Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 1872 WASHINGTON. Stanley and Colonel Evans. New Railroads in the East---A Car- pei-Bag Chief Justice. People of Letters==«The News« Crusaders. From Our Owen Corresponcent. 2 WASRINGTON, Nov: 4, 1672, To-morrow the people vote, the borses rest. In this city, few carts are abroad ; cars donot run in the streets ; and even the fire-enginesare educed to men to drag them. The election mskes no excitement, and all the clerks feel <confident that Grant will be re-elected. EVANS. Colonel A. 8. Evans, who was lost on the Missonri, was amanof vigor, adventure, and activit, snd of =& graceful and in- teresting style of correspondence. He lived in 8an Francisco, on the summit of one of those high and windy knolls overlooking the ‘Golden Gate, and was an accomplished horse- man, and a faithful dieciple of the art of com- Tnunication. To learn, and to tell again, washis enjoyment and motive of life. Anactive mind, @ vigilant observer, and a heslthy, masculine writer, have been lost to the Pacific Cosst. Last April, I wentto Havana on the same line of steamera which Colonel Evane took when over- whelmed with disaster. His fatebrought vividly to my mind the strange elections in the provi- dence of God. For that accident the Congress of the Uuited States is responsible. We are Xeeping our old wooden tubs afloat; be- cause we cannot be allowed to pur- chagse iron veseels in cheap markets,— vessels with iron compartments, which fira could not make such headway upon as to drive crew and passengers overboard within sight of the shore, and make the world shudder at the appalling mortality. 5 Bince the accident to the Metis, the Sound steamers go with only about half their former complement of passengers. Upon the Great Lakes, meantime, Buffalo has got the start in iron shipbuilding; but, even there, imported dron vessels start with the advantage. "RAILROAD AFFAIRS EAST. Two, strange matters have come to passin New Jersey. While the Pennsylvania Railroad 38 - suing the Stanhops Company for ibreach of monopoly in leying a new voad = to ° conmect the New Jersey Central with the Baltimore & Ohio, the State Chancellor has also made 1t appear that the Pennsylvania Company has no standing in Court, becanse it did not do the technical thing of m'm g certain public advertisements, 5 ‘These matters reflect the deepest discredit upon the State of New Jersey, and upon the ‘business of special incorporation by legislative act. In our day, that State reckons amongst bar- Darous ones which does not set some general law of incorporation, by which the public may be re- lieved from psying toll and bl il to lobbies and legialatara. The Btanhope charter seems £o have been obtained by a felonious manip- ulation of bills, 80 that the bill which was signed had never passed. The Stanhope bill, under various embterfuges, preecribed that a railroad might ba made of interlinking local ¢harters of 8 nondescript sort. Under the operations of this Eill, about 8,000 lsborers have been at work be- tween Bound Brook and Yardleyville, and thence on to Philadelphia. Bound Brook is 31 miles ont from Jersey City, where the Jersey Central - Railroad strikes the Raritan River, west of New Brunswick; snd the distance thence to Yardley- ville, on the Delaware, 5 miles sbove Trenton, is Jess than 30 miles. The country is higher, and the mcenery more wild 2nd inviting, than by the present route. From Yardley- , the new line proceeds, by the aid of the North Pennsylvania and Reading Roads,—which, according to rumor, are to be consolidated,—both to Pni!ndalfihia and across country to 'Westchester and Baltimore. This 0] tioniscalled the National Railroad ; itaims the New York arm of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal Rail- Yoad, It will be finished to Philadelphis, unless dnjunctions be laid upon it, by next July. The distance will be very nearly the same, and the time as short, a8 by the present route. . As to the forfeiture of charter by the Pennsyl- wania Railroad, for taking the local 8tate lines out of the control of Jersey politicians, every through traveller would regard a change back to the old, conditions as & public calamity. The Jersey roads are operated by the new lessees witha g:g]ae of care, speed, and elegance here- 2ofore 0WR. THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF AREANEAS. ‘To jndge from the ravings of the Chief Jus- tice of Arkansas, McClure, myletters upon the State must have been highly successful. He sendsme & co&y of his newspaper, marked in red chalk ; and his English is of that tipstaff de- acription which might be exdip:ted from a man educated in the law by fddling Billy Mungen, wnd who is at once Chief Justice, Public Printer, and editor of the Campoon daily organ, Mec- Clure's theory of my object in Arkansas does Sustice to his covetousness. He says that I was employed to run down . Arkansas State bonds st the period when the snnu- 2l interest on the railway bonds was 2o fall due. This would have been true had my ame and nature been McClure's; but I was too dumb for the opportunity, and, failing to fall in with him, it never occurred to- me, There was 1o eale for the bonds at any price in New York, according to the statement of General Edgerton, who had tried it on. My mistake was, indeed, 4 ing one. I ought tohave suffered some of Mc- lure’s acquaintance. He would, no doubt, have put more designsinto my head against the public credit of his State and mankind than Mephisto- philes could have poured into the ear of vet, or the pgerpent into the guileless Eve. An invincible repugnance kept me aloof from this pattern Chief Justice, to the injury of my pocket, and I became the firet historian of the State, and incideutally the only correct biographer of McClure. Hora is a _ sentence culled at random from the syntax of this head of the Arkansas Bench. If such a Chiet Justice cannot injure the Btate's credit, what can? ‘We donot like to makesn alliance witha Demo- crat or 3 Ku-Elux, but we would join hands with them, oreven a Brindletafl, and cui the ears off the mext corespondent who enters the State. That's the only way to doit! For a manwith ears is always dangerous to McClure; and even the possession of m:sa,l when be is around, is a source of calamity to the wearer. SOME CEIPS FEOM A NEW EOOE. I sm indebted to an old instructor of young people for & book called A Manual of Ameri- <an Literature,"—nearly 650 pages of very nest . and impressive letter-press, where ray breath 'was taken, a8 I ran over the index, with the Iarge and emphstic word Gata. In this hook there are depariments given to humorists, maga-~ zinista, editors, and disputants; and the sertes of eketches in literature, between 1850 and the Iatest period comratible with publication, isvery remarkable for fuliness and thoroughness. The suthor is John §.Hart, LL. D., Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric at Princeton Col’fege, and one of the bequests of New Eng- land to the Middle States. At 2years of age, he was removed from _Stockbridge, Masa., to the Wyoming Valley; and, since his luation ~ at Princeton, forty- two yearaago, Mr. Hart bas been oneof the wmost efficient educators and authora of school- books in the country. He hss. personally superintended the education of above 7,000 pupils; published twenty-one booke; edited ten annusals; edited Sarlain’s_Afagazine, the philo- Jogical volume of Wilkes’ Expedition, the Sun- day-Sohool Times, and the Pennsylvania Com~ mon-School Journal. & Out of thia Manual of American Literature 1 make a few extracts fromsome writers of note, other than suthors of books. 5 Mrs. Sue Petigru-King-Bowen, wife of the celebrated South Carolina Bowen. Born in Charleston, date not given; the dsughter of James L. Petigru, distinguished lawyer, and wife of Henry King, who was killed in the RBebellion. Author of four novels. Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the Nation, New York. Bom _in Wicklow County, 80’ miles from Dub] Ireland; educated at Wakefield Grammar School, in Yorkshire, and st Queen’s College, Belfast. Sent to Turkey as & war-cor- respondent by Mr. Knight Hunt, editor of the London Daily News. He spent’ two years in the Turkish provinces, in the - Crimes, and in Asis Minor. Ueed up in thesecampaigns, God- kin came to America, androdehorseback through the South and Southiwest for the Daily News. He next studied ' * with David Dudley Field, and was admittec cothe bar in 1858. In another | his re his health failed, and he travelled about Europe wuntil 1862, when he came to New York as the correspondent of the London Daily News. and .a writer upon the Times. He was made editor of the Nation, by e stock-company, in 1865. This appears to have been & fair democratic newspaper life, with 1o noneense sbout jt. y General D. H, Hill, editor of The Land We Zote, a magazine published in North Carolina. Born in South Carolina; graduated at West Point, 1842; resigned from the army two years after the Merxican War, and became a College Professor successively at Lexington, at David- &on College, and at Charlotte (N. C.) Inatitute, Went in the Rebel army a Colonel, and came out a Lieutenant General. ~ His magazine is said to ‘make monoy. T «Gail Hamilton” (Abigail Dodge) ; gets her peendonym from the last syllabie of Ler truo renom added to the town where she resides. 2¢ isened eleven books. famuel Austin Allibone, sathor of zn enor- mous critical dictionary of authors, making 3,140 pages, 40 indexes, and including 46, on lives; is Secretary and ditor of the American Bunday School Union. The London Mansger of the New York Asso- ciated Press is Alexander C. Wileon, a pupil of Professor Hart at the Philadelphia High School, and born in 1827. He ia amnative of Trenton, James . BSimonton, MManager of the New York Associsted Press, was born in Columbia _County, New - York, and schooled in New York City. He began as s law- reporter at 35a week, and afterward was a semi- ofticial reporter in the United States Senate, at Washington. He was for maay sesrs tho el correepondent from the Capital to the New York Courder and Enguirer. For seven years subse- quently, he was the Washington correspondent of Reymond's Times; and, in making war on the lobby, suffered three weeks of honorable in- carceration at the hands of the House Sergeant- at-Arms, He owns one-third of the San Fran- cigco Bulletin and the Morning Call, aud an in- terest in the New York T4mes. ** Mark Twain’s” middle name has been amys- tery. It is Samuel Longhorne Clemens. Six years ago, he was the sorst-broken man in California. Prosperity makes humor & hard work, and it is to be doubted whother the i householder and executor of to-day carries the light heart and easy genius of the Bobemian of former times. STANLEY, THE CORRESPONDENT. The most successful man in our g)eriml 88 8 writer of the day bids fair to be Stanley, the Herald's traveller. He has earned all that he will make. How many of the luxurious critics who spurt elaborate periods to prove him an impostor would make his journey for even if it were insured to be successful 1n advance? Not inferior to his physical adventure scems to have been al- 8o his cool and _intrepid mental behavior before the snob congress of London critics, slasbers, and geographers. The fine irony in that sentence where hie said that, if Livingstone could anticipate the meznness of the Royal geographers, he would never want to quit the desert, is just what ardent and veteran youth had the right to report npon owlish bookmen. The school of reviewers in London have never con~ firmed any good human conviction, nor welcom- ed a fresh accession to the world of letters with generosity. 1 would rather be Stanley the cor- respondent, in the newness of life and_exploit, and the discoverer of Livingstone, than the President of the Royal Geographical Socioty. Every few years, at great ex- penee, Governments get up _expeditions to recoyer Franklin. This man, without author- ity or the moral support of eny public feeling,— nothing, indeed, but precarious reliance upon & newepaper connection,—passed the boundaries of the wrangling savans, pierced to thelost man’s presence, and became the electric link between the discoverer and that mankind on whose errand he went. « Perfectly euccessful, eavguine as to the wel- come society would give him, and carrying also that eatisfaction, almost a3 good a8 conscience, which nobody can understand but the pewsman with & piece of exclusive news,—the feeling of | having made a great beat for his employer,— Stanley reappeared in the great Capital of Chris- tianity and science, and what did he hear ? A set of magpies, with epectacles and eye~ glasees screwed downinto their spleens, exclaim- ing: E';.‘Ho! ho! Come, man, young man, yon eawn't expect us, you know, to swallow all that, you know."” E Within the proportions of his feat, ‘Stanley’s performance seems to me to have been as ad- mirable 8 anything which has beon done by ad- venture in any age. He had previously distin- guished himself by sending news to the British ‘Government from Abyssinia via New York, car- rying the thunderbolts away from the London Times, Andsome of the criticiems upon him were pitiful enough ¢ excite thecontempt of the Argbs. It was gravely urged that he had once owed a man some monsy, and at another time had a draft protested. The whole history of adventure, from LaSalle to Bayard Taylor and Ralph Keeler, presents like misfortunes. A resson against Stanley, mora potential than any, was that he was 2 New York Herald report- er. Science was too fastidious to take any help from that eource, because it was very demo- cratic, yon know. " Just aa old granny Zimes, in London,—a superannuated, sermonizing, old bed-quilt of stock-jobbery and cant,—holds its ose to the Zelegraph, which F—ims Tour copies toits one; justas the New.York paragrapher, from his lunch of beans and pork, looks at the Western press with & little peri- - winkly stare of detraction,—so does the Society of Mutual Admiration regard the Herald. But that is is an old and exploded trick, wherewith conceit deludes not even itself. If the New York Nation, the Times, the Phrenological Journal, and the Hearld of Health were all to expire by eympathy simaltaneously, they would not_make o gap as great as the suepension of the Herald for one week, _ Enterprise is greater than criti- cism. The reviewer, the historian, and all the caboodle, are, after all, secondary and depend- ent porsonagas to the great nows which is the compass of all forms of action. The Herald, in the Stanley errand, has of. iteelf taken a step new and megnanimous over its past record. It has not been animated by its former sensitivo policy of hiding the names of its most vindicated con- tributors. The impersonality of journalism was always an affectation. GaTE. —_——— MRS. FAIR'S INGRATITUDE. Judge Quint Brings s Suit Against ¥er for $8,075 for His Services in Her Two 'Lrials—She Rcpudiates Her Agreemcnt. From the San Francisco Morning Cail, Oct, 36, Another phase in the affairs of Laura D. Fair! Judge Quint, to whom more than all others she owes her life, or at any rate her freedom, has felt himself compelled to bring suit against his former client to obtain from her the sums due to bim for his gervices. The suit was filed yeater- day, and Judge Quint gives the following atate- ment of the causes which have led to its inatitu- tion: The original agreement in the caseof Mrs, Fair previous to her firet trial, was that Judge Quint was to - receive $5000 for his seryices, viz : $2,500 cash, which he did receive, and $2,500 which he was to be paid after the trial, 2nd which he hasnot received. This agreement wes made with Mrs. Lane, on behalf of Mrs. Fair. The verdict being ** Murder in the first degree,” Judge Quint did not feel that it would be right for him to claim the second £2,500, and therefore he went on with the case without far- ther reception of cash. He drew up the brief upon which the Supreme Court granted a new trial, and did the heavy work in connection with the preparations for her second trial. The result of it all was_that she was acquitted as all the world ' knows. Last . week Judge Quint went to see her, and -asked for tho balance cf $2,500, and for $575 exponses which he incarred in going to Truckeo to look into the matter of the juror Beach, in preparing the brief for the Supreme Court, in printing of documents, and in various other necessary work. To_Judge Quint's amazement, Mrs. Fair re- pudiated the sgreement. She told Mr. Quint— the man who had saved her life—~that she had paid him ell thathis_services had- been worth— Which in one sense ia more than true. Shegaid that she had not authorized Mrs. Lane to make, any agreement on her ‘behalf, and as to the ex- tra expenses, she had not agked Mr. Quint to incur them, and, therefore, did not consider hereelf responsible for them. Jndge Quint has, therefore, brought suit against ber, not only for the balance due on the firat trial, but also for his services in the eecond trial. He sues for $8,075, made up as follows : Due on the first trial, Extra expenses. ... Bervices at last trial.. J':ghl.q e renennenns 88,075 udge Quint bas attached her in't banks, viz.: In the Smng]s and L‘?,::"%S?ieg -§6,375 ; and in the 0dd Fellows’ Bank whatevor £he may bave there, the officers of the bank re- fusing to disclose the amount standing in their booksto ber credit. So the matter stands at present. Wo have heard but one opinion ex- mssn:g in, ]}xi-e;'gaqn.‘i}ot it, a.uclt thatis a fervent ope that Mr. Quint may get every cent that he mgme vl Y B ry cenl —Dr. Uria®. Farquhar, of Logansport, Ind., for many years partner of Dr. Grabam N. Fitch, diedon the 3d, thedsy after celebrating his golden wedding, THE RESULT. Comments ef the FPress. From the Chicago Times (0'Conor and Adamg). THE_POLITICAL FUTORE. Speculation upon the causes which have re- sulted in the utter collapse of the most fraudu- Lent political coalition of the age is now need- less. The fact, in allits overwhelming eignifi- cance, i8 now before the counf.r;, and can no Jonger be a subject of dispute. It is the fact and its consequences which the country now has to consider. - And the first thing which is likely to strike the ‘public mind in contemplating this fact is that the complete annihilation of the Greeley business is the complete annihilation of the Democratic prrty, which constituted the main, and the only respectable, eloment in that coali~ tion. In voluntarily accepting = false position, that party staked its existence, not upon the vitality of an underlying principle, but upon one fragilo. and treacherous hope—success. Like desperate gamblers, the **party leadera' songht to regain past losings- by betting on the turn of s false card, and lost everything." For the party organization in which they have acted the part of Generals, the game is over. No fature effort of their's can resurrect the dead body. No battle- cry it is Eousibla for them to utter can restore lost faith to the consciences of a deceived De- macracy, led by false generalship into the most awful 2o itical Waterloo in history. Should they ory: ““To your tents,” O, Israel!” the response will comeback tothem: *Israelishere; but where, gentlemen, are Israel's tents? You coun- selled us to abandos them, and led us to this slaughter. Shall Israel put trust in false guides?” ‘The cry would avail nothing but new disaster ; for, though & portion of the Democratic Israel might give ear to it, & much hrfier portion than that which refused to follow false guides upon the wrotched expedition of 1873 would stand nloof. The Democratic party organization of the past ia dead. It is boyond the hope of resur- rection. Nothing that its organic functionaries cando will ever bring it back tolife and vigor again. Its elements ouly exist, disintegrated snd dispersed, Gt B 4'he next fact which the public will recognize is, that the utter annivilation of the Democratic perty has left nothing n its place ; no organized successor to Democratic grinclplen and pur- poses. For the imperfect O'Conor organization can at best be regarded only as the protest of some honest Democrats againet the folly and Iraud of Baltimore. As a protest, it has served the purpose of its promoters ; ae a party organ- ization, or & nucleus for one, it has, for reasons Wholly apart from its excellent platform of principles, failed to develop any vitality. Inthe atter collapse of the corrupt enterprise sgainst which it protested, it ‘dieappears, and nothing but an attempt by the leaders in that corrupt enterprise to maintain a dend and rotten organi- zation is likely to bring it to the surface again. As for the little side-show organizstion of Re- publican office-seekers, who falsely style them- selves * Liberals,” it 18 a thing too utterly con- temptible, in the character of its leaders, as well 88 in the number of its followers, to be worthy 7 of a moment's consideration. Moreover, it ex- pressed no living idea ; it has left behind it no thought worth remembering. Even as an or- ganized protest against the corruption and official malversation of the Washington Admin- istration, it has proven an utter and contempt- ible failure. Julius Camsar ia not more defunct than it.. ; Thus, instead of uniting all the elements of opposition to tho Washington prastitioners of the pernicious paternal system (which was the original purpose and object of the Cincinnati movement), the outcome of the fradulent coal- ition with the chief apostle of that system and his peculiar friends, has been to remit all theso elements to the atate of dieintegration and chaos. The result of Tuesday leaves but & sin- le vital and energetic party organization in the nited States; the organization called the Ro- publican party; an organization_teaching and practicing what all Democrats believe to be Talse, pernicious, and dangerous political dac- trines; yet an organization rendered once more nearly absolute 1n power, by the marked in- crease of its membership in Congress,—a re- sult of the silly scheme of eailing into power on & *tidal wave” of dishonesty. For the millions of American citizens who are oppozed to.the pernicious doctrines and practices of this * ruling party," and who would rescue the country from its reckless dominion, there is no alternative to perfectly united “and harmo- nious action. They must, somehow, find the way of coming politically together. The work of disintegration could hardly be more complete than the collapse of the frandulent Greeley coslition hes rendered it. The work of reinte- gration must somehow begin. Outof chaos muet in some way come order, ) Two conditions ecem to be absolutely esgential to this end : 5 i 1. The work of political reintegration must rest upon the basis of principle and honesty. ‘Upon no other basia can reintegration proceed a 2. It must be & work in the hands of upright and honest men, who are not notorions as office- seekers.or as politicians, else only failure will be the resnlt. The politicians whohave engineored the fradulent Greeley coalition to its appropriate end, haye forfeited all claim to popular trust 2s political leadera. 1f they do not think proper %o stand sside, they will sgain be thrust saude by popular results. Probably the majority of thom will have sagacity enough to foresee, in tho light of experience, that &ny movement in which they might, as partisans, ' assume the initiative, must come to a bad end. And probably they will have wisdom enough to let such foresight restrain them for, some time to come, from making any genorous proffer of “their’ valuable services as party generals. In their present predicament, there would _appear to be only one prudent, way of personal ealvation for them; and that is the way least likaly to" at- tract public attention to themselves. Tnstead of & misfortune, a3 some men who ex- ist by party lendership msy feel inclined to think, this complete annihilation of all organ- ized party opposition to the Enfiy of paternal- ism may thus turn out to be the most fortunate thing for the country and the cause of Demo- cratic principles. It may hasten the time, by no inconeiderable number of years, when real snd honest reform will be possible 1n our political affairs. 4 From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Liberal Re- publican). 5 Thero was o good deal of philosophy in the apparently absurd remark of the Irishman about his pig, that “it did not weigh ss much s he expected, and he nover thought it would.” It is not inapplicable to the state of mind of the more_sanguine friends of the Reform cause over the result of its first campaign. It has not done so well as they expected in July ; but it has achieved all they ever had the right to anticipate from it. It oncountered mistakes and misfortunes within itself ; it was confronted by formidable prejudices and deep distrust snd powerful interests from without. Its principles ‘were mors widely sccepted than _its candidacy. But even in the Lours of its first defeat, it is oaly juet to say that the Reform movement itsolf was not only a logical necessity of our political situation, bt one of the most hopeful signs of our political life. Its final triamph is as mevit- sble as gravitation: Few people wonld dispute the desirabilify, even the ‘necessity, of all its ends ; ond they havo failed to be accepted now, simply becanse many people thought there wera greater present perils than the continuanco of the evils which they would reform; because others could not approve the egencies throngh which they were presaiitéd ‘o' the public; and again because of that grest conservative power, reating in a political organizstion that hss pos: sesged the country for 12 years, and represented not only by long habits and opinions and strong party. Freiudices, but by the vast array of public officials and political leaders, whose continuance in position was felt to be dependent upon iain< teining the present order. The experience of the campaign but repeats fthe story of the methods by which slavery so long protected it~ gelf againgt the logical order of progress. Sla- very allied itself with ogrest porty that had possession of the Government, and whose con- tinued possession of the Government seemed to many honest yoters, more the issue, than -the grovth and dominance of slavery. But thereform movement against glayvery went on, and so the- reform movement sgainst corruption, against centralization, sgainst the perpetuation of the di- vigions and the animosities of » generation . of strifo, will go on, Tho_party that has resisted it, wifl itscl?_try to- vield to' it, a8 the Demo- cratic party struggled to resist slavery and com- promise with the rising fecling againstit. If it. 1ails, as the Democratic party failed, it will di- vide. as the Democratic party divided, and by its division, be overthrown. From the New York Eoening Post (Republican), The Republican party is once more, and for the fourth time, installed in power by the will of the people. Its leaders, nevertheless, will 1oake 8, reat mistake if they ‘permit themselves believe that this popular vote is an absolute approval of all that they have done in the past, and a permission that they shall go on for the next four years pursuing the same course, with- out a most -considerable change. The political campaign which is just finished should teach us, bove all thing else, this lesson—that, stron s the Republican party was forits 1oble an brilliant history of the last dozen years; it prob- ably would not have been 8o successful mw’f'fna for the peculiar nature of the opposition. There can be no question that the disaffec- tion in the dominant party wee_ wide-spread and deep-scated. There can be Tio doubt that hundreds of thousands of votes were yosterday cast for the re-clection of Genersl Grant which would have beon thrown against him had -thers been s candidate nominated at. Cinciunati who commanded gublia respect and confidence for bimself and those whom he called ‘around him. ‘That something was required of the Republican perty more than the incompetent men who had @ssumed its lendership had given, was shown by tho declaration made at lslhil olphia. They were cotpelled, in obedience to the popular im- pulscs, to promise us many ‘important reforms, and to these promises they will be held. - The mass of the peopla ara sincerely and doeply in- terested in the reform of the Givil Service, that the President is per- and believin, fectly uaqflif in his avowed determination fo accomplish it, they will not be satisfied with 8 lukewarm co-operation, nor be patient with a covert hostili'y to it on the part of Congress. They wish to see the currency of the country once mors upon & specie basis, and are far more snxious that every-paper dollar afloat shonld bave a metal dollar behind it than they are for the speedy extinguishment of the National debt. - They are impatient of the taxation of the many for the benefit of the few; they aro weary of the restrictions ugon the industry, the trade and commerce of the country inflicted by a protective tariff, and they demand” that every man shall be left to buy where he can buy cheap- est, and scll where he can Bell dear- ‘est, without any other interference with the laws of political economy than the exigencies of goverrment shall make absolutely indispensable. ~ They are inclined to believe that the Reballion is about over, and that Con- gress having done all that it is called upon to do and all that it can do to rostore the Southern Btates to self-government, that hereafter it shall let them afone. If casos shall arise where there seems good reason to doubt that the peo- ple of any State are not able to eatablish domes- tic tranquility and order, or to insure the exis- tence of o republican form of government, the judgment of all thinking people of the North is, thav it shall be first phmgy evident that they of the South have had a fairchance to manage their own affairs and have failed, before there sball be any interference on the part of thegovernment at ‘Washington. 'I'hev demsnd that Congress shall contine itself to Jegitimate legislation for the good of tha whole conntry ; that * jobbery » and “log-rolling” shall cease 'that there shall be 10 more subsidies in_money or in public lands for the benefit of individuals or of corporations, but that commerce by land end by sea shall be left to take care of itself. The majority of the North are still Republicans, but Republicans with s proviso. They have trusted their leaders beretofore, and they have shown that th:g will trust them still when the alternative oftered was that they should put their faith in those in whom they could have no faith, and for whom they have no respect. But & graye mistake will. be com- mitted and attended with fatal consequences to the integrity of the party, if the result of this election 18 accepted as a sign of absolute confi- dence in party msnagement. It has no euch meaning. These leaders were never put so en- tirely on their probation. The party is on it good behavior, and it dependa on the conduct of its representative acts whether it shall remain in power beyond the next term of General Grant's Administration, or whether it shall go hopelessly - to pieces. ‘That minority of earnest and thinkin men who, six months ago, demand purity in potitics and areturn to sound prin- ciples, is all the stronger for being purged of that element of scheming politicians who had crept in among them; and who bave now gono to their own place. It is stronger to-day than ever for new accessions to its ranks, and behind it lie the fragments of a great party, whose leaders have led it to utter shipwreck. =New organiza~ tions, in the nature of things, aro inevitablo, and tho Ropublican party will only retain ita hold upon power and command anew the confi- dence of the people, by showing_that it is wise, and pure, and strong enough to deserve it. From the New York Cal::anmdal Advertiser (Repub~ ). The foundations of the Republic are now as- sured. The stability of finance, trade, manu- {acturing, and production is now made certain. The national prospenity will be unabated. More chants are no longerfearfalbecause of an appre~ hended interference with the regular, steady, and safe progress of affairs by the hands of an inexperienced and eccentric doctrinaire, ¥ * * Financial questions are now the first to press for attention. ‘Weneed an sbsolute stability, free from Treasury ‘ discretion.” We mnoe amendments to the National Banking act, in de- fault of which we hope every National Bank in the New York Clearing House will promptly quit the National system, and reorganize under the sounder lows of this State. We need smaller ‘balances in the Treasury, do that it may not be 80 constant and powerfal & factor in our money market ; and, a8 the only means to this end, we need a much smaller revenus from customs and taxes. - We need & mercantile . marine of our own, and consequently, the repeal of lawa which forbid - our citizens to buy ships where they please. Here are some of - the fnancial ques- t.i%ns which, from this morning, are the next in order. From the Baltimore American (Republican.) Now that the Republican party has vindieated its past glorious record and sssured the perma- nency of its past accomplishments, it will show thet it is _indeed & party of true reform and progress. Under its firm and tolerant sway the true objects of the Cincinnati movement will reach glorious fraition, aud freed from the neces~ sity of defending the Government from tke 1n- cureions of a greedy, unprincipled faction, it will address its vigorous strength to continuing. ita great work in behalf of the human race. L'hen, indeed, may we expect ‘‘ good sense and justice in the management of the debt and the tariff, dignity; and statesmanship in the conduct of our fereign relations, honesty in administration and relief from hack politicians,” and not otherwise could these have been obtained. A VICTORY FOR PROTECTION. From the Philadelphia Press (Republican.) With the triumphant re-election of President Grant, supplementing, aa it does, the election of s new House of Representatives still more large- Iy Republican than the Iast, the principle of pro- tection to American industry is again completely indoreed and its perpetuity assured. . Alanufac- turers need no longer tremble lest their business should be destroyed by an inundation - of cheap fm-elfp goods. ~ Workingmen need no longer staad in apprehension of being left without em- ploymont and their children being obliged to g0 _hungry in order thot British. factory lords may lextend their markets and s few foreign' traders expand their business, Capitalists, rendy to invest_millions in develop- ing not nn_fy new mines in Pennsylvania, Mary- land, Indians, and Ohio, but the even richer mineral resources of many of- the Sonthwestern SBtates and Territories, and in establishing man- ufactories of various kinds sll over the c.un- try, need hesitate nor hoard their money any longer through fear of financial panic, and of & return to the ruinous policy of free trade. ‘Grant, the practical protectionist, has triumphed over Greeley, the theoretical protectionist, who suffered himself to be made the figure-hesd and etandard-besrer of a free-trade party, the suc- coss of which would be a ataggering blow to native industries by menacing our -well- approved protective tarif, and a probable paral- y»is of the monotary interests of the country by the apprehension it wonld have raised that an immoediate resumfupn of specie payments, or some other equally impracticable scheme, might be urged upon Congress. The people Lave de- clared in favor of. Tetaining in_ the Premdeatiol chair of the nation the man whohas shown him- self the steadfast friend not only of our bene- ficent industrial system, but of all the country’s material interests ; and of returning to the edi- torisl chair of the New York Zribune the most P“;ififii pm‘tecsgu:fit Write';inAmen‘ua. Surely T nists should consider this L o it From the Albany Argus (Democrotic). The power of the Federal Guv_arnmanz has be- come 80 graat, o far-reaching, and so absolute, that any Administration wie g it .can per- petuate its control over public affairs, The civil war has accustomed the people to exhibitions of arbitrary power, at which in- former . times they would have revolted. The lavieh expenditure of the Government has built np immense fortunes in the hands of & few men, and made the mass of.the paople: suffering. and dependent. . The, animosities growmg out of the civil conflict sur- ‘vive it, and darken the E‘:dgmanfiol men. The epirit of domination, which exists in sll men, ds gratification "in _seeking - out victims and crushing them. Buj above all the gpe- cial interests-the organized capital in banks and railway corporations, in factories and protected industries of all kinds, which the gov- ernment specially nurtured and favored during ‘the war, have survived it, and demand andre- ceive the eame- protection now. They are banded together, and if interest and inclination did not lead them -to support the Government, the central power was ready to make them realize their subserviency.- The same state of affairs followed the close of the anti-Napoleonic war in England. The National debt rose annu- ally by its hundred thousand millions. There Was an issue of paper money fo relieve the bankers and brokers. The -nobility, compar- atively ‘poor in. the last centn e _en- flchar{ by ofllces, pensions, - endow- ments,~ and opportunitics of invesfment and specnlation. i of commoners realized untold wealthrerd boo oy allizaces with the nobility. The cornlaws Lopt the land owners in sympathy with the Govern- ment.. The corn-eaters starved. Thers was s prosperity among tho upper classes greater even than than that of our 6wn how; but never was there more sufféring among thesnur, never so many crimes against property and lifs. The in- equalities of the law snd the injustics of Gan ernment, made imperative the reform movemant. It was bold and honest; and frasagain andagain repulsed by the organized power of Goversment, Butitdrew theyoung men toit..., Itwon, etep by step, victories; it conquered public opinion faster than it did votes ;-but at last it held control of both. It has §avemed England for forty years, With occasionzl losees of power, which wera only temporary, .But no measure of reform that it ever succeeded'in establishing was eer over- turned. . Such is to be ‘car history. The vole of Tuesday is no measure of public opinion. We have access to the popular esr and heart. The thin psrtition. that_separates parties will be broken in the next impulsive movement of the people.. Qur success is postponed, but only for & brief time. Napoléon was etronger than Grant; but how long did it take to sweep him and his cohorts ‘out of power. Tweed wielded as-large s machinery of corruption 2s Grant; yet his days are now passed in seeking éscape from prison. From the Pittsburgh Post (Democratic). Grant hes been re-elected, ard the Radicals ar> to fulfil their promises. We are to have the much-praised reform in the Civil Service ; men are no longer to be_appointed to office as 4 reward for party service, but on account of chernctor and fitness. Al mere party men are to be removed instanter, and the very best men are to take their places. Then we ‘are to have an uninterrnpted series of good times. Pros- perity is to flow among us like a Tiver, bearing upon its surface multitudinous greenbacks, isgned in quantities to snit bomowers. Everything is to be in demand at high prices, and everybody is to have plenty of money t buy everything with; andif that ien't suffe cient, Grant will isene the balance of that $44,- 000,000, and just as msny more as may be re- quired. The horse diseasie will now digappear, and the health of man and beast be uninterrupt- ed; and yet doctors will prosper and the sale of quack medicines be uninterrupted. Pittburgh coal men will sell 2t high prices, and the Cincin- naticoal consumers bs enabled to purchase at low figures. We will all of us make money off everybody elso, and Grant will enjoy his cigars and continue torake in his presents and take care of the Dents. From the Louisrille There can be no doubt the result of yesterdsy's that an honest, open, maply, straightforward Democratic fight was the only course which gave any promise of euccess, and that Grant will reign supreme in this country until he is met by a golid alignment, toder the old banner of hon- esty, economy, and equality, borne by standard- bearers who are known to repregent ita mottoes, and not by those who have spenta life in Warring upon them, and have retracted or modified nothing. It means that the Liberal movement, 8o-called, was a gham, & frand, a weak device of small men, and has collapsed utterly. It means that now 18 the time for the Democracy to cry “Redivivua.” From the New ¥ork Tribune (Liberal Republican). In 1856 a coalition of parties sprang into the fleld with great enthusiasm, and nominated a ZLedger (Bourbon). election. It means National ticket. Fora time the enthusiasm of its origin was infections; and it promised to aveep the country. But in October it was cm:h’;sd in Pepnsylvanis, and the overwhelming defeat which naturally followed, & month after- ward, was supposed to have destroyed it. Four years later it ruled the country. Defeat had consolidated it into the party of victory. Wheth- er yeaterdny's defeat is to have s & Tesult msy not be confidently asserted; butit is cer- tain that nothing which occurred’ yesterday iroreamore againgt the future success of the iberal party than the election of James Bu- chanan proved against the future success of the Republican party. From the New York Sun (Lfberal Republican)., The returns from the several States show that the Liberala have been faithful to their pledges, bt that a sufficient namber of Democrats bave abstained from voting or have voted for Grant and Wilson to give them a decisive msjority. By their contentions and divisions the Demo- crats enabled the Republicansto elect Lizcoln in 1860, and again in 1864,,and Grant in 1868. But nesgr before did a' portion of the Democratic g y contribute so much and so directiy to the lefeat of their Presidential candidate a» in the contest which has, just closed. Not only did s Iarge body of Democrats refrain from voting for Mr. Greeley, but -another large body of them voted for General Grant; and to these two - Democratic ideas "of the ”““"“"&fi; classer, rather than to the Republican party, he i indebted for his election to a second term. From the New ¥ork Herald (I ) b . To General Grant his triumphant re-election is & gp&nlu- indorsement of his administration of which he may well be proud. But_he should ROV aim at something higher than Mr. Fish’s policy of peace with foreign nations at any cost, and st something better than Mr. Boutwell’s' game of bluff with the gold gamblers of Wall street. - We think the country has the right to® expect, and will expoct, with” the second inau- guration of General Grant on the $th of March, & new Cabinot and & new policy, especially in our relations with Spain and Mexico, which will put the * Great Republic” on the high rozd to the fulfilment of its ** manifeat destiny.” From the New ¥ork Témes (Republican), ‘We have not the slightest doubt that we can get from General Grant one of the best admin- 1strations the country has ever seen. Heis a man of great shrewdness and sagacity, and it wonld be strange, indeed, if he were not ac- tuated by a sincere desirs to promote the best interests of the country, and thus' incidentally to vindicate his own great fame. Ashe has. himself told the people, he will avoid errors such 28 & man new to politics naturally commits, and if any changes are made in his Cabinet, they will doubtless be in the direction of the snhlic wishes. He is entitled now to open and generous treatment. Undoubtedly, the people will expect that he shall receive fair play,—that the Schurz and Fenton factions shall cease to throw hindrances snd embarrasements in his path, and that the nnsnccessful war against him of this year shall not be transferred to Conglres! to the great in- jury of the people and the obstraction of all important business. It is quite possiblo that, before ;a month is over, the ibune and . Fenton,—convertible ' terms —will be sckeming more ‘* Congressional Committees of Inquiry.” Onall such attempts the publio will ce: y look with disfavor. The Gresleyites have made an sppeal to the nation, have greatly disturbed the business of the conn= try for many months, are responsible for much confasion and uproar, and now will be expected to allow tho business of the country to go on in pesce. They sprang a plot upon the country, solely for the purpose of reviving Bsecession passions in “the Soamth, of _restoring to power a reckless party, and of gratifying the personsl ambition of an elderly gentleman, 8poiled by his popularity asa journalist. Gree- leyism was understood at the Sonth to mean nothing more mor less than secession. Had Greeley been elected, we ahonld inevitably have bad outbreaks all over the South, and Gresley himselt would bave been powerless to re- sirain them.- We have escaped this peril, and 1now the country onght not to be thrown into further agitation by the bitterness and dissppointment of a disgrace- ful faction. The people want peace.* The con- test has been -prolonged, and every issue that the Greeleyttes - conld raise has been fairly, fully, and patiantli heard and tried. Their ar- guments, their tricks, and their pretences, have all had a good chance. Judgment' has gone against them, and now it is their duty to refrain from etriving ' to unsettle private and public business, and to scquiesce in the decision of the ‘vast majority of the people. ¥rom the New York World (Democratic). The cause of this deplorable discomfiture lies farther back than the nomination of Mr. Gree- ley. It was doubtless a mistake, even under the circumstances which existed lsst May and June, - to.take up Mr. Greeley; but the real source of wealmess was in- the_circumstances themsolves Which remdered guch s nomination possible. “The canse of thecause is the cause of the g » If the Democratic p bag :ta)‘tmavfl'baen reduced to & t:atly- ing bordering _on ' despsir by previous untoward events, it wonld not have tolerated for a1 instant a candidate whose whole past history represented everything which was hostile to functions, and limitations of government. true expla- nation of this defeat is not to be found in the nomination of Greeley, but in that previous letting down of party hope aud Bpirit which reconciled our National Conven- tion to an sct of sheer desperation. _The wings of the Democratic party were clipped by the as~ toun frauds and corruption of the Tammany a8 to the meaning of | year, we should easily have succeeded in this Presidential contest. The Tammany frands were the source of all our woes. New York was the chief citadel of the Democratic party ; and it is creditatle to the moral sentiment of the country that the hideous revelations of last year brought the Democratic party into disre- pute. Had it nol been for the weakening, pros- _irating effect of those revelations, the Dem- ocracy, withall the omens in its favor, would have "disdnined to-go outside of its own organ- ization for a candidate. 1t is not Mr. Greeley’s nomination : at Baltimore, but the previcus demoralization which rendered such a Domina- tion ~‘possible, that _has cost us this election. The Democratic party of the United States has met sn inglorious defeat in this Presidential election, solely because the World was not properly m’!purted in its vehement on- slaughts upon the Tweed Ring in the winter of 1870, when the Democratic party had control of the New York Legislature. We warned the party at the time of “this very consequence ; but our’ vehement appeals were ineffectual, and %‘B Democracy must now eat the bitter fruits. 2 c_n:"Yonng Democracy fight, our * war fo the knife,” succeeded in the winter of 1870, the _Demucr_ugm party would have gome proudly into this' Prezidential canvass witg & victorious ;5:‘? g:fl conscions atrengéh and a candidate own ranks, and has it down all obstacles, = sy dame —_— THE FISHING SEASON OF 1372. The Profits and Losscs. From the Cipe Anm (Mass.) Adsertiscr, The fishing season of 1872, now nearly closed, ‘bas proved moderately successful, and has been prosecuted at a far less sacrifice of life and prop- erty than attended the business last year, when there were twenty vessels and one hundred and forty lives lost, against ten vessels and sixty-two lives thus far this year. The haviest losses have been in the bank fishery, five vessels and forty eight lives having been lost, while the loszes on Goorges have been much less than for soveral ieaga past, only one vessel and eleven lives aving boen sacrificed. Four vessels sod bwo lives have been lost in the shore fishery. The mackerol catch has been verylight, mbafiy 25,02(1 bn{’ra]s less than ha(‘l:nfu;dbm the bank- era have been very success and the quantit; of- fish 1anded has been greatly in axces% of au; former year. As a whole, the present season will wind up more favorably than the last. Be- low we give a brief\summary of the different branches or the fisheries the present season: ‘The shore winter fishery was very extensively grysennled, and most of "the flest made a very air season's work, considering the v an- favorable weather most of the time. Prices ruled high through March snd April, which very materially helped out the business. One vessel was lost,—the Herman E. Pool, which was driven ont of the harbor during the gale of Feb. 3. Two of the crew of the schooner Oceanus were loat while visiting their trawls, which were the vniy digasters attending the business. ‘he Grand Menan and Newfoundland herring fishery proved moderately remunerative. Twen- -tive veasels wero engaged i tho former and eighteen in the latter .branch. The business was prosecuted without disater to the fleet, save the Joss of one of the crew of the achoonier Gen- eral Grant, on her homeward passage from New- e Geurgos s b e Georges fishery has been secuted by & less number of vesse% than last !Per::um Aboyub one hundred were in the business during tha winter and spring months, and some fifty have continued in it through the entire season. The catch, although not 8o large as that of last yeer, has been 2 very fair one, and_prices have aver- sged much better. Taking into consideration tho smoll number of disasters attending the business, the season has been an unusually suc- cessful one. Only one schooner (the Matchless) and eleven lives Liave been lost. The bank fishery has been Yery estensively prosecuted this, sceson, and has proved the most extensively remunerative. Codfish were never more plenty, and the large fleet which bave made ealt trips bave d immense fares, some of them making thres trips, and the voyages have been uniformly good. The fresh halibut fleet have bronght in very fsir trips. The catch has not been quite as large as that of last season, but prices have ruled higher, and the fleet will average s very fair year's work. Some of the vessels have made unusually good stocks. The business, however, has not been without its drawbacks, five vessels and forty-eight lives having been lost during the season. The ves- sels lost were the Messenger, Franklin Snow, White Eagle, Southern_Cross, and;. Josephine, The crews of the two last boats .were raved. Twelve men were lost from their dories. The ehore mackerel fichery was prosecuted by about 150 vessels, a large portion of them sein- ers. The catch has been light and rather un- even, sbout half the flect doing moderately well, and the remainder very poorly. The cateh dur. ingithe last two months has® been” remarkably light, and the business winds up slim. The scarcify has caused a good demand, and fares bave bLeen sold as fast as they arrived at remu- Derative prices. ks The Bay fleet, has been very small this season, only about sixty vessels being engaged in the business. Mot of these have secured good fares, and some eight or ten vessels have made two trips. There are about fifteen sail to arrive, ‘which will soon bs along. No seizures have been mado this season, and the business has been free from disaster or loss of life. The catch of both bay and shore mackerel has been 8o light that there will be none remaining over in the mar- ket nntil another season, as has been the case for several years past. Prices are steadily ad- yancing, and the vessels- yet -to arrive from tha bxy will come in on a.gumfs market. The Greenland halibut fishery was prosecuted this sceson by six vessels; three belonging to this port and three in Boaton.. The fleet was quite ‘successful, all obtaining good fares,-and thers was no loss of life or property attending the business. The Menhaden fishery was prosecuted by ahout forty vessels. The catch was smaller than 'last ear, snd prices ruled low, consequently the usiness did not prove very remunerative to most of the fieet. One -schaoner (the G. W. Clifford) was lost off Harpewell. Crew saved. Schooner Tivano and boat Signal, employed in the shore fishery, were also lost. Crews saved. FLOODS IN EUROPE. Destruction of Property in Italy—I mense Rise in the Rivers of France. The Genoa Gazelle of the 19th has the follow- ing concerning the flood at and near that city: **The deluge of rain that fell last night has done considetable damgge. ‘A part of the house now being built for M.° Gambaro, between the Vin Caffaro and the St. Gerolamo Hill, fell to the ground, causing great alarm to the occupants of the neighboring dwellings, who were forced to escape at 1 in the morning, and go and seek s refuge where they counld. The wall of Mme, Torre's garden in the Vs Caval- letto was aleo thrown down, and a body has been, found under the ruins. The Brignole {unnel, near the Sant Ugo pits, crum- blad o the ground, and ten raiway wagons were crushed; the loss is.estimated at 50,000 france. At 'Acquaverde, M. Della Beffa’'s manu- factory of sagricultural implements was inun- dated. The Celesia garden in the Via Assarotti has been partly destroyed. All the floors of a house in the course of erection at the extremity of the bridge of Carignano fell in, but, fortu- nately, the walls have not suffered. The trains have all ceased running. The one which left for Piedmont was forced to stop at Novi, the waters of the Tanaro having cut the line at’ Alezandria 1o the railway is‘clear from Genosa to Voltri, and between Albengaand Ventimiglia. On the other points the service is interrnpted by_the inunda~ tions. Two bridges have been carried away be- tween Voltri and Savone. On the eastern line, the rain caused some damage last night between Quarto 2l Mare and Quinto, and the circulation of trains is suspended. A bridgeis also said to have been destroyed on that part of the rail- way.” Galignani’s Messenger of Oct. 24 publishes the following general review of the flood in France: ‘* The waters, which had manifested a tenden- cy to decling, have sgain begun to rise. The -elevation of the Rhone in the Gard increased on Bunday night more than could have been antic- ipated, but no dyke has as yet given way. Every precautionary arrangement has been made to assist the inundated in case of need. The level of the Loire begins to snbside slowly, but the Tarn and its confluents are much swol- len. The Thoret, in the avrondissement of Castres, has overflown and done much mischief; at Carmasux (Tarn) the Ceron. has reached an unprecedented height; more than forty houses are invaded by the waters, and some _cottages hsve ' fallen in, but, fortunately, no lives are lost. At Ring. Had it not been for the shameful ex-~ posures which cost us the State election last Orbien, ' arrondissement of _Narboune, near Carcastonne, the railway has been invaded, and the paseage of the trains is momentarily “sus- pended. At Beaucaire (Gard) the Rhone had risen to a height of twenty-three foet at 11 o'clock on Supuay morniug. 'The villages of Camys and Vallabregue are inuudated. A con- voy'of provisions was sent on the same l.h'y to the inbabitants blocked up by the waters. _The railway line between Alais and Villeforte is in- tercopted. The overflow of the Saone has not roduced any serions disaster. The rising of the zot continues, without being too serious. The railway line. however. was cut on Sundsy by the waters at Vivies (Ariege). At Bordeaux the rise is signalized in the Garonne; and a similar zesull was expected for the next day st, La Be- ole. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. . Louis paid $275,204 Internal Rovenue in October. —The progress of the Hoorac Tunnel at ths east end for October was 125 feet. & —Charleston, 8. C., has been free from yellow fever this season, not ono death from that dis- ease haying occurred. —A gon of the Hon. W. W. Sedgewick, of Syc- amore, Ill, was recently choked to death by a piece of meat. ; $E Y —French and English phyeicians almost uni- versaily prescribe & free use of lemon juice for the rheumatism. —At last the Arizona diamond excitement is over, and the speculators are now looking for a suitable place to locate a large gold hill. —The centenary of Linnmus’ death will be filgbra:led at Stm{khul;ntgn the 16%1 of January, 878, when a statne of the great Swedish - ralict will be uovelled. - © e —The Dutchare constructing & new Tanning nearly esst from the Zuyder Zee, et Schellingnonde, to the North Sea, at Velzen, to cost about $15,000,000. —An American journalis iobe published in the Eternal City under the editorial manage- ment ef Mr. Daniels, brother of the former United States Minister resident at Turin. . —At Mendota, IIl., three young men shoot- ing at & mark on Sundsy shot a little girl, Miss Druker, dangerously in the hip. A son of Mr. { Churchwas ulso accidently shot by his brother. 5 —Ons of th]e :Ean henjrtl:s: jotkes' it it be roper to apply the name joke to it, was - rated at St. Albans, Vt., tho othar night, some wrerch making an effigy of a child which had died a_fow days before, and lacing it _at the front door of the parents’ dwelli g, ricging the beil, and then sneaking aWaY. —The other day, the Kentucky Comé of A; peals refused an application Ior:{. injunction g Pprohibit_the imitaiion of the trade-mark of tha noted *‘Bioom of Youth,” on the ground that it was 4 poitonous and delcterious componnd over which eanity could not extend its proteciing arm.. . —A vignette of the late Thaddeus Stevens, the Great Commoner™ of Pennsylvania, has just Been completed at the Burean of Engraving and Printing, in the Treasury Department, and will be uxed upon either the national currency or revenue samps. The likeness is perfect, and the work is pronounced as one of the finest: pieces of engraving ever executed. — ‘L'Le lewrned city editor of the Cinci i Commercial tolks of a sewerin that city%fl?z Tadius of twelve feet in the clear. A sewer twenty-four feet in diameter would be s big thmg; but the reading of the matter shows that, the Commercial meaut the diameter and not the radius, a difference of enormons degree. — At San Francisco, the 4th, the Brotherton brothers, convicted snd under sentenca for for- gery, & mea named kiley, and another prisoner, bucked and gagged the jailer, end, putt 8 pis- tol ot his head taxeateried o' K1k bim 1t Lo toe the alarm. They then scaled the walls and es- caped. Officers were soon in pursnit. Sheriff Adams offers 4,000 forthe recapture of the Bror.lfigm]n) E:.Lmhem —rs, ke, & widow lady of Muhlenbr County, Ky, has in her possession an ap‘;l? which Lias been in existence since the beginning of the Rovolntionary war. The Greenviile Goo zefte gives this account of it: “ The soldier, Mr. Drake, received the spple from his betrothed Jjust as he departed for the mmy of Washing- ton; kept it during the whole war, returned aé- ter the surrender of Yorktown, married the fair doner. The apple is sacredly preserved in tha family. It is dry and shrivelled, nothing re- maining but the woody fibre. The heir-loom ia highly prized by every member of the family.” —1b was Falsiaff who admitted baving stolen a man’s deer, but pleaded in mitigation that he bad not kissed the keeper's da(gfilar. This bad been considerably exceeded by Mr. AL H. - Fitz- gibbon, of St. Lonis, who, 03 being charged with baving received, for work done on the ey jail, * 15,594.033¢ more than i} was reasomably worth,” defended himself by the allegation that, the expenses of the commission of investigation will exceed $10.000. The expense of convicting 2 calprit has never yet been pkaded in mitiga- tiou by him, —In Dr. Carl Both’s *Smallpox: the Fredis- posiug Conditions and Their Frevention,” just out 1 Boston, the theory is admnced that this dreadful d:xease is provoked bytoo much albu- men and too little galt in the bood. The anthor asserts that wherever from axy canse salt has become scsree we find small-pix a regular visit- aut. If people would drink lew tea, coffes, and. alcoliol, eat less sugar. sod more salted food, they wonld get the proper balaace in the blood, and could uot take the small-jox or any conta® gious disedse. So says Dr. Both. N —_— PERSONAL. General P. Syduey Post, Consul at Vie: 1z, came home to vote in Galesbarg, —Mlies Nellie Grant, it is sad, will return to Europe with friends soon after the Christmas bolidays. —* Gail Hamilton” is going to spend the winter with Speaker Blaine's family in Wash- ington. & i, Vincent Colyer, whose tragic desth was announced & few days 830, was 3 grand-niece of John Hancock. —Lenis Carusi, a Sicilian, who taught dancing at Washington for nearly half a century, died there last week in his 73d year. g —Mr. Betournay, of Montreal, hes been ap- flainted Puaisne Jadge of the Queen's Bench of auitoba. 3 —Judge Blackman, of the Niles (Mich.) Cir- cuit, has resigned because of insufficient salary, and, while the appointment goes begging, tlis daties are temporarily assigned to Judge Brown, of Kalamsazoo, —AL Picard, the French Minister at Brussels, bas been the victim of a forged letter of resig- nation, and the fact was discovered when Presi- dent Thiers summoned him to Paris to give his Teasons for resigning.’ NS —3larshall Lebeuf, N;_Foleon'u Minister of ‘Wer, who e2id in -July, 1870; that the French army was prepared for Germany to the *last button of the last gaiter, is, according to L& Francais, in & state of mind bordering on in- sanity. —}Ymelin Castelar and Eing Amadeus, of Spain, met, recently, in & sidepath in the Madrid Pardo, The King, who had never been introduced to Castelar, approached the great Republican oratar, and, ehaking his hand, said to him: **Sonor, admire your genius,” % And 1,” replied Castelar, “admire your Msjesty’s courage,” —Tne First Methodist Church at Fond dn Lac, Wis.,—s_bandsome brick structure,—was dedicated on Wednesdsy everning, the Rer. W. H. Ryder, D. D., of Chicago, preaching the discourse. 2l A —1It wonld make some of our fine ladies stars to see Lady Dufferin promenading the streets to- day, doing her shopping. She dresses plainly and gensibly, wears thick-soled boots, and does not fear s walk from one end of the city to the other, or face the muddiest crossing on Sparks street.—Ollawa (Can.) Citizen, —Edward Hitcheock, the eldest son of the “Doctor” of Amherst College, arrived home from Labrador, where he has Leen spending the summer, on Saturday. On his home trip he was shipwrecked on the 8d of October, locing the whole of the valuable collection of natural his- tory specimens that Le bad collected during his absence. —T'he friends of Professor Stowe will be hap- Py to learn that the illness by which he was re- cently attacked, at Amherst, Mass., was not par- alysis, bat & congestive chill, the sequenca of & malarial fever which he contracted by remaining toa long in & Southern climate, and exposing himself Ly labor while there. On the-next dsy after tho attack, Professor Stowe was able to ride to the Sanitarium of Dr. Rhodes, near Am- herst, whete he hag since been steadily gaining. et Ether Versus Chloroform. Frowm the Britinh Medical Journal. It the force of Statistics be of auy value, etber, beyond question,is the agent which prescats the most powerful claims, ard muat obtain our con- fidence a3 the safest anmsthetic. The reports at the Medical Society of Virginia_during this ses- sion are conclusive. By combining American and British atatistics the result is found to be as tolos loyed. Leaths. Inhalatic Agent em . t iona, i . 4to 92,815, or 1in 33,20/ Cblorofor .53 to 15,260, or1in 2,87 Mixture of d 1.111‘8, b g etler...... - 2t0 11,176, or ) ‘Bichloride of . 2to 10,000,011in 5,00 Itis thus proved statistically that chleroforn is eight times as dangerous as ether, fuice = dangerous as a mixturs of chloroform and ethe; and, as far as experience goes, it is more danger ous than bichloride of methylene ; in fact, chlore form ix the most dangerons of all the anmsthet’ sgents in nee. If statistics are of any valr thiese should be startling and impressive on. The report of the Londow Chloroform Cummits states the result of carefal iuvestigation, th ** ethier is lews dangerons thau chloroform}” ar that ** with every care, and the most exnet d lution of the chloroform vapor, the state of ir gensibility may pass in & few moments into or of imminent death ;” and the lateat surgic work from America advocates ether ag the : - suitable anwsthetic, v