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M;\V YOKK HUUAJiD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GOHDON BENNETT,
ruoi'iiuiuK.
111 ft HAIf.Y ItKKALI) turrvil'iy Im r/tr yur
Tt.re* t ante per ropy .holiday nacladeili. Ten dollere u-r
tmi Ilea doi I or t fur all monllia. two dollar* anil UfIT runte
lot titf*?e moiiltie. ur at a rata of una dollar [tar lunnllt fur
art) period laaa t baa 'Arr* won Ilia Itnuday aditlou luclednd :
lil.out Monday edition eight dallara par year, fraa of
Wn'S'.lil.Y IIKKALD?Ono dollar per year. ft*o of poet*
NOT1CK TO HI.'KArklHKHM-Kawlt la ?raft*art New
York or I'oat Olllra inaaar urdara. autl wham neither of
tin ea t an l.n prorarad art til tho inwoay In a fiuitrvl laltar. |
All remitted at rtak of autiiler la order to llieura
ttanilon enbei-rlher* wtehlng tl.alr tidrtroae changed luuat
gi?" llialr old at well aa tliair naar adtlraaa
All liiiaiitaaa. nuara latlara or tulac apltlt daapati Una moat
be atldraaaail Nta Voki llmiai.lt.
I.rtirraand packager altunlil lt? properly eealod.
tir.jto toil rouilnllliTt atliine a ill nut Itn returned.
I nloretl at Ilia l'nat OHce at Now York. S. Y., aa eecond
claat matter.
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Nitb*rri|?tlmi? MfifJ utlvcriinfiuuula will l?? r?coiv?4 ana
forwwriiiMj on iIiokeium lirini mi In N?f York.
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AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.
AIU'.RLK'H THEATRE?OLII Rlmitm.
DEW YORK AQUARIUM Nakio.attka M.UOM.
WAI/LACK'H?OUH Oiui.A
LENT'* N14VV YORK CIRCUS. ~
YIKTII AVKNI/K-N*tr Co*?u7*r.
AMERICAN INHTITUTK-KxMIBITIO*.
UNION KQUAKK TilKATltK?Vkkkcii Flat*
ACADEMY ok MCHIC-II. Tmovatobb.
STAND A It I) THE ATICE ? Patiritiu.
OKItMANIA TIIEATRK-Dobra Diaba.
AHIIKY'H PARK THEATRE?Emtl I* IBBLABP.
DALVH THEATRE?Wtrix
GRAND OPERA HOUSE?UAULBT.
Til ALIA THEATRE?DBB Hbbcadb*.
NIHLO'H HARDEN?KXI-iiamtmbnt.
UA VKICLY'H THEATRE*-Tub Octoboo*.
BROADWAY OPERA IIOUAK?PIMAKOB*.
f IIKATRK CoMHJUK- Mri.i.uiAB Ouabd*' Ciibiptma..
KO-4TEK& RIAL'S CONCERT HALL
AMERICAN DIME MUSEUM?CuMomlU.
HAN' KRANCISCO MINHTRKLH.
fONY KAHTOR'S Til K ATKK?Vabiktt. MBMDM.
HKVENTII REOIMEMT PAUL _
CIIICKEIUNO HALL? KMII.BBTOB'B Matimkb LKCTUBB.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
r*i*.vv iuui\. runnw. >'m r.,?inr. a :;i. uww.
The probability are that Hut weather in New
York and it* vicinity to day mil be cold und
/air. To-morrow the eninc ronditumt urf likely
to prevail, futhmced ley a utiyht rice in temperature.
Wall Stkkkt Ykotejidav.?In the stock
market the business wiim enormous, (180,UOO
shares being ili nlt in. Tho "boar" movement
wu? successfully continued, u furtlier decline
ranging from " hj to 5 points being recorded.
There were plight evidences of n recovery toward
tin elohc. Call loans ruled at 7 per cent, with
a lew tratiHautiotin at a "commission" ranging as
liijtli as :ih per day. Foreign exchange wum
stronger in the morning, but weakened tutor in
the day on uccouut of the stringent mouey
(market.
Caitain Wii.i.iamh la Acyi/irrKl>!
Too (loon To Hk Thi.'K.?'Hie ilnal meeting
of the Hoard of County Canvassers in announced
for thia afternoon.
"KxEi trrona AMD Tuustkks" la the title of a
abort article on another puge, which ahould be
read by gentlemen occupying tho trust positions
designated.
Tiik Unitlij .States puya ho liberully for
whatever it buy a that it Nhould be able to ho"
cure for tiio 1'oat OIHco an olev utor which will
not break down twice in u single month.
A Man Wiio Diik.w a live thouHund dollar
lottery prize came hi grief ycNtcrduy. (load
liiel; had been too much for him. Moat of the
World's lucky men are apuiled by their fortune.
T'ii I'khilh ok Naviuation by srtll in a stream
abounding in Htcam veaaels were shown by yesterday's
collbdou. What can any Hailing vchhcI
do to save hernolf if in the wuy of a large
atl .Hindiip I
Tiik Italian Mi.siciam who In charged with
% h* ,r.j killed a boy in Jersey City a fortnight
a o, i.ik* t^t n found in Montreal. His own stater..
.. f. of the W'livrrtsce will la: found in our
sp?wu*l de.ipaf h.
AWWnurrttH* received fully its
r. .. < futerdajr in an essay upon its failure. If
there < a. other country in the world where so
to r./ h 'e'rfiU- tnhatdt ugly bouses the traveller
iiss not yet discovered it
'I wo TiiofHAKir Hollar* was yesterday
aw ani< d as damages to a merchant who was
arrested apparently for merely asking a policeman
not to elub a porter. This verdict is
?h enlcdly disrespectful to New York's sceptre,
the club.
I.kadvll.lk bus iinally appealed to Judge
Lynch, itiul two exoeutions were tbc immediate
results; but Iicadville should be ashamed of
Itself not to have born able to organize courts
Imiunt enough to uinke unlawful proceeding*
atinccrnMiiiy.
Tiik Akmt on tun Ct miikhuakd ha* hy a
Onuniinoua vote paid a haud.iouic tribute to tlio
memory of General Andernon. of V'ort Sumter
fame, thin notion Wing apparently needed to
allay tho Mi>pie.ion* of peraoc* vh?M>
mental condition mutt ootoaiiDy W deplorable.
,
A Mim!*tku xjraatiKl vixnr t*?-it?n# e&argo*
liavo been mtcf it W btwixa:iHr;;u ? oranpluitiiiig
that tW nircKTirntjta Wu'r conducted
pmntely. L#e! Lm. ??<*mnwt Th>
in path-ncc. If W i# guilty tl?* jml^-r v?J W
nil it to get nt tbe troth: it izixincf.T', 'it <xtntry
will luivc boon saved fr\>m u k-jucmIaI
TUN WKATHKR.- Tlio centre ot disturbance
that wu* advancing toward tlie N\w England
coast, a* stated In yesterday's IItiiAU>. d?.
eloped grrut energy a* it moved into the
tftin In the vicinity of Cipe Coil. It was fol,
i?wrd by it very Inrga area of high barometer,
wlii' h 'aimed the gradient* for northwesterly
nod wetterly wind* to Imooiiio very ntccp over
the Midrib Atlantic Nlale* and the biwer lake
f k '"?" K?in InII "?i urn miimic Atimitir mm
J*nw Ktgtnnrf riMiKtu: In thn Inko region* thn
iliM?milni( tntn|>ir?tiirn c?iimm1 thn praoipit*11'hi
to ?<41'' fli" lorni nf *iww. The wmthcr
%ii? (mr or nicer In th# South Attend'
niul Onlf Mtetn*, thn central ml
li", mill iIm Northern*!. Thn temperature
till 11 nnk I ml I y throughout. nil thn ill*trictn nnwt
til tlii Itoi-ky M mi ill mi km, hihI i* below thn free*
tun itt. MH?|it In the Mouth Atlnntln and tlulf
HtiiLi'N. Tli? wimU hevo lifi'ii I'ruri* brl*k to
high In thn'Middle Aliunde, Now Knglnnd
Hole* mui thn lower lake ni(limit, mid gene roily
fresh nl*c where. Thn Ntnrtn will prnvti very ?n\ero
ovnr thn ocean north i?f latitude forty.
Tin- weather in New York mui It* vicinity to ilu.v
will he cold mui fuir. To morrow thn mum condition?
urn likely to prevail, followed by u light
rieo in tniuparature.
NEW YORK
Uout.ru I Cirunt a boullirrn I'snilldel*.
The Southern democrats are jubilant over
their discovery of General Grunt. He in, it
so*ixis, a man utter their own hearts, and
tli" beat possible Presidential candidate.
The Southern papers are addressing hiin
by dozena us "groat and good trieud," und
it in amusing to nee that those republican .
journals in the North which act with the
promoters of tho Northern "Grant movement,"
ho called, are in ecstasies over this 1
Southern democratic Grant "bcoin."
Why are they so delight1 d? Tho pro mo- j
tern of the Northern "Grant movement" |
are among the moat stalwart of the "stal- 1
warts they are the extreme republicans, j
the men who doubt Ifluine, who scout at [
Wasliburuo, who will not have any one of
whom they can harbor even the uuapiciou
that he would continue the Southern policy
of Mr. Hayes. They wunt "a strong man .
at tlio head of the government" to keep tho
South in order, as they boast?to make it
ugly for tho rebels, to show thoso Southerners
what they must do. It was because
they supposed General Grant to be their
man that they cried out for him, as their
model or ideal of a "strong tnun at the head
of the government."
Jtut now come the Southern democrats
and take him out of their hands. Do these,
then, want their States to be once more
harried? Is it bccuase they believe that
the General, if reinstated in the Presidency,
would re-establish tho carpet-bag rule and
would deinund u now force bill, or the
pussago of tho old one, which Mr. Blaine
defeated, that tho Houthern democrats suddenly
embrace him ? That in what the stalwurt
republicans want. They huve never
couceulod their wishes nor their hatred and
contempt for the Hayes Houthern policy.
They demand a "strong man at the
hood of the government" for precisely
these purposes ; they have maintained
their alliance with the defeated carpot-buggors
in the Mouth, and kept up the hopes of
those ruined politicians; they have urged
them to .join in the Grant "boom," defended
their claims and made much of their
wrongs, on tho precise plea that another
four years of Grant would reinstate theso
worthies in their old places and power.
And now come the Southern democrats?
men who refuso steadfastly even to hold I
social intercourse with the authors of tbe
carpet-lmg misrule?hero come these democrats
and shout for Grant.
Who is to bo cheated in this most remarkable
of political combinations? We do
not of course suggest that General Grant
would decoive anybody; he has nothing to
do with ull this outcry. But it is clear that
if tbe Northern extremists want Grant, as
they loudly and continually assert, because
bo would "keep the rebels down," becuuso
he would "show them who won at Appomattox,"
because he is the only man strong
enough, bitter enough, determined enough
to servo iu what thoy declaro to bo a grave
exigency, thou the Houthern democrats
must inevitably rejeot and oppose him. II,
on the oontrary, us we believe to be
the truo state of the case, General
Grant holds in contempt all the
slulwart bosh ubout "rebel supremacy" and
Southern outrages ; it, as wo suppose, he
sens that the Muuth is not a danger to tbe
country?that, on tho oontrary, many
Houthern statesmen are umong tho most
conservative and patriotic men in Congress
; if he believes that the South is to
bo trusted and ought not to be reviled and
hounded, what part, then, have tho Northnvti
utnlwiirtu avwl tYiair f?*inn<1u anrl allinu
the Southern carpet-baggers, with him ?
Wo tlo not objeot to this remarkable combination.
"Politics mnke strange bedfellows"
is an old and true saying, and to
an outsider, as tho Hkiui.o is, the spectacle
of John Logan and Alexander Stephens,
Don Cameron and General Gordon, W. P.
Kellogg and General Gibson lying down
amicably together is certainly amusing.
If the Northern stalwartn continue to demaud
General Grunt thoy must either regard
him as the only man fit to head their
anti-Southern crusado, or they must confess
that all tho hullabuloo they havo made
lor the lust yoar and a half was mere
sound and fury, signifying nothingbut thoir
determination to retain power by grossly
and unpatriotically misrepresenting the
South and setting tho sections by tho
ears. The public, which has taken but a
languid and porfunctory intorest in politics
for a year or two, will bo curious to see
which horn of this dilemma tho stalwart
loaders find tho easiest to sit down on.
We are not surprised at the Southern
democratic rally for General Grant. The
Southern men remember that General Grant
saw in the last months of his Presidency
that he had been misled about the Southern
spirit. Thoy heard lrom his lips in
those days expressions of disgust and contempt
for the carpet-baggers who had deceived
him. They believe that he would
not repent the errors of years gone by in
regard to the South, and they believe that
they con deal with him, and that thoy made
a blunder by opposing him before. Dnt
aw than this, they believe that General
Gr*ut would join them in those great and
oaszlj schemes of internal improvement for
which many of them are hungering; that
he would favor subsidies for Southern commerce
and Southern railroads, and large
appropr.otions for Southern internal im x?y\wutnnhfn
TKnr altiG (Vini
General Grant'* foreign policy vu always
an adventurous one, looking toward
Cuba and Mexico, and controlled by
that feeling or sentiment which speaks of
our "manifest destiny" to gobble up all the
' ouflying territory?a sentiment which is
stronger in the South than anywhere else.
They believe that with General Grant
oleotod by their voles, moved to gratitude
by their support, and wielding a predomi:
nant influence in the North by reaaon of his
military achievements, they could inspire
i tin* policy of the nation, foreign and
domestic, as they could not hope to If they
chose a conservative democrat like bayard
or u /Udior of leas influence liko Hancock.
It is this spirit of adventure, of costly
government enterprises, of wholesale expenditures,
under a strong man, which lias
i at the bottom of the Southern fever for
, flrnuf Tlie ixl van til roils nnrt >>(
j^thw South is not avsrss to s "strong miui at
IIERALI), Fit ID AT, NOTE!
the head of tho govegninent." It prefers ;
KUck a man, if only it can hope to enjoy j
Lib favor, and it does not moan to j
repeat it* former blunder* toward ' Grant.
It ??e? in the General the very qualities
which it like* boat?he stick* to hi* friends,
and these Southern democrats mean :
to be his friends; he likes u liberal expenditure,
and they are of the same mind with
him; he likes an adventurous foreign
policy, and they hunger for a new war and
for new conquests; they see that he is not
bound by obligations to party, that his
influence in the North is measurably independent
of the politicians, and that, there- j
fore, huvinglike ideas with themselves he
is their man, above any other of either ;
party.
We shall watch with curiosity this open- !
ing fight of the Northorn stalwarts and the j
Southern Bourbons for the body of General |
Grant. But wo suspect the stalwarts will
be beaten in the end.
Trouble In Ireland.
Apparently the British government is of
opinion that the time has come tor it to
take part in the Irish agitations ; and it
takes hold with a show of vigorous intentions.
Garrisons are to bo increased at
several important points in Ireland, it is
stated, and simultaneously with thin announcement
arrests nro in ado of several
persons on the churgo of having used in
public "language calculated to incite a
breach of the poaco." Bail is refused for
the persons under arrest and their examination
is conducted ia secret?rigorous
measures scarcely in keeping with tlm comparative
insignificance of the alleged cause
of arrest ; for to say of any given language
that it inny possibly excite a breach of the
peaoe in Ireland is not necessarily to condemn
it us oriininal or even as unduly
violent. Government perhaps scarcely
hopes to get over the present. Irish
difficulty in this way. It cannot
logically indulge in such a hope,
whether it regards the trouble as '
a genuine utterance of widespread discontent
or whether it regards it as a merely 1
worked up agitation. If it is un artificial
oxcilewent, cultivated by professional agi- .
tators, a few arrests and a little martyrdom
will help on tho game ; and to put two or
three in prison "for Irish liberty" will in
fact cull forth fifty candidates for a similar
distinction. On tho other hand, if the
land troubles?the political discontents?
tho terrible oppression of the hard times?
the despair ot all those parts of the nation
whish should bo its vital elements?are the
forces that huvo really made themselves felt
in this agitutioi^ no number of arrests will
have any appreciable effect upon it. Indeed,
if the outrage in county Sligo, reported
in our special cable despatch, have,
as there is every reason to believe it has,
other than a local significance, resistance
is already taking a practical form. It
may be that the police have intelligence ol '
schemes on foot "for action"?for attempts
to organizo and prepare the much
mooted resistance to the collection of
ronts?and that they have arrested
the persons named for complicity in
such attemnts. uuttiucr the allecredaharoo
forward as a were pretext. Tim anuotiuced
intention to reinforce the Irish garrisons
implies that tbo government imagines it
has something more tangiblo to deal with
than the exoited rhetoric of a few public
spoakers. It may be, however, that Her
Majesty's Ministers merely want to show
the Baltan of Turkey how easily they can
deal with a discontented province. Only
the othor day they threatened active moas- 1
uros against the Sultan because he did not
rapidly and effectively carry out all bis
good intentions in Asia Minor ; and it is
said that the Sultan's representative then 1
said that his Sovereign oould do at least as
well in Asia Minor as Her Majesty's govern,
ment could do in Ireland. Perhaps, there*
fore, the present motive is only to sot a
beautiful example.
Wu It th? JeannottoV
Correspondence from San Francisco pub*
lished in another column gives us some
further details as to tho observations of the
Arctic steamer Jeannette, made by the cap.
tains of some ships of the whaling tleot, in
September. Doubts, it appears, wero expressed
as to whether the steamer sighted
September 2 and 3 from the Sea lireeze and
the Northern Light was really the Jeannette,
though what other steamer it was
possibly thought it might be we are unable
to conjecture. Steainors are not so plonti*
ful in the polar seas as in many other seas.
It is known where tho Vega was at that
tiuic, and we are not aware of the Arctic
voyage of any other vessel than the Jean*
netto that could have been where the ship
socn was on those days. Hut a clear*
headed aud calm-eyed old whaler has ex*
pressed, upon full examination of a photo*
graph of the Jeannette, his confident
opinion that sho was tho vessel seen, aud wo
have no doubt what over that he is right.
Tk* Character of Oeneral Thomas.
Both at the unveiling of tho noble etatne
of Genoral George 11. Thoimi* in Washington
and afterward at the eveniug meeting
on tho Whito House grounds all the orators
ouiittod to nllado to the most characteristic
incident of his grand career?an incident
vhich illustrates at onco his bravery, his
simplicity, his tenderness, his patriotism
and his single-heartedness. In the winter
of 18(>5, hoaring that cortain wealthy citizens
of Lonisvillo and Cincinnati, who
knew that his private mesne were very moderate
in extent, were about to raiso a lurgo
sum of money for a gift to him in token of
their gratitude lor his military servicos, he
immediately wrote the following short letter
from his headquaftors in Mississippi to
the author of the testimonial:?
"Wliilo I am duly and profoundly sensible
of the high compliment thus proposed
to be paid me, I would greatly prefer, and
if not premature suggest, that any eum
which may be raised for that purpose may
be devoted to The founding of a iuud for
the relief of disabled soldiers and of the indigent
widows and orphans of officers and
aoldiers who have lost their lives during
this war. 1 am amply rewarded when assured
that my humble services have mot
with the approbation of the government
and the people."
NfBER 21, 1879-\V1TII SI
Mr. Froude's Lalwt N?n?atluii.
We gave apace yesterday to copious extracts
froiu uii article by Mr. James Anthony
Froude, the noted historian, on "Itomanisin
and the Irish Mace in the United
States." Mr. Fronde's article is highly
sensational, as no doubt it was intended to
Le, but we believe it will make but a
slight impression on the American mind.
Our people have an abiding faith in the
salutary influence of perfect religions freedom.
Mr. Froude tells us that the
number of Catholics in this country
has doubled within the last twenty
years. But, inasmuch as our whole
population has increased in nearly
the same proportion, we do not see
how the Catholics arc likely to gain
control of the government. Ho tells us
that they ore already six millions, and that
they continue to grow. But our whole
populaiiou is already near fifty millions,
and it, too, continues to expand with
astonishing rapidity. So long as our government
is controlled by universal suffrage
it is not very clear how tho voting part of
the six millions of Catholics is going to get
tlie upper hand of the voting part of forty
millions of Protestants. If tho Catholics
should put forth claims inconsistent
with our free institutions the
united resistance of the Protestants
would be a perfect safeguard. The
shrieks of a few alarmists are ridiculous,
so long as every American citizen has a ballot
and the outnumbering Protestants are
in a majority of seven to one.
A historian like Mr. Froude should take
a larger survey of human affairs than to give
in to tho ridiculous delusion that the
Church of Rome can, in this age, control
the politics of countries where its faith is
professed. What has Mr. Froude been
dreaming while the great evonts of the
last twenty years have beon in progress?
Is he blind to what has taken
place in Italy? The population of Italy is
almost entirely Catholic. That country lies
under the shadow of the Papacy; there, if
anywhere, the Pope should be able to control
political movements. Rut, in spite of
the most energetic fulminutions of the
Vatican, we have seen a government established
in Catholic Italy not only in
defiance of its wishes but in subversion of
its ancient rights. If the Pope is impotent
to control the Catholics of his own country,
against a government which has Rtripped
him of his temporal dominions, what kucccbb
could he expect if he should be so visionary
rva to undertake to control the politics of a
country like the United States?
Among all the publio questions which
have boen discussed in this country there
is but one in which the Catholic Church
has an interest separate from tho general
interest of tho whole people. That is the
question of schools, in which the Catholic
clorgy are not followed by a majority
of tho Catholio laity. Cathojic
citizens will continue to exercise the
liberty of sending their children to
the publio schools so long as the free
education there given is of a better quality
than that supplied by sectarian schools.
There is ,a growing disposition in the
Catholio clergy of this country to resist
the tyrauny of their bishops, and of the
laity to assert their independence of the
clergy, at least in matters of education.
This is a nocessafy effect of the atmosphere
of freodom in which all Americans live.
Hanging Discussed by- Scientists.
We present an instalment of very respectable
testimony tb-day that aversion to
the present legal mode of capital punishment
is not a mere matter of sentiment.
Mr. Henry Bergh is woll known to be a
Btern disciplinarian in regard to the human
family. Professors Draper and Dulling are
cool headed scientific experts of the
highest distinction. They ooncnr in
pronouncing hanging a clumsy and
disgusting way of inflicting death, for
which civilization demands a speedy substitute.
All these witnesses aro above tho
suspicion of being moved in' thoir opinion
by undue tenderness for the criminal. The
variety of expedients which they suggost
for accomplishing the purpose effected by
hanging is very interesting, and we trust
that the discussion now initiated will load
to a practical rosult.
Viciuiiaaci 01 wan Ruen,
We know no reason why the transactions
of the Stock Exchange should not bo regarded
aa a legitimate part of tlio general
business of the country. Considered as a
mere organization the Stock Exchange is
of the same nature as the Cotton Exchange
or the Produce Exchange?a convenience
for facilitating business by
bringing buyers and sellers into easy
contact with ono Another. It acts
as a barometer of changing values by
enabling the community to seo the upward
or downward tcndoncy of prices
earlier than would be possible if the machinery
of transactions were not so well
organized. If prices aro expected to go up
everybody has notice and can tako a hand
in ; if expected to go down overybody receives
early warning that he should try to
stand from under.
lint this advautngc is attended with a
groat incidental evil, owing to tho tendency
of habitual operators to exaggerate every
upward and every downward tendency.
Tho professional speculators thrive upon
changes, and it,is indifferent to them in
which dircotion prices vary if they can
forcsco and take advantage of It. The vie*
tims are simple people who do not under*
stand the arts by whiolr stock bubbles aro
hlnwfl tltl In liiu lininf. n.1 tvlilnli iKnv ova
certain to collapae. Tho old Rtngera
shrewdly Roll ont boforo thin point 1r
replied and uro then willing to promote a
general fltam4>ud(> in order that tboy may
buy again nt tho lowoflt point of an cxcchnive
reaction, lint with all thoir experienoo
and dexterity they Rometimea got
badly caught, and If ovou they cannot aU
way* eRcapo what chanoe have unwary outlido
adventurera?
It ia pitiable to ooaaidor the Iorrur ?uffored
by Rmall dabblers in Htocka during
tbetumblo of the laat two daya. Much
peoplo genorully operate by what are oalled
"marglna." A widow, for example, In
father pinohed oirouiuatanoca, who hap
J PPLEMENT.
j pons to own two thousand dollars in government
four per cents, is tempted to sell
them and make u email venture in stocks.
Seeing thut Erie ia rising she ordera a
broker to buy for her a? largo an [
amount of Erie a* he will conaent to
carry for her on the deposited margin, i
j Suppose she purchased twenty thousand '
| dollars of that stock at the time i
j in this month when it was highest, ,
on a ten per cent margin, ahe would have
found yesterday that she had aunk her 1
whole investment, since the deoline of Erie
I from the highest figures of the present
month ia 9 3-4, or within a slight fraction of
the ten per cent of her deposited margin.
It will do for wealthy operators to run such
risks, for if they are not sharp enongh to
unload in season they can stand the loss;
but it is absurd lor people of slender means
to risk their money in such ventures ?
V(twit-In larne may venture more,
liut tittle Uoati muit k -op near ihora.
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Til# Nla|(ara National Parts.
Tito unanimous vote of the Commissioners
of the State Survey yesterday, advising
the Legislature to establish a public park
ut Niagara Falls, takes the project out of
the domain of fanciful schemes and presents
it to the people of the Slute in a precise
form. Tho character of this Board of
Commissioners, of which ex-Governor Seymour
is president, gives conclusive assurance
that in coming to their decision
no consideration had influence
save a high regard for the honor of New
York. There can be no suspicion of a job
in a plan unanimously ratified by such a
Board. On the oontrary, it is evidently
designed to rescue Niagara from the hands
of jobbers and speculators and preserve it
in saored public truBt for mankind. It will
bo a reproach to our State forever if it
neglects to fulfil this duty. The full report
of the Board, to bo founded on this preliminary
vote, will be presented to tbe
Legislature early in January, and we await
it with great interest.
Another Test of the Police.
Tbe corpse washed upon tbe rocks off the
Battery yesterday raises a test of the detec
tive efficiency of our police foroe akin to
that whish was afforded by the Hull case.
We hopo that its solution will not be so
mortifying to their self-sufficiency. There
Beeins to be a discord of opinion*whether
tho condition of the body points to the
theory of murder rather than that of
suicide. But a man so dressed, and showing
such signs of bolonging to a class of
society superior to tramps, must have had
associates who are within reach of the arm
of the police, for the body hud not been
afloat a long time, and whether the
case is one of murder or of Buicide
it is the duty of the police to find them.
We observe that a deputy coroner makes
the assertion that there are "numbers of
cases" of suioide by drowning on record in
which men havo blindfolded their eyes and
tied their hands behind their backs before
jumping into the water. This is a very remarkable
assertion, and we decline to give
it credit.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Don Cameron is working for Blaino or?Grant.
Uonator llarnum, of Connecticut, U in Chicago.
Mr. Manton Marblo and wife have arrived from
Europe.
Bawronoe Barrett and wife, Chicago. Max Moretzok,
Chicago.
Dlckehs used to carry Yatea up to Gadahiil is an
lriah Jaunting car.
Mr. John W. Forney, of Philadelphia, Is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Parnell was burned in effigy in sovoral English
towns on Guy Fawkes Day.
Bismarck is said to havo been very much depressed
siuce the death of Uerr von BUlow.
Mr. Yang Wing, of the Chinese Logstion at Waabiugtou,
ia at the Park Avenua Hotel.
General Sir Patrick McDougall will leave Halifax,
N. H., in the mail steamer next Tuesday for England.
Diplomatists In Vienna and Berlin hopo that
V/IIUUI l*UUy?WWH WTUUkUMiJ DUtWVUU A ? iUV/O
Oortauhakoff.
Coiouel John Hay, recently Appointed AaxlaUnt
Secretary of Bute, le expected to report for duly at
the depertinent to-day.
The French law courU have reopened, and the
hiatorlc Lit <U Juttice la being held. Why eo called?
"Parctqut la Juitice dort."
Ex-Ooveruor II. P. Baldwin, aucceaaor to the laU
Senator Chandler, of Michigan, la at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, on bla way to Waahlngton.
General Todleben haa 1uat had the title of graf
(or eonnt) conforrod upon him In commeinoraUou of
the aoventy-flrat anniveraary of the ilrst bombardment
of Bebuatopol.
The ruuior that the I'rlnceaa Louiae waa liitoroatlng
heraelf In the organization of a colonization company
la authoritatively denied. The Martjuia of
Lorno la aald to feel much anuoyed over its publication.
The Kraprnaa of Auatrla haa a largo riding anhool
attached to her caatlo, at Oodiilli), wherein ahe lovoa
to watch the training of vlcloua horaoe. There, too,
the Empreaa recuivea her gucaU from the neighborhood.
Thrf Burmoae have becomo auch Inveterate gamblera
hIuou King Theebau haa introduced the lottery _
that they are now aelling their daughtera for $3 SO
a piece, In order to get money wherewith to purchaee
llcketa.
On Ail Maiuta' Day, "le Jour doe Morte," a French
widower called on a floriat to buy a wreath for hla
wite'a tomb, lie waa offered a garland, with tbo luacriptlon
"J'atleniU mm epoux." "y? /era puiitir A
vulre dtfunU." aald the floriat.
Kaiaer Wilhelm dona not ehare the mlatrnat entortaluod
by Princo Biamarck toward Buaaia. lie
tunacioualy ciiuga to the memoriae of hie youth, i
which ?u(|ui nun m inoi ou lue uih as ult iruoit
friend or hi* country and family.
Earl Gro*venor, the eldoiit aon of the Dukn of West,
minster, wae to atari from Hon Francisco yesterday,
for the Yoacmlte Valley, accompanied by William
llradford, tho American artlat, who le to fill an order
for a picture of the valley from eorae point of the
Karl'a (election, lluutora aro to moot tho Earl en
route for a tew daya' cliaae of deor and grir.slioa.
Tho Frantyhrt Journal aaya that tho betrothal of
the Grand Duke of llvaao to a daughter of the late
ex-Kiiig of Hauovor haa boon "nettled In principle.
If not formally agreed upon." The late King loft
two daughter*?Princess Frederic* and Prinpeas
Mary, but the telogram doe* not any which of thee*
prtnceaao* la to be the future Grand Dnchoe*.
Loudon Truth:?"And how haa Mr. llright acquired 1
hla command of nervoua English? By almoat learning
by heart tho worka of tho pureat Engllah
writer*. 1 remember aoino one ouoe saying in hie
presence that It would be difficult to And a man who
had read through Milton'* 'l'aradiae Itagalnad.' 'I
havo road It mauy time*,' he aakd, and then he proceeded
to cite several magnificent paaaagee from it."
Hallowe'en waa kopt at Balmoral with the usual
pictureaqua ceremonlea, gueen Victoria and the
I'rinceaa Beatrice watching the proceeding*. The [
crvaut* and tenant*, carrying torch**, formed two |
procession* to tho lawu, where they wore joined by
baud of mnalc, and a large banflre w?i iiidhu uj
Prlncce* Beatrice. A witch bunt aud mack trial fol- I
lowed, and th? witch w?a eubaequeutljr burned la
effigy, the Queen'a health being drank and the national
anthem sung at the eleee.
I
OBITUARY.
MB. JOHX 8. THUASIIEB.
Ttaa many frieuil* of Mr. John 8. TUraaher will ba
pained to read this announcement of bit sudden
Heath from apoplexy in <>aivu#tou. Texua. Ho was a
journalist of the old school, and widely known bjr
the members of the profession tiiroughout the
country. Born in Portland. Me., iu 1817, ho reooived
s fair education and at an early ago removed to
Havana, Cuba. Here he acquired a knowledge of the
Spanish language and commenced to devote himself
to Journalism. In 18l'j he purchased the Daro Industrial,
a daily paper of Havana, which he published
nutll its suppression in 1B51 by Genearl Concha. On
the 1st of September of that year General Lopes was
executed for his invasion of Cuba and shortly there
after Colonel Thrasher was likewise arrested and
sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment with
hard labor. lie was subsequently released
through the Intercession of Mr. Harrington, our then
United States Minister at Madrid. In ik52 Mr.
Thrasher visited Kitrope and on his return founded
a pHper In New Orleans called the Ji-ucon of Cuba.
In 1853, 1861 and 1866 he was a member of that
fatuous organization which had for its object the
capture of Cuba, composed of General John A. Quitiuau,
Captain 1'. T. Beauregard, Captain George B.
McClellan. Captain Ouatavus W. Smith, J. K.
liuucan, Malinheld Lovull and the (Julian Juuta.
The plans of the expeditionist* being thwarted
by the United Stales government. Colonel
Thrasher caino to New York and joined
the ell to rial staff of the N lew Youk Hkiulc. Subsequently
he visited Mexico and Mouth America as *
representative of the paper, and wrote a series of
si tides from those countries which attracted much
attention. It will be seen that during this entira
period his preailoctioiis were strongly lu favor ot
the Cuban cause. In I860 he conducted the Novioioso
dt Aeuca York, an organ of the Spanish-American
republics. On the breaking out of tbo civil
war he cast his fortunes with the South,
having previously married an accomplished
lady of Georgia and tho widow of one of the
founders of the city of Galveston, Mrs. Menard.
From this time onward Colonel Thrasher was largely
identified with the growth or that elty, and spout
ranch of his time in perfecting tbo local improvements
that he had suggested. At one time during
tho war ho acted as the agent of the Southern Associated
Press, and was present In this capacity durin
</ thn kinoA nf iilunth kftdsr tlm war hn finml nnlfifi
Im IllvMlracion Americana, of Frank Leslie, In Mew
York. For two years, however, he wu in poor
health, owing to an attack of Incipient paralyaia,
which shattered his constitution and compelled him .
to desist from active journalistic duties. Colonel
Thrasher was an exceedingly popular man In all the
relations of life, truthtul and conscientious, a
gonial companion, a ready writer and conversation*
alist, and one whose varied experiences made him
an admirable raconteur.
JAMCS SHY.
James Shy, the veteran Kentucky tnrfman. and
the oldest one In America, died at Lexington, Ky.(
on Wednesday last, aged ninety-tour years. Mr.
Shy had been identified with the turf of America for
over sixty years, having owned and run horses as
long as any person connected with the turf of the
South and West cap well remember. Mr. Shy was
one of the most widely known men in his
profession and was considered a man of no
ordinary ability as a trainer and judge of
race horses, and he ran them in his native
State and down the Mississippi; in Tounosseo,
Louisiana, Alabama and other Southern States. He
was alsca fond of cockfigbtlng and rearing game
birds. Among other good race horses that Mr. Shy
owned and ran wero Lady Jackson, Theatre, by
Mlcklejobn; Ashland, by Mcdoo; Laura Bruce, by
Stur Davis; Moorhead, by Modoc; Occidout, by
Bertrand; Nancy Shaw, by Sumptur; Lucinda
llreckenridge and John Crittenden. Sinco lH'Jtl, the
date of the organization of the Kentucky Association,
until quite recently Mr. Shy had lived constantly
in a comfortable house In the field of that
race course, except when during the racing
seasons he made raids to Mew Orleans ana
Mobile. During the last tew years of his
life Mr. Shy was blind and dependent upon
tho generosity of the Lexington turtmen, Mr.
11. F. McOratb, Dr. L. llerr and others seeing to it
that be should not suffer in his old dmys. Mr. Shy's
hope was to live until he was a hundred years, and
from his fine physical organization and good general
health it was supposed ho would reach what he
hoped for. Mr. M. 11. Sanford ou one of his visits to
Lexington afforded the old man much pleasure by
proposing to give a stake to be run for over tbe Lex
ingtou course, to bo uamed the Shy Stake, when the
old man mould reach his hundredth year, and thla
firoject would havu been carried out had the old man
ivod. Mr. Shy wax a stone mason by trade, which
be followed in his early life, and until bo took up his
abode on tbo grounds of the Kentucky Association
at Lexington.
BARON JdSKF LABSEB VON ZOLLHEIM, AUSTRIAN
STATESMAN.
A cable depatcb from Vienna announces the death
in that city yesterday of liaron Lasser von Zollbeim,
well known as'a leader of tbo liberal party in
Austria, and formerly Minister of the Interior,
liaron Lasser belonged to an ancient noblo family of
Halxburg, and was born at Werfen, September SO,
1815. Ho studied law at the University of Vienna,
where be took the degree of doctor, cntored the pub-*
lie service as kmumor procurator, entered tho
Ministry of Finance in 1840, and was elected
to the Uelcbsrath in 1848. He was for ten years Ministerial
councillor in the Ministry of the Iuterior,
been mo in 18M) chiof of section, and was transferred
in i860 to the Ministry of Justice as Privy Councillor.
In this capacity be served the Uolucbowski
and Hchmerllug ministries until the tall of the latter,
in July, 1806, and was appoiutod Governor of the
Tyrol in 1808. At the formation of tho Auorsperg
Cabinet, in November, 1871, be was made Minister of
the Intorior, and rendered important service to the
liberal party by inducing the laud owners to join
tbo members of the Left on tho chief quoatlous at
issue. He was repeatedly vice president of tin
lteicharalh and enjoyed a high reputation for admlulstrative
capacity.
CHARLES S. COXE.
Mr. Charles 8. Coxe, whoso death in his eightyninth
year ocourred yesterday at Drifton, Luzerne
county, Pa., was a son of Tench Coxe, Purveyor of
Public Supplies under Presidents Jefferson and
Madison, and during his long life had stood high in
the estimation of public mun. He was the
oldest member of the Philadelphia liar, having
been admitted to practico in 181*1, after
Simulating at the Ulilroralty of Pennsylvania.
Ir. Coxe advanced rapidly in Ids profession and at
length became a Judge of the Pennsylvania Court of
Common Pleas, llo Inherited from Ills fstbor and
other member* of his iswily vast tracts of rich coal
land, and his wealth wss estimated among the mlllloua.
lie inarru-d Mlas liriutoii, an auut of Oonersl
George 11. MoClellan, and has left two daughters and
four sons.
J. L. WATERMAN.
Commissioner J.L. Waterman, of the United State*
Circuit Court for tho Eastern District of Vlrgiuia,
died at Petersburg, Vs., yesterday afternoon of
pneumonia. Uo was appointed Commissioner by
Judge Pond, of the United States Court, six years
ago. Bo was a native of Huston, Mass., and served
with distinction in the fedoral army during the late
war.
JOHN CAUntKLL.
John Campbell, ex-Senator and Member of the
Arkansas Constitutional Convoutlou, died at bis
residence In Searcy couuty, Ark., on the 19th Inst.
CONNECTICUT HEBREWS.
[Br TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. 1
IlABTrouD, Nov. 30, 1879.
The Chief of Police of Hartford has notified several
merchants of the liubrew faith who have been in tbe
habit of keeping open their stores on both Saturday
and Sunday that hereafter they must close either on
their own or the Christian Satihath. Tho Connect!out
statutes prohibit sll business transactions on
(lie Christian Sabbath, but In the larger cities they
have not beeu obeyed by rigar dealers generally nor
by llebrews lu that or other kiuila of business.
Tho new ordor wss prompted by complaints that
tho few of tho Hebrew merchants who did
net observe their own Habbulb had, by doing
bntdne** n?von day* In tho week, an unfair advantage
ov<>r other merchant*. However, tho majority
of tho Hebrew dealer* uniformly clone from Friday
evening to Hnturday evening. If tho now order le
enforced It In rumored that thone ((tooted by II
will Inniat on the cloning of cigar and otbor atoreg
now kept open on Sunday by general consult ami
for the publie convenience.
TUB Sl'KINGS NOT SOLD.
[BT TB1.KORAPII T > Til K HERAT,!).]
White Sui.phuh Sprinoii, W. Va., Nov. 20,
Judge Jackaon, ef the United 8tatoe District Court
at Cliarlcaton, ban refused to aonflrm the bid of
$31X1,000 uiado by Mr. Alexander Miitthewn. of Lewleburg,
for the Wliltrf Sulphur Sprltiga property laat
August. The leane of the Spring* wan continued
to George f<. Peyton A Oo. for another yoar and the
property will be again offered at public nale next
uuiuier, to be etarted at Mr. Maithuwa' bid.
MANITOBA GOVERNMENT.
Wihnipka, Not. 20, 1(79.
The Hon. 8. C. Hrlggs, Mlnlater of Publlo Work*,
reiigued yesterday.
The government of Manitoba has boon reconstructed
as follows:? Hon. John Norquay, Premier
and Provincial Treasurer; Seuator Qirard, Provincial
Secretary; Hon. D. M. Walker, Attorney
(lAiicral: Hon. John l av lor. Minister ol Airrm.iiltmn.
and U. V. Brown, Minister of l'ulilla Work*.
l'bis ruorg?niE?tioii includes ouu representative ot
the French speaking population, In the person ot
heuatof unrard, whan than wm previously none.