The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1874, Page 6

——- NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. elena JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR ‘WH DAILY HERALD, pablished’ every cay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | nva) subscription price $12, All besiness or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herarp. Letters ard packages shouldt'be properly sealed. ——- sditeaininiitlian LONDON OFFICE OF THE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET S(@REET. | Enbecriptions and Advertisements will be received and jorwarded on the :wme terms | NEW YORK | es in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT. Fr NUE TRE Terai cian street and Hroaaway,—TH’ STRATAGEM, at 8 P.M.: ol M. Davenport, Miss Jowe Louts James. RS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, THE SEs LEAH at SF. M.: closes at 10340 P.M. Mrs, Bowers, J. ©. NeColiou. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth rtreci-—KIN ERFOLG, at SP. Ma; Closes at wae PM. ROBINS Grrert street. between B: AKG, atS P.M BRYAN?’S OPERA HOUSE, ity-third et, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MEST RELE Ue, avSP: Me; closes at 1) FM. 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Money was abundant at 2} a | By percent. | Ovr Srars Exectiox.--The retures which we publish this morning of our Stat election, Dongressional and State Assembiy partico- larly, will be found very rnteresting. Mr. Sacem H. Waxes thinks that the third term and hard times have brought about a de- | sire among the people for a change, and Mr. Wales is more than half right in these opin- ions. York, Thursday, ‘Nov. | Tax Spaxish GuARD on THE Coast oF | Cusa is maintained with extreme vigilance. | Distressed fishermen who were driven to the | island by stress of weather have been ar- j rested and placed in prison. to be American fishermen from Key West. A Trmat Wave, sweeping over the country, | eerries everything before it, and some good | ships, with the general drift, are left among | the wrecks high and dry on the shore. | Cura aNd Japan continue to growl at each | other over the bone of contention, Formosa. scendent, so conclusive in its results, that we | ‘The men who direct the affairs of the aged empires should have better sense. They should call to mind the rules of the moral and disciplinary system of Confucius—give to | exch man his own, and do justice where and whenever you ©: Mz. Tuxvex, cur Governor clect, believes | that General Grant is bent upon a third term; | said during the canvass, ‘The Lessons of the Election—Modera- tate speculations; the departure from the cor- ' tion in Victory. The canvass has not yet passed beyond its emotional phases, and it will be a few days before the heated partisans of either side will be able to read the results calmly. Upon one | side we have the ecstasy of success, the reali- zation of hopes so long deferred; land, land at last, after so many years of tumbling on | the lonely seas of what seemed to be an end- less opposition; upon the other we have the dismay of sudden and unexpected disaster. The democrats will exaggerate their victory, the republicans their defeat. Local, silent, indifferent canses will be found to explain the general result. ‘The election will be attrib- uted to what, after all, are among the inci- dental phases of the election. We shall be | told that temperance issues in one place and side issues in another effected a movement which is political and national, which means not merely isolated dissatisfaction with the measures of the party in power, buta great change in tho. management of affairs. To use the familiar rhetoric of this hour of exultation aud discomfiture, we have the “tidal wave’’ or the rising sea of success. Here and there are events which have their own especial significance, like the defeat of Mann, in Philadelphia; of Butler, in Massa- | chusetts, and of Ellis H, Roberts, in New | York. And any special importance that may attach to these results will be lost in the mag- nitnde of the isste that was decided on Tues- day. Above all else—and for this we fervently thank the God of Peace—thers is an end of the war and its bloody instructions. We shall hearno more of ‘war records,"" As the Henauy ‘svar records’’ are now so dead that.“‘Mr. Tilden would not lose fifty votes had he commanded the attack on Fort Sumter.’’ This canvass shows that the Americans. are a magnani- mons, forgiving people ; that when the rebel- lion was suppressed the rebels became once more our brothers and our fellow citizens, and that in the progress of these States in the road to empire the test of political rewards must henceforward be merit, honesty, capacity, not what was done or said during. the civil war; for, as all candid men must admit, many of tke finest characters of this gen- eration fought against the North. What shall we do with them? Where is General Long- street, forinstance. He fought until the surren- der of Lee, and was second in command to Lee at Appomattox; and yet he is as good a republican as even Roscoe Conk- ling could wisb, and if to-morrow he were to be a candidate, say for the Vice Presidency, Mr. Conkling would speak and vote for bim. And if Longstreet, why not men like Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Johnston, Breckinridge and Hunter? Are these men any worse Ameri- cans now for having fought against us ten years ago? Are they to be despised because they have not joined the republicans? Are they not better in every way than the murrain of carpet-baggers and ‘‘scalawags”’ that now overrun the South? Would not even | Mr. Conkling prefer to see Breckinridge in | the place of Kellogg, Hunter in the place of | Moses, and Lee and Jackson, it they were alive, in the place of Patterson and Clayton? | Would he not feel that the country was better served by these gallant and honest rebels than by the miserable riff-raff that now infest, de- plete and dishonor the South? And is it not a matter for rejoicing that by the results | of this very election the dead past has buried 1ts dead, that Americans are brothers | to Americans once more, that all the hatreds | and sorrows of the rebellion are sleeping un- der the green hills and valleys of Virginia, and that even for the miserable purposes of a can- vass in New York the eloquence of Roscoe Conkling cannot summon up the Mumbo Jumbo of rebellion? Therefore we are glad that the election on Tuesday destroys all ‘‘war records’’ as claims for political distinction. The rebellion passes from politics into history. The election has been really, to repeat the familiar phrase of the hour, the “tidal wave.” Conservatism, which seems to have been moving over the ' world, has asserted its mastery in the United States. We have seen its influence in France in the overthrow of the Thiers Republic and the establishment of the Septennate. We have seen it in Spain in the fall of Castelar and the accession of Serrano. We have seen it in Eng- land in the dethronement of Gladstone and the liberal party, and the accession of the tory Disraeli to power. We see similar influ- ences in Germany, and the question there is whether a statesman of the prodigious power The men claim of Bismarck will be able to sustain the radi- | | calism of Prossia against the conservations of Germany. It was, therefore, time, in the natural movement of events, that the United States should yearn for the rest which will come with the advent of the democracy to ower. The victory has been so dazzling, so tran- can hardly comprebend it. Casarism is dead. Henry Wilson was right when he said that the third term was the heaviest burden the repub- | lican party could carry. The next Congress, | as matters now look, will be under the control | of the democrats. The thirteen or fourteen | years of republican supremacy will be severely scrutinized. New questions will not be con- | stitutional traditions in to office; the hundred jobs which one after the other have grown into offensive life under the President's patronage—these and other matters must now come for review before the repre- sentatives of the people. They may, it is true, result in the formal demand for the im- peachment which now simply comes asa sug- gestion from the exultant leaders of a victori- ous party. We are far from saying that if such a ne- hesitate about its duty. We believe that the Presidential office would become more demo- cratic in its relations to the country if we could demonstrate the practical responsibility of the Executive to the power of impeach- ment. But in this the leaders of the democ- | racy most move slowly and surely, and make | impeachment not a matter of party tactics, but asolemn measure of national duty. In all these matters the newly victorious party must use the utmost discretion. i treme, sudden, fantastic legislation must be | repressed. Any wanton attempt to degrade the President illegally would aid him. The Southern States must be kept in peaceful rela- tions with the Union. The defeat of Grant | must not be regarded as synonymous with the | revival of rebellion, We must have no dis- j honest tampering with the finances. ‘No i watchword of the now triumphant democracy. A party thus animated may enter with confi- dence upon the most solemn tasks, If one of theso tasks should be im- peachment it should not be avoided | nor should it be welcomed. The democratic party owes the utmost justice and considera- tion to Grant. the arraignment of his administration before the Senate to meet with the condemnation it has already received from the hands of the people, then the country will feel that a pain- ; ful duty has been performed with delicacy, firmness and with a due regard alike to the fame of the President, the dignity of his @ffice and the rights of the people to hold ite public servants, no matter how exalted, to the severest accountability. Mournings of the Rachels, The next Congress will present an unfamil- iar spectacle to the frequenter of the galleries ot the House, and the lady correspondents—as become the modern Rachels—will be kept busy noting the new faces which bave just appeared upon the scene and bewailing the absent heroes whom an untoward fate has left at home. The dignified bearing and white mus- tache of Fernando Wood; the eccentric comedy of Sunset Cox; the modest, quiet face of Michae} Kerr; the weazen form of Alexander H. Stephens, will employ as many pens as before. General Banks will be hailed upon his return to the floor as a democrat once more, and one or two other republican leaders in times past will be noted for their activity on the other side. Speaker Blaine, horled from his Olympian throne to the com- mon lot of common Congressmen, will cause many Sapphic tears to flow, and General Gar- field, long the bayseed god of bombazine quilldrivers, will be described as a picture of utter loneliness and despair. But Dawes, for so many years the heavy father of | the House, owing to the tidal wave which | swept over Massachusetts, will be found not there; neither in the Senate, where a demo- crat will sit in the chair of Charles Sumner. Horace Maynard, dark and swarthy as an Indian, a favorite subject for the female pen, has also disappeared. The rich, ambrosial locks of General Negley, a match for Logan’s yaven hair and Farnsworth’s flowing beard in through the corridors and in and out of the | Speaker’s room. General Sypher’s military bearing will be missed at the head of the army of strikers. But, saddest picture of a saddening scene, General Butler will range no more with leonine ferocity through the national menagerie. In his loss the dramatic element of the House is lost in- deed. What shuuld we think of a play where all the characters were cut upon the model of Goldsmith's village parson? What shall we think of a Congress where everything is stupid that is not respectable and everything respectable that is not stupid? General Butler. detested stupidity and stood not with the order of respectability. If he never did a thoroughly good thing neither was he ever guilty of a thoroughly stupid | thing. In him Oakes Ames found a friend, | though his hand had not touched Crédit Mo- bilier. He defended moieties, even though the doing of it shook the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association to its very foundations. He was always profane when the House was dis- posed to say the litany, and he shocked the | moral sense of people not so much in that he | was nota saint as in refusing to be a hypo- crite. Such aman cannot fail to be missed, especially at a time of political revolution | when many new men sit in the seats of old holds the wand which moulds legislation. | | honest fellow, with more manhood than falls The next Congress will be not unlike a vil- lage after a plague—the Sunday school pa- triots and the tavern topers having disap- peared together and youth and freshness tak- ing their places. We may not bewail the loss ‘but Mr. Tilden may now dismiss all such ap- i sidered so seriously as old questions. A duty | of these except ns a bit of sentiment to em- prehensions. vee Tue News From Cexrmaz Asta, through | London by cable, is confirmatory of the | report that the British power in Afghanistan is likely to be seriously disturbed by the hos- tile demonstration of Yakoob Khan, who is in rebellion against his father, Shere Ali. | The warrior chief is demonstrating against Candahar, and a battle is imminent unless | Shere Ali agrees to the exclusion of British | influence trom Aigbanistan. Tae Ancenitve snp Frencn Rrrvanrcs are likely to be brought into difficulty by the ar- | rest of a Patagonian King. It is a curious matter to constitute a quarrel between the | democracies. The King, who claims to be a | French citizen, was arrested and held on | board an Argentine war vessel when on his return from Paris to Patagonia. His Majesty | is a lawyer by profession ; so perhaps it would | bo better for the Argentines, in every point of | view, to let him go. He may sue them for damages in the courts and invoke hostile alli- ences among his crowned brethren. Mz. Oswatp OrTexponFER “is satisfied with | restrained, than any that has fallen upon any Congress since the foundation of the government. The democrats will bo called upon to show | the utmost wisdom. There must be modera- | tion, peace, care. How far this spirit of | investigation will go in the next Congress is a | most serious question. But the natural dispo- | sition to extreme sud unusual questions, to | impetuous and heroic legislation, must be | Alveady we have suggestions that the duty of this Congress will be the impeach- meut of President Grant. But in this and | other propositions Congress must not go too fast. An attempted impeachment of tho President which should fail from precipitate management would be a calamity to the | party and a scandal to the country. We can | understand how the severe investigations that | will be the duty of Congress might per- | haps result in developments that would | make impeechment nationn! duty. Tho | | will fall upon the next Congress more serious | ploy the pens of women; but woe fear these | modern Rachels will mourn in vain, for the | decade which sent volunteer generals into the House is ended. The Butlers and Negleys and Syphers are already lost, and most of those who remain, by whatever party affilia- tions they appeal to their constituencies, may also and as well be spared. It will not hurt the country if the mournings of the Rachels are revived occasionally, should their wailings only signify that thereby the back pay and like heroes are being dropped from the roll. Mock Rerrencume: party in power at the late long session (the first of the Forty-third Congress) undertook | a small way, in the several departments of the government; but they were little better than the savings of cheese parings and candle ends, and so they have passed for nothing. Tar Wan w Spar. cessity arises the democratic party should | Nothing is more | easily thrown away than a victory. All ex- | secession and no repudiation!” must be the | | will agree with us now that the republicans If the result should be | the days of auld lang syne, will no longer float | foes and old favorites and a new hand | will not do, The | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER | i | | “Herald Prophectes.” It is not without interest even asa matter of | journalistic history to recall some of the | Hemaup prophecies made eighteen months | ago, when we began the discussion of what | has been so fiercely denounced as the ‘‘sensa- | tion of Crsarism.’”? Let us see how they read now in the blaze of recent events. The First Prophecy.—On July 5, 1873, the | Heraxp, in the first article on Cmsarism, in opening the discussion of the subject, said:-— The attributes of the Preaidentiai office, its pre- rogatives und possipilities, its ever-increasing power and splendor, tne yearning of a cultivated and wealtoy class for court honors and the attrac- | tions of a court live, the desire of those 1n office to | retain power and reward, the question, in tact, whether a strong Executive does not weaken the Republic, must io time become tue most important in our politics. If this question of Casurism con- tinues Lo assume a menacing aspect we shall nave An issue more diMcult to decide and more essen- tial in its proper determination to the national liberties than any that bas gone before. Roscoe Conkling, who would not respond to the desire of the people at Brooklyn the other evening to hear his views on Cesar- ism, must think now that it bas assumed a “menacing aspect.’’ Lhe Second Prophecy.—On July 7, 1873, the Heratp, in the second article on Cesar- ism, said, in advice to the republican party: — We can pame twonty Marc Antonys in our city who would carry the crown / a third nomination to President Grant with pride and swiitness. We mast meet Cesurism now, not by postponing this question out GO! deference to the jeelings of Gen- eral Grant, but by meeting It, discussing it aod searching oat pnbdlic opinion. Ii eur pudlic men have uo Views upon the subdjector are silent aod non-committal We must educate them now. We think that even Marc Antony Butler should have met Casansm and not postponed it “out of deference to tho feelings of Gene- ral Grant." The Third Prophecy.—Ou July 8, 1873, the Hzratp, in the third article on the subject ot Cxsarism, said: — ‘The men of whom Mr. Colfax may be regarded asthe most prominent example, the Pretorian guards of the repubitcan party, nave made Jesar- ism possible in our time, and have compelled us to Opel au issue with the peopie which has not vad its parallel iu gravity since the foundation of the government. A declaration irom General Graut now that he would not be @ candiaate for re- election would be an act of magnanimity on bis part. We think that Centennial Dix approves of these sentiments and wishes perhaps he had said as much a year or so before this election. The Fourth Prophecy.—On July 9, 1873, the Herat, in the fourth article on the sub- ject of Ceesarism, said: — It is, moreover, a painiul and extraordinary fact that while every politician in America is thinking over the problem whether General Grant wiil or will not be @ candidate lor re-election no leading republican bas dared to say that euch a candidacy wonid be practicuily an avowal of the jailure of Tepublican institutions, We contend that all sentimental issues 12 Our politics should be post- poned until we have decided the jundamental questions, Vice President Wilson wi!l agree with us that the people have “postponed all senti- mental issnes’’ and “‘have decided the funda- mental questions” of Cxsarism and the third term. The Fifth Prophecy.—On July 10, 1873, the Henato, in the fitth article on the subject of Cesarism, said: — It is not too late. General Grant has an un- rivalled opportunity, while at the same time he is menaced With a jascinating, te:rible danger. Let him throw aside tue temvtations to Cesarisin that now pervade the republican party. Let him show that power has not taught him ambition, which we are told is the last infrmity of noble minds, and 10 giving us a generous policy build a monu- ment more enduring than tae Column Vendome, @ monument that posterity will honor and not strive to root out and destroy. General Grant will agree with us, especially if this impeachment whispering should grow in volume, that it would have been better had he accepted the ‘‘unrivalled opportunity.” But it is too late. The Sixth Prophecy.—On July 11, 1873, the Hzraxp, in the sixth article on Cresarism, said: — are nothing to us but as men who labor in the Vineyard ag best they may, only to pass away when tue sun gues down and be lollowed by new laoorers to-morrow, So long as they work well and avoid tne constable we do not see that tney coneern usin uny way Whatever. The question woether we are to have Cwsarism or republican- ism dves concera us, as it does our caidren, to the end of the war. The Henatp has served to the end of the war. But is the war et an end yet? Altogether these ‘‘sensations” as they were, and ‘‘prophecies’’ as they are, form very in- teresting reading as a part of the literature of the canvass. The Registership and Mr. Morrissey. The triumphant election of General Jones to the office of Register is a remarkable and gratifying event. It shows how the people of New York, without distinction of party, will treat good nominations. It also shows how largely the people are influenced by senti- mental considerations in electing men to office. General Jones had a bright and honorable personal record, and he had com- mended himself to popular approval by his generous treatment of the family of Miles O'Reilly. His triumph, therefore, will please all classes without distinction of party. It is said that John Morrissey has not been treated well in the matter of the Registership by Tammany Hall. Kelly and his friends grew weary of John, sought to throw him, and succeeded. To use a phrase which the bluff gladiator will understand, they “stocked the cards on him.” It really does not seem, from what we learn, that John had a fair show. He is a blunt, to politicians generally, and deserved better treatment. John-‘must be philosophical and wait his time. He would do well to make his peace with Adonis Creamer and enter into the oppo- sition to Tammany, Tue Parswent aND THE Paess,--General Grant, in his earlier career, owed more to the press thon any man now in public life; and journals which were anxious to serve him have been treated with contumely whenever | they ventured upon the slightest manifesta. tionof independence. the country he owes more than to any other influence his condemnation and fall. | fact is not withont its poetic phases, and it and carried through many retrenchments, in | : : would be interesting to know what he now | thinks of the press of the country. Tur Grnman Prosect or Govenssext yor | have something very much like the reaction- | | Axsace asp Lornarsz has been promulgated | —Don Carlos’ troops | inan imperial Prussinn decreo, It bears the | issues. gold speculations under Gould; the St. | havo commenced to bombard the important impress of Bismarck’s ideas. There will ben | Domingo job; the President's eccentric | interference with the treaty-making pre- | rogatives of the Senate; position of the Spanish republicans at Iran, near the Bidassoa, on the frontier df France. legisiative representation, the members being strictly accountable to the Berlin centraliza- 5, 1874--TRIPLE SHEET, So with the other members of the Cabinet. They | In that contest we are enlisted, and we shall serve | The allegation is that | yet since he has been in a public career he has | always disdained the press. No adininistra- | tion has been so scornful in its relations with | the journalism of the country. Even the | To the journalism of | This | ——_ The Election of United States Sena- tor. The Legislature of the State of New York will, at its next session, elect a United States Senator in place of Reuben E. Fenton. The Senate, with Laning, democrat, elected over Alberger, republican, in the Thirty-first dis- trict, stands as it did Inst session, twelve democrats, cighteen republicans and two inde- pendent republicans elected by democratic votes; but on the question of United States Senator, even if the two independents should vote for a separate candidate, the division will practically be twelve democrats aud twenty republicans, or a majority of eight against the democratic candidate. The demo- crats would require sixty-nine Assemblymen, or a majority of ten in the lower house, to elect their United States Senator by a majority of two on the vote in joint session, ‘There are one hundred and twenty-eight members in the House of Assembly and thirty-two Senators, mak- ing together one hundred and sixty votes ; and on the above basis the democrats would have sixty-nine Assemblymen and twelve Senators, a total of eighty-one, while the republicans would have fifty-nine Assem- blymen and twenty Senators, a total of seventy- nine. Should sixty-seven democrats and sixty-one republicans be elected to the Assem- bly, the two independent Senators would hold the decision of the United States Senator- ship in their hands. The vote in joint session would then be sixty-seven democratic As- semblymen and twelve Senators—a total of seventy-nine, against sixty-one republican Assemblymen and eighteen straight re- publican Senators—a total of seventy-nine. Neither side could elect without the votes of the two independent Senators. The United States law of 1866, chapter 245, regulating the mode in which Sena- tors of the United States shall be elected by the State Legislatures, provides that each house shall, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name a person for | Senator on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof. On the day following the houses shall meet in joint assembly, and if the same person shall not have received a majority in each house, shall proceed to choose a Senator by viva voce vote, the person having the majority of votes being declared elected. Should there be no choice the joint assembly is required to meet and take at least one vote per day during the session until an election is made. Fcrmerly it was necessary that each house should make a nomination in its own chamber before the joint session could be held. This offered facilities for obstructing an election, and the law of 1866 was passed to prevent factious delay and compel a choice. Administration Organs. One of our contemporaries which has a peculiar interest in the subject gives some sound advice to the President in regard to organs. It was at one time itself understood to be an organ of the administration ; but it was nota servile organ, It advocated many points in the Executive tactics, explained and defended others ; but where there were points which seemed indefensible it spoke against them with vigorous freedom. Its advocacy for this very reason had somo weight wita the public, but its freedom gave mortal offence at Woshington, and an out-and-out organ was established, which it was thought would ruin the journal that had even a mod- erate independence of spirit. People at Washington evidently do not understand that the days of organs are gone by; that an intelligent people will pay no attention to the support of a journal that kas no option to support or oppose; has no freedom of opinion, but must support, in every instance, \ every measure. They are likely to discover, however, that in misunderstandings be- tween governments and newspapers the jour- nal can do without the government a great deal better than the government can do with- out the journal. Indeed, any relationship whatever in the nature of pledged support is a burden and an embarrassment to the journal, while it is of incalculable value to the government. If there is any wisdom in Washington the tactics which resulted ia the exclusion of our contemporary from favor will be revised, for if the democrats push the notion of impeachment the government will need intelligent advocates before the people. Miss Cushman will bid farewell to the stage on Saturday evening, and the event will bea great occasion in our theatrical annals. Her engagement has been a wonderful series of triumphs, and Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer, who have managed it, have, in the presentation of the plays, revived all the glories of the Edwin Booth management. This success shows that the people of New York will always patronize good acting, andespecially when the managers show taste, enterprise and genius in the ar- rangement of the stage affairs. The pro- gramme for the farewell night of Miss Cush- man has been published. Already every seat in the theatre is taken. Onr best peopfe seem to vie with cach other in their effort to do her honor, and the occasion will be as remarkable ag the recent farewell of Dejazet to the Paris stage. Miss Oushman has earned all these honors by her genius, her blameless, earnest, industri- ous life, her exertions for art and the eleva- tion of the drama, and she will carry with her into retirement the best wishes of the com- munity for a long, peaceful and honorable life History Repratixc Irsezr.—In 1840 the democrats were swept out of power as by a whirlwind; and yet in 1844 they elected their Presidential candidate, Polk, over the great Henry Clay. In 1852 the democrats elected Pierce by the electoral votes of all the States except four; but in 1853 their party began to break up and, narrowly escaping a defeat in 1856, it was scattered to the winds in 1860. In 1872 General Grant was re- | elected by the electoral votes of all the States except six, with two-thirds of each house of | Congress to back him, and yet in 1874 wo ary whirlwind of 1840, and upon similar Exrction Fnavps and outrages in various shapes are coming before uur police courts; | but they are so few in number that they indi- the Washington | This movement of the royalists is preliminary | tion, and the territory will thus become a sort | cate, upon the whole, » remarkably honest the scalp of Hayes and with it can join in the | Ring and the President's already more | to the forcing of a general battle, which is | of subordinate training school for the educa. | and orderly, rather than a corrupt and turbu- | tion of future Chancellors for Berlin. ;eneral demoeratic war dance. likely to take place at an early moment. lent, city election, Tae Rermemest or Miss Cusmeay.— | rere: Mr, Wickham and tho Yommeany A Johus, Mr. Wickham has announeed that he ‘will endeavor to be the people's Mayor and no man’s man.” early hours of a general triumph, are, per- haps, not to be taken literally. It may be doing tho gentleman an injustice to them seriously; but if they are to be taken seriously and literally the public will be emi- nently glad to know it, and will have reason to rejoice in the election of the new Mayor; for great: talent and great experience in the administration of public affairs are of less consequence in the Mayoralty than the honest determination to serve the public and not the political cfiques and rings. But what will the Tammany Jobns say to this declaration? Is it o formal notice to them that they have no lot or parcel in this victory? Is it intended to correct any rash notion on their part thet the distribution of the Maforalty spoil was in their hands? If so there will be war; but Mr. Wickham is on the side to win in such 9 battle. Thrice is he armed that bath And he but naked, though Tock'd aaa $ ‘Whose conscience with injustice is cor: s I. rupted. Tae Tarp Tznu.—The general voice of the country has settled the question in 1874 for 1876. As the President could not speak on the subject the people have spoken for him. Bans yor Mexaxen.—In the next Congress the Speakership will very likely be between General Banks and Mr. Fernando Wood, General Banks’ recognized capacity puts him fully on an equality with Mr. Wood in that respect, while his experience in an office in which experience is of pre-eminent value gives him an evident advantage. It is to be remem- bered, moreover, that he was one of the men who could not find favor in the eyes of the ad- ministration, and that is likely to be looked upon as the most solid evidence of political honesty that can be given in a man’s favor. If the democrats should give any prominence in their politics to the impeachment of the Ex ecutive a strong Speaker will be of great ses vice in the conflict that that Proposition mus provoke. Mr. Ricuarp Scmerz, Congressman elect, knows that General Grant has never thought of going for a third term and thinks that New York, in Conkling and Tilden, will furnish two Presidential candidates for 1876, Tue Covrts.—The Hodge defalcation case (five hundred thousand dollars), the Naylor revenue case (two hundred thousand dollars) and en important case, upon which judg- ment was rendered against the careless fumi- gation of passenger ships, were among the matters before our United States Courts yes- terday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Waterloo was nothing to it, “sire, clest une revolution 1” “A bad year for the righteous.” How 1s the President's dignity this morning? And so the third term was only “a newspaper sensation!” Now, then, for the various “Interpretations” of the great result. “senator Conkling might better have taken the Chief-Justiceship. Chancellor John VY. L. Pruyn, of Albany, ia at the Brevoort House. Mr. William McMaster, of Toronto, has apart ments at the Brevoort House. The Dublin Lord Mayor and his lady found things all rignt on thetr arrival home. General Thomas S. Rosser, of Minnesota, is stop- | ping at tne Metropolitan Hotel. | Dignity kitlea a cat. Perhaps the decision in twenty States may kill dignity. Judge E. H. Durell, of Louisiana, is residing temporarily at the Astor House. Mr. William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General J. J. Abercrombie, United States Army, is registered at the St. Denis Hotel. Mr. John Crossiey, M. P., of Liverpool, is so journing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. Patrick F, Lyndon, of Boston, is among the recent arrivais at the Everett House. General Wesley Merritt, United States Army, is quartered at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. So much for Ben Butler. He had an enormous majority in the Dominating convention, If Butler’s cloud in Massachusetts has @ silver lining will be call that silver a retainer ? Alas for Morrissey and his Hayes! Did Tam- | many stock the cards on John and Jimmy? The trouble with the republican party seems to | be that tne voters didn’t get any retainers. Up to the Jatest moment not a word said by the repubiicans abont fraudulent voting. How's this? sudge W. L, Learned, of the New York Supreme Court, arrived from Albany yesterday at the Gilsey House. Mr. Thowas A. Scott, President of tne Pennsyl- vania Ratlroad Company, is staying at the Bre-. | voort House. ‘Tissaid that Uncle Dick’s nomination was “put” tohim. That made his “call” and election sure.— Commercial Advertiser. “For of all sad words, by tongue or pen, ‘The saddest are thes>, ‘We shan’t have Ben.’ '? —Commercial Advertiser. Morean, the Parisian dealer in vegetable medi- cine, who poisoned his two wives, ts called in his | neighborhood Rhubarve-bleue. If “newspaper sensations” are of as much con. sequence as the third term has proved, wise rulers should treat them with respect. President MacMahon entertataed Mr. Wash: burne, the American Minister, ana Lord Lytton at an elegant banquet on Tuesday nignt, 8d inst., in Paris. Harper's Weekly, in alluding to Grant's silence onthe third term, says that “silence ts golden.” Now that wecan comprehend as a good reason why Grant should appreciate silence. Aspectal despatch received from British Columbia states that Dean Edward Cridge, of Victoria, British Columbia, has seceded from the Church o: England with 359 parishiouers, 1n consequence 0) diferences with Dr. Hills, Bishop of Columbia. Mr. Cridge 1s the ptoneer minister of the province, having been sent out by the Hudson Bay Company, Right Hon. Hugh ©. E. Childers, M. P.; Mr. Spene cer Childers and Mr. F. Broughton arrived from England in the steamship Abyssinia yesterday, and are at the Brevoort House. Mr. Hagh Childers held the position of First Lord of the Admiralty ta the Gladstone Cabinet, and™has recently been elected President of the Great Western Ratiway of Canada. Republicans had no faith In the future of whet party, With the war record and with the com stant purpose vO secure good government they could have held the country for tify years; but, | without faith in the power of what was good in their politics, they endeavored to secure theme selves against the future by orzaniziny the South on a party basis, and wé sce the resilt of their | endeavor. | Harper's Weekly pullishes a cut which repre- | j i sents Grant as the Sphinx and the people who want to know about the third term a8 ciamorous Jick: fagses; and this on the day whon twenty States had declared their apprehension of that silence, | Ie 1t mepnt lor sarcasm on Graut? Does it mean | that he has uo more compreh on of whatia going on in the warld than the Sphinx has of the desert avout it?