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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1870.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Owlnjr to the action ol a portion of the carrion and
eewtmen. who are determined that the public auall
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can prevent It, we bare made arrangement* to place the
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From our reports this morning the probahil
ilies arc that the treather to-day trill be vrarm
mil partly cloudy or clear, possibly with morn
ing and evening fog.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
decidedly irregular, some of tlie old invest
ment securities being advanced, while fancy
speculative shares declined. Gold was
steady at 109 5-8. Money closed at 2 1-2 and
2 per cent. Government bonds were active
Bad firm and railway bonds generally steady.
Bavaria, famous for its patronage of the
highest forms of the musical and dramatic
arts, has also some curious popular features
in its third rate theatricals, which are amus
ingly described in a letter elsewhere.
A Worthy Institution, the Old Gentle
man's Unsect&rian Home, needs the assist
ance of the charitable people of New York.
Wo hope that generous contributions to the
fund will be made, for the resources of the
Mtablishment are exhausted.
The Abomination or Desolation has
fallen upon the grounds at Fairmount Park,
where the Centennial Exhibition was hold.
The Philadclphians, who were so reluctant
? month ago to think of seeing the buildings
?wept away, will ere long clamor for their
demolition. This is a transition which oc
curs everywhere a world's fair is held.
8ultak Abdul Ha^id is reported to have
issued an order abolishing the slave trade
throughout the entire Ottoman Empire.
This is progress, although it may be viewed
!?? the cynieal as a Cerberus-sop to Exeter
HalL It will certainly have a good effect
in England, but it is a long way from abol
ishing slavery itself.
ItECKnr.Rs' Fees.?The Rhode Islanders
are at present much exercised over this mat
ter in the case of Mr. l>e Wolf, the receiver
of the Franklin Institution for Savings of
Providence. It is time tliat some limit was
made to the amount which these officers
can cJitini for their services. At present
I in> giv<-n tiiue in which a receiver can eat
?.;> ?h" wreck of an estato is alarmingly
voori.
lloi MAXii's Grievances against Turkey, as
detailed in our deeply interesting lettor
tc >tu Huchurest, are manifold, but the sum
total of them appears to be that a civilized
Christum State is tributary to a semi
barbarous Moslem Empire which would
trample it in the dust it it dared, and which
has nothing in sympathy with it. It is easy
to judge, in caso of war, how welcome the
would be in Rob man \k
Thi Nouth Carolina Trickery.
At thin moment tho attitude and the wite
counsel of Wade Hampton in South Carolina
aro worthy of the imitation of hi? fellow
democrats all over the country. The South
Carolina democrats appealed to the Supreme
Court of the State, consisting of three
judges, all republicans, to decide tho proper
functions, under the constitution, of the
Returning Board. That Board consists of
five republicans, all State officers and three
candidates for re-election and therefore
sitting as judges on their own cases.
The Supreme Court heard argument
and issued a temporary injunction,
pending further argument, by which the
Returning Board was ordered to count and
report to tho Court the actual votes cast,
according to the returns of the county com
missioners, and to await the final decision
of the Court on tho further question whether
the Board had, under the constitution, such
judicial functions as would authorize it to
hear objections or decide generally upon the
validity of the votes. On Monday the Board
accordingly reported to tho Court that the
returns showed the Senate to consist of
eighteen republicans and fifteen democrats;
the House, of sixty republicans and sixty
four democrats?one majority for the demo
crats on joint ballot. Thereupon the Court
proceeded to hear fnrther argument on the
functions of the Board, and while this was
going on, and while the counsel of the Re
turning Board wero actually in Court and
taking part in the proceedings, the Board
met privately, llung out two democratic
countics, on, as one dissenting member
declares in a written protest, merely ex jxirte
evidence; hastily made out certificates
of election to republican members of
the Legislature and to the Hayes elec
tors and adjourned sine die. The members
claim that ten days was the legal limit of
their oxistenco as a Board ; but if they be
lieve this, and if their counsel, one of them
curiously enough the United States District
Attorney, so advised them, why should they
not have notified the Court? Why did their
counsel attend on court at the very time of 1
this action, and thus help to deceive tne j
Supreme Judges? Why should tho Board
do by a trick what they assert to be right?
This is what the country asked yesterday
when the news was reud.
Under these grave aiul exasperating cir
cumstances General Wade Hampton issues
an address to the people of South Carolina
urging the utmost order, absolute peace and
patience. The advice is sound and patri
otic, and the North, without respect to party
lines, thanks him for it. The recent atti
tude of tho democrats in South Carolina has
boon a model of self-command and loyal
submission of their interests and rights to
the proper arbitrament of the courts, llie
country has watched them with anxiety, but
with increasing satisfaction. We hope they
will observe strictly the admonition of their
leader and candidate for Governor. We are
a free and law-abiding people, and this mat
ter will be settled according to law. Irri
tatkig, justly irritating as such unworthy
trickery is, the North, too, must command its
temper and have patience. The snarl we
are in can be untangled only with patience
and by orderly and lawful methods. Any
one who to-day or at this time counsels or
even fails to condemn violence, any one who
adds by incendiary advice or suggestion
to the prevailing and just irritation and ex
citement, does an unpatriotio act and de
serves the severest condemnation of tho pub
lic. We are glad to find in the most influ
ential democratic journals here tho soundest
advice on this subject. The Journal of Com
merce, which represents very ably the senti
ments of our democratic merchants, said on
Saturday:?
If any of those who assume to load the republican
narir really desire to ferpetrato a flagrant wrong In
thwarting the will oi tbo people as lawfully expressed
at the polls, they could not be moro ably assisted In
such a nelurlous enterprise thsn by the exhibition oi
a belltccrent temper and spirit in the ranks
of the opposition. Loud denunciations, Invec
tives organisations for armed resistance, ana
ail ' that can bo represented as betraying
a fierce aid rebellious temper, will oDly render
the proposed violation of popular rights the easier lor
those who may have undertaken It. The moment that
the projectors of such a scheme can tire the heatts of
all who have heretofore acted with tho dominant
party ?o that tbey will band together again to carry
out whatever their lesdors suggest, uo outrage will te
so treat that It can be peacefully resisted. I?t but the
oDPosition begin to breaihe out tbroatonlngs aud
slaughter and the real saieguard of popular liberty and
justice will no longer stand in the way of the wrong
doers.
The Sun, one of the most vigorous and
powerful supporters of the democratic
cause, said on Tuesday, "Better submit
to wrong for the time, however gross, than
appeal to any but legal, constitutional and
peaceful methods." General Hampton
urges the same course upon the people of
South Carolina. In New Orleans promi
nent men who have just been there say the
attitude of tho democrats is absolutely quiet
and orderly ; they await in confidence the
justice of the North.
Let them have patience and confidence.
The North, the Northern republican party,
is fast awakening to a comprehension of the
situation. This is not a matter in which the
democrats can usefully act. The initiative
does not belong to them; their part is to
wait in patience, in absolute order and quiet.
The chief duty of the crisis falls upon the
republican masses. They arc honest and
sensible, and they will not tolerate wrong or
trickery, or even the appearance of wrong, in
this matter. It is for them to demand, and
we believe they will demand, in public meet
ings, not only or merely an honest count,
but such measures as shall assure them
and their democratic neighbors and friends
tilat there is no taint of suspicion about
it Unless we greatly mistake the temper
and attitude of the republican masses they
will make themselves heard and their influ
ence felt to this end very soon. As we
write we have before us a private letter from
one of tho leading republicans oi Massachu
setts, who writes us:?"What think you of
the result of the election ? I hope Tilden
will get it as the matter stands." That is
what to-day nine out of ten ot the honest
republicans think; and we say to the repub
lican leaders, plainly, that they have be
come within the last week objects of suc
picion to their own party and tho pub
lic, equally with tho returning boards in
whose proceedings and character they are
involved ; and tliat unless they at once and
conspicuously condemn and oppose them
selves to all trickery and to everything which
bears even tho faintest odor of intended
fraud they will iee the honost men of their
own party rise tip in pnblio meetings all
orer the country to denounce them.
The republican party is not made up of
rogues and Tombs lawyers. It contains a
great mass of honest, honorable, patriotic
men, and these will not tolerate what
would mako them hang their heads
with shame; they will not allow their
leaders to resort to trickery, to base
devices, to doubtful means to count in
their candidate. Already the republican
opinion of the proceedings in the disputed
States is such that it has become almost im
possible decently to count in Governor Hayes.
Already the wisest republicans say in conver
sation that ior the sake of their party they
hope for Mr. Tilden's return. As yet tho
honest republican masses are waiting in si
lence, but with decreasing patience. Bnt
any further appearance of trickery, any, the
least, continuation of these attempts in the
disputed States to take advantage of shallow
legal technicalities, to resort to underhand
and unworthy means, such as the recent
hearing of testimony charging intimidation,
on which the Louisiana Returning Board
has, it is said, determined, will give voice to
the smothered indignation of the republican
party, who cannot stand silent and see
themselves and the good fame of their party
sold into disgrace.
Tw??d<
The prodigal has returned. Mr. William
M. Tweed, statesman, presents his compli
ments to the people of New York. Ho begs
to say that husks are wretched food for a
man who has dined at the Amerious Club.
The taverns of Santiago, though "conducted
on the European plan," he found less com
fortable than the Sheriff's accommodations
in New York. The rocks on which he was
landed on the Cuban coast seemed to him
harder than the chairs on Blackwell's
Island. The Spanish flea he regards as the
determined enemy of the Tammany Society.
He returns to his native shores a sadder and
somewhat thinner, if not a wiser man ; and
after many wanderings and vicissitudes he
hailed the sight of Sandy Hook as the
promise at leust of a decent dinner.
Mr. Tweed begs to inform his friends in
New York that a somewhat varied experience j
has impressed upon him the truth of a neg
lected proverb, "Be virtuous and you will |
bo happy." lie has come to an age and
figure when the practice of strict honesty j
seems to him desirable. Once he thought of j
having a monument erected to himself in '
New York. Now he prefers a cell in Ludlow !
street to either Santiago, "Vigo or the Atlan
tic Ocean. There may be joy in travelling
and instruction in seeing the world, but as
Here wo must stop Mr. Tweed. We can
not give him New York. He had it once,
and he made a moss of it. Instead of giving
hiro New York our advice to Mr. Tweed is
to give back to the city treasury the immense
sum he stole from it. If this should seem
much to ask of him we may tell him that it
is after all very little. He cannot give
back the public opinion he depraved
by his bad example; he cannot by
any possible restitution redeem us from
the corruption he brought into our local
politics; he cannot by a long life of repent
ance and virtae, if such were possible to
him, make up lor the misery his wasteful
career has imposed upon the industrious
poor of New York; for the heavy debt which
burdens our taxpayers; for the mismanage
ment of city affairs from which we have not
yet recovered; for the corruption of public
and private morals to which his vicious
career gave rise; for the misgovernment of
which he was the main cause and which
sapped the prosperity and even threatened
the commercial supremacy of the city which,
as it was his birthplace, should have been to
him sacred.
Tweed's bad career should teach our ambi
tious young men that on the whole honesty
is the best policy. It would be a badly ar
ranged world if this were not true. A
career of successful and truculent vice like
those of Tweed and Fi:k does its greatest
evil not in the robberies it involves, but in
the lesson of wickedness which it teaches to
the young men who see it. These men's
greatest crime was that by their lives they
struck a blow at social morals. But their
fate may warn men against undue haste
to be rich. Fisk, shot down like a dog;
Tweed a wretched wanderer and fugitive,
like Cain, concealing himself from the faces
of men, and now brought home to disgrace
and the contempt of the city he robbed?
these are spectacles which may warn
men that moderate and honest living,
fidelity to trust, and a preference of honor
to ill-gotten wealth are after all sound rules
for the conduct of life.
Gkmeral Shebman's Annual Report on
the condition of the army and its services
during the past year discloses tho fact that
there are at present twenty-five thousand
three hundred and thirty-one men in the
service ; that they have been keeping up
the seacoast fortifications, acting as federal
policemen in the South, looking out for
hostile Mexicans in Texas, hunting the
hostile Sioux in the Northwest, garrisoning
forts here and there and spreading them
selves ont generally so as to appear as much
like half a million of soldiers as possible.
This is always a difficult task, but by keep
ing the boys on the move the General has
come quite near to that high figure. He
pays a well deserved compliment to the
West Point Academy. Tho only thing at
all calculated to startle the country is his
statement that "there are no hostile Indians
in the Military Department of tho Atlantic."
This has been our own view, but it may be
news to somebody.
Martinez-Dei, Valle.?This suit, which
has occupied a good share of publio atten
tion, in spite of the anxiety over the politi
cal situation, will probably come to an end
to-day. Tho "woman in the ease," from tho
Garden of Eden to the Siege of Troy, and so
on down to tho latest sensation, makes?as
Mr. Choato insinuatingly remarked to the
jury yesterday?sympathy an essential
part of what goes to form an opinion. We
do not see anything for Mr. Choato to call
lucky for his side in the fact that the older
men of the jury wera placed nearer to tho
plaintiff. We saw it stated in a luto number
1 of the Saturday Rtview that "the old ones
I arc the worst."
I The Political Situation.
In South Carolina the Supreme Court has
j issued a mandamus to the members of the
; Returning Board commanding them to show
cause to-day why they should not be com
pelled to comparo the managers' with the
local election returns. One member of the
Board has resigned; another, the Secretary
of State, was busy all day yesterday issuing
certificates to the Hayes electors, the mem
bers of the Legislature, members of Con
, gress, &?. The Legislature assembles next
. Tuesday, and the Governor should be inau
gurated on Thursday. The President is be
lieved to have promptly notified Chamber
lain that ho means to support, him as he
did Kellogg in 187*2, and indeed ever since.
The State is of course deeply excited, but the
excellent letter of General Hampton has
a good effect, and there is an evident deter
mination among the democrats not to help
the republican party out of the dirty waters
into which it has got. A "Southern out
break" would be thought "providential"
now by some of the republican managers.
In Florida the Circuit Judge heard argu
ment on the application for an injunction to
restrain Governor Stearns from canvassing
the vote and giving certificates to the elec
tors. As the Governor's counsel opened the
argument with a declaration that the Gov
ernor had no intention of doing so, the
whole proceedings seem, at this distance,
somewhat ridiculous. We notice with
regret that one of the most liope
lul of the "visiting statesmen," Gen
eral Barlow, has become counsel
for Governor Staarns. We cherished
tho hope that he and Mr. Marble would act
down there as counsel for the people of the
United States, nnd take sides with neither
party. Meantime the Florida Returning
Board has not got to work yet, although all
! but three of the county returns are in hand.
! Here in tho North people are wondering
why the republicans down there are so re
luctant to begin counting the votes?
The Louisiana Returning Board also takes
matters very leisurely. It meets late, ad
journs early and consumes a good deal of
time in discussion. It has energetically ex
cluded the press, and it now holds four
kinds of sessions daily?an open session, an
executive session, to which, as we under
stand it, the ten "visiting statesmen" are
admitted; a secret session, lrom which
they are excluded ; and a private cnucus
in the evening, which the repub
lican party leaders attend. Tho number
of parishes asserted by the republicans to
have beon "bull-dozed" increases. Ten
days ago five were named ; now ten aro
spoken of. The returns do not seem to "pan
out" as well for the republicans as they
hoped at first. The attention of the Return
ing Board was yesterday called to the curi
ous faot that a number of republican super
visors of election have been in New Orleans
for a week and even ten days with the official
returns in their possession and have not yet
handed them in to the board, which is their
only legal custodian. In one case a repub
ncan candidate ior uongress conveniently
brought down tho vote of a county, and has
retained it for a week. Even the most un
suspicious people are reminded by this
incident of letter from the Secretary of
the Republican Committee to supervisors,
whicti we printed on Tuesday, in which
these officers were admonished before the
election that they must return the repub
lican vote fixed by the State Committee, and
it was significantly added :?" You must ob
tain the results called for herein without fail.
Once obtained, your recognition will be
ample and generous." Possibly these recal
citrant supervisors are waiting for ?'recog
nition." In 1874 thoro was at least one
case where a supervisor gave tho returns to
a womun and sent her to sell them for a
good price. The "visiting statesmen" at
New Orleans are for the moment silent, and
the politicians have ceased guessing. It is a
significant fact, however, that the three
most trustworthy journalists from the ftorth
now in New Orleans, all throe republicans
and of excellent reputation for accuracy,
unite in Baying that Mr. Tilden has an un
doubted majority in Louisiana.
The notable feature of the situation is
that irregular and suspicious conduct on the
part of the republican managers seems to
increase. In the North republicans are
slowly making up their minds about'this
Southern business, and it may be said that
disgust and alarm increase.
The Next Honie.
According to republican estimates which
have been very widely published there will
be a republican majority of one in the next
House of Representatives if Now Hamp
shire sends a full republican delugation, as
is not unlikely. This result is obtained by
counting every doubtful district as republi
can. Two democrats are likely to have been
elected in Florida, but one is given to each
party in this estimate. In Illinois every
district- which, at the latest reports, was
considered doubtful, is classed as republi
can, the delegation standing thirteen to six.
The Louisiana delegation is evenly divided,
three and three. Missouri sends four re
publicans to nine democrats; New York,
sixteen republicans to seventeen democrats ;
Pennsylvania, nineteen republicans to eight
democrats; South Carolina, a full republi
can delegation ; Tennessee, two republicans
to eight democrats, and Virginia, one repub
lican to eight democrats. Thcro is some
thing very peculiar in these figures, to say
the least of them ; but what makes them
even more suspicious is the fact that they
: give the republicans the centennial majority
| of one. This, too, by counting the five dis
| tricts of South Carolina, one district in
Florida, two districts in Tennessco instead
of one, the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth
and Seventeenth districts in Pennsylvania,
and the,Twenty-ninth district of New York
as republican. We shall not bo satisfied
with the republican claim in auy of these
districts until we seo the oihcial count,
which, strange to say, has not yet been re
ported.
The Ural Estate Investments by the in
surance companies of New York show an
I immense total, but owing to tho deteriora
1 tion of values in that olass of security, esti
' mated at forty millions of dollars, tho com
panics are chary of advances upon it.
i The effect of the panic continues so far
I as real estate is concerned, although other
interests have improved consideiably. The
truth is we enjoyed a period of artificial
prosperity that had no solid foundation in
real values. We discounted the future of
New York too heavily and are now paying
the penalty of our indiscretion. Busine s
is most prosperous and property most relia
ble as an investment when both rest on the
solid "hard pan" foundation of legitimate
trade and real values.
The Speaker.
When Congress meets, on the 4th of De
cember, the House will be called to order by
its Clerk, and its first business will be to
elect a new Speaker. There is no lack of
candidates, this city alone furnishing two
in the persons of Mr. Cox and Mr. Fernando
Wood. Mr. Sayler, Speaker pro tern., will
hav? supporters; Mr. liandall has many
friends; Mr. Heister Clymer is spoken of;
Mr. ISlackburn, of Kentucky, at one time
had hopes, but his course in the House was
not so judicious as to win him confidence;
Mr. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, would
poll a strong vote; Mr. Faulkner, of West
Virginia, would be even stronger, as a more
experienced and more conservative man; but
if the democrats aro wise they will choose
between three men?Messrs. Morrison, of
Illinois; Lamar, ot Mississippi, and liandall,
of Pennsylvania. Of these three Mr. Mor
rison would probably have the best chance
of an election, and he would make an ex
oollent Speaker.
The Speakership of the House ot Repre
sentatives is alwuys an office of great power
and responsibility. By his selection of the
committees the Speaker in a great measure
shapes and controls the legislation of
the House and ? therefore of Congress.
During tho session soon to begin many
jobs will make their appearance which
their authors kept out of sight and out of
the House last session ; the Speaker ought
to be a man awake to the danger and able to
guard against it by the selection of proper
men for the important committees. There
are signs, too, that vicious legislation in re
gard to the currency will be attempted, and
the Speaker ought to be a man about whose
views on this and other important public
questions there can be no doubt. We hope,
therefore, to see the democrats in the House
select one of their best and firmest men for
Speaker. This is very important not only
for the country but also for their paitv in
terests. A blunder here will draw them
into very deep waters.
Peaceful Words and Warlike Acts.
Judging the possibilities by the view
taken in the London Times, war seems im
possible; judging by tho report from Servia
of Russia's activity thero, war might be
already a flagrant fact. These contrary in
dications are, howover, not absolutely irre
concilable. The interpretation of tho ap
pearance of a large body of Russian troops
on Servian territory seems to rest upon the
statement mjule by a commander of Cos
sacks, and this is not an authority above
suspicion; but if the report of the lact and
the alleged motive shall bo nuthenticated
it will appear that Russia is disposed
to tako such a guarantee as is within
her reach against what the Turks may
do if by the expiration of the armistice
terms of peace are not agreed upon. Tho
Emperor of Russia in his conversation with
Lord Loftns explained that Russia had
sent her famons ultimatum to the Sultan at
the moment the Servian army was thor
oughly beaten simply to prevont a repeti
tion in Scrvia of such atrocities as bad oc
curred in Bulgaria. The timely occupation
of Servia by a Russian force may be a provi
sion of the same nature, since if the armis
tice should expire with peace not concluded
the Moslems would encounter no resistance
on the march to Belgrade and would in
fallibly butcher in that city all persons in
imical to their rule. In Constantinople it is
held that Servia is Turkish territory, and
from that point of view the movement of
troops ds reported is an invasion; but Russia
does not assent to that position, and though
Ehgl*ad may not quite agree with Russia in
this regard it is clearly Tier policy not to
have any opinions that are inconvenient on
points not of the first importance. Russia's
movement, therefore, will not precipitate
events, and, as it indicates her readiness
and is just short of a threat, it may have an
influence in inclining to peace the councils
of the negotiators. The words cabled from
| tho Times' article are practically a repetition
| of the decision of the Cabinet council of the
j 11th inst.?that England would only act for
! the defence of Constantinople. She will
! assent to any proposition mado by Russia
| which does not involve a transfer of torri
| tory ; if a proposition is made that does in
| volve a transfer of territory she will assent
j to that also, provided tho territory involved
is not the city of Constantinople. England,
j therefore, will certainly not take any posi
j tion in virtue of which the movement jnst
' made by Russia will become an obstacle to
! peace.
Central Park.
j Mayor Wiokham's small-beer-politician
j sensation about tho Park Department
lias given birth to its niouso. Having
first brought about a deadlock by re
lusing to transfer the unexpended balances
tho Board of Apportionment, yielding to
public indignation, yesterday consented to
such transfer. This gave Mr. Green an op
portunity to shed a few crocodile tears over
tho poor trees that ho saw planted years and
years ago, when, as little saplings, they used
to make childlike boughs to him as he passed
on his rounds. It is always touching to hear
Mr. Green praiso himself, whether receiving
a deputation of contractors who want to
see him Mayor or when he can at the same
time pour a little vinegar into tho wounds of
his enemies, bo they poor scrub women or
merely l'ark Commissioners. The mouse we
have referred to came from tho pocket of
that pure patriot, Rush C. Hawkins, in the
shape of impeachment charges against Com
missioners Martin and O'Donohue. Theso
grievous things arc, tirst, that these Commis
sioners removed some of the Comptroller's
friends from office "without cause," and,
second, that they paid the poor laborers two
dollars a day when they could bo had for one
dollar and sixty cents. This is a very small
mouse, even lor Mayor Wickliam and Cowp
troller Green to go fussing about.
Another Trick*
Our New Orleans correspondent tele
graphs that the Returning Board has de
termined to hear evidence on charges ot
intimidation in secret session. Why secret?
What are these men thinking of? Do they
imagine that there is no power of indignation
among Northern republicans? Can they
not see that by their tricks and secrecy they
are making public satisfaction with the
counting in of Mr. Hayes an impossibility 7
They will hear evidence in secret session,
and will then make up the totals of th?
State and electoral vote on the day the elec
tors are to meet, we are told, so as to -pre
vent appeals to the courts ; that is to say,
they mean to repeat, but with an adroit im
provement, the South Carolina trick.
Is it not time for honest republicans all
over the North to speak out ? to let these
political gamblers know that they must
stop ? The democrats are silent and passive;
that is their duty ; they must remain so.
But the republican merchants, lawyers,
clergy, farmers, mechanics?can they afford
to remain silent when such things are done
in South Carolina and preparing in I^nis
iana? Evidence accumulates that there ia
a concerted plot to count in Mr. Hayes in
the three disputed States by open and
shameless trickery. That is not what the
republican masses want. They wish fair
play. Is it not time for them to speak out
in public meetings ?
The Weather.?We are experiencing the
usual barometric rise that follows a depres
sion such as that which has just passed away
into the Atlantic Ocean. Already the press
ure at New York has fluctuated between
30.05 and 29.94 inchcs, showing that the
edge of depression central in Northern
Canada has just extended to our latitude.
From the Southwest the isobars of high
pressure curve toward Now York, bringing
with them clearing weather and slightly
higher temperature. Tho "norther" in Texas
hus been felt as a twenty-eight mile gale,
and very heavy rains prevail along the Gulf
coast eastward from Galveston. In the West
the pressure is falling rapidly as a storm
centre, the approach of which we hove pre
dicted advances eastward. Intenso cold
prevailed yesterday in Manitoba, where
the thermometer ranged two and throo
degrees below zero. Snow fell at sev
eral places in the Northwest, along the
lakes, and even as far to the South as
Indianapolis; but as the area of precipita
tion did not extend much lower than the
Canadian boundary the fall was light at tho
points of observation. To-day tho weathei
in New York will bo warm and partly cloudy
or clear, possibly with morning and evening
fog.
Election News in Paris.?No matter how
much an American has given himself up to
the sports of the gay capital or to the busi
ness abroad which gives him a convenient
excuse for "seeing life," he never forgets to
orate on the Fourth of July, if ho can fish
oat a fellow citizen. Under a similar pa
triotic impulse he seeks early and late, after
the first Tuesday in November of tho leap
year, for "returns." This granted, the in
terest displayed by the Americans in Paris,
who crowded the Hebalij bureau on the
night following tho election, as described in
our Paris letter, will be appreciated.
PERSONAL INTLLLIGW NCE.
Colorado cures asthma.
Tweed is being 'counted "out."
Hewitt and Morrisson lead lor Spank a?.
Say ler IB a good deck hand lot the sliip of State.
Liverpool boa just ssnt a cargo of sail to New
K Of land.
Kuiperor William, of Germany, continuos to b? la
declining health.
l'rotessor Tbeodoro D. Woolsey, of New Haven, is al
the Everett Hoiiso.
senator Tbeodoro F. Randolph, of New Jersey, Is al
tho New Yorl* Hotel.
At Clayton, N. Y., they have sparring bees, at which
they give bee's whacks.
Mr. t*. Wlllamov, of the Russian Legation at Wash
ington, Is at tho Everett House.
A scientist says that It Is a south wind that inakea a
man snore. Thought it was snore-east.
A Huiialo man voied lor Susan 1). Anthony for Sena
tor, und now they are trying to count her in.
SeAor Don Demetrio V. Guzman, oMhe United States
and Mexican Claims Commission, is at the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel.
Fanny Kemblo thinks that American and English
girls are too much trained to music that they cannot
understand.
Tut your fork Into the sweet, round eye of tho oys
ter as you lift it, and pay to tho box-boy, "Did you sa]
they wore l'rovidonou Rivers?"
Some French toilets are lined with cork for warmth;
and the editor of the Chicago Winler-Oetan, bavinf
contracted a cold In his bead, has ordered eork solei
for his hat.
Tho suu was going down ovor the Jersey meadows la
blood inuroon, .deeply darkenod with dun blue, end ?
Newark girl said, "What kind of leathers are you going
to put on your fall hat."
Mr. JacKson S. Schultz, In hla recent wtuk, says thai
1,800 pounds of hemlock bark will tan 150 pounds ol
leather; but lorgets to tell us how many poundi
of leatbor will tan a boy.
Athtintruru:?"It is only too common to divide tht
inhabitants ol European Turkey broadly Into Tnrki
aud Christians. Wo seem, however, to rccoguize three
distinct claspc* or lurks?tho agricultural Turk, who
possesses all sorts of primitive virtues in perfection;
tho oflluiai Turk, who pluuders, and the bashi-batouk,
who murders."
At Cognac strangors are strnck by the carbonlzod
stato ot the rools and walls of all tho more anoionl
houses, tho grimy appearance of which tbey at ones
uKcr'bo to the smoke Irom surrounding distilleries.
Tnero are, however, no distilleries at Cognac. The;o
blackened wails are simply duo to tbe chemical action
ol iho vapors arising irom the eau-de-vie stored in tha
vast entrepots ol ibn brandy capital.
Tho Cologne Gazette says that the present position
of the wool manufacturing industry in America Is
most unfavorable The protectionist system has cer
tainly led to a groat incroaso in the number ol fac
tories, but it his dimlnishod the avorage amount of
production. The rise in tho prices of all necessarioa
ol life and of manufacturing industry has rendered tho
cost of production inucb greater than formerly. More
over, iho quantity of most woollen goods, especially
of tbosoofan lulorlor kind, is grcitor than the conn
lr> oan consume, and any exportation of thoin, at tht
pr.ces now current. Is not to bo thought of.
Jfrmiiirj Telegram bill ol fare lor prisoners:?
i hoir. ;
i lumb aio Soup ?
; tiKii. )
$ Striped lias.-?"I'.cked up" Codfish t
$ KN TRKKS. >
% Ilacon that has beeu saved?Any entry where ^
; there's an overcoat ou tue rar.t. ?
J mkat. >
5 Broken "bits" of ell kinds. |
5 mm disii. ;
5 Sky-'llgh.e." j
- TKOSTARI.M I
< "Ccll"ery -iqu.'ishes, a la indictment?"Plants." ;
* I'AHK. ]
? Jail llirds ol Auburn Plumule?Sweet Slug- I
5 Singers??Cr?w"i>ur?Cuuiproiuioe. c
i KKHKKKT. {
5 "Peach"-pie.?"WslP'-nuta i
j oat.TK. >
$ "Jtmmy"aca Uuin?lob;.* (Crackitt) of AK *
; CUIAK. ?
J "Skeleton Key" West brand.