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The New York herald., 1876-10-07
John Ixelly's Mayors.

One of the things that the people will in
sist upon having this year is Mayor of
their own. They are tired Of the my can
didate" kind. They do not want and will
not have one of John Kellys Mayors. There
fore that calm and generous patriot, when
he contemplates his treasures, when he
opens the little closet in which he keeps his
beautiful candidates, to reflect which one of
them he will give to the city next year, may
as well cease to trouble his brains about it.
He may lock up his little closet, put the key
on the upper shelf and wait for another year.
His candidates are beautiful no doubt-as
we'll those that are made of painted clay as
those that are only of dried putty but
the insuperable objection is that they are his
candidates and not the peoples candidates.
The principle Of democratic government Is
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
Seasonnble Poisonings.

To borrow the style of the almanacs of
the last generation we might say, "About
this time look out for deaths caused by eat
ing mushrooms" There is a crop of these
casualties every year, and they may be put
down in the category of regularly recurring
events 1t is very dangerous indulgence
to eat mushrooms gathered in the field s; SO
dangerous that it may we'll be doubted
whether the qualification of the palate is
worth the peril. There are several hundred
varieties of mushrooms. Some few of these
are edible, but by far the larger
number are poisonous, and these
are classed together under the COM
mon name of toadstools There are
plenty of people everywhere who believe
they know the difference between toadstools
or poisonous mushrooms and edible mush-
rooms but those who have made thorough
study of these fungi declare that none of the
common and popular tests are to be de-
pended upon, and that there is no general
test that is absolutely certain. They even
hold that mushrooms of an edible variety
may be terminated in conditions which will
render them poisonous. Mushrooms raised
in the beds of q cultivator from the spawn
of mushrooms known to be edible are the
only ones that it is entirely safe to eat.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

ENGLAND seems to be taking a firm stand.
in regard to the Bulgarian atrocities. Sir
Henry Elliot, the British Ambassador, has
been instructed to demand personal audi
ence with the Sultan to present Mr.. Barings
report and ask for reparation to the Bulgari.
ans who have suffered such fearful outragea
at the hands of the Turks. If the English
government continues to hold this attitude
and requires something more than promises
we may expect barbarities to be less frequent
in the Turkish provinces in the future than
they have been in the past.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

II he will only stick to my policy" and ''my
candidate" long enough he may be the
means of comforting a very great blessing on
tho city, for he may rid US not only of Mr..
Kelly, but of Tammany, and all other like
attempts to rule and use the city in the in
terest of secret political organization.
We agree with Mr.. Morrissey that
Tammany sought to be broken up" that
the democratic voters ought to organize in
Assembly districts, and ''act Independently
of any particular Hail. SO that they can
always retain control over their own organi-
zation." Those are sound words of Honest
Johns. Tammany has been q powerful
secret organization; but what has it
done for the city? 1t is Mr.. Kelly's tool,
and he uses it as well as he knows how, but
as his own property in every way. He uses
it rs q club with which to threaten us all.
'Take my candidate" he virtually says,
''or I'll turn Tammany against you" just as
policeman might say to disorderly crowd,
"Get out of the way, or I'll turn the hose of
a steam fire engine on YOU" He may be
able to swing Tammany over our
heads; indeed, he has done it for
a while. But if he insists too
much and too long the people will
sweep away him and his Tammany club
too. If his obstinacy should be the means
of bringing this about the regrets will be
very few. Meantime, however we can see
what we have already pointed out to Mr..
Kelly, that he would, in his partys and
Governor Tilden's interest, do well to take
another occasion than this of Presidential
election to ruin himself and Tammany.
just now he ought to surrender, to accept
the good advice offered him, and to unite
with his fellow leaders in harmonious action
in the city. Our interest is to have capa-
BILE Mayor. Mr.. Kelly's interest is greater
than this, and he ought to know it.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

They now call him Gray Jeans Williams
Bob Ineerso is tho Tom Mast OF oratory.
An Englishman travelling by bicycle from Colognk
to Vienna.
Michigan, an ndation State, is making great guam.
titles OF dried apples.
Mr. william Beach Lawrence, OF Rhode Island, is at
the Now York HoteL
81 do Geoiroy, French Minister to Japan, is at the
Brevoort House, on his way to Europe.
Ex-Governor Leland Stanford. OF California, Mas
swung back into the republican party
one of the elegant. short autumn tramps is from
Turner's, N. ", TO Nowburg Cornwall on the Hud.
Richmond young lady OF great wealth is to marry
man who served in tho Pcnitentary nine years for
robbery.
Mr. Amos I. Akcrmnn, OF Georgia. formerly United
States Attorney General yesterday arrived at tho Fifth
Avenue Hotel
Mrs Swisshclm says that the German docs not il,u-
inmate by hanging lantcrns rromiscuously in trees,
but that everything is in lines
Norristown Hcrdid:-'The Reriew says there ia 4
potato on exhibition at Reading cigar storo that
bcas striking resemblance to a human being II
looks like little Murphy, We presume"
Tho Duchess OF Edinburgh, who is now staying with
the Duke at the beautiful summer residence Of the
Car In tho Crmea, with leave Lvadia, as soon as the
colu Wcatucr seb IN ioF aita Wpcrc sho Will the
winter.
Lawn-tcnns has become quito q passion in Ireland:
there scarcely village that has not spot
devoted to that healthy outdoor amusement coun.
try house without It scarcely be found Lawn.
tennis has completely beat cricket out OF the field
Norrisiown Herald Dcadwood City Black Hills
has ono editor and twenty saloons. After the editor
has visited all the saloons TO CLEAN the news hs pa
per Is so intoxicated that doesn't come out and he
Dcadwooders don't miss II until they want paper for
gun wadding.n
South Carolina lady OF former aristocracy writes
that she had almost no meat during the summer but
that Senator Cain, muIatto legislator, with salary
OF 5000, drives scvcn-aundrcd- dollar horse owns
handsome town house and two plantations and took
his wife TO the Centennial.
SACRAMENTO Record:--ssTherc are not moro thon
thrco or tour brands OF California wine deservino nj
any serious consideration at present Whatever Tho
cause It is certain that grapes produce very crudo
and heavy aud earthly iiavors unlike the light wines
Of southern France shark meat Is unlike hahbu, -
General Faiecn, Russian. Is OF opinion thst
Germany will not willingly expose ner flank TO Russis
when sho could protect 1t by raising up Polish Stats
between herself and her great enemy on the north anx
east ltwoud suit Germany marvcllously, moreover
to have an independcn. Poland, which. in its move
ment toward tho east might coIonze with lie supsr
auous populasian
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
Mr.. Green's Nomination.

Comptroller Green is model public SER
want. He never balks or hesitates. He is
always ready to. serve, and to serve any,
where. If the people want him he is at
hand, ready to do his best for them in any
Office which they, or any of them, want to
give him. Nothing but the loss of his
health will ever deprive the city of New
York of Mr.. Green's invaluable services.
We have this in his own consolatory words
to the delegation Of contractors who on
Wednesday waited upon him to offer him
their support for the Mayoralty.
BY the way, this notion Of the body of con-
tractors for city work nominating Mr.. Green
is it not q little funny? Mr.. Peter Cooper's
nomination was thought joke. It remains
the joke of the Presidential campaign, ex-
cept, perhaps, to the Western politicians,
who see WITH vexation that though Mr.
Cooper has not the least chance of being
elected he demoralizes the forces of both
parties In plain language, he cannot make
a spoon but he may spoil either of two
horns. We do not mean to say that Mr..
Green's candidature would be like that
of Mr. Cooper. Mr.. Green could at least
count on the support Of the contractors; and
they are influential people
It occurs to us that as Mr. Green is willing
to be Mayor, and as he seems to have ideas
on the subject of the improvement of the
city, on which, to our regret, he only gen.
eralized in his address to the contractors, he
might do we'll to put them in shape, and let
the people of New York see them. There is
a curious and somewhat stale formality of
'letters of acceptance" by Presidential can
didates, written after everybody knows they
are going to accept, and when their plat
forms have already. been prescribed for them.
Why could not Mr.. Green, by daring in
novation, write and publish letter of &C.
ceptance before he is nominated? The idea
strikes us as excellent It would attract
public attention as novelty; and in such q
preliminary and provisional letter of accept
ance-provisional only because if he were
not nominated it would of course not bind
him to anything-he might lay out pro-
gramme of city improvement for the public
information. We should very much like to
see such document. 1t might be indexed
proposals for assuming the Mayoralty of
New York"
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
"Forbidden. Fruit" Mt walack,s.

The theatre which from old associations is
most endeared to our playgoers has opened
its season brilliantly with little piece
which, while it departs somewhat from the
usual style of entertainment at that house,
is 80 amusing that it thoroughly justifies the
choice of the management. forbidden
Fruit" is, of course, inspired by lie
Process Veauradieux," which is now being in
one shape or another played at SO many
theatres; but it owes much of its success to
the novel and ingenious treatment of Mr..
Boucicault. From end to end it "goes" with
the wit, spirit and fun of farce in the
Palais Royal, and roars of laughter reward
the efforts of corps of actors and actresses
who are all admirably suited. Mr.. Bouci-
cault's marvellous knowledge of stage effect
has never been more humorously exhibited
than in the extraordinary complications
which await the actors in this piece, who
propose to make night of it at Cremorne.
At period when so many are feeling the
stringency of hard times bright trife like
Forbidden Fruit" will do no little good in
dispelling the shadows of care. 1t may not
be weighted with moral lessons, but it is full
of generally harmless fun, and cannot be
witnessed without enjoyment. When piece
can be heartily laughed over there should
be great deal forgiven to the author Peo-
pie complain of Boucicault's plagiarism as
the politicians did to Abraham Lincoln of
General Grants exalted appreciation of whis-
key. 1t is plagiarism that wins triumphs
on the stage just as General Grant won bat
ties on his whiskey during the war. If it is
only the right. kind of plagiarism or the
right kind of whiskey all is well. This
brings us to paradox, for Boucicault with
all his insistance on the right to plagiarize,
has found another authors work for once to
be forbidden Fruit.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
italian Opera.

The musical public is indebted to Mr.
Max Strakosch for giving the present season
of Italian opera. Without him it would
to have in the country Mile. de Belocca
and Nine. Palmieri. With these singers
Italian opera is possible. The result is
a pleasant week Of unequal merit, with
the operas Of 'Norma" s'Semiramide, !"
''La Favorita," and I'll Trovatore." With q
few well sung minor parts excepted, these
operas have been imperfectly rendered, and
to enjoy fine solo or duet by Belocca
and Palmieri and Comfy the listening
ear must endure the discordance of the
quartet or the agony of a Bulgarian
orchestra which is massacred by the bashi-
bazouks of the stage. While we ought to be
glad to hear opera, even where the merit is
injured by the fault, like ripe apple by a
spot of decay, what should prevent New
York from having first rate opera as q
regular institution every year?
Maurice Strakosch, who is now in New York,
is one Of the first impresarios in the world.
Why should not Maurice and Max unite
their forces and give New York this season
opera in the grand style which she is always
ready to sustain, but which Of late she has
been denied? New vocalists are wanted to
support those we now possess. With these
the company would be well organized, and
any opera, even 'L'Africaine"o Lies HUI
guenots" or ''ATda," could be produced with
complete effect. Without such support the
performances of Belocca and Palmieri are
really operate concerts, with few brilliant
pieces finely rendered and the remainder of
the opera cut away for want of company to
do it justice. With fine company it might
be also necessary to render music newer
than time-honored s'Norma" and LA Fa-
vorita, which, to say it with all Difference
to great names, are threadbare.
1t is thought in some quarters that the
stockholders of the Academy are to blame
for our having an accidental rather than q
permanent opera, and in other quarters that
the managers are at fault. There is fault
on one side or the other. The stockholders
should certainly not be an obstruc-
tion. 1t would be much better that
the Academy should be used this win
ter, even at reduced rent, than that it
should be empty, for the penny wise" the
ory is always preferable to the pound fool
ish" The success of this season of Max
Strakosch, with q company hastily collected
and palpably inadequate to the production
of great operas, proves what would be the
reception of troupe of great artists. and we
earnestly urge that Maurice and Max Stra-
kosch and the stockholders of the Academy
should have conference and endeavor to
give us company of first class singers and
| complete operas.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
Candidates and the Civil Service.


The Boston Civil Service Reform Club is
making life burden to tho Congressional
candidates of both parties in Massachusetts,
by asking them whether they will pledge
themselves that if elected they will set up
no claims for petty Offices, but support a
thorough reform of the federal civil service.
In Illinois three candidates for Congress,
two of them republicans and one democrat
we believe, have openly pledged themselves
to abstain from seeking offices of the Exccu-
tive and to help on reform of the civil SER
vice in every way. Why will not the
friends of this policy, of both parties, form
society here in New York, which could
then properly and publicly question every
Congressional candidate throughout the
State on the subject? 1t is very easy to do
this, and it seems to us one of the most di-
rect and practical ways of helping on a re-
form which is more needed than any other
not only in the federal but in the State and
city governments. One or two Western cam
didates have been asked this question:
'Will you, if elected, confine yourself to
giving information or advice to the Execu-
tive, when asked, and for the rest mind
your own business, leaving the President
and departments to attend to theirs 2" This
is q somewhat crude way Of putting the
matter. The friends of civil service reform
in this State can easily improve upon it.
We advise them to do So
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
Ar. McCulloch's Piaa for Resumine
Specie Payments.

Hon. Hugh McCulloch's general views ON
questions of finance and currency have
always been so sound that we feel some hesi-
tation in disagreeing with any of his views,
but we are quite unable to indorse the plan
of resumption which he advocated in his
address to the Bankers Convention at Phila-
delphia. He thinks that Congress, at it's
next session, should pass an act declaring
that on January l, 1879, United States notes
shall cease to be legal tender. and author
izing the Secretary Of the Treasury to re-
ceive them at once in exchange for four per
cent gold bonds The funding of portion
of them in bonds of long date would, no
doubt, be a wise measure, which would GER
tainly bring them, and with them the bank
note circulation, to par. But the repeal
of the Legal Tender act, instead Of
being the first step, ought to be the very
last. 1t is not possible, without causing
great shock and disturbance, to accumulate
in this country an adequate stock of gold in
so short period as two years. 1t is indis-
pensable to have some medium of payment
by which debts can be legally discharged,
and in all domestic transactions greenbacks
would be as good as gold for that purpose If
they could be maintained steadily at par.
In England, which has the soundest cur
rency of any nation in the world, Bank Of
England notes are legal tender in oil ordi-
nary transactions. With the exception OF
the bank itself in the redemption of its own
notes, every debtor can tender them in pay
and 1, a1,1
pletely as if he offered gold. The advantage
of this system is great economy in the use
of coined money. There is but one gold re-
serve in all England, and our currency might
be made perfectly sound with but one gold
reserve in this country. The Legal Tender
act might be continued in force without
detriment to business if the United States
notes were redeemable in gold at the Sub
Treasury in this city. Redemption at one
place would keep them securely at par, and
q separate gold reserve in each bank might
be dispensed with until the general stock Of
gold in the country should become suffi-
cient. We could safely resume specie pay
ments five years earlier without than with
a repeal of the Legal Tender act, because
the legal tender notes at par would answer
every purpose of gold itself in the great
mass of domestic transactions, as Bank Of
England notes do in Great Britain. If we
had sufficient supply of gold in the coun-
try, or could acquire it in the ensuing two
years without provoking all the money mar
kets of the world to obstruct and thwart us,
the repeal of the Legal Tender act might be
safely taken as first step; but as we neither
have it nor can economically acquire it in SO
short period. the repeal of the Legal Ten
der act would convulse the business of the
country. The true course is to bring the
greenbacks to par by gradual process Of
funding and preserve their legal tender
character while we are cautiously accumu-
lating sufficient stock of gold to enable US
to dispense with them altogether.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

that the people shall choose their own
rulers. and sometimes they are bad rulers.
The principle ofgovernment by demagoguery
is that some fat-witted leader SHALL in the
name OF the people. choose nominal rulers,
and sometimes they are bad ones. But
though bad system has accidentally good
results sometimes, and a good system bad
results, the good system is the law of the
land, and this year the people mean to en-
force 1t. SO John Kelly may stand aside.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

AN ADDITIONAL LIST Of awards at the Cen.
tennial Exhibition is published in the
HERALD this morning. The manner in which
the medals are scattered over the world
makes their possession of comparatively lit
tie value, and their abundance cannot fail to
be long remembered with smile of derision
at their worthlcssness.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

THE RETIREMENT OF WoLcoTT the green
back candidate for Governor Of Indiana,
from the canvass is likely to result in send
ing back the independent voters of both
parties to their respective organizations.
The democrats and republicans will thus
be evenly matched and the result will be
the more significant MS regards the Presi-
Dental contest
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

THE PRoTEsTANTs IN SPAIN have obtained
favorable opinion touching the liberation
clause in the constitution from Senior Alonzo
Martinez, former Minister of Justice. But
whether or not the Spanish constitution
guarantees them their claim toleration has
become universal right, and it's enforce
ment sooner or later must become part of
international polity.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07
WITH SUPPLEM E Mt.
NEW YORK. SATURDAY, OCTOBER !. 1875.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the reather to-day ,cM be odrner
cloudy and rainy, succeeded By colder and clear
ina ,reGther
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

ANOTHER Stock OPERATOR has been forced
to the wall. These things go on from day
to day, and though they ripple the surface
of speculation for an hour they leave no per-
manent impression behind, because, after oil,
this species of speculation has no real rela-
tion to the business of the country.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

WILLOW FEVER CASE was reported in
Brooklyn yesterday, but it is hoped no con-
tagion will spring from it. The lesson of
August prevented any mistake in the de-
scription of the disease furnished to the
BOARD of Health
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

PRESIDENT GRANT continues to talk frankly
on the issues of the present canvass, and ho
speaks with remarkable frankness. A solid
South. he thinks, can only be secured by the
democrats by the shotgun policy" and,
while he has no doubt of Hayes election, he
fears the result of the elections for members
Of Congress, and even anticipates possible
loss of the Senate to the republicans.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

THE FEATURE of the democratic mass
meeting at Cooper Institute last night was
the letter of Horatio Seymour demanding a
decrease of taxation as the first step toward
the revival of business. 1t is late in the
canvass to begin the discussion of this issue,
and both parties seem purposcly to have
eyaded it. Although MIR. Seymours letter
sannot be regarded as at all conclusive on
the subject OF. which it treats it is bene-
Acial in introducing into our political dis
sussions the real questions which are before
ths country.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. market
was active and generally firm. The coal
stocks showed the effect of realizing sales
Money on call was supplied at and 2 per
cent Gold declined from 100 1-2 to 100 4.
Railway bonds were stronger and govern
ment bonds weaker.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

Woodward will be brought here at once
on a requisition from Governor Tilden. A
new era Of grief seems to be coming for the
old Tammany Ring. With Woodward in
custody and Tweed on his way home there
is little wonder public expectation should be
on tip-toe
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

A BATTLE between the Turks and the Ser
vians is reported to be imminent. Ii it is
fought and should prove 30 be in any way
decisive, the crisis in the Eastern question
will be inevitable.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

Ar JEROME PARK To-Day there will be FIVE
interesting races, the principal of which is
the Annual Sweepstakes for three-year-olds,
over q course of two miles and an eighth.
There is also q three-quarter mile dash for
two-year-olds, which promises to be sharply
contested. The interest in these short
races during this meeting has more than
once exceeded that evolved by those run by
older horses over greater distances. The
rncing begins at half-past one.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

THE BAsHI-BAzoUKs in the Turkish army
continue to be unmanageable, and many Of
them have left the front. Even Turkey may
before long be compelled to suppress these
marauders and assassins
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

THE AMERICAN MINISTER to Denmark has
been recalled, as will be seen by the cable
reports this morning.
The New York herald., 1876-10-07

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