The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, _ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1876.--QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw York LD, Letters and kages should be proper!: Pag packagi properly Rejected communications will not be re- varned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptfons and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. . VOLUME XLI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. BROOKLYN, THEATRE, JANE EYRE, as 4 | _ arly +-NO, 803 A Ghatiee LIFE, at 8 ry eat ert Johnstone, RE THEATRE D OPERA_ louse, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, ate P, NEW YORK Saraki Open daily. BOOTH'S THEATRE. pel eater ats P.M. Mr. Bangs end Mrs. Agnes jouth. PARK THEATRE, SWEETIEARTS and TOM COBB, at8 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE. VARIETY AND DRAMA, P. dL. TONY, PASTO. VARIETY, at SP. M. 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Gov- vernment and railway bonds are generally steady. “Ir Is Gorxc To Bz a Cross Exxcrior,” said Uncle Samuel, and he forthwith regis- tered. Prudent man! Lawzessxess 1x Ankansas.—The shooting of three Methodist clergymen by two illicit distillers, in Pope county, has neither a po- litical nor religious bearing. It is, however, a sad commentary on the state of society in the Southwest. Tarnz Is aN Unraruixa Wertsrrixe of interest in the case of poor little Charley Ross, whose fate is still in doubt. The latest developments have certainly a promise that something will be learned of the whereabouts of the child. That he is not dead is clearly indicated. “Capruntna a Paper” is, it seems, an offence not confined to the editors of re- ligious journals. The Workingman, a soft money paper published in Wilkesbarre, was, it appears, surreptitiously turned into a republican organ yesterday by the business partner of the editor. It is, however, the fate of the workingman to be sold out. The chances of Cooper and Cary in Pennsylvania are said to be seriously endangered. Tux Brornennoop or Screncz.—Not the least part of the debt which the American world of science will owe to Captain Nares, the leader of the latest English Arctic Expee dition, will arise from his kindly act in placing a memorial tablet upon the shores of Polaris Bay, where the bluff and whole- hearted Captain Hall lay down to die, and where his remains were laid amid the dark- ness of the Polar night. Acts like this break down barriers between peoples more effec- tively than treaties. Croron Waten.—In order to second as far as possible the efforts of the Water Bureau to economize the present meagre supply would it not be well for manufacturers to examine into the causes of extraordinary consumption in their large factories, and particularly into that of the sugar works on West strect, whence o small river of water is continually flowing along the stroet gutters? The stream is fully ono foot wide and nearly six inches deep, and flows at the rate of about three feet per second, or nearly nine hundred thousand gallons per day, | Tuz Weratuer.—The storm arca in the West has developed rapidly, and its ad- vanced isobars now overrun the entire country east of the Mississippi. Rain has prevailed from Indianapolis to the Atlantic ina belt embracing the lower lakes and the Dhio Valley and the coast as far south as Baltimore. Tho heaviest rainfall has been in the Ohio Valley and the lightest in the vicinity of New York, where, up to five clock last evening, only one-hundreth of ‘an inch had fallen. The temperature within the storm area is high, but in the early morn- | the city prospects. | nated an entire ticket. The democratic can- | they go about somewhat like Diogenes look- The City Tickets. The Henaxp, as the organ of the indepen- dent voters, does not mean to forget the city of New York. ‘The country may go for Hayes or for Tilden, or for Cooper even, and we shall still have a city. New York is like Wordsworth’s brook, ‘‘formen may come and men may go, but it runs on forever,” to the great satisfaction of the politicians who live on it, and whose interest is enlivened by the fact that their share of the city plunder amounts this year, as we showed the other day, tothe handsome sum of three and a half millions; which is as though our | city officers possessed a fortune of fifty mill- ions and had it safely invested at seven per cent. They are a very lucky set of tellows, and we bave not in this estimate reckoned their fat pickings, though we do not forget that city politicians resemble the thrifty Scotch ship's carpenter, who remarked that ‘it was na for the muckleswages he shipped, but for the wee things he could pick up about the decks.” We do not need to stir up the interest in city affairs of the professional politicians of both or all the parties. They are wide awake. But there area good many people in New York who pay taxes, besides those who re- ceive them. The taxpayers, who include all except the tax consumers, take, on the whole, less interest in New York than the city deserves at theirhands. The late Sena- tor Clayton of Delaware never cast a vote without asking what Delaware would say. It isto be wished that the voters of New York were as faithful to their municipality. What they will do next Tuesday week is to vote away, in city salaries and perquisites alone, the interest on a capital of fifty mill- ions. That is for servants’ wages only, so to speak ; as for household expenses, waste and pickings, we leave these items to those who can use a very lively imagination ina patient scrutiny of the city expenditures. Let us, therefore, reverse the example of General Arthur and his fellow republican managers, who seem to be interosted mainly in the Presidential election. Let us look at Tammany has nomi- didate for Mayor, Mr. Smith Ely, is, on the j whole, a good man; he is incorruptibly | honest, as Mr. Tweed could certify; he | knows the wants of the city; he is a promi- nent merchant and will have influence among his class. In fact, his nomination was a lucky stroke for the democrats. It | remains to be seen whom the republicans will put up. They are very slow about it; ing for an honest man, and we trust they will find one. The independent voter is never so happy as when he can make his choice between two men equally capable and: honest. If the republicans will take our advice they will not rest until they have discovered in their party even a better can- didate for Mayor than Mr. Ely. That is the way to spike the democratic guns. This isa reform year, and the independent voter has got up on a high fence, where he has a clear view of the situation, and he means to come down for the best man. He likes Mr. Ely, but he waits to see what the republican mountain so tong in labor may produce. Hence we advise Gencral Arthur and his fel- low managers, Messrs. Darling, Morgan, Bliss, Opdyke, Sharpe, Davenport and Mur- phy, to put up for Mayor a conspicuously better man than Mr. Ely. They have an ex- cellent opportunity here for covering them. selves with glory. Their candidate may not be elected—it is not safe to bet on anybody in these days—but, at any rate, he will be a credit to the gentlemen who discover him and nominate him. It will show that their intentions are strictly honorable and pa- triotic. Then, aside from the democratic nomina- tion, there is Mr. Green, who may bs said to bea perpetual candidate for Mayor—n can- didate nobly independent of party conven- tions; the Green candidate, as it were. It will be a great success for the republican managers if they can carry offsome of Mr. Green’s delegations. ‘To lead off the blind men, to coax away from him the contractors, to seduce the organ grinders from their first love, by nominating o candidate not only better than Mr. Ely, but better also than Mr. Green—this would be a stroke of genius which the Hzraup, highly as it esteems Mr. Green, could not help but applaud. For, as the organ of the independent voters, our platform is ‘may the best man win;” and if a better man than Mr. Green should be dis- covered by the republicans we should say he deserved at least a part of Mr. Green's vote, The whole of it he could not expect to get. Mr. Green will take care of that. He is also a voter. If we seem to urge the republicans to the most vigorous and unceasing exertions to- ward the discovery of a supereminently capable and honest man for their candidate this is because we remember, what they ap- pear to forget, that on the city vote the State result may possibly depend; and on the State vote the Presidential election undoubt- edly turns. Messrs. Murphy, Darling, Arthur and Bliss seem sometimes to forget this, Their devotion to Mr. Hayes is*so engross- ing that it is necessary to remind them of details. Election day comes next Tuesday week, They ought now to be printing their city ticket, and they have not yet made | their nominations. If we were addressing | Mr. Tom Murphy personally we should warn him that tempus fugit; that prarmonitus, | pramunitus ; that it belongs to him to take care ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat; that honos habet onus; and that if he does not hasten his nominations he will by and by discover that ex nihilo nihil fit. Nor would it be worth while for him to ask quod hoc sibi vult ? But it is not only a Mayor whom the re- publicans have to find; they need a whole city ticket. The democratic ticket, with an excellent head, is, on the whole, good, bad and indifferent, and of a character in some of its parts to make the independent voter wait to see what Messrs. Murphy, Darling and Bliss propose. Mr. Calvin, the democratic candidate for Surrogate, is sharply attacked in some @uarters. We do not mean to de- fend him, If he has done wrong this can be made evident between now and election day, and if he is not a proper man he ought Ing it is tow in the Northwest. During to- day the weather in New York will be cloudy end warmer. probably with rain, to be defeated, and doubtiess will be, if a better man is put upagainst him. This is a good year for scratching tickets. and the in- \ dependent voter will exercise that one of the inalienable rights of an American citizen with uncommon freedom next election day. Meantime we repeat that » good deal de- pends on the vote of New York. Both, or rather all, parties, wilh do well to leave nothing undone to secure a large share of the registered vote. When we hear the talk of the politicians of all parties we are con- vinced that this present clection is un- usually uncertain. The democrats claim the State by from sixty to seventy thousand majority; the republicans are sanguine that they will carry it by fifty thousand; Mr. Cooper is too wily and astute a politician to let his estimates be known, but he would be more or less than human in such a year as this if he reckoned on less than twenty-five thousand; and Mr. Green would probably growl that the city was without gratitude if it gave him less than a hundred thousand. The independent voter, counting up on his fingers ull these amazing and grati- fying majorities, is more than ever con- vinced that no course is safe or prudent for him except to vote for the best man and trust to the counting of the ballots for the rest. It is, as the leaders of all parties have solemnly assured us, in public as yell as privately, a most critical time for the Re- public. If either Tilden or Hayes or Cooper is elected we could bring affidavits of eminent citizens to prove that our liberties will bo gone ; that prosperity will sail from our shores in the first steamer ; that our bonds will be worthless, except so far as they can be sold as curiosities, and that our public credit will be as ragged as a last year’s political banner. On the other hand, and not to leave the independent voter to absolute despair, we are prepared to produce affidavits of eqally eminent men to certify that if either Tilden, Mayes or Cooper is elected, the country will enter at once on a career of unparalleled prosperity ; that our credit will be good for thousands of millions; our liberties so safe that the most anxious citizen may securely go to bed, and, in short, everything will be lovely. Under these solemn circumstances it seems to us advisable for the republicans to find, as soon as they can,a candidate for the Mayoralty of such resplendent abilities and unprecedented popularity as to give him at least as great a majority in this city as the combined estimated majorities of all the Presidential candidates in the State. If they can do this they will secure a gratifying success. French Protest Against Da Sommer- ard’s Assault. M. Du Sommerard’s assault on this coun- try makes a noise in Paris. The gross impertinence of the publication by an official personage of offensive criticisms and insulting imputations upon a people to whose country he is sent as a fanctionary of his government is a fact that will not be looked upon lightly in France, where, if anywhere in the world, there is a punc- tilious appreciation of the obligations and proprieties of public service. Party divisions may affect such paints in some de- gree, but they will not go far. M.. Du Sommerard, as an ardent Bonapartist, is naturally ready to find that all which is re- publican is vile, and he may have fancied that he had a cheap opportunity to further the ideas of his party by the vilification of a people which does not believe in personal government and which, in the eyes of those who do believe in such government, is guilty of the unpardonable sin of de- monstrating the possible. success of popular institutions. Those groups of politicians in France who are of M. Du Sommerard’s party may applavd his obser- vations from a ready perception of their po- litical drift. But these groups are not the French people. The vigorous letter from Marquis de Talleyrand, published else- where in our special despatch from Paris, indicates the tone in which a courteous and friendly nation will resent the offence against its own dignity and good manners perpetrated by one of its servants, We do not believe the French government will fail to indicate its displeasure with the act of an official which is gra- tuitously offensive, toward a nation so inti- mately related to France by many ties, and the superserviceable functionary will dis- cover no doubt that he was not sent to Philadglphia in order to re-echo thence the poor twaddle of Sardou’s play. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Two great and notable ecclesiastics, who have recently exchanged labor for reward— Bishop Cummins, of the Reformed Episco- pal Church, and Bishop Janes, of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church—will be specially remembered to-day by their religious and personal friends, Rev. Mr. Sabine and Dr. Fowler and others. The Reformation of the sixteenth century, which indirectly pro- duced those men, will receive the attention of Dr. Krotel, while Mr. Muir presents the claims of Christian manliness on his people, and Dr. Goodspeed urges young men to a better trust than that on which they rest outside of Christ. Mr. Giles seems intent on demolishing Huxley and his school of scientists by pitting Swedenborgian revela- tion against geological revelation. He will point out man's place in creation and show how he is related to God on one side and differs from animals on the other, He will prove that the material universe exists only for the preservation of mankind; that all the earths in the universe are but the seminaries of humanity, and that every inhabitant of the heavens and of the hells was once a material being on some globe in the physical universe. But Mr. McCarthy is equally ready to prove that there is no such thing as everlasting punishment and no such place as hell, and Professor Adler is ready also to expound the theory of rewards and punishments as re- lated to the immortality of man. Mr. Wake- man, too, will dispose of Professor Huxley and the scientific and religious relations of biology. «“Munrper Wier Out.”—'The confessions of the wretch McConochie, who murdered ‘the child Maggie Bauer, point the old adage, It is founded on the inequality of human naturo, which is seldom furnished with im- passiveness, although occasionally equipped with the passion to kill, The Herald and the News Agenctes. | The opposition made to the reduction in the price of the Hzraup comes, as we have before pointed ont, mainly, if not alto- gether, from a set of monopolist middlemen who have become rich and imprudent by the too long tolerance both of the public and the proprietors of newspapers. The busi- ness in which these news companies are en- gaged is the supplying of retail dealers in all parts of the country. So long as they carried on this enterprise in a proper man- ner they were undoubtedly useful to the public; but they have not been content with that. Gradually they have imposed their own terms upon the poor retailers, and have not scrupled to drive out of business such of these as ventured to resist their extortionate and op- pressive demands, They have managed to get control of whole editions of some weekly papers and are constantly on the alert to secure others, and their policy is to sell to the retail dealers at such prices as they choose to fix, and to prohibit these in- dustrious men from buying their supplies in any case at first hand and of the publish- ers, Where these demands are resisted they set up an opposition shop and undersell their victim, or they refuse to supply him with a part of his goods unless he wiJl buy all of them. That is to say, they aim to monopolize and absolutely control on their own terms the vast business of distributing newspapers and periodical publications of all kinds. As an example of this policy we print else- where to-day a cirenlar from a Detroit news- dealer, who has been punished for attempt- ing to buy direct of publishers by having a rival set up near his door, and being refused leave to buy such papers as the news monopolists control. Observe: he was first offered by the monopolists an interest under their control in his own busi- ness, which he had created by thirty years of industrious labor. Perhaps they are pre- paring to offer to the proprietor of the Henaxp also an interest in this journal. Re- fusing this, Mr. Roys found a rival estab- lished near him, with the object of under- selling him. This business has gone on for some years, and the American News Com- pany’s signs have in that period taken the places of the signs of a good many formerly independent dealers, Thus Robe at Albany. Taylor at Baltimore, Smith at Philadelphia, Pitlock at Pittsburg, Chandler at Newark, Walsh at Chicago have disappeared, and in their stead rule the Albany, Baltimore and Chicago news companies, branches of the American News Company. In some, at least, of these cases men who had established an independent and prosperous business were compelled by the measures we have detailed to accept an interest in their own business and submit to the control of their masters, the monopolists. It seems to us to the manifest interest of all publishers to maintain their own free- dom by establishing an open trade at a uniform price with all newsdealers. This the Henatp has aimed to do, believing that thus its own interests and those of its read- ers and the public would be best served. Some years ago we had less than forty dealers on our books. We have now nearly a thou- sand, and many of these subdivide their orders and thus swell the aggregate number with whom we have business rela- tions. We are now supplying newsdealers from Portland, Me., to Los Angeles, in California, with from ten to ten thousand copies each, and these are sold to them at the same rates which we charge to the New York News companies. We have found it profitable to maintain this free trade with all newsdealers, and advise other publishing houses to the same course. As an example of the policy of these mo- nopolists a newsdealer in the State of New York writes us:—‘‘I would order both daily and Sunday papers, but I doubt if the American News Company would send the balance of my order.” He had ordered only Wrexty Heratps. A Western newsdealer writes that he cannot get his Hzrarps, “that monopoly is at its blundering tricks again. I rejoice that you are brave enough to do as you please with your own paper in the face of the American News Company.” We could print other letters of the same kind, Of course we shall not submit to the con- trol of these monopolists. The Heraxn is published at throe cents per copy. It is sold to newsdealers at two and a half cents, and we will engage to deliver to city news- men at this rate without extra charge for de- livery, As for our trade without the city we now control it, and mean to doso in the fature, Advice Gratis to Comptroller Green. Our interest in the fortunes of Mr. Green does not cease. When he received. and ac- cepted the unanimous nomination of the contractors we applauded. When the con- tractors were followed by a deputation of the blind men we showed our appreciation of this important accession to Mr. Green's strength by urging the organ grinders to come forward and speak out like men. But the organ grinders seem to us to take a good deal of time to make up their minds, and meanwhile there is a cessation of delegations, and matters do not look so prosperous for Mr, Green. He could receive two, or even per- haps three delegations a day, and in the last week he has received none. Does he forget that only ten days remain until the eventful morning when, ballot in hand, the citizen of New York will go forth to decide who shall be Mayor? ‘There is still time; at tho rate of three delegations n day Mr. Green might receive before election day say twenty- one societies; and his plan of getting himself elected by such pocket constituen- cies is so novel and so ingenious that we should like to see it havea fair trial. He ought to summon a deputation of the Ethno- logical Society, and another of the Metro- logical Society; the American Microscopical Society would be an important accession to his banners; the Colonization Society might give him useful hints on a timely subject; the services of the Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society would be important as a means of perpetuating his memory after the election; and the support of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks would be in- valuable, as he will readily see. But these are only a few of the societies, deputations from whose halls ought to crowd Mr. Green's anteroom during the : coming week. He should summon the An- cient Order of Hibernians, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, the Irish Emigrant So- ciety; he should inveigle with his bland and artful. smile tho members of St. Patrick’s Mutnal Alliance, of the Father Mathew societies, of the Knights of St. Patrick, the Limerick Guard, the Ros- common League of Friendship, the Emerald Social Club, the Connaught Benevolent Association, the County Cavan Benevo- lent Society, and so on to the end of a long chapter, In fact, if he had begun early enongh in the year he might have called for a deputation a day (Sunday's excepted), and the City Hall would have been a pleasing and instructive spectacle if they had all come. The Peace Negotiations in Europe. There is a satisfactory prospect for a peaceful solution of the trouble between Turkey and Russia by the acceptance on the part of Turkey of Russia’s proposition for an armistice, with a condition as to its possible extension put in to save the dig- nity of the Sultan. Although not formally accepted the armistice is nevertheless re- garded as determined upon, This will keep the peace until the middle of December, even without an extension; and if at that time the negotiations are in such a position as to promise good re- sults the armistice will be extended, of course. The point of interest in the case, therefore, now becomes the likelihood of successful negotiation of the difficulties at the bottom of the trouble. These diffi- culties, grouped in a crude unity under the name of the Eastern question, have defied diplomatic treatment for some generations, and it seems, therefore, a ridiculous propo- sition that they may now be settled in six weeks, with all the Powers, in the presence of the armistice, somewhat in the constrained attitude of Horace’s poets “standing on one foot.” Brft it must be remembered that there has been a partial show of hands; the adversaries have felt each other's strength; it is known who holds strong suits and where the trumps are, This sort of knowledge is calculated to modify extreme pretensions, and extreme pretensions have always been the great obstacle to a settlement. The prospect is hopeful, therefore. But England, it is note- worthy, proceeds with a caution not unlike that of Russia in regard to the guarantees. The next step is a conference of the Powers. If England enters that conference she will be bound by its decisions, and it is very certain that she may be overruled on every vital point. She will not enter, therefore, unless she can previously secure herself by a pledge of the Powers as to the limitation of the functions of the conference. She de- mands, consequently, that the conference have for its basis the maintenance of the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and for its object the amelioration of the condition of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. Since it seems to be the policy of Russia to be satisfied with an ad- vance secured step by step this English de- mand will probably not defeat the projected conference, All Russia's objects, moreover, may be accomplished inside tho line thus drawn, Tweed at Through the long dreary watches of yes- terday the revenue cutters, with their damp wings outstretched, waited around the Light- ship for Tweed, and he did not come. If that West Indian hurricane has had him in its parabolic curve Sheriff Conner may not see his old friend until after the election. Such things asa forty days’ passage from Vigo are-not unknown, but it is confidently expected that the heroic old American tub, the Franklin, will do it in about thirty- two. If he should only arrive to receive the election returns announcing the elec- tion of Tilden it would hardly add to his satisfaction at seeing the new tin roof on Castle Garden. Yet it would be so like his luck that it would scarcely surprise even the Boss himself to see his arithmetical enemy mounting into the Presidential chair on the ruins of the Ring as he hopped into the Governorship. We suppose that as the Boss rolls back and forth on the Atlantic bil- lows he must cast an occasional thought on his old cronies of the Court House. Per- haps the thing which will most astonish him on his arrival will be the sight of the board- ing around the rear of that marble monu- ment of misappropriation. His liveliest pang of regret will be that the work of fin- ishing it has fallen upon men who will not be able to make it yield so large a profit as he wonld, no matter how enrnesi their inten- tions, ‘Oh, fora day of Sweeny and Slip- pery Dick!" he will murmur. Dreams of Watsons, with ribs proof ngainst the erratic poles of runaway sleighs; of Sweenys more mysterious; of Slippier Dicks; of un- squealing Keysers, Garveys and In- gersolls; of cheaper and more steadfast Tammany republicans than those that came from the Mohawk Valley and elsewhere, will come up in this train of thought. Doubt- less his experience has taught him that the man who sets out to rob a city or a State must attend, strictly to his business and not let the dreamers who wish to stretch his prehensile plans until they cmbrace the nation in their tentacles interfere with him. When he was tempted to think of making his puppet Governor into a puppet President he lost his head and his hold. The old fable of the dog who dropped his stolen bone to snap at its magnified image in the water was written in vain for the Tammany thieves. All these things will enter the mind of Big Six as he roils to and fro in the Rear Admiral's bunk on the Frank- lin and casts up his accounts with fortune, unless he has been reduced to the dismal condition of Mark Twain, who believed that, during a fit of sea sickness, he had ‘cast up his immortal soul.” Even Charles O’Conor would pity the Boss if he saw him in the latter extremity. Fine Dre: in the Schools. We print elsewhere a complaint which we have reason to believe just, that the need- lessly expensive dress and finery in which the well-to-do classes indulge their children in the public schools drives out of these schools the children of poorer people who cannot afford to follow the extravagance | their more prosperous neighbors, but natu- rally dislike to expose their little ones to the mortification of appearing shabbily clad. This is an abpse which ought to be reme died. The public schools are for all the children, and parents who are prow perous ought to take care that they do not, by heedless indulgence to their children, arouse a spirit of caste and make the schools disagreeable to the children of the poor. Our correspondent remarks:—‘Girls ge there in'silk and jewelry, and, sitting nex! to less richly attired children, taunt them with their poor attire. The poor child goes home with tears and will not return to school until the hardly earned money of its~ parents is expended in more costly clothing. The children of the very poor, therefore, cannot go atall.” Is not this a shameful picture of a society which calls itself Chris- tian and democratic? One of the most important uses of the pube lic schools is to bring together the children of all classes, the rich and the poor; to caus¢ them to know each other at an age when if may be supposed class distinctions are not felt; and thus to give to the prosperous a kindly and Christian relation to the less fortunate of the community. But if parenta foster a foolish and wicked pride in chik dren—a pride in extravagant dress—they necessarily raise a barrier between their chil- dren and those of the poor which mus! harden and injure their own, while it makes the public schools, to a large extent, useless to the people whose children they ought in an especial manner to take in. We shall recur to this subject again, as well as to some other points raised by our correspondent, The Republicans in the City. The republicans are crying out ‘Hayes! “Hayes!” but they seem to forget the city nominations, General Arthur and Mr, Dare ling and the other city republican man- agers keep us unduly in suspense. They may have an angel in reserve as a candidate for Mayor and an angelic choir to support him in the minor city offices. We like Mr. Smith Ely; but, after all, he is only a mortal man, and if Mr. Darling should trot out an angel—a real angel, a seraphic creature, @ heaven-born candidate, so to speak—the Henatp, which is the organ of the indepen- dent v@&ers, might feel compelled to support him, and no doubt that would elect him. But we must tell the republicans that there is such a thing as holding even an angelic candidate in reserve too long. Here we are within ten days of the election, and with a good candidate for Mayor already nominated by Tammany and the demo crats—a candidate who, humanly speaking, would make an_ excellent Mayor, and who is liked by the Germans and the Irish and the Americans, and will make a hole in poor Mr. Green's celebrated defutations. And here are the city republican politicians seeming to know nobody but Hayes, and giving even Governor Morgan a touch of cold shoulder, as though they might ex. change him for Hayes if the strug. gle should prove close. We advise the republicans to hurry up their nominations, and by all means let them select a candidate for Mayor who can count. If he cannot add upa column of figures we will have none of him, if he is ever se angelic. It does not matter about his general knowledge of city affairs or about his judgment on city im- provements; what is needed is that the republican candidate shall be sble to doa sum in adeition. We do not mean to say that even with this transcendent and trans. cendental qualification he can be elected ; but at any rate he will be able to aivide Mr, Green’s vote with him, and that is, perhaps, as much as General Arthur and Mr. Darling expect. Qunrso Apro has had his bail fixed at five thousand dollars, and he accepts the situa. tion with ‘a smile that is childlike and bland.” Let uot the haughty Caucasian grumble at this or ask, Is civilization a fail- ure? Lethim pair off with Reddy the Black- smith, who died caimly in his bed after a * respectable homicidal career, with this heathen Chinee, who has a chance of dying in his boots allee samee Melican man, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tupper has beautiful blus eyes. Joseph Severn, in whose arms Keats died, still livet in Rome, Charles 8, Parnell, M. P., of Ireland, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel , M. Funck-Brentano thinks tAat the Slavonic races aro destined to revive civilization, Lord Lancaster and C, Minton Campbell, M. P,, of England, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Councillor Lopez Netto, President ot the Brazilian Centennial Commission, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Nowhere in Western Europe have Oriental studies of lute received so much encouragement as in Italy. Alibrarian doubled the attendance ona working. men’s library by adding three sets of standard uevels, Saturday Review:— “Men are moro easily bored than women, while women are more sabject to ennud ‘han men,”" To foreigners on a flying visit to Paris tho gay life of the streets and the living so much in public are ne trifling attractions, Mr, Bellars says that the sincere artist will ask him. sell, “Am I doing this because I really enjoy it ané toink it worth doing or only because I think it will br populag?”” In wii climates paper and parchment are, wo ar told, more perisoable than elsewhere, an@ exainple, might ve quoted of important historival material appearing uwier the influence of damp or betug eal up by inscets. ‘The Armenians insiet that Noah’s ark still reste on the top of Mount Ararat, which nas recently been as cended by a Londoner, whose Cossack guides left him at the beginning of the Jast milo, This ts Die une third recorded ascent, ‘Tho Chinese aro the only ervilized peovle who, Wing posgessed of an ideographic system ot writing, id who, having become acquainted with alphabetical and syllabic systems, have deliberately choson to maintain thoir own ideographic chatacters, The Bishop of Gup leaves the priest a porfectly free agont in bis character of citizen, He enly directs nim not to mix up his character as ‘a pricst with bis char acter asa citizen, or lo suppose that in matters which concern him as @ citizen he has any right to speak asa priest. George Sand, in her autobiography, does justice to tho excellent effects of needlework om the moval toue:—"L think that this exerciwe basa natural a‘ traet jor us, an invincible charm, which I have felt atevery period of my life, and which hag oftes tranquillized my strongest agitation.” An ingenious democrat of Cattlesburg, Ry,, at a flag Taising in that village, put a rooster ima box, whieh he attached to the halyards and so arranged the cover of the box that when the box struck the top of we staff the caver would fly open. His plan worked hike @ charm, The moment the cover flew open the rooster Ngbted on the top of tho staf and com. menced crowing vigorously amid tho choors of the spectators,