The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY” AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henaxp will be gent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per uonth, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore fenaxp. The State Election in New York. The political canvass in this State, which | has had little life since the nominations, will be taken up with vigor now that the Ohio | election is over. Senator Conkling will | sound the keynote of the campaign in the speech which he is to deliver at Albany on Monday evening, and during the two inter- vening weeks before the 2d of November there will be an energetic prosecution of th canvass on both sides, The democratic de- feat in Ohio will have considerable influence on the New York election, because it revives | the drooping hopes of the republican purty. It may not be possible for the republicans to carry the State against the excellent ticket | put in the field against them, but they expect | to reduce the democratic majority and demon- | strate that here, as in Ohio, the ‘tidal wave” has been arrested and turned back. Haying | regained Ohio the republicans will probably | recover Pennsylvania also, and if they should | vote of the State for the same two years gives | the following result:— Dix's vote iy 1872 Dix's vote in 1874 Republican loss....... It is shown by the: cratic gain was less by 57,686 votes than the republican loss, or in other words that re- | publicans enough stayed away from the polls last year to have defeated Mr. Tilden by more than seven thousand majority. _ If, therefore, the yote of the State could be as fully brought out in New York ‘as it was in Ohio, the republican party would have a chance to be equally victorious. We do not | believe they can accomplish this, for there | are many honest republicans who would feel no grief at the election of the democratic ticket, identified as it is with an energetic ‘attempt to eradicate abuses in the State gov- ernment. We can see no possibility of a republican success in New York, but it is not only possible but probable that there | Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. SONDON 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. with the prestige of possessing two of the three largest this degree of success they will not despair of electing the next President. The influence of the’Ohio election in New York will not be so great as in Pennsylvania, but it will be considerable. It encourages the New York republicans to make a yigor- their election expenses; their ablest speakers OLUME XL eeteeeressesserecerereees s++++>NO, 239 | will be brought into the canvass ; every inch AHUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOOY” AND. EVENING, STEINWAY HALL, Pourteenth street.—TITIEN'S CONCERT, at 1:20 P. M. i METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Se,128 West Fourteenti street.—Open trom 10 A. M. toS ‘ TIVOLI THEATRE, Sichth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2B. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, [wenty-eighth street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 *. Mj closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P. M. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, AEIGTY, at 8 F. M.; closes av" 10:45 P.M, Urcoklyn.. bie pep THEATRE, M. John Thompson. Matinee BOWER Bowery.—ON HAND, at 5 ators M. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Music.—Por- ‘ormanees day and evening. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Sroadway, corner of Thirtieth street—MAZEPPA, at 8 2. M.; clogs at 10:45 2, M. Miss Kate Fisher. Matinee at oP fi TONY PASTOR'S, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P. M. —French Opera Souffe—LE CANARD A TROIS BEUS, at 82. M. Matinee at 1:90 P. M,—GIROFLE-GIROFLA. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, ‘hird avenue, between Thirtioth and Thirty-first streets,— VARIETY, at'8 P. M, Matinee at 2 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—EHRLICHE AR- BEIT, at 5 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—THE OVERLAND go0re, ‘at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Ada Dyas. Matinee at 1:30 P. PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street aud Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2 P.M. ° ‘ DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, fwonty-third street and Sixth avenne.—COTTON & REED'S EW TORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; cloves ot 10 F. M. ‘atinee at 2 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Brondway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 2M, Matinee at 2 P. M. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Whird avenue and Sixty-third t.—Duy and evening. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broad corner of Twenty-ninth street, stoP. M. Matinee at 2 BOOTH’S THEATRE, Fronty ties street and Sixth savenne.—English Opera— LAVOLO, at 8 P.M. Mins Clara Louise Kellogg. Matinee at 1:30 P. M—THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ©. M, Matinee at 2 P. M. PARK THEATRE, ns and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. Matinee at 2 P. M. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum’s Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 8P. M.; cloves at 11 P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. Ss TRIPLE SHEET. =—— sie NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875, a NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Owing to the present pressure of advertisements Wor the Sunday Henaxp advertisers are requested jto send in their notices early lo-day, in order that | hey may be properly classified. From our reports this morning the probabilities care that the weather to-day will be warm, cloudy | sand rainy. Tur Henarp sy Fast Mam Traixs.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of (New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as vevell asin the West, the Pacific Coast, the North yand Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud~ son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be | supplied with Tue Henan, free of postage, Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers | \dy sending their orders direct to this office, Wait Stnret Yesterpay.—Gold closed at | 117. Rag money is thus worth 85.47. On | yall loans money was quoted at 3 per cent. | (Foreign exchange unsettled and government | Gnvestments generally firm. Hacrert asp Grupensterve will hit the gmark and shoot right ahead of their Tam- Bmany competitors. Tur Nore Recentiy sent to the Vatican Py the Spanish government is explained in yan editorial article in the Hpoca, of Madrid, jyesterday. The note, it is said, expresses wish to negotiate for the modification of ved Concordat of 1851, and insists that with- wut such modifications the Concordat can mever be executed. Orricta, News from Constantinople, by jeable, reports the defeat of a body of in- urgents by the Turks, and the submission of ground will be contested. Since the Ohio election they will think themselves’ disen- cumbered of the third term. So many re- publican State conventions have passed anti-third-term resolutions during the pre- sent year that General Grant's only remain- ing chance consisted in such a spread of the inflation folly as would frighten the two evils. The Ohio election demonstrates that inflation cannot win. It has been de- feated in its very citadel, and there is no other State in which it has anything like the strength, vitality, courage or leadership which were displayed in the hard fought Ohio campaign. The inflationists, hav- ing failed in Ohio, cannot succeed anywhere, for there is no other State in which they could make this issue with so many advantages as in ablest advocates. There is no longer any danger that this infatuation will spread. It will hardly dare show its head in Pennsyl- vania, the State in which, next to Ohio, it was strongest, having been adopted in the democratic platform by a miajority of two to one. Even in Ohio it was morally defeated in advance of its political rejection. In the latter stages of the canvass its organs and speakers changed front and declared that they were not inflationists, but only anti- crats will fall back to the same position, and henceforward there will be no avowed infla- tionistsin any State. Whatever may be the | individual opinions of certain classes of citi- zens, inflation as a political issue is quite dead. In Pennsylvania, which stood next to Ohio in the inflation ranks, the chief concern of the democrats will be to explain away their platform, and every democratic speaker who goes on the stumpewill disclaim being an inflationist, as was done in Ohio during the last week of the canvass. This moral defeat of inflation is even more impor- tant and significant than its political discom- fiture. We proceed to indicate the bearing of this result onthe Hew York canvass. By destroy- ing President Grant’s only remaining chance ofathird nomination it tends to heal the division which has for some time existed in the republican party of New York. The Grant faction and the anti-Grant faction will easily be merged when the latter sees, as it now must, that President Grant’s last chance for another nomination has vanished with the extinction of the inflation issue. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Conkling will act in con- cert, for President Grant has no longer any other interest than to leave the party that elected him strong and respectable. Senator Conkling and the Custom House people kept away from the Saratoga Convention lest their presence should injure the party, and the Convention passed a resolution against o third term in the same view. But since the Ohio election the third term is a question of the past and there is no longer any obstacle to a consolidation of the republican party of the State. The Morgan faction and the Cus- tom House faction will now act in concert. Mr. Morgan’s pecuniary liberality and Sena- tor Conkling’s eloquence will work in unison and contribute to the same end. Instead of merely trying to save the Senate the republi- cans will make a vigorous campaign for their State ticket. They will take additional courage from the political condition of this city under the | Tammany dictatorship of Mr. John Kelly. They will proclaim from Montauk Point to Niagara Falls that Tammany has returned to its old courses ; that it has flung out the most | upright and efficient criminal judge in our city in order to make the administration of criminal justice a football of politics ; that there is no real difference between Tammany under Tweed and Tammany under Kelly, since both alike have aimed to make the Ju- diciary subservient to their political inter- ests. The public odium which still rests upon the very name of Tammany will be a formidable weapon in the State canvass, when it is seen that Recorder Hackett, who | has the full confidence of the best classes of this community, is vilified and rejected in order to give his office to one of the creatures of the new Tammany ‘‘Boss.” Another reason why the republicans will {seventeen refractory villages to Turkish peuthority. Probably we shall hear to-morrow | ‘of the withdrawal of all the forces on both | attempt to make @ lively canvass is the ne- cessity of bringing out their full vote, for if they could succeed in this they would not be | ‘sides and the amicable settlement of all out- | without hope of defeating Governor Tilden’s | tanding difficulties. 3s constantly in motion. . <7 TI A Srxavnan Incrpert occurred before | Vaudgo Lawrence yesterday. In the course The Turkish see-saw | ticket. Skilfal politicians are in the habit superior Court yesterday, but went over to | of studying election statistics with as much eare as a military conmiander consults his | maps. By comparing the gubernatorial vote | of 1872 with that of 1874 the republicans find | cut down the democratic majority in New York they will enter the Presidential canvass States and an increase of strength in the third. Should they achieve | ous canvass. Money will be freely given for | country into nominating him as the lesser of | the place of its birth and the home of its | contractionists.. The Pennsylvania demo- | will be a reduction of the democratic major- | ity of last year. The ‘‘tidal wave,” which | | was at its flood one year ago, has begun to | subside by the folly of the Ohio democrats, | and the subsidence will be felt: in the New | York canvass. ' | The Police Demoralization. The answers of Police Commissioners Mat- | sell and Disbecker to the charges preferred | | against them and to the request of the Mayor | for their resignation were made yesterday. | The counsel by whom the answers were writ- | ten have overshot their mark, and whatever ; | credit they may have won as sharp contro- | | yersialists has been gained at the expense of | | their clients’ interests. They have been | | unmereifully severe on Mayor Wickham. | They have made an ingenious and not al- together unsuccessful effort to convict him of | | inconsistency. They have turned upon him with the rebuke that if the police force has, as he alleges, been inexcusably inefficient | and demoralized beyond hope of recovery, he has himself as the head of the city gov- | | ernment for over nine months made no effort | and offered no suggestion or direction for its | reformation or improvement. They have | disclosed the fact that he secretly united with the arraigned Commissioners in the lobby’s defeat of the bill intro- duced by his own party at the last session of the Legislature to separate the street cleaning business from the Police De- partment. They show that in some instances the Mayor is not so familiar with the de- | | tails of the police laws and regulations as he | might be. But at the same time they prove | conclusively that their clients, Disbeckerand Matsell, are not fit to be at the head of the | police force of the city; that their con- | tinuance im their present positions is incon- | sistent with the public interests and with | the harmony and efficiency of the city gov- ‘ernment, and that their removal has | already been too long delayed. It is absurd for Disbecker and Matsell to | | tell the people of New York that crime has not increased in this city within the past | two or three years; that the charge that | | “gambling houses and panel houses exist | | throughout this city to an alarming extent | and with astonishing notoriety is a reckless | | assertion entirely untrue ;” that the recent | presentment of the Grand Jury was the | result of undue “operations,” and that the New York police force is “as efficient in the discharge of its duties as any existing in any city in Europe or America.” The reckless- | ness of such statements can only strengthen the public conviction that the present heads of the department are either incapable or | dishonest. When it is notorious that cap- tains of police have been the pensioners or blackmailers of the violators of law; that detectives have been in the pay of thieves and have in return afforded them protection and immunity, and when the Police Com- | missioners themselves have shifted precincts | and remanded detectives to patrol duty on these very grounds, it becomes something worse than impudence to put forth such assertions in an official document. If any- thing more could be needed to prove that | Commissioners Matsell and Disbecker are unfit for the positions they occupy it would be found in the tone of their reply to the letter addressed to them by the Mayor in the discharge of his official duty. Tse Hayman Drericuury.—The. habit of American Ministers and Consuls in South | | America and the West Indies of affording protection to political refugees has been brought to the attention of the State De- partment in connection. with the Haytian difficulty, which has been happily settled by the banishment of Canales. Reaister! Reowrer!—A correspondent 40-day calls attention to the necessity of reg- istering the whole respectable vote of the city if we would defeat the attempt of Kelly to seize upon the criminal and civil courts and again crowd the Bench with the tools of Tammany. The stggestion is well-timed, The partisans of the new ‘Boss” will cer- tainly register, and the independent voters who do not believe in delivering up all our political rights into the hands of an arrogant, blundering, incapable man should do the same. The law requires a new registration every year, and unless this requirement is fulffiled an elector loses his vote. Tue Brack Hu1s.—The last days of the Grand Council with the Sioux, having in view the cession of portions of their reserva- | tions and the wants of the Indians, as de- | veloped in the negotiations, are graphically depicted in our correspondence from Red | Cloud Agency published this morning. Tue Srory of the one million bond forgery, in which Roberts, Gleason, Ralston and others figured, and in connection with which the liberation of Spence Pettis from the Bos- ton State Prison was sought some time since, has been revived by the suit reached in the | next term. Tue Deposrrors in the Third Avenne Say- ings Bank appear to be at last on the right road to the protection of their interests, | prominent lawyer of this city made judges ce is supposed oxo sudleggs to pass pishont mahioe ve expressions, At all events they f coue remarks on @ motion in a 1 ® | that enongh of their voters stayed away from | aif ol the polls last year to change the result, We rvation severely reflecting on two of the | insert the following statements:— of the Supreme Court, Judge Law- | tytaon’s vote in 1974. not to have heard the Kernan’s vote in 1872. b= Democratic gain.. A similar comparison o 416,301 | bank, with the object of discovering whether 392,350 | the receiver appointed at the instigation of | They have determined to obtain an order to | examipe all the books and papers of the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. A Conversation with Mr. Schurz. Ex-Senator Schurz, to whose efforts in | Ohio the defeat of the inflation democrats | there is largely due, has given in comversa- | tion with friends since his return to this city ” | his views of the political situation, and we print elsewheré this morning an authentic | expression of these views from his own lips, It will be seen that while he regards the in- | flation snake as only seotehed, and not killed, | he believesrthe main danger from this source | tobe past. He believes that the inflation democrats in the West, sore over their defeat, may strive to revenge themselves upon the | sound currency democrats of the East and make trouble within the party, and he is evi- dently apprehensive lest they may receive | help from the Southern democrats. | As to the future he plainly holds himself independent of party ties and influences, and prefers to leave the door open to act with that one of the two parties which, as he pertinently remarks, shall rise farthest above its old record and its dangerons and merely selfish element. He went to Ohio to help to | avert from the country a serious danger; he would again do so, no matter from which side or party the danger threat- | ened. He believes, and probably with reason, that the number of the independent voters who occupy substantially his position is rapidly and constantly in- creasing in the country, and that this class will require from the party which is to win their suffrages next year not only fair promises, but candidates whose character and known opinions shall give assurance of honest and good government. While he evi- dently regards the financial issue as of great importance he remarks that some other re- forms are also demanded, and is evidently not inclined to see the currency question made | the sole one next year. In this he shows his political sagavity. __ It is evident from what Mr. Schurz says that the independent voter ‘having helped in Ohio to defeat inflation does not thereby hold himself committed to the republican party, but means to remain independent and to choose next year what he believes to be the best ticket then before the country. That both parties are improving slightly, and that any improvement in one is likely to be of use to reform the other is Mr. Schurz’s opinion ; but he adds that the best elements in both parties are now substantially agreed upon the reforms which the country requires, and that a union of these better elements would be a blessing to the country, though he does not expect at this time such an occurrence, but wishes that both parties next year would make such unexceptionable nominations as would make the choice of either good for the country. It is clear that the independent voters have not allowed themsé@¥yes to be committed to the republican side by the Ohio campaign. They have made their power felt there for the good of the country and not with partisan vibws or leanings, and they hold themselves hereafter at perfect liberty to follow the call of duty rather than of party. There is no doubt that thus they are both more useful to the country and more formidable to the self- ish designs of politicians. Considering their numbers, the character of their leading minds and their opinions, there can be no doubt that if this class of voters is really in- dependent, if they, as Mr.. Schurz says, keep | themselves aloof from entangling alliances with either party, they can and must exer- cise in the preparations for the Presidential | elections a potent influence for good upon both parties. Tae Honest Sentiment of the people rebukes poor Kelly’s attempt to gratify his personal malignity against Judge Hackett, and to deprive the Bench of a fearless and upright Judge. The Bordentown Register, although a democratic paper, says of Re- corder Hackett :—‘‘This Judge has been very | severe on offenders, sending them to prison for the longest terms. The public have generally approved of this and hoped he would be renominated. John Kelly stated in the Convention last evening that in the days of the Ring Hackett had voted with it, and was therefore objectionable; but his friends say that Kelly’s opposition is a per- sonal matter and arises out of the Judge's action as counsel ina case where Kelly as Sheriff was plaintiff Whoever is right, the action of the Convention has strengthened the anti-Tammany party.” A Srycurar Scene was enacted in the trial room at Police Headquarters yesterday. The redoubtable Colonel James Kerrigan, being called as a witness to testify in the case of Captain McCulloch, refused to answer the questions put tohim until the Board of Com- missioners had shown him their authority to interrogate him. ‘You are yourselves under charges,” said the fiery Colonel, ‘and you cannot question me until you have purged yourselves of such charges.” In vain the presiding Commissioner insisted, and in vain the counsel to the Board per- sisted. Kerrigan was immovable; so the Court shrugged its shoulders at last and adjourned until Monday. A -Honrmie Story of a double murder at Gowanus yesterday morning is told in our columns to-day. The two victims were respectable ,colored men, and their murderers were white roughs, who inter- tered with the party to which the deceased belonged while they were enjoying a picnic in a park at Bay Ridge. Another revolting crime is recorded from Barre, Vt., where an old man was brutally butchered. The mur- derer in the latter case his not yet been traced. At Last Twexp's Answer to the complaint | in the six million suit has been filed. While answering, however, the great defendant reserves his right to his appeal against the last adverse decision in his case refusing him a stay of proceedings, He denies that he did combine, agree or conspire with the late James Watson as charged, and gives a general denial to all the allegations in the complaint. Tue Arrest or A Picxpocker on Third avenue yesterday elicited from the prisoner the fact that a regular brigade of pickpockets | had been organized to follow up target ex- cursions and rob the innocent lookers-on. | In this case the victim was a lady. Moral— Never stop to admire a target company on its | the bank is a proper person to be intrusted e republican | with the duty of winding wn its affairs, march, | this evil precedent that the people will now The Politicians and Candidates. The people's ticket for the county judicial offices was completed last night. The work has been well done, The nominations are as strong as they could well be made, and the list, as a whole, will be heartily accepted by the citizens of New York, and will be elected by them at the polls. The politicians made some effort to gratify personal prefer- ences here and there on the ticket, but the attempt was respectfully but firmly resisted, and the result will be satisfactory to all. The republicans deserve credit for the sincerity and good faith with which they carried out the spirit of the resolution adopted in their Convention and aided to put forward honest, independent, capable candidates without regard to political considera- tions. The only struggle they made was to secure such names as would commend themselves to the approval of the respectable portion of the community and would guarantee the purity and independence of the Judiciary and the proper administra- tion of justice, In point of capacity the ticket completed last night is immeasurably superior to that made up by John Kelly. Taken on its merits alone it should command the support of the electors and receive a large majority. But when the circumstances attending the Tam- many nominations are considered the success of the people's ticket should not for an in- stant be doubtful. The Kelly candidates in fact represent nobody but Kelly. They were not the choice even of the men who met together and went through the farce of nominating them. It was one overbearing, incapable, stubborn and prejudiced man dictating to a great party what they should do, . Prominent members of the Convention and of the Tammany General Committee declared their preference for Re- corder Hackett above all other candidates, and deplored,the obstinacy and arrogance which forced them to remain silent and to submit to the nomination of Mr. Smyth. It was evident, even to the partisans of Kelly, that he had resolved to pack the Bench and the District Attorney's office with his own favorites. Whatever may have been the mo- tives that prompted such a desire the exper- | iment cannot but be full of evil. It would make the Judiciary, and especially the crim- inal Bench, in reality the mere political tool of a party leader, however honestly disposed the judges might personally be. It is against the People’ combine, and it is fortunate that while de- feating a reprehensible attempt to degrade the Bench by making it a trading shop for | political office-seekers they can secure judi- cial officers of tried capacity and integrity. The ticket headed by Hackett and Phelps will be triumphantly elected. Crowner’s Quest Law. About a year ago the renowned Croker, | Coroner of the city and county of New York, and, by the grace of John Kelly, an influen- tial member of the Tammany General Com- mittee, was brought prominently before the | people through his alleged association with the assassins who, killed ‘poor McKenna with | the bullet intended for the heart of ex-Sheriff | O'Brien. The same energetic member of Kelly's bodyguard now again appears upon the scene as a witness before the Senate com- mittee charged with the duty of inquiring into the management of the several depart- ments of the New York city government. From his last exhibition Kelly's Coroner has proved that he is less familiar with the laws applying to the office he holds than with the utility of a revolver in an election fight. It appears from his testimony before the com- mittee that his diffidence as to his own capacity is such that he has | been in the habit of empanelling a | jury in cases where death has been caused by smallpox, or when he has been called upon to view the body of a stillborn infant, because, in the Coroner's own words, | “he never wanted to take the responsibility of rendering any verdict upon himself.” The verdict which the people of New York might feel disposed to render upon Kelly’s Coroner might not be very acceptable to that lineal descendant of the historical Dogberry. But his mistrust of himself, unfortunately, costs the city a very large amount of money in unnecessary jury fees, and as the Coroner gets five dollars more for an inquest when he summonses a jury than when he does not, perhaps, after all, there is more cunning in Croker’s modesty than would at first sight appear. This whole business of coroners’ fees is subject to gross abuse, and Comptroller Green, who does a great many objectionable things, certainly deserves credit for the per- tinacity with which he has resisted the at- tempts of the coroners to plunder the city. The fees allowed by law are swelled by all manner of devices, until the coroner's office, which oceupies but an inconsiderable por- tion of the incumbent's time, has become one of the most remunerative in the city. The fault lies mainly in the looseness of legislation. No discretion, or very little, should be left to those officers who, under the political dictatorship of your John Kellys, are usually of the Croker stamp. The statute should define in what cases juries should be summoned and in what cases they | should be dispensed with, and the office should be made a salaried one. It would be worth while to fix a liberal compensation, if | by that means we could obtain a better class of officers than those who usually fill the | position, The office is an important one, | and it is scandalous that the political scum | of the wards should so frequently bo used | as the material out of which coroners are made, Tur Propix or Staren Istanp evince their | indignation at the attempt of the Jacobus | Vanderbilt ferry monopoly to drive off all | opposition and to continue to prey upon the | islanders by patronizing the Garner line of boats and allowing the boats of the Jacobus Vanderbilt line to run nesrly cmpty. This is a practical method of te ‘ily ing their dis- appro¥al of the lawless acts of Jacobus | and the officious Blunt. But this is not | enough. Whatever may be the result of the pending suits, it is certain that the at- tempt to forestall the action of the courts by the violent destruction of private property | Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce Should request Mr. Blunt to resign his of fio. ® If this be not done the next Legislature shon '4 deprive the Chamber of Commerce of tho Privilege of appointing any of the Commisa, ‘Des of Pilots, go, 28tble Clergymen. The Chicago - Board of Education has set- tled a vexed quest, ‘00 in a sensible and prac: ticable way. The qu °Stion of “the Bible in the schools” came up B. &T° By an old regu- lation the public schools Were opened with the Lord’s Prayer, singing rd reading a por tion of Scripture. ‘Fo this Ro,™42 Catholica objected beeause the Bible reat from wes not the version they use; the Hes."ews ob- jected because they do not accept th® New Testament; many Germans objected bea usd they reject the authority of the whole Bibl. Each was undoubtedly right from his stand. point. The public schools cannot justly be used to inculcate any form of religious belief. After a bitter controversy the Board of Edu- cation have decided that prayer and’ Bible reading shall hereafter be omitted, and we are pleased to see that such eminent clergy- men as the Rev. Robert Colyer and the Rev. Dr. Swing commend the:action of the Board. The public schools have nothing to do with religious training. They are secular and, in the broad sense, political institutions. It is of the utmost importance to the security of liberty and intelligent government that all the children of the community shall have a common school education. The possession of an elementary education enables men and women to make an easier and better living, and thus checks pauperism, which is one oi the dangers of civilized nations. It is un- doubtedly a help toward moral living and self-restraint, and thus checks the increase of crime. It is also a means to help the citi- zen to yote more intelligently on a public policy, and thus saves the nation from costly blunders. These are the considerations which justify the existence of public schools. None of them require religious teaching within these schools, and, moreover, in this country this is carefully and almost univer- sally done by the different Christian denom- inations in Sunday schools, which now have religious instruction as their main object. It is of the utmost importance to the pros- perity of our public school system that it shall be everywhere secularized, so that no class of citizens can justly complain that their children are perverted to religious be- liefs contrary to those held by the parents. The action of the Chicago Board of Educa- tion is, therefore, highly commendable, and we are glad that it has the support of such eminent clergymen as we have named. Tnx Press outside of New York is as em- phatic as the city papers in denouncing the attempt of poor Kelly to drive Recorder Hackett from the Bench. The Ogdensburg Daily Journal says:—‘‘Recorder Hackett, of New York city, has been the terror of crimi- inals, and is distinguished as an intelligent, courageous and pure judicial officer. Tam- many has refused him a renomination. It is the most significant act that ‘reformed Tam- many’ has ventured upon, and is one that will open the eyes of a great many people in this State.” Tun Spixpues or New Enoxaxp.—The present condition of the cotton mills in New England and their future prospects form the subject of an interesting letter from Charles Nordhoff, published in another column. ‘Tue Grrmays or THe Crry will support the people's ticket as a body. Where the sturdy German clement is found victory is assured. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, has arrived at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Chief Justice William B. Richards, of the Supreme Court of Canada, is at the Westmoreland Hotel. “No ballots, no babies!” was the motto on a trans parency at a late woman’s rights meeting out West, ‘The Boston Globe wants to teach political economy ia the common schools and throw out quadratic equationt and Cicero, ‘Tho Boston Journal says:—“The Europeans cannot compete with us in the manufacture of cotton goods, provided we can be on a par with them in currency,”? Some young men in Louisville have formed an “anti lift-your-hat-to-a-woman society.”’ Now let the Louis ville young ladies form an anti-bow-to-a-puppy society. Archbishop James F. Wood, accompanied by Rev. A. J. McConomy, Rev. James O'Reilly, and Rev. James Mulholland, arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel last even- ing from Philadelphia The Boston Advertiser says that the lesson of the Ohio election is not that hard money has administerea the coup de grdce to inflation, but that it has the power to crush the detestable heresy utterly. The Louisville Courier-Journal promised, if Uncle William was beaten, to go in with all its might for Til den and bard money. And it predicted that the South. ern democracy generally would do the same Murat Halstead says, in the Cincinnati Commercial: “The politicians have been puzzled. Under the old party names there has been a mustering of new ele ments, They do not reappear as they were.” Tho Mobile Register asserts positively that ‘the negro does not produce half the cotton which he pro- duced before the war,’”’ and credits white labor with the production of a large portion of the crop, Preparations are being made at Quebec for the recep. tion of the Governor General, who will arrive by the next mail steamer. It is ramored that Colonel BE. B. Lyttleton is coming out with Lord Dufferin, as Military Secretary, in place of Colonel Flotcher, The English police bave discovered that several shop- keepers have cards indicating their business and loca- tion, and that when a man enters a tobaceo shop or saloon he may return to the street with one of these cards pasted, as an advertisement, on his back. On Hang, of North Adams, sings of Mary and her little lamb nee white sno, aviy place Moll gal walkee Bu, Ba, hoppee long too. The Memphis Appeal says:—The fight is not to pat negrocs down, but it is to pick white men up from the dirt into which they have been trampled by federal radical power and carpet-bag and biack isolence. Negro rights does not mean, even in the horgbook of radicaliem, white wrong.”’ The “Naw Woman” does not please the Springfeld Republican, which says that “it is a fact that the new woman, the woman of refinement and independence, making her way in the world, has not yot generally brought her attire to represent the modesty, sobrioty and culture which are hers, nor adapted i to the seri- ous purposes which sho has in view,” Hon. Ellis H. Roberts says, in the Utiea Herald: “Only four per cent of the entire voting population ot Ohio has intervered to prevent a triamph that would have swept from Ohio over the whole country, captured the democratic party in its national organization, and domanded of the people a President and x Congress in 1876. The party has found its new mission.” Senator Bayard said to the Richmond (Va) conserva tives on Wednesday night:—“In the great struggle we are soon to enter upon we are to decide whether we shall have a limited, constitutional government of co equal States, or 4 semi-military government such as Grant has for seven or eight years imposed upon us. should be rébuked and punished. A Grand duce should take cognizgnce of the eubramm He also said that Congress is nowhere given the power | ta urink monex. —————————