The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD| ,,, AND ANN STREET, BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ROPRIETOR. digtetnst. Novice {0 SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after Janu . 1875, the daily and weekly | editions « New York Henarp will be rent free ¢ Age. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches wiust be addressed New Yore HERavp. a Let nd packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OF) (CE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received ani iorwarded on the same terms as in New r VOLUMR Xi. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. CSP bert, Miss Ada Dy as. PARISIAN VARIE Ss, Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VARILTY, at 8 P.M. COTTON & KEED'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, Opera House, fwenty-third street aud Sixus avenue, at 8 BP. M.; closes at 10 P.M MIQUE, +abs P.M; closes at 10:45 AME! Third avenue and sixty third death ABAN FRANCISCO 3 low Opera House, Broadway, corn ateP. M. 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The bank statement is an improvement on that of last week H From Catno states that army has entered Abyssinia, efore the in ¥PORT ¢: ding enemy. from London, The Bank of England is expected to close its doors on Monday! But then, as it is the day for striking the regular half yearly balances, and as the bank always suspends business on that day, the doors will, of course, be open again on Tuesday morning, Tae Canapian Bank Casz.—John E. Hall, who has been on trial charged with being im- plicated in the forgery of letters of credit on the Bank of British North America at Mon- treal, was yesterday discharged by Com- missioner Osborn, the prosecution having failed to produce satisfactory evidence to support the charge. Tarne Is Great Distress in the iron trade in England, and the large iron producers, Blockow, Vaughan & Co., who employ nearly ten thousand men in their collieries, mines and works, have notified their em- ployés that their engagements must termi- nate on November 13. The depression in the trade obliges these large producers to close up their works. They can make more money by remaining idle than by continu- ing their business at the present time. New Jensey Pourrics.—From the report of politics in New Jersey published in the Henravp to-day it will be seen that the people of Hudson county are suffering under evils similar to those experienced in New York a pnd Brooklyn. New Jersey has its “boss” ‘pnd its cabal, and is oppressed by the “one man power.” there, as here, are in revolt, and the result, it is hoped, will be their triumph at the polls. Vinersta Crry.—The unfortunate city is said to be rising rapidly from its ashes. Building is said to be going on in all direc- tions and temporary shanties are springing ap over the burned district. Relief is arriving freely, the spirits of the people are reviving, the insurance companies are pay- ing their losses in cash promptly, there is lenty of work at good pay, and as the mines we so fortunately escaped, the city will gon rally from the terrible blow it received, The independent citizens | | Recorder Hackett a man whose record, con- sinians show no fight, but | | Hackett and Mr. Kelly to make this canvass The Closing Canvass. canvass continues with unabated ferocity. There is some comfort in knowing that it will not last more than a day or two longer. The efforts of the Tammany leaders are directed solely to showing that the char- acter of two or three of the candidates on the anti-Tammany ticket renders them unworthy of support. The injustice of the attack upon Recorder Hackett, especially, has already produced the natural result in all such assaults—an arousing of our sense of fair play and a reaction in fayor of the person assailed. The conclusive answer, even from a democratic and Tammany Hall point of view, to every charge thus far brought against Recorder Hackett is that, up to the day of the Tammsny Hall Nom- inating Convention, he was in full ac- cord with the party and worthy of its confidence and respect. And even Tammany Hall men are asking why it is that in a day this democrat of esteem and rep- utation should be deemed unworthy, not only as a judge, but of the confidence of his own political associates. They naturally ask what urity is there for any democrat in the organization if it is to be within the power of Mr. Kelly or any leader of Tam- many Hall to proseribe him because of the ion of his free opinion relative to the government or the discipline of the party. But the people will look upon the canvass from still higher ground. They see in sidering how many years he has been before the public in positions of trust and responsi- bility, is singularly free from objection. Arguments are made against his fitness for re-election based upon his old political relations with the men who once controlled Tammany Hall. We venture the remark that there is scarcely a democrat holding office under Tammany Hall who could submit to the same ordeal without re- ceiving assaults as violent as those made upon Mr. Hackett. If Mr. Kelly himself were subjected to the same scrutiny we can well imagine the nature of the allegations | that would be made against him. He knows himself what political malignity succeeded in compiling a year or two ago, when he was in antagonism to the late Mayor Havemeyer ; but the common sense of the community, the men who respected Mr. Kelly for his | admitted qualities, resented the attacks of Mr. Havemeyer’s friends upon his char- acter and denounced them as mere elec- tion slanders and roorbachs, invented to serve purtisan purposes. The same gen- erous sentiment of confidence shown to Mr. Kelly, when he was assailed in the | interest of Mayor Havemeyer, will certainly | be given to Recorder Hackett, now that he | is slandered by the minions of Tammany Hall. Bad asthe old Tammany régime was under Sweeny and Tweed, there were hun- dreds and thousands of democrats who gave it fealty, who held office under its | reign, who, to a certain extent, were in the friendship and in the confidence of its leaders, who were in no way cog- | nizant of the great crimes committed upon the Treasury and who cannot justly be held | responsible for those crimes. It was a long time, as our readers will well remember, be- fore those crimes were detected or even their existence was suspected. When discovery came honest democrats like Recorder Hackett | and Mr. Kelly revolted from the infamous al- liance, and it is ux like both to Recorder | upon the theory that because @ man was a Tammany democrat in the time of Tweed and’ Sweeny therefore he was a thief and a peculator of the public treasury. the beginning and the end of all harges against Recorder Hackett. As a no one questions his integrity, his or his courage. In fact, Kelly himself, in his well con- sidered speech, concedes to Recorder | Hackett those qualities as a magistrate which have won him the respect of the peo- | ple, and the question naturally arises whether the people of New York will submit | to see an honest, capable magistrate dragged from the Bench because he will not be the vassal of the leader of a political organization. | There is no other way of putting the case. This is all there is of the contest against Recorder Hackett, and the attempt to cry ont upon him as a member of the old Ring is | so absurd on its face that it will do the authors harm. These arguments against the integrity of judges who were once members of Tammany Hall, and who came into power under the reign of Sweeny and Tweed, would apply to three of the judges, at least, who are now presented by Mr. Kelly for the suffrages of the people. These judges, | French Revolution, who sent to the guillotine | Mr. Kelly and his followers the slanders | strong when it can only succeed by vitupera- | way it may go, when the leaders of Tam- | to attract so much attention that we have like Mr. Kelly himself, held high office by the assistance and consent of the Old Tammany party, and are as much open to criticism on that account as Mr. Hackett. The people see clearly enough that if our judges are to be brought up before the bar of political conventions, to be arraigned and condemned because they have indepen- dence of spirit, because they refuse to drag | their ermine in the mire of politics, then republican institutions have received the severest blow, because if we cannot protect | justice from the contaminating influences of party strife society will come to an end and | overnment become another name for anar- | chy and oppression. This is really the un- derlying thought in the canvass, looked at from the highest point of view. Mr. Kelly is the leader of a powerful political organiza- tion, He takes an honored democrat in high standing, trusted, and yesterday as good a member of Tammany Hall as himself, and because of a personal controversy with this democrat—a controversy well known, and the terms of which are clear to the mind of all—he proposes to dishonor him, and in doing so dishonor the Bench. There is no citizen in this great city who will not, upon an issue so plainly presented, cast his vote for the independence of the judiciary against the sutocracy of a political organization. So far, therefore, as Recorder Hackett is concerned, the canvass is clear, and our peo- | ple will have no difficulty in making up their | minds. Our hope is that he will be sus- | tained by all honest citizens without regard to their party affiliations. Passing from this, we trust that the vote on Tuesday will show | on the part of the true democrats of New York their opinion of the one’ man power that has grewn up in Tammany Holl, and which is simoly carry. | | emotional NEW YOKK HERALD, SUNDAY, OUTUBER ing out the ideas which governed Tweed, and which enabled that monumental scoun- drel to plunder the public treasury. As we have said all along, the Presidential canvass is largely involved in the vote of Tuesday. If the democratic party means to impose the Tammany Hall discipline upon the country it will invite a defeat as decisive as that which General Grant inflicted upon Mr. Greeley. The gravest burden which Mr. Greeley had to bear in that canvass was Tammany Hall. Thousands of democrats throughout the country, who respected Mr. Greeley and who would gladly havesupported him for the Presidency, struck him on eléc- tion day because behind him they saw the support of an organization which was in violation of all the cherished traditions of their party. The country has seen that Tammany Hall took its rise in a secret order ; that its discipline was absolute ; that it claims to control the votes of every office- holder in New York, from the chiefs of bureaus down to the poor laborer on the boulevards; that it has destroyed civil service; that it has filled every city office with vassals and hirelings, and not with independent, conscientious public servants, who feel that they hold their places during good behavior. The democratic party hroughout the country is based upon tradi- tions with which Tammany Hall has no sympathy, and honest democrats in this city, therefore, in combating Mr. Kelly do not make a pessonal war upon him; do not deny him his claims to respect as a citizen and counsellor in the party. They contend that the party is more than a man; that it" should be reorganized upon true democratic principles, the glorious prin- ciples of popular sovereignty which the great Douglas made a controlling idea of true democracy, and, above all things, that now, when they are beginning to prepare for the Presidential canvass, democrats should be invited into its ranks and should be asked to act in harmony, and not be driven out by an inside committee of terror- ists like the Committee of Safety during the every Frenchman who ventured to criticise the absolute sway of Robespierre. ‘ We shall be glad to see the canvass at an end. We scarcely remember a controversy marked with the acrimony and bitterness of the present. This is due wholly to the leaders of Tammany Hall. They have con- ducted their contest witha ferocity that is appalling even in our American politics. On the other hand the opponents of Tam- many Hall credit for their fairness, for their general moderation, and for their disinclination to retort upon deserve used against them. This ferocity on the part of Tammany Hall is now seen to have been an act of great weakness. No party is tion. When the battle is over, whichever many Hall come to think calmly over the events of the past few weeks, they will see the wisdom of the lessons which this strife teaches. Whichéver way the contest ends, we think there will be an end of this dominant, aggressive and cruel cabal. The masses of the New York democracy will find their true leadership in themselves, in a con- vention representing their wishes, embody- ing the glorious truth of popular sovereignty, in a directory embracing democrats of all opinions, in men like Kernan and Seymour and O'Conor and Tilden and Hackett, and not in one man power whose supremacy is based upon the proscription of every inde- pendent member of the party and the sup- pression of all freedom of thought and action. The Clergy on Moody and Sankey. The Moody and, Sankey revival continues been at the pains of collecting the opinions of the leading evangel clergymen of this city and Brooklyn touching the probable effects of their work. It will be seen that nearly all the religious denominations are represented in the views reproduced in our columns this morning. Mr. Beecher, while recognizing the shrinkage likely to oceur in the number of converts brought to a knowl- edge of the truth in this way, believes that substantial benefits will result from the movement. Mr. Talmage thinks Moody and Sankey will do great good, since they come from the masses, hypothecating his belief on the assumption that ministers too often are educated away from the people. Dr, Lyman (Reformed) thinks the churches ought to encourage and utilize the movement. Dr. Davis (Methodist) believes the movement to be timely and full of promise. The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith (Baptist) regrets that the coming of the evangelists was so generally trum- peted, but hopes for great results neverthe- less, The Rev. $8. D. Burchard (Presby- terian) also anticipates the happiest results. The Rev. G. W. Wenner (Lutheran) refers to the fact that his people are accus- tomed to qnestion what they consider | daring | sensational character. religion, but he spoke of German rather than American feel- ing, and would not deny that practical good often results from revivals. Dr. Ful- ton, Dr, Cuyler, Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Eggles- ton, and a host of others express opinions of nearly the same tenor as those to whom we have referred. It is plain from all this that the movement has the sympathy and support of the clergy and churches in the sister cities, and if the revival effort fails it will not be from any want of co-operation on the part of the evangelical denominations, Whatever may be the result of Moody and Sankey’s work, these views have an interest apart from the work itself in indicating the drift of religious thought and opinion at this | time, and they are especially valuable as | showing that denominational prejudices have | been very much weakened within afew years. | Iv tar Parmaperrata Execrion on Tues- day next a large number of conscientious re- publicans who are against “ring rule” will cast their votes, according to the Philadel- phia Times, for Cyrus L. Pershing, the dem- oeratic candidate. This they do in a sincere desire to secure administrative reform. The “sing” in the City of Brotherly Love is formed of republicans. Here itis demo- cratic, and a number of conscientious demo- crats here will vote against Tammany for reasons similar to those that control honest republicans in Philadelphia The Pandora and the Northwest Pas- sage. Once more we have the opportunity to publish a history by one of our correspond- ents who took part in the enterprise of a daring attempt in the cause of discovery. The gallant push of the Pandora into the Arctic Seas, which have been the terror of seamen for so many ages, is a remarkable illustration of spirit on the part of all con- cerned in it, and our letter, accompanied by & carefully prepared map, from Mr. MacGahan, will probably give a clearer idea of the perils and uncertainties of Arctic navigation than any elaborate work recently issued upon the subject. From this letter it will be seen that the Pandora was on the Franklin track for the Northwest Passage, and it is evident that but for the unfortunate circumstance that the winds have prevailed for some time from a particular quarter, jamming the ice into the lower partof Peel Strait, the chances are that a road would have been found into Vic- toria Strait, which fact once accomplished the route to Behring Strait and the Pacific would have been open to the voyagers. ‘To be sure the Pas- sage would hardly, at the present time, be likely to prove favorable for commercial purposes; but the world has been so long and so deeply interested in solving the problem that its accomplishment is some day sure to be realized, to satisfy that “divine curiosity” which has ever been the | keynote to Arctic discovery. In the time of Sir John Franklin, before the Pacific Rail- road was dreamed of, only thirty years ago, the old dreams of Cabot, Cartier, Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Davis and a host of other heroes of the sea were thought possible of realization—that by the Northern Seas a passage could be found lead- ing to the Indies without making the long and tedious voyage into the South Sea around Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope, called by the Portuguese Cape Tormentoso, from the fearful storms and currents there encountered. Latterly, since Franklin's day, especially during the later expeditions of Kane, Hayes, Hall and now of the Alert and Discovery under Captain Nares, the motive has been purely one of science. Nobody claims now that commerce could utilize a Northwest Passage or that practical gains would come from reaching the North Pole. But the never confined itself to the advocacy of en- terprises of gaip and profit, or of a merely All discovery is use- ful, and projects honestly looking to that end have ever found the Henaxp ready to contribute freely, both in means and en- couragement, as with Stanley in Africa now, and as with the Pandora in the frozen regions of the North. Every little helps in the great summary of human knowledge, and what the Pandora has achieved we cheerfully consign to the literature and science of the Arctic regions. Wickham on Sacrificial Altar. John Kelly appears to have resolved at the eleventh hour to offer up Mayor Wickham on the sacrificial altar as an atonement for the sins of Tammany. Mr. Joseph J. O'Donohue, a local politician, who is recog- nized as Kelly’s devoted henchman, made a singular speech at a democratic meeting on Friday night, in which he expressed his own the and John Kelly's determined opposition to | the reduction of laborers’ wages, and hinted that the traitors to democratic principles and to the laboring classes were to be found in the Executive Chamber at the City Hall and at the head of the Department of Pub- lic Works. There was a large attendance of workingmen at the meeting, and Mr, O’Donohue’s speech gave evidence of the fears of the Tammany rulers as to the la borers’ votes and of their desperate determi- | nation to offer up the Mayor and General Porter as a sacrifice to save themselves from destruction. But will the offering be accepted? If, as John Kelly now says, Mayor Wick- ham is the evil genius who has worked all this evil upon Tammany, why has he not been ‘‘disciplined” after approved Kelly motor fashion and led out of the door of the Wigwam? If Kelly and his bodyguard of faithful followers were so strongly opposed to the reduction of the, wages of the city laborers; if they regarded it as an “outrage” on the workingmen; if they protested against it and strove to pre- vent it, why did they drive the stalwart John Morrissey out of Tammany because in his blunt honesty he denounced the reduction? If The O’Donohue now speaks truthfully the proper course for John Kelly to have pursued would have been to set his Discipline Com- mittee bulldogs at the throat of Mayor Wick- ham and not at the throat of the Honorable John. It seems singular that Morrissey should have been sacrificed for denouncing those acts of the Mayor which John Kelly now affects to have all along deplored, and that the Mayor, who is now alleged to have been the real offender, should have been crowned with fresh Tammany laurels day after day. ye ee A Nice Prece or Rattroap Manacemrnt.— The managers of the milroad running be- tween New York and Baltimore will do well to read the letter of a correspondent pub- lished in the Henatp to-day. The writer of the communication, with his family, took seats in a Pullman palace car from Baltimore to New York, paying an extra charge for the same. When the train reached Philadelphia the palace car in which they were travelling was cut off, and the passengers were hud- dled into another car, the seats of which were all occupied. Of course their money was not returned to them, and their protests against the injustice of being thus cheated ott of their seats were met by the reply that the conductor was following orders. Ladies were compelled to stand and children to find seats on the floor. Such management as this will soon bring a road into disrepute. Who is responsible, the railroad employés or the Pullman car people? It would be well to bring such an outrage to the attention of the courts and to tat the question whether a railroad that thus violates its sgreement is not responsible in damages to the injured | parties. A Nomeer or Ixvvc mercantile houses of this city publish » card warmly indorsing the State ticket headed hy John 31, _1875.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Bigelow. TYy6 signatures to tho card em- brace such names as Brown Brothers, Drexel, Morgan & Co., Phelps, Dodge & Co., David Dows, Franklin Edson and others, most of which are politically identified with republi- canism. The publication of this card is one of the highest compliments the.administra- tion of Governor Tilden has yet received. ‘The Winter Storms—A Meteoric Steeple- chase. Our advices from the West show the rapid advance of a succession of storms which are the avant couriers of the winter season. Only it few days ago we experienced in New York the influence of the passage of one of these in the shape of a heavy gale, which, while it lasted, forced all outward bound vessels to return to port for shelter. Another similar disturbance is now travelling eastward over the lake region and the St. Law- rence Valley and extending its in- fluence as far south as, Philadelphia. During yesterday there were only four places within the area of the United States and Canada where the sky was clear—namely, Cheyenne, Wy. T.; Farther Point, N. B.; Memphis, Tenn., and Punta Rassa, Fla. At all other points of observation clouds, rain, sleet or snow prevailed, generally accom- panied by high winds. On Friday morning the present storm was central over Omaha, on yesterday morning over Lake Michigan, and at forty-seven minutes past seven last night had reached the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada, and will reach Cape Breton this evening. The rate of prog- ress northeasterly of the storm has been very regular at about twenty-one miles an hour. Yesterday afternoon a distinct but small area of low barometer became central near Philadelphia, but was probably a por- tion of the main disturbance, and due to the southern end of its elongated area peing severed by the mountains of Pennsylvania. As the storm advanced the east wind at New York veered steadily to the southward in concert with its movement, so that it was pos- sible for an observer to tell almost the meridian of the storm centre at any time during the day. The Lower Bay is filled with vessels detained in port by the very timely display of the cautionary signals, such is the confidence placed by shipmasters in the accuracy of the Signal Service deductions for weather probabilities, We fear, however, He: Hag | that disasters will be reported from the lakes, owing to the rapid succession of the storms and the great distances from port to port on these inland seas. There is a strong indica- tion of the approach of still another storm from the west, and which is separated from that now passing by the cold area of high barometer which always follows these me- teors. The direction of the wind at Bis- marek, Dakota, shows the presence of a low barometer in the farnorthwest. On the Gulf coast danger signals have beer ordered up at Galveston and New Orleans. We have had no advices from these points to indicate the reason for this precaution, and therefore conclude that the Signal Office has received information of the movement of a small cyclone through the Gulf from the West India Islands. The weather in New York for the next twenty-four hours will be cloudy, with cold winds from the west and north- jwest. There is some probability of snow or sleet, but in any case we may look out for a cold snap and high winds. Winter has come at last. Tux Crry Esrmates ror 1876.—The city estimates for 1876, as made up by the Board of Apportionment, will startle the taxpayers. The total provisional estimate, when the half of the Fourth avenue improvement ap- propriation driven over from this year and the ten thonsand dollars for procuring evi- dence of Ring,frands are added, is as it now stands in excess of the present year’s expen- ditures, This is the sort of economy to which the taxpayers are treated. The gross appropriations this year are $36,171,472. The gross appropriations for next year, as fixed by the Board of Apportionment thus far, are $36,246,231. Yet the State tax next year is nearly eight hundred thousand dollars less than the present year, leaving an increase in the city expenses of nearly one million dollars. The Board of Appor- tionment ‘‘fixed” the estimates in secret ses- sion. In open session its members make noisy professions of economy, but the ap- propriations are not altered, for all that. The fact that at a time when economy is so seriously needed, and when the expendi- tures are admitted to be shamefully extrava- gant, the yearly estimates are swelled by nearly a million dollars, still stares the over- burdened taxpayers in the face. iy A Good Nomination. Mr. Hamilton Fish, Jr., son of Secretary Fish, is again a candidate for member of As- sembly in Putnam county. Mr. Fish was in the Assembly of 1873, and made a very creditable record. But he distinguished himself by his firm opposition to some of the Vanderbilt railroad bills which were before the Legislature of that year, and which were, in his judgment, inconsistent with the public interests. In consequence of this opposition he incurred the enmity of the railroad people, and through the efforts and the enormous power of the corporation he was defeated last year. The constituency he represented the previous year felt the loss they had sustained in being deprived of his services at the last session, and have again placed him in the field. The spirit of the people is now opposed to dictation from any oligarchy, whether a railroad corporation or a secret political society, and they will take care that the error of last year is not repeated at the present election. It is gratifying to see young men like Mr, Fish, whose fathers have distinguished them- selves in political life, taking an active part in politics and seeking to carry out the principles in which they have been educated. It gives a good promise for the future of a republic when its statesmen do not end with one generation, but are continued through a long line of honored names ; and if the ex- ample set by Mr. Fish were more generally followed there would be less danger of the overshadowing evil of the Kelly ‘‘one man power.” The character of our State legisla- tures, which has suffered so severely from the class of men elected through such in- fluences as Tammany wields, can only be redeemed by sending to Albany as our rep- resentatives gentlemen like Mr, Fish, and his defeat would be a stain upon Putnam county. We are glad to learn, however, that there is but little danger of such a re- sult and that the election of Mr. Fish is con- sidered certain. Palpit Topics To-Day. There are some ministers and churches who cannot believe that a good thing could come out of Nazareth, or, in other words, that revivals can have any good or lasting results. One of these will to-day show up the de- lusive character of modern religious re- vivals, and another will set them forth as signs of the last days of the Church. But there are a number of honest objectors, too, who wish to be further enlightened on the laws and methods of revival, and to all sucky Mr. Lightbourn will give the desired informa- tion, When the Church needs help Egypt is the last place she should look to for it. And yet she sometimes goes there, and Mr. Knapp will reprove her for it, and Mr. Hawthorne will show her the helpful side of God's na- ture, My. Willis will present her with a day of good things, and Mr. Kennard will present her with a wonderful motive for Jov- | ing a wonderful Saviour, Jehn, the type of a fast man, will be analyzed by Mr. Taylor. Women, first and last, will receive consider- ation from Mr, Johns, Mr, Willis and Mr. Merritt. No class of ministers are supposed to believe as little in hell as the Universal- ists, and yet none preach so much about it as they. Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Sietz, both of this class, will, for the hundredth time, prove that there is no such place; Mr. Jut- ten will redeliyer the law from Mount Sinai, and Mr. Bjorring will show the relation between human science and _ revelae tion. Mr. Leavell will indicate the grounds of our gratitude and point out our duty and responsibility to the Jews, and Mr. Harria will run a line of contrast between Christ, Peter and the Pope, and show wherein Rorhanism differs from Christianity. Mr. Hugo will make his plea for American frea schools again, and Mr. Phelps will sound the alarnm—‘‘Beware of the whale !” which ia another way of putting the story of Jonah’s disobedience. Summer,having closed and antumn being still with us Mr. Lloyd ia gleaning such lessons as he can from these seasons and giving them to his people; Mr. Saunders will show his church how they can be workers with God if they will; Mr. Hep- worth will enumerate some of the results of regeneration, and Mr. Alger will set forth the law of victory in the contests of men and illustrate the teachings of the poets. Proressions Acarst Practice.—Tax Com- missioner Wheeler, the President of the De partment of ‘Taxes und Assessments, an- nounced yesterday in the Board of Appor- tionment that he would persistently oppose all unnecessary burdens upon the people. This is very gratifying so far as it goes ; but why did not Mr. Wheeler vote in favor of Comptroller Green’s motion to reduce the appropriation for the Tux Commissioners office from one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to one hundred and ten thousand? The latter sum shduld be quite enough for that department, especially since Mr. Wheeler himself has frequently declared that it could be and ought to be run for fifty thousand dollars. An ounce of practice in economy in these days is worth a pound o} profession. Tus Ancric Exrroner, Dr. Hayes, is male ing a successful voyage toward Albany. His election as a member of Assembly will intro. duce a new element into the State Legisla ture. It will be refreshing to see the famous traveller bringing to bear on legislation and the purification of our Assembly cham! the genius and energy that have alr made him famous in another sphere. It ia creditable to the district that Dr. Hayes is said to be almost certain of success, and the constituency should take care that his majority is large enough to prove theix appreciation of his acceptance of the nomina- tion. It will be useful to sprinkle the Legis- lature with men who are not politicians, but who can bring to bear on the enactment of laws good business sense, strict integrity and entire independence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Nowark, N. J., has 123,203 inhabitants, General Sherman's book is suid to have netted him $30,000, Miss Braddon is still thinking of coming to this country on a reading tour, Colorado will take part in the next Presidential elec tion, having three electoral votes, A Troy elephant with his trunk nearly killed a man, ‘Thought he was baggage sinasher. Miss Clapp, of Augusta, Me., who was supposed te have been abducted some weeks ago, {s still missing. During the absence of the Prince of Wales in Indis the Princess will visit her father and mother in Copen hagen. The dead rhinoceros has been stuffed at Albany. Ib is sud to think that only one young Jady can wear it on her bonnet. A peculiarity about the statue of Stonewall Jackson, just erected in Richmond, is the very dark and sombre color of the bronze, Lord Houghton left the city yesterday, with Hom) Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow, on a short visit to Mr. W. C. Bryant, at Roslyn, L. L A Kentucky justice has decided that {t ts not legal for a farmer to hitch his wife up with a mule, mo matter how anxious he Is to plough. A California tree 1s pine for thirty feet from the ground, for twenty feet higher itis fir, It ts a sort of soft money republican tree. ‘The air-ship which Mr. Shroeder ts building at Balti- more, and in which he expects to cross the Atlantic tm forty hours, 1s nearly completed. Seftor Don Manuel Maria de Zamacona, of the Amer- ican and Mexican Joint Claims Commission, is residing with his family at the Grand Hotel. M. D. Conway is lecturing about the antecedents of tho devil. Politicians feel better now that he is not telling anything about the devil’s descendants, ‘Apropos of political times, a New England paper wants a buttonhole that will stand the constant strain imposed upon it by numerous candidates, ‘Texas will hold the final State election of the current year on Tuesday, December 7, The democrats carried the State by 47,631 majority for Governor in 1873, ‘A temperance drink at a drug store killed Mr. Sher- man and Mr, Parker. Hydrocyanic acid and whiskey was the mixtare, Still, people will ask for temperance drinks. Alabama has Incorporated into its new constitution this clause:—‘'The people of this State accept as final the fact that from the federal Union there can be aq secession of any Stato.” Mrs, Black, tho Maid of Athens of Byron, died Intely at her residence in the city whose name is linked im poetry with her own. Mrs. Black was 68 years of age and the mother of a large family, Eugeno Sue was very rich—he inherited groat woalth from his father, and his house tn Paris was as sumptus ously as it was artistically furnished; his servants wore silk stockings and presented bis letters to him one silver salver--not bad for a professional radical Ae wrote always in white kid eloveg