The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1876, Page 6

u NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. BROADWAY AND Al PROPRIET( mor DAILY HE LD, published every Cay ir year. Four cents per copy. ‘Iwelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month. free of postage. iness, news letters or telegraphic must be addressed New Yous Letters and packages should be properly sealed. I ted communications will mot be re- turned, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. tions and advertisements will be ved forwarded on the same terms New York, NO. 6 NIGHT. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, Nos 535 and 587 Broadway.—VARIBTY, a3 P.M. PAR TR Broadway and SPM. Oakey E, THE CRUCIBLE, at M EAGLE THEATRE, Broadway anc Thirtyabird street.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M, ROWE Bowery. —VALLEY FO Stein ATRE, and 1776, at 8 P.M, Mr. Now Opera Hous avoi a GLOE Nos. 723 and 730 Broadw BOOTH'S THEATRE, et and Sixth avenue.—JULIUS CASAR, awrence Barrett, ase M THEATRE COMIQUE, Do. 514 Broadway, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. 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News- Cealers and the public throughout the Slates of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as aweli as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the (nes of te Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their cone rections, will be supplied with Tux Henaxp, tree of offered to ne postage, Extraordinary inducements sdealers ly sending their orders Watt Srrent Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket yesterday was without feature and prices were irregular. Money on cal! ranged from 7 to 4 percent. Gold was quiet at 1125-8 a 112 1-2. ; Ovr Boox Revirws.—We publish to-day an interesting series. Subjects in the realms of philosophy and travel are treated. Mixers are returning to work, and a burgomaster denies that they used firearms during the progress of the strike, Weare glad to hear it. They run enongh risk of their lives in following their subterranean occupation. ‘Tus Srecracts of an entire ministry, with one exception, on trial for violating the Electoral law, is about to be presented by e fretful little Kingdom of Greece, There are more intriguers and less to intrigue about in Athens than in all the other capitals of Europe combined. A Deseatco From Maprm announces that Don Carlos has again been shooti some of his officers and soldiers. If this telegraphic re was only as effectual in decimating warfa the Carlists in the field as on paper the little King Alfonso, whose mother is now so sick in Paris, would have a better lease of his throne. Srarw ann Iraty are stirring themselves commendably in relation to their representa- tion at the Centennial Exposition. Every step of this nature taken by foreign Powers entorces the argument for Congress to do its share with a moderate appropriation in in- suring the success of the great fair. Tax Iscencrry or THE Yousa ‘Cram- ant” at St, Albans seems very great, but his stories when tested in Philadelphia disap- pear, leaving » residuum of villany which it is hard to associate with one so young. Mr. Ross is certain that the circumstantial little “cuss” is not his lost boy. Each suc- ceeding false hope raised adds to the cruelty of the father’s bereavement. ‘Tae Compuications arising from the East- ern question are manifold. We hear from one side that Austria.is about to occupy the disturbed districts; from another that the Prince of Montenegro can hardly hold him- self back from declaring war on Turkey, and from a third that the Christian prelates, Greek and Roman, are warning the subordi- nate clergy to give.up fomenting rebellion. Meantime the Porte is doing its best to quell the insurrection and hoping that a friend may tura up for it somewhere SEW YORK MERALD| influence (which we sometimes think mis- guided), his intrepid frankness and his knowledge of the political history of the State. We aim to treat our editorial brethren in our columns as we would treat them in society, paying occasional compli- Z E THEATRE, ‘Trenty:sighth street, bear away. — PIQUE, M. TRIPLE SHEET, 3 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY. 6, b ee == = From our repo! morning the probabilities ning of December following a State election in the beginning of November made them, by their close proximity, parts of the same Spring Elections. pression which justifies the Commercia ver in saying that we have been izing” the editor of that journal. In article yesterday we weighed our words connot thimk they will bear that con- truction in fact, as they certainly did not in intention. We treat him with courtesy | because we respect his abilities, his political inents when we think them deserved, but neyer saying anything which can justly offend their self-respect, equally avoiding coarse abuse and patronizing airs. We regret that we are not to have the co- operation of the Commercial Advertiser in ad- ng a spring electjon, because, with his tance, this reform could be easily carried. We do not despair of carrying it against his It would certainly succeed if ncount on his ‘‘benevolent neu- trality,” if we may borrow this phrase from the diplomatists. The interviews which we have published with Senators and Assembly- State north Duyvil show a preponderance of this change. It our fear that there is ‘a power behind the throne greater than the throne itself,” or, in other words, that veteran party strategists may overrule the real judgment of the Legislature that causes any distrust as to the success of the reform at this session. Ifthe members are left to their individual sense of duty, their declared opinions, in the interviews which we have published, should relieve the question from doubt. We regard the editor of the Commer- cialas the greatest obstacle, and we should be glad to convince ‘our friend the enemy” that it is for the interest of his party that he should withdraw his opposition. His state- ment of reasons is rather an argument for the change than against it, and, that we may do him no injustice, we insert his argu- ment :— For nearly twenty years, up to 1849, our municipal elvctions were held in April opposition. we could men and west strong from all parts of the of Spuyten in favor is only Abuses infamous and outrageous had so grown up under these elections that the people in that year demanded achange. The change was furnished, Governor Fish and the leading whigs of that doy believing that any change was for the better. The city charter was so amended as to provide for hold- ing elections at the titne of the State and national elec tions, im the fall, and all sorts of Our demanded another and municipal elece tions were held in December. All these changes were ma by legislators opposed to the demo- cratic party, and at the request of leading demo- cratic citizens of New York. The reign of Fernando Wood brought to the front the best men in the city, who went up to Albany asking protection from repub- lican legislators against the sans cu/otte mob, who stood like a wall behind Fernando Wood. All the changes iments were made in the interest of good government, and made at the instigation of leading mocrats aud by republican legislators, and no news been so indecent in its abuse of republican ation and Albany interference with New York city s the New York Heratp, Now another ap- ade to Albany and republican legislators for 1» from Tammany and the blear and bottle- Woe have no faith in the ‘Then came the forty thieves citizens again mocracy of New York. We need no better evidence than this statement to"prove that the experiment of holding the charter and general elections on the same day brought nothing but mischief. The Commercial correctly states that this change was first made in 1849. Up to that time the charter election and the State elec- tion had never been held on the same day. What were the fruits of tbe change? The Commercial truly describes them :—‘‘The city charter was so amended as to provide for holding elections at the time of the State and national elections, in the fall. Then came the forty thieves and all sorts of rascality.” Most readers will agree with us that this is a sorry argument for holding the elections on the same day. “The forty thieves and all sorts of rascality” immediately followed. The city and State elections were again fixed on the same day by the infamous Tweed legislation of 1870, and everybody knows what an inundating tide of rascality immediately flowed in. As to the Heray’s opposition to charter changes the Commercial is notaccurate. The Heratp did not oppose the changes made during the administration of: Governor Fish except in one particular, The Herranp then said (April 2, 1849):—‘‘We have but one ob- jection to the new charter, and that is the section providing that the election of our municipal officers shall take place on the same day as that on which the State election takes place. This, we think, will not have a good effect. It will intermingle our munici- pal affairs with the politics of the State, and partly with those of the whole country. There is no good reason why our city elec- tion should turn on national polities.” The Henaxp indorsed all the other features of the charter passed under the administration of Governor Fish; but their good ten- dency was defeated by the change in the election day, which; as the Com- mercial admits, was followed by “the forty thieves and all sorts of rascality.” The Henatp did strenuously oppose the charter of 1857, and all its predictions of its bad effects were speedily fulfilled, as the Commercial well knows. It is true that the city and State elections were then separated, but by so slight an interval as to be of no consequence, A city election in the begin- political campaign and gave full scope to bargains for mutual support between city and State candidates. The proper time for the charter election § is in the spring months, before the State, county, Congressional and legislative can- didates are nominated, thus precluding bargains. The Henatp has never supposed that a spring election is the only remedial measure necessary, although it deserves to rank among the most important. The editor of the Commercial is treading on slippery ground in his specious attempt to capture our handsome Mayor, as Mr. John Kelly might perhaps tell him on due appli- cation, One short year ago Mr. Kelly seemed to have a perfect right of “pre-emption” on this piece of virgin political soil, but the supposed owner has been ousted without even an action of ejectment. We doubt whether Mr. Hastings can pro- cure a title deed that will hold. He cannot get the fee-simplenor even a good lease, and the mere possession of Mr. Wickham as a tenant at will is not worth the sacrifice of an important political advantage. Mr. Hast- ings cannot lay owr handsoma Mavor nader We cannot recollect that we have employed | greater obligation than those which he owed to the Grand Sachem, and we have all seen | how loosely such ties bind Mr. Wickham. | Instead of trying‘to hold such a political | cel, which will slip out of his hands when he thinks his grasp is most secure, the editor of the Com al had better join with us and nthe democratic party in the State election by cutting off its chief base of sup- plies in the city patronage. Uniess the members of the Legislature act against their known convictions, as declared in their interviews with our correspondents, we shall have a spring election in spite of bargaining politicians. As soon as the bill has passed the Legislature the great point of interest will be the selection of a candidate for the Mayoralty. There are several dis- tinguished citizens whose names will at once occur to the public as highly capable, as, for example, Messrs. Green, Stebbins, Dana, A. T. Stewart, Agnew and perhaps one or two others. We could” cordially support any of these gentlemen, but our preference is Mr. Dana. He may not want the office, but the office wants him. In the first place, he has executive abilities of the highest order; in the next place, he is a vig- orous reformer, with (what is rare in re- formers) knowledge enough to direct his zeal; in the third place, he is more conver- sant with public affairs than almost any other of our citizens; and in the fourth place, as a crowning qualification, his pride in showing how well the office can be ad- ministered by a competent Mayor and set- ting a useful ‘example for his successors would be a more prevailing motive with him than the honor and emoluments of the sta- tion. We sadly need a demonstration of the great capabilities of the Mayoralty for useful- ness in the hands of a first class man, and for this reason we hope that Mr. Dana will consent to be our next Mayor. Economy in a Bad Place. An important step is under consideration in the Board of Health. It is proposed to do not only a startling, but a dreadful thing. It is proposed to diminish, abolish, destroy, retire and evaporate that illustrious friend of the public, Dr. Harris, the Registrar of Vital Statistics. Dr. Harris is the only part of the Board of ‘Health that is worth a but- ton to the public. If all the rest of the ma- chinery were abolished and Dr. Harris left we should be none the worse. If Dr. Harris is abolished and the other part is left we shall have a fine payroll still on our hands, with nothing to show for it. This reduction of tae Registrar is proposed as the re- sult of a solemn conclave of the Board, which had before it the momentous prob- lem—What should be. done to reduce the expenses in view of the fact that the Board of Estimate has cut down the allowance? Naturally the Board proposes to do the wrong thing, and we suppose its action is in- tended as a reproach at the Registrar for having made himself conspicuously useful, and so departed from the principles of the Board. No action has ever yet been taken by the Board of Health in public adminis- tration that would not have been much bet- ter done by the police under medical advice. In that respect it merely duplicates police: functions, and the tax till is tapped twice for the same service. But its collection and publication of vital statistics was an advantage to the public. This might have been done under police auspices also ; but it has been well done by Dr. Harris, and ina city where we have so little duty properly done by public servants it would be a happy thought to leave well enough alone. If the Board did not enforce sanitary regulations, if it did not prevent epidemics, at all events Dr. Harris always kept his signal establish- ment in operation, and we were tolerably well informed as to the condition of the city by the statement of the number of deaths and their causes. This, in fact, was a con- stant exhibition of the inefficiency of. the sanitary government, and that may account for the proposal to dethrone our autocrat of Statistics. Concress ReassemBiep YEsTeRDay in good humor after the holidays. Speaker Kerr took his chair, looking, we are glad to hear, in good health, The House was frolicsome and inclined to relish a little buncomhe about “Joyal soldiers,” but managed to get through a good deal of preliminaries to the actual work of the session. Mr. Morrison made his first essay as leader of the House in the easiest portion of his duties. A resolution of his, enjoining on all the committees to look industriously for fraud, corruption and mismanagement in the various departments and to be economical with the people's money, , was adopted. The Senate was humdrum ; bills and resolutions on every subject, from specie payments to grasshoppers, were intro- duced and referred. Mr. Morton even asked ! to have his Mississippi election inquiry stand over till Monday. The first day's work was calculated more to pique curiosity than to satisfy it. The democrats in the House de- veloped next to nothing; the republicans watched and waited. Tue Casre.—If it had been said when the first successful cable was laid and despatches of twenty words came regularly through within an houror two that the Heraxp would, within ten years, give a whole page of news sent from Europe over the cable in one day, the nearest policeman would have taken the pre- caution to lock up the speakeygand his friends would have applied for a wrlt de lunatico in- quirendo. But yesterday the Herat pub- lished a whole page of matter sent by cable from the various cities of Europe ; and even that page did not contain all our cable news, as our extensive marine reports were printed elsewhere, Great progress has certainly been made in the telegraphic manipulation that made this feat possible, as well as in the conception of journalism on a grand scale. Tue Cuautencr to the array of jurors framed for the purpose of procuring a “struck” jury to try the Tweed civil suits was sustained by Judge Westbrook. The blundering of the county officials has thus given a point to the defence in its fight for time. Tax Frorts or tar Rervstican Victory inthe French Assembly's balloting for Sena- tors are presented in our letter from Paris. It also contains a complete and useful list of these seventy-five immovables, The Mayor and tie Sinking Fand. Mayor Wickham’'s recent Message to the Common Council is remarkable for the igno- rance it displays of the laws relating to the municipal government. The sinking fund and all that pertains to it is the most impor- tant public trust under the government, and every detail of its composition and condition should be as familiar to the Mayor of the city as the letters of the alphabet. Yet Mr. Wickham, while assuming to advise as to the future policy to be pursued in relation to the sinking fund, evidently talks of a sub- ‘ject he does not understand. He erroneously supposes that the interest received on the stocks and bonds purchased with the money belonging to the sinking fund is used, first, to pay the interest on that portion of the public debt for the principal and interest of which the fund is pledged, and then that tho excess of the interest thus received on the sinking fund securities is transferred to the genetal fund by authority of the law of 1862, and goes to reduce the next year's taxation. We quote from the text of the Message:—‘‘The sinking fund itself,” says the Mayor, “is now largely in excess of the amount of the securities for which it is pledged, and the amount of interest earned by the investments of the fund is annually more than one million dollars in excess of the interest payable by it. That annual excess of the interest account is, at the end of each year, transferred to the general fund (by authority of an act of 1862) and then used to reduce taxes.” ¢ No clerk who has been six months in the Comptroller's office could make such a suc- cession of blunders. The ‘amount of interest earned by the investments of the fund” is not used to pay any portion of the interest due on the city debt, and not a dollar of that amount passes into the general fund. The interest earned by the investments of the fund, on the contrary, goes into the sink- ing fund itself, and now forms the greater portion of the increase of that fund. The ordinance creating the fund and directing the investment of its moneys provides -that all interest accruing on such investments “shall regularly be carried to the sinking fund for the redemption of the city debt.” ‘The interest on a certain portion of the pub- lie debt is paid from quite a different sourcee— namely, from the sinking fund for the pay- ment of interest on the city debt. The blun- ders made by the Mayor are attributable to his ignorance of the fact that there are two distinct sinking funds—the one for the re- demption of the city debt and the other for payment of interest on the city debt. The law of 1862, chapter 163, instead of trans- ferring any portion of the interest received on the securities of the sinking fund to the general fund, as the Mayor in- correctly supposes, provides that the surplus revenues of the sinking fund for the payment of interest on the city debt, after the interest for which they are pledged has been paid, shall be transferred to the general fund for the reduction of the annual taxation. Prior to the passage of that act this surplus went into the sinking fund for the redemption of the city debt, where the interest on the sinking fund securities still continues to go. As the Mayor undertakes to advise asto the future management of the sinking fund, it will be well for him first to learn what the sinking fund ié and what the laws in relation to it provide. To that end he had better take a lesson from the Comp- troller instead of constantly carping at and quarrelling with that officer. The University Athletic Meeting. The recently organized Athletic Associa- tion of American Colleges met yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to arrange for the various foot contests of university week, 1876, at Saratoga. Last year, as arranged for this year, these events came off on the day after the boat race, thus allowing the rowers also to compete, several of whom carried off principal prizes. Then, too, for the first time graduates were allowed to enter, separate races being provided for them. This plan, occupying both morning and afternoon, made the day long, and, towards the end, tiresome. The entries were so astonishingly numerous and the contests passed off so pleasantly that, with any approach to good management, the futtire success of these meetings is well guaranteed. As this is cen- tennial year the association will doubtless take unusual care to have the management and programme all that can be desired, for among the visiting Europeans there will be more good judges of foot-work even than of rowing, and they will form their impres- sion of our ability in athletics largely from this meeting. Instead of crowding the events all into one day they might have been arranged for two successive forenoons, those of Thursday and Friday, July 20 and 21, While the first day would be given up to the undergraduate races the second, instead of being for grad- uates only, might have had its contests open toboth. This would have rendered them un- commonly interesting. Last year, for in- stance, in the graduates’ seven-mile walk, Mr. Eustis of Wesleyan did outwalk Mr. Giinster of Williams. But in the undergraduate Mr, Taylor of Harvard badly beat the time of both. It can easily be inferred, then, what an exciting race the three together would make, and how completely it would settle who was the best man of the year. It is to be regretted that the motion to invite the English University athletes did not prevail. Poetry by Cable. Nearly every one is fond of rhymes, espe- cially good ones ; but it is argued that they should not be sent by cable. Why not? For our part we cannot see why the play of fancy—the little ripples on the surface of the t ocean of human existence—should not be chronicled with the rest. Indeed, we would cable a joke, if it were a good one, with the same conscientious accuracy with which we would record a ministerial crisis ora monetary panic. If Paris had a Talley- rand or London a Sheridan in these days we would be ready to give them the people of a continent for auditors. If Carlyle had still vitality enough to write anything worth reading we might cable that. If Tennyson should write a poem op our Centennial does anybody believe our London correspondent would let it get mouldy in the mail bags? No! It should come clowing from the yoet's pea into our columns, and the whole Atlantic that it passed under wouldn't have time to cool it, Since Longfellow has declined the Centennial labor it would be a fine fancy for Tennyson to volunteer the thought of the mother country on this subject. Our ideas on the subject of the cable are liberal, as our readers will see ; but then we do not believe that the sole function of a newspaper is to discover and chronicle what has been stolen from the public! treasuries in all the cities and counties and States of the Union. Yachting On and Of Soundings. Now that the half-way house of the winter solstice is passed and the sun turned for its upward climb in the heavens it seems a fitting time to cast a glance at the past yacht- ing season, coupled with a reference to the one to come. There certainly was not much promise in the early months of the year. Hard times are not conducive to yacht building, and hard times had laid a heavy hand upon the community. So shipbuilders’ yards were idle, and, instead of keels being laid here and frames set up there, as has been the history of past seasons, the whole yacht building art was directed to the construction of one single vessel, the .Mohawk. Naturally, the chief interest of the yachting fraternity was con- centrated upon the new boat, not only because she was the largest of her class ever built in this country, but because she was to be the embodiment of principles novel in the science of naval architecture. Yacht oritics were widely divided in their views, but unanimous in their determination to fly into print and give their views expression. “Devoted Yachtsman” must have contrib- uted a quarto volume at least, in the shape of letters to ‘‘Dear Spirit.'’ Setting himself up as the only capable critic on this side the water, “Devoted Yachtsman” pitched into the Mo- hawk before her model was fairly thought out. She was a rank heresy even in theory—a failure in conception that was to be a mon- strosity at birth. As she grew into shape the expression of his disgust increased in virulence, as it did in verbosity. Stripped of verbiage his opinion was about as follows:—She would upset; she would not upset; she would carry her sail; she would not carry her sail; she would tear herself to pieces if driven; she couldn't be driven, for she was too heavily timbered to sail at all. Off the wind, with sheets lifted, was to be her best point, but close hauled in a seaway there was nothing left but to stand still and bang herself to bits. Of course our critic with the Janus-like countenance, being able to see both ways at the same time, could scarcely fail to geta correct view of his subject semi-occasionally. How often he succeeded the many yachtsmen (better informed, but perhaps not so ‘de- yoted,”) who have struggled through his letters, might have an opinion to give. We regret to learn from his recent valedic- tory to ‘Dear Spirit” (the fourth or fifth of a similar nature) that ‘‘Devoted Yachts- man” has finally withdrawn from that lit- erary and critical sphere which he so much adorned, We trust that this resolution is not irrevocable, and that we may still be permitted to sit at his feet, drinking in the words of nautical wisdom which drop from his lips, and awaiting in appreh.. ion the fatal valedictory numbered ‘‘Six.” Should, however, the withdrawal of ‘‘De- voted Yachtsman” by any chance be due toa feeling that “Dear Spirit” is iess compla- cently inclined than heretofore, we will venture to promise that he shall have a hear- ing, even though the compositor and proof- reader of these columns rise up in protest at the act. The last yachting season, though not re- markable for any very brilliant episodes, was, if judged by the cruises of the New York and Brooklyn yacht clubs and the ocean races later on, a very decided success. Once away from the baffling winds and calms that infest the course of the Lower Bay and adjacent waters and fairly afloat on the broad sweep of Narragansett Bay, the yachts- man finds both the sea and the breeze which he covets. It is for this reason that Newport will always be the ne plus wtra of yachting towns. A sheltered harbor, good anchorage, with every convenience for refitting and the open sea at your elbow, it would be ‘difficult to find its peer. It is, then, with excellent judgment that the waters in the vicinity of Newport have been chosen as the most suita- ble place for trials of speed. New York bar- bor and bay are all very well for an annual regatta, which is rather a gala day than a race day, but for a real contest, of boat against boat, when business is meant and the best one is to win, there is nothing com- parable to the waters which lie between Gay Head and Point Judith. An appreciation of this fact has led to the selection of this locality for the more important regattas and match races, and last summer was particularly noticeable for the number of the same. The squadron on its return to New York did not fade away into winter quarters, as has been the history of previous years, but new life and vigor were imparted to the closing weeks of the season bya regatta for cups presented by Rear Commodore Kane, and a / brilliant series of ocean matches, the recent occurrence of which renders further descrip- tion unnecessary. The prospects for 1876 are still uncertain, but strong hopes are entertained that the Centennial will give an impetus to yachting, as it is expected to do to the general indus- tries of the country. Enough is known to warrant the-statement that o great regatta or series of regattas will take place in June un- der the auspices of the Centennial Commis- sion. All the organized yacht clubs of the world will be invited to assist, and it is hoped and expected that our British cousins, at least, will be prominent as competitors. Wu Ir Be an Intervationat Kace ?—A cable despatch in an evening paper on Tues- day Jast stated that Mr. M. H. Sanford’s horse Preakness and the colt Galopin (the winner of the last English Derby) lately owned by Prince Bathyany, were both en- tered among many others for the Alexandra Plate, the stake to be run at Sandown Park on the 27th of May next. Should this be the case the sporting men of the two nations can begin to prepare themselves for consider- able excitement, as these two horses are fair representatives of the bast of both countries. Galopin waa acknowledged to be the fastest horse in England after his defeat of Lows lander in their match over the Rowley mile, while Preakness made the best time on reo- ord for two miles and a quarter at Saratoge last summer, . “Call Me Pet Dearest.” Tom Hood said that a nickname was a con- centrated calumny ; but Hood wrote in‘'an aristocratic atmosphere, where people stand on their dignity to an extent scarcely com prehensible on this side the water. In Lon- don a merchant goes on ‘Change in a stove- pipe hat, and if he should.venture to depart from that formality and appear some after- noon in the débauthée freedom ot a ‘wide- awake” his paper would be refused before the day was dver; while if he should, ina moment of hilarity, greet his business part- ner with “Good day, old Beeswax," there would be a notice of dissolution in the Ga- sete within forty-eight hours. How differ- ent all this is with us scarcely needs to be told; but a most characteristic point of the difference of life under democratic influ- ences is seen in the very different apprecia- tion in which nicknames are held with us. Scarcely any man goes far without one, and no one resents the infliction, because if there is just the shadow of spite in the name the folly and bad temper of exhibiting irri- tation would expose any man to general laughter ; but because, also, the thing is commonly done without animus—in a spirit of rollicking, easy jollity and pretended familiarity. Very often, indeed, the nickname becomes more than a joke—more than even a good-natured joke. It becomes the start- ing point of new and more intimate relations between the subject of the name and a wide circle of friends ; or, in the case of a public man, between him and the public. How much did “Old Hickory” do in this way for General Jackson, or “Tippecanoe and ‘Lylet too” fora famous Presidential ticket. How much of sturdy pride and simple minded admiration did the nation concentrate in “Old Rough and Ready ;” and what a tender place in the memory is yet touched by “Old Abe.” In public life even the English indulge in nicknames, too, as ‘‘Dizzy” and “Pam” can prove; because in an atmosphere so high that familiarity is known to be im- possible, and pretended familiarity is, there- fore, an evident joke, there alone famil- iarity in languge is permissible. In France the nickname ‘Petit Caporal” points to the best side of the life of the great soldier. But the nickname is thoroughly successful only in our own free and easy land of uni- versal good nature, wit and equality. It comes to be regarded more and more as an evidence of public favor for a happy nick- name to happen to any one, because pro- nounced dignity or a character out of sym- pathy with the popular mind is treated Names, with the cold formality of a proper name. Our public men who have never received any nicknames present a very instructive catalogue in this respect. Charles Francis Adams is a name that sounds to the whole nation like the beginning of a chapter on constitutional history, and it frightens people correspondingly. It might exhaust the attraction of the magnetic moun- tain and still be unacceptable. Several can- didates have lately been named by us for the office of Mayor of this city ; but we believe anickname is essential to success in this matter, and so we propose that the man to to win shall be ‘Our Charley.” This is a name that puts a man on precisely that happy, easy footing with the public which might lead them to believe that they are voting for one of themselves. ‘Our Charley” is the man for the place by virtue of his vigilance, honesty and capacity. He must not be con- founded with Prince Charley, who was only a pretender; nor with that other Prince Charley, the roarer who won the Derby, and, therefore, ran well; nor even with Charley Ross, who is fost. But this last distinction will be very easy, for ‘Our Charley” will be found in the Mayor's office after the spring election. e Enoianp anv Eoypr.—There is certainly some fire under the smoke of misunder standing between the Khedive and Mr. Cave, the financial expert sent out from England. The rapid maturing of the Eng- lish idea of ownership of Egypt which fol- lowed the canal share purchase has staggered the Khedive a little, and he'is just in the con- dition to believe anything told him about English designs. Reuter's denial of the little difficulty may be in the interest of the Egyptian shares, which staggered under so light a blow as the Khedive's wrothy expres- sion. It is evident that somebody has told the Egyptian Viceroy the meaning of Cave! A New Cuarrer vor New York.—A bill providing an election for municipal officers in April of each year, and other important changes in the city government, will come up soon for discussion in the Senate. Mr. Bixby will introduce it. We give a synopsis of it elsewhere, PERSONAL INTELLIGENC®, ~~ This is leap year, but don’t leap. Cigar smoke turns violets green. Grant requires nine hours’ sleep. English liberals are growing bolder. White House dinners last four hours. Belknap is ahead for Senator in lows. Many Paris Americans will winter in Egypt, _ Russian journals constantly attack England. James B. Beck leads for Senator in Kentucky. The Khedive persecutes the King of Abyssinia, Lamar considers his election as Senator certain. General Babcock’s trial begins about February 1. North Carolina rice growing is almost abandoned. Florence and Alice Tilton accompany their father. Virginia does not wish to encourage the Centennial, In California cod liver oll is made from boiled doga Bancroft Davis, Minister at Berlin, has gone to Egypt. phe Senate will eulogize Andrew Johnson January iL A Cincinnati paper without something about the Zoological Garden would be tresh. If winter doesn't come soon somebody will want to finish that Northern Pacific Railroad. Grant was oota playful boy; talked low; wus cour- teous, and read the “Life of Napoleon." Governor Tilden, too, ts going South, But some fel- jow who didn’t mean anything will likely be President, Senator Phineas W, Hitchcock, of Nebraska, arrived in the city last evening, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Every democrat who wishes to make a revolution in Politics attacks the regular army and wants a couple of men cut off, and there isn’t much of an army either, Senators West, of Louisiana; Windom, of Minnesota, and English, of Connecticut; Representatives Mac- Dougall and Platt, of New York, and Genoral Benjamin F, Butler, of Massachusetia left the cuy vosterday (or Wasuiagtoa