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6 NEW YORK HERALD 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 Yorx Henap will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. [welve 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 Youre derap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. CONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. TOLUME XL-.+-ssessereserrrecceserncesenees NO, 293 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. TIVOLI THEATRE, Pighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, fwenty-eighth street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 %, M.; closes at 10:80 P. M. BOWERY THEATRE, fowery. —2YKES THE SHOWMAN, at 8 P.M. John mason. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, fourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Music.—Per- ances day and evening. WOOD'S MU: roadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—FRENCH SPY, at 8 Ltgg mee 10S FM Mes Kate Fisher. Matinee at TONY PASTOR’ NEW THEATRE, fos. 585 and 587 Broudw: VARIETY, at 8 P'M. LYCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth strect and Eighth avenc.—French Opera Goulle—LE CANARD A TROIS BECS, at 8 P. M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, fhird avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-frst streets — VARIETY, at'8 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—EHRLICHE AR- BEIT, at 3 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—THE OVERLAND ROUTE, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Jobn Gilbert, Wiss Ada Dyas. PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. DARLING'S OPERA HOU Cwenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— SEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; N & REED'S closes at 10 P, M. THEATRE COMIQUE, fo eu Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue apd Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. SAN FRAN 2 10 MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broad “oP. mM corner of Twenty-ninth street, BOOTH’S THEATRE, third street and Sixth avenue.—English Opera— fwent: MARTHA, at SP. M. Miss Van Zandt. OLYMPIC THEATRE, $0,024 Brosdway.—VABIETY, at 8. M:; close st 10:45 PARK THEATRE. Broadway and Twenty-second street.-THE MIGHTY DOL- GAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GILMORE’S SU! ER G. {ate Barnum’s Hippodrome.—GRAN. CERT, at SP, M.; closes at 11 P. M. ARDEN, POPCLAR CON- EAGLE TE Broadway and Thirty-third #1 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, fo,398 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. toS STEINWAY HALL, fourteenth street—THE MESSIAH, ‘at 8 P. Mf. Mile. Cheresa Titiens. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stroet.—German Opera—POSTILION DE LON- SUMEAU, at SP. M. Wachte! TRIPLE SHEET. SEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1875, Tue Heracp sy Fast Mar, Trarys.—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 Tux Henaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear or partly cloudy. Wart Srnerrt Yesrerpay.—Stocks were firm, Pacific Mail and Lake Shore leading. Rag money was worth 85.75. Gold closed at116 1-2. Money on call was easy at 2 and 3 per cent. Tramps.—The Board of Charities of Utica, N. Y., have found a practical solution of the tramp question in setting all the able-bodied | stragglers applying for relief to breaking | stones upon the public streets. This is the only proper method of treating what threat- ens ere long to become an intolerable nuisance, Tue Cawat Boanp investigated yesterday the alleged delinquencies of Deputy Engi- neers Yates and Babcock. Deputy Attorney General Fairchild admitted that there was no proof of fraud on the part of the engineers. He claimed, however, that he had established that the work on the contracts was badly done. The Board adjourned to make an in- spection of the work to-day. Tue War ws Tunxey.—The insurgents are continuing offensive operations with apparent activity, the latest information being that they are about attacking Zubci, where the Turkish troops are concentrating and where a decisive battle is thought to be impending. Last week we were informed the trouble was practically at an end. To-day we may re- ceive details of a battle, to be denied the day following. So the seesaw continues, New Jensey’s Verenans.—There isa legend that New Jersey, for a long time just outside of the United States, was, owing to the gal- lantry of her sons during the war, thought worthy of admission to the Union. In cele- bration of this fact, may be, and in memory of their achievements during the war, the Veterans of Elizabeth united in a grand jol- lification yesterday at Waverley, additional interest being lent to the occasion by the presence of several ex-Confederate officers. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, UUCTOBER 20, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Real Issues of the Local Con- test—Personal Abuse In the Cam- paign. We regret to see a disposition on the part of two of our contemporaries—the leading republican and democratic organs of the city—to use the weapon of personal abuse in fighting the local battle of the campaign. Such a mode of warfare is always objection- able. It thrusts aside issues in which the public interests are involved, and which ought to be calmly considered and intelli- gently decided. It has been resorted to in certain quarters in reference to Governor Tilden and Mr. Bigelow, and has not helped the cause of their opponents in the State. In our local contest personalities are the more objectionable since the candidates to be elected are mainly judicial officers and should not be dragged through the mire of | partisan quarrels. The people are concerned in the election of upright judges and inde- pendent, faithful prosecuting officers, who will not be swayed in the discharge of their important public duties by personal feelings or political considerations. They look to | the press and to their political instructors to enlighten them as to the issues involved in a campaign, so that they may by their votes secure the result at which they aim. Personal assaults on Recorder Hackett on one side and personal abuse of John Kelly on the other side will not afford them the information they seek, and which they have a right to expect from jour- nals of the character and ability of our two contemporaries. This sort of warfare was initiated by Mr. Kelly, it is true; but his judgment as a political leader is not re- garded as of the highest order, and cer- tainly should not be accepted as an example to be followed by an intelligent press. We are certain that our political contemporaries will appreciate the justice of our criticism, reputations as able party journals and close and effective disputants from their respective points of view. The tickets presented on both sides em- brace some candidates against whose fitness for the positions for which they are selected nothing can be justly urged. The people are too intelligent to be made to believe that the union nominees are all political traders or that the Tammany nominees are all tainted with the corruptions so unfortunately asso- ciated with that party name. From the review of the nominations and of the manner in which they are received, published else- where in to-day’s Heratn, it will be seen that popular sentiment indorses some of the candidates on both sides. It is possible that in casting their ballots a very large number of intelligent citizens will select such nominees as_ they deem the most desirable without regard to he strict party lists. In a dissertation on the morality of politics, published in a city morning paper last Monday, Mr. John Kelly declares that the democratic party in this city, as an organization gaining victory only by harmonious, combined action, is compelled to accept and support some bad candidates for the sake of securing some good ones. We will give his own language justifying this policy:—‘‘Suppose a man of our party,” says Mr. Kelly, ‘who has done something wrong, but is strong enough still in his own district to be elected in spite of us, is put up for election. If we name another man we should be certain to lose. For the sake of maintaining our party organization we should have to let such a man in, try him once and make a bet- ter man of him if we could.” The election of William M. Tweed to the Senate, after the exposure of his rascalities, was a case in point. Here was a bad man, so powerful in his district as to secure the party nomina- tion. If Mr. Kelly had then been the leader of Tammany he would not have dared to object to Tweed's candidacy for fear of dis- organizing the party. There is a looseness about this political morality which is scarcely consistent with earnest reform. It might be supposed that sincere reform leaders would resolutely resist any bad nomination, trusting to the honest con- victions of the people rather than to mere party machinery for justification and sup- port. Mr. Kelly's picture of the Tammany democracy is nota very flattering one. He | admits that, in some districts, at least, bad | men control the party, and thus partially, if not wholly, justifies the hard things that are sometimes said of it by its political oppo- | nents. But the people are not un-| der the restraint imposed, to Mr. Kelly, on the organization of which he is the dictator. They are not | necessitated to accept even two bad can- didates for the sake of securing ten good | ones, Indeed, Mr. Kelly's naive admissions | prove the necessity of a careful scrutiny of | the candidates of his party and justify the mutilation of its ticket. Because Mr. Kelly, as a leader, dare not venture to resist bad nominations here and there, the people are surely not to be called upon to accept and elect such men. The personal character of the nominees is, however, only a side issue in the present local contest. Disraeli in his admir- able work of ‘Lothair” points out, in according | liberty. Tammany, as at present controlled, make the will of an individual or of a cabal the ruling power over the minds and action of the masses. The real issues to be decided in this election are, first, whether judges and others who have proved their fidelity and capacity through long years of “service should be re-elected or driven from office ; and next, whether it is to the public in- terest that a political organization like Tam- many Hall should be allowed to seize upon and control the criminal and civil courts, the office of the public prosecutor and all the machinery of the criminal law. As to the first of these issues, the popular move- ment in favor of the re-election Recorder Hackett leaves little doubt how it will be decided. As to the last, Mr. Kelly’s own picture of the Tammany organization seems conclusive, It cannot certainly be de- sirable that at the will of a single individual our courts should be placed in the hands of a party which is in some districts under the con- trol and at the mercy of “bad” men. The same especially as they both enjoy established | + a striking manner, the dangerous ten- | dencies of secret societies and _ the} encroachments they make on _ public | | isin fact a secret society, which seeks to | influences which can force upon the party leaders two objectionable and improper nom- inations out of ten can be dangerously ex- erted to sway the administration of justice. ‘There are, it is true, good men on both party tickets. Mr. Charles F. Sanford, on the opposition side, studied law with Mr. William M. Evarts, who by professional standing and judicial temperament is fitted to adorn the bench, On _ the Tammany side, Judges Loew and Spencer have already done honor to the ju- diciary and proved their capacity and fidelity, while Mr. Peter B. Olney, who enjoys the friendship and confidence of Charles O’Conor, possesses every qualification necessary for an efficient and useful District Attorney. But Tammany is admittedly a powerful and growing monopoly over whom it will soon be difficult for the people to hold a check. The recklessness of the old leaders alone caused their overthrow. Had they been more shrewd and cautious they would have escaped detection and ruled the city with an iron hand to-day. The mistakes of the present ruler of the organization may cause his downfall and that of his sub- ordinate chiefs. His self-will and obstinacy have damaged Mayor Wickham’s administra- tion, when it might have been a success if left wholly under the Mayor's control, The same qualities which prompted the attempt to drive Recorder Hackett from the Bench have rendered highly prob- able the defeat of the Tammany judicial ticket. But when John Kelly falls, which we suppose will be in about three years, another and it may be a more dangerous leader will rise up in his place, Under a cautious, cun- ning and unscrupulous Tammany ruler the New York city government may become in the future as much an imperial despotism as was the Paris government under Napoleon and Haussmann. Our public works are at present stagnant. The new Court House is built, although without a dome. No great undertakings at present yield a large profit and can be used as a mighty political power by a bold ieader. But in a few years we shall have our boule- vards to extend, our old streets to widen, our new public buildings to erect, our new parks to lay out, our new bridgés to build, and then we shall again be under the heels of more prudent and calculating Tammany Tweeds. It may be just as well to give this overshadowing political organization a check at this time, and this is the sentiment by which a large majority of the citizens appear now to be moved. The German Opera in New York. Italian opera has existed in New York for twenty-five years, and yet we are told it has never been supported by our public. The expenses haye been paid by the managers, | and they have been reimbursed only by the peace of mind that always follows a self-sac- rificing act of benevolence. The wonder is that Italian opera, surrounded with so many difficulties, managed to survive at all. It was an exotic; it was sung ina language almost unknown to the community; it | was a fashionable amusement more than a popular one; worst of all, it did not pay. Sixty thousand English whist players, it is said, are wandering over the Continent because they were afraid to lead trumps, and a proportionate number of operatic mana- gers, according to Mr. Strakosch, have been compelled to return to Europe because they would lease our Academy of Music. Extraordinary as was the vitality of Italian opera itis dead now, we are informed on good authority, and it is unnecessary to dis- cuss whether it is really dead or sleeping. But it hasa successor. ‘‘Le roi est mort, vive le roi!” German opera offers to compensate us for its loss. We donot speak of the English opera, which has its own independent orbit of usefulness. Mr. Neuendorff has undertaken an enterprise which ought to be of great ser- vice to our musical interests. The question now arises, Will Mr. Neuendorff, having taken the Academy of Music, be obliged to fly to Europe at or before the end of the season, to join the involuntary exile of Maurice Strakosch and recover in Hamburg or Vienna the fortunes he lost in America? We hope not. The natural advantages of German opera in New York ought to insure its success, providing that the company de- serves the support of the public. There is no doubt but that Mr. Neuendorff has engaged a fine company. He has a great tenor, whose fault is one from which | most tenors are exempt—viz., he has too much voice rather than too no doubt but that Mr. Neuendorff has en- gaged a good company. He has a very good tenor, whose fault isa peculiar one. He has too much voice rather than too little, and too little voice rather than too much. In gymnastic singing, if we may use the word, he excels. He can do things more wonderfully than any singer ever did be- fore, yet the uncomfortable feeling that will perforce prevail when a gymnast ex- hibits his perilous feats is not unfelt by his au- dience. The prima donna, Miss Pappenheim, will no doubt give him effective support in operas less exacting than “The Huguenots.” New York has over three hundred thousand German citizens, and in its German popula- | tion is said to be the third city in the world. Everything, therefore, ought to make Ger- man opera successful this year, and it will be strange indeed if it fails. Murder m Canada. Canada seems likely to set at Toronto an of | | example that the world will be more likely to praise with imitation than the one that has made so much noise at Montreal. In the former city there recently occurred one | of those cases of murder that are called | “malpractice”—apparently because they aro supposed to have some relation with sur- | gery—and the authorities there actually pro- | pose to hang the man and woman to whom the offence has been brought home. It is to be hoped that the authorities will not change | their minds, and that none of the myriad quibbles of the law will come between them and their purpose; for even two executions in cases of this sort will be salutary, It is safe to predict that if these Toronto criminals are actually executed there will not be many more cases of this sort of malpractice in that city; and this is, of course, the result aimed. at. This is a result that the authorities of many other cities might well desire to mm. cure, In this neighborhood the criminal authorities have often had to desl with this subject; but justice here never calls the offence by any stronger name than man- slaughter, and holds the victims with such loose fingers that they commonly slip through, and thus thelr industry has secured a practical impunity. Is there not room to hope that this Toronto example may have some effect on justice nearer home ? England and the British Merchant. The British government has in hand a pretty piece of investigation, and one which the neighbors and foreign cousins of the British people will watch with peculiar in- terest. It is said that sixty tons of am- munition for small arms have been shipped from England to the Chinese ‘as merchan- dise” and actually landed at Shanghai. The phrase, ‘‘as merchandise,” in this connec- tion may be noted as a fine instance of the sublime in this kind of writing. It seems to be assumed that there are some reasons why cartridges are just now not merchan- dise, though they are made on an enormous scale in several countries, and made for sale to those who need them, and are shipped in the same way, in the absence of procla- mations to the contrary, as cotton orcorn, Just now there are no proclama- tions to the contrary and no reasons of which any soulless corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of cartridges is bound to take notice. But there are some other reasons, There has been for some time a very lively possibility that England might shortly be at war with China. In that case every hundred cartridges in Chinese hands might possibly represent the life ofa British sol- dier, and sixty tons taken in that proportion might do for about twenty thousand men, which is quite as many as England will ever send there. This would bea calamity; but England does not greatly care for a calamity. The worst feature of the case is that it would be a scandal if these cartridges should bo supplied to the Chinese enemy by Eng- land herself; and a scandal _ is worse than a calamity any day. If the thrifty British merchant should send out the product of British workshops to kill the British soldier it would be shocking, and the proposition to investigate facts merely because they have this possibility behind them implies a notion on the part of the English government that the traders of that country ought not to shock the sense of humanity that is abroad in the world. There is involved in this the somewhat violent as- sumption that trade has a conscience; but several other Powers as well as England will have to acknowledge that they also have acted on that assumption. At one time we ourselves thought that our efforts to put down the rebellion ought not to be thwarted by the power of England, wielded by the | British merchant ; and the Southern people equally felt outraged that our efforts to put them down were assisted by the same thrifty person. Germany remon- strated with England because the Brit- ish merchant supplied France with the means to destroy German soldiers ; and Spain has remonstrated because this irre- pressible power was a comfort to the Carlists; for the British merchant has no prejudices, and is on any side or all sides. He will sell a@ man-of-war to one government, and to another government a torpedo, deftly filled to blow her to the moon ; and when she has gone toward the moon he will rub his hands with commercial glee, for he knows that the one Power will want another ship and the other another torpedo. All the governments of the world have remonstrated with Eng- land on his account; but England has always excused herself from interference, has patted her lively merchant on the back and regarded him as one of her glories. Now she is likely to ‘know how it is her- self ;” and other nations will watch with in- terest her dealings with that commercial power with which, while nominally at peace with all, she has covertly made war on so many nations. The New Secretary of the Interior. The satisfaction expressed by the country when Secretary Delano was at last got rid of seems to have been premature. Nobody imagined the possibility of such a successor as ex-Senator Chandler, of Michigan, com- monly called ‘Old Zach Chandler.” Until this strange selection President Grant’s later Cabinet appointments have been respectable, the officers selected being a great improve- ment on their predecessors. Mr. Bristow in the place of Secretary‘Richardson, Mr. Jew- ell in place of Postmaster General Creswell and Mr. Pierrepont to succeed Attor- ney General Williams were appointments of such conceded fitness that the country felt warranted in expecting a very different suc- cessor to Mr. Delano from the old political hack, discarded by the republican party of his own State, who was sworn in yesterday. Candor requires it to be said that this ex- tremely unfit selection was not President Grant’s first choice. He made successive offers of the position to other gentlemen, who declined it, and feeling that it did not com- port with the dignity of the government to let so important an office go begging any longer, he has given it to a man who is only not worse than Mr. Delano himself. Mr. Chandler is re- puted to be rich, and may charitably be pre- sumed to be above pecuniary temptation, but we can think of no other point in his favor. He is an unscrupulous partisan, whose offi- cial conscience will easily reconcile itself to frauds if the profits go into the pockets of republicans, The fact that President Grant has been unable to prevail om a better man to accept this important place is a striking proof that the administration has sunk so low that it is no longer thought to be an honor to participate in its councils. There may have been a special repugnance to act as Mr. Delano’s emccessor after the whitewashing Tetter the President wrote him in accepting his resignation. In such circumstances the new Secretary would not feel free to disap- prove of any act of his predecessor. An acceptance of the office would imply an ac- ceptance of the President's public indorse- ment of the course of Mr. Delano, and no man of honor would wish to bind himself to take that view of the case, It is Presi- dont Grant himself who has rendered it impossible for any fit man to take the place, because acceptance is Vurdened with the condition that the new incumbent shall take the same view of Sec- retary Delano’s conduct that is expressed in the President's letter of reply to his resigna- tion: It is no wonder, therefore, that after along search and repeated offers no man of a higher moral status than Mr, Chandler could be induced to accept a Cabinet appoint- ment encumbered with the degrading condi- tion that the new officer must either indorse Mr. Delano or differ with the President re- Specting the affairs of his own department. Actors Are Born, Not Made. The admirers of Macready used to say that though he was a homely and a physi- cally insignificant man he seemed, while on the stage, to grow and to become something different from himself. But the great actor explained this phenomenon by saying that he did not merely simulate his part, he felt it, lost himself in it and really lived it. When he was personating Macbeth he was a possible Macbeth; he was simply himself. This idea is true of every successful actor; and the moral applies to the work of play- writers. They must, in order to be success- ful, not simply create an ideal, impossible character, but, in the name of Hamlet or Rip Van Winkle or Richelieu, reveal some living man as a bewitched scholar, a jolly idler or a cunning statesman. After all Nicholas Nickleby’s master had a humor- ously correct idea of the drama when he wanted a play written so as to bring in the pump. He wasonly at the bottom of the ladder of which Shakespeare was at the top. The latter was so shrewd and practical a man that, needing money, he would not have created Hamlet unless he had con- sidered it probable, if not actually true, that there existed in London some living man who could successfully assume the réle, Those persons who are so fortunate as to be acquainted with the private hife of Mr. Jefferson know that he possesses and daily exercises the qualities of mingled humor, pathos, gentleness and simple ,refinement which have made him famous as Asa Trench- ard, Bob Acres and Rip Van Winkle. Mr, Boucicault’s success as an actor de- pends very greatly upon the fact that in creating a character like the Shaughraun he does nothing more nor less than to give the comico-heroic side of his own nature. The Shaughraun is Boucicault and Boucicault is the Shaughraun. The same truth may be said of the success of Mr. Florence in ‘‘The Mighty Dollar.” At first sight it might be said that it is an impossible play, because whoever should attempt the leading charac- ter would make it ridiculous. But it fortu- nately happened that when Mr. Florence saw the character he saw a possibility of himself, as ifina mirror. So that he and the Hon. Bardwell Slote may be said to have embraced: each other, after the most natural fashion, on the public stage. It might be invidious to say that he who perfectly enacts Iago is a jealous villain or that Miss Cushman would urge her possible husband to murder a king. But we must remember that in the days of | Macbeth the shrewdest intelligence of woman might be used for chicanery and ambitious plotting with as urgent a motive as it is now used in the paths of art. So it seems that every really natural dra- matic character may find its living prototype, just as Poe’s William Wilson found himself constantly coming in contact with his secénd self, or as the Rey. E. E. Halo, wishing to be represented at tea parties and town meet- ings, employed his ‘‘double.” It has been said, with considerable truth, that every man has within his life the elements of a good, readable novel. With still greater truth we may say that most men have within them- selves the capabilities of an actor. women,” says Shakespeare, “‘are only play- ers.” If men would not abandon nature when they essayed histrionics material could be found every day in our public streets for the equipment of any play that the best dramatist could write. How often, in do- mestic life, do we see a placid Iago worming his way into the confidence of a gullible Othello. There are scores of Colonel Sellerses, every whit as good as Raymond, talking every night to the haymow voters in this State. Mr. Conkling himself might make a brilliant Mare Antonf if his great master would consent to play the role and wear the rent mantle of Julius Cwsar. One can find any day in the streets, or in Congress, a better Polonius than usually bewilders Hamlet on the stage; and many a damsel sits in an orchestra chair and knows full well whether Booth or Rignold plays Romeo as well as the young gentleman to whom she is a silly Juliet. Shylock is in Wall street; Hamlet walks Broadway, vacantly and with downcast eyes, puzzled whether to be mad or not, The dramatist who would succeed may always find his actor. The best characters have men and women ready to assume them, just as in fiction there are real men and women whom we know. It is as true that Falstaff has ogled the girls from the floor of the Senate as that Victor Hugo found his Jean Valjean a living man. Governor Tilden’s Letter. We do not quite understand the necessity of the letter which Governor Tilden has just addressed to all the district attorneys of the State, threatening them with removal if they fail to prosecute persons who may make an illegal use of money in the coming election. There is no law clothing the district attor- neys with preventive powers. They cannot prosecute until after offences have been com- mitted. The constitution, as amended last year, subjects district attorneys to removal if they fail to prosecute any case of bribery which may come to their knowledge; but that article relates only to bribery of offi- cers, not to the use of money in elections, The amended constitution has indeed some excellent provisions on the subject of giv- ing and taking money in elections, but the application of remedies does not require any action of the district attorneys previous to the election. A person who has either offered or received money is subject to challenge at the polls, and when challenged he is required to swear to his innocence before his vote can be received. Ifhe swears falsely he is liable to indictment for perjury, but the District Attorney has nothing to do with the offence until it has been committed, Another still better provision is that which requires officers to swear, before entering on their duties, that they have neither directly nor indirectly paid or promised money to influ- ence voters, A false oath by officers is also “Men and | perjury, but district attorneys can take no action previous to the false oaths. We, therefore, fail to see the pertinence of Gov- ernor Tilden’s circular to the district attor- neys, except as advertising his reform senti- ments for electioneering effect. The Herald and Telegraph Stanley Expedition, We have received a communication from | the proprietor of the London Telegraph ex- plaining the circumstances under which a premature publication of the substance of Mr. Stanley's African letters was made in an editorial in that paper in violation of its agreement with the Henan, The editorial in question, we are informed, was written and published in the absence of the proprietor and through a misunderstand- ing on the part of the writer. In a matter of so much importance as the African expe- dition, involving joint interests and from which intelligence might be received at any moment, we had a right to expect that the possibility of such an occur- rence would have been carefully and effect- ually guarded against. We are not sur- prised, therefore, that the propri- stor of the ‘Telegraph, while expressing his regret at the unfortunate over- sight, should fully justify the comments made by the Heranp on the appearance of the objectionable editorial, We accept his explanation as satisfactory and acquit him of any intentional bad faith in the matter. Tue Ever Farruron Istx.—That history repeats itself is at present being demon- strated in Cuba, where Spain is again send- ing reinforcements to become the prey of the vomito, a bad commissary department and the bullets of the insurgents. Tue Tracic Events recorded in the Henarp to-day make up a fearful record of crime and misery.. Fortunately we are not often called upon to publish so many sad and ’ revolting stories in one paper, and it is to be hoped that to-day’s experience will not soon be repeated. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pullman palace cars run to Rome. Ernest Rénan is travelling in Italy. Governor-elect Hayes, of Ohio, will speak in Penns sylvania, Quinine is recommended as a tonic for topers who have sworn off, Russia is to be represented at the Centennial if tho candles hold out. Mr. Anthony Trollope will sail for England to-day in the steamship Bothnia, Senator Roscoe Conkling arrived from Albany yester- day at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, , Mr. G. Bakhmeteff, of the Russian Legation at Wash- ington, is at the Albemarlo Hotel, Joe Jefferson once thought of settling in his business at Macon, Ga., in the flush old times. A St. Louis negro minstrel committed suicide the other day, and now his bones are at rest. Senator Kernan will address the democracy of Buffalo on Saturday evening of this week. ‘The Vassar girls make up fine Othellos and Hamlets, but they can’t get along with a pistol pocket. Rear Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, United States Navy, has taken up his residence at the Glenbam Hotel. There aro no old maids in Greene county, Iowa. A girl got married there the other day at the age of eighty- five. Secretary Zachariah Chandler, of the Inteplor Do- partment, will now aid to keep General Grant in good spirits, Hyde, of the St. Louis Republican, calls the Mullett columns of the St. Louis Post Office “‘strangulated sausages.” Miss C, E, Angoli has taken charge of a Universalist congregation at Kittery, Me. Now, if you want to hear an Angeli, go to Maine, The Queen of Holland is able to converse in every language of Europe, yot Milton said that one tongue is enough for any woman. , A Milwaukee paper says that good whiskey, espe- cially if made in Wisconsin, has no water; yet we are told that still waters run deep. Gail Dodge walks the Hamilton woods bareheaded and with a healthy stride, Perhaps that is the reason why the boys sing, “Gaily the troubadour,” Mrs. Foster, of Muscatine, Iowa, has a beard threo inches long and # heavy, glossy black mustache. If sho could only be induced to teach affection at Vassar what a ‘smash” she would make. The Augusta Constitutionalist says:—The more we calmly review the recent Ohio election the more wo are persuaded that, even on a test of the currency per se, amajority of the peoplo of that Commonwealth favor tho Allen democracy.” The Utica Herald says:—‘‘If New York follows Ohio, then Inflation and repudiation have been wiped out of tho issues which perplex our politics. If New York neutralizes Ohio, then we may be sure that the country has seen only the beginning of a movement which in- vites financial chaos, ’” “A man in Dubuque, upon opening a package of smoking tobacco, found therein, snugly nested, six young mice,’"—That Is nothing. A man in the Seventh ward went home from a Tammany primary the other night, and his wife found in his clothes nineteon broken cigars and eight gills of cloves. THE FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB, A FINE DISPLAY YESTERDAY—FIVE TURNOUTS IN LINE ON THE AVENUE. [From the New York Timos, October 19.] There was a better representation of the fine turnouts of tho famous Four-in-Hand Club yoster- day at the place of rendezvous, on Twenty-sixth street (Madison square), than has been witnessed on any previous occasion during the season. Tho aay was in all respects ontirely favorablo, and although there was some little delay on the part of some who were to join the display, yet all were there ultimately, and all got away up the avenue in fine style. The gentlemen composing this club are { all members of the American Jockey Club, and oom- 1 prise its Governing Committee, One of the rules of tho Four-in-Hand Club makes it imperative that each member shall drive his own team, and, although there was not quite so much skill displayed in the man: ment of the leaders as may have been seon with tho ” four-in-hands of ante-railroad days, the fault may have been as much in the leaders as the arivers. Five drags put in an appearance hgh g Jay drove the old Dorking coach, which is the heaviest drag belonging to the club, It was built by 8. Gowan, of Stratford, fondon, and bas a black body with yellow \ panels and wheels painted red. The team consisted of one brown and one chestnut horse at the pole and apair of bay leaders. Mr. Newbola drove a team composed of two bay and two brown horses, crosa’ matched, and the old Knickerbocker Club drag. This is also an English coach, and was built by May & Jacobs, of Guilford, Surrey. It 18 not quite so heavy ag the Dorking, and’ has a body painted black, and red wheels sripel with black. Mr. Jerome’s team consisted of four well matched dark bay horses, uniform in size and color, The drag was one owned by Mr, Havemeyer, Mr. Jerome's own being out of repair. It was built by Wood, of this city. The one he used yes- terday was built by Poters & Son, of London. It has a black body, with red panols in the doors, and red wheels. ‘As stated, !t was late before the start was effected, and when they did move off Mr. Jerome had not made his appearance, The other tour were ranged along the upper end of Madison mars, Mr. Jay second, Mr. ewbold third, and Mr. Bronson fourth. The coachea were all heavily laden with passengers, many of thom ladies, At 12:20 the signal was given to start, and one after the other they turned into Fifth avenue, up which they proceeded ata brisk trot, Six minutes later Mr. Jerome, who bad been aftor his passengers, came briskly up Madison avenue, drove out of Twonty- sixth street, turned up Fifth avenue and followed on toward Jerome Park, ‘A peculiar feature in connection with these four. in-hand drags is the fact that ordinarily the pase sengors ride on top, while the coachmen, footmen, wc. occupy the inside. They aro fitted up with ail the conveniences necessary for the comfort of a pleasure party, There are ample bottle racks, champagno coolers and ico boxes under the elevated feat at the rear, while in front are arranged shelves for the accommodation of extra wraps, and outside is sus- en a long wicker basket as a receptacle for canes, 0.5 bo eas oF the ar ae there is room to stow away baskets of salad, boned chickeg and other neces Bitiog of @ picnic, ™ Colonel > Se