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1 rom our r'j arts litis morning lite probabilities
tire that the. trcathrr to-day teill be u~arrtur ami
jxtrtly dourly, {xatsihiy ttith lit/lit rain.
A Briep Arm!stick, with n conference to
make peseo permanent, is the ontlook on
the Eastern question as presented in our
latest. despatches The English plnn, with
a special Russian interpretation, is what
the majority of tho Powers will
probably agree to force on the Turk. Kng
ltin?l may not be quite pleased to be thus
tonstcil on hor own fork; but the indications
are that Russia, Germany anil Austria will
hold her on the points she sharpened in a
aly moment.
The Discord Between France and Ger
many receives another illustration in the in
tolerant conduct of tho Parisians, who
thong!.t they were beginning tho rtcanrhe in
hooting a piece of Wagner's music at a con
cert in the gay city yesterday. Perhaps it
reminded them of the German guns that
thundered around Paris six years ago; hut
they should remember that their hisses re
call to calm onlookers the futile reply of the
batteries ot Valerien to those manned by the
Kaiser's troops. Even the strains of the sad
soulcd Weber, once n favorite with Paris,
and many ? y >'r in his grave, served to
Illustrate how 1'rance hates her conqueror.
Childish as was tin exhibition in the Cirque
d'Hivor it'is a sign to ho made a note of.
The R eg 1st ratios. - When we add the
eleven thousand newly naturalized voters to
tho six thousand votes registered in tho
annexed district, although some of the first
fignre* are included in tho second, we ac
count for nearly half of the increase of
thirty-four thousand over tho registra
tion of 1 H7'J, the last l'residentinl year.
The natural growth of the city will
account for several thousand more, and tho
extreme activity of the party managers,
largo and small, on both sides to bring
out the fullest possible vote, will bring
the figures of thoso believed to be Irandu
lcntly r- gistered within moderate limits
indeed. At any rati the machinery for veri
fying the registry is ample, and wo would
advise both parties to exercise the greatest
Bcrntiny hetwoi n this and election day. <>n
all considerations we do not think 183,000 to
be nn excessive registry for a population ex
ceeding 1,000,000, particularly in New
York, where there aro so tunny citizens of
foreign birth who came t?? the eountry after
attaining the years of maid m i
Lait Work of the Pro?ld??tl?l
raia-Iioak Out for StrolURema unci
lloorbitrka.
Both Presidential candidate* were nomi
nated in June. The tivo months siuee
elapsed have afforded scops enough for
comparing the two platforms and investi
gating the candidates. Nothing of any real
importance is likely to be disclosed during
the brief remaining week. The citizens of
the United States are as well prepared to
vote understanding^ to-morrow as they
will be to-morrow week, when the election
is to bo held. Every legitimate topic has
been discussed ami exhausted. There is
nothing new to be said about either Oover
nor Tildcn or Governor Hayes, and it is a
pity that the country cannot he spnred tho
dregs of the canvass with which it will he
nauseated during the few remaining days.
The only safe inference that can be drawn
from these five months of partisan turmoil
and recrimination is that it is a neck-iuid
neck race. The result is quite as doubtful
ns it wns on the day when the canvass
opened. All tho important electioneering
topics on hotli sides were exhausted
previous to tho October elections.
*
lloth parties had some hope, and tho
republican party a strong hope, that tho
Presidential contest would be virtually de
! cidod in October. Tho republicans pro
| fessed undoubting confidence in theirability
to carry Indiana as well as Ohio, and both by
j strong majorities. Hut when it was found
I that they had lost Indiana and had barely
escaped defeat in Ohio their opponents took
courage, and they saw themselves thut tho
contest would be more close and doubtful
than any which has ever taken place in our
history. They also learned that some of the
electioneering topics on which they had
placed great reliance were futile and worth
less, especially the assaults they'had inado
on the personal character of Mr. Tilden.
His income tax had been exploited weeks
and weeks before the October elections, and
the result showed that the accusations had
not the weight of a feather in the canvass.
As tiioy had no effect then, when the
charges were fresh, they are not
likely to influence voters now, when
tho charges have becofne stale. Tho
?same remark applies, though not to
the same extent, to the bloody sliirt issue.
It failed in Indiana, although Mr. Morton
is the foremoHt standard hearer of the bloody
shirt. Hut where else can it he expected to
have much influence after its conspicuous
failure in Senator Morton's own State? The
fact that such wenpons fell blunted and
harmless in tho October elections impairs
republican confidence in their efficacy in
November. Tho October contest hnring
proved to be a drawn battle both parties
arc lelt clinging to tho ragged edge, and no
body will bo much surprised to see either
drop oft' into the abyss.
It is a striking proof of the extreme un
certainty of this Presidential election that
the Peter Cooper canvass rises into unex-^
pected Importance as the campaign ap
proaches its close. Until within the last
week the rag baby nomination lias been the
standing joko and laughing stock of the
Presidential campaign. People 4iave looked
upon it with a Bensc of merriment as the
crowd at a circus looks at the clown, whose
awkward mimicry of other actors makes him
ridiculous. In the Presidential circus the
clown bids fair to be the most important
character. The chances are so even that a
few thousand votes may turn the scale, and
it is possible that Peter Cooper may elect
Hayes in 187t> as James G. Birney elected
Polk in 1814. If the vote in New York should
bo as close between the two leading candi
dates a week from to-morrow as it was be
tween Tolk and Clay in 1814 there can be no
doubt that Sir. Cooper yill be the Warwick
of this canvass. A paltry five or six thou
sand additional voteHfor Clay in the State of
New York would have made him President.
Birney took away from him three times as
many votes as he needed, and it is possible
that Feter Cooper may do a similar left
handed service to Governor Tilden. The
emergence of such n possibility in the
closing days of the campaign shows how very
close this contest is in general estimation.
livery topic of argument or invective has
already been exhausted. No new light can
bo shed on the character of either candidate
or the purposes of either party. But in so close
a contest there is a great temptation to manu
facture "Koorbaeks" on the eve of the elec
tion, because any unscrupulous trick which
might influence a few hundred or a few
thousand votes might clinngo the result.
The dexterous ingenuity of neither party
will be asleep in such a crisis, and the coun
try must prepare itself for startling and
astounding rumors at the end ol this week
or the beginning of next. Wc cannot pre
tend to foresee what is coming, for it would
bo necessary to descend to the level of cun
ning politicians of the baser sort to imagine
what they will invent. All wo can say is that
citizens who have already made tip their
minds how they will vote will net like idiots
if the lioorbneks of the closing days of the
canvass shall shake their determination.
Only one source of a tremendous lloorbaek
is yet apparent, and that is the possible dis
closures of Tweed, who is expected to arrive
some time this week. It is suspected and
hoped by the republicans that ho "could a
talc untold" which would cause every hair
of Governor TiIdea's head to stand on end.
Such a talc may be invented and circulated
for electioneering effect, but we doubt
whether it is likely to be told by the
recaptured Boss. On board the Frank
lin ho is in administration hands, but
they have no power to guarantee him
immunity, even if he has anything to
tell which would damage Governor
Tilden. lie is amenable only to Stnte au
thority. It is not in the power of the ledcral
prosecuting officers to show him any lenity
nor of the President to pardon hiui, as might
be done if Ins offences were against the
Unit d State-. So federal officer can
help him, nnd he is shrewd enough
to know thai promises to that effect
would bo worthless. When he touches
the shore from which he fled he will
be su i rendered to State custody to meet
bis trial in the State courts. He knows well
enough that it is not in the power of the re
publican parly to shield him from penal
consequences, and he is too shrewd to be
caught in an electioneering trap. If, there
fore, menus should be taken to intercept the
Franklin and keep her out at sea until
within a day or two of tho election, and then
the moni"nt she cornea into the harbor
astounding disclosures should be flashed
over the country by telegraph, no man of
sense will believe that they are genuine.
Reports started so late that it would be im
possiblo to investigate and refute them be
fore the election will be regarded as a des
perate eampuign Roorback, and its effect will
be parried by asserting that the Franklin
was kept out at sea for the very purpose of
allowing no space for contradiction. ? We
doubt, therefore, whether a Tweed Roorback
will be started in the hope of damaging Mr.
Tilden. But if it could be expected to have
any effect at all the temptation is very great
when the contest is so close that the change
of even a few hundred votes in one State
may decide the fato of parties for the next
fotir years,
Tho republicans may undertake a more
promising manoeuvre than the circulation of
a real or pretended disclosure by Tweed
just on the eve of the election. If they are
astute and dexterous enough they can take
tho fifteen electoral votes of Iudiana away
from Tilden with a reasonable chance of
defeating him, or, at least, of preventing a
choice in the Electoral Colleges, and
thereby enabling the republican Senate to
elect Mr. Wheeler Vice President. Such a
stratagem is practicable, because both politi
cal parties in Indiana are inflationists at
heart, the republicans even more strongly
than the democrats. It was the republicans
and not the democrats that attempted to
break down the greenback party of Indiana
in tho State canvass. They confessed that they
hud more to fear from it than their opponents.
It was the republicans who induced Mr.
Wolcott to withdraw just before the close of
the canvass and advise the greenback party
which had nominated him to vote the re
publican ticket. In spite of the demoral
izing effect on the rag baby canvass of Mr.
Wolcott's withdrawal at that late and criti
cal stage Mr. Harrington, who was suddenly
substituted for him ut tho last moment, re
ceived 12,220 votes, or more than twice as
many as were needed for defeating the
democratic candidate. Tho republicans of
Indiana can have no reasonable expectation
of giving the electoral votes of the State to
Hayes, bnt they can take them awny from
Tilden by going over in a body to the I'eter
Cooper ticket. They could Igivo no scruples
of conscience in doing so, for, no longer
ago than the 22d of February, they declared
for inflation, and demanded tho repeal of.'
the Resumption act in their State platform.
It would not go against the genin for the
Indiana republicans to vote the greenback
ticket. They would be quite at home in the
greenback enmp. They left it for mere rea
sons of party expediency, and if they can
promote the interests of their party by going
back to their first and their real love why
should they hesitate? If the republican
vote and the rag baby vote in Indiana had
been united in the recent election they
would have carried the State by a much
larger majority than was achieved by tho
democrats. By such a union they can take
the State away from Tilden, with somo
chance of electing Hayes and almost a cer
tainty of preventing a choice in the Electoral
Colleges if Hayes is defeated. They would
risk nothing by the experiment (the State
being already as good as lost), and in so
close a contest they would have chances of
saving the Vico Presidency, oven if they
should fail to elect their candidate for Presi
dent.
IS. du Sammrrnnl Called to Accosnt.
The extract from the Journal Official pub
lished in our special despatch from Paris
tells tersely how extremely the French gov
ernment disapproves the atrocious senti
ments contained in the letter attributed to
M. du Soinmerard, and how it reprobates the
act of a high French functionary in circulat
ing them. In France, where the official is
always the mouthpiece of the government,
ho is expected to guard his utterance and
regulate his life so strictly that no word or
deed of his shall be inconsistent with gov
ernmental policy or offensive to the relutions
of France with the rest of the world. While
this strict personal accountability is some
what foreign to American official life, and
while we do not caro to discuss the desira
bility of making our functionaries as
straitlaced as those of Europe, we must
mark our approval of tlio prompt action of
President MacMahon in dealing with the
matter as it comes before him in the shape
of a breach of official etiquette and an of
fence against international comity. The
answer of M. du Hommerard to the grave ac
cusation of having written such base calum
nies upon the good name of the United
States is awaited. That America will
feel grateful for this summary call
ing to account of the Chief French
Commissioner is true, but we do not
believe for a moment that Americans would
be at all satisfied with a mere perfunctory
solution. That the statements contained in
the letter of M. du Somiuerard in the Figaro
are shamelessly libellous to the last degree
fortunately makes the refutation of such of
them ns arc discussable among decent men
easy. We should not, for instance, think it
required any strong language to convince
the world that we are not a nation of incen
diaries, who burn or attempt to lmrn every
Frenchman's property that finds itself on
our soil. We think, indeed, that it
would require more malignant ingenuity
than could be possessed by any hundred
French Commissioners to convince a fifth
class idiot of the converse of the proposition.
What any dirty-minded individual would
write or any European newspaper of easy vir
tue would print reflecting upon the morals
of American ladies is not worth notice on
this side of the Atlantic. Such being the
character of the libels bearing the name of
M. du Honmirrard we are glad to find thut
the Marquis de Talleyrand, himself an official
of the Exhibition, promptly squelched the
incendiary story and that the French gov
ernment is propnred to signify officially its
displeasure if the offence is fixed upon M.
du Hommemrd.
Fesion seems to bo a bad horse for the great
City Stakes this year. There is so much
difficulty in deciding which is the head and
which the tail that his best friends cannot
tell whi. h way he would run if onco started.
Th? Solid Mea'i Coll fpoo Mr.
Er?r(i>
The Hirald to-day, as the organ of inde
pendent voters, approves of the movement
of the solid men of the country in the Presi
dential campaign, the influence of which
upon American politics it might be hard to
estimate. A similar movement of substan
tial citizens, without reference to party,
took place in New York on the 30th of Jan
uary, 1854, when a meeting was held at the
Broadway Tabernacle, under a call headed
"No violation of plighted faith. No repeal
of the Missouri Compromise." The Hirild
said on the morning of that day:?"The
meeting that is to be held to-night at tho
Tabernacle will be the first gun fired in the
new anti-slavery campaign. Its thunders
will be echoed oyer hill and plain through
out the North till the ominous sound rever
berates from the virgin soil of Wiscon
sin to the sea-girt shore of Maine." It
was a correct reading of the future;
for that assemblage, presided over by a
hank president, Mr. Shepherd Knapp, gnve
the keynote to the country in the existing
crisis, and resulted in the dissolution of
the whig purty and tho organization of tho
republican party, to which history will
award the credit of the preservation of the
Union and the abolition of slavery.
Twenty-two years have gone with their
eventful record, and again the solid and
independent citizens of New York rally
under the motto, "No violation of nutionul
faith. No increase of debt and taxes!" And
tho significance of this new movement
should be appreciated by the country as
showing that this class of voters no longer
intend to forget their rights, to neglect
their political duties, or to permit
the national faith and honor and interests
to be trifled with by professional politicians.
Two admirable suggestions were made by
President Woolsey at New Haven?one that
General Hayes, if elected, should appoint
only Southern men in tho Southern States ;
another, that in the North, in regard to offices
not strictly political, there should be distri
bution among tho fittest men, whether dem
ocratic or republican. Let us add a third
suggestion. In this case the solid men of
New York, convinced that the country is in
peril, call on Mr. Evarts to address thorn. Let
the example stand in America for all future
time. Let tho working classes, from the
day laborer to the millionnaire, think
a little for themselves, not trust too
much the astute gentlemen who run tho
political machine for thoir own emolument,
and let labor and wealth in each new emer
gency combine to call on culture for advice
as to tho right guidance of the Republic.
There is yet room for a fourth suggestion.
Should General Hayes be elected he will
know well that his election was due not to
the machine nor to any fondness of the peo
ple for the existing administration, but to
such substantial and independent citizens as
those whose telling words fall to-day on an
attentive country. Let all such men stand
by the President when he is right and fear
lessly call him to order when he is wrong;
and let them thus give him strength and free
him from tho pressure of interested poli
ticians and from every attempt by the ma
chine managers to induce him to sacrifice
the interest of the country for the supposed
benefit of the party.
Only Foar Hundred Mile*.
We cannot conceal a sense of disappoint
ment at the return of the English North Po
lar Expedition withotit having accomplished
its direct object. Captain Hall pushed' the
little Polaris, a vessel but poorly adapted to
its task, to within four hundred and sixty
four miles of the Pole, and the English ex
pedition, under Captain Nares, only reached
sixty-four miles further in sledges. His ad
vance vessel?the Alert?wintered in lati
tude 82 deg. 27 sec., while the Polaris had
wintered in latitude 81 deg. 118 sec. Here is
certainly a slight advance ; but are we to con
sider that this is the limit ? Dr. Hayes in
1880, with dog sledges, explored as high as
82 deg. 45 sec., or only forty miles short
of Captain Nares' furthest. Parry reached
the same latitude north of Spitzbergen in
1827, and Captain Scoresby, in the Spitz
bergen Sea, touched 81 dog. 20 see. in 1808,
or within live hundred and ten miles of the
Pole. The efforts in the direction of the
Arctic during seventy years, therefore, repre
sent a total advance of one hundred and ten
miles. No Polar expedition went forth so
well equipped and under such favorable
auspices as that which has just returned.
Doubtless no pains were spared by any per
son in the entire expedition to accomplish
all that could be achieved ; but wo may hero
note our surprise that a single winter's ex
perience was deemed to establish conclu
sively their inability to reach the Pole.
Why, for instance, was not one of the ves
sels despatched south, after landing her
stores, before the ice closed, to return with
the open water bearing fresh supplies? The
experience of all explorers who have adopted
the Smith Sound route has taught that the
real effort begins at the eighty-second par
allel, and hence, if Arctic exploration is not
at an end, arrangements must be made in
future expeditions for a journey northward
on boat sledges of four hundred and eighty
miles. The terrors, the enormous difficul
ties of such a journey, are pictured in the
one fact that the heroic sledge party from
the Alert could not advance more than a
mile a day. If this speed cannot be bet
tered of course discovery northward is at
an end. The contributions to our
knowledge of the Arctic regions will
doubtless prove considerable, the tracing
of the coast line of the American
continent two hundred and twenty
miles to the west of Greenland and a con
siderable distance to tlio east, in all, prob
ably, one-tilth ol the circumference of the rim
of the Polar Unknown being especially val
uable. Captain Nares declares emphatically
against Kane's open Polar sea. Below tho
eighty-second parallel animal life and tho
migration of birds cease. Beyond all is ice,
ice, ice. "The impracticability of reaching
the Polo was proved," he says. If that has
been fully demonstrated by one winter's
effort we can permanently resign the North
Polo to the romancers who have had it so
long. But has it been ?
Yesterday's Sermons.?llocollections of
the rise and growth of tho Methodist Church
in America formed the theme of an annivcr
sary sermon by the Rev. Dr. John M. Reid
nt the old John street Methodist church.
In sketching the progress of Methodism in
this country Dr. Roid took his hearers over
the entire history of its institution in Eng
land, and claimed for that Church the dis
tinction of being best adapted to the salva
tion of mankind. Mr. Frothingham, at the
Masonic Temple, discussed the spiritual
man, and at Chickering Hall the Rev.
Samuel Colconl spoke on the subject
of "Profit and Loss" as applied to salvation.
God's covenant with man furnished Mr.
Hepworth with an interesting subject,
which he eloquently treated at the Church
of the Disciples. Dr. Fowler's eulogy of
the late Bishop Janes was an affectionate
tribute to the deceased from one who recog
nized his merits as a scholar and a missionary.
The great doctrine of penance as a necessity
to salvation was ably elucidated by Father
Hogan at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Mr.
Beecher's sermon on justification was
listened to by a crowded audience of Cen
tennial visitors at Plymouth church.
The Weather.
Locally the weather conditions have
changed rapidly during the last twenty
four hours, owing to the movement of an
area of high pressure over the region be
tween the lakes and the Middle Atlantic
coast. This area now separates the two of
low pressure central in Dakota and over
Newfoundland, the eastward movement of
the latter being very slow. The depression
in Dakota and Nebraska is also slowly
developing eastward, owing to the pres
ence of the high pressure on its
line of advance. A remarkable increase
of temperature accompanies this dis
turbance, the thermometer nt Pembina
indicating sixty-one degrees, at Omaha
seventy-five degrees, at St. Louis and Leav
venwortli seventy-nine degrees and at Cairo
eighty-one degrees last evening. Along the
front of the stprm area the temperaturo is
low, with rains extending from Louisville
and Pittsburg to Duluth. It is probable
that high winds will be experienced on the
lakes during the ensuing week. The veloc
ity of the northwesterly wind at North
Platte yesterday afternoon was twenty-feight
miles per hour. As it is the barometric
gradient eastward is very steep, and we may
therefore look for a sharp blow as the storm
advances. The weather at New York to-day
promises to bo warmer and partly cloudy,
possibly with light rain at intervals.
Centennial Loan Collection.
The time is rapidly approaching when the
art treasures which are now gathered at the
Academy of Design and Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art will be returned to the severe
seclusion of private galleries, and we would
strongly advise such of our citizens as have
not yet visited both institutions to do so
without delay. The number of great paint
ings illustrating the art genius of the cen
tury which can now be seen together renders
the Loan Exhibition peculiarly interesting
to all who have any love for the fine arts. It
is true that the modern idea of international
exhibitions has, perhaps, familiarized the
public with seeing the works of great artists
assembled together; but in these huge galle
ries the good and bad are so jumbled together
that it needs art knowledge and cultivated
taste to know what to admire. The educa
tional influence of the Loan Exhibition is
much better, for hero we have only works
that have been passed upon by the crucial
criticism of art connoisseurs. As a result
we have a collection in which there is
scarcely one picture which does not possess
some distinguishing merit, some excellence
of draughtsmanship, of composition, of
color or a combination of those qualities. It
is a vulgar error to suppose that because
an artist is great and renowned he must
therefore be perfect. It is only necessary to
pass in review the long catalogue of works
which have achieved world-wide fame and
which are assembled here to under
stand that the difference between great
and perfect art is wide indeed. There
is in this a lesson of tolerance that
the art student will do well to loam. In all
schools tliero aro beauties and defects, and
he is the greatest artist who, separating him
self from the trammels of tradition and
schoolmen, combines the greatest amount of
sentiment and beauty with the highest
attainable technical skill in the treatment of
his subjects. Perhaps one of the greatest
attractions of the Loan Collection Exhibi
tion is its catholic character, embracing as
it does examples of nearly all the various
art schools of the present day, affording the
student a singularly complcto representa
tion of the highest art work of this century.
More Civil Service Reform.?Some days
ago we published a letter from Mr. Bab
cock, formerly a clerk in the Patent Office,
showing that he had been turned out
of office by Secretary Chandler because ho
declined either to vote the republican ticket
or pay a political assessment. To-day we
print another complaint'of the same kind ;
but this time it is an officer of the Trensury,
a capable man. evidently, by the admissions
of his superiors ; one who hnd entered by
the legitimate door, passing a preliminary
examination, and who is now dismissed be
cause ho refuses to voto the republican
ticket. Such acts as these deserve public
notice and should be remembered at the
polls. This government does not exist for
the benefit of a political party; nor ought
the government machinery to be used for
partisan purposes. The republicans prom
ised a reform of tho abuses in the civil ser
vice. Their candidate is professedly a
strong reformer in this direction. But his
chief supporters seem to pay no more atten
tion to his views, nor to the platform pledges,
|han if neither existed.
I)r. Isaac I. Hates, the Arctic explorer,
in the midst of his busy political work of
teaching tho country people to vote the re
publican ticket and of asking our citizens
to re-elect him to tho position in
the Assembly ho filled so acceptably
last year, . turns aside to write to
the Herald concerning the lato English
Arctic expedition. Whnt tho Doctor says
on this suhjocl is alwnys worthy of atten
tion. Forming his judgment on what has
already reached us from Captain Narcs, he
does not hesitate to c.\ll the expedition a
failure, and still sustains his belief in the
open I'olar Sea.
ChambcrUIa'i MTr? Inwai^ntu.*'
When the Governor of a State cals upon
the federal government for protectiom^gainsfe
insurrection, and the President of the United
States, in compliance with that appeal, hur
ries federal troops to the points indicated, it
is in the highest degree salutary to examine
thoroughly the condition of affairs which gives
motive to the action. Every particle ol
testimony that can throw light upon the
transaction should be weighed; for prece
dents in such matters should not be estab
lished except upon the iullest understand
ing of the special need for such extreme
measures. Governor Chamberlain's defence
of his call for troops must be weighed with
all statements attempting to show the
merely partisan nature of the cry for
troops, even if the mass of evidence on
the other side breaks it down utterly. The
letter from Senator Randolph, of New Jersey,
which we publish elsewhero, contains in
moderate compass a summary of the situa
tion in South Carolina, which leaves Gov
ernor Chamberlain scarcely a shred of the
clumsily woven fabric out of which he made
the latest bloody shirt. It at the same time
sheds quite a new light upon the Governor's
necessity for troops. It would seem that
Chamberlain seeks protection from the hon
est members of his own party more than
from the terrible white democrats. The Gov
ernor's excuse?want of money?for not
calling the Legislature together (from whom,
if convenable, the appeal should have come)
is admirably disposed of.. The members
would in any case have had to provide ths
expenses. The real reason is, however, laid
bare?namely, that tho malcontent republi
can members of the South Carolina Legisla
ture would have kicked in the harness and
refused to bring a needless discredit on the
State. By appealing directly to the Presi
dent Chamberlain avoided all this disaster
to his canvass. If the appeal wero not
listened to he would be no worse
off than before; but if sustained by
federal bayonets he hoped to drive
the citizens of the State literally into op
posing camps, so that any concert of action
between the white and negro races to pre
vent his own re-election would be impossi
ble. The evidence is direct that the respect
able republicans who proposed to scratch
Chamberlain on election day were equally
determined to vote for Hayes. That would
not suit Chamberlain. He must have a hot
blooded canvass to make fusion impossible.
It would bo a great stain upon tho intelli
gence of the Pnlmetto State if truculence
like this, once unmasked, should succeed.
The Water Supply- and the Publle
Health.
In the timely presentation made by the
Grand Jury, through its foreman, Mr.
Charles 11. Haswell, regarding the unnecesl
sary waste of the Croton water, it was pur
posed to call attention to the extravagant
quantity used in washing sidewalks as well
as in the sprinkling of the streets. It is
estimated that with stendy rainy weather it
would require more than one month to fill
the reservoirs ; henco the necessity of a strict
observance of the recommendations of the
Grand Jury and of the requirements of tha
! Croton Aqueduct Department is really a
I matter of necessity for the public safety.
The Sanitary Board has called attention to
the danger of the escape of sewer gas in
private dwellings where, in consequence of
the weakness of the supply, the water will
not run in the upper stories. The board
recommends that in all such cases water
should occasionally be thrown down tha
waste pipes in wash basins, closets and
i baths which are thus unsupplied. This ig
n useful precaution, and one which may
prevent much sickness in the city if gen
erally used. It is well also to leave ths
| faucets turned on and the waste pipe open
in all upper stories during the night, as in
some instances the increased pressure car
Ties the water up, and thus affords the op.
portunitics to wash out the pipes.
Church and State.?The interference of
tho French government to prevent the Arch
diocese of Lyons from being split into two
dioceses has probably a shade of political
meaning which Americans will best under
stand by the damage that one political
party occasionally suffers at tho hands of
another from the process known as redis
ricting. That is as near nn analogy as we
can get. Another reason, and a strong one,
is that the government would have to pay an
extra archbishop, and pious as MacMahon
is he probably thinks France pays enough
just now tor her clerical whistle.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Hungarians are bad tinnnciers.
Tramps aro eating raw turnips.
Wagner will winter at Sorrento.
Chicago librarians insult ladles.
Kentucklans arc eating squirrels.
General Garilcld has gone to Ohio with the body ?(
his dead son.
William H. Asplnwall returned from Europe in the
City ol Richmond.
( aiming salmon Is becoming a large trade la Cali
fornia and Oregon.
Detroit freezes 500,000 flsh in a aoasoa for mora
Sotiinern market*
Democrats aro trying to wear their old bata np to tha
day after election.
Every father who can aBord It should give hie child
a day's chestauting.
Hon. William Waller Phelps arrived from Europe
yesterday on tlio City of Richmond.
Arizona has no politics to speak of. The ropulalioa
does not exceed 12.000 ("excluding Indian, not taxed"),
Ol which about ono-thlrd are Amorleans, tbo remainder
Mexicans.
The corner stone of Solomon's Temple, which haa
been discovered, lies nlnoty feet below the present sur
face of tbo ground. In a mcha ol it le found a Phmnl
clan Jar of clay.
Barnum'e museum, menagerie and hippodrome oe.
eupy tho attention of the litUo folks, who leave polliica
to thoir elders. The tattoed man ha* not registered
and hs will be spotted if he attempts to vote.
The other day a man was hung at Tanna-Kort, near
Rombay, (or a horrible murder, aad made rather a
notable observation In Gujeral). Standing ander tha
drop, he whispered to tha executioner, -In one mm
uto what a lot I shall know !?
A curiosity of San Krauclsca is Jack the ?rtbher
who moors his boat close to the ship, which may oe
discharging cargo at tho dilTerant wharves bo.weea
Long Bridge and the Pacific) Mail Company's dock. HI*
boat contains Ingenious hooks and grapple., specially
devised for bringing up substance, from tbo bottom of
.1 <J"c',a'Hi"2 coal Jack's hooks
will fish up all tho lump,, that drop into the water
While la transitu from tbo snip to tbo wharf. If an
aoglsr drops his pock, book In the water Jack la tho
?nan to find it for htrn. He scoom tho bottom of tha
mn .d) waters ,vs ctrofellyma detective examines a
dwelling for stolen good*