The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1875, NEW YORK HERALD A New City ogeetaagg Spring Elec- 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 Yorx Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE day in DAILY HERALD, published every the Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per year. month, free of postage, to subscribers. 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 as in New York. VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGH METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, No. 128 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 1U'A. M. tod STADT THEATRE | f, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 3 P.M. | FIFTH AVENUE THEA'RE, ‘Twenty-eighth street, near Browdway.—TH at3 P.M. ; closes at 10:20 P.M. Miss Clara Morris, EAGLE THEATRE, y Broadway and Thirty-third streot.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M, Woon’s Broadway, corner of AVENGER, at = M. and NEIL, THE Matinees at | M.: ¢ at 10:45 P.M. ‘Mr. Joseph Proctor. THEATRE, ETY, at 8 P.M. Mati- LYCEU Fourteenth street, near PHELINES, at 5'P. M. Lau P.M. | | ompauy. Matinee wt THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Third avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-tirst streets.— MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—LEMONS, at 8 P.M TIVOLI THEATRE, Four cents per copy. | people. With a democratic ‘The most important duty of the next Legislature is the enactment of a charter for this misgoverned city. Legislation was ex- pected last winter, but Governor Tilden had other irons in the fire which absorbed his attention and chose to postpone charter re- form. He was hoping that both branches of the Legislature of 1876 would be democratic, and preferred that the charter should not be touched until the changes could be radical and thorough, in accordance with democratic ideas. Governor Tilden has been disappointed in the political com- plexion of the Legislature. Instead of gain- ing the Senate he has lost the Assembly, and next winter both houses will be controlled by his opponents, This destroys his hope of reconstructing the city government in the interest of the democratic party, but we nd the whale yovernor and a interest of the. taxpayers republican Legislature—that is to say, with the power to pass bills on one side and the power to veto them on the other the city has complete protection against the passage of another partisan charter, and the occasion is favorable for remodelling the city govern- ment on a permanent basis of justice, order, economy and municipal independence. If the Legislature is wise it will forestall such of the Gov- a veto by adopting ernor’s ideas as are sound and de- fensible. He has ‘more than once made a declaration of fundamental prin- ciples on this subject, and the Legislature should not hesitate to take him at his word. He cannot veto a bill embodying his own published views, and a Legislature which honestly desires to give the city a good gov- ernment can accomplish this object.without crossing the known ideas of the Governor on any essential point. When the T'weed char- ter was pending Mr. Tilden went to Albany to make a speech before the Senate Commit- tee on Cities in opposition to it, and, so far as the public is aware, he has never changed the opinions which he then expressed. One of the points on which Mr. Tilden insisted with great emphasis was the ne- cessity of a complete separation between city and State politics by holding the municipal election, not only on a different day, butat a different season of the year. His remarks | on that point are so pertinent to the present | situation that we insert so much of them as | remains on record in the condensed report | of his speech sent by telegraph on the day it was delivered. ‘This charter,” said Mr. Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8P.M.| Tilden, ‘is deficient in another re- = corner HOMERY THEATRE, | spect, in that it makes the election P. Winter oa ORK, aS P.M. Joseph | of charter officers coincident with that Eighth avenve und Twenty YM. Olympic Company. . col Thirty fourth street apd Br . 3, Upen trom 10 A. > Finh avenue © CERT. Vout OLYMP! No, 624 Brondway.—VAl WAL Broadway and Thirteen at 10345 PM. Mr. Harry AC s PARISIA | Sixteenth street, near Broadway.—VARIETY, at P.M. | STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—READINGS AND RECITATIONS, at 8PM. John J. Carolan GILMORE’S CC 0 MBNSTRELS, , corner of Twenty-ninth street, at 3 POM. e THEATRE COMIQUE, No. G14 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. it. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street aud Sixth avenue. PANTOMIME, at 8 POM. G. L. Fox. YOLKS’ GARTEN, No. 199 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—German Opere-THE MUGUENOTS, at SPM. Wachtel. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street. LAR, at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Fiore: NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities | a Governor, are that the weather to-day will be cloudy with | a multitude | years when we elect only a Governor, | members of Congress and local officers the | aggregate vote is smaller, but is still large. rain, Tue Henry ny Fast Mam, Tratns.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, Neto Jersey and, Pennsylvania, as | well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South « < q the lines of the Lud River, p York: Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con= nections, will be supplied with Tue Hitraxp, Jree of postage. Extraordinary inducements <a | the offices to be filled. THE MIGHTY DOL. | long experience of the fact - | largest aggregate vote is polled in the year —=== | choose of the State and federal officers. The mu- | nicipal election of a million of people is of | sufficient importance to be dealt with by itself, and by so doing you can avoid the | mixing of municipal interests with State and | national intere | sound and se | acceptable to city politicians and the office- ” We fear that this idea, ident as it is, will never be seeking brigade. But considering that the city is democratic, is likely to remain demo- cratic, and that most of our municipal offi- cers are pretty certain to be taken from that party, it would be a _ good | stroke of politics, as well os a j wise thing in itself, for the re- | publican Legislature to make this change, which the Governor has precluded himself from-vetoing by the strength and decision of his past advocacy. It may be worth while to explain to the republican Legislature how a spring election, to which Governor Tilden is so fully com- mitted, would be for the advantage of the republican party. Everybody has noticed : that the fulness of the vote in any election depends on the number and importance of We have had | of the Presidential election, when we not only a President; but members of Congress and of local officers. In the In the years when we choose neither Presi- dent, Governor, nor Congressmen the | popular falls to its lowest point. But these variations in the State at large are not accompanied with as great fluctuations in the vote of this city, because the local offices are prizes of sufficient Offered to newsdealers by sending their orders | value to callout @ pretty full vote. The direct to this office. Savoy, according to a special cable de- | spatch to the Henatp, is anxious for rean- nexation to Italy. Tar Caprists have met with another se- vere reverse. It is about time that the last of the Carlist wars was over. made by Recorder Hackett’s letter to an applicant for political preferment in his court it would | soramble for city offices always helps the | democratic party of the State by adding the city patronage to the other incentives to electioneering activity. A democratic candi- _ date for Governor or for Congress is power- fully reinfor: d by having the city offices put into the s the same election as a make- weight in his favor. The consolidation of democratic interests which takes place in every election binds the local candidates and the general candidates in a mutually sup- por gue, in which each is assisted by g les think it favorable to a reconstruction in the | that the | election, and such a bill would so manifestly strengthen the republican party of the State, by taking the city patronage out of the dem- oeratic seale, that the republicans will be as blind as bats if they fail to make this salu- tary change. We therefore expect the passage of a new city charter next winter, which, besides other improvements, will change the municipal election to the month of May and divorce it from State and national politics. ‘This will also be an important step toward realizing the democratic doctrine of **home rule.” It will relieve our municipal politics from the disturbing influences of outside politids. Small, scheming politicians will no longer be able to secure their election to city offices by the extraneous aid of State candidates or candidates for Congress. The questions, and crafty office-seekers will no longer receive a boost from their alliance with men who are running for | sitions which have no proper connection | with municipal affairs, The mutual assist- ance rendered between State and city candi- dates when they share and lighten each other's election expenses will not be given when their interests are separated. Repub- licans and democrats will both profit by the change, though in a different manner ; the republicans by haying the local oflices of the city taken out of the scale in the State elec- tions, and the democrats by the removal of one of the worst obstacles to genuine ‘home rule.” On the one side the patronage of a great democratic city will no longer be a makeweight in the State elections, and on the other side city affairs will be exempt from a demoralizing outside influence. We expect a city election next May under a new and improved charter. The Mayor ought to have, and doubtless will have, more power and greater responsibility than belong to that office at present. In order to make the new charter a’popular success the fittest and ablest man in the city ought to be elected as the first Mayor to put it in opera- tion and bring out its good points. It would be easy to name half a dozen well known citizens, any one of whom would be equal to such a duty, as, for example, Mr. Dana, Mr. Agnew, Mr. Stebbins, Mr. Green or Mr. Hackett. Mr. Dana's success would be resplendent if he would consent to take the office. His admin- istrative ability is of the highest order ; his knowledge of city affairs is unsurpassed ; his zeal tor reform is conspicuous, and, however great might be the dignity and emoluments of the office under the new charter, it would be such a manifest sacrifice on the part of Mr. Dana to accept it that no- body could attribute to him any other motive than the honest desire of a good citizen to see the city well governed and a willingness to contribute his aid in the critical stage ofan experiment whose success would be assured by an able and popular administra- tion during the first term of a new Mayor. po- The Liberty of the Press. Our contemporary the Times calls attention to the effort to have its editor and publisher indicted for libel. It seems that one James T. King, dummy or a stool pigeon for John Kelly, has brought complaint before the Grand Jury against these gentlemen for a publication originally made in the news columns of that journal ‘‘over (wo years ago.” “No apology,” says the Times, ‘‘re- traction or explanation was ever asked for.” It seems very clear that the editor, as an honorable member of the profession, would be only too glad to make amends for any | wrong that he might do a citizen. Certainly | if Mr. King had been wronged his remedy | was not with the Grand Jury, but with the journal itself. It is in the power of any well conducted and influential paper to do far more toward redeeming an injury than any | judge or jury. | But the motive of this is political. It is | like the prosecutions that were brought by | the English government during the reign of | Pitt against independent newspapers who criticised the acts of his government, It is i like the prosecutions of the Emperor Na- poleon, who would allow nothing to be printed in France that did not strengthen his throne. The first movement of the tyrant is against the press. Between the newspapers and any assumption of absolute or irresponsible power there is a natural an- | tagonism. John Kelly in his war upon the | Times is only repeating the follies he has | committed since he came into power. It | only shows that whatever Mr. Kelly may be | personally, and however anxious he may be | for the success of his party and the purifica- | tion of Tammany Hall, and we give him all | the credit he claims on both of these points, | he lacks the essential elements of leader- ship—courage, prudence and patience. His | attack upon the Times is a war upon the freedom of the press. As such every jour- | nalist who respects his calling, and every | citizen who respects the press as a bulwark | of our liberties, will resent it. | Private Apvices rrom Pants inform us that be gratifying to discover some such letter in | the strength of the others. If this powerful onr Heratp Reading Room has met with un- the record of Mr. Dana. Mayor. Tur Easterns Question seems to bo grow- inginto a greater job than ever, and the London money market is sadly disturbed by contradictory rumors in regard to it, All | day yesterday, while the American people were quietly disposing of their turkeys prob- lem, poor Turkey was in the month of all the } London speculators. There was a rumor | that Parliament was to be summoned to con- | sider the Eastern question and another that | a fleet had been sent to the Mediterranean. This might serve | hine admirably in his é¢oming canvass for | struck outof the g These rumors are so vexatious and disreputa- | ble that people will begin to doubt after | f | fro: | the local candidates for electioneering pur- awhile whether there is an Eastern qnestion. ma eight of lucrative local offices were ral elections the demo- cratic State candidates and Congressional candidates would lose their most important | auxiliaries, As there would be less activity | and fewer influences to call out the full vote | of the city in general elections the aggregate democratic vote of the State would be corre- spondingly diminished, It is for the mani- fest advantage of the republican party of the State to change our municipal election to the spring, because it would deprive the demo- cratic State candidates of the assistance they | derive from the zealous co-operation of the politicians running for city offices. If the municipal election were entirely separated m the State election the money spent by Mn. Tuomas W. Fenny, the President of | poses would be reserved for their own uses the Senate, expresses his views on the infla- and be no longer thrown into a common poo tion question with considerable directness | for increasing the general democratic vote. and force in an interview with a correspond- There would be smaller democratic majori- ent of the Henaup, which we print this | ties in the city for the State candidates of morning. Mr. Ferry’s opinions on this sub- ject became of the greatest importance upon the demise of Vice President Wilson, owing | posed to be to the possibility of his succeeding to the | cratic vote of the city. Presidency. An inflationist in the Executive | can Legislature will fall into @ great | all sorts of troublesome ways. Unless it is | people who will suffer by finding their hard | the whole press of all other countries in | that party, and the republican majorities in the rural districts would be less ex- swamped by the demo- The republi- office could not fail to be detrimental to the | blunder if it does not make the most of so true interests of the country, and we are | favorable an opportunity. Governor Tilden glad that Mr. Ferry disayows the opinions | has put it out of his power to veto a bill for | find in a few months that over it was writ- | days of general distrust. It appears that the | separating the municinal from the State | ten, “No thoroughfare.” It is @ mistake to | Central Park Rank was, like the Third | all responsibility for the utterances of ona | attributed to him, usual success and acceptability. Already we have on file more than two hundred and ‘ twenty American journals from thirty-seven States, besides journals from England, Can- ada, France, Spain and the other continental countries. The Paris Reading Room of the Heraxp is probably the best appointed place of the kind in the world. ‘The American so- journing in this beautifal metropolis will find, no matter from what section of the Union he hails, something to remind him of home. In this connection we have to say that, considering the success attending the publication of our special Paris letter which came by cable and appeared last Sunday, we shall have letters of the same kind every Sunday hereafter. This isa new feature in journalism, and worthy of note as marking a step in newspaper progress. A special cable | letter from Paris is as a mosaic interpretation municipal elections will turn on municipal’ | of the wit, the humor, the gayety, the litera- | ture, the art and the fashions of the first city of the world, acity by which the world is largely governed in its pleasures and tastes, Our Forn Avance, which has long been | the glory of New York, is rapidly falling into reformed we shall have to call it Obstrue- tion avenue. It would not surprise us to | | | | | | allow it to become uncomfortable and irri- tating. The good time will come when we shall have our spring elections and the people of New York will be permitted to manage their government in a business way. ‘Then Fifth avenne will be the first to feel the benefit of wise and prudent government, Thanksgiving Day. Our columns this morning attest to a gen- eral observance of Thanksgiving Day, not only in this city, but all over the country. The custom is a beautiful one, and, like the mustard seed of the parable, from a small beginning it has spread its branches all over the land. The Pilgrim Fathers little thought when they set apart a day for thanksgiving for bountiful harvests and many mercies and blessings during a year of trial and suffering that the Thanks- giving Day which they instituted would con- tinue to gain in favor with the lapse of time and observed by every sect and creed throughout the country. Such, however, has been the result, even the religions features of its observance being strengthened as the cus- tom grew in public favor and popular esteem, The turkey is only one of its secu- lar aspects, but by common consent the tur- key is as much a part of the day as divine worship in the morning and light and inno- cent amusement in the closing hours of the day. To all intents and purposes Thanksgiving is a Sabbath— a Sabbath without a creed and without ‘se- verity. Sabbatarians might learn a lesson from it and so make our Sundays more joy- ous and yet not less religious. But this na- tional Sabbath has in it elements which be- long not to the Christian Sunday. It is a day when every sect and every form of belief can throw wide its doors, and preachers of every creed speak more plainly than on other days. The public welfare is above all other subjects a proper theme for the pulpit and the platform, and our reports show that many of our clergy be availed themselves of the privilege which the day afforded. Mr. Beecher spoke plainly and to the purpose on common school education, and even went so faras tobe just to men of other creeds by the declaration that Protestant Christians had no right to impose their Bible upon Jewish or Roman Catholic children. Such liberality is worthy of all praise. But Thanksgiving Day has a still greater mission than the preaching of even such liberal and _ right-minded doc- trines or the giving of thanks for which it was ordained—it is a day of enjoy- ment for those who know but little of hap- piness on other days. It is in this that the turkey plays such an important part. The little children in the foundling and orphan asylums, the decrepit denizens of the homes for the aged, the palsied inmates of the hospitals, the unfortunate —pris- oners in the Tombs, all of the poor, the ill-favored and the ill-fed come in for their Thanksgiving dinner with the richest and the happiest, and feel in the bounties they receive that they are once more akin to humanity. Thanks- giving Day is a day of humanity, a day of brotherhood and bountiful repasts, and we can only trust that the manner of its observance yesterday, its sincere worship, wise words, good dinners and joyous sports and amusements, will lighten the burdens of life for another year and make us all the hap- pier and brighter until the next November day brings us the Thanksgiving once more. The Second Fox Hunt, Woe like the indomitable energy and un- quenchable spirit of the New Jersey fox’ hunters; for, while the second meet of the season, like the first, cannot be called a suc- cess, there was no lack of determination, and, in a way, plenty of fun. It is true poor Reyfard, who had been carefully bagged for the, occasion, proved only a wretched bag- gage of a fox and was killed before his time, and the wild foxes of the Jersey hills were keeping their Thanksgiving at home and so failed to accommodate the hounds and the ; hunters ; but for all this the Jerseymen were highly pleased with the sport. We admire their spirit, and, in tendering oursympathy, we can only hope that they are yet to meet with their reward. Notwithstanding Donohue’s | wail, “Isn't this rough luck ?” is to be de- plored most of all because of its truth, we recognize the courage of the man in the strength of the vernacular, and we trust the sport will go on even if there is not a real native fox in all Jersey. Indeed, we begin to fear that Mr. Reynard has taken Mr. Greeley’s advice and gone West. If he has it is not necessary for the Jersey hunters to follow him. When the proud spirit of the Jerseyman is willing to content it- self with a drag hunt the exciting event may as well take place in Jersey as elsewhere. All that is necessary is a dead fox and a good start, and these a little fore- sight can always supply when the bagged fox comes to a premature end. But we would not discourage a manly and exhilarating sport, and there may be foxes in Jersey even after all other resources fail. The bad re- sults of the previous meets may have been owing to the weather, and as A southerly wind and a cloudy sky Proclaim a hunting morning, we can only hope with the hunters for a more propitious atmosphere next Monday. Ir Wovrp Be a Sincuran In1usrration of | the value of a consistent and courageous rec- ord if some letter could be found from the pen of our brilliant contemporary, Charles A. Dana, making his record clear and as good in his coming canvass for Mayor as that made by Recorder Hackett in his letter to the Tammany Hall organization declining | to submit the independence of the Bench to | the will of a political cabal. Axoren Broxen Savines Bank wit close | its doors to-day. The reasons for the step will be found recited in another column. The institution to take this serious step is known as the Central Park Bank, situated ia Third avenue, not many blocks from the broken Third Avenue Bank. ‘The suspended institution may not cause much excitement, but there are probably many unfortunate at a time when in these earned savings gone the loss will be felt keenly Avenno, allowed to go on in business by Superintendent Ellis when it was notorious that its affairs were in a precarious and very unsatisfactory condition.’ As this is the second instance of Mr. Ellis’ extraordinary neglect to do his manifest and bounden duty the question naturally rises, How many more rotten savings banks has he under his protection ? Tomfoolery in Politics. The principal objection to Tammany Hall in the minds of sensible men is that it repre- sents an idea long since abandoned, and that it carries into the management of a great party boyish pranks and foolish pageantry. Whon we hear of the meetings of the Tammany Society and read about the moons and hunting season, and Wiskinskies and Sagamores, and Sachems and other Indian epithets, and when we imagine sensi- ble and grave men like Augustus Schell and A. 8. Hewitt and Fernando Wood dressed in Indian dress and smoking pipes and prane- ing around a lodge room in secret we are re- minded of the old street corner ballad, which, if we remember, had these lines for the refrain:— Hokey-pokey, Wigly-wang, Flipperty-flopperty, Busky-bang, A thousand Kings awore they would hang ‘The King of the Cannibal Islands, We do not know that this is the exact re- frain of the chorus which Mr. Schell and Mr. Wood and Mr. Hewitt and the rest sing when they assemble in their secret lodge room, but we have little doubt that the real proceedings, if they were known to us, would have as little sense. We can fancy cadets at West Point, or scholars at the uni- versity, or young ladies at a female academy forming themselves into secret societies and finding amusement in chants and dances and passwords and grips. But when we come to apply this to a great political party, and when this party is governed by councils inspired by these pranks and tomfoolery, our only feeling is that of contempt. But even contempt gives way to alarm when wo note how even as absurd a society as Tammany Hall with its Indian fashions may in time gain the mastery over a great city. It is not a matter for amusement to see a man like Tweed, in- famous and corrupt, rising into power in our day, and remember that a man like Burr rose to power in the same way more than seventy years ago. For three generations Tammany Hall has maintained its constant, arrogant dominion over the councils of the democratio party in New York. Public opinion has defeated that power, and it now remains for the people to make their defeat assured by compelling the incoming Legis- lature to pass an act vitiating the charter of this absurd organization and permitting the democratic party to reorganize upon the basis of popular sovereignty. “Another County Heard From”—The Times Falls Gallantly Into Line. We copy the following just and apprecia- tive extract from the Times of yesterday :— To the Heratp belongs the credit of originating the only root-aud-braneh reform in the matter of Tam- many, and that is to repeal the charter under which a secret society has been for years enabled to role the democratic party of this eity. This is another contest in which it will be a great gratification to us to be found working side by side with the HkgaLp., Some of the methods by which Tammany has gained its evil power in the olny are well known to our readers, but there aro others—chiefly connected with the administration of justice—which would excite mingled indignation and alarm if they were fully revealed. Tammany, it 1s quite evident, cannot effectually be paralyzed as a source of corruption in politics and justice without Its complete annihilation, and thts can only be accom- plished by tho repeal of its obarter. To this great end we hope the Legislature will devote itself at tts forth- coming session, aod in so doing it will have the support of the powerfal members of the press. The Hyranp ne led the way, and we shail do our best to further its efforts, bi Now, gentlemen of the Tribune and World, and those other independent journalists whose profession is their glory as well as their opportunity, this is the time to fall into line. This is the great opportunity for in- dependent journalists. We can show now as never before the dignity and the power of the press, and its respect for the power and will of the people, against all and every other consideration. Letthe Tribune recall those glorious days in its history when it warred upon slavery and the Know Nothing power in our politics. Let the World lay to heart the glorious principle of popular sov- ereignty which was made a part of the demo- cratic policy by the illustrious Douglas, and | in defence of which he gave up his political fortunes and we may say life itself. These | are memories that we may well invoke at a time when the best interests of the people are in peril from a secret society which ex- | ists in violation of the sacred sentiments of freedom which came down to us from our fathers. We welcome the Times into this war, feeling that it will show the gallantry of the old fight against Tweed and his gang, and we trust soon to welcome the remainder of our contemporaries. We Ane Sorry to see the portrait of Comptroller Green adorning an illustrated newspaper as an election advertisement. Comptroller Green has made his mark too deeply upon the community to care about having himself in print. He should keep quiet. Let him remember the maxim, | **Make haste slowly.” He should not allow indiscreet friends to crowd him to the front shows thousands of stillborn candidates who came to their untimely end through the officionsness of friends, Mr. Green should keep in the background and prevent his | friends from overpraising him, Let his mayoralty canvass manage itself. It was this | premature advertising of personal claims for | advancement which destroyed Orawford Colfax, Chase and other aspirants for power. | Let our Comptroller spare enough time from his ponderous books of account and think of these facts, and when any politician asks too early, The history of political obstetrics | when he ran against Adams for the Presi- | dency, a8 well as Cass, Douglas, Seward,. | misguided speaker, whose zeal outran hia discretion. Wo sincerely wish to see Cuba independent, but we believe that this object . would not be aided but obstructed by a war with Spain, undertaken, not from sympathy with Cuba, but to influence the Presidential election in the United States. The Giladiatorial Tournament. A generous assembly, orderlyand apprecia- tive, watched the gladiatorial tournament last night at the Hippodrome. The light foils of tho fencers hardly showed to ad- vantage in so large an arena, but the spar- ring could easily be seen, and the usual care was taken not to hit too hard. Joe Co- burn did not succeed so well in ayoid- ing the rain of blows poured on by his antagonist as he seemed to when he met Mace or Allen without gloves, and in all the boxing it was noticeable that the left hands did most of the work. Mr. Laflin swung the clubs well, while Mr. Messinger's ‘performances with the cannon ball were excellent. Only by letting his whole body yield exactly at the right moment could any one possibly stand having a fifty pound ball drop fifteen feet, and yet catch and retain it in the small of his back, withal seeming to enjoy the process. ‘The five mile velocipede race was sharp and exciting. But the event of the evening was the Greco-Roman wrestling, and any Greek or Roman present must admit that the men and work were of the very best sort. THand- some and stalwart, bared to the waist, with great layers of muscle swelling everywhere, they lifted and writhed and wrenched inces- santly for a whole half hour in wrestling that was simply magnificent, while the good feeling evident between them—indeed, among all the performers—combined with the prompt carrying out of the programme, did much toward making this inaugural meeting in every way a success. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. John Bright bas gono to his watering place. ‘The visits to the sewers of Paris are suspended until the month of April next. Fernando Wood 1s in Washington working ap his chances for the Speakership. M. Thiers is engaged in writing his philosophical work entitled, “Men and Matter.” Boucieault says that it takes at least six months for London to become ‘saturated with a fact.'’ In Glasgow, Scotland, 500 unemployed handloom weavers aro engaged aweeping tho strects. In visiting tho fort at Bombay, India, the Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the Tenth Hussars. Minister Schenck is trying to break up the bogus in- stitutions that pretend to grant college diplomas. San Francisco people are enjoying a very heavy rain storm, the winter season, without snow, having begun, ‘The vacancies in the French Academy caused by the deaths of Guizot and Remusat, will be filled on the 16th of December. ‘The administration of the Beaux-Arts, Paris, has con- fided to M, Prévot, sculptor, of Bordeaux, the execution of a marble bust of Montesquieu. Asson of Joseph Arch, the arch-agitator of agricul- tural problems, has a son who has recently been cone victed of robbery. The boy got six months, ‘An English clergyman who bas recently visited Salt Lake has given currency to the idea that the Mormons are maturing a project to purchase the Holy Land, aud set themselves up in Jerusalem, People going to the Pacitic should know that along in Wyoming’and Utah, on the Union Pacific Railroad, the snow ts very deep in some placos, as at Evanstown, where you get off to take @ drink, it is as much ae three feet, On dit trom Lima that the Peravian Legation in Wash” ington is ‘shortly to be retired, and that Mr. Charles Tracy, Consul of the Republic, will be invested with the title of Consul General, and represent the interests of Peru in the United States. ~ Professor Proctor, that astroriomer up in Boston who is talking about more worlds than one and all that sort of thing, Is thirty-nine, and has eleven young ones to pull on his coat tails when he gots his right eye just fixed on a heavenly body. . Ernest Rénan was received in Italy as an apostle of free thought and a bearer of good tidings. His recent tour was a triumphal progress. A few years ago he could have taken few steps of such a journey before he would have been clapped into prison. Messrs. John P. Jones and William Sharon, Senatora of the United States from what there {s left of Nevada, may have to remain in San Francisco, where they live, in order to attend to business matters, which are pecu- liar after the recent fire and failure. A critic says to a lady correspondent that she may dance with her son or her lady friends, but that “dancing in the middle of a crowd, with low drosses, up to late hours, involving a good deal of apparent em- bracing of the opposite sex, is thought to be objection. able in taste if uot in principle.” M. Barbet dé Jouy, conservator of the Paris Louvre Museum of Sculpture, has purchased, by order of the Minister of tho Fine Arts, a magnificent Italian gatoway in marble. This work, which belonged to the palace of Esparga, is ornamented with two large statnes, both of members of the family of thatname, The price paid for the work ts 80,000f, The Sea Coast (Miss.) Repwblican says:—Jeff. Davis honored this city with his presenco last Sunday. We did not see him, but learn from one who interviewed him that ho is very conservative. He believes Gover- nor Ames to be honest, and lays every mistake made by him to his surroundings. He reprehends any at- | tempt to impeach Governor Ames. The inhabitants of Vera Cruz, Mexico, wore attacked afew days ago by @ cough, which proved to be con- tagions, and even extended to animals. About the same time thousands of dead fish were thrown on the beach by the waves. The two facts are supposed to have some connection, as both have occurred together on several former occasions. No serious consequences have resulted. Charles Mathews told his friends some amusing stories before starting for India Said he;—"‘l found myself once in the Sandwich Islands. I played ‘by command and in the presence of His Majesty Kame- hame-ha, the Fifth King of the Cannibal Islands, be- fore an audience of Kanakas—black gentlemen, who, a few years ago, would have supped off me with pleasure.”’ The Emperor and Empress of Brazil, we are specially | informed from Rio Janeiro, are not going to leave home until next March, when they will proceed to Europe, the Empress to remain at a German spa, while the peror will recross the Atlantic to be at the opening of the Philadelphia Exhibition, and make the trip he proposes throaghout the United States, and probably Canada, The Prince Imperial of France had been solicited to. express his optnion on the vote by collective list or by arrondissement. His Highness replied that such @ question ought to be solved by the political men living | among their constituents, Knowing their real interests him for his picture let him resent it as the | suggestion of an enemy. Tur Cusans or Tus Crry, as will be seen in the communication printed in another | Barclay street curbstone. and their aspirations, as the means of assuring success might vary tn different departments, The Prince haa therefore left to the group of the Appeal to the People full liberty of action, ‘An Italian woman, with a baby {n her arms, sat on a A well dressed rich old | duffor was stopped by his little daughter, who said, column, have too much good sense and | | gratitude to indorse the rash words spoken by one of their number in a recent meeting, It is known to them all that the Hxrasp has | been their truest and most zealous friend ; | that it has spent more money and effort than making the merits of their canse known to the world and enlisting public sympathy in their behalf ; and they accordingly disavow “Give the dark lady sufln’.” But before he dropped the five cents into the Italian woman’s hand he said | “Your baby 13 a blonde; bow’s that? An’ you dark?” with tears running down her s, replied in broken English, ‘Mooshs the young un’s fabher be a aagur ?”” Ida Lewis, the marine heroin, is poor, and plays every Monday morning on a seven and a quarter octavo washboard. With her bare elbows oven with the key- board and a red flannel Beethoven before her, she ren- ders that famous music with delicate expression and woollen poetry. Yet peoplo send her poems, silk hosiery, three-button gloves ana fine jewolry. If any one wishes to send anything to Ida Lowis, the heroine of Lime Rock, let bim seud something substantial, ‘She ava 60 herself,