The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR DAILY HERALD, pnbiinhad every day inthe year. lcents per couy iSundaye exclused). leu dollars pet .0F at arate of one dollar per month for any poriod : #ix months, or five dollars jor six months, Sunday per year, 1ree of post Remit in drafts addre: My Dens. telegraphic {e despatches must eda: x ere aud packases sheals be properly sealed. ‘communientions will nt be returned. hes aaa a ELPuIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH RUON OFFICE, o| oF ae NEW YORK HERALD— kK Panis i Sericen ao 41 AVENUE DE LIOPERA. American cahilntor»at the International Exposition can have Deir letters (is eee addressed & Ue care of our Paris OfFicn—no. 7 STRADA PACK. wi AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GILMORE’S GARDEN—Banxun’'s Snow. LYCEUM THEATRE—Josuva Wurrcows, BOWERY THEATRR—Savep ruom tux Stome PABK THEATRE—Baw' BROADWAY THEATRE BOOTH’S THEATRE—Huxn AMERICAN INSTITUT WALLACK’S THEATR: UNION SQUARE THEAT STANDARD THEATER: FIFTH AVENUE Ti BIBLO’S GARDEN—Nick oF t GRAND OPERA HOUS: ACADEMY OF MUSIC—La Tuaviata. BT. JAMES hs ca TIVOL! THEATRE—Vanier TONY PASTOR'S THEAT The probabilities a1 are that the eae: in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with brisk winds and ocea- sional rains. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer @nd cloudy, with strong winds and occasional rains, followed by colder and clearing weather. Wat Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active but excited. Gold fluctu- ated between 1005, and 10015. Government bonds were lower, States dull and railroads weak. Money on call lent all day at 5a 6 per cnt. ConrrisuTions For THE Bensrirof the yel- low fever sufferers ure decreasing, but the ne- cessities of the sufferers are not. A Promistnc axp Lonc Promisep Yacut Race was completety spoiled yesterday by the Unsuspected depravity of certain inanimate objects. cas i Watt Street has sprung a genuine sensation ‘upon the public—a two hundred thousand dollar failure—and bankers and brokers the only victims. Somrpopy Is at Last ro ne Scvep for dump ing ashes into the bay. One legal suit will be more efficacious to stop such irregularities than a whole sheaf of letters written to the news Papers. 3 Haw a Dozen high-toned citizens of New Jersey are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the depositors of a savings bank of which they were officials. No wonder that small savings @rift more and more into government bonds. A Hearse [Has at Last been begun, in Su- preme Court, Chambers, in the mandamus pro- ceedings against Comptroller Kelly, ip the matter of the desired appropriation toward the Brooklyn Bridge, and beautiful fight seems inevitable. Iy THe Testimony given yesterday of the eight-year-old child of Mr. Engel tends to con viet one of the Fairview masked burglars wakefal children will not hereafter be as unpop anlar as they have been. Tue Government Spies who hover about the trunks of travellers in a way that would not be tolerated in autocratic Russia receive a hearty slap from Deputy Collector Phelps this morning, but it is to be regretted that the Secre- tary of the Treasury has not time to rebuke them himself. Commopore VANDERDILT is reported to have obtained some financial wiedom from the spirit world. Now let the advisory spirits be mate- Fialized at once, and bring the greenback lead- ers into their presence, for nothing short of supernatural interposition can suatch these fel- lows from the error of th Is His Sprrcn from the chair of the Tammany Convention yesterday Mr. Smythe remarked that the candidate tor the mayoralty should be “a man who, when he attains his office, will | not forget the great democratic party that put him there.” And yet Mr. ythe probably won- ders why a large majority of respectable citi- sens hate and distrust Tammany! Tur Wratuen.—The western depression is moving very slowly, but it has extended its in- finence as far south as the Western Gulf. Temarkably low, and there seems to be a very severe disturbance organizing over the Missis- | eippi and Missouri Vailey districts. The barom- eter continues high over the Atlantic coast, par- ticularly in the South Atlantic States. It is falling gradually in New England. Rain bas fallen in the lake regions and the central valley districts. In Michigan and Wiscon- sin very heavy showers fell during yesterday. Clear weather has prevailed in all the South Atlantic and Guif States and in some sections of the Northeust. The winds have been from brisk to high in the West and Northwest, fresh over the lakes, Gulf and Middle Atiantic and coasts. Temperatures continue to fall in the Northwest. They bave been variable in the Jake regions and on the Middle Atlantic coast, and have risen elsewhere decidedly. To judge from present appearances the coming distur- ®auce will probably prove a very severe one over the lake regions and the central valley | districts. On arriving at the lower lake regions it will take a more northeasterly course, so that ‘we aro not likely to feel its full foree as it passes. We are very certain, however, to ex- perience the brisk to strong winds that will be developed on its southeastern and southern | margin as it approaches theocean. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with brisk winds and occasional rains. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and clondy, with strong ‘winds and occasional rains, followed by colder _ aad clearing weather. In | the centre of the area the barometer has fallen | ee ee ~—rr & * 26-2 eo 4 Bi sin oats a Ts Tv Fe NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1878--TRIPLE SHEET. Resumption Day—And Theat L In March, 1869, Congress adopted the “Public Credit Act,” the last clause of which is in these words :—“‘And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practical moment for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.” IL In January, 1875, Congress fulfilled this ‘solemn pledge” by enacting that ‘on and after the 1st of January, 1879, the Secre- tary of the Treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legal tender notes then outstanding ;” and to enable him to do this it deliberately gave him authority not only to use any surplus revenues, but ‘‘to issue, sell and dispose of at not less than par in coin either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States” previously authorized by law for other purposes, being either five, four and a half or four per cents, ‘‘to the extent necessary to carry this act into full effect.” III. At the last session Congress author- ized the coinage of silver dollars at the rate of not less than two nor more than four millions per month, and made them a full legal tender; and it also forbade the cancel- lation or retirement of United States notes, and ordered that they ‘‘be reissued, paid out again and kept in circulation.” IV. When, under the Jaw, the Treasury begins to redeem the legal tender notes there will be in circulation three hundred and forty-six millions of them, and the Treasury will contain somewhere about one hundred and eighty millions of coin, of which one hundred and sixty millions, in round figures, will be in gold and the re- mainder in silver. V. ‘here will be at the same period about three hundred and twenty millions of national bank notes in circulation, redeem- able at the pleasure of the holders in ‘‘law- ful money,” which will mean after the Ist of January next either gold, silver or greenbacks, VI. On and after the Ist of January United States notes will, we suppose, be received for customs duties, because if they were refused the holders would only be put to the trouble of getting them ex- changed for coin at the Sub-Treasury, which would be a useless circumlocation. VII. The Silver act authorizes the issue of certificates by the Treasury against silver dollars in sums of ten dollars and upward. Whenever the silver dollar becomes trouble- some, therefore, it will doubtless go back into the Treasury, and the certificates will pass current as an additional kind of legal tender paper money until the Silver act is modified or repealed. VIIL There is no limit of law to the amount of national bank currency which may be issued. These are the circumstances under which the Treasury will begin to ‘‘redeem” United States notes, which must be presented at the Sub-Treasury in this city in sums of fifty dollars or more. Fears are sometimes expressed that the effort at resumption must break down, and that the attempt will throw our finances into disorder. We remark, in the first place, that the law gives the Secretary unlimited power to procure coin by the sale of bonds; so long as he can sell five per cents at par for gold he can get gold for redemption of the greenbacks. But it is objected that as he is required to reissue the notes he *‘redeems,” and, as when they are reissued he may be again required to give coin for them, this process of ‘‘redemp- tion,” so called, is endless. The law cer- tainly directs that the ‘‘redeemed” notes shall be reissued; but so long as the reve- nues balance the expenditures, as the Secretary has no authority to give away the notes he will with the best intentions find it impossible to get them out. The national banks now redeem in green- backs, They ought to know that the bur- den of resumption must in the end fall upon them; but so far they do not appear to have adopted any fixed policy. It is not probable that green- backs will be presented for redemption in large quantities, for a time at least, and, while foreign exchanges are in our favor, by private holders, but the banks will be compelled to put themselves on a coin basis, and their readiest way to do this will be by collecting greenbacks, and with them drawing gold out of the Treasury. They now hold between twenty-five and thirty millions of gold of their own and have probably seventy millions of green- backs under the law besides. The holders of national bank notes, being absolutely se- cured under any circumstances, will not be likely to trouble the banks for coin ; there can be no panic of bill holders, such as the country was liable to under the old banking systems, because if a national bank fails the Treasury redeems its notes in full. But now that it is seen that resumption is a fixed fact all prudent national banks must as rapidly as possible put themselves on a coin basis. Whenever they have achieved this the country will have actually resumed specie payments, but not until then; and the demand on the Treasury for coin in exchange for green- | backs will come from the national banks in their efforts to resume. If wo have traced the process of resump- tion correctly it appears that it involves no further contraction of the currency by the government, but o coin expansion to the amount of the silver dollars coined ; that the operation of natural causes, demand and supply, upon the national banks will, | after resumption, expand or contract the | amount of currency as the wants of busi- New England | ness shall demand ; that the greenbacks ro- deemed must remain in the Treasury, but will be replaced by an equal amount of coin put in circulation ; that if a revival of busi- ness should offer employment for more cur- rency than is now in circulation, which is highly improbable, the free banking law enables the immediate supply of this de- mand without further legislation; and that while we should certainly be in a much sounder position if Congress bad not for- bidden the cancellation of redeemed green- backs, the situation is not dangerous if the Secretary of the Treusary acts with nerve and prudent foresight. He will have to fight for gold, and he wiil find himself pitted against the Bank of England, which is already on the defensive; and he may in the end create some trouble in ae money markets. Dut the Re- sumption act gives him very great powers, and it is scarcely possible that he shall not be able, with our high credit abroad and the large balance of trade in our favor, and in view of the fact that we are resuming, to sell any required amount of five per cents for par in gold. This the law allows him to do to any extent for re- sumption purposes, Offices To Be Filled on the Sth of November by the Veters of New York, We present to our readers the following complete list of the offices to fill which va- rious vandidates are now or will presently be soliciting, either themselves or by their next friends, the votes of the free and inde- pendent citizens of this commercial me- tropolis :-— 1. One Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals for a full term. 2 Seven members of Congress. 3. Twenty-one members of the Assembly. 4, A City Judge in place of Judge Suth- erland. 5. A District Attorney in place of Mr. Phelps. 6. A Coroner in place of Mr. Ellinger. 7. AState Senator to fill the unexpired term of the late Mr. Morrissey. 8. A Mayor in place of Mr. Ely. And, finally, a couple of dozen Aldermen, be the same more or less, Twenty-two—to be accurate about small matters, A Puzzle for Politic We print an interesting conversation with Attorney General Schoonmaker, wherein he avers it to be his positive and deliberate opinion that the provision of the city charter which forbids any citizen to vote for more than two of the three Alder- men chosen in separate districts, or for more than four of the six Aldermen at large, is unconstitutional and would be so adjudged by the Court of Appeals. Mr. Schoonmaker’s opinion rests on article 2, section 1, which declares that every qualified citizen ‘should be entitled to vote for all officers that pow are or hereafter may be elective by the people.” With all due respect for the Attorney Gen- eral, we regard this opinion of his as erro- neous. We do not choose to argue the question at present, and merely ask atten- tion to a statement of fact. Acts of the Legislature containing similar provisions have been in the statute books for the greater portion of the last twenty years, and their constitutionality has never been im- pugned in the courts. The law of 1858 establishing the old Board of Supervisors (Tweed’s infamous Board) which proved to be so corrupt, was voted for in the same manner—that is to say, no citizen was allowed to vote for more than one of the two members elected each year; ‘and any ticket,” so the law ran, ‘having thereon more than one name for Supervisor shall not be counted.” That Board soon became so odious that if it could have been upset and abolished by a judicial process the at- tempt would assuredly have been made, The fact that it was never assailed in the courts on this ground is pretty good evi- dence that the lawyers of that day did not think such a suit maintainable. Be this as it may, the Attorney General certainly expresses a hasty opinion in the method he advises for brmging the ques- tion to a judicial test. He suggests that citizens put the full number of names on their ballots, If all the Tammany voters should follow this advice the whole Board of Aldermen might be elected by Tammany and their right to seats be asserted in the courts. Mr. Schoonmaker overlooks the fact that such ballots would not be counted by the canvassers. The canvass- ers are bound to obey the law as it stands until the Court of Appeals shall have de- clared it void. It would be their duty to reject all the illegal ballots and thereby nullify the whole vote of Tammany if the Attorney General's rash advice should be accepted. We are confident that no party or faction will be guided by so inconsid- erate an opinion. The Impagned Na Judge Freedman, of the Superior Court, rendered his decision yesterday on the at- tempt made by John I. Davenport, Federal Chief Supervisor of Elections, to annul a great number of naturalization certificates given in former years. Those certificates were assailed on grounds of fraud and in- formality. The substance of Judge Freed- man’s decision is that Mr. Davenport is wholly wrong on the question of informality or the insufficiency of the records, every court possessing an absolute discretion as to the manner in which it will record its ac- tion and its judgments. If Mr. Davenport refuses to return the certificates of which he has obtained possession the court will give duplicates that will serve the same purpose as the originals. As to frauds in procuring the certificates the Judge states that in every case in which Mr. Davenport will present to the court proofs of fraud be will vacate the certificate where the evi- dence is sufficient to invalidate it, Al- though Judge Freedman does not say so, it is obvious that such cases would not be dealt with in mass, bat one by one, and by this method very few could be vacated pre- vious to the election. ization Papers. Over the Mayor's Vete. As the Aldermen have passed, over the Mayor's veto, the ordinance to authorize a street railroad in Forty-second street, the point will be raised and iairly determined whether the permission so given is of any value—whether the Aldermen have power to authorize o street railroad. In the way in which this franchise was given where it might have been sold the people have a fine opportunity to see one of the curiosities of our city government. It is held that franchises of this nature should aiways be sold, and that this would be an important reform. Perhaps they are sold already, and always have been; and the reform, if any, is to be in the change of the persons to whom the money is paid. It ought to be paid to the Comptroller and go into the city treasury. In fact, it is paid to other per- sons and goes into private bank accounts as & “perquisite” of office, It was a Frenchman who wrote that a long and careful serutiny of mankind had shown him that most men are mortal ; and it is because even the best of men are more or less moved by selfish motives that the exercise of power without responsibility has always led to misgovernment. The wisest part of our federal constitution is that which, giving the President greater powers than are possessed by any constitutional ruler in Europe, at the same time makes him openly and absolutely responsible to the people for his acts and those of the numerous subordinates whom he appoints, At the end of every term the people pass judgment on his conduct of the public affairs, and at any time in his term he may be impeached and removed for misconduct. But the essential point is that at all times he stands before the people responsible for all that goes on by his will ; he, the Presi- dent, and not some person or board sit- ting secretly behind him, moving him, and using him ; and it is this close, insepar- able union between power and responsi- bility which coerces even a bad man in the Presidential chair to serve the public, and which enables the people to fix the respon- sibility for maladministration upon a visi- ble and tangible person, whom they can reach to punish or to reward. Nothing but confusion, inefficiency and corruption could follow if it were under- stood that the President were not responsi- ble, but that the real Chief Magistrate was some other officer not chosen by the people nor amenable to their will, and that the President was only his puppet. Everybody would see the absurdity and danger of such a system, which yet is not different from that which sometimes obtains in our city government. Suppose the Secretary of the Treasury were the real ruler of the country, and the President, who ostensibly appoints him, were only his convenient tool and willing servant? But that would not be different from the situation here if Comp- troller Kelly should be allowed to select and elect the Mayor of the city. The real Mayor, everybody would understand, would be Mr. Kelly; he, and not the Mayor, would carry on the city government ; would ap- point the officers and administer the public affairs. But he would never be amenable to public censure; if matters went wrong the poor Mayor would be abused, the Comp- troller, the real Mayor, would always evade responsibility by flinging the-blame upon the figurehead he had put forward as a shield. We have never doubted Mr. Kelly's sin- cere desire to serve the city; we have praised his management of the Comptroller's office ; but we do not think he ought to act—even with the best purposes—the part of an irre- sponsible power behind the throne. He wishes to rule New York, and he believes he could rule it well ; we will not dispute with him, but we ask him, ‘If you want to rule, why not be Mayor? Why give the nomination to one of your friends? That does not deceive the public ; and what is of more importance to you, Mr. Kelly, it does not raise you in the pablic esteem, but the contrary. Why not take the Mayoralty nomination yourself?” Mr. Kelly has had a long and thorough experience of the city’s affairs. He is honest, faithful, capable. We have no doubt he would make a good Mayor, if he were Mayor; but we are sure he will make a very poor Mayor if he is only Comptroller, He is not fit to wield irresponsible power; no man is. But as Mayor of the city, elected by the people, responsible to them for all his acts, able to count on the support of all good citizens when he does well, feeling that the credit for good government and the discredit for maladministration will alike fall upon him, we have no doubt that he would fill the office satisfactorily to the public and to himself. One thing is certain; if he nominates one of his friends this will, as it ought to, con- centrate upon his ticket, and upon himself, a united opposition which will have the public sympathy, because it will be felt as a kind of insult to the people to see Mr. Kelly assuming to make a Mayor of one of his puppets, as Caligula made a consul of one of his horses. But if Mr. Kelly comes out like a man and takes the nomination himself he will disarm opposition, for no one can deny that he is conspicuous among the number of citizens who are fit for the office, and some of whom, like Mr. Bonner and Mr. John 'T. Agnew, have to our regret refused to allow their friends to nominate them for the place. What Does It All Mosn? The free and enlightened voters of this great commercial metropolis, the citizens of the greatest, dirtiest, least convenient and most heavily indebted city on the conti- nent, are to vote on the 5th of next month for candidates to fill sixty-six offices, in- cluding a short two dozen of Aldermen. Well, what do they mean to accomplish by their votes? There will bea great hul- laballoo ; there will be banners, and fire- works, and parades, and the more or less patriotic voters will be told by the repub- licans that the salvation of the country de- pends on the election of John Smith, the republican candidate, and by the demo- cratsthat the country is going rapidly to the bow wows, and can be saved only by the election of John Smith, the democratic candidate. And by and by, on the 5th of November, everybody will vote his party ticket without asking about the character or the fitness of the men on it—withont, in- deed, in the majority of cases, having given even a passing thought to the duties of the places he is voting to fill. What would happen if every voter were obliged to explain, before he cast his vote, what are tho duties of the offices on which he votes? How many voters in this city know what aJudge of the Court of Appeals is for? He is to hear appealed cases impar- tially and decide them according to the laws, of which he should be master. What of member of Congress? He is to represent his district in our House, and he should be an intelligent, honest and fear- less man, fully informed on the questions of the day, otherwise his constituents will be put to shame in the national councils. What of the members of Assembly? They should understand the city's interests and be able and willing to defend them at Al- bany. What of a District Attorney? He shonld be a terror to evildoers, prompt, incorrupti- ble, fearless and faithful. What of a Mayor? He should not be a dummy or figurehead, but an energetic, impartial, tireless guardian of all the vity’s interests. The next Mayor will appoint almost the whole city government. He will appoint a Comptroller, a Corporation Coun- sel, a Commissioner of Public Works, two Police Commissioners and single commis- sioners in several other departments; it will depend upon him whether the city shall be for some years to come clean or dirty, whether vice und crime shall be en- couraged or discouraged, whether its com- merce shall be fostered or embarrassed, whether its treasury shall be honestly or dishonestly managed, whether its taxes shall be used for the benefit of the people or wasted on political bummers and swin- dlers;and yet who cares about the Mayor- alty? Finally, we come to the Aldermen. A baker's dozen of them. Well—ifthey would do their full and entire duty to the people they would create the greatest surprise the city has ever had. Secretary Sherman's Visit. The Secretary of the Treasury has ac- complished the purpose of his visit to this city, and he returned last night to Wash- ington. He keeps a vigilant and jealous eye on every movement calculated to ob- struct his steady progress toward specie payments ; and when, near the close of last week, the premium on gold, which had been so very slight for several months, began to advance, he came here at once to consult with our most experienced bankers and financiers as to the best method of arresting the movement. His success has been prompt and complete, With the large amount of coin he has in the Treasury ($232,659,646 on the Ist of October) he could have had no doubt of his power to check and foil the manipulators; the only hesitation he could have had was as tothe most prudent method of exercis- ing his power. He was wise in seeking the advice of competent judges, and the general public will indorse the conclusion which he reached. There is a large amount of called bonds, amounting to about fifty millions, which he offers to pay at once with interest up to the day of presentation. This will put a sufficient supply of gold in the market to arrest speculation. Mr. Sherman’s decision has already accom- plished its purpose, the price of gold hav- ing fallen back yesterday to 100}, which was about its average for a long period pre- vious to the little flurry at the end of last week, Wel, What of It? We print elsewhere on this page, for the information and consideration of our read- ers, a list of the offices to which within a few days a number of candidates agw-to be nominated. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that for all but one or two of these offices there are at least a dozen or twenty aspirants for each place. It hasbeen calcu- lated that, taking the whole country through, about one voter in every five longs for an opportunity to solicit the suffrages of his fellow citizens for some place from the Presidency down to the keepership of a dog pound. We live ino great and glorious country, as everybody knows, and the American eagle is the most eminent of birds; yet the great American voter, free, independ- ent, unterrified, unbought, intelligent and proud, as he is, will probably walk up to the polls on the Sth of November next and take his ticket from the first striker he meets belonging to his chosen party, and vote it “blind.” Between now and the 5th of November every newspaper office in the country will be crowded with candidates anxious to in- form the editor of their superior qualifica- tions, and to assure him that unless he supports them he will inflict a dangerous injury on his suffering and bleeding country. We should like to get at the thoughts of the newspaper editors all over the country on the subject of their too frequent inter- views with candidates. If it were possible to convoke a great ‘‘meeting of the bored,” as an assemblage of editors might reasona- bly be called at this time, the reports on candidates would be of a curious character. Well, we advise our fellow journalists to do their fall duty—to the candidates os well as to the people. Where a candidate is unfit for place let them say so. If they show Jobn Persifer Smith to be incapable or untrustworthy they are certain at least to please Georgo Persifer Jones, his oppo- nent ; and if they tell the plain truth about candidates they will have the satisfaction of doing a real service to the public and will receive fewer political calls, Growing Evils of Rupid Transit. The managers of the elevated railroads have from time to time given the world as- surance of their well doing by publishing the numbers of passengers they carry daily, and showing a constantly increasing list. Yet, in the face of this evidence of pros- perity, they are commencing to pare down the pay of their employés, and now there is a rumor that the rates of fares are to be in- creased for through passengers. Ifthe ele- vated railroad companies contemplate re- peating on an exaggerated scale all the abuses and impositions practised by the horse car corporations, while they Held the people of the city at their mercy, they had better be made to understand that they will excite a dangerous resistance. Already the New York Etevated trains ranning between five and seven o'clock in the evening have become perfect nuisances. They are crowded in a dangerous, unhealthy and most inconvenient manner. They stop at stations or ron past them at their will, leaving hundreds to accumulate on some of the most perilous pluttorms; there is no system or regularity in the despatch of the short or Forty-second street trains, which sometimes follow each other two or three at a time, and the insufficiency of the cars necessitates the packing of passengers so densely as to prevent many from getting s out at their proper stations. In conse quence of the delay in discharging such Passengers as are able to fight their way to the platforms almost as much time is cone sumed in ranning to Sixty-seventh street as by a horse car. It begins to look as if the companies have resolved to squeeze ag much money as they can out of the people and to manage their lines on as cheap a seale as possible without regard either to the public convenience, comfort or safety. Congr Nominations. The republicans in the Eleventh district have nominated Mr. L, P. Morton for Con gress. They have done well. Mr. Mortonisa banker, a gentleman of intelligence, who will serve the country well and be a credit tothe district if he is elected, Now let the demo- crats nominate Colonel Kip in the same district; then there will be a fair fight, and the country will be safe if either is chosen, Colonel Kip served gallantly during the war; he is an intelligent man, like Mr. More ton in favor of a sound currency, and hig nomination would be a credit to the demo- crats. Colonel Kip lives on the same block with Mr. Morton, in a brown stone tront very much like Mr. Morton's, and he ought by all means to be nominated in order ta prevert Mr. Morton from having a ‘‘walk over.” General McCook was renominated for Congress in the Eighth district by the re- publicans, He isa hard money man; has served brilliantly in Congress, as he did in the army, and we advise the democrats to pick out the best hard money man they can find in the district to oppose him; if they do not it will be the worse for them. In the Ninth district Mr. Fernando Wood will undoubtedly be renominated and ree elected, for the republicans in that district, so far as now appears, do not offer to set up anybody against him that was ever heard of or ever will be. We hear that there are threats of nominating a soft money demo- cratin the Tenth district in place of Mr, Hewitt, but it is doubtful if the democrats will be silly €nough to do this. Mr. Hevptt is sound on the currency question and has served ably and honorably in Congress, and unless the republicans can find a better man and get more votes for him Mr. Hewitt ought to be re-elected. In Brooklyn it is said that some of the republicans are in- triguing with the greenbuckers and pro- pose to nominate Mr. Tenney in the ‘hird district, which has for several terms been well represented by Mr. Chittenden. We advise these republicans to renominate Mr, Chittenden; he issound on the currency question, is outspoken and well informed on that and all the leading questions of the day, and can be re-elected. The democrata ought to nominate the best man they can find and take care that he is sound on the currency, which is the main question in this canvass, If the republicans then nominate a man on the fence they will be beaten, as they deserve. A Prudent Adjournment. So the Tammany Convention adjourned 1 It was a very wise act indeed, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In England one person tn twenty is a pauper, Speaker Samaol J. Randall is at the New York Rotel. Small game is very abundant on the shores of Marye lana, English Freemssons lavite their wives to their bane quets. Mias Anna Dickinson will retuke the lecture plate form this winter. Goneral Hartranft and ex-Speaker Grow are stamp: ing Penneylvania, The brother and successor of Lord Brougham is ia his eighty-first year. Mr, W. E. Dodge, Rev. Mr. Tyng and ethers have invited Rev. Joseph Cook to lecture in New York. Mr. Rivers Wilson, who bas beon lent by the Britislz government tothe Knediveas Finance Minister of Egypt, will recoive $25,000 a year. 4 Circassian slave took refuge at the British Coa- sulate, and the event has resulted in encouraging English resentment against tho sale ef women in Turkey. Evening Telegram:—“We scem to bave swept inte another bicycle of the velocipede mania, In Boston ve regular clubs 4a London. But what ise Bismarck, is said to give promise of holding a bigh place ia European politics by reason of natural ability. General Garibaldt, who ta stil Nving on the isiand ot Caprera, has sold to a private company the right to quarry granite, which will be cut in siabs and transported to Rome, to be mado into paving stones, OBLTUARY. ARTHUR CHENEY. Artbur Choney, proprietor of the Boston Globe Thoatre, died at so Manonester, yesterday, [lis disease was dropsy, he suffered very severely, se malignity being 80 great that several operations were necossary. au active, energetic bus! largely to the beeen from ce of twonty-one, as a 0 firm of ey & Co, 1 Join with Dextor theatre, whicb, 0 wi of 1867. fed with the ‘Flo! ned wot of Mr. Selwyn from ite we that time te fe been brought promi. y by his wouder style equal vo or aucoredod 18 succors has beon ores no ope will follows than bas dr. JOHN A, KENNEDY, Mr. Jobo A. Kennedy, many years ago sheriff of a member of tho Now Jersey Legia- s home in Belleville, He try, accu i & snug property, was bighly om leemed aud died at the «, ry KOGRG WILLIAMS POTTER. Roger Williams Power, who for forty years has been High Sherifl or Deputy at Yrovidence, RL, dred eee esterda; jd oighty-six yoars. 10/1844 Jiaat mad onvoures to, thous lotud, fi