The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every } to be elected in the whole number, making an | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, Il business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yonr enarp. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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.... sseee-NOe 306 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ACADEMY OF M Fourteen CaMaiian Opera—ALDA, at 8 P, Mot | eer tT ire Miss Cary, siguora Potentini. NIBLO'S GARDEN, 7 ce ana Houston streets. —THE Breton acs hs, cl erat 1? M, The Kiraliy Family. aie FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ignth street and [rouawa: E SCHOOL FR eer sp. A. closes at LP. M, Miss Fanny Davenport, Mr. Charles Fisher, Mr. Louis James. MRS. C: THEATRE. Fors a RIAGE, at 8P. Mey | Mrs. Bowers, J. C. MeCollom, ROBINSON HALL en Broadway and Fifth avenue.— BRYANT’s OP’ RA HOUSE, West Twenty-third str ar sixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at >t ; closes at WP. M. Dan Bryant METROPOLIT. J E, a oa Broadway.—VARi ,at 8 PM; closes at 10 A HOUSE, M.; closes at 10 P. M. BAN FR: INSTRELS, arena , corner o! Twenty-ninth street}.—NEGRO ENSTRELSS, at 82 closes at 10 P.M. TONY PA Ne. 21 Bowery.—VA LYCEUM THEATRE, aie enth street and sixth avenue.—GENEVIF’ BRresN?, at@P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss Emily Soldene. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ween ~ixty-third abd Stxty-fourth ese EXHIBITION. Thi bets streets. INDUSTRIAL COLOS| Broadway, corner of Thirty PARIS and MRS. JARLEY M. and 7:45 P.M. M, th street.—STORM OVER WAX WORKS, at 2:30 P. Cr oO Phiriteth strest—ACROSS THE way, corner of ‘hirtieth street.—, EONHINE Sa ‘aiternoon and evening. Oliver Doud yron. LYMPIC THEATRE, | such momentous occasions are fairly past, and The November Elections. Louisinna holds her election to-day, and | there will be elections to-morrow in twenty- four other States of the Union. Of these twenty-five States eleven elect Governors ard a few more choose legislators and minor State officers, but Representatives to Congress are aggregute of two hundred and eighteen | members. These elections are looked to with an interest | due to their great number and intrinsic importance, because there is a general | feeling that a considerable change is going on | in the relative strength of parties, and it is | | only by the results of the November elections | that its extent can be measured and the future | | predicted. The only valuable consequence of the ex- | pected democratic gains which can as yet be very clearly perceived is a| more equal division of parties. The efficiency with which political parties act | as censors of each other depends on their be- | ing strong enough to impose mutual fear and restraint. Our public affairs have suffered for many years because the opposition was not strong enough | to hold the party in power to a sense of re- sponsibility, and it will be a great gain to | | honest government if the democracy rises to | such a position of comparative equality as will compel the administration party to be more | circumspect. We do not dispute that, in oc | casional great emergencies, a balanced state of | parties is undesirable. During the political | events which followed the war, for example, | it was fortunate that the great revolution which established the rights of the colored race was so strongly supported that the mi- nority could entertain no hopes of ever re- yersing it. The preponderant and overwhelm- ing strength of a political party which intro- | duces so great a change insures stability in the new policy; but it is rare indeed that the oc- | casion is great and critical enough to make | the feebleness of the opposition party a public | advantage. There are somegreat and fiercely contested measures for which no such safe- guard is needed. The purchase of Louisi- ana and the annexation of Texas were measures which maintained themselves from the moment they were accomplished. No party would have ventured to disgrace the nation by relinquishing those possessions when once made a part of the national domain. But the civil equality of the negroes was a question of a different order. Its establishment was one of those rare conjunctures in which the resistless strength of an overwhelming party is a needed | bulwark of order and security. But when | NEW YORK HERALD, M even beyond what is | bog ag Brodway.—VAKIETY, at8 P.M; closes at 1048 | little is involved in public affairs beyond the TRE, | ordinary administration of the government, te And Tweas cogoen | it is a misfortune for one party to be so Mr. Join 7, Raymond. x | strongly intrenched in power that its blunders THEATRE, COMIQUE, | and misgovernment will not enable its adver- Ho, S14 Brosaway: VARIETY, at 8 P. 3. : closes at 10390 | sary to dislodge it. Patriotio republicans | should feel no uneasiness at the prospect of | their party being bound over to good be- | “TA THEATRE, | havior by the coercive restraint of a powerful ERVOLG, at SP. M.; closesat | opposition. How promptly the republican Bi oer | party plunged into indefensible errors and corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.-GUy | abuses after its great triumph in the last MAXNERING, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:20 P.M Mis | Ys osidential election! Congress forthwith | passed the salary grab, and the President espoused the cause of Kellogg; whereas if ee shi | the party had not been led by its great tri- | Broedwa, p=THE ROMANC F A POOR youne | umph to fancy itself too strong to be Bae Fick | closes at lomo P. M. Bhs Ada Dyas, | spoken it would not have risked such blun- BROOKLYN ATHENEUM, | ders. If the democracy make their expected OPERA a8 TMs closes at Il pinget-COMEDY AND going in the elections to-morrow the republi- aa ae sss | cans will be under a moral compulsion to set 5 R I P L E S H E E i De | their house in order, and the country will be | ee ames | more wisely and‘ honestly governed. a | But, aside from the benefit of having the t a | administration placed under the active sur- From our reports this morning the probabilities | Velllance of an opposition strong enough to ave that the weather to-day will be cool and | put it in fear and hold it to good behaviour, ear. | it is not easy to see that any good will come LP ear of democratic gains in these elections. This Jou Monnusser feels hke Richard TIL the | political campaign lacks the dignity of a con- | night before the battle of Bosworth field. | test for great principles. The success of A Vore ror Parnick H. Jones for Register | 22ither party will decide any question of pub- is a tribute to the memory of the lamented | lie policy. Our political parties are not | Miles O'Reilly. divided on great practical measures. There | a ica Baan Pace, clon ioe | are inflationist democrats and anti-inflationist | vote early, not be too suigutne, and renter | rlparemry Fie ised feed sen Pro a ber that the Republic is safe, and that there | beta pie — See i ope will be another election next year. | ty reed aed le Leelee pg ere Oo i | tion between the two parties can be discov- Gworz Dick runs like Niagara Falls. It | ered by a comparison of their platforms. may be esid of him what the Irishman said of | Even the third term question is not an excep- Niagara, that the water sweeps over the preci- | tion, for, although the democrats are unani- pice because ‘‘there is nothing to hinder.” | mously opposed to a third term, there are few | republicans who as yet openly favor it PARK T! bend & between Twenty wreets.—GILDED AGE, at 8 AY HALL, DULL CARE, at8 P. M.4 laccabe. GERM | Fourteenth street-—EIN 10:30 P. M, ROMAN M1PPODROME, fwenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—GRAND RB- OPENING, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. New York, Monday, 2, 187% New Facrs concerning the arrest and im- fessions amount to nothing. We refer to the New York democratic platform, be- cause it is the boldest put | the party in any State, aud it is remarkable how little there is in it when brought to a | practical test. The home rule feature is as | cloudy ns the rest. The phrase “home rule’ | Ireland to escape the associations connected | | with “State rights,” its old synonyme. But | | what does it mean when carried into practical | | measures? It is doubtless directed against | federal intermeddling in the South. Sup- pose, then, it has taken this form—‘Repeal | the acts of Congress for enforcing the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments.” T! democratic party of New York would not have dared to put so explicit a demand into their platform, and there are members of the party who would reject it as decisively as they would a heavy duty on tea and coffee as a substitute for the protective duty on iron. The plain truth is that the two political parties are not separated by clearly defined princi- ples ond explicit, practical measures; and, let to-morrow’s elections go as they may, they will decide nothing as to the policy of the country on great questions. But the democratic successes, which are likely to be continued from October, will de- monstrate a widespread discontent with the | present administration of the government. The stagnation of business, the enforced idle- ness of multitudes of the laboring classes, the deplorable state of the South, the debased and | corrupt condition of our politics and the too | evident wish of President Grant to maintain | himself in power beyond the limit which has | always been a rule to his predecessors, are the | chief causes of the existing dissatisfaction, and there seem good grounds for believing that the result of to-morrow’s voting will be a great weakening of the republican party. But those democrats are probably too sanguine who expect their party to elect a majority of the next House of Representatives, although the long republican ascendancy is likely to be put in serious peril, and unless the present Congress shall, at its next and expiring ses- | sion, adopt very decided measures of reform the republican party will never retrieve what it loses this year. To-morrow’s elections in twenty-four States will throw a flood of light on the strength and prospects of political par- ties, but very little on the great problems of practical legislation and government. Dignity ana the Third Term. Since General Grant has seen fit to take “the benefit of dignity,” and seems, hke Shakespeare’s or Bacon’s hero, to have ‘not a thought but thinks on dignity,’’ it is won- derful how much attention dignity has re- ceived from the press, One of the latest papers heard from on the subject is the Indianapolis Journal. If common report has not wronged the Journal it gets its political inspiration from Senator Morton. In short, to speak after the manner of politicians, it is that gentleman's organ. His projects are fos- tered by its support. His ambitions are therein shown to be reasonable and just, and views on public topics presented by the Journal are taken from a standpoint so near to that of the Prairie Senator that the laws of the impenetrability of matter would prevent two minds being so near together, if mind were matter. It is the opinion of this journal (1) that President Grant has too much dig- | nity; (2) that the people have a great deal | less dignity, and (3) that if the President's dignity restrains the expression of his opin- ions the people are not so delicate and will boldly express their opinions, dignity or no dignity. All this we are glad to hear on gen- eral and particular grounds. There is no quality more thoroughly American nor more practically advantageous in great social and political experiments than self-assertion. This disposition to come out and declare in- dividually one’s views on public topics sim- plifies life, makes politics easy, and is a consequence as well as a guarantee of that independence of character which dissemi- nated through a nation keeps it free. Soon general principles we aro glad that the Journal and Senator Morton assert themselves on the third term. On particular grounds we are glad to hear from _ the Senator. His leading position in the West, his recognized capacity, his knowledge of the people, all give significance to his declaration against the third term and to his exposure of the poor pretence of dignity un- | der cover of which the President shrinks from making necessary declaration. As President Grant's dignity is now before the public it would be profitable to know its exact limits. Already we know that it interferes | as the leader of his party. rate ae aR oot pail | Ask the first twenty republicans you prison! given in our | ; ‘ igtise’-tiday wah. 2 couningaiots | meet if they go for a third term, Beatin : TY and every one of the twenty will statement of the charges to be brought against | him in the trial. | As Pourrican Aryarrs now look John Kelly fas more interest than any man in New | York in the defeat of Hayes. It would | relieve him from the burden of the Morrissey | alliance. Ovr Pars Lerrer to-day contains much interesting information ot recent French liter- ature, including the hitherto unpublished cor- respondence of the Chevalier Daydie, with a sammary of late works in fiction, science and law. Inner O'Butex is in trouble. He does not answer no unless he happens to be an | office-holder, when he will evade the question. It is a humiliating truth that there has been no real contest of principle between the two | political parties in this canvass; and it fol- | lows that the elections can decide nothing be- yond the probable fact that republican arro- | gance and recklessness will be abated by a | formidable democratic opposition. It may indeed be said that in this State the | democratic party presented a distinct body of | political doctrine. But on the currency ques- tion it agreed with the Eastern republicans | | and differed from a great portion of the West- | ern democrats, and to free trade the party in | know what to do about the Registership. Let him remember that he is an Lrishman, and pay his tribute of gratitude and respect to the memory of Miles O'Reilly. Tar Vow Anni-Bismanck Case.—The con- troversy which is just now being carried on between the two celebrated German states- men will receive an additional spice of ex- citement by the publication of the American | this State only pays the homage of an empty | lip service. A majority of the democratic | journals of the State evince no zeal for free trade, and in this city Mr. Hewitt, an iron- | | master anda protectionist, is a prominent | democratic candidate for Congress. That | the Syracuse platform means little is proved by the impracticable vagueness of its propositions. They never could have been Detective Agency story which has reached ns | adopted had they been made explicit. Sup- | with his speech, that it stands in the way of any declaration on his part, or even any act that may make it difficult for him to accept a nomination for a third term if he can get it, or to get down gracefully 1f the nomination is not to be had. Would this dignity also prevent him from lending himself to any ex- tra constitutional measures to keep himself in office in case the people chose another man as his successor? Judge Jeremiah Black is reported to have said on | the third term:—“I will tell you what I do know. In 1872 one of the leading men in the republican party in New York, a gentleman who lately figured prominently at a mass meeting in New York city, said to me, ‘Do you think the democratic party would submit if General Grant should happen to be de- feated, and conclude that the salvation of the country and the perpetuity of the Union de- pended upon his continuance in power for four years longer?’ He went on to say, ‘Suppose there was a decent excuse for this; | that the results of the war would be lost un- less he remained at the head of the govern- ment. Do you think that the democrats would dare resist?’ Irephed to him that of course I could not tell what the democratic Before the Battie, The excitement runs high, and all interests forth by | are subordinate to the one interest which will | be decided to-morrow. There is something | beautiful in this spectacle of a free people “executing the freeman's will as lightning | does the will of God,” and in this aspect of | is borrowed from the political vocabulary of | the case an election has moral aspects of the most instructive character. To-morrow the | issues to be decided are of more than usual gravity. The democracy are fighting for the control of the State, and if they win they will probably win the next Presidency. that has taken place since the election of Lin- coln, Mr. Tilden has shown unusual dexter- ity and strength, and he fights not merely for the Governorship but for what may be called the supreme honors of 1876. Against him is General Dix, the long years of whose illus- trious and useful life plead for his triumph. It will be hard to defeat Dix, and very hard not to elect Tilden. In the city Mr. Kelly fights for the control of Tammany. Had that gentleman been wise and taken the Henaup’s advice he could have hed an unchallenged triumph, But he is threatened with a defection which, whether successful or not, will cripple his usefulness This comes from his folly in not nominating a man like Will- iam Butler Duncan for Mayor, and in nomi- nating Mr. Hayes for Register to gratify Mr. Morrissey. Mr. Wickham will probably be elected, and as matters now look Mr. Hayes will be defeated. Since the canvass began Mr. Hayes has grown weaker and weaker, until it was believed he would be withdrawn. Mr. Morrissey is not a ‘withdrawing’ man, however, and will keep his man ‘‘at the seratch.’’ On the contrary, General Jonee, his opponent, has been growing in favor from hour tohour. His record as a soldier and as a civil- ian—the fact that he was the protégé of Mr. Greeley—have won him golden opinions and hosts of friends, Every Irishman remembers his generous magnanimity to the widow and children of the lamented and brilliant ‘Miles O'Reilly,” and the consequence is that all the tides of public opinion rush furiously toward him. Furthermore, the defeat of Mr. Hayes will be the defeat of Mr. Morrissey—a result that naturally would gratify no man more than Mr. Kelly, who is said to be rest- less under the yoke of the resolute gladiator. The Pulpit Yesterday. The attention given of late years to religious architecture in this city and in Brooklyn is in the highest degree commendable. It has adorned the metropolis with many noble and picturesque edifices, and though some of them may be bizarre and may violate all the estab- lished rules, that can be pardoned when we remember that the builders know more of re- ligion than art. But because the Saviour was born in a manger is no reason why he should be worshipped in a barn, and our splendid temples embody in stone the piety of the age, just as the paintings of Raphael and Murillo, pale Madonnas, glorified ascensions and rapt martyrs, expressed the Christian faith of the Italy and Spain of their time. i | minds that the temple is but dead stone un- less the spirit of religion dwells within it. There is nothing so chilly and mocking as an altar upon which the sacred fire has ceased to burn. We recall “the warning cry’’ of George Fox, which Walt Whitman quotes with pile of brick and mortar—these dead floors, windows, rails—you call the Church? Why this is not the Church at. all; the Church is living, ever living souls."’ It is cheering to find in the sermons which we publish to-day this truth. Thus it was referred to by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn when in allusion to the fair now being held at St. Stephen’s he told the congregation that now they had the opportunity of doing God's by realizing ‘‘the beauty of worship as ex- pressed in the material temple.’’ Bishop Courtenay, of Kingston, Jam., also touched the subject in his sermon upon the mystical union of Christ and His Church. So with the | Rev. Chauncey Giles in his observation upon the effect of sin upon the spiritual and ma terial body. The Rev. Mr. Beecher also dwelt upon the need of preserving faith amid form, and said that ‘‘if there were not saints here and there the Church would be- come an intolerable nuisance.’’ Although the other eminent divines who filled the metro- politan pulpits yesterday did not directly treat of this truth, yet it must be the basis of all sincere religious teachings. We therefore commend to the attention of the public the sermons of Bishop Coxe, Rev. Dr. W. R. Alger, of Boston, the Rev. Mr. Ganse, and others which are elsewhere presented. General Jones he would become the most popular man in New York ond save himself from what seems to be impending—a crushing and irretrievable defent. Inuzcan Sreampoat Ractnc.—A race be- tween the steamboats Shady Side and Sylvan Dell, from New York to Albany, for five thousand dollars, is proposed, and it might be an act of kindness to allow it. The races between these boats on gerous and disgraceful. ridiculous spirit of rivalry had full expression satisfied, and if a race to Albany failed to de- lulu. At present they are not used for their legitimate purposea—the comfort, convenience and safety of the public, Ex-Presipent Jouneon is canvassing his State for the United States Senatorship, This | makes it the most important political event | Yet it ought to be always present to our | great effect in his latest poem:—‘Is it this | so many evidences of a deep appreciation of | work, | Ir Hares were to withdraw in favor of | | By this time everybody ought to know what | the East River occur daily and are dan- | Possibly if this | the owners and captains of the boats might be | cide the question they might start for Hono- | ONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. Tne “Miles O'Reilly Canvacn” It is pleasant to see an unusually severe and acrid canvass illuminated by the ray of senti- ment and kindliness of feeling which sur- rounds the candidacy of General Patrick H. Jones for Register. This is an office of emol- uments, One of the candidates is a professed politician, already a rich man, who does not need the office. The other is a gallant Irish | soldier, to whom the fees would be an income for the remainder of his life. His relation to the family of the lamented and gifted ‘Miles O'Reilly,” an {rishman of genius whose un- timely death every Irishman mourns, has summoned to his banner our Irish fellow citi- zens without distinction of party. It 1s not | politics with them, nor any dislike of Mr. Hayes, nor any feeling of mutiny toward Mr. Kelly and Tammany Hall. It is simply the generous glow of appreciation which every true man feels toward another who has adorned his life by an act of conspicuous kindness and magnanimity. Such a thing as this is rarely seen in the sordid and selfish struggle of modern politics, and we dwell upon it as a poetic and winning feature of the canvass. No event could be more gratifying to all classes than the tri- umphant election of General Jones. In the fortunes of no candidate do we see so wide- spread and generous an interest. From every side we hear of men of all parties, without distinction of party, proposing to vote for him. If Tammany leaders were wise they would recognize and respect this feeling by withdrawing Mr. Hayes and permitting the election of General Jones unanimously. There is no political issue at stake in the office, and if Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Kelly had the true genius of political management they would yield to this sentiment and sup- port General Jones. Mr. Hayes could do no more popular act than to take this course and postpone his own claims for promotion. He would establish a claim upon his own party that he does not now possess, and by rivalling General Jones in magnanimity hope at some future time to rival him in popularity. The Poor of the City. Yesterday gave us a foretaste of winter. The delicious weather of what we presume was the mysterious Indian summer was fol- lowed by cold, rude winds, and now comes bleak November, with its withered leaves and ashen skies. To the busy, bright, successful world the coming of winter means only a changé of enjoyments—the theatre, the opera, social parties, sleighing on the avenues, skating at the Park, and the festivals of Christmas and the New Year; but to many thousands in this city it means absolute, ab- ject misery. It means hunger and cold, fire- less hearths and rents unpaid, men without work and families without food. The summer is God’s great charity to the poor, but in the | winter the heavens themselves seem to be barred against them. Now is the time for New York to remember and begin her duty. The suffering this year is likely to be as great as it was last year, and, ; as we have pointed out in previous articles, the organized charities of the city are not capable of relieving it. They provide costly machinery for the purpose, and those who use them as in- struments of doing good should remember the story of the man who contributed a cent to the heathen and a dollar to pay the expense | of sending it to its destination. Many of | these charitable institutions consume seventy per cent of the money they receive in paying the salaries of their officers, and some, thereis too much reason to fear, are mere speculations for the benefit of their managers. Instead of this machinery for doing a little good ata great expense, we want methods of relief which shall directly reach the suffering poor. | We want charities like the St John’s Guild, the Floating Hospital, the river excursions for mothers and their children, which last sum- mer were conducted by gentlemen who de- clined salaries and gave their time and labor for nothing. Last winter immeasurable good was done in this way by the voluntary co- operation of citizens, and now we should profit by the experience and improve, if pos- sible, upon the tried methods. We suggest again to our business men the importance of organizing an early movement for the relief citizens as Peter Cooper, Commodore Vander- bilt, A. T. Stewart, August Belmont, William B. Astor, 8. B. Chittenden, William Butler Duncan, William E. Dodge and scores of others whom we might name could not fail to make it a complete success. Protection to society can only be found in adequate meas- ures for ameliorating that despairing poverty which is often the parent of defiant crime. Pity pleads eloquently for the poor, but those who are deaf to that appeal may be moved to action by the harsher warnings of prudence. The Devil-Inspiread Party. a bad party the democratic party is, but proper to call attention to the fact once more. | Once strong hopes were cherished that it | would die ot wounds received during the war, | | | but unfortunately it had a vigorous constita- tion and survived. Its conduct since has been scandalous, and shows a mean spirit of interference with the other party. Were it not for the annoying behavior of the democ- racy everything would go smoothly; the gov- ernment would be run without trouble by General Grant and the wise men he has called around him; Mr. Conkling would govern New York State with dignity and ease; Mr. | Kellogg would not be annoyed in Louisiana, |ond Mr. Chamberlaine would find South Carolina a charming place of residence. But the democratic party will let nothing remain as it is; it meddles continually in pub- lic affairs, and gives that worthy man, of the poor of New York, and such leading | | as the election is very near we think it | appealing directly to the people for an office | in the gift of tho Legislature. His rival, | Colonei Savage, is pursuing the same course. our President, cause for great uneasiness. Just now it is particularly disagreeable; in- deed, it behaved disgustingly in Ohio and from Cincinnati and is printed in our pose for example, that the free trade or rev- | columns. It this report be correct we have enue reform declaration had taken this | just sbipped trom our shores for Europe a shape—‘‘Heavy duties on coffee and tea asa | young German who has been arrested on the substitute for the existing duties on iron.” soil of the free Republic by virtue of an order | No man of intelligence believes that such a | of Bismarck, telegraphed from Berlin, Can | declaration could bave been adopted; but this | this be possible? But then the detectives are | i8 the sense in which the drawer of the plat- | form understands free trade. The currency | declaration is equally vague. Had it run in this form—‘Withdraw and fund a hundred | millions of greenbacks to approximate the | Ses Mae, : currency to par’’—it could not have been | Congrew, _ ee adopted; but no man competent to form an coma) inch fa opinion on the subject believes that our cur- We Are Avraonizey to announce that rency can be made equal to gold without con- | Friend Billy will speak, vote, fight and spend traction. Even the Western inflationiste, even | his money for Uncle Dick. Friend Billy is | Morton, even Logan, profess » desire to reach trne to the last of the Knickerbockers, | Specie payments at some time, but baro pro- fond of sensations and very adroit in their | use of means to obtain notoriety in the press. New Yorrens will remember, in voting for Fernando Wood, that, as a Representative in | party might do under certain circumstances which I knew nothing about, but I, for one, would not like to submit tamely to any such usurpation, no matter what the circumstances might be.” Now, would General Grant's dig- nity keep him ont of such a conspiracy if the office-holders still propose this programme? In Votrxe ror Uncix Dick let New Yorkers remember that they do honor to the friend of Jefferson, the confidential adviser ot Jackson, the trusted counsellor of Lincoln and the power behind the throne of sixteen Presidents, Onz Quzstion will be decided to-mossow, the question of the third term, We print an interesting letter on their canvass cerned, shows earnestness and humor in almost equal proportions. war is told in our columns this morning by a missionary well acquainted with the Indian | character and familiar with the treatment of the savages by the whites. There is certainly | much truth in the allegations of outrages j upon the Indians; but there was no alterna- tive for the fate which befell Captain Jack, even the wrongs of the whites not excusing the murder of General Canby, this morning—a canvass which, as is usual | with anything where Mr. Johnson is con- | Tur Orner Sivx of the story of the Modoc | Indiana, and the venerable Gerrit Smith ex- pressed the prevailing opinion at Washington when he said it was ‘‘a devilish party,” and a | “devil-inspired party,” and warned the coun- | try of the terrible consequences if it should ever obtain control of the government. Democrats, in fact, as viewed by the unfa- vorable administration eye and by the specta- cles of Mr. Smith, are o dangerous set of men, If all that is charged against them be true they are not fit to live in this country, if, in- deed, in any country whatever. Anxious to ascertain how many of these devilish demo- | crate there are we referred to the popular vote for President in 1872 and found slarming by the fact that in that year republicans outnumbered the dovilish democrats by only 730,812, and since then this majority has been largely decreased by the murders committed by the Ku Klux, vhose ravages, no doubt, caused the reduced repub- lican vote in the West. No wonder Mr. Smith trembles. Let us tremble with him. It hag been demonstrated that one-half, a little more or less, of the voters in the United States are under the dominion of the devil, and that this half is composed of democrnts only. We must try hard to keep them out of power, but how can we help it if they choose to vote themselves m? This devil-inspired party shows no disposition to die, but is, on the contrary, in devilish good spirits, and if it must go to the infernal regions is likely to stop at Albany and Washington on the way. Broome rae Question.—The National Re publican at Washington which, it is assumed, speaks for the administration, begs the ques tion in demanding to know what journals are asking the President to declare his intentions in regard to a third term. We reprint its article, at the same time deploring the personal attacks which deface it It will be observed that the Republican gives a list of the journals which, it says, are this demand upon President Grant. It ig significant of the reckless manner in which the administration organ is begging that it omits entirely from its list the Milwaukee Sentinel, the organ of Senator Carpenter, and the Indianapolis Journal, which represents the views of Senator Morton. And if the President's organ editor only read the Hznanp with two eyes, it could increase the number of interlocutory journals by tens at a time The questioners among the people will speak for themselves to-morrow. Antuiesy Expzamrents.—The board of officers appointed to conduct the ordnance experiments at Sandy Hook have obtained valuable results in their experiments with the rifled Rodman gun. The improvements effected in the gun by the application of rifle give reason to hope that the large number of smooth bore guns in the possession of the United States can be rendered really effective for defensive purposes against modern irom clads by the application of this system. Ler Evesr Gznrizman remember that among the candidates for Assembly are Frederick W. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Jn, Charles M. Schieffelin ond Smith E. Lane, We need gentlemen in Albany. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge D. N. Cooley, of Iowa, is among the latess Srrivais at the St. James Hotel, Mr. Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, is residing temporarily at the Astor House. Colonel Laurie, of the British Army, is regis tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Oscar C. Badger, United States Navy, is sojourning at the Union Square Hotel. The municipality of Naples propose to tender t@ General Garibaidi an annuity of $6,000, Major siarcus A. Reno, of the United States Army, is quartered at the St. James Hotel. Reac Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, bas apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Henri Rochefort has established the puovlishing office of the Lanterne in Berne, Switzerland, Governor Letroy, of Bermuda, arrived at Haltfaw in the Circassian, from England, and leaves for Bermuda to-day, in the Beta. There being no good life of Jonn Locke extant, Mr. Fox Bourne, late editor of the Londog Examiner, 1s about to write one, Bishop White’s “Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States” will be edited and continued tothe present date by Dr. | W. Stevens Perry. A correspondent believes that the persons who arranged the music for Fred Grant’s wedding would not have given the overture to “Zampa”’ if they had known the full title of that opera, which is “Zampa; or, The Robber’s Bride,” Queer coim cidence. In Brussels the7 have taken one practical step in regard to cremation, which seems to indicate an Opinion that tt is likely to be adopted instead of burial. They propose to have an official medico legal examination of every corpse before 1t 19 burned, Mr. Joseph Swan, the eminent anatomist and surgeon, died latelyin England at the advanced age of eighty-three. Mr. Swan gained more col- legiate honors than any other surgeon ior his valuanle anatomical and physiological researches on the nervous system. On the Champs Elysées an Englishman ridinga a@ beautiful horse threw his hat into a landau in which were two, ladies; greatly surprised, they looked at him closely, saw his head fall, screamed, Policeman came—and the Englishman was dead in the saddle with apoplexy. The Berlin papers report a narrow escape from | Serious danger of the Crown Princess of Prussia, | While Her Imperial Highness was driving in the gardens of Potsdam the axle of her carriage broke and the horses volted. Fortunately the coachman succeeded in stopping then before any accident happened. The Duke de Bisaccia, recently French Ambass» dor at London, entertained the Prince of Wales at Eschimont with a grand battue. Not many were invited, and the blood was very blue, The Duke de Charles, the Duke and Duchess de la Tremonille, vhe Duchess de Fezensac and others of the same class were present. M. Scolossmaker is reviving in France the art of making beautitul porcelain services. His work excels what 1s done at Sevres, and promises to re tain for France the supremacy that she was losing, French journals rejoice over this as a national event, but it is odd that they ;can hang any national vanity on a name so evidently German. Bismarck wants eight letters wntch were written to Yon Arnim while Ambassador at Paris, and he cannot tind them, They are about the government of France. Von Arnim was for MacMahon and Bis- marck for Thiers. The letters give Bismarck’s | Teason why the Thiers government was prefer. | able to him. One that he particularly wishes is $ letter written by Von Arnim himself and returned to bim with Bismarck’s annotations, Twenty-three brigands, who in the summer bad committed a robbery at @ watering place on the French frontier, were recently brought to the scene of their exploits to be shot there by Spanisy" troops. The troops were at fifteen yards distance, Ten men fell at the first fire. Eigit feil at a seo ond fire and the other five ran away, the bullets having cut the cords that bound them, One was Jast seen pursued by four soldiers, who continued firing. How many lives has a cav? Charivari takes a view of the Orenoque incident agreeable tothe national vanity. It says:—One lovesa woman and Keeps at her dour day and | night a carriage at her orde ; and some day sie sends him word thatt! she wishes to go out that it will be her pleasure to go on foot, So France has kept the Orenoque at the orders of the Pope, if we may compare him to @ pretty woman, and now he says that if he leaves Rome it will be by land.” This loaves out of view tho big fellow over the way who sends word that he wants that cam riage removed,