The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1875, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ANO ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yoru Henatp 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 Heranp. 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. — a eeseneeee see NO, 299 AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT. % LYCEUM THEATRE, ‘fourteenth trees and Fighth avenue.—French Opera uffe—MADAME L’ARCHIDUC, at 5 P.M. THEATRE, and Thirty-first streets.— eS P.M THIRD AVE: hird avenne. between Thi INSTRELSY and VARIETY, WALLA 2 Broeduey and Thirteenth street—-THE OVERLAND OUTE, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr, John Gilbert, ‘Miss Ada Dyas. PA’ Bixteenth street and 5: a8 P.M DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REED'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, ears Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, oy Ones House, Broadway, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, “SPM. BOOTII'S THEATRE, Ergntyira street and Sixth avenue.—PANTOMIME, as 8 MG. L. Fox. OLYMPIC THEATRE, gee Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P.M; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- ab P.M. Mr. aud Mrs. Florence. 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OCTOBER 26, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities ure that the weather to-day will be warm and woudy, with rain. Tse Henatp sy Fast Mar Trains.—News- flealers 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 Yorke Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tuz Henarp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wai Srrerr Yestexvay. Gold advanced from 114 1-2 to 115 1-8. Atthe latter price tag money is worth 86.56. Money on call toans closed at 4 1-2 and 5 per cent. The stock market was moderately active, but vomewhat irregular. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1875.—IRIPLE SHEET, The Religious Revival in Brooklyn. * The advent of Messrs. Moody and Sankey and the excitement attending their seryices in New England and in Brooklyn may be re- garded as a phenomenon of an unusual and interesting character. For a long time these two evangelists have been addressing vast in various parts of Great Their ministrations have been attended with a success recalling times of Wesley and Whitefield. All classes have shown a deep interest in their work, from lords and ladies and princes | down to the great masses of humbler citi- zens, The name of Mr. Gladstone has been | associated with some of their meetings, and | with others we have seen Lord Shaftesbury | and various princes. of the royal family. This success has not been without opposition | and resentment. The old established | churches, scoffers, cynical critics ‘and | men of the world looked upon the | two evangelists as wandering © Yan- kees, who had brought into crowds Britain. religion } the same principle of success which Mr, Barnum had brought into business. Con- sequently during the whole stay of Moody and Sankey in. England we had vehement discussions. On the one side their partisans contended that they were the direct ambas- sadors of the Holy Spirit sent to revolu- tionize a great kingdom and bring the people back to the faith of the meek and lowly Jesus; on the other side it was urged that they were adyenturers who cared only for notoriety or gain, and to whom religion was only another form of public entertainment. As Americans we could not but look with a gratified feeling upon the fact that the religious heart of England was stirred to its depths by the efforts of two of our fellow citizens. We had the same feeling in regard to the success of Messrs. Moody and Sankey when they addressed thousands in the suburbs and densely built sections of London as when we read of Mr. Barnum’'s appearance at the court of Her Majesty with Tom Thumb and the nurse of Washington. Apart from — these feelings, there was another of pro- found respect for the enthusiasm and devo- tion to any religious creed which moved the hearts of so many thousands of the people. Without caring whether Moody and Sankey belonged to one Church or the other we still felt that in the work which brought the mind of the masses to a consideration of the great truths of Christianity ; to a stricter observ- ance of the Commandments; to an acceptance of the tenets of the Holy | Scriptures; to a compliance with the | laws of morality, honor and spiritual life, no matter how extravagantly or grotesquely it might be presented, would in the end work a great good. Noone denied to Moody and Sankey, not even the most cynical critics, that their aim was in the main a just and noble one. Their demeanor in the presence | of this severe criticism of a curious and sus- picions nation was that of men who believed in what they said and sung, who did nothing to bring scandal upon their professions or their creed, and who particularly took | pains to decline any emolument for their | labor. Therefore, when these two evan- gelists left Europe for their homes, the gen- eral impression was that they had overcome to a large degree the suspicions of the Eng- | Bussta Witt Oxty Sep us her specialties for exhibition at the Centennial. Her list will be limited to articles peculiar to the country and little seen abroad. Neverthe- less, confidence is expressed that the display will be creditable, as it certainly must be in- teresting. Tue Tnaveruxa Prrvce.—The Prince of Wales is to-day receiving salaams at Cairo, having disembarked from the Serapis at {smailia. The Nizam of Hyderabad sends 1m excuse for not meeting the Prince as ar- ranged, pleading indisposition so severe as to preclude him from undergoing the fatigue of the journey. He will, however; send o deputation to do the honors in his place. ‘Tue Cnown Prrxce of Germany will cer- tainly be one of the many wonders of the Dentennial. Itis announced that the eigh- to America. Every American will be de- tighted to welcome the splendid soldier Prince to our shores. As to the Germans in the United States—well, it will be fortunate if the Prince’s visit does not occasion a famine in lager. ‘Two Preces or InrenticENce come from | own divnes—of Dr. Storrs, Mr. Beecher, Dr. Madrid. Ten thousand new troops are to be | Hall, Father Preston or Bishop Simpson. sentout to meet “hospitable graves” in Cuba, | Take a sermon of Mr. Moody's, for instance, and the Cuban authorities are instructed to go for administrative reform by punishing | ; tions are commonplace. yeen-gun corvette Elizabeth isto bring him | tame; the illustration: p! lish people ; that they had shown courage, persistence and self-denial, and, whatever their work might amount to in the end, that it was a work well planned and earnestly performed. , And yet, looking upon what we see in Brooklyn, and what has taken place in New England, we are amazed to find the measure of this work of the evangelists, There is nothing in what Mr. Moody has said, so far as we can read his sermons, that is not said every Sabbath day in purer English, with better taste, and with as close an observance of the teachings of the Scripture, by thou- | sands of other clergymen whose names are not heard beyond their own flocks. We read the songs which Mr. Sankey sings and can find a thousand other hymns of praise, entreaty and thanksgiving expressing with as much eloquence and feel- ing the aspirations of the Christian soul. If the religion which Mr. Moody preaches and | which Mr, Sankey sings is the only religion | that can stir the souls of men to a contem- | plation of our solemn destiny of what use | are education and profound culture and deep | insight into the mysteries of the other life? Of what value is all this world of theology, representing the meditations ang the convic- tions of wise and gifted men for centuries, the whole body of our modern divinity, the result of lives of study, and patience, and inquiry and endeavor, when two sprightly, active, superficial men may, in @ morning | hour of singing and talking, move thousands | of souls who have heretofore been listless and dormant in the presence of the great teachings of the Church, of the still greater | teachings of Christ and the apos- tles, which can be found in every | library? Of what use are our theo- logical seminaries and our schools, and | of what value are the works of the fathers | and the illustrious and venerable divimes whose literature adorns all languages, if | true religion and true pulpit eloquence are | the | | leaves of the forest capacity and wider training and equal de- votion who preach from week to week to slender and unappreciative congregations. The Moody and Sankey revival, as it is called, is, we repeat, a phenomenon worthy of consideration. and enthusiasm of these gentlemen. We trust that their work will bear good frnits, | We do not in any way disparage their en- thusiasm or their belief in the teachings of the divine Master; but at the same time it is a phenomenon after all, a mere ripple upon the surface of our religious life. The thousands who crowd the Brook- lyn Rinkare many of them, we fear, attracted of curiosity by the echo of names that come to them from over the sea, who are not above a new sensation, and who are curious to feel the influence which has so largely affected the religious mind of England. The truth will be found, we think, that Moody and Sankey represent, even at their best, that camp meeting fervor which may be found every summer in the gather- ings of our various Christian denominations. As a novelty in England it produced an un- usual impression, but in this country Chris- tian men will find before they get through with this revival that they are listening to men who are telling them, only in an odd, unusual way, the lesson which they are taught in nearly every congregation in America by humble and cultured men whose names have not gone beyond the confines of their own parish, The Disastrous Storms in Great Brit- ain. Special telegrams from London inform us of the visitation of England and Scotland by terrible storms of wind and rain, which have | caused enormous damage, with loss of life by | inundations in England, and eqnally dis- We respect the energy | | publicans have gathered hope and zeal } @ vigorous canvass. Within the last day or The election is to take place on Tuesday next, The intervening week will be one of strenuous effort on both sides, The repub- | lican speakers advertised for the remainder of the present week average more than fifty for each day. The advertised democratic | speakers are not more than half as many, but they comprise a larger proportion of men of first rate ability, Ex-Governor Sey- mour, altogether the most plausible and persuasive campaign orator in the State, makes his first appearance in the ‘canvass at Little Falls this evening, end he will also speak in this cityon Thursday evening, at Utica on Saturday evening, and at Sche- nectady on Monday evening. Senator Kernan speaks this evening at ‘Troy, to-morrow evening at Whitehall, Thurs- day evening in this city, Friday even- ing at Albany, Saturday evening at Utica, and Monday evening at Rome. The only republican champion who can compare with these two is Senator Conkling, whose only remaining appointments are at Buffalo to-morrow evening and at Utica on Friday evening. Butif the democrats bring their great guns more frequently into the contest during the week the republicans have an advantage in the greater number of their meetings. The activity of the canvass on the repub- lican side is a conséquence of the repub- lican victory in Ohio and the expected vic- tory in Pennsylvania, where an inflation platform will have thé same _ effect as in Ohio, The New York re- within the last two weeks, and are making two they profess to be sanguine of success; but such professions are made for elec- tioneering effect, and may not have any sub- tressing and fatal shipwrecks on the coast of Scotland, between Pittenweem and | Peterhead, The storm, or rather cyclone, | which has caused this devastation was visited the Texas coast last month, but its | curve of progress did not bring it as far to | the west as our Atlantic coast. The apex of | the curve or most westerly point of turning | was located to the southwest of Bermuda, in the open ocean, and the meteor swept over that island in its northeasterly course. Sev- | erval vessels arriving at American ports dur- | ing the past ten days report violent hurri- canes in the mid-Atlantic, so that no doubt whatever can exist as to the character of the | storm in Great Britain. The country inundated by the heavy rains is in the northeastern counties, particularly that of | Lincolnshire. The river sources are in the | hilly districts of South Yorkshire and Not- | tingham, and from this region, favorable for | the sudden accumulation of the waters, the floods descend and overtop all barriers ig | the low level plains to the eastward, convert- | ing them into vast lakes of boiling, surging, wreck-laden waters. Such scenes as we briefly describe are well illustrated in the | account of the fen floods in ‘‘The Mill on the Floss,” the scene being laid in the same region that is now devastated. The wrecks on the east coast of Scotland show that the cyclone passed diagonally, as it were, through England, with a very slow progres- sive motion. The poor fishermen who earn a livelihood by the herring fisheries are, in all probability, the heaviest sufferers. The Heratp has repeatedly insisted on the ne- cessity of establishing a perfect system of international storm signals, especially be- tween countries that are exposed to these cyclonic visitations. The interests of com- | merce, not to say humanity, imperatively demand the establishment of such without delay. The Wrongs of the Red Man. The long series of wrongs heaped upon the aborigines of America ever since the discov- ery and settlement of this country has nothing more heartless or pathetic than the story of the Temecula Indians which we print this morning. We are accustomed to speak of the cruelty and treachery of the savage, but the avarice and inhumanity of the white man are even more prominent fea- tures in American history. In a little more than two centuries the natives have been | driven from the Atlantic to the Rocky | Mountains and tribes as countless as the reduced to a mere handful of half-starved wretches. The brave is no longer a warrior, but a loafing and treacherous murderer, and the Indian has | no rights anywhere. If he refuses to go upon a reservation necessity requires that he shall be exterminated. If he puts him- self under the fostering care of the Great Father the Indian Ring is sure to rob him first and allow him to starve afterward. Go where he will, ‘‘civilization,” in one form or another, is sure to follow him and to op- press him. To this fate the Temecula Indians are noexception. Indeed, the story of their misfortunes is one of the most pathetic of the whole series. A hun- dred years ago their children swarmed on the Pacific coast. Now they are reduced to a} beggarly five thousand. Then the whole land was theirs. Now there is not a foot of | ground they can call theirown. Retreating to be found outside? Why is it that these two gentlemen can achieve such results when around them here in New York and | Brooklyn we have a hundred diyines | any one of whom surpasses them in} all the essentials of eloquence and | erudition? The more carefully we read the sermons of Mr. Moody, for instance, the more we are amazed at the utter barrenness which pefvades them. We do not find single thought which rises aboverthe level of. 2 wayside conversation, The stories are There are none of those bursts of genius which marked the sermons of the great masters of the pulpit, and which appeal to us now as fervently as when they fell | | from the lips of Bossuet and Massillon, of | | Tillotson and Whitefield. We see nothing | | to rival the weekly sermons of many of our) and compare it with what we may hear from | Sunday to Sunday by any of these gentle- | fhe participants in public frauds without | men and we are surprised at the diffewnce, distinction. So probably the Cuban govern- ment may be an hanest one about the time ‘yo Cuban rebellion is subdueds a and the wonder continues to grow that all | New York should go wild after the new | | L comers in the vineyard, while there arg go | towns before advancing civilization, they at last set- | tled downamongacone of the San Bernardino | tend that the swindled depositors have no | Mountains ; but the white man from over the | claim against them until 1883. It is very | seas coveted the spot for a sitep pasture, and j the natiye is not even left room enough to | starve without disturbance. One Frenchman | and two Scotchmen have ousted the original. | | lords of the soil, and their sheep graze in the | of a person who has not been mixed up with Indian's last retreat. Is it thus the govern- | ment of the United States takes care of the | rights of these poor people—the rightful | wards of the nation? , Is it possible that one | | Frenchman and a brace of Scotchmen, either | French Canadians of the city made the mis- with or without the consent of the govern- ment at Washington, are allowed to dispossess | five thousand people, that they may feed their | jn thousands. Grave as the occasion was, it | the sky. sheep on the last vestige of the heritage of | the red man? , The case, as presented in the letter of Colonel Peel and transmitted to the | Indian Bureau, is one which not only excites our sympathies, but demands the immediate attention of the department and the country. Wax Some Counrnixs are trying to make themselves free of princes, London makes the youngest of the English princes, Leopoldy free of the city. Long lite to the young similar in every respect to that which | | popular feeling. stantial basis. The leading republican organ of this city stated yesterday that ‘the State Committee has in its possession infor- mation which leaves no doubt whatever as to the success of the republican State ticket,” alleging that this opinion is founded on “a very thorough canvass of the State.” Itis probable enough thatthe republicans are making gains and that they will reduce the democratic majority of last year, but we do not think they have any chance of re- covering the State in this election. Governor Tilden and his friends are managing the democratic canvass with remarkable skill, and the reform issue, which they press with unwearied diligence, takes a strong hold on The weak point of the democratic canvass is one which hardly appears on the surface and does not admit of exact measurement. There is considerable opposition to Governor Tilden’s ticket in the democratic party itself, but it is not openly avowed. Ifit has been communicated to the republican leaders in private conversations this may, perhaps, be one of the grounds of their professed confidence. It is well known that there was a strenuous democratic opposition to Governor Tilden’s nomination last year ; that he encountered a passionate democratic opposition in the Legislature last winter, led by Speaker McGuire, and that the dishonest democrats who have been hurt by the canal | investigation had formerly a great number of | friends and a large following who may not | all have deserted them. A remark made by | Attorney General Pratt in the Canal Board last week shows he is out of accord with the Governor, and a rather damaging statement by Speaker McGuire, published yesterday, proves that he is more than willing to | damage the democratic ticket. It does not yet appear how the numerous friends of Chief | Justice Church stand affected toward the ticket, but the Judge is supposed to be out of favor with the Tilden democracy. Speaker McGuire's statement, to which we have alluded, im- peaches the veracity of Mr. Fairchild, Gov- | ernor Tilden’s candidate for Attorney Gen- | eral, and is alsoa blow to Mr. Hammond, | nearly double the number of men are neces- crop is reported to be good, ‘There are rumors of war between Holland and Venezuela, the trouble growing out of the refusal of Holland to pay for the expense of putting down the late revolution, which the Dutch merchants of Curagoa are said to have fomented. The Expenses of the City Govern- ment for Next Year. The Board of Apportionment has for some time been engaged in fixing the estimates for the city government for 1876. Thescssionsof the Board have been held with closed doors, and the first intimation the taxpayers have been permitted to have of its action will be found in the proceedings published to-day. The law provides that after the Board of Ap- portionment shall have determined on the provisional estimates they shall be subject to revision by the Board of Aldermen, and the Board of Apportionment is then authorized to approve or reject such alterations as may have been made by the Aldermen, and to decide upon a final es- timate, which is the amount to be raised by taxation, less the receipts from city revenue, for the year. There would thus appear to be plenty of opportu- nity to correct any ill-considered action that may be taken by the Board of Apportionment in the preliminary step; but experience has shown that after the provisional estimates have been agreed upon it is a very difficult undertaking to attempt any alteration in the amounts of the appropriations. The late Mayor and Comptroller were severely cen- sured by their associates in the Board and by the press for their efforts to consider and fix up the estimates in secret session, and the announcement of some of the appropria- tions made to-day proves how the star cham- | ber system has now operated against the | public interests. The extravagant expenditures of the muni- cipal departments have added heavily to the burdens of our increasing annual taxation, Every intelligent citizen knows that the city government could be conducted at one-half its present cost if it were managed as a business man would manage his own affairs, One-third of the clerks in most of the depart- ments is a needless force of employés. In labor done for the city on the ' public works sary than would be needed on the same amount of work done fora private individ- ual, We may not have the same bold sys- tem of robbery in our public offices now that prevailed under the Tweed régime, but we still have shameful extravagance in the management of the public affairs. Now | the people demand that this unwarrantable squandering of their money in the service of political heads of departments and of the or- ganizations by which such heads are con- trolled shall cease. Real estate and the busi- ness interests of the city lie crushed under the load of debt and taxation to which the taxpayers are subjected, and it is time that we should insist on strict economy in all the city offices, In its secret sessions the Board of Apportionment has arranged the appropriations on a scale to suit the pur- poses of its members and not in conformity with the interests of the city. The. Comptroller wants a cer- tain amount of patronage in his office. The presidents of the Tax Department and of the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor want the same in their departments. The consequence is a budget which takes two millions more than is needed out of the pockets of the people to answer political purposes. No such reductions have been made as the people had a right to expect and demand, and the appropriations for 1876 will, it is evident, be as extravagant and un- warrantable as are those of the present year. The Indian Sammer, The weather plays a more important part in human economy than we realize.» A mild winter bankrupts the skate dealers, and the democratic candidate for Senator in the Twenty-sixth district. Speaker McGuire's damaging statements are corroborated by the published evidence, including an affida- vit by Mr. Howard Carroll and a letter from Mr. Alvord, a prominent member of the As- | sembly. Nobody, except, perhaps, some of the republican leaders, has any means of estimating the extent of the democratic dis- affection in the rural districts. We all know that there is a formidable division in the democratic ranks in this city, but it is di- | rected against Tammany and its dictatorial | chief, and is not likely to do any harm to | the State ticket. It is altogether probable | that the democratic State ticket will be | elected, though by no such majority as was | given to Governor Til | Tue Tarp Avenve Savincs Banx.—One | of the reasons why the creditors of the Third Avenue Savings Bank should | promptly take steps for the displace- | ment of the present receiver and the | appointment of a new receiver not mixed up | with the broken bank is incontrovertible. | The trustees of the rotten bank gave bonds | for the security of the depositors. Some, if , notall, of these trustees have made large profits out of the bank, but they now resist the payment of their forfeited bonds and pre- desirable that the receiver shall be free from | all suspicion of collusion with the trustees, and the depositors have a right to insist that their interests shall be placed in the hands the trustees in the management of the con- cern by which they have been victimized. A Mrertany Founenat took place at Montreal on Sunday at the Protestant cemetery. The take of believing itto be the unburied Gui- bord's funeral and swarmed to the cemetery led to a lively fight and much excitement ensued. Poor Guibord’s dead bones may yet lead to the breaking of many living bones before they are finally laid at rest. Tux West Inpres.—The news from the West India Isiatids ts not altogether rose- colored to-day. In St. Domingo neither the finances nor the soil appears to be in a sound condition; for we are told that the treasury of the Republic is bankrupt, while Prince, to enjoy the good fellowship and the good dinners of the stout burghers of London > heavy shocks of earthquake have been felt throughout the island. Investments either | its weather predictions are quite useful. Mr. | Mr. P | was expected and Mr. Proctor carried a green | | New York, does he not hedge a little too | would bankrupt the coal merchants if they did not increase their prices in proportion to the rise of the thermometer. A cold summer 1uins the hotel keepers at the seashore and the lakes. Fogs, it is known on the highest French authority, drive the people of Lon- don to suicide. Too much rain destroys the millinery business and too little reduces the umbrella man to despair. Either a long drought or a great flood will reduce a pros- | perous nation to beggary. A chilly day is a direct loss to the soda water trade and equiv- | alent to new capital to the taverns. There is nothing in the world that people would rather manage than the weather and nothing that is more unmanageable. The govern- ment, which has a growing mania ‘for the management of everything, has taken the weather into its charge, as far as possible, and thus far with fair success. If it has not free will it has at least foreknowledge, and Proctor, the English astronomer, says that during the six months he spent in America these predictions were only wrong three times. Once clear weather was announced and roctor left his umbrella at home and | got thoroughly soaked; another time rain umbrella around all day in the hot sun; the third time he stayed at home. The veiled prophet of Washington is certainly more accurate inshis prophecies than other seers, but when he says, as he did the other day, | that the probabilities are th’ * it will be clear in the Middle States, with possibly rain in | much on the future? To say that it is prob- able that a thing will be possible is to make rather a safe assertion. However, it is likely that it is possible that we may be certain that | we will be sure not to criticise too severely a prophet who is just now so agreeable, The delicious weather which we now enjoy may not be of his provision, but he gets credit for it, and a reflected glory shines on him from The autumnal woods do him honor; he deserves to be complimented for the sunsets, and if these cool, balmy south- westerly winds, inspiring as wine with the chill taken off, continue, there will be a gen- eral petition to have his salary raised by the government. He has reason to be proud of this weather, or rather of this weather vane, and all of us should profit by the opportu- nity. For the time draws near when, as Tom Hood said, there will be no warmth, no moon, no stars, no sun, no light, November, and when we shall sigh that the Indian sum- in Jand or segurities do not, therefore, seem mer was too beautiful and bright (9 Jail - . rs many others who are harvesting of “higher | whe Last Week of the State Canvass. | to be very safe, From St. Thomas the coffee [The Foreshadowea Downfall of Tam- many. The fact that the city of New York is op- posed to the present management of Tam- many Hall and is prepared to cast a majority of its votes against John Kelly's organiza- tion whenever a union of the opposing ele- ments can be effected, is conclusively shown by the result of last year’s local election. The true democratic vote of the city was shown on Governor Tilden, who received more than forty-two thousand majority over Governor Dix. But when the citizens came to vote on the Tammany candidates, they gave Wickham only eight thousand majority, the opposition not being united against him, and they beat Hayes, against whom the op- position was united, by eleven thousand votes. They gave General Jones, the candi- date of the united opposition to Tammany for Register, nearly two thousand votes more than Wickham, the Tammany candidate, re- ceived from the Tammany democracy. Taking the vote for Register Jones as the basis upon which to calculate the chances of the present united opposition against Tam- many, and we find the following encouraging facts. The vote for Regster last year stood as follows:— For Jones, united opposition. For Hayes, Tammany..... 71,107. 9,460 United opposition over Tammany...see.eese- 11,68 There was not an element that was against Tammany last year on Jones that is not against Tammany this year on the Hackett ticket, with the single exception of John Fox. Last year Fox cast his influence in his Senatorial district against Hayes, and the result was that the vote in the district: stood as follows: For Hayes For Jones, Majority for ayes 5,100 Mayor Wickham was supported by Fox, and his vote in the district compares with the vote for Hayes as follows:— For Wickham, For Hayes... Wickham over Hayes... 2,396 It is clear, therefore, that two thousand three hundred and ninety-six votes are the full measure of ail the strength the support of Fox gave to General Jones in the Fourth Senatorial district. Fox is this year with Tammany, but Morrissey’s fight against Fox in the Fourth district will certainly give more votes in the district to the Hackett ticket than Fox gave last year to Jones. Apart from Fox every element that was against Tammuny last year on General Jones, is against Tammany this year on Hackett. On the other hand, Morrissey, Hayes, Sena- tor Ledwith, County Clerk Walsh, Costigan, Peter Woods and a host of other local leaders who were active workers for Tammany last year, are now openly in the figld against Tammany. The laborers, who were unitedly with Tammany last year, are now opposed to the men who held out to them false prom- ises of work, and cut down their pay forty cents a day. When to these facts are united the strong feeling on the part of all the reputable part of the @¢ommunity against John Kelly’s attempt to drive a pure and faithful Judge from the Bench from personal motives, it must be admitted that the success of the Hackett ticket next week seems to be assured, Yesrerpay Was tHe Twenty-rmsr anni- versary of the famous Balaklava charge, and | a dinner was given at the Alexandra Palace, near London, to the heroes of that daring feat of arms, or rather to “‘all that are left of them—left of six hundred!” With dishes to right of them, dishes to left of them, dishea in front of them, they no doubt proved them- selves as good at an attack on a well supplied table as on a Russian battery. Tue Case or Tae Ex-Depury CouzxcTor, “Des Anges, for violation of the revenue laws, came up in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. Witnesses for the govern- ment being absent, a postponement took place until to-day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Grant weighs one hundred and ecighty-seven pounds, Gentlemen of means tn Mississippi are engaging largely in orange culture, ‘Tho Danbury News says:—“Has a man who ts not bald-headed any right f an orchestra?” Itis sald that nearly one-half of the surplus hard woods of the country are to be found in Western Virginia Mr. Nicolas de Voigt, First Secretary of the Russian Logation at Washington, is residing temporarily at the Everett House. The Jersey City Herald says:—‘‘No man but a horse car conductor has the right of patting alady on the back withont an tntroduction.’? It was Voltaire who said:—‘‘It is more easy to write about money than to have it; and those who have it laugh at those who can only write about it.” Gathering autumn leaves was formerly a fashionable amusement, but since the irruption of the pinch-back dress the gathering has becn confined to boys, Robert Dale Owen is visiting his brother, Professor Richard Owen, of tne Indiana State University. He delivered a lecture before the law class on Monday which Is highly spoken of, ‘ Detroit Free Press—A scientist has ascertained that avman is 1,876 times as large as a house fly, and this knowltdge ts enough to make a fellow sheer his hat over his ear and step high. Boston people won't eat any kind of peanut sbut the African importation. The Africin nut when classi- cally shucked, 15 supposed to afford greater nutriment to the intellect than the native Virginian bivalve. The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) doubts “If there are half a dozen men of consequence west of the Allegha- nies and south of the Ohio who consent to Samuel J, Tilden as the democratic eandidate for President.”” Word has been received by his family that Chan- Laisun, recently removed from the Chinese Educational Commission in this country, has been restored to full favor with his government and appointed Secretary of a Legation to England, ‘The new State constitution of Nebraska contains provision that the United States Senators for that Stato shat] hereafter be elected by direct vote of the people. It will be an interesting question now to be settled whether this is not in conflict with the constitution of the United States. Walter Savage Landor, who was Dickens’ study for Boythorn in “Bleak House,” said that Bonaparte had the olive complexion and roundness of face of a Greck girl, and that his voice was deep and melodious, but un- truthful {n tone, James T. Fields says that Landor was pleased with Boythorn, ‘The Utica Herald says of Frederick W. Seward that he was his father’s constant and trusted adviser, He shaped the details of the most important State papers. of the epoch. He managed delicate diplomatic negotia~ tions at times when the salvation of the Union hung upon the reluctant neutrality of foreign Powers. ‘The Louisville Courier-Journal, speakiug of reform in Journalistic literature, says:—‘‘We aro going back to the Addisonian period of literary license, tf not-to that of Balzac or Montaigne or Rabelais. We must guard the chastity of composition only a tittle less carefully than we goard the chastity of women, for lewdness to ‘the one will have @ destructive effect unog the purity of tg ober."