The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1875, Page 6

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Y, NOVEMBER 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilit are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with, possibly, occasional rain. “John K. Tackett should be triumphantly re-elected. Yet all the thieves, burglars, highwaymen and murderers will vote against him, OctoneR 12. Tue Henavp py Fas R dealers and the public throughout the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines, of the Tiudson River, New Yorle Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tux Henarp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered lo wvresdealers Uy sending their orders direct tu “Recorder Hackett has occupied the bench for ten years without a word of accusation being raised agaist his fudicial integrity.” —Trmes, Ocrouer 12. Watt Srnerr Yestexpay.—Stocks were irregular, with exception ath in one or twofancies. Goldafter at 116 3-8 ended at 116. Rag money is worth 86. The pub- lic debtStatement shows a decrease. “His exclusion from the Tammany ticket h been better characterized than by saying (ct it would be celebrated at Sing Sing,” —Covnine ves Etats Usis. newer Tue Srna is reported at Aden, with all well on board, “The special experiencé of Messrs. H és far too valuable to be thrown away. nee 1. Tur New Canne between Key West and Punta Rasea bas been laid and the old cable repaired and restored. zs, Novex- “Recorder Tackett can claim the credit of ridding the city of a larger number of bad characters than any one who has occupied a similar position." —Tres, Ocro- pen 12, ‘Tuerr is a report i an important Cai tured by the London that Orduna, position, has been cap- sts. “Recorder Ha: , of 2 rhe, % Ifo be an hon est man. For this reason Tammany shuts (he door in hit face." —Wasuixcton Cunosict Ovr Sprctan Parts Co “E to-day will be found particularly It gives a graphic account of the political sitna- tion, and contains, besides, a quantity of amusing Parisian gossip. ‘esting. “Jonn K. Hachett shall remain at his post at Re coviter—und. who will be able to say nay —Daiuy News. is . Tur Tarn or Corone,n Dus Anazs, ex- Deputy Collector of Customs in this city, for frands on the Custom House, was continued yesterday. A number of witnesses are yet to be examined in the case, which has been postponed until to-morrow, “The animus of tris attack te not susceptible of conceal- ment. Mr. Kelly has for many years been a Litter per- sonal enemy of the Bacarder,”—Bxnasnc Mata gina street ‘and Sixth avenue, at 8 | and Phelps | The Cuban Question. We have an important despatch from Wash- | and despair. We have to look into the | without its tale of horror, atrocity ington, which deserves more than usual at- | far West, among the unreasoning, savage tention when read in connection with a Sioux, to find a counterpart for the war in suggestive extract from the London Times, | Cuba. In the interest of humanity it should | come toan end, no matter which side was advising Spain to abandon Cuba as ‘‘a dis- erned save by military power.” Washington despatch, which bears the marks | of official inspiration, we find that the Pres- | ident has informed the Spanish authorities that the time has come for our government to consider carefally its duty in reference to Cuba, He thinks that the sanguinary los- tilities which have prevailed in Cuba for the last seven years produce an effect in this country second in gravity only to that produced in Spain, He points out that our relations to Cuba are so anomalous that we can only obtain redress for injury done to our citizens in Cuba by tedious applica- tions to Madrid. | day by day ‘more insupportable to the | ural feeling of humanity, cannot forbear to reflect ‘‘that the existence of slavery in Cuba lies at the foundation of all the calamities which inflict that island.” In conclusion, the President looks upon the emancipation of the slaves and the independence of the islang as ‘the only certain and even neces- sary solution of the question.” The despatch assures us that “the policy of the United States in reference to Cuba at the present time is one of expectancy, but with positive and fixed function as to the duty of the United States when the time of emergency or action shall arrive.” At the same time we note a singular move- ment of activity in our Navy Department. Our men-of-war are called home, and there is an unusual gathering of vessels in the various dockyards and waters of the country. What this means we do not pretend to say. The country will be excused for feeling that, sooner or later, we must do something in ref- erence to Cuba, The difliculty about any action of General Grant at this time is that the neaz approach of the Presidential election would give it the appearance of a political move. Those who have studied General Grant’s government carefully have felt that | his trump card in a Presidential game would be a war or a foreign complica- tion. We have had three opportunities to make war during his administration. The first was with England on the Alabama question. This was settled | by the great good sense of Mr. Fish and Mr. Gladstone at Geneva. England, therefore, | as a point of hostility, is out of the question. | Our relations with the mother country are | on a sounder footing than they have been at. any time since the foundation of the govern- ment. There have been temptations to make war in Mexico, opportunities enough | and pr tion, but the President, many of | whose pleasantest recollections are associated | | with his life in Mexico, has always shown a 1 friendliness for that Republic. The | experience of the French in conquering a Mexican empire is not of a character to ex- cite in us any hope of conquering a Mexican | republic. Then comes the Cuban question, | which is traditional in our polities, going | back to the time of Jefferson, and which | every few years assumes a prominent posi- tion in Ame: n affairs. The annexation of | Cuba has gradually grown to be as much of an American idea as the annexation of Ire- land to the English Empire is a British idea. | When President Buchanan took his oath of | office Robert J. Walker wrote him an enthnu- | siastic letter, telling him that Cuba was the | golden aim of his administration, and that | whoever annexed Cuba would win immortal reputation. President Grant in his effort |; to annex St. Domingo showed’ that he was not insensible to the ambition of annexation. Even Mr. Greeley, who had a morbid hatred to anything annexation, who opposed | Alaska and as and believed that we } should develop the country before we ex- tended its area, was convinced that Cuba }and the United States were necessary to | each other. It would not surprise us, therefore, now that the third term has received so terrible a | blow in Ohio, and now that the republican leaders are growing desperate with the prospect of their declining power, that we should have the Cuban question suddenly thrown upon the country. As we have | shown, it comes under better auspices than | most questions of this ch; The only | | objection to Cuba pendency is the practical one that annexa- tion now would not be feasible. We do not need the country. We do not want any trouble with Spain. We do not care to offend the susceptibilities of the other Powers, who, when they are not robbing their | neighbors, constantly declaim against the sin of rob! and national ambition. We have as much as we can do in this genera- tion to obliterate the traces of the war and | stablish our finances. The annexation pt in one way, that of har. monious concession on the part of Spain, would bring ar which, even if we had a re. of Cuba, exe a series of un rrupted victories, would cost | us more even in money losses alone to jour com our industry and our credit, tk ten Cubas would be worth. Any action looking to war, or meaning war in the slightest contingency, would have to be submitted to a hostile House of Rep ntatives, a House whose members come t destroy the administration of General Grant, Such a Howse, no matter what it might think of the annexation of Cuba as @ democratic measure under a Presidency like that of Buchanan's, would oppose it in any phase under the Presidency of Grant. The one thing that a democratic House will never do is to furnish laurels for the brow of the re- publican President. Therefore, all that the government can well do with Cuba is to recognize the insurrec- tion so far as to concede it belligerent rights. © This is our prerogative if we choose to wield ether to investigate and | | many to-day. as an American de- |'the close of the } | | | bid defiance to the press and public opinion. tant dependency which can never be gov- | victorious. But we do not see how there can In: this | be any doubt as to the victory. The Cuban Reyolution has lived as long asour American Revolution, and although the English King was stiffnecked, like Pharaoh, and would not let the people go, in the end his pride suddenly crumbled and he unloosed his grasp. Sooner or later Spain must follow this example. How much General Grant can do toward encouraging this action it would be in vain to speculate. The Span- | iards, proud beyond belief as a people, | are peculiarly sensitive as to Cuba, It isthe last valuable remnant of that empire in | America which was the glory of Philip and The insurrection grows | Charles, the lnst memento of the age when the will of a Spanish king was omnipotent United States,” which, laying aside the nat- | D2 two continents, and when the language of Cervantes almost encircled the globe. Cuba is to the Spaniards what the ark of the covenant was to the children of Isracl, and woe to the unclean alien hand that dares to touch it, Altogether the question assumes a new difficulty at every step. We do not contem- plate the contingency of a war. That would be a wanton undertaking, an act of moral treason, especially in a year that is to base its glory in a Centennial Exhibition. There are no reasons for war now outside of the President's ambition and the necessity of the party—certainly no reason that has not been operative for at least seven years, If the administration can do anything in the way of diplomacy to compel Spain to emancipate the slaves in Cuba or grant independence to the island the country will be pleased. But it is well to watch with suspicious eyes every movement the President makes toward Cuba, knowing what is possible to a Chief Magis- trate familiar with war, knowing the strange power of war over the passions and judg- ments of a people, and not above appealing to that awful arbiter if he can in any way serve his ambition or his fame. “John K. Hackett, alike a terror to the dangerous classes and a safeguard to the rights and property of the honest citizen,’ —Hupson (N. Y.) Srar. Let Us Have Peace. There is a comfort in knowing that we are now atthe end of the campaign; that the fury is spent; that this time of defamation and calumny and misrepresentation is over. To- day the citizens of New York will decide between the tickets which have been pre- sented by the different conventions. The general thought in the minds of all patriotic men will be that these tickets are, as a gep- eral thing, composed of good men. We do not remember when both parties seemed to strive to present unexceptionable candidates as earnestly as during this canvass. The effect of a reform movement upon our politics is seen in this fact. So far as the mere men on the two tickets are concerned a citizen will have little hesi- tation in voting with his party, because he will vote for good officers. The question has not been as to the merits of the tickets, that having been conceded from the first, but as | to the one man power of Mr. Kelly represent- ing a great political organization, and second as to the furious attacks upon Recorder Hackett and Mr. Phelps, whom it is proposed to drive from office because the former would not become the vassal of a political dictator. This question really will decide the election to-day. In doing so it will decide to a large extent the influence of the democratic party of New York upon the dem- ocratic party of the country during the next canvass. As was shown in the campaign of Mr. Greeley against General Grant, the Tammany -influence was the heaviest burden he had to bear. Even the democratic party throughout the country, who would gladly enough have supported Mr. Greeley because of his high personal character and the assurance that he would have made an honorable and fair-minded President, rebelled against a candidate who was largely under the control of a secret po- litical order. Therefore, if we wished ill to the democratic party in the next canvass for the President, which we do not, we could desire nothing more than the success of Tam- If John Kelly proves him- master of New York at polls, that fact alone will cost the democratic party thousands of votes throughout the whole nation. This is largely owing to the folly of Mr. Kelly himself. He had the campaign in his own hand until within a few weeks. He had it in his power to have reformed the democracy, reorganizing it upon the principles of free- dom of thought and independence of action, embodying in its platform the glorious doc- trine laid down by Douglas of popular sovereignty. These are the misfortunes of the canvass thus far. The leaders have given us an active fight ; they have'excited the pas- sions of our political leaders to a high pitch ; they have engendered much ill feeling; but it is all over now. Our advice to citizens i to keep cool, to vote early, vote for the men upon the ticket, and, whatever the 7 may be, accept it as an expression of the of the people. “Recorder Hackett, of New York city, is an intelligent, courageous and pure juiicial oficer.”—Ocpexsuena Day Jounxat. self to be Tue Urrenances ov tue Orricrat Journan at St. Petersburg on the Turkish difficulties | are commented on by the London Times in a tone which indicates England's re- sistance to such an intervention as would be likely to raise the Eastern question to for- | midable proportions. A conference of the | great Powers, according to the Times, will not be acceptable to England. “Mr, John Kelly, the autocrat of me many IHall,,has —COMMER- | orau ApvERTISER. EXxampies or “Yournrun Depravery” it and for which we are in no way answer- con- \able to Spain. If any insurrection ever | stantly occurin the daily annals of crime, | earned the quasi-recognition imvolved in | In the town of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, | grantin rights of belligereney certainly | Hallowe'en was disturbed by a dreadful years it has burned with undying flame. Spain has spent hundreds of millions of dol- lars, wasted thousands of lives and brought herself to the verge of a foreign war to save Cuba. Peace is no nearer than it was seven years ago, There in searcely o day insurrection in Cuba. For seven | tragedy, in which a mere boy, with undoubted murderous intent, plunged a kuife into the | heart of another, of little more than his own “The vast majority of cases adjudicated bythe Recorder have not reached Albany. They have gone up the riv but they have stopped at Sina Sina,” —Evexisa Post. Pure Air at Last. Let us thank the Providence which con- trols the changes of the season that we are about to emerge from this unwholesome atmosphere of the past few weeks and breathe pure air again. What a terrible canvass it has been! What slanders, what acrimonies, | what defwmations of character! When we look back upon the last five weeks it is with a shudder almost, as we hear one politician denouncing another ; one leader calling an- other a thief anda poltroon, and crowds of earnest men exhausting the resources of lan- guage in passionate invective. Is it not pos- sible for American politics to be conducted by gentlemen? Is it absolutely necessary that because a citizen accepts a nomination for a high place that he must necessarily be nailed upon a gibbet? Must we always take it for granted that the selection of a candi- date for an office is moral assassination? Here are men, many of them, who yesterday stood well with their fellow citizens, who had lived, in the main, blameless lives, seek- ing todo well and to stand well with the public. To-day they are libelled on every walland denounced in every ward as un- worthy citizens. It is like preaching an old sermon over again to inculcate moderation and courtesy in politics, What we see in America to-day we have seen in England and other countries for many years. There is nothing which grieves the student more than when, passing from administration to administration, he finds that every election had its stock of de- grading acrimonies. Even the peerless Washington was not free from election slander. If we were to dig up from the contemporary papers the long forgotten at- tacks upon the Father of His Country they would be read with amazement; and so down the list—Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Jackson, Ben- ton, Van Buren, Polk, Buchanan, Pierce, Lincoln, Johnson—every name recalls to the student of history a chapter of vitupera- tion which, in its day, was read, we fear, with too much avidity, and which is now forgotten, as the same things in our times must be by a generous public opinion. We suppose it isa part of our political sys- tem that we shall all get angry durtng the canvass, and say things inour moods of wrath which to-morrow we forget. At the same time we could wish it were otherwise. We could wish that gentlemen, honest citizens, might be invited to take part in polities and not be driven back. As it is, to ask a respecta- ble merchant or a lawyer in good standing, or a citizen of pure fame to become a candi- date for office is, like asking a well dressed man to step into a mud pool and wallow in the mire. Though his life had been as spotless as the driven snow, and as free from pollution as the mountain brook, his acceptance of the nomination would make him black and grimy with all manner of filth, We suppose, when that good time comes of which everybody sings and nobody is quite sure, which is ever before us like the mirage, but ever melts in the desert as we approach it—when that political millennium of poets and authors really arrives, there will be an end of these campaigns of slander and vituperation. For the present, therefore, we can only mourn that it should be so, and breathe freely to-day in the thought that we have emerged from the polluted atmosphere of the past few weeks, and find ourselves on this election day breathing freer, with the thought that— for the present, at least—there is an end of this moral miasma. “4 man is discarded whose unflinching courage and firm and impartial conduct upon the Bench rendered his name @ terror to ail the criminal classes.” —Datty Wit- Ess. The Winter's Work in Washington. The President and the members of the Cabinet are busy with the preparation of their reports to Congress, and a private let- ter elsewhere printed gives some hints of what is likely to be the position of the chief officers of the administration upon the cur- rency question. The winter's work in Washington will have in view in the main, probably, less the good of the country than the benefit of the contending political parties. The republicans will try to put their opponents in a false and d&maging po- sition in relation to the currency and the public debt ; the democrats will, by search- ing investigations into the management of public business, attempt to destroy the peo- ple’s confidence in the republican leadbrs. To the superficial view only confusion and evil could grow out of such a contest ; but in fact good will inevitably come of it. Itis a rough but effective way of protecting the public interest ; and if the contestants on each side prove their opponents unfit and un- trustworthy they thus warn the people of the necessity of discarding all of them and selecting new men to administer their af- fairs. It will not be a public calamity by any means if such shall be the result of the winter's work in Washington. Both parties have corrupt and effete leaders, men who have lost their hold on national ideas, who do not any longer think as the people think, and who are careless of the public good, It isa good time to bring forward new men, and possibly the contending party leaders who will be assembled in Washington this | winter can do no greater public service than to exhibit each other's inefficiency and un- trustworthiness. “Asageneral rule, we should say that whenever itis possible to strike a blow at the odious dictation of Tame | many Hall it will be well todo it; wherever the candi- dates are otherwise equal take the one who is not the crea ture of thas insolent society. "—Evexing Post, Nov. 1. | A Locomotive on THe New Jensey Rarinoap | | atéiched to a construction train exploded | yesterday at Bound Brook, killing five per- | sons and seriously wounding several others. Colonel Palmer P. Thompson, the foreman of the railway gang, who is among the killed, | was blown over the railroad wires. It is for- | tunate that the passenger train due about | the time of the explosion was not near | enough to the switch tosustain injury. There | are several rumors afloat as to the cause of | the accident, and gross carelessness is by some attributed to the railroad authorities, | Tho matter should be searchingly investi- gated, and if, as reported, the locomotive was unfit for use and dangerous, the parties re- sponsible should be held to a strict account- | ability, _ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The State Elections To-Day. Of. the ten or eleven States which hold elections to-day only three are impor- tant, from their bearing on the Presidential election, These three are New York, Penn- sylvania and Massachusetts, The Pennsyl- vania election was virtually decided in Ohio, and there iso reason to doubt that the re- publicans will also recover Massachusetts. The loss by the democratic party of Ohio, which it carried last yor by a majority of 17,202; of Pennsylvania, which it carried last year by a majority of *4,679, and of Mass- achusetts, where it elected the Governor by @ majority of 7,032, will be regarded as a proof that the tide has receded. The won- derful impression made last year was pro- duced mainly by the surprising democratic victories in these four States, three of which have been or will be lost again this year. It is probable that the tide will also recede in New York, although some of the causes will not operate here which reverse the demo- cratic successes in other important States. There are several reasons for supposing that the democratic party will carry New York by a diminished majority. In the first place, one of the most effective of the democratic weapons has been blunted and quite thrown aside. Last year the third term question made a great figure in the State canvass. Every democratic newspaper was full of it, and that it had a powerful effect was proved by the course of Governor Dix, who, in the last stages of the canvass, became so alarmed that he came out in pub- lic opposition to a third term. His declara- tion was too late to be of any service, and it really injured him by alienating the office- holding politicians who were devoted to President Grant and resented General Dix’s attempt to rectify the republican platform and save himself at the expense of the Presi- dent, That troublesome question hurt Gen- eral Dix in two ways—first, by making votes for the democratic party through all the ear- lier part of the canvass, and at last by turning the office-holding interest against him when he hung out his flag of distress. But this year the third term is a dead question, espe- cially since the collapse of inflation, and none of the democratic journals have alluded toit. All the political capital which was made out of the widespread alarm on this subject last year is lost in the present can- vass by the extinction of the question. In the second place, the republicans are likely to recover the greater part of the votes they lost last year on the temperance gques- tion. The temperance people were enraged at Governor Dix for vetoing one of their measures, and gave the temperance candi- date eleven thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight votes, although their average vote forthe preceding four years had been but two, thousand. The prohibitionists are nearly all republicans, and at present there isno such reason as operated last year to separate so many of them from their party. In the third place, the liberal republicans, most of whom voted with the democrats last year, are divided now, and quite a propor- tion of them will follow ex-Senator Fentort and General Merritt back into the regular republican ranks. In the fourth place, the wreck of the Canal Ring, whatever it may amount to, will vote against Governor Tilden’s ticket. After these men failed to defeat his nomination last year they worked zealously for his elec- tion in the hope of staying his hand by lay- ing him under obligations for political ser- vices. Having found this a vain expectation, they will use the remnant of their influence against him, be it much or little. In the fifth place, the fact that neither a Governor nor members of Congress are to be chosen in this election diminishes the mo- tives for bringing out a full democratic vote. In the sixth place, the republicans may possibly gain some votes by foisting the school question into the canvass. They, of course, expect to make something out of their industrious appeals to religious prej- udices, or they would not have made this topic so prominent. On the other hand, as a great set-off to all these adverse influences, Governor Tilden’s unsparing war on corruption and corrup- tionists has added immensely to his per- sonal and political strength, and is so warmly approved by honest men that his ticket cannot be beaten. A smaller majority for subordinate State officers than was given last year for the Governor is so much a mat- ter of course, as elections usually run in an “off year,” that a diminution will have no particular significance unless it should be very large. “Recorder Hackett, of New York, refused to make places in his court for tools of Tammany, and Tammany pays him off.”’—Bostox TRAVELLER, Tae Unton ov tHe Cxnrrat AMERICAN Srares.—A Bismarck appears to have arisen in Central America whose mission is the unity of the’ five States and the formation of a federal republic after the fashion of our own United States. The hero of the move- ment is Sefior Soto, the Guatemalan Secre- tary of State, who, although yet a youth not over twenty-seven years of age, seems to be gifted with the foresight and the persuasive eloquence of an experienced statesman. The step by which the proposed confederation is to be reached is the celebration of a treaty between the five republics—Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras— by which the principal interests of the coun- try may be united and the means of assimi- lating them be determined. Guatemala in- vites the appointment of authorized diplo- | matic agents by the other republics to agree upon details, and has confidence that the result will be the establishment of a strong federsl union in Central America, “Break down the one-man power. The most effective way is to vote for John K. Hackett for Recorder.” —Sux, Oct. 13. aes ire Ir Was Rumonep yesterday that a stroke of apoplexy had prostrated Vice President Wil- son, in the city of Boston, where he. was so- journing. ‘The public will learn with grati- fication from our despatch this morning that the report was entirely false. Few of our old | | stock of statesmen remain whose influence | is of greater conservative benefit to the na- tion and its political morals than his. Tur Tweep Six Minion Suir hangs fire. The counsel of Mr. John Kelly's predecessor in the leadership of Tammany Hall moved yesterday to strike the case from the calendar and postpone the trial on the plea that the defendant's now or amended answer changes the issues. Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham op- posed the motion, and, after some legal spar- ring, the case was adjourned till next Thurs- day, in order to give Mr. Peckham timo te “hunt up authorities. “The public have generally approved of Hackett ana hoped he would be renominated,"'—Boxvenrown RxGis- TEK. ee ere Re The Maid of Athens, It is the privilege of poets to confer their own fame upon their loves, and they have boasted of this in many a well known verse, The Elizabethan poets were especially fond of offering immortality of fame in exchange for affection, Spenser wooed his wife in this manner, and warned the lady that her only chance of being remembered existed in his praise. His sonnets and his “Epitha- lamium” are not yet forgotten, and posterity makes good his promise. The highest com- pliment paid to Spenser was that of Sir Philip Sidney, who declared that when the “Faerie Queen” appeared “Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.” Petrarch was then famous in England, and his devotion tc Laura alone causes her name to be remem- bered. Mary will be remembered till Burns is forgotten, and the loveliness of Julia ia still preserved in the amber verse of Herrick. But no woman, perhaps, owed greater fame in her own lifetime to her poetical eulogist than the Maid of Athens owed to Lord Byron. The death of Mrs. Black, which recently occurred, at the age of seventy-six, recalls one of the most harmless incidents in By- ron’s life. She wasa maiden when he met her in Athens, and to her he addressed that beautiful song which has been sung in every quarter of the world. The young lady mar- ried, was the mother of a large family, grew old, and became so poor in her old age that about a year ago a fund for her relief was raised by subscription in London. But, though the Maid of Athens became old, the song made in her honor remains forever young. Her tresses unconfined are still wooed by each Agean wind and her soft cheek’s bloom is still kissed by her eyelid’s jetty fringe. Lovers still sing, in voices very varying in quality, of the Maid of Athens, and implore her to think of them when alone, and vow that they shall never cease to love her, and that, although they fly to Istamboul, Athens holds their heart and soul, Thus the song which cele- brated the charms of the Athenian maid has become the praise of thousands of fair women. The value of love songs is that they can’ be soeasily applied by any lover to any lady, and Bayard Taylor finely expresses this merit when he says of the British troops sing- ing before the eve of battle in the Crimea, ‘Each heart recalled a different name, but all sang Annie Laurie.” It is strange how one man in a few simple words will thus speak for millions, The lady does not merely receive fame, but also confers it. This song is not only due to the genius of Byron, but to the beauty of the Maid, But for her inspiration it would not have been written. Fifty years have passed sinca Byron’s death, and after a long and honor able life the Maid of Athens has followed him to the tomb. But both continue to liva together in the little song which the Pilgrim of Eternity tossed like a rose into the lap of one he loved for a moment and then left for- ever. Reconper Hacxert on tHe Purrry op Exxcrions.—In charging the Grand Jury ot the General Sessions yesterday Recorder Hackett laid especial but not too great stresa on the importance of preserving the purity of the ballot box by promptly and unspar- ingly punishing all offences against the elec- tion laws. ‘He who robs the charity box of achurch,” says the Recorder, ‘is infinitely less a criminal than the voter or inspector who designedly robs the elective franchise.” The Recorder's charge is timely, and it is to be hoped that it will deter many who con- template such an offence from carrying out their intentions. No doubt a great deal of illegal voting is unavoidable, but the Re- corder’s warning words will do much good, and any offenders against the election laws will be sure to meet severe punishment if their cases should qome before the Court over which Judge Hackett presides. Tur Sprecu or M. Tuarens at Ancacuon, which we give in another column, shows that the intellect of the aged statesman is ag vigorous and active as ever. It is a masterly review of the political situation in France and an epitome of her history for the pags five years. The opinion of the veteran Min- ister, that no government is possible iu France but the republic, receives all the more weight from the fact that itis not tha form of government to which his personal in- clinations led him, and that the monarchial factions which drove him from power wera driven themselves by sheer force of circum- stances to vote the republic. A Rerorr Comes, by way of a London cable despatch, of the continuation of tha Liberian troubles and of the repulse of a party of Liberian troops. Arbitrary and op- pressive laws, placing undue restrictions on trade, are said to lie at the foundation of the disturbances. “If the Recorder and the District Attorney should be beaten—which we do not think possible—we shall be dis- graced wherever there is a newspaper published to tell the news. Such a termination of the present contest will be regarded as conclusive proof that New Yorkers only get their necks out of the collars of one ‘Boss’ to rush blindly into the service of another.”—Evexina Matt, Nov. 1, James Keenan, the slayer of Police Officer Reupp, of Trenton, yesterday, after having been convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, was sentenced to submit to the sever. est punishment named by the law for the crime. He seemed delighted to have escaped what would have been his just doom—hang- ing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan left this city last evening for Washington, William T, Otto has’ been appointed by the Unitea States Supreme Court reporter of its decisions in the place of Mr. Wallace, whose resignation has been ac. copted, to take place on the completion and publication of the twenty-second volume of his reports, The Chicago Port has this pleasant reference fo @ recent political mooting in that city:—“Who used vio- lence? Who yelled ‘put him out?’ Who choked Mr, Hesing down? Whose orgies broke the vory chair | flourished so travieally by John V. Farwoll?”