The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1876, Page 6

“will be enabled to suppress revolts of dis- _ not be exposed to any danger of Servian at- | Bot stopped, will be at least postponed till — established on a vermanent NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every in the Four cents isd copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Letters and es should be proper!. Bsc packag P y Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. 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 a6 in New York. TOLUME XL! AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT. THEATRE. M. Oliver Doud Byrom, BOWERY. DONALD McKAY, a8 BUM. 1. Matinee at2 P.M. THEATRE. PARK THEATRE. CLOUDS, at 8 P. M. THIRD AVEN VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TONY, PASTOR'S THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. NM. PARISIAN VARIETIES, atsP. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ats P.M. KELLY & LEONS MINSTRE ater. ™. aA CHATEAU MABILLE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY AND DRAMA, at 7:15 P. M. AMERICAN INSTITUTR. axnvaL Fart ™™ MURRAY'S CIRCUS. Afternoon and evening. GILMORE’ DEN. BARNUMS CIRCUS AND THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matin: NEW YORK AQUARIUM. Open from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. TRIPLE From our reports this mornii Diliti are that the soto to-day aT rae steed generally clear, with heavy frosts. Waxt Srazer Yesterpar.—The stock mar- ket showed a decrense in the recorded trans- actions of the day and a somewhat lower tendency in prices. Gold opened at 108 7-8 and closed at 109. Railway mortgages were mrm and government bonds steady at the recent decline. Money on call was supplied ec 2 1-2 and 2 per cent. ‘tux Exectioxs.—The returns from Ohio and Indiana substantiate our opinion of yesterday. Ohio has certainly gone republi- can, and the majority for the State ticket is said to be about eight thousand, Barnes running about two thousand behind. The republicans have carried twelve Con- gressional districts, the democrats seven, with one district in doubt. In Indiana, although the despatches are incomplete, there is little doubt of a democratic ma- jority, though the republicans gain three Congressmen. The democratic majority in West Virginia will probably be five or six thousand. Rerveus rrom THs West—Repeaters and detectives. New Yorx’s Wercome to Woopwanp—In Italian opera style—‘‘Come to my arms, my slight acquaintance.” Iv Hannisom should really be elected Gov- ernor of Indiana the democratic candidate would be ‘‘Blue” Jeans Williams indeed. Tax Trrroxt Stave Casz.—An explanation of the difficulty which the United States Consul at Tripoli had with the Pacha is given in a despatch from Malta to-day, and Mr. Vidal appears to have been justified in the course he took. The arrest of the fugi- tive slave, who was in the Consul’s employ, was irregular, and the demand upon the Pacha for his release was clearly a duty. Inmacrrany Ovrraces.—Governor Chamber- lain diligently grinds the South Carolina outrage mill and has just reported that three hundred ‘‘men in buckram” recently broke ppen a building where arms were kept and garried them away. It was so dark that nobody saw them, but the Governor is sure they were white men and rebels. A story of this kind needs confirmation. The absence of any details is onough to make it suspected, Tux Democratic Conventioxs.—Another effort was made last evening to settle the differences of Tammany and anti-Tammany. The two wings of the New York democracy met in separate conventions, appointed con- ference committees, and finally agreed that the consultation upon making a joint county ticket shonld take place to-day at three o'clock, and that the conventions should re- assemble on Saturday to hear the reports, Mr. Kelly, in his address, insisted upon the importance of s good ticket. Now let us see what he will do to obtain it. Tas Eastern Questiox.—Both Turkey and Servia seem disposed to accept an ar- mistice of six months, but the Porte stipu- lates that the Powers shall guarantee that it sppointed Mohammedans, and that it shall tacks this winter. ‘These are reasonable de mands, and will, no doubt, be complied with, Bervia is also willing to suspend hostilities, ‘nd the probability that the war, even if appears greater. During the (ruce Election Reflections. Well, Ohio and Indiana have voted, and the result is not decisive ; the majorities are so small that even if both States shall prove to have gone the same way neither the de- feated nor the victorious party will feel the result as final, or even as having an im- portant bearing upon the November elec- tions. As there will be a lull in electioneer- ing fora few days before the political gale sets injin the East, and, indeed, all over the country, we take this occasion to offer to the leaders of both parties a few serious words of advice. The situation is thus:—Both parties have put forth their utmost efforts, each choosing the line of argument and appeal which its leaders thought the most likely to affect and convince voters, Both chose false issues and avoided the true and real issues of the day—those which are in the minds of the sober and intelligent voters. Each dealt largely and almost exclusively in abuse of the other side; in forebodings of ruin to liberty and disaster to our institutions if the other should win. Both sides brought to bear the trickery of political campaigns, and neither chose to make its appeal upon any broad or statesmanlike ground. The inconclusive result should be gratifying to every American citizen who would like to see an election decided on principles, and not on false issues and by tricky devices and appeals to ignorance and prejudice. And the zesult is inconclusive, and will be so, even if the republicans carry both States by such insignificant majorities as the results make certain. But the moral to both sides is plain enough. The republicans founded their appeal on what is popularly called the ‘bloody shirt.” With the exception of Mr. Schurz and Mr. J. D. Cox we remember no prom- inent speaker in either Ohio or Indiana who brought into prominence those Peforms which the country needs, Civil service, currency, economy, respectability, all went by the board, and press and speakers urged only and continually the danger of a “united South,” the danger of rebel war claims, and attempted to arouse the old war fever, the feelings of bitterness, hostility and suspicion toward the Southern whites. Now, of course, this was done deliberately. It was no chance work. In July there was still reason to hope and even to believe that the “bloody shirt” would not appear in this campaign. Sud- denly and simultaneously it was raised in both States by all the republicans, without cause and without any reason except one—that they believed that, on the whole, this was their strongest card. The field of argument lay open to them to choose. ‘They could have planted them- selves on civil service reform, on currency reform, on general good will and confidence, but they preferred an appeal to dying and dangerous passions that seemed to them their surest, and, we must believe, their only way to success. Well, it has failed them. Substantially their campaign with the ‘bloody shirt” iso defeat. It was a desperate enterprise, set on foot by the anti-reform wing of the party, which assumed command and had its own sweet will in the campaign. It was the plan of battle of the Chandlers, Mortons, Logans, the ‘‘war horses” of the republican side; and the subordinate leaders, not even excepting poor Mr. Schurz at the last, fell obediently into line and fought it out, and substantially got beaten. Undoubtedly they deserved it; but will it teach the republican party nolesson? Will not Governor Hayes and those leaders of his party who desire re- form now see that the old appeal to the “bloody shirt,” to prejudice, hatred and un- reason is a failure, and that it is high time for them to oust the false leaders, to return to the true issues and question and make their struggle for November upon these? ‘Two courses are now open to the republi- cans. They may goon as they have begun, or'they may at once and finally cast off the “bloody shirt” and base their appeal to the people on distinct pledges of reform and good government. If they have the courage to do the last they have still a hope of success ; for there is no doubt that while there is a universal demand for “ change” a considerable part of the voters would prefer this ‘‘change” to come about under republican - federal rule. If the re- form wing of the party should now come forward and take possession of the party ma- chinery, vigorously and decisively inspire its councils and efforts, and shake off the Southern demagogues like Kellogg, Packard, Spencer and Chamberlain; if they should proclaim good will and cut loose from the authors and supporters of notorious abuses at Washington and in the South, then they have still a chance of success. But if, on the other hand, as seems much more likely, the party goes on as it has begun, then it seems to us its fato is sealed. It will be compelled in that case to encourage still more its basest elements everywhere, and to proceed to extreme measures in the South in support of the rotten republican leaders there. We may expect to sce the President ordering troops into South Carolina, Louis- iana and Mississippi, to back notoriously corrupt crowd of political gamblers. This cannot now be done without arousing throughout the North a storm of alarm and indignation which will sweep the repub- lican leaders into a deserved oblivion. If the party openly puts itself on the side of corruption and maladministration, North and South, and misuses the federal power | to maintain its rotten adherents in power, then it will deserve to perish. As to the democrats, they too have acted insincerely and raised false issues in Ohio and Indiana. Indeed, the nomination of Mr. Hendricks to the second place on the ticket was in itself an act of insincerity, a submission, scandalous and disappointing, to the worst elements of the party. If it shall prove that they have lost Indiana this will serve them right. They nominated there for Governor an ignorant demagogue, whose appeal was made on his poor clothes and rude manners, and that blunder ought to lose the State to them. But this result is fot without a vital advantage to the party. The defeat of poor ‘Blue Jeans” is the defeat of the viler elements of the party. It makes for the predominance of good sense and sound councils in it, It is a victory for d for. those who. in tha democratic party, favor a sound currency and reform of existing abuses. Ifthe dem- ocrats had earried Ohio and Indiana, or even Indiana alone, by a large majority, all the political heresies which are repre- sented by ‘Blue Jeans” and Governor Hen- dricks would have got new life and energy, ond might have claimed a dangerous ascen- dancy in the party. Now they are beaten; and if the democratic leaders are wise, if they have courage and statesmanship, they will make their appeal boldly, every- where, for sound money, for reform of the civil service, for law and order and for peace and good will. The problem of the democrats is to secure the confidence ot the better part of the nation, of the thoughtful voters. It can do this only by the frankest and most decisive committal of its leaders to all the reforms which are needed, and by persuading the country that ignorance and _ lawlessness will have no opportunity in a demo- cratic victory. ‘This cannot be done by appeals to false issues, by political coward- ice or evasion, or by a campaign of abuse of the other side. If the democrats mean to win they have now an opportunity; but they must put their statesmen to the front and speak out. Fortunately for them the brunt of their canvass falls in New York and other Eastern States, where sound prin- ciples prevail and can get a hearing. This seems to us a fair view of the politi- cal situation. The balance of advantage is on the side of the democrats ; but only on the condition that they show wisdom, cour- age and moderation in their canvass, and that they can in one practical detail har- monize their differences here in New York. If Mr. Kelly, as chief of Tammany Hall, is to be allowed his way in the local government of New York, if he does not see the wisdom of giving up ‘my candidate” and ‘my policy,” he may yet endanger a demo- cratic success. If Governor Tilden is wise he will induce Mr. Kelly to surrender his absurd aspirations to dictate in our city poli- tics. Mr. Kelly ought himself to see that this is no time for him to set ‘‘my candi- date” and ‘my policy” before the good of his party. Even if he were a greater man than he is the situation would demand that he should resign his unfounded pretensions and submit himself to the general will for the success of his party. The Theatrical Season and the The- atres. With the cool autumn nights already here and the city thronged with strangers the theatres are naturally in the full whirl of ac- tivity and success. Thero are more places of theatrical entertainment in this city, in proportion to population, than in any other great city, and we yield only to Paris itself in the beauty and style of our theatres, in the general finish of our performances and especially in the fertility of our stage in the production of good actors and actresses. It is not a new fact for the American stage to produce admirable actors. At the pres- ent moment the greatest exponents of the leading lines of dramatic art in the English speaking world are Americans. England can match neither Booth nor Jefferson. These are the choice products of our stage, and certainly any stage may be called rich which possesses at the same time a tragic actor and a comic actor both of whom are really great. But though we may run over a rare list of names that have given brilliancy to the an- nals of the theatre in its comparatively short history in this country, it isa new fact for us to supply our stage regularly with a fair run of average actors. These formerly nearly all came to us from the provincial stage of England. The change is even more remarkable in regard to the women than the® men of our dramatic companies. That prejudice which resolutely closed the theatre to women as the possible source of a legitimate income has in a great degree lost its hold on the common mind, and our coun- trywomen, with beauty, tact and fine per- ceptions—the essential elements of success on the stage—bid fair to shut out of our theatres the crowd of competitors from beyond the water. _ At the present moment our stage is peculiarly rich in the possession of actors and actresses of a high order of talent. Many of those now before the pub- lic here in our regular companies would be regarded as ‘‘stars” in London. Such actresses as Rose Eytinge, Ada Dyas, Mme. Ponisi, Effie Germon, Kate Claxton, Mrs. Florence, Amy Fawsitt and Fanny Daven- port, and such actors as Lester Wallack, Harry Beckett, Florence, Montague, Gil- bert, Fisher, Lewis, Bangs, Brougham and Davidge sre possessions that any capital might envy us. Another new fact in the history of our theatfes is to be noted in regard to plays. The number of plays on American subjects that keep the stage is always small, and if we leave out plays that are only a year old, and do not go so far into the past as “Metamora,” we may fairly say that the “American Cousin” and “Rip Van Winkle” cover tho list. But the very recent chronicle indicates some attempt at improvement on this point. “The Gilded Age,” ‘I'he Mighty Dollar,” the “‘'wo Men of Sandy Bar,” are at least evidences that the notion lingers in the theatre that one of the functions of dramatic art is to ‘catch the manners living as they rise.” At least one of these plays is a practical success, and that is a good proportion. If none of them are altogether symmetrical structures or substantial additions to literature, we must remember that it is hardly fair in the conditions of our stage to expect what appears in London but rarely, even with all the inducements the stage holds out there to a numerous class that lives by literature; for London is now in the enjoyment of the same adapta- tion from the French that occupies’ two companies here, and, like us, it regularly preys upon the Paris drama. Viewed with regard to companies or plays, there seems to be a tendency in the theatre worthy of all encouragement for the reflection of the thought and life of our own people. None of our theatres will ever neglect the good things of the foreign stage, and we hope to be abundantly amused by the plays of Paris in the future as we have been in the past ; but 8 little lécal tint now and then will give the panorama a more definite and lively in- torent, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1876.—TRIPLE New York City and State—The Chief Danger of the Democratic Party. The elections in Ohio and Indiana make so little change in the political prospect in other States and leave the general re- sult in November so uncertain that both parties will make desperate efforts to carry the few doubtful States on which the Presi- dential election will now turn. Among these States New York holds the first place. Neither party has any reasonable chance of success if it loses the Empire State and its thirty-five electoral votes. The democratic party will be pretty strong in New York if it whould secure a large majority in this city, but otherwise it cannot carry the State, and the loss of this State would be fatal. The Presidential election seems likely to turn on a very small pivot, It will depend on New York State, and the result in the State will, in turn, depend on the vote of this city, which brings it down to a very fine point. That the Presidential elec- tion will now be decided by the electoral votes of New York must be universally conceded, but it may not be quite so clear to all demo- crats that their ability to carry the State de- pends on the vote of the city. A brief ex- amination of the election returns of the last few years will, however, make this suffi- ciently apparent. The democratic party has never, of late years, had a majority in this State outside of the city, except in 1874, which was the exceptional year of the ‘tidal wave.” The whole drift of things shows that this is not such ayear. But even with the great advan- tage.of the surprising tidal wave Mr. Tilden would have had but a lean majority in 1874 apart from the city of New York. In that year his majority in the city was about forty-three thousand, andin the State at large only about seven thousand more. We have no doubt at all that this year the republicans will have a large majority outside of the city, and the only chance of carrying the State for Tilden lies in consolidating and strength- ening the city democracy. Last year the democratic majority in the city was only thirty thousand, and the democratic majority in the State fell to about fourteen thousand from fifty thousand the preceding year. If the stay- at-home republican vote had come to the polls, as it is certain to do this year, the democratic party would have lost the State last year by o large majority. In 1873 the democratic majority in the city was thirty-four thousand and the democrats carried the State by only nine thousand eight hundred, with the aid of a large liberal republican vote, which has now gone back to its old political associations. The butt end, so to speak, of the democratic party in this State is its possible majority in the metropolis, and there is great danger that it will be given away by the stolid self- will and rule-or-ruin obstinacy of the Tam- many Boss. If the democratic party fails to carry New York in November the responsibility for de- feat will be fastened on Mr. John Kelly. His mortifying discomfiture last year-ought to teach Mr. Kelly a lesson. Hackett was taken up by the people and elected by twenty-seven thousand majority against Mr. Kelly’s candidate. Mr. Green may give him a similar humiliation this year if he insists on running ‘‘my candi- date.” Mr. Green has his faults, but as be- tween him and Mr. Kelly’s personal favorite for Mayor we have no doubt that Mr. Green would be elected. Apart from other grounds of preference Mr. Green is not exposed to the suspicion of being a puppet of the Tammany Boss, who would dance as his master pulled the wires. “My candidate” could not escape this sus- Picion, and the people desire a Mayor on whom they can fix the responsibility of his official acts. They are not willing that John Kelly should be the real Mayor of the city with power to dodge all responsibility for the bad measures he would inspire. If Mr. Kelly had had the courage and manliness two years ago to step forward in person and present himself as a candidate for the Mayoralty he might have been elected as easily as his puppet, and by this time he would be a_ played-out politician. The people have coms to understand his game. They are heartily sick of a Mayor behind a mask. They are impatient of a farce which leaves ability to hold only the mask responsible and to turn it out of office in a new election, letting ‘‘Monsieur Ton- son come egain” wearing » new mask. Mr. Green would be the real as well as the osten- sible Mayor of the city. In spite of his im- puted faults of temper the people would prefer him to another of John Kelly’s pup- pets. They loathe the sham of a Mayor who is the tool of a politician behind the scenes. If Mr. Green is elected it will be by a com- bination of all citizens opposed to Tam- many, including the republican party of the city. Such o combination would split and disintegrate the democracy and de- stroy Mr, Tilden’s chances of carry- ing the State in so close an elec- tion os that before us. This great danger can be averted if the city democracy wili pour scorn on the ‘‘my candidate” busi- ness and insist on a nomination for the Mayoralty which deserves and will command the united support of the party. Among several eminent democratic citizens who would meet this requirement Mr. John T. Agnew is one of the most worthy and re- spected. If ‘‘my candidate” is withdrawn and Mr. Agnew nominated we shall not only have an admirable Mayor, but his canvass will strengthen that of Mr, Tilden and in- sure him the vote of the State. Against Mr. Agnew or any regular democrat with equal titles to public confidence Mr. Green would be ‘‘nowhere;” but against ‘‘my candidate” Mr. Green would be elected with a great loss of votes for Mr, Tilden. Tue Yzeiiow Fever 1x tar Sovrn.—Mayor J. F. Nelson, of Brunswick, Ga, and Mr. J. M. Dexter, President of the Relief Association of that city, have addressed a & telegraphic letter to the Henarp, announc- ing that they have received enough money and supplies to meet the wants created by the yellow fever, and thanking those who have contributed tothe fund. We rejoice that the emergency is ended, and are especially pleased that even out of the evil of the epidemic good has been produced. In these exciting times the South has had Recorder | SHEET. ample assurance that while it may suit poli- ticians to wave ‘the bloody shirt” the people of the North do not follow that flaunting banner, but believe in the brother- hood of tho States, and are always ready to answer the call of distress. ~ The Surroga: Office. This is one of the offices that the people have the greatest possible interest in seeing well filled, but as to which they are singu- larly indifferent at the time of election. It is, for instance, extremely doubtful whether one in a hundred of the men to whom it is of consequence that the Surrogate should be a learned lawyer and an upright man ever go near a primary election or attend a nomi- nating convention of either party; yet at these rough gatherings it is determined, and not on election day, what man shall hold this important office, It is, in fact, a gross anomaly in politics that an officer intrusted with such interests as the Surrogate of this county should issue from such a source, and should for his election be compelled to commend himself to the managing elements of Tammany Hall. In the purest possible democratic system it would scarcely be proper that the Surrogate should be chosen as ours is and changed at short terms. To fill this office ideally the lawyers themselves should choose the officer for his learning and high character, and, once chosen, he should hold office for life, or during good behavior. But a Surro- gate who issues from the Tammany prima- ries is soiled at the start, unless his name is one that they are compelled to present by the higher mandate of public opinion. Some such lawyer as John E. Burrill, Charles M. Da Costa, Lewis L. Delafield or Charles E. Miller, some man distinguished for probity and capacity is what is wanted; some man who is not a political lawyer, and who, above all, is not a man that the grog- gery politicians can, by any stretch of fancy, regard as one of themselves. Another “Mule Case.” The notorious “Bristow Mule Case” has dropped out of sight, but the mule seems determined to take a conspicuous part in American politics, Mr. Blaine asserts with great confidence that there are mule claims enough lying dormant in the South to fill up with mules every vacant acre in Virginia and the District of Columbia; but these mules are dormant, soto speak. Mr. Abram Hewitt has acquired seven live, wake- ful, kicking mules, if we may credit a despatch of his published in In- diana. ‘You may buy seven mules,” he telegraphs on election ‘day; and all Indiana is eager to know what the Chair- man of the Democratic National Committee wanted with ‘‘seven mules” just at that mo- ment. What was the sudden pressure for mules which led Mr. Hewitt to so rash an investment? Why did he need just seven and not six, or eight or a hundred? Seven is a sacred number. Does Mr. Hewitt always buy his mules by sevens? or did he do it because he had a dream, and for good luck? This last mule case is a greater puzzle than all its predecessors. There is nothing in the constitution forbidding an American citizen to buy mules or even to buy ‘seven mules.” But we did hope to see the mule completely and finally turned out of Ameri- can politics, and now here comes Mr. Hewitt with “‘seven mules.” It is too bad. Everybody Happy. There never was a more successful trial of party strength than that in the West in which the country has felt so deep an inter- est for some days past. Never have we known an election as tu the results of which people were so unanimous. Everybody is happy, as everybody has fair reason to be, for everybody won. With supreme delight, with scarcely controllable exhilaration, the enthusiastic democracy read in the brilliant and pithy paragraphs of the Sun that the democrats had carried both Ohio and Indi- ana, With deop consciousness of the value of that now historical shirt, the republicans read in the Times that their party had carried both Indiana and Ohio. With philosophic calm the people who wanted to know the real facts of the case read in the Henatp that these important States were divided between the two parties. Thus every- body had just what he wanted; the readers of the Hzrarp had the news, the readers of the Sun had a demo- cratic victory, and the readers of the Times were delighted to know that the tidal waves had run out. It isa perennial part of the bitterness of life in ordinary cireum- stances that every splendid triumph is built upon misfortune. How glorious is the posi- tion of the general who sends a bulletin of his victory ! but what are the thoughts of the beaten commander? The rowers who’ win, the riflemen who score the highest number, can none of them be happy but their less fortunate competitors must be covered with chagrin. Let us congratulate the country upon the happy discovery of the arithmetic man and the party organs as means of elim- inating this unpleasant condition from party conflicts at least; for by their methods every- body can have victories and nobody be beaten. Inpran Deprepations.—The reported at- tacks on white men in Wyoming ‘Territory by small bands of Indians point to the necessity of vigorously enforcing the policy of disarming all the tribes, | whether friendly or hostile. It is well known on the frontier that a good deal of | the desultory killing by Indians along the border settlements is the work of what are known as friendly Indians and is caused by a desire to plunder. Under the existing system it is very difficult to know the differ- ence between the red men who are our friends and those who are not. It is, there- fore, prudent to carry the disarming of all tribes as far as possible. When this salu- tary system has been putin force for some years it will be possible to turn the attention of the Indians toward the cultivation of hab- its of industry. So long as the young bucks are permitted to swagger about the villages armed to the teeth and playing the part of “big braves” all attempts to make the Indian a self-supporting laborer must fail, and now and then small bands of aspiring youths will try toenact the part of heroes by scalping any unprotected or unwary white man or woman whom an evil fortune may have thrown in their way. >... Bailroad Management. In reply to some strictures upon the mane agement of the New York Central Railroad Mr. William H. Vanderbilt writes over his own signature that “the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company has paid all its dividends and interest from its net earnings and from no other source what. ever;” and, further, that ‘the company has met all its engagements and earned and paid its usual quarterly dividends, and its busi- ness gives every assurance that it will be able to continue to do so.” This frank and complete answer ought to suffice. Mr. Van- derbilt is the manager of the road; he knows what he asserts, and it is hardly fair to urge vague “suspicion” against so diréct and publica statement. Directors and managers of railroad and other corporations may and should be held to proper responsibility ; but stockholders and the public may justly rest satisfied when a road pays its dividends and interest regularly and ‘‘from its net earnings and no other source whatever.” If the same thing could be said and were said over their own names by the managers of all or nearly all the railroads in the United States stock and bond holders would bea very happy company. Pacha Kelly and His Mayors. Mr. Kelly is to the city, in regard to the office of Mayor, precisely what the Turkish Pachas are to the Ottoman Empire in regard to the office of Sultan. Recently the world has seen Sultans rise and fall like so many puppets in a drama of marionettes, Abdul- Azziz seemed disposed one day to have a will of his own, and down went the mighty Abdul, Commander of the Faithful ; Murad V. stepped in, but did not meet the occasion, and down went Murad. Abdul Hamid now holds the slippery place—for how many days? None can answer but those who know the plans of the functionaries of the royal palace, who are in the shade behind the Sultan and make and unmake, at their pleasure, the limp figure which, when made, stands forth as the in« carnation of all that is most absolute and arbitrary in kingly rule the world around, Thus behind our mayors, like a whole oli garchy of pachas, stands John Kelly, and converts an office which should be a posix tion of real power and importance intoa standing place for his puppets, the dull procession of which need never fail unless the breed of commonplace people with a thirst for official dignities should run ont, or the people should lose their patience at the assumption that they are of no more consequence in this city than the stolid populace of Turkey in Constantinople. Pourrtcan Lerten Writmc.—Count Von Arnim and Prince Bismarck cannot settl« their difficulties. Their correspondence ex: tends over long periods, and it has taken the Count from January till now to answer a letter which the Prince wrote to the Em- peror in 1873, but which was not published till the beginning of 1876. Bismarck may be expected to reply next summer, and then Von Arnim will write again in the winter. This keeps their controversy alive, in the style of sensational novels in periodicals, ix which the instalment ends :—‘‘At this im stant the Duke of Highjinks exclaimed, ‘Sir, you lie! to be continued in our next,” and after waiting » month in suspense the pub- lic is relieved by learning that ‘immediately His Royal Nibs replied, ‘Duke, you are an« other !’” We do not tolerate in America such interminable delays in political correspond< ence, Taz Gneensack Poritictaxs.—The calcu- lations of the Cooper party appear to be very profound, but proportionately obscure, If two and two should make five in Indiana, or even four and a half, then Tilden would be withdrawn in some of the democratic States and Cooper and Hendricks would be the new ticket. The Cooper party nevea counted much on West Virginia, they say, and it is certain that they did not count much init. The party thinks that State of small importance ; but what does the State think of the party? The only comment we are willing to risk upon these elaborate pre= dictions is embodied in the familiar quota- tion of ‘‘Nous verrons.” Gernerat Newron received a fine compli» ment from the Xavier Union last night, and the address of Mr. Lummis, Ptesident of the association, and his reply, are elsewhere published. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Thoreaus are all dead. General 0. 0, Howard is in Boston. i Schuyler Colfax will visit the Pacific coast. The polonaiso has resolved itself into a mantle, Joaquin Miller says that all work and no play, &¢, Kentucky forest trees are filled with wild pigeons, Secretary Cameron arrived !n Washington yostore day. oe Bull will spond the winter at his home at Madi; son, Wis. Senator Simon B. Conover, of Florida, is at the Fifty Avenue Hotel. Wendell Phillips says that seven-tenths of the huse bands aro frauds. There is much criticiem of the conservatory system of toaching the piano. Mr. F. Tanaka, Vice Minister of Education of Japan, 1s at tho St, Nicholas Hotel. Tho Winchester Company have sent fiftcen milliog cartridges to Turkey this week. A French proverb runs, ‘Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”? The Rothsehildx aro becoming lax im thé Jewist faith, and like tno positivism of Comte. General John Meredith Read, United States Minister to Greece, at the Filth Avenue Hotel. ‘Tho San Francisco News Letier is publishing lists of physicians who practise without diplomas, Mrs, Polk, widow of the ex-President, will visit the Centennial at the beginning of next month. A Springlield, Maas., young woman went out on the roof with a lantern to see where the fire was, It you lived in Chicago yea could have your name on your Tom and Jerry mug at your favorite saloon, James I. Fields says that tho way to study English literature is to bogin with the authors of our own day and work back. It was the Saturday Review that inan article on spiritualism urged the arrest of ‘Dr. slade ander the Vagrancy act. Goorge Thompson, of Newport, a colored man and formerly 4 slave, has just returned from the South with his wife, whom he bas found aiter a separation of Arty yoars. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage retires from the ede itorsiiip of the Christian at Work and assumes that of the Chicago Advance, which will hereafter have ar office in thin city. Professor Atherton, ropublican, of Rutgers Collega, fe running for Congrees i be people want to know drop polities long onoagh te i a a eel