The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1875, Page 9

eh. NEW YORK HERALD A caiatonmeere BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and “after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henatp will be gent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New York Henawp. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Te 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. VOLUME XL. _ — asia ies gaa st » AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, , SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, \Xey Onera House, Broadway, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, = ERICAN INSTITUTE, mira avenue and reer third street. say and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Ene street and Sixth avenue.—Fnglish Opera— IGNON, nd ee M. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. OLYMPIC THEATRE, opt Broadway. —VARIETY, at 5 P.M); closes at 10:45 its Yate ca: aoe armas“ Hippos ERT, at SP. M.; closes PARK THEATRE, and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GARDEN, ND POPULAR CON- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. toS I Ergeergimen street, near ‘M.; closes at 10:30° ARK THEATRE, .; closes at 10:45 P. M, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ON HAND. jun Thompson. HOWE & CIROUS, th avenue and Forty-uinth street,—Performances day ‘evening. DARLIN pet ird street and Sixth avenue. — THON &RE Siw ‘ORK MINSTRELS, at 8 THEATRE COMIQUE, po Broadway.—VARIETY, wt 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 Woon’s 9 pura corner of Thirtieth MAZEPPA, at 8 her. Matinee at 2 Kate Fi M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. M. TONY Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—V Ly . street and Eighth uffe—G TROP LE-GIROF! La vat SP. STE! Fourteenth street.—TiT! THIRD AY Third avenue, between Thirtiet VARIETY, ats P.M. 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Western securities were exception- plly weak. Rag money was worth 85.84. Gold opened and closed at 116 1-2. Foreign exchange dull. The bank statement showed @ decrease of $6,000,000 legal tenders, Now Tuar Westervert has seven years ‘before him during which to ponder on his share in the Charley Ross case he may as well make a clean breast and tell all he knows ofthe child. If he could restore the boy his pardon would not be objected to by any person. Some Men Are Born to good luck. The coupling of a freight train on the New York Central Railroad broke yesterday morning ear Rochester, and the conductor and brake- men were left behind. The engine and ten- der ran into the depot building, killing the engineer and firemen—the only persons on board—instantly. Tae Porrrican Canpron is beginning to | boil and bubble as the day of election draws | near. How the Tammany leaders are reliev- ing the people of trouble, what will proba- bly be the result of their decisions and other gossip current in political circles, will be found recorded in our eolumns to-day. Tue Porrr, Ir Is Sarp ny CaBLE, proposes to appoint a Governor General for the Chris- tian provinces, who shall be clothed with authority to carry out the proposed reforms. The insurgents distrust the Turks, however, and will not listen to any concessions that are not guaranteed by the great Powers. As | this guarantee will probably be refused it is | thought that the effort at settlement will fail. History records no better illustration of | \the respect paid to the administration of jus- tice by the great men of the past than its narrative of the arrest of a Prince of Wales by o Lord Chief Justice of England, This Prince of Wales, when he became King, showed his appreciation of the independence of the Judge by conferring honor upon him. ‘The men who ruled in those days respected the integrity of the Bench and the independ- ence of the judges who never surrendered their ‘infegrity. V% shall see by the decision of lie Tammany Convention to-morrow whether }men who rule that organization are wise to follow this high example \ The Convention To-Morrow — Jona | Kelly’s Danger and Duty. The Tammany Convention for the nomina- tion of judicial officers is called for to-mor- row. Everywhere we hear the busy note of preparation. Atall the camps the fires are burning brightly. In every ward the leaders are whispering, contending, intriguing, endeavoring at the last moment to change | long matured results, grasping with energy, without panse, without remorse, for the prizes of the canvass. Every moment brings its rumor and every hour its new bulletin. In the morning one candidate is up; by noon he‘ has given place to another. The management of the can- vass in the hands of John Kelly is secret and hidden, and we really know nothing of what has been resolved. We sometimes wonder if John Kelly himself knows, as he looks out upon these seething, bubbling, discordant elements which com- pose Tammany Hall, and hears nothing but the uproar of striving, chiding, unreasoning partisans, eager for their own preferment, anxious for office, and caring nothing for the means by which office is gained. The Convention which will meet to-mor- row will record the will of John Kelly. So far as he is a good democrat he will give ex- pression to the views of Governor Tilden. This is the Alpha and Omega of our New York polities. We might as well deal frankly with that fact, because it is the only fact worth considering. Uni- versal suffrage, primary élections, local clubs, party unions, are all summed up in this one inquiry, ‘‘What does John Kelly think best for his power in New York, and what does Governor Tilden believe will best serve his aspirations for the Presidency?” So far as we can read the signs of the contro- versy John Kelly’s army has victory within its reach. It will require a high order of ability to lose the contest. John Kelly has simply to nominate an unexceptionable ticket to walk from the Battery to Fordham with his banners flying. Will he do so? He has a great party to hold together. He has a thousand hungry mouths to feed. For every office within his gift there are a hundred applicants. He s these serried battalions of followers swarming around his standard, shouting his name, giving him every assurance of friend- ship and victory. He knows that to-morrow they may be all against him. He has learned, for he is an old politican, that nothing is so fickle as the applause of the people. He has probably read the anecdote of Napoleon, who, when he stood looking out from one of his palace windows upon the multitude. who cheered him, said, in response to a congrat- ulation as to the supreme felicity he had attained, that the crowd would be just as enthusiastic if it had come to see his execution. John.Kelly, the master of Tam- many legions to-day, may be the leader of a victorious army or the chief of a routed force, according as he manages the conven- tions which are about to meet. It is his duty as a politician to do what is best for his friends and for the party. That no one willdeny. But he has two interests to serve before which all claims of friendship must surrender. His first duty is the suc- ! cess of the democratic party at the com- ing election for the Presidency. That hinges almost absolutely upon the integrity of dem- oeratic discipline in New York. The second is the nomination of Governor Tilden for the Presidency. That will only come, if it does come, by New York proving herself to be the Empire State of the democracy, as she is of the Union. Now, wherever John Kelly finds any interest antagonistic to these du- ties, no matter whether it involves the ad- vancement of his own brother, he’ must check it. He must nominate a ticket that will carry New York bya majority so decided that Governor Tilden will feel strengthened in his war upon the rings, and the demo- cratic party will enter upon their cam- | paign against Grant with renewed vigor. This is a simple duty, but we are afraid that John Kelly will not have the courage or the strength to do it. Here, for instance, we are told that some officers who have served the | city well, who have held their rank with honor and praise, are to be removed to give place to followersof Tammany Hall. Con- spicuous among these isthe Recorder of New York. It is well understood among politi- cians that so far as the slate is concerned John K. Hackett is not to be renominated. When we ask the reasons for this we are told that it is the will of John Kelly ; that he has found a candidate more pliable, more de- voted to party interests, more obedient to his will, Yet if any man has earned the con- fidence of the community it is John K. | Hackett. He holds one of the most respon- sible positions in the gift of the people. He has never failed in his duty. He has re- sisted alike blandishments and threats. He | tect has held the scales of justice with an even hand. He hgs made his name a terror to the criminal classes of New York. He has been threatened with assassination and assailed | by powerful combinations in office and out | of it. He has held up to himself the highest | standard of duty, and wherever he has seen | | crime he has stricken it down. It is impos- | sible to overrate the value of the services of a man like John K. Hackett, especially ina city | like New York, during such times as those | through which we have been passing. He has proved himself to be an honest, worthy, faithful officer. All voices are in his praise. The journals of the city, without distinction of party, desire his nomination. With the exception of that small political class of Dugald Dalgetties, who regard politics as | spoils, and who have ® interest to serve but their own, John K. Hackett is the choice of | every citizen in New York who desires to see | criminal law efficiently maintained. Now, | for Tammany to throw such a man because he has not been a willing partisan is to com- | pel his nomination by the opponents of Tam- | many Hall and his election by the people. | John Kelly should remember that Tammany Hall in its proudest days felt the error of | got considering public opinion. Charles |G. Halpine, the lamented ‘Miles | | O'Reilly,” made war upon Tammany | jin the height of its glory, when | Tweed and Sweeny reigned, and wrested from its grasj' one of its richest prizes. Patrick H. Jones vy last yoar, when John Kelly was the head of the party, with John Morrissey as his trusted licutenapt, defeated | the organization in the person of a pepular \ | rescue those who were wrecked by sin. and efficient candidate. Mr. Gunther and | Mr. Havemeyer when they ran for Mayor did the same thing. The truth is that Tam- when it is in the right. Therefore, for John Kelly to array against his ticket that strong public opinion which looks upon the re-elec- tion of John K. Hackett not only as an act of justice to a good man, but as an act of pro- ion to the community, is to welcome a defeat of the best interests intrusted to his care. The discipline of the party will be injured ; the great work of Governor Tilden will be paralyzed; the prospects of New York in the next campaign for the Presi- dency will be darkened. The democracy of this city who have long been the imperial guard of the great national army, who have never failed to answer the democratic sum- mons, will enter the next campaign dis- united, discomfited and dispirited. John Kelly should nominate John K, Hackett jto- morrow for every reason of politics. This is his duty as a leader of Tammany Hall. He should nominate him for every reason of jus- tice. - This is his duty as a citizen. If he does not nominate him and forces him upon the people as the people’s candidate, to be yoted for without distinction of party, upon his head alone will be the consequences to the democratic party and to Tammany Hall. Mr. Stanley’s Expedition. We have not received the latest letters from Mr. Stanley which have arrived in Lon- don, although they are already due: We print, however, two editorial articles from the London Daily Telegraph of September 27 and 28, giving an idea of their contents. The Telegraph is united with the Hzranp in the Stanley expedition, and our gallant corre- spondent in his new work carries with him the English and the American flags. Ié would be unprofitable to anticipate the re- sults of his inquiry, especially as we may soon hope to lay them before our readers. But from what the Telegraph says those results thus far contain most important contributions to the geography of this mysterious, interesting and ibe? con- tinent. Mr. Stanley’s latest letter was dated May 15, which may well be called “récent intelligence” from Africa, considering the time that elapsed between the various com- munications of Livingstone, Baker and other travellers, Mr. Stanley himself was in good health when heard from, but he had been unfortunate in other respects. Two of the Europeans who accompanied him—Edward Pocock and Fredérick Barker—had died of the fever. Of his party of three hundred and forty-seven one hundred and eighty- one had died from fever, dysentery, desertion and fierce fighting. In one battle with a treacherous tribe he lost twenty-one of his followers, While we deplore these misfortunes we are glad to learn that our distinguished cor- respondent, ‘the gallant young American,” as our ally calls him, has achieved results which justify the confidence with which he was appointed to command this expedition. His ‘“‘swift and resolute” march to the shores of Lake Victoria is said to be without a parallel in African history; for it was a march “through matted jungle and waterless plains, through mountain ranges and swamps, over rivers and wildernesses, and with or without the leave of fierce tribes.” This story, the Telegraph assures us, will give Mr. Stanley ‘a place in pub- lic estimation worthy of the friend and helper Livingstone, as one of the most skilful, successful and daring of modern travellers.” The letters which are to come contain “all the in- gredients of adventure,” and as our ally eloquently remarks :—‘‘Something more than ordinary emotion attaches to communi- cations thus almost providentially received from the sombre depths of the African jungles. They are bought for science at the cost of the lives of devoted and brave men; they come to us through hairbreadth escapes and untold anxieties ; they are written by a hand burned by fiery suns, and conrposed by a brain full of all the constant cares of an expedition which demands the gifts of a soldier in unison with almost every other quality which makes a man.” of Pulpit Topies To-Day. There is a gradual toning up of the topics on which the city pastors discourse from Sabbath to Sabbath, so that by the time the evangelists, Messrs. Moody and Sankey, come among us they shall have the true re- | vival ring. Three of our pastors will ad- dress their congregations to-day on that momentous event declared in the Scrip- tures—the second coming of Christ. Mr. Lightbourn will refer more particularly to the time of His coming and of the end of the world ; Bishop Snow will also devote him- | self to a consideration of the prophecies on the time of the sounding of the last trampet and the revealing of God's mystery, while the third will give heed to the hope which Christ’s instant coming may inspire in our hearts. will give attention Saunders taking the and Mr. Willis its Mr. subject power. to prayer, general magical | Mr. Seitz will speak about the atonement, and Mr. McCarthy will take the same theme, but will discuss it as the malediction of | blood. The voice of God in dreams and His sovereignty over all things and all men will | be duly considered and presented by Mr. Boardman, while Mr. Leavell will take up one Jesus and present Him as a personal Sa- viour to his people. And right in the same line of thought, too, is Mr. Lloyd's echoes from Calvary, in which the Redeemer, dying for men, plaintively asks the Father why He has forsaken Him. And then the answer comes from the same preacher—God would Mr. Williams will give the Master's call, and Mr. Alger will show why that call ‘is not an- swered, and give the excuses that men make to God for not answering the obliga- tions of the Gospel onthem. Dr. Talmage has found it! Wall street has been looking for it, but it was hidden away in the study of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and teday it will be brought out and given free to the country! What is it? Ovn Sprctan Report of the reception given by Admiral Wellesley to the citizens of New- port shows that the entertainment was a erand and highly successful affaix Two of our city pastors | The Condition of the New York Stage. The theatres of this city have always held | the leading place in dramatic art in America, many, powerful as it is, is only powerful | but want of that uniformity of excellence which has always been our boast seems to be the chief deficiency of the drama at this time. This want is to be attributed as much to the character of the plays as to the shortcomings of the artists. There, for in- stance, is Mr. Byron’s comedy of “Our Boys” atthe’ Fifth Avenue Theatre, It isa bright, chatty comedy, often brilliant as well as witty in dialogue, but deficient in inci- dent and situations. There are eight parts in the play—too small a number to people a stage for a whole evening—and of these only one or two afford scope for really fine acting, Then again “The Flying Scud,” at Booth’s, has but one first rate character part; and pri 3 this is acceptably played the rest of the cast is not adequately fille. The same re- mark applies to the “Mighty Dollar,” at the Park. It is a ‘new departure,” upon which the actor is to be congratulated. Slote is a great deal better than Ragged Pat, and Mr. Florence illustrates a certain something in this creation which is typical of our West- ern ‘‘statesmen.” Born in Massachusetts, unsuccessfully struggling to get rich in Pennsylvania, and finally going West to “grow up with the country” and obtain a seat in Congress, the Slotes and the Sellerses have not yet received sufficient attention from our playwrights. We would be better pleased, however, if our the- atres avoided this one-character business altogether, and gave us instead that com- pleteness of ensemble which has been our boast and which now, for so many years, has been exemplified by the Wallack company on the Wallack stage. At the last named house the season has just begun with Tom Taylor's drama, ‘“Ihe Overland Route,” a play which affords fair scope for acting and some good opportunities for scenic effect. All these are very fairly met as the piece is nightly presented, but whether the play is to prove a great success it is not easy to predict. It is likely that it will have a good run and hold the stage until about Thanksgiving, when we hear ‘‘Caste” will be brought out. The manner in which plays are presented at this theatre, commendable in itself, is besides in every way worthy of emu- lation, and is the lesson we now seek to en- force, Another point must not go unnoticed. So far as Italian opera is concerned, the Academy is empty. The Wachtel company purposes giving a season of German opera, but the sensible thing to do clearly is to unite the forces of Mr. Neuendorff and Mr. Strakosch, and so afford us a musical season worthy of the metropolis. Unless this is done we shall havea very unsatisfactory pro- gramme for the winter, with only the Wach- tel season, the Titiens concerts and the fort- night of English opera at Booth's Theatre. Miss Kellogg is a very acceptable singer ea her season will doubtless prove a very agree- able musical episode; but these things are not sufficient for the wants of a great city. We have not yet heard whether our sugges- tion in regard to a Titiens-Wachtel season is to be adopted, but no stone ought to be left. unturned in accomplishing this great object. Even the old subvention bugbear should not be allowed to stand in the way. It would be much better that the stockholders of the Academy of Music should subscribe a suffi- cient sum to bring the prima donna and the tenor to their stage than to allow their house to remain empty. If they will do this we eannot doubt that every other difficulty in the way will be removed, and that we shall have a season of opera that will be memora- ble in the history of music in New York. Remove the Police Commissioners, Mayor Wickham’s letter to Police Com- missioners Matsell, Disbecker and Voorhis, asking them to resign their offices, will meet the approval of all good citizens anxious for honesty and efficiency in the Police Depart- ment. In another column we print a letter from “A Citizen” who had occasion to invoke the services of the police, and it will be seen that neither the Superin- tendent nor ‘the detectives rendered the slightest aid in the case, while Mr. Walling practically admitted to Commis- sioner Voorhis the looseness, carelessness and inefficiency of his management. This case is orfly one out of many which occur from week to week and month to month, and in itself it is clear proof of the want of capacity in the Commissioners and the consequent demtoralization of the force. Other cases are still fresh in the public mind. No clew has yet been obtained to the murderer of Langan, killed in the open day at Fourteenth street and Ninth avenue, and even the clew which led to the arrest of the supposed murderer of Noe is evidence of police inefficiency. In every case of robbery or theft the first hope of the detectives is in the pawnshops, and all stolen property is first advertised among the pawn- brokers. As a matter of course these dealers will not reveal the possession of stolen arti- cles unless they have the assurance of being well paid for the restoration of the property. Under such circumstances the recovery of | stolen goods becomes a mere brokerage busi- ness between the pawnshops and the police, This system has grown up before the eyes of the Commissioners, and for many months | these officials have seen the criminal classes commit the most daring offences with im- punity. Except in cases where the thieves are mere bunglers and cause their own de- | tection an arrest is seldom made. In the case referred to in “A Citizen's” letter a known thief was allowed to escape by the | practical connivance of the police, and so it is in negrly every case. Facts such as these show that there can be no reform with the present Board, and it is the Mayor's duty vigorously to follow up his purpose of re- moving the delinquent Commissioners. We cannot hope for an efficient reorganization of the police force so long as Matsell, Dis- becker and Voorhis remain in office. Joun K. Hacker said eighteen months ago in response to a demand that he should allow the Committee of Tammany Hall to dictate the names of officers of his Court: NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1875. —QUADRUPLE SHEET. “Possibly | I may hereafter invite political animosity by | this determination, yet, while privately my | | justice subordinate to office-holding aspira- cratic tendenev. I should be recreant to my | tions sympathies are most ardent in their demo- judicial independence and sense of duty 17 2) mpe Religious Press on the President's answered otherwise than as I have now done,” Recorder Hackett did ‘invite political ani- mosity” by his decision, and it now remains to be seen whether John Kelly will respect the independent Judge who preferred the honor of his Bench to the sympathies and support of ward politicians, The People’s Candidate for Recorder. Mr. John Kelly is a politician, and in some instances he has displayed tact and judg- ment as a party leader. He knows that there are elements at work in this city against Tammany Hall which, if combined with the natural opponents of the democratic party, might, to say the least, render the success of the Tammany candidates very doubtful. To make these unfriendly ele- ments effective, however, they require to be concentrated ona movement calculated to enlist popular sympathy. Such a move- ment would be the nomination of Recorder Hackett as the people’s candidate, irrespec- tive of party, in the event of an effort on the part of Tammany Hall to drive him from the Bench. Mr. Kelly must see the danger of refusing to renominate the Re- corder by the remarks of the Times of Friday last. That journal isa leading republican organ, and, of course, looks at the matter from a party standpoint. Nevertheless, it foreshadows that the opposition anxiously anticipate such an indiscreet policy on the part of Tammany, and intend tomake their fight in the county on the issue of an honest and independent judiciary, should the opportunity be afforded them through the folly of the democratic leaders. ‘Nine- tenths of the democratic party have no no- tion what reform means,” says the Times. “They want to get back to place and power, One wants Recorder Hackett’s office, another wants the Surrogate’s, and so it goes on down to the smallest post on the list.” Again, speaking of Governor Tilden, ‘Now he is a reformer,” says the Times; ‘but not one word of protest does he utter against the removal of honest judges from the Bench to make room for Kelly's tools.” Why should Mr. Kelly incur this risk for his party and by what right does he under- take to throw overboard a Judge who is as good a democrat as he is himself, who is popular with the party, and who has proved himself to be honest and capable? The people of New York already suffer too many evils from the lax administration of justice and the increase of crime, and they will not allow a few party leaders to drive from the Bench a Judge who has made himself a ter- ror to the criminal classes. It is proper that the democrats of New York should nominate Recorder Hackett, because he sympathizes with their political principles, and because their professions of reform make it incum- bent on them to uphold an incorruptible, fearless judiciary. But if the leaders who dictate the ‘‘slates” should not allow them to do so then he will be nominated as the people's candidate, irrespective of political divisions, and will be elected by an over- whelming majority. The Staten Island Outrage. The people of Staten Island are fully. aroused on the subject of the ferry war, and a mass meeting at Stapleton last night gave emphatic expréssion to the public sentiment. The attempt to crush out and drive away Commodore Garner's new ferry line, an en- terprise that so clearly benefits the com- munity, is an outrage that will not be patiently endured. Thé Jacobus Vanderbilt monopoly evidently considers that it has a sort of pre-emption right to Staten Island, and that it may put its hands into the pockets of the residents of the island as deeply as it may please. The idea of an in- dependent company presuming to run ferry- boats in opposition to the old concern, and at reduced rates of fare, is, in the eyes of the monopoly, preposterous. To be sure, the people might be benefited by the competi- tion in more ways than one. They might se- cure from it reasonable rates of fare, comfort, cleanliness, improved accommodation, civil- ity and safety. With two lines in operation they would not be compelled to travel in old floating tubs or to incur the danger of a few more Westfield explosions. But then the Jacobus Vanderbilt monopoly would suffer. Its expenses must be increased and its re- ceipts reduced. Justice and Commissioner Blunt could not suffer such an outrage upon business enterprise. The people all over the island should respond to this Stapleton meeting and demand that the courts protect the new ferry company in its rights and pre- vent the destruction of private property. No technical authority to be extracted from a forced interpretation of law should be suffered to damage the interests of the people at large. Itis clear that no injury will be done to any public interests by the continu- ance of the yacht club house and pier in their present position; hence neither the Jacobus Vanderbilt monopoly nor the meddle- some Mr. Blunt should be suffered to inter- fere with them. When the next Legislature meets we can have a more clearly defined law on the subject, and can so amend the | Pilot Commissioners’ act as to prevent the repetition of such official stupidity as that displayed by Mr. Blunt in this af affair. “Tar Prorie’s Caxprpare. *_We can find a reason for the opposition of a political frag- ment of Tammany Hall to John K. Hackett in a letter addressed by him to the secretary of the Twentieth Assembly district of the Tammany Hall General Committee. This secretary wrote to Mr. Hackett as a judge, informing him that Tammany Hall had assigned his district ‘one deputy clerk and one officer of the Court, suitable persons to be recommended by the Tammany Halli com- mittee.” Recorder Hackett replied :—‘The Court has under it many officers of ten years’ | experience; they are reliable, unbribable and discreet. If the notions you foreshadow should be acquiesced in by the criminal judges, inasmuch as the composition of po- litical committees often changes, so might the composition of court officers, and thereby confusion at last be accomplished.” It re- mains for Tammany Hall, in its convention to-morrow, to say whether it sustains the in- dependent Judge whe protected the integ- rity of his office and’ the freedom of justice from political interference or the insatiate political grabber, who desired to make even Speech. It might have been naturally expected tht such a broad hint at the school question by the Chief Magistrate of the nation in a pub- lic address would not be allowed to pass un- improved by the religious press. It has not been ; for Catholics as well as Protestants con- sider it and comment on it in their latest issues. The Christian Advocate quotes it entire approvingly, and expresses the belief that our system of public instruction can never be considered out of danger so long as it shall be within the power of partisan legislatures to sacrifice it for partisan purposes. Its opin-, ion, therefore, is—and it commends the idea to the political parties—that the federal con- stitution should contain a provision reaching to all departments of the government forbid- ding the use of any part of the public funds for any other than the States’ own schools and making the maintenance of an adequate system of free schools the solemn duty of each of the States of the Union. The Christian at Work likens President Grant to Gladstone, Bismarck, Castelar and others, who, discerning the signs of the times, see just where and with whom the battle for liberty and progress and republican institutions will have to be fought. The Catholics, it says, are imprudent, even to rashness ; but they are not so stupid as to resort to an appeal to arms, which would re- sult in utterly wiping them out. Forty thousand anti-Catholic majority in New Jer- sey means more than appears on the face ; it means that when the issue is made every State in the Union will meet it, and meet it, too, as it was met in New Jersey. The Tablet asks the President if he wants to make the school question a national question ; for if not it sees no necessity for him introduc- ing this topic in his speech at all, It was, entirely out of place. The Tublet thinks the’ republican party is trying to force this for- ward as the leading question to cover up their corrupt policy. The Freeman's Journal does not believe that the speech was written by the President. Its sentiments are be- neath criticism. or eyen ridicule. Its tenor and bearing, the Journal declares, is beyond the power of language to stigmatize. The Christian Intelligencer quotes a part of the President's address with approval. The Bap. tist Weelely insists that the overthrow of our public school system is the undisguised scheme of Romanism, and that it matters very little what shape the hostility of Ro- manists to our schools takes. Whether they aim to usurp their control or cunningly plot their destruction is of no account. The question, it says, is a vital one, and now is the time for American freemen and Christian citizens to show that they are inflexibly re- solved to uphold our system of public schools against the insidious assaults of the most dangerous foe to our interests and rights. The Boston Pilot says that these utter- ances of the President (which it quotes) are ascandal and an evil precedent. By his posi- tion the President should be the protector of all rights, not a partisan pleader in a special cause. The school question, adds the Pilot, is now before the country for settlement. It has by no means been fully considered. It is a question that must be solved on principles of a larger philosophy than General Grant knows anything about; and it isan outrage on republicanism that President Grant should deliver judgment be- fore the arguments have fairly begun. A Detxcation from Mississippi has assured the Attorney General that a departure from the policy he has indicated toward that State would be disastrous to its interests. Among the delegation were ex-United States Senator Pease, United States District Attorney Wells and the Attorney General of the State. Mr. Pierrepont will not be likely to abandon his position. Tv Is Starep from Washington that the great unknown—the new Secretary of the Interior—is to arrive on Monday, But vo one will say who he is. Jewell is silent and mysterious. Acting Secretary Cowan will not divulge. Itis even thought that when pe does appear in Washington he may be known as the man in the iron mask. Tue Prrvorat Evivence thus far against Dolan, the supposed murderer of Mr. Noe, is the alleged fact that the victim’s watch was pawned by the prisoner. In the inter- ests of justice, and for the public safety, it is to be hoped that the perpetrator of the cruel murder will be speedily discovered and brought to punishment. patric Bel PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Springfeld Republican insists on having Adama and Bristow on the republican ticket, Chicago Inter-Ocean:—‘That Mexican baby eater seems to have fully demonstrated the truth of the say- ing that the child ts fodder to the man.” Colonel Bethea, of Alabama, tried only one case, re ceived a $60,000 fee, and retired from the Bar. Why call Wendell Phillips “silver tongued” when he always has plenty of paper at his tongue’s end? John Lathrop Motley, now in Boston, will shortly rei turn to England to resume important literary work. The s vors of the “Six Hundred” at Balaklava, of whom there are fifty, are to have a Lanquet October 25, in London. Canova chose 600 beautifal women from whom to model his V and among them all could not find # ‘nor Gaston. Lightning nevor strikes » in the same piace, —Rochester Democrat. Governor Gaston wasn’t elected by lightning. He was elected, by thunder. —Boston Post. Chief Justice Waite's skirts are clear. He denies the right of woman’s suffrage; and now that movement is pin'd back balf a century. The Boston republicans got so excited the other night hallooing ‘Rice and Knight” that they finally cheered for “Nice and Right,” and wouldn’t go home till morn- i ah Paton, who J still dances ina French circus, is getting rather old, Ninety~ four springs have pirouetted over her white head, and yet this giddy thing “‘sashazo’» and bounces off her old tocs as nimbly as a kitten of @ hot stove. General N. B, Forrest has 550 acres of land under cultivation near Glencoe station, Shelby county, Miss., 490 of which are in cbiton, He sent up the first instal- ment of the new crop, amounting to ten bales, averag- ing 583 pounds each Nebraska holds a State election for Supreme Court Justices, Regents of tho University and to fill a few ‘vacancies in the Legislature next Tuesday, The people also vote on the adoption of a new State constitution. ‘Tho St. Louls Republican says that “three States of the Union—Mississ!ppi, Louisiana and South Carolina are under African control, the colored clement being in the majority, As long as this supremacy is maintained by the negroes banding themselves together to outvote * the whites, just so long will there be misgovernment from which the whites must suffer the most, and which they will not gatiently submit to,