The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1877, Page 4

4 i NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ALY HERALD, publishet every day tn the year, Bp fn per copy ‘Sundays excluded), ‘Ten dollars per fear, or at arate of one dollar per month for any pertod less ifat "wvonths, of five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of postaze. WEEKLY HERALD.—One dollar per year, treo of post- wee. FY OICE TO SUBSCRIBEPS.—In orler to insure atten- wishing their ad changed must give as their new address. ews letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youk lieRatv. Letters und packazes should be property sealed. Rejected commu: will not be returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTIT SIXTH ONDOS OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK NERALD— ill be received and York. WALLACK’S THEATRE BOOTH's THEATRE— GRAND OPERA ROU: BOWERY THEATRE. NIBLO’S GARDEN. PARK THEATRE-Cu TMIEATRE COMIQU UNION SQUARE TILE, NEW YORK AQUARI BAGLE THEATRE—M. GILMORE'S GARD: Ciacus AND MENAGERIE. 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Tue ProverniaL Genenosizy, charity and sympathy with suffering of the ladies of this city are freshly illustrated by their efforts in behalf of the Russian wounded. ‘There will un- doubtedly be a large attendance at the theatri- cal entertainments to be given for the purpose under their auspices. Tue Deatu or Epwin Apams, which took place yesterday morning, will not be a surprise to his friends or the public, inasmuch as they have been expecting the event for months. The deceased was very dear to the members of his own profession and to all who intimately knew him and could appreciate his many ster- ling qualities. Two ReMarkaBLe SERMONS were preached yesterday, one by Dr. Tiffany and the other by Mr. Frothingham. Dr. Tiffany was exceedingly severe upon those who make religion a stepping stone to commercial gain or social consideration, and in the light of recent developments his strong utterances are pointed and forcible. Mr. Frothingham inveighed against what he called formal religion, and took strorg and advanced ground on the school question, the observance of the Sabbath and kindred topics. Ovr Maprip Corn in an interest- ing letter, tells how the Cuban situation looks at the Spanish capital. To Campos, the present general, all eyes are turned as the hero who will retrieve the honor of the national arms and re- store the Spanish ascendancy in the rebellious island. Pevhaps he will; but the prospects at present are not very bright. Campos is, how- ever, the ablest and most resolute commander Spain has yet sent to Cuba, and if he, with the large army at his disposal, fails, she might as well give up the contest and let Cuba go in peace. Tue Recenr Camraicn in Bulgaria is de- scribed by our correspondent at the headquar- ters of the Turkish army. He fully contirms the charges v h have been so often made of the cruelty and inhumanity of the soldiers of Me hemet Ali. It is a remarkable fact, he says, that no Russian prisoners were brought to the Turk- ish hospitals, which is easily accounted for by the additional statement that the Turkish sol- diers were seen marching with the heads of Rus- sians on their bayonets, and that fifteen women, after having been subjected to the most brutal outrages, were burned all From AN Enauisn JourNaL we transfer to our columns an able and thoughtful article on journalism, interesting not alone to the makers of newspapers, but to the general reading pub- lic. The criticisms made in it apply equally well to our own country as to land. There, as here, it is customary with a certain class of pub- lic men to depreciate newspaper work and achieven and, as our contemporary points out, they are generally the very persons who are most indebted to journalism. As the ag- gregate intelligence of the British Parliament is far less than that of the British pre is that of Congress or half a dozen Cor helow that of the journalists of the United States. The magnificent work of Stanley and of Forbes as eoutrasted with the work and records of two- penny generals is stingingly commented upon by our contemporary. Tue Wearnen.—The depression which was in the upper lake district. and Canada on Saturday has passed northeastward and is followed by another which encloses a storm centre. This disturbance succeeding the other quickly is comparatively unimpeded in its ady by any extensive area of high pressure. Consequently we may expect to experience its effects very soon in increasing easterly winds and rains. Surrounding the storm, but chietly onits caste margins, heavy rains have fallen. the storm over- 80 nan north This morn ties the lower lake district, extending in an elongated oval trom southwest to oortheast. ‘The highest pressure is on the Atlantic coast, from Maine to South Carolina, Light rains, with easterly winds and threatening weather, are reported from the Gulf coast. In the Northwest the pressure is rising rapidly, with falling tempera- ture and light snows, near the of the Rocky Mountains, in the Vlatte Valley, ‘The baw weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will | puthes be cloudy and warm, with inercasir erly to southwesterly winds and possibly ruin toward uighte . NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1877.<WITH SUPPLEMENT. A Small Cannon Bursted. It is necessary in these days to look politi- cal facts squarely in the face. The air is full of political superstitions and shams, which may become troublesome by and by. Here, for instance, we find the Hon. Mr. Cannon, of Ilinois—a piece of republican ordnance of very insignificant calibre, to judge from the report—complaining that “the President» has not properly cared for those to whom he’ owes his election ;” and this cry is heard on all sides from the ma, chine republicans who find the civil service policy such a bitter pill to swallow. But these neglected and suffering lambs did not elect the President. It is a mere sham and hollow pretence in them to say so; and if our politics were not so overburdened with the most ridiculous and baseless as- sumptions the claim that men like Mr. Cannon elected President Hayes, and that his gratitude ought to shine on them in a particular manner, would cause only general laughter. What is the truth? The repub- licans who are now so bitterly opposing and denouncing the President did not elect him, On the contrary they tried and failed to elect him. The particular class of whom we speak did not even willingly nominate him. They labored at Cincinnati to nom- inate some other man, or indeed almost any other man except Mr. Hayes, He was not the candidate of any of them, so far as we now recall the Convention ; but when all their favorites had managed to cut each other's throats, then at last they were un- willingly brought to unite on Mr. Hayes. Then came the canvass, and the people who now groan so dolorously about the President's ingratitude to those who elected him made haste to drop their platform and Mr. Hayes’ letter of acceptance into the miro, and appeal to the country with a very much faded out bloody shirt. No doubt they were very desirous to elect their candi- date on this stale issue ; but the fact is they failed. Woe believe the country would have gone very largely for Hayes if it could have foreseen the policy he would adopt; but, we repeat, the clear and undoubted fact is that the people of Mr. Cannon's stripe did not elect Mr. Hayes, Any claims they set up before him on this score are, to put it plainly, ridiculous and untrue. President Hayes holds his title to his office from the Electoral Commission. It is a perfectly good title, as we explained as soon as the decision was rendered, as every lawyer ini the country knows ; and as some of the ablest of them, North and South, have openly declared, among them opponents as well os partisans of Mr. Hayes, But what had Mr. Cannon and menof hisstripe to do with the Electoral Commission, which declared Mr. Hayes President, .and to which and not to their efforts in the canvass he owes his place? Why, they opposed it—that is all. They would not have it. They spoke and logrolled against it. Senator Conkling, to whose wisdom and patriotism, more than to any other or all other men in Congress, this measure owed its existence— Senator Conkling was denounced by the men of Mr. Cannon’s stripe in un- measured terms for this good work, for which the country owes him profound grat- itude. They sneered at him as false to the republican party; they insinuated that he was a traitor to his friends ; they heaped obloquy upon him in every way, and to such a degree that if he had been a common thief their vile abuse could not have been worse. They did all they knew how to defeat the Electoral bill, and the few of them who at last voted for it did so grumblingly. And now they go about the streets of Washington complaining that the President ‘thas not properly cared for those who elected him.” Surely the force of partisan impudenco never went further than this. Here is the plain truth about Mr. Hayes, as it is known to all sensible men. He owes his place to the agreement of the wisest and most patriotic men of both parties in both houses of Congress and in the country at large. The men, of both sides, who framed and who passed the Electoral bill amid the howls and execrations of mere partisans like this Mr. Cannon were true patriots, sincere and wise lovers of their country, whose effort averted, and was intended to avert from us, the dire plague of civil war. They took no thought of office or personal gain; they rose above all partisan considerations, and their names will live in honor very long after the names of the army of petty howleis after patronage have sunk into a dirty ob- livion, And yet these people complain that the President ‘thas not properly cared for those to whom he owes his election.” And all the loud fuss they are making, all the out- ery of these injured patriots, all the griev- ance which makes them despair of their country, is based on this ridiculous assuinp- tion that they, who did all that their small brains enabled them to do to defeat the President, were the men who elected him, But even this is not all. These absurd howlers for patronage not only did not elect Mr. Hayes, not only did do everything they could do to hinder his attainment of the place he holds, they have not even sup- ported him since he came into office, He had hardly spoken his Inaugural Message when Mr. Cannon and men of his stripe went into the opposition; and while the whole common sense of the country was | rallying about the new President and his Cabinet, while all patriotic men were re- | joicing through the length and breadth of tne land, these people stood dolorously outside | | and howled only, “Office ! office ! patronage ! | patronage !” as the immortally infamous sut- tler in the Revolution, who, amid the clash of contending armies, and in the bitterest | struggle for libery, only went about the | camps crying, “Beet! beef!’ And then decent men, who love their country and re- spect themselves, are asked to sympa- | thize with these pitiful frauds*who whine | that ‘the President has not properly cared for those to whom he owes his election.” We warn the President there is one way, one sure way, open to him by which he can quickly gain the general contempt, and that is by paying the least attention to the out- cries or the menaces of this tribe of place- hunters who are trying to scare him with sham thunder. Wo warn him that. these | file of the republican party, but from the’ mercenaries who serve for pay, and’who are intent on serving not him nor their country, nor even their party, but themselves alone. He cannot afford to deal with or listen to these men. His only safety isin ignoring them. His duty is not to them; it is not even tothe republican party; his duty is to the country: he ought to beware how he swerves from it. For he is not the President of a party. He is, as we have often said, in a peculiar and conspicuous manner the . President of the jwhole country. + More than any of his predecessors he stands independent of mere partisan considerations, and owes it to the patriotism and wisdom of both parties that he is where he is. If gratitude is due from a President then it is due from him equally to the wisest, the most congervative, the most truly patriotic men of both parties. These are his true supporters; on these, if he is to succeed, he must lean; these he must call around him for connsel, and to these in Congress and inthe broad country, North, South, East and West, he can look for sup- port. But only if he stands firm and unfal- tering before the menaces of the pack who howl that he “has not properly cared for those to whom he owes his election.” Another Herald Storm Warning Ful- filled, Aspecial cable despatch to the Hzraxp this morning announces the fact that our latest storm warning for the ‘European coast, in which we predicted the arrival there of a severe storm on the 27th, has been completely fulfilled. This warning was sent by cable on the morning of the 23d, and was at once signalled by our Lon- don Bureau to all the important ports of the United Kingdom and France.’ Thus, four days in advance of the arrival of the storm, the British and French coasts were warned of the approach of a danger- ous storm, and vessels about to leave port for transatlantic voyages were in- formed as to the weather they would en- counter when two to three days at sea. The importance of this information, consid- ering the narrow seaway between the British Islands and in the English Channel, as well as the dangerous coasts that threaten the storm stricken navigator, cannot be overesti- mated. We are confident that, when the prejudice and little jealousies with which our efforts have been regarded in some quar- ters in England shall become obliterated by the repeated successes of the Hznaup weather service, European nations will fully appreciate our desire and rely on our abil- ity to protect international commerce as far as possible. In this undertaking the Heraup has from the commencement stood alone and unaided from any source. The United States Signal Service, through narrow- minded legislation, has been so cramped in its operations and consequently limited in its usefulness as a guide to ocean navi- gation as to be wholly unable to afford us the least assistance. But by a sys- tem of observations at sca, organized by the Henravp and in which we have enlisted the co-operation of the most distinguished offi- cers of the American, British, French and German merchant service, we haye accumu- lated a mass of valuable data on which we have based our calculations of transatlantic storm movements. But behind all this we have succeeded, after much time and labor, in discovering the general laws governing meteorological changes over the United States, the Atlantic and Western Europe, and this forms the foundation of the success of the Heratp weather service, The Marshal Submitting. The news from Paris, although the most positive portions of it are from a source not altogether trustworthy, indicates that Mar- shal MacMahon is realizing that he is con- stitutional President of a republic. Unless we give him credit for powers of mind hith- erto unsuspected we must conclude that he has been assured he cannot command the Senate. We do not believe that the old sol- dier who bundled out a republican Assembly on the heels of a mod- erate republican Cabinet and gave his hand to every foe of the Republic has been rationally convinced of the error of his way. ‘The necessity for compromise has come to him as it would come to a soldier. The Assembly can cut off his supplies and the Senate cannot be relied on to scatter the Assembly. He must run or surrender—sub- mit or resign. We sincerely hope that he has made up his mind to submit, and we are certain it he has that those to whom he capitulates will not impose any unbearable ecnditions. The republicans may be well satisfied with half a loaf until 1880. Simon Cameron. Nearly every one in Pennsylvania is likely to beappointed Minister to England—every respectable person, we might say, but for the reflection that they are all respectable there. In the Keystone State there are neither dis- reputable nor dangerous nor criminal nor other classes such as there are in other places, and the wonder is that any man who can live in Philadelphia would be willing to go even for the salary to such a place as London, where there is neither serapple nor pepperpot. But it seems that Wayne MacVeigh is to have the mission ; that Gov- ernor Hartranft is to have it ; that ofly the countless years of Morton McMichael ‘pre- vent the laying of the burden on his shoul- dors, and that if’ Governor Curtin wants tho place he need only hold up his hand, In fact, every one or any one in Pennsylvania can haye this place except Simon Cameron, chief of the Winnebagoes and medicine man in several other redoubtable tribes. All the other names are thrown in together in the vain hope that, taken collectively, they may seem an equivalent to Simon, like the forty sixpences that are equal to a sovereign. It is a great*pity that Simon is the only man of any account in Pennsylvania, because it is natural, after all, that Presidents and such sort of accidental people should have their antipathies. Now they ask the Pennsylvania magnates what man shall be constable and they say Simon Cameron; what man shall be coroner? Simon Cameron; what man collector, surveyor, inspector, messen- ger, doorkeeper?—it is always Simon Cam- eron, Intime that becomes monotonous, | complaints and threats which are dinned | into his ears come not from the rank and | ‘There is the appearance that Pennsylvania has lost the little wit she once hadj that’ she lifts gone absolutely crazy, and that her last idea before this calamity was Simon Cam- eron, which idea, not displaced by any new one, she mutters and mumbles forever. Von Schell and O’Morrissey Prize Fight. With honorable modesty we disdain any merit of originality in this exquisite head- ing. It was suggested by that renowned democratic orator, Mr. Spinola, whose noble speech on the occasion of Mr. Schell’s nomi- nation had this dainty passage:— Mr. Schell would be a tower of strength in the can- vass. He would command the votes of the young men and the old men, His name was a pame t! lost, and it could not be beaten by John Mor John anybody else. (Applause and laughter. blow that Morrissey would get from sr. Schell would be more severe than the one that Yankve Sullivan gave him at Boston Corners, (Roars of laughter and cheers.) Morrissey would want stronger seconds than Harry Ford or Nick Langdon in the battie be was fighting. i We fear'the eloquent Spinola was a little too fast in assuming that Von Schell is the successor of Yankee Sullivan, for it may turn out at sunset on the 6th of November that he is the succegsor of the Benicia Boy, who got nothing to brag of in his pugilistic on- counter with O’Morrissey. Since Friday evening both Von Schell and O'Morrissey have been in regular training, and ‘the fancy” may regale themselves for the next eight days in disputing and betting on the chances of these champions. The great question of the week is whether Von Schell is the lineal heir of the Benicia Boy or of Yankee Sullivan. We must at any rate award Von Schell the praise of courage in entering the lists against so doughty a practitioner of ‘the noble and manly art.” He has accepted a contest from which many others had quailed. ‘The.gentlemen who declined to enter the contest,” says the Sun, ‘‘are James §. Thayer, David Dudley Field, ex-Mayor Gunther, George W. McGlynn, James Everard, Edward Kearney and ex-Sheriff James O’Brien.” Von Schell has shown himself a truly brave man in daring to pick up the glove flung down by so formidable a ‘champion after so many heroes had shrunk from the encounter. We can only compare him to David the son of Jesse. When that renowned Philis- tine giant, Goliath of Gath, ‘‘the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam,” stood forth for forty days in succession and detied Israel, as O’Morrissey has been de- fying Tammany day by day since the Albany Convention, and no Israelite durst meet him in single combat, the beardless son of Jesse, fresh from tending his father’s sheep, offered himself to meet the Philis- tine giant, ‘‘whose height was six cubits andaspan.” Alas! the dew of youth is no longer on the cheeks of Von Schell, and we know not from what idyllic brook he will gather the five smooth stones to put into his scrip. We have no doubt that Von Schell has a great deal more scrip than the young champion of Israel ever had, and more than any of the solicited Tammanyites who were too faint-hearted to go into the prize ring agalnst O’Morrissey ; but whether out of all his scrip he can cast a missile which will bring his antagonist to the ground re- mains to be seen. Whoever beats Morrissey (if to beat him be possible) will have to spend a great deal of money, and this may be the reason why so many gentlemen de- clined the nomination, and why Mr, Schell is thought a strong and eligible candidate. The trouble in finding a man to run against Morrissey is a recognition by his oppo- nents of his great strength in the Seventh Senatorial district. Mr. Schell’s respecta- bility and his heroic willingness to be bled make himamore hopeful candidate than any other Tammany democrat. But his Manhattan Club associations will be used against him in appeals to ‘‘the great un- washed,” and this line of tactics was fore- shadowed in the Convention by which Mr. Schell was nominated. In Orator Spinola’s speech, already quoted from, there occurred this lively scene of interruption :— A Voick—How does Mr, Schell stand on the dis- franchisement question ? Mr. SpivoLa—He’s perfectly sound on that, Tuk Same Vowe—Well, I’m toired of tnis silk shtockin’ arrangement and— Mr. SrixoLa Gaakiog four fingera and athumb at the owner of the voilce)—You'ro not a delegate to this Convention. Tar Vorc#—That’s thru, sir, Mr. SpixoLa—T'ben leave thy room; get right out. ‘Tus Vorcs AGAIN—AS @ workiu’iwan | know I’m not a diligate, and, sur. Mr. Srtvora—He (Great applause.) Hi holders, Great confusion, caused by hisses mingled with Jaughter and cheers, ensued, during which the pos. sessor of tue rebellious voice made his exit from the hall. Mr. Spinola then concluded tits epoech by saying it wae the pride of his lite to stand there and second the nomination of Augustus Scnell. But, in spite of the silk stocking argu- ment, Mr. Schell will give Morrissey a pretty close run, and if he were an Irish- man or had a name that would take an Irish handle, an O’ or a Mac, he would have a more equal contest against a cham- pion who was born in Tipperary. It is The nother one of those spies, only ono of Morrissey’s bottle. really a very comical spectacle to see a gen- tleman of Mr. Schell’s eminent standing running for so small an office as that of State Senator against John Morrissey, under it circumstances that make doubtiul whether he can be elected. Red The organization of the Red Cross socie- ties in this city for the purpose of helping to alleviate the horrors of the Russo-Turkish war is a movement which cannot fail tocom- mend itself to all humane people. The operations of the United States Sanitary Commission during our late war taught a valuable lesson to the nations of Europe, for they have since adopted our Christian-like system of nursing the sick and wounded during their numerous campaigns. With a happy foresight the Geneva Cross Conven- tion made that system universal throughout Europe. So it now matters not whether France fights Germany, or Russia makes war on Turkey, we find the nations at peace aid- ing the combatants to nurse their sick and wounded soldiers in the field. The Swiss city of Geneva will hereafter be famous as the seat of two international con- ventions or conferences. The first was one of arbitration between two great nations— England and America—to decide vexed in- ternational questions and so avoidan expen- sive and tedious war. The other resulted in the adoption of a code binding on all European nations, giving the wearers of the Red Cross a degree of immunity from the dangers of active hostilities that greatly in- creases their usefulness and robs war of many painful features. Lhe members of the Bed Cross order aro only subject to Cro | one restriction. They cannot pass at will from one army to its opponent, and in case of capture they are at once per- mitted to return to their special field of duty. In the present war the Cross and the Crescent is worn, and on each side of tho line we find the same neutral nations repre- sented, Following the example set by the American residents in Paris during the siege these Red Cross societies provide their own ambulances, surgeons, nurses and meflical supplies, the natural result being a sensible mitigation of the sufferings attend- ing the movement and clash of belligerent bodies of troops. i When Florence Nightingale carried her corps of nurses to the hospitals of Seutari she was hailed as an angel of peace in the midst of war. Now these peacetul messen- gers of human love and sympathy are to be found not only in hospitals, but on the front line and the actual scene of battle. The good thus accomplished can scarcely be realized until we contrast the past with the present. Before sanitary commis- sions and Red Cross societies took up the work the sick and wounded soldier could only rely on his comrades for help, and, as the first duty of a soldier is to fight, the men disakled by disease or the bullet fared very badly. Now all this is changed. Armies go out to battle accompanied by trained physicians and nurses, whose only duty is to care for the victims of war, and thousands of lives are saved by their efforts. If wars must be fought—-and the day is not far distant when arbitration will take the place of armed hosts—-it is well that the rude privations and sufferings of the disabled combatants be: lessened. There are now, as we have said, two socie- ties in existence in this city, ‘‘The Red Cross” and ‘“‘The Crescent and the Cross,” both having for their purpose the strength- ening of kindred organizations laboring with the Russians and the Turks. It is a pity they are not to be united, but though separate these societies should be generously supported. Money spent in this way can- not fail to do good, and though the donors may never know ‘it they will receive the blessings of thousands of poor fellows who may fallin the discharge of duty to their country or creed. The Panic Maker. Of all the terrible shapes in which death can present itself that by fire is the most appalling, We read of hundreds of sui- cides in a year, but never of one by fire. In Hindostan and other parts of the East, where ‘‘suttee” was performed, the im- measurable forces of religious fanaticism ‘impelled the trembling widow to submit to a fiery fate, which was to her the only entrance to the blissful state of Nirvanu or rest. Among tho Western nations fire has lost none of its horrors and is, indeed, the superlative type of eternal torture. It is a thing of terror and, therefore, a parent of panic. You may convince people that panic is madness, but you cannot convince any- body that fire is not a thing to be dreaded when it gets the upper hand. Again and again it has been proved that its mere ghost—the alarm of fire when there is no fire—will stampede an audience of intelli- gent people, and generally with fatal re- sults, The behavior of the crowded audience at Niblo’s on Saturday night, when some scoundrel raised the cry of fire, was in the main praiseworthy. Those who were ina position to see that the wicked alarm was groundless remained in their places and so prevented a catastrophe ; for had they tuken fright and crushed after those in the rear, who, not being able to reassure themselves, had begun to fly pell-mell, many losses of life and limb might have been recorded. The cool-headed manager, Mr. Fleming, also deserves well of the public. It is evident that the terrible calamities of the past few years, in which panic did the work that fire only threatened, have not been lost upon the public. But this fortunate escape from calamity leaves one very positive regret-—namely, the ap- parent escape of the ruffian who made dis- aster possible. It is worth remembering that it is within the power of any rascal to raise such acry in any theatre on any night. We are not aware how the law could deal with such a man in case it was certain that he had maliciously precipitated a calamity such as generally follows on a panic in a theatre. He would bea murderer, no doubt. Even in the case of Niblo’s his offence has no difference in our eyes from an attempt to murder, The law may not contemplate this particular grade of crime, but it would be well worth trying whether it could not be made to fit the case. We would, there- fore, advise all theatre-goers to be on the lookout for the would-be precipitators of panics, and, at least, hand over to the law the wretch for whom a swing at the nearest lamppost would not be too much, The Tammany Machine, It becomes every year more and more evi- dent that it is the true interest of the demo- cratic party to dissolve the ‘Tammany organ- ization or, at least, to restore it to its original purpose as a benevolent association. Its activity in politics has brought nothing but damage to the democratic party. It has been a perpetual cause of division and dis- traction, both in the city and the State, and a source of weakness in the elections, Under the I'weed régime the very name of Tammany became a stench in the nostrils of all honest men, and “the scent of the roses will hang round it still,” whether the organization is pre- served or discarded. ‘he fact that Tammany controlled the late Democratic State Convention creates a prejudice against the party throughout the State, and is used with more or less effect by the whole repub- lican press of the interior. This particular rose would smell rather more sweet by some other name, but even if the name could be deodorized the thing would remain objec- tionable and undemocratic. There is noth- ing resembling it in any other city, and in this city it is a source of never-ending dis- sensions in the democratic ranks. It has always been such a plague and bother in the State conventions of the party that five or six years ago a resolution was offered by the late William Cassiday and adopted by the Con- vention making it a perpetual rule that no organization should thereafter ba recnanized in any county except Assembly districts, and requiring all delegates to be separately chosen in such districts. In thecity of New York, to which this rule had reference, it is complied with in form, but evaded in fact, the whole delegation of this city being aa much dictated by Tammany as it was before the rule was adopted. The Albany Conven+ tion this year admitted ali the Tammany delegates en masse, whereas if the Asseme bly districts had been free there would have been a separate decision as to each, The consequence ‘is that a large body of democrats who rebel against this central’ tyranny come back to the city and organize a democratic opposition which, by coalition with the republicans and Germans, threatens the success of tha local party ticket. If Tammany had been abolished after the disgrace brought upon it by the infamous Tweed Ring, and the democratic organization in this city had been assimilated to that of the rural dis~ tricts, the present great mutiny and dan. gerous coalition which make the success of the local democratic ticket so doubtful would have been avoided. Tammany will breed dissensions and keep the local de mocracy in a turmoil until itis disbanded or withdraws from politics. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dogs originally wore tin-paniors, No doubt bacon is the fat of the land, Ic is said thatno animal isdumb, Many mon are, Tho man who bad a stitch in his side feels sew-sew. Uur shoemaker remarked yest .rday, “Tho awl does at”? “President” Tilden spoke good English on Saturday Dight, ‘Th@ughtJessness among friends is mainly regarded asa crime, ‘Sweeny has the satisfaction of knowing that he oncq bossea Tweed, Prosidents Hayos and 'I'1!den are personally satisfied With tho result, Tho man who is up to his ears !n debt usually hag plenty of ears, When anybody says to Weudell Phillips, “shake,” he replies “I never did,’” As a theologian ‘President’ Tilden doesn’t belicve that “whatovol ‘ight. ’? A Mussachusetts man’s name js Differns, Wik somebody please split the Differns, : This is the scason for weeping over condemned murderers and forgetting the victims, If you open your window In the car the person bee hind you may catch his *‘death o’ cold.” ‘The first thing that a member of the Paragraphers’ Association has to do js to pay his deuce. She lives in Illinois, and 1s Alteen, They are twins, but no one sings ‘Ihe Sweet Boy and Boy.’” It is rather humiliating to think that our protection against Sitting Buil must come from Canada, We haven’t the slightest idoa what Gabriel’s répere toire ig, but he is probably trumping up so! ra Young loafers still infest Canal street of an evening. Some one should handle these kids without «id gloves, We ask the Rochester Democrat in all humility whether we are right in calling Vassar College a sugar refinery. A man who went home carly yesterday morning with a black eye remarked that be had met big mourning star, Milkmen are so sentimental that when you talk to them about the quality of their cream you can easily draw water to their eyes. One of the heaviest Western operators in wheat is a man by the name of Stone. We hopo he will never become tho head of a corner, Yesterday’s papers contained the account of a man being whipped by his wife until he wassick, Thia kind of vivisection must cease. The cynic of the Chicago Journal intimates that § woman who has not lost the power to love doos ‘now wish to appear much in public, A Heratp man has invented a new style of gas< burner in the shapoot a duck’s bill, It will not, hows ever, reduce the price of gas bills. The reason why Mr. Morrison did not receive th news that be was at the head of his old committee that tho political wires were down, Most bank cushiers who make tho final mistake in. lite trace their error toa woman, This is the reason why we call them Lerring brothers, It ig assorted that Jennie June tells the story that one of the gentlemen who proposed to Anna Dickinson was Goneral Ben Butler, We presumo the other one was Dr, Mary Walker. Every woman who marries should have some idea of cookery; but the truth is that nine inten who marry cannot tell whether icicles should be cooked with their jackets on or not. AMUSEMENTS. BROADWAY THEATRE—AIMEE. Agrand Suuday night corcort was, givyon at the Broaaway Theatre last evening by Aimée, the artists of her troupe, the chorus anda full orchostra, undor the direction of Mr. A, Almeras, ‘The programme wis varied, the selections being from the works of some of tho best masters, and well calculated to afford pleasure to all true lovers of music. Aiméo was ip superb voice and wore an unusually serene Sunday face, while Duparc and Mario were not @ whit beindhand, and won eucores, Mollard sang a romance trom ‘Mignon’ and trom “Les Drae gons do Vulars,” and Jouard “La Besaco de Satan.” Botn of these gentlemen appeared to the best advantage, and should the concert be repeated it will undoubtedly fill tho house. To night “La Belle Héléne” will be given for the first time at this theatre, and to-morrow “Gurofld-Girofla.”” On Wednesday Aiméo’s benefit takes place, whea she will appear in her original character of Boulotte in Offenbach’s pops ular “Barbe Bleue.” MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Chesney Wold” is to be played by Janauschely during her engagement here, Strakosch promises to give us tho Italian opora in grand stylo during the winter, Mme, Sarie Roso will probably bo one of the company. Lydia Thompson owns to thirty-five. The Covent Garden promenado concerts aro among the present London features, H. J. Byron has written a now play called “Guinea Gold.” It should not be forgotten that Miss Thursigitase sisted by soveral artists, gives a concort this evening at the Academy of Masic. Mr. Harry Staufleld, who was well known in New York socioty a few years since asatenor of uncom mon talent, has just returned to this country after a long residence abroad, Mr, Stanfield, since leaving New York, has studied with the best Italian masters, and he sang the leading tenor rd/es in opera ono season in Fiorence and two seasons in Malta. He is to givea concert at Steinway Hullon Fridav evening, November 23, with the co-operation of Mr. Thomas’ orchestra and that of several artists of note, Mr. Jefferson will play no engagomont this season, except the one he begins to-night at Booth’s Thes atre; therefore all of his out of town admirers will be compelled to visit New York if they wish ta. enjoy his performance of “Rip.’”? The sale of soate during the past four days has beon large, Tho company to support Mr, Jefferson is unusually strong for a “star” support, and iuctudes Mr, Davidge, Mr. Hardenberg, Mr. Faweott, Mr. Barrymore, Mr Drew and other favorite members of Mr. Daly’s com- pany. Mtss Minnie Palmer has been expressly en+ gaged lor the part of Mcenie, and tn the part of Grotchen, Rip’s wife, Miss Constance Hamblin will mako her début here, Miss Hambiin is a daughter of ‘Tom Hamblin, the great contemporary of Booth and the elder Wallack, and outside of New York has a notable reputation. The orchestra at Booth’s during tho Jefferson season will be led by Mr. Harvey Dod~ worth, A special chorus bas been engaged for the piece also, and every effort is being ma render (hese representations notable, The regular season at Booth’s Theatro may be said to begin with Mr. Jeffers son's engagement, He plays “Rip” five weeks, ig then tnterraptea fora week by Aiméo, then resumes his eng: gement for three weeks longer, and he will be followed by Edwin Booth; Miss Fanny Davenport and Mies Davenport by Miss Kellogg and English Dinara