its existence? But here comes again the Presi- dential dignity. He could not give his opinions when they were not called for. It seems, then, that a President is a kind of political ghost which cannot speak till it is spoken to. But who called for the President's opinions on finance when he issued his superfluous manifesto to Jones shortly after his veto of the Four Hundred Million bill? Could not the same convenient friend have called again? And as for the Mail's professional opinion, that the third term is dead, we differ. It was never so vital. It is terribly alive. Gen- eral Dix’s voice has only made it more pre- eminently necessary that the President him- self must be heard; and not in hesitating tones either, but with a clear, distinct and categorical denial, not only that he does not favor the third term, but that he will not have it. Only that can defeat the conspiracy of the office-holders who are preparing, uncon- sciously, an explogion that otherwise will blow the republican party to the moon. “Uncle Dick.” The Sun permite a careless, purblind core respondent to speak of the Hzraxp as writing a “scurrilous’’ article on the canvass of Uncle Dick for Congress. There could be nothing further from the Hrraup’s purpose. Unele Dick is the Henaxy’s particular candi- date, and consequently he runs like an ante» lope ora prairie flame. He is a man of soaring intellect, with a balloon quality to his genius, and sees over more ground than most people, and this is why we sustain him. It is not every statesman who would discover the ad- vantages of an Arctic and Antarctic Railway Company, with a Peru and Alaska extension. It requires more than an ordinary mind to see the great good that would come tothe human tace from the conversion of the Pope and the extermination of the Chinese. Only convert the Pope, and there will be an end of all religious agitation in Europe; Bismarck’s fire will be drawn, there will be no Spanish question and Cuba will be annexed. Only ex- terminate the Chinese and there will be no more labor problems to solve, and we can go in and occupy the country and make it as prosperous and happy as New Jersey. These are questions that may be appropriately regarded as transcendental statesmanship and do not occupy ordinary minds. Uncle Dick is not afraid of them. In Washington he will introduce a new element into our legislation, and he runs in his district like old Admiral Van Tromp, his renowned ancestor, when he sailed the seas with a broom st the masthead. Uncle Dick has studied Talleyrand and knows the value of a good dinner. In this he resembles the Hon. Sam Ward, another statesman-under-the-rose, whose wit and genius have been the wonder of Rocky Mountain statesmen and the glory of English and French diplomatists in Wash- ington. Uncle Dick knows that champagne and Chambertin have done more to govern mankind than Blackstone and Vattel. He knows that many speech from the throne has been ruined by a good dinner. These and other high qualities give him his aston- ishing popularity. Everybody goes for him, the Hon. Sam Ward is his witty and accom- plished supporter, and his canvass is so irre- sistible that the combined efforts of our corps of industrious reporters have failed to dis- cover even the name of his antagonist. So, as before, we say, ‘‘All hail! Uncle Dick!” and when, on the first Monday of next De- cember, he walks with statesman tread down the aisle of the House to take the oath and become the terror of Butler and the joy of Welcker, the House of Representatives will rise in their seats and cry, “‘All hail ! Uncle Dick!" Tue Srzech or tHE Emperor WrituaM.— The Emperor William opened the Reichstag yesterday in person. His speech advised the establishment of uniform methods of judicial procedare and of equal civil rights | them—neither above nor below them—and it | in the Empire. A budget was requested | for Alsace and Lorraine, “that most ancient German territory,” and it was | announced that bills would be presented | for the regulation of the issuc of paper money. | The most important part ot the speech was li respect to the relations of the German Empire with the rest of Europe. The Em- peror declared that its united powers would not be employed otherwise than for defence. He considered the friendship of other rulers as @ guarantee for the continuance of peace, in which entire confidence might be reposed. Yet he stated that the present appropriations for the support of the army were inadequate, and that more money would be needed to maintain its efficiency. The necessity of being constantly prepared for war does not harmonize with the pledges that peace will not be disturbed. | Sourm Amentca, in the absence of earth- | quakes, has to get along as well as possible | with revolutions. The latest event is the re- bellion of two provinces of Venezuela against President Blanco, Roscoe Conkling. Our readers will share with us the pleasure we feel in announcing that Roscoe Conkling will speak this evening to the republicans of Brooklyn, Mr. Conkling has thus far taken no part in the canvass, or rather no violent, recognizable part. The fact that he now comes to the front must be attributed to ‘the mysterious influence of the New Yorx Hynaup.”” We trust the eloquent and highly distinguished Senator will explain the cause of his silence, and why he should have been sulking at Utica when all New York was cry- ing for him. We hope also he will address himself to living issues. There is certainly no man more competent. He has commanding eloquence, rare gifts of passionate rhetoric and a voice so full and resonant that he might readily address the combined population of New York and Brooklyn from one of the piers of the new bridge, Mr. Conkling, we repeat, should speak only on living themes. We do not want the old speech or any line or fragment of it, We do not care much about his views of Grant. Of course we know, and will gladly admit that Grant is the third Washington, and that he conquered Lee. Nor do we yearn for “Southern outrages’’ or ‘‘revived rebellion.’ To use the expressive language of a lexicographer like John Morrissey, these are “played out.” Nor are we anxious about 4 Mr. Tilden’s ‘‘ war record.” War records at this time are about as interesting as the records of the Mayflower, and if Mr. Tilden had commanded the attack on Fort Sumter it would not cost him a hundred votes. Nor aro we desirous of hearing Mr. Conkling elaborate on Tweed; for Tweed is in jail, and Mr. Tilden had much more to do with his going there than Mr. Conkling or any of his friends. But let the young, eloquent and highly- gifted Senator give us a broad and statesman- like speech. There is the third term question to begin with. Let him tell us what he thinks of that. Will hesupport Grant should he be nominated fora third term? This is the ques- tion which has marrow init. What does he think about the South? Will he support the calling of a national convention of peace and reconstruction? Willheinsist upon justice to the Southern men and such a measure of re- construction as will build up the shattered The Western Storm=—Early Snow. The telegraphic reports show that there has been a severe tempest on the lakes, of which we are now feeling tho effects. This storm was indicated a few days ago as then in West- ern Kansas, and ita path across the lake re- gion has been slowly pursued with apparently serious cyclonic winds, Snow and sleet were its reported concomitants in the Northwest, and doubtless cold, boisterous weather and killing frosts will be its legacy to us. The sudden transition from the summer- like air of the past week to the approaching cold is a matter of great consequence to the public health unless guarded against. Our invalids feel these equinoctial changes very keenly, and to carelessness of dress and ex- posure during their continuance may be traced many of the fatal pulmonary attacks. The present storm seems to have been moving 80 nearly eastwardly as to make itself danger- ously felt on our seacoast, and will probably be heard from in the Atlantic steamship fleets that at this time look for severe gales. The outward bound vessels from this port will do well to keep a sharp look out for the falling glass and the high sea outside of Sandy Hook, as even the moderate gales of the Continent become very much more dangerous when they enter the vapor-laden air of the sea and often become hurricanes. The Assembly Nominations. The people of New York constantly and justly complain of the bad laws that are forced upon us by venal Legislatures at Albany. Yet, when election time arrives, they evince remarkable indifference as to the character of tha men for whom they vote for legislative offices. The political leaders nominate irresponsible ward politicians, and the cit- izens take their party tickets and vote for the candidates without remembering the fact that they are voting directly against their own in- terests. When we glance at the names of the persons who have represented the great eommercial metropolis in Senate and Assembly for the last dozen years we certainly ought not to be surprised that the rights of the city have been sacrificed to the lobby and that bad legislation has rendered good municipal government impossible. The present year’s nominations for Assem- bly form no exception to the general rule. Commonwealths of that rich, noble and cruelly used section? He might illuminate his address with views upon the salary grab, back pay, Crédit Mobilier and other interesting themes, but upon these we shall not press him. In the meantime we congratulate Mr. Conk- ling upon coming to the front and rallying around Centennial Dix. He comes in late, but better late than never. He shows wisdom in answering the Hzrauy’s call. Now let him show himself in his oration worthy to em candidate for the Presidency. The American Drama. Mr. Augustin Daty is a shrewd man. He knows where and how to hit, and especially the secret of indirect advertising. Mr. Bouci- cault seemed in other days to be master of the “puff collusive’ art, but the active and keen young manager of the Fifth Avenue Theatre surpasses the literary descendant of Irish kings French dukes. Nothing attracts people to a play more readily than a discus- sion, and nobody knows more about discus- sions, when to begin and when to end them, than Mr. Daly. Among these is the discus- sion about the American drama. There isa new canon fer instance, that no play can be considered American unless the action is laid in America, If we accept this rule “Othello” and “Julius Cassar’ would not be English plays) Such a canon is absurd. What we want is a play that can be called American—just as we call the ‘‘Scarlet Letter’ and ‘‘Hiawatha,” the ‘Pathfinder’ and the “History of the Dutch Republic,” American. We want to seesome one arise who will do for the dramatic literature of America what kas been done for other branches of lit- erature by Poe, Bancroft, Motley, Cooper and Longfellow. We have had ‘Rip Van Winkle” and “Uncle Tom;’’ but these cannot be called dramatic creations. They were great before they saw the stage. ‘Solon Shingle” and ‘*Colonel Sellers” are characters, not dramas; the achievements of the actor, not the writer. We have really had no American drama, and Mr. Daly may write as many ingenious com- munications as he pleases on the subject ; we shall only believe when we see. Mr. Wallack, who is at the head of the theatrical business in the country, and who has for a quarter of a century been striving to find a true American drama, would have welcomed the opportunity of presenting one. The want that exists should not dispirit us, but on the contrary be a stimulus to young writers of genius. All that we can do is to encourage them to try and try again. Mr. Wanes, the republican candidate for Mayor, says: —‘‘There are scores of able and honest financiers who would protect the city and at the same time conduct themselves without insolence in office.'’ This is true, and New York needs an able financier at the head of its financial affairs. There is no reason why we should pay seven per cent in- terest on city bonds and stock. There is no sense in squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars in useless litigation. There is no true economy in stopping necessary public im- provements or in refusing to pay just debts. There is no honesty in spending thousands of the public money to promote political ends or to gratify personal molignity. The city needs a financial head with brains in it. Tue Triax or Kutian for the attempted assassination of Bismarck begun yesterday at Warzburg. The prisoner admitted his guilt. Way Dors Nor Wii114m M. Evarts show some interest in politics? A speech from him would be a comfort to Centennial Dix. A great man like Evarts should make his appear- ance in the canvass on other occasions than when he is himself a candidate ite for office. Mr. Austin Leake ought to b to be elected to the Assembly in the Fifth district. He isa responsible citizen and a man of excellent | character. His democratic opponents are a liquor dealer on the Tammany side, a nomi- nee of Mike Norton’s on the independent ticket and butcher named by the Creamer bolters. Mn. Oxrver P. Buew1, the democratic nom. inee for Assembly in the Eleventh district, ought to be certain of election, He is a wealthy merchant, largely interested in the welfare of 1 the city. and a thorough business man, There are a few acceptable candidates pre- sented on both sides; Mr. Smith E. Lane, Dr. Alfred A. Beach, Mr. Oliver P. Buell and Mr. Thomas Cooper Campbell by the demo- crats, and Mr. Frederick W. Seward, Mr. Austin Leake, Mr. William H. Gedney, Mr. Jacob Hess and Mr. E. Latimer Holmes by the republicans, But, as a general rule, we find the usual run on one side of corner grocery politicians and wornout hacks, and on the other side of Custom House employés and ward wirepullers. The respectable and responsible portion of the community should select the best mam running for Assembly in the district and support him without refer- ence to party. This-is the most effective way of compelling the political organizations to improve the general character of their nomi- nations, Now Tat Roscoz Conxkia has come to the front let us hear from William M. Evarts. Cannot he say a word about glorious Centen- nial Dix? Mn E. Larrmwer Houmes, an extensive manufacturer, should be elected to the Assem- bly in the Sixteenth district. The city wants such representatives at Albany. Mr. Holmes is on the republican ticket. Mn. Jacos Hess, the republican nominee for Assembly in the Twentieth district, is a ree sponsible, active business man, and will make a@ more acceptable representative than the average New York Assemblyman. Mr. Tuomas Cooper Campsett, the demo- district, isa lawyer of good reputation and independent fortune. He will make a valu- able representative if elected. Tae Democrats have named Dr. Alfred A. Beach for the Assembly in the Thirteenth dis- trict. If all the candidates on both sides were of like character we should soon cease to hear of corruption at Albany and bad govern- ment in New York. Dr. Beach is a son of the Rev. Dr. Beach, of St. Stephen’s church, and a grandson of the late Judge Nelson. He runs against a weigher in the Custom House. Me. Wouus H. Gepnex, the republican candidate for Assembly in the Ninth district, is a builder and a man of responsibility. He will make a good, prac'ical representative of the business interests of the city. Ir Is Rerresuine to find a name like that of Hamilton Fish, Jr., among the unknown persons crowded into the list of candidates for legislative honors. The people of Putnam county would be unjust to themselves should they suffer Mr. Fish to be defeated for the Assembly. Tus Woutp Szexm to be a bad time for machines. Over in Brooklyn, on what is called ‘The Heights,” the republican ma- chine nominated a very indifferent candidate for Congress to succeed Governor Woodford. Whereupon the democrats at once nominated 8. B. Chittenden, a leading republican and one of our most public-spirited citizens. It now looks as if the machine would be broken by Mr. Chittenden’s election. Tar Srnoxc Pornt in favor of Fernando Wood is that he is thoroughly » New Yorker. He goes for New York first, last and all the time, as a representative should do. Mn. Cuanves M. Scuterrenin is the candi- date tor Assembly in the Second district of Westchester county. The nomination is a good one, and we Jearn that Mr. Schieffelin is making a good canvass and is certain of election. He is not a professional politician, and will represent the district honorably and independently. Tar Prorze of the Seventh As Assembly dis- trict are fortunate. The politicians on both sides of the fence have given them unexcep- tionable nominees for Assembly—the republi- cans, Mr. Frederick W. Séward, and the democrats, Mr. Smith E. Lane. Mr. Seward’s | name is sufficient to commend him to the re- spectable residents of the district, while no man can have superior claims on the loyalty ot his party. Mr. Smith E. Lane isa lawyer good sgcial position, Whichever may be suc- cessful the district will be honestly and intel- ligently represented in the next Assembly. by profession and a gentlean of wealth and | cratic nominee for Assembly in the Eighteenth | * ——, The Races on Saturday. Everything promises gala day at Jerome Park on Saturday. This is the golden season of our year, when all nature becomes flushed and ruddy with the ripeness of life, making, as it were, a supreme effort to show her beauty before it falls before the frost and snow. A ride to Jerome Park through the lovely valley of Westchester is a fascinating pleasure, and especially when we are to have the attractions set down for Saturday. There are to be two grand steeplechases, which will be the events of the racing season. For these nineteen horses have already been entered, and the contest promises to be unusually brilliant and excit- ing. There will also be a hack race for gen- tlemen riders, which will attract unusual in- terest. Jerome Park has become as much of an institution of New York as Trinity church or Tammany Hall. This is due largely to the genius and efforts of Leonard W. Jerome, whose name is linked to this place as permanently as the name of Lord Derby to the Epsom Downs. Mr. Jerome does not own any racing horses, but he keepa his colors. In this respect he reminds us of the Count de Chambord, who does not wear the crown, but has all the robes and accoutre- ments necessary for royalty when the moment comes, Instead of devoting his time to the care of horses Mr. Jerome concerns himself more about the moral aspect of the tarf. He elevates it and makes it popular, and not merely a Hippodrome performance or circus show. Then, as we have said, by constantly keeping his colors ready, he shows that should he ever feel disposed to tempt the keen en- counter of the strife he is more than ready, New York cannot too highly appreciate the debt it owes Mr. Jerome, and it is a pity he is not in the race for Mayor, that we might show him how highly these efforts are appreciated. Mn. Tixpen’s refusal to attend the Tame many meeting and indorse the ‘bosom friends” has embarrassed the canvass. But Mr. Tilden’s friends show that he cannot as a reformer conscientiously support a ticket which has, in the person of Jimmy Hayes, a leading member of Tweed’s Board of Supers visors. The faultis certainly not that of Mr. Tilden, but of Tammany Hall. A candidate should have been named for every chartes office who would have strengthened the Gow ernor, not weakened him. Czxrenntan Drx seoms to come in livelier and livelier on his homestretch. The Gov« ernor has immense going power. He has not been shooting ducks all summer for nothing, Granduncle Tilden must not buy a ticket for Albany until the votes are all counted. Tux New York Times informs us that Mz Conkling ‘has consented” to speak for Dix, Did it require a great deal of coaxing? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Admiral Topete’s condition is improving. London Is actually tired of Dundreary. There ts hope, therefore. Baron and Baroness Von Schwarz-Senborn re turn to Washington to-morrow. Ex-Governor Edward F. Noyes, of Ohio, is resid ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, State Senator A. C. McGowan, of Frankfort, N. Yay 1s staying at the Astor House. Captain W. G. Temple, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House. United States Minister to Hayti, the Hon. Mr. Basset, is lying sick at New Haven. The Kari of Caithness sailed in the Havang steamer City of New York yesterday. The Prince and Princess of Wales have returned to England trom their Continental tour. Judge Edward ©. Billings, of New Orleans, yes terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The King of the Sandwich Islands will arrive ag San Francisco by the Benicia about the last of November. The Earl of Rosebery arrived from England in the steamship Algeria yesterday, and is at the Brevoort House. Baron de Sant Anna, the newly appointed Portu- guese Minister to this country, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Heywood, an American, is singing soprane parts in opera at Berlin. He has had great suc- cess as Leonora in “Trovatore.”” Few books have been so many times reprinted as ‘‘Kebie’s Christian Year;’’ and Cassell, of Lone don, will bring it out for the Christmas holidays in quarto, sumptuously printed and illustrated, The number of Chinese students in Massachue setts and Connecticut is now upwards of 60, and will soon be 100, These ‘“Emperor’s boys,” ag they are called, are allowed about $700 a year for expenses by the home government. Councillor A. P. de Carvalho Borges, Envoy Ex. traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil to the United States, arrived yesterday, with his wile, in the Algeria, from Europe, where he has passed the summer for the advantage of his health. One of the most natve and charming books of recent travel was Lady Duff Gordon’s * Letters from Egypt.” We are now to bave from the same pen ‘Last Letters from Egypt,’’ to which are added “ Letters from the Cape.” The French government has issued a decree that henceforth on all ships of tne navy or mer- chant marine the signals ‘‘pabord” (larvoard) and “tribord”’ (starboard) shall indicate, not the move. ment made by the man at the helm, but the course to be taken by the ship. The eldest son of the German Prince Impertal has a very short left arm, and ts compelled to use @t table a long fork especially adapted to bis nee cessity. With this long fork he may, under the Tule of the proverb as to a long spoon, be regarded as prepared for even more imperial company than that of his grandpop. Apparently the Emperor of Russia’s good wil toward Don Carlos was directly brought out by Bismarcx's little proposition that Denmark should come into the circie of the German Empire; tor the possession of Denmark 1s the command of the mouth of the Baitic Ocean, and at that point Russia can comprehend the Prussian spirit of aggressive absorption, The Prince de Joinville and the Duke d’Aumale were endeavoring to arrange with M, Thiers when he was driven irom power the removal to French soil of the remains of Louls Philippe, Who was bar. fed in England, They are now soliciting the same permission from MacMahon. They promise to ef fect the removal so quietly that It cannot give rise to any manifestation, In one of the Paris prisons a convict, who for good behavior was given some liberty and waited on more privileged prisoners, requested one of these, as a great favor, to procure him a pack of caras, “What do you want caras for?” “Why, my fingers by #0 many weeks of idleness will be quite out of practice, and when [leave the prison I won't be able to earn my living.” Lord and Lady Dufferin, accompanied by several of the members of the Board of Kducation, paid ¢ visit yesterday to the Normal College, where they remained for a consideraple time. Atter which the party visited the Grammar School in Iwenty: seventh street, At both places the visitors were given a fuli explanation of the workings ot the institutions, a8 Well as the particulars relating t our public schoo! system, and at both places they were entertained with the exercises pecuitar té such occasions. Lord Duiferin expressed himsell as much pleased not only with our school system, but with the manner in Which he was entertained by the teachers and scholars. He and Lady Dus forin left last evening far Boston.