The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_—~--—_——_ JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions ond Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms es in New York. sncemesneagibctindanal ACADEMY OF MUSIC, fourteenth street.—Italian Opera—MIGNON, at 8 P. M.: BS at il P.M. Mile. Albani, Mile, Heilbron, Miss Signor de Bassini forini, FIFTH AVE) THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and broaaway.—THE BELLE’S STRALAGEM, at 8 P.M; closes at iP. M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Jewett, Mr. Louis James. KLYN THEATRE. L MARRIAGH. at 8P. M3 wers, J. C, MeCoilom, MRS. CONWAY'S BROO R. THE FATA! ELEANO tloses at 10: NEW YORK STADE THEATRE, fowery—German Opera Bouite—BbARBe BLEUE, at 8 | 2. M.; Closes at 10:30 F, M, Miss Lina Mayr. EATRE, atSP. M.; closes at GERMANIA THEA’ Es ‘arteenth street—EIN ERFOLG, Ww 4 ROBIN HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— CaRinsy, acs i. M. 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Creamer has proved himself to be a gallant leader. His party has surprised its most sanguine friends. Jon Swrvton does not seem to have made an incendiary canvass. Lutnber dealers need not advance their prices. We are sorry for one reason that Swinton was not elected. He would have made short worl: of the old Post Office and it would have gone hard with the new one. Tar Weatses yesterday, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, was all that could be desired by the republicans. There- fore, if they still find that the tide of public opinion is running against theron, they will know that it means something more than “general apathy.’” Uxcre Dick was not short on the vote. As Hayes seems to have beaten the vote of Wickham the question will naturally arise whether Morrissey or Kelly is the real leader of Tammany. Bi a Tue Hon. John Morrissey will spend a few days in meditation and prayer. Tue Exectioss Anr Over, andall concerned in them are now at liberty to proceed to the needful preparations for the coming winter. Trade has been dull, business of all kinds has not been prosperous ; but now, let us hope, we have passed through the ordeal of stagna- tion and that better times are at hand. Tune seems to have been a terrible smash- ing of slates. ‘Tur Tamp Tzrm.—From present indica- tions, although General Grant leaves this im- portant question in the hands of his friends, the office-holders, we incline to the opinion that from the pressure of outside influences he will be constrained to haul off and cut them adrift. Me. Crramre must pick his flint and try it | Bgain. Mp. Nast will have a fiue opportunity for a fresh cartoon. We respectfully suggest @ “tidal wave.” Wao will be our next Senator? Tux Heravy’s special arrangements for furnishing news of the election returns last evening were a feature of the canvass. At pur various sub-offices on Twenty-third and Thirty-second streets, in Yorkville, Harlem and Brooklyn, as well as at this office, the returns were exhibited to thousands of people, frou: an early hour in the evening until long siter midnight. We feel authorized in announcing that Gen- eral Graut will not be a candidate for a third term { greatest satisfaction to the American people. closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss Emily | hird ana Sixty-fourth | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. | The Elections. General Grant, who led the republican party into power two years ago with the | largest majority, perhaps, ever given to a— President, may feel this morning, as he reads \ the returns of the November elections, that he has been like the Prodigal Son, and has squan- dered a precious political inheritance. What- ever the causes, the result is decisive. New York, which has been anchored so firmly to the republican party, now swings out in pro- nounced and irretrievable revolt. Even the splendid popularity of General Dix could not save the administration. At the hour we write it is impossible to estimate the exact re- sult, but it seems safe to estimate the majority | of Mr. Tilden at from ten to fifteen | thousand majority. The other States speak with an emphasis no less certain. The indica- tions are that the republicans in Pennsylva- nia, mainly through the extraordinary disci- | pline of the party in Philadelphia, have held | that State. But not even an approximate esti- mate can be formed, and it seems improbable | that the Keystone State should be alone in | the rush of democratic victories. New Jersey is | probably democratic. The most astound- ing result, however, is in Massachusetts, which has elected a democratic Governor by a decisive, startling majority. General Banks is elected to the House, while General Butler is defeated. The defeat of Butler gives a | poetic sequel to the democratic triumph, and { is the one isolated event which will give the | It closes the career of the ablest, most persist- ; ent and most daring of the leaders of the re- publican party—of the one man who repre- sented in his own person the animosities, the mistakes and the audacities of republicanism | in its hour of arrogant triumph. This election is not merely a victory buta revolution. The United States pronounces in favor of conservative purposes. Weare weary of war and its bloody instructions. The prac- tical lessons to be learned cannot fail to be of the very gravest importance. The canvass closes the political career of General Grant. We can understand that the time will always come in the history of administrations when the people become restless and impatient and | crave a change. We had indications of this even in the time of Washington, who was se- verely criticised before his retirement for | what was regarded as the corruption of the | party in power. But Grant has invited the | severest censure, not merely by what he has j done but by what he has failed todo. He has permitted the Presidenfial office to drift | | away from what was intended by the founders | of the government. The Ffesidency is no | longer the constitutional head of a represen- tative Republic, but the absolute chief of a dominant party. The Cabinet is no longer | composed of statesmen of repute, selected because of administrative fitness, but of staff officers, tak§u because they pleased the Presidential fancy. The disposal of pessonage has been largely a matter of per- sonal preferenc:. The party has passed into the control of politicians who have shown their appreciation of public responsibilities by Crédit Mobilier, beck pay and other sus- pected and dishonorable transactions. Gen- | eral Dix was burdened not merely by the | exigencies of party support from a crippled | party, but he has not had the hearty support of the organization that nominated him. He | has had all the disadvantages of republican- ism and few of the advantages. Above all he has had to carry, in the third term idea, the | | most serious encumbrance that has ever been | imposed upon a candidate. It was especially cruel in this, that whether he accepted or rejected it, he was in a harsh position. If he | | admitted the policy of a third term he offended | the popular sense of the integrity of repub- | licau ins‘atutions. If he rejected it he offended | the President and his followers. | There were elements of strength in the | canvass of the venertble candidate which he alone possessed. He had proved himself an admirable Governor. For a longer period than is allotted to many men he had been in active public life in many offices of trust and | honor, and his record was honorable and | stainless. Ifthe people did not regard him | asa great man they turned to him with a kind of instinct as a leader thoroughly good | and brave. The country knew that <‘Centen- | nial’ Dix, as he is fondly called, could not do a mean or a weak or a dishonest act. He | had taken early and bold ground against in- flation. When the President himself was so | uncertain what to do that he wrote a mes- | sage for the purpose of clearing his ideas | Centennial Dix wrote a vehement and elo- | quent protest against inflation. His course | on the third term, although tardy, was effec- | tive. He was as inflexible as fate in stamping | out crime. He would not even wink at dis- | honesty in legislation. When to this was | added his long life, his illustrious career, his | | honorable service in two wars, his resolute | Course at the outset of the rebellion, his in- | cessant, unpausing loyalty, we can under- | stand how it is that be has proved himself | stronger than his party, how the canvass has | been, if not the victory he expected, certainly | not a canvass of dishonor, and how he has | broken the wave of what would have been a measureless disaster. Mr. Tilden’s success shows not merely the | | { | | | | | advance of the democratic sentiment, but also | what can be done by a candidate who con- | ducts his canvass upon sound business prin- ciples. He has shown the utmost tact, in- | dustry and enterprise in his conduct of' his canvass. He has managed it as he would | manage a railway. He is now the foremost | | man of the party in a national sense, and, by virtue of the primacy of New York among States, he must necessarily be more than any man concerned in the canvass of 1876. But the good qualities which Mr. Tilden showed during this canvass, his business celer- ity and industry, will not avail him in the higher plane which he now ascends. Un- fortunately for Mr. Tilden he has seen nothing but the Governorship in this canvass. In | , his relations with Tammany Hall he showed an insouciance, & carelessness as to his own reform record, which lessened his majority in the State and which will injure him in his larger aspect as a representative national demo- cratic statesman. He could have prevented the ring influence which controls Tammany Hall. He could have declined alliances which made him the companion of Mr. Mor- rissey. He could have demanded from Tam- many the nomination of a Mayor like Mr. | William Butler Duncan, anda Register like | General Jones, nominations that would have | | corded elsewhere. In New York Tammany | ter bya pronounced and decisive majority. | they are their surprise will only note the fact | that such occurrences have been lately less | receive the London papers, with their tele- | gram to the effect that in the election in New | | the person of a candidate for Congress, that | pistols were used, and that one man was | given him and his party thousands of extre votes. But Mr. Tilden was too complaisant. He reminds us of the late James Buchanan. Polished, gentlemavly, high-reaching, clean, courteous, preferring reform and good govern- | ment, and not fearing to strive for it when he was not assailed by political and personal responsibilities, he has shown that even he can stoop to rise. Mr. Buchanan, as President in place of Pierce, would have retired with general acceptability, but when confronted by the storms of secession he be- came helpless. Mr. Tilden, confronted by the bold, grasping men who control Tammany Hall, surrendered. He may plead that he did this for the honor and peace of the party, but it does not give us the most cheerful anticipa- tions of what he would do if called upon to accept responsibilities like those which at- tended the administrations of Jackson and Lincoln. The minor results of the canvass are re- elects the Mayor, although by a minority of the full vote, Mr. Hayes is defeated for Regis- Mr. Ottendorfer and the Creamer movement | have made a gallant and splendid fight. Mr. Kelly will learn from this that, powerful as | he is, he cannot trifle with the public opinion | | even of his own party. How much better | would it have been had he taken the advice of | the Hznatp, and, withdrawing Mr. Hayes, permitted the election of Jones by a unani- mous vote. The defeat of Mr. Hayes is the extinction of the old ring. The third term is buried forever. General Grant has | two years before him in which to retrieve many of the mistakes which have brought dis- comfiture upon his administrafion and defeat upon his party. Let him take this lesson in its highest sense, and remember what he owes | to his great name, his fame and the place he would hold in history. His career as a politi- cal leader is closed, but there remains to him ® personal career, which he can vindicate and confirm by two years of good government, re- form and devotion to the highest and truest principles of administration. We wonder what Boss Tweed thinks of it all. Norwrrastaxprvc all the Republic is still safe. Tue Irishmen of New York have remem- bered Miles O'Reilly. Now We shall have time to hear more about the Beecher scandal. Tae Arctic and Antarctic Railway bonds may be said to be looking up. ‘Tue enemies of Butler probably think that “time at last makes all things even.” Usxcuz Dicx will be glad to see his friends at Delmonico’s to-day trom sunrise to sunset. Frrexp Bry estimates that the canvass has | cost Uncle Dick a hundred thousand bottles of champagne. Well, ‘‘there’s millions in it.” Tue American Press AssuctaTIon announces in a cable despatch from London that the German government has determined to prose- cute a leading German newspaper for reprint- ing from the New Yors Heratp the cor- respondence between Von Biilow and Von Ar- | nim. This important item of news does not | come from the Associated Press. We have observed that on several occasions recently the American Press Association has had better foreign despatches than the Associated Press, and its members certainly deserve credit for their enterprise, promptitude and accuracy. Even Massachusetts has bottled up Ben Butler. | Tue gloomy old Custom House will look gioomier than ever this morning. Cexrensuat Drx will have ‘more time to shoot ducks next summer than he had last season. RafMfianism at the Polls. In the state of the public mind with regard to politics the bloody occurrence of yesterday will scarcely excite a just tone of comment. Such things seem to flow so naturally from the | bad spirit and violent party oppositions to which we are accustomed that it is something if people are surprised at them; and even if | common than they once were. To stir upa | popular indignation that the vices in our po- j litical system out of which such things grow are possible seems a labor beyond the reach | of the press. And to argue that the presence on the street, on such an occasion, ot a candi- date for Congress is unseemly and wanting in self-respect would, perhaps, sound ridiculous, as seeming to imply an opinion that Congress- men regulated their actions on some good ethical standard. But the telegraph will carry the news to an _ outside | world less apathetic than our own people in comment on our misdoings, and perhaps the distorted picture of us that is made abrond out of every such occurrence will compel | attention. In ten or twelve days we shall York a fight was provoked in the streets about | even to public gratitude. killed and another badly wounded; and we | shall have the free comment of the English press, with the Saturday Review at the head, | on American manners and American ideas of | | fair play, and, in short, on ths operation of popular government. It is very certain that we shall not like the comments, but they will be salutary if they teach us to see ourselves in | this matter as others see us. Wer Woxper what Ben Butler thinks about the third term. We Trvst Mr. Morrisse y ‘hedged’’ in some ' of his bets. THE SuLTAN AND THE Siay 7 Trave.—In answer to the protest of the British govern- ment the Sultan has declared his intention to | Suppress the trade in slaves carried on with his dominions through Egypt. If he keeps his promise the efforts of Mr. Stanley on the East Coast will be likely to prove thoroughly successful. The Heravp is delighted to welcome in the Sultan a coworker in the suppression of the trade in human beings. , No government could lend more cffective aid | than those of Egypt and Turkey it they were in real earnest in their desire to the unholy traftic, A Warning te President Grant. The elections which took place yesterday, and especially the election in New York, ought to make a profound and instructive im- pression on the mind of President Grant | Up to this tim’ he has had an uninterrupted course of political good fortune, which, fol- lowing his brilliant military successes, would naturally create, in any but 9 mind of unusual strength and self-poise, a feeling that he is a favorite of fortune. When we compare the ex-captain who tanned leather with his father in 1860 with the great general and the pop- ular President it is easy to understand how the success and fame which have been so entirely beyond his expectations may have inspired him with extravagant hopes. To advance from his present exalted station to a third term or a Presidency for life would be far less wonderful than the promotion of a tanner’s clerk to the command of the army and the Presidency of the United States. The soundest head might be turned by so sudden a rise and so dazzling a career; and as Gen- eral Grant is still in the full vigor of his years, and as his success has never met a check until now, it is quite natural that he | should cherish extravagant expectations. But the result of the voting yesterday ought to convince him that there is a limit to every career in a republican country, and that he is no exception to the rule which fixes an im- passable boundary to the ambition of a citizen of a republic. The most illustrious of our former soldiers—Washington and Scott—rec- ognized the limit by their own intuitive sa- gacity. Scott put aside the offer which was made to him of the government of Mexico, and Washington preferred his agricultural pursuits at Mount Vernon to. the exercise of authority over his country. The most ad- mired parts of the history of Washington and Scott are those which include their noble acts of self-renunciation. It is to be regretted that General Grant did not emulate their magnanimous example without waiting to be taught in the school of events. But although General Grant has failed to exercise the high civic virtue which puts o self-imposed limit on ambition, we would fain hope that he has wisdom enough to be in- structed by experience. The great loss of votes by Governor Dix since 1872 attests the waning popularity of the President even more clearly than it does that of General Dix. In 1872 Dix was borne to success on the tide otf Grant's popularity, and his mortifying decline in the election yesterday is a consequence of his standing for the federal administration. Dix would have made a much better show in the election had he stood on his personal merits and been in no way identified with Grant. It is Grant who has killed Dix, and Grant rather than Dix is the person who should -lay this defeat to heart. It should teach the President that there is a limit The country has caressed him, praised him, rewarded him, promoted him, with lavish, unstinted generosity; but the country has showered on him those abundant marks of grateful appre- ciation on the supposition that he is true to our institutions and desires no reward which would be inconsistent with their perpetuity. His third term aspirations have turned publfo feeling against him, and we trust that the demonstrated decline of his popular strength may teach him the wisdom of renouncing his irregular hopes and devoting what remains of his second term to high and worthy objects. If he promptly recognizes the utter futility of all third term hopes he may close his ad- ministration amid the plaudits of his country- men, The people retain their appreciation of his great military services, and if convinced | that he means in good faith to retire .to pri- vate life at the end of this term they would indulge in no ungenerous criticisms during the remnant of his Presidency. General Grant’s military fame is one of the most precious possessions of his country, and the people will overlook and forgive all his short- comings as President if he will, even at this late day, convince them that he prefers the public weltare to his private views. President Grant isa man of sagacity, and he ought to see uow that it is perfectly futile for him to entertain hopes of another election. Let him, then, accept the situation and he may end his brilliant career with credit and re- tire to private life with undiminished popu- larity. If he has a choice as to his successor he can do much to secure his election, if the choice is founded on a sincere wish to pro- mote the public welfare. He can easily cone trol the republican nomination if he has no selfish or ambitious views of his own, and a republican nomination, dictated by patriotic motives, would even yet have strong chances of success. We hope, therefore, that Presi- dent Grant will recognize the important les- son taught him by the humiliating decline in the strength of his party, and that the re- maining two years of his administration may be the most honored and satisfactory part of his civil career. We Satz Now have a goodly amount of democratic rhetoric about ‘‘the tidal wave."’ Ir Woutp Br interesting to hear the “bosom friends,” Morrissey and Kelly, discuss the re- sults of the election, Tae Lovistana Exectiox—Tuz Cororep Vorz.—From the Louisiana election returns, | 80 far received, it appears that the democrats and conservatives have gained a substantial victory, and thus are materially indehted in | the results achieved to the large bodies of | colored voters who joined them in the election. | This breaking up of ‘the color line’ is, how- | ever, the great victory, for it is only by | | the abolition of the “white man’s party’ and the ‘black man’s party, | of whites and blacks in both parties, that law | and order in their political contests and social | harmony and good will between the two races and by the mizing can be secured in the South. Let the good | example of Louisiana be followed up, and let | the color line be obliterated throughout the | Southera States, and peace, law, order and prosperity therein will soon follow. | Weare not premature in announcing that Mayor Havemeyer will retire from public lite on the Ist of January and resume agricultural pursuiis and the study of the important ques- tion, whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s plays. We are authorized to announce that General Butler will enter upon the active pursuit of put an end to | his profession at the close of the present Con- | The City Election—A Divided Victery and a Warning. The result of the city election has been a victory for Tammany on the Mayor and the defeat of Tammany on the Register. Mr. Wickham has a plurality of twenty thousand over Mr. Wales, the next highest candidate, while General Jones leads Mr. Hayes about ten thousand votes. An analysis of the vote shows that the democrats on Governor bave 4 majority of forty-two thousand, and on the two democratic candidates tor Mayor, Mr. Wickham and Mr. Ottendorfer, a majority of about forty-five thousand over Mr. Wales. General Jones must, therefore, have received about twenty-eight thousand democratic votes, or nearly one-third of the whole number cast by the party. At the same time the united votes of Wales and Ottendorfer show a ma- jority of about five thousand over Mr. Wick- ham. If Tammany Hall is ruled by prudent and intelligent men these facts are sufficient to set them thinking, and to temper the en- thusiasm they will no doubt feel over their triumph. For they show very clearly that the city of New York is not favorable to the present local management of the democratic party, and only needs to be united in opposition to overthrow the Tammany nominees. Ifa sin- gle candidate acceptable to the people had been nominated for Mayor, as a single candi- date was nominated for Register, Mr. Wickham would have been to-day mourning over a de- feat in company with Mr. Hayes. It was the good fortune of Mr. Kelly’s nominee that the experience of Havemeyer had prejudiced the public mind against a union candidate for Mayor, and that the republican leaders wera determined to make a strict party nomina- tion for the chief magistracy of the city, in the hope that by some lucky chance he might alip into office between Mr. Wickham and Mr. Ottendorfer. It was the bad fortune of Mr. Morrissey's nominee that the opposition found @ candidate upon whom they could unite and for whom the citizens were satisfied to vote. Mr. Wickham has won by the default of the elements opposed to Tammany, and his escape is as significant a warning to the democratic leaders as is the defeat of his associate on the city ticket. The local nominations have been unques- tionably a source of weakness to the democ- racy. While Mr. Tilden obtained eighty- seven thousand votes in the city, Mr. Wick- ham received only fifty-seven thousand and Mr. Hayes sixty-one thousand. Mr. Wick- ham is, indeed, shown to be the weaker .of the two latter candidates, receiving four thousand votes less than Hayes. The ques- tion, therefore, arises whether Mr. Morrissey or Mr. Kelly is the most powerful as a Tam- many leader, and the answer, according to these figures, seems to be in favor ot Mr. Morrissey. No person can very well say, in the face of the returns, that the nomination of Hayes was any more of a blunder than the nomination of Wickham, for at the polls the former has beaten the latter. If the opposition had united against Wick- ham he would have suffered a worse defeat than Hayes. has encountered. Tammany Hall os at present organized is therefore weakened both by the accidental success of Mr. Wickham and by the defeat of Mr. Hayes. If Mr. Kelly and Mr. Morrissey, who are the acknowledged heads of the organization—the Siamese twins ot the Wigwam—read the les- son ef the election aright, they will acknowl- edge this fact and profit by the experience. It will no doubt be said, in view of the deteat of yielding the nomination of Hayes to Mr. Morrissey’s pertinacity, and this is in a great measure true. Mr. Kelly, who had temper when dealing with the country dele- gates in the State Convention, was hardly ex- pected to be so phant and weak in the man- agement of his own household, and his friends not unjustly condemned him for yielding his own judgment to Mr. Morrissey’s demands in the matter of the Register’s nomination. But it may be as justly claimed that Mr. Morrissey was to blame for suffering Mr. Kelly to force upon the party the nomination of Mr. Wick- ham, who goes into office, like Mr. Have- meyer, as a minority candidate, and who showed less strength than Mr. Hayes at the polls. When the opponents of Tammany Hall review the figures of the election they will doubtless regret that they did not unite on some such candidate as William Butler Dun- can or Royal Phelps for Mayor. In that event they would have won a substantial victory. Asit is, by electing General Jones and casting a majority, although a divided one, against Mr. Wickham, they have proved that they have the power to defeat objectionable Tam- many nominees whenever they may feel dis- posed to do so, and that the ‘‘machine’’ is, been supposed to be. It only requires a united. opposition to throw it from the track. Appropriations and the Elections. | Just before the elections we had promises from Washington of reduced estimates for the current year and a consequent reduction in the aggregate of the appropriation bills at the coming session of Congress. It is true these | promises are made every year, but when they have served their purposes in the canvass pre- | ceding the elections they are entirely disre- | garded, This trifling with the people must | cease. The appropriation bills are always of the highest importance, generally more im- | portant than any legislation before Congress. They are the safeguards of economy and re- trenchment. If the promises so often made within the last two or three years had been kept they would have resulted in saving mill- ions of dollars to the country. If they are kept at the coming session of Congress mill- | ions will be saved ina single year. One of | the lessons of yesterday's elections is that these promises must be kept. The people, though they nobly bear the burdens imposed by tke war, are determined that excessive outlays | shall cease. Many votes were lost to the re- publican party because th» appropriution bills have been extravagant, and the reduced | majority of General Garfield, the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, was partly owing to the same cause. Congress | will meet only a month hence, and Garfield | will be the practical director ot its delibera- | tions, Will he and his party really learn the | lesson of the elections and obey the behests of the people? More than ever it is neces- sary. in order to onrifv the vublic service, Hayes, that Mr. Kelly was censurable for | displayed such an overbearing and stubborn | after all, not so terrible an engine as it has | that the strictest economy shall rule in every department of the government, and the people have shown that they will put the marks of their disapproval upon any party which fails to subserve the true interests of the country Mr. Bryant’s Birthday. William Cullen Bryant, the most venerable and honored member of the editorial pro- fession in this country, the first of our poets, the model of every public and every private virtue, completed his eightieth year yester~ day. We join our congratulations with those of hie other admirers on an occnsion of #0 much interest. Mr. Bryant bas outlived Cooper, our first novelist; he has outlived Trving, our greatest master of elegant prose ; he has outlived Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, the most gifted statesmen who were conspicu- ous in the active period of his life; he has outlived Bennett, and Greeley, and Noah, and Crosswell, and Ritchie, and Gales (but not Blair, who still lives at an age as advanced and with faculties as vigorous as Mr. Bryant's, nor Weed who is nearly as old); but if several of Mr. Bryant's distinguished journalistic contemporaries, who were so potent and so vigorous in the days of his prime, still sur- vive, he is the only one of them who retains an active connection with journalism. Mr. Blair dissolved his editorial ‘relation to the Globe nearly thirty years ago and retired to Silver Spring; it is some thirteen or fourtee: years since Mr. Weed retired from the Albané Journal and Mr. Webb from the Courier and Enquirer, so that Mr. Bryant is the oldest editor in the United States who retains his connection with the press. We tender him our sincere congratulations on this anniver. sary and recognize him as the most distin guisbed member of the editorial profession in the United States. Mr. Bryant’s reputation is less ephemeral than if it rested on his services as a journalist. His is one of the most important names in American literature, as wellas in American journalism, aud the tasteful compliment paid him yesterday in the presentation of a costly aud appropriately engraved vase was a tribute to his literary eminence, the only character in which he will be much known to posterity. His vigorous editorials in the Evening Post for so many years merely influenced the passing opinions of the day; but his best poems will be read and loved long after the transient politics of Mr. Bryant’s time are forgotten. In celebrat- ing his eightieth birthday we recognize the superior lustre of purely literary merits, but if Mr. Bryant himself were to pronounce on his own career we have little doubt that he would give the preference to his patriotic at tempts to serve the country as a journalist. A New Jzrsry Swimmer recently astonished the natives of Skibbereen, on the coast of the Emerald Isle, by jumping overboard from a transatlantic steamship in the middle of a gale and reaching land after a seven hours’ swim. But they might have told him the story of their countryman who offered to swim from Quebec, with an anchor as ballast, against the champion in that locality, and was prevented only from doing so by the other man backing out. . “Let Us have peace.’’ PERS)NAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Benson J. Lossing is at the Coleman House. Senator John Sherman, of Oblo, yesterday ar- | rived at the Astor Housp Admiral Topete, of the Spanish Navy, 1s recover- ing from his serious illness. Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, nas apart. | ments at the Hoffman House. General Stephen V. Benét, United States Army, is registered at the Grand Hotel, | Major John W. Barlow, United States Army, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, | is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. James T. Fields, of Boston, is among the re- | cent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Generals Wright and Comstock have arrived ia Paris, and will sail ior America next Saturday. Lieutenant Coionel Natnantel Stevenson, of the British Army, 13 sojourning at the Filth Avenue | Hotel. bs New parties in France are the “Macs,” the | “Anti-Macs, the “Macma-honteux” and the | “Plonplonites.”” | Myr. Earle has concluded the revival meetings in | Nova Scotia and satled for the United States yem terday morning. London Freemasons intend tohave a grand time | at the coming reception of the Prince of Wales ag their Grand Master. Students of Sanscrit are recommended to study “The Paribhasendusekbara of Nagojibhatta.” Ita titie will be saMcient for other peopie. The Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Chargé a@’Affaires of the Netherlands at Washington, arrived last evening at the Gilsey House. On the birthday of the Austrian Crown Prince bis grandfather made him a gilt of a considerable sum in money, and he has given It all toward an Aus trian expedition into Central Africa. A sign oj the times. | Ifthe White House demands of Congress a law | to locate the headquarters of the army at Wash ington, it will be very likely not to get it, for even the present Congress will have more backbone in its next session. As to his famous bon mots, Talleyrand said to Lamartine, “People have made of me a speaker of don mots. But I have never uttered a bon motin my life, I have endeavored to say, after deop reflee tion on many subjects, not & good thing—but a just one.” The captain and several officers of the British flagship Balerophen sailed from Halifax, N. 8,, yes terday, en route for England, to give cvidence in the matter of the running down of the steamer Flamstead by the flagship while on a passage from England to Bermuda. French politeness at the benefit of Mile. Béjazet, «what age isshe?’ said a republican, “she looks still so young.” ‘Citizen,’ responded the person addressed, “elle aura bient6t vingt ans—pour la quatri¢me fois.” “in a little while she will be | twenty—for the fourth time.” Here are two entries tha: said toexist ip the same album, in the possession of an auto | graph hunter in Europe :— A really great man is known by three signs; generosity in the design, humanity in the execa tion, moderation in success, BISMARCK, The friendship of a great manis a gift from heaven. VON ARNIM. Faure has left the Paris opera ta “high duadg eon.” His first grievance is “a question of prin ciple and dignity.” Higher prices were charged for the seats on the nights when Pa ti wason tne bill than were charged when Faure sing but Patt did not. His other grievance is that the mane agement would not permit him to sing at the Al. sace-Lorraine benefit, and tho papers abuse him Jor not singing on that occasion. Paris seems w | regard the great singer as too susceptibie, digaro’s fictton tuat Thiers was captare1 by prigands enasin a joke. ‘They puciis ransom at 8,000,000 rrancs, He grumoied, of conrse, “Why,” they said, “you patd 5,000,090,099 to the Germans, “Not me he said, “that was France.’ “Come, come,’ sald the leader, ‘4 read all whout it in the Bien Pudtic, your own organ, word about France im it. They always said M, Thiers paid it.” ‘This end of the story is so muck better than the rest of it that people fancy the | tory was made for the joke, There never wis @