The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD aie BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR JAMES 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. ANIUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND E EVENING BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and sixth avenue.—GUY MANNERING, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:07. M. Matinee 4.120 P.M —MACBETH! Miss Cushman. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—THE KOMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, at M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, We. Montague. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, " Fourpenth street.—Italian Opera—}l, /ROVATORE, at 1.0 P. M.; closes at4P. M. Mile. Heilbron. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Datyegn Prince ana Houston streets —THE DELUGE, 8 P. M.; closes at Li’. M. The Kirally Family. Matinee at 130 TH AV. THEATRE srenty-cighth, adie and Brosaway. BE OORCROFT; on THS VOUBLE WEDUING, at & P.M; closes at LI i. Miss Fanny Davenport’ Miss Sara Jewett, Lous Temne Matinee at |v P. ROOKLYN THEATRE, os THE JEALOUS | Mrs. Bowers, J. pis MENCHBACK. P. «. McCollow. Matinee a ROBIN Sixteenth sirect, between Brond way’ "snd Fiith avenue.— ARIB.3, ato P.M BRYANT’S OPBRA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue. —NEGRO DUNSTRaLoY, &c., at 5 P closes at lu P.M. Dan Qryaut Matinee at2 F METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 0, 5°6 Brondway.—VARIKTY, at 8 P. M., closes at 10 EF M. Matinee at 2 P.M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Wo. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, | ‘ay, corner of Twenty-ninth street. GRO SLo\, a8 P. M.; closesatiuP, M. Matinee at LYCEUM THEATRE, Foarteenth Street and sixth, ayenug.—BOMEO AND | 18 P. Mj c.0se8 at tinee at 1:30 M.—MUOH ADO ABUUT NOTHING. Mahe Neilson, ir. Barues. | AMERICA Third avenue, between sticeus. INDUSTRIAL E.- STITUTE, heat aua Sixty-fourth ITLON. COLOSSEUM, | comer of Tnirt fifth street.—STORM OvER | MRS. ARLEY'’S WAX WORKS, at 2:00 P. | WOOD'S MUSEUM, (Eroadway, corner ot hirtieth street. THE SIN PH AN- HOM, atl. M.; closes at lu:30 P.M. OLIVER TWIST, | Biz 2'P. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. Lucille Western, Sophie OLYMPIC THEATRE, Fe, 624 Broadway,—VARIBI'Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | * M. Matinee at 2 P. M, PARK THEATRE, roadway, between eds first and Twenty second | piteets. GILDED AG i, Clones at 10 30 P.M. /Mr. John T. mapenoe Mati o1 0 P.M. HEATRE COMIQUE, co, S14 Bronaway. SVARIETY, at SF. M. ; closes at 10:30 | /& Matinee at 2 P.M. SOMERVILLE GALLERY, BATTLE OF LOUK OUr MOUN daily, from 9 A. | ‘BM. to lo P. | NWAY HALL, DULL'CARF, at8P. M.; Matinee at2 P.M. STEI Fourteenth street —BEGON « closes at iU P.M, Frederic Maccabe. TIVOLI 1 Fighth street, between VAKIELY, at 8 P.M; cl at 10:30 P GERMANIA THEATRE, Fou 6 a street—EIN ERFOLG, ato P. M.; closes at Jus ‘TRIPLE SHEE Oct. je Kew York, eatucdny, 31, From our reports this morning the probabilities cre that the weather io-day will be partly cloudy and frosty. Uncrze Dicx runs like a prairie fire. Wart Srrzer Yxsterpay.—The market was without feature. Investment securities were in moderate demand. Money was easy at 24 and 3 per cent on call loans, and gold bteady at 110}. Tue Amenpep Ruue in regard to the uniform of the police, and the times at which it must be worn, is published in full to-day. Ir Even a Man deserved to be lynched it ‘was Martin Groves, whose horrible crime is told to-day. Yet, even in his case, it would have been better had he been hung legally. Waar Has become of the “Big Judge?” Tue Kine or tHe Sanpwicu Istanps has been made known to every one in America by Mr. John .Brougham's beautiful ode, and when he arrives at San Francisco we think it should be sung in his honor. We Puntisx elsewhere an article from the Journal des Débats upon the protest of the Spanish government against the aid given by France to the Carlists, with a definition of the French position in the matter. Oxe Fact Is beyond peradventure, The next Mayor of New York and the next Goy- ernor will both be good men. Tae Depnate in the Episcopal Church in respect to ritualism is not likely to come to a satisfactory close. The House of Bishops has sent back to the deputies the canon recently adopted, and the whole question is thus re- opened. Now if the ‘‘ bosom triends” had only nom- {nated Uncle Dick for Mayor instead of Wick- bam, what a run he would have made ! Tue Proceepres yesterday in the trial of Supervisor of Elections Davenport were of much importance. A number of prominent citizens appeared as witnesses, and among them were District Attorney Bliss, Oswald Ottendorfer, Mr. Goodlett, Judge Noah Davis and Mr, Davenport himself. Prat AaAE TAR ii TES ~° “Bosom Frrenp'’ Morrissey has begun a | campaign in the pools, The ‘‘pool-selling’’ is no real indication of the canvass. When Havemeyer ran for Mayor he was the lowest jn the pools. Sangean Tae National Republican, official organ and source of all wisdom, does not kuow what to (inl a Pes Reason Senator Epuvnps could not ypeak thy’ other evening was because he had | to go to Wasiuington to “fix” Grant on the third term. But stubboro Ulysses would not be fixed. He despises newspapers too much to be in any way influenced by their | “clamors.”” ‘Tax Trozs or THE Evection are running | high. The anti-Tammany movement con- tinues in full strength. John Kelly's speeches ate ealonipret to aid it. John should avoid SPE: 1874. | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OULUBER, 31, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. | The State Canvass. We are approaching the end of perhaps the most singular political canvass which has taken place in this State for many years. When it opened it seemed to be, in the main, & personal contest between two well known citizens. Between Governor Dix and Mr. Tilden there was little to choose except’ in those personal qualities which secure favor and popularity. They were trained in the | same school; {hey had been old political as- sociates ; they had always held the same | views on the currency, the tariff, the fiscal policy of the government and on that whole range of questions; and there seemed no other reason why the citizens of New York | should prefer one of them to the other for their chief magistrate than personal predilections, Had the canvass continued to stand on this footing the result could not bave been | doubtful. Governor Dix has held so many and | such conspicuous positions, and has always | had the good fortune to act so popular a part | | in every important emergency, that in a mere personal contest between him and Mr. Tilden | he would have had great advantages. It is | fortunate for Mr. Tilden and unfortunate for Governor Dix that the contest was quickly | shifted to other ground. But in passing from personal to public grounds the canvass went through an inter- mediate stage which is instructive to those who reflect on it. The respective war records of these two candidates were industriously paraded and contrasted by the supporters of General Dix; but, meanwhile, Tilden steadily gained and Dix as steadily lost in popular strength. Itwas not because the people of this State prefer Mr. Tilden’s war record to | that of General Dix, but because they have ceased to care for such points atall. It is demonstrated that war records are spent ammunition in our political contests, and that no candidate has hereafter anything to gain or to lose by his zeal or his slackness in the great crisis of 1861. Even Mr. O’Conor, who | was classed as a pro-Southern extremist | during our great struggle, is as much esteemed and honored to-day as Governor Dix. The time is past when political capital can be made | out of a war record, and the fact that Mr. Tilden has steadily gained strength while his political opponents were assailing his course during the war attests the public sense that allsuch topics have passed from politics to history. It is demonstrated that our political contests can no longer be influenced by the obsolete questions which divided the country thirteen years ago. The New York canvass, in connection with the political canvass in other States, proves | that another exciting topic has been consigned to “the tomb of the Capulets.” The old stock hc of Southern outrages has been vigorously worked this fall, but with no practical result beyond that of disgusting the people of the | North. It has been felt that if widespread disorder is the fruit of the republican policy in the South, after so long a trial under re- publican superintendence, the breaches of | order are fairly chargeable either to the system | or to inexcusable blunders in its administra- tion, The republican party has steadily lost ground, both in this State and everywhere in the North, by its attempts to exploit the Southern outrage business asa means of in- fluencing votes. Appeals of this kind, like | = | records on the point of loyalty during the war, are spent ammunition, which can never be fired off again with any practical effect. Mr. Tilden has been constantly gaining in strength during a canvass in which this class of topics has been freely used, and if the republican party is wise it will never have recourse again to these obsolete grounds of appeal. It must stand or fall by its skill in meeting the present wants of the country. Governor Dix’s canvass, which opened under flattering auspices, began to decline as soon as his political opponents pushed him into identification with President Grant and held him responsible as a supporter of the ad- ministration. As soon as it ceased to bea personal contest between Tilden and Dix and was changed into a contest between Grant and a dissatisfied people, in which Dix stood as Grant’s sponsor and representative, every day brought accessions to the Tilden side. It is well for Tilden that this election was not held immediately after the nominations. It was his good fortune to become the rallying point of all the elements of opposition in this State. A great impulse was given to his can- vass by the October elections. Since the re- turns from Ohio and Indiana were received Dix’s heavy majority two years ago has seemed to the New York democracy an obstacle which they might reasonably hope to overcome. Questions of State policy are having no per- ceptible influence in this contest. The pend- ing constitutional amendments are not a party question, and, aside from the amend- ments, no State measures of any consequence are involved in the canvass. Neither party has any distinclive policy respecting the canals or their management, re- specting railroads or pro rata freight bills, respecting the methods of State taxation, the usury laws, the government of cities, or any other subject of State legislation. A lively interest is indeed felt in the political com- plexion of the next Legislature; not, however, in relation to any laws it may pass, but solely with reference to the choice of a federal Sen- ator to succeed Mr. Fenton. So, in every | point of view, this State election hinges on national politics. But the republican interest and the demo- cratic interest centre in different points. One party is chiefly concerned to elect the Gov- ernor, the other to control the Legislature. It each succeeds in its principal object it will be a curious illustration of the potency of interested personal influence. There are two distinguished citizens of the State who take a peculiar interest in this election from different points of view. These two citizens are Mr. Tilden and ex-Governor Morgan, both men of wealth, public spirit and personal ambition, and both unwilling to be defeated in any ob- ject to which their reputation is pipflicly committed. Both are skilful and experi- enced political manipulators, and as neither ever grudged money when its legitimate ex- penditure would carry @ party point, neither | will allow a canvass to fail for want of pecu- | | niary means when personal pride as well as | party success is involved. Mr. Morgan is exerting himself to the utmost to carry the | Legislature, caring little for the result of the | gabe rnatorial contest; Mr. Tilden, on the feed hahd, is doing his best to secure the in the ape ea It is quite possible that ‘each may succeed, in which case the New York election will be a drawn game, Tilden and the democrats having the advantage in | honor and éclat,and Morgan and the repub- | licans in substantial influence on national } | Politics. There is no concentration of dem- | ocratic effort tocarry the Legislature, because that party has no fixed candidate for the Sen- | atorship. Neither Church nor Seymour nor | Kernan has any assurance that he would be the choice of the democracy for the Senator- ship, and neither of them has a personal spur | to exertion even if he had money to spend, | and was willing to spend it, in the canvass for Assemblymen. Morgan has this ficld to | himself, and his personal interest in the elec- | tion does not really run counter to that of Til- den. Asthe Grant party accepted Dix from necessity, net choice, they will not grieve over his defeat if they succeed in the Legislature, and nobody will be surprised to see Morgan | chosen Senator at the expense of General Dix. In that case the Custom House wing of the | republicans will claim a victory in the State | and assert that the deteat of Dix vindicates their political judgment, which was overruled in the nomination for Governor. ‘The third term question is an important element in this canvass, and Governor Dix has probably injured his prospects by meddling with it out of season. Had he spoken imme- diately aiter his nomination, while the tide was running strongly in his favor, he would have checkmated the attempt to identify him with the administration, which has enabled the democrats to make their principal gains. But he shrunk from so bold a step. He waited till | his canvass was nearly desperate, and at last declared his opposition toa third term when it was too late to separate his fortunes from those of the administration, and when his | tardy declaration furnished Grant’s friends an | excuse which they wanted to sacrifice Dix to ! Morgan. Nothing would please Grant's para- | sites better than to see Dix pay the penalty of | defeat for opposing the third term and Mor- gan assured of the Senatorship, as a proof that | the Grant republicans would have carried the State if a gubernatorial candidate had not been forced on them against their judgment. Tae Fact Taat Anprew H. Green sup- ports Wickham for Mayor is not without its disturbing influence in the canvass. An Englisn View of America. The Saturday Review has a reputation for cynicism, which it occasionally indulges at the expense of the United States. It is a | brilliant, superficial, not always trustworthy publication, which never sacrifices brilliancy | for truth, and says things more because they are bright than because they are true. America is always a safe subject on which to address an English audience. When Dickens wrote | “Pickwick” he made one of the characters advise another that the sure way to retrieve his fortunes was to go to America and write a book abusing the Americans. He took his own advice a few years later, and wrote a book which he was glad enough to regret when he sought to increase his fortune out of American pockets. The same principle seems \ to control all English criticism of America, | and with the exception of the book of Sir Charles Dilke we know of none which can | even be called reasonably fair in its estimate | of the resources or character of the United States. : We can understand how a campaign like the one now coming to a close would ‘‘per- plex and amuse’’even the Saturday Review. But it cannot comprehend the Havemeyer and Kelly war, nor the presentation of it which has appeared in the Heratp, nor how it is that hanging people should have become more expensive under Kelly than his prede- | cessors, unless ‘‘it may have been,” as in the case of Jeremiah O’Brien, ‘in compliment to the distinguished Irish name which he bore that he was hanged regardless of expense.’ This, however, was only a phase of the pre- liminary contest, and we question what the Saturday Review would say of the canvass in its present phase, and especially of the scorn and anger and bitter contumely now pervad- ing the press. We learn‘that one editor is a ticket-of-leave man, that another is a forger, that a third lives in terror of the Sheriff and that another has been bribed by Mr. Tilden to the extent of fifty thotisand dollars, When we say these things. of one another what can we expect from our English critics but scornful, angry criti- cism? But we know that, afterall, we are notso bad as we seem, and if we were dis- posed to be censorious we might write a series of cynical articles about England based upon the Mordaunt case, the Tichborne case and other extraordinary social phenomena which have tarnished the fair fame of England. But this would not be fair, any more than it is fair for the Saturday Review to write as it does of America. There is a mighty England outside of Tichbornes and Mordaunts, with all the elements of virtue, power, manliness and ciy- ilization, just as there is a mighty America above the Kellys and Havemeyers of New York. If the Saturday Review were only as candid as it is brilliant it would be better for the relations between the two countries. Itin- sists upon cynicism, forgetting that in many respects cynicism is cowardice, Wauat Is Jimmy O'Brien doing on the char- ter ticket? Governor Dix and Inxrtation.—We are permitted to publish a strong private letter, written to President Grant by Governor Dix last March, urging the President to veto the Inflation bill. This letter is highly creditable to the Governor's patriotism and sagacity, and although it throws no new light on his finan- cial views it attests his deep sincerity and earnestness in that important conjuncture. His message to the Legislature might, per- haps, have been ascribed to a desire to court popular favor, but no such imputation President. We commend this admirable let- ter to the favorable consideration of the voters of this State, Tue Latest Rumor is that John Kelly is weary of his alliance with John Morrissey, and means to throw Jimmy Hayes. So even a friendship as beautiful as that of David and | Jonathan may be sacrificed on the altar of | political ambition. Tue Amuse, elegant and scholarly George Governorship, ling no very gctive intenent | tigm of, “caraterigna inBuence,”” The Louisiana Election. We print this morning a letter from New Orleans in which the abuses practised under the Kellogg usurpation are depicted in vivid colors, and perhaps with more feeling and passion than belong to an impartial observer. But we have no doubt that our correspondent faithfully reflects the sentiment of the respect- able part of that community, nor that the facts are truly given from their point of view. But we wish to refer only to that part of his letter which relates to the approaching election. The Louisiana election takes place on Mon- day, one day earlier than in the other States which choose their officers in November. It would naturally be supposed that the result could not be doubtiul after the complaints which have been so constantly made of the hideous effects of the Kellogg misrule, and in a_ perfectly fair lection it is probable that the anti-Kellogg party would easily succeed. But the conservatives expect no fairness. The regis- tration is infected with wholesale frauds, which are apparent on a bare statement of the results. The registration of white voters in the city of New Orleans is in the propor- tion of about one in five of the white inhab- itants, whereas the registration of negroes is in the proportion of one to three. Of course the number of voters never, in any com- munity, bore so large a ratio to the popu- lation. Negro voting is bad enough, even when it is honest, but it is intolerable when a large proportion of the votes are fraudulent. If the Kellogg party carries the State by means of such barefaced frauds, it will only intensify the spirit of discontent. We are glad to be assured that the white citizens are determined that the peace of the State shall not be disturbed by their agency during the election, and that they will atterwards have recourse only to legal means of redress. Jerome Park Races To-Day. To-day the extra fall meeting at Jerome Park will present attractions enough to draw thousands of our citizens to the splendid race course and the lovely scenes which surround it. The five events, including a back race for gentlemen riders and two grand stceple- chases, will certainly afford unusually excit- ing amusement, especially at this season of the year. For much of this agreeable pros- pect the public is indebted to Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, who has been untiring in his efforts to make the park which bears his celebrated name the fashionable resort of the metropolis. Though Mr. Jerome does not himself own any racing horses he keeps his colors, and will no doubt defend taem when they sre challenged. Any one can own racing horses, but few persons can display colors as famous and brilliant as those which Mr. Jerome has made the symbols of the morality and the ambition of the turf. In this particular re- spect Mr. Jerome stands at the head of all who sustain and honor this beautitul amtge- ment, and when he chooses to enter horses to bear upon the course the colors which now hang like banners on the wall it may be safely predicted they will not be far from the front. Recorder Hackett. The term of the Court of General Sessions, which expired yesterday, was remarkable for the vast amount of work that was done, and Recorder Hackett was, no doubt, justified when addressing the Grand Jury in saying that ‘no Grand Jury or criminal court in this or any other State in the Union has ever transacted so much great and important business in so brief a period.’’ The compliment which the Recorder paid to the Grand Jury for their zesl and energy we may properly take occasion to bestow upon him also. He deserves the thanks of the community for the impartiality with which he has rendered justice and the fearlessness with which he has punished crime. The contrast between his administra- tion of justice and that which at one time made the New York Bench notorious for incapacity is like that of night and day. He has made his court a terror to evil-doers and has filled the State Prison with rogues who are unfit to be at liberty. If crime has decreased in New York within the past two years no man is more to be thanked than can lie against an urgent private letter to the | | autumnal journey of the aged Mormon chief Recorder Hackett for the benefit society has experienced. The Indians. Sufficient vigor has not been shown by the government in its efforts to bring the Kicka- poo tribe of Indians again under the restraint of the United States law. At present they may be looked upon asa privileged band of brigands, who rob and plunder at their good will. Unfortunately for the Texans exposed to the depredations of these savages their dis- trict is too remote to exercise much influenco on the men in power at Washington. Nor is there a prospect of plunder to edge on the politicians to interest themselves in the affairs of the border. Probably the next administra- tion will be more disposed to assert the na- tional dignity and protect the frontiers from marauders. The active measures taken to suppress the outrages of the Naconces, Kiowas, Comanches and other savage tribes were con- ceived in the right spirit, and, as will be seen by our despatches, General Sheridan tele- graphs to General Sherman that he believes the Indian war is over for the winter. In con- nection with this important news we present letters from the Washita Agency and Fort Sill, which review the present weak and cor- rapt Indian policy and prove the necessity of an immediate reform. Barcuam Youna, the Mormon President and Prophet, reported only the other day to be so dangerously ill that it was feared he was on his death bed, has, it now appears, so far recovered as to undertake his usual journey to Southern Utah and his winter residence at St. George. As the difference in the winter climate between Salt Lake City and St. George is about the difference between the winter in New York and in Florida the wisdom of this every year to his winter quarters at St. George will be at once recognized. But on this occa- and indictments, and all the tortures from the Gentiles which he suffers at Salt Lake City. And, finally, at St. George, as a last resort against Gentile prosecutions, he is con- veniently near to Arizona and Nevada and William Curtis has been forced into the can- | vases by the Herat. This is another illustrae ; ‘ ' even to Mexico, Our correspondence, pub- lished elsewhere to-day, tends to show that matters are likely to take serious turn after | the death of the cbiele Semator Conkling at Last. Our distinguished Senator, Mr. Roscoe Conkling, whose absence from the canvass has been the cause of so much anxiety to the friends of Governor Dix, made his appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last even- ing in an address which we print elsewhere. Senator Conkling will always be read with at- tention, and his speech has many effective points. He explains his silence by the pres- sure of ‘‘many occupations,’’ although we can- not understand how a statesman at the head of a party, and in the exigencies of an extraor- dinary campaign, could hesitate about his duty for so long a time as the Senator has hesitated. His speech cannot be re- garded as a cheerful effort. He says very little about Governor Dix, nothing at all about the third term, a]though called upon by the audience, a great deal about the purity of Congressmen and the increase in the tone of public life during his fifteen years of service. These are, we admit, in- teresting themes, and the Senator treats them with his accustomed eloquence; but, for all the purposes of the canvass, he might have delivered his address before a Young Men's Christian Association or a Social Science Congress, as an essay on political morals, The Senator may ignore the question or denounce it with that scornful eloquence of which he is ® master; but. it lives. The people will dis- cuss it, Statesmnn as able as Vice President Wilson regard it as the burden of the canvass and a distress to the party, and it will live until destroyed by the President or the ver- dict of an indignant public opinion. The Senator, we think, missed a great op- portunity asa candidate for the Presidency when he failed to assert himself on this ques- tion, He shows how far the spirit of Cmsar- ism has grown when he permits his com- plaisance to the President to interfere with his independence asa Senator. The people do not wish to hear Mr. Conkling’s views about Tweed or the rebellion. ‘These are dead themes. But they do wish to hear about a question that menaces the liberties of the country, one so vital that every one discusses it with the exception of the Senator himself. The Senator would have made a much more available candidate for the Presidency had he taken the third term bull by the horns, just as Centennial Dix did the other day. He seems to be afraid of the President. A publie man never does so well as when he defies a President and trusts the people. Imperial Dignity. The Evening Post, in an admirable article which we print elsewhere, republishes a letter written by the President to the Convention which nominated him in 1872. In this letter he says: —‘‘When relieved trom the responsi- bilities of my present trust by the election of @ successor, whether it be at the end of this term or the next, I hope to leave to him, as Executive, @ country at peace within its own borders, at peace with outside nations, with a credit at home and abroad, and without embarrassing questions to threaten its future prosperity.’ This the Post regards as a virtual declaration that the President does not mean to be a can- didate for a third election. But, as the editor clearly shows, all its value is destroyed by “his toleration without disapproval, and even in his personal presence, by his own office- holders, of sentiments frequently expressed within his knowledge” in favor of a third term. This the Post thinks ‘is injuring the republican party; but most of all is injuring his own reputation. ’’ Nor can the President escape from this by pleading his ‘‘dignity.’’ He once said that his highest purpose was to obey the will of the people. Now here is a question about which the people are deeply concerned. Why does he not solve it? It was not beneath the dig- nity of Washington or Jefferson or Jackson to do so; why beneath that of Grant? Why should any Executive fold him- self in the robes of his imperial reserve? Why should he be so sensitive at this late hour? He has not been an especially dignified Presi- dent when he had personal ambitions to serve, or personal friends to reward, or personal hopes to gratify. He would show the dignity of a Washington if he were to take up the sion, particularly, he also escapes the annoy- | ances of United States Marshals and write | third term and settle it, before it is settled to his own discomfiture and the destruction of his party by an indignant public opinion. The Trial of Kullman. The conviction of Kullman of an attempt to kill Prince Bismarck followed, as a matter of course, his confession. His statement was decidedly cool ; he admitted that he had fired at the head because he thought it possible Bismarck might wear a shirt of mail, and ex- plained that he wished to kill the Prince as the great enemy of the Catholic Church. After this the Court had little to do but to decide whether he was accountable for his actions, and the medical testimony thus became of especial importance. It is @ singular case. Here is a man who is perfectly sane, who knows the difference between right and wrong, who is intelligent and educated, who coldly and deliberately plans and attempts the assassination of another, not because he has been personally injured, but because he believes his religion has been persecuted. Months elapse between the conception and the commission of the crime, which deprives the criminal of the ex- cuse of sudden passion or temporary insanity. But when he is tried a milder punishment: is asked for on the ground of his moratweakness. His maternal grandfather committed suicide ; his mother died insane; his father was an habitual drunkard. These antenatal misfor: tunes are offered in extenuation of his offence. The Court approved this view of his charac- ter and declared him responsible only toa limited degree. The sentence of Kullman was, therefore, comparatively light—fourteen years’ imprisonment, ten years without civil rights, and to remain under surveillance for life, is not a heavy penalty for his offence. But the medicai argument which the Court at Warzburg recognized as just, if logically | carried out, brings us to the brink of an ! abyss. Is crime disease? Then criminals | are objects of pity, not subjects for punish- | ment. him what he is is it his fault if he is revengeful and treacherous, is it his | merit if he is magnanimous and true? He did | not choose his grandfather, and if hereditary | passions impel him to deeds of crime which | hereditary moral weakness cannot restrain, is If the ancestors of a man make | ha to blame for the evil that he doos? No, it tanita is the grandfather who 1s responsible, and if is he whom we should punish if we could But this grandfather had a grandfather too, and so we follow that endless chain of cause and effect which finally passes out of human view in the mystery which surrounds the ori- gin of evil. Yet it must be conceded that it men like Kullman are to have their crimes pal- liated by inherited taint then the firm foun- dations of all human responsibility become frail and shadowy. Men are only what the fates have made them. The world, however, cannot be governed upon such a theory. Excepting in cases of absolute and extreme insanity it assumes that men have the power to do right or wrong, as they please, and it would avail nothing to the prisoner who is brought before Recorder Hackett to plead that he inherited murder from his father or that his mother bequeathed him an irresistible desire to steal Earthly tribunals cannot make these delicate subtleties elements of justice, yet every year science is more clearly displaying the awful truth that hereditary tendencies, accidents of birth and physical structureare mysteriously interwoven with the moral nature of man. It is the old problem over which the world, from the ear- liest ages, has puzzled and pondered in vain. Good Men for the Assembly. The Philadelphia Press comments upon the support given to Hamilton Fish, Jr., and Fred- erick W. Seward for the Assembly, and re- grets the absence of men of the same stamp from the Pennsylvania canvass, We accept candidates like Mr. Seward, Mr. Fish, Mr. Lane and Mr, Schieffelin as evidences of the tendency of respectable young men to enter into legislative life. The trouble has been, both in Albany and Harrisburg, that proper men found no congeniality, no sympathy, no opportunity for efficient public service. Leg- islation became degraded. Men were bought and sold like cattle in the shambles. Tam- many conventions, as a general thing, nom- inated bullet-headed, whiskey-drinking, gin- peddling adventurers, who went to Albany to make money. The republicans nominated revenue inspectors, officers of customs and men who voted at the beck of the Collector of the Port. We do not; see much improve ment in the present nominations. Three. fourths of the men on the legislative tickets of all parties are utterly unfit, and their appearance in Albany will disgrace New York. The only way to cure this is to encourage young men of character, education and ability to go into public careers. We can best en- courage them by singling them out for com- mendation and support, without regard to party, as the Hzratp has singled out Mr. Fish, Mr. Seward and other gentlemen of equal character. It is of very little conse- quence comparatively what the political com- plexion of the Asembly may be, but it is of every importance that honest and eble men should be elected. We want men who will go there as representatives of New York, and not as mere machines to vote for Mr. Seymour or Mr. Morgan for the Senate. If the people will only carefully vote for the good men on the Assembly tickets and defeat the bad men the leaders of the political par- ties will learn the lesson. But so long as the people calmly accept Tammany ‘‘rounders’’ and Custom House ‘‘bummers” as representa- tives such characters will be nominated, and, we regret to think, in many cases elected. “L)Homme Qut Ri’’—Grant, when he thinks of the third term. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. They have begun to shoot at Keilogg. Lilacs have bloomed this month in the Paris Jar. din des Plantes, Professer M. B. Riddle, of Hartford, is sojourning at the Grand Hotel. Rev. W. R. Alger, of Boston, 1s staying at the Fifth Avenue Ho-el. Mr. Matthew Hale, of Albany, yesterday arrived at the Gilsey House. Mr. Aristides Welch, of Philadeiphta, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Rev. John J. McCook, of Hartford, is registered at the Albermarie Hotel. Chaplain Jonn B. Meter, United States Navy, is quartered at the A¥gor House. Ex-Governor Willta! nnison, of Ohio, ts among the latest arrivals at the-Windsor Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick D. Grant and wile are residing temporarily at the Filth Avenue Hotel. it is reported that Don Alfonso and his wife, Donna Bianca, have returned to France from the Spanish border territory. The London Atheneum holds that Sothern’s act- ing “bas passed wholiy outside tue limits of art, even as applied to caricature.” All officers of the regular Spanish Army wto joined Don Carlos are restored to their former grade upon deserting the pretender, It we are to believe the French papers the oc- casion of the cremation of Lady Dilke by Liemens at Dresden was a veritable “reunion of savans.’” Projessors J. H. Thayer ana C. M. Mead, of An- dover Seminary, and Professor George KE. Day, of New Haven, have apartments at the Everett House. Grant says “itis fitting that at stated periods we should cease from our accustomed pursuits.” Will Moses and the rest stop their joboery on this account? At Orst it was the country that was the victim of Grant’s friendship; now it 1s Grant himsels. This is what over in the Bowery is called “Ret-ter- 1-ri-butien.’” Mr. Valentine W. Bromley, an English artist who has been taking sketches in the Indian coun- try for Lord Dunraven, leaves for Europe in the Celtic to-day. One hundred and seventy-two Frenchmen who were induced to emigrate to Lower Canada by rose-colored representations write home that they are in misery and want help. Mr, J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy Railroad Company, and Mr. Albert Keep, President of the Chicago and North. western Railroad Company, are at the Windsor Hotel. M. Thiers, in his speeches in Italy, has spoken so freely against the present government of France that the Ltaiiaa authorities have been compelled toremind him that the relations between france and Italy are friendly, pome time ago a Parisian manager, not so rich as they are here, borrowed @ twenty franc piece of a Kohemtan, and the Bobemian has lived on the café men ever since on tne tradition that “ws manager had accepted @ piece irom hiin,” A party of Philadelphia oficiais, inciuding ex- Mayor Morton McMichael and several members of the Park Ovmmussion, ar/ived at the Filth Avenue Hotelyesterday morning, and during the aiter- noon paid it to Central Park, Mrs. Marsh, a0 authoress, has just died in Eng. land, Sne was the widow of Mr. Marsh, junior member of the bauking Nouse of Fauntleroy, Graham, Stracey & Marsh, which firm went to pieces when Fauntleroy was hanged tor forgery. At Neuiliy, in the suburbs of Paris, there is @ harem, waich the police have inquired tnto and— leit alone, Itisinthe home of a Turk, He has 160 wives, but keeps the mass of them at Constan- tinopie, aud ouly brings twelve to Paris at & thes