The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Y PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henravp. Letters and packages should be proper! acy packag properly Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ——_-___ PHILADELPHIA «etek 112SOUTH SIXTH STREE' LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’ OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. BOOTH'S THEATRE, gaRpamaravcs, at8P.M. Mr. bangs and Mrs. Agnes LYCEUM THEATRE. BOMEO AND JULIET, at SP. PARK T Tuecras. CLOUDS, igen M. FTH AVEN THEATRE. LIFE, at 8 P. x Matinee at 2P.M. Charles F. Coghlan. ERMANTA THEATRE. FREUD UND LEID. ars P.M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. UNCLE TOM’s Seep av SP.N. Mrs. Howard, ALLACK'S THEATRE. FORBIDDEN FRU Ti, at BROO! OW THeaTan BCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, mt BM. a THEATRE. M. Oliver Doud Byron. 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TY DAYS. z OF PA east of Ary Philadelphie QUADRUPLE SHEET. besalal _YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER Wb, B 76, iron our reports this morning ica reba ies are that the weather to-day will be decidedly cooler and partly cloudy. Wau Sraext Yzstzrpay.—Gold was steady at 109 1-8. Money on call loaned at 21-2 and 1 1-2 percent. Stocks were stronger, final transactions showing decided improye- ment. Government bonds and railway mort- gages were not materially changed or active. Tae Jezome Park Races closed yesterday with the seventh day of the autumn meet- ing. Although the meeting was in most re- spects successful and satisfactory it would have been more so if the seven days’ racing had been compressed within a single week. No Aarrement has been found possible between Tammany and anti-Tammany, the failure resulting from the quarrel over the division of the spoils. Unless harmony is secured both factions are likely to find themselves in the position of the famous dog which dropped the bone while crossing a stream to grasp after the shadow. Tae Evrorzan Sirvarion is a complete muddle, and it is impossible to determine from the conflicting reports which we print this morning whether there is to be an armistice or not. It is probable, however, that whatever agreement is reached the fight- ing is over for the present. fr Wr Bz Interzstixe to know what the Chinese officials, who are now visiting the public institutions of New York preparatory toareport on American civilization, may have to say about us. The Dickens and Trollope iribe of scribes can no longer in- terest with America as their theme, and so, ‘we presume, we shall have to look to China and Japan for the future commentators on this country. Tar Inprmn Camparcn which General Crook is disposed to carry on during the winter affords but little striking intelligence, the scout which General Merritt has under- taken being the most important event re- since the return of the army from the ineffectual pursuit of the Sioux. It will beseen from our despatches this morning that an outbreak is feared at Spotted Tail and that frequent robberies of stock from Crook's command go unpunished. This policy of fighting the Indians is like fighting a swarm pf mosquitoes in the dark. Avetma Parrr’s Derenminatioy not to go to Russia this winter excites much interest | in musical circles here, and the hope was } indulged that she might be induced to come to New York. From the interview with Mr. Maurice Strakosch, which we print in an- other column, it will be seen that this hope is futile. The stockholders of the Academy of Music are in the way—according to Mr. Strakosch’s figures | very much in the way. New York is able and willing to support Italian opera, but it cannot support such a luxury if the manager enters upon his season handicapped by stockholders’ privileges to an extent that must ruin him in any event. The subject is me that ought to be seriously considered by gentlemen, as we are sure they have to be a hindrance instead of a art, big ws The Mayoralty. It seems that Mr. Kelly means at all haz- ards to be the Boss of New York as well as the Boss of Tammany Hail. He insists on “my candidate,” and cannot bring himself to give up “my policy.” In fact, he acts as though he owned New York, as though it was a pocket borough which he could dis- | pose of as suits his own imperious will. Even though he knows that he will be beaten he insists. It must be ‘‘my Mayor” or nobody. This is mere child’s play. A number of excellent and unexceptionable names have been suggested to Mr. Kelly—men who are not to be counted among his personal or political opponents, and against whom he can bring no objection, except that they would not be his creatures. We have ourselves suggested to him the name of Mr. John T. Agnew, one of the foremost merchants ot New York. We have suggested the names of Mr. Royal Phelps and Mr. John Grenville Kane. One of our contemporaries has: brought forward that of Mr. Samuel D. Babcock, President of the Chamber of Commerce. All these are good names, Any one of these gentlemen would make an excellent Mayor. Mr. Bab- cock or Mr. Kane ought to be at once ac- cepted by Mr. Kelly. Will he refuse both? Can he not see that there isa sort of inde cency in setting up his will against the gen- eral desire for harmony in his party and against the universal wish of the citizens for the nomination of a proper man for the Mayoralty ? Mr. Babcock is President of the Chamber of Commerce; he knows the views of the merchants of New York on many of the most important questions relating to our port; as Mayor he would be able to bring to bear the great influence of the mercantile com- munity upon the improvements needed by the city. What has Mr. Kelly to say against him? Mr. Kane is a citizen of independent fortune, already familiar with the municipal administration and thoroughly conversant with the needs of New York. What has Mr. Kelly to say against Mr. Kane? If, however, he will not take our advice, which is that of all sensible men of his party—if he refuses to allow the nomination of Mr. Babcock, or of Mr. Kane, of one of the gentlemen prominently men- tioned, or of some citizen of the same standing, character and capacity, then we advise the anti-Tammany men, if they are sincere in their wish for reform, to adopt one of these names. If they do this we pre- dict another uprising against Tammany Hall similar to that of last year and as overwhelm- ing a victory for the anti-Tammany men. If Mr. Kelly is obstinate, if he insists on ‘my candidate,” it is the part of the anti-Tam- many men to take advantage of his blunder, for blunder it 1s. If they act wisely they can teach Tammany and Mr. Kelly a lesson which both seem greatly in need of. The Tammany men ought to have learned by their experience last year how rash it is to allow themselves and their organization to be controlled by one man, and to insist upon putting Mr. Kelly's favorites, and only them, into office. It is now the turn of the anti- Tammany men ; we advise them to act with prudence and to put themselves where it seems Mr. Kelly will not allow Tammany to stand—in harmony with the just demands of the public. It seems to be a favorite plan of Mr. Kelly and his friends to deprecate in advance all criticism upon their measures, as if it were inspired by personal instead of public motives. If Mr. Kelly is censured as a po- litical leader of a large faction for insisting upon forcing his own will upon a great party then his friends declare this censure to be plainly discoturteous and “vituperative.” When Mr. Kelly opposed Mr. Tilden both in New York and St. Lonis we do not remember that his right to do so was denied. For our own part we be- lieve that men who denounce their political opponents in discourteous language waste their power and throw away their oppor- tunities. The greatest mistake that a news- paper or a politician can make is to be “‘vitu- perative.” The speech which Mr. August Bel- mont made at the Cooper Institute the other evening was a model of powerful argument combined with courtesy, and because it was net denunciatory, but argumentative, it was one of the most effective addresses that has been made on either side during the whole canvass. We cite this as an illustration of the fact that a public speaker ora newspa- per can be frank, bold and strong without violating any of the courtesies of society, and that, on the contrary, , the more polished the weapon the more effective is the blow. Mr. Kelly's organ has intimated that the Heratp has not treated him with the courtesy to which he is entitled. We regret the charge, for it has been our policy to speak of Mr. Kelly with proper deferonce, and we believe that the editorial columns of the Henarp can be searched from top to bottom for years past, ever since he became the Tammany leader, and that not a single word of discourtesy toward him can be found. We have been severe, and, we think, justly severe, upon his schemes and his purposes, but personal at- tack we have steadily avoided. If there is anything the Hxnatp prides itself npon it is in being parliamentary, If | to refer to “iny candidate,” ‘my policy,” and other phrases of which Mr. Kelly is fond, be ‘‘vituperative,” then wo are sorry; but the words are originally his, not ours. We quote from his own lan- guage to illustrate our views of his course, and to show that we are right in charging that he forces his own will too much upon his party, and greatly to its-disadvantage. We have always believed Mr. Kelly to be a man of honor, an honest man and a man of good intentions; but, unfortunately, he imagines that he is firm, and carries that virtue to an excess. What he calls firmness we sometimes call ob- | stinacy, and believe that it often injures his own cause. This surely is not ‘‘vitupeza- tive;-it is parliamentary language. Would | it not be well, then, for Mr. Kelly and Mr. Schell, who are understood to be stuck- holders in the Aepress, to advise its editors to accuse us no longer of an offence of which we are not guilty. The Hrpress is a good ‘newspaper, spicy, fresh, and much better than the Express of two years ago; but it has not yet learned the meaning of the word “vituperative,” and it has in this case fallen into the mistake of assert- ing what it cannot prove—a want of dis- “courtesy on the part of the Hzraup toward ® political opponent. We may be wrong, for human judgment is always fallible, in our opinions of Mr. Kelly's policy and can- didates, but we trust that we do not present them in indecorous language. It is plain from the action of the Tammany and anti-Tammany organizations that they are unlikely to settle their disputes. The attempt to do so last week was a failure, and last night the anti-Tammany men, after con- sultation, reported that it was impossible to accept Mr. Kelly's terms. These terms were more like those which a general dictates to an enemy he has beaten, rather than like those which he proposes to one he has yet to fight. They were exacting and overbearing. ‘The minor- ity report expressed the belief that an agreement might yet be made, but it ap- pears to be unfounded. Now the public is likely to find out what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body. Two democratic tickets will be put in the field, and between them Mr. Green will quietly walk into the Mayor's office. Both Tammany and anti- Tammany are stubborn and want the ability to compromise their claims; but in the end the public will find that Mr. Kelly is of all men most to blame for the blunder. He has assumed the responsibility; now let us see how he will bear the consequences. Governor Chamberlain. The attempt now making in South Caro- lina by the federal administration to re- elect Governor Chamberlain by intimida- tion and coercion of the voters of the State is so dangerous as an example for the future, as well as of such pernicious effect upon the peaceand welfare of the State and of the colored people, who are there, as in Louisi- ana and Mississippi, made the football of un- scrupulous political gamblers, that it ought to be understood by the Northern people. It is not safe to vote for a party whose leaders not only countenance but command such a dangerousand unconstitutional inter- ference by the party in power to perpetuate its power and elect its favorites. It is commonly said that South Carolina would certainly show a republican majority, because it has a majority of colored voters, and that, consequently, the democrats can- not expect to elect General Hampton with- out intimidation of voters. This is a funda- mental error. The truth is that after a long course of corruption that has happened to the republican party in South Carolina which happened to the city democratic party here. It has split. Governor Cham- berlain is at the head of one fragment of his party; the other fragment is strongly op- posed to him and supports General Hamp- ton. This anti-Chamberlain wing has in it many honest and many very influential republicans, who are using all their power and influence to defeat Mr. Chamberlain. They have, in fact, persuaded a considerable part of the colored population to oppose Chamberlain, whose defeat, on a fair vote, is very probable. In this emergency Chamberlain raises the ery of lawlessness, and the Northern repub- lican leaders at once persuade the President and his too comvenient Attorney General to send down troops and begin a general sys- tem of arrests. Why? For what purpose? To any one who knows the Southern colored voter the motive is clear. Mr. Chamberlain knows that the negroes, ignorant, easily led by a show of power, and devoted to the name of General Grant, will see in this ready use of federal troops in favor of Chamberlain only an indication that he is the President's favorite, and that their duty to General Grant is, in spite of all argu- ments, to support Chamberlain, Even if he were a most fit and proper person to be re-elected this unscrupulous use of the fed- eral power for his own ends ought to procure his defeat, and would in any community where the majority of voters possessed aver- age intelligence. There are at this moment three .parties in South Carolina—one supporting Tilden and Hampton, one supporting Hayes and Cham- berlain, and a third supporting Hayes and Hampton. Chamberlain's object in using troops and making arrests by federal deputy marshals is to disperse the last named party and drive the colored voters now in it back to his support. He is, in fact, intimidating voters on a large scale by his use of federal troops. That is the plain truth about South Carolina, and any Northern citizen can see that to reinstate the republicans in power for four years when such is their course toward the South is to hand the country over for four years more to a very unscrupulous and dangerous policy and to men whom such a success will lead to extreme measures, sure to cause prolonged civil disorders in a large part of the Union, and pregnant with still greater dangers for 1880. The Ofice of Surrogate. The Surrogate of this city is an officer charged with the probate of wills and the settlement of estates. He should be an office lawyer of great experience and sound learning, and he ought not, of course, to be a politician. It is one of the most vicious absurdities of our State constitution that the office is elective. The Surrogate ought to be appointed and ought to hold office during life or good behaviour. The place is one of extreme and peculiar impor- tance. The Surrogate exercises powers al- most unlimited and ‘almost without appeal over the rights of minors, orphans and widows. In the ordinary course: of his duties he may, if he is an ignorant, a care- less or an unjust man, inflict the most ernel hardships on defenceless people; may canse ruinous losses, or, by dilatori- ness, bring unmerited suffering on wo- men and children. Everybody knows that the office has not always been well managed. There was o time in the city when it was commonly said by lawyers that, though New York was a costly place to live in, it was the most dangerous place in the world to die in. But that meant that widows and orphans were subject to injustice and robbery by mismanagement in the Surrogate’s office. As we are all talking abont reform we ask the politicians of both parties to nominate | for the Surrogate’s office men eminently and conspicuously fit, There are vlenty of law- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, yers here who follow politics as well, or rather much more closely than law, and not a few of whom have their eyes hopefully fixed on the Surrogate’s place. All such men ought to be barred out. Itis not in any sense a political office; it has been one of the prizes of political rings, but it ought to be so no longer. The kind of lawyer to nominate for this office should bea man who has nothing to do with politics, who kas not troubled himself to know the political man- agers. He should be a man noted for capa- city, a master of all the learning that be- longs to the office, and a person about whose probity no one in the community has the least doubt. We mention once more in this connection such names of those of John E. Burrill, Charles M. Da Costa, Lewis L. Delafield, Charles E. Miller and James C. Carter; not that these are the only men at the city Bar who have the requisite qual- ifications, but because they are types of the man needed. We shall watch jealously the action of the nominating powers in regard to this office, and shall oppose vigorously any candidate who is unfit for the responsible place. The Political Plunder of New York. A successful politician must necessarily be a good arithmetician. Not only must he be well versed in the rules of addition, di- vision, subtraction and ‘‘silence,” quoting the words of our able and sprightly con- temporary, the Sun, but he must possess the ability of a lightning calculator, so as to be competent to arrive at totals and per- j centages with promptness and accuracy. Take the plunder to be serambled for in the political pool in this city in the present election, for instance, and it will be seen that the capacity of an expert accountant is needed to grapple with the figures involved. We have to elect a Mayor, a Sheriff, a County Clerk, a Surrogate, a Judge of the Superior Court, a Judge of the Marine Court, six Aldermen-at-Large, sixteen dis- trict Aldermen, three Coroners, seven Con- gressmen and twenty-one Assemblymen. Here are fifty-eight offices to be divided up among a hungry crowd of applicants num- bering nearly as many hundreds, and the labor is of course increased when the divis- ion is to include the members of a rival political organization. The first thing necessary is to ascertain the net value of the offices, after deducting the political per- centages claimed by the successful party, and the result of this primary calculation shows as follows :— Annual | Politic’|| ‘Salary | assess- |Net Re- or Fees.| ments. | cerpts. $7,000 | soe County x Surrogate. | 12/000 Superior Court Ju 12,500 Marine Court Judge pt 8,000 4,500 Twenty-one Alderm 84,000 Seven Congrossmen 24,500 Twenty-one Assemblyme: 25,800 Three Coroners 60,000 Totals ... 1$492,000] $143,700] $348,300 The distribution of the political plunder in this city, therefore, implies the bestowal upon political favorites of the snug net an- nual income of $348,300, and the securing for party. purposes the handsome contribu- tion of $134,700 each year or its proportion during the continuance of those elected in office. But this is by no meansall, or the most important portion of the plunder. The election of a party Mayor, Sheriff, County Clerk and Surrogate; means the bag- ging of a very large amount of direct official patronage with those offices in addition to the salaries and fees. The Mayor appoints the heads of departments when vacancies occur during his term, all of which enter into the calculations of the political pool. The Sheriff's order of arrest clerk and deputies make large amounts outside of the Sheriff's regular fees, amounting in the year, according to the estimate of an ex- pert, to double the amount of the Sheriff's gross income, or, say, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the illegitimate charges greatly exceeding the legitimate charges under some former Sheriffs. This portion of the plunder account stands as fol- lows:— PATRONAGE OF NEXT MATOR. One Police Commissioner. One-third patronage of per tax levy of 1876. ‘Two Commissioners of 6.000 Patronage of office, 18 6,000 One Supervisor City Record. 5/000 Patronage of office, 18 25/000 teat 5,000 93,000 $,000 349,000 5,000 One third share of patrol 46,000 One Dock Comiciesioner. 31000 One-third share patronage (estimated, 2 100,000 One Park Commissioner. pare One-third sharo of salary 151,000 One Commissioner of Tax: 5,000 One-third share of salary patron: 34,000 Superintendent of Building 5 “e800 Patronage of office. 68/500 Comptroller (prob: $2000 Patronage of offic 230,000 Corporation Co! 5. Patronage o! office, 000 Gross total....++.00- ‘Less ven per cent political ‘ase: Net plander.....+.++.-++0e+ eee We include the Comptroller's poration Attorney's offices as the probable plunder of the next Mayor, because, although the terms of office of Mr. Green and Mr. Whitney will expire before Mayor Wickham retires from public life, the Board of Aldermen is understood to be under in- structions not to confirm Mr. Wickham’s appointments to these offices should the Tammany Mayor be successful, but to leave them to his successor. In addition to this we have the patronage of the Sheriff's and County Clerk's offices outside the fees of the principals, and of the Surrogate’s office, which is estimated as follows:— Sheriff's patronage...... County Clerk’s patronag and Cor- seaee ee $274,500 We shinsetoes: tage as the total city and county plunder at stake in the present clec- Net patronage... tion the following grand total :— Gross direct salaries and feos. Less political assessments, Gross Mayor's patronage Less political assessmen: Gross other patronage.. Less political assessmonts, Net personal plunder. Political assossments. It is very easy to undorstand from this statement how difficult » work it must be to Grand total plonder....... suction off and divide up these offices among politicians of rival and adverse organizations, and why Mr. John Kelly is so anxious to secure all the spoils for his own political household. Jack Puddi sme A prurient disease has manifested itself in the dramatic profession during the last ten years. It is confined to comedians, and if not arrested by a dietary prescribed by the public or by the more disagreeable pharmacy of the press it threatens serious conse- quences to the stage, We allude to the in- clination our comic actors exhibit to run into buffoonery. They are losing the artistic sense of where comedy ends and burlesque begins; they are losing the artistic discrim- ination between the laugh of appreciation and the guffaw of the gallery. If this be not reformed altogether comedy and the delin- eation of character will be replaced with farce and caricature ; for it is easier to de- grade and debauch public taste than to ele- vate it. Caricature is an admirable thing in its place, but it should be kept there, Just one hundred years ago Kichard Brinsley Sheridan produced his comedy, ‘The Rivals,” at Drury Lane Theatre, into which he introduced the caricature, Mrs. Malaprop. | The public damned the play on its first rep- resentation ; whereupon the dramatist with- drew it, modified the offensive character, and on its reproduction the comedy was allowed to take its place in dramatio literature, We fear that no similar critical objection would meet such a performance in 1876; but we have not, nevertheless, lost entirely our ap- preciation of truecomedy. Take, forexample, Mr. Gilbert, ot the New York stage, or Mr. Warren, of Boston; these artists never stray beyond the modesty of nature, nor degrade the dignity of their art by mingling the grimaces and tricks of a clown with the de- meanor of the comedian. Those who constantly attend the perform- ances of any popular play will not fail to de- tect that the leading actors gradually import into the dialogue and into what is termed the “business” of the stage speeches and gestures which were not there before. Many of them pride themselves that they have not left a shred of their original parts, and justify their impertinent buffoonery by the laugh- ter it provokes. Shakespeare complained bitterly of similar jack puddings that set on the unthinking part of his audience to grin. The proscenium is not a horse collar and the comedian is not a clown. They manage these matters better in France, and there- fore we refer to French acting as a standard ofthatart. Theactors during a rehearsal of a French play listen to the author and the stage director, and by them they are taught the meaning and action of the drama. Every tone and every gesture is considered, debated, arranged and studied. After this preparation, when the piece is played and proves to be successful, no de- parture of the slightest kind is permitted; in fact, each subsequent performance is a copy of the first, as if it was printed from the same plate. The French comedian never dreams of thrusting his own “gags” into the author's work or altering the action set down for him todo. Such latitude is given only to clowns in burlesque and pantomime. By adhering to this principle the French stage has maintained its pre-eminence and has preserved the dignity of its art. We have a galaxy of admirable comedians in New York, but we lack stage managers capa- ble of maintaining artistic discipline among them and restraining exuberance. It would be very painful for the public or the press to assume this office, and comedians may rest assured that if the delinquents oblige the critic to point them out to the audience there is discrimination and good taste enough among us to repress impertinence and main- tain the respect which the actor is wanting in tothe public as well as to the dramatist when he defaces the character intrusted to him. The New York Centennial Loan Ex- hibition. Success unlooked for in its completeness has attended the experiment of the loan exhibitions organized for the benefit of our local art institutions. Our wealthy citizens, with that public spirit for which they are remarkable, brought forth their treasures and made them, for the time being, public property. In few great cities could the pos, sessors of art works of great value be induced to intrust their treasures to any public in- stitution for the public good, and we feel that a debt of gratitude is due to those who, like Messrs. Belmont and Taylor, unselfishly exposed paintings of great value to all the dangers attending a prolonged exhibition. In the Academy of Design and in the Museum of Art are works that if once de- stroyed could never be restored; monu- ments of modern art whose authors are already gathered to the tomb, and whose fame rests upon a few canvasses mak- ing part of the loan exhibition, In this collection are many of the greatest works of modern art; works known to Europe by engraving and reputation ; works that kings would be proud to own, but which are the property of private citizens of this Republic. Qur foreign visitors cannot fail to be favor- ably impressed by the striking evidence of a high art taste furnished by the quality of the paintings which are found in the gal- leries of our collectors. If we have reason to congratulate ourselves on the success of the loan collections from a purely artistic point of view there is also sound reason for satisfaction when con- sidering it as a financial experiment. Thirty-two thousand dollars have been received since the opening of the exhibitions, and it is calculated that at least forty-five or fifty thousand dollars will have been received before the 10th of November, when the loan exhibitions will be closed. At a meeting of the exhibitors held lately it was agreed that all the works of art should remain on exhibition until that date. Under this agreement the public will have ample opportunity to become ac- quainted with the gems of painting which our wealthy citizens have secured for the American nation—precious gems of human skill that with tima must become priceless. Mr. Belmont was not content to show a part of his riches to the public, but generously threw open his entire collection. That the public appreciated this act of kindness is shown by the eagerness with which they availed themselves of Mr. Belmont’s cours tesy. In the eight days his gallery remained open three thousand five hundred dollars were received for the benefit of the general fund. It is hoped that other large collectors will follow Mr. Belmont’s example. The total number of admissions reach sixty thousand in the Academy of Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most of these were visitors from the other States, our own citizens apparently waiting for the rush to be over. In this they are likely to be disap- pointed, as the attendance continues daily to increase, so that those who wish to see the art wonders had better make their visits withe out delay. The organizers of the loan col- lection have every reason to feel proud of the great success which has attended their undertaking. They have conferred great good on our art institutions and done not a little to elevate the art taste of our people as well as raise us in the opinion of our foreign visitors. Polo. The popularity of the game of polo as a manly sport cannot be denied. Itis a game which requires a steady eye and a certain amount of nerve and the faculty of managing a horse judiciously. The rapidity with which it has gained favor shows that muscular exercises are really beginning to become popular among Ameri- can young men. Some objections have been made to it on the score of danger and ex- pense; but it costs less to maintain three polo ponies than to keep asingle good riding horse. The cost is little and the dan- ger less. The New York Sportsman this week remarks very justly that to abolish polo because some one occasionally gets a fall would be as absurd as though in England some one should propose to “abolish fox hunting and sell off the horses and hounds because a gentleman had a rib or two broken when a bad fencer fell at a bull- finch!” The Sportsman adds that polo is no more dangerous than fox hunting, football and other athletic games. This is very true. It is probably much less dangerous than base ball as that has been played for many years here. It has one important use in that it trains those who practise it in all the arts of horsemanship, and it is qertainly, on every account, preferable to fast driving on the road. Any game which takes men into the open air and which necessarily trains their eye, hand and judgment, is to be comménded in a country where the mass of even young men aro given to sedentary lives. A letter to the Evening Post, which we pub« lish elsewhere, takes a sensible view of polo, but fails to point out the fallacy of the pro- posal of that journal thatit should be played on bicycles instead of on ponies. As the bicycle must be managed with both hands, itis plainly impossible that it should be used in polo, in which the player governs the pony with one hand and uses the mallet with the other. Besides this, the bicycle cannot be trained to play the game, while the pony can—which makes an important difference, ‘ Tita Loveat Cur was won by the Atalanta in the ocean race yesterday, contrary to the . general expectation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Blue James was born sn Ohio. Ireland ships granite to England. St, Louis is becoming a large cotton mart Canning spent over $100,000 in one election. General Blumenthal will succoed Moltke should the latter resign. In the polite cirelos of Mofoceo the word “death” is not used. ‘Tangiers people keep tame snakes to drive mice ouf of their houses. There is another rumor that Mr. Delane will retire from the London Jimes. An Australian, named Evans, bas a large cannog Placed on his breast and fired. Chancellor John V. L. Pruyn arrived trom Albany yesterday at the Brevoort House, Swedish firms are buying great quantities of knape sacks in England, presumably for Russia, Hon, ©. W. Bomynge, Vice President of the San Francisco Stock Exchange, is among the guests at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sefior Don Manuel R. Garcia, Argentine Minister af Washingtoa, and Dr. G. Vidola Dorna, Secretary of the Argentine Legation, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr, Charles P. Huntington has been examined om con’ jent forgetiuiness, Yet tbere is no doubt that the Construction and Finance Committee of that road made their money by deep fraud. In 1790, not a hundred years ago, at the sack of Ismail, the Russians were as atrocious toward the Turks as the latter are toward the Servians; and Suwarrow put 3,090 persons to death, asa lecture to . his solaiers in the art of massaera, The Dublin Nation coucludes an editorial note om the Hell Gate explosion with the remark:—‘Hence. forth the traveller trom Europe will be able to enjoy an unbroken view of a bay which is not leas pictur. esque than that of Naples.” Our Dublin friends ev dently think it was Staten Burlington Hawk Eye :—‘“A patriotic Servian has translated ‘Yankee Doodle’ into his native tongue, ° and the air is so popular that it bids fair to become the national anthem of shat struggling raco. It rans as fallows:-- be la Dhoodalovitski camerowsk tetovwne Ridiegelotibe onoviteh poneolowdosk ; Stuekorelskeno theatheromouk inter his hatovil Adensk colladarovosk macharonitovenski.”” + From the Evening Ezpress.—‘Tho HkRatp keeps up {ts fire on Mr. Kelly, as if he were dictating whe should be tho next Mayor of New York. We have ita authority through an interview with Hon, Augustus Schell that he never exchanged one word with Mr. Kelly as to @ nomination and tho Express has Mr. Kelly’s authority as to the samo fact. This bue and ery then about dictating one man for Mayor isa pure invention. Many democrats and democratic organizae tions have urged Mr. Schell’s nomination as one fit to bo made and Mr, Schell as a man who would make a ly reported that Mr. Schell and Mr. Kelly are leading stockholders in the Ezpreas.” If this is the case the paper must speak by the card when it says that maby democrats and democratic organizations have urged Mr, Scholl’s nomination as ono fit to be made, ‘Will it be kind onough to give the names of those democrats and also of those democratic organizations, From the Evening Telegram:—*‘a valucd correspond. ent sends us a bill of fare, such as one of our local politicians who has been, through looking at the elec. tons through the wrong kind ef spectacles, compelled to reduco expenses, might fitly set before his iriends:— Qrrereserocecoereasentidinaroveoveaeceeocereosensen sou! Soup- Nien Baber Seon" 's private receipt, 3 Shad (Shook), with Gree en (Not Two Urphan)— Schell—Muliet, MEATS. 3 Botled—Dunn (ham) 4 fa Ludlow. 3 Roast—First wart Foxes and stuffed ballot boxes. 3 WINK, Lock @’Or (for wire-puliersi, diumm (lor party leaders), Clique-o (for place-hunters). CIGARS. Weed's (thurlow brand), FRUIT, Morris Whites, PORNO ROLLE ROLL OL OELEDE TODS LEME DEDODEDE ROL —Repeaters at elections will find the above bill of fare remunerative, It offers many advantages over the electoral fashion of free lanchea,” ACO Ente EE LE REEL EEEELO LE TERE DE fairs of the Central Pacific Railroad, and has «¢ _ ind which was blown up. ° WA