The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1875, Page 6

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M.; closes at 11 SIC, 1, TROVATORE, at PROS vs NEW YORK, MC From our reports this mor that the weather to-lay will be cold and | clearing. are ‘The vigor with which he has administered he criminal caw against notorious offenders has excited admiration Tre Herarp py Fast Mam Trams.—News- | dealers and the jgublic 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 Henaup, free of postage. Bxtraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. “John K. Hackett, alike a terror to the dangerous | tlasses and a safeguard to the rights and property of | She honest citizen." —Hupson (N. Y.) STAR, Tron-craps seem to be doomed just now to frequent misfortune. It is not long since a British vessel, the Vanguard, was sunk, and | aow we have the report of the burning and | explosion of the Fre EW YORK | ses should be properly | | religions motives, and it is impossible not to ; Wh NEW YORK HERALD, MONDA\y, NOVEMBER 1, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Religious Revival in Brooklyn. The strange religioas phenomena in Brook- lyn should not be forgotten in the noisier events of the political canvass. This religious work, especially under the supervision of Moody and Sankey, concerns thousands of Christian men and women, No doubt these | meetings in the Brooklyn Rink and the Tabernacle are largely attended from motives | of curiosity. People go to them because of | their European reputation, because they like | , and because they find a novelty | ric of Mr. Moody. Many go from respect the depth of these feelings when we | hippers. | The wife who would reclaim an erring hus- | ; the mother who mourns a v ard | hild; the father whose son isa burden to | ster who would win a brother from | worldliness—these other | touching reqnosts show a true spirit of | devotion. Nor is there any narrowing senti- | ment of sectarianism in Mr. Moody's mind. | t the other | the he way of and stubborn n a day asked him to ¥ for con- | version of “thirteen friends who were | Roman Catholics” the evangelist promptly | decline: + that there were a8 many | thirty-eight clergymen in New York and | Brooklyn who gave their views few had any | and when ‘a relapse comes it leaves them | these serv | the various congregations’ will have their success. | Mr. Mood rmons are grotesque, but they have no p e value. He deals with sacred “The public have hoped he would be aR. ‘Tre CaNnapian are getting ready for the Guibord funeral, but as yet only one regiment has receiv 1 orders to pre- pare for the event. It is to be hoped that the occasion will pass off quictly and without bloodshed, pee “Recorder Hackett, of New Yor of Hackett and | TOWN Ruets- refused to male con places in hie court for tools of Tammany, and Tammany | pays him off.—Bosvox Tha one of the most brilliant in many years, is reviewed in the Henaxp this morning. We present an inter- esting résumé of th ttas and matches sailed during the y nd call attention to the record as a fit tribute to the growth of aquatic sports. “Hig election will not be a republican victory in ony sense, but a popular viclory over John Keily.” 80x, Vcropen 14. Prack ms Unvovay, it is confidently ex- pected, will soon be rest« the revolution being practically termi These South American struggles of years have only two salient features—their beginning and their end. “Break down the one-man 7 The most effective | way is to vote for John K. Hackett for Recorder,” ~ Sux, Ocropen 13. Waeren’s Musicar Ipxvas find almost as | many expounders in this country as in Ger- many, and to these as well as to most read- ers of taste and culture the opinions of Von Diilow reproduced in the Hxnarp this morn- ing will prove an entertaining and instruc- tive chapter. “Let the people elect John K. Hackett to be Recorder by a rousing majority. It will do John Kelly good," Sux, OctoneR We | ner” song about holding a fort until rein- | tears and awake the spirit of prayer in the Catholics who were Christians as Protestants, and that the Catholic road to heaven was as sure as any other, if people only kept in it. As most of our Protestant revivalists feel that their main duty is to denounce the Popeand xe the bitterest memories of a gloomy le past, this evidence of charity and fair play on the part of the Brooklyn re- vivalists is praiseworthy. een from the interviews printed in the Henanp yesterday and to-day, giving the opinions of our clergymen on the Moody y movement, the general senti- | ment of the churclfes is in its favor. Of | | words of disparagement. Two Lutherans | were afraid the work was too “sensational” for their Church, forgetting, we are afraid, that Luther himself was among the most sen- onal of preachers that ever moved the spirits of men. Rey. Dr. Bellows feared that | val was like a straw fire, which gave it than heat, and he thought that | erved the Lord very well in daily labor, sh true religion should not disturb. Rev. Dr. Chapin had the same opinion, feeling men t that ‘religion was more of a _ life than an emotion.” Mr. Frothingham would not encourage the movement, be- | cause it was evanescent, and would in the end do more harm than good. Revival ex- citements, he thinks, result in positive evil. “People,” he says, “suddenly and violently aroused (o religious enthusiasm do not keep up the fervor with which they commenced, worse than they were at first.” With the ex- ception of these dissenting opinions the gon- eral feeling of the clergymen is that the two evangelists are doing a good work and need the encouragement of all Christian men. The same feeling is shown in Philadelphia, where services are to begin at an early day. The clergymen of that city have united in a request to the evangelists to come and lead ces. In Boston there are indica- tions of a colder feeling. The clergymen propose a revival, but it wiil be without the aid of Moody and Sankey. The ministers of meetings in their own churches and make no general demonstration. Other churches here and elsewhere, who are not in sympathy with Moody and Sankey—mainly the Catho- lics and the Unive —propose special meetings of prayer and praise and religious inquiry. So that we seem to beon the verge of a ‘“‘great awakening.” The more we see of Moody and Sankey the more we are puzzled to account for their Neither of them have special gifts. themes like an auctioneer selling his wares. He celebrates the beauty and sublimity and holiness of the Saviour as though it were a watch ora picture which he was anxious to knock down to the highest bidder. Peter and Paul and Jolin, Moses and Abraham and Daniel, names sacred to every devout mind, are tossed abont and handled as though they were mere men of our own day, Congressmen or tragedians or candidates for office. To be sure these saints and teach- ers were men once, even as we are now, and a fertile fancy might easily place them ina human, contemporary atti- tude, and so deal with them. Nor is it an offence against any law but that of good taste. But nothing is more becoming to true religion than good taste. This constant vio- lation of it is one of our gravest criticisms upon Mr. Moody's endeavors. The songs and hymns of Mr. Sankey are a powerful in- fluence. Mr. Sankey has an expressive, sym- pathetic voice and, as he believes what he says, his m a prayer. Nay, we are told that the utmost pains are taken to have the ious tones, or a whisper, so as to give dra- to these manifestations, In , the tricks of minstrelsy and opera. The “e: of the lyric stage are invoked to produce the proper impression upon the minds of the people. The hymns far as we have rend them, are not without They are simple, exy easily understood. But they lack the tion, the-higher spirit of praise and worship, which mark the hymns of Watts, Charles | Wesley and John Newton—of Doddridge and | Heber—not to speak of the immortal strains | of David. There is nothing to compare with | “Sing, My Tongue, the Saviour's Glory” of | Thomas Aquinas, or ‘The Spacious Firma- | ment on High” of Addison, or “Vital Spark | of Heavenly Flame” of Pope. Why is itthat | sing in certain in a shor matic ‘ef other w ets” sive and levo- | these hymns and the inspired psalms of David full so tamely upon the ears of Christian men, when a quaint and superficial “poet's cor- | forcements come, or finding a sheep that had strayed from the fold, or about Jesus of Naz- | arcth passing by, will move hundreds to | dormant hearts of multitudes? If Moody and Sankey are the evangels of a new faith what shall we say of the thou- | sands of ministers who labor from year to year in their vineyards and whose names are never heard beyond their own sphere? What are we to say of that great body of divinity which is the glory of our literature and which enriches the literature of all tongues ? Of what value are the works of the fathers whose lives were given to the contemplation of the holy mysteries of faith and whose words have been the comfort of generations of men? Of what uso are the schools of learning devoted to the education of relig- ious teachers, when two gentlemen without more than an average education may set the hearts of Christian communities on fire like a burning pra ? The success of Moody and Sankey, if it may be called success, is a re- | flection upon our whole Christian system, so 8 its literature, chools and its divines ned. Butis it a real success? Do not these gentlemen dra¥ crowds in Brooklyn merely because they drew crowds in Lon- don? Do not our people flock to the Rink and the Tabernacle to see what power it was that astonished the religious world of Lon- don? Do they not find that the eloquence of Moody and the melody of Sankey repro- sent what we see at every summer camp ing, and that they attracted the English ly because it was a novelty, like the shows of Barnum or the humor of Artemus Ward? What we hear in Brooklyn may be heard at Ocean Grove or Martha’s Vineyard every summer. The methods of Moody and Sankey are the methods of the exhorter, the colporteur, the class leader. Once the cuti- osity of the people is satisfied the revival will die away. ‘Chere will be no longer theso eager crowds, the two evangelists themselves will lapse into the ordinary life of devout clergymen, and marvel in after years at tho celebrity which attended their ministrations in London and New York. As to whether these religious excitements are of permaner.t value, so far as the moral elevation of the people is concerned, we do not now inquire. Any influence which draws the minds of the people to a contem- plation of divine things, of the lessons of Holy Scriptures and the observance of the Commandments, cannot but do good. Of the hundreds who flock to the Rink and the ‘Tabernacle, and who feel moved by the ex- travagance of the preacher or the melody of | the singer to change their lives and become Christians, many will fall away, many will find the temptations of the world too allur- | ing andthe burden of a religious life too hard to bear. But there are others, we trust, who will find an enduring peace in the faith of Christ. And if even one sinner in ten thousand should be led toa permanent re- pentance the evangelists of Brooklyn may have the consolations of the Gospel for be- lieving that their work, however much wo may criticise it, has not been altogether in vain. “Recorder Hackett has occupied the bench for ten years without a word of accusation being raised against his Judwial uitegri links, Octouer 12, Joux Kenny's Foxerat Okation ox Himseur.—I would like to get out of the position which I hold, I am not a great man, but I am influenced by good motir and while Iam here I will use all my endeavors to gi the State a good government. We nominated and electot Samuel J. Tilden simply for the good of the people, anit that he might correct the abuses that had become so enor- mous. He and his associates have been at that work for a whole year. They have done all they could, and if ty have not done more it was because they have been thwarted, —Tamwaxy Haut Spencu. A Blow at Liberty. The more we see of the proceedings against the editors of the Times on the part of a vassal of Taramany Hall the more we regard it as a blow at the independence of the press, and as being another of those foolish ex- pedients by which Boss Kelly has striven to retain his power, upon the principles laid down by Boss Tweed. The editor of the Times is the representative of a political or- ganization, and in the progress of the can- vass he has had occasion to say some severe things of his opponents. ‘This is his priv- ilege and duty. He is as much entitled to his rights in this respect as any other citizen. He hasa high responsibility to his party and to his readers. Fora leader of Tam- many Hall to have him arrested upon a frivo- lous pretext during the canvass and to threaten him with a series of libel suits when the election is over is to show a disre- gard for freedom of opinion which is only characteristic of the manner in which he has governed his political organization. The result of this controversy between John Kelly and the Times will be to strengthen that journal in the affection of the republi- can party and of its readers who have had occasion in the past to admire its courage and independence, and who will not fail to honor these qualities again, even when they are measured against the prowess of a pow- erful, unreasoning political leader. “Tis exclusion from the Tammany ticket has never Leen better characterized than by saying that it would be celebrated at Sing Sing.”—Covrier ves Erars Usis, ‘John K. Hackett shall remain at his post as Re- corder—and who will be able to say nay?’ —Daiy News, Tre Sermo The services in the metro- politan churches yesterday were after the usual style of doctrinal discourses, Mr, Hepworth preached on the new birth, taking the orthodox view of conversion, of which he has become the leading exponent. Mr, Beecher’s discourse was on vicarious faith and the methods of prayer. Mr. Alger'’s subject was ‘The Law of Victory in the Con- tests of Men,” his discourse being in illus- tration of that remarkable text, ‘The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong.” Mr, Frothingham delivered an ad- dress on the varying phases of human thought affecting the Deity. At the Church of $t. Francis Xavier Pather Merrick preached a sermon, in which he called upon all Catho- lics to sanctify the coming week in the spirit of faith by prayer for the intercession of the saints, An interesting event took place at the John street Methodist Episcopal church—namely, the celebration of its one hundred and ninth anniversary, and the Rey. Dr. Price took leave of St. Stephen's Episcopal church after a pastorate of thirty- eight years, can claim the credit of ridding the city of alarger number of bad characters than any one “Recorder Hackett who has occupied a similar position,’ —Timns, OcTounn 12, Tne Navy De bringing our scattered own waters. No special significance may attach to this on account of our relations with Spain, but in any event it is better to wrMENT is very active in ships into have our navy near home rather than to | employ the few seaworthy ships we possess in junketing in distant ports. our | The City Canvass. We congratulate our readers that the can- vass is practically at an end. There are no changes in the general drift of public opinion from those we have reported all along. It looks very much as if the opponents of Tam- many Hall, the republican and anti-Tam- many alliance, would carry the city or at least elect the Recorder and District Attor- ney. Butan election canvass in New York is so uncertain an experience that it is im- possible to caleulate carefully upon the defi- nite result, even within as brief time as that which now remains. A day, an hour may change the whole phase of the battle and give victory where defeat is dreaded, Although the opponents of Tammany Hall have made a stronger combination than we remember for many years, and, although the leaders are inspired with a feeling of un- usual enthusiasm and have fought their bat- tle with commendable gallantry and zeal, they have not the organization of Tammany, and they have that weakness which always rests with an alliance. If a public opinion which has found expression in a hundred ways during the last few days should con- tinue unabated Tammany will be defeated by a tidal wave. If Tammany can maintain its formerly irresistible organization and overcome the defection in many of the dis- tricts it may still hold its power. The gen- eral expectation now is that unless something unforseen should occur, the opponents of Tammany will be successful to-morrow. This is owing a great deal to the ferocity of the attack upon Recorder Hackett and Mr, Kelly's management of his organization. Honest citizens in New York see that Re- corder Hackett has been a good Judge, and when he is criticised by Mr. Kelly they nat- urally ask why is he not to-day as good a democrat as he was yesterday, as he has been for twenty years, during which time he has always been a member of Tammany Hall. They resent also the attempt to strike at the independence of the Bench by pun- ishing a judge for refusing to be the vassal of a political master. They feel that, whatever merits Mr. Kelly possesses as a citizen or a democrat, | the party is more than any mere man, and that this continuous dynasty of bosses, which has existed for twenty years, should now cease. They more especially feel this because we are on the verge of a Presidential election, Sincere democrats in New York desire to enter that great canvass without the limitations or burdens imposed by Tam- many Hall. Consequently the rebellion is not against a man, but a system, not against Boss Kelly alone, but against the theory of bosses. It is felt that the kingdom which Kelly inherited from Tweed may be wrested by another Tweed from Kelly. The only victory which Tammany can win in New York will be by superior organization against public opinion. Eyen if the organ- | ized power should be successful to-morrow it will only serve to show the country how dangerous is this institution, an institution which by its machinery can so easily defeat the popular will. It will prove to the people also that the same tactics which secure victory in New York can be applied by the same kind of men to every part of the country. In the interest of Governor Tilden, or of any of the candidates for the Presidency, noth- ing could be more disastrous than the victory of Tammany Hall. This may seem strange, but it is the logic of the whole situation. John Kelly, victorious or defeated, has thrown away the greatest op- portunity that ever befell a local leader in New York. Three months ago it was in his power to have so managed Tammany Hall that the election to-morrow would bea walk- over—practically unchallenged. Every step he has taken in these last three months has been to invite and create opposition. He has established a tribunal like those of the French Revolution, which guillotined every citizen who opposed the will of Robespierre. Defeated, his system falls and the democracy may reorganize upon a comprehensive and harmonious basis for the great campaign. If successful, then, as we have said before, the democratic party will. receive the severest blow to its Presidential canvass that can pos- sibly be imagined. “John K. Hackett should be triumphantly re-elected, Yet all the thieves, burglars, highwaymen and murderers will vote against him.””—Svx, OctouEr 12, ‘Tue Inperenpent Press AnD Porrtics.—We observe that Boss Kelly, in his furious speech at Tammany Hall, Saturday evening, ar- raigned the independent press of New York for not being more subservient to his will. We can imagine no higher compliment to journalism in this city than to find itself under the ban of a political leader, especially of one of the dynasty of bosses. Nothing is more to the credit of the independent press of New York than the war that it has made upon this whole boss system, upon one leader after another, constantly refusing to bow down to the one man power, insisting that politics shall be the expression of in- dependent thought, of popular sovereignty, of freedom of opinion, of conventions whose voice represents the true will of the party. Whatever the result of the battle may be to- morrow, the power shown by the independent press, the harmony of action and the unity of purpose, the refraining from personality and vituperation, the strenuous support of the people's rights will’ be remembered as a new claim on behalf of the press, to be con- | sidered the palladium of our free institutions, “So far as the public are concerned, the trumpery charges against the Recorder have fallen dead," —Tinxs, | Ocrouek Joux Kenny's Vauenicrory.—I have been a laboring man myself, and Know how hard it ts for men with families to get along on such wages as the city pays, ‘should have good pay, but there should be honest work given to the city for it, Tammany Haut Spegcit, “He is just the sort of Judge the people wish to admin. ister justice to their enemies, John K. Hackett must be keopt in the seat of the Recorder."—Svx, Octouen 13, Ovr Wasmtncton Despatcres this morn- ing reveal a new scheme. It seems that an effort isto be made to obtain an interpreta- tion of the act of Congress sanctioning the issue of District of Columbia bonds, | which will make the interest payable in gold. This is carrying the Public Oredit | act too far, as neither Congress nor tho country ever contemplated any such pay- | ment except in the current money at the | time of such payments They | The Severe Storm from the Southwest. The storm reported as having passed over | Little Rock, Ark.; and Louisville, Ky., on | Friday night and Saturday morning, and in- flicting considerable damage at both places, accounts for the mysterious development of an area of low barometer at Philadelphia distinct from that of the storm which passed down the St. Lawrence Valley during Satur- day, also for the display of danger signals at Galveston and New Orleans. We com- mented on both of these facts in our article of yesterday, but owing to the absence of any meteorological news from the South for the twenty-four hours preceding the time of writing, we could only surmise the cause of the adoption of these precautionary meas- ures. Now, however, everything is ex- plained by the accounts of the movement of the storm through Arkansas and Kentucky. The condition of cloudiness that prevailed all over the entire country is also accounted for. While the northwestern storm was whirling eastward over the lakes another storm of equal violence was travelling toward us from the sonthwest, having been generated ‘on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Texas and Northern Mexico, The two disturbances thus converged on the comparatively narrow ter- vitory between New York and Buffalo, and have ere this united their forces in passing northeastward through the outlet of the St. Lawrence Valley. The southwestern storm was a land storm in contradistinction to those that are cyclonic in character and oceanic in origin. We have frequently described in our articles the process of the generation of these disturbances on the eastern slopes of the mountain ranges, and need not repeat them. We will only add that the sites of generation of these great land storms in the United States are generally southward of the fortieth parallel, the warm, hurftid atmosphere being supplied from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, Our predictions of lake dis- asters have been borne out by the latest tele- grams. On the Atlantic Ocean the violence of the winter storms is felt in the northern latitudes, which are avoided at this season by navigators. We do not anticipate, there- fore, any losses at sea from the storms now passing except in the vicinity of the American coast, The first snow of winter fell in New York city yesterday, as the Hzraxp predicted, although ‘Old Probabilities” limited the area of snowfall to the New England States. Mr. Hackett has a most unplegsant habit of sen- tencing murderers." Times, Ocrouer 15, “Recorder Hackett will be re-elected by one of the largest majorities ever cast for a judge in tis city.” — Taxks, OcrouER 15, Physicians’ Fees. Some very erroneous ideas have lately been aired in the columns of our contem- poraries in regard to the remuneration of medical men for professional services. It is, in fact, argued that a doctor succeeds finan- cially in proportion to his incapacity, which, pushed a step further, would establish that all the rich doctors are ineflicient practition- ers, and that if a medical man is poor that fact is to be accepted as an evidence of his talent. There is only one more step to be taken in the direction of this reasoning, which must necessarily be that the people at large who are practised upon are drivellers and idiots. Any reasoning which ends at this point must, if its processes are accurate, start from erroneous views. Some physicians of great capacity have lived and died poor in these times and in all times; but they were generally, perhaps, men like Harvey, greater as inquirers, as explorers in the wilds of medical knowledge, than as practitioners merely, They neglected practice for science, But the history of the profession will estab- lish that if any really capable practitioner fails financially it is because of the posses- sion of some offensive eccentricity. Physi- cians who have common sense as well as genius always succeed. They secure comfortable incomes after a reasona- ‘ble time, and some fortune eventually. The argument that the doctor who cures a case in one or two visits and gets therefore only one or two fees is worse off than the blun- derer who keeps on with the same case for thirty or forty days and gets thirty or forty fees takes a small view. It is necessary to go beyond that case. Which of two such doc- tors does the next neighbor send for when a case arises? Sooner or later, if the tedious illness vere the result of blundering, it becomes known ; and the way that doctor is handled in the public speeches of that family and all other families to the remotest thread of connection may well be a caution to medical men who make mistakes, or to all, if any such there be, who may be tempted to deal with their patients’ maladies from the financial rather than from the medical point of view. No, it is in medicine as in all other practical activities—success attends capacity and industry. If a man gets but two or three fees out of a case he has thousands of cases on which to collect this little tax ; but if he counts his forty fees ona case he will be fortunate if he counts forty cases in a year. “We fancy the counting of the votes on election night will show that John Kelly has not the whole city in his pocket,”"—Svs, Octonrr 15, “Recorder Hackett has dealt out a Draconian sort of justice to Uieves and murderers.” Tins, OcTosRR 19, Jons Kenty's FAREWELL TO ALL or His Greatxess.— and [am happy to state that they will be elected and will discharge their duties uninfluenced by John Kelly or any other Kelly, Two years ago we elected siz gentlemen, and they will cheerfully bear witness that never did I altempt to influence them, notwithstanding what the editors say. Some editors are governed by private friendships, anil the reports of our meetings in their papers are not given fairly. This should not be 80. Lf ever the liberties of our country are destroyed it will be by just such men, — Tammany Haut Srreci. refused to fill his court with Kelly's understrappers, has lost his party thousands of votes." Times, OcroneR 17, “Kelly proposes to get rid of a Recorder who persists in sentencing criminals,” —Titks, Uctoner 16, Ms, Keenan's Wisvom.—Messrs, Kernan and Seymour have taken the advice of the Henanp in their visit to New York and Brooklyn and kept out of local quarrels, Mr. Kernan said the other night:—“Z don't take any part in your local canvass, I don’t say for whom you should vote, I urge you to look to it and select as many as possibld of those who are in favor of reform, I have no word to say to you about vour local cam paign, Iam here to urge you according ta your own judgment and conscience to give your support to the State ticket and to vote for the best men for Senate and Assembly and to stand by Samuel J. Tilden of your own city.” Mr. Kernan showed commend« able wisdom in this advice and in following out the course laid down for him by th Heraxp. “Recorder Hackett, of New York, is said tobe @ honest man. For this reason Tammany shuts the door i his face.” —Wasninctox CHRONICLE. “Recorder Hackelt, of New York city, is an intelligenk courageous and pure judicial officer.” —Ocvensuune Daity JOURNAL, The Voyage of the Swatara. “Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.” There are some in South America who are ready to apply, with @ change of names, the thought of this verse Better a very little of the United States, evem as it is, than all the possibilities of Brazil. They went away in bitterness of heart, but none will contemplate their return with any other sentiments than those of sympathy, and pity for misfortunes and ruined illu< sions. Few can have forgotten the ciroum< stances in which some of the people of the South went away when the final catax trophe of the Confederacy came, not the spirit of their departure. But now that all the hopes they then had are seen only as blasted ones—now that many have perished and that all have returned whe could command the means—there can be na heart so hard as not to wish Godspeed te the man-of-war which the government, in 4 temper we cannot too highly commend, has sent to bring home the poor remainder They went because they would not be citizens of the United States on any terms, They had fought for a government inde pendent of ours but had failed to obtain it, and they would go to exile and foreign death rather than look upon the restoration of the hated authority. They would give ta other lands the little advantage of their labor and to its battles their valor. Nona but themselves have suffered in the hot fire of that passionate departure ; no resentment can slumber in any breast, and we rejoica that there may be a little left of life for soma of them at home and among friends, “Because John Kelly says that John K, Hackett shalt not remain in the place of Recorder, are the people on New York to be frightened —Sux, Ocroner 15, “There is not a respectable citizen of New York wha does not look upon the attempted removal of Recorder Hackett from the Bench as an outrage,” —Times, Oo- TOBER 14, A Two-rpcep Sworp.—We havo several communications from excited partisand whose judgment is warped by the canvas# saying that one of the reasons why Recorder, Hackett should not be re-elected is that he is! a Catholic. We have no means of knowii whether, the Recorder is a Catholic or not. He is a good enough judge to be a very good! Christian. Whether a Catholic or not we ard sure he will administer justice. This intro< ducing religious questions into an election canvass is a two-edged sword that will de endless harm. It is one of the most mis« chievous of John Kelly's extraordinary ex< pedients, “The vast majority of cases adjudicated by the Recorder have not reached Albany, They have gone up the river, but they have stopped at Sing Sing.’'—Evexina Post. More Destavcrive Fines.—Philadelphia; was the scene of the latest destructive firt,, what were known as the Bruner Mills, im that city, being destroyed yesterday. One of the worst features of the calamity is thoi deprivation of nearly nine hundred hands of| employment. Another large fire is reported’ from Cambridge, in this State, the loss being very great for a country village, These con- stantly recurring disasters prove how inade- quate are the provisions against fire, but neither preaching nor suffering seems to lead to greater precautions or security. “The animus of this attack is not susceptible of conceal- ment, Mr. Kelly has for many years been a bitter per= sonal enemy of the Recorder. EVENING MAIL, Cvupan Inpepenpence.—According to Min- ister Cushing's instructions the attitude ot the United States toward Spain on the Cuban question is one of expectancy, and they mean, The press has denounced me, but it could not belittle them, | “The “war to the Kenife,”” because the inflexible Judge | if they mean anything, the speedy recog- nition of the Republic. The arguments by which this position is justified were equally forcible at any time during the last fiva years, but it is possible that armed interven- tion will grow out of this sudden deter- mination of the government at Washington, Whatever may be the result, the w) ole coun- try will be in as lively a state of expectancy as the administration. “Mr, John Kelly, the autocrat of Tammany Hall, hat bid defiance to the press and public opinion2’—Com- MERCIAL ADVERTISER, Rexiaroy 1x Porrrics.—The absurd attempt of overheated partisans to defeat John K. Hackett because ‘‘he is a Catholic” shows to what extremities a canvass may reach, Rumors like these are the legitimate conse- quences of any attempt to engraft religion upon politics, They are like the extraordi- nary rumors that clergymen have been in« structing members of the Father Mathew societies to vote the Tammany ticket. We do not know whether the Recorder is a Catholic or not. We know he is a modell magistrate, and there is no better Christian, than a good judge. “A man is discarded whose unflinching courage and firm and impartial conduct upon the Bench rendered his name a terror to all the criminal classes,""—Datx Wir- NESS, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, —-——- Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan, accompanied by General Woods and Brigadier General George Crook, arrived in this city yesterday und took up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel “Piety,” remarked an Arkansas preacher to his con- grogation the other day, “does not consist in noise, The Lord can see you give to the needy just as casily as he can hear you pray the roof off.” “John Kelly, angered at Mr. Hackett’s judicial inde. pendence, snapped his fingers at public opinion,” Srar. Evidence toward convicting the Frenchman, La Page, of the murder and mutilation of Miss Langmaid, is strot Atany rate, ho will be tried for the Now Albans marder, which he has confessed, ‘The Cincinnati Commercial says that the defeat of ‘Allen is the very thing that has saved this country from acommorcial orisis this winter and from harder times than have been known during this generation, ‘The Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer-Sun says:—“Of all tho probable candidates named for the Presidential nomina- tion no one is more popular at the South than Gov. ernor Hendricks, of ladiana, and uo one retains bia povularity better,”