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. FLASH OF LIGHTNIN = € NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, THE DAILY HER: day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. a All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLI STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL1.--..0--0+-00 YO.112 SOUTH AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND RVENING, FIFTH AVENUE LIFE, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.- GRAND OPERA HOUSE. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, at 8 P.M. Mrs Howard. Matinee at2P.M, NIBLO'S GA Matineo at 1 OF MUSIC. IGLIA. Mile. Belocca, Matinee BABA, at 8 P. M. BROOK OATES ENGLISH OPK STE Y HALL. qHowas GRAND CONCERT, at8 P.M. Matinee at 2 WOOT M y |. Matinee at2 P. M. THEATRE: atines at 1:30 P, M. vr TWO ORPHANS, at onic Cazoneuve, the Prestidix! BS PARK CLOUDS, SP. M. Mutinoo at OLYMP| VARIETY AND DRAM COLUMB. VARIETY, at 81’. M. THEATRE ¢ VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matineo a : THIRD AV. kK THEATRE, VARIETY, at SP, M. Matinee at 2 P.M. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, VARIBTY, at 8 P. M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, atSP.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. SAN FR CO MINSTRELS, atS P.M. -Matinee at 2 i. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, arsr.M, CHATEAU MABILLE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. AMERICAN ANNUAL FAIR. al WITH SUPPLEMENT NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 187 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer, cloudy and rainy, succeeded by colder and clear- ing weather. Watt Srreer Yestrrpay.—The market was active and generally firm. The coal stocks showed the effect of realizing sales. Money on call was supplied at 3and 2 per cent. Gold declined from 109 1-2 to 109 1-4, Railway bonds were stronger and govern- ment bonds wenker. Tue American Minister to Denmark has been recalled, as will be seen by the cable reports this morning. Tue Basui-Bazovxs in the Turkish army continue to be unmanageable, and many of them have left the front. Even Turkey may before long be compelled to suppress these marauders and assassins. A Yutrow Fever Cs was reported in Brooklyn yesterday, but it is hoped no con- tagion will spring from it. The lesson of August prevented any mistake in the de- scription of the disease furnished to the Board of Health. Woopwanrp will be brought here at once on a requisition from Governor Tilden, A new era of grief seems to be coming for the old Tammany Ring. With Woodward in custody and Tweed on his way home there is little wonder public expectation should be on tip-toe. Ayoruer Stock Orrnator has been forced to the wall. These things go on from day to day, and though they ripple the surface of speculation for an hour they leave no per- manent impression behind, because, after all, this species of speculation has no real rela- tion to the business of the country. Tue Protestants 1x Sparn have obtained favorable opinion touching the toleration clause in the constitution from Seiior Alonzo Martinez, a former Minister of Justice. But whether or not the Spanish constitution guarantees them their claim toleration has become a universal right, and its enforce- ment sooner or later must become a part of international polity. Preswest Grant continues to talk frankly on the issues of the, present canvass, and he speaks with remarkable trankne A solid Bouth, he thinks, can only be secured by the flemocrats by the ‘‘shotgun policy,” and, while he has no doubt of Hayes’ election, he fears the result of the elections for members of Congress, and even anticipates a possible Joss of the Senate to the republicans. At Jrnome Panx To-Dax there will be five Interesting races, the principal of which is the Annual Sweepstakes for three-year-olds, over a course of two miles and an eighth. There is also a three-quarter mile dash for two-year-olds, which promises to be sharply contested. The interest in these short races during this meeting has more than once exceeded that evolved by those run by older horses over greater distances. whe racing begins at half-past one. Tue Frature of the democratic mass meeting at Cooper Institute last night was the letter of Horatio Seymour demanding a decrease of taxation as the first step toward the revival of business, It is late in the ‘ennvass to begin the discussion of this issue, and both parties seem purposely to have ‘evaded it. Although Mr. Seymour's letter gannot be regarded as at all conclusive on e subject of which it treats it is bene- in introducing into our political dis- even the real questions which are before country. NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Mayoralty. One of our contemporaries adds another name to the list of those we have sug- gested to Mr. ‘Kelly for the Mayoralty. It proposes the name of Mr. Samuel D. Babcock. He is an excellent and capable gentleman, and we accept our contem- porary’s suggestion with pleasure, and add him to the other gentlemen we named yesterday—Messrs. Agnew, Royal Phelps, | Kane and Brady. Here are five names, all of them, as every citizen of New York knows, entirely unobjectionable. Mr. Kelly cannot bring a charge against any one of them, ex- cept that he would not be ‘‘my candidate.” They would not be Mr. Kelly's tools, his obedient servants, that is very true, and to us and to the people of New York it is one of their real merits. We are heartily tired of hearing Mr. Kelly, | like the late Andrew Johnson, con- | stantly talking about ‘‘my policy,” ‘my candidate,” “my will.” We repeat that we do not doubt that Mr. Kelly would like to see us all prosperous and happy ; but he has an idea that we ought to be happy only under “my policy” and ‘‘my rule.” This dictatorial notion is all very fine for Mr. Kelly ; but the people of New York are tired of it. They -see very plainly that ‘‘my can- didate” will necessarily be a smaller man than his master, and we do not want o smaller man that Mr. Kelly in the Mayor's chair of the big city of New York. We ask Mr. Kelly once more to consider the situation. He is a democrat, and he must see, what we have already pointed out to him, that if he insists on ‘‘my way” and “my candidate” he may prolong a discord which will hazard and may defeat his Presidential candidate, Governor Tilden, ‘The Henarp’s interest lies in having a good Mayor. The city is overwhelmingly demo- cratic ; the Mayor will be a democrat ; what we ask of Mr. Kelly is to give up ‘‘my can- didate” for once and+allow us to have a strong, capable, independent man for Mayor. We point out to him, good na- turedly, that if he is obstinate, if he rejects wise counsel, if he insists on ‘‘my candi- date,” his obstinacy may not merely defeat him, but may even bring general disgster upon his party. Certainly he ought not to desire that. He has, no doubt, what most men would call exaggerated notions of his own importance; but if he will reflect he must see that for the sake of “my policy” he would not be wise to engulf his whole party in defeat. John Morrissey—Honest John—sees this at once. He openly and frankly declares that he does not mean to stand in the way of harmony. He does not seek his own way at the expense of every other interest. Mr. O'Brien is probably as sensible as Honest John Morrissey. There is no hitch. Noth- ing now stands in the way of the harmony necessary here, and of our having a compe- tent Mayor, except Mr. Kelly, who, it seems, still harps upon ‘my policy” and “my candidate,” and sulks because people would like for once to be relieved of his guidance. Is not the situation a little ridicu- lous?—for Mr. Kelly, we ‘mean. Why must wo always humbly and obediently fol- low his commands? Why is the first demand in our city politics always to do Mr, Kelly's will—to keep Mr. Kelly quiet? He reminds us of a famous story of Mr. Lincoln apropos of just such an obstinate person as Mr. Kelly. Mr, Lincoln heard a dispute between Robert, his oldest son, and ‘‘Tad,” a small boy, very self-willed, like Mr. Kelly, “What is the matter?” said the father. ‘Taal is worrying because I want my knife,” said Robert. ‘Oh, let him have the knife, to keep him quiet,” said good Mr. Lincoln ; but the practical Robert replied, ‘No, sir; it’s my knife, and Ineed it, to keep me quiet.” We recommend the story to Mr. Kelly. New York is not his property. It belongs to the mass of citizens; to the taxpayers and resi- dents. He has had it now for some time to keep him quict ; but it is ours and we need it now to keep us quiet. We respectfully call Mr. Kelly's attention to another example, to the case of one of his most illustrious predécessors in the dicta- torship of New York—a politician as able, at least, and also as self-willed as Mr. Kelly—the Hon. Fernando Wood. He ruled New York for ten years like an emperor; he did what Mr. Kelly does not dare do, for he nominated himself for Mayor. ‘The city, that is I,” he said, paraphrasing a French King’s remark. When he spoke of “my candidate” he did not mean Mr. Schell or Mr. Wickham; he meant himself. Well, weask Mr. Kelly to consider calmly Mr. Wood’s fate. He had his own way for a’ while, but he was long since driven out of tho city dictatorship and forced to take his pleasures in the less im- portant arena of federal politics. He wanted to rule just as much as Mr. Kelly, and we do not mean to be offensive when we say that he was astronger man than Mr. Kelly. But the city got tired even of him. It does not mean to be carried around in anybody's breeches pocket. Mr. Wood un- dertook, in a milder, and we must say in an abler way than Mr. Kelly’s, to regulate our affairs; to wind us up and set us going, and regulate us, and in general make us keep time like the City Hall clock; but it would not do; it could not last; and poor Mr. Wood has been these many years a weary wanderer in a somewhat sterile desert. He has gone abroad, so to speak; and we find Mr. Kelly now talking as Mr. Wood used to, of ‘my candidate” and ‘my policy.” If he would only say “we,” and “our,” as the crowned | heads of Europe are modest enongh to do, we might get on a little longer; but Mr. Kelly really regards the city os his own preserve; ho acts as though he paid all the | taxes. We wish he did. We have offered Mr. Kelly his choice of four names; one of our contemporaries adds another, which we heartily accept. Honest | John Morrissey offers to put fifteen or twenty | names in a hat, and let Mr. Kelly choose. Will he reject this offer? Does he really | mean to “rule or ruin ?”’ Can he not for once give up? Will he not see that he cannot justly expect not only the city bnt the whole country to subject itself to him? Can he not take to heart the lesson he was taught by the people in Recorder Hackott's case last year? After all, Mr. Kelly's obstinacy may turn out to be one of those ‘‘blessings in disguise” , should certainly not If he will only stick to ‘‘my policy” and ‘my | Russia’s Demands and Turkey's Prem | that the people shall choose their own candidate” long enough he may be the means of conferring a very great blessing on the city, for he may rid us not only of Mr. Kelly, but of Tammany, and all other like attempts to rule and use the city in the in- terest of a secret political organization. We agree with Mr. Morrissey that Tammany ‘ought to be broken up;” that the democratic voters ought to organize in Assembly districts, and “act independently of any particular Hall, so that they can always retain control over their own organi- zation.” Those are sound words of Honest John’s, Tammany has been a powerful secret organization; but what has it done for the city? It is Mr. Kelly’s tool, and he uses it as well as he knows how, but as his own property in every way. He uses it as a club with which to threaten us all. “Take my candidate,” he virtually says, “or I'll turn Tammany against you;” just as ® policeman might say to a disorderly crowd, “Get out of the way, or I'll turn the hose of a steam fire engine on you.” He may be able to swing Tammany over our heads; indeed, he has done it for a while. But if he insists too much and too long the people will sweep away him and his Tammany club too. If his obstinacy should be the means of bringing this about the regrets will be very few. Meantime, however, we can see what we have already pointed out to Mr. Kelly, that he would, in his party’s and Governor Tilden’s interest, do well to take another occasion than this of a Presidential election to ruin himself and Tammany. Just now he ought to surrender, to accept the good advice offered him, and to unite with his fellow leaders in harmonious action in the city, Our interest is to have a capa- ble Mayor. Mr. Kelly's interest is greater than this, and he ought to know it, Italian Opera. The musical public is indebted to Mr. Max Strakosch for giving the present season of Italian opera. Without him it would have had nothing. It was his good fortune to have in the country Mlle. de Belocca and Mme. Palmieri. With these singers Italian opera is possible. The result is a pleasant week of unequal merit, with the operas of ‘Norma,” ‘Semiramide,” “La Favorita,” and ‘Il Trovatore.” With a few wellsung minor parts excepted, these operas have been imperfectly rendered, and to enjoy a fine solo or duet by Belocca and Palmieri and Conly the listening ear must endure the discordance of the quartet or the agony of a Bulgarian orchestra which is massacred by the bashi- bazouks of the stage. While we ought to be glad to hear opera, even where the merit is injured by the fault, like a ripe apple by a spot of decay, what should prevent New York from having first rate opera as a regular institution every year? Maurice Strakosch, who is nowin New York, is one of the first impresarios in the world. Why should not Maurice and Max unite their forces and give New York this season opera in the grand style which sho is always ready to sustain, but which of late she has been denied? New vocalists are wanted to support those we now possess. With these the company would be well organized, and any opera, even “‘L’Africaine”or ‘‘Les Hu- guenots” or ‘‘Aida,” could be produced with complete effect. Without such support the performances of Belocca and Palmieri are really operatic concerts, with a few brilliant pieces finely rendered and the remainder of the opera cut away for want of a company to do it justice. With a fine company it might be also necessary to render music newer than time-honored ‘‘Norma” and ‘‘La Fa- vorita,” which, to say it with all deference to great names, are threadbare. It is thought in some quarters that the stockholders of the Academy are to blame for our having an accidental rather than a permanent opera, and in other quarters that the managers are at fault. There is fault on one side or the other. The stockholders be an _ obstruc- tion. It would be much better that the Academy should be used this win- ter, even at reduced rent, than that it should be empty, for the ‘penny wise” the- ory is always preferable to the ‘pound fool- ish,” The success of this season of Max Strakosch, with a company hastily collected and palpably inadequate to the production of great operas, proves what would be the reception of a troupe of great artists, and we earnestly urge that Maurice and Max Stra- kosch and the stockholders of the Academy should have a conference and endeavor to give us a company of first class singers and complete operas. Seasonable Poisonings. To borrow the style of the »lmanacs of the last generation we might say, “About this time look out for deaths caused by eat- ing mushrooms.” There is acrop of these casualties every year, and they may be put down in the category of regularly recurring events. Itisavery dangerous indulgence to eat mushrooms gathered in the fields; so dangerous that it may well be doubted whether the gratification of the palate is worth the peril. There are several hundred varieties of mushrooms. Some few of these are edible, but by far the larger number are poisonous, and these are classed together under the com- mon name of toadstools. There are plenty of people everywhere who believe they know the difference between toadstools or poisonous mushrooms and edible mush- rooms ; but those who have made a thorough study of these fungi declare that none of the common and popular tests are to be de- pended upon, and that there is no general test that is absolutely certain. They even hold that mushrooms of an edible variety may be germinated in conditions which will render them poisonous. Mushrooms raised in the beds of a cultivator from the spawn of mushrooms known to be edible are the | only ones that it is entirely safe to eat, Tur Retirement or Woxcort, the green- back candidate for Governor of Indiana, from the canvass is likely to result in send- ing beck the independent voters of both | parties to their respective organizations. The democrats and republicans will thus be evenly matched, and the result will be the more significant as regards the Presi- whose value is not soen until after the event, | dential contest, ises. The report that six hundred mounted Cossacks have passed through Kladowa is of great importance, if trae. These Cossacks, it will be noted, do not appear to be volun- teers on their way to join the Servians, as the Servians would hardly be so impolitic as to officially chronicle their movement in that case. If they are, as seems to be indicated, soldiers in the Russian service, their pres- ence in Bulgaria means that Russia is actu- ally a belligerent. Russia’s ultimatum seems to be that Turkey shall grant a six months’ armistice, and if this requirement is supported by the presence of Russian soldiers in Bulgaria the Eastern problem has entered upon a new phase. As Prussia has declared her purpose to remain neutral the real point of further negotiation will be what does Russia demand as its condition of permanent peace? Her demands are already known. Russia's propositions for the pacification of the Turkish provinces start from the as- sumption that it is hopeless to depend upon the Ottoman Power forany reform in the government of that country, or for any amelioration whatever in the condition of ithe people. In fact, they recognize that the one irremediable evil—the one evil that is the source of all others—is the presence of the Ottoman authorities. They assume that a guarantee for the better government of the district is an indispensable necessity for the tranquillity of Europe; and as this guarantee cannot be looked for from Turkey it is the duty of the interested courts to con- sider how it shall be furnished and what shall be its nature, and Russia, therefore, suggests a conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs for this purpose. In other words, Russia proposes negotiations on the basis of the exclusion of Turkey from the Slavic provinces of the Ottoman Empire. By this proposition Russia places her diplomacy abreast with the common opinion of Europe on this subject. There is not a Cabinet in which it is not known, which has not the evidence of the fact, that it would be amere piece of cruel irony to once more surrender the people of the Uhristian ‘provinces to Turkish rule. Europe has formerly negoti- ated treaties and settlements over and over again, binding Turkey to an impartial ad- ministration of the countries on the north- ern slope of the Balkan. Not one measure required of her has ever been put in force in that country, and the Eng- lish Parliamentary papers are crowded with the evidence that Turkey not only will not, but that she cannot, enforce reform. If the three or four neighbors of an old gen- tleman of ninety, into whose hinges the rheumatism has made its inevitable way, should provide by protocol that the old gen- tleman must dance a hornpipe with the sup- pleness and vigor of s youth of eighteen, the protocol must prove waste paper from the very nature of the case; and every treaty that requie@s reform and the good government of Christian peoples by Otto- man authorities must prove a dead letjer for reasons equally good. This fact is thor- oughly well known in London. The Parliamentary papers—‘“Turkey:”: Nos. 2, 3 and 4, 1876—give abundant and even overwhelming demonstration of it. Every government that keeps itself informed through its consular or diplomatic agents of the condition of Turkey is also well aware of this fact. Yet the diplomacy of England and of Austria, and apparently of France, still maunders of the possibility of settling the Slavic provinces on a basis of reforms to be required of the Ottoman Power. All con- sent, in fact, to hand over millions of Christian people to savage rule in order to avoid a possible evil ina change of the bal- ance of power between some great States. But Russia alone takes her position on the facts, and proposes the honest policy of ne- gotiation on the basis of the amputation of these vital parts from the Moslem corpse, That she has touched the true point of/ the case is to be seon in the first word we hear from Constantinople. Turkey “promises reforms that will make autonomy unneces- sary,” in Turkey's opinion. Of course she does. She always did, and why should she change now? She has ‘‘promised reforms” once in ten years for the past century; but she bas never practised any one of the prom- ised reforms. This is a subject on which she has lost the right to be trusted, and we do not believe Europe will trust her again, It was part of the Russian proposition that Constantinople should be watched by the fleets of two Powers. In the London Times it is said that the fleets of England and France were intended; and in this con- nection a commentary is made on the whole proposition that is characteristic. The Times says that the English fleet is on the spot and is sufficient, and therefore the fleet of France is unnecessary ; that the English fleet ‘‘in- tends to remain there until the storm clouds blow away from the most covéted naval sta- tion in the world.” But Russia, if she occu- pies Bulgaria, for just as good reason as that for which the British fleet watches Con- stantinople, will lay herself open to the “darkest suspicions.” England rather boasts her anxiety about Constantinople ; yet Russia's anxiety about Bulgaria is almost acrime. This is a bad case of seeing beams in other people's eyes. But the Sick Man must feel greatly worse when he sees the vultures thus gather about him and dis- pute foradvantageous positions. France has declined to send her fleet on this service. John Kelly’s Mayors. One of tho things that the people will in- sist upon having this year is a Mayor of their own. They are tired of the ‘my can- didate” kind. They do not want and will not have one of John Kelly's Mayors. There- fore that calm and generous patriot, when he contemplates his treasures, when he opens the little closet in which he keeps his beautiful candidates, to reflect which one of them he will give to the city next year, may as well cease to trouble his brains about it. He may lock up his little closet, put the key on the upper shelf and wait for another year, His candidates are beantiful, no doubt—as well those that are made of painted clay as those that are only of dried putty; but the insuperable objection is that they are his candidates and not the people's candidates, rulers, and sometimes they are bad rulers. The principle of government by demagoguery is that some fat-witted leader shall, in the name of the people, choose nominal rulers, and sometimes they are bad ones. But though a bad system has accidentally good results sometimes, and a good system bad results, the good system is the law of the land, and this year the people mean to en- force it. So John Kelly may stand aside. “Forbidden Fruit” at Wallack’s. The theatre which from old associations is most endeared to our playgoers has opened its season brilliantly with a little piece which, while it departs somewhat from the usual style of entertainment at that house, is so amusing that it thoroughly justifies the choice of the management. ‘Forbidden Fruit” is, of course, inspired by ‘Lo Procés Veauradieux,” which is now being in one shape or another played at so many theatres; but it owes much of its success to the novel and ingenious treatment of Mr. Boucicault. “From end to end it “goes” with the wit, spirit and fun of a farce in the Palais Royal, and roars of laughter reward the efforts of a corps of actors and actresses who are all admirably suited. Mr. Bouci- cault’s marvellous knowledge of stage effect has never been more humorously exhibited than in the extraordinary complications which await the actors in this piece, who propose to make a night of it at Cremorne. At a period when so many are feeling the stringency of hard times a bright trifle like “Forbidden Fruit” will do no little gocd in dispelling the shadows of care. It may not be weighted with moral lessons, but it is full of generally harmless fun, and cannot be witnessed without enjoyment. When a piece can be heartily laughed over there should be a great deal forgiven to the author. Peo- ple complain of Boucicault’s plagiarism as the politicians did to Abraham Lincoln of General Grant's exalted appreciation of whis- key. It isa plagiarism that wins triumphs on the stage just as General Grant won bat- tles on his whiskey during the war. If it is only the right kind of plagiarism or the right kind of whiskey all is well. This brings us to a paradox, for Boucicault with all his insistance on the right to plagiarize, has found another author's work for once to be ‘Forbidden Fruit.” Mr. Green’s Nomination, Comptroller Green is a model publio ser- vant. He never balks or hesitates. He is always ready to, serve, and to serve any- where. If the people want him he is at hand, ready to do his best for them in any office which they, or any of them, want to give him. Nothing but the loss of his health will ever deprive the city of New York of Mr. Green’s invaluable services. We have this in his own consolatory words to the delegation of contractors who on Wednesday waited upon him to offer him their support for the Mayoralty. By the way, this notion of the body of con- tractors for city work nominating Mr. Green— is it not o little funny? Mr. Peter Cooper's nomination was thought a joke. It remains the joke of the Presidential campaign, ex- cept, -perhaps, to the Western politicians, who see with vexation that though Mr. Cooper has not the least chance of being elected he demoralizes the forces of both parties. In plain language, he cannot make @ spoon but he may spoil ‘either of two horns. We do not mean to say that Mr. Green's candidature would be like that of Mr. Cooper. Mr. Green could at least count on the support of the contractors; and they are influential people. It occurs to us that as Mr. Green is willing to be Mayor, and as he seems to have ideas on the subject of the improvement of the city, on which, to our regret, he only gen- eralized in his address to the contractors, he might do well to put them in shape, and let the people of New York see them, There is acurious and somewhat stale formality of “letters of acceptance” by Presidential can- didates, written after everybody knows they are going to accept, and when their plat- forms have already,been prescribed for them. Why could not Mr. Green, by a daring in- novation, write and publish a letter of ac- ceptance before he is nominated? The idea strikes us as excellent. It would attract public attention as a novelty; and in such a preliminary and provisional letter of accept- ance—provisional only because if he were not nominated it would of course not bind him to anything—he might lay out a pro- gramme of city improvement for the public information. We should very much like to see such a document. It might be indexed “Proposals for assuming the Mayoralty of New York.” Candidates and the Civil Service. The Boston Civil Servico Reform Club is making life a burden to the Congressional candidates of both parties in Massachusetts, by asking them whether they will pledge themselves that if elected they will set up no claims for petty offices, but support o thorough reform of the federal civil service. In Illinois three candidates for Congress, two of them republicans and one democrat, we believe, have openly pledged themselves to abstain from seeking offices of the Execu- tive and to help on re‘orm of the civil ser- vice in every way. Why will not the friends of this policy, of both parties, form a society here in New York, which could then properly and publicly question every Congressional candidate throughout the State on the subject? It is very easy to do this, and it seems to us one of the most di- rect and practical ways of helping on a re- form which is more needed than any other, not only in the federal but in the State and city governments. One or two Western can-_ didates have ‘been asked this question:— “Will yon, if elected, confine yourself to giving information or advice to the Execu- tive, when asked, and for the rest mind your own business, leaving the President and departments to attend to theirs ?” This is » somewhat crude way of putting the matter. The friends of civil service reform in this State can easily improve upon it. We advise them to do so. A Batre between the Turks and the Ser- vians is reported to be imminent. If ‘it is fought and should prove to be in any way decisive, the crisis in the Eastern question 1 The principle of democratic government is | will be inevitable. Mr. MeCulloch’s Piam for Resum: Specie Payments. Hon. Hugh McCulloch's general views on questions of finance and currency have always been so sound that we feel some hesi- tation in disagreeing with any of his views, but we are quite unable to indorse the plan of resumption which he advocated in hig address:to the Bankers’ Convention at Phila- delphia, He thinks that Congress, at its next session, should pass an act declaring that on January 1, 1879, United States notes shall cease to be a legal tender, and author. izing the Secretary of the Treasury to re- ceive them at once in exchange for four per cent gold bonds. The funding of a portion of them in bonds of long date would, no doubt, be a wise measure, which would cer- tainly bring them, and with them the bank note circulation, to par. But the repeal of the Legal Tender act, instead of being the first step, ought to be the very last. It is not possible, without causing a great shock and disturbance, to accumulate in this country an adequate stock of gold in so short a period as two years. It is indis- pensable to have some medium of payment by which debts can be legally discharged, and in all domestic transactions greenbacks would be as good as gold for that purpose if they could be maintained steadily at par. In England, which has the soundest cure rency of any nation in the world, Bank of England notes are a legal tender in all ordi- nary transactions, With the exception of the bank itself in the redemption of its own notes, every debtor can tender them in pay- ment and discharge his obligations as com- pletely as if he offered gold. The advantage of this system is a great economy in the use of coined money. There is but one gold ree serve in all England, and our currency might be made perfectly sound with but one gold reserve in this country. The Legal Tender act might be continued in force without detriment to business if the United States notes were redeemable in gold at the Sub- Treasury in this city. Redemption at one place would keep them securely at par, and a separate gold reserve in each bank might be dispensed with until the general stock of gold in the country should become suffi- cient. We could safely resume specie pay- ments five years earlier without than with arepeal of the Legal Tender act, because the legal tender notes at par would answer every purpose of golditself in the great mass of domestic transactions, as Bank of England notes do in Great Britain. If we had a sufficient supply of gold in the coun- try, or could acquire it in the ensuing two years without provoking all the money mar- kets of the world to obstruct and thwart us, the repeal of the Legal Tender act might be safely taken as a first step ; butas we neither have it nor can economically acquire it in so short a period, the repeal of the Legal Tene der act would convulse the business of the country. The true course is to bring the greenbacks to par by a gradual process of funding and preserve their legal tender character while we are cautiously accumu- lating a sufficient stock of gold to enable us to dispense with them altogether. Excianp seems to be taking a firm stand: in regard to the Bulgarian atrocities, Sir Henry Elliot, the British Ambassador, has been instructed to demand a personal audi- ence with the Sultan to present Mr. Baring’s report and ask for reparation to the Bulgari. ans who have suffered such fearful outrages at the hands of the Turks. If the English government continues to hold this attitude and requires something more than promises we may expect barbarities to be less frequent in the Turkish provinces in the future than they have been in the past. Aw Apprttonat List of awards at the Cene tennial Exhibition is published in the Henatp this morning. The manner in which the medals are scattered over the world makes their possession of comparatively lit- tle value, and theirabundance cannot fail to be long remembered with a smile of derision at their worthlessness. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, They now call him Gray Jeans Williams. Bob Ingersoll is tho Tofn Nast of oratory, An Englishman is travelling by bicycle trom Cologay to Vienna, Michigan, an infation Stato, is making great quan. tittes of dried apples. Mr. William Beach Lat the Now York Hovel. M. do Geotroy, French Minister to Japan, is at the Brevoort House, on bis way to Europe. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, of California, jhae swung back into the republican party. One of the elegant, short autumn tramps is from Turners, N. Y., to Newburg or Cornwallon the Hud. son. . A Richmond young lady of groat wealth is to marry a man who servod in the Penitentiary nine yoars for robbery. Mr. Amos T. Akerman, of Goorgia, formerly United States Attorney General, yosterday arrived at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mrs, Swisshelm says that the German does not {l!u- minate by hanging lanterns promiscuously in trees, but that everything is in hanes, Norristown Heraid:—‘'The Review says thero is a potato on exhibition at a Reading cigar storo that beags a striking ‘resemblance to a human being. It Woks like a listle ‘Murphy,’ we presume.” The Duchess of Edinburgh, who is now staying with the Duke at the beautiful summer residence of the Czar in the Crimea, will leave Livadia, as soon as tl cold weather sets in, for Maita, where sho will pass the winter. Lawn-tennis has become quite @ passion in Ireland; there is scarcely a town or village that has not a spot devoted to that healthy outdoor’ amusement, A coun- try house without it can scarcely be found. Lawne tennishas completely beat crickot out of the fleld, Norristown Merald:—"Doadwood City, Black Hills, has one editor and twenty saloons, After the editor has visited ail the saloons to glean the news, hig pa per is so Intoxicated that it doesn’t come out, and the Deaawooders don’t miss it until they want paper tor gun wadding.” A South Carolina lady of former aristocravy writes that she had almost no meat duria, summer, but that Senator Cain, a mulatto segistator, with a salary of $000, drives a seven-vundred-dollar horse, owns a handsome town house and two plantations, and took his wife to the Centennial, Sacramento Aecord:—"There are not more than three or four brands of Calvornia wine deserving of any serious consideration at present. Whatever the cause, it is certain that our grapes produce very erude and heavy and earthy flavors, as unlike the light wines of Southern France a8 shark meat is unlike halibut.” General Fadereil, a Russian, is of opinion that Germany will not willingly expose ner flank to Russie when sho could protect it by raising up a Polish Stave betweon herself and her graat enemy on the north and east, It would suit Germany marvelously, morcover, to have an Independent Poland, which, 1n its move nt toward the east, tt might colonize with ite super uous population, ence, of Rhode Island, is at a _ a

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