The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1875, Page 6

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If yes, bad for the republican party. Tue Rep Crovp Report of the whitewash- ing commission appointed to investigate the alleged Indian frauds received a crush- ing blow from McCann, one of the accused contractors. A few more answers of the same kind will bring both the Commissioners and the report into contempt, Trxwyson’s Cuancz or tux Srx Honprep has so immortalized that marvellous deed of valor at Balaklava that nothing else seemed necessary to embalm the memory of the dead or celebrate the virtues of the living, There ‘was, however, a poctic justice in the recent | gathering of the heroes of the memorable | charge, and the story of the meeting of these brave men has both o painful and poetic ee Ma. E. G. Spaciprsa, who is generally | credited with being ‘‘the father of the green- | back,” has given his opinion on the recent election in this State to a reporter of the | Herauy. It will be seen that he attributes | NEW YORK HERALD; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1875 The rolitics of Large Cities. We do not see that any public interest could be served by continuing to discuss or criticise the conduct of individual members of Tammoeny. Such an organization is an anomaly in our politics, and now that the election is over the occasion seems opportune | for a dispassionate consideration of the | grounds on which sucha society is defended. We prefer in this inquiry to drop or lay out of | view the question whether Tammany has been well or ill administered under its pres- | ént chiefs, and to direct attention to the nature of the organization itself. If this is bad no honesty of intention on the part of those who administer it should save it from | public condemnation. The subject would lead us into a wide field if we had space to disenss it in its larger bearings. It is connected with one of | the most diffieult problems in American pol- | itics—the government of great cities under our system of universal suffrage, It is a problem which is not presented in any other of the great cities of the world. London is governed in the main by the Home Secre- tary, agmember of the Ministry; Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg, by officers ap- pointed by the national authority, That small part of London which forms the old | corporate city has indeed an elective Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen; but the Lord Meyor is chosen by the Aldermen from their own number, and the Aldermen practically hold office for life, as they are constantly re elected by a snaall constituency consisting of the members of various limited guilds. The corporate authorities have no control over the police, the local courts, the streets or the water supply, which are the most important subjects of municipal administration. In our American cities the whole range of muni- cipal affhirs is given to local officers chosen either directly or indirectly by universal suffrage. In view of the corruption which has grown up in so many of our cities the safety of this system is fairly open to ques- tion, and there is no reason for surprise that there is a considerable number of intelligent citizens who look with distrust on the sys- tem and think it must sooner or later be abandoned. It is better to meet such doubt- ers with argument than to try to silence them by denunciation. It is only among the wealthier portion of the property-holding class that this view has as yet made much progress, and even they seldom venture to express it except in quiet conversations with one another, But Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt, a | ynember of Congress from this city and one of the Tammany chiefs, put it forth in his speech at Tammany Hall on Thursday evening, and made it the basis of his defence of that organization, On that occasion Mr. Hewitt made this remarkable statement :—‘*To me the only possible choice seems to be between the regular dem- ocratic organization, a vigilance committee, or a central government so strong as to be totally at variance with our ideas of free government, and to which I trust we shall not be driven before the Re- public is a centpry older.” This is the boldest public declaration we have ever seen—probably the boldest ever made by an American citizen clothed with a public trust— of the moral incapacity of the people to gov- ern themselves. It is an assertion that Tam- many is the only alternative to a vigilance committee so long as we retain our free pop- ular institutions. We have nothing to say as to the discretion of such an avowal; but, considering how many motives there were for its suppression, we cannot doubt its sincerity. We thank Mr. Hewitt for the instructive comparison he sug- gests between Tammany and a vigilance committee. Like a vigilance committee, it is self-clected; like a vigilance committee, it arranges its plans in secret con- sultations; like a vigilance committee, it undertakes to govern a city by methods out- side of and unknown to the law. Vigilance committees can be justified only when popular ‘government has failed, and a self- constituted authority jnterposes to save the community, as happened in San Francisco many years ago. By “the regular demo- cratic organization” Mr. Hewitt means Tammany, and he thinks the people of this city are so incampetent to govern themselves that nothing short of Tammany or a vigilance committee can ren- der property secure or existence tolerable in New York so long as we do not establish “a central government so strong 4s to be totally at variance with our id®as of free govern- ment.” He has some hope that, by accept- ing Tammany as a substitute for a vigilance committee, we may retain the empty form of free institutions for quite a period. But of what value is the form if we have lost the substance? Why should we not submit at once to a vigorous central power if the mass of our people are really so ignorant or so corrupt that their free political action is no longer compatible with the public safety? We accept Mr. Hewitt’s opinion that an organization like Tammany can be defended only asa makeshift when popular institu- tions have failed, and that it isa less harsh and odious expedient than a vigilance com- mittee for rescuing society from dissolu- tion. But, asa means of bridging over the interval between the failure of free popular government and the establishment of a | strong central absolutism, we are not sure that a vigilance committee is not the better | expedient as an evil of shorter duration. If | we have outlived the capacity for popular | municipal institutions it is preferable to | pass at once undera strong government of law rather than to postpone our fate by submitting to an irresponsible government | of intrigue and caprice. When it is once ad- | mitted that universal suffrage in cities is a | failure, it is a mockery to keep up its hollow form under the tutelage of a secret and self- created political cabal. The false pretence of municipal freedom is of no value after the reality has departed, as it certainly has, if Tammany is our only protection against an irresponsible vigilance committee, so long as we keep up the exploded sham of free government. But we dispute Mr. Hewitt’s premises and the republican gains, in a great measure, to | must, therefore, reject his conclusions. We the emphatic resolution against a third term | do not despair of uncontrolled universal in the republican platform. This opinion | suffrage in the government of large cities, In will be generally indorsed by observing poli- all our recent experience it has produced ticians, and the republican leaders can only | good results when it has acted in this city in regret that they failed to adopt this policy a» defiance or independence of Tammany. Under | lican successor to President Grant? If yes, ear peo. Tammany control universal suffrage gave us | were indebted to him for the readiness he the corrupt Tweed régime; emancipated from | that control it scourged the thieves out of , office and gave promise of good government | until the power of Tammany was re-estab- | lished under new leaders. Last year univer- | sal suffrage partially broke loose from Tam- | many control and elected a‘ far better man | for Register than the Tammany can- | didate. This year it made a complete | revolt and triumphantly re-elected the | best criminal judge we have ever had | in the city. Every citizen will bear witness | that our city government has been the most | corrupt when universal suffrage has been most | submissive to Tammany dictation, and that | the most signal municipal reforms have | been accomplished when the people have | risen against this precious substitute for a | vigilance committee. When universal suf- | frage, acting apart from Tammany, shall give the city as corrupt and infamous a govern- | ment as Tammany established under Tweed, | there will be some color of plausibility in | urging that it is no longer safe to trust the | people out of the leading-strings of this secret | and usurping cabal. Every form of free government is neces- | sarily a government by parties, and political | action is never so healthy as when contesting parties are so equally balanced that the change of a small body of independent and honest voters from one side to the other suffices to transfer power into new hands. But the purpose of Tammany is to keep one party so strong that there can be no efficient | opposition, and thus undermine the chief | safeguard of administrative purity. If such | an organization as Tammany is needed as | a check to the evils of universal suffrage on one side it is a necessary logical conse- quence that it is equally needed on the other, and that the republican party, for want of it, can never make good nominations. Ridiculous as this conclusion is, there is no logical escape from it but in the self-stultifying admission that the repub- lican voters of the city are of a higher moral grade than the democratic voters, and, there- fore, do not need a substitute for a vigilance committee to restrain their free action. We recognize the difficulties and dangers of universal suffrage in the government of large cities. But the principal reason why it has not, of late years, worked well in New York may be found inthe very control which Tammany has exercised over the voters and the prostitution of its power to base, | sordid ends. Nobody any longer dis- | putes that this’ was the fruit of | the organization under Tweed, and nobody | can point to any good it has done since his disgraceful downfall. 1 The people of this city have not had fair play. With a succes- sion of bad charters, and under the incubus of Tammany, they have been long mis- goyerned; but it remains to be seen what they would do under a really good charter, if | freed from the odious control of an organiza- tion which is now confessed in Tammany | Hall itself to have the same purpose and | object as a vigilance committee. It will be | soon enough to proclaim universal suffrage a | failure in the government of great cities when | it shall have had a fair trial under more | favorable conditions. Fast Mail Trains. We trust the public and the Postmaster General will not think us immodest if we congratulate them upon the success of the experiment of fast mail trains, in which the Heraxp, as is its custom and its duty to the American people, modestly led the way by the establishment of a Sunday fast news- paper train, first to Saratoga and next to Ni- agara Falls. In all such enterprises, where it is necessary to break through established custom or routine, it is but natural that pi vate effort should somewhat precede the ac. tion of the government. The fast mail train is now an established fact in our postal ar- rangements, and the Postmaster General de. serves the gratitude of the public for th effectiveness with which he has carried out the idea. The people accept such an im- provement not thoughtlessly but yet without considering all its value to them ; the read- ers of newspapers to-day realize vividly the fact that they get their favorite journals some- times a day earlier than formerly, but they do not think of the great economy effected in many business transactions. ” The fast mail trains have within a short time practically reduced the time between | New York and points in Tllino Mi Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, M and Iowa twelve hours; for all Sta and | Territories west of the Missouri River they have reduced the time twenty-four he and for all Southern .and Southwestern | States from twelve to twenty-four hours. This saving of time effects a very important saving of interest n remittances of money | from the West. Chicago alone, it is believed, remits thns from six to seven hundred mill- ions perannum to New Yor: the new arrangements, while t! twelve hours quicker than formerly, a whole banking day is actually saved, and business is very greatly expedited. From St, Louis, Cincinnati and other points, an equal saving of time, which means interest, is made. We understand that the Post Office De- | partment feels itself under especial obliga- tions to Commodore Vanderbilt for the readi- | ness with which he met its views and the thorough manner in which he has carried | them into effect. He has, they say, “carried out a great idea in a grand way.” We can | readily believe this, for we found him equally ready to adopt and to carry into effect the Henaxp’s idea of a fast newspaper train, and | ra, showed to accommodate the Hrravp and the | public when we desired to establish that | trafn, and later, to extend it to Niagara, The number of fast trains is rapidly ine creasing. Between New Orleans and New | | York there will presently be a saving of | | nearly sixty hours; and the Baltimore and | Ohio Company will put on two rapid trains. To show what Commodore Vanderbilt can do we are informed that in forty days the New York and Chicego fast mail was behind- hand only once. Waat Dip Genera, Grant mean by his speech on Saturday when he said “We have an assurance that the republicans will con- trol this government for at least four years longer.” Did he mean that the late elections left the field clear for the election of a repub- | | good for the revublican party. | naturally ask, How did it arise and how can |The Praetorian Band, formed originally, as | ing the elective powers of the Roman nation | the respect and gratitude of the community. of some scoundrel whose election might have been prevented by one honest vote. mia which would gladly accept the leader- | ship of brave, good and respectable men in preference to that of the mere professional, narrow-minded _ poli- ti , who have so long held sway. So, | tray the sanctity of office ; for if any relief | we usually elect to office the public will be | it has many merits and is destined to become | | sports. Brains and Honesty Must Rule. “A word spoken in due season,” said the wise man, ‘‘how good is it!” Had Solomon lived in our day he could scarcely have spoken these words more aptly than at this time, when the people of New York have willed that the judgment of an indignant city shall stop the headlong course of‘a powerful association. Once again we are saved fronr the perils of ‘‘one-man power”— the very danger our institutions are sup- posed to avert, Yet we have only maimed, not destroyed it. criminal courts being placed under the thumb of any political party was, indeed, sufficiently alarming; but the certain sacrifice of liberty | and property in the event of a successful | | Tammany ticket was an appalling prospect. Having momentarily escaped the danger we it be averted? How can a despotism have lived and thrived in a free country, and hoy can its power and evil influences forever after be destroyed ? The Tammany Society as it was may be justly compared to the Prwtorian Band which acquired so infamous a reputation during the decline of the Roman Empire. The success of both organizations is owing to discipline and to the fact that here, as in ancient Rome, a-servile crowd find their private benefit in the public disorder and ‘‘prefer the favor of a tyrant to the maintenance of the laws.’ Gibbon says, from the flower of the Italian youth, eventually degenerated into a body of brutal and unscrupulous ad- venturers, plunderers of the public treasury and assassins. When their reasons for usurp- were disputed by the populace the Pra- torians -made good their arguments by throwing the sword into the scale, So the Tammany Society, composed largely at first of men of standing and unselfish devotion to the public weal, has now become a band of small, narrow-minded, selfish schemers, whose existence is a menace to the public safety. On many occa- sions, and especially during the memor- able political contest of 1871, which resulted in the election of Tweed, the mem- -bers of Tammany have not hesitated to imi- tate the ancient Pretorians in resorting to fraud or violence. Had the person who now moulds the Tammany Society to his pur- poses, and through it means to exercise des- potie sway over the judicial and administra- tive departments of the city government, pursued his political vocation with the same regard to public interest as to his own, Tammany might now be commanding But other leaders of Tammany have pitted themselves and their ambitious projects against the will of the people, and they have .—TRIPLE SHE The possibility of our | ET. | population, rendering the hen roosts less | secure, and that they indulge in all sorts of minor offences, to the terror and annoyance of good ordered citizens. It now seems this is all a mistake—at least we are so informed by a representative colored soldier whose characteristic communication, published in another column, will be read with interest. The Pope and America. His Holiness the Pope is reported as hav- ing said, on a recent occasion:—‘Vast aro the compensations which God has in store for the Church in the great nation on the other side of the Atlantic.” He strengthened this observation by quoting the increase of the number of bishopries and of the body of the faithful. We have had occasion recently to call attention to the interest shown by the Holy See in the United States, not merely in the nomination of an honored and illustrious prelate, American by birth and a distinguished fellow citizen, to the dignity of cardinal, but in the expression of sympathy with republi- can institutions. The Pope sees that the old fear generated by tho French Revolu- tion that liberty is incompatible with reli- gious security is baseless. He sees that the war upon religion which marked the French Revolution was only a form of the extraordi- nary madness of that time. In republican Pern his Church flourishes. In republican France it is an institution of the State. Only the other day we had the President of the French Republic conferring the berretta upon a French prelate. In republican America the Church is unchallenged and free. The only tronbles that ever have befallen it arise from the folly or ignorance of fanatical and overzealous members. Now that the abolition of the temporal power throws the Papacy upon the world for its support, now that the open hostility of the Italian kingdom makes the Church almost an alien influence in Rome, it would be well for the cardinals of the'Holy See to throw aside the influence of Italy and select a Pontiff from some other nation. There have only been two Popes other than Italians within four hundred years—namely, Ales- sandro VL, a Spaniard, who wore the tiara in 1492, and Adriano VL, a Hollander, who was Pope in 1522. Of the cardinals who compose the Sacred College at the latest report thirty were Italians, six Frenchmen, seven Spaniards, three Ger- mans, two English, one Hungarian, ono Portuguese and one American. There have been afew appointments since this report, but the proportion has been retained. Con- sequently in any convocation of the Sacred College to elect a Pope the Italians would largely outnumber all the other nation- alities combined. This we think is a mis- take in the government of this great Church. It would be much better for its all met with the fate of Don Quixote in his attack on the windmill. ; The permanent overthrow of Tammany can only be effected by the party which will imitate its shrewdness and avoid its vices, The strength of the association lies as much in the timidity and apathy of its opponents as in the cunning of its leaders or the clan- nishness of their ignorant but well disciplined followers. Bad men or weak men have hitherto ruled this community, because one- third of the voting population has neglected to exercise the right of ballot. Those who shrink from politics because it is a low and dirty business show themselves akin to Shakespeare's fop, who ‘would have been a soldier but for that villanous salt- petre.” Yet the prosperity, and perhaps the very life, of these citizens may one day depend on a judicial decision from the lips As the existence of Tammany has de- pended upon the apathy of the people, so must its destructton depend upon their ac- tivity. Let there be added to the demo- cratic party a new element—not neces- sarily numerous, but distinguished by brav- ery and ability and a passionate love of freedom, freedom from every individual or partisan oppression—let them guin a voice with’ the people and give confidence to the and so only, can we return honest men, who will scorn to prostitute their dignity or be- suld ever emanate from men of the stamp as much surprised as Balaam was when his ass developed conversational powers. Poto.—We reprint from, Bells’ Life an inter- esting account of the polo tournament at Sandown Park. The game is new in Eng- land and it is altogether unknown here, but popular. Since the extinction of knight errantry no pastime has been invented: re- so much courage and manli- 3 It is a healthy, athletic game, requiring both nerve and skill in the players, but it is unattended by danger and is deserving of encouragement. There is no reason why it should not be introduced into this country asa part of our outdoor We have base ball, foot ball, run- ning and walking matches, rowing, and in- deed every other form of outdoor sports. Sometimes the practised and skilful horse- back riders of old Virginia come | North and afford us a tilt, which we and they dignify with the name of a tournament. These tournaments are generally failures because they are mere | mimicry. It isnot so with polo, and the | game can be introduced here with good effect. Wecan procure ponies either from Canada or Mexico, and we should like to see rival teams mounted on mustangs and Canadian ponies driving the ball at Jerome | Park or some other suitable place early in the next sporting season. quiring n Tne Cotorep Troors.—In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- | five some twenty-five thousand colored | troops were sent to the Rio Grande, and, with the exception of a short interval, that | line has been garrisoned by them ever since, It was then regarded as an infliction by the people of the section, and subgequent experi- ence has not changed their ideas on that point, It has been charged that they har- | temporal as well as its spiritual influence if a prelate like Oardinal McCloskey . were chosen Pope. Cardinal McCloskey has all the qualities fora Pope. He is still in the vigor of life and among the youngest of the cardinals, younger than any one who would probably be elected to the sacred office. He is a prelate of far-seeing mind, conversant with Italian, French, Ger- man, Latin and English, and belongs to the most liberal element of the Church. To use an American phrase, he is ‘‘up to the times.” If elected Pope he would not be afraid of Bismarck or Victor Emmanuel. He is a thorough believer in the rights of the people. He would not be governed by any traditions which bind this venerable and famous Church to the interest of decaying monar- chies and ambitious kings. Cardinal Mc- Closkey is evidently the man for this sacred office, and his election would be gratifying to every American citizen, without distinc- tion of creed. Illustrated Journalism. The progress of modern journalism is seen in nothing more than in the multiplication of the pictorial newspapers of our own and other countries. A prominent staple of our newspaper stands is the pictorial press. We have all manner of pictorial newspapers, We have special organs of the arts and the sciences, of agriculture and the sports, of various branches of industry and achieve- ment. We have not done as well with the humorous department of literature as in France and England. It has been a’ reproach to us sometimes that we have not sustained as.good a comic weekly as the London Punch, the Charivari of Paris, the Fis- chietto of Turin or the Kladderadatsch of Berlin. In fact, we are behind Sweden even, which has in the capital one of the best humorous journals in the world. There is no end to the publications of this kind which arose in Madrid after the fall of Isabella, But the humor of Spain, so far as it is polit- ical and sarcastic, is found more frequently on the match boxes than in any periodical form. We have more humor in our ordinary journalism than in the journals of the older countries, where an editor of a secular news- paper feels 4t almost beneath his dignity to smile. Our humor is more of a universal quality than with our friends in England and in France. Instead of having a depart- ment of this kind among our newspapers we have it in almost every paper. There is a great world of literature of a pictorial character given to romance and fic- tion, and the appetite for this kind of lit- erature seems to’ grow with what it feeds | upon; but the highest form is found in London, where the illustrated weeklies have an almost fabulous circulation, and seem to grow from day to day. The best of these, and in some respects the founder of that school of journalism, is the time-honored and well-conducted Illustrated London News. This publication has become almost as much an institution of the old country asthe Tower or the Abbey. Beginning in an humble manner, like the acorn, as it were, it has grown to be an oak tree among journals. Wherever the English language is spoken its fame is known. Its artists have served it in every climate, under every sky and amid the most adverse cjreumstancese They went to the wars, to the great scenes in France and Germany, where the fate of an empire was decided. They have tracked the explorer over the world, from the tropics to the Arctic seas, Its pages are a pictorial | record of this generation of English history. | We can well imagine what value it must be, not only as an educator to England of to- monize too well with the native Mexican day, but to the historian of the future who may wish to know what the England of the nineteenth century really was to the men of the time, Sunday’s Services and Discourses. In the Lord’s vineyard yesterda; y Mr. Hep- worth pointed out the right way to read the Bible. Mr. Beecher was eloquent upon the eloquence of silence as exhibited in the con- duct of Christ before Pontius Pilate. Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, dis- | coursed on the discipline of the Diving Providence. Bishop Loughlin, in dedicating the Church of St. Francis de Sales, in Brook- lyn, showed why Catholics should magnify the Lord. Even Mr. Frothingham, in de- fending the religion of worldliness, was not sofaroutof the way of orthodoxy as usual. The only exception to this rule of drawing Scripture lessons-suitable to the season was the discourse of the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith on the lesson of the Beecher scandal. Our Sunday services are so free just now from mere sensationalism and so replete with the simple teachings of Christian doctrine that such an exception only serves to exalt the better and purer discourses heard from our pulpits. In the spirit of tho churches, too, was the work at the Brooklyn Rink. Mr, Moody discoursed, on love and sympathy, enforcing the duty of bringing cheerfulness to the service of God. Next Sunday will be the last of the evangelists in Brooklyn, and if their efforts have not been:so successful as was anticipated they at least have done their best to accomplish the purpose of Mr. Sankey’s song, ‘Hold the Fort.” The opening hymn at the evening service, ‘Yet There is Room,” was a little unfor- tunate in its worldly application, as there was no room in the Rink while the singer was chanting it. On the -whole the services and discourses yesterday were up to the highest Christian standard, and, reported as they are at length in the Henarp this morning, they cannot fail to have the most blessed results. ‘Tue Vorvopa is a great personage just now with the peasant insurgents of the Herze- govina, and he. cannot fail to excite much interest among the people of other lands. In view of this the graphic story /of our correspondent recounting his march with Ljubibratic from Ragusa to the rebel camp will be a welcome addition to the literature of the Sclave rebellion. It was a picturesque march of a picturesque band over a picturesque road, and the story loses none of its interest in the telling. These Sclavic insurgents evidently are much in earnest, and if Ljubibratic and his followers are permitted to contend only with the Turks there can be little doubt as to what will be the final result. Recest Porrry.—The season is more than usually prolific in poetry, and this morning we present a series of reviews of the latest productions of some of our most distin- guished writers—Longfellow, Joaquin Miller, W. W. Story and Bayard Taylor. Wuar A Prry the Washington reporters did not tell us what Boss Shepherd said about the elections when he was serenaded on Sat- urday. We know what Boss Kelly and Boss McLaughlin think about it, but the world would like Boss Shepherd’s views also, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In London money is a drug, Jules Simon advocates gratuitous obligatory instruc- tion. Louisiana planters have organized a Rice Exchange as New Orleans. Sir Garnot Wolaeiey in Natal organized a force of coolies, who are obedient, good soldiers. General Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, is re- siding temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Stephens’ doctor thinks that the Georgia states- man will be well enough to take bis seat in Congress this wintor. Many European thinkers believe that the reaction from MacMahon’s autocracy will be towards ultra-par- Hamentarism. Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived at the Albemarle Hotel yesterday, from Washington. Mr, James MBailey, tho editor of the Danbury News, who is a great deal more than a wit, piques pop- ular curiosity by refusing to lecture this winter. Norloik, Va., is looming up grandly as a port for the shipment of cotton, It is said the bales are there without end, and this is the result of only a few yeara’ eflort. = Professor Fawcett thinks that studies in potitical economy have developed the intelligence of many young men after mathematicai studies have fuled ta make apy impression, Many new varieties of roosters appear in the republi- can papers this election. The old dunghill has given place to fancier breeds. The Albany Argus brings out a sage hen and calls it an eagle. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city from Boston yesterday and is at the Grand Central Hotel, Last evening the Vice President dined with Mr. A. T. Stewart, at the latter's residence, on Fifth avenue, The Chicago Jnter-Ocean, writing of the panic ob 1837, says:—‘‘While contraction of the currency was the parent cause of the revulsion, its grandfather cause was partial free trade, the whole sories of results being in the direct Jine of hereditary descent,” Julian Hawthorno says that the correct use o8 Americanisms is rare among those not to the manner bora, and thinks that it requires subtle discrimination to use them. He criticises Englishmen for the unfor- tunate application of the adjective “slick.” The Washington Star says:—‘‘Government subsidica in the shape of money or lands to steamship and rail. road companies have become exceedingly unpopular and it is doubtful whether Congress will ever again hold out sucky inducements to private corporations, The Elmira Advertiser, talking of the Spoakership, says:—''Tho eleetion of Mr. Kerr would commit the democracy to hard money, and would implant the doc- trine as a fixed issue of next year. But tho majority, wo believe, will not prefer that, but compromise on the jolly double rider Cox."” The Rickmond Whig, lecturing Southern Congressmen, Northern democrats to speak for them. They must epeak for themselves. One word of generous national sentinent from a true representative man of the South will be worth more to the democratic cause than a huns dred specches for pacification and fraternization from any democrat of the North.’ Itisa mistake to say that the newly elected New Jorsey Legislature chooses @ United States Sonator ta succeed Senator Frelinghuysen. His term does not ex. ire until 1877, and his successor will be chosen by the gislature elected next year, The prosent Senate, or rather a part of it, will vote for him, but the majoriy for the republicans in that body is so small that next yoar’s election may overthrow it, Goneral McClellan has been mterviewed by the Balti, more Gazette upon the political situation, during which ho declared that he was not in the fleld and was secking no office, but expressed himsolf in favor of hard money through a gradual retyrn to a specie basis and of reform in the whole conduct of the governntent, In conclu. sion, he announced himself as thoroughly identified with the democratic party, looking to its success “ag the ultimate means of restoring harmony to the nation.” General McClellan thinks of making Balth more his permanent homa