The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1878, Page 6

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THEATRE, Philadelphie—Roseer Hetize. TRIPLE SHEET. peatinmntie Pea od YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1878, “The probabilities are that ihe weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair. Zo-morrow the same conditions are likely to pre- vail. Wax Street Yestexpay.—The stock mar ket was fairly active and prices were lower. Gold opened at 10053 and advanced to 100%. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was in active demand, lending at 3 a 5 a 4 per cent. AccIDENTs come in groups. Four persons ‘were killed in a Pennsylvania mine yesterday. Eepxonn, the moonshiner, forgot to invite the gaugers to his midnight marriage in the moun- tains. Ir Is Dirricutt to say which are the more gavage, the wild Cheyennes or the Mexican waiders in Texas. , CononssioxerR CAMPBELL can easily get the Money he asks for street repairs by agreeing to put the Tammany patriots at work. Trexs Was s Goop Deat of diversity of @pinion at the meeting of the publishers yester- day in regard to the Postal bill pending in Con- gress. tial! nse Wan ag ture Mr. Grapstone will be delighted to read in the President’s speech at the home of Madison ‘that he agrees with him in his estimate of the gonstitation. Deas Stantey made a pilgrimage yesterday $e the little knoll near Tappan where Major André was hanged. André’s remains are in the Dean's keeping in Westminster Abbey. Tue Sx Mitton Nive Huxprep Taovsanp Dortar Crrr Loan was awarded yesterday to the combination of bankers. The reduction which it will make in the interest account will be gratifying to the taxpayers. Accorpixc to Our Srrcian Caste De- sratcues this morning a very uneasy feeling pre- vaile in financial and business circles in Glas- gow. Very great indignation is expressed in regard to the reckless management of the broken ‘bank. Ir Wn Nor Be a Very Great Sunrise to the public to learn that an active lobby is at work endeavoring to defeat the veto by tlte Mayor of the resolution to extend the St. Nich- olas Avenue Railroad from Tenth avenue to the East River. A Wenpprnc near Watertown, in this State, the other evening had a rather tragic ending. The bridegroom could not see the fun of the immemorial tin horn serenade, and something like s pitched battle took place. One of the @erenaders and the bride were fatally wounded. Tae Last or THe Wines that go to make the great cables of the Brooklyn Bridge has been Fun across the East River, and what is called the process of “wrapping” has been begun. ‘This will take af winter, and meanwhile the wirepulling will go on in the courts. Tue Saxta Cruz Necro Resetiion must Shave been pretty formidable. Private advices received here are to the effect that the destruc- ‘tion of property is far larger than reported in @ur despatches. Eight or ten miles of country have been ravaged, and upward of one hundred plantations burned. ‘Tue Wearuer.—The storm centre has at Jast “passed away to the eastward, taking the course that was predicted by the Heraup when the de- pression first appeared in the Rocky Mountain regions. It ts now over the St. Lawrence Valley and is travelling toward the ocean very rap- idly. As will be seen elsewhore the storm was very severe over the lower lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States. As the depression moved eastward the barometer began to rise in | all the northwestern districts, but last night o | gather eudden fall took place, and the outlines of another depression became very well marked, | oxen in the Northern Missouri Valley. fs very little probability, however, that ‘this depression will be severe, becanse of the gredoal receding of the high ares toward the southeast. The pressure is highest over the South Atlantio districts, but it is falling slowly. The Darometer is only relatively high over the Gulf Rain has fallen over all the districts except in the South Atlantic const and the West. In those sections fair weather has gen- erally prevailed. The winds have been from brisk to high in the lower lake regions and the Middle Atlantic and New England States. They have been brisk in the Northwest and generally ight elsewhere. Temperatures have fallen ex- cept in the Middle Atlantic and New England States and the Northwest, where they have been variable. Steep gradients are likely to continue in the northeastern districts. The weather in Blow York and ite vicinity today will be cool pnd fair. To-morrow’the same conditions sre coasts. ikoly s0 prevail. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, “These Peculiar Cipher Despatches.” The Tridune, after a great deal of prelim- inary pacing and preluding, of which the object was not very clear, has printed more than a hundred cipher degpatches, which, as the stdry goes, passed between Tallahas- see, the capital of Florida, and No. 15 Gramercy Park, the residence of Mr. Tilden, within the month which followed the pop- ular vote for Presidential electors in 1876. To the verbatim copy of each despatch the Tribune subjoins a translation into plain words, founded on a key or keys which it professes to have discovered, describing the process of discovering and explaining the application of the key or set of keys, The cryptographic system which it sets forth is too intricate and complex to permit a sus- picion that it is an invention of the Tribune asa whole, even if some of the alleged cipher despatches have been interpolated into the great mass which bear on their face marks of genuineness. We do not allege that any of the despatches are surreptitious, the probabilities being the other way on the prima facie presentation made by the Tribune. They seem to fit into each other so perfectly, and they so tally with the well known events of the period, that there is no reason to doubt the general authenticity of the despatches. The fact that they were in cipher affords no reasonable presumption against the honor and integrity of either receivers or senders. Politicians on both sides had an interest in concealing their movements from their adversaries. The resort to a cipher was no offence against political mo- rality so long as the objects attempted to be accomplished were legitimate. We may also add that the despatches inter- changed between Tallahassee and Gramercy Park, from the time of Mr. Marble’s arrival up to the 2d of December, 1876, contain nothing which should be regarded as seri- ously compromising to any of the parties to the correspondence. To be sure, there were despatches relating to the payment of money, but the sums named were small, and it was only fair that the democratic visitors in Florida should have their ex- penses reimbursed. ‘They were send- ing out agents to all parts of the State to collect information respect- ing the actual vote in the polling precincts—a kind of information to which they were fairly entitled and which could not be procured without some expense. The great mass of the published despatches might be acknowledged by the senders without any discredit to their character among people who aré conversant with the habitual methods and morals of American polities. If this were all the general verdict would be that the Tribune has discovered a political ‘‘mare’s nest.” But the despatches alleged to have passed between the Ist and 5th of December, 1876, are of a different character. Unless it can be proved that the alleged cipher telegrams between and including those dates are fic- titious or have been incorrectly translated their publication must ruin irretrievably every person who had any hand in them. The substance of these despatches as in- terpreted by the keys applied to them is that their recipients at Gramercy Park were informed by Mr. Marble and Mr. Woolley that an offer had been made to them to sell the decision of the Florida Returning Board for the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and ask- ing instructions as to how the offer should be treated. ‘To these despatches there was a reply which was so obscure that Mr. Til- den’s agents at Tallahassee could not un- derstand it, and they returned an answer that it was unintelligible. Thereupon an- other cipher despatch was sent to them from New York authorizing them to accept the proposition and pay the fifty thousand dol- lars for the proffered vote of » memberof the Returning Board. We will not attempt to characterize this alleged reply to such an offer, because it could not be done in that moderate lan- guage which befits the present state of the controversy, when there is still a possibil- ity of disputing the truth of the alle- gation. We have heard the accusa- tion, but have not yet heard the de fence. If it can be shown that these particular cipher despatches are not genuine, or that, being genuine, they have been translated by a false key, or mistrans- lated in some other way, the senders and receivers will be exonerated and the accu- sation will fall to the ground. But sup- posing (if it be possible to suppose) that the cipher despatches conveying and ac- cepting that offer really passed between the parties, and are correctly translated, there is only one judgment which honest men can form of the transaction. The case as presented seems so plausible that it will inevitably be accepted as true unless Mr. Tilden and his Florida agents shall put in denials supported by reasonable proots. That part of the public which has not prejudged the case desires to hear from them and will listen with candor to any valid defence. The friends of the parties accused by the Tribune are reduced to as- tonished silenée until reasons are given for disbelieving these damaging, these utterly ruinous allegations. It is not a case that admits of much delay. Unless the incul- pated parties assert that these despatches are fictitious it is inevitable that the pub- lic will soon regard them as genuine. They convey charges which no honorable poli- tician should leave uncontradicted if there is any possibility of successful contradic- tion. That part of the public is very small in- deed which will exculpate Mr. Tilden at the expense of Messrs. Pelton, Havemeyer, Marble and Woolley. Nobody can believe that Mr. Tilden was ignorant of the con- tents of cipher despatches sent to his own house relating to a matter which so nearly and so deeply concerned him, to » matter which occupied all his thoughts and kept him in incessant anxiety during that critical period. It is impossible for any rational human creature to believe that Mr. Tilden was ignorant of the contents of any genuine despatch received at or sent from his house in the very crisis of his political fortunes. If the despateh authorizing the payment of the fifty thousand dollar bribe was really sent to the Tilden agents in Tallahas- see nobody can be made to bation | Mr. Tilden did not authorize it, Who a6 @ correction or confirmation of the among his little coterie of hangers-on could have furnished so large a sum? And even if any of them had possessed the money what motive could they have had for spend- ing it in suchaway? If the despatches are bogus everybedy is cleared, but if they are genuine the guilt lies inevitably at the door of Mr. Tilden, and he cannot escape the consequences. If the despatches are not malicious inventions it is preposterous to think that he can make scapegoats of the people about him. Un- less he denies, and supports his denial by proofs, not many days will elapse before the public opinion of the country will be unanimous in a verdict which he has every reason to deprecate. We will not attempt to draw consequences until the facts shall have assumed a more credible shape. But if, after sufficient time shall have elapsed for denial and refutation, no reply is made to this accusation and the publio settles down into a belief of its trath, it will be a great blow to the hopes and prospects of the democratic party. Until it is met and refuted democrats should pre- serve a becoming silence on the great topic of “fraud” which they have been flaunting in the face of the country since the inau- guration of Mr. Hayes. Nothing could be more grotesquely absurd than such a cry on the part of any democrat if it be true (which we cannot believe) that Mr. Tilden, in whose behalf the cry is raised, attempted to procure the Presidency by a bribe. Net Results of the Elections. We still wait for fall returns of the Ohio and Indiana elections, but enough is known to show that the democrats have gained two and perhaps three Congressmen in Ohio and possibly one in Indiana. The democrats have thus got much better out of their blunder than they had a right to ex- pect or than they déserved, for they not only took an unpatriotic and unsound position, but they nominated some men who were fortunately beaten, because they were unfit for place. The defeat of the democratic State ticket in Ohio and the essential weakness shown by the infla- tion or so-called ‘“‘Obio movement” prob- ably eliminates Senator Thurman from the list of Presidential candidates. The notable feature of the result is the poor show made by the greenback-national party. Its leaders confidently and pub- licly claimed that they would elect three Congressmen in Ohio and three in Indiana. So far as is now known they have not elected asingle one. The “rag baby” has once more failed its devotees; and the people, in spite of their discontent with both parties, have shown them- selves wiser than the politicians, The result ought to encourage the friends of sound money in both parties to bolder and more aggressive efforts in the Novem- ber States, It ought to teach the demo- cratic leaders that they cannot succeed by playing the demagogue. Noone now doubts that if the democratic party in’ Ohio had dropped its silly ‘‘fraud” cry and its equally silly inflation appeal, and placed itself boldly on a sound currency plat- form, it could have swept the State. But the democratic leaders in most of the States have neither courage nor wise dom, and that is the reason the people keep them so long wandering in the wilderness, It is safe to say that the Ohio and Indiana democrats have almost, if not entirely, ruined the chances of their party in 1880, The Charges Against Mr. Lydecker. In another part of the Henatp will be found a statement of Mr. John R. Ly- decker, recently one of the deputy col- lectors of this port, in relation to the charges against him made in the reports of certain special agents of the Treasury De- partment. Mr. Lydecker completely and satisfactorily answers all the allegations made against him. in the clouds of charges and countercharges that are made in these Custom House investigations and revelations the facts cited are apt to be so numerous and the papers to which refer. ence is made so entirely inaccessible that the public must frame its opinions gen- erally upon the faith they repose in those who make the statements. But, 1n so far as this trouble applies in the present case, Mr. Lydecker is fortunate in his adver- saries, since the word of the Trens- ury special agent of the period is not to be weighed against that of any man of known repute inthecommunity. In fact, the desig- nation “special agent” bids fair to obtain in Custom House concerns as ill an odor as the name of detective in the police, and to signify a venal trader, who abuses a public and confidential position for personal profit or private revenge. The simple statement that the transactions cited in the charge against Lydecker occurred ten years ago, and that his defence has been made upon an official examination and declared satis- factory, sufficiently exposes the tactics of vamping up an old scandal and presenting it as « fresh abuse to affect opinion favorably to the recent changes in the Custom House, Unhi If the average American politician is ever tempted to strike out and indulge his feel- ings in cipher despatches to his near or re- mote friends he will be apt to remember the late terrible ‘events and change his mind, He will—as the slang of the times puts things—‘‘take no cipher in his.” ‘There is every good reason why a man should not use this method of communica- tion. It is troublesome ; it attracts undue attention to what it is desired should be done covertly, and a cipher never yet ef- fectually concealed a secret. Temporarily, a cipher may hide the nature of a communi- cation, put the man who commits to that sort of disguise a secret that is shame- fal, and that he hopes to hide, not for im- mediate advantage, but in order to protect himself against future exposures ruinous to his reputation, falls into o fool’s para- dise and is the easy victim of his own cun- ning. Inasmuch ns the cipher despatches published in ‘Tuesday’s Henaxp ore, in part at least, « cipher used in the Florida despatches, and as the translation of these by the key of those who made them was ted in court, this translation will serve, with those interested in these studies, OCTOBER 10, 1878—-TRIPLE SHEET. used in the Tribune's exposures, though we | mission to-morrow, was most grossly | presume no such person doubts the accu- racy of the renderings. Mr. Kelly’s Mayor: Mr. Kelly has recently gained so many and stich conclusive victories that those who have watched the turns of city, politics must acknowledge him master of the field and of the situation. We think it highly probable, if not certain, that he can elect whomsoever he chooses to nominate for the Mayoralty, and we. have no donbt that he is ofthe same mind: Naturally, under these circumstances, everybody watches for in- dications of his choice, Some days ago one of Mr. Kelly's dailies drew atten- tion to Mr. Augustus Schell as a geu- tleman eminently fit to be Mayor of New York, and the quidnuncs at once concluded that Mr. Schell was the ing man. But we remember that on a previous occasion the same excellent jour- nal held up Mr. Shepherd Knapp as also an admirable and altogether fit man for Mayor, and before that Mr. Babcock had been in a similar way dandled before the public eye. Perhaps to-morrow some other equally ex- cellent citizen may be named. All this is very tantalizing to a curious public ; but we do not complain. Mr. Kelly is master of the situation and can make us wait. We wish, however, that he would bear in mind that with power comes responsibility. We have always said for him ‘that he undoubtedly desires to serve the city to the best of his ability. He can- not do this by naming » Mayor who will be in the public eye only a figurehead. . We have not a word to say against Mr. Schell, for instance; but everybody understands that Mr. Schell is Mr. Kelly's bosom friend, and that if he were enthroned in the City Hall Mr. Kelly would be the real, though not the ostensible, Mayor. Mr. Kelly had far better take the Mayoralty himself. Against that nobody would object, for he ‘would undoubtedly make an excellent and efficient Mayor. But Mr. Kelly is understood to prefer the place of Comptroller. Now we wish he could see that he has fulfilled the arduous duties of that place so honestly and ably that no Mayor would displace him so long as he desired to remain in it. In that mat- ter we believe he can safely trust public opinion, and while he has the power to elect whomsoever he may nominate it will be better for his own fame and future success if he shall select for the Mayoralty not a personal friend, a favorite, but the best man he can find willing to take the place. Such an act, courageous and public spirited, would undoubtedly consolidate his own power and disarm his opponents in future contests. Spirituslism as a ‘Witness in a Murder Case. It would scarcely be safe as 4 general thing to trust to the intervention of spiritual powers for the detection of crime and for the evidence sufficient to convict its perpetrators, But in a murder case in Connecticut a grand juror, an able counsel, a learned judge and we know not how many others seem bound to convict « person of the capital offence of murder on the strength of revelations made by a pre- tended spiritual medium. The story is told by the Hzzatp’s special correspondent in another column. We sre assured, on the authority. of one. of the prosecuting lawyers, that all the circumstances attending the eruel murder of poor Mary Stannard were minutely described to a member of the Grand Jury by the medium, even to the description of the weapons used and the words spoken during the enactment of the tragedy. An interview between our correspondent and the clairvoyant confirms the wonderful tale. Exactly how the evidence is to be used on the trial of the Rev. Mr. Hayden, who has been rearrested, is not explained. Perhaps the medium is to be induced to pass into the clairvoyant state and describe the mur- der after the fashion of Hamlet's players. But then how is the oath to be administered that is necessary to make the testimony legal? Who is to be sworn, the spirit or the agent? What is to become of the right of the defence to # cross-examination? Who is to vouch for the credibility of the witness when the mediums themselves do not seem to know whether they are used by good spirits or bad spirits—by truthful spirits or lying spirits? Many such legal difficulties suggest themselves in such a case. Even should they be overcome, who can vouch that the jury will not be com- posed of men of common sense, who will remember that the medium's wonderful dis- closures were made after he had enjoyed the opportunity to examine the spot, measure the distances and arrange blood-stained stones at his pleasure, and so make up their minds that he is an arrant humbug ? It would be fortunate for the accused if more material circumstances had not occa- sioned his second arrest. Should it be proved that he purchased arsenic on the morning of the murder, and that the poison was found in the stomach of the victim, it will not need a spiritual medium to convict him of the cruol crime, nor will any efforts of Spiritualism save him from the full pen- alty of the law. The Fits John Perter Onse. Tho Court of Inquiry in the case of Gen- eral Porter is now examining witnesses for the government. So far as we have ob- served, their testimony does not invalidate the great mass of evidence from officers ot both sides which has been given in favor of General Porter. Besides this evidence, General Lippit, of Washington, a compo- tent military critic, has recently published a complete and very careful review and analysis of the operations of what is called Pope's campaign, tracing the movements and positions of both the contending armies from day to day, and in many cases from hour to hour, and this paper entirely exoulpates General Porter from the charge on which he was condemned. We have no doubt that the result of the inquiry now going on will also establish the fact that he was unjustly treated. In times of war and of great public excitement falsehoods dam- aging to personal character easily obtain credit. We remember that General Mo- Dowell. who is to testify bafore the com. Canade’s Hew Prime Minigter. maligned at one time; not only was his! gi, John A. Macdonald again finds him. loyalty called in question, but it was as- serted and widely believed that he was in- capacitated for command by being a drunk- ard, when the fact, well known to all his friends, was that he never touched liquor of any kind, but was a ‘cold water man” of the strictest sect, Amertean Jockey Club. Five races will be run to-day at Jerome Park. The first will be a selling race, a dash of a mile and a furlong, the owner to be his own handicapper, and the winner to be sold at auction as soon as the race is over. Ten have entered for the purse, and the highest weight is one hundred and three pounds. The horses are St. James, Guy, Frank, Franklin, Simoon, Pique, Erl King, W. I. Higgins, Jackscrew and Charley Gor- ham. This will be a lively race, and it will puzzle the judges to place the horses at the finish, so close will a half dozen of them be when they reach the goal. Gorham should be pretty near the front at that time. The second race will be the Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, a dash of three- quarters of a mile, for which there were twenty-three nominations, of which number six have been announced to start. These are Mr, P. Lorillard’s Boardman, Mr. D. D. Withers’ Belinda, Mr.. Thomas Puryear & Co.’s Dan Sparling, Mr. G. L. Lorillard’s Wilfal and Startle, and Mr. J. A. Smith’s Lillian. These are a sharp lot, and from past performances Boardman should be first, Dan Sparling second and Belinda third. Mr. George L. Lorillard’s team, however, may be in the way; for rumor has it that Wilful is a wonder. The race will be a fast one, whoever wins it. The third race will bea grand one, as eight well known good race horses will start for the sweepstakes. These are Parole, General Phillips, Princeton, Bush- whacker, Danicheff, Loulanier, Albert and Garrick. Which will be first it seems hard to guess; but ata venture we think Parole will be in front of the judges a trifle before any of the others, Danicheff and Bush- whacker are both dangerous at this distance with the weights they have to carry, and probably will be able to give the champion some trouble. ‘General Phillips and Prince- ton are also thought well of and have many backers, and so have Garrick, Loulanier and Albert. The race will be sure to be a good one under any cir- cumstances, The fourth race will be mile heats, for which five horses have en- tered to start. These are Dan K, Nannie H, Bolance All, Bayard and La Belle Héléne. One of thethree Bonnie Scotlands should win, although Belle Héléne and Nannie H. have each a great turn of speed. The race, will be exciting throughout whoever wins it, and we do not think it will be settled in two heats by any of them. The fifth race will be o handicap steeplechase over the short course. Waller, Deadhead, Problem, Derby, Bay Rum, Disturbance and Lizzie D are the entries. The weights have been changed, Deadhead having to carry five pounds more: than in his race on Tuesday last with Problem, and that ought to land these two horses at the finish about even. Waller's weight has been reduced, and, with the reduced distance, he will have an exceedingly good chance to catch the judge's eye first. Disturbance is turned loose in this race, and, if he cannot win with the weight allotted to him now he should be given some other business. Derby, Bay Rum and Lizzie D, if they are in the way at all, will only be at the begin- ning. Altogether the racing to-day will be worth a long journey to witness. Why Mr. Tilden Waits. Many people are, it seems to us, a little hard on Mr. Tilden and Mr. Marble for their silence about the damaging cipher despatches. ‘‘Why don’t they speak out and say whether they are fairly represented or not?” these people savagely demand. We have no doubt Mr. ‘Lilden could, if he would, give the public a round dozen of reasons ‘for his delay and that of his ‘‘co- parceners.” But the case reminds us of one familiar to the readers of Joseph Miller, in which an Irish gentleman, being on trial for a malappropriation of his neighbor's chickens, the Judge said gruffly, ‘Now, Pat, guilty or not guilty?” ‘Begorra, Yer Honor,” said Pat, “how can I tell till I hear the evidence?” It is, perhaps, only reasonable to let Mr. Tilden withhold his plea in this case until all the evidence is in, We give to-day a portion of the speech in which the Marquis of Lorne bade fare- well to his late constituents in Argyllshire and told them of the new country to which he is going in words that showed his famil- iarity with the scene of his future duties. Some portions of his speech are some- what naive, a8 when he said that he did not wish to injure his broth- er's chances before the electors by appearing in his favor, and that he had offered to visit and address his constita- ents whenever they asked him; but they nover asked him, because their sound sense ingtructed them in politics better than he could, These bits of rather awkward hon- esty aside, the pleasant character of their new magnate’s words cannot but make a favorable opinion in the Dominion, A Good Representative. When a Congressional district has a thor- oughly good Representative at Washington the best thing it can do is to keep him there, His usefulness increases pari passu with his experience. The Southern States before the war understood the value of tried and capable Representatives, and this was the secret of their superior influence in Congress. Fernando Wood ought to be kept at his post by the electors of the Ninth Congressional district. His absence from the next House would be a loss to the oity of New York. His familiarity with the interests of the commercial metropolis, the position he commands on the committees of the House, his experience, ability and tact combine to make him ono of the city’s most valuable Representatives, and there ought to be no doubt of his renomination end re- election. self Prime Minister of Canada, Immedie ately after the resignation of the Mackenzie Ministry at Ottawa on Tuesday Earl Dufferin left for Montreal with the intention of send- ing for Sir John A. Macdonald and offering him the Premiership, It will be seen from our despatches that the mecting took place yesterday. Earl Dufferin briefly informed him that it was the desire of Her Majesty that he should form an administration in accordance with the wishes ofthe people of the Dominion as recently expressed at the polls, Sir John, of course, bowed his acqui- escence and returned thanks for the hono1 conferred upon him, These are. the usual formalities incident to such occasions, and the new Premier hns been so often at the helm of affairs in Canada that it is very certain he performed his part of the ceremony with the utmost gracé. Specula tion is, of course, rife as to the gentlemen he will call to his support. The new Premies is remarkable among other things for the tenacity with which he adheres to his old friends, and as the list elsewhere printed contains the names of many who were with him in former administrations it is very probable that we shall have to make few changes in it when the official declaration of his selection is announced. The majur- ity with which he returns to office is sa overwhelming that he will have no difficulty in carrying his measures, and it is not im- probable that he will retain power for niany years. A Conquering Hero. Peace hath her victories no less than war. Mr. John Kelly’s ample brow is at present wreathed with many laurels, but they have been won in battles of statesmanship and not on fields of blood. He triumphed in the State Legislature of the present year; he triumphed in the State Convention ; he achieved a Waterloo in the State Committee on Tuesday last; the famous cipher de- spatphes have stretched his most formida- ble antagonist at his feet in advance of the next National Convention, and now the prospect of a divided opposi- tion in the local contest promises him an easy victory in the city in Novem- ber. In his triumphal career he even draws into his ranks his supposed enemies. Some of the most noisy leaders of anti-Tammany are preparing to march under Mr. Kelly's victorious banner and are doing him good service in advance by undermining theis own camp and sowing the seeds of disaffec. tion in their own ranks. This has cer- tainly been a fortunate year for the Tam- many leader, and it will not be surprising ifhe should succeed in enrolling among his faithful followers the working politi- cians of ‘anti-Tammany before election day arrives. Election Frauds. In Indiana, on the eve of the election, several citizens were arrested on the charge of attempting to colonize voters, the evi- dence of their guilt being very strong. That is right; and we hope the officers of justice and the citizens will be equally vigilant in all the other States in the detection and punishment of all election crimes. What is wanted is ® full, fair, free and peaceable expression of the popular will, and whoever attempts to prevent this in any manner deserves the severest punishment the law allows. We hope the Indiana men now under arrest will havea prompt trial, and if they are found guilty will receive exemplary punish- ment, It is time to make it understood that cheating im elections is a penitentiary offence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sir Joseph Copley, et England, is at the Hoffman House, “Now,” said the victim to Judge Lyneb, “noese verrons.” Mr. Lyon Playfair, M. P., of London, ie atthe Windsor Hotel. Of the four Russian grand dukes Constantinoviteh 1s the handsomest. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, is at the New York Hotel, The Chicago 7ribune thinks Gbin Lan Pin is @ worse writer than old Fatber Spianer, Mr. R. K. Mungittrick, of Puck, will publish « book of humorous sketches about the 1st of Novombor, Assistant secretary of the Treasury Hawley has re- tarned to Washington and is again at the department, Mr. Reuben Crook succeeds Mr. J. W. Bartlett as 1 the Boston 7ravcller. Mr. Bartlett wili re- Wasbiogton, Remark by Protessor Norton :—' “There can be ne ideal education at Harvard until we have ear college Dulldings more besutital.”” friend of General Grant, “It could not look upon a mummy without thinking of tte wrapptogs. London World:—‘“Seatiment and service do net ge woll together; and when Jove fics ia at ibe kitehen window domestic usefainess at once departs oat eof the door, Servants’ m are constructed se as only to carry ono set of ides: time.” Biam, the dasso, who sang as the King in “Lohen- grin” here last year, went te his native town ta Ger- many for the benent of his wifo’s health Inst summer. We are told that he hes been compelled to begin @ three-years’ service in the Prussian army, 8. B. Mille, the pinaist, arrived from Europe yes teruay. He had great success while abroad, and there aro opinions from Joachim, Hiller aud Ref that for technique Mr. Mills bas no superior. Being asked by Raf! wnien concerto he would play ine week ho replied by telegram, ‘I send you by mails list of twenty-six, any one of which 1 will play at as ” Saturday Review:—“The practical triumph sm im the United States ie far distant, which toon Cleop of a Seoteh man. ie white haired and course, one of the mont potent safeguard: agarnst disease of all Kinds, and particularly of the of being property fed. Against common diseases I die recommend high teedian.””