The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1875, Page 6

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Gold opened at 117 and closed at 116 1-2. Foreign exchange was a trifle firmer. Investment securities were firm. Jenome Panx.—In spite of a heavy track the racing at Jerome Park yesterday was spirited and a large assemblage was present to witness a fine day’s sport. Tue Tcnaisa Troveixs.—Osr special cor- tespondence from Belgrade gites a better in- sight into the situation in Servia than has yet been afforded. The warlike ardor is abat- ing, and with the passing away of the proba- bility of a great war this résumé will be found of particular interest. Micnari Axoriwo.—The Italian féte in ‘honor of the great sculptor, painter and poet, Michael Angelo, is the theme of a very inter- esting letter from Florence, which we print this morning. The festival is one of great significance in this age of festivals, when the memory of so many of the illustrious dead is ‘eing honored. ‘Tween was served with the order of arrest W YORK HERALD|™ >” in the Ingersoll suit yesterday. This fact, especially when it is considered in connec- | which our people are most easily alarmed. | Kelly is that he refused to remove his clétks tion with the determination of the General Once convince them that there is a danger of and other officers of his court to make place Term of the Supreme Court that the six repudiationists and Jesuits, and there will | for appointees of the Tammany General million suit shall be at once tried upon its | be a majority for Grant in every State of the Committee. “If there exists an office,” said morits, seems to evince a very necessary | Union. Once draw the attention of the | Recorder Hackett on refusing compliance country from the manner in which the South | with the demand, “which more than any apivit. By dilatory motions and appeals the lawyers have been rs rich harvest, while the cases have been long delayed. It is to be hoped they are to be tried at last and that before long justice will ibe done a. and Opportunity of the Democracy. It isin the power of the democratic party } to win the next campaign for the Presidency if its leaders are governed by wisdom and prudence, Nothing is easier than to throw away their canvass, to waste their power upon side issues and to go to pieces upon | questions of minor importance. If republi- | cans can divide the democratic party by | sending one fragment after hard money and | another after soft money, by disturbing one | | | section by threats of priestly interference in the schools, another with apprehensions that all rights in the schools shall be abrogated; | if they can alarm the country with the fear | that we are come to repudiation or that we | are to become vassals of the Pope, we can | understand how divisions will come and how | a party thus broken up, divided against itself, may become an easy prey toa well | disciplined and victorious republican party. It is not wise to underrate the power of the | administration or the courage and discipline | of the republican party. Corrupt as many of its leaders are, and pernicious as has been | much of its legislation, it is still strong with the strength that comes from twenty years’ power—for it is now nearly twenty years since the republicans, by gaining control of | the House of Representatives, became virtu- ally masters of the country. The'republican party is also strong in the power wielded by General Grant, in the memories which cluster around its history, in the fact that under its leadership we saved the Union and proclaimed emancipation. The democratic party is weak because in the crisis of the country’s fate its leaders were attracted by other influences. During the war it was commanded by Bourbons and copperheads. It never showed itself heartily with the country in its honrs of sore peril. Whenever it came into office it threw power away by incompetency in legislation, forgetting in the moment of victory the promises made in the honr of strife. When it insisted upon economy and honesty in the administration its opponents pointed at Tammany Hall and the reign of Tweed. When it censured Grant for his abrogation of the civil service republicans called attention to the fact that the government of New York was thoroughly partisan ; that civil service was a mockery ; that men were appointed to office, not for merit, but to gratify ward politicians. When it reminded us of the Crédit Mobilier, the Indian Ring, the back pay and salary grab, the answer was that democrats as well as republicans were concerned with Mr. Ames ; that under Johnson the Indian Ring was a democratic institution, powerful and aggres- sive, and at least two of its members of Con- gress who openly voted for the salary grab and the back pay are now conspicuous as democratic candidates for the Speakership of the next House of Representatives. It is, therefore, not at all possible that the democrats will have an easy victory in their canvass. They have their own burdens to carry. It will not be a “tidal wave.” A good deal of the last triumph resulted from the fact that the republicans were taken by surprise. They had waxed proud and fat and arrogant because of the overwhelming victory of Grant. They thought that their power would last forever. Since the ‘tidal wave” defeat the leaders of the republican hosts have been laboring to redeem their losses. They have failed in no means toward that end. The President has shown a defer- ence to public opinion quite foreign to his character. He has gradually strengthened his Cabinet. Richardson, Williams and Delano have gone out before a sense of their general unfitness fora high station. Pierre- pont, in his management of the Southern question, and Bristow, in his raid upon the Whiskey Ring, have given Grant strength with those republicans who do not wish | to leave the party if they can find a half excnse for remaining. Two new issues have been forced upon the country, in the hope that they may become paramount in the next canvass. The first is financial. It is now dividing parties in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The second is the Church question, which is also an issue in Ohio, very absurdly and unjustly. we think, and which the President made conspicuous in his strange speech in the West, when he affected to dread the interference of the Pope in our school system. Now these issues are false and unnatural. They are put up like scare- crows or stool pigeons to decoy honest voters from their real duty. The financial question | as it presents itself in Ohio and Pennsylvania will never he a practical problem. The cry for “more money” is only another strain of | the cry against misgovernment in all depart- ments. The people cry as those in pain, and | know not what they want. Now if they can be directed into a raid upon our national credit the result will be to arouse the con- servative, honest, patriotic sentiment of the | country into a feeling that the triumph of | the democrats will be Communism in another form; a war upon the best interests of the nation; a surrender of all that has been gained by the war; a revival of slavery and the slave spirit. This is something like the policy of Napoleon IIL when he reached forth his hand to strangle the French Re- public. He made it known that the contest was between him as Emperor and chaos. The men who opposed him were ‘Terror- | ists,” ‘Jacobins,” ‘‘Communists,” ‘amurder- | ers,” “enemies of religion and society.” All, | therefore, who wished to save property, life, the national credit and the Holy Church were called upon to rally around this di- vinely-sent Bonaparte, without whose aid — France would become a howling wilderness. This. was Casarism and successful Cwsar- ism. The end was the destruc- tion of the Republic, and _ the foundation of the Empire. We see the same | in our own country. Our politics will never drift more steadily toward Cwsarism than when we have the scarecrow of repudiation in the West and the searecrow of Jesuitism in the East. These are the phantoms by | has been governed, the corruption at Wash- ington, the evidences of fraud in every part | political considerations it is that of a clerk of the government, and nothing is more easy | or a deputy clerk of a criminal court.” The or more certain than Cmsarism in its worst | people agree with the Recorder and will form, The surest way to make the third | out of the Temple. | and Havemeyer and General Jones each do- term inevitable is to lend the country to feel that the repudiators are on one side and the Jesuits on the other, and that Grant alone can save us. Napoleon was not made emperor because the French wanted a Napoleon, but because they wanted to be saved from social annihilation. Grant would like to ‘save the country” on the same terms. The paramount issue, the only issue, really, is the reform of the government. When Christ drove the money changers from | the Temple He saw that there was but one thing to be done—namely, to purify the | house of the Lord. We have only one thing to do now. We must drive the administra- tion out of power. These religious questions are only bubbles and will break with their own weakness. These financial questions will settle themselves in time. The laws of trade, the unerring principles of political economy, will bring the country back to the safe foundation as surely as the sea will fol- low its tides. Weare not going to repudi- ate a dollar of our debt, or to question whether we pay it in gold or issue a paper dollar that will not mean gold some time or | other. In other words, this is the nineteenth century, and we are not going to become either pirates or fools, The discus- | sion of such a contingency is an} insult to our common sense. It has | been fostered by the friends of Grant and a third term. We must not be driven by it | from our duty as citizens to reform the ad- ministration and to drive the money changers | We need a thorough in- vestigation of the government and of every department since the republicans came into power. We need the appointment of a com- mittee lite the Covode committee, which in- vestigated Buchanan's administration and the result of whose inquiries was a control- ling cause of the downfall of the administra- tion and the election of Lincoln. Let the democratic party press the Covode chalice to the lips of their opponents, Let us have a winter of scrutiny into every branch of the administration, and in the next Presidential canvass let the cry be, ‘‘Absolute and trench- ant reform in the government and the root- ing out of our politics of every vestige of nepotism, corruption and Cmsarism.” The Recordership. The feeling which has been shown by the press of New York, without a single excep- tion, upon the proposition to drive Recorder Hackett from the Tammany ticket to make place for one more subservient to the wishes of the party is worth studying as an illustra- tion of public opinion in New York. Recorder Hackett has been for some years | the principal criminal magistrate of the city. He has shown that he is neither to be moved by blandishments nor by threats. Not ac- tively a partisan, almost haughtily upon one occasion declining to be regarded as a politi- cian, he does not appeal to the rank and file of the organizations, like many of the gentle- men now named for office. So firmly rooted in the minds of the people is the idea that | he is an _ honest, incorruptible and fearless judge that every journal in New York, without distinction of party, favors his re-election to the Recordership. Now, the question before John Kelly as the chief of Tammany Hall is a simple one. Can he afford to throw aside Recorder Hackett for no other reason than that he is not a favorite of the politicians and give his place to some favorite, some obsequious vassal who has no interest to serve but the commands of his master? The Evening Mail of yesterday gives expression to the feeling of all honest citizens when it says:—‘‘The respectable members of Tammany Hall, who have some concern for the public welfare and their own reputation, may well be ex- ercised over the evident reluctance of Mr. Kelly to renominate a Judge who has done more to make crime dangerous to its perpe- trators than any Recorder we ever had.” “Let Mr. Kelly refuse to nominate Judge Hackett if he dares; we should like to see him try the experiment.” It will hardly require a menace to induce as shrewd a man as John Kelly to do what is right in the management of his party. He has read the history of New York politics and remembers the several defeats Tammany received when in the magnitude of its power its leaders were unwise. He has not for- gotten how Charles G. Halpine and Gunther feated the regular organization at a time when it seemed invincible. If Recorder Hackett is thrown overboard by Tammany he will be nominated as the people's cag- didate, and John Kelly will find it difficult to elect his ticket this fall. He himself will then be in the strange position of weakening the party and invoking defeat upon the democracy simply to gratify a personal liking for some other candidate. Yacut Owwners.—A ‘Yachtsman” calls attention to an injustice we were yes- terday led to do to some of our yacht owners,in the compliment we paid to Mr. Langley for his practical seamanship. | As our correspondent shows, there are many yacht owners who can sail their vessels as skilfully as a professional seaman. The lover of yachting comes as naturally in time to be a good seaman as the lover of a horse to be a good horseman. It does ‘not follow that a | yachtsman should sail his yacht in a regatta any more than that he should ride his horse inarace at Jerome Park. But the accom- plishment is apt to come all the same. We have many owners of yachts as competent to | manage their vessels in any stress of weather as trained seamen. This was shown in the Corinthian races, where a condition of the race was that the owners should sail their own vessels. We are indebted to our corre- spondent for calling attention to this fact and thus enabling us to do justice to yacht owners as @ class. Reconpen Hacketr’s Orrence against John other one should be utterly divorced from honor him for his independence, The Clews Exposures. We are permitted by the favor of a gen- tleman who was in close rapport with the transactions of the period to print copious extracts from a record or diary which he then kept relating to the withdrawal of our financial agency abroad from the Barings, who had held it since the foundation of the government, and its transfer to the mush- room house of Henry Clews & Co. These recollections are of great interest in conneo- tion with the recent testimony before the | Register in Bankruptcy, which proves that the transfer was a corrupt transaction. Had the change been a fit thing in itself the services of a paid lobby and a corrupt division of the profits would not have been needed to secure it. The remarkable reports of conversations and extracts from cor- respondence which we are permitted to pub- lish show that every distinguished man whose judgment was entitled to weight strongly reprobated that scandalous antic of President Grant's administration, The two persons best qualified to judge of it were Mr. Seward, then in London, who gave his views with great emphasis, and Secretary Fish, whose disapproval was strongly expressed. The then recently re- tired Secretary of State and the Secretary of State in office were the two most competent judges of the expediency of such a change. It appears from these revelations that even Mr. Boutwell thought it a great mistake and that his opinion was overruled by the only officer who had authority to control him. One of the writers of the letters from which extracts are given called on Mr. Seward in London when the news of the change was fresh, and the veteran statesman, ‘‘with much warmth and vigor, denounced the change and said it would be a great misfortune to the United States,” and he proceeded to state his reasons, which readers will find in the ex- cerpts which we print. He went on to recount instances which had occurred during his administration of the State Department where the Barings had gone beyond the rules of business and taken voluntary risks in advancing money to the United States in critical emergencies. On a subsequent occa- sion, ata dinner given in Paris by Minister Washburne, at which Mr. Seward and other notabilities were present, Mr. Seward asked Mr. Washburne through what agency he drew his salary, and when it was replied, “Through Messrs. Clews, Habicht & Co., of London, agents of the State Department,” Mr. Seward asked, ‘‘Who is Habicht?” and on Mr. Washburne telling him that Habicht had been the Swedish consul at New York, Mr. Seward replied, ‘‘Why, when I,was Secretary of State I withdrew his exequatur, because we caught him in blockade run- ning.” A precious successor to the old, solid, responsible and honored house of the Barings ! When the writer of one of these letters expressed his opinion of this change in Washington the Secretary of the Treasury spoke in praise of the Barings and said ‘he was not responsible for the change.” The inevitable inference is that it was the Presi- dent’s own act, as nobody but the President could have coerced Secretary Boutwell to act against his judgment. The same cor- respondent explained to Secretary Fish the embarrassments that had resulted to the public credit from the withdrawal of the agency from the Barings, and ‘‘Mr. Fish deprecated the change, but said it was not of his making.” All who take an interest in the subject will, of course, read this cor- respondence. The strong disapproval of Messrs. Seward, Fish and Boutwell proves that the change was absurd, and the fact, recently come to light, that it was procured by corrupt means, puts the high officer who enforced it in a most unenviable light. This is, perhaps, the most humiliating exposure that has ever been made in the history of our government. Goveryor Trtpon Is Dora good service for reform in the State. But if he allows his political representatives in this city to make a crusade against upright and fearless demo- cratic judges and to drive them from the Bench his canal reform will be regarded as a farce. New York is Governor Tilden’s home. He knows how much the city needs a bold and incorruptible judiciary. He knows how fearfully crime has increased under an in- efficient police, It is his duty to insist that so valuable a Judge as Recorder Hackett shall be indorsed and renominated by the Tammany democracy. Moopy anp Sanxey.—It is at last deter- mined that Moody and Sankey are to begin their revival work in the great cities of this country in Brooklyn. This will be welcome news; for, notwithstanding our sister city is called “the City of Churches,” few places are more in need of the spirit of reformation. The metropolis will also feel the benefits of the revival, so that the work will really em- brace both cities. Prompr anp Severe Justice was meted out yesterday to Rix, the night watchman, who was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing the boy McKenna. The crime was entirely without provocation, and a more stoical and heartless criminal has seldom been convicted. A life sentence was imposed. A few more convictions and sen- tences of this kind will stop that ready use of the pistol to which so many now resort as the result of past impunity. Reconpern Hackerr is an upright Judge. As such he will be the people’s candidate by whatever party he may be put in nomina- tion. ‘Tue Pustacations ov Frank Lesure, weekly and monthly, including his variety of illus- trated journals of politics, literature and fashion, for boys and for old people, Ger- the Paris office of the New York Hunarp and will appear on file. Tue Jewish Messenorr and the Jewish Times, a8 well as the Nautical Gazette, the American Artisan and El Comercio have been sent to our Paris office, and will always be found on file. By Waar Riou does John Kelly insist on driving Recorder Hackett from the Bench? He has been an excellent and fearless Judge. He is the terror of the criminal classes ; but he will not allow John Kelly to fill his court with politicians, This is his offence, and nothing more ' a Commissioner of Pilots. He was not ap- mans and Englishmen, have all been sent to | NEW YORK HERALD, ‘SATURDAY, UCTOBKER 9, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Centennial and Foreign Govern= ments, The Hon. John Jay, formerly Minister to Austria, is writing a series of letters in refor- ence to the Centennial Exhibition. Mr. Jay was our Minister in Vienna during the Ex- hibition and speaks on this subject with ex- perience and authority. Many of his sug- gestions are wise, and will, we have no doubt, | be accepted by our friends in Philadelphia. In a recent letter Mr. Jay dwells with some earnestness upon the fact that the national government has not made the Exhibition a national affair, He speaks of it as partly a public and partly a private enterprise, and argues that this uncertainty as to its exact condition has led to the absence of Russia and Italy and other countries, Mr. Jay thinks that the government should identify itself more closely with the Exhibition and make it thoroughly national, and that it is not too late even now for the State Depart- ment to put itself in direct communication with all the Powers of Europe and extend such invitations to them that it will be im- possible for them to decline, As to the refusal of Russia to take part in the Exhibition, itis generally understood that this arises from the difficulties attending the recall of Mr. Catacazy, the former Russian Minister. Since that event and the visit of the Duke Alexis to this country the relations between the Russian and American govern- ments have not been cordial, We can well understand why the Emperor wonld not be over-anxious to oblige a country which, in his opinion, had seriously disobliged him. At the same time we do not think that the success or the failure of the Exhibition at Philadelphia will depend on the recognition it receives from foreign Powers. At fhe be- ginning the general sense of the country op- posed making the Exhibition a national affair, This was because we feared that there would be endless jobbing; that large appropriations would be voted, and that they would be corruptly expended; that if the matter were intrusted to the general government it would inevitably fall into the hands of poli- ticians and sharpers, and that it would be no less successful as a private, spontaneous na- tional affair than under the patronage of the government. While, as Mr. Jay argues, it would be an advantage to have the Exhibi- tion so arranged that it would be possible for | the President of the United States to invite | the heads of other governments and to assure | them personally of all distinction and credit, | “| it is more in consonance with our interests to | preserve its present democratic form. We do not know what success will attend the Ex- hibition. We believe it will be gratifying. The success will be greater if it comes from the efforts of the people than if it was in any | way owing to the interference or endowment of the government. So much, therefore, of Mr. Jay's criticism as relates to the action of | the government does not seem to be well | founded. The less the national administra- | tion has to do with the Exhibition at Phila- | delphia the better will it be for its suecess. If the people cannot make it succeed then | it should fail. | The Staten Island Ferry War, The Staten Island ferry war is a contest | between the people and a monopoly.. Mr. George W. Blunt fumes and fusses and thrusts himself forward with his customary officiousness, but he cannot conceal from sight | the bloated figure of the old Jacobus Vander- | bilt monopoly, which stands behind him, | urging him on. The Jacobus Vanderbilt fight | against the New York and Staten Island Ferry | Company is made because the boats of that line are run, and run remuneratively, at lower | rates of fare than the monopolists have been in the habit of exacting from the Staten | Islanders. With the fight the Pilot Commis- sioners have or ought to have no concern. It interests only the Jacobus Vanderbilt mo- nopolists, who seek to extort as high fares as | they possibly can out of the Staten Island- | ersand the people who are compelled to travel every day by the ferryboats, and who desire to travel at reasonable rates of fare. There is, however, another matter of more interest than low charges involved in the quarrel. A spirited opposition ferry line, such as that established by Commodore Garner, will protect the lives and add to the comfort of the people who use the Staten | Island boats. When they are not at the | mercy of a monopoly they will not | have dirty, unaccommodating, rickety old boats to travel by, and they will not be in danger of a periodical Westfield massacre. Hence the public interests are all | on Commodore Garner's side in this ferry war, and the people have shown that they understand the true merits of the case by resolving that the opposition line of boats shall have a landing place free of cost if the monopoly should succeed in driving them from their present dock. Commissioner Blunt’s officious intermed- dling in championship of a private interest against the public interests will direct atten- tion to the propriety of a change in the method of appointing Pilot Commissioners. Mr. Blunt displayed his misdirected zeal in a dangerous manner. The question whether the New York Yacht Club house and the pier encroach on the harbor lines was in contro- versy before the courts and undecided. A Supreme Court injunction prohibited any interference with the club house and pier pending such decision. It was, therefore, Mr. Blunt's duty to hold off his hands, and if bloodshed or destruction of property had resulted through his agency he would have had a serious responsibility to meet. As it is he may yet be called to account for his illegal acts. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Connnerce should demand his resignation as pointed to attend to the Jacobus Vanderbilt ferry interests. If the Chamber of Commerce should fail to act promptly in the matter the next Legislature will, no doubt, give the appointment of Pilot Commissioners to the Governor, so that a responsible authority msy be held to answer for their efficiency and capacity. A Homaorarnic Hosrrran 1x Broox.rx.— The Brooklyn Argus publishes a petition to the Board of Charitios of the county of Kings on behalf of the Trustees of the Homamopathic Hospital asking forthe use of the vacant | tions you foreshadow should be acqu! nursery building ot Flatbush. In this peti- tion the trustees set forth the fact that of the cases in their hospital but five per cent have proved fatal. They dwell upon the recognition of their school by national, State and local authorities, and they think that Brooklyn should have a horaceopathic hospital similar to the one on Ward’s Island. We seé no reason why this request should not be granted. The difference between homaopathy and allopathy is a matter to be decided by | the patients and the physicians, If the sick man desires to be eured by homeeopathic treat | ment he has as much right to that privilege as to select his own religion, and where, as in the case of hommopathy, there is a large, gent constituency wh¢ their lives to its practice, there is no reason why a request like that of the trustees of the Brooklyn Hospital shonld not be promptly acceded to. Carl Schurz and Wendell Phillips. In a letter addressed to the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial, and’ published in the Heranp to-day, Mr. Carl Schurz replies to the criticisms of Mr, Wendell Phillips upon his financial views. It will be read with in- terest and profit, as Mr. Schurz defends with vigor the four principal points of his speech from the attack of his skilful adversary. We shall be sorry, if these distin. guished gentlemen lose their tempers. Mr. Schurz says that the tone of Mr. Phillips’ letter in the Fi:nanp is “so flippantly offen- sive, so small and supercilious in personal attack,” that he was inclined to consider it a hoax. For us to interfere in this question of courtesy might be itself discourteous, yet wa may ask with reason, Why should these gen- tlemen make a persqnal quarrel of a national issue? If the money about which they dis- pute belonged to them a bitter feeling about inflation and contraction might be natural. But it belongs to the people. We can under- stanchhow any one owning a thousand millions in greenbacks or gold might get in a rage about its disposition, buta philosopher should never work himseli into a fever about other people’s bank accounts. however, ecorder Hackett and Tammany. ‘he reason why Recorder Hackett is to be thrown overboard :— [From the Herarp, Jan, 2, 1874.) POLITICAL PATRONAGE, RECORDER HACK¥TT DRAWS TURK LINK! BETWEEN PARTY UTY—THE COURT NUT TO BE UskD ter froin the Recorder, which con- Liou of its being written, has been sent ion, In it the Recorder shows. that he here political duty ends and judicial duty be- The doctrine tt contains 1s genuine civil’ sur The followin tains the prov: tor public knows New York, Recorver’s Orrice, } 17 Broadway, Dec, 29, 1873. | f To Dr. Fropor Mirusox, Secretary Twenticth Asseme bly District Tammany Hall General Committee: My Duar Sm—I have received a letter, of which the following is a copy :— : Orrick, or tHe New Yornen JovRxat, ig ax 15 Crry Haut Squank, To tr Hoxorastx Count ov GuxKRat SESSIONS — GkATLANEN—The Committee on Organization of Tammany Halt hes assigned to our district one deputy clerk wnd ove officer of your court, suitable persons to be recommended by i ‘any Hail’ Committee of our district, You wil undersigned by signifying your intention in regard ‘and stating st what time recommendations are to be Very respectfully, Dr. FEQDUR MIERSON, ‘tary “th Assembly District Tammany Hall tl oblige the theru! General Committee. To which I n answer as foll 1 have been Re- corder nearly eight years, and have never before re- ceived any such intimation even by implication, What- ‘© been the political sins of former leaders in Tammany Hall, they never increased them by even ¥ interiering with the independence of the h I bave the honor to be a judge. T can- not believe that your proposition 1 with the ap- proval of present leaders like Messrs. Kelly, Chanler and others, If there exists au o: which, More than any other one, should be utterly divorced from political considerations, it is that of a clerk or deputy clerk of @ criminal court. Even if disposed to throw open its books and record. a politician I coud not do it, because the deputy clerk is not appointed by the judges of the Court of General Sessions, The officers who escort and guard prisoners to and from the City Prison, and who guard them tn court, and who to some extent contro! process, ought not to be mere politicians, but such reliable mon as the judges select, Of course, in making the selection, they aro more or less guided’ by recominendations which applicants bring. The Legis- lature has, therofore, wisely placed the selection of oifi- cers for the Court 0! General Sessions in the exclusive discretion of the Judges of that court. Every day of ex- perience contribites to a court officer’s usefulness. The Court bas under tt many officers of ten years’ experience; they are reliable, unbribable and discreet. If the no- seed in by the criminal judges, inasmuch as the composition of politl- cal commitiees often changes, so might Ue composition of court officers, and thereby confusion at least be occa- stoned. I cannot sanction your proposition, Possibly I may hereatter invite political animosity by this determination, yet while privately my sympathies are most ardent ‘in their democratic tendencies, I should be recreant to my judicial mdependence and sonso of duty if I auswered otherwise than I have now done. Very respectiully, your obedient servant JOHN K, HACKETT. The readers of the Heraup will easily see the motives that actuate Tammany Hall in denying Recorder Hackett a renomination. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘There are people who believe that Grant's speeches offset anti-third term resolutions. Postmaster General Je*vell returned to Washington from Connecticut yesterday morning. Wilham Cullen Bryant has returned to New York from his summer home at Cummington, Mass. And now Mr. Bowles, in disappointment, lifts up his voice and sings, “A. Rice, my soul! A, Rice!” ‘The idea of a Baptist preacher stealing 750 feot ot Iightaing’ rod. What in thunder did he want to do that for? Forty cigars a head is the number manufactured every year in this country. Some of them are smoked by proxy. The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that Tilden can never receive a two-thirds vote in the National Democratic Convention. Hon. Dan Voorhees’ son is studying for Hamlet, but Dan himself in his inflation speeches ts practiisng for the part of the Grave Digger. Foster, the Spiritualist, was so full of the spirits im Reading the other day that he could not control himself, and had to rush off to Washington. Lyman Tremain does not know whether to be an in- flationist or a contractionist. Sohe parts his hair im the middle and calls it an even thing. We learn from the Court Journal that the Kilkenny races are taking place; but it is the Kilkenny fights that most affect the future of American politics. General Grant is determined, in the interest of civil sorvice, to cut down superfluities, He has begun his apprenticeship by docking his horses tails. The Oakland (Cal) Transcript comes out in favor of Senator Fred, Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, as are publican nominee for President, with Senator Sargent for Vice President Lords Dunmore and Bective are buying red rose heifors trom America, And yet it is not so many, many years ago since Sydney Smith asked, “Who reads an American book?" Louisville Cowrier-Journal:—Conclusion of the last Philadelphia obituary poem:—‘Gone to moet her fw vorite uncle who died about twelve months since on her step-brother’s side.” Bats aro said by the Boston Journal to be enemies of mosquitoes, We suppose then the only way for a man ‘and his children to sleep quietly is to have a couple of base ball nines in his bedroom. The Minneapolis Tribune is puzzled about the ap. proaching hard winter It asks, ‘Will Indians work ?”* Yes, and with very httle capital Ten cents worth of plug tobacco will set one at head work for a woek, Billy Emerson, tho negro minstrel, makes $25,000 = year, Ralph Waldo Emorson, tho philosopher, makes $900, The latter has frequently deplored the fact that he coufdn’t get his head to Lit a tambourine right inthe middle, Judge Loew, of the Court of Common Pleas, has been ‘assigned by Governor Tildon to hold one of the circuits of the Supreme Court during the month of October, the Chief Justica, Horf Noah Davis, having applied to the Governor to name & judge in place of Jadgo Yam Brunt who is detained abroad by sickness, a