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_^TaURSDAY. K0VEMBER 11, 196?.
Oo-a hundred and seventy-eight vote? In the Cortea are
Bow counted upon for the Duke of Oonoa. ? ? In a de?
bata ob Cuban affair?. Mm later Becerra declared thst
the lnaua*n4)tion waadimlnUhlng. ?=-r= A letter from Oen.
Dalos warns the Regency agslnat the Montpensler party.
???=. i The Moderado?, who fled to Lisboa??are making
_>i?i>arBt!on? for a risinar- ===== Another Rochefirt de
nartiatrstlon ba? occurred In Paria, but the city la quiet.
aa_aaj Th?s IiiiU Central Amnesty Commit tea recommend
ubstioenca from ?molting to lessen the Kugliah revenues
nnd ?sve money for agitation. - --- Havana telegrama
report ths death of Gen. Tsmsco In s bstile near Ksmon.
The Spanish merchsnts have offered to send 10,000 more
troops to Cubs.
Major Gen. John E Wool died In Troy yesterday, aged
as. ?_a a The obsequie? of Rear-Admlml Stewart, In
Philadelphia, were very Imposing ?=--? Two polioa offl
oasrs in Buffalo reoeived pistol wounds while
arreatlng a noted burglar, i .. A widow
la Baltimore has been awarded 117,000
'lsma+res agslnat the Northern Central BaUroad for
causing the destb of her husband, awstwa A powder-mill
blew up at Westfleld, Mass., fatally lnjating one of the
wort men. bbbb-i The award of premiums at the Buffalo
International Exhibition will be publiahed to-day,
Tbe Vanderbilt bronze ?tatue waa nnvailad yeaterday
before a larga gathering. The Stock Exchange had a
burlesque of tna ccremonlea. ?aa?? Thus far thla year
.30,0M immlgTBnta bave landed at New-York..- There
were 71 Are? in thi? city In October, loss, t3M>,000. i-r--^?
Hiahor? Potter bss laid tbe oornsr ?tons of a new Epis
Sopal Cbaroh at Clifton, Btstsn Island. ?asR? In th? con?
test before the Supreme Court for the of?ces of ?Commis?
sioners for t?s Widaalng of Broadway, Judge CarJozo re
aerrea hia decision. ----- The New-York Sportsmen'?
Club calls attention lo tbe constant violation of the Game
Law?. - The worklngmen wlah the Government to
apply the Kight-IIonr law to tba new Po?t Office. ?
Gold, mi. mi. m|. .- Temperature. U\ a-*, ii , 4(/\
,_. ,J
District-Attorney Morris of Brooklyn seems
to be very much in earnest in Lis endeavors
to expos* the shameless election frauds prac?
ticed at the recent election in that city, and
to visit apon the perpetrators the punishment
they ?o richly ment. We therefore pre?
mune that the County Canvassers wilt be foiled
in their little game of counting out Mr. Anthony
Walters, the Republican candidate for Sheriff,
stud foisting into the office Mr. Cunningham, the
?ntndidate of the King, who was beaten by
,*irii(thingmoie.than 1,200 majority.- Mr. Morris
au-RijrUi thut tho frauds are perfectly astounding
iu -xtont and audacity. a-Xiocg other tiling?.;
he avers that ho has already ovMe?oee thai two
or three candidate? who were duly elected to
the AiRWimbly have been counted out by the
Canvassers. Wo trust that he will follow up
tho rascals to tho end, and nut weary i? well?
doing. _
The proposition of the Irish Amnesty Com?
mittee that all Irishmen shall step the use of
toliaeco in order to save money for agitation
and deprive England of revenue, argues a
possible abstinence which, among a poor people,
would bo extremely trying Indeed. All the
pipes in Ireland would be in mourning, and
most Irishmen would be sufferers. Worse than
that, without smoke we fear there would be
no agitation, and roform with empty pipes is
not to bo thought of.
The declination of the United States Circuit
Judgeship in Louisiana, by Thomas J. Durant,
is a matter for serious regret. Mr. Du?
rant has long held n position second to
that of no lawyer at tho bar of
Louisiana, and his knowledge of the Civil Law
would have made his appointmont to that po?
sition a specially fit one. Here, as elsewhere,
the misfortune of our Government is, that tho
men preeminently qualified for the ofliccs aro
the men who refuse to accept thorn.
The Mexicans of Colima have most charm?
ingly entertained our wandering ex-Premier,
if we may judge from his remark upon a ball
scene prepared in his honor: " It is a
"tropical forest with an oriental illumi
" nation." In connection with this descriptive
sentence the graphic continued account of Mr.
.Seward's experiences, elsewhere given, is in?
teresting. But most especially have wo to
commend the eminent statesman's enunciation
of the American principio na npplicnblc to all
the Kepublics on the continent. To us, his
opinions, however vigorously stated, are not
new ; to Mexicans they must be reassuring.
It seems equally easy for tho Eoflllh Gov?
ernment to deny to Irishmen the release of a
few prisoner?, and to make a peremptory de?
mand upon tho Lilieiians for what in justico
they ought not to yield. The ease of the bit?
tet is simple. The Mauna and (?allinas coun?
tries have been recognized in British maps and
by British officials a* belonging to the Lilieiians,
but the native prince of those regions having re?
volted in the interest of the Sierra I.cnnc,
pnui^'V'leis, the Liberian (Joveinmeiit found it
necessary to overawe the rebel and Mitt a
schooner and some other property dedi?
cated to the business ol BjBJllfglilg Here?
upon the English iiiithoriti? ?.*. of Surra
Leone have founded a claim for dam?aires, and,
by direction of Lord Clarendon, arbitrai ily
enforced it. This has been done notwith
htantliiij,' several points of what stems to us
righteous objection. In the lirst place, the
country miffled in belonged to Liberia; in
the second, the property seized belonged to
pmtiffglers. As related to us, the case appears
to bo altogether with the Libcnatis, and the
tone of the demand made upon them by Gov.
Kendall seems to have been adapted to a
people, weaker and darker than the l.nglish.
We trust that the matter may l?e 1'niiml
worthy of imjttiry.
WMAT IS TRUTHt
If we were required to account for the con
ilicting opinions, creeds, convictions, prejudices,
antipathies, which divide mankind ami array
them in hostilo camps, we should attribute
these deplorable antagonisms to this above all
other causes?the looseness and inaccuracy of
statement to which disputants are too generally
addicted. They do not quote fully nnd fairly
the positions they profess to controvert, but
substitute therefor something else which it
suits them to consider a substantial equiva?
lent. Thus 'Tlie World, professing to iinswcr
our "Second Letter to a Politician," says:
" Mr. (?reeley ? ? ? tiudftrtakcBtowt forth tlieirrent
advantage and lndl?i>cii?itbl'< necessity of a law for tin?
registration of vot?-r?. 11s assert* (or nitbi?r imimlri it
u? something little ?hurt of s rrlinei that neither Mr. Til
den liiiiiaolf, (.ov. Seymour, nor an) j?t<?tninent Damiwrat
lu the Stute, ba? ever ailvix uted a ht-gialrutioii law."
Our readers know how untrue this is?know
that we expressly and clearly arraigned Tilden
& Co., not for neglecting to obey the con*.ti
tutional provision we cited in our way, but
for not seeking to obey it in any way. We
believe a prior registration of voters, with
reasonable time thereafter for bciutiny and
investigation before the polls open, indispen
sable; but we find no fault with those who
honestly seek the confessedly desirable end by
other means than those which commend them
relves to our approval. What wo asked Mr.
Tilden was essentially this:
Mr. Tilden, by the Constitution which you
aided to frame and adopt, nnd which you have
just voted to perpetuate, you have very prop?
erly prescribed that
AKT. IL, fa. " Um thull !><> niHile ftir aai-i-rtalninir liy
1>n?p?-r iir.iof? tin? t-ifizen? who hli?!l be entitled to tlie
tight ofHuffrag?? hereby establir-lieii."
Now, Sir, where, when, how, have your party
obeyed, or sought to oliey, that most important
requirementt "What answerI* Can The
World do no better than misstute and pervert
our inquiry 7 If not, why not be wise enough
to take refuge in silence T
77i? World proceeds to make assertions of
the inutility and inefficacy of Kegistration
which are entirely wide of the mark. We
take God to witness that we have steadfastly,
pereistently, done the best we could to secure
to every legal voter his Kight of Suffrage?a
right which the facility of polling illegal votes
tends directly and palpably to subvert and
destroy. If thero is a better way than ours,
let it be proposed and adopted. Wo arraign
Tilden ?S? Co., not that they have preferred
to ours another mode of obeying their own
constitutional requirement, but that they have
not sought to give effect to it in any manner
whatever.
Says The World :
" If Mr. Orfveley'? lettsr prove? anything, It proves that
the Republican registry law is uo ubstructiuu to legal
Toting.*
??Does it 1 Why not let your readers ?tt what
it proved on this head T Here it is :
" There were regtstet-sd here for our 1st? election 113,m
Dames?every one of them on the personal apiiiu-aiioii uf
the claimant of a right to vote. Ob election day, but
116,71? rotea were polled for Htt-cretary of ?it*te and lie,CM
for Comptroller. Add 118 for ?eatterlng, and ?ay that
117,(700 voted lo all, there were ?till over Twenty nx Thou
tand names on the regietriet on \rkich no one attempted
to vota? l'on do not need to !>?? told what tbla mean?.
There were not a thousand in al) w_o reglan-red In Octo?
ber yet nri-lect4*l or were unable to voir \?n tb? 3d uf
November. Ths remaining Twenty-fiTS. Thousand names
were placed on tbe regtatrlea at the liistanoe of ' rspeat
M?,'who, Unding or bearing that they -stir? * ?potted,'
did not venture to vote, or, if they did venture, were ex?
posed aad driven off or arreatod. To this extent, then,
rem?Usti?n, Imperfect aa it baa proved, did prevent the
polling of fraudulent vot?**."
?Now you are not in fault that you failed
to answer this, for you could not ; hut what
right had you to deceivo your readers with a
belief that it did? not exist?
The World says that our ligures
" ?bow that thsre is raatly mora illegal Toting ander tb?
registry law than t&ere waa boforu it was enacted."
?Do they 1 If so, do not statistics show
that there is committed hore more forgery, inoro
counterfeiting, more swindling generally, than
there was before the laws which denounce and
punish thofce crimes were enacted T If the in
J.reubC Ql CJiiao antuet? that tho laws again?*.
crime should be repealed, we should eoon have
our criaiinal code utterly nboUftliexl.
The World proceods to account for tho ex?
istence of a fact which ia a falsehood ___ fol?
lows :
" Prrtiftt?? It would not be very difficult to explain wbj
lllf-srsl Vtitinir I? e_slsr ?n?i less obstruct*?*- under llis Krjr
ls.r_.ll-0 law than 11 was under the old syitem o? cbsi
leiiire. si the M?a I? ? man ran gM hi? WM "i?? tue
rstrlster. he votssasi s ruatUir of cour_e? nobodv tlunilng
it worth while t? eonlest his rlirht sft.r ho has p?*?ed the
ordeal of a Hoard of UeKislration."
?All tins in open defiance of the fact con?
cealed by The World that over Tweniy-siz
Thousand name? were registered hero last
month on which no person was enabled to
voto. Can a disputant bo honest who thus
conceals and defies tho officially recorded truth t
Kegietration in no manner precludes chal?
lenging at the polls, nor is it true that no one
thinks proper to contest tho right to vote of
ono who has registered. Registration is a pub?
lic notioo that such and such persons, who pro?
fess to live at such and such numbers, claim to
bo legal voters. Instead of precluding further
inquiry, it invites by facilitating it. If Ten
Thousand are registered in a Ward which con?
tains but Five or Six Thousand legal voters,
here is public notico that gigantic frautl is medi?
tated, and at what polls it is to ho attempted.
With four days between the close of regis?
tration and tho opening of the polls?still better,
with six days?wo could have reduced the fraud?
ulent vote cast in this City last week enough to
give Franz Big*] the certiorate of election which
tho lega] rotan awarded, hut which tho bogus
voters and fraudulent canvassers have denied
him.
?Hut wa demand the Previous Question.
What irr deem best, or what we would have
done, is of no present importance. We did
not help make tho Constitution which now
requires that " laws shall bo made, for nscer
" tainiog by proper proofs tho citizens who
"shall l>o entitled to tho Bight of Suffrage."
Mr. Tilden did that; and tho duty of obeying
it has passed over to his side. He is a lawyer,
and knows that assertion is not proof?that a
mere claim does not establish I right? If ? sim?
ple offer to swear himself a voter was deemed
Miliii'ieiit, no mich provision as that above
quoted was needed or should have found a
placo in tin? Constitution. Hut thereII stands;
and Mr. Tilden, win? aided to placo it there,
is at tho bead of the party which is DOW re?
quited to obej it. Thus far, they have criti?
cised, anil caviled, and calumniated ; now the?
must net. And, if they have a particle of faith
in the logk paraded by 'The World, they will
repeal not only tho act which ii?iuir?s a Kegis
tration of Voters, but that also which reijuir? . |
Regie,ration of Deeda. !'>ut repealing met?, no
matter how far cariied, will not fulfill their
responsibility. The Constitution requires, not
that laws shall 1m? repealed, but that law. shall
Ix- " made." How will ?on fleal with that T
THE BIOJEJ 01 VdLLAIiDlGBAM.
We have never been an Intemperate admirer
of Mi. V_d_eadighnm? Indeed, if we bad
wanted for purposes of exhibition a politician
in whom every objectionable quality appeared
in its higheat state of development, ??? should
have "(.one fot" that gentleman without tho
slightest reference to expense, ami should <b fi
antly have challenged the anlvatac t<> aateli
him. The patient and unwearied fatuity .wth
which he has lumped his bead against itoae
walls for the last seven or eight years, ami the
clicei fulness which he has maintained through?
out that dfipTCHlng iiei? i.-e, have something
heroic in them; and thry lift him ho much
aliove the level of onlinary traitors as to . n
title him t<> curious and ..ciiiitiiic attention?
Until recently there seemed every reason to
apprehend thai bewoold oecnpj tho remainder
of the cetituiy in this fruitless com ut_ive pro?
ceeding?that h<? would continue to bump his
not YC17 wite head ngntmt roiynolid obetaelee.
a spectacle of pity to the gods and of wonder
to mankind. lti?t he seems inclined to with?
draw that globoee end eore-jr-coottised oigan
from further employment of the ..?<!.
At leant) be has written a letter winch pemiti
ns to tadnlge that untuip.itir>ti. In it ho says
that he has been almost entirely withdrawn
from politics for tho past year; that in his
opinion the Qneat-Ona ol to dnj will not be the
questions of loHj that tho position of lending
men will be by that time greatly changed;
that if the Democratic party is betten (ho re?
fers to the eleetton which has taken place), it
doesn't -.i^iiify, inasmuch ns seven successive
years of that penitential experienco have made
them used to It; but if it ?.hoijld win! How?
ever, as it ditl n't win, wo may omit mention
of the eooioojoe_-oee whleh Mr. VaUandigham
thought WOtdd result liom that event. The
letter altogether signifies that tho writer is
tired of letting empty buckets into rmply
wells ami drawing mulling up, and that, as he
has not found heneen u paying business, he is
going into liquidation. Jt i. Well] a back seat
ami a little pauso of bile.nee will do him a
world of good. We aro not in the councils of
his party, hut we think it can spare him. He has
been the bee Inita bonnet?the Hy in it?, honey
pot, tho bull in its china-shop, the donkey amid
its cabbages. We would celebrate him through
other zoological and entomological symbols, if
WO could think of any which were appropriate.
Those wo have employ .<! only foebly shadow
forth tho Iiuisanco ho has been to his people-.
If wo were of then; wc should try to get up a
general jubilee to celebrate his retirement from
activo political life. Ho is reputed to possess
brains, though it is apparent that his purposes of
evil were but feebly supplemented ?by his ca?
pacities. All that ho has dono has been to lead
his party in the State to defeat time after time
and to imposo upon its national creod a few
odious dogmas, which of themselves are su.ll
< ient to account for its repeated overthrow.
Provincial constituencies are apt to accord first
class honors to second-class capacities, and it
ia possible that they may have done so in the
caso of Mr. Vollandinghara.
If we could discern in his letter distinct evi?
dences of peuitence, even a single orotund
and articulate ptccavi, we should shrive the
man ut once, and send him some rudimentary
treatise setting forth tho duty of a citizen to
the State. A diligent perusal of gomo manual
of tho sort might in .time make a patriot of
him, in which case wo should gladly welcome
biro to the Republican ranks, and would, bo
far us wo could, consign to oblivion that page
of his history upon which it is little likely that
he will ever look back with pride. Hut wo
have no distinct evidence that Ephraim is not
?till wedded to his idols. If he is, it is mat?
ter of general felicitation that he has gouo
into the wilderness to worship them.
We have heard nothing for over half a year
about the "Alabama claims." Mr. Motley has
taken no new steps in regard to them, eo far
as is known ; and the press, both in England
and America, lias ceased to discuss them.
While we are glod to bo relieved from the
janglo and the noise, and tho anger and ro
crimination, wo have reason to believe that tho
Administration bus not by any means lost sight
of tho question, or of tho necessity for its set
tlcmoot, It will take sotuo timo to maturo tho !
plans art! bring them to a consummation ; hot
thero Is at least a probability that, before tin?
close of President Grunt's term, tho Alabama
claims will bo settled iu a way satisfactory to
tho American people.
A I'ABK POE BOSTON.
A joint special committee of the Boston
Common Council has recently been subjected
to a " hearing" on a proposed public park for
tho inhabitants of Eastern Mi-__acliusott_. At
this audience prominent citizens unfolded the
futuro of tho metropolis of New-England with
a magnificent precision never surpassed even
by tho inhabitants of Chicago. M. George B.
Upton believed that tho population of tho city
would continuo to increaso iu tho eamo ratio
that it had done for the last fifty years, and
that they might expect to aco thero within a
1 century a city of 2,000,000 inhabitants. Mr.
Edward Crane "followed with a statement of
" the growth of Boston. Her population had
"doubled onco in twenty years during tho
" present century. At tho samo relative rato
"there would bo within her present limita in
"1890 a population of 000,000 souls. And
"should this progressive increase continuo
"thero would bo within a century 4.800,000
"people within her borders. It might provoke
"a smile, but ho asserted that it was certain$
"and as simplo as the rule of three." In re?
ply to a gentleman who asked if a certain
locality near tho Mount Hopo Cemetery was
not peculiarly exposed to tho east wind, Mr.
Crano replied that ho liked tho east wind,
and thought it was ono of tho great?
est blessings Uostonians had. It niado
active, nervous men. Mr. Eliztir Wright then
pit ?tented a printed document, advocating the
purchase of no less than 4,000 acres of land
surrounding " ChoOM Rock," and lying between
tho beautiful and sequestered Spot Pond anil
the Mystic Hiver?a tract of " more than six
"square miles of beauty, in spito of the worst
"the ruthless wood-choppers havo been able,
"to do." To get to this sequestered Spot Mr.
Wright proposed that the city should build
"ten miles or so" of double-track railway,
Mooting Spot Pond on a viaduct, which ho
parenthetically remarked would cost "aniil
" lion dollars or two." Tho railroad, equipped
to run thirty trains of ten cars eat h every day,
Mr. Wright estimated would absorb $ .,CK)0,000.
fifteen thousand p.i-sciigers at ten cents apiece
would pay seven pet cent on this capital, re?
imburse the Boiton and Maine rand for the use
of its mam track and depot, :i1"' defray the
running expans?e of tbe trains. MBnt let us
"suppose," coat-MMI Mr. Wright in his grand
way, " thai WO have only live, thou, ami per ?lay,
"how long should we have to wait for tho other
" ten thou, anil '/"' Wc advise, the Committee
to have this question Settled by tho derision
of Mr. Josiah Quincy before they recommend
th?. Common Council to buy the land and con?
tract for the roatl. Mr. C > ni my would undoubt?
edly consider that UM four million eight hun?
dred thousand souls inhabiting BootOO, not in?
cluding tho immense populations of Choleen
nuil Lynn, ought to fuinidi moie than 1...000
pISOmgBtS per diem, lie wouhl, we ?laro say,
Insist OH a reduction <>i the fan to ono cent,
and an increase, in the number of trains to ac?
commodate half a million? What a future in
than in store for BootOO if only her eili/ens
are ?,?, i m enough to graep II !
a vi i. < FOE TBE ri i mi:
The I ".it Men's organization, in fact the or
gnnisntion Of any truly fat man, must perforce
have claims upon our attention, not to say our
wonder? it Is ? huge neaociatioo and its iu
tlueiice ia wide-pread. Any measure which fat
men combine to carry must have weight. Should
they resolve to oimtim n preeeure npon publie
affairs wo fear that common Interests will have
to give way. CooaptraCJ With BUeh a body of
mOU, bS it mercantile, or social or political,
counts at the Mart upon an iinpiegnable back?
ground of defense, and an overpowering invin?
cibility of tempi rainent. Withal they aro a
tno.t naefol body in the wideot sense of that
word? The vciy wheels of piegrsss aro In
tome manner oiled with the substances of
them eomfoitnb-S men. In short, anything
which they do in common ought to h.ivo tho
interest of an event. Whether they sloop hko
n happy heed or open tin ir eyes together,
whether they laugh as it weic in n chorus, ami
shako tbemeolves like no undivided tea, or
whether five hundred of them feed like one,
they mn-it be a delight i" g' neii.us imagin?
ations.
Now WO have mad. mon? than a tailor's
allowance for tho extent and character of the
Tut Movement ; but here at the eleventh boni
conns somebody to scold us a. a libeler.
"Good humor and fat reciprocally produco
"each other," says this nnnooom n y ehampion?
"and where there is none of the former tliero
"can bo but little of the latter, and that nn
? healthy." Though the, 1 i-an ghosts Of Hood
and Phssoll stare at us, shill WS havo tho
heart to deny this one n_ooster virtus so dent
to the heait of every fat man ? Think of I hem
for a moment without it no better than with?
ored gourds or collapsed balloons. "Was |va?
" lite, ever the .phiiic(cr of fat nun's heaits?"
Wo should think not. "Do they ever combino
to run up tho pi ?co of provisional"
Wo hope not. " ,lob m health was
"fat," says our boratOT, "tor he mentions lean
" ness among his ufili? lions." Bat WO-did not
undertake to be the ad. orates ol emaciation.
Wo might bnve ventured a sp?culai ion with
n feronce to the seeming difficulty in many
instances of Job's doctrine of the ic .uiicction
in tho flesh; but wo lot that pass. *' l.y far
" the fattest man I ever knew," pioceeds our
ciitic, " wa?. the cotnteous and kind-he;.rtcd
" I). H. L., a Member of Congress for several
" years. In bulk he was equal to tinco ordinary
" mortals, and, to his credit, his heart seemed
" proportionally enlarged. Intellect in him was
"as unclouded M in that lean trio, Alexander
'"Stephens, Henry Clay, and John C. Cnl
" houn." Hut was it not, not to put too fine a
point on It, n rnther fat intellect T Wo ibould
marvel to think what liros of intellectual rage
and domestio affection would consumo the
planet? if fat men's heaits and brains wore al?
ways in proportion to their bodii?.
Far bo it from our purpose to exalt skin und
bone. Heaven knows it is no crime exactly to
be fat. Moral men have dono it, preachers
and the liko, publicbeuefactois at that. Portly
men of a religious habit could hardly have
sinned by neglect of penance in tho good old
days; their fat was a stiflicient mortification?
but we forbear. There is no law wo know
against getting what is usually called full, and
If u school were open to-morrow for the. train?
ing of youth in tho way they should waddle,
wo doubt not it would have in round nimben
a great many pupils. Tho ehcruhs aro
?plump, and tho young loves are Wad
diloves. There WottM Ricin to bo ?
distinct and privileged pines In cr?ation fot
good fat men and boys?a kind of 1'atlanil
hero and hereafter, l.ven the plump must die,
not always of apoplexy, wo hope?ami I '?
c-__ider*U.ii brings to uiiud that " ,Liv Highly*
"and grief which swell a man up so," place a
truly fat man, like a truly good man, chief
among tho mourners. J?tit there is that in a
round countenance that smiles upon despair,
liko corpulence on a monument. We think of
fat, ruddy-cheeked meo, dying without trag?
edy. Mortality quizzes them, chokes them
with their own miith. They are killed by tho
prosperity of tho flesh only, like Cupids
smothered to death by pillows. Death tickles
them with ? straw, and a louder laugh than
usual shakes the lifo out of them.
Now, whoever says that our fat men are only
the sleepers of the social railroad, and so dis?
posed that engines of lean enterprise may run
over them, does not know whereof ho speaks.
Wo venerate tho lean man's cause, but for the
fat roan dare to plead. Any fat movement
must be necessarily slow, and it will be some
time before such a cause can prepare a platform
sufficient for its weight; but in the event of a
struggle for superiority, the cause of emaciation
and of anatomy must go to the wall. The Fat
movement, in brief, is simply a demand for
elbow-room, and as one for added suffrage it
ought and will be of the broadest character.
Think of theso solid men groaning under the
oppressions of tho franchise, and crying out
against custom! If lean men have one vote,
why should fat men not have twot Two, did
wo sayT Why not vote entirely by avoiidu
poin, and so give the Fat Men's Association a
whole district at onec?
LA DOS OFFICES.
It is nearly as important to have easy means
of procuring employment as it is to have a
high rate of wages. Even when labor is most
in demand, there aro number.*) unemployed, to
the mutual loss of the workman and the em?
ployer. Tho official statistics of France show
that tho agricultural laborer works at his reg?
ular duties only 220 days in the year, and re?
ceives on the average, with board, tho sum of
22 to 27 cents per day for his services. The
diversified industry which this country now
enjoys saves us ftotn a similar waste of time
and depression of wages. Labor being thus
brought into requisition, a freo public intelli?
gence office has become of the lirst necessity.
That in operation at tlio I'lytnpton Buildings
has, since its establishment on the 15th of
.lime, provided situations for 1(),0.>j persons.
Dp to the end of October, Jk?U men liad ap?
plied fur situations, and of these ?3,017 were
provided with places: 1,001 lieing in the city
and 2,011 in tlie country. The number of ? in
pl'iyers requiring male help WM 3,001 (1.4.J4
city and 2,liJ7 country), and of theso 804 were
not supplied. A number of circumstances ac?
count fur tho failure of theso 804 to find tho
hands they wanted, but tho principal reason
was an objection on the part of tho laborers
to leave town, and a desire to obtain light
employments.
In respect to women, the advantages of the
agency aro still more striking, and have been
more generally turned to account. Out of
H,o?ti who registered their names, 7,018 found
situations: .'i,40.'? iu the city and 2,213 in the
country. The demand for female help at the
Oilico is far above the supply, for during the
four and a half months thero wero 11,018 ap?
plications, of which 7,834 wero from the city
and .!,','14 front places out of town. These
figures show different conclusions than tho rel?
ative number of vacant situations and appli?
cants would indicate; but the unemployed
women demonstrate an unwillingness to ex
cliniigo city for country life, aud their facilities
for finding employment independently of the
Office are very great.
To render this Intelligence Office of still
greater benefit, it only remains that it should
be extensively encouraged, and become recog?
nized a.s tho most convenient and inexpensive
arrangement which all thoso interested can
adopt?. While the effect of our national legis?
lation is to diversify labor and secure it a just
reward, the people should at least cooperate to
enable all who are in involuntary idleneas to
secure work.
INCREASE IN car FAMEE.
Not satisfied with tho handsome, wo might
say enormous, profits of their business, the
stockholders of tho Third-ave. Kailroad now
broadly hint ut a largo advance in the fares.
At their annual meeting yesterday, it was
stated that tho actual cost of carrying each
passenger was livo and eight-tenths cents,
leaving but one-fifth of a cent profit. Suppos?
ing title to be true, though wo beg leave to
doubt it, how do they stand ? ]\y their report
for lEMt, they carried 22,000,000 passengers,
which would bring a net profit of $41,000.
Vet they managed to pay $110,400 in divi?
dends, and inoro than $100,000 for interest,
purchased beside $j:;i),J.ss worth of real e*tate,
and had still $:!3,:'.'.?::, cash, on hand, over all
cvpense.H. This, it mm ms, does not satisfy the
owners, and they now say that the law will
allow them to charge, to Sixty-liftU-st., six
cents in gold.
I>o they really contemplate the addition of
M p r ((lit to their present earning?.? The
hiut crin scarcely mean anything less; and
?inco tin? great Democratic victory tho people
liny as well prepare for tho exaction. The
?t'ompany's receipts last year were nearly
faaMOyOOQ? Thirty percent on this would make
it 11 .OiO.OOO. Now there are many capitalists
who would be glad of the opportunity to pur
t'lt!? the road at its actual cost, and run it at
five cents it passenger all the v.ay to Harlem.
Bot such a consummation is apparently im?
possible; the road is a grand monopoly; its
?lock is too valuable to appear on'Change, and
tho owners are making fortunes at present
prices. And yet, if they raise the fates thirtv
pel cent, what can the people do except to poj
them 7 With a judicious application of a por?
tion of their great wealth at Albany, almost
any bill upon which tho stockholders agree
might be forced through the Legislature. We
liiive, however, one comforting assurance. (Jov.
Holfimtii tells us that the new Legislative Hody
will be honest; that no bill can be bought
through; that the rights and interests ol the
people will be protected. What does ho think
of si -ven cents late lor working-girlsT
We aro gratified by tho prospect that some
difficulty about a stakeholder bids fair to break
up the arrangements for a prize fight between
two notorious Western bruisers. We could
have wished that artest and imprisonment of
the principals had iuterfered with tlieir plans
for disturbing the pence of the community ;
but for anything that stops the performance
wo are duly thankful. Wo have not the
slightest anxiety to have "the best man win," and
ato not desirous of an opportunity to com?
pare dements where the best is bad. Vet there
is room for regret that they w ill not both 1m
ulleily demolished, ? result which would some?
what afloid us satisfaction if we conhl be rid
nf the disgusting details O? "rounds," "eom
"ing f"> lime," Urn ''sponge," and the "el.wet."
\\e therefore reatare t<? raggeei that, these
individuals, ii anxious theni,el\cs as we are
tii.iL they should be siiia-hcd to rcsprclivc j. ?lit-s,
ui.iy lind a chauce. uot to nay an oppoilumty for
so desirable a consummation, by accepting a
position among the new brakemcn of the
freight ears upon tho Erie Ilailway. Fink, jr.,
wants also, it is said, men that are able to do a
little knocking around. And, ?should they sur?
vive a few months of siteh employ nient, it is
not impossible that our city authorities, freed
from the obstructions that have hitherto intor
fered with the aspirations of a pure l.ooio
cracy, may oiler tho pugilista every facility
for a public exhibition within tho Metropolitan
District; though we are not without a cheerful
hope that a mild railway accident might an?
swer every purpose in the interval.
There has been a distracting report?<_oubt
less false?circulating for some days past
among the Tammany plunderers who aro just
outside of the innermost " King" of Democratio
knavery. Nobody will be surprised at the com?
motion it has created when we say it is to the
effect that Mr. Peter I.. Sweeny has given signs of
an intention to make a show of opposition to some
of the moro open and outrageous scheme? of
plunder by which the striker., and repeater?,
and plug-uglies of Tammany have managed to
disgust tho community. It is supposed that
this is what Gov. Hoffman hinted at in his Al?
bany speech the other day, and it is feared
that Sweeny and Hollinan have an under?
standing on tho tho matter. Sweeny's own
conduct in not grabbing all the spoils he
might pocket as City Chamberlain is also
looked on as suspicious, and it is asked
why he left his place in tho Directorship
of tho Erie Railroad. Nobody, of course, believe*,
as yet, that Mr. Tweed can be induced to join
with Measrs. Sweeny and Hoffman in even
making any pr?teuse of opposition to any form
of plunder or corruption; but still it is a
dreadful thing to think that such a man
as Sweeny should consider it necessary to
give in to the enemy so far as to mnks
a show of being falso to his friends.
It is our own opinion, however, that any
apprehensions on the part of the strikers and
plug-uglies aro without cause. Sweeny and
Hollinan understand themselves; they under?
stand tlie elements of power they posses-i in
this city ; they understand Tammany and un?
derstand the King, and there is no danger of
their committing murder for the sake of having
hymns sung at their exeoution.
We arc gratified to learn that the Committee
of Ways and Means of the House of Repre?
sentatives have returned from the extensive
tour to which they have devoted the Summer
and Fall, and feel very much refreshed after
their vacation. They went every where and
saw everything; viewed tho Lako ports; vis?
ited the principal harbors of tho Atlantic and
Pacifie coasts, enjoying, we tiui.t, the excellent
sea-bathing for which our free country is justly
celebrated ; explored California, Oregon, ami
Washington Territory ; tarried several days at
Omaha; tried fho l'ullman I'alace Cars on the
Union Pacific Ilailway; ami Lingered aw hilo
among the seducing luxuries of Chicago. All
the members of the Committee had a hand in
this gorgeous excursion OXCOPt Mr. Seht nek,
and he wont to Europe. The whole body
ought, therefore, to be in excellent training for
tho Winter's work, and we shall expect from
them during|the next session the most iuionoo
application to business. We need hardly say
that the honorable gentlemen will of courue.
defray their own expenses. Mr. Sehenck un?
doubtedly paid tho cost of hit. Kuropean tour
out of his own pocket, and the country would
like to take it for granted that his eatlsOgUOa,
who enjoyed their Summer junketing on this
sido of the ocean, will follow his excellent ex*
ample. _____________________
A correspondent of The (,'inctnnaii (Jazette
who signs himself "Jomil," complaint, of the
sad fate of 1'ret.byter.an clergy -men, their "lot
"being a hard one ;" their " \\?vv..' life aweary
"one;" their "children's stait an unfair one;"
their "work as now laid upon them too much
" for human powers of brain, feeling, ami phy?
sique;" the aforesaid work "killing them, or
" going half done;'' so that the Praohytorinn
minister becomes "burdened, chaf.d, and dis
"heartened," ami cannot do justice to hj?slf
or the congregation, his sermons l-cing, "in
"stead of the solid meet of Ootl's truth. Bobby,
"vealy, clap-tmp, end mock solemnities-" If
wo naderetnnd the matter rightly, all this
trouble arises, or at leas'" a gnat part of it,
from the fact that the l?den of the congrega?
tion neglect the duties of their ottef. enoting
them as an additional bunbti upon the ..boul?
ders ?if the minister, Being gnat admirers of
I'n'.'H Pinions, and having but little respect foi
vealy ones, WO Must that after 11:?> the Elders
will a little more < ?o.ely attend to their duties.
The Jewish Rabbinical Convention el Phila?
delphia, loot Weak, resolved that " the disAO
"lution of marriage is of full validity in the
"??yes of Judaism if the judicial dooutuentn
"furnish evidence that both pnitiOS havo con?
sented thereto." Now, in all tribunals the
decisions of which are won h a straw, the
"mutual consent* of the potties to i Uhsl for
divorce is considered to bo an exceedingly sus?
picious circumstance ; an order of notice to th?
te. pondent, in COM of absence from tho juris?
diction and where there has been no per_om.l
sen ice, is always issuodl ami in cases of de?
fault of personal appearance, the Court does
not de< tile (of should not) without a full hear?
ing of the evidence, the presiding Jiistic.
taking MMM care of the interests of the absent
party. DivOTCS " by mutual consent" will bs
the most intolerable social nuisance conceivable.
A MW piece, which must lie of a deadly
lively description, is now m process of eon
ttiuctisu by M. Barri?re, the Parisian play
wright. Its ghostly title is "Les Morts Vi
" .ants," and its purpose is to demonstrate to
the world the dangers of premature burial.
Shakespeare, in his tune, wrote a certain trag?
edy called " Komeo and iluliet," which MSYSI
the same purpose. We trust, however, that
the dramatists of this period do not intend to
mine too extensively or deeply in the ceme?
teries. Going to the theater now-a-days is
about tho most melancholy diversion possible.
Iu a living state, tho ballet girls are very fsr
from appetizing; |but if.they are to give up
their short petticoats for shrouds (rouge ah?o
being discarded), tho ouly compensation for
tho terror they will inspiro will bo the relief
we shall experience from not seeing their
crooked legs.
Olfg Dl MORI. LIOllT ON THE STREET.
To the Editor of The Tribun*.
Sut: I wish to lie informed if there is not
inouoy enotiath In th? ?t.allnpi made by our "hones',"
city government to pay for a little more xa? locht in the
?tr.'i't lamps. I live id tits Twenty-___oud Ward, and
l.'avt? tliure at 6:'_. p. cu. every day, reachlnjr T. uth ?t.
uliout. ? o'clock, p. ui . and at that hour I find that the
?tiret latin,"' _r? not lighted from Third ave., du wo He?
? ml n.? to Ninth-at.. up Mnlli.1t. to Htuyreeant.. and
from thiiii'? to Third ave. ?.?rain. In Fifty _e_itnd-_i., ai
15 minute? after 5 s'eloek, p. __., they are lis-iit. d. I have
t'otl?. ?t tho ?ant of li.lit for the la-it Hire?. week?, and
?hoald nut In? tarprlsad to read any m..rum* lu Tub
Tkiiii MS ol u ii.mm: robb.ry ur aiuid .r m that luauliif
m ?boat it oYiiK-k p. m. n. i-. ?.
Aew-Xork, _._> i>, i_i/_.