The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1878, Page 6

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UNION SQUARE THEATR STANDARD THEATRE— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE! AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Exuinition. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Stavcx On. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Taaixep Honsea, PARK THEATRE—Lorts. BROADWAY THEATRE. LYCEUM THEATRE—Josni ACADEMY OF DESIGN—Loan Exutsrrien. THEATRE COMIQUE—Vantery. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vanterr. BTEINWAY HALL—Graxp Concent. BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philadelphin—Hess Orns. TRIPLE SHEET. SEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1878, ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cool and fair or partly cloudy, probably followed by increasing cloudiness, rising lemperature and falling ba- rometer. To-morrow it will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by light rains in the western part of the State. Tammaxy Has Hap Her Wartert0o. Sopa Warer for a hundred thousand this morning. Generat Bute is handsomely’ returned to the lobby. Wuere are those greenback Congressmen hat were to stop the country’s bleeding wounds? Once More a Soup SouTH.—Congratulations will not be in order until the country sees how She thing works. Wnart will the prophets go into now? Hae co Ir Mar Be Very WELL to tell a disappointed voter that there is no use in crying over spilled milk; but does that mend his broken pitcher! Now let us have peace. Tr Was a Great Biunper on the part of Mr. Kelly to resort to personal vituperation and campaign canards. The day for such tricks has gone by. Putt down tke blinds. Paraiots, irrespective of party, will be glad to read of the election of General Joe Johnston to Congress. Menof his stamp are too rare to be spared from the national councils. Nowe or THe Tinpex Mex will rush into print 0 deny complicity in yesterday's ciphering. Tue Honest WorKINGMEN of Massachusetts followed Kearney’s advice and pooled: their fasues, but the sand lot orator realizes this morning that there pools and pools. Cop SHoutper is the only dish on political ree lunch counters this morning. Jupee Doxouve’s Decision of yesterday may eause some tears to bedow the cheeks of patrons of financial ‘bucket shops,” but some sorrows ere blessings in disguise, and this is sure to be # sorrow of that kind. A Tremenpovs Snovut or APPROBATION rent the sir as the Hrracp cartoon, ‘I voted for the right man,” was thrown upon the canvas, and yet there are croakers who say that the general public does not appreciate art! Corripencr is not half as sustaining a virtue 3s it was yesterday morning. Potiricat Races were not the contests that vere popular yesterday, for Jerome Park rarely wr never before contained such a crowd as watched the track during some excellent matches, and the spectators had the advantage prer those at the poils of knowing that none of Ihe winners needed subsequent looking after. Ivy New Brooms Sweer Cuzax what a ger- teal renovation is impending! ‘Tue Brest News that has come from W ashing- ton for many days is the report of the Cabinet's Getermination to advise either the raising ef the value of the silver dollar or the diminution of its eoinage. To the latter plan even the now astonished and ashamed silver shriekers will not object, while the former is the only honorable corse possible for a nation that has just pro- | nounced so emphatically in favor of honest money. Aedteaeaiaidadstiainibidiinnadn At Tammany Hatt—“Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the door.” Tae Weatusa.—In Nova Scotin and New Brunswick the depression central there has re- mained nearly stationary, affecting the extreme mortheastern district of Maine and causing light snow. In the Northwest the depression advane- fing from Montana aud British Columbia hae moved into Dakota, causing cloudiness on the ‘Western lake shores and very light rain at a few points on the margin of the low barometer. Elsewhere the weather has been clear or fair. Except in a few small districts of States lying in the Upper Mississippi Valley, where the weather was cloudy, the forecasts for election day wenther by the Heratp Weather Bureau pub- lished on Monday morning were absolutely | The Result im the City. New York declared yesterday by about twenty thousand majority that it will not submit to the dictatorship of one man, even though that one man be honest and capable. The fate against which we have inces- santly warned Mr. Kelly all summer long, and in fact for more than two years, has overtaken him. Always carefully acknowl- edging the integrity of his course as Comp- troller and his undoubted desire to serve the city faithfully, we persistently warned him that his policy must bring him defeat ; that the people of New York would not place themselves under the control of one man ; that he could not dictate nominations with- out raising a coalition against himself and his ticket which would sweep both out of existence. We freely acknowledged his great poweras the head, and not only the head, but the brains, and not only as the head and brains, but as the dictator, of Tammany Hall, but we warned him .that this could not make him the dictator ofthe city. We urged him to use his power wisely and modestly; to be content to consult the wishes of the citizens and not to attempt to impose his will upon them. We pointed out to him repeatedly the true course he ought to have pursued; to lend his great in- fluence to the object of giving the city an able, capable, independent man for Mayor, and thus release its administration from the trammels of professional politicians; and we took pains to show him that by sucha course he risked not an iota of any just-‘influence he might wish to exercise over the city’s interests ; but on the contrary that by showing him- self unselfishly bent on advancing the best good of New York, he could not help but increase and consolidate his own influence, which as we showed him, could rest se- curely only in the good will and confidence of the people, and not at all in bis mere arbitrary control of a political close corpo- ration, or of the patronage of the city govern- ment. All our reasoning was in vain. The truth is Mr. Kelly, like other men of his stamp of mind, became more arbitrary with every year’s possession of arbitrary power. Two years ago he listened to reason. The Henatp then seeing him about to commit the,blander which has now brought him utter and ignominious defeat, advised him to nominate Mr. Ely for Mayor. He was not yet so spoiled but that he could listen to reason; he took our advice and Mr, Ely was elected. Mr. Ely has been an honest Mayor, but nothing more. The people saw that he lacked en- ergy and vigor, and this year they demanded a stronger, a more vigorous and a more independent man. Mr. Kelly had this demand dinned into his ears all sum- mer and fall. He hesitated very long; ap- parently there was a struggle going on in his mind between what he must have seen to be wise, reasonable and becoming in him, and his constantly increasing passion for dictatorship; and, at the last moment, at the very last moment, having already offended the public by forcibly holding back the action of Tammany, he nominated his bosom friend and crony, Mr. Schell, To nominate Mr. Schell was for Mr. Kelly to declare to the people of New York that he meant to be their dictator; that he contemptuously refused to advise with them, consult their will or pay any atten- tion to their wishes. Mr. Kelly ordered the people of New York to accept his friend and obedient servant Schell as Mayor—and they have refused to obey him. To vary somewhat the language of Mr. Kelly's pred- ecessor in the dictatorship of Tammany, “What is he going to do about it?’ Boss Tweed asked the people of this city, ‘“‘What are you going to do about it?” But now the people ask Boss Kelly in their turn, ‘“‘What are you going to do abont it?” But the nomination of Mr, Schell by Mr. Kelly showed something more than mere defiance of public sentiment. It showed to everybody Mr. Kelly's weakness. He could not tolerate a rival near his throne. He was not strong enough, even in his own esteem, to give the city a good Mayor. He showed that he could not bear to have able men about him lest their ability should detract somewhat from his glory or power. That is to say, Mr. Kelly's own course con- demned him in the public esteem as a man unfit to rule, and not capable to wield the great power which he wished to grasp. And #o with foolish self-will he rashed on to his fate, and, as we often forewarned him, dragged defeat upon himself. The political combination which Mr. Kelly's defiance of public sentiment cre- ated, and which has been the means through which the voters of New York have given Mr. Kelly his defeat, could not appeal for support on the ground of simple devotion to the city’s interests. Had Mr. Kelly per- mitted the nomination of an able and inde- pendent man for Mayor such a man would, we believe, have easily beaten the combina- tion, which was distasteful to many good citizens because it was well understood to have in view State and general politics rather than the welfare of New York. Had he even allowed himself to be nominated he could, we think, have been elected. But it is now seen that a political coalition even less deserving of public confidence than this combination would have sufficed to defeat Mr. Kelly, for it was that defeat which the voters of the city had decreed. New York will not have a dictator: that is what yesterday's vote declares. Of the remoter results of yesterday's vote it is too early to speak. It is the end of Mr. Kelly’s attempt to gather into his own hands the whole control of the city’s administra- tion. It is the probable end of his control of the Tammany organization, which will now be reorganized without him and againat him. He is still the city’s Comptroller, and will remain so for two years more. We ad- vise him to attend to the duties of his pub- lic office and to leave outside politics alone. correct. The highest pressure now extends | He isa good Comptroller—a careful guard- from the lakes to the Middie and South Atlantic Btates. West of the Mississippi River the barometer has generally fallen. The weather fn New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool fand fair or partly cloudy, probably followed by fincrensing cloudiness, rising temperature and failing barometer. To-morrow will be warmer degree. ian of the city’s treasury ; let that be enough for him. His own course has shown that he ought not to rule the city, for he allows his personal enmities and friendships to control his public feeling in too great a If he is wise he ha’ still the oppor- partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by light tunity to regain, by his conduct of one of peains ip the western portions of this State. the most important of the city’s offices, the NOVEMBER 6, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. confidence and good will he has sacrificed by too eager an ambition. Biya Down Tux Cuntain. The Next Governor. Now, then, who will be Mr, Conkling's candidate for Governor next year? The gubernatorial election in this State next fall will decide the Presidential election of 1880, and it will be a battle of the giants. Perhaps Senator Conkling will run him- self? Conkling against Tilden! What a race it would be! Supervisor Davenport's Arrests. A large number of persons who offered to vote on naturalization papers issued by the New York courts in 1868 were yesterday arrested by Supervisor Davenport's mar- shals, prevented from depositing their ballots and held to bail. We have no doubt that Mr. Davenport considers it his duty to cause such arrests to be made, and supposes that he finds justification for his action in the law under which he holds his position. But the object and intent of all election laws are to protect the legal elector while guarding the ballot box against illegal and fraudulent votes. The pretence for the arrest of the holders of naturalization papers of 1868 is that in that year frandulent papers were issued by the New York courts under the Tweed rule to fictitious names and to foreigners who had just landed or who had not resided in the country a sufficient length of time to entitle them to citizen- ship. But it is absurd to suppose that all the foreign born men naturalized in 1868 were fraudulently naturalized, and the holders of certificates dated ten years ago are at all events legally entitled to citizen- ship now. The most that ought in justice to be required of the holders of the alleged tainted papers is that they should estab- lish their identity before a competent court, repeat the necessary forms if required and obtain unassailable certificates, There is evidence to show that voters whose legal citizenship is unquestionable have been deprived of their votes because of the seizure of their naturalization papers bearing the prescribed date. Men who had been from ten to sixteen years residing and doing business in the United States prior to 1868, and who obtained their papers that year, have been disfranchised by Mr. Davenport's action. The plain state- ment of this fact shows that an injustice is done by Mr. Davenport's interpretation of his power, without going into a discussion as to the legality of his construction of the United States law. It is to be hoped that before another election occurs in which the United States Supervisor is entitled to in- terfere the irritating question of these papers of 1868 will be settled by the courts, so that a law intended to secure an honest election may not be made the instrument of barring legal voters from the polls, Tax Kina Is Deap—Long live the King! Collector Arthur. It looks a little as though General Arthur would go back to the Custom House. Well, he was not a bad Collector, and he seems to have been a good politician, for he did not run a “‘straight republican ticket.” Harvard Faces Them All. With Yale’s challenge already accepted the action of the Harvard crew in deciding to accept Cornell’s challenge, and to ar- range a race also with Columbia, following as it does exactly the course urged all along by the Hznaup, promises a very brilliant meeting at New Londén next summer ond ought to be at once affirmed by the Univer- sity boat club to-night. This plan cannot fail to settle conclusively who are the fast- est student oarsmen in America. If Har- vard can win over all, and if the negotia- tions about to be opened with Oxford and Cambridge, looking to a race with one of them next summer, are successful, the inter- national race on the Thames in 1879 bids fair to equal in interest its predecessor of 1869. In view of these engagements there is little doubt that if all are alive and well the Harvard eight of last summer will now remain intact. Its danger will lie in what proved so fntal to Goliath and many an- other muscular worthy—namely, an over- weening confidence in its own strength and prowess, and the consequent unwilling- ness to do the hard and exacting winter's work it would do if it did not believe it could win all the way through. There never was more showy and impressive rowing in this country than that of this same Harvard eight at New London. But its very state- liness served to hide from most eyes a lack of precision and other defects which will be pointed out with the most refreshing clearness and candor by the London press on the morning after its first practice paddle from Putney to Mortlake. With such unprecedented incentives, then, to faithful work let no stone be left unturned, nothing be left undone during the next seven months to make the outgoing eight the most powerful and the fleetest amateur crew this country will have ever produced, Who Says tHat Retrorox has not its con- solations for all, even for the disconsolate loafers who until to-day have Iunched at the open houses of candidates? ‘Free Lutheran Diet” is announced in another column. Tne Cousrny Savep, as usual. The Next Senate. The United States Senate consists now of thirty-nine republicans, thirty-six demo- erates and one independent—David Davis, of Illinois, This makes a total of seventy- six Senators. Three republicans—Senators Sargent, Mitchell and Matthews—have already seen democratic successors elected. Senators Dorsey, Spencer, Connover and Patterson will also certainly be succeeded by democrats ; and these changes, if none others occurred, would leave the next Sen- ate with thirty-two republicans, forty-three democrats and one independent. Connecticut has elected a republican Legislature, which gives a republican in place of Senator Barnum; Pennsylvania has gone republican, which means that Senator Don Cameron will be re-elected. No other changes are probable, and the next Senate should therefore stand :—Demo- orate, 42; republicans, 33, and independ- ent, 1. Mayor Cooper. Now let Mr. Cooper be a real Mayor. What the city wants is a chief executive who shall be independent of the profes- sional politicians—a man whose sole object shall be to serve, to benefit, to improve the city, Mr, Cooper declared publicly during the canvass that he was uncommitted and untrammelled; let his conduct show that. If it does he will have the support of all good citizens, and he can make his admin- istration a notable one in the city’s history. His own election shows conspicuqusly that the people of New York are not dis- posed to let their government be used merely as the tool of personal or partisan ambition, Let him lay that to his heart and steer his course as Mayor accordingly. There never was a time when a wise, vigor- ous, single hearted man in the Mayor's office could so greatly benefit the city. . Mr. Cooper’s nomination was notoriously the result of a combination which used Mr. Kelly’s blunders not merely to defeat him, but with ulterior purposes of its own, entirely foreign to the city’s inter- ests, Whatever Mr. Cooper may mean the party leaders who stood be- hind him and by whose combination he was placed in nomination meant to sub- serve their own ends, with which the city has nothing to do. But Mr. Cooper is Mayor, and he may rightfully devote him- self entirely to the service of the city. He is a business man, and he may, if he will, as we remarked the other day, carry on the city administration on the same sound business principles,on which he has carried on his own large private affairs. It he does that, we repeat what we have before said, he has it in his power to confer an inesti- mable benefit on New York. [f he shonld pursue such an independent course as we suggest we repeat that the “city would be governed on business prin- ciples like a merchant's office, without waste and without superfluous officials ; we should have clean streets winter and sum- mer, proper sewerage, no plague-inviting nests of filth, a dock system worthy of New York, an efficient police, honesty and ca- pacity everywhere in office and protection to property, health and lite from the Bat- tery to the city limits.” Mayor Cooper has a great opportunity, and the people of New York will watch anxiously to see how he uses it. The Next Governor. Yesterday's election has one result—it places Mr. Tilden in the forefront as the next democratic candidate for Governor of New York. And then? Defeat of Butler. The most satisfactory aspect of General Butler's overwhelming discomfiture in Massachusetts is not the mortification which has overtaken the man, but the demonstration it affords of the powerlers- ness of the greenback party, of which he is the most conspicuous representative. At the time of his nomination the green- back party had high hopes. The surpris- ing vote it had polled in Maine elated them with wild expectations; but Butler, to do him justice, did not share the sanguine views of the greenback fanatics who put him in the field. As soon as he had been started as a candidate he began to look about him for other sources of support. He conceived the bold enterprise of capturing the demo- cratic organization of the State, and came very near success by the underhand activity of his henchmen. He had a clear niajority of the Worcester delegates, and by an im- pudent trick his supporters gained posses- sion of the hall in which the Convention was to assemble, But that unscrupulous feat was the culmination of his prospects. He only succeeded in splitting the demo- cratic party, disgusting and alarming the people of the Commonwealth, and so intensifying the opposition to him that the old line democrats were ready to vote for the republican candidate if that should be deemed necessary to Butler’s defeat. No public man ever made s more indus- trious and energetic canvass. For several weeks he has been delivering two or three speeches each day, besides doing an aston- ishing amount of other electioneering work of the most artful and crafty description. Perhaps nothing is more deceptive than the enthusiastic greetings which an odd and pe- ouliar character like Butler is sure to receive wherever he appears. Mr. Greeley slways received such populer ovations, but when it came to the test the people were not so eager to vote for him as they had been to run after and applaud him. The public havea keen enjoyment of everything which enlivens our stupid politics, and especially of the comic actors upon the political stage. But the sound, sober sense of the people is pretty sure to discriminate be- tween amusement and serious business when they come to real political works, We have no doubt that General Butler would have made s vigorous and useful Governor if he had been elected. He promised many needed reforms in the ad- ministration of State affairs, and he would have made a sincere attempt to fulfil his pledges. But the people have no confi- dence in so erratic a character, and they had still stronger objections to the crazy views on the money question which he rep- resented in this canvass. But he has been defeated by a majority of nt least thirty thousand, which proves that some of the straight democrats must have voted for Tal- bot, the republican candidate, Pirr THE Porice Justices this morning, Vietory Perching. One of the remarkable features of an election day is the commendable impar- tiality with which victory perches while the voting is progressing. It is the custom of the party leaders to remain at their hendquarters during the day, giving advice and assistance to such as need them, issuing instructions to their representa- tives at the several polls and receiving hourly bulletins from their scouts in rela- tion to the progress of the voting in the election districts and the indications as to the result? A wonderful uniformity is ob- servable in these bulletins, Mr. John Kelly, sitting in Tammany Hall, opens despatch atter despatch from up town and from down town. from this district and from that, and in each precious document he is assured that ‘victory perches on the Tammany banner.” Mr. Edward Cooper and Mr. Emanuel B. Hart, at the West- minster Hotel, are in hourly receipt of similar reports, and they also are grati- fied by the information that ‘‘victory perches on the anti-Tammany banner.” General Arthur and Mr, George Bliss, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, hurriedly tear open bulletin alter bulletin to learn that “victory perches on the republican coalition banner.” Indi- vidual candidates, such as Tom Murphy | and er-Mayor Gunther, Mr. L. P. Morton and Mr. B, A. Willis, Mr. Jerome and Gen- eral McCook, who have their special head- quarters, are all in turn rendered happy— temporarily, at least—by the pleasant as- surances of their friends that ‘‘victory perches” for each and every one of them. To be sure, this praiseworthy impartiality of victory does not continue after the clos- ing of the polls. The bird must of neces- sity in the end settle down permanently on one side or the other. Still we presume it is gratifying to receive encouraging news during the progress of a contest even though we lose in the end. At least the ‘reliable friends” who send the hourly district bul- letins to their chiefs on election days are evidently of that opinion. A Harmonious City Government, The new Board of Aldermen has an anti- Tammany majority. It will therefore con- firm Mayor Cooper's appointments. The president of the Board will, of course, be anti-Tammany and he will be a member of the Board of Apportionment. The defeat of Tammany is complete and Mr, Cooper commands the situation. The Next House of Representatives. In the present House of Representatives the democrats have 155 and the republicans 136 members, and there are two vacancies by death—the seats of Messrs. Leonard, of Louisiana, and Quinn, of New York. The democrats have therefore nineteen actual majority. a In the September election the republi- cans lost twelve seats, of which the demo-. crats gained six, the greenbackers five, and in Vermont there was no election in one district. As we go to press the very incomplete re- turns show republican gains in several States. In Connecticut they gain one seat, in New York apparently at least four and possibly six, in New Jersey one or perhaps two, in Pennsylvania one or two, and in Louisiana one. But, counting the dem- ocratio gains in September and October, the republicans would have to gaia twenty-one districts in order to secure a majority in the next House, and as in South Carolina they will lose two seats it seems now certain that the next House will be democratic, but by a somewhat narrow majority, and by counting the greenback members on the democratic side. The greenback party appears to have cut a very small figure yesterday. Perhaps these elections may teach the democratic leaders a little sense on the currency ques- tion. Between Senator Tharman’s bolt for inflation and the Tilden ciphers the demo- crats are losing ground with the country. A “Mystery” and a Marriage Party. How many sad stories like that from which Louis Riege lifted the curtain last August down at Staten Island come to a happy ending it would be hard to tell. When the young man, having, as he thought, identified the remains of the unfortunate victim of a crime that now seems fairly fastened on another, sot down to tell the Coroner's jury the story of his and a poor girl's sin, of her condition, her disappearance and his fruitless search for the living girl, no outlet of hope for Ellen Murphy seemed possible. Even when a frantic father just as pos- itively identified the remains as that of his child, Annie Hommel, no hope was enter- tained that the girl Louis Riege had sought was still slive. Some pity there must have been for the man whose remorse had led him to stand thus self- pilloried ‘in the public gaze beside the phantom of the forlorn girl whose ruin he took upon his head. There is something weird and awful in the scene in Hawthorne's “Scarlet Letter,” where the clergyman, Ar- thur Dimmesdale, stands at early dawn upon the scaffold with the branded woman and her child by his side—the scaffold where mother and babe had stood alone when to stand there was punishment, That pic- ture of a yearning for atonement mixed with selfish fear,and choosing such false, fantastic expiation, furnishes, no doubt, the key to many a bitter struggle in the human breast, In his own way Lonuis- Riege experienced it, That he even dared ex- posure so he might know the worst, shows that the better part of human nature in him won the victory. It is easy to be shrewd and cynical about the deeds of others ; easy to say now that Louis Riege had better for his peace have held his tongue; but the fact thatin his fear for herhe spoke out stands brightly to his credit and makes more nearly full the meas- ure of his real atonement when she who had been lost was found. It was a small bridal party that came be- fore the minister on Sunday in the down- town church; a reporter alone handed a bouquet to the bride ; but we may be per- mitted to add our felicitations to his flowers and wish the married pair that happiness which seemed so lately to have been lost to both forever. The Poisoning Season. There has been a lively business. in weather strips and other preventives of cold draughts this week, and cellar gratings have been covered with boards and big farnaces have been lighted and the season of poisoning by bad air has fairly opened. Not more than one house in fifty in New York has adequate facilities for ventilation, and of those which have well placed doors and windows only a few, according to physicians, know how to use them so as to secure a steady supply of air that is fit to breathe. The superheated and dry air of the house is gotmmg fo absorb moisture wherever it can, without regard to health or cleanliness, and thus convey the emanations of sinks, tubs, basins, &., to bumes lungs, not once only, but many times over. There is going to be a great deal of drowsiness that is not delicious, and in parlors and sitting rooms, where in the early autumn evenings everybody was bright and cheerful. If oll the unpleasant effects which are experienced from unventilated city houses: in winter were to befall people anywhere else they would at once be attrib: uted to some virulent extraneous’ cause, and as these effeets are practically those of poison, which is no less dangerous because it is invisible, every “householder should wage a suspicious, relentless war against the cause, as if it were in bodily form and operating with tangible poisons, The City Congressional Districts. The republicans gain two members of Congress in the city—Messrs. Morton and Einstein. Messrs. Wood, McCook, Miiller and Cox are re-clected; Mr. O'Brien, anti- Tammany democrat, also; and Messrs. Pot- ter, Willis, Eickhoff and Jerome share the general ruin of Mr. Kelly's ticket, Spirited Foreign Polley. “We have formed the opinion,” says an organ of the British government, ‘‘that it is not safe to leave Afghanistan to itself;” and the government seems also to have formed an opinion, though it has not yet declared it, that it is not safe to do otherwise than leave Afghanistan to itself—for the present, at least. If the British government dare not leave the Ameer alone, and yet dare not touch him; if it dare not permit him to be independent, and dare not proceed to that invasion of his ‘territory by which it has intended to reduce that independence, it muat be conceded that it is in 9 predica ment which does not set off to advantage that ‘‘spirited foreign policy” the manufac- ture and production of which is its great specialty. England called for the tories above all thingy because she wanted a “spirited foreign policy.” She was tired of peace and good will to men. She was tired of a government that dealt in political econ- omy and electoral reforms, and social laws and educational interests, and the disestablishment of churches and mane hood suffrage, and such points of mere drivel, and wanted a government that would cow the world with magnificent swagger, bully and roar and snort in the face of the nations and force John Bull’s views of things down their wretched throats. England’s general sense of the need of a “‘spirited foreign policy” was a great factor in the change that brought the Beaconsfield government into power, and we are afraid it will be found it does not fully meet the national demand. It is true there was a great deal of swagger before they went to Berlin, but there is a discon- tented fancy that the national lion came out of that encounter with his tail shame- fully curled the wrong way; and yet the British taxpayer has beén called upon to pay for the making of an enormous number of cartridges. Several millions of cartridges paid for and not one burned! It is true the Gladstone government did not burn many cartridges either, but then people did not have to pay for any with them. But now, in this Indian case, it is worse than even at Berlin, for the government does not fight and does not even swagger. It talks about ‘an atti- tude of armed expectation.” Well, what government with an afmy is not in an attie tude of armed expectation in these days? But while the government thus waits for something to turn up—some loophole to be discovered through which it may crawl out of this difficulty and put it aside for a more convenient time—the British public seems very likely to conclude that Micawber is not their ideal of a statesman in heroics, Senator Conkling. | Mr. Conkling has scored another victory. Last winter he made himself the undoubted master of the republican party, and yester- day’s election makes him master of New York. He will go to the Senate for another six years ; but will he serve out his term? The master of the republican party and the master of the great State of New York may prove in the Convention of 1880 a bigger man than old Grant. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ° ‘Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Bhode Island, is at the Clarendon Hotel. A traveller wishes to have the safe robbers return and crack a Trenton buckboord sandwich. ‘The Russians have a proverb:—'‘Where there sre twé Poles there are three political parties.” Thomas Ahesarne, the last of the Irish Fenians im- prisoned in England, was released yesterday. Still another county fair for the President. @ mean alvantage he is taking of the prize ox. In the other world—Dante’s—the gas company pres» ident will have his deserts metered out to him. “Sand” color is the latest in Paris for travelling dresses. We suppose it is worn with gravel trains. Wonder if those Manhatten Bank burglars would have statesmanship eniough to get behind the returns. Acorrespondent asks, “What did William Tell 7” So far as we remember he said, “Oh, shoot the spple anyway!” Mr. E. A. Sothern, the actor, is stated to be not seriously ill. He will probably play at Liverpool next week. Shere Ali, the Ameer of Cabul, has a hook nose, a full under lip, arched eyebrows, showing disdain, and & mild expression generally. In England the Duke of Sutherland is the only one who can boast that he has a railway, s railway car and a set of high class fire engines. The Oil City Derrick ia mean enough to say that al- though the President has been to all the faire.he hee not received a single premium. The Whitehall Times wishes to know whether an oyster house waiter isan oyster supe. Not nevessa- rily; for he may be raw or ‘steemed, Buffalo Expreas:—"‘At « place of amusement in New York o lady is fired out of # cannon every day—be- cause, we suppose, she doesn’t pay her rent.” ‘London World says it is pretty well admitted that @ Russian colonel can be purchased for sbout $15,000, that being the amount which he usually defrauds hie regiment of in stores, clothing, &c, ‘The Emperor William continues to be feoble, nob withstanding all flattering reports to the contrary, He is irritable and he retires early. In his occasional strolls the Empress watches him constantly. Talmage reminds his youthful hearers of the ol4 lady who, saying to her granddaughter that she hal seen the folly of sin, received the reply, “Wi grandma, I want to seo the folly of it too.” ‘ An Illinois man, who unites the functions of a far mer anda mill owner, cuts off the heads of his poul- try by placing them against a buzz saw. Thisis the man who said that what is saws for the goose is saws for the gander. | Milwaukee Sun:;—"A young husband who was ad vised by his wife to put on his overcoat to wear dowt town one cold morning, complied with her request by pinning 4 pawn ticket on the Inpel of his undercoat Bhe could not see through it.”