The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1876, Page 6

W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. _3AMES GORDON BENNETT, 2 PROPRIETOR, “THE DAILY HERALD, published every fey the year. Four cents per copy. dollars per year, or one Dollar per month, free of postag All business, news letters or telegraphic = must be addressed New York _* Letters and packages should be properly _. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK D—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. __ Subscriptions and advertisements will be Teceived and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. + VOLUME XII... — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. Woop's MUS BOUND THE CLOC SP. UNION 8¢ TWO ORPHANS, at 8 F BOOTI’S, THEATRE, SARDANAPALUS, at SP. M. Mr. Bangs and Mra Agnes CLOUDs, atsr. PARK THEATRE. ~~ oncur rows Cay, aed, Wa Howard, WALLACK'’S THEATRE, FORBIDDEN FRUIT, at 8 P.M. THEATRE. THEATRE, M. BOWERY TH DONALD McKAY, at 8 P. M. k TONY PASTO ¢ VARIETY, at 8 P.M. ATRE. Oliver Doud Byrom, Tive a VARIBTY, at 8. M. ti ‘AN VARI a t PARISIAN VARIETIE: atsP.M. - MINSTBELS. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS at8P.M, a CHATEAU MABILLE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY AND DRAMA, at 7:.5 P.M. AMERICAN INSTITUTES, ANNUAL FaIR. MURRAY'S CIRCUS. Afternoon and evening. GILMO N, BARNUM'S CIRCUS A RIE, at 2 and 8 P.M. THEATRE COMIQU&H VARIETY, at 8 P. M. NEW YORK AQUARIUM, Open from 9 A. M. to 10 P.M. EaGLE THEATRE, IPLE SHEET. T . FRIDAY, OCTOBER r rep 8 are that the weather to-day will be warmer, clear or ly cloudy with, possibly, occasional rain along the Middle Atlantic coa | = Watt Srrecr Yesrerpar.—The stock market was dull, and prices tended down- ward. Pacific Mail was exceptionally active and strong. Gold opened and closed at 109, with sales meanwhile at 108 7-8. Money on call loaned at 4 per cent. Gov- ernment bonds were stronger and railway bonds steady. Tue Yacur Racx for the Loubat Ocean Cup began yesterday, the Idler having the lead. Generat Martinez Camros is off for Cuba, where he will doubtless succeed in annoy- ing Jovellar more than the insurgents. He is not likely to meet the rebels, but he is At Crerpmoor yesterday there was some interesting shooting, clubs trom a number of States participating. Nothing could more Slearly demonstrate the interest that is taken in rifle practice in different parts of the country. Asorner Farce in the Von Arnim matter has just been perpetrated. The ex-Am- bassador was sentenced on Thursday of last week to five years’ imprisonment in the House of Correction. This puerile and per- sonal persecution of a statesman of high rank reflects little credit on the German Empire or its rulers. Poraxp has not forgotten the fame of Pu- laski and Kosciusko, who fell in the Ameri- can Revolution. While the Poles are com- memorating the virtues of the heroes by the medal which has been transmitted to Presi- dent Grant we can only assure them that America will never forget their services to liberty on this side of the Atlantic. Bomer Exrxosions are still of frequent oceurrence, an accident of this kind at Pitts- burg yesterday causing a terrible loss of life. It is probable that all care in the examina- tion of these terrible engines of death is again entirely disregarded, and that it will ire some terrible disaster, like that on the Westfield, to compel the inspectors to do their duty. Tae Dericiency in the supply of Croton water has affected the nerves of some of our correspondents, and, we fear, their judg- ment. Itis not the fault of the Board that we are suffering from the effects of a dry season, and the peculiar circumstances of the case render any regulation of the water supply which would not interfere with the possible. .to our news this morning the King of Abys- ginia has succeeded in crushing three sepa- rate Egyptian columns. Sitting Bull's ex- ton the Little Big Horn was not more complete, and on a much smaller scale than these massacres in Abyssinia. ‘The savages on oth sides of the globe seem to pursue the same policy—that of striking tho en- emy when he is unprepared, and then dis- sppearing from his front. Perer Coorrn, it appears, has an abiding faith in the petty financial heresy of which he is the political exponent, It is Mr. 9 mission to exalt the glories of the back, but he is willing to retire in Mr. ‘Pilden’s favor if Mr. Tilden will only ac- ocpt the greenback platform. This is a very sate proposition, but apart from its imprac- _ tieability such a course woud rob the can~ “Wass of its only humorous characteristic, and “that would be dreadful in so dull » cam- interests of the city difficult if not im- | ¥ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, UUTOBER 13, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The October Elections. The elections of Tuesday, which were looked forward to with keen and anxious interest, have decided nothing, or next to nothing, outside of the States in which they were held. We do not regret this. There is no sense in letting one or two States, which happen to hold local elections in ad- vance, virtually determine the Presidential election for the whole country. The result in Ohio and Indiana will not have the weight of a feather on the great November contest in other States. The result in Ohio makes it certain that Ohio will give its electoral votes to Hayes but it will not strengthen the republican party in any other State where it was not already strong. It is not so entirely certain that the result in Indiana insures that State to the democrats in the Presidential contest, but it will not do to reason from Indiana in 1872 to Indiana in 1876. In 1872 Indiana elected Governor Hendricks in October by the slight majority of 1,337, and the next month it gave Grant its electoral votes by a heavy majority of 27,000. But this great change between October and November in that year did not result from anything done in the State, but from the great tide of republican mejorities in October in other States. There is nothing this year bearing any resemblance to the splendid republican majority of 34,368 in the Pennsylvania October election of 1872 and the large Ohio majority in the same month. It was not the vote in Indiana but the vote outside of Indiana in October, 1872, that gave the State to the republicans in the following month. In 1872 the Presidential election was decided beyond doubt in Oc- tober; but in 1876 the October elections have decided nothing and have removed no doubts. There is no perceptible reason why Indiana should not go in No- vember as it did on Tuesday. Blue Jeans Williams is a political raga- muffin, and he ran against a republican of remarkable strength and popularity. But Governor Hendricks is the most esteemed democrat in Indiana, and, with no outside current to influence the result, his chances of carrying the State should be better than those of Williams. Yet the extreme close- ness of the voteon Tuesday puts Indiana in the list of doubtful States. Of the three elections on Tuesday that in West Virginia is the only one that throws even a faint light on the Presidential con- test, West Virginia is the one Southern State whose white population might have been expected to be in sympathy with the republican party. It had but few slaves, and was easily cleft asunder from the old State of Virginia during the war. It wasa steady republican State for several years after the close of the war, and gave its elec- toral votes to Grant both in 1868 and 1872. In 1874it went over to the demo- crats by a pretty strong majority, and this election shows that, like its sister States of the South, it has gone into the democratic party to stay. Its democratic majority on Tuesday is o pretty clear indi- cation that Mr. Tilden may rely, with reason- able confidence, on the support of the ‘‘solid South.” The Southern States have 138 electoral votes, and the democratic party needs only 47 more to give it a majority. The Presideatial contest is therefore nar- rowed down to the question whether Mr. Tilden can get 47 electoral votes in the twenty-three Northern States, It is already certain that he cannot unless he carries New York, and even with New York his ability to make up that number is doubtful The States in the following list are quite reliable for Hayes:— on SRawe Nebraska. There is no possibility of Mr. Tilden car- trying any one of these sixteen States, which have an aggregate of 157 electoral votes, or only 28 less than a majority. If Hayes can gain 28 votes in addition to those of which he is already certain, it is as good as certain he will be elected. The requisite 28, if he should get them, must come from some one or more of the following States :— New York 35 New Jersey. Indiana, 5 Connecticu Calitorn! - 6 Oregon. Of the States in this doubtful, or at least debatable list, the republicans might carry four—namely, New Jersey, Connecticut, California and Oregon—and still fall short ofa majority by four electoral votes. Unless they carry either Indiana or New York they have no chance of success if all the Southern States vote for Tilden. It is possible, but not probable, that they can recover Indiana after losing it in the State election with nothing in the other October States to discourage the democratic party. It would be a waste of effort and ammunition for the republicans to fight the lost battle in Indiana over again. There is a bare possibility that they might carry it, but the loss of New Jersey and Con- necticut, which together have the same number of electoral votes, would deprivo their victory of any practical value, . But if of these six States they can carry New York they will have more votes than they need in addition to those of which they are already certain. But the success of the democrats in New York would not in like manner carry them through. They will need twelve additional votes. If they save Indiana they will get these twelve votes, with three to spare. But if they should lose Indiana neither New Jersey alone nor Connecticut alone would help them out. They must carry them both, or carry New Jer- sey with one of the Pacific States, or Connecticut with both of the Pacific States. In this extremely doubtful state of the canvass everything is staked on New York, which will be the Thermopyle of this Presidential canvass. A republican success 18 certain if they carry New York, and there are strong probabilities that if the democrats carry it they will get the twelve additional votes they will need to give Til- den a majority. The republicans have every motive for concentrating all their efforts in the Empire State, but the democrats cannot win without carrying some of the other doubtful States in addition to New York. ‘The fact that the Presidential contest is narrowed down to the ability of either party to carry New York will be admitted by every experienced politician who peruses the fore- going statement, No intelligent man can reach any other conclusion. But this nar- rowing of the basis of calculation, instead of relieving the result of uncertainty, only thickens the fog which rests upon the Presidential prospect. Of all the States in the Union New York is the most inconstant in its politics, It has been a sort of tradition for more than half a century that New York politics area standing puzzle to people not residing in the State. In this respect the State maintains its old reputation. There are other doubtful States, but they are doubtful ina different way. In other uncertain States there is an element of steadiness even in their fluctuations. They are doubtful because they are close; because the two parties are so evenly balanced that a change of a few thousand votes makes the difference between defeat or victory. But New York is a State whose incalculable poli- tics do not merely change, but ‘‘flop.” It defies all the computations of political arith- metic, In 1872 General Dix was elected Governor by o majority of 51,825. In 1874 Mr. Tilden was elected by a majority of 50,317, showing a stupen- dous fluctuation of 102,140 between two gubernatorial elections. New York politics are like the tides of the Bay of Fundy, which rise or fall seventy feet in the course of a few hours, There is no telling at what mark the water will stand at noon on any given day. A State whose politics flop and change at the rate of more than 100,000 votes in two years affords no secure basis for political predictions, The only thing in New York politics which has any approach to steadiness is a republican ma- jority, more or less large, in the rural districts, and a democratic majority, always reliable, but more or less large, in the city. There is no other State in the Union whose elections are so ‘‘mighty onsartain.” And it happens this year that the Presidential elec- tion will be decided by the vote of this exceptionally uncertain State. The Oriental Puzzle. It would be premature to assume that the troubles of the great Oriental complication are over because the Ottoman government has yielded to the general pressure and proposed an armistice for six months. Let it be noted that this armistice is quite aside from the one proposed as the first of the terms of peace laid down by England. That armistice was unconditional. It had no terms. It was, in fact, a discontinuance of the war, and to accept it would be to recog- nize at once that the fighting was ended and that the future relations of Turkey and her provinces were established on the basis presented in the other points of the British proposition. Turkey does not do this, She cdnsents to an armistice for a definite pe- riod. She names specific terms and desiz- nates what shall and what shall not be done in the interval. The continuance of the armistice beyond, or the recommencement of hostilities at that period, will therefore be within her discretion, and she will be in- fluenced in her action by the result of nego- tiations to be had meanwhile. If terms can be accorded that please her the armis- tice will lead to a permanent peace; if not she will again move her troops against Servia. This, therefore, is very different from what was laid down by England as a programme that Turkey must accept— the discontinuance of military opera- tions, the status quo ante bellum for Servia and Montenegro, and a “liberal autonomy” for Bosnia, Herzegovinaand Bul- garia, These terms constituted the sub- stance of a treaty of peace presented to Turkey by the consent of all the Powers, to be by her rejected or accepted. She does not accept that treaty. She says she will grant the first of the points in a modified form in order to have time to consider the | other terms. That is not what was pro- posed to her; and the plain English of the case is, therefore, that she has rejected the proposed terms. It is, therefore, to be anticipated that her answer will not be regarded as satisfactory, except, possi- bly, as an expedient to tide over the winter. Russia, for instance, accepted England’s terms, supported them and declared that she would be bound by them upon their acceptance by Turkey; but she may now very reasonably hold that the half acceptance of one point in three does not put her under any obligation. It is evident that the Russian nation is just now not ina temper to be trifled with, and it is doubtful whether the British Ministry can itself care to see its propositions dealt with so cavalierly by a rulerwho owes to the moral support of England the very existence of his throne. A Political Joke. No one has more vigorously denounced “the South” and tried to revive hatred and suspicion in Ohio and Indiana than ‘gallant Ben Bristow.” In one of his last speeches in the campaign he asserted that ‘no amount of pledges that the democratic can- didates for Congress can give” ought to be trusted; and that everything showed the democratic party ‘‘capable of bringing about a solid South for the purpose of accomplish- ing by the instrumentality of power in Washington what they failed to accomplish in the war.” This is pretty strong, for what the South failed to accomplish, as everybody knows, was destruction of the Union and perpetuation of slavery. Now, the joke lies just here :—Mr. Bris- tow was the favorite Presidential candidate of many leading Southern and Southwest ern democrats in Washington last winter, and there was a time when his nomination by the democratic party was a not entirely improbable event. He was believed to be a strong man to beat the republicans with, and Western and Southern democrats did not entirely give him up until his nomina- tion by the republicans at Cincinnati was planned and expected. He would have made it lively for the democratic party. Jrnome Park continues to furnish excel- lent sport for the lovers of the turf, the races yesterday being the most successful of the meeting. The race for the Centennial Cup was the event of the day, this valuable piece of plate being won by ‘fom Ochiltree. It is such events as this which give a national character to the meetings of the American Jockey Club, and we trust the prizes here- after will show something of the munifi- cence which was diaplayod in this casa, The Mayoralty. There could not be a more curious or unique political situation than one in which @ nomination for Mayor in a single city may determine which of the great national par- ties will win o Presidential election. Yet precisely this singular situation seems to exist at present with reference to the Mayor- alty of New York. It is conceded by all intelligent judges that the Presidential con- test is likely to be decided by the electoral yotes of the State of New York. It is admit- ted, or at least cannot be reasonably dis- puted, that the republican pérty is likely to have a large majority in this State outside of the city, and that the ability of the demo- cratic party to carry the State for Tihlen depends on a majority in the city heavy enough to outweigh the republican vote of the interior, Governor Tilden’s chances for the Presidency are staked on the city vote. If it should be large enough to overbalance the republican majority in other parts of the State he will be elected ; if not, he will be defeated. It is equally his interest and the interest of the democratic party in the State and nation that all the candidates on the city ticket, and especially the candidate for Mayor, should: command public confidence. If one of John Kelly’s puppets is nominated for the Mayoralty Mr. Green will come into the field supported by the whole republican, a moiety of the democratic and the entire Ger- man vote, ‘I'he democratic party of the city would be disintegrated, and Mr. Tilden's majority in the city dwindle to so smalla figure that it would be swamped by the re- publican majority in the interior of the State. i It concerns every democrat in the city, State and nation that so great a danger be averted. The whole democratic party has an interest in restraining the waywardness of the obstinate and wrong-headed Tammany Boss. If he is permitted to have his way the democratic ship will be stranded and the whole cargo lost. Mr. Kelly’s adherents say that he means well; but good intentions cannot prevent a wreck when an unskiiful pilot steers a vessel upon the rocks. Mr. Kelly has forfeited every title to have his judg- ment respected. Was he asafe guide last fall, when he tried to ruin Recorder Hackett and wrecked the democratic party of the city under an adverse majority of nearly thirty thousand? Did he evince good judgment in the early part of last summer, when he went to St. Louis and vehemently opposed the nomination of Governor Tilden? He is a played-out politician, and everything he has recently undertaken has turned out to be a stupendous failure. He had a pet can- didate for Governor at the Saratoga Conven- tion; but Mr. Kelly's advocacy ruined the chances of the candidate. Since the tre- mendous thrashing he got last fall nothing remains to him but the dregs of his former influence. Everything which he has since attempted has turned out to be a pitiful abortion, including his opposition to Tilden at St. Louis and his attempt to nominate an anti-Tilden candidate for Governor. For the last year his leadership has been in every instance a march to defeat. That por- tion of the democratic party which con- tinues to trust him are blind followers of a blind guide, and they will all fall into the ditch together, as they have so often done during the last twelve months, in which everything attempted by the Tammany Boss has been a humiliating failure. Why should the New York democracy follow a guide whose judgment is so uniformly mistaken? Why should the friends of Governor Tilden submit to a leader who has been so actively hostile to their Presidential candidate? The citizen whom Mr. Kelly is under- stood tobe pushing for the Mayoralty isa conspicuous gentleman who went to St. Louis to oppose Governor Tilden’s nomina- tion. It is not supposable that Mr. Tilden wishes the city canvass to be led by one of his known enemies. He ought to put an extinguisher on Mr. Kelly and ‘‘my candi- date.” With the great power he wields in the party as the head of its Presidential ticket and democratic Governor of New York he might easily set aside Mr. Kelly and com- pose the democratic dissensions in this city. Unless he interposes right early, and inter- poses with vigor, his Presidential canvass is a ‘lost cause.” He cannot expect to carry the State without a large majority in the city, and it would be supreme folly to trust his interests in the hands of a broken-down leader who wrecked the party in the last municipal election, and has attempted noth- ing since which has not proved to be an utter failure. Mr. Kelly has lost the glamour of success as a party chief, and neither Mr. Tilden nor the city democracy should any longer lean on this broken reed. What imaginable necessity can there be for following a battered and broken chief and accepting ‘‘my candidate?” Is that known opponent of Mr. Tilden, ‘‘my candi- date,” the only democrat in the city quali- fied for the office of Mayor? Nonsense. The democratic party of the city could sup- ply a dozen better candidates—n dozen can- didates superior in personal qualifications and twice a dozen who would have a better chance of harmonizing and consolidating the party. Mr. John T. Agnew, for example, would not only make a splendid Mayor, but he would receive the united support of every wing and section of the city democracy. With Mr. Agnew as the candidate Governor ‘Tilden would have a majority in this city at least twenty thousand greater than is pos- sible if Mr. Kelly nominates the candidate. But ‘“‘my candidate” would be smashed as badly by Mr. Green as ‘‘my candidate” was last year by Recorder Hackett, Qualifications of Voters. A correspondent sends usa somewhat elab orate argument intended to prove that citi- zens are entitled to vote for State and county officers, Presidential clectors and members of Congress without a residence of thirty days the election district. His reasoning is in founded on the language of the State con- stitution, but he has made the unfortunate mistake of ignoring the fact that the consti- tution was amended less than two years since in such @ manner as to free the ques- tion from all doubt. The State constitution as it now stands provides that ‘‘every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days and an inhabitant of this State for one vear next Preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere.” The clause requiring a thirty days’ residence in the election district was not in the constitu- tion of 1846, but was inserted in 1874, leav- ing no further place for such doubts as are raised by our correspondent, Meaning of Interference im the South. In Louisiana there is a considerable body of republicans, black as well as white, who mean to vote for Hayes and Nichols—Mr. Nichols being the democratic’ candidate for Governor. In South Carolina there isa large and increasing number of republicans who mean to vote for Hayes and Hampton. In the same way, last fall, there were numer- ous republicans in Mississippi who voted against Ames, but for republican Congress- men. That is to say, a constantly increas- ing number of republican voters in these as well as in other Southern States, being tired of the corruption and maladministration practised by their local party leaders, refuse to support the local ticket, though they mean to vote the national ticket of their party. It is this split which threatens Packard in Louisiana and Chamberlain in South Caro- lina with the overthrow which befell Ames in Mississippi last fall, and as Ames called for federal troops to help him in his ex- tremity, so Chamberlain now prepares to follow his example. The object of thus commanding federal soldiers into one of these Southern States is threefold. They are used, as by Packard, to intimidate democrats; their presence at the same time helps to arouse and organize the most igno- rant part of the negro vote; but, finally, their most important use in such a state of things as we have described is to discourage and cripple the efforts of the opposition re- publicans. The mass of colored voters in a State like South Carolina have a disposition to follow the possessor of power. They be- lieve in the superior power and strength of the federal government; if they see that at Mr. Chamberlain’s request General Grant sends troops to act under Chamberlain’s orders argument and appeal are alike use- less to perstiade them to vote against Cham- berlain. Observe, therefore ; the troops are used to re-elect Chamberlain; that is the object. They were used to elect Kellogg in Louisi- ana. Packard hopes to use them to elect himself ; Ames asked for them to re-elect himself, and, not getting them, was beaten, and promptly resigned and removed from the State. Can the republican party hope to succeed if it thus misuses its possession of the federal power to keep in their places corrupt or inefficient State officers to coerce, not democrats alone, but independ- ent republicans, and drive them back into the support of corrupt men, or cripple their efforts to relieve themselves and their State of such control? Another Statesman to the Front. We print elsewhere an interview in which one of the city’s boasted statesmen takes a position which entitles him, and is perhaps intended to secure him, the conspicuous and important position of Secretary of the Treasury under the next administration, in caso Mr. Peter Cooper should be chosen President. It is one of the advantages of a free country like ours that it can always fur- nish statesmen adequate for any occasion. When the emergency arises the man appears. If Mr. Cooper should be elected he would no sooner enter the White House than, be- hold Mr. Richard Schell, or “Uncle Dick,” as the boys love to call him. Amiability is Uncle Dick's strong point. Happy himself, he fondly sighs to see all his countrymen equally blest. His plan of campaign when he shall rule in the Treasury has for its chief motive the desire to make every man jack of us at least twenty-five cents better off than we are now. Hence he proposes a new issue of currency—an issue so vast that it is scarcely possible but almost every infant in the country will get at least a ten cent shin- plaster for its share. We advise Blue Jeans Williams to got somebody to read him Uncle Dick’s proposi- tion. We commend it to the lamented Hol- man, whom an ungrateful constituency. have just relegated to the obscurity of private life as it were. We are sure it would receivé the praises of that considerable body of in- flation martyrs whose brainless bodies strew the bleak shores of Indiana just now. Not only would our venerable “Uncle Dick” print a thousand millions of irredeemable shinplasters, but he would give half of them away. When the lamented Tweed, whom we are soon to welcome among us again, once called an ungrateful dependant an Adder, he was met with the mean retort, “And you are a Subtracter.” Our Uncle Dick is neither; considering the magnitude of his generosity we should call him nothing less than ‘a Pair of Dividers.” Christopher Columbas. A statue to Christopher Columbus, the work of Italian artists and the gift of sympa- thizing Italians, was unveiled at Philadel- phia yesterday before a large assemblage. Judge Charles P. Daly, of this city, delivered the address. This choice was an eminently fit one, as no scholar in the land has given more attention to geographical science and discovery than Judge Daly. The address, also, as will be seen from the report printed in another column, was in every way worthy of the occasion. In especially good taste was the tribute paid to the part which Italians took in navigation and explora- tion at the time when the secrets of the globe were being unravelled. At this day we can scarcely conceive the ignorance which prevailed, even among men of science, in regard to the scheme which Columbus proposed. It was a simple proposition, and whether it was the Indies or a great conti- nent which barred the way to the Indios, it was plain enough that by sailing due west tho east would be reached at last. The mis- take, however, was not contined to the igno- rant scientists who opposed the views which Columbus advanced. Columbus himself, and_Toscanella, from whom he obtained his theory. were as much mistaken as their op- ponents. They had no accurate notion of the distance round the earth, and supposed that by sailing west they would reach the east more quickly than by the known route. Columbus believed this and he persisted in his belief until his death. It was left to others to determine that it was America and not the eastern limits of Asia which he had discovered. Henever dreamed of the wide ocean which lay between the land he had found end the country he sought, and so it is not his knowledge, his wisdom or his foresight which we commemo- rate to-day, but his courage in undertaking, under the most discouraging circumstances, 8 voyage over an unknown sea to ascertain what lay beyond. This was enough, how- ever, to entitle him to our highest gratitude for the will which dares to test a theory; whether it is right or wrong, is higher even than the wisdom which proves to be right when its solution is left to others. Welcome to Mr. Tupper. The distinguished poet, Martin Farquhas Tupper, who arrived in this city yesterday, will be welcomed by thousands who have read some of his works. No man but him- self has probably read all of his works, for they are countless. They represent over forty years of incessant production, and in- clude novels, poems of all kinds, from a continuation of Coleridge's beautiful ‘‘Chris- tabel” to the ‘Ode to America,” more than three hundred sonnets, and the celebrated “Proverbial Philosophy,” of which forty editions have been sold in England and a million of copies in America, This literary fecundity is wonderful; Mr. Tupper has written more verses than Tennyson, Words- worth, Keats and Coleridge combined. That he has not written as well as they did is possible; but it is at keast something to have written more. Quantity has its merit as well as quality, and Mr. Tupper has it in aremarkable degree. It is natural that the book by which he is known best should be the most criticised. It is said that the “Proverbial Philosophy” is commonplace, and it has been the subject of numerous parodies. When Mr. Lupper wrote that line, to the unaffected, tendernéss of which thousands of mothers will bear testimony, “A child ina house is a well fall of pless- ure,” an attempt was made to burlesque it thus:—‘‘A child in a well is a house full of pleasure.” Mr. Tupper has, however, re- mained unshaken by these assaults, and his latest work is ‘‘Washington,” a play un- acted as yet, which he intends to read in public during the winter. We have given extracts from this drama, and Mr. Tupper has ably replied in our columns to the charge of & correspondent that the entire play waa plagiarized from an American play of the sametitle. But, independently of his literary claims, Martin Farquhar Tupper is entitled to a warm reception, for he has always been thetrue friend of America, and espoused with pen and word the cause of the Union during the war. He will find the United States very much changed from what they were when he visited them in 1851, but twenty-five years have only made him bet- ter known to the American public, ‘Woopwanrp, who was Tweed’s friend, agent and partner, reached this city yesterday and is now safely lodged in the Tombs. He was arraigned upon five of the old indictmenta found against him in the early days of the war upon the Ring, and, pleading not guilty to all of them, was committed without bail. One thing is due to Woodward—and it should not be denied him upon any ground whatever—a speedy trial. There has been too much delay in these cases in the past, and now that Tweed and Woodward are in the hands of the authorities the best thing that can be done with them is to end the legal proceedings against them as soon as possible. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Wild peaches grow in Arizona. Boston planted 12,000 trees last season, Harvard boys have formed a lacrosse club, ‘The latest fashion in autumn noses 1s cardinal red, Sir Jobn Keane, of Ireland, is at the Everett House, ‘The French of Motz will not associate with the Ger. mans. Mixtures of velvet and slik are fashionable for win- ter dresses, General Todtleben has taken his family home to St Petersburg. Sir Henry Rawlinson thinks that a road should be opened straight across Africa. Poople of India require much salt, because there is little of it in tneir nataral food, A Spaniard of the lower order has a greater appetite than an Englishman of tho same class. Mr. William Black, the English novelist, arrived ta the city yesterday and is at the Brevoort House, The albatross sails, without using its wings, close to tho waves, the motion of which wafts a current of air, A despatch from Pittsfield, Masa, announces that General W. F. Bartlett is expected to survive but a few days. Li Heato Cnih and Chin Che Leuen, of the Chinese Educational Commission, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel “What these niggers want,” said a Florida man, “is education.” Then he pickea up his shotgun aad started. " Texas is as large as France, and, while she is capable of raising the tropical fraits, her principal trade 1s im cattle. From Punch :—“Greongrocer—‘Cadbage, mam? We don’t keep no. second class vegetables, mum. You'll get it at the lower end of the town!’ ”” A cask of Jobannisberg wine of the vintage of 1861 has just beep sold by the Princo de Metternich for 50,000 florins, or at the rate of £2.88, per bottle, Louisville Courier-Journal:—‘Indiana is a raging sea of oratory.” [Springfield Republican)—Is that exactly a sea where thero is so mach wind and go lit tlo water? Senator George 8, Boutwell and General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, and Senator William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue ifotel. In Alameda, Cal, isa farmer named Long, who carries on conversation with his horses, and he says President Grant bas decided to receive the Centen- nial address of congratulation from the people of Ire- land on Tuesday next at Washington, when it will be presented by Mr. O'Connor Power and Mr, Parnell, members of Parliament, ‘A reeent writer contrastmg Halstead and Watterson remarks :—‘‘Haistead isa most likeable map, who will eat intellectual roast beef with you, but you would nover want to put your arm around his neck as you would want to put it aronnd Watterson’s.”” ‘The great trouble in the Woman’s Congress in Philm dolphin was to get over the queiy why, matter of dress, a woman hadn’t as much righ; to dance around on one foot while trying to make a lino shot’ with the other as 4 man had on a rainy morning, Edward A. Freeman, the English historian, a man o} great learning and ability, refused a nomination for Parliament tor the Universities of Glasgow and Aber deon, where only graquates aro polled, and his reason tor 80 doing was that he could not afford the expenses of election,