The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yors Henatp will be gent free of postage. AE San THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications wil] not be re- turned, os LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERVOON AND EVENING —_—e——— COTTON & REED'S NEW YORK MINSTR! Dpera House, Twenty-third street and Sixth uve P.M; closes at 10 P.M. THEATER COMIQU! B, Ro, p14 Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P.M; closes at 10:45 AMERICAN LN Third avenue and Sixty-third si pITUTE, Day and evening, SAN FRA New Opera House, Bro a8 P.M. NOISCO MINSTRELS, way, corner of Twenty-ninth street, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue,—PANTOMIME, at 8 OM. G.L. Fox. Matinee at 2 P.M. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second sirvet.—THE MIGHTY DOL- GAR, ats P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. EAGLE THEATRE, roadway ond Thirty-third street.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 21 FIFTH A’ [wenty-etghth street, 9M. | closes at 10:30 UE THEATRE, + Broadway.—OTHELLO, at 8 |. Mr. Edwin Booth. BOWERY THEATRE, Miss Helen Houghton, Sowery.—JUSTINA, at 4 P. M. GL Nos, 728 and 720 Broa: SP. M. Matinee at 2 P.M. WooOD's MUSEUM, Prondway, corner of Thirtieth street—THE FOUR SNAVES, at 52. M.; closes at 1049 YM. Matinee at é TONY PASTOR'S v THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 547 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Third avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-frst streets. — WINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee af 2 TIVOLI THEATRE, Lighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue—LA GRANDE DUCHESSE, at8 P.M. Mexican Juvenile Company. COLLOSE Piirty-Ohh street and Brosdway.—PRUSSIAN SIEGE oF PARIS, OLYMPIC §0, 926 Brostway.—VARIET’ WALLAC! Broadway and Thirteenth ROUTE, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 vert, Miss Ada Dyas. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, fourteenth street.—German Opera—LA DAME BLANCHE, 48P.M. Wachtel GERMANIA THEATRE, Toarteenth street, near Irving place.—-TANTE THERESE, ste P. M. '% OVERLAND Mr. John Gil- STE rH. fourteenth street.—GRA Eclectic Club. Y HALL, CONCERT, at 8 P.M. The METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 6 eM. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Defeat of Tammany Hall. The defeat of Tammany Hall is the most gratifying political event since the overthrow of the Grant party at the last autumn elec- tions. After a contest unsurpassed even in the bitter controversies of our city politics or ferocity, calumny and desperation, the forces of Tammany, organized as they have never been before, have met with a signal and decisive overthrow. At the hour of going to press the returns show the election of Mr. Hackett as Recorder, of Mr. Phelps as Dis- trict Attorney, and the whole county ticket by varying majorities. Mr. Morrissey has defeated Mr. Fox, the Tammany candidate for Senator in the lower district. It is im- possible to give an approximation of the figures. Local feeling in various districts may affect the majorities somewhat, but not enough to change the general result, Tam- many Hall is overthrown, and its leader, who, on Saturday evening, loudly prophesied an Anusterlitz, has found a Waterloo. This result will be gratifying, not only to the true democrats in New York, but to the democratic ty throughout the country. It was time for the one man power to come toanend. It was time fora system which gave us a Tweed yesterday, which might have given us a Tweed to-morrow, to cease, It was time for a political cabal, taking its rise in a secret association, and showing in its discipline and career some of the worst ‘features of the political societies of the French Revolution, to be stamped out. It was time that Robespierreism should ab- dicate its reign of terror overa free party and a free people. It was time that demo- crats who claimed independence of judg- ment and the right to participate in the councils of their own party should no longer be sent to the guillotine by the executioners of John Kelly. It was time that the civil service of this great metropolis, from the chief of the bureau to the laborer on the boulevard, should not be deliv- ered to the uses of an irresponsible and autocratic rule. It was time that the burlesque upon good government which Green and Wickham have given us since the accession of the present Mayor to office should be repudiated by a sensible order-loy- ing community. It was time that the demo- cratic party should be freed from an incubus which oppressed it and caused its defeat when Greeley ran against Grant, and which threat- ened to overload it in the next campaign for the Presidency. These are glorious results. They are due alone to the courage of an in- dependent press.giving expression to the will of an independent people. The issue was plainly drawn. John Kelly made his battle in his own way. He fought it witha blind, unreasoning, obstinate gallantry, and he has lost. He fallsas a leader of the once power- ful Tammany Hall, and with him falls the one man power in New York politics. We can estimate the value of this triumph when we reflect for a moment what might have been had Mr. Kelly been triumphant. He proffered no quarter, and he will ask none. He aimed at imperial power. He meant that his will should be as absolute as that of Tweed—that no democrat should re- main in the organization who did not accept his rule as though he were the Shah of Per- sia or the autocrat of all the Russias, The party councils would have been the simple records of his own will. The State Convention would have passed into his hands. New York would have gone into the next democratic conven- tion for the Presidency to register his com- mands. Every office-holder who challenged his will would have been expelled from authority and influence. This mighty Em- 0.128 West Fourteenth street—Open from 10'A. M. toS PARISIAN Sixteenth street and Brot feces TRIPLE SHEET. 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New Booxs.—When our readers tire of scanning the returns of the elections they tan find relief in the reviews of new books which we print elsewhere. Waar Is Boss Keury's present opinion of the political wisdom of attempting to subju- gate and prostitute the administration of sriminal justice ? Ax Eartnqvane of nearly thirty seconds’ duration was felt in different parts of Geor- gia on Monday night. The earth shook and houses tremble Something very like an tarthquake was also felt in this city yesterday, snd Tammany Hall is in a very shaky con- dition in consequence. Tae Kine axp Queen or Denmark choose wseason for their vsit to England which must be as productive of amusement to others as pleasure to themselves. It is only necessary to recall the fact that their excel- tent son-in-law, the Prince of Wales, is ab- sent, to suggest a laughable aspect of the visit. “ “My Gop! Is it possible? Is it possible ” | ts John Kelly's ery of agony a8 he contem- plates the election of Hackett and Phelps. The exclamation will be repeated at Sing Bing, on Blackwell's Island, and wherever The election returns phow that it is not only possible, but is an crime makes o haunt. accomplished fact. pire State, whose democratic history is ripe with statesmen of admitted genius and patri- otism—the State of De Witt Clinton and Van Buren, of Marcy and Silas Wright—would have become the creature of a local politi- cian whose highest aim would be to govern the country as he governed his following in New York. Those who have studied the re- cent history of the Tammany dynasties will remember that when Tweed was in the fulness of his reign this was his purpose. He planned statues in hisown honor. He began an agitation to drive Mr. Belmont and Mr. Tilden out of the national government of the party. He created his own candidate for the Presidency and opened the campaign for his election. He strove to win as Kelly did—by organization, discipline, terrorism, the lavish use of money. Had he gained posses- sion of the general government we should have had Tammany Rings in every State, court houses would have been ‘‘built” by Ingersolls and Garveys in every city, and the credit of this great Republic would have been dishonored by a horde of rapacious thieves like the old leaders of Tammany, who are now either in prison or wandering in foreign lands. The public virtue of New York, when aroused, overthrew this appall- ing scheme as yesterday it overthrew Kelly and Tammany Hall. We are far from saying that Mr. Kelly would have used his power like Tweed. It is due to the defeated chief to say that the evil was more in the system than in himself. John Kelly would have been a tyrant, but he would never have ‘been a thief. But it is a question whether a free people suffer more from a public plunderer than from a tyrant. Mr. Kelly deserves the credit of giving us one of the best tickets ever nominated by Tammany Hall. His men were, with one or two exceptions, of integrity and capacity— men that we should gladly have seen elected to office. It is a pity to see men like Freedman, Olney, Calvin and Smyth defeated by the New York democracy. John Kelly deserves credit for presenting such men to the suf- frages of the ‘people, But their high char- acter, their admitted fitness for office, only adds to the ignominy of his defeat. We can understand the depth of the popular feeling against the one man power when even a ticket against which no word of calumny could be spoken could not save him. It was nob the candidates who were defeated, but their master, who used them for the consolidation and furtherance of his power. Their fature lies in a reorgan- ized democracy—in a democracy based upon the glorious principle of popular sovereignty, where democrats are invited into council and not proscribed. The lesson they must learn from this untoward and, so far as they are concerned, regretable disaster, is that high-toned, honorable men must not sink their manhood to satisfy any one man’s ambition, In that reorgan- ized democracy there must be no more of Tammany Hall—no more of this Columbian Order of sachems and wiskinkies, who play Indian pranks in a secret lodge Toom, and have oaths and grips and pass- words, and who abet any one man, be he a Tweed or a Kelly, in seizing the govern- ment of a great party. This is the lesson that all democrats must learn. We congratulate the party that the success of Kelly did not presage its own de- feat before the country next autumn. The duty of democrats in New York is plain. John Kelly must resign his leadership of a party which three months ago he might have led to victory. He must fall into the ranks and be content with the position of voter and counsellor. Democrats like Tilden and Seymour, Kernan and Hackett, Shafer and Church must _ reorganize the party. All democrats who believe in purity of government, in the overthrow of one man power ; who are opposed to Cmsar- ism, whether of Kelly, Tweed or Grant ; who believe in civil service in truth as in name, must be asked to this reorganization. If the result yesterday is wisely read it will be an admonition rather than a defeat. The vote for Mr. Bigelow in New York shows that the mass of the party is true to the democratic flag and democratic principles—trne to the plan of reform which Tilden has conducted with so much energy, and which Kelly in his stiff- necked course has put in such sore peril. A reorganized democracy, thus commanded and animated by the time-honored princi- ples of Jefferson, may wield a powerful in- fluence upon the destinies of the country. The defeat of Kelly in New York opens the way to the victory ef the democracy in the Union. Apart from this, we congratulate the city upon the overthrow of this one man tyranny, upon the vindication of the independence of the Bench in the triumphant re-election of Mr. Hackett, upon the approval of a faithful public officer im- plied in the gratifying victory of Mr. Phelps, and upon the elevation to the Bench of judges like Sanford, Gildersleeve and their colleagues, who are all men of character, learning and experience, and whose election will be welcomed by every citizen who cherishes the purity of justice, and welcomes to its administration citizens of virtue and patriotism. Poor Boss Keuixy! “But yesterday he might have stood against the world; now none so poor to do him reverence.” The Locomotive Boiler Explosion in New Jersey. Notwithstanding the experience of half a century in the construction and operation of steam boilers we are almost daily called on to chronicle the most shocking catastrophes arising from their use, or, rather, abuse. These disastrous explosions are improperly classed as accidents ; but, except when aris- ing from external causes, such as collisions, fires or shipwrecks, there is no case in which they cannot be traced directly to criminal ignorance or carelessness on the part of the manufacturers, owners or operatives of the steam boilers. There are three principal causes of boiler explosions, and it becomes an important and interesting matter of in- quiry to the public, as well as to the Cor- oner’s jury, which of these or how many of them combined produced the disaster. The boiler shell and its appurtenances may be too weak to resist the steam pressure, by reason of an original fault in construction or the deterioration resulting from long use. The pressure of the steam may rise above that which the boiler was constructed to sustain. The water in the boiler when at work may, through neglect, be permitted to fall below the proper level and thus expose the upper surface of the firebox and tubes to contact with the steam alone, by which the latter be- comes dry, superheated vapor. When acted on by the inflow of cold water from the sup- ply tanks this dry steam is supplied with its full complement of water. An instantaneous increase of pressure results from the sudden saturation, and the development of expan- sive force is too rapid and too great to be re- lieved by the safety valves, even though they are in perfect working order, which is notalways the case. An explosion in- evitably follows unless the boiler shell can stand the increased pressure, From the evi- dence that has been gathered by the Heranp reporters from the reticent railroad officials regarding the fatal locomotive boiler explo- sion at Bound Brook, N. J., we are forced to believe that the cause of the catastrophe was low water in the boiler through the careless- ness of the engineer. The energy of the ex- plosion shows the immense development of force in the boiler, while its direction through and around the rear end indicates that the exposure of the firebox crown plates caused the superheating of the steam. A critical examination should be made at once of every part of the exploded boiler, so as to determine the condition and strength of the plates and everything that can throw any light on the cause of the explosion. The principal witnesses are dead, victims of, per- haps, their own neglect; but if it can be proved, as it is asserted, that the condition of the boiler was known to be bad by the rail- road officials, we hope that ‘Jersey justice” will be meted out unsparingly to the guilty ones, that their summary punishment may serve as a warning to railroad corporations and their agents for the future. ‘Tx 1s Not Peasant or acceptable to me that I should be looked upon as the head of any party,” said John Kelly last night as the gaslight of hope was turned down in Tam- many Hall. Then the best thing Mr. Kelly can do is to resign his leadership, for it cer- tainly cannot be “pleasant or acceptable” to the party after the blunders of the present campaign and the Waterloo of yesterday. Tur Cutan Exrosrrion.—A cable despatch to the Heratp this morning shows that Cus- tom House officials in Chili are no better than our own. They have interfered with the success of the Chilian Exhibition by giv- ing needless frouble to exhibitors, and in other respects there have been annoyances which ought not to have occurred. These shortcomings should teach the managers of our Centennial Exposition to be careful not to allow similar accusations justly to be pre- ferred against us next year. The Result of the State Elections. The elections which took place yesterday prove that the so-called ‘tidal wave” has been arrested and that the democratic party is not so strong in the country to-day as it Was one yearago. In the October elections the democracy gained nothing and lost Ohio. In the November elections it has lost Penn- sylvania; it has lost Massachusetts; it has lost quite a proportion of its strength in New York, The returns leave no doubt that the democratic State ticket is elected, but the majority is so much re duced, that the victory can justify no exultation. Another such victory, an- other victory at an equal cost of democratio votes, would leave the party powerless, even in New York. The new Senate will have a republican majority, and if the Assembly is democratic it will be by so narrow a margin that the party will be crippled and humili- ated. It is something to have saved tho State ticket, but this election shows that the democratic party has no such secure hold of the State that it may not lose it next year. A brohd survey of the political field in the light of these elections is not necessarily dis- couraging to the democrats, although it betokens a closer Presidential contest than the democratic party would have had any reason to fear if it had kept all the States it won last year. The relapse of Massachusetts is of little consequence, Governor Gaston's election one year ago having been merely a surprising accident, of which a repetition could not have been expected in so strong a republican State, But the loss of the two great States, Ohio and Pennsylvania, is a more serious matter. The democrats might have entertained reasonable hopes of holding both of these States, after having once wrested them from the republicans. But the loss of Pennsylvania and Ohio makes a great difference in the prospects of & political party whose opponents have a se- cure hold on a considerable number of the other States. The republicans control States enough to enable them to elect the next President, with the aid of New York, and the result of yesterday’s voting is not such as to take New York out of the list of debatable States next year. The Presidential election will be a more equal and a far more doubtful contest than if the democratic party had continued to hold all the ground it gained in 1874. The certainty of a close contest will have a salutary influence on both parties, for neither will think it safe to make bold ex- periments on public feeling when a few thousand votes in some of the doubtful States may turn the scale, The republican party will not be so anxious for President Grant nor the democratic party to make an inflation platform, nor will either party dare to present candidates whose character for integrity is not impregnable against all as- saults. A near approach to equality in the strength of parties is about the best guar- antee of good government we can have under institutions such as ours. When a political party becomes so strong that it has no reason. to fear its opponents, and its nominations are equivalent to an election without regard to the character of the candidates, the gates are flung open for the entrance of corrup- tion. The most wholesome state of politics in a country where universal suffrage pre- yails is such an approach to equality in the strength of parties that the transfer of a small number of votes from one side to the other will change the result. In such a condition of parties it is always in the power of a few honest, independent citi- zens to give victory to the most deserv- ing side. Neither party can afford the risk of putting forward bad candidates, and the temptations of office are more likely to be resisted when the incumbents are watched by an opposition powerful enough to cashier them for slight deviations from rectitude. Tue Prorte Wxo Surrer most from the election are the poor school teachers who have been assessed to pay the expenses of printing John Kelly's pamphlets against Recorder Hackett and for other purposes. Thus inadequately paid and deserving em- ployés of the city government have lost their money, and Kelly’s candidates, on whose behalf they were pinched, have been defeated after all. Is This Liberty? The New York Times informs us that when the polls were opened yesterday morning ten thousand followers of Tammany Hall were marched out from their homes to sur- round the ballot boxes and work, ‘all paid employés of Tammany Hall. Ten thousand strong, and voters, every one, atthat.” ‘I'en thousand men Tammany Hall sets in motion almost with the first break of day. Of this vast army, with its captains and its file lead- ers, its sub-captains and the rest, divisions numbering twenty men each are placed in each election district of the city as ‘work- ers,’ and when this is done one thousand are left to act as messengers, general superin- tendents, runners andso on.” The Times makes an application by suggesting the fact that ‘ten thousand is just one-seventh of the vote which elected Wickham Mayor of this city.” Now, of course, a leader of a party, es- pecially when he holds a position as respon- sible as John Kelly's, would be derelict if he omitted any means of gaining a victory. It is not for us to criticise his sending ten thousand men to the polls any more than we should criticise General Arthur or Mr. Dav- enport for sending their armies on the same mission, But here comes a question affect- ing, not the democratic or republican party, but civil liberty. How can we have freedom of election in this city when Kelly may command hig thousands on one side and Arthur his thousands on the other, to sur- round the polls and ‘ work” and en- deavor to force upon the people a carefully prepared ticket? Of the ten thousand men commanded by Kelly in yesterday's fight a large majority we sup- pose were in the pay of the city, Themoney which supports them in their labors was taken from the city either by assessments or contributions, Every person employed under Tammany Hall who composed this “army” knew perfectly well that if he did not do as Kelly wished his office would be taken from him, Surely o system which gives the nower toany one man. how -er worthy or respected, to mershal ten thou- sand men for the purpose of ‘‘working” the polls on election day is the worst form of monarchy. The democratic party through- out the country will not be unmindful of this, and as we have said all along during this campaign, the course of Mr. Kelly and his leaders in managing Tammany Hall has damaged his party before the country ten votes for every one gained in New York. Joun Kenix Wasnes His Hanps.—The great Tammany ruler was grand in his in- dignation against the people of New York in his speech last night for their re-election of Recorder Hackett. ‘Let the responsibility fall upon the people of New York,” he ex- claimed, and he washed his hands of the whole affair. Well, as the people have up- held an upright and fearless Judge and have rebuked the attempt to place the city under the heel of a one man power, it is probable that they will be willing to accept the responsibility. A Central American Confederation. President Barrios, of Guatemala, and his able Secretary of State, Sefior Marco A. Soto, have begun a movement which deserves the good wishes of all Americans, and even, if it should prove advisable or desired by the Central Americans, the official advice of our government. They propose a federal uriion of the five Central American States—Guate- mala, San Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua—under a political constitution similar to ourown. The despatch in which Sefior Soto develops his plan of union was printed in full in yesterday's Henaxp. It proposes a general treaty between the five States in question, by which they would constitute themselves a confederation of States, somewhat after the manner of our own confederation, which gave way later to the “more intimate union” which has been the source of all our prosperity and glory. If we were asked to advise our Central American neighbors we should urge them to copy as nearly as they can our own federal constitution. A bitter experience of several years showed to the American people that a mere confederation of independent States did not answer the purposes of a government, and brought only confusion and loss to the people of the different States and discredit upon the ineffective and shadowy central government. Our present federal constitu- tion, has stood the test of time and the strains of grave events. It has not inter- fered unduly and in an injurious manner with the local liberties of the people, and it has been a potent means of educating them in peaceable political action. It can be safely copied by other States; and we do not doubt that if the Mexicans had substituted it for the looser form of government which they preferred Mexico would to-day be far richer, happier and more prosperous than she is. If, as every American must hope, this movement toward a closer union of the Cen- tral American States shall succeed, the despatch of Sefior Soto will mark the begin- ning of a new era of prosperity and glory for those States. ‘They possess at this time almost as great a population as we had at the time when the independence of the United States was acknowledged. They have a fertile soil and a climate which favors various and valuable products. They need only political permanence to enable them speedily to take a high rank among the na- tions, and a solid union such as our own is all that is required to give them this perma- nence, Moreover, like ovr own country, a Central American Union could look for accessions from without. The day is not far distant when Cuba, Porto Rico and perhaps other West Indian Islands will be independent States. The natural connection of some, at least, of these islands would be with a Cen- tral American republic or confederation ; and with the increase in prosperity of such a nation the day would come when our own people would see that a general customs union with these States and with Mexico would be an advisable and almost a neces- sary object—a means to secure lasting peace and prosperity to them and ourselves. Joun Keniy Has Sxown himself to be un- fit for a leader, and in justice to his party he should withdraw from the head of the demo- cratic organization. After the Battle. Now that politicians have closed their booths and torn down their placards, furled their flags and ceased their ‘damnable itera- tion” 6f slanders and we are breathing pure air again, we can turn our minds to less exciting but quite as interesting topics. The winter is rapidly coming. The days grow colder. We have snow warnings from Pennsylvania and New England. The last straggler from Fifth avenue and Madison square has returned home. There is no longer a pretext for any one but lighthouse keepers to linger at the seashore, and people who cannot exist without the waters of Sara- toga must find them at the corner drug stores, Business is brightening. Our hotel lists show increased arrivals from different parts of the country. Our railroads are bringing full trains, Our business men tramp around briskly in this cold, bracing air, answering the wants of their many friends, In the way of religion we are having an unusually active time. Here in Brooklyn two evangelists are holding meetings “daily, singing and praying and exhorting sinners to ‘come and be saved.” From all over the country there come responses from Christian the line among the soldiers of Christ, no matter what their denominational banner, to make a grand charge upon the citadels of Satan, The result time will show, but we trust that these gallant spirits will find vic- tory in their endeavor, Our world of amuse- ments grows in interest, The theatres are in full blast, and although we have not yet done much toward opera we are not without hope that something may be achieved to sat- isfy our lovers of music. In the meantime Von Bitlow is coming, with his great Euro- pean reputation, the apostle of Beethoven, Wagner and Liszt, All the world will follow | him fora few weeks. Mr. Booth has returned, | like a conqueror, to the city of his glory and, | his fame, and shows that absence from the stage, personal misfortune and brethren, showing @ general effort all along | Physical illness have not weakened his remarkable genius, At Wallack’s the famous old comedy company contin- ues to draw large houses from day to day, and yet promises renewed attractions after it has finished its “Overland Route” to India. At Booth’s Theatre Mr, Fox delights the children with a pantomime, which wo wish had been postponed until Christmas time ; while Mr. Florence, at the Park Thea- tre, is steadily growing in: popularity with his grotesque type of the American politician. Altogether, therefore, we may look for a cheerful winter, but not without its dark shades, however, for there are stories from the manufacturing regions of suffering and of low rates of wages, and disquieting ru- mors from different parts of our oity in reference to the condition of the poor. This is a matter which no one should forget, especially in the early days of November. When we see about us so much activity and @ prospect of so many opportunities for enjoyment it would be well to think of the poor and to begin our winter season by @ generous effort to put the institutions of charity upon a sound foundation and do what we can to relieve the misfortunes of those who suffer, who want and who aro heavy laden. Ler Mn, Joun Kerry Restox.—When the pilot runs a ship upon the rocks in a channel with which he is presumed to bo acquainted nobody will have any confidence in him afterward, and the best thing he can do is to retire before he is forced out. Tue New Juprcature Act in England was put into operation yesterday. The Lord Chancellor gave a reception to the judges, and Westminster Hall was crowded with persons anxious to witness the inauguration of the new system. The forms of English law are at once so sacred and so venerable that it is not surprising any change should excite something like phenomenal interest. “Ornenio’s Occupation’s Goyz.”—Mr, John Kelly may as well hang his broken harp on the willows, and sit down by the waters of Babylon and weep. The great Tammany “Boss” has led Tammany to something which bears a very distant resemblance to a victory. Let the humiliated Boss retire! Bricuam Youne's Wronasare to be broughy tothe notice of the Attorney General. It may be a littlé remarkable that Brigham should be compelled to pay alimony to his nineteenth wife, but this is not more unreas- onable than that the Attorney General or the Cabinet should consider it. It is a question for the courts, and we presume Mr. Pierre- pont will be content to leave its determina- tion with the judges. Tae Dmecr Cantz is again repaired. It is to be hoped that in the future it will meet with better fortune than it has met with in the past. Wat Wou Dereatrep Tammany do now? Will it commit suicide to save itself from slaughter, like the beasts at the approach of the good St. Patrick, or will it reorganize and appoint asuccessor to Boss Kelly as it ap- pointed a successor to Boss Tweed ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Isaac Caldwell, candidate for United States Senator from Kentucky, is a leading lawyer of Louisville. Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, will visit the South to urge bis old democratic friends to fight inflation. Lieutenant General Sheridan and Brigadier General Crook arrived at Washington and called on the Presi- dent yesterday, Chief Justice Waite is a prominent candidate for President and is urged by a strong organization on which Grant is said to look with favor. A Wisconsin editor does not like the extravagance of costly baby carriages, because when ho was an infant they used to haul him around by the hair of his head. Lord Dufferin has expressed a wish that the banquet tendered him by the citizens of Quebec be postponed till next summer, when he proposes residing Jn Quebec for some months. Tho Chicago Tribune has special information that Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, will be the demo. cratic compromise candidate for Speaker if the New York and New England friends of Governor Tilden can have their own way, Senator Bayard, of Delaware, tells an Augusta editor that the people of the South have but faint conceptions of the distress at the North; that, in his opinion, where one Soutnern man is suffering from poverty ten North- ern men are suffering much more. A member of Congress from Iowa reports that the Senatorial contest in that State isan open fight. Gen- eral Belknap, the Secretary of War, has a number of military friends in the Logislature, but has not a largo organized support, Two-thirds of tho members are unpledged to any candidate, The Philadelphia Press is of the opinion that the most distressing feature of a political campaign in this land of liberty ia the brass band ‘nuisance, That musicians ofthe character composing these heart-wringing organ- izations have suflicient impudence to play in public is sufficient explanation of the name by which they are known—brass. The discovery of a subterranean forest just below the surface of the bed of the Thames river is attracting a good deal of attention in England. The oak, the alder and the willow are the principal trees found. These retain their vegetable character, but other signs show that the forest belongs to the period of the elk and the red deer in the South of England. The Baltimore American says:—“No executive or judicial officer in the State wields such absolute power as the Register of vowrs. He can disfranchise as many voters as he pleases by merely drawing his pen through their names. The citizen who is thus deprived of his vote has no notice of the proceeding until he presents himself at the polls and ts told that his name does not appear on the list,” The Boston Post saya that “the men who have the grace to claim the sympathies of Carl Schurz haye* nothing to say against the Grantism he so vigorously ngsails. They eulogize the President who threw Charles Sumner out of the party to whose name they cling. They pretend to go with Schurz on the cur- rency, and keep Boutwell on the stump to preach his Jet-aione platitades."” Murat Halstead asks in a Cincinnati Commerctal leader for a machine for straightening pins, a self-act- ing chimney cleaner, an anti-sea sick ship, a utilization of dogs and cats, apotato slicer, @ carpet stretcher, a post-hole digger, ‘uit picker, @ hoop to run with the wind, a fly trap, a lamp to be flied without extinguish. ing, a way to walk on water, a canal towboat that won't wash tho banks, a ballot box to prevent repeating. The noted flag that waved over Fort McHenry, at Baltimore, In September, 1814, during the British bom. Dardment, and which suggosted to Key the compo- gition of “The Star-Spangled Bannor,” is now on board the Tallapoosa, which is lying at Portsmouth, It ts badly torn and has thirteen stars, and is owned by Mrs, Georgianna Armistead Appleton, of Boston, daughter of Colonel Armistead, who commanded at the fort at the time, It {s to be exhibited at the Centennial, ‘Tho Springfield Republican, speaking of the fact that votes given to ahard money republican for Speaker will be thrown away, says:—‘‘If the republican party s8 really #0 sound on this currency question, and so im- pressed with a sense of its overshadowing importance ‘ag the orators and organs would have us believe, wo shall seo the republican members of the House voting solidly (with the exception of Mr. Kelley), and from tha word go, for the man whom the fuflationtsts don’t want Michael C, Korr, of Indiana,”