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xf et ere Be juattce oP his claim takes it to t there bis auit 18 dismiased, and h pie itt the city jabor. Now the Leuislature trom ¢: pking Tale i ‘i an. D | who 1 but one o! thousal aes LAWS 60 DAS. jnae | it is to take away ‘rom be benefit of would it be just or proper ty prohibit 2 eI has recelved 1 Buch claims as these, and is power that this amendment is She Logisiature tye ow York is hedged vy so many . t eh tne that no man will take a contract thout first consulting & lawyer versed fomtunlcipal law. There are So this city to-day many unfortunate working men who cannot re- cover their just dues from the city owing to an omésion to comply with some technicality of the statute. Wonld it be right, would tt be just to prounlt the Legislature irom giving relief in these t ee voter, then, scratch the third specif. son on Ais allbt WILLIAM F, MONAMA 4 STATE POLITICS. & View of the Canvass in Central New York—The Weak Issues of the Cam- paign—A Probable Gain of Nine mocratic Congressmen=The State Still for Dix, Utica, N. ¥., Oct. 80, 1874, In this and the adjoining counties the republl- ans show a greater degree of active enthusiasm vhan anywhere else west of Albany. Nor are the Gemocrata idie, and the total vote may be large. In the campaign of 1872 there was @reater order and confidence. Despite the eager display of the last iew days the many meetings and the stirring speeches in this | city and various surrounding townships, the yote Of both parties will show some falling of. The “spurt” has come too late. Republicans as well a8 democrats postponed their preparations too long, and the result is much confusion in the minds of the raral voters in poth organizations, Jn the republican meeting held last evening at the Opera House, though it was large and brilliant, and stunding room was at 3 premium, there was | ® want of pertinence and clearness in setting forth THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN and the claims of General Dix for re-election ‘which mado itself painiully apparent, Mr. Ejiis A. Roberts and air. Stewart L. Woodford gave wearl- some reviews of the past nistory of the repubiican party. This was not what the audience wanted. | ‘The brilliant record of General Dix, his splendid administration of the executive office of the State, bis steady opposition to all schemes of corruption would have made @ more effective theme. There were a great many democrats present who needed enlightenment on matters of this kind and upon the question whether the party supporting Gover. wor Dix hojds itself bound to sustain President Grant in URGING HIM FOR A THIRD TERM. The latter topic was treated in these words by the principal speaker of the evening, “Both Gov- eroor Seymour and Mr. Kernan make a great deal ef the suggestion of a Presidential third term. | The traditions of the Republic, as sacred as | written statutes, are strong in the minds of Bll oltizens, The examples of Washington @nd Jackson stand for adoption by every President, Governor Dix has given utterance to the popular conviction that no President can ex- tend his service beyond the period for which the first President occupied the Executive chair. The country is greatly indebted to General Grant for | bis achievements in the fleld and for his | pradbnos in administration, and would see no auger to its liberties from a third term, if he chose to have it. He will declare by his own act that no President shall claim a tenure of office, even by popular toleration, beyond that approved by the traditions of our history. ‘hat alone 1s gener To round out the symmetry of his career an put to shame the cavils of his enemies.” This was all that was said On the point. It was quietly insinuated that in return for his services General Grant de- rved a third term. In this method of treating he subject all the speakers Ihave neard—many, it is true, being office-holders—made the same Blunder. No outspoken denunciation of the Presi- dential aspiration nas yet been heard from any of ms supporters in this region. eing this the democrats through all their journals and public speakers have gone to work and borrowed the original thunder ol the HERALD against Cesarism and strutting in borrowed plumage are taking credit to themseives for having discovered a deep laid scheme of | iniquity on the part o! the administration and its party. Considering the SMALL MATERIAL with which the democrats have had to work in | es campaign it 1s really wonderful how much they lave made Of it. Pat Corbet, a lion o1 the demo- cratic party in Onondaga county, in a speech the other night, arraigned Governor Dix on more counts and credited him with more apparent crimes Shan he might Judas Iscariot. Here was the fash fon Corbet yelled at his terror-stricken audience :— “1 charge Governor Dix with being connected with the Crédit Mobiuer; I charge him wisi having ve- toed tie Local Option vill; | charge him with hav- fmg recommended the repeal of the usury laws; I charge him with having rec- ommended the exemption of bonds and mortgages jrom taxation; I charge him with having recommended that savings banks should only pay five per cent on deposits, and [ charge bim with having been sileat when the convention that nominated him indorsed Grant's administration.” These were all THE MONSTROUS OFFENCES that Pat Corbet couid enumerate; and, as they Were urged with all tne venemence of an advocate pressing home conviction betore a jury against Some notorious criminal, the democratic auditory, given no time to weigh the guilt of the accused, concluded he must be the incarnation of villany. When Pat came _ to ‘tilden his __ voice fell to an angelic sweetness; and, with a look of rapt admiration, he extended his arm and cried to hs enchained hearers, “Let me point to his (Tilden’s) unassail- abie record; let me point to his position on ail questions as meeting the popular favor; let me Point to his prosecution ci the ring thieves; let Ie point to nis purification of the judict 3 let Me point to his eternal advocacy of retorm; ict me point to the platiorm on which he stands; and nally, let me point to the beauty of his lile and the unchallenged honesty of his character.’’ MULAUM IN PARVO. ' Most people who read the papers find little to bring against Governor Dix, but an orator of the democratic party when properly worked up, like the flery and dramatic Corbet, can make that little appear very formidable indeed, The count against the Governor of having vetoed THE LOCAL OPTION KILL is too weak of itself to make an impression. The pronbibitionists, so far as 1 can perceive, muster only a feebie display of indignation over this great offence. They have been represented as terribly | ‘Wrought upon by the Governor's action, but tney cannot be prevailed on to come forward in any Dumbers and say so. Their meetings are not un- luke those of “the people’s party” in New York city, mere flashes in the pan, a trifle of sound and iy, signifying nothing. ‘the recommendations im regard to THE REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS, made for the benefit of those who are supposed to be hostile to their author, wilinot affect him to a@ny such degree as the opposition speakers pre- tend. More potent for mischief 18 the weil worn ery against him that he recommended savings banks should only pay five per cent on de- sits. This really wise Suggestion nas been art- ily construed to make Dix appear hostile fe the working classes, and of that the very most as been made, From all that can be seen in the interior o! the State the sacritice of the Governor will not be the work of the democracy. Numbers a republicans will thoughtiessly visit on his head he sins of the administration, while others are prepared to trade off the head of the State ticket bo carry their local candidates. i] ln Trenton, Clinton and Lee Centre townships fépudlican meetings were hela tnis evening aud Were well attended. The speaking was confined tolocal orators. Hillis lH. Koverts stands a doubt- ¢ c ce of being re-elected to Congress, At joonville & big repudlican rally is hoped tor Mon- — day evening, and in Utica city the colored men are expected to turn out en masse the night betore eiection. Thursday an enthusiastic republi- cin meeting was held at Knoxboro, and indeed considering the time to which the reat work of the ‘ampaign has been confined, this section of the Stave was excellently canvassed, There can be ho dotibt of a republican Viciory in the county, and | Nad all the thirty-seven counties in the middle and northwestern belts been roused with the same | Stirring energy New York city would be called on f roll up such a tremendous democratic te as Tweed only knew how to manage in fight> ing tor vict the indications at this moment point to a very imuch reduced majority for Dix and a reduced re- publican majority in tue Assembly. On Congress the democrats will make @ gain of at least nine members which will swell thelr delegation to ‘thirty-two. QUEENS COUNTY POLITICS, The great point of interest in the local campaign | #@ Queens county is the struggle tor the District Attorneyship, which is very bitter. Benjamin W. Downing, the present incumbent, who ts again the democratic nominee, encounters strong opposition in his own party, and the chances for the election of ©. N. Payne, the republican nominee, appear to be good, although the county is regarded as demo- | cratic on asquare vote. Mr. Prince’s majority of fast year for the Assembly will probably be some. what reduced Townsend, lis democrane opponent, is a popular candidate, The chances for Mr. Oakley's return to the Assembly | im the Second diswict are considered as | | havin | trimmer.’ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. somewhat douptfui, ss Mr. Row! can opponent is @ strong man, a Bot the unanimous support y. part; Suffolk county will poli alarge majority ior Stepnen B. French, the republican candidate for Congress in the First district, and in Queens county the race between bim and Judge Metcalf, his democratic opponent, will probably be close. A NOVELTY IN POLITICS. New Jersey’s Most Extraordimary Cam- paign—The New Democratic Election- eering Departure—Will the Popular Mountain Go To the Judicial Ma homett#The Outlook in the State. TRENTON, Nov, 1, 1874. In one important respect the political campaign now drawing to the culminating point has no parallel in the history of New Jersey politics, There are two opposing armies. One, the republican, is led im person by ita chieftein end standard bearer, who 18 concedediy one of the ableat and shrewdeat working politicians in the State. The other, the democratic, is led—just bere comes the main point tm this unparalieled campaign—by nobody in particular and itself in general. Its nominal leader has from beginning, to end taken no part whatever in the conduct or management of the campaign, thus being THE LEADER IN 4 NEW DEPARTURE in the mode of electioncering which bas hereto- fore been much taiked of, but never put tn pra tice. In other words, while Mr. George A. Halscy, the republican nominee for Governor, has zeal- ously followed in tbe footsteps of all preceding candidates for office, including himself, has travelled the State from one ena to the other in accordance with the most orthodox electioneering rule, Judge Jaseph D, Bedle, the democratic candidate, has budged not an inch from his seat on the bench or moved a finger in his own benalt. Herein is the marked novelty of the campaign. On the one side, Mahomet goes to the mountain and explores every nook and cranny and crevice in 1t; on the other, the mountain, ifit wants Manomet, must go and take him off the bench. In the way of ELECTIONBERING. Mr. Halsey has assuredly improved each shining hour and used bis best endeavors to gather polit. cal honey trom every opening fower, otherwise named voter. Before inquiring into the proba- ‘ble result of this quiescence on the one hand = and Ureless activity on the other, it may be stated as a matter of fact that although the democracy have no “guide, philosopher and friend” in their nomi- nee so far as his action, or rather inaction, is con- cerned, the party, nevertheless, was never ina more aivanced state Of organization and disci- | pltne nor infused with a more enthusiastic esprit de corps than now. While it is true that in many of the counties—notably in Hudson, where the “unterrified’” are so strong that they every year indulge in making Kilkenny | cat fights—there are squabbles on local candi- dates more or less serious, the party as a whole, on the State and Congressional tickets, was never in better fighting trim. The bio and = Indiana victories and their own sweeping victoryin the home of Mr. fialsey, the republican city of Newark, have had decidedly strengthening effects on the State dem- ocracy while enervating the rank and file and leadership of the opposition, Following this gen- eral photogtaph of ‘ihe situation” comes the in- quiry into the relative strength of THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEES, Against the Judge there are arguments open and arguments secret. The open arguments urged by the opposition are his continuing on the Bench while being a nominal candidate tor a high elective position, thus, as fhe argue, paraeaing the judicial ermine into =the mire Cy partisan « olitics,’? and the | fact that his remote relationship by marriage to ex-Governor Kandolph might render him liabie to | influence therefrom touching the United States Senatorship which Randolph has an appetite tor. The aragging-the-ermine-into-the-mire-of-politics business has fallen flat, At another time, when there was n¢ “crisis” such as there is now said to be, or with a man less exalted in the respect of citizens generally, this might have hac some torce, but as the case stands tne belief is general that JUDGE REDLE'S RIGID ADHESION to the cause he hunself chalked out long before the nomination, to, under no circumstances, take any part in the campaign, but leave the matter entirely with the people, and to go on as before with his judicial duties, has greatly strengthened him with the masses ol the people, most of whom are sick and tirea of the old way of working the political | oracle, The Randolpi connection will doubtless cost him a few Irish votes, Randoiph’s prociama- tion in the Urange troubles of a tew years ago aronsed a strong antagonisin to the latter, This 18 @ case of visiting the sins of the Governor unto the third or iourth cousinship, THE SECRET ARGUMENT against the Judge is a printed circular in English and German addressed principally to the liquor and lager beer interests, which charges him with showing the hand of a tyrant, @ fanatic and an mvader of the people’s privileges in al- leged charges to grand juries in Hudson and Passaic counties, lt happens that this is a two-edged argument. If used openly in the re- publican presses and on republican stumps it would ued array the temperance men solidly against Mr Halsey, and a great many besides also, though not tectotallers, were nevertueless in favor of peace and quiet on Sundays. AGAINST MR. HALSEY, personally, there is nothing urged, but he is held accountable jor all the sins of his party, real and unreal. in Northern and Southern Jersey a not insignificant objection to Mr. Halsey among republi- cans is the lact that Essex county had the last gubernatorial nomination and now has grabbed this one also. In South Jersey, too, the trienas of Cornelius Walsh are still sore over his slaughter, has to bear are the third term milistone, the un- savory Nettleship safe burgiary odium (which ex- tends to most of the members of the clique above referred to), the unsatisfactory course of Senator Frelinghuysen with regard to the gaz law, Subsidy Pomeroy and the Civil Rights bill, and finally bis Jatlure to do aught in | the way of releasing his own city, Newark. from the ring. Besides this, it is urged with considera- ble effectiveness that his success would be vir- tually handing the State over to the clique, and the United States senatorship to Robeson, who has lost bis popularity in the State. Leading republicans themselves do not deny that there is widespread dissatisfaction im the ranks and that they fear tt is all gone up with Mr. Hal- sey’s chances, Ii one-third of the disaffected heard of from reliable quarters 1s true the de- mand for “a change” will sweep Bedle into the Governorship, and_by & handsome majority. In- deed, already the word has gone out trom leading republican authorities to concentrate all efforts to | carry first THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS and next the Legislature. If ‘trading’? will ac- complish anything in these districts it will not be Stinted, As regards the Congressional districts there 1s no doubt but the democracy wil gain sev- eral districts, and will probably carry @ majority. The first district is strongly republican, but just now is to the republicans what Hudson is to the democracy, only more so. It is saddied with Robeson and *‘Butty’’ Bedle, both of whom have lost caste pretty much. The republi- can candidate for Congress is a young, moneyea, legal limb named Sinnickson, while the demoo- racy put their very best tout foremost in nominating wn old and tried friend of the marses, the working Classes, Charles Albertson. there are high hopes of his redeeming the district. In the second “Jack” Smith's chances took bright for overtaking Sam Dobbins, the third term {les Ross, democrat, wili probably redeem the Third district irom Amos Clarke, Jr., who has hurt himself by claiming credit for getting the Sligabethport-Staten island channel appropriation throug Congress, whereas a democrat (Mr. John ¥. Bonnell) unquestionabl bore tie camel’s burden of the work. The Fourt district will, of course, be walked over by the democratic candidate, Colonet Hamilton,” The Filth will be close; Mr. Phelps, repuolican, made a good record in the last Congress and would ‘bly be returned without doubt, but he has arrayed against him the batik of the colored votes in consequence of voting against the Civil Rights bill, His opponent, Mr. Cutler, 1s a most popular democrat, and his friends hope that he will pull through in spite of Phelps’ riches. The mxth 1s an uncertaimty, Two years ago ex-dovernor Ward carried it by over 5,000 majority, He hi with lim then the Greeley lever and a very weak opponent, a liberal republican named Randall. | His election this time was vonsidered sure until the democrscy nominated Judge Teese, a man of «unblemished character and com | manding talents, and abvut ten days ago sprung against him a charge of evading nis per- soual taxes, ‘The effect las been most damaging | to his prospects. Indeed, there are grave doubts i he can carry the disurict. In Hudson there is no division to speak of in the democratic ranks on Congressman, so that there is scarcely any donbt but that Scadder will remain at home, and Augustus Hardenburg, the democratic nominee, be sent to flil his seat, THR ASSEMBLY. ‘The chances are, if the tide ts anything like what it is expected, that the democracy will carry the Assembly by a majority large enough to control the United States Senatorsnip, Sull, tue talk about trading raises some doubt on this head, Meanwhile the ranks are rigidly Closing, and the agony of suspense and anxtety ts already pon the people generally and the poilticians particalarly, To sum ub, ina Word, the signs ol the (times, the temper of the people and the state of parties and charac- ter of candidates ali point toa aemucratic sweep Un this State on Tucsuay nex, But the main burdens Mr. Halsey | ANDY JOHNSON. The Ex-President Striving to Reach the Senate. Another Triangular Campaign in Tennessee. THE RIVAL CANDIDATES. The Great Unionist the Friend and Instructor of the People. NASHVILLE, Oot, 26, 1874, Ex-President Johnson has swung around to Nashville again on his way to keep his remaining appointments in Middle Tennessee. His business on the stump ia to tell the people that he still wishes, as he did sour years ago, to be their United States Senator in place of poor, attiicted old Goy- ernor Brownlow, whose mental vigor ts consum- ing the remnant of his bodily strength, and whose prejudice is so strong and partisanship so narrow aa to make it impossible sor him to represent any- | body outside oj the little fanatical band of saints and martyrs that composes the Brownlow faction. There are probably not many persons north- ward, eastward or westward of Tennessee that have as yet taken to thinking seriously of the | probability and the etfect of Andrew Johnson's Teappearance in public tiie, Nevertheless, it is a sover fact to-day that few things in politics are more likely to happen in the next few months than his election to the United States Senate by the Tennessee Legislature, in obedience to A POPULAR DEMAND of the Kind that Tennessee politicians are accus- tomea to obey, and which Johnson, with his strong every-day sense and knowledge of the people and their politics, knows howto call out, It would, perhaps, be a deathblow to the Senatoriai hopes of an Eastern politician to mount the stump and claim the coveted place from the people, who do not elect, instead of from the Legislatare, that doés; but, as first said, Mr. Johnson knows the lo- callty and the people and has shown real sagacity in taking the fleld in the way that he has done, And it js safe to say that it he gets the voters on his side this time it will go bard with the office- holders, who may try at the State cap- itol next winter to defeat him by log rolling, pipe laying, buying and selling or any other kind of political treachery. The ex-President has an opponent in the field who ts pursuing just the same course as nimseli— | that is, going about the State and telling the peo- ple that he wants their legislative delegates to | elect him to the United States Senate by their command. The manner of this gentleman and his treatment of his distinguished rival is well tllus- | trated by his name, though this is not said in | derogation or ignorance of the manly, if rude, qualities of mind and heart of Colonel Savage, THE RIVAL CANDIDATES, What the platfurm of the two Senatorial gladia- tors may be it would be rather difficult to gather | irom thetr public utterances. ‘They are both | against the Civil Rights bill, and would fight its | passage as bitterly as though they aid not belleve | What seems to be now generally understood— | namely, that itis unconstitutional and could not | survive the carrying of the first case under it up tothe Supreme Court, and that it is now kept | | standing only as a device to Keep the cvlored | pt m the republican traces a little longer, ull fomething newer and better can be invented, | It id probable, too, though he has sald nothing of | the kind as yet, that Savage is at heart quite as wilhng as Johnson to hold that the national bord- | holders have got enougn profit out of their invest- ment to justily the application of future interest to the wiping out ofthe principal. But if they keep along in company so far, they cer- tamly 4o no further together. The real issue between Johnson and his opponent, or, rather, between Johnson and his two opponents (for Gov- ernor Joun C, Brown may be sald now to be fairly belore the people ior the United States Senator- ship), has not yet been fairly brought to the sur. Jace, though it is as well understood here in Ten- | nessee as it isa matter of profound ignorapce at the North, That issue, lamentable as it 1s to-day, | ig just this, whether the State is tobe ruled by | those who tried or desired to destroy the Union or | those who tried and desired to preserve it. TRAITORS AND LOYALISTS, It ls rather siartiing, is it not, to see that, in good old ‘tennessee, Wuich was impertiled, saved, reconstructed and redeemed, all within the space | of ten or eleven years, the vital question to-day before her people is the same as it was in tne spring Of 1861, aameiy—Shail the Unionists or dis- Unionists control the State? Of course it ts not meant to say that disunion itself 1s the issue, as it was nearly fourteen years ago, but the people are divided into the samo classes as then: those unat love and have always loved tne Union in one class and those that do not love and have never loved the Union in the other. And it 1s herein that the surprising strength of Jonnson in ‘Tennessee lies; for, with all his Jaults, blunders and vagaries as President, and despite his elocutionary rant, fustian and buckram im all his public relations, Andrew Johnson is 2nd always bas been a sincere | and hearty lover of the Union, and every man, | Woman and child in Tennessee knows it, whether | Iriend or foe, The peopie have not ior- | gotten how an intemperate and unprincipled | | Bertion Ol the right and He talks to the unlettered sovereigns of Tennessee in the A BC of polltion, and to wip their ears and votes displays the biggest and most bighly colored illustrations of the text. But once in the Senate, his iriends have no doubt that bis speech there wil be as decorous as hia State papers while President, tnough in the Tennessee mountains he will always be “Andy Johnson,” the iriend of the masses, and their patient ta- structor in such rudiments of government as they oan best understand and best appreciate. Tax- ation, for instance, is a javorite topic wito bimself and his audiences; for the most tirity farmers in the State, though they manage to get enuugh to eat and to wear, aud a moderate renewal of farm Stock and implements, are put to their wits’ ends for movey io pay the accumulations of taxes. Mr, Johnson attributes this onerous burden of tax- ation to the growtn vu travaganee and corrup- on in goverument to place hunting aad idleness on the part ol a large proportion of What ought to be the tuausirious viass, fo the excessive number of middlemen in ihe marts of trade, and to the under of the hard-working masses by the bloated dividing cupitalists. How he proposes to feces all this he is not able to say, 01 course, just DOW; but his hearers listen with attention to ig @mple but vivid picturing of their wrongs, and measure both the extent of his energy and success in redressing them by the energy and suc- cess with which he sets them lorth, THE THIRD ASPIRANT, The third combatant, and probably the real opponent o: Johnson, in the Tennessee triangular conflict, is the present Governor, John 0. Brown, o1 Giles. This geutleman has come prominently and javorably beiore the pubite iately by nis as power of the State to Tepress and puniso crimes committed against her Peace and dignity, without the intervention of the all-grasping hu Kiux act of Congress, which at- tempts to oust the State Judiciary irom cognizance of whatis really but a common law offence, and not esseutiaily a political one, But it 13 doubtiui 11 Governor Brown, however sincere and zealous jonally, could do what he assured the Unired States Attorney General he could do—tnat as, Secure @ lair trial and speedy punishment to the Gibson county murderers, He is in the hands of the faction to Which his nominal rival, but real ally, Colonel Savage, beiongs—the party that in days before the war held all the real estate, lived off their rents and mortgages and the sale of the increase of their negro stock; fattened in a sort of aropsical way, while the State at large lay supine or slowly decaying, and now lament, ag a real loss and ruin to society, tne nominal value of changed from chatiels to men without sctually impairing thetr productive value a cent’s worth. Governor Brown, im his political character, 18 esteemed & weak man, but very cunning and highly skilled in combination or ‘log rolling.” This leads to his being both feared and (is- trusted; but at tms time his chances are not considered good outside of the State House Bour- bon Ring, anu likely enough he, as well as the noisy Savage, will be laid aside when the Lezisia- ture gets down to the real work of electing Parson Brownlow's successor. A POSSIBLE FOURTH CANDIDATE. If one were compelled at this moment to guess at the man on whom the democratic-conservative Opposition to Johnson will settle, if successful at the polis, the guesser would, In nine cases out of ten, pitch upon Juuge John M. Lea, of Nashville. Judge Lea is a weaithy man, highly descended and | connected, a Tennesseean in speech and manner, | but a gentleman withal, and so universally esteemed for integrity and conscientiousness in things both big and little as to be almost a phe- nomenon for a man who has been In pubitc life and taken sides in politics, He 1s an original Union mun, too, of 1860-61, Was identified with the Union party through tne war, and never compromised himseli in the rebellion, except by @ small contribution to the equipment of a military company when Nashville had gone mad with the secession fever. At that time Union men Of Droperey, like Judge Lea, trembling for the Salety oO: thetr persons and possessions, were at the mercy o! any swaggering blustering, penniless adventurer wno chose to pi a Confederate badge to his coat and dog the footsteps of a Union man With supscription lists to raise companies in de- fence of Southern Li Bee If Judge Lea, or any other acceptable man, is put in nomination by the conservatives alter their expected triumph at the polls, 6x-President Johnson will have to stay at Greenville ior at least two or three years longe: but nothing but the most unblushing and success Jul treachery on the pare of the Legislature next Winter can de/eat him by any representative of the Bourbon element like Brown or Savage. He looks hale and hearty enough to-day to wait tll | all his competitors have died of old age, and has the spirit of & race horse and the courage ot a lion within him, despite aeleat, delay, riaicule and abuse, At Greenville, his quiet home, he busies | himself cheeriully with the problems of iree gov- ernment and sound finance, aitd, whenever called to go to Washington, will be ound ready to enter upon what he regards as just and wise legislation for al! mankind. LOUISIANA ELEOTION. List of Candidates To Be Balloted for To-Day. STATE TICKET. Conservative. Republi can, Dubdclet. » Treasurer, John C, Moncure, Antoine MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 1—Randall Gibson. ‘Jay Hale Sypher. | 2. John Bilis, Henry ©. Dibble. 3—Josoph A. Breaux. *Cnester B. Darrall. | 4—Waullam M, 1 *George L. Smith. 5—Benjamin F. Spencer. — *F rank Morey. 6—Joseph M. Moore. Charles E. Nash (Colored), * Present incumbents. There js also to be an election for Mayor in New Orleans :—Conservative, Charles J, Leeds; repub- lican, Felix Labatut. PRINOE KUNG, OF OHINA, DEGRADED, An Asiatic Imperialist Warning to | Powerful but Self-Sufficient Ministers. {Frum the Japan Mail (Yokohama), Oct, 17.) An imperial decree, 1n the vermilion penctl, has been issued in the Peking Gazette reducing the rank of Prince Kung. The motives ot tms course are not clearly understood, and nave formed sub- ject for much comment among all classes in the Cnindse capital. THE DECREE. The following 1s the announcement from the Peking Gazette of September 10:— A Decree in the Vermilion (pencil). jovernor, aided by a gang of the worst political | bandits thet ever this rude State has nursed into lie and power, paralyzed a Union majority of 60,000 votes in 1861 and carried Tennessee into reveilion, Civil War and devastation, and they are intensely suspicious and anxious to-day, when the | Union majority 1s quite as great aid equally averse to being betrayed by a small band o! polit- ical adventurers. By.the term ‘Union majorities” | 18 not Meant @ party majority for the administra- tion at Washington, which, as a Matter of tact, has now out a_ slender tollowing outsice of ast Tennessee aud of those in soe way dependent upon the government ur | a _iiving, and is regarded by many of the Unionists as a burden instead of a support, but the ; eopie who love the Union for the Union’s sake and who love our form of government «4 Jaid down in the constitution, with its attractive aemocratic equality of rank and privilege and its due preservation of personal |jberty and local in- dependence. ‘Ihisis the kind of Unionist that Johnson is, and if the Various democratic-conserva- | tive tickets are successiul in the approacning elec- tion and the number of his enemies elected upon | | them exceed the number of his iriends woo are on the same tickets, they Must beat Mr. Johnson witha Union man tor the Senate, or they will not beat him at ali, unless they betray their constitu- | encies. Ii the radicais carry the ptate, they, of course, will jave the most to say about the Sena- tor to he elected in place of Brownlow; but as | the radicals stand now, they are more fitting sub- jects for tne thoughtful pen of the speculative | piiieonek than the hasty pencil of the live jour- | nalist. | CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES, | Colonel Savage, it should be said, 1s more open | than Johnson tn touching the issue that lies below | vhe suriace, In one of his great speeches he went so faras to make the honored name of the great | Coniederate svidier, Lee, serve as a medium through which to appeal to whatever Coniederate sympathies and memories might be latent in the preasts of his audience; but Johnson, 80 lar, has been content to assume vat the people and him- sel! understand euch other on the point of ioyaity to the Union, and that the people Know where his opponents stand and what they have in their minds, 1! not ou their lips. He also thinks that they see that Savage is simply put forward by the “State House Gang’ to make the way easier for Brown, the real Bourbon candidate, | Both Johnson and Savage are now at the Max- | Weli House, in this city, on their way to fil seli- ma.¢e appointments that will carry them to the eve of the election, Johnson having declined Savage's proposition to follow the example of the candidates for the Goyernorship and Congress, by having Joint debates in the goud old Soutuwestern | fashion, and Savage having tured of Intercepting and jorestalling Jonnse circuit ina rude | and barbarous Way wholly without excuse, the proprieties are now preserved between them, but Savage hangs close upon the flank | of Jonson, and thus compels hotel and | | railroad and = stage encounters, in which | personal bitterness and the nurtured hate of | many years preve the exchange of the formal courtestes o1 soc (. savage is from or | MeMinnyille, in the moan | county, las served in Congress, 18 a true chiid of nature anid ireedom as understood In the wilder | parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, 18 all tire and iervor, abu is not weighted in the race by any suspicion ot diguity or poilsh, Johnson 18 | misjudgea oy those who forecast his possible Senatorial career at Washington upon bis canvass in the mountains of Tennessee, Nobody admitted to Nis society at home, or among his personal | Irienas, can dény to him rightfully the possession of | a native dignity hat makes intercourse with him agrecaole and wins jor lim respect, and | those who are in his real confluence are not | ignorantot the tact that he regards the public | Man wno has filled the exatted office of President | of the United States as under obligations vo ocar inous region ol Coffee | | | himselt as becomes a mun who can never again | get down irom the high level of the Prestdency to | privace |i | | gedNny a6 tHe INerRcotoR OF THR Massaa, | yvs what he mugtdo to get what he the people of Tennessee, and is not | to deny himseif any honor or oMice that may | ned by pucuing aside, Jor the tine aod the the post-mortem dignity of ao ex-President, | Be it made Known to all the Princes and NMinis- ters in the Coart that from the time when we as- sumed the government on the 26tn day of the first moon of last year (23d February, 1873) until now, whenever speech has been held by us with the Prince of Kung his language has been marked by manifold shortcomings in decorum, We ordain that as a special act of grace (tor his punishment) there be substituted deprivation of his imperial princedom, with hereditary succession, forever, and that he be reduced to the rank of secondar; Prince (Ktin Wang, instead of Chin Wang shi coi! mang ti), 1n place of still continuing to ao duty in the Grand Council, Let also Tsat-ch’eng (eld- est son of the Prince of Kung) be stripped of his rank as Beilleh Kun Wang as a punishment and admonition. SBIZURE OF A BRITISH STEAMER BY TAB TURKS. The Times af India publishes a letter trom Busreh, dated September 5, 1n which the following account is given of the seizure of a British pas- senger steamer by the Turkish authoritie: Messrs. Lynch Brothers, of this place, lately im- ported a small steamer, El Burk, to piy wita pas- sengers between Mabommerah (a Persian port) and busreh, The Ei Burk had made but a few voyages under the British flag when the Governor of Busreh addressed a protest to the British Vice Consulate here against her running, on the ground that the Porte had not been askea for 18 permission, and demanding her detention. Her Majesty’s Vice Consul, replying to this communication, stated chat as Mahommerah was 4 foreign port and Busren a_ tree port, open to foreign trade, it was not in any way necessary to ask the permission of the Porte to enable her to trade between those places; but that the affair should, however, be referred to Her Majesty's Consul General at Bagdad, on re- ceipt of whose reply the nature of it should be communicated, ‘Ihe Governor, however, would not walt lor tuis; but the same day, without any further notice, the Admiral, at his request, seized the El Burk and towed her under the guns of the guardship Khoja Beg, lying at the eutrance to Busren Creek. Here the El Burk lay for five days, when Her Majesty's Vice Consul received an inti- mation from the Governor to say that ‘the Porte | | | | | the negroes whom emancipation has | had veen graciously pleased to order her release.” | The seizure Of this vessel, 1t need hardly be said, was tilegal in every respect; a contravention of the articles of treaty, and @ direct tnsuit to the British fag. As yet no apology has been added to the curt order of release. Tlie owners 0: the El Burk intend pushing their clatm for damages. AMERICAN GEOGRAPRICAL SOCIETY. Active Preparations for the Winter. Mr. Alvan 8. Southworth, Secretary of the Amer- fean Geographical Society, returned yesterday to the city irom an extended journey in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and is engaged in preparing @ comprehensive report conducted there, embracing mining, agricul ture, stock ralsing, possible lines of thorovgh- fare, destruction of forests and other impor. tant subjects bie ig | the development of that domain; especially treating of the fertile and betore unexplored valleys west of the Rocky Mountains, ‘The labors of Dr. F. V. Hayden, of Dr. 1. L. Hayes in Iceland, of Mr. Ney Eltas (who ts sup+ posed to be now at the capital of Thivet), of Mr. J. B. Steere 1 Formosa and other eminent travel- lers, Will be presented to the public during the winter. 81. PAUL'S TEMPERANOE GUILD. A meeting of the St. Paul's Temperance Guild will be held, On the cali of the President, this (Monday) evening, November 2, at haltpast seven o’ciock, at the hail of St, Vs Institute, No. 919 Bighth avenue, on business OF special importance relating to matters presented to them om Sunday evening, Novemver 1. on exploration as | FRENCH LITERATURE. Chevalier Daydie’s Correspondence--- Letters Hitherto Unpublished. Love, Wit and Soclety in General. M. Guizot’s Complications of French Synonymes. Law, Royalty and Ladies’ Lite. PARIS, O6t, 6, 1874 “OORRESPONDANCE INEDITS DU CHAVALIER Daypr FAISANT SUITE AUX LETTERS DE MLLE. AISSE.”’ Publiées sur les Manuscrits autographes origi- naux, avec introduction et notes, par Honoré Bonhomme, Paris, 1874: Didot, This is one of those delightiul books which are Made up of love and wit and are particularly French, Perhaps the passions of the American, the English and the German peoples are stronger and more lasting than those which are felt in France; but they have never been expressed so gracetully. Lovers in all countries have said and written sublime things; put Frenchmen only know bow to woo a woman in language that Is at once brilliant and pi tic, gay and tender. They are indeed the most charming lovers in the world, and agirl who has once been courted by a gifted Frenchman will surely find all other courtship dull and insipid. The Chevaiter Daydie was one of the brightest of French lovers; he was the Sweetheart of Mile, d’Aissé, who died young, wale he survived her seventy years, but his correspond- ence has made them both immortal, and when | we read their fresh, pleasant letters, so | ful of life and hope, it is dificult to | believe that either of them are dead, M. Honoré | Bonnomme has, however, told us how the hana- some youth passed from comeliness and romance into senile decrepitude and the vulgar torment of the gout. Whom the gods love die young: they seem to have had some spite against this Knignt of Malta, absurd, His relations with Mile. d’AYssé are such as would only be allowed with the approval of so ciety in France, and she seems to have felt a queer sort of pity for the man to whom she had given all she had to give. In 1727 she writes to a third per- son, “The passion which devours me is the strangest thing in the worla; the man I love only sees me Once every three months; Ido nothing to | please; I have too much delicacy to take advan- tage of my power over his heart, and however happy I should be to marry nim, I ought to love the Chevalier for himself alone,” He was at that time the father of her child. Mlle, d’AYssé nad passed through some strange adventures, | @nd had probably acquired a wide expe rience of the world and much liberty of thought. She had been carried away by some | Turkish pirates when a little child, and had been bought for a Jew gold pieces by M. Ferriol, the French Ambassador at Constantinople. He had | her brought up in Paris by ni: ter-in-law, a lady of not very scrupulous morality, snd the poor girl budded into womanhood in perfect ignorance of the position in life which she was intended to oc- cupy. She was sixteen years old when M. Ferriol returned from his embassy to Paris, and he took her at once to reside with him. He appears to have been & morose, irritable man, more than sixty years of age, and accustomed to exact un- Teasoning obedience from all around him. He looked upon Mile. d’AYssé as neither more nor less than aslave whom he had bought and whom he might give away or sell again. An attack of paralysis had very nearly caused Rim to be shut up as a lunatic, and he was notoriously a violent and dangerous old fellow, very capricious and sudden tn his anger. A letter from him, which was found among the papers of M. d’Argental Cares, leaves noaoubt he | took absolute possession of the little maid’s body and sou! and made her his mistress, Sainte Beuve, indeed, defended her reputation in classical terms; but he pleaded for a lost cause. It was in 1720 or 1721 that she met with the Chevalier Daydie at the house of Mme. du Veffand; and there the de- bauched old man, who must have weighed so | heavily on her young existence, had fallen into the last extreme of dotage, and was about to die. She | seems tohave gone freely into society, notwith- | standing her cruel position and extraordinary | antecedents. Americans will be astonished also, to learn that it was Mme. de Ferriol, the Ambassa- dor’s wife, who introduced her into all the best | | drawing rooms in Paris, and, above all, to those frequented by that unprejudiced potentate, the Regent, Duke of Orleans. The horrible old people who disposed of this child’s destinies were deter- mined to sell what they had bougnt as oiten as | they could and to get the best price | for it, M. Honoré Bonhomme assures us, theretore, that if Mile. d’A¥ssé did not pass into the | | Regent’s harem it was not the fault of Mme. de Ferriol, who presented her for the special purpose | of attracting the Duke’s attention to Mme. de Parrabtre. The Chevalter Daydie, however, being cousin to the Count de Rism, avowed paramour of | the Duchess de Berry, was also admitted inco the | inner circle of the Regent’s shameless Court, It | was even sald that one of the ladies of the House | of Orleans had granted him many favors, for he | was a rake, much in fashion, notwithstanding the insignificans fact that he was in holy orders anda | priest in the diocese of Périgueux. In personal appearance he is said to have resembled the cele- bratea portrait of Guy Patin; and he seems to have looked as seraphic as a demure young chorister chanting a canticle, while thinking of robping an | orchard, He gives himself an amazing account of | the Knights of Malta, and declares that they lived | im a dissolute and luxurious manner, in obedience | to the rules ot their Order. It 1s unlucky that we | do not know the beginning of his love affair with Mile, d’Afssé. They both managed their affairs with such secrecy that even Mme. de Ferriel was kept in ignorance of them, and when the resuit of their connection could no longer be concealed Mile. d’Aiseé went ona visit to Lady Bolingbroke and pretended that they were both about to make a voyage to England. Lord Boling- broke, Who had a@ natural taste for intrigue, as- | sured Mmet de Ferriol that she had been very sea- sick in crossing the Channel; and he went stili further than this, for His Lordship placed the danghter of Mile. d’AYssé and the Ctievalier Day- die, Who had been christened Célinie Leblanc, in the Convent of Notre Damo, at Sens, under the name of Miss Black, and assured the good nuns | that the child was his own niece. Mile. d’Afssé then returned to the house of Mme. de Ferriol, | who had been entirely deceived by these proceea- ings, and now and then coutrived to | make a®& stolen visit the convent to see her child. Some the Uhevalier’s | | letters to her reiate to these mysterious | visits, and he evinces a deep tenderness for nis | offspring. He affirms that he joves his daughter With great affection, and that he is working night and day to put by @ fortune for her. This was quite true, and seven years after th ath of her | mother he married nér toa worthy country gen- tleman in his own neighborhood, named the Vi- count de Nanthie, The most inexplicable part of this business to an American mind is tuat the Chevalier Daydie, who We should think a very objectionable goou-ior- nothing, was really a respectabie person, fond of hia fireside, and not only beloved by his family, but esteemed by nis friends. He was the chosen Ant of the celebrated ide Krouwlay, Am- bassi of the Order of Maita in Paris, and Vol- taire, With an irony which perhaps le could not hep, alludes to them as ‘Les deur chevaliers sans peur et sans reproche.” The Chevailer Dasdie nad good success at Court. Besides | his title oO chevatiier and his ecviesias- tical benefice, he was an omcer in the Guards, a javorite of che Dauphin andj! the Queen; , bat alter the death of his mistress he reured into Tivate life aha passed his days alternate with his Brother and sister, who resided at Mayac and at Vangoubert, in the rich and beautiful province of Perigord, ‘Nothing mbereats me any longer,” he said, with quaint sadness, “but friendship, shoot. | to of | and to have teased bim with an old age somewnat | 5 revenues, His mother, his ais ter, bis son-in-law, his brothers, nephews and nieces inspire fim with virtuous and agreeable sentiments. He never sees or heara anything disagreeable, and suffers his voluptuous bours to glide deliciously by among woods and gardens, satisfying himself with innocence and tranquility, He will not m read, lest his quiet should be disturbed exciting news from Paris. occupatiuns are much with pet birds, and likewise with his cook, who cannot understand the true art of making a le mildly complains that all the and hk ons important question.” He upon an ambling pony. PI @t quadriile with his brothers, flies kites with nis nieces, Gr plays at childish games with the little ones. Now and then he blows the bellows at a private ope estab lshed by his brother, the Chevalier de areen and thus discourses of the importance of that auty—“it is," he writes, « biowing the bellows that I excel all otuer me! ‘his is my chief taleas. Every one receives some gilt from God, and this one has been awarded to me besides my theological gnowledy When Nero was killed he said tt was & pity to destroy a musician who knew how to the flute so well; and although I am fot a emperor, I desire to warn the world tn order that it may regret my decease, that mankind will lose an excellent wheelwrignt.” Never- theless he varied his amusements by paying hig addresses to the Countess de ‘lessé, ap elderly gentiewoman, who was a lady of the bed- cnamber to @ Queen of Saxony; indeed, he begaa writing love letters to her as he had done to Mile, q’Aisst. He was an incorrigible lover, and de scribes himself as having sued to heauty even when confined to his easy chair, with one gouty leg resting on a lootstool and the other useless. It was bis practice—and a very wise one—to hand his lawsuits over to his friends; nothing could in- @uce him to take trouble; the most he could de was to drink a bumper to the success of their ene deavors on his behalf. We have no knowledge, ho conception of such a world as that to which the Chevalier Daydie and Mile. d’Ajssé belonged. Whether our own 1s better or Wiser is altogether another question; and whether it is happier u extremely doubtful. Those who wish to call that bygone time, and examine all these questions ior themselves, can hardly do better than reaa the new book of M. Honoré Bontomme. They will cer tainly be amused by tt, and perhaps also in structed, “LB LIVRE DE CUISINE,” “LE LIVRE DE PATI SERIR,” “LE LIVRE DES CONSERVES.” By M, J, Goutfé (Hachette.) These three books merit considerable attention in all civilized countries, because they are the mature results of the meditations of a great cook, In his preiace M. Gourté tells us that he first prac: tised the culinary art in 1823, when he was in the servico of His Royal Highness the Duke of An- gouléme, just alter that prince’s return irom the wars of Spai . Ina banquet given to commemo+ rate this event M. Goufté superintended the couke ing of 100 jarge joints, which Were served hot; 306 dishes of cold meat, 200 roasts, 400 hot sideedishes, 200 dishes o1 vegetables and 300 sweet dishes, M. Goumé, tuerefore, justly clams to have some prac. tical experience of the kitchen and its concerns, He has given us a very good cookery book, inter. spersed with many philosophical reflections and some evidences of that apprectative generositwol mind which becomes distinguished menin alluding to their predecessors. He observes “that the world has been upjust to Caréme in refusing him the reputation of a great genius, and pronounces that he was aculinary inventor of the first clas: who oiten discovered things new and digestible, M. Goulfé also condemns “the irrational prac tice” of persons who have hitherto written cook ery books, and decides that they should have di- vided their subject into distinct parts, as he has done. He considers it revolutionary, if not abso» lutely sacrilegious, to write of soups and made disbes on the same page, and he shows us once more the extraordinary importance which all Frenchmen attach both to the profession he be long 10 and to their own position in it, “1 think,” says M, Goutfé, in conclusion, ‘that I have omitted nothing which a cook should know.” The art of making pastry is treated by him as learnedly as the sclence o! roasting, and the principie on which fruits and vegetables may be preserved 1s laid down with authority. Good house. wives who can read French will do well to study under M, Gonffé’s teaching, and hig works might be profitably translated for those who are unacquainted witn that language. M. Goulfé is of opinion that in order to succeed in making pastry a person must be endowed with the highest qualities of head and heart, and tnat he must be an artist as well ag acook. He must have imagination to devise new forma of beauty, prompt decision to remedy unforseen accident: delicate taste, tender sentiments and a profoun knowledge of colors, M, Goutfé has added to his cookery buok a special chapter upon wines and ab. other on the aiet of invalids. Both are well worthy the attention of reasonable people, and M. Gouffé’a literature will doubtless have @ brisk sale. “ROSE LA FLEURISTE,’’ PAR JULES PERIN ET RAOUL DE NAVARY (DELAGRAVE). This is one of aa admirable series of little booka addressed to the working classes, and its object to popularize the technical terms used in the ar! and sciences, and to explain them in an easy and agreeable manner. Tue professional part of these publications 1s framed in pleasing narrative. “Rose 1a Fleuriste” contains @ graceiul story of @ French workwoman, told with infinite charm and simplicity. The reader who has perused it atten. tively knows all about the making of artificial flowers. It seems to be, as might have been ex- ected, @ very interesting and pretty business; ut 16 18 Not quite so remunerative, at least to the flower makers, as persons who have been in the habit of paying large miiliner’s bills might have been reasonably disposed to imagine. CLASSICAL AND OTHER WORKS. The month of October ts ushered in by the publ& cation of @ great number of classical books, which are needed for the reopening of the French pubiic schools, The firm of Hachette takes the lead in providing the materials for education, and proe duces new editions of the works of Aristotle, of Plutarch and of Cicero. They have also issued a large number of French and English books and French and German books, because no French student is now considered to have completed nig education without a knowledge of German. The pubiishing firm of Didier issued a valuable dictionary of French synonymes, compiled by M, Guizot. It is dated as far back as 1809, and is the first work written by the great statesman, whots just deceased. Itis@ curious evidence of his learning or of his obstinacy that he would never consent to make the smallest alteration in the text of it. M. Denta publishes a new edition of ‘Roger Boutemps,”” by Paul Féval; “Le Roman d’une Paysanne,” by M. Victor Perceval; “Louis XV.,”” by M. Arséne Houssaye, wa0 has treated his subject with the hand of a lover, and a host of books of minor importance, | Alphonse Danaet, ing and truMed turkeys. My frst objet now ts to keep in good health; this is the end of all my phi. | osoohy.” Ho conducts imself ike & bished There seems @ tendency among French literary men to cultivate geographical pursuits. A new atlas has been printed by M. Delagrave, and it gives a satisfactory account of Belgium, Holland and the Duchy of Luxemburg, the West Indies and the French colonies in Africa, Firmin Didot has on sale an important work on natural history, by M. Stanisias Meunier, who hag put forth the opinicn that the geological forma- tion of other planets is the same as that of our own, M. Pion has published a work on the ‘Elements of Criminal Law,” by M. Ortolan, continued by M. Bonnier, and it well merits the attention of lawyers. He has also printed the correspondence between Mme. de Sabran and the Chevaller de Bourtleurs, an amusing coliection ol letters, Charpentier has publisned @ new work by one of the most popular of French, novelists. It is entitled “‘Fromont Jeune et Kisler Ainé,” He describes the manners of the French middle classes in Paris with the touch of a master, M. Lemerre reprints the memoirs of the Comte de Gramont, with sume new poetry by M. Coppée; and it appears by the trade list of another publisher, who shall be nameless, that the most pegponee book that has been ever printed, even in French, “Mlle. Giraud ma Femme,” hag reached its forty- LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, Henry Houssaye has an admirable article on the new discoveries at Pompeitin the Revue des Deus Mondes, Mgr. Patterson contributes to the Contemporary Reotew an elaborate article on “Extled Popes.” Miss Elizabeth H. Whittier, niece of the poet, contributes nine poems to the latest volume issued by Whittier, under the title of ‘Hazel Blossoms,” Some of the verses are very charming. Mr. 0. J. Hemans, son of Mrs. Homans, the pose ess, will soon issue @ book on “Historic and Mona mental Rome.” Dr. Doyle’s analysis of Irish nomenclature wil) shortly be completed, by the publication of nig econd volume of “Irish Names and Places,” Major Ben O, Truman, & Well-known corre spondent, has a book in pfess entitled “Semp Tropicai California,” A. L, Bancroft & Oo, are publishers, . Mrs, Anne Ma juthor of “Emilia Wyndham,” “Castile Avon’? and numerous other novels, died in October, It may be consoling to lady authors to learn, as we do from the London press, that Mrs. Marsh was born toward the end of the last century. Mr. James Grant, author of ‘rhe History of the Newspaper Press,’’ &c., has ready for publication “The vlymouth Brethren; their History and Heresies,” in which an account is given of the rise, progress and doctrines of that religious des nomination. Harper & Brothers have in press “Politics for Young Americans,” by Charies Nordho@,, and ‘Re- mains of Lost Empires, being Sketches from tue Ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon and Perse polis,” by P. V. N. Myers. Magazine literature is in good demand in Eng- land. The Contemporary Review for October reached the tenth edition before the demand wae supplied, Abdlogtaphy of Balfo, the composer, is ia propa. rst edition. | ration, written by Mr, Oberies Kenney,