The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1876, Page 4

2 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —--—_—_ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded), Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month for any period less than six months, or five dollars for six movths, Sunday edition included, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henkaty. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications wil! not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFI AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subsgriptions and advertisements will be receivel and forwarded on the same terms as in New York VOLUME XII. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, BOOTH'S THEA SE ATAPALUS, as 6 ¥. M. Mr and Mrs. Sgnes i 1 TRE. 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KREU' TEBEHG's fs ihe Phitadetph ti +. east of the Philadelphi; warn ‘Exposition Building. bad WITH SUPPLEMENT. a7, 187 “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, 0 OCTOBER ~ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. _ Jwing to the action of a portion of the carriers and Rewsa 4p, who are determined that tke public snall notha.e the Herap at three cents per copy if they can prevent it, we have made arrangements to piace the Heratp in the hands of all our readors at the reduced price. To that end we have secured wagons and newsboys to patrol every thoroughfare of this city to accommodate our readers. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may desire from tne wagons at the usual wholesale price and also at 1,265 Brodway and No. 2 Ann street. NOTICE TO NEWSMEN. All those who will promineatly display on their stands a notice to the public to the effect that they aro selling the Herat at threo cents per copy will micet with no opposition by boys or others sent from this office. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be clear or partly cloudy. Watt Srneer Yesterpay.—Prices in the stock market were irregular and in the main lower. Gold was steady at 109 3-4. Monoy on call was supplied at 3 dnd 2 per cent, Government bonds were firmer and railway bonds strong. Mr. Sanrorp’s Amenican StapiE sent out o winner at Newmarket yesterday in Bay Final, who won the Dullingham Handicap after running a dead heat with the English horse Broadside. The price of the Heratp to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. , To-Day anv To-Mornow aro the last days for registration before the coming election. Those who have neglected this portion of the duty of exercising the franchise should secure their apility to vote by a visit to the place of registry to-day. ToncHiicut anp Exruustasm in the inter- est of Tilden and Hendricks ruled the streets of New York last night, and the fierce democracy certainly made an imposing display. We may from this date expect the local campaign to be red hot. Spotrep Tam has been made chief over the disarmed Sioux, but we fear that the hearts of the warriors go out to Sitting Bull. Since General Crook has put it out of their power to go out themselves we must accept the situation with thankfulness. The dis- arming and dismounting of the agency In- dians is a sound step toward making them keep the peace. The price of the I Sorth will be three cents. ALD to-day and hence- Govenor Tripen, before the Everett House, in New York, and Governor Hayes, before the Union League, in Philadelphia, were each the cynosure of tens of thousands of sympathizing eyes last night. Every man in each mass of citizens believed he was looking at the next President of the United States; but either New York or Philadelphia must be disappointed, Which? Register to-day and help settle it, | equality of strength. | balanced. | Victory and A NEW YORK HERALD. FRID AY, OCTOBER 27, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Cushion and Rag Baby The Air Party. The candidacy of our esteemed fellow townsman, the venerable Peter Cooper, has been the standing jest of the campaign and atopic of infinite merriment to the small wits of the party press on both sides, They have seemed to regard his nomination as Prince Hal did the practical joke played on poor Falstaff at Gadshill, ‘argument for a week, laughter fora month anda good jest forever.” Laughter is easy, but the politi- cal wags may tind out when the campaign is over that Mr. Cooper gives one of the reg- ular parties reason to ‘laugh on the wrong side of the face.” The greenback canvass has ceased to be the light and amusing topic which it was in the early part of the cam- paign. It rises into grave importance for rea- sons which we will state, To be sure there is no more chance now than there has ever been of Mr. Cooper's election. He will not get an electoral yote in any State. His name will not appear in the proceedings of the electoral colleges And yeta possibility has grown up that Mr. Cooper's canvass may determine the result of the Presidential election. This possibility has arisen since the Octo- ber elections, and is a consequence of their indecisive character. As soon as the Octo~ ber result was declared it was foreseen by the leading politicians of both parties, fore- seen by everybody, that this Presidential election would be the closest that has taken piace since the organization of the govern- ment. Third parties are potent just in pro- portion as the regular parties approach When there is only a slight difference in the weights in the two scales it requires but a small addition or diminntion on either side to carry one scale up and the other down. Mr. Peter Cooper has become formidable in this canvass be- cause the two great parties are so evenly The gain of afew votes by one party or the loss of a few by the other may chango the whole political situation. defeat may be awarded by an insignificant squad of voters in a neck to neck contest between great national parties, 1n all close elections the control of the government is in the hands of any small, resolute minority who choose to “fight on their own hook.” The October elections have disclosed so delicate a poise in the strength of parties that the so much ridi- culed and derided canvass of Peter Cooper may decide who is to be our next President. We will illustrate by examples, although there is no previous example in which the strength of parties was so equal and the re- sult so doubtful as seems to be the case at present. The most noteworthy example in our former history is furnished by the Pres- idential election of 1844, when Clay and Polk were the leading candidates. The abolitionists of that day—a party which had less popular support than the rag baby party has at present—turned the scale and elected Polk. That result was so remarkable and so illustrative that we may be pardoned for recalling the figures. Within the whole ample boundaries of the United States James G. Birney received only a pitiful 62,270 votes; but this small vote for Birney turned the scale and elected Polk, although the Birney men did not have a single Presi- dential elector. The total popular vote for Polk was 1,335,834, and for Clay 1,297,053, the plurality for Polk being only 38,781, or about half of the Birney vote. As between Polk and Clay the Birney party would have preferred Clay, who more nearly represented their views ; and yet they elected Polk, as it is possible that the Peter Cooper men may now elect Hayes, although the greater part of the inflationists are found in the demo- cratic party. Another conspicuous instance in which a small third party decided a Presi- dential election was in 1848, when the free soil party which ran Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams defeated Cass and elected General Taylor. The Van Buren ticket did not get a single electoral vote, but its sup- porters virtually elected tho President. Taylor had 1,362,031 votes and Cass 1,222,455—a difference of only 109,576. The Van Buren vote of 291,455 turned the scale and decided the election, The similar instance which occurred in 1856 was not quite so striking, but in that year alsoa feeble third party determined the result. It is incontestable that Fillmore elected Bu- ehanan, although Fillmore received only the eight electoral votes of Maryland. He drew off republicans enough in other States to defeat Fremont. The Presidential election now before us is closer and more doubtful than that of 1844, when a paltry sixty thou- sand votes for Birney defeated Clay and made Polk President. Nobody can regard Peter Cooper's chances as of less account now than Birney’s were in 1844 ; nobody can think the Cooper canvass more contemptible and ridic- ulous than the Birney canvass was thought to be thirty-two years ago ; and although Peter Cooper has no more chance to be President than Birney had it is quite possible that he, like Birney, may decide the contest between the two principal candidates. In so close an election a few thousand votes in a pivatal State like New York may turn the scale, and we accordingly think that Mr. Cooper's canvass, instead of being the huge joke which the political wags and wits thought it when he was brought into the field, is assuming a serious aspect. If the Cooper movement can get ten or fifteen thousand votes in this State it may decide the contest between Hayes and Tilden and elect the President. We learn from an authentic source that arrangements will be made for distributing Cooper ballots at every election precinct in this city, with the expectation that the Cooper electoral ticket will poll from three thousand to five thousand votes in the metropolis. This does not seem an extrava- gant estimate. Mr. Cooper's supporters have also made arrangements for offering his electoral ticket at the polling places in the interior of the State, and they think he will get twenty thousand votes in the State of New York. But twenty thousand votes may make the difference between success and defeat in the contest between Hayes and Tilden. It is conceded by both parties that the Presidential election will be de- cided by the vote of New York, and the two parties in this State are so evenly balanced that it is no fantasy to suppose that the Cooper ticket may turn the scale, Beside New York Indiana is one of the doubtful States in which the Cooper men may hold the balance of power. There is strong and aggressive greenback party in Indiana, consisting of men who believe in the rag money doctrine. A large portion of them had no hesitation in voting for Will- iams in the State contest, but they are too fanatical to waive their greenback preju- dices in the Presidential canvass. If any considerable part of the rag money men of Indiana should vote for Mr. Cooper Hayes would carry the State. The democratic Party cannot afford to lose Indiana. If they should lose both Indiana and New York by the greenback diversion the jig would be up with the democratic party. We warn the democrats of this danger, but are not sure that any precautions or exer- tions on their part will suffice to obviate it. In o contest so close and doubtful as the present it may happen, and is not unlikely to happen, that the derided canvass of Peter Cooper is the real pivot of the Presidential election. We must express our regret that our es- teemed and venerable fellow ‘townsman, whose name is an honored household word throughout the length and breadth of the United States, and especially in this city, where he is so well known and regarded with so much affectionate veneration, we regret, we say, that a citizen who has so many titles to esteem has permitted himself to be made the representative of the rag money heresy. Mr. Cooper deservedly holds the first place among American philanthropists, and there is no other citizen in whose favor the public is so inclined to observe the lenient rule— Be to her tauits a little blind, Be 0 her virtues very kind. The unfeigned respect felt for Mr. Cooper's virtues has a tendency to bribe the judg- ment and court the support of citizens who would not otherwise separate themselves from the political parties with which they have been accustomed to act. With all due respect for Mr. Cooper's judgment we think the greenback idea a miserable, illogical tal- lacy, fraught with danger to every business interest. But we cannot be blind to the fact that his small squad of supporters may, perhaps, turn the scale in so close an elec- tion. The price of the Heratp to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. Austria and Germany. There are hard words between the Aus- trian and German press that seem to have a peculiar significance just now. In the United States the press, as we know by the capital experience of the civil war, has a dangerous capacity for the excitement of the public mind and for putting the disputes and differences of sections in such a position as to make compromise impossible. It was the inflammatory Southern newspapers more than any other single force in the country which made it necessary that the settlement of sectional differences should occur on the battle field. This power of the newspapers to put into a hostile attitude populations that previously only differed in opinion is with us a consequence of the absolute free- dom of the press. But, strangely enough, the press seems to possess the same power in Europe, and there it is a consequence of its trammelled condition. Thus the stric- tures of the Austrian press on Ger- ‘many's attitude excites the subjects of this criticism, because, as the Austrian govern- ment has the full authority to prevent such publications, the fact that it does not pre- vent them will be regarded in Germany as an evidence that the opinions aré not merely those of the journalists but of the govern- ment. In Austria the same view will be taken of the German answers, which will certainly not be less tart than the Austrian criticisms, It would be an odd eventual settlement of the Oriental difficulty if the two ‘royal and imperial” governments should become so deeply involved in a dispute of this nature as to leave Russia and the Porte slone to deal with one an- other. But even without such a quarrel there is a likelihood that Austria’s intluence will be neutralized in the settlement by dif- ferences within her own limits as to her rela- tion to the great dispute. Hungary's antipathy to Russia provokes demonstrations favorable to Turkey, and this is so contrary to the requirements of the triple alliance that it must necessarily provoke an inter- national scandal. This threatens to lead to changes in the Austrian government; but until those changes take place Austria’s position on any point in issue will not be of consequence beyond her own borders, The price of the Hzenaup (o-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Newsparer Carnizns’ Brrrs.—The mid- dlemen who sell the Hxnaup to our citizens doa great proportion of their business by delivering the paper at the houses daily. It has been represented to us that some of the dealers, who collect their bills by the week, fortnight or month, have resolved on charging their customers four cents per copy for the Heraup. We therefore warn the public to scrutinize thei? newsdealers’ bills and refuse to pay more than the price at which it is published—namely, three cents per copy. Attention to this matter will pre- vent extortion, tor where a dealer is deteoted in such a practice there will be no difficulty in applying the remedy. “Onto Dar” at the Centennial Exposition yesterday was mado especially notable among the State days by the presence of Governor Hayes, the republican candidate for President. Philadelphia is a republican city, as New York is a democratic one, and hence, although the Governor carefully avoided politics in his four speeches, he could not avoid the politicians and their following. Much enthusiasm was evoked wherever he showed himself, and at last accounts he was still speaking or shaking hands with citizens who want to repeat the operation in the White House. A Pantian ‘Suor. The Westchestrians are about to celebrate the battle of White Plains, which, although literally a defeat of the Revolutionary army, was one of the chain of events which taught the British how hope- less was the contest where the foe could strike as effectively in retreat as in advance, Every step of the patriot army was one toward victory, although the road was devious and the skies were pitiless for many a dreary day, Third Part in City Polities. We do not think a third party io iby pr itics can have anything like the potyfey « efficiency of the greenback party #4 the na- tional canvass. The power of thind parties depends on a pretty equal division betwees the two regular parties. If we cowld sup- pose the two great parties to have brecisely the same strength the change + of \a single vote would decide the contest between them. Our two great pgtional parties are so evenly balanced that the insignificant vote for Peter Cooper may decide the Presidential! election; but there is no such equality between the strength of the two leading parties im this city. There is no reason to suppost thet few thousard votes will determine wh» is to be our next Mayor as a few thousan determine who will be the next Pros! The democratic party has so immen ponderance in this city that no © party can hold the fate of & city hands. There is, nevertheless, this peculiarity, that when one party is 50 oy helmingiy strong as the democrats are in the city of New York the jealousies of leaders may cause asplit and revolt, and if the section of the party which draws off is large enough to make a majority when combined with the opposition the regular party may be weak by the excess of its strength. This has often happened to the democratic party of this city, and may happen again in the coming city contest. It isa frequent expe- rience in our city elections. Mr. Opdyke, a republican, was elected Mayor in 1861 by a slender plurality of 613, although the whole democratio vote exceeded the republican vote by nearly twotoone. A republican Mayor was elected in consequence of a democratic split, Mr. Opdyke, the repub- lican candidate, receiving 25,380 votes; Mr. Gunther, the Tammany democratic candi- date, receiving 24,767 votes, and Mr. Fer- nando Wood, the Mozart Hall democratic candidate, receiving $4,167 votes, When a political party is strong enough to take the risk of split it isas much at the mercy of its opponents as when the two parties are 50 equally balanced that a small third party may turn the scale. It does not yet appear whether the dissatisfied democratic con- tingent in the coming municipal election will bring to the republicans a strong enough contingent to enable them to elect their local ticket. But, until this question is determined, the result in the city is as un- certain as the result in the State is by the equally balanced state of parties, which makes it possible for the Peter Cooper ticket to turn the scale. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents. Mr. Sanford’s Lotter. We give place in another column to a let- ter sent us by Mr. Thurlow Weed from Mr. H. S. Sanford, lately Minister to Belgium, in which he discusses various phases of the Southern question. He acknowledges that there have been great and scandalous abuses in the South by the republican camp follow- ers who have ruled there and still rule in some of the States. He points out that the credit of those States has seriously suffered abroad, which was inevitable when the s0- called republican rulers ran up monstrous State debts and robbed in every direction. He says, what is perfectly true, that those States, with good government, have before them an era of wonderful prosperity; and he adds that what they now need is to be left alone to manage their own affairs, in which not only we but the greater part of the Northern people agree with him. The continued interference of the federal power in the local affairs of the Southern States is very strongly disliked in the North, where it is seriously damaging the republican pros- pects, and we are glad to have Mr. Sanford’s testimony to the fact that it is wrong, be- cause he is not only a large property owner in the Southern States, but, as his letter shows, an ardent republican. As to what Mr. Sanford asserts about the danger to. our public credit abroad from a democratic victory in November, we aro sorry to see so intelligent a man put forward so absurd a statement. From men like hit: we expect better things than such mere cam- paign thunder. He acknowledges that the Northern democratic leaders are good citi- zens, a8 well as the republicans. But he need only ask himself whether they are fools ornot. If the democratic party should get into power does he imagine that they are going to fling away all their political future at once by tampering in any way with the public credit? The democratic leaders are—like their republican rivals—fond of office and power. Doubtless if they get in they hope for a prolonged term of office, Cannot: Mr. Sanford see what everybody else sees—-that to tamper with the public credit, to increase the national debt, to act in any way unwisely or unpatriotically, would, in two years, send the party into an unwelcome exile for half a century? No party purposely commits suicide. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. The Herald and the Newsdealers. That obstreperous and short-sighted fac- tion of the newsdealing fraternity which pro- tests noisily against the reduction in the price of the Herarp has been seeking to en- list popular sympathy by the plea that the small hand-to-mouth dealers are being ground down and forced to the verge of starvation, and that a great injustice is chargeable to the Hxnaup in consequence, This specious but absurd plea is abundantly refuted by the statements of the small dealers themselves, as reported elsewhere, Instead of being ground or starved to the | alleged degree they are not only in a fair state of health and comfort, but are doing a much larger business in Hrraups than here- tofore, owing to the popular appreciation of the reduction in price and the corresponding increase of the demand. ‘I've sold forty to-day,” said one dealer, “and I never used to sell more than eighteen or twenty before the price was reduced.” It is apparent that at this ratio of increase the advantage to the dealer is greater than before, and thus the fact dawns upon the newsmren that an old profit may return ina new dress, and that they who most promptly accept tho new order of things will reap tho first bene- fit, while the less sagacious and more ' | ditatory few will be distanced in the race | by enterprising brethren. The action of the Henarp was taken only after the most careful deliberation, and, having been finally | determined upon, was not to be lightly changed at the whim and caprice of a faction of middlemen, the whole body .of whom, though useful enough, are by 10 means essential to the efficient distribution of an enterprising newspaper. It is creditable to the small dealers that they are “selling lots of 'em,” as one of the newsmen says, instead of wasting time in idle protests. By at- tending to business and promptly accepting the new conditions they are preparing to reap the harvest of their industry and sa- gacity. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. The Next Cabinet Once More. We return once more to the two lists we printed some days ago of eminent public men from among whom Mr. Hayes and Mr. Tilden would select their Cabinets. The range of choice for either is not large, for the next President, as Senator Conkling wisely says, must represent his party and “maintain and illustrate its spirit ;” and to do that he must select his constitutional advisers from the most prominent repre- sentative men of the party—from, in fact, the names included in the following lists :— RAYS CABINET, TILDEN CABINET. Blaine, Thurman, Mort Bayard, Brist © ¥. Adams, Chandier, Balmont, Gonkiing, Trumbull a warts, A. Well Judge Hoag Handoinny ” ean, Morrison, Morgan, Hewitt,’ Sherman, Gaston, Curtis, Payne, Jowell Governor Palmer, And to represent the South :— Gordon (Georgia), L. @ C. Lamar. All these are gentlemen not only promi- nent in their party, but themselves of de- cided characters. To begin with the names in Mr. Hayes’ iist:—Blaine is brilliant, dash- ing and fertile in resources; Morton is ofthe bulldog kind, who never gives up; Bristow, though a Southern man, has shown himself in the present canvass as determined a re- publican as any of his rivals; Chandler is a rough diamond and a skilful party manager; Conkling is the pride of New York repub- licans, a republican without fear and with- out reproach; Evarts is a profound and brilliant lawyer; Judge Hoar has been Attor- ney General and has ability for that or any other Cabinet position; General Logan, gloomy and tenacious, has made the War Department a special study; Governor Mor- gan combines the two functions of merchant and politician; Senator Sherman has had long experience in the Senate and would bring to the Cabinet an intimate knowledge of public business; George William Curtis is the scholar and gentleman in American politics; and Mr. Jewell's knowledge of Post Office affairs would make him at home in the Department of Fast Trains. Consider next the material for Mr. Til- den’s Cabinet:—Thurman, the Nestor of democratic Senators, not brilliant but solid ; Bayard, brave, impetuous and thoroughly grounded in the constitution ; C. F. Adams, an historical politician who inherits both his principles and his ability ; Belmont, a banker of large experience and acknowledged financial wisdom ; Trumbull is a profound and eloquent lawyer; D. A. Wells is famous in Europe as well as here for his mastery of the important question of taxation ; Senator Randolph is a statesman of impartial mind and firm grasp of principle ; Morrison is the Ulysses of his party, the most sagacious manager of men ; Hewitt isa manufacturer of uncommon ability and breadth of thought; Gaston has upheld the democratic banner in Massachusetts through adversity and prosperity ; Payne is a sagacious and con- servative Western banker; Palmer, general in the Union armies and democrat by prin- ciple and conviction ; Senator Gordon, of Georgia, is the ardent and wise friend of civil service reform in the Senate, and Lamar is the ablest and broadest statesman of the South, the preacher of peace between the sections. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Sorth will Le three cents. Tho International Opera House. Apart from the question of growth in wealth and population and consequent power of sustaining more and better estab- lishments devoted to the dramatic and lyric arts, the enterprising New York manager has to consider location. When he is satis- fied that New York can support another opera house or another high comedy theatre his most difficult task remains in ‘putting it where it will do the most good.” We suppose Mr. Maurice Strakosch has solved the main question to his satisfaction, and taken his cue from Delmonico, who has forsaken the old operatic alignment of Fourteenth street for a more advantageous “stand” up town. We shall welcome a new home for opera, particularly on such a splendid scale os Mr. Strakosch indicates, not because we atall believe that the use- fulness of the Academy of Music is ap- proaching an end, but because competition is the life of art as wells trade. What the artistic rivalry between Gye and Mapleson in London and between Halanzier and Strakosch in Paris has done for opera in Europe we all know. A new house as large as La Scala, at Milan, with stage appliances equal to those of Wagner's Theatre at Baireuth, with one hundred and sixty boxes, with seating capacity for five thousand persons, and un- der the management of so enterprising and experienced an impresario as Mr. Strakosch would so stimulate the taste for opera in New York that it would soon reap its profit and keep the Academy of Music going as well, Give New York such a house, with a first class company, headed by such artists as Mme. Adelina Patti and Mlle. de Belocca, and Mr. Strakosch will evoke a vigorous rival atthe Academy of Music, even if his brother Max has to head the opposition. We could look on even such on unfraternal strife with complacency if wo thought that art was bettered thereby. Weare even cer- tain that when Maurice stabbed Max with a bewitching tenor, or Max defiantly flung a magnificent baritone at the head of Maurice, each would bear the pang at wounding his relative with the same fortitude that nerves Medea whon she butchers her babies with a stage aagger. We therefore hasten to give our best wishes to the new entere prise of Mr. Strakosch, and to register our belief in its possibilities of handsome profit and that is the touchstone of success, The price of the Henaup to-day and hence forth will be three cents. Why the South Carolina Democrats Ask for Troops. A delegatipn of Charleston democrats have asked for the protection of United Stater troops. Why? A letter we received some days ago from a lady of Charleston tells the reason, The ruffianly part of the blacks of . Charleston, this lady complained, daily gather in the streets, insult ladies and frighten children with vague threats of vio~ lence and murder. This has gone on for some time. There is no remedy for this grievous abuse and danger. The local gove ernment does not give protection ; the Gov- ernor neglects his‘duty as conservator of the peace and order of the State, and the white men are forbidden by Chamberlain's procla- mation to carry arms or to organize to pro- tect those dear to them. . What can they do? If they undertake to punish these black ruf- fians they outlaw themselves, and, not only that, but they help Chamberlain to raise a hue and cry of insurrection. Every one must rejoice that they have restrained the natural impulse to crush ruffianism them- selves. They haveasked for federal troops— what else had Chamberlain left for them to do, except to suffer the continued insults to ladies and children of the lawless blacks? Philosophic Catering. As good wine is said to need no bush, so wherever Delmonico puts up a kitchen with an eating room attached people are sure of a good dinner if they can pay for it, and there is no necessity for covering the city with ters to assure our citizené of the fact. The late Mr. Stewart would not have his name over his stores on the same principle, but everybody knew where to find the great dry goods man, whether a yard or a cargo of calico was wanted. When the Nestors of the restau. rant business of New York open a new house it is as much an event as the opening of a royal bottle of Johannisberg or Chateau Yquem, hoary with the cobwebs of & quarter century, at the little dinner of a pair of veteran gourmands, On Broadway, near Pine, the lucky honse finds itself which was yesterday bap- tized in all kinds of desirable and stim- ulating liquids, and on whose altar every edible bird and beast (in season) was offered up, not, indeed, whole burnt offerings, but “done to a turn.” © rare Delmonico! we would say of tho great king of cuisine, ag was said of Ben Jonson, did it not strike ua that & captious world might think the per- fect chef of chefs was in the habit of presenting his viands underdone. Let us rather say sa- gacious Delmonico, for it is the live tradition of nigh a century in Gotham that ‘as Del- monico goes so goes the dining.” In his new palatial house of the roasted bird and the fragrant wine on Fifth avenue beyond Madison square success has crowned his brow as naturally as good humor crowns good cheer. Marching a legion of cooks from Fourteenth street upon the heels of the upholsterers and house. fitters who went ahead to make things comfortable, Delmonico completed his conquest over the bons vivanls as quickly as Cesar over the Pharnaces. He came, he slew (birds), he cooked. The business movements of so sagacious a caterer are a matter of significance to the student of ouz city’s growth, and the abandonment of the Fourteenth and Chambers street houses for houses respectively half a mile higher ug town and half a mile lower down town are suggestive of a dual concentrative movement of our better classes for business and pleas+ ure worth noting. The price of the Henaup to-day and hences Sorth will be three cents. PERSONAL INTEL Ton days to Waterloo. Mr. Colfax is in Chicago. There is ice cream in tho air, Florida groves are golden with orangos, Farmors are making perry, a drink of the olden time Gail Hamilton received one vote for county treag urer. A flock of quail Iandea@ on Boston Common afew days ago. Mr. Robert C, Winthrop, of Boston, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Senator William M. Gwin, of California, is at ™ New York Hotel.- Mr. M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicta is at the Windsor. Sceretary Robeson avd Postmaster General Tyner are at the Filtli Avenue Hotel. The Paterson Press says that the latest democrati¢ returns are Tweed and Woodward, Protessor Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yalo College, ar+ rived Inst evening at the Everett House, In Middletéwn, Conn., the other day, a pig was bors with the trunk of an olephant, but it died. Woodford speaks so bard in tho campaign that papes collars have melted and run all over him. The Graphie:—‘‘Alexander HL Stephet print one of his paragraphs in book form. No meaner man could be found than he who calle Blue James Williams ‘‘a hole-soled fellow.” A country woman having her shoes blacked attracte: much attention on a fashionable street in Chicago, Cameron, of the War Di ‘tment, arrived vening and is at the Brevoort House, Two enterprising Californians will net over $250,000 this year from 1,000 acres of walhuts and almonda planted four yéars ago. Washington Nation :—‘‘Some people think they are too sensiblo to rolish a Joke, but tew will feel bad over the threo centsible joke which inflamed the New Yors Herat on Friday.” Referring to the silence of Josephus concerning LIGENCE is going te Jesus Christ, Dean Stanley shows that itis far les | wondertul than the silence of Thucydides with refer- ence to the splendid and influential position of Socrates, Professor Amos proposes tbat private property at gen shall be exempt from seizure in time of war, bat does pot ask that pri proporty on Jand shall be respected. Liye on th emy’s people, seoms to be the rule on land or water. From the Evening Telegram—junket for a Joweller:— Qrecesenenenecceserececerenuseccerecscscesereseece4 (Pearl) Osetee Soup. FISH. Gold Fish, with “Mint Sauce.” ENTRERS. Links of Sausage. POULTKY, Main Spring Chickens, VEGRTANLES. Carrots (eighteen oe (Emerald) Greens, Watch Deg Walther, OAmE. A “Hunting Case.” LIQrORS, Ginevay DESSERT. roma Anam then Anything for a “Wind up.’ pene re eene Leet cett Bt DELL EL EI TEE DE Oat AOUL OL LODO TE FELL IELELEOL DODO DIE PEDEGE DEDEDE —After this the Telegram should have prescribed Key ‘West cigara,