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KEW YORK. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1876.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Owing to tbe action ol a portion of tbe carriers and
newsmen, who are determined that the public shall
not have tbe Hkrald at three cents per copy if they
can prevent it, we bare made arrangement* to place the
Herald In tbe bands of all our readors at tbe reduoed
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From crnr report# this morning iht probabil
ities are that the treat her to-day xeill be slightly
warmer and partly cloudy or clear.
Wall Stkkkt Yesterday.?Stocks -were
feverish, irregular and lower, (told was
also variable, ranging from 109 1-2 to 109 3-4
and closing at 109 1-2. Money on call loaned
np to 5 and closed at 4 per cent. Govern
ment and railway bonds were generally
steady. A
Keep Cool.?The Israelites were forty
years in the wilderness.
The Wheels Keep Rollino in spite of the
Presidential excitement. The Board of
Aldermen yesterday discussed the Tomp
kins square improvements with considerable
warmth. The country is safe.
Fhom Stamboul we have an interesting
letter, showing us how the great crisis is
viewed at the focus of diplomatic interest.
The armistice seems to be a blessing without
any disguise to the Turks.
Views op the Clebk or the Senate.?
Major McDonald, the experienced Clerk of
the Senate, gives his views on the present
political situation in an interview with one
of oar Washington correspondents, printed
elsewhere.
Washington, as might be expected, is
deeply excited about the chances and possi
ble mischances of the Presidential election.
Our correspondents there send us a lull ac
count of what is said and done by leading
men, aud our New Orleans correspondent
sends a report of a conference to be held in
Washington at once by leading republicans,
under the auspices of Senator West, to con
sider tbe condition of tlie election results in
Louisiana and South Carolina. We beg
these leading republicans to remember that
Senator West is hardly the man to win pub
lic confidence in the North for any decision
which he may be supposed to have in
fluenced.
A STrnr is Heavy Okdhakci, us seen in
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia,
is published in another column, and will be
found l>oth accurate and interesting. At a
time when the great fighting nations of the
world are spending hundreds of thousands
in perfecting their great guns it is some
what discreditable to America that the best
our service has to show is that antiquated
monster, the twenty-inch smooth bore Hod
man gun. which throws a spherical shot.
Many attempts have been made, and with
fair success, of converting this class of
smooth bores into rilled guns by providing
them with steel linings, but the experi
ments hnvo not been iricd on a Inrge scale
or with the heaviest guns. We hope that
our legislators will do something to advanco
our eonditioa in. this respcct
Kxettement Or?r the Pr#?ld?ntl?l
Vot?-L?l Ui B* ai Calm M W#
Can.
There has never been a time since the
cnrtain first rose on the great drama of
onr civil war when pnblic feeling has been
so widely and deeply stirred as daring
the V*st two days of uncertainty and sus
! pense. In every city, town and village
! within the range of telegTaphie com
munication the people are -tossed on
a sea of tumultuous emotions, con
sisting of ever fluctuating hopes, fears,
curiosity, anxiety, party spirit and patriotic
apprehensions. These exuberant demon
strations are so natural, so irrepressible,
so pardonable under the circumstances,
that it is impossible to breathe a
word of censure; but popular feeling
is wrought up to such a pitch thut
it seems necessary, or at least justifiable,
to utter some words of caution. This in
tense strain on the public sensibilities does
no harm so long as the vast crowds which
throng around the newspaper bulletins and
! other places of political resort preserve the
good temper and jocose disposition which
have thus far enlivened the scenes in the
streets. So long as the intermingled parti
sans, whose alternate cheers over the
varying reports of each hour are so wildly
enthusiastic, continue to chaff and banter
each other, the assembled crowds only serve
to give animation to the streets and give
them dramatic life. But if this strain of
suspense, anxiety and party emotion should
continue for two or three days longer the
exhaustion which necessarily follows so
much excitement will produce an irritable
nervous condition, which may cause the
good-natured banter and pleasant mockery
to be turned into ongry and bitter recrim
inations, and lead to deplorable disturbances
ot the public peace. It is to be hoped, on all
grounds, that this severe tension of the public
sensibilities may be ended by definite and
authentic news before another day Bhall have
elapsed ; for it is doubtful whether more
than three days of such intense excitement
can be endured without draining the sources
of grotesque and jesting humor and turning
all this forced mirth into bitterness. The
most amiable and peace-loving men
easily lose their temper under the nervous
exhaustion which follows overstrained ex
citement, and if popular feeling should
reach this unfortunate stage the multi
tudinous crowds in our streets would
easily be transformed into angry mobs
on any chance provocation, and a
riot once begun is liable to go to extreme
lengths. The excellent temper thus far ex
hibited does credit to the manliness 6f the
American people, who exchange pleasant
repartees when their feelings are moved to
the profoundest depths, and if their nerves
were as reliable as their good intentions there
would be no reason for apprehensions. But
human nature has its limits, and the excite
ment cannot be much longer maintained at
its present high pitch without leading to a
reaction, which will bode no good to the
public tranquillity. We hope and trust that
the real state of the vote .will be known be
fore the sun sets to-day, and that the feverish
agitation of the public may be soothed and I
quieted by a good night's sleep after three
days of overwrought anxiety.
But if this great strain of exciting sus
pense is destined to continue till the end of
the week the appeal which we now make to
the better feelings of the community is
not out of place. While the people are
yet in an amiable and generous state of
mind they may listen to advice which would
fall on heedless ears if offered a day or two
later, when the irritability of exhausted
nerves shall succeed the bantering good
temper which has thus far marked
the bearing of political partisans
toward each other in the dense and
thronging multitudes. Our voice is for
peace. We would fain allay the excitement,
harmless as yet, which may lead to serious
and regrettable consequences, if reason and
moderation do not come in to assuage popu
lar feeling when the overtaxed fountains of
good humor shall begin to give out We ac
cordingly ask citizens of both parties to be
stow their patient attention on the following
considerations:?
In the first place, then, it is almost too
obvious for statement that nothing which
c?n be done in the streets of New York or
the streets of any other city can have any
influence on the result. The electoral vote
of Florida and Louisiana will be what the
canvassing officers of those States may de
clare it, and this wonderful ferment
and commotion of the public mind can alter
nothing, even if the furnaco of excitement
should be kindled to tenfold heat. Before
an election glowing exhibitions of poptilar
feeling may produce great effects, but after
an election they cannot have a feather's
weight one way or the other; for the
election has now reached a stage where
everything must be decided by official ac
tion, in pursuance of settlod principles of
law. The local inspectors of election in
the various voting precincts have already
prepared their returns, although the re
moteness of the placcs and their distance
from the telegraph prevents our knowing,
as yet, the contents of the returns. They
already exist in black and white, and only ?
the State boardj of canvassers in the doubt'
ftil States have any legal power to re
view them or pass on their validity.
The regularly constituted State au
thorities in Florida and Louisiana will
officially declaro which ticket has been
elected in their respective States, and noth
ing said or done by people at a distance can
inflnence their action. Wo must await the
result of their notion with as much patience
ns we can, and when our legitimate curiosity
is satisfied on that point we can consider at
our leisure the questions of fraud or fair
i Bess that may be suggested by the returns.*
I It must be borne in mind, in the second
placot that there is ample time for deliberate
action by those who have grounds of com
plaint. A period of three months is to in
; tervene before the . electoral vytes will
be opened and counted in the presence
of the two houses of Congress. The Klec^oral
; Colleges in the several States do not meot
j till December, and as their action is merely
I formal and cannot in auy way be in
1 terfered with, it may be dismissed from
i present consideration. But if there is well
i grounded suspicion of fraud the political
party that suffer* has abundant time to col
lect evidence, and at Congress will be in
session two months before the electoral
rotes are connted there will be no
difficulty in bringing the evidence to
the attention of the only body which has
any authority to make it a basis of action,
lied ress and relief can come only from Con
gress, which has the sole power of deoiding
in what manner the votes shall be counted
and on what grounds any oan be exoluded.
Congress will act with the eyes of the
country upon them under the pressure of
a potential public opinion, which will find
voice in the press and be brought to bear
with mighty force if it shall appear that
there are good grounds for complaint.
If the existing rules are inadequate it is
in the power of Congress to substitute
new and better ones. If the precedents
cannot b$ safely or equitably followed
Congress is not bound by former
precedents. It is within its legiti
mate and acknowledged authority to
pass a law or adopt a joint resolution which
will be fair and just to both parties, and the
pressure of public opinion will not per
mit Congress to give its sanotion to a
manifest fraud and cheat the people
out of a result legally attained by tfceir
votes. The Presidential election will not
be decidod by the mere returns, but by
the action of Congress in 'making
rules for preventing dishonest re
turng from deciding the result. What
the people may do in this period of sus
pense and excitement will amount to
nothing. What they may say to Congress
alter the Electoral Colleges have acted may
be relied on for preventing attempts to nul
lify the popular will.
N Ho Kn Klaxing the Bisections.
One of the parties in Florida sends a re
port that the other party has "wrecked a
train and Ku Kluxed the eleotion returns."
The report is probably untrue, but the
phrase is well used. It reminds us to tell
the politicians of both parties that the peo
ple will stand no Ku Kluxing of eleotion re
turns this time. They mean to have peaoe
and fair play. If the democrats have carried
Louisiana the people will not allow Gov
ernor Kellogg and Mr. Packard, with a too
convenient Returning Board, to Ku Klux the
vote. They were allowed to do it in 1872,
so far as the result had only a local impor
tance ; but the Senate refused to admit the
Senator elected by their fraud. They
did it again in 1874, but public
opinion forced a republican Congress to
condemn the fraud in the most positive and
conspicuous manner by unseating some of
the members of the Legislature who were
Ku Kluxed in by the Beturning Board. We
beg the New Orleans republican managers
to remember that their previous frauds are
well known here in the North, and that as
men already detected and exposed in Ku
Kluxing election returns they have need
to be conspicuously fair and upright this
time. All their acts and proceedings will
be watched with the most jealous eyes by
honorable men of both parties in the North,
and they should remember that the .pre
sumption lies fairly against them, because
they have already been detected in the same
trick of which they are now suspected.
So, too, in South Carolina, we warn the j
adherents of Governor Chamberlain against I
attempting to Ku Klux the election returns.
They cannot hope to succeed, for they will
be exposed, and their own party in the
North will disown them. It is very well
understood here that the South Carolina
election machinery has been constituted in
a suspiciously unfair and partisan manner.
Judge Mackay, of the Supreme Court of the
State, himself a Hayes republican, but op
posed to corruption, has exposed the
manner in which Governor Chamber
lain arranged for a count of the vote.
There is a Board of State Canvass
ers the majority of whose members
are candidates for election on the same
ticket with Chamberlain, and are thus, by a
monstrous perversion of fair dealing, al
lowed to canvass and dccide upon the votes
of the State and declare whether they them
selves are elected; and not only this, but of
the ninety-six Commissioners of Election in
the counties seventy are Chamberlain's de
clared partisans, and forty are office-holders
who hold their places by his appointment.
Now, no one ought to be condemned on
mere suspicion; but if we find a man going
about on a dark night with a kit of burglar's
tools ho cannot blame us if we keep our eyes
t>nhim;it is not ungenerous or unjust to
regard him with suspicion and to require
him to give a very clear account of himself.
In Ku Klux times in Arkansas a State law,
still on the statute book, authorized any citi
zen to shoot down any one caught with the
mask and paraphernalia of a Ku Klux. We
do not desire to bring odium upon Messrs.
Chamberlain, Packard and Kellogg; but wo
! warn them that they are known here in the
: North; the honest men of both parties regard
! them with just suspicion, and they have
i need to play not only with common but with
' very conspicuous fairness. If they have car
I ried Louisiana and South Carolina so be it ;
but they must satisfy the honest and fair
1 minded men of bo?h parties in the North of
that fact, or they will be disowned and exe
) crated by their own party. There must be
I noKuKluxing of the election returns. What
ever unscrupulous politicians might wink
at, the main body of the republican party in
the North is honest and patriotic and will
tolerate no injustipe.
Polict Liticmtiok.?How a suit can be
maintained in the courts of this State to
enforce | contract made in defiance of the
laws of the State is not very clear; yet this
is the nature of. the suit whose progress is
reported from day to day for the recovery of
a portion of the profits gained in the sale of
"policy" slips. It was decided by the
1 Supretue Court not long since that it would
not afl'ord a remedy to a man who had been
I overreached in a certain transaction that
| wiis contrary to publio policy and illegal
on its face ; and the same principle should
govern any litigation the subject of which
| is the atrocious policy robbery. He who
; endeavors to enrich himself in defiance of
: the laws is not entitled to be protected in
i that effort by the laws themselves.
Keep Cool.?The oenturios aro not ex
I hausted. There will be five Presidential
j elections before this cyols is ended.
A D?Uc?tc HtuUra.
A time come in onr history m a na
tion when a grave public exigency may re
quire of both parties the exercise of uncom
mon prudence and self-restraint.
The Presidential election, one of the most
exciting and severely contested on record,
has passed in absolute pcace. Election day
vai quiet in every State, Northland South,
and neither party can set up a claim of vio
lence or disorder at the polls. This result
is a credit to us as a nation. With half the
excitement almost any nation in Europe
would have fallen into revolution or general
civil disorder. The day was a test of the
self-restraint and the common sense of the
American people, and they stood the test
admirably. But now may come another and
a severer trial. The . electoral vote is very
close; at least it promises to be so; but
every one ought to bear in mind that the
formal and official count of votes has not
been oompleted m several StateB, and will
not be in hand from every State until per
haps Saturday. This count may Rtill settle
the result in such a manner as to avoid
all dispute. On the other hand, it may
leave the result dependent on the votes
of either South Carolina or Louisiana, two
States in which the republican party has in
terfered with troops; in which it was charged
before election day with gross wrongs,
which charges have not been denied; and in
which, while both parties now claim a
majority, the vote is still to be canvassed by
returning boards composed of republicans?
in the ease of South Carolina of persons
themselvea running for office, and in Louis
iana of men whose canvass of the vote of
1874 was declared by the committee of a re
publican House of Eepresentatives to have
been fraudulent to such a degree that the
republican Congress felt itself obliged to un
seat several republicans and put into their
places democrats who had been legally
eleoted.
That is to My, the votes of South Carolina
and Louisiana are to be canvassed or re
counted, and the returtis of these two States
in the Electoral College decided by persons
whose attitude, to say the least of it, is not
impartial; who have a direct personal inter
est in the result of their canvass; who in
Louisiana were two years ago detected in
fraudulent manipulation of the returns; and
on whose verdict or declaration of the result
no honest citizen of either party can there
fore have confidence. Unfortunately, it may
happen that returns thus made, and thus
lacking in the main elements required to give
them public confidence, may, if they are to
be used, decide the Presidential election.
Leaving South Carolina out of view, or
rather conceding it to the republicans, then
it may chance that Louisiana's vote shall be
needed to decide the election; and here the
democrats formally complained, a number
of days before the election, that their voters
were denied registry; that the republican
registration was to some extent fraudulent;
and that in some democratic parishes the
Commissioners of Election had been with
drawn by Governor Kellogg, thus leaving
those parishes without official means of
casting and reoording their vote, with the
purpose of thus giving the State Returning
Board a pretext for entirely throwing them
out.
We have presented the terms of a possible
and very grave publio danger very plainly,
because the people of the country ought to
understand them and look them in the face.
We still trust that the case we have sup
posed may not arise, but if it does then we
have this to say :?
L Both parties, everywhere, must remem
ber that there must be no violence, no dis
order, no attempt at irregular proceedings.
This is not Mexico ; and with absolute pa
tience and quiescence on the part of those
who may believe themselves threatened with
wrong all charges can be examined and all
wrongs that are found can be rectified. Any
attempt at violenoe is at once fatal to the
party which should attempt it. The Amer
ican people do not mean in this centennial
to be diagraoed in the eyes of the world
and humiliated in their own esteem by dis
orderly prooeedings or revolutionary at
tempts, on any plea whatever. They will
resent with the utmost bitterness anything
which looks to disorder, no matter what may
be the fanoied or pretended provocation.
II. The electoral vote is not counted
until the 14th of February next The
electors meet in their separate States on
the 4th of December. If in any State,
as in * Louisiana, one side believes
th*t the Returning Board has given
ita certificate of election wrongly, it
will have abundance of time to lay its
proofs before Congress and the publio be
tween the 4th of December and the 14th of
February; noi;will Congress dare, even if it
would, to refuse to entertain a complaint so
serious. But it would not. The patriotic
men of both sides would see that no taint of
injustice or wrong shall hang about a Presi
dential election.
1IL Finally, as the democratic party is that
whioh feels itself likely to be aggrieved in
this matter, we beg them to remember thnt
the danger which now stares the country in
the lace is but one of the results of the re
bellion whioh they encouraged, and in
which the largest part of them en
gaged in 1861. That rebellion was cause
less and unreasonable to the last
degree; to their folly and wickedness in bo
ginning and encouraging it are due the
multitude of evils which have rested upon
the country since, and of which this pres
ent emergency is another. The country
has not forgotten their agency in these mat
ters. It is not unwilling once more to
trust them with political power ; the present
vote shows this. But it will not tolerate for
an instant anything which looks to a disor
derly or violent attempt to grasp power, or
even anything which could be construed
into a threat to do to. The constitu
tion of the United States and the decent
public opinion of tho country will provide a
remedy for every attempted wrong. But tho
appeal for such remedy must be made in an
orderly way by men who keep tho peace,
and who utter no threats, and who have pa
tience to plead their causo and abide the
just judgment of the country.
We speak these plain words of warning
because we wish to allay public excitement,
and because we are certain of ono thing -
that the American people, warned by one
rebellion, will make extremely abort work of
any party, be it the democratic or the re
publican, which attempt* or threaten! civil
disorder hereafter on any plea or pretext
whatever.
Am Bietllag D?jr?
Yesterday was a day such as the American
people have not experienced since the year
1860. Only the exoitement incident to the
rising passions which reached their acme in
the bloodiest civil war of modern times can
be compared to the turmoil of doubt that
stirred the whole nation over the disputed
result of the Presidential election. At
nearly all great centrcs business was sus
pended. In front of the Hxbajld office a
groat crowd waited all day, scanning with
breathless impatience the returns that were
posted on the bulletins as f*st as received.
This crowd changed from moment to mo
ment, fed constantly by the great channels
that converge here, and for the greater part
of the day was so dense that vehieles went
up and down Broadway only in single file,
while frequently the street was obstructed
entirely. At night the throng was in
creased, if anything, and thousands lingered
until after midnight, cheering at the slightest
indications of victory for their respective
parties. In a less degree a similar faot was
experienced at other newspaper offices. De
spatches of inquiry poured in upon us all
day from all parts of the country, indicating
that a fever heat prevailed everywhere over
the groat uncertainty. In tho cars, in the
streets, in the restaurants, wherever men are
found in promiscuous groups, it was notice
able that their ordinary demeanor was
changed ; the conversational gave place to
the declamatory tone, and ever? utterance
was emphasized with vigorous gesticulation.
This deep excitement was not due merely to
the uncertainty of some States. Not a word
was heard in the streets that could be dis
torted to imply any passionate discontent
with a fair result, whatever it might be. But
as Florida seemed to become more and more
hopeless for the Democrats, and the proba
bility rose that the result would turn upon
the vote of Louisiana, the feeling of distrust
in the Board which has to act upon the re
turns in that State sprelSl dismay on every
hand. The apprehension that the decision
of the nation might be perverted in one State
by the machinery which had already covered
such grossly fraudulent transactions startled
all. For tho first time people experienced
how great and how immediate is the.inter
est that every State has in the honest organi
zation of every other State; and it was recog
nized that the nation at large might have oc
casion to repent bitterly the apathy with
whioh it has contemplated the oppression of
Louisiana.
Why a. Repwbllcttn Conference >
We have a report that leading republicans
are to meet in conference in Washington at
once to oonsider the situation in Louisiana,
South Carolina and Florida. We do not
wish unnecessarily to intrude our advice,
but would it not be better and more
statesmanlike for these leading re
publicans to call into their conference
an equal number of leading democrats?
The situation is serious; it need not be dan
gerous. Wise and conciliatory action, con
spicuous fairness in dealing with ques*
tions in dispute, will harmonize all and
satisfy the people. But these results
are best obtained by a conference
of the statesmen of both parties;
in their decision the people of all par
tie| would rest content. To call a party
conference is only to increase suspicion,
alarm and excitement An emergency such
as this should be met by statesmanship and
by the frankest and most open and honor
able counsel between the real statesmen of
both parties.
N. B.?We should advise the exclusion of
Senator West.
British Mohammedans. ? Certain Moham
medans of the British Empire have just
petitioned Queen Victoria, Empress of India,
on the subject of her relations with the
Snltan of Turkey to countervail, if possible,
the expression of British opinion on the
subject of Bulgarian atrocities. They in
vite attention to the fact that forty millions
of Her Majesty's subjects in India regard the
Sultan as the head of their religion, and
apon the assumption that if the humani
tarians of England nre to be listened to as
they claim in a few country towns the
wishes of fort}* millions should not be ig
nored. Thdy request Her Majesty not to
abandon the Ottoman sovereign. This ap
peal puts in bolder relief than any other re
cent fact the position of England as the
second Mohammedan Power of the world,
and shows the important political bearing of
England's relations to Turkey. But if.the
English people are Christian and wish to
leave Turkey alone, and the Hindoos are
Mohammedans and wish to savdBTurkey,.
the government must choose whether
England or India is of the greatest conse
quence. Which is the kite and which is the
tail?
Th* Ikdians.?The column under General
Crook, which has been organized with the
object of making a winter campaign against
the hostile Sioux, ought to give a good ac
count of itself. Great care seems to have
been shown in fitting it for the work before
it?work that has been considerably simpli
fied by the surrender of the Cheyennes to
General Miles. There will, however, be
plenty of opportunity offered to the men and
officers of Crook's command to show their
mettle and render important services to the
country by settling forever this Indian
question. We hope General Crook will
have better success in the present campaign
than in his summer operations. Wo en
tirely agree with the praise bestowed by the
General on the troops who Accompanied
him during the arduous campaign on the
Big Horn and Yellowstone. They merited
all tho good their commander can say of
thom, but a little more foresight on the part
of General Crook would have spared them
many of the hardships which they suffered.
It is to be hopod that no more rash ventures
will be msdo.
Goon Oct o? Nazabetr.?The result of
the election through which we have just
p/ssed will teach the politicions that per
sonal vilification can no longer be an effec
tive weapon in a political contest. Governor
Tilden has been tho worst tbuud candidate
aver bsfoxe tha people for the Presidential
offlo* Tel hi* own eity givss him th?
largest rot* of my of the many popular can
didates in the field, his State again indorses
him by a splendid majority, and, if not
elected President, he can only be defeated
by a single electoral vote. After this let hi
hope that personal abuse of candidates in a
canvass will be abandoned by common oon
sent.
Prevention Is Better Thnn Cnre.
Yesterday we again took ocoasion to call
attention to our cumbrous and dangeroui
method of counting Presidential ?otee. The
present emergency unfortunately only too
well confirms our statement? as to the expe
diency of a constitutional amendment It
hfa however, become necessary to deal with
the evil as it now is, and if there is really
danger that votes in Florida, Louisiana or
South Carolina have been falsely counted,
the future peace and quiet of the country
demand impartial and immediate investiga
tion into the charges which may be made.
It must be discovered where and by whom
the alleged frauds have been committed be- ?
fore it is too late to prevent their disastrous
consequences. The strength and the sta
bility of the incoming four years' administra
tion depend upon the foundation upon
which it now bases its right to exist, and
should one of the candidates be placed in
the Presidential chair by any proceeding
which can justly be termed unfair it in un
likely that the consequent dissatisfaction
pill be soon or easily appeased. The almost ^
equal strength of our two great political
organizations points to the danger of sus
pected usurpation on the part of either, and
it is as wjp?ng as it is unreasonable to re
main blind to the risks of wrong dealing in
so vital a matter.
Senator Morton submitted a report from
the Committee on Privileges and Electioni
during the first .session of the Forty-third <*
Congress, in which it is stated:?" Where
the choice of President depends upon the
election in a State which has been publicly
characterized by fraud or violence, and in
which one party is alleged to have tri
umphed and secured the certificates of elec
tion by chicanery or the fraudulent interposi
tion of oourts, such a President would in
advance be shorn of his moral power and
authority in his office, would be looked upon
as a usurper, and the consequences that
would result from such a state of things
no man can predict. But it may be com
pared to what has so often occurred in his
tory, where the successor to the crown in a
monarchy was believed by a large part of
the nation to be illegitimate, or not to be
rightfully entitled thereto under the laws or
usages of the nation." This grave warning
comes from one of the leading republican
Senators, one of the foremost and most influ
ential men of his party. His words give u?
reason to hope that he and others of his
party will place patriotism above party and
unite in condemnation of any attempt,
should such be made, to manipulate the vot?
of a State in the interest of the republican
candidate.
Thk Wbathsb.?Yesterday a high pressure
prevailed on the Pacific coast and over all
the region east of the Mississippi Kiver ex.
cept in New York and New England,
whence the storm of the 7th is slowly pass
ing northeastward. The highest pressure
is in the Southwest A storm centre is
slowly developing in the Northwest, with a
high temperature, the thermometer at Fort
Sully, Dakota, registering yesterday after
noon seventy degrees. . It is probable that
this storm will reach our meridian by Sun.
day next; we will in any cape feel its influ.
ence by that time. Light rain, due to the
oontact of the two areas of high and low
pressure eastward of the lakes, has pre
vailed from Toledo, Ohio, to the North At
lantic ooast. Snow has fallen at Sangeen,
Mich., but at other points partly cloudy or
dear weather has been experienced. Morn
ing temperatures in the Gulf and South At
lantic States have been low and those of
the Northwest have fallen below freezing
point. The weather in New York to-day
will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or
clear.
Shipbulldiho in New York is unhappily
almost among the things of the past. A re
view of the causes which have led to the
decay of this industry here is published
elsewhere. The blow that American com
merce received during the war of the rebel
lion from the English cruisers has never
been entirely recovered from. The Ameri
can mercantile marine is, however, slowly
creeping up ; but New York does not share
in the revival. Capital seeks the cheapest
market, and the ship carpenters have de
cided that that must be looked for at otbei
ports.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The bat stores art crowded.
Iowa farmers banker after California.
That torcb may ba saved to throw at cata
Gothic architecture Is said to hamor necessities.
Marshal Canrobert, ol Crimean lame, Is seriously llV.
Cariyle calls Darwin sn atheist with very little lnlah
leek
The Servian la a coward In big boots, bat hla oaase Is
Just.
Sir Alexander T. Gait, ol Montreal, Is at (ha Gllsey
House.
Forty per cent of tbo food of the English people la
Imported.
Or. 1. I. Hsyes Is a son ol Benjamin Hayaa, of Waat
Cheater, Pa.
Dlo Lewis hits returned to Boston to aeara people
Into ayspepala.
The full moon face of Secretary Robeson will not ll*
luminate the Senate.
The Russian peasant la both a ready soldier and a
practical communist.
Can the late republican candidate for Viee Preaideht
be called a left Wbeeler*
The Dan bury A'etet calls Bob Ingersoll the Victor
Hugo of American poliilca
Western journals prophealad that fleadrtcks would
succeed to the Presidency.
Now tat Senator Morton preaa his measure for secur*
Ing a Presidential election upon a popular vote.
Two Springfield men made a but so that the loser
should go without bis drinks during the rest ol tha
year.
It was a llttlo chap Just out of dresses who the other
day called creat masses of white clouds "tho moun
tains of heaven."
In tendon recently a man bespattered by a passing
cab sued the owner for damages, and ha recovered a
shilling and cokIb.
Yesterday the Hon Mr. Lafamrae was sworn in a
Minister ol Inland Revenue ot the Dominion o.
Canada, v-lca Hun. Mr. GeolTrion, rotired on account ol
Ill-health.
The Sprtngtinld R'publiean thinks that Tllden may
sppolut a Cabinet which wUi flitter the mischievous
eiaiaeataof tha South with Mistaken lutarpratatioaa sf
Its vtrtory.