Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 14, 1872, Page 4

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Tz TRIBONT: counting-room a2d business departmont will remain, for the prosent, at No. 15 Cannl strcot. Ad- wertisements should be handed in at that plsce. Mondsy Morning, October 14, 1872, ‘Amusements This Evening. AIRKEN'S THEATBE—Wabash avcaue and Congress strect. ~Afkea and Lawler, managers. Dirs, James 4. Oites’ Gomic Opern Company in th spectacalst extrasa: anza, *Fortanlo, and His Seven Gifted Servapts.” APVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison ‘strect, betwoen State and Dearborn, James H. McVicker, proprletor and manager. Buckstanes Comedy, p Year, or tho Lovers Privilego. Mesers. McVickor, O'Neil, ZLanergan, Power, and Mesdames Allen, Stoncall, Myers, nd Fost. 5 ACADEMY OF MUSIC~Halsted, R, Gardner, manager. *‘kron Frou,” Miss near Madison sireet. C. b3 Ada Gray and J. W. Bifisdell in Jeading parts. MYERS' OPEEA HOUSE—Monroe strost, botweea Stato and Dearborn. S. Myors, menagor. Arlington, Kemble snd Cotton's Minstrels and Burlesque Company. MICHIGAN AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH-Nsthan Sheppard will loctuse op. ** The Phllosophy of tho Ridica- ous. GLOBE_ THEATRE — Desplainos street, _betweon Y e i the Ma s Tonil A a Wi s fagiily, AT et i Caloton, O. A- Gardner, M1 Gilmer, 203 Oosia's Batlot Troupo. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE — Clinton, _between “Washington and Randolph streets. Robesls' Combina- tion. Messrs. Manning, Hurley, Marr, Bray, etc. HALSTED STREET OPERA HOUSE-Cornor of Harrson street. McEvoy's New Hibernicon, represent- Ing a tonr in Ircland. e LIBERAL APPOINTMENTS. ILLINOIS. ‘The gentlemen named below will speak a tae times and places designated : * SENATOR TRUMBULL. e R etreton o, Woabsdias, Gt 16 Fairbury, Livingston 0o, Weduesday, Oct. 10, iliminglon, Wik Cor, THrsday, Ot GENERATL BLAC] Decstur, MaconCo,, Eriday, Oct. 11 Dagnilé, vermillich, Co, Beburdsy, Oct 12 El Paso, Woodford C0., Tuesday, Oct. I5. -, Livi )gswnn ‘Co., Wednesdsy, Oct, 16, Wilmington, Will Co,, Thursday, Oct. Nt Vernon, Jefferson Co., Fridsy, Oct. Tuscola, Douglas Co., Saturday, Oct.19. Msrion, Willizmson Go, Monday, Oct. 21 Louiaville, Clay Co., Tuesday, Oct. 22, ZEffingham, Efingham Co,, ‘v\"edn%dny, Qct. 23, ‘Shelbyvills, Shelby Co,, Thursday, Oct. 24, Taylorville, Christian Co., Friday, Oct. 25, ‘Wsukegan, Lake Co., Tuesday, Oct, 29, ‘Woodstock, McHenry Co., Wednesday, Oct. 30, Belviders, Boone Co., Tlitrsday, Oct. 31, Rockford, Winnebago Co., Friday, N “Freeport, Stephenson Co., Bturday, Nov. T oeve ro, 20 day’ mostings; Mattoon, Coles Co., Mondsy, Oct. 14, night. Charleston, Coles Co., Tuesdey, Oct,15, niabt. Farie, Eagr Co., Wednesday, Oct. 16, gkl Marehall, Clark Co., Thuraday, Oct. 17, nigkt. Greenup, Cumbeslind Co,, Friday, Oct, 18, d Tuscola. Douglass Co,, Baturdey, Oct, 18, Yandalia, Fasette Co., Mondsr, Oct, 31, day Groenville, Bond Co., Tussdsy, Oct, 22, day. Collinsvills, Mdison Co., Viedresdas, Oct, 33, ds5. E£banon, St. Clais Co., Tuureday, 0xf. 24, night. ‘Bamsey, Fayette Co,, Friday, Oct, 23, day. ‘Assnmption, Christian Co., Saturdey, Oct. 26, =7, IHE HON, W. J, ALLEN. Equality, Gallatin Co,, Tnesday, Oct, 15. Galvonas, Bope Co., Thursday, Oct. 31. Metrapolis, Massas Co., Baturdzy, Oct. 19, Ceiro, Alexander Co,, Thursday, 0ct. 80, THE HON, C. H. MOOBE AND A. E, STEVENSOXN. Minfer, Tazewell Co,, Monday, Oct. I4. Delevan, Tazewell Co., Taesdsy, Oct. 14, Mason Gity, Mason Go,, Wednesday, Oct. 16, Havennn, Mason Co., Thuredsy, Oct. 17, B e y: ‘ewell C,, Monday, Oct. 21, Chenos, McLean Co., Tueaday, Oct. 22. MeLean dnésd e ‘meetings. JUDGE EUSTACE, Packinaw, ‘e £bove are all night Pittsfleld, Piko 0o., Oct17, day. Y. Finchester, Scott Co., Oct. 18, dzy, Carraliton, Green Co, Oct, 19, dsy. Centralis, ‘Mattoon, Coles Co,, Oct. 3 ‘Edgar Co., Nov. 1, day. THE HOY. 5. L BEYAN AXD D, E. GREEN, Hanoven) Orr e HON, W, B, NEECE. Baseo, ‘Warsaw, Hancock Co,, Tuesday, e e G huraday, A 17 D (8« 0. , 17, Fountain Green, Hincock Co,, Fridsy, Oct, 18, ZLaHarpe, Hancock Co,, Monday, Oct. 21 “Terre Haute, Henderson Co.v, ‘Tuesday, Oct, 22, ‘Oquswks, Henderson Co., ‘Wednesday, Oct. 23. ‘And in Mercer County from Oct, 24 to 81, The sbove all night meetings. areall night et MK, 0. D, 4. PARKS, E. tarengo, Oct, 14, Crystal Lake, Oct. 15 There will be & Liberal mass meeting at the South Side Headquarters, 454 Wabash avenue, $his evening, whichwill be addressed by Hon. Thomas Hoyne, M. W. Failer, S. W. Fuller, and B. F. Ayer. Among the candidates placed in nomination & sreck ago, for election in this county, are two for the office of Police Commissioner. The law ofticers of the city have decided that thero are 50 vecenciee in that office, nd that Police Com- missioners sre no longer elective. There are some persons Sho &re ambitious to test this question by an seue to be tricd in the Bupreme Court. The candidates, therefore, should prop- exly be styled cendidates for the ofice of plain- 4iffa in o law-guit. e hope there will be no is- sue mode on that question, and that the nomi- nations for that offce will be quietly dropped. Thereis enough to bo dono to elect candidates sor real offices, Without wasting time and ex- ‘pense upon orngmental 2nd unsubstantial ones. The Democratic Executive Committee of Ohio have issued an address to the Democracy of that State, in which they ssy that the failure to carry that State was due to the neglect of the Demo- crats to poll their usual vote. The Tiersl Republicans did their duly, and, bhad they been properly supported by their Demoeratic allies, the State would have been won. The Committco Lelicve that the disester of October can be retrieved, and thaf four-fiftlis of the Democrats who staid at home 1sst Tuesday can be induced to vate for Greeley in November. To win a glorious victory, the Democrats need only bring to the polls their ordinery strength, and this the Committeo ap- peal to them to do, in behalf of the Liberals and of 1 prostrate and plundered Sonth. The *bolt” in s gathering Srmness and intensity cvery dsy. Tbe Regular Tepublican party has eplit into two “gangs,® iue Noses gang end tho Tomlinson geng. Poth parties vociferously claim that they ore sapported by the Administration. One thing is certain; thst bolting, Wlich in Pennsylvanis was depounced by the Administration organs as fl.\(’! mnkefl brenson, is viewed With singular placidness in South Carolina. The negroes have been 80 distracted by the confident claims of ench faction that it alone was Regular, that they Jave, heppily for themsclves end the State, di- yided their forces, Some of them, in their con- fusion, will doubtless sttempt 1o vote both tick~ ets. The Moses party is supported by the Etf;m Trepsury Ring, bub tho Tomlinson faction s amone it supporters such usEvOrs charsg- ters as the notorious Bowen, and Whittemore, the Cadet-brokor. m—— The Nation remerks thst the result of the Pennsylvaria election shows “that no matter hovw great a War Governor you may be, or how high-toned & Senator, or how powerful an organ, it i mainly 4s the Governor, and Senator, and orgen of your party, and not of yourself, that you aro really influential.” If Mr. Ademehed been nominated at Cixeinnati, 2nd Governor Cur- tin and Alr. Forney bLad supported him, and had Dbeen a8 badly beaten as they were in enpporting Buckalew ngainst Hertrantt, we should probably have read in the Nation some such soul-stirring observations as this; that when your party has fallen completely into tho bsndsof the Cam- orons aud Hartranits, ancit becomes necessary to choose between supporting them and oppos- ing your party, the highest considsrations of duty, etc., etc. We leave the Nation to supply the rest. The opening of all-rail ” connections to Hal- ifax, with Pullman through cars, will be an im- portant event. Last year, the European & North American Railway was opened to travel between Bangor and St. John. Tho missing link between St. John and Halifax—a section from Amberst to Truro, in Nova Scotia—will ba finished the present month, and trains will com- mence running regulatly immediatoly thereafter. Passengers will then be ticketed and baggage checked through from Boston to Halifsx, *all. 1ail,” with river ferviage at St. Jobn, N. B. Pas- sengers from Europe can, by taking the cavs at Halifax, reach Now York some seventy hours sooner than they can by remaining on the steam- er, and save 700 miles and two or three days of ocean travel. In ehort, it reduces the tims be- tween London and New York to eis or seven daya. Tt appears that the Mayor’s order for the clos- ing of places in which intoxicating drinks nre 1 old on Sundsy did vot get any farther than the Superintendent of Police last week. We pre- sume that the preliminary airangements were not completed in timo tomakeit effectual yes- terdsy, as the subordinate officers of tho police force deny heving Teceived sny orders on the subject. Nevortheless, n large number of sa- oons, of the more respectsble and or- derly class, were closed volunfarily. Others locked their front doors and left the back doors open. Olhers closed their window-ghutters and doors without locking them. Others gold liquor as usnal, without dis- guise. It appears that the drinkers had & falso alarm, supposing that the ealoons would be closed yesterday,—and accordingly got drunk on Saturday, for the police returns thow an unusu- ally large number of srrests for disorderly con- duct on Baturdey and a very small number for Sunday. The Committees of Conference upon the Libersl County Ticket id nob quite conclude their labors on Sniurday, but so far as {hoy have progressed they have done commendable work. The ticket is vastly improved in many cases, sud the ap- pointments made to fill vacancies are; a3 a gen- eral thing, judicious. An effori secms to Liave been made to select candidates who uuite fitness Dboth as respects competency for the dutios and pereonal character. Wo truat that all the gen- tlemen named for the Board of County Commis- sioners will zccept their nominations. There is 1o position wherein a citizen of character and standing can render such valuable gervices to the public ns can be done by servicein that Board, which is at this time of far more consequence to Chicego than the Btate Legislature, If merchants and men of property will not serve in thet Board, it must of necessity be filled by those who go there for personal gain. The nominees for county officers are, 23 & whole, verygood selections, and, should they accept the candidacy tendered them, they will receive our hearty support. Onr postal relations with France have been for many yearsina very unsatisfactory state. Aost American correspondence with that coun- try has gone of late by the way of England, which has esteblisbed with France mail facili- ties as yet denied tous. If the treaty which Mr. Washburne and Count do Remusat have {framed ia ratified by the Senate, our postal com- munieation will be much facilitated. Bat there is need of still greater advance in this matter of inter-continental intercourse. Cobden fre- quently espressed the opinion that the adoption in England of the system of chesp postage introduced by Sir Rowland Hill had forever rendered a violent revolation there impossible. There can be no doubt that, from a cheap oceanic postage, there would resmlt & similar quickening of sympathies and deepening of mutual scquaintance, which would, in & few years, render war between us 2nd France or England equally impossible. A two-penny oceanic postage is feasible enongh, for actual calculations show the real cost of transporting a letter across the ocean to benot more than the third of 2 mill. The remainder of the two cents wouald fully cover the cost of handling and delivery. The New York Tribune, in an article which wo copy elspwhere, withdraws the charge which it made sgainst Speaker Blaine of complicity in bribery transactions connected with the Kangas Pacific (formerly Leavenworth, Pawneo & ‘Western Railroad), It makes this retraction on the basis of the letter of Thomas Ewing, Jr., attorney of the road, who mentions the fact that Mr. John E. Blaine, of Leavenworth, Kan., o brother of the Speaker, wag 2 stockholder in the road, but thinks that the sum et opposite his name (81,920,000), was o fiction or blunder. The Tribune adds thot this exculpation of the ‘Spenker docs not extend to the damaging impu- tations put uponhim by Oakes Ames and Colonel 3Comb. In the presentposture of the Ames- A'Comb lew-guit, we think it is fair o assume that Mr. Plaine's denial was intended to cover the wholo charge against him, although it did not do 8o in exact terms. The confusing fact is, that none of the accused Congressmen have anything to say against cither Oales Ames or Colonel M'Comb, althongh theyare very volu- blein denouncing the newspzpers which hava published and commented on tho testimony. If Ames lied when he read the list of names to A['Comb, it would be very casy for somebody to g2y €0, and we should certainly Lake Mr. Blaine's word rather than 1Mr. Ames’ ona question of veracity. THE CAMPAIGR IN ILLINOIS. The results of the October elections in Indi- 2na, Ohio, and Pennsylvania furnish no reasons why {he Liberal party in this State ghould hes- itate for a moment in their work, or push their canvass with eny less evdor or determinetion. On the other band, the election of Mr. Hen- Grieks in Indisua shows the virtue inalong pull, 2 strong pull, sad a pull all togother. The same energetic work in Illinois will elect Gov- crnor Koerper aud the whole ticket. It'should be remembered that this battle of Reformisn long one,and overy advantage gained in the firat oneet, however small it meybe, strengthens tha Liberal position, end insures ultimate vie- tory. The influence of o great State lika Ili- nois, declring for Peacs, Reconciliation, and Re- form, will be most fruitful of good results, whatever may be the net result of the Presidential election. Dut three wecks of labor remain, and in that time the Liberals of Illinois should unite their efforts and work with re- doubled vigor and energy. Hesitation now is worge than defeat ; it is disgrace. It would bo the height of folly to sacrifico what bas slready been sccomplished, because our sutagonists hrve triumphed in two of the three October elec- tions. Indiana has set an example for Ilinois. The Liberals of that State have elected their Governor against the power, patronage, and tho cunning mechinations of one of the most un- serapulous advocates of $he palicy of proserip- tipg, bate. and zovenge, The same smount of datermined work in Dllinois, where the Liberal Tepublicans are far more numerous, will result in succose. And let us recall to the Democrats of Tllincis that Gustavus Koerner was their first choice for Governor at the Springfield Convention of tho 21t of June. He has done nothing to forfeit their confidence. If they vote for him with eny degree of unanimity, he will assuredly be eiected. There is evory reason why the Liberals of Tllinois should fight dut the battle just es per- sistently and 23 coursgeously as if there had ‘Veen no election in October. The ticket is an unexceptionable one. Its bitterest opponents have failed to weaken it or diecover any weak places in the charactor of the candidates. No ‘question has been made of the ability, the hon esty of purposs, or the irreproacheble character of Governor Koorner or any of his associates. Having this in their fovor, and representing principles of Reform which must, sconer or later, be incorporated into our system of gov- erument to save it from something worse than roproach, there is mo reason why the Liberals should halt in their on- ward march, which has thue far been mzde 50 successfully. e 4 every other State in the Union should voto to continue for another four yeare the Grent Adminiatration, with its ebuses of power, let Tlinois fulfil her whole duty, and emphasize her demand for Reform in an unmistakable man-~ ner, Governor Koerner is making sn honest canvass. If he should be elected, ke will be the Governor of Tilinois, and he will administer the affairs of State in a manner which will do credit to those who have voted for him, and redound to the advancement and general prosperity of the State. Governor Oglesbey is making a differ- ent sort of canvass, His effort to bo elected Governor is & piece of political chicanery, which e hes not yet had the audacity to deny. ‘Heis asking for the votes of the people of Illinois under false pretences, and is running for Gov- ernor with no fatention of oceupying the posi- tion, General Beveridge is the real candidate for Governor, and Governor Oglesby's course toward the people is neither straightforward nor dignified. If Governor Koerner is elected, e will take the oftice, aud will give to it during ‘’his term the best of his gbilities. If Governor Oglesby is elected, Genersl Beveridge will take the ofice. His ebility to fill it has never been convassed, and the fact that be, too, knowing the circumstances, deliborately runs for an ofice which will notbe filled by him, is sn emphatic proof of his want of candor. The people of this State have to choose, therefore, between candidates who do not intend to oceupy the ofiices for which they are running, andmen who not only intend to oceupy them, but to administer them in conso-~ nance with the principles of Reform which they Tepresent. If the peoplo of Tllinois have a just regard for honesty in politics, they will not hes- itate to pronounce egainst such trickery. The Liberal ticket in this State speaks for itself, and thus far it hos pteadily geined in popularity. Tts friends have made = gallant fight, and to aban- don it now would be political cowardice, Let the work go on boldly, steadily, and with tho same energy which has characterized the cam- paign thus far, and victory will bacertain in No- Yember, Hesitate now, sud defeat is equelly certain. SOME RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN. In judging whether tho present Liberal cam- paign is, thus far, a success, it is proper to con- sider what wonld have been the present condi- tion of parties if no Liberal movement had been insugurated by Republicans, nor eny *new departure” been taken by Demacrats, but tha two old parlies hed entered on the campaign of 1872 on the seme old issues as bad existed be- tween them in 1850, '60, '64, and 68, It is difti- cult to say which would bave been most laugha- Dle,—for the Democratic party to sppear as the champion of slavery seven yeare after slavery had Deen ubolished, or a8 the defender of State Sov- ereignty in the estlier senso of that term, eight years after twelve states had been subjugated, and their Governments revolutionized by the Federal power. Either would have been as son- sible as for tho Republican party to keep on sup~ pressing the rebellion, abolishing slevery, and giving the ballot to the negro, after those rosults had beon fully snd finally settled. Had this modo of campaign been pursued, no Cincinnati Convention would bhave met, the Democrat- jc Nationsl Conveption; if it thought it worth while to meet at all, would have nomi-~ nated some such ticket ss Hendricks and Han- cocks, or 0'Conor snd Adams, with the full con- sciousness of the participsnts that it was put up without reason or purpose. Meanwhilo, the Republican party, while ro- taining its organization and majoritics, wonld have shown that it possessed no statcamen who hed the vigor and mauly honesty to attempt to stem the tide of corruption of which the Ropublican party was becoming tho chnnnel and vieduct. With Greeley, Sumner, Teumbull, Schuz, Blair, Julien, Curtin, Grow, and the independent journals of the country, all acquiescing in the misgovernment of the South and the corruptions at Washington, the most ! partial observer womld bo compelled to admit that Republican institutions were ravelling out into shoddy ; thet there a3 nob enough man- hood even to protest sgainst the most manifest ontrages of party despotism. Contrasted with such & pusillanimous and de- moralizing condition of politica in both parties, the present campaign las been invigorating, ennobling, and in some respects even sublime. It is invigorating to £oe Republican ststesmen burst the sheckles of party, and amaign at the Dar of public opinion the errors, corruptions, or crimes of so-called Republicans, which seek ehelter under the cloak of party feulty. It is ennobling to see so large o proportion of the Democratic party willing to zccept as final political results against which they have fought for twenty-five years, and to co-operate with those, of whatever antecedents, who are willing to work with them in restoring peaco and prosperity to the whole community. It is even sublime to seo the white population of the Sonth renewing their loyalty to the Union, whose troops in the stemn nccossitics of war have desolated their scction, end asking no otber inducement than the restoration of their rights as citizen3, and their deliverance from robbers, for whom nobody dares to spologize. In estimating tho progress thus far made, and tho probebilities of the next three weoks, let it first be borne in mind that every man in the Liboral campaign, whether of Republican or Democratic autccedents, has had to be in some dogroe couverted; in order to range him for Hendricks, or Buckslew, or Greeley. It did not follow that, because & man was a Republicau op- pozed to Grant, or a Democrat, he would be o Liberal. Many Democrats and Repub- licsns Dhad prejodices againet co-operating witls each other, though thoy felt that there was unity botween them on all existing questions. ‘Both sections of the Liberal party have had not only to form their lines in the face of the enemy, Dut 2ctually to enlist their troops, by persusding each man separately of the justice aud oxpedi- ency of the Liberal movement, and of the feasi- bility of its success. Our appeal has been to ¢heintelligence, humanity, Christianity, honesty, and virtue of both parties. Our work hosbeen et once missionary and militant. In no campaign that hiag ever occurred in this or any country 1ias 80 great progrees been made in individual converaions. There has been in mill- ions of instances s sucrifice of old prejudices for the sake of country, and a blending of men st the North and the South whom the issues growing ot of slavary hud formerly made cne- mies. The result shows that, if the good work prospers for even three weeks more as it has for six montha paat, Mr. Graeley can be elected. Wo have formed o new party on living issues, which verynearly sweeps the comntry ere it i8 fully formed, and may yeb win in November if our standards are kept full high advanced. We have gtrucl stalwart blows at abuses, which will inspize the respect of our enemics, even if they triumph. We have formed the only party now before the country which rasts on living prin- ciples, or which, by tho beneficence of its principles, deserves a future. In some. form, and at some time, theso principles musat trinmph. THE DEATH PENALTY IR I0WA« The Synod of ihe Presbyterian Chuxch for Northern Towe, lately in seesion at Dubuque, paseed o reeolution declering thet the action of the Inst Legislature, in abolishing capital punish- ment and substituting therefor imprisonment for.life, was hesty and unyise, and recommend- ing to all Christian people that petitions be cir- cnlated looking to the restorstion of the law as it formerly stood. Their action hag been in- dorsed by most of the leading journcls of the State, one of whom, the Waterloo Journal, states that, eince the repeal of the death penslty, only six mouths ago, the increase in the ratio of crimo has been enormous, and this fact, coupled with the interpretation of the law by the courts in the cases of capital felons, has alreedy created in sone places & determination to resort to Iynch luw, and administer unauthorized vengeance. The fact that abody of Christian men meeting to- gether for religious purposes has felt compelled to recommend the re-enforcement of the death penalty shows the folly of that legislation which abolished it. The sentiment of the Church has usually been against that pen- gliy and in favor of philenthropy, oven in the case of murderers, but the terrible increase in crime has so shocked the public mind that even the Church is compelled to abondon any sentimental idens of clemency, and demand that saciety shall be protected from muwderers by enforcing the death penalty, now that imprisonment for lifa hes not ouly falled to diminish the number of murders, but has absolutely in- creased the ratio in a mapner bitherto un- paralleled. The action of the Synod is heartily to be com- ‘mended, and, coming from & body of religious men, it ought to carry conviction withiit. The people of Iowa, as wellas of other States, ere confronted by a rapid snd terrible increase of crime, which imprisonment for life ia powerless to arrest. It is time that this sickly senti~ mentelism came to sn end. In our own Btate, the delays in enforcing the law have produced terrible fruit. Imprisonment for life Qoes not protect society, and is no Lindrance to the brutal instinets of the murderer. Life or death is the stern fact which has to be settled. Any other consideration is simply the outgrowth of a maudlin gentimentalism, If eithor one of the deliberate murderers in this county, bettor still, if 21l of them, now awaiting sentence shall bappily be hanged, the lives of people will bo for gafer, If they are not hanged, murders will increase here just s theyhove in Iowa. In the light of the results in thet Stete, it ia evident that the worst possible use to which you cen put aman wholas deliberately committed murder is to imprieion him for life. His enforced ab- senca from society is no protection, because two others will take his place. If o murderously- disposed person knows thet his crime involves only imprisonment for life, with o possibility of escepe from the punishmont by tho technicali- tics and delsys of the laws, and an equal possi- bility of pardon at somo future time, even if the peralty is enforced, ho will not Lesilate to com~ mit the crime, If Lo knows that he will pay the peuslty of that crime by the forfeitura of his own life on tho gallows, ihe chances are that ho will not commit it. The death pensalty is not a matter of sentiment. Itis & necessity, and is infinitely preferablo to the slternative of mob violence, which deprivea s man of life without the process of low, to which every man it onti- tled. PURITY OF ELECTIONS, There is no subject more deserving tho atten- tive consideration of the public than the grow- ing evil of frauds a$ clections. Wo spesk in no partisan sense. A froud is nove the less crimi- ual when committed by one party, or in the in- torest of one candidate, than when perpefrated by tho other side. Thirty years 2go, the moral sense of tho country was outraged when o plot was discovered to carry the election of President in the State of Penusylvonia Ly the importation into Philadelphia of voters from New York City, who were to chango their residence cn the eve of the election, to work ot “Iaying pipe” in the latter city. ‘The country has prospered hugely in tbat kind of fraud since then, andit is to be regretted that the moral sense of too many porsons has been €0 blunted that they only grieve at sn election fraud when it is committed by their adversaries. Sixteen yonrs ago, there was an indignant protest from the Republican party in all parts of the conntry upon the success of an alloged or a resl froud in Pennsylvania, whereby it was supposod that the State, at the October clection, had been carried by the Democrats by a majority of a few Lundreds. But, in ihe timo that Las intervened, clection frauds have Lecomo a part of party machinery ; and professienal politicians seem to epplaud success nonme the less heartily becanse sccomplished by notorious frauds. These frends now taint the whole polit- ical machinery. - Beginning at the primary meot- ing, delegates are clected or defeated, if not by force or intimidation, by hordes of professional yepeators, who hire themselves out for the acce- sion. It is notorious that any men who will pay enough money can secura the clection of auy set of delegates he may name, at any primary meet- ing in any part of the city, Ho bhas only to make s contract far that pur- poso with any professionsl, and the lutter will farnish all the voters needed for the occa- gion. Nominating conventions are either packed by this means, or filled by delegates who expoct, 24 a regular part of their business, to be # corrupted” to nominate somebody. In almost any convention Leld for local offices in large cities, an experienced man can desigoato, from 1 printed list of delogates, the person on cach ward delegation who hes to be deelt with in order to purchaso the votes of that delegation. While theso things are so notorions that thero is no longer any question concerning them, and while tho first inquiry mado by each man who seels a nomination is, how much money will it cost to ‘be nominated, it is also true that they are mo part of the legal machinery of an elec- tion; that nominations are not elections, and that fraudulent as mey be the primary meetings and tho nominating conventions, still they do ot affect the ballot- box, which is the real process of election. Waiving, for argument sake, (be closo and inti- mate connection between tle nominating con- vention and the’ election itself, are not the elections, except in outward form, almost equslly subject to frauds? ‘There is in this countryno legitimate ugo of money at an election, except to pay tho costs of printing election tickets, dafraying the personal expenses of speakers, hiring bands of music, and the rent of balls for holding public meet- ings or committee-rooms. Is the use of monoy confined to these or other legitimete purposes ? They probably form Dut & emall pro- portion of the cost of an election. We rend, with surprise, the statements that it frequently costs the succesaful candidate £80,000, or 8150,~ 000, to be elected to the British Parliament; yob the teadency of things in this country is to the same rosult. What is this money spent for? Ta the fizst place, & Jargo amonnt is expended in the purchase of gangs of professionzls, who offer to betray the party towhich thsy nominally belong, by voting sceratly for the candidate who will pay them for voting for him. This is bribery,—plein, unmitigated bribery,—which ia only defensible or excusable on the ground that nman's vote isan article of merchandise, which he is at liberty to sell to the highest bid- der. Bat the purchase of legal votersis buta preliminary step to the purchase of votes that are not legal. The contractor who offers to sell 1,000 votes 2t $10 a hend, will not hesilate to contract that these men will vote twice or four times, they to receive a larger prica for the ad- ditional service ; nor will Lie hesitate to contract for any number of votcs to be moved to snyother city or connty, there to vote with sufficient fre~ quoncy and in suffcient unmbers to give to the resultof the election any desired certainty. Vob- ing trains, for the transportation of illegal voters toand from the places of their operations, ate becoming as regular & park of railrosd business 88 are camp-meeting traine in their geason. A necessary part of all elections sre the persons appointed as Inspectors. These men conirol the registration, the receipt of votes, the contit- ing, and the making of the returns. For this important duty it would be natural to suppose the best, most intelligent, and purest men would Do designated. How the fect is, any one can find out by reading the lists of men ordinarily selocted. When the result of an election may be mado dependent on the inflexible honesty and intelligence of theso judges, how im- peratively is it roquired that they ehould be both ‘honest and intelligent, Of late yoars, it has become the rule to sppoint men as Inspectors of Elections who canbe bought and paid for rendering official gervice to thosewho employ them. For this express pur- pose of bnying Election Boards, we pre- sume we do not speak extravagantly when| e gay over half o millicn of dollars has already been expended in the elections held this year. There can be but one object in purchasing the Judges of Elections. A resultot this direct and corrupt tampering with the Election Boards is the extraordinary, and, until within & few years, unknown, proceeding known a8 * counting out™ the man who happens to get clected in spite of the means taken to defeal him, In rending over the confessions of some twenty and more persons who were parties to election frauds in & neighboring State, some years ago, we find that many of them justified the false counting, the stuffing of the boxes, and the false returns, on the ground that the persons thus discrimi- nated against were opposed to the policy of the Government. These officials bad corruptly or lionestly been educated to the point that it was no crime to. violate their oaths of office, and froudulently conduct the election, g0 long s tha other side alone was the victim. These same men would have thought it a religious duty to have hanged pny Inspector of an Election com- mitting o like fraud in favor of his own party. An elaction that ianot honest sund fairis & mookery. Each illegal vote deposited ‘destroys the power of one logal voter. It is abeurd to eay that & Government can long survive which owaes its exiatence to 2 systematic corruption of the ballot-box. This greatest of all evils must be corrected by public opinion, or it must produce, s it has pro- duced elsewhere, civil war, with its attendant etruggles, in which the Iiberty of the citizen and the security of person and property musat reston the sword of the most daring military adventur- er that the exigency may produce. A seemingly-well-informed writer in tho Allge- smeine Zeitung gives some interesting details of the present condition of politics in China. The Tmperor is yet & minor in years, and the State is governed by a Regency, of which Prince Kung is the head. The Empress-Mother is described 23 on able, energetic, and ambitious woman, +ho is aleo of the Regency. Tho present issuo at Court is between Prince Kung snd the Em- press-Mother. The former and his party wishes the young Emperor to be proclzimed of age on tho oceasion of his approaching marriage, and that ho should then assume the Government in person. It iseaid the boy Emperor is disposed to cultivate friendly relations with foreign powers, and Prince Kung eupporta the claim of the foreign diplomatists to be gilowed direct ond personsl communication with the sovereign. It is suggested that the Regent is anxious to rid himsslf of the respon- sibility of the Regency, particularlyin view of the hostility of the party of the Empress, who proposes to keep the Emperora minor two years longer, during which time he mustremain under maternal tutelage. She is ropresented as ex- tremely auious lest she uhould lose her power aud influence the moment sho gives up the reins of Government. She has been able to de~ feat any action by the Regency-on the question of admitting foreign Ambassadors to the Em- peror's presence, by having it postponed for.a decision by the Emperor when he i3 admitted of age. This question, which divides the Chinese Government at this time, is ope which in past times has ngitated varions European Courts. The mother of Louis X1V. undertook to con- tinno her suthority over the boy King, as did Catherine de Medicis over her ihree sons, who, successively, were Kings of France. But thoe Emperor of China is not likely to provoa Louis XIV.; he is represented to be & mere child 28 far as mental development and worldly knovl- edge is concerned; bLe is fond of fino clothes and theatrical pagedntry, in which matters he is gratified by his mother. The same correspandent describes the progress made in military metters by the Chinese. A large entrenched camp between Tientsin and Tokuis to be provided with six huge Krupp guns which have been reccived from Enrope. A new fort is building st the mouth of tho river sonth of Taku, and a guuboat is stationed ot the same point. The troops aro employed making rozds facilitating communication. The ssilors of the navy gra drilled in.the use of the Remington rifie, Altogether, suel preparatiors for defeuce have been made, thal the capture of Pekin here~ after will be more difficult then it was when first attempted. The silver wedding of Henry Ward Boecher and Plymouth Church was colebrated from Mon- day to Friday of last weels. One of the features of the accasion was a history of the church. It scoms that Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher was much apposed to having his son gettled in Brooklyn. He wished him to remain at Indianspolis, wkere Lowss then proaching for 2800 & year. The Plymouth Trustees received s latter from bim, saying: “In Indianapolis, Henry may some day make his mark, but in the vicicity of Now York hoe will be entirely lost sight of, snd eclipsed by hundreds of abler men.” Howevor, the Trustees thought that * Henry” would do, and called him. Tho call was refased for some timo; but the constent sickuess of his family in Todianapolis finally sent M. Beocher east to Ply- ‘mouth Church and fame. He ran the gauntlet of 2 theological examination with difiiculty. His unorthodox definition of sin provoked fromalady {he wrathful remarls: ¢ A ckild would give e bet- ter answer than that.” IWken the ordeal woa st lest triumphantly paseed, Mr. Beecher began straightway what ho has now finished, and whet fow men have ever even begun,—the making of a reputation without a parellel in its own line. During the spring of 1370, the United States Aegessor Tor tho District of Texas (a carpet-bag- ger) wa3 a defaulter. He made no nssesements, 08 far as anybody knew. Thero was no United States Tax Collector. As there was nobody to fix, nobody to demand, and nobody to reccive tie taxes, nobody paid. The carpet-baggers have now hit npon an_ingenious scheme to in- terfere with the Presidential and State elections, The next term of the Circuit Cowrt begins on the 18t of November. Many persons brought before it will, of course, be unable to get through and get home in time to vote. Some 1,500 merchants, men of high standing and spot- leas integrity, have been indicted for failing to pay texes during this time of chaos. That ‘maans 1,500 votes less for Greeley. If Grantis re-alected, and the rule of the carpeb-baggers thus confirmed, we may expect to see many in- genious applications of this plan. By withdraw- ing ell tax-ofiicials for o year, = wiole State might be indicted. e — Under Buchanan, in 1857, Charleston, 8. C., paid a revenue on imports of §510,578.16. The cost of collection was $69,542,28. The Republi- can party, in thasacond of its five plstforms, put on record its solemn conviction that Buchanan had allowed “‘systematic plunder of the PuRlio Treasury by favéredparticana,” What & very poor system there was then msy e seen by the perfection of the system now. The salaries paid to Chsrleston Custom House officials now smount to just $69,542.23. A revenuc-cuiteris also kept there, at sn annnal cost of $20,000.62. The cxpenso for fuel, gas, etc., is aboat $10,000 ayear. Since the wholo expense is, “then, over £30,000 moro than in 1857, it is natural to sup- pose that the rovenne is much greater thon it wasin 1857. In fact, the duties collected (at20 per cent of the imports) are $116,216.60. The cost of collection wss, then, in 1857, Ti{ per cont;in 1874, it was (even excluding cost of catter) over 63 per cent. Surely the latter piece of plunder is by far the most systematic. When M. Edmond Abont was discharged from custody, the German Judge msde him & somevwhat solemn speech on his narrow escape. With the vivacity of his race, M. About replied that his fmprisonment would make his newspa- per a grand success, would sell thousands of copics of his new book, would make him sure of an election to the National Assembly whenever he choso to run, and would mske his views in generl, and especially his attacks on Germany, of vastly greater importance than ever before. Al thia is very trae. The English press recog- nizes that fact with s gratifying nnanimity. Strangely enongh, it scems to bs equally unani- nious in failing to gew that the conrse of its Gov- ernment of late towards English and Irish agita- tors bins been like that of Germany towards I About, and is, theratore, equally foolish. [ A ——— How phyeicisns could testify that Mrs, Laura Fair was insane when she murdered Grittenden because he loved his wife, has been a mystery. The clue to that mystery bas, perhaps, been found. It is snid tho medical witnesses were #professionally retained” by the defonco, and thet their feo was $100 & day. If this is true, the “value of &cience,” about which we inquired anxiously some days since, seems to be settled. As 5 plot to bribe the jury was discoverad and openly rebuked from the Bench at the beginning: of the trial, it is, perhaps, just to draw the in- forence that this partielly explains the myatery of the verdict. An influential English roviow calls upon the Post Office authorities to take the express-busi- ness—which is, in British English, the * parcels- post,"—under its care. Centralization is mak- ing rapid strides evenin the country that has given tho world Herbert Spencer, and now de- clines £o honor lier own propket. If the postal- telegraph becomes a reslity here, it will be but the first step towards the absorption of tele- graphs, expresses, and railroads by the Govern- ment at Washington. When these means of in- finencing the popular vote shall be added to those already at a President’s command, what hope will there be of a fair election ? POLITICAL. General Farnsworth addressed an enthusiastic Liberal Republican and Democratic meeting at Belvidere, Til., on Fridny evening last. He will spenk at Elgin on Tuesday next. —Colonel D. R. Anthony, of the Lenven- worth Zimes, who supports Grant, and plays Forney in Kansas, is very jubilant over the re- sult in Pennsylvanis. Anthony thinks Hart- ranft is all right, but that Osbom, the Ring candidate for Governor of Kansas, is a terrible scoundrel. —Dr. George B. Loring, whose tumm for Congress comes next after Ben. Batler, hasbeen nominated for the Massachusetts Senste in the interest of Ben.’s sdvancement to the United States Senate. —Maseechuseits politicians are canvassing the probability of the Legislature Leving to elect o United States Senators, next winter. —Cameron is in high feather. He says: “Now, I have Forney, Curtin, and 3fcClure all in one boat, and by Heaven we'll sink the boat.” —The vote of Colorado, Sept. 10, for Delegate to Congress, hasbeen canvassed, and compares ‘with the election of 1870 as follows : Delegate, 1870, Delegate, 1872. Cunfles, Re, . 6,430/Chafree, Tej . 7,508 Iiller, Dem: 5,038|Hunt, Liveral .. .27 6,260 Total, 11,508 Total.. 13,856 ‘Tep. majorily. - 1,392{Bep. majority. ;336 —Benjamin W. Herris, of East Bridgewater, Mass., nominated by the Republicans as tho suc~ cessor in Congross of Ozkes Ames, is the rela- tive and protege of that gentleman, who presided in the nominsting Convention, lest Thuredey. Tho Liberal candidate is Edward Avery, of Braintres, a well-known Democratic lawyer; ‘but the district is hopelessly for Grant. —Congressional nominations in New York: Firet District, Republican, Henry J. Scudder ; Fourteenth, Republican, John Maxwell; Twen- tieth, Liberal, Hezekish Sturges; Twentieth, Republican, David Wilber. —Leopold Morse, & merchant on Dock Square, Boston, is the Liberal candidate for Congress against Samuel Hooper. —The Constitntional Convention of Pennsyl- vania will consist of 68 Republicans and 65 Lib- erels. Bauy of the best names of the State appear in the roll of delegates. ~The incoming Legislature of Georgia will be composed overwhelmingly of farmers and planters. —The Asgistant Republicans have nominated Dr. John Darrah for Congress in the Quiney (11L.) District. —Gorvernor Smith, of Georgis, in a speech at Atlants, Inst Tucsdny, declared himaelf wumis- takably for Greeloy's election. He said: Wa liava gained a vetory now: but there is another victory {0 be attained, or we shall loac one-half of what we have already got. ' There aro but two parties,—one upholding o grest central despotisim at Washington, tho other promising equal rights to the States and pro- tection to tho heople, _What are the claims of Grant or tho objections to Greeley compared to tho principles which ure at stake? \hich i3 your choice? ({The crowd thundered out * Horace Gréelcy.”] —Tho Kingston (N. Y.) Arqus says: Tt will gratify tho friends of the Xiberal causa in TUlster to know that the Hon. Erastus Cooke, for aany years an honored citizen and o leading Rapablican i this County, i3 an carnest worker for the olecton of Greeley. —The October elections have had a marked effect in Tennessee, where Greeluy’s majority Ins been fgured 5o large a3 seemingly to admit of a division of strength on Congressionel can- didates. Andy Johuson or Cheatham must now step aside, andin each district the line mustbe drawn, - The Electoral vota is not in peril, but e must not loso a eingle Represantative in Con- gress. —The Charleston Courfer saya : With s in South Caroling, there s scarcely a sfar to luminate the derkness of tho political night, S far 28 this State 13 concerned, we lock forward with itlla ope to the next two years, And vel we do mot despoir. Wohavo faith in tho rzdemption which Mis- Souri and Georgia have cfectod, and ve have faith that our poople will yob cenze their divislons, und, Tearning that their only safety is in concert of getion, cffect fap samo glorious work of dellvernnce. 1tmay Tot, nmder surrounding apd_adverse circumstances, and with distracted councils, bs possible now. Tt must be cortain hereafter, if we ste true to ourseives, our destiny, and our people. _Tho peoplo of the State of ‘New York, startled, last yeor, by Tammany exposures, in- trusted the work of Reform to s Legiclataro overwhelmingly Ropublican. The resulf was, thet the Republicans raided on the State Treas- ury, end laid in supplies for the campsign, while “Reform” was postponed natil a more con- venient season. The people of the State of New York, therefore, pay taxes, this year, in the amount of $19,580,882 ; and the Albany Journal, the organ of the Legislature that levied this fex, saye, in announcing it: “This enormons rate of 93¢ mills is utterly without precedent. Therate for 1870, the highest which had cver been reached up to thut time, was 7 41-156 mille.” Such is the practical and net result of expecting * Reform” 2t the hands of a perly which has becoms, in State and Nation, the mero engino of Power, Patronage, and Plunder. —The Liberals lose the. Congressman for TLehigh and Montgomery Counties, Pa., becanse they could not agrec on = candidate, and James B. Biery (Grant) is elected. —The Federal patronags jn San Francigeo is £748,993, disbureed smong 457 persons,—all for Grant. —The Jackeon (Mich.) Republican 8as : Among the mambers renominuted ta the Legislature, we are gratifed o notice Semator Prutzmas, of St Joseph 3 J. Webstor Callds, of Wasklenaw (859); sud Joh J. 'Sumner, of Monroe, 8 WAWbEr 0 oRreRcat | 500a%e. House. Amorig the Representaies renominated aze Dr. E. 7. Bonnle, of Niles (1857); Richara C, Miller, of Lfontcalin ; and Frank T Smithf Jackson,—the twa former Republicars, tho latter a lemocrat. - THE MACON RIOT. Results of Administration Teachings. From the Savannah (Ga.) Nexs, Oct. 4. Our spocial das&n{ches of yesterdey gave & brief account of _the riot during the election in Macon. The Telegraph of yesterday has s fall account of the affair, from which wo condense the following, which will %?‘e oar readers a clear understanding of the disbolicalplot of the Rad- cals. The incendiary speoches of Joff Long, & negro (who would yoko well Witk that grinning ‘babboon, Bradley), to bis people, syme time pre- vious to the election, induced Maycr Huff to an ticipate trouble, and as a precautiorary mensure »large extra polico force, compbsedof the best ymmimen in the city, were sworn in. Tt had been know to the peopla that the negroes had been organized and were being rogularly drilled for their part in this election. - They hi een meeting in secret conclave, and had thef§p received Instructions from their leaders. It was announced by Jef Long, in his speech Mouday m'iht, that they would holda socret meeting at 4 o'clock, Tnesday afternoon, to receive instructions, and st night, at8 o'clock, thoy would reassemble st the City Hall, and, aftor boing sddressed by Meighan, Binswanger, and otbers,‘would receive their ballots, su march in solid body to the polls. This was sufficient announcement of their e ta create the impression that, a8 heretofore, the; meant to e possession of ths polls, crow the white voters away, and carsy the election in fevor of their candidates. ‘At sbout & quarter past 6, the negroes, in golid plalanx, under tho command of their leaders, marched down Cotton avenue to the right of the Court House. They marched as solid a8 one man. It was impossible to pass through their column. A king-stick could not have been thrust between them, so compact- 1y were they formed. 3 Seeing now that the purpose of the negroes was to crowd them and keep them from the olls, the white men lfrassefl up, determined to 01d their ground and cast their ballots. They ko that I thoy gavo way thon there would ba no possibility of their regeining possession of tho polls during tho dsy. A pumber of gentlemen remonatrated with' the negroes and told them that their conduct wonld cause trouble and probably bloodshed, urged them to desist, assuring them that they should have the right to vote without molesta-~ tion, if they would be patient and take their turn. They refused to hoed this wise counsel end pressed forward more vigorously than ever. They had come there to control the elec- tion and they meant to do it. Jefl. Long, the negro mcem%u{, who incited the colored men to this aciion, nssumed position in one of the upper stories of the Court House, where he could overlook tho scone of action. Ho waa eatisfied that the advice he had been giving his people would resnlt in harm to some of fid and cutely took his carcass out of the way of danger. Hohad stirred up the tempest, but meant that it should pass without injury to hig person. He is a bully when it comes to stirring p a riot, but a coward when it comestoa test of courage. . While the two forces, 80 to speak, were masaed in front of the'polls, thero were ecuffles far po- sition, and on two or three occasions the negroea made demonstrations with brickbata. This contest for position lasted for more than en hour. ‘The negroes were resolved to get the polls and hold them, and the white men wera equally resolved that they should not. There the two masees stood, growing more determined. 21l tho while, end the negroes more threatenin; 2nd turbulent. It was plainly seen that the; filg not_intend to yield sn inch. They had boen drilled too well to back out now. Thus metters stood when Jeff. Long, from his perch in an npper window of the Court House, ;::\“ed dgut to the negroes to take the polls st all hazards. This was the signal for strife. The negroes pressed forward with greater determination, and. the white men stood their ground more firmly.. Finally brick was thrown by a negro, snd wes. Closely followed by, a pistol shot from & negro, and the battle was began. The specisl oy used thoir weapons freely, and between 50 and 100 shots were fired. It wag s lively skirmish, ° lnsting about three minutes. No shots wers fired by the whites except those who wereon duty ag kpeciol police. These were sufficient, Lowever, to roub the negroes and send them scamporing in every direction. They etood not. upon the order of their goidg, but went at once pell-mell, hurry-gkurry, all madly bent upe % getting out of the way, leaving their wornded 5. the field. 5 ¥ Only one white man was killed. Wm. ¢ & worthy mechanic, foreman of the blar smith shop of the Macon & Brunswic was shot through the -head, snd & reaching his home. He was unarmed “§aa n no way engaged in the disturbance, bv %ciqatand. ing somo distanco off on Hulberry* givant: Ancther white men received * o qioht flesh woundin the side, another 8¢ sminion on his arm. Shots passed through the ot e cont of orkle, smith. another, and through he cloth’ 2% 510 SORL 0% Trwo others were_severely inj® A negro named Dennison / ng was shot through the heart, aud die 3 immedistely. Anc gthor named Pamund Hod” erson was shotin the uck of tho head and in : buek of the head and 11 ¥ so back tho laiter ball ared by brick-bats. d baford - Ho_died before resch-: ing home. Another 8" ned William Da, from. e Wag East Mlacon, Was WORZ' Jed 3‘2“’3“‘1 i Jios WoRa' ded in the head. other, whose NAY 5 yag not gscertsined, was }vonnd%fll-}l the ih}gw 1. Another received g.’uhnt in the heel, which pagged to his instep, end was ?::i?,:f; lgulg;-&?' son. Other slight wounds, of ""A‘"ffa’i&“" = £e reported, none of which Wera er the Shw soting was over, the ne; D0 further: ot fompt to fabe tho polls. - Mayes Huff 2dC repse d them briafly, counselling o and n;r,mg]tbam to return £9 the polls and vote, H;"\:l‘l\ug lem that they would be protected. drnan Lotse, negro candidate for the Legis- Istrre, gave diflerant counsel. He told them t? 2¢ the Mayor could not and would not protect t'aem, and ordered them to go home, Pulzslsi Holt, another nogro candidate, advice similar to that of Lowe, tho erowd to go homs. XN9o more voting was done the negraes. They stood about the streets in ‘Simu or aatins tered off out of sight; and though frequently assured that they would be protected in their xight to vote, they refused to go near tha poll- Ing place, and allowed the election to ko by da- Ay 4 and called upon ~“"The -polls wera not closed for an instant dar-- ing th.e melee, and a3 soon asthe storm had: subsi‘led balloting went on and was not dis- turbr,d sgain during the day. W hen the fight commenced five hundred votes- had been polled, nearly the balf of which were ncgro votes. After that, barely a negro at- +tompted to vote at all. Bat where was Jeff Long while this trouble was going on? He had brought it on, and now Lo was skulking sway, in the Post Office, out of tho reech of harm. He remained there the en- tiro day, efraid to show himself. Had he come upon the sireet it is possible that he wonld hava recoived rough treatment st the hands of his own people, for many and bitter were the threats and complaints they made sgainst him during thoday. He was denounced by them as s cow- ard, and one was heord to sy, **He has got ng into this thing and now has left us.” A second Bradley. ‘The negro women, if possible, were wilder then the ‘men. They were seen everywhere, taliing in ap excited mener and urging the men on. Some of them wers almosi furions, showing it to be & part of their religion 10 keep their busbands nmr brothers etraight in politics. Miss Emily Traman, who resides on the cor- ner of Cherry and First streets, while in the act of closing the shntters of ber windows, was firec at. Thebell shattered the window glass, and fell in the room, where it was picked up. ~This was one of the most dastardly occurrences of the day, ond it is o pity that the ~party perpetrating it was not discovered. A warrant, it is stated, will be issued to-dsy, for the arrest of Jeff Long. There are sov counts ogoinst him, suy of which is likely ta malie him amenable bofore a court. 5 Jeff is reported to have been snaked out of the Post Office last night, and will probably keep at & safe distance for some time. Explosive Cigars, The sale of explosive cigars hay, says the Figaro, recommenced in the gtreals of Paris, iz spite of all the precoutions taken by the police 1o prevent thesc dzagerous articles from being offered to the putlic. The cigera in guestior sppear genuine to the purchaser, but contain £ minate squib or eracker, which, when the cigar 1ies been consumed to a cortain_point, explodes, tho cigar itself tiying to somo distanco from the monuth of the smoker. Not only are these cigara capable of geverely wounding those who smoke them, but they often lead to inconvenient and deploreblo reanlts. Not long ago, 8 gentlemar Teppening to bave somo in his pocket, and bew lisving them to bo ordinary; cigars, offered oue to his uncly, whosa property ho expeeted to in~ herit, and who wore & sct of artificial teetln. His horror may be imagined wheu he gaw what appegred to bo the cntit jaw of bis ray relative briskly expelled from his mouth, an@ {fasten on to the res of o ligh official pers Who Lappened to be in the vicinidy, »d during the afternoon. | 8 made . gave