The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1875, Page 6

NEW YOKK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1875.—-r'RIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR neeccinmdadin NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after Jannary 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henatp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per uonth, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York eran, Letters and packages should be properly wealed, : Rejected communications will not be re- ‘urned. 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 as in New York. TOLUME XL. =e (MUSEMENTS ‘THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. | irteonth st “gpsiong od Eiviace EURLICHE AR. | fon street, neur Irvin; ace. —EHRLICHE 4 SEIT, wt 8 P.M. wie | | WALLACK’S THEATRE, THE OVERLAND yoM. Mr, John Gilbert, Broadway and Thirteenth — str ROUTE, at 8 P. M.; closes ut 10.45 diss Adi Dyus, PARISIAN V Bixteenth street and Broadwa SAN FRANC! New Opera House, Broadway, WORM. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Chird avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. | The Local Democracy and National Politics. We fear that the squabbling city democrats who keep up the practice of pouring hot shot into politicians in their own ranks, in- stead of uniting to fight the common enemy, do not understand the situation. They fail to appreciate the extent to which national politics depend on the action of their party in this metropolis. The truth is that New York city has been the hinge of democratic polities since the memorable explosion of the Tammany Ring in the autumn of 1871. it not been for those damaging exposures the democrats would have scorned to go outside the party for a Presidential candidate, as they did in 1872. It was Mr. Tilden’s action in 1871 which opened the way to his present high position and higheraspirations. It was because the most fatal blow tq the Tammany Ring was dealt by a leading democrat that the party was able once more to hold up its head and enter on a fresh career, The demo- cratic party would have been extinguished and have disappeared from our politics if Mr, Tilden, a prominent democrat, had not | flung off party shackles in 1871 and put him~- self at the head of the local movement for reform. | His election as Governor last year was | owing to his zealous action against the Tam- many Ring. His vigorous prosecution of other public thieves since he has been in office is the main support not only of his personal hopes but of the chances of the | democratic party to elect the next President. It is due to him that official reform has be- come the watchword of the democratic party in this State. To him must be awarded the credit of redeeming the democracy from the demoralization into which it fell on the collapse of the Tammany Ring and making t the representative of reform. The fact | that Mr, Tilden fought the Tammany Ring instead of apologizing for it, and that he has risen to a dictatorial control of the demo- cratic party of the State by aggressive assaults BOOTHS THEATR! ty-third street and Sixth ‘ay | SUD, at 3 P.M. Mr. George Belmore. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, | No. 624 Brondway.—VAKIETY, at 5 !. M.; closes at 10:45 % M. Matinee at 22. M. | .—THE FLYING PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-socond street. wAK, at P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. { E MIGHTY DOL. | hate Bi Leis © oe ‘S$ SUM) Jarnume’'s iy CERT, at 8 P.M. ; clove: R GARDEN, | ND POPULAR CON. | METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 1 eevee Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 | TIVOLI THEATRE, Sighth street, near Third avenue.—VAKIETY, at 8 P.M. NUE THEATRE, i Broudway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 | FIPTH A fwenty-eighth street, ‘ne . M. , closes at 10:30 P. COLONEL SIN PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VAKIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. | Watinee at 2 P.M. | BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery.—BELPHEGOK, at 8 P.M. E. T. Stetson. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, Bighth avenue and Forty-ninth street.—Verformances day | wd evening. Irving place WORLD IN’ DARLING'S OP! third street and Sixth avenue ‘ORK MINSTRBLS, at 8, OF MUSIC, } h street. AROUND THE $8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. | | HOUSE, ITTON & REED'S joses at 10 P.M. fwent: NEW THEA’ OMIQUE, fo, 514 Broadway. ~VAKL ars P.M; closes at 10:45 | *M. Matinee at 2 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, f Thirtiet Mati Broadway, corner doses at 10:45 P.M, ITAN THEATRE, Sos. 585 and S87 Broadwi ARIETY, at 3 P.M. METROPC LYCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth street and Kighth avenue.—French Opera Youfle—MADAME ANGOT, at 5 P. M. STEI HALL, fourteenth street.—TITL . 1875, ae t. VEW YORK, THURSDAY. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain. OCTOBER 7. ‘Tar Henaup py Fast Maw, Trars.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of | New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as | well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud- | son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tue Henarp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wat Sreerr Yesterpay.—A rag dollar at the close of the market was worth 85.57. Gold ended at 116 7-8 after sales at 117 1-8. Money on call loans was somewhat firmer. Stocks were irregular and not firm. Rap Transrt.—Although we have already printed all the essential facts in regard to the progress made toward rapid transit, the specifications for building the road, which we extract this morning from the report of the Commissioners, will be read and studied with interest. It seems at last that we are to have rapid transit, and everything that illus- trates the plans which have been adopted is important. Tur Missrssrprr Trovpies.—It is fatal to the peace of the South that a private quarrel | like that between Senator Aleorn, of Missis- sippi, and a negro sheriff should lead to re- sults such as those reported from Friar's Point this morning. No good reason is as- signed for the conflict, but it is likely there was some more exciting cause for the out- break than a disagreement between a white man and negro, though the onesis a United States Senator and the other a sheriff The case as it now stands wears very much the aspect of a wrong on both sides, and it is a aoteworthy fact that these riots annually oc- eur about election time, | inthe fortunes of the democratic party. | to be imitated by Mr. Creamer. party in general estimation. Every sincere democrat should recognize the great service rendered by Mr. Tilden in divorcing the party from the old Tammany infamies and inseribing reform on its banners. His de- cisive action in 1871 was the turning point If the party had sereened Tammany instead of repudiating it, it would not have been heard of again in American politics, The whole credit of saving the democratic party in that crisis belongs to Mr. Tilden, Such being the relation of Governor Tilden | to the democracy we do not see how any democrat who values the honor and desires the success of his party can put himself in opposition to the Governor. allowance for the jealousies of rival local factions, we still assume that these local fac- | tions and their leaders are democrats who | prefer the triumph of their principles to paltry success in local contests. If their views are limited to a scramble for local | offices we cannot reason with them. But if they desire the success of democratic prin- | ciples we do not see on what ground they can breed dissensions and make trouble in the party. If they indorse the reform policy of Governor Tilden they should give him a hearty support and suppress local jealousies and quarrels, If Governor Tilden is wrong let them join the republicans ; if he is right it is their duty to support him in spite of personal or local grievances. It would be preposterous for them to put in jeopardy the national success of the democratic party by their petty local | quarrels. It is to be hoped that the example of Mr. Morrissey may have its due influence on the dissatisfied democrats. Mr. Morrissey has grievances ; but his sense of fair play forbids him to stir up a mutimy against Governor Tilden and the democratic State ticket. In spite of his foibles he is a loyal democrat, and his differences with Mr. Kelly cannot provoke him to imperil a democratic success in the State by up a mutiny in the city democracy. The considerate course of Mr. Morrissey onght If these two leaders act with discretion the unity of the party cannot be seriously impaired, for the other dissentients are very small fry in- deed. When Mr. Creamer unites with Mr. Morrissey in withdrawing factions opposi- tion everything will move smoothly, and their claims will be superior to those of men who have sacrificed no personal feeling in the interest of the democratic party. If these gentlemen consent to adjourn their personal differences with Mr. Kelly until after the national contest of next year they will deserve well of their party. Mr. Mor- rissey’s good sense, party fidelity and manli- ness impel him in this direction, and Mr. Creamer should see his duty in the @ame light. Whether the friends of these gentle- men get city offices is a very small matter, but not a small matter whether the reform democracy, led by Governor Tilden, receives a strong indorsement, In view of the magnanimity of Mr. Mor- rissoy Mr. Kelly ought to be equally con- siderate. It would be mere arrogance and spite for the Tammany chief to meet Mr. Morrissey’s magnanimity with an insolent rebuff, It is the interest of Governor Til- den and the duty of Mr. Kelly to harmonize and strengthen the democratic party of the ganization should meet them with welcom- ing recognition. Mr. Kelly must abate something from the impulsive arrogance which is the only drawback to his influence Ovr Parts Reapixc Room.—The list of | American papers now on file in our Paris | reading room increases daily. Elsewhere, in our advertising columns, ‘will be found a! complete list as far as we have heard from proprietors of the journals sent to our office, | We intend to make this office the most attrac- tive place in Paris for all Americans sojourn- ing there, no matter from what State they may come. It will be the most complete reading room ever formed by private enter- prise. We have to add to our former list the asa party chief. If he will meet the re- bellious city democrats half way and exhibit | a generous confidence in they willingness to | promote the higher aims of the party he will It is indispensa- | do an invaluable service. ble that the Tilden type of democracy be accepted if the party is to win in the great contest of next year; and both Tammany men and anti-Tammany men ought to waive their local differences in the interest of po- litical reform, When the rebellious elements of the party in this city manifest a disposition to sink factious quarrels the Tammany Despatch, of Richmond, Va.; the Cleveland | chiefs will make a mistake if they do not Ieader, the La Crosse Leader and Republican, the Lancaster Intelligencer, the Newbern Times, the Democrat, the Importer, and the Daily Bulletin, of Ney Lethe, meet them in a corresponding spirit. Let the local democracy give a united support to Governor Tilden this year, and adjourn their local quarrels until after the election, If lending himself to stir | Had | on political corruption, is the one thing which | has washed and redeemed the democratic | Making due | State, and when the mutinous elements give | signs of returning loyalty the Tammany or- | | the political complexion of the judiciary, the dissatisfied democrats get up a factious | opposition and are defeated, as they doubt- less would be, they will forfeit their | standing in the party and be out-| side of polities if the democracy carry the Presidential election. The only course for democrats who have the interest of their party at heart is to support Governor Tilden cordially, becauge he stands on the only ground on which a national success can be | achieved next year. «Such democrats as care | more for local offices than for a great national success may lend themselves to disprgan- | izing factions. But if Governor Tilden is | right he should receive the united support of unselfish democrats in the State and | city. The personal criticisms of probable demo- cratic candidates, indulged in bya part of the city press, are of small account, because they are so evidently inspired by private malice or partisan motives that nobody re- gatas them. The really important thing for the democratic party is to give Governor Tilden such a vigorous and united support as will justify a belief in the countty at large | that a change of administration would bring honesty and reform to the head of the national government. Uncle Dick to the Front, We have received one of the most impor- tant documents that has appeared in the present canyass. We hasten to lay it beforo | our readers:~ At a meeting of the United States Legal Tender Club on Monday evening the following resolution was | adopted unanimously :— | “Resolved, That the Democratic Legal Tender Club | call a meeting of the friends of its caus: Institute, on the 13th of October, at form a Democratic Legal Tonder State tee,"” mn RICHARD SCHE Evoxse Bexux, Secretary. If anybody supposed that Uncle Dick | would be content to have his party dragged at the heels of the democracy or republicans, or that he would submit to the gold resolu- tions of Syracuse and Saratoga, he has mis- | taken the character of that experienced leader. Unele Dick means that the Democratic Legal fender Club shall take definite political | ‘shape. He calls upon the friends of the | capse to join with him at the Cooper Insti- tute on the 13th of October, at ‘eleven o'clock in the morfing,” and form a ‘‘Dem- ocratic Legal Tender State Central Commit- tee.” The 13th of October is the morning after the Ohio election, and evidently Uncle Dick ex- pects a success so marked that there will be no excuse for the friends of inflation in New York to hesitate as to their course, We have never yet seen an evidence of the inflation party in New York, except here and there a bubbling up of some speaker or writer or spouter clamoring for rag money, As yet not one of our leading Congressmen has taken ground on the subject. Many of them are on the fence, and a pronounced | victory for the democracy in Ohio may give Uncle Dick's party the strength which it does not possess now. It has been a source of gratification to us that during all these political complications the State of New York has, without distinction’ of party, stood by the national integrity, the payment of the debt in gold and the contraction of the currency. It would be impossible, in a State as large as New York, not to find a mi- nority who would willingly follow Uncle Dick, even to the fold of Ben Butler, and more especially since they have for a leader the silver tongued Wendell Phillips. lon LL, Chairman, Shall Faithful Judges Be Sacrificed to Party? Upon the 2d of November judges of the | civil and criminal courts to the number of fifteen are to be chosen. Fourteen of the present incumbents are democrats, and in a city so largely democratic they naturally seek re-election. Six of them are chosen from the county electors at large. Against their character or qualifications no sugges- tions have been made. Indeed, several have been six and ten years upon the Bench. Of course all of them have acquired great special knowledge during this long perform- ance of theirtrusts. Recognizing these facts, the people, who really care nothing about are already anxiously observing whether the party leaders of any stripe intend to sac- rifice experience to expediency. The people are prepared to find old and approved judges either restored to position by fresh selection or returned by re-election. The old Tammany régime began to lose in- finence from the day when it refused to renom- inate Judge Clerke, who had been a judge of the Oyer and Terminer during many years, and did his whole duty by the dangerous classes. That régime, not heeding this warning, brought their bold partisanship to a climax when in 1871 they sacrificed Judge Sutherland, who had been sixteen years a fearless judge of the Supreme Court.. These lessons teach that it would be unjust to the party and to the people to make any wanton changes in the Besch—to displace faithful magistrates for favorites. It has always been an argument against our elective judiciary that honest magistrates would be stricken from the Bench to suit the exigencies of party. The political leaders wouid do well to remember this, and not to hinder their canvass by giving the people the opportunity of saying that honest, fearless magistrates had been supplapted to gratify the ambition of political leaders. In tHe Tweep Case in the General Term of the Supreme Court, yesterday, the order of | Judge Donohue requiring a bill of particu. lars was reversed, while Judge Barrett's’ | order refusing to vacate the order of arrest or reduce the bail was sustained. Thus an- other step has been taken in this important case, but as a matter of course there will be an appeal and fresh arguments by counsel, When the end will come nobody can predict, The Tweed case is destined, perhaps, to remain longer in the courts than Jarndyce and Jarndyce, and | there are fatter fees in the real case than in | the imaginary one invented by the novelist. | Indeed, all of Tweed's robberies seem to have | and more fees for the lawyers, been for the enrichment of the lawyers, and | if the ex-statesman lives long enough he may be ablo to exhaust his ill-gotten six millions | in paying his legal counseflors. Distyyct Arrorney Purxes and his aesiat~ ants explain, in another column, some of the | charges preferred against them before the | Assembly Committee on Crime, The President on His Travels. Peripatetic Presidents have not had much favor in this country in recent years. Presi- dent Pierce made a short “progress” from Washington to New England during his ad- ministration and was unmercifully ridiculed for it. Mr. Johnson® “swung around the circle” with his Cabinet and other attend- ants, and the journey did a gréat deal to put an end to his political career. And now General Grant, whose restlessness in the Presidential chair has almost gained him the title of the “Great American Traveller,” is also on his winding way. Of course we do not grudge the President the relaxation he doubtless needs after the summer's hard work at Long Branch. An overworked President is entitled to rest. Nor do we blame him for making a speech on his way. He saw an excellent Governor careering around the State, addressing farm- ers, mechanics, Boards of Trade and any- body else who would listen, and doubtless he was thus tempted to try his own hand at aspeech. It may be said without disrespect to General Grant that public speaking is not his strong point; and now that Governor Tilden, judiciously mindful of the Henaxp's exhortation, has returned to Albany and ceased his peregrinations about the State, we trust the President will follow his example. We mean, of course, only so far as to re- sume his accustomed silence. ‘To his jour- ney we have no objection. Even a President may have private business to attend to— | horses and cattle to sell, and the proceeds to invest. As General Grant is not going to | San Francisco he will be saved from the temptation of risking the price of his favorite war-horse in Segregated Belcher, or Cholar Potosi, or Yellow Jacket. We advise him to steer clear of kite-flying stocks and fancy | shares, by the vay; at his age a man cannot do better with hi: money than to put it in good safe seven per cent bonds. He may not get more than six per cent as prices now rule; but he can ‘go to sleep” on such securities, as they say in the street. We should dislike to see the President lose money by im- prudent ventures ; for, as he remarked in his third term letter and on other occa- sions, he has made sacrifices, and he needs all he has accumulated. Indeed, the prices which he accepted for some of his horses the other day in St. Louis wonld lead one to suspect that the general shrinkage had af- fected even him, though it has always been supposed that he was avery shrewd inves- tor, and could, if he liked, put even his ablest friends up to a point or two. . What we object to is not the travels but the speeches of our public functioMaries, When the President and the Governor go about addressifig the people it looks too much like the “touting” of theatrical man- agers. When enterprising impresarios cre- ate a stir in rural neighborhoods, and canse the circulation of wonderful stories about this, that and the other prima donna or actor, we all know what they are after. It is nota yery lofty occupation, and it must be said for our managers that when they can afford it they give this work to agents. But when President and Governor go about the people suspect them also of an object, and if these things should go on they might by and by fall into a confusion between theatrical and political managers and wonder which is the statesman and which the impresario, In- deed, some of our statesmen would have made excellent theatrical managers, and, pos- sibly, some ofourmanagers might have made capable statesmen had they been bred to it; at least capable as the times go. The Lawless Proceedings of the Pilot Commissioners at Staten Island, The Commissioners of Pilots are charged with duties of great importance to the com- merce of New York. As originally created by the law of 1853 (chapter 467) they were authorized to license pilots for the port, and to make all necessary rules and regulations in regard to pilotage. Since then their powers have been increased. Subsequent legislation has made them in a great measure conserva- tors of the harbor, and the act of last session (chapter 378) empowered them to remove any pier, bulkhead or other structure ex- tending beyond the exterior line as estab- lished by the law of 1857, after a prescribed notification to the owners. When such ex- traordinary powers are conferred by law it is contemplated that they shall: be used for the public good, and not oppressively or to subserve personal interests. The officer to whom they may be intrusted is armed by the law for protection and not for aggression. The Pilot Commissioners in especial should be cautious in the exercise of such authority, since, while‘ public officers, they hold their appointment from commercial bodies on whem the law indulgently confers the privi- lege of their selection, The disgraceful proceedings at Stapleton yesterday grew out of an attempt on the part of persons acting under the authority of the Commissioners of Pilots to forcibly destroy the property of the New York Yacht Club and the Staten Island Ferry Company at that place, The outrage was scandalous from every point of view. The club house struc- ture and the ferry company’s laxding at Sta- pleton are public benefits instead of public nuisances or obstructions, and the Pilot Commissioners were not justified in stretch- ing'a technical power for the purpose of de- stroying them. But the right of the Com- missioners to interfere with them at all is at present contested in the courts, and the issue is undecided. Certainly Mr. Blunt and his associates are censurable for not waiting at least until their authority in the matter was finally settled by a judicial deci- sion before undertaking an aggressive and violent act which was calculated to lead to riot and bloodshed. The authority to remove the building and pier could only be claimed on the ground that they extend beyond the exterior line as established in 1857, and it is denied that they do so extend. Even if they do they form no obstruction or nuisance, and their removal would be an injury instead of a benefit to the people of Staten Island. ‘The worst feature of the outrage, however, is that it was attempted in the face of aSupreme Court injunction prohibiting the Pilot Com- missioners or their agents from interfering with the club house or pier. The excuse is made that the persons engaged in the tres- pass had left on their lawless mission before the injunction was served on Commis- sioner Blunts but that officer should be re- quired to prove by very clear testimony that he did not commit a wilful contempt of court, and that his agents were not hurriedly despatched for the purpose of evading the injunction. Itis difficult to believe that the outrage of Tuesday night and yesterday is wholly attributable to misplaced official zeal. Com- missioner Blunt, like most fossils in office, is fond of thrusting himself before the Public in diluted newspaper —cor- respondence, and mistakes fussiness for efficiency. But it is evident that in this caso he is only the tool of the Van- derbilt ferry line, with whose enormous profits the lower fares of Commodore Garner's Staten Island boats are interfering. The legal proceedings against the club house and pier were taken by the rival line under the plea that the Garner pier is built so near to the Vanderbilt line’s landing as to conflict with a law passed in 1857. With this Mr, Blunt has no concern, and his appearance in the lists as the monopoly champion on a dif- erent issue is, to say the least, remarkable. He is laboring, not to protect the public in- terests, but to bring the people of Staten Island again under the heel of an oppressive monopoly. The Staten Islanders have stoutly resisted the outrage, as they resisted in the old Quarantine war, and fhis time they have law as well as justice on their side. Not a dozen citizens of Richmond county could be found who would approve Mr. Blunt's action. It is to be hoped that the courts will restrain him from a repetition of his attempt to destroy private property, and that the next Legislature will review the the appointment of those officers in the hands of the Governor of the State. The Winter Season and the Opera, It seems that we are to go through this winter season without an opera troupe. Sing- ing troupes will no doubt come and go. But these are not what we need to make the meas- ure of metropolitan life. Concerts will do well in summer time, when people. go out because they cannot stay in the house, and who do not object to the music if they are sure of a cigar and a glass of beer. We do not think lightly 9f beer musig, but on the contrary thank Mr, Thomas and Mr, Gilmore for what they did during the summer to edu- cate the people to an appreciation of Wagner and Liszt, Culmbacher and Erlanger. But the opera, in some form or another, is almost a necessary condition of our winter life. Con- certs are about as appropriate as Conestoga wagons in a railroad country. They will do well for a country town like Peoria or Me- tuchin. We have grown beyond, this taste. The only winter concerts we value are the Philharmonic, where we have fine instru- mentation. They grow from year to year in popular esteem. Just now we have Mlle. Titiens in a concert company. We have had a hundred troupes quite as worthy of popu- lar favor. Wachtel is here, a solitary ‘‘star.” While independent and in competition they will do at the best a moderate business ; united they would forma great attraction. An opera troupe with Wachtel and Titiens would have as brilliant a success as any we have had for years. Therefore it would be well for Strakosch and Neuendorff to unite their forces, The failure of last year should not daunt Mr. Strakosch. Frederick the Great won his greatest victories after suffer- ing his severest defeats. And speaking of Frederick the Great, why would it not be well for the alliance to give us a season of German opera? We have had Italian opera for twenty years. But it has never been else than an exotic. Its life has been as tender and frail as that of an Italian greyhound or a giraffe, or one of the reform parties which Mr. Schurz and other sentimental statesmen are occasionally establishing. Yet New York is the third German city in the world. Our German people are music loving and artistic. German music is a feature in European life. One of the noted successes of music in the past was German opera, The great achievement of the two last music seasons were in ‘‘Lohengrin,” the work of a German master. This success has been repeated in London, where the Knight of the Holy Grail has won honors as gratify- ing and cumulative as when he overcame Frederick of Brabant. Let us, then, have German opera with Titiens and Wachtel combined. While these honors await the managers of Wachtel and Titiens, if they are prompt enongh to seize them, we are ‘promised an- other attraction in the illustrious pianist, Dr. Von Biilow. One reason why we are willing to concede the merit of Von Bilow is that the telegraph has let him alone. We have had no sensational biographies, no narratives about the Queen falling into a fainting fit when he played the national air and sending him the Order in the morning, nor about the Emperor of Russia calling him twenty times before the curtain and offering him all the Crown jewels if he would not tear himself away from his imperial dominions. All of this has been spared us about Von Biilow, Nor do we hear that he is to have a Delmon- ico breakfast and an Irish procession, For this reason, as well as because of his world- wide fame, we have no doubt that he will have all the success which true and modest genius never fails to win in America’ Von Biilow is really one of the greatest artists in the world, and may be said to share the su- preme honors of his art with Rubenstein, In the theatrical way many things are to be done that will make our wintera busy and pleasant season. Wallack is drilling his new company in ‘The Overland Route,” and will give us some of the standard comedies that are the glory of his house. Daly has Booth as his winning card, and we are to have this brilliant actor in his great parts. Jarrett and Palmer mean to repeat their Shakesperian success of ‘Henry V.,” and to give us ‘Julius Cwsar” with all the wealth of decoration and with Barrett, Bangs and Davenport in the cast. This will be worth seeing, and the attempt does honor to the taste and enterprise of the management, ‘The rumor that we are to have a Christmas pantomime, like those at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, will delight our young people. Tur Norra Canonina Consrrrvtionat Con- vention is on the point of making a great blunder. The attempt to distranchise many of the colored voters of the State by insert- present Pilot Commissioners’ law and place | ing @ property qualification in the new con- stitution is unworthy of the democratic party or of white men. In the end it will bring disaster to the democracy if it is per- sisted in, and we should not be surprised if the stormy session of yesterday cost Yhe can- didates of the party in other States many votes. “The Honorable John.” “The Honorable John” to-day addresses a short, incisive, manly letter to the Henanp, defining his position in the ‘present political campaign. He does not waste any time in sparring, fencing and dodging, but, walking squarely up to the scratch, he hits out from the shoulder, and with one powerful blow knocks out of time all the small political O'Botherationists who have been endeavoring to drag him into the canvass as a candidate for this or that office. He does not depart one iota from the opinions he has heretofore expressed both inside and outside Tammany in regard to the tyranny and usurpation of the present autocrats of the organization. He is as much opposed now as he ever was to the intolerance which denies to the members of the democratic party the right to a free expression of their sentiments, and reduces them to the degraded position of servile fol- lowers of one man. He denounces now, as he formerly denounced, the double dealing of those who allowed the Mayor and his heads of departments to reduce the city laborers’ wages, yet professed to deplore such reduction. Bu his opposition to Tammany is not an office-seeking opposition. He wants no public position; he positively declines all nominations, He stands firmly on what he regards as the solid ground of principle, and, what is better than all, he says all this in half a dozen lines. Y Wecommend the example of the Honorable John to the whole O'’Botheration phalanx. They cannot fail to recognize the difference between his manly, honest opposition to Tammany abuses and their own selfish in- trigues. Let them march on with the ad- vancing host to the national triumph and | not falter by the way. After victory as a party can come internal purification and the reme edy of interorganization abuses, and after vie- tory will probably come such recognition as their several qualities deserve. No doubt, when restored to power, the democracy will recognize the policy embodied in the French saying, ‘‘A chaque saint sa chandelle.” As to the Honorable John, if he will adhere to his present position and firmly resist all tempta- tions of office, he may rise to the position of a Warwick in the democratic kingdom and | may live to dictate to those who have so im- periously questioned his right to» entertain an opinion of his own. Tue Broken Savincs Banx.—Some of the victims of the Third Avenue Savings Bank met last night for the purpose of consulta- tion. The meeting was somewhat disorderly, as such gatherings generally are at first, but the foundation of a movement for mutual pro- tection was laid and may lead to efficient action hereaftér. It certainly appears de- sirable that the friendly arrangement by which an officer of the rotten bank was made its receiver should be reviewed. It is also proper that the course of the Bank Superin- tendent should be brought before the courts, The Savings Bank laws are stringent, and as a false statement made under*oath to the Bank Department by the officers of such an institution constitutes the crime of perjury there may yet be a means of punishing the men who have enriched themselves at the expense of thousands of victims, even though they have managed to creep out of the bank before the final crash. Tue Yacut Races.—The first of the series of yacht races, arrangements for which were made recently, took piace yesterday be- tween the Estelle and the Resolute. There was a fine breeze anda good race, the Es- telle coming in victorious. This is the first of the series of sea matches recently made | to test the quality of our yachts in fresh weather. Mr. Hatch, who loses on time al- lowance, has still suflicient opportunity to retrieve his fortunes. He has three more races to run, and there is a rumor that there will be a further race between the Estelle and the Comet or the Clio foracup. We are glad to see this interest in yachting ata time of the year when it is safe tolook fora stiff breeze and seamanlike sport. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Authony Trollope is in San Francisco, Henry Clay Dean prefers Allen to Tilden. Senator A. A. Sargent, of California, has arrived in Washington, Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon have gone west of Omaha, Something U. P. if Genefil E. C. Walthall, of Mississippi, is stopping at tho Windsor Hotel. State Senator Danio! P. Wood, of Syracuse, is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Congressman J. H. Burleigh, of Maine, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ° Mayor-Elect A. J. Bryant, of San Francisco, hag arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Almon M. Clapp, Congressional Printer, is rosid- ing temporarily at the Grand Central Hotel, Congressman Charles H. Adams, of Cohoos, N. ¥., arrived last evening at the New York Hotel. Accable despatch from London says that Lord and Indy Dufferin return to Ganada ngxt Friday. Captain C. Fane, of the British Navy, arrived in thie city yesterday and is at the Brevoort House. Major General Thomas W. Sherman, United States Army, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Lester A. Beardslee, United States Navy, has taken up his residence at the Gilsey Hous Secretary of State Henry C. Kelsey, of Now Jorsey, is among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, Associate Justice Stephen J. Ficld, of tho United States Supreme Court, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Associate Justice Nathan Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Deputy Quartermaster General Samuel B. Holabird, United States Army, bas quarters at the Glenham Hotel, Colonel Theodore 8. T. Laidley, of the Ordnance De- partment, United States Army, is at the Albomarle Hotel. Assistant Postmaster General Jamos N. Tyner ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from Wash- ington, ‘Tho Rev. Glendenning, of Mary Pomeroy fame, haa suddenly disappeared from Jersoy City, and, it is said, with a bride, Goneral E, A. Merritt, republican candidate for State Treasurer of New York, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General Rosecrans is now superintending the mining interests in Egan Canon, about 260 miles west of Salt Lake City, on the lino of the old overland route, Bishop H. B, Whipple, of Minnesota, and Mr, Aloxan der H, H. Stuart, of Virginia, mombers of tho Board of Trasteos of the Peabody Educational Fund, are at the Fifth Avanue Hotel.