The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1875, Page 6

6 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, * —_—-— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, NOTICE TO SU! after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yoru Henazp will be sent free of postage. DAILY HERALD, published every the Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York firrAxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms ag in New York. = ‘YOLUME XL-.............4- ae THE day in year. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRE, a Brosfway and Thirteenth | street—THE OVERLAND OUTE, at § P. M.; closes ut 10:49 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Ada Dyas. ARISIAN VARIET! P. Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 8P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Few Opera House, Broadway, corner of Iwenty-ninth street, Mere eeu ~ AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Wlurd avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, nty-third street and Sixth avenue.—THE FLYING UD, at SP. aM. Mr. George Belmore. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Hoc Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ~ Brondway and LAR, at 3 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. PARK THEATRE, ty second street. —THE MIGHTY DOL- and Mrs. Florence. Texus Sufferers’ ARDEN, fa GILMORE'S 8! DEN. me. ND POPULAR CON. fate Barnum’s H CERT, at 5 P. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, fps West Fourteenth street—Open from :10'A. M. to 5 TIVO! Eighth street, near Third FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Lg ip ra cnps street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 6 '. Mj closes at 10:30 P. M. THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45'P. M, BOWERY THEATRE, | ft ea ON HORSEBAOK, at 6 P.M. E, T. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, Eighth avenue aud Forty-niuth street.—Performances day evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lace and Fourteenth street.—AROUND THE IN EIGHTY DAYS, st 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, lrenty-third street and Sixsh avenue —C’ ITTON & REEDS KW YORK MINSTRELS, ut 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, Feiss Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 frviny Wo. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtleth street —KIT. at 8 P.M; loses at 10:45 P.M, Matinee at 2 P. M.—SEA OF ICE. : METROPOLITAN THEATRE, ‘Fos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M. YCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth street and Eighth avenue.—Freneh Opera fe—MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW. YORK, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1875, are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with occasional rains. 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The principal points of interest were the arraignment of ten prison- ers accused of murder in the first degree and the fixing of next month for the trial of John Scannell. eet Tae Spanish Wan.—Money must be more valuable to the Carlists than victory, forthey propose to abandon the bombardment of San Sebastian for the small sum of one hun- dred thousand dollars. There is not much hance for a cause which is to be sustained by such commercial transactions as this, The ‘Alfonsists, with more wisdom, propose to reinforce the Army of the North by eighty thousand men. Tur Temp Avenve Bayx.—The Bank Superintendent has not yet explained why he suffered the Third Avenue Savings Bank to continue to receive deposits, to impose | tpon the public, and to violate the banking laws after ‘repeated examinations” had assured him that the concern was hopelessly = | knowledge of what is passing in the public | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HER ALD | wine Shibboleths—“Protection” | “Free Trade.” We suppose it fares with public men as with public journals, and that it is their fate, or rather their fortune, to be deluged (though in a lesser degree) with a constant flood of correspondence making suggestions, offering advice or giving utterance to criti- cisms and complaints. Emerson, in one of | his lectures, refers to the extensive corre- | spondence and wide personal intercourse of statesmen as an abatement of their claims to originality, arguing that a mind which is perpetually fed with suggestions may get credit for fertility beyond its unassisted re- sources. Carlyle, on the other hand, in his remarks on Mirabeau, who was a great bor- the marks of superiority to gain such an as- cendancy over other minds as to be able to subsidize their labors as @ mon- | arch lays tribute on his subjects— like a river whose volume is swelled by the smaller streams of half a continent. We incline to think this the sound view, and | that the utility to the public of statesmen of | commanding faculties is increased by the readiness of other minds to secure currency for their best ideas by getting them adopted | by men who can enlist public attention. A | great journal, which circulates everywhere, | enjoys the same advantage with more than a | proportionate share of its attendant annoy- | ances. But even the most tedious and vapid | of the communications offering advice to the | | editor are welcome as sometimes affording | | mind, while the more intelligent often sup- | ply hints which brighten our columns with | | ideas of which we are only the vehicle. The | present state of affairs is more fruitful than | ordinary in such volunteer counsels, most of which we can only weigh and reject. Among other things which have recently been pressed on our attention as remedies for existing evils are the old questions of pro- tection and free trade, one set of correspond- ents asking us to advocate protection as the great cure of business stagnation, and an- other class, equally confident and zealous, | think the true remedy is to be found in free | trade. There is a strong odor of fossilism | in both parts of this contradictory advice. | Nothing at present takes a feebler hold on public attention than the contro- versy between protection and free trade. | We have looked through all the political platforms of the year and cannot recollect | that the word “protection” or the phrase “‘free trade” has appeared in them, At any rate, the question has been given no prominence. With the exception of one or two journals which have made it a hobby the political press is as silent on the subject as the party platforms. It has ceased to be a | question on which any newspaper can excite | the interest of its readers. Governor Tilden, i | | rower in this way, maintains that it is one of) lecting officers, and it would require such hosts of officers to collect the whole revenue by internal taxation that a much smaller proportion would find its way into the Treasury. The sound rule of levying taxes only for the government excludes very high rates, lest a great part of what is paid by the people should go to enrich smugglers, fabricators of false invoices, dishonest ap- praisers and whiskey rings. A high tariff is | a premium on smuggling, as a high excise is on illicit distillation, A tariff for revenue means revenue to the Treasury, not to smug- glers, rings and faithless officers; taxes should, therefore, be moderate and distrib- uted over quite a number of articles. If the tariff included but a few articles the rates of duty would be put so high that the people would have to support a large smug- gling interest. In like manner, if duties are laid by preference on) such kinds of goods as are produced at home, the foreign and the domestic will be alike raised in price ; the increase on the foreign goods alone going into the Treas- ury and the whole addition to the price of domestic goods going into the pockets of the manufacturers. There is no good reason why any part of the people’s money should go to the support of either smugglers, illicit distil- lers or mismanaging manufatturers. It is, of course, impossible to devise a system of tax- ation so perfect that none of these classes will be incidentally benefited, but it should be the steady aim of the governmentto reduce their opportunities of gain to a minimum. As no taxes are intentionally laid for the mere benefit of the collecting officers, so none should be intentionally levied to benefit one class of producers at the expense of the whole country. American Newspapers in Europe. “Another county heard from,” is the standard expression of politicians when they are calculating the gains of a great election, and we borrow it to express our sincere pleasure in the increasing interest of the American press in the new reading room at the Henarp Bureau, in Paris, and the promp- titude with which the leading papers of the country respond to our invitation. Many thousands of our citizens annually visit Paris, and it is our object to have the repre- sentative journals of every section of the country on file in our reading room in the Avenue de l'Opera, for the benefit of the American public abroad, Since the last pub- lication of the titles of papers on file the following journals have been added to the list :— Daily Argus. United States Insuran: ette, United States Insurance Almanac. American Life Insurance Magazine. NSYL' NEW YORK. Sunday Mercury Daily Commerc! Daily Enquirer... in his recent speeches, has a great deal to | say on the kindred subject of taxation ; but | he is careful to take it quite out of the old | grooves, and his utterances may be searched | in vain for any allusion to the controversy | which the last Democratic National Conven- | tion extinguished as a political issue by the | odd device of remitting it to the Congres- sional districts. We think it fortunate that the country is quietly getting rid of the phraseology of this old controversy, which, in spite of its habit- nal employment in the literature of political | economy, is absurd and misleading. The | word “protection” is well enough understood in its appropriate applications, but it is a confusing misnomer when it refers to the | tariff. The chief object for which govern- | ments are formed is, indeed, to afford protec- tion ; but protection against what? Why, protection against injustice, against vio- | lence, against mobs, against insurrections, against invasions. But, forsaking this | proper meaning of the word, the advocates | of a high tariff demand protection against | low prices, as if low prices were an evil in- stead of a benefit! as if it were an advan- tage to pay three dollars for an article which might be bought for two! Itis ridiculous to talk about ‘‘protecting” people from making good bargains and getting the worth of their money. Protection, in any proper applica- tion of the term, is a defence against evils, not an obstruction to benefits. To talk of protection against cheapness and abundance is an abnse of language, artfully introduced to disguise the robbery of the whole com- munity for the profit of a few. The. phrase “ free trade” is almost equally | | objectionable in point of propriety. Trade can never be absolutely free in a well ordered community. Free trade in diseased meat, | in adulterated milk or groceries, in poison- | ous drugs, in alcoholic liquors, isnot allowed | | and never ought to be allowed under any | civilized government. Our inspection laws | and license laws are standing proofs that | general public sentiment requires trade to | be regulated in the interest of the com- munity, and the degree of regulation must | depend on the varying requirements of the public welfare. Free trade can no more be tolerated by the federal government than by the State governments. It is one of the duties of Congress ‘‘ to regulate commerce,” and the very idea of regulation im- plies restraint. To facilitate the col- lection of duties Congress establishes | ports of entry, and interdicts not only free trade, but all trade at every other point of our thousands of miles of coasts and fron- | tiers. Successful smugglers are the only practical free traders. In time of war or dif- ficulties with foreign nations we sometimes put trade in the closest fetters, as in the famous embargo and the blockade of the Southern States in the late civil war. impossible under any mode of raising the revenue, even if it should all be collected in internal taxes, for trade to be free—free | | hibited so long as the distilleries are kept under government surveillance, and every It is | trade in whiskey, for example, being pro- | ILLINOIS. Daily Tribune... Daily Day Book. Daily Guide and Daily Commonwealth Daily Times.......... -- Leavenworth, DISTRICT OF COLUMILA. Daily Capitol Washington. Daily Gazott Washington. Daily Star Washington. The Registration ot City Voters. This is the first of the four days on which the legal voters of this city may register, pro- paratory to the general election, to take place November 2. The other three days are the 13th, the 22d and the 23d of October. Citi- zens will find it for their ease and comfort to visit the registering places on the first day. To-day the places will be quiet; there will be no crewd compelling voters to put them- selves at the tail ofa long queue and await their turn, and they will escape the appear- | ance of having been drummed up by the | whippers-in of parties, who are so busy on the last days of registration. The hours on all the days are from eight in the morning until nine in the evening, and, except for the laboring classes, who must go early to their work, the morning is the better time, It concerns voters to understand that their privileges are somewhat curtailed by a pro- vision of the amended State constitution. Heretofore a citizen who changed his resi- dence within thirty days of the election did The O'Bothoration Campaign. To use the rhetoric of the old political times, the “pot is beginning to boil.” We are to have a witches’ caldron before we are through, if we do not mistake the character of the ingredients. All the ex-office-holders in town are at work either to compel ex- Sheriff O'Kelly to put them into fat places or to go over and join the ‘‘reformers.” Here we have O’Creamer and the Ham Stealers, O'Roosevelt and the Knickerbockers, O’Waterbury and the Descamisados, as they are called in Spain, ‘‘the people without shirts,” to use a free translation ; O’Andrews with the Teetotalers, O’Tomlinson and the .Transcendentalists, who do not know exactly what they want; O’Wood with his Confed- erates; O’Schell with his Clamshell and Paper Collar Democrats, who believe in a. universal ‘circulation and in giving every voter a thousand dollars in greenbacks. Behind this we have the great party of O’Botheration, which is what the people without distinction of politics are disposed to regard as the “reform” combination. If we were to give our people the history of these O’Botherationists we should find that they have been hanging over the troughs of political patronage ever since they were able to grunt. Sometimes, as in the case of O’Waterbury, they have seized a bone or a cornhusk in the shape of an office. But one bone or one husk will never satisfy the animal who has been at the trough, Once there he is sure to come back again, and to grunt and grunt until for mere peace sake we throw him a bone as we threw Wickham the Mayoralty when he had exhausted the pa- tience of the people in the echoing council chambers of Apollo Hall. We see this and nothing more in the ‘‘reform” movement as far as it has gone. The offices to be filled are not the offices craved by politicians. They are mainly judicial, and will naturally be filled with the best men Tammany can find. O'Kelly is not disposed to risk his new leadership by elevating his own favorites to the Bench; he will keep them for the Coronerships and Common Councils. He sees beyond the scrambling around the trough of patronage the democratic control of the State and be- hind that the democratic control of the na- tion. He will not throw away this imperial prize for his own personal fancy. If the “reformers” were sincere they would imitate his example. Let them remember that no party ever won a campaign when the soldiers insisted upon dividing the spoils before the field was won, The democrats have their great battle to fight now and here. If they lose New York the political prestige of the metropolis is gone, and the impulse which the great city gave to the cause of reform when the Tammany Ring and the Canal Ring were broken will fail. We must not allow this failure or the hands of our striving Governor to be stricken down to gratify the hunger of a mob of striving, squealing office-seekers, [et the O'Botherationists wait until the great battle is won before they insist upon their own claims. Let O’Morris- sey, O’Creamer, O'Schell, O’Roosevelt and the rest gallantly sustain Tammany Hall until the national battle is won. Let them sink their own personal aspirations until the country is saved, and we have that assurance of good government which can only come with the overthrow of corruption, mis- management and the election of the best men to the highest posts in the State and nation. When that fight is over we shall be only too happy to listen to the hopes and grievances ofthe O’Botherationists without saying, as we do now whenever we hear them squealing about reform, “Oh, botheration !" The Fifth Avenue Pavement—A Dan- gerous Publie Nuisance. The condition of the Fifth avenue pave- ment is disgraceful to the city, and something | should be done to improve it before the win- | ter sets in. At present it is hazardous to drive over it, not only to the horses, but to | human life. During the race week the street cleaning authorities are careful to have the | avenue well swept and freed from dirt; but | while their intention is good and commend- able they only render the road more slippery not lose his privilege of voting for the greater part of the officers to be chosen. If he re- moved out of one election precinct into another in the same Assembly district he could still vote for an Assemblyman ; if he removed out of the Assembly district, but remained in the same Senate district, he could vote for a Senator, and so on; but at present he cannot vote at all for any officer whatever if he removes out of his small election precinct within thirty days of the election. A removal from one side of the street to a house on the other side directly opposite may extinguish his right to vote. It will accordingly be a mere waste of time for anybody who has removed out of an election district since last Saturday or who contemplates a removal previous to Novem- ber 2 to take the trouble of registering, as the law will not permit him to vote. ‘Tue Tomes, that famous prison which is built in « part of the city for years the abode of poverty and ignorance and crime, is gloomy enough when viewed from the out- side, But its interior is far more terrible, though few of our citizens have any knowl- edge of the sufferings of the prisoners. Tales of extortion and cruelty, of mercenary keepers and thieving lawyers, have occasion- ally reached the public, but these rumors were soon forgotten in the busy rush and hurry of the unimprisoned world. A startling rev- elution of the iniquity and wretchedacss which struggle together in this dark and in- famous jail is furnished in the testimony | taken by the Legislative Committee on Crime. The investigation will be continued té-day, and we trust it will convince the community that the Tombs as it is now managed is a | blister and a shame upon the reputation of | bankrupt and rotten to the core. His state- | gallon of their product is subject to regula- | the city. It isa moral sepulchro, a charnel ment that he was indulgent toward the bank pedatse he found that its eight thousand depositors were mainly respectable mechan- | tion. | What the country needs is neither mis- | named protection nor misnamed free trade, jes and well-to-do shopkeepers is not o buts truly equitable system of taxation im- satisfactory explanation, for it is found that posed with a sole view to bring money into several of the victimized depositors are poor | the Treasury. The greater portion of the laborers and servants, who'are utterly ruined | revenue will continue to be collected in im- by the failure, By what right did the posts on foreign goods, not only because ‘atendent accept the “doctored” state- | taxes in that form are more willingly paid, ne a pg he knew them to | but because they can be collected with less ‘be fraudulent? An explanation from Super. dntendent Ells is in orden ~ | expense, The proceeds of every tax are di- vided between the government and the col | house which deserves its sinister and fepul~ | sive name, Tue Vanpwnsir Untvensrry, in Nashville, was dedicated yesterday with appropriate ceremonies, and an immense sensatiqn was created by the reception of a telegram from Commodore Vanderbilt, which read thus -— “Peace and good will to all men.” We hail this as an indication of the millenniym in Wall street and the speedy end of the war anddangerous. With such a wretched pave- ment, and in its present broken, dilapidated | condition, dirt is necessary to enable the | horses to keep their footing at all. It is out- | rageous that the principal, indeed the only available avenue for pleasure driving through | the heart of the city to Central Park, should be thus shamefully neglected. The city was swindled when the present pavement was laid, but that is now unavoidable. As in the case of other old abuses, we must bear the monetary infliction, and endeavor to get rid of the evil as speedily as possible. The road is now a dangerous public nuisance, and as such there must be full power in the city au- thorities to apply a remedy. No obstructive policy or false economy should be suffered to keep the avenue any longer in its present disgraceful condition. The residents on Fifth avenue are prepared to bear their proper share of the cost of its improvement, and would be glad if the work could be commenced at once. If legislation be necessary the city authorities should draft a law for the purpose and ask that it be one of the first to be enacted at the next ses- sion. The avenue should be macadamized, as it is almost wholly devoted to pleasure driving, and its management should be transferred to the Central Park authorities. In this manner it wonld be made a part of the Central Park, as it were, and should be kept in. as good condition as the roads inside the Park. But we believe that the existing laws are sufficient to enable the city authori- ties to put the avenue in good order, to abate the present dangerous nuisance and to macadamize the whole avenue, from Wash- ington square to the Park. The Common | Council should take the matter in hand, for | they could do no more popular and certainly | no more useful public work. | Soup.—The gullibility of a city audience and its anxiety to see something new were well shown on Sunday evening, when a large | audience gathered in Tammany Hall on the | promise of an adroit swindler that he would | show them the ghost of King Philip. There | are perhaps ghosts in old Tammany whose appearance would be sufficiently startling to any audience, but King Philip was to be the ghost of the evening. The author of this preposterous “spiritualistic seance” appears to haye had aneyotoecgnomy. He obtained the-ase of the hall on credit or by borrowed money, and appears to have spent absolutely no nweney, except for an advertisement in the Susday Huraup, Heand his confederates are said to have pocketed twenty-five hun- dred doflars, and the deception they were Practising was first discovered by a sharp boy in the gallery, who cried out “sold.” Opening of the Dramatic Season. The opening of Wallack’s this evening with its winter company may be called the formal opening of the winter dramatic sea- son, The reputation of this theatre is national in its character. Whatever it does may be recorded as a dramatic event. We have had fugitive performances here and there, but the people have not come home from the country, and there has been only relative good fortune at any of the other the- tres. Mr. Sullivan’s engagement was ‘‘han- dled” with an ability that Barnum would have envied, But it was only an episode, and did not go beyond a military parade and & Delmonico breakfast, remarkable in a breakfast-loving city for those who did not attend. Mr. Sullivan had a moderate recep- tion and a fair success, which, we trust, will be increased in other towns, for he is really a meritorious actor, who did not need “handling.” Mr. Daly has, we trust,.found abonanza at last in “Our Boys.” They seem to be driving his pretty theatre on to fortune. Now if this success is followed by the appearance of Mr. Booth Mr. Daly: may feel that he has found fortune at last. ‘The return of Mr. Booth will be an\ event in itself worthy of general congratulation. New York claims an especial interest in’ this re- markable and brilliant young actor and will always rejoice in his fortunes. The ‘‘Mying Scud” is an appropriate comedy for the an- tumn races. Now that we are in the humor of enjoying a day at Jerome Park we can the more appreciate the humors of the Derby as sketched by the felicitous genius of Mr. Boucicault and represented by the quaint and eccentric Mr. Belmore. We have to thank Mr. Belmore for a new idea of what is possible in dramatic art. Mr. Florence has added another character to our dramatic lit- erature in Bardwell Slote. This conception is scarcely bad enongh to die or good enough to live. The popular tastes are so whimsical that what may be a violation of all the canons of dramatic art may find a hold on the popu- lar imagination as firm as the ‘Vicar of Wake- field,” one of the most preposterous works of art ever conceived and at the same time one of the most charming stories ever written. The fame of Wallack’s—that fame which makes its opening a national event—arises from the confidence felt in the integrity of the management and the resolution to keep the theatre the finest in the land, We can! only find a parallel for Wallack’s in the Old Drury in its best days and in the Théitre Frangaise, the best theatre in the world. The approbation which the people have be- stowed on Wallack’s, so that, like the king’s name, it is a tower of strength, only shows that in the drama, as in everything else, the best in the end will always win. Any busi- ness based on humbug and deception and “handling the press” will be sure to fail. The only way to “handle the press” is to give the best plays in the best manner. This secret Mr. Wallack long since dis- covered. We wish we could impress it upon our concert managers, and especially upon those who are managing Titiens and Wachtel. The attempt to give concerts with these artists in the metropolitan city, as though this was a village to be put off with a collection of ballads and a circus, is unjust to the artists and the people. It | might have done when Martin Chuzzlewit | came here and found o raw and easily amused village; but we are beyond that. The only concerts we care about are the Philharmonic and those of Thomas, Per- haps we shall like Von Biilow when we hear him. We are prepared to like him, if the truth has been told and we have not been humbugged as to his merits and achieve- ments. But we should have a season of opera, and if Wachtel and Titiens, with an effective singing troupe, could be induced to the best. give us a season of opera it would be a great success as a pecuniary investment and an advantage to the people, who will look upon @ winter without opera as a special hardship. We have no doubt that the Academy stock- | holders would meet Mr. Strakosch half way | if he would attempt this experiment. Altogether we enter upon what promises to be a successful winter season. Wo are to have Rossi, the Italian tragedian, who comes with a good name, and who will, we trust, not destroy the impression made upon our people by the triumphs of Salvini and Ristori as to the resources of Italian art. | Finally, we have a whisper that will please the little folks, to the effect that the merry creature, Fox, is to come to us with,a Christ- mas pantomime. We have often marvelled that our managers did not make the panto- mime a feature in their performances. It is perfectly legitimate and will be a famous holiday attraction. The Tammany Slates and the O’Hoth- eration Party.. The work of the Tammany democracy is now pretty well arranged, and.the candidates decided upon by the calm judgment of the leaders have been duly ‘‘slated” in advance | of their formal nomination by the several | conventions. They will, no doubt, be gen- erally fair and capable men, for political parties nowadays are compelled to pay | some attention to publie opinion in the se- lection of their nominees. Of course they | will receive their full share of personal abuse from the opposing political journals; but | the democracy of the city, as a body, will | accept them and give them the party vote, In certain districta the O’Botherations are in s turbulent condition and announce them- selves as prepared to make war on the Tam- many candidates; but the Opposition is more noisy than substantial. The O'Morrissey is urged to take the field in person in the Fourth Senatorial district, and if he should decide to do so he will be (in his own judgment) certain of success. He was a popular and useful manager inside the organization, and as he has good common sense, an ample supply of mother wit and tact enough to know how to make friends among the masses, he believes that he can revenge himself, if he will, for part of his oid associates inside the Wigwart by beating them outside. But such a tri- umph, if won, would be buta small affair, and the O'Morrissey’s ideas of combinations, battles and victories are broad enough to teach him the policy of marching on with the advancing hosts of democracy toward the great national contest instead of straying off into's byway for the gratification of ‘‘punch- ing” some objectionable head, In the other districts the opposition te*the Tammany slates will not be formidable, The political tramps, who make their appearance every year about the time when oysters come to us from under the sea and divine artists from over the sea, will be heard from as usual, demanding money as well as food; but without the O’Morrissey the O’Bothera- tion party will give the Tammany leaders comparatively little trouble. The people ap- pear to have made up their minds on general principles that it will be well to make a change in the political character of the State and national governments, and that it is searcely worth while to abandon that pur- pose, or even to falter in it, because certain. unappreciated patriots fail to impress the’ party leaders with the importanee of select- ing them for office. New York may feel proud of the bheanty and the gallantry of the O’Creamer; may bow in reverence to the profonnd wisdom of the: O’Roose- velt; may glow with enthusiesm at the bonhommie and munificence: of the O'Schell, and may stand amazed: before the. legal lore and antiquarian research: of the O’Tomlinson. But New York may nut con- sider it worth while to halt in-a great’ moye- ment for administrative reform and to ‘sban- don a political revolution when’ it is nearly won for the sake of rebuking the party lead- ers who happen to have overlooked. the O’Botheration party generally in making their selections for local offices. Hence the. wisest course the Tammany outsiders oan pursue is to swallow the Tammany slates, digest them as best they may and march om: with the advancing columns to a democratic victory. Inriatton ry Connecricut.—-Mr. W. D. Kelley means to exhibit’ the Rag Baby im Connecticut this week. He has chosen whht may appear to many people a singular place for the exhibition ; but he is probably ani-- mated to the effort by. reports that his old antagonist, Mr. David A. Wells, is likely to be the democratic nominee for Governor ot Connecticut, and all the signs are that he will be elected. Mr. Wells made the hard money and revenue reform platform of the democrats in his State last spring, and that’ put the Connecticut democrats on as sound a set of principles as their New York brethren stand on. The Connecticut republicans, under the circumstances, will hardly pay much attention to Mr. Kelley. Tue Evancenization or New Yorr.—The date of the visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey to New York is not yet determined, but they cannot come too soon. New York; is weary of the reputation of being the wickedest city in the United States, and would exchange it for the reputation of being It Messrs. Moody and Sankey visit us first, and succeed in their evangelical labors, the most difficult portion of their work will be achieved. Boston, Philadel- phia, Chicago and the other large cities are already half converted; besides, they will promptly imitate any good example which. the metropolis may set. Femate Surrrace.—The opinion of the. United States Supreme Court upon the right. of women to vote under the constitution is» published elsewhere, and will be read with profound interest. The declaration that the constitution does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one, not even upon male voters, will surprise many people, but may be of some consolation to the disappointed ladies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Belknap is sick at bis old home in Keokuk, lowa. Sheriff frederick W. Jarvis, of Toronto, is staying at- the New York Hotel. Governor Allen, of Ohio, says that Grant will be nom~ inated for a third term. Paymaster Jaines Hoy, United States Navy, is stop- ping at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is amoug the late: arrivals at the Brevoort Housa, Profeseor 0, C. Marsh, of Yale College, arrived last evening, at the Hoffman House, Real Admiral Alfred Taylor, United States Navy, Law. apartments at the Gilsey House. Medical Director George Maulsby, United Statas Navy, is quartered at the St. Denis Hotel, Assistant Paymaster-General Daniel McClure, Unitad , States Army, is registered atthé Fifth Avenue Ho- tel. Professor Spencer F. Baird, United States Commis- sioner of Fisheries, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Murat Halstead says that so farvas the government ia: concerned thero is no question that the national debt ia a gold debt. Apna Dickinson says that no man ever winked at her. She is regardless of the fact that it is the lady's place to wink first, Ralston’s country seat of Belmont, twenty miles from San Francisco, will be.used as the rural adjunct of the Palace Hotel. General Tom Ewing, of Ohio, says of General Wood- ford’s hard money argument, “His blanket don’t cover the horse.’" = Professor F. L. Ritter, of Vassar College, and Profes- sor E. B, Salisbury, of Naw Haven, have arrived at the Westminster Hotel, Washington’s old headquarters at Newburg on the Hudson are to be closed. because city and State officials do not know how to pay the keeper. Georgia will next month hang both a white man and, ‘a uegro on the same gallows, notwithstanding that the democrats do not like the Civil Rights law. Jennie June is out with her October letter, saying that trousers of @ single thickness, have no right te criticize a tight skirt of several thicknesses. General G. N. Rucker, who has been Quartermaster at Chicago, and who @ the father-in-law of General Sheridan, is to, be Quartermaster at Philadelphia, George Dawson Coleman, of Ponnsylvania, is spoken of ag successor to ex-Becretary Delano. He lives at Lebanon, 18 an ironmongor, and is worth $10,090,000, Professor Goldwin Smith, who was married on Thurs. day last to @ Canadian lady, arrived in this city last evoning with his bride, and is at the New York Hotel. Detroit Free Press:—Tho only duke who roached Long Branch last summer is now busking corn in Her. kimer county, New York, to get money for the winter soason of gayoties. Vico President Wilson has been counselled by hia medical advisers to abandon his intention to lecture this season, as it would prove too serious a strain on bis constitution if undertaken in addition to his official duties and the completion of his book. Vice Admiral George Greville Wellesloy, Captain Richard Wells, Captain B. Jermain and Fiag Lieutenant Brackenbury, of the British Navy, and Captain William Gore Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation, returned to this city last evening, and are at the Clan what be regards og harsh treatment on tha! endon lioiek Thar willleare we morroy for Nagnort.,’