The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD STREET, BROADWAY AND ANN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heraup 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 month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henaxp. Letters and ‘packages should be properly sealed. - Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO., 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XL. .c.cececcccscccecescerccrsces NO, 285 “AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BOOTHS THEATRE, | Rees street and Sixth ‘avenue.—English Opera— T,at8 P.M. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Es em la —VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 “PARK THEATRE, foe “second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- ‘Mr. und Mrs. Florence. Ears & GILMORE’S SUMMER ogres Jate, Barnum's ‘Hippodrome GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 3 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, | toed West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A, M. toS | TIVOLI THEATR! Eighth strect, nour Third avenue SVAHIETY, at 8P, M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Trenty-eichth street, near Broadway. —OUR BOYS, at 8 . M. ; closes at 10:30" P. M. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ON HAND, at8 P.M. John Thompson. HOWE & CUSHIN '$ CIRCUS, Eighth avenue and Forty-ninth street.—Performances day evening. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, third street and Sixt ig COTTON & REED'S NEW TORE MINSTRELS at OMG; closes as 10 Pe THEATRE MIQUE | i Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 '_MAZEPPA, at 8 E x cioses at 10:45 P.M. Kate Fisher. Matinee at 2 TONY Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway STOR'S, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street “and Highth | avenite—French Opera uile—GIROFLE-GIROFLA, at 8 P. M. SWAY HALL, ‘L CONCERT OF SCHOLARS. ‘ourteenth street.— rofessor E. Walter THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Third avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-Orst streets— VARIETY, af 8 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving pluce.—EHRLICHE AR- BEIT, at 5 P. M. WALLACR’S THEATRE, and_ Thirteenth street.—THE OVERLAND RoOrs, a SP. ‘M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joha Gilbert, ee yas. PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Row Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ac SP, AMERICAN IN! Third avenue and Sixty-third stre: TITUTE, —Day sind evening. TRIPLE SHEET. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1875, NEW YORK, Tue Henaxp py Fast Mam, Trarss.—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 Taz Heraup, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers dy sending their orders direct to this office. From our reports reports this morning is morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and cloudy, with occasional rain. Watt Srnzet Yestexpay.—Stocks rallied temporarily on the strength of Ohio advices. Gold opened at 116 1-2 and closed at 116 5-8. Rag money was worth 85.75. Money stiffened to four per cent, but ended at two and a half and three. Tue Prrvce or Waxes started last night on his voyage to India, and his Princess aecom- panied him as far as Calais, where the last fond adieus will be said this morning. Bon voyage to H. K. H. Joun Ketzy Dors Nor Reoarp’/Recorder Hackett as a fit nominee for Tammany. Yet Recorder Hackett has sentenced murderers to be hanged, for whose shaving and execu- ion ex-Sheriff Kelly charged exorbitantly high, and, it is alleged, illegal fees ! Ax Inon Excutsn Steamer, the Biscay, has been wrecked off Jutland and eleven persons awere drowned. The vessel was on her home- ward journey from Cronstadt. Joux Keniry taxus Exceptions to Recorder yHackett’s votes in the Board of Supervisors. But Kelly’s exorbitant bills as Sheriff were audited by the Board of Supervisors under the influence of the late James Watson, and Kelly then had a high opinion of that body. Tury Have Bren Bunsixe down a great hotel in Berlin—the ‘Kaiserhof"—at a loss of a million dollars. Big fires are not con- fined to Chicago and Boston. “Tue Orricens Wuo Escort and guard | prisoners to and from the City Prison and | who guard them in Court, and who to some extent control process, ought not to be mero politicians, but such reliable men as the judges select.”—Recorder Hackett on Kelly's proposition to partition Ue court qffices among the ward politicians. Tue Gnatiryixo News comes through a special to an English journal that Servia and Turkey have mutually agreed to withdraw their troops from the frontier. This looks The Tammany Nominations. A person curious to mark the freaks of politics and observe contradictions between theory and practice would find his taste for oddities gratified by the democratic party of this State and this city. It is of the very essence of democracy that political power is lodged in the whole body of citizens and that all are entitled to a voice in public af- fairs. Nothing is so repugnant to the spirit of democratic institutions as a one-man power or political dictatorship. But the Democratic State Convention was controlled by Governor Tilden, and the Tammany Con- vention yesterday submitted to the dictator- ship of Mr. John Kelly. While the coun- try at large is protesting against Cmsarism we are regaled with two miniature Cwesars in the democratic party of New York—one in the State, the other in the city. Rome, thon has lost the breed of noble bloods. When’ went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than one man? When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome, That her wide walls encompassed but one man? Now it is Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. There may be an enlightened as well as a | stupid Cwsarism ; the first was exemplified | in Governor Tilden’s exercise of the one-man | power at Syracuse, the second by Mr. John | Kelly in Tammany Hall yesterday. A politi- cal Cwsar may be a very good democrat at | bottom, and when he holds his dictator- | ship by so frail a tenure as popular approval | he can maintain it only by ordering such things as the good sense of the | people is likely to indorse. This is what | Governor Tilden had the sagacity to do at Syracuse; but Mr. John Kelly has aped the dictatorship without the same rectifying sa- gacity. Unlike Governor Tilden, Mr. Kelly | has depended on the mere force of party spirit, assuming that if he could force the nomination of his own candidates party feel- ing would suffice to elect them in a city where the democratic party is so strong. He has acted on the assumption that a regular nomination is equivalent to an election, whereas Governor Tilden was careful to make up a State ticket which deserves elec- | tion on its merits, knowing that party spirit | can act with unimpaired force only when the | party has good reason to be satisfied with its | candidates. Mr, Kelly has sapped the foun- dations of his dictatorship by his failure to imitate Governor Tilden’s prudence and re- inforoe party feeling with public approval. The capital mistake made by Mr. Kelly is | his attempt to deprive the city of the services | of so upright, tried and popular a magistrate as Recorder Hackett, and to replace him with a subservient judicial tool. This inex- cusable blunder is likely to cost Mr. Kelly | his dictatorship. Party spirit and party dis- cipline are strong, but public opinion is stronger, as Mr. Kelly's predecessors in Tammany leammed to their cost. Moreover, he has hosts of enemies in Tammany itself, who are impatient of his dictatorial manner and undemocratic arrogance, and only await a favoring occasion to break and throw off his yoke. Hisattempt to fling out and crush an upright democratic Judge like Recorder Hackett supplies the occasion which his democratic enemies have longed and waited for. It enables them to appeal to public opinion against him with a reasonable assur- ance that public opinion will be on their side. He has put it in their power to accuse him of pursuing the worst tactics of the old Tammany Ring, which foisted its creatures on the Bench as a means of self-protection. Mr. Kelly’s enemies in his own political household will be glad to avail themselves of such an opportunity. They will rejoice that he has outraged the public sentiment of the best classes of this great community, be- cause they have only awaited an oc- casion when public sentiment would sup- port them to strike down the one-man power and abolish Cwsarism in the city democracy. Recorder Hackett possesses the confidence of our citizens ina degree not often reached by occupants of the Bench. In the whole period during which he has presided in our most important criminal Court his name has not been mentioned but in terms implying warm approbation. He is one of the most popular judges that ever sat on the Bench which he occupies and adorns. Mr. Kelty's attempt to drive so es- teemed a magistrate into the obscurity of pri- vate life will not be indorsed by our citizens, as Mr. Kelly will learn in due time. Mr. Kelly's cut-and-dried nominations went smoothly through, and there was no necessity for his abusive tirade against Re- corder Hackett, except as a means of justify- ing the action of the Convention to the pub- lic, It was felt that the rejection of so up- right, independent and esteemed a magis- trate required a defence, and on this point Mr- Kelly had a correct appreciation of pub- lic sentiment. He knows that Recorder Hackett has ‘‘won golden opinions,” and felt constrained to offer an apology for sub- stituting one of his favorites for so admirable and approved a Judge. This invective speech was not needed to influence his obedient Convention, but he felt that it was needed to justify an inde- fensible act to the public. Mr. Kelly has given a new verification of the trite French proverb, ‘‘ qui s'excuse, s'accuse”—that is to say, a man who makes explanations confesses that public opinion condemns him, Mr. Kelly is certainly correct in thinking that his rejection of Recorder Hackett stands in great need of a defence. His trumped-up charges amount to nothing. He is compelled | toadmit that the foremost of them—Re- | corder Hackett’s claim for services | as Assistant Corporation Counsel-—was valid in law, and Mr. Kelly's own claim for services as Sheriff should | have made him blush when he presented | such an accusation. It has been reserved for Mr. John Kelly, at this late day, to dis- cover that Recorder Hackett is an unfit man for the Bench, and even he would not have | made the discovery if he had not a personal | favorite to whom he had promised the place. If the Convention had been freely chosen and not packed by Mr, Kelly, and had been left to act on its own judgment, it would never have thought of any other candidate | than Recorder Hackett, Mr, Kelly speaks disparagingly of the city press, but the press has been only a faithful reflec- tion of public sentiment, Is it not wonderful that nobody but Mr. Kelly has ever found out that Recorder Hackett is not favorable to peace and to the bulls in Turk- ish stocks, a goodJudge? Even Mr. Kelly did not make the discovery until he found a crony wanted | cians. | proposition.”- | to send | Agnes.” NEW YORK HEKALD, TUESDAY, the place. He knows in advance that public opinion will condemn him, and this is the only reason for his bitter speech. The neces- sity for his abusive harangue was not any fear that his packed and servile Convention would fail to nominate his candidate, but a well- founded apprehension that the public opinion of the city will condemn this abuse of his dictatorial authority. Recorder Hackett will be re-elected is spite of Mr. Kelly, who is in danger of having the whole Tammany slate broken by this exhibition of arrogance and injustice. He has furnished the opportunity which his democratic enemies covet to break his ascendancy. Mr. Smythe will meet the same fate which attended Mr. James Hayes last year and furnish a new demonstration that a Tammany nomination is not equiva- lent to an election when public fecling is aroused in favor of a different candidate. It would be idle to comment on the other machine nominations which were run through yesterday, for although some of them may be respectable they are merely John Kelly's nominations, and the people of the city will not think well of his selections after his attempt to drive an upright and admired democratic Judge from the Bench. If the opposition to Tammany combines and se- lects a really good ticket, including Re- corder Hackett, Mr. Kelly's ticket will be beaten, as it richly deserves to be, consider- ing the animus of its inventor. ‘Possrsty I May Herearrer invite politi- cal animosity by this determination; yet, while privately my sympathies are most ar- | dent in their democratic tendencies, I should | be recreant to my judicial independence 'and sense of duty if I answered otherwise | than I have now done.”—From Recorder | Hackett’s letter refusing to fill the court offices with Tammany politicians. Mr. Stanley’s Second Letter. Mr, Stanley's second letter, which we print this morning, will be read with even more pleasure than was afforded by the story of | his march to the Victoria Niyanza, which we published yesterday. It is. in this epistle that we have the account of the valuable dis- coveries he has already made, and it will be seen that it gives much ground to hope for more important results than have yet been obtained. The search after sources of the Nile is as great an undertak- ing in the nineteenth century as was the dis- covery of Americain the fifteenth, and the problem at last seems in a fair way of com- plete and satisfactory solution. Great priva- tions were endured and terrible dangers, both from a treacherous foe and a treacherous climate, were met and overcome in reaching the real basis of the operations of the expe- dition ; but it was to be expected that Mr. Stanley would be compelled to confront all these before he could even begin to investi- gate the sources of that mighty river whose | | the | fame is older than history itself, and the se- | eret of whose fountains is still locked up in the jungles of Equatorial Africa. Mr. Stan- ley’s second letter deals entirely with his exploration of the Victoria Niyanza and treats of the geography of the lake of the rivers which flow into it and the coun- tries which surround it. From beginning to end it is replete with facts, and full as it is it is not so complete as our correspondent wished to make it, for even in the village of Kagehyi, in the district of Uchambi, and the country of Usukuma the mail sometimes closes before prolific letter writers are ready for it. Notwithstanding this was the case the expedition was a complete success, and Mr. Stanley’s descriptions are an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the almost unknown land and unfurrowed waters he was sent to explore and describe. In spite of many obstacles from treachery and ex- haustion, disease and death the beginning of his great work must be regarded as auspicious, and we cannot doubt that he will fulfil Liv- ingstone’s unaccomplished mission to our sat- isfaction and that of our ally in this expedition and of the scientific world. For the first time in the history of African explo- ration the work is undertaken with adequate means for its accomplishment, and the Lady Alice will doubtless contribute her full share to the success of the work. We may expect, as the result of Mr. Stanley's investigations, the settlement of the long-vexed question of the Nile sources, apart from the scarcely less important contributions to our knowledge of an interesting and almost unknown region. “Tr Torre Exists an office which more than any other one should be utterly di- vorced from political considerations it is that of a clerk or deputy clerk of a criminal court. Even if disposed to throw open its books and records to a politician I could not do it, because the deputy clerk is not ap- pointed by the judges of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions.”—Recorder Hackett's reply to Tammany’s attempt to seize on the patronage of his Court. Canprvat McCrosrey Has Onperep in Rome a splendid marble altar for the new cathedral in this city. The cost of the altar will be forty thousand dollars. The Cardinal leaves Rome to-day on his homeward journey, and will visit Cardinal Manning in London and Cardinal Cullen in Ireland on the way. Many prayers will be offered up for his safe return. “Tr Tuene Exists an office which more than any other should be utterly divorced from political considerations it is that of a | clerk or deputy clerk of a criminal court. * * * The officers who escort and guard | prisoners to and from the City Prison and who guard them in Court, and to some extent control process, ought not to be mere politi- * * * The Legislature has wisely placed the selection of such officers in the exclusive jurisdiction of the jndges of the Court, * * * I cannot sanction your -Recorder Hackett’ We Anz Promtsep a committee of Italians to represent the Italian govewament at the Centennial, and His Holiness the Pope is us two mosaics, repre: Raphael's “Madonna” and Genti The committee and the mosaics will both be welcome. Tur Correspondence Between the Mayor and the Police Commissioners is published to-day. If it ends in the reorganization of the Board the public interests will be sub- served, UUTOBER 12, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, Is Opera Possible in New York ?—Mr. Strakosch and Mlle. Titiens. Whatever Mr. Max Strakosch writes upon the subject of Italian opera should be read with respectful attention, for he has certainly labored long and faithfully to pro- mote its interests in New York. The letter we print from him to-day is that of an earnest man, who suffers from a real or fancied wrong, but who is candid enough to admit that he is not wronged by any inten. tional injustice. Mr. Strakosch declares that ‘each man has some sort of right to choose his own busi- ness and to conduct it in accordance with his means and prospects ;” all of which we most potently and powerfully believe. Upon this principle Mr. Strakosch holds that when he engaged Mlle. Titiens for concerts, and not for opera, in this city, he merely ex- ercised a personal right. But when he inti- mates, as he certainly does, notwithstanding his disclaimer, that it is not within the sphere of legitimate criticism to regret that this eminent singer appears in so limited a field, we are very much afraid that he abjures his own logic and denies to us the same right which he so properly claims for himself. It is his natural, legal and moral right to engage Mile. Titiens, or any one, for any worthy purpose which they may mutually agreo to serve. But nothing that he does as manager is exempt,from the kind and candid criticism of the press. This point is too plain to need further ex- planation, The question is not of the exist- ence of Mr. Strakosch’s abstract rights as a human being and a manager, but of the wisdom with which he has exercised them and the value of his enterprise to the public... Mr. Strakosch must permit us to differ with him altogether as to contend that her fame is not founded on almost entirely on her triumphs in opera. When she appeared on the stage at the age of fifteen it was in opera, and for twenty-five years she has been great in the greatest réles of opera. If she has achieved in Europe a reputation in concert singing equal to that of her operatic performances, that reputa- tion has not crossed the Atlantic. The American people know her only as capacity above all that they desire to hear her. This being the fact why should we seek to conceal it? Indeed, it could not be hidden, for who does not know that the Titiens who sings a few beautiful melodies in Steinway Hall is not the Titiens who, we are told, swept the stage in the pomp of tragedy and poured from ‘‘the deep throat of sad Melpomene” Fidelio’s constant love or Norma’s passionate wrath ? When Mr. Strakosch says that he produces Mile. Titiens in concert because he would fail if he attempted to produce her in opera he takes a stronger stand. Here we approach the domain of the manager. The picture he draws of the failures of Italian opera in New York for the past quarter of a cen- tury is a painful one indeed. We ad- mit that his complaint is just, excepting so far as it reproaches the New York publio with giving indifferent support to opera. New York has done more for music, when we consider how young it is in the art, than any other city in the world. Managers have been ruined in London as well as here, as Balfe was when he endeavored to establish a national English opera, and in Paris many an operatic season has only been saved by the pecuniary aid given by the French gov- ernment. Our people love music and are liberal in their support of it, and if Mr. Strakosch would assign the true reason of failure let him not blame the public, but the system which surrenders the best portion of the Academy of Music to the stockholders and thus deprives the public of hundreds of seats and the lessee of thousands of dollars. Yet we concede that Mr. Stra- kosch may be correct in his statement of facts, even if wrong in his explanation of their causes. We would not urge him to under- take enterprises in which he believes ho would fail. We simply regret that this should be the condition of affairs and that the most enterprising of our operatic man- agers should declare opera to be impossible. In regard to the suggestion that a subscrip- tion list for an operatic season should be opened in the Heratp office we can only acquit Mr. Strakosch of incredible innocence by complimenting him for unequalled irony. He argues his right to conduct his own business and then in- vites us to manage it for him. We decline the honor, which it would be presumption to accept. That is not the way to insure success. But we can and do promise that if Mr. Strakosch ever sees his way clear to an operatic season, especially with Mlle. Titi- ens this winter, he can depend upon our support to the fullest extent and that of the whole press and the entire musical public of New York. “Wuarever May Have Bren tue Porrrican Svs or Former leaders in Tammany Hall, they have never increased them by even sug- gestively interfering with the independence of the Court in which I have the honor to be a judge."—Recorder Hacketl's rebuke of John Kelly. Tue Curyese Government has issued an edict enjoining the people to behave prop- erly to foreigners. At the same time the im- portant points of the English Minister's de- mands have not yet been conceded, and no steps have been taken toward the punish- ment of the Margary murderers. These facts are regarded as unfavorable to the pros- pect of an ultimate settlement that will be satisfactory to England. “Tue Commirter on Oncawization of Tam- many Hall has assigned to our district one deputy clerk and one officer of your court, suitable persons to be recommended by the Tammany Hall committee of our district.” — Tammany's mandate to Recorder Hackett. Joux Kerix Has Dona his best to drive Recorder Hackett from the Bench. But he has only rendered certain the Recorder's re-election. Recorder Hackett is now the people's candidate, and they will rebuke Kelly's malignity by returning that upright Judge to the Bench by an overwhelming majoritye the basis of Mlle. Titiens’ reputation. We | her concert successes, that it has been only | | broadened by oratorios, and that it rests a famous dramatic vocalist, and it is in that | Future Naval Tactics. What with rams and eighty ton guns mat- ters begin to look as though such expensive iron-clads as the French and British have been building for a dozen years past are out of date before they come into practical use. After the sinking of the Vanguard the other day there is ne tynger the least doubt of the effectiveress of a ram, and the naval com- mander who is exposed to such an instra- ment in actual war will think it his duty to keep out of its way. Two huge iron-clads, each armed with a ram, will probably when they sight each other turn about and run away as fast as they can. At least this would be the only sensible thintg to do. The next naval war the world sees will be probably controled by speed. That bellig- erent which can place on the ocean the greatest number of the fleetest steamers will defeat its opponent, and it will do so in de- fiance of lumbering iron-clads, no matter how heavy their plating, how formidable their rams or how big their guns. This class of ships may perhaps be used in future wars as floating batteries, ad- juncts for the defence of harbors ; useful if torpedoes and earthworks do not suffice. But for that purpose our monitors are much cheaper and more practical than the War- riors and Sovereigns. As to war on the broad ocean, it will be conducted by clip- pers, whose aim will be to keep out of the way of the heavy guns and cripple the enemy's commerce. Thus there will be op- portunity for men of the character of Farra- gut and Lord Dundonald; and the element of mere brute defence and impenetrability, which threatened to make a blacksmith the most important person in a fleet, will be eliminated. In the combats of the Middle Ages the knight, panoplied in armor, rode in perfect safety at his enemy's men-at-arms. | But if his horse was killed under him he lay helpless, and had to be cracked open with a sledgehammer by his captors in order to give him a chance to breathe. He was simply a big bully ; and one of these huge iron-olads is nothing more. The clippers will carry the day over them, for they can run away from them, and they do not cost so much. “Tne Leorstature Has Wisety placed the selection of officers for the Court of General Sessions in the exclusive direction of the | judges of that Court,” says Recorder Hackett | in response to Tammany’s insolent demand to be allowed to seize upon and distribute those offices, ‘‘and hence I cannot sanction your proposition.” In revenge for the .con- tumacy John Kelly attempts to drive Re- corder Hackett from the Bench. Rarw Transit.—The articles of associa- tion of the Manhattan Rapid Transit Com- pany are to be submitted to the Commission- ers next Monday. The company is to be limited to the time designated for the com- | pletion of the road under penalty of the for- feiture of their franchise. The road is to be built on Third avenue if possible, and there certainly can be nothing to prevent it under the law. Canyassers are to start at once to obtain the consent of property owners; but if this consent should be re- fused the courts can order the work should it be found to be required in the public interests. There can be no doubt that Third avenue is the most proper and would probably be the only successful route, and the undisguised attempt of the Third avenue horse car company to defeat rapid transit should only confirm the commission and the people in the determination to build the road on that route. The next Legislature will soon be in session, and care should be taken that its members are friendly to rapid transit and prepared to punish any attempt on the part of the street railroad lines to de- feat it by undue means. Jonn Keuty’s Srxcentty is shown in the fact that he objects to John K. Hackett for Recorder on the ground that he quashed an indictment against Sweeny, and nominates for Recorder Frederick Smythe, Sweeny’s present attorney and the counsel who moved to quash the indictment. Tue Panpora on Her Way.—The Heraxp’s special cable despatch from London brings the gratifying intelligence that the Pandora has been heard from, and that all is going on well on board. Letters from Captain Allen Young and another officer of the vessel bear date Angust 6 and 9; the former dated at Disco, where the Pandora coaled, and the latter at Waygart Straits. The crew were all working well, the disci- pline was admirable, and the commander endearing himself to all by his kindness and efficiency. Some icebergs had been encoun- tered, but the Pandora had fortunately escaped injury. It isto be hoped that the voyage thus propitiously commenced may have a happy termination. Ex-Mayor Hawt, in a letter which wo publish to-day, declares that John Kelly’s animosity to Recorder Hackett had its birth thirteen years ago, when the Recorder, as Assistant Corporation Counsel, opposed the payment of Kelly’s claim for twenty thousand dollars for serving process on liquor dealers under the Excise law. Kelly then swore ‘never to forget or forgive” the Recorder, and he has kept his word. Tue Copz m Pants.—Two young Ameri- cans have made themselves ridiculous in Paris by fighting duel with swords. The cable reports that the cause was ‘an old family vendetta,” but how many lives have been sacrificed in this vendetta cable history fails to record. The blood shed on the pres- ent occasion was, fortunately, only from ono of the combatant’s arms. This was conduct- ing the duel on the most approved Parisian models, Tne Sraren Istanp Ferry Wan—The drift of popular feeling in regard to tho Jacobus Vanderbilt and Blunt war on the independent Staten Island ferry line may be gathered from the fact that the monopoly boats run with a diminished number of pas- sengers, while the Garner boats make nearly every trip with a full load, and the daily receipts at the reduced fare of five cents are heavy. The attempt to forestall the decision of the courts by violence is more severely con- demned as the facts and the incentives to the lawless act are better understood. It is now proposed by some to take the matter to the Grand Jury room, with the object of procur- ing indictments against the parties impli- cated for a conspiracy to destroy private property, As tue Prorze’s Canpmate Recorder Hackett will be more certain of re-election than he would have been as the candidate of John Kelly. The Importance of the Signal Service Weather Maps. Tho observations being taken by the Sig- nal Service Bureau staff simultaneously over the United States, and telegraphed at regular intervals during each day to each station as well as to the central office at Washington, enables the Chief Signal Officer and the local observers to publish every day a chart of the weather over the entire country. This chart gives the temperature, barometrical pres- sure, degree of cloudiness and the velocity and direction of the wind at each station, from which data ‘the probabilities” for the ensuing twenty-four hours are carefully de- duced and given to the press. The system isso near perfection that we are daily ap- ptised of the slightest changes in the atmos- pheric conditions at the most distant points, and can tell with certainty whether winter overcoats are in order in Chicago, Arctic rubbers in Toronto or umbrellas at Mobile. The agricultural interests of the entire coun- try are immensely benefited by the timely information afforded by the weather maps. Farmers are enabled to regulate their operations so as to avoid interruption from freaks of the weather, or make timely prep- aration for coming rain storms or severe frosts. The safe navigation of the lakes and the Gulf of Mexico is facilitated by the cau- tionary signals which are hoisted at the sev- eral ports of departure, sometimes days in advance of the threatened gale; but intelli- gent shipmasters, by studying the daily weather charts, can form a very accurate opinion as to probable changes. We have examined the systems adopted by European nations for their signal service, but none can compare with ours in the matter of accuracy and perfection of detail. The attention of Congress should be drawn, however, to the miserable pay allowed to a class of most in- telligent and deserving public servants. We refer to the observer sergeants of the Signal Service. Men who are qualified to discharge the onerous duties imposed upon these offi- cials are certainly worthy of better pay and more consideration generally than a dock laborer or an indifferent mechanic can casily earn, The safety of millions’ worth of prop- erty depends on the vigilance and good con- duct of the sergeants of the Signal Service, | and we hope that proper provision wil! bo made for them by the next Congress. “Tux Court Has Unprr Ir 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 composi- | tion of political committees often changes, so might the composition of court officers, | and thereby confusion at least be occasioned. | I cannot sanction your proposition.”—Re- corder Hackett's reasons for refusing to allow John Kelly to pack the criminal courts with his political adherents. Tae Evmence Acarsst Donan accumu- lates, and it seems now almost certain that | the murderer of Mr. Noe will be speedily brought to justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs. Grant’s face is said to have “beautiful mother. hood” in It Tho President read his Des Moines specch with spectacles on. Ex-Governor William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, ts staying at the Brevoort House. The Hon, Mr. Huntington has been sworn in as Postmaster General of Canada, vice Fournier. Mr. Amédée Van den Nest, Secretary of the Belgian Legation at Washington, is at the Albemarle Hotel, Bets are made in London that the Prince of Wales will be assassinated before his visit to India is finished, Rev. Joshua Knowles, editor of the Greenesboro (N. C.) Home Journal, was a printer as long ago as 1828, Mr. Jackson, a Volorado banker, has a gentle side to his pecuniary soul He will wed Mrs. Helen Hunt, the poetess, Ex-Senator Wade finds the only cause for our pres. ent evils, moral, material and spiritual, in the want of ahigh protective tariff The widow and daughter of Stonewall Jackson will be the guests of Richmond on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of Jackson on the 26th inst, ‘Tho consolidation of the republican and independent parties in Oregon will, it is reported, insure the suc- cess of the republican nominee for Congress, It seems now that Pinney, the defaulter in the Naval Office at San Francisco, was appointed on the recom- mendation of General La Grange and Senator Cole, One by one ex-Confederate warriors become insurance agents. General Joseph E. Johnston has taken the Georgia agency for a prominent company of New York. The Cincinnati Commercial belicves that the issue in Ohio ts, that if inflation succeeds, irredeemable paper ‘will be expended for railway and canal subsidy schemes, Fish diet is said, after all, not to make brain, but to make a fisny sort of people. So that Boston, which was trying to be intellectual, finds it has mado a mise take in eating shrimps. Jim Fisk’s father is lecturing on temperance, It used to be a custom with the old gentleman when hig son was alive to ask peoplo whether they thought his son would be killed that day or not. Colonel Fred. Grant was called upon at Des Moines for a speech and he said:—“l am sorry not to be able to make you a speech, but as fathor has made a speech to-night, I have hopes of doing so some time, ’? James T. Gardner, Chief Geographer of tho “United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Torri. tories,” and staff left this city yesterday morning for Washington, D. C., to establish headquarters there dur- ng the wintor. In Portugal a young man courts his lady by standing silently in front of her window, while she looks down approvingly apon him One faithful man remained be- foro a lady's window for thirty-four years, She was a nun, and her window was in a cell. General Sheridan and party retarned to San Fran- cisco, on Sunday evening, from a trip to the Goysers. Ho is quartored at the Palace Hotel. On Thursday, tho day fixed for the opening of that hotel, the merchants will give the General a banquet and ball, Somewhere about the 17th of this month a number of distinguished gentlemen, of national reputation, in- cluding Hon. George H. Pendleton, Hon, Thomas F. Bayard, General Hawley, Governor Hendricks and, ' perhaps, Seuator Thurman, will pass through Atlanta, on their way to the State Fair at Macon, Again the tattling Vassar girl is tellitfg tales out o¢ school. After the recent exposure of “smashing,” which means that a mascaline girl is petted, treated ‘and coddled by tho more womanish, we have now the story that the girls have midnight frolics, euchre play- ing, moonlight sled rides, runaway tramps over the country and private theatricals, at which, says the tattler, “with the aid of faiso mustaches, whiskers, burned cork, wigs, &., wo aro enabled to get up vory respectable men.” ‘The report that King Kalakaua was very {Il when the Australian steamer left Honolulu is positively contra- dicted by Mr. Whitney, publisher of the Honolulu Ga: settle, whoarrived on the same steamer. Mr. Whitney called upon His Majesty on the night of his departure for the purpose of leave ta!.ing, and found the King um the enjoyment of excellont healbh and spirits, with the exception of a slight cold,