The New York Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1868, Page 6

POLITWAL INTELLIGENCE. SPEECHES OF PRONUNENT POLITICIANS, Clement LE. Vallandighame Inarecent speech at Fort Wayne, Ind, Mg, Vale Jendigham enunciated the following views om THE PUBLIO Pay i ving disposed of these preliminary ad Sem ayent now directly to ope os more of Sssues tn Which you are concerned in 1898, regard to poplie Aen How was that Mavied? Thercpublican demagogue wilt it Adebt contracted to put down a democr Te- tite. Tscorn to make any reply to Sh a in- sinvation, for in, the very " next eath, they wil tell’ you that the ‘democratic arty was opposed t¢voUng supplies for the any ai wvy- {6 18 Tamateria: to-day, yaw this debt was more haw thiz, that E to rid of tat debt 8 inipo%ed upon the people wrenglally,ftraudulendy and with- ante pasiOratlel. Tb 1S thé wesyit, of, robbery and Bicaiug, Dol of e@gitinate application of the money ofthe people to the ‘purposes of the war. But ei that pass. The debt exists, and the great question jay is whelner ib shall be paid or not. 1 say ocratio and Yepublican parties eecupy posi- enipliatic Autagomsim i regard to this ques- . The repabliean partyin its platiorm deciares thar the public @ebt must be extended over what r ia neir period for redempion, What is that t \ hrtanGayehibg. tlayay mean thinly years or eas, OF Msnay mean forever, Moreover, ave interpreted it ty am act of Con- after me assembling of the Oonvention » Called Lie Punding bul, They have ‘in the securities of the United "ine teelm.; acaoug the people in or of payuent of Chis debt. they ysort of all weak winds, an ex~ i ent 18 caticd the Fanding Bo eee tha, aco 4 provides that the out: rDdlug bonds e: the United Slaves may be change pad pe 2, not payee, bul Kedgemable tn thirty or is, PB One IWStanceat sour and a baif per restand iv anothers four per cent, the in- ua peincipai both payable in coin, We have licdied te tering Of that bill that they do neg that that debt shall be off Within the ure. these who have arr atman’s Ceeggg tre ihe period of an entire generation. Mar! e ‘ue five-twenty bouds are r ‘ars and payable within twenty years; but now, by @ bill Introduced. by Senator Sherman, ngresd, Bod which Which passed both branches of Col fs, perlaps in the pocket of Andrew Johnson, these bonds are to be redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after thirty or forty years, and never yabieat all, Lam justified out oftheir own mouth Saying to yoo that it is mot the mtention of the reyublican party tuat this debt shall ever be paid. Great fools would wey be if they ever intended it sheull be pad, You have ali read the fable of #sop, wherein he tells of @ goose that laid golden eggs; it lays greenback eggs now, aud that is the ov'y ditferenee, lie L Sropreeed killed st, and there were hu more eggs Pay the debt, and there wil bo no more republican @arty,no more bond- h lders, no more privileged Classes mm this com. munity. HOW SHALL IT BE Pap? The poo are diametrically 0} ‘on this ques. tion. 1 was a saember of the House of Representa- faves which provided for the creation of this debt. I know that that which is inecribed upon the back of every legal tenuer note Was taken verbatim from the law; bat at the time the kaw Was passed there were no bonds in existence. Now, the ieaders of the re- Padhoen party have ihe thsolence to come forward @uri Geimand Ue the debt, which was to have been. id in paper, should be paid im gold. The debt of the COMNETY 18 NOW $2,600,000,000, if that senet ble tw gold it inakes a difference of $866,000,000 fn favor “of the doudboider, so that the debt, instead of being 62,660, 000,000, is, according to the republican de- mani, over $3,400,000,000, Yet the people are to be taxed $566,000.00 more if Grant olfax are elected, in order to perpetuate the ol repub- Hcan domination, You, wy republican friend, if this debt is tuo simall—if the payment of, taxes and tnierest are too hght for you—why, then, vote for Graot ap Jo'fax like an honest man. But, mark west (hat additional snun outef your Own pockets aud let us democrats free. That is a fair proposition, At present teak gal of this tax- @iien has Wo be paid; every dime ls wrung from the laboring man who lives by the sweatof tus vrow. Our repubiican friends, insvead of telling you how this debt is to be pai¢ themselves th saving andighain Was against the war,” Tau victory down ab dhtiuh, crushed eut the + 4 and broke its backbone.” ‘Tiw bonds ave SUL Uhe-same, and you have to bear the whole bur- Gen of laxauon just the same, Why does the repab- ican desive the continuance of Uus stute of tungs? Because the bondhelder gives hin money to carry On Lhe elections and epabie him to hold ovice. It is, “I tickle you and you tickle me.” Whas ts the losophy of this nice litte managemeut between bondholder aud the repablican party? Who is lucked? Why, that poor gouse, the people. The. bitoan leader says to the bondhoider, +i will give ww £900,000,000 more iuto your pocket, bul lL wil vy that much more tax on the people, because you sent me to Congress. 1 wiil frat pay myself $5,000 a. ar Li Consideration of iy great Kervices.”” Now, 4 May be gewerous, but it is certamly vot just. Fy democratic purty would hoid the boudholder to bond. Shylvck, as the bondholder may be— usurer, as he certainly is—bis coatract must be sus- tained; in considerauion of the public faith, Jet iim take nis gold and go where Dives went before hum. But let him look well to bis bond. 4) his debt is paya- ble in the iawfui money, the greenback eyrency, he he suall take it in paper or he shall OLN. M we are to stand by our con! stand by his, The public fucreased steadily for the last few | ine millions in June and prea Hitous in uly. in Washington have = There fs a question now about these bonds; there t crazy people out West who have got t into their heads that yon paid inp ‘bt, therefore, to tal ns bi 0 uit as—vy ep to the Treasury an wy nore sbie in gold and it will be an, 7? 4 he bond- Bower, his gushing adn ry UF he old fag and of the Union, actualy ad to tue agenis of the tnited States $000 amd took a rouse for $1,000, Did the soldier do that Oh, Bo. He ventured life, b.ood, limb, wife, child, home, @a the field of battle, but ue is paid ‘in the lawful Money of the country. His patriotism te aa nothing compured with those who rusted to the res- eue of tne government, opened their coffers end received @ promise to much as they vanced. No Soldiers are democrats now. ‘was in favor of ope currency forall and Dat if tuere 1s to be a discrimination, an ff t isto be put upou the of ought not the soldiers’ bounties and in gold? The democratic party that whenever the securities of the United States are ins reat ‘ks, the ered of the greenbac wiul currency country. ‘Phat is our position. We come before the people Upon it and we are — oA} memes Con je come so popular that a former Governor of the State has been recectly converted to the democratic doc. trine. Mr. nag nr Ph bonds oo able in greenbac! 1@ Republican tion also went over to the aide of ores ressly declares rs the greenback question. But it will not do for the republican speakers to to delude the repub- Moan masses by saying that Morton and Butler are im favor of paying in greenbacks, and that the repub- lican party are for because the republican gress have denounced it as repudiation. The denjo- Cratic party mceta the iasue We deny that it & repudiation to pay @ man in what he promined to take. Ob, but they say, would you pay One prom! to pay by another promise to 2 Gertati if the Mao agreed to take it, The democratic p occu. Pics an unmistakable position here; there need be BO question with regard to the cudidates on that norn- point. 1 Know that | oe wo idea in the West that Ration there was an Governor Seymour, because of certain he mae in the East, was in the {nterest the bondholders; but ue himeelf has made a direct contradiction of that state and he has emphati- cally and unequivovaly w pted the democratic Platform, gud saya that his adiainistration shall be governed by It. fis speeches were spoken for the purpose of guarding the democracy agulust runoi: outside of their aucicnt and accepted principles with regard to the currency and Onance. tL me repeat fo 1am 4 hard-money man to-day, as J always was. do net believe that a jm od promise is as good an the gold reality. 1 hold here a specimen oi our coin. age, Which is good for sore e (holding up a gold twenty dollar pieces). That my currency, The twenty dollar national bank note, legal tender, Bays, “| promise to pay twenty doliars,” but this @agie says, “lt am twenty dotiars,' 1 voted @galnst the legal tender law because I did not Deileve it constitutional; but, now that it is the law, let us hold these bondholders by it and. pay them in the money they agreed to take, According to the democratic theory we can prevent the debt from manning up by $56,000,000, ‘The debt in now 000,000,000, and the republican party would yaise to $5,400,000,000, We are paying an Interest of 14,000,000, which might for all purposes be cast to the sea. Every dollar spent tp interest is a duie Jar lost. You have paid $215,000,000 within a year for iierest, of Which @ large proportion ought not to have been paid, because the bonds are due and Ougit to have been discharged in the greenback saney of the country, We propose to save y $1,079,000, 000, according to our theory of meeting the bic debt, According to republican theory that is fos what you have to pay for the extension of ublican blessings by electing Grant and Gartax. (Voice, ‘Can't! see it) My repub- Wean friend, if you have got more money than you cnow what to do with; if you have no widows and orpiiaus, no object of charily in your midst, po churches, no schools, no iustituions of learning to butid, pay that debt 1m gold if you please. But it dves appear to me that $215,000.00) ia a feasonabiy large sum of money. 1 cau revoilect ‘when tie expenses of the United States in every ent were Hut $14,000,000. Yet now we are pay- $214,000,000 in interest alone. The question is, ether you shall not pay this in the same money that the former, the Jaboring men and the mechanic are paid in. Why shouldn't they take it? Because republican party say it Is repudiation. Tuere is pot one man who dares arise before the peopie and discuss this question in the presence of a democratic to the conaci » the great American They talked about Mevery ms 8 wrong that must 2 ~ a, a | eviforced by equal legislation.” It appears to ine New “XORK HERALD, Sar URDAY, .AUGU cen eee vest ‘lection if we can ke t “ ra ; ity’ | overwhelmed in the ™“ » the ‘The Stateclections eu l re hy 4 encation, | oer, and they wil. PO¥etlees to breok it suited a8 fonows:— * fer nyeas nae pat @ with pay where we pro- } afterwards, “i ‘it, and we where we eee ; Vote ol you s Connecticut, 4 promsea 2 rue raid Sack onl you Bentamin Hi. ANN, j Sracont deta ie" anoratie ‘t erate stand in regard to oftaxa- | Atademocratic barbecue held at Forsyth, ~S Sefmoky, ACD she n pew on one of your banners, “east iu; | the sth insi., B. H. Hill, of that State, ‘spoke as {« ‘aska, de’ pocratic 3 rene te ba how det eat a WEKa Te 2 f t! is in the pecurities ke Taster Bates, exem) es | {iio Gountry are in tettoly ‘erenter than any ever pre- "4 “4 coahias einem, Witadae | at“ ansehe a pee amie! ai | POP sale mfoy must. wai He a j ‘hool distrigt in one your | error when they seceded ym the Union. r tee @dical majority in Wisconsin has gone down ips, fe which there were bat’ two] TJ never th it it =a crime; = for thoy | !Bth’ , pice. tp 1963 it was 26,000; in 1864, 17,000; in, men who had any property at all; each | had a right to secede, 1. did. think they | 18° “14 ono. in 1867, 4,000. of owns 4,900 in land the | committed a crime when they themselves 4, 10,000; tn 1867, fy al property that ‘jelongs to land; the one pays | to be subjugated. Three moni ym to-day will ‘William Petrick Willey, son of Senator W. T. yp. Taxes to he 9°7 $600; but to-morrow-thé one | settlé whether we shall have a government. ' joy, 13 the democratic candidate for Attorney Gey eral sells pro} apd invests itin United States | ‘The question was not who ghall vote, but ‘of West Virginia. ” bonds; what is the: wence?. Why, thoone man | whether we shall have. a. free goverumen® , ‘einia. has to $1,000 0¢ taxation becanse his bondhold- | This is the stake. I shall consider the electior ot At the preliminary meeting of the “Tanr ars Oind,” ing ne r is 8etyTree, in Col uence of bis patrl- | Grant and Coifax the end of written constitut! ons. | 8t Rock Island, IL, a large fag was, suspended ole purchase at ity cents on the dollar, “Noting | Stal! we avert this calamity, People. say {om | across the rear end of the hall, and over j can be more pif Aner to a rational and tm} n | hard—that i nse harsh janguage in dealing *. Ath the o Der ita due ox than the enormity of the ‘exemption BP ares a | political questions of the day; but I ten! them fam not | Bide, with the name “Seymour” wr'Aten acvoas it in ortion of th property of the United! States from | hard enon; If Thad the power ['woule ~ trate | large letters. Underneath was the tvupriat, “0. s xailon, ‘Ife democraise platform saya that ihe | tie rhinoceros hides of some peopte. > .De'marnre | lh a te : bonds shad be taxed the same ag otuer property. | @ vear ago accepted the consti amendments fe ; ‘The repubfcan party say that they shall be exempt, | and reconstruction measures of the rv Aiical Congress A negro club of Grant “Tanners’* has been organ- or, a8 13 ow proposed, that they shall be converted | in gospel, an ne Ea oan , fe best thing | 1zed at Indianapolis. iio neng bonds Pen ila poe of sorta yer, iach, He iifered. with them ‘to say a je Vallandigham again bronghY out that famone pubit Climor about” the war, about cop- | with them now; but he. ,,vem, and alors | swenty dollar gold piece in lis recent Fort Wayne Leste butteriuts, . traitors, and all that, | to rane ee’ and AE 4 pack, ‘The speaker | speech, ventent way to escape from these troublesome ques- | he said, called rellef mi waa sorry for (em, | Uvered a Know Nothing speech abusing the Fenians here is no rest for the wieked, .It sha!l be | but he : br pe line pon line, precept upon precept, herea little and, Roe S creat deal, until the sun shall go down cy e@ Presidential election of next November, and, when le tises upon the Sth of March, 1809, he WiVI rise und shine upon a demoeratic demonstration, Ow whose bauners stat! be inseribed “Equal taxation Wuat on this question we are stronger than the re- ee party—stronger on the payment of the pnb- ic debt, according to its terms, in paper fimancial princi. pies; — stronger equity and stronger in naked justice, is it that we are asl to ear this burden of taxation at al? It is to su ieee, the government; it is becouse the governm said to protect the gyi 0 do protect soine of us prodigiousty. Tt ia beautiful neory, Whatever It may be in practi Who Wants protection most, the poor man or the rich man? rich man can take care of bimaelf gene- rally. The oniy risks he incurs are in relation to the ernment. It is true the thief does not steal from ¢ poor man, becanse he has nothing to steal. Men curreucy; — stronger upon in. do not generally kill a poor man, be e there ts no motive to do it; but they sometimes ‘take the life of the rich man. Against such risks the rich maa is protected by haa no censure oA tem. He was for some lenounce, The framers of that instrument put tly etter clause in’ thet insti ment for ‘the delitysrate i the people, and intev.ded from the start what Ornate shoud ¥.rlke tt oute, Honest men voted for i, aeninnt wine, he had Dothing preasible pce "for fraud. I petrated tl¥e the men who windled you. Themen who. aasembled at Attanta in convention ‘were a miserable set of rogue and thieves, As soon as thelr constl- tution wens, to Washington rellef was stricken ont. ‘They did v.0t strike it out because it was unconstitu- tonal, byt because some of those debts were owed North. “You onzht to hate those rascals, Facing the r pone of the audience he said:—They he mmocrats, and espectally myself, are lally Severe upon the black people. But ho mr ved the bilgatto Lyd ins Ne ye oountry were under every ol mn to prot black le. They want your votes to put them in power, and after they get your votes ie Wont care one fig for you. Why do they say shall vote? Are they vernment. The poor man exclaiins, with ‘Andrew Jackson, “We are governed too much. Spare me its blessings. Let me alone, that by tue sweat of my brow aad the toll of my hands I may make an honest Itving for my wife and for my little ones!” Upon this subject we shall go before sn, RCE, and we intend to be heard, and, thank God. we can be heard without fear of tallitary4nterruption or belng disturbed by mobs, We were so Pg las or seven years ago, Truth ‘waa mighty then; th was an ugly thing to those who loved falsehood, opnreision, and tyranny, But they had a convenient mode of disposing of demo- cratic orators, In the dead of night a band of mil- tary, enilsied to fight the enemy and puid by your money and mine, broke open the hotises of demo- cratic speakers, incarcerated them tn bastiles and gent them abroad on foreign voyages in exile. We dared not speak then, It was a convenient, a spten- did arrangement. ‘they could not answer the deio- cratic orator, but they could silence him. We have nothing of that now. How convenient it would he within these pestiferous fellows who come before the People and talk about eqna! taxation and the pey- Ment of the public debt in the lawful mouey of the country and in favor of white supremacy if your Governor Mortons, Burnsides and Lincolns could send a fle of soldiers and shut the!r mouths ? Or that | Mobs might interfere and break up democratic assemblages and destroy deimocratic enting i presses, That day has goné by forever. fe mast now meet face to face anil eyeto eye. ‘They cannot stience the democratic orators of the day and they not wry to answer them, Montgomery Blair, Montgomery, one of the Blatr family, delivered | the folowing speech at Alexandria, Va., last Tries- | day. It will be perceived thas uis views duler some- what from those of the democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency, as ho makes no threate and advisds | the people to exercise patience and forbearance :-— Fruiow Citizens—I take great pleagurein bei gmopg you on tins occasion. I love to see the ok flag Waving agala in Old Virginia, reared by her true sons. No people over whom it waves have done more for its glory or have a better right to anem- biem star on its folds, Without Virginia and her ‘Wasitagtons, Jeiersons, Menrys, Lees and other’ illustrious chiefs, and the brave and patriotic people of who they were but representative men, tt may be doubted whether that fla¢ would have been known among the nations of the earth. Nor have thoir sons degenerated or forfeited their rights in the govern- ment they inherited. The late rebellion resulted | fron a rr for —— — end not responsi Gis. .was proclaimed by the ex- treme radicals themselves i the outset. So that ‘ff the patriotism which actuated your people in the late struggle needed vindicatton, this adm:ssion Of thoir adversaries attests it, 1 have, as you know, been 4 determined opponent to secession; but I havo beeu equally opp: to vonsolidation. In my view consolidation and secession would result in the same inteehiefs, Washington declared that tie Union was the palladium of our liberties, Disunion led to the experience of the direct application of the military y power tocon- tro! elections, und we are therefore to-day living un- der auniiitary despotism. Noting but crazy parti- sanship can hide this substantial fact from any mind. My opposition to secession was the convic- tion that it would result in this. That, however, was | but an opinion; while on the other hand. if radical- ism be malat we hay an ex! success, ae like myseif, have posed seceasion jon for the sake of py y, and ea ee ee and fancied ourselves wiser than the 18, if not more y will have to confess our mistake. In t present aspect of aifairs I have to confess that to be army &@ great debt, and founded great mercenary Imes and. corrupuing hostile to eve: form of freedom, have not biundered. But I do et eee the N and ‘and I see i the elections of this and last year the people are awakened to the dangers that surround them, and that they 1 ring of the of ail sections of the ountry wich warns Seat abet again to flag: 1 assure you that it will be of constitution: an the people take care of your rights—ti Sa better — A because ge mecessary preservat own. But they will doit fora more bonorabie reason. They mi Constitation and their own best inceresta, It would be disgraceiul to break their piedges to the of the insurreclionary Staies contained in the parole ven at the Landy and in all the laws and re- ves of Congress the bemuning to tho end of tI SB een be Six vere. pose tte ausce ledges to the Union men ot the bon ‘States, who prevented the cx us tiation of the pane in eee Bonny wae have as- sured of tue North were wo ve false to 1 these men it would be a betrayal of allios more shameful than any recorded tn history. ‘True, one ofthe pretexts for We asurpation is two af- 40 the loyal nn ct ne South, This is bi oi so-called loyal. fata were not thelt ° i mente, the wai ind are now but the tostru The carpet-bagiors who were in the army were not there as Southern men, and the negroes, for whose welfare af. fect such Lag were all of the rebellion, wo feed tte ari and the tren tect them, But of the border States whites paid the consideration eee ae given by the a Ment, on the motion of Mr. Crittenden, that the war ‘Was not to be prosecuted for the subjugation of their brethren, but to ey ay ON Tichts and dignity of ail the red, in the full aoe oF troope and money furnished by them from the beginning to the While we have a few persons in countenance the radical attem| break a peces, seduced by the hopes of having er with them, yet the masses of the i@, as shown by the elec- Hons in Maryland, Kentucky, aud Delaware, and Wherever there has been @ elevtivn, tent loudiy agains: this treacherous: Neverviid our ple approach so Nearly to absot unity as upon isquesiion. ‘This is a fact Of great sien ee if another respect. It demonstrates that the ical olicy to force disunion way yet be accompiished, rhe radical leadera, all know, @id not want tn Union maintained in the outset, and their measures are now making all south of Mason aud Dixon's line an absolute nit, in opposition to the deain, go that, if persisted in, the Union ean only be maintained Us & force to support & people perfeoily united to defen acknowledged constiiuhonai righi®, J coneur in the Couuse! General Katpion gives his people—to exer- cise paulence aml forbearance, and uae every effort to maintain peace. The radicals have no bi Maintaining themselves in power by the will ‘opie. They are fomenting war in the South, rHish them with a pretext to stifle the ballet box. Their alliance with Grant, whe has no sympathy with the ideas im which the re pubhean party Was founded, is of itecif Procianation of their abandonment of those princl ples, and tat they look alone to the army and to force for @ continuance of power. Brownlow's inove- ments show their animus. He isa representative Man among them. We must be on our. there- fore, © furviea them no prevexte, will be sincere in this? In the very law which — you the right to vote they took it away from twenty thou- sand white men in Georgia. could not hold oMce, yet he was born, reared and educated here. Yet he had never advocated secession. Why do they want to include you and exclude twenty thou- sand tntellizent white men from the elective fran- chise—the best and the wisest men: in the State? It was because if they were allowed to vote and hold office the t- would be cut out from those offices. But whenever and wherever the ques- tion of bestowing the right to vote uvon your race ¢ad been presented in a Northern State it was voted down by from ten to fifty thousand, But if they get the power, they will take this right away from black and white alike, in all the Southern States. They have already taken the right to vote away from the people of Florida and Alabama. He would impress one more fact upon the colored people. You know that no government can last here unless it is aanc- tioned by the people. Instead of following the advice of men yon have lived with all your lives, you followed the advice of little carpet-baggers who came down here for the purpose of getting into office and stealing. The member of the Legislature from this county had been sent home fo tell you not to come to this rpg Oe cause they Knew he would be there and tell them they were aset of thieves and rogues. He was in favor of remembering the colored men hereafter who acted with us now. Agatn to the front audience:— These miserable native renegades whom God had mare white by mistake, these thieves and rognes— and when [ call them that 1 will prove it—knew the econstruction measures were — unconstitntional. They concetved these messtires for the ences of making the Southern States radt But Meade has told them, and it ts the only trnth he ever knew Meade to tell, that Georgix woitlt go democratic by thirty thousand, In view of this fact they are try- ing to take the right to vote for President from the people and ‘give it to the Legistature. | They are working for despotism. They are inst such men ss spring up in every commonweaith. Rome, Greece, India and England had them. The Bible speaks of them—‘The wicked abouna on every hand, and the vilest rule.” These men are false to thelr own race. They will deceive and demoralize your soctety, They are false to all. But there is one Temark he wished the people to ponder well—“I hate them.” It is a Christian duty to hate them. No man will ever get to heaven unless he hates them. I hate their dishonesty. Your wives, your yperty, nor anything: you have can be safe while these car- pet-bageers are prowling through the country. They ‘are turning loose the vilest demons of passion among you. Our homes will no loner be safe unices the Progress of radicalism {s stayed, Untess this is stopped no tongue can tell what will be the conse- quencos, I can see revolution coming, and am watch- ing when society will begin to dissolve. Men who watch can see the symptoms which foretell the de- straction of a government. A dis! ished divine had told him the other day that the standard of morality had gone back three centuries. You have lost your respect for law and your horror for crime. You are are Ba hatred for iniquity and your respect for virtue. Look at the abominable thing now in session at ‘Atlanta, There are penitentiary convicts in it, There is one man in it placed there by stuffing the ballot box. That indescribable vil- Jain, Hulbert, had the ballot box of one county sent back and stuffed so as to change the result, Tell me, my countrymen, what are we coming to when negroes convicts are our legislators. The con- stitution which created Le defeated 1 tell these say, “Oh, Ben Hill at qa to @ decent your Governor. He man; but he jolded these rogues and thieves for selfeprotection. I amirm here to-day that ofmce in the gift of the Governor has been put in the mar- ket for sale. But some of these bargains failed. If your fathers had heard the charges of and corruption against | pine men of thetr day what a storm of indignation it would have produced. Such pchares, alt ih untrue, came well ruining Henry Clay, Ihave said {did not in to recog- nize Bullock as Governor and Ido not. He is not the legal Governor of the State. Countries have always jost their liberties by corrupt men im high te. You'are within three months of an election be i) will finally disrupt this conntry uniess the radi- sal ie defeated. had to htm: How are you going to radicals? Well, it is the first dui to desire to do rij to men who are trying to get office from We should never recognize him or his lature. He never intended to em a single of either. He here related an ‘of dogs once cl from sheep. As soon as the dogs saw the men cone. they tucked their tatis and ran. Let Seymour and Biair be elected, Governor Jenkins a od to Mil " He and Prod — te td +4 jovernor o' and these their tails and run from the State. ihe POLITICAL NOTES. ‘The Louisville Courier of the 12th sums up the re- fults of the recent election in Kentacky as follows:— We give this morning the vote of ninety-seven counties oMcial and two unofficial, leaving only thirteen counties—and they, with one or two excep- tions, sma mountain counties, which last year — in ail Oniy 8,934 votes—yet to be from. ir figures show that Stevenson ing thus far in the popular vote over Helm 23,763: Baker loses from the vote of Barnes 9,966; that Stevenson's voto in the State will be about 114,000 and Baker's about 23,000, which will vary bnt a few hundred from the ered vote given last year. Our summary is as follows:— Gain in ninety-four counties, reported oMicially ‘Loss in three counties, reported officially ..... Net gain in ninety-nine counties. be repo in- junties to be heard from vi crease only in the thirteon « be aided to this mate, The ninety-seven counties a Voted a follows for Governor Heim. ‘85,187 oe 066 Kinkead “se They now vote as follows: Stevenson's majority in ihe State will probably Rot vary one thousand from 35.000 by Vermont holds her election on Septomber 1. The ‘Vote in the past four years has been as follows:— 4a Election takes place in Maine on September At the State elections of the last four years the total ‘Votes and the republican majorities have been as fol- lows:— Years. f. re me ieee iis ne | 1907. 108, 704 Lae in that city. Each party uses the rise in gold as an nnanswera- ble argument against ita opponent, Meanwhile the rise still continues, and the country, like the patient over whom the doctors quarrel, suffers, Tt {3 stated that all the Blair family is to meet shortly, in the Bair mansion at Silver Spring, for the parpose of holding a grand political consultation, The Hon, Samuel Hooper, member of Congress from the Fourth Massachusetts district, has con- sented to be again a candidate. ‘The Boston Transcript says:—A movement tn favor of conferring the right of suffrage on young men be- tween eighteen and twenty-one has been started under favorable auspices, It is Proposed to hold a meeting in Faneuil Hall at an early day. Hon. William Pitt Fessenden is announced to speak before the Grant and Colfax Club at Au- burn, Me. Hannibal Hamlin and General Farnsworth have Deen added to the list of republicans who are speak- ing in Malye, and General Sickles will goon be ere. bi York county, Me., the democrats intend to rely on personal effort, rather than public mectings, to bring out a full vote. The Hon. E. M. Stanton, General John A. Logan, of Iilinois; Senator Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio; Sen- ator Oreswell, of Maryland, and Senator Harlan, of Towa, have been engaged to speak in Michigan during the campaign for Grant and Colfax. John Marrin, a negro, was elected M Cleveland on Thursday a8 a delegate to the Republican Congres- sional Convention to be held in that clty to-day. Center county, Pa., has declared for Mr. W. H. Armstrong for the repubitean nomination for Con- gress, This gives him three out of the five counties, and insures his nomination, Ohio papers say that Mr. Pendleton {s to run for Congress in the First district of that State. THE GREENE STREET FIRE, Schedale of Losses and Insurance—Estimated Total Loss $123,000. Shortly before three o’clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in tne first floor of the five story brick building Nos. 42 and 44 Greene street, adjoining D. Appleton & Co.’s publishing house, on the corner of Grand street, and partly occupied by them. The flames spread with great rapidity, bursting out of every window and through the roof in great vol- umes, quickly wrapping the entire structure in their flery embrace. Owing to the occurrence of the fire in West Eleventh street but a short time previously the apparatus stationed most convenient to this locality was absent, and in consequence a longer time elapsed before a stream was turned on the burning building than would otherwise have been the case. When the firemen did get to work—it being at once apparent that all efforts to save the building in which the fire originated would be futile—they directed their encr- gies to confining it within the party walls separating the building on either siae from Apple- ton’s large new building on the corner and John F. Trow’s printing house respectively. Tue heat im- mediately infront of the burning building was in- tense and the houses opposite glowed in its scorch- ing rays. A number of streams were tnstantiy directed here, the water as it daxhed against the front of the buildings cree | and pesmaing ag though brought into contact with fire itself. The roofs of surrounding and adjoining buildings were similariy treated, the firemen working with an energy and in- difference to danger deserving of the highest acmir- ation. Shortly before half-past three the front of the burning building showed of toppling over by ploleg d gently toand fro in mid-air, being alter- nately borne outward by the weight of the cornice on top and drawn in again from the force of the cur- rent created by thegreat heat. Gradually it inclined more towards the opposite side of the astree! anxiously watched by the firemen underneath, un Analiy, about the haif hour, t came down with a tre- mendous crash, blocking up the entire street. This saved the adjoining ae The streams pre- viously playing on the bulidings opposite were all now turned upon the fire, and soon the dying away ofthe light and the thick volume of dark smoke which spread over the scene advised of another vic- tory of the firemen over their old enemy. It burned sullenly for hours afterwards and occasionally shot up into light Names, but its power of destruction was worked out and by daylight the watchilnes were more than sufMicient to stay its further progress, The roofs of several of the buildings adjacent to the fire caught in places either from the heat or falling sparks, but the liberal and prompt use of the axe, witha generis supply of water, soon removed this cause of anxiety. Greene street were both destroyed. Nos. 42 and They were twenty-five feet front by about seventy- | five feet deep, and five stories. The logs on them will amount to $40,000. They are insured for $30,000, 28 follows:—$5,000 in the Niagara, $6,000 in the Lorillard; $5,000, International; $3,000, Knicker- docker; $2,500, Star; $3,000, Importers and Traders’; $500, Pacitc, and $3,000, Atiant ‘The buildings were built recently by H. J. Howara, by whom they were leased to D. rf leton & Co., the book publis! fomforty years. is firm oovupied at the time of the the first floor for —— pur- poses, Their loss on stock of t: presses, plates, paper and machinery ts estim: at $35,000, on Which they are insured as follows on stock, &¢.:— Hamilton, $2,500; Excelsior, $2,500; Tradesmen’s, 2,500; Kens . of Philadelphia, $2,500; North merican, of Hartford, $2,500; Standard, $1,500 Abany City, Pe Total, $15,000. On machinery :-— materdam, $1,000: Merchants’, of Chicago, $1,000; Lecter, $900; Pees Brooklyn, $400, Total, 0, @ basement was occupied by the Metallic Keg Company. Their loss I4 avout $2,000 by water; in- mrea for #4,590 In the Liverpool, London and Globe Tnaurance Company. The second, third and fiftn floors were occnpied by Liebenroth & Von Aner, blank book manufacturers, ‘Their stock was also destroyed; but they are anabie to estimate at present with any degree of accurncy the extent of their loss, but it ts at least $22,000, They are insured for $51,333, a8 follows:—\neen, 6,23 83; Liverpool, London’ and Globe, $8,000; frard, $2,500; Sterling, $2,500; Germania, $2,500; Bxch ‘$2,000; Arctic, $1,600; North Amerioan, of Hartford, $1,500; Associ ted Farmers, of baltimore, $2,500; Union, of Baltimore, $2,500; National, of tmore, eg? Washington, of Baitimore, $2,60 Maryland, of faltimore, $2,500; Baltic, of New Yort 2,500; tna, of Hartford, $2,600; Firemen’s, $2,500; let, $2,860; Humbotdt, 9 300s Metropofitan, 1,000; Western, uiralo, $1,500, M ‘The fourth Noor was occupied by Maber, Todd & Co., manufacturers of jd pens and pencils. Their loss timated at $25,000; insnrea for $15,000—$600 on & safe, $4,200 on all goods and stock manufac- tured or in process of manufacture In such safe, and $6,200 on tools and fixtures, inciuding fixtares, shafting, &c., in the adage | com} es:—Colum- bia, $3,750; Willlamabur ity, $3,750; Adriatic, $3,700, and Mechanics and Traders’, $3,750. he fire, very luckily, was confined to those two ‘buildings, except a amail damage of about $500 to the bullding Greene street. Some damage was also done to the buildings 41 and 43, opposite side of the street; but $250 will cover the loss, The publishing house of D. Appleton & Co, sus- tained alight damage, about $150. There being a strong separate wall dividing tt from the burning building saved tt from further injury, ‘THE FIRE IN WEST STREET, Additional Facts—Particulars of the Insurance. ‘The grain and feed store at the corner of West Fleventh street, destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, a8 reported in yesterday's HenaLn, waa kept by Boyce, Banks & Co, and not J. B. Lawton & Oo., as then stated. Lawton & Co. are the owners of the building, on which they had an insurance of $7,000 in different companies, Boyce, Bankr & Co.'s Joss could not be ascertained. Tiley are insured for 5,000-—$2,000 in the Giobe ai $3,00 in the rocers’ Insurance Company. 8, & J. Clausen’s loss fend insurance are as prdViously stated. A colored boy named Joseph Smith, in the employ of B Banks & Oo., who was in the vicinity of th the fire broke out, being supposed to te ives origin, was detained tor ex: the Fire M: al, but nowling of any im was ma him. The fire was most ‘Work of an incendiary. ES SP 15, 186: aa NEW YORK CITY. THE COU SUPREME COURT—CHARERS. ‘Swearing im of the New Register. Before Judge Barnard. At the opening of the court yesterday morning fatrick H. Jones, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, presented himself before this court, and Jude Barnard administered to him the oath of oiilce as Kegister of the city and county ot New York. Mr, Jones was appointed to the ition by the Covernor, in the place of the late Genera! Charles ©, Halpine, to hold ofice until January 1, 1869, the fees and emoluments of the department to be paid, it is understood, to Mrs. Haipine, In No- vember next an election for Register for the full term will be held, The court, after the adminstration of the oath to Mr, Jones, was o@)."rned unfit Monday next. The third Monday oaleadar of over one hundred causes will then be i at twelve o'clock M, SLA9¢9108 C0 RT—SPECIAL TERR. A Marital Question. Kefore Judge Garvin, Flenner vs, Hermann—A curious question was ratsed in this case, which is brought for alleged breach of promise of marriage. The defendant was arrested on an affidavit of the plaintuf setting forth the promise of marriage, and then tliat the parties lived together as husband and wife, the defendant introducing her as his wife, &c, The detendant moved to set aside the order on the ground that if the plaints afidavit were untrue he should not be held, and if true, under the New York laws, which makes consent the only essential element to & legal marriage, they were husband and wie, and the action must fail. Piaintlt urged that the facts were not binding on the plaintiff, and ehe was at liberty to disprove the marriage. Motion denied, Decisions, Indge Garvin delivered decisions in the following cases:— Anna Hartman vs. George Kiterctder et al.—Com- Plaint dismissed with costs. Charles N. Shepard vs, Gustav Heineken et al.— Motion for a new trial denied, Samuel Ackerman vs, Sarah EB. Ackerman,—Ro- Port ce referee confirmed and Judgment of divorce ‘an! 1. eNargaret Russell vs, Witham Bernan.—Motion de- nied with $10 costs. gone cnr Zarry.—Bail accepted and prisoner ischa ie Dennis Flynn vs. Daniel H. Baldwwin.—Motion granted and action discontinued on payment of costa to be taxed, &o. Rowland Worthington va, Alphonse Wolfe; Edward Murphy vs. Cornelius O'Reilly; Alice Hansonte vs, Bernard Ruppe.—Motions granted. mae snes Rely and James Burns,—Prisoners discharged. ‘Aaron Friedman vs, Nicholas Dewes—Motion granted on terms. Wiliam L. Black vs. Cornelius B. Payne; Dennis Run, éc., Oil Company, vs. Same; Cameron vs, oe oe granted without cost Charles Bayer vs. Joseoh Taglabdue; Joseph vs. William Dodd; Advlph Bayer vs. Joseph Tagl abue.—Motions granted. J Sperry vs .William Dodd,—Complaint dis- missed unless plaintiff serve his complaint within ten days and pay $7 costs. Porter Fiten vs. Louisa A, Pitch.—Interrogatories nee and served and case adjourned wo August CITY INTELLIGENCE, FATAL ACCIDENT.—About three o'clock yesterday David Close, forty-four years of age, residing at No. 99 Pitt street, was killed in the lumber yard No. 104 Norfolk street by the falling upon him of a pile of lumber, His body was removed to the Thirteenth precinct station house and the Coroner notified. Drowning Casvaury.—About half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon a sallor, belonging to the brig ©. T. Tompkins, of St. John, N. B,, named Henry Francis Styles, of Hopewell Hill, in the parish of Hopewell, N. B., fell overbuard from a small! bout oif pier 47, East river, and was drowned, His body was uot recovered, ANOTHER TELEGRAPHIC ARREST.—A man named Joseph D. Webb was arrested on Thursday by oficer Tiemann, of the Central detectives, upon information received by sig ie. from theChief of Police of San Francisco by perintendent Kenn that an in- dictment was a pending against Webb in California for swindling. He was locked up at police headquar- ters, and will be detained to await the proper form of rendition, DROWNED.—AN inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Schirner, at 40 King street, over the remains of Robert Lindheim, aged nine years, who was drowned on Thursday in the Park. The boy and his sister were yg ron in the Park and the deceased ‘Was trying the depth of the small pond near the Sixth avenue entrance with a stick and fell into the water, being drowned before aid could arrive. A verdict in accordance with the facts was rendered. FaTaL Fau..—At an early hour yesterday morning Frederick Moninger, a native of Germany and thirty years of age, was found lying dead in the yard of his residence, No. 426 Fifth street, It appears that the deceased was in the habit of sleeping on the roof since the hot weather, and it is presumed that he rolled off while asleep and was instantly killed, ag no outcry was heard. Coroner Schirmer held an inquest. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE ToMBS.—Nathaniel W. Swift, a prisoner in the Tombs awaiting trial ona charge of grand larceny, attempted to commit sut- cide yesterday afternoon about twoo’clock by cutting his throat in two places with @ common pen- knife. The attention of Dr. Nealis and Dr. Anderson, of the errr was called to the case by the onal and they dressed Swift's wounds, who seemed determined to comuit suicide, as he was in despair. The prison physielans, flodin; that Swift mond proters r the Dandages of an 80 compiete his pu: » him placed under re- peor and i his bandaged to prevent any such mp Tue REPORTED DRATH OF A YOUNG GIRL IN THR ToomBs.—The story of the death of @ girl in tne Toombs published in some of the papers yesterday is untrue, The particulars of her arrest and imprison- ment, except that the child was taken to Easex Mar- ket station and not to the Toombs, were correct. 1 Egy, that one Walters (who it seems is an attach of the Essex Market police er, the story for the purpose of exciting the sympathy of the ily in which the girl was a servant, 60 as to induce them to visit the prison and hear her story. ‘The members of Mr. Floyd's family and the boarders in the house No. 49 West Broadway were greatly _ when the sad news was brought to them by ‘alters, and one of them communicated the particu- lars of the case as reported. THe BLASTING CasvaLTy.—An inquest was com- menced yesterday by Coroner Flynn in the case of Patrick Ronan, who was so shockingly injured on the 26th ult. by the sudden and unexpected explo- sion of a blasting charge, in une excavation for a new cbarch on the corner of Fifty-fourth #treet aad Seventh avenue. The details of this case, as weil ns the death of deceased, have already been fully de- scribed in the HFRALD. It appeared from the evi- dence taken yesterday that one of the JIaborers, under the direction of the deceased, who was the foreman, placed a can full of some new description of bdlastlog Mryees which Ronan procede! to ram down with a awabs'ick in a very geatie aud cautious Manner. While this tamping process was going ou the cl explod shattering Ronan’s aris, destroying his eyes and otherwise injuring him. Thomas Crimming, the contractor, stated that ihe owder had no name and had never ied to an acci- lent before, The case was adjourned until Tuesday, morder that further Information be procured from other witnesses. The powder Was at frat supposed vo be nitro-glycerine. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ASSAULT WITH A HaTomet.—A quarrel arose on ‘Thursday between Martin Joyce, of 41 Muiberry streot, and James Ferris and Catharine Ferris, when the two last named persons assaulted Joyce witn a hatchet, cutting hiin severely in the head in six dif ferent places. Both the assailants were arrested and Das _ before Justice Hogan, Who committed them r trial, FRLONIOTS AssacuT.—Westmore R. Robertso n, re- siding at No. 86 Amity street, was committed for ex- amination yesterday morning by Justice Shandiey, on the complaint of William Davis, keeper of a sa- loon at No, 233 Thompson street. Davis states that on the night of the 8th Instant Robertson entered his saloon, dragged him out on, the street and stabbed him in the side with a knife, A CHILD MANGLED.—Augustns G, Sharp, a driver on one of tie street car lines, was arraigned before Justice Shandley yesterday on the charge of having run over a child and broken its arms, besides inflict. ing other serious injuries, The complainant was the child's father, William Campbell, corner of avenue A and Fourteenth street, The prisoner was held to ‘SWait the result of the child juries, A Strapping Arynay.—John Tracy was yesterday committed by Judge Kelly, of the Fourth District Police Court, on a charge of stabbing Michael Ken- ney and the wife of the latter. Mra. Kenney made the compiaint, her husband, on account of his severe injuries, having been taken to Kelievue Hospital, Mrs. Kenney waa stabbed in the bead, bit her in- Juries are silght. The stabbing was the resnit of 4 drunken sp! iy the | ALLRGED SwixpLe ny 4 WomAN.—Fredorick Menne, & German, few days sao observed an advertisement calling for a middle aged man wit $200 a8 partner in alucrative business. He called upon Mrs, Matilda Bumcutter, keeper of @ cigar store at No. 13 Broadway, who, he states, induced him to invest $200 in the busiacas, The money was deposited with her, and a young man named Peter Moran took Menne out to show itm the city.’ When they ‘eturned, Menne alt the store was-closed, the woman and the steck gone, She had removed to arta unknown, Moran was arrested and arraigned efore Justice Shandley on the charge of being & party to the swindle, but was: released for want of suilclient evideuce to hold him for trial. A SINGULAR POLICE OFFICER.—Quite a breeze 00- curred in the Tombs Police Court yesterday owing to the extraordinary conduct of an officer. It ap- Pears that officer John Hamoll, trregniariy avtached to the Fourth ward polsce, met ofMcer Hay, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, a few days ago, and gave him such information as led to the arrest of a man on acharge of c itting a bureiary in @ Cortlandt street store. When the prisoner was brought before Justice Hogan officer Hay vontd give no account of the ease, alleging that Hamblin had alt the evidence. ‘The magistrate sent for Hamblin, but he failed to ap- pear until yesterday, when he said. that he could not bring the witnesses, as their lives would not be safe. As he was also: impertinent Justice Hogan reprimanded him. severely and told him that he had freqnentiy acted in this extraordinary manner, having been once arrested for grand lareeny. The oMcer then turned on-his heel in a hurry and remarked, “Well, you baye alt the evidence you are going to get.” A complaint is to be made against him before tlie commissioners. THE Cast orf OrricerR Davis.—In yesterday's police news was published a pararraph concerning acomplaint made at the Fesex Market Police Court by ® woman named Winifred Rush against officer Davis, of the Seventeenth precinct, for agsaplting her with a cane, and relating nls committal by Justice Mansfleld upon the ex parte statement of the complainant. Since then numerous facts have been made known which place the matter in a different light. Officer Davis, it appears, 18 an ol: officer of seventeen years’ experience on the force, well known recognized for his eiticiency and ex- emplary conduct. The woman tush, upon the ocea- sion referred to in her complaint, having Just returned from @ ten days’ [eric residence on the island, whither she had been sent by Justice Shandley, on complaint of Davis, who then had con- siderable trouble bringing her in, for intoxication and disorderly conduct, was again behaving herself in a very disorderly manner in To:mpkius square, in- sulting and abusing passers-by. When being ordered to leave by the officer she defiled hii, and on his at- tempting to enforce his order grabbed hold of his coat and, calling him by an cpprobrions epithet, cried out, “Davis, I will have your heart’s bleod.”? The cane was only used to force her to let go her hold of his clothing. A number of prominent citi- zens have made a statement of these facts to the Police Commissioners and asked that the officer may not suffer in their regard from the action o1 Justice Mansfield. THE HOBOKEN FERRY CASUALTY.. Exoneration of, the Mate and Engineer—In- jest on the Body. An inquest was held yesterday morning, at ten o’clock, on the body of a boy named John Gordon, who was run over while in a small rowboat by a ferry steamer at Christopher slip, on the 10th inst., through, as is alleged, the carelessness of the pilot. George Perry testificd that he lived in Greene county, N. Y., and was one of the pilots of the pro- peller Newpan, running from Hudson to New York. On the 10th of August he was standing on the gang- way of the boat, at the foot of Amos street, and he heard some one shouting, aud, looking up, saw two boys overboard between the steamer and the Chris- toptier street ferry slip; saw a boy in a small boat shead of the wheel of the ferryboat; the boat was coming into the slip; the bow of the sinall boat was caught on one of the buckets of the wheel; the wheel made a reverse revolution and the boat was drawn up in it; the boy stood about midship; saw afterwards some pieces of the boat in the water. Henry Deeley, of No, 422 Hudson street, aged sixe teen years, testiffd that he knew the boy John Gor- don; in conjunction with him and anotherboy; Ber- nard Keenan, they hired @ boat at the foot of Chris- topher street to take @ sail up and down the river; they were passing Christopher street slip when the ferryboat was coming in; nut notictng her, they were struck before they had time to get out of the way; the witness and Keenan jum; out of the boat; Gordon stayed in and cried to the pilot to stop, while he (the witness) shouted to him from the water to do same; the wheel made one more turn, then stopped, stood still about five minutes and then tarned towards them again; the wheel struck the Voat and smashed it in 5 Michael O'Neil, of 214 Hammond street, testified he ‘was a longshoreman and was standing on the Chris- topher street dock the afternoon of the 19th of August when the accident occurred; he saw a small boat coming down towards Morton street, opposite the pet oe and the next thing he observed was the sinall boat in the wheel of the ferryboat; he could hear the boy cry “Stop her, stop her;’’ they backed the boat down and that was he last of the boy’s hal- looing; after that he saw the boat coming down through the wheel in pieces, f Wm. R. Lasher, 131, Willow street, Hoboker testified he was engineer on the ferryboat James Watt, of the Hoboken ferry, aud’ that the slip at balf-past one on the 10th of Aug he received two bells to stop the which he did; the engine room was about one t from the New Yo@k end; about one minute there ; the passengers ken end of the boat, and some of them to back the boat; he paid no attention until he heard a voice wuich he hi thought was the lot's to “‘back;”” he was so sure it was his voice it he backed without ernyorpe] the voice ete from the Hoboken end of the boat; gave h a half. perhs.s two, and then received stop backing, which he did; the pilot then through the speaking trumpet not to move the wheel; id not move her until all was clear. Dwyer, No. 333 Weat Honston street, tes« ina small voat between Chris pler 50 North river the day jall_ boat coming down with drifted im tified that he was oe street ferry and accident; saw asm: (phon at that death resulted from accident. Coroner Fivnn here gave the evidence to the jury, who retired, and after an absence of about an hour returned with the verdict that the . John Gordon, ‘was accidentally drowned, and the pilot and engincer exonerated from ai! blame. He! M lot of the ferryboat James Watt, Who was arrested on a charge 0’ wilful carelessness a Sonpection with the accident, was then dis charge BOOK NOTICES. THe Gem OF THE LAKB. A novel. By Mrs. Sarah Wright, author of “Medors.’? “Reauty of Fairfax,” “Improper Use of the Tongne,"” &c., &c. New York: American News Qowpany. This work of fiction, by @ lady whore name has become quite familiar to the readers of many New York journais, professes to be founded on fact. It is the story of a girl who has heen secnced and aban- doned by her cousin, a clergyman, who subsequently dies in her arms. She at length leaves the offspring of their intimacy with ite grandparents and marrieg an old fame, Mr. Leicester, the owner of @ yacht, Which he puts at her disposal and npon which she bestows the name of ‘The Gem of the Lake.” ‘Truth: is said to be stranger thaw fiction, but the disercttom of @ novelist Is displayed by the choice of the least improbable facts on which fiction may be foundeds If @ foreign tourist, however, were to generaliz@ from the fact that, having with his own eyes seem the giant of Barnum's late museum walking on Broadway, therefore Broadway t# a giants causeway and New York is peopled witht giants, he would not give a more untrue picture of American society than that which is given by Mra, Wright ta “The Gem of the Lake.” Such In- credible characters as the Rey. Pgbert Cropper and his cousin may have actually existed without justt- fying us in cniogizing a description of their excep~ tional existence as a true, unvarnikhed tale of tue characteristics of Amertcan ite, We are og hee the recognized literary quatifications of Mrs. Wright do not warrant ns, with all our predilections in ner favor, in prononneing her Iatest Work to be & great aud genitine American novel. We are confident that she might savor us with a production more werthy of her yea, Gitongh we are not surprised that th: hovel, in the actual, deplorable siate of mind of out novel-reading pubic, shonid win a success to which, We honestly think, no novel of itt class Is lewitl mately entitied, But “sensational stories” are jus® now the rige, and the “Gem of the Lake” is cor tainly “sensational” enough, As such it will be pretty sure “to etl.” PLAIN TALK AnOUT THR Prorretaxtiem oF To Day. From the French of Mgr. Sigur. Bostont Donahoe, This i@ called Plain Talk. Its proper name le Trash. On thie great continent, where freedom of optnion in matters of religion is a birthrignt, we can~ not encoursge the reproduction of any nonsense.