The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hena.p. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. ssnve the American reople wegem= | ave... ‘ill, to be the one only thought of erated Since Achieving Their Inde- pendence? The mteresting book of the Marquis de Talleyrand-Périgord, of which we gave some account a day or two since, challenges a | kind of attention which is not often bestowed | on a mere literary production, The Mar- | quis has had his work printed in America ; not, wesuppose, because he expects a work in | the French language to find many readers in | this country, but because he wishes to sub- Letters and packages should be properly | mit it to the criticism of competent American sealed. 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TIVOLI THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. MURRAY ANernoon and eveni AMER ANNUAL FAIR. CHICKERING I PRESTIDIGITATION, a WALLAC FORBIDDEN FRUIT, at TRIPLE NEW YORK, TU “From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, and possibly with occasional rain. Wau. Srrest Yesterpay.—Speculation was feverish and marked bya decline in Rock Island, Illinois Central and Delaware and Lackawanna. Jersey Central showed an improvement. Gold opened at 110 1-8 and closed at 110. Mcney on call was sup- plied at 11-2 and 2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were moderately active, Tsanruta 8 A has commenced, as was expected, to bring her son’s government into contempt. Alfonso should ask his mother to go somewhere for his own and the country’s good. Tas Lars Mr. Lick asked for a mountain to be his tomb. He was nota believer in revealed religion. This will explain his de- sire to be buried near the observatory he left the money to found. It will be awkward if the trust deed gets into the courts and is set aside. Ocrosern Txrm found all the judges in their places in the various courts yesterday, but the lawyers were not so generally ready to goon with their cases as to necessitate any mitigation of the feeling which made Shakespeare place ‘‘the law's delay” among the intolerable ills of life. Go.psmitH Mar did not beat her time of 2:14 at Philadelphia yesterday. They were very sanguine people indeed who thought she could do it. Of course the wind and the state of the track were against the very high- wst speed, but the seconds below 2:16 are mly earned with every favoring condition, —_= Cruettx to Cumprex.—The work of the society which has for its object the preven- lion of cruelty to the little ones goes on with rigor. The monthly meeting of tho society is reported elsewhere. The object is a worthy one, and, if it is not pushed to fanaticism will surely count as a beneficial factor in a state of society which is far from perfect. A Faencu WorkinoMan’s ConGREss, we are Informed by cable, has convened in Paris. Its object is stated to be higher wages and Parliamentary representation. There is probably too much Utopia in the brains of the organizers to hope for much solid result from such a gathering, and yet, if properly directed, what useful suggestions for their tlass could be formulated by a sensible body of representative workingmen ! To “Grvez Away” or not to ‘‘give away” is, im the refined parlance of our politicians, the question with regard to the surrender of Tweed. Some there are who dread his coming and talk uneasily, but the majority, whatever they fear, say they have no rend at all. As the ex-Boss gets a little pearer to Ludlow Street Jail we shall be snabled to judge how far the gentlemen whose opinions are recorded elsewhere will ehange their tune. Serva is likely, even without further fighting, to obtain better ‘conditions for than she could with reason have hoped for a fortnight ago. Russia, by introducing what has been happily called “lim- ited liability’ in war—namely, by professing peace and pouring Rus- gian soldiers into Servin under the guise of volunteers, has won » great vietory | at little or no cost. The situation at Con- stantinople is represented in a Hexanp spe- @ial despatch to be very critical ‘or foreign- In view of the inflamed state of the | is remarkable tor suck or such a work; this | be the turn events will take. There is no Seooteme it would certainly not be’ impru- | isan artist, a philosopher, a distinguished | appearance anywhere of a capacity or a will } to oppose this step, and Turkey herself can judges before publishing it in France. He | has been so short a time in the United States and has been compelled to depend so much on conversation for his knowledge of the present state of the country that it was pru- dent for him to submit his conclusions to the judgment of people who have had better | opportunities, with a view to revise what he | has written if it should appear that he has been misled into errors. If, after sending copies to the American press, he should find no dissent from his conclusions he would feel justified in publishing his book in France as an authentic exposition of Ameri- can morals and culture in 1876. We think the Marquis has been unfortunate in his sources of information, and it is due alike | to him and the country that his implied re- | quest to have his mistakes rectified befure reprinting his book in France should be can- didly acceded to. He portrays the people of this country as | in a state of revolting degeneracy, repre- senting us as having lost the virtues of our ancestors and destitute of the intellectual and msthetic culture which is the best fruit of civilization. ‘It is a people,” he says, ‘‘whose morality is that of a people in decadence.” ‘‘Itisa people which produces things but no longer produces men.” We have ‘no men of let- ters, no orators, no statesmen, no works of art, or at least very few, to attest the exist- ence of a civilized nation.” This judgment | would be too sweeping even if our culture were compared with that of contemporary Europe; but when the comparison is be- | tween America in 1876 and America in 1776 | we are, perhaps, more competent to judge | than the most intelligent foreigner can be after the hasty inquiries which are possible daring a brief sojourn in the United States. | We are, too, painfully aware that it becomes | | us to be modest in comparing ourselves with Europe in the more retined branches of in- fellectual cultivation. But if the compar- ison were between the United States and Russia, Spain, Italy or any of the Scandi- navian nations there would, perhaps, be no presumption in maintaining that America has no reason to blush for her barbarism. England, France and Germany are the only European countries with which a comparison would not be absurd, for we have outstripped every other nation in all the moral, social, intellectual and msthetio, as well as the material elements, of civiliza- tion. Within the last half of the century which has elapsed since our independence American literature has had many names which command respect in the most en- lightened countries of Europe. Our his- torians need not shrink from a comparison with those of other cultivated nations. Prescott and Motley have treated European subjects with a breadth of original research and a pictorial grace which have received admiring recognition from the most dis- tinguished men of letters of Europe. The best history of the connection of Spain with the New World is by an American; the best his- tory of the reign of Philip IT. is by an Ameri- can; the best history of the Dutch Republic is by an American; the most learned and critical history of Spanish literature is by an American; the best life of Columbus is by an American, and the labors of Bancroft in American history have won for him the respect of Europe as well as of his own country. Our American historians are as remarkable for elegance of style as for re- search and erudition, and have been made honorary members of the most learned societies of Europe. Our poets may not be great, but Europe has produced no great poet within the last half century. Our Longfellow is almost as popular and as widely read in England as in the United States, and Bryant, Whittier and Lowell deserve to rank as high as most of the con- temporary poets of Europe. Within the last few years we have produced the best | translation of Dante, the best translation of Homer and the best translation of Goethe's “Faust” in the English language. Our Cooper has been translated into every Euro- pean tongue; our Hawthorne is as warmly admired in England as he is at home; and the inimitable graces of our Irving, which suffer by translation, make him a favorite wherever the English language is read. American law books are quoted as authori- ties in all the higher courts of England, and if they have not been translated it is because the jurisprudence of continental Europe is so different trom that of the United States and Great Britain. On that great branch of jurisprudence which is common to all civilized countries—international law--our Wheaton holds the highest place among the standard authorities. In science, also, we have done our part. The American contributions to electricity, meteorology, geology, photography and philology have received recognition from the most emi- nent scientists of Europe. Our Sig- nal Service Bureau attests what we have done in meteorology. The splendid work of our Coast Survey has never been excelled in that line. Our exploring expe- ditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, to Japan and the Eastern seas, be- token a generous interest in the extension of geographical knowledge. We have seulp- tors of no mean fame, of whom Story may be taken as a representative. In landscape painting our artists are admitted to be the | peers, if not the superiors, of those of any | other nation. Without going further into details we protest that it is not fair to repre- | out arts, without science, without taste for liberal attainments. We are told that the American people es- | timate a man only by the amount of his wealth. ‘You never hear it said” (we trans- late from the French Marquis) ‘‘this man dent to send some of our vessels in the | writer, a savant.” He goes on to say, ‘This | Maditerraneon to the Golden Horn, thirst of lucre seems to devour all, ta | at most only protest against it, | with American life would convince him that | cure the rights of a despised race of slaves. | ters of Foreign Affairs of all the Powers sent us as a people without literature, with- | tice, but otherwise the immediate occupa- these men.” A more intimate acquaintance this is a total misconception of the American character. How would he explain the social attentions we lavish on men like Huxley and Tyndall when they happen to visit us? Why did we so run after and lionize Dickens and Thackeray? Agassiz was a poor man, Long- fellow is not rich, Choate barely supported his family; but the wealthiest merchant of Boston never excited such respectful inter- estas these men of mere talent and culture. If Ralph Waldo Emerson and William B. Astor should happen to attend the opera in this cityon the same evening a hundred persons would point out the littérateur for one who would direct attention to the mill- ionnaire. The Marquis de Talleyrand- Périgord has entirely mistaken our national character on this point. No people in the world hold intellectual accomplishments in higher respect than the Americans. But when we come to compare ourselves with our ancestors of 1776 instead of with the European nations of our own time, the evidence that we have not shamefully de- gemerated seems decisive. That we have not fallen off in the great qualities of gen- | erous patriotism and manly courage is abund- antly proved by our recent civil war. Our forefathers bravely asserted their own rights; we have made stupendous sacrifices to se- As to our sordid worship of money, it is o partial answer to the charge to point to the pecuniary sacrifices which we so freely made | in the war. This partial answer is strength- ened by recalling the large voluntary con- tributions for the Sanitary Commission—a generous exhibition of humanity which has no parallel. If the American people pursue | wealth with ardor they also spend it with ungrudging liberality. What other country | has so many institutions of charity supported entirely by private contributions? Our in- stitutions of learning are constantly multi- plying, and the curriculum of studies in the smaller colleges is more extensive than it was in Harvard and Yale a hundred years ago, while these and kindred institutions have so elevated their standards that gradu- ates of 1776 would find it difficult to pass an examination for the Sophomore year. Moreover, hundreds of American young men are annually sent to Europe to study in the most famous universities of the Continent. No man in this country is com- pelled by law to pay a church rate, but our church architecture of the last thirty years is so expensive and sumptuous that our frugal forefathers would have thought it ostentatious and extravagant. It is true that public morals are just now degraded, but it is the result of transient causes which will soon pass, and it is hardly fair to judge our people by this exceptional period. The inflated, fluctuating currency, which was one of the attendant evils of a great war, set the country into a fever of speculation and converted all business into a species of gambling; but this corrupting influence will pass away within a few years. The steady honesty with which we have met the obligations of a colossal public debt attests a deep and abiding sense of justice and honor in the American psople. We hope the Marquis de Talleyrand-Périgord will remain in the country until he under- stands us better, and that he will thoroughly revise the disparaging parts of his book be- fore he publishes it in France. Re ’s Terms—The War in Servia. Comparatively little information has yet reached us as to the result of the recent fighting in front of Alexinatz. On the one hand we have the report of a corre- spondent of the London Times with the Turkish forces. Naturally a man in that position would see the case through Ottoman spectacles, and when we consider that his report was telegraphed from a city not far in the rear of Nisch—perhaps Sofia—to Con- stantinople and thence to London, and was therefore subject to Turkish censorship at two points, it is evident that it would not be likely to contain any truths that would be un- pleasant in Constantinople. Another source of information is the correspondent of the London Standard at Belgrade. Anybody telegraphing from that side would be apt to give us the Servian story except this cor- respondent; but as the tory organ is so thoroughly identified with the sup- port of the Ottoman cause that it de- preciates to the utmost possible point all Servian acts and admits no Servian suo- cesses. Perhaps, therefore, the fact that it does not claim that the Servians were anni- hilated in the fighting of Thursday last is an evidence that they were moderately suc- cessful in their movement. They seem to have moved from their works to the assault of the Turkish lines, and to have endea- at once; a fact which indicates that there is as yet no tactical genius in the Ser- vian staff, for the attack on both flanks is always a blander where the attacking force does not enormously outnumber the enemy. But though they did not overwhelm the Turks they doubtless had some satisfactory achieve- ments, for on Saturday the Turks are re- ported as assuming the offensive in circum- stances which do not indicate that they had advanced. On that day the Turks perhaps endeavored to recapture positions stormed on Thursday by the Servians. The one fact certain is that the valley of the Morava above Alexinatz has been the scene of some really obstinate fighting, which is enough to show the very great change from a few weeks since, when the Turks drove the Servians down the same valley like sheep. Already, therofore, the Servians have estab- lished a new relation of facts for the peace makers. Probably the reports of the con- tents of the note of the Czar to the Emperor of Austria are accurate. It is said that the Czar proposes a conference of Minis- if the Porte will accept a permanent armis- ' tion of Bulgaria by Russian forces and of Herzegovina and Bosnia by Austria; this | joint occupation to guarantee to the popula- ! tion of those countries and of Servia their | practical independence in the tuture from ' Turkish domination. This is very likely to | Colored Voters in the South. We advise the colored voters in the South- ern States to support the democratic State and local tickets. They will probably, in general, want to vote for Governor Hayes, and this they can easily do at the same time that they vote for the democratic local and State tickets. Jt is time for them to exercise discrimination in their voting. To ‘‘vote the straight ticket” is not, as they have been taught by corrupt white men, the highest duty of an American citizen. They may reasonably say that they prefer a republican federal administration ; but in such States as South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, they ought tosee that they have been in local polities only the instruments pf bad men, who mislead them and use them for purposes antagonistic to their own interests and to those of the communities of which they are a part. Senator Boutwell, one of the most zealous and watchful friends of the Southern colored men, was so impressed with the condition of Mississippi polities that he advised the colored leaders in that State to nominate none but leading white men of character and standing in the community, native born and property owners, to the offices, and to sup- port these faithfully. This was sound ad- vice. If they do this they will give the State peace and themselves the good will of the whole community. So in South Carolina, General Hampton, one of the fotemost citi- zens of the State, solemnly and publicly pledges himself that, if he is chosen Gov- ernor, he will execute impartial justice between white and black and see that the colored people are secure in all their rights in every part of the State. We advise the colored man to take him at his word and give him a trial. He promises more than Governor Chamberlain has performed, and he has the ability to do what he says. In Louisiana there can be no doubt of the duty of colored voters; they ought to support the conservative State ticket and put down the corrupt republican ring which has so long kept the State in turmoil. If the colored voters in these States should declare openly that they mean to vote for Hayes, but that they will everywhere support the local dem- ocratic tickets, they would put a new face on the campaign in the South, and they would only be doing, after all, what honest white republicans in Louisiana and Missis- sippi have been doing for several years. Consequences of Cheap Coal. Whether the coal combination ean recover its control of the market remains to be seen. But it is worth our notice that the sudden foll in the price of coal here, consequent on the collapse of the companies who have as- sumed to monopolize the market, and did so long control and fix prices, has at once at- tracted attention in England. A Man- chester paper remarks, in some alarm, that so great a fall in the price of coal, if it is. maintained, will affect very favorably the cost of production in all American industries where steam is used. The English writer says:—“If the de- cline should prove permanent we have here a new and powerful aid to the American manufacturer. There is, too, the possibility of American coal being exported in compe- tition with that of Great Britain. A large amount of English coal is consumed in “transatlantic countries, more especially in the West Indies and Brazil, and it is not at all unlikely that American coal may run us aclose race in these markets, at least fora time. The most serious question for all concerned is whether or not the reduction is likely to be long-enduring, and on this point we have not now sufficient means of forming a reliable judgment. The mines at present opened are capable of yielding, ac- cording to the statements of the American papers, about three times as much as they have hitherto done, without the addition of any more machinery than is already put down. Under the combination production was restricted so as to keep up prices, and the mines were worked only from three to five months in the year. The cost of pro- duction must, therefore, have been enor- mously high. Now, under the open system the coal owners will be impelled to turn out the largest amount possible in order to re- duce its cost. Alf this seems to make it probable that a very moderate price will now be permanently maintained, since there is a general agreement that the combination cannot be re-established.” Whether the ‘‘combination” is really broken remains to be seen. The event is not yet decided. But it is worth the while of American workingmen to remember that cheap coal enables employers to pay higher wages and yet produce cheap goods. What- ever is saved in the cost of raw material is to the advantage not only of the manufac- vyored to turn the Turks on both flankg@ turer but of the people he employs. The New Mining Board. The new Mining Board which held its first session in this city yesterday is a Cali- fornia enterprise, intended to give our citi- zens a taste of the excitements, pleasurable or the reverse as it may happen, which make California and Montgomery streets in San Francisco so lively. Our kind friends in Calitornia have noticed with pain that money is at one and a half to two per cent here in New York, and that its owners probably ache to get ten or twenty per cent ; and they mean to give us a fair chance at their favor- ite investments, They propose, of course, to allow us to speculate only in the most solid and paying enterprises, and to exercise a paternal care over our purses by listing none but established stocks, If the new Mining Board succeeds it will give Wall street a fresh sensation or two, which it has been wanting for a good while, California street, the Wall street of San Francisco, is a lively place, where probably more fortunes are made and lost every month than in any other ‘‘street” in the world. We should advise the ‘‘street” | here to exercise o little care, if such advice were not thrown away on the bright spirits there, and if they were not more than likely to welcome the encounter of wits to which their San Francisco rivals invite them. Of the solid wealth of many Pacific mining enterprises there can be no doubt; and the | effort by a prudently conducted organiza- tion to invite Eastern capital in greater amounts to invest in such: undertakings | is mow begun mainly because, we suppose, the need of more capital is felt out there to develop recent discoveries. We notice in a San Francisco journal for September 22 notice of new assessments on mining shares, amounting in all toa million of dollars for that month alone. These assessments are ‘for the development of the mines,” and said journal remarks that the ‘‘delinquent assessments” for the nine months preceding amount to nearly eight millions. Evidently they need out there either more money or more faith, or both, A Blind Murderer. There are grim dramatic elements in the horrible tragedy which took place in this city on Sunday night, when a blind French musi- cian killed his infant son, fatally wounded his wife and shot himself dead. Jules Blanc, the murderer and suicide, who leaves a letter accusing himself alone, had, it ap- pears, been tenderly reared, but loved a lite of adventure, and followed this im- pulse by leading a seafaring life until disease came and veiled his eyes with a “drop serene.” He was married, and as the blind professor's income was but scanty his wife became a chorus singer at the Academy of Music and afterward fol- lowed the rollicking fortunes of Mlle. Aimée’s opéra bouffe, occasionally getting smal! parts. The blind and disappointed man and the light-hearted young woman, with her head full of airy tunes, were not calculated to pull pleasantly along through life. Soa wejrd, mocking picture steals be- fore our eyss. The gleaming of many lights, the false glitter of the life of the stage in its wildest freaks, the ring of the merry chorus, the intoxication of tumultuous applause are in the foreground. Back of that we see the blind husband groping through his little room, a prey to the bitterest of pangs. He is jealous and he is blind. Jealousy does not want eyes to picture its fancied wrongs, but it needs all the senses to blot the visions out. ‘I have loved my wife and she loved me, too,” he wrote, but the thought that must have wrought most on his disordered mind was, can she, the young, the gay, no doubt the tempted, still love me, the poor and blind? How the blackest thoughts distorted therselves into fiendish shapes we can dimly imagine. There was for him no awaking from this nightmare of the brain. He was blind, and he could never hope to start from his imaginings as Richard springs from the rack whereon he has tossed in the blindness of sleep to cry— Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream—— Ben Jonson, in his best comedy, gives a picture of a husband, jealous without cayse, who asks, while his fingers tremble, ‘“‘Which of them kissed my wife first ?” There we can laugh, for we know he is a victim to a busy brain, and can be undeceived. Jules Blano must have trembled not a little as these thoughts trooped to his brain, but he felt that with his wife in all the factitious dazzle of her life, amid blandishments ond flat- tery—in the farnace of the passions, as it were—he had no safeguard for his honor: he was blind. Wretch that he was, he never dreamed once that he could trust the woman who washed the paint from her cheeks and stole from the stage to their humble home where her child and her husband waited. He was blind to the'world without and all eyes for the grinning demon within. Cow- ard, he could not trust as he could not watch; and the demon told him he could murder. To look from him and his bloody work to the picture of John Milton, old and blind, and enduring his domestic infelici- ties while he gave to the world the incom- parable fruits of his great poetio soul, is like shifting the glance from hell to heayen. Happy it is that such a crime as the blind musician's can be contrasted before weak humanity with the great blind singer's blameless life, Our Latest Reports from Indiana. We publish this morning two additional letters from our correspondent in Indiana, Although they do not furnish any very clear indication of the result of the contest they give abundant evidence of its vehemence, and prove that both parties are fully alive to the consequences which may follow victory or defeat. It is quite possible that the Presi- dential election may be virtually decided by the citizens of Indiana one week from to- day. If the democratic party should lose this State without regaining Ohio no intel- ligent politician will thereafter think it pos- sible that Governor Hayes can be defeated in November. But if, on the other hand, the democrats triumph in Indiana they will have chances of electing their Presi- dential candidate even if Ohio should go ogainst them. The democrats have never expected to succeed in Ohio until within the last two or three weeks. At the time of their National Convention they deliberately conceded it to the repub- licans by their nomination of Governor Tilden, who was 80 distasteful to the Ohio democrats. If they should carry that State in October, after all, they will be filled with hope and courage by so unexpected a suc- cess, and will command that floating vote in all the doubtful States which seeks the win- ning side. But itis hardly to be supposed that Hayes will lose his own State, and if Ohio goes republican all the chances of the democratic party are staked on its ability to carry Indiana next Tuesday. The contest is so close that the majority will be very small whichever party wins, During the present week the battle will be fought with desperate energy, and the attention of the whole country will be concentrated on the contest. Spratrvatism does not prosper abroad. In France we have lately seon a spirit photog- rapher, who deluded Parisians out of their money by pretending to make pictures of people supposed by their relatives to be in heaven, ‘sent up” himself for swindling. Now, Professor Slade, who has extracted many a dollar from the credulous in New York, with his little slate pencil, has been hauled up at the Bow street police station, London, under the Vagrant act, by Professor Lankester. who caught Pro‘essor Slade writing the messages he averred to have come from the spirits. Ths should encourage an emigration of the | m ,-naired to the land of the free, where novody has public spirit enough to drag impostors into the courts. Jerome Park Yesterday and To-Day. The fine day’s sport at Jerome Park yester- day did not attract quite so large an attend- ance as was expected. It was a ‘‘postponed” day, and that, doubtless, was the chiet cause of the thinning out of the throng. The weather was cool, but delightful, and every day now adds to the beanty of the route and to the vista on the grounds of the club. Hence it is to be regretted that one of the seven racing days of the meeting was thus let slip by somany. Those who did go had a rich treat. The running was splendid The victory of Brother to Harry Bassett in the Jerome Stakes for three-year-olds recalls the beautiful horse that made such a stir a few years ago. His celebrated races with Longfellow, another great horse; his defeat by Mr. Sanford’s Monarchist, are things that make his young brother's victory quite in. teresting. Leonard's triumph © in” Nursery Stakes was one of the most a things of the day, poor maimed Lo "a son thus showing how blood will tell, The selling race,, which closed the day's sport, gave the rare result of a dead heat between Pera and Arcturus. In the second heat the victory fell to Pera, sending everybody away in good humor but those who backed Arcturus. ‘To-day there are four running races and asteeplechase on the card. The first is a purse with maiden allowances. The second is the Hunter Stakes, a race for three-year-old fillies, over one mile and three-quarters—an American Oaks. The next is the important Maturity Stakes, over three miles, for four-year-olds. This will bring Mr. Lorillard’s Tom Ochiltree, Chesa- peake, Gray Nun and another stanch horse or two to the post. After this comes a mile and ahalf race for a purse, the whole clos- ing with a handicap steeplechase over the usual course We hope the ladies will move out in force this morning to witmess a day of racing which has so many elements of en- joyment. A Democratic Union. From what our reporters gathered of the proceedings of the Tammany and anti-Tam- many conference yesterday evening it ap- pears that the two factions of the democratic party in this city which follow the lead of John Kelly and John Morrissey respectively have agreed to unite on the basis of giving the latter's party two-fifths of the nomina- tions to be voted for by the united party. We have not heard that there was any particular compromise of princi- ples between the high contracting parties, or, indeed, that there were any to quarrel over. This issmooth and lovely, and itonly remains to be seen how enduring it is tobe. When the republicans come to put their ean- didates in the field it may turn out that there will be some defection in the rank and file who have been learning for some years past how to disobey even such important people as Mr. Kelly and Mr. Morrissey. The diffi- culty of splitting the tickets on a-basis of two-fifths of the nominations to one party is in itself very great, and to do it without making soreheads of the sorest kind all but impossible. It is quite possible that the anti-Tammany leaders may deliver a large part of the vote they contract to havevat the polls on the 7th of November, but there is every likelihood of the opposition getting some of the democratic vote, if the fusion candidates should be in any instance speckled with bad association or stained with old corruption. The fusion now ssid to be all but perfect makes it all important for the democratic nominations to be of the most unassailable kind. Otherwise Mr. Kelly and Mr. Morrissey will have fused in vain, No Vorean Yer.—All day long the am tronomers watched the face of theisun for the appearance of the little black spot upon hisface. They rubbed theglasses of their tel- escopes and gazed at the lummmary: no spot. They rubbed their eyes and looked again until their optics watered and the sun danced a jig in the high heavens: no spot, They relieved guard and still looked when he was high at noon. No spot. They fol- lowed him down the western slope of the heavens through the afternoon. No spot At last the sun grew abashed at all the telescopic eyes which were turned on him. He was used to seeing the bottoms of tumblers turned heavenward by the thpu- sand in the old Ring days in New York, but that is long ago. He remembered the in. quisitiveness of the old scientists when Venus was brushing his cheek. At the ree membrance of the little pleasantries of the goddess he blushed crimson and hid himself for the night. As the astronomers turned to each other at sunset the younger and more profane applied the same epithet to the spot that would not come oyt as did Lady Macbeth in her sleep-walking speech. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In Glasgow Sunday ts strictly kept, Black iace over white bas superseded fringe, Coffee or tea taken with meat is one cause of indh gestion. : Parisians use omnibuses much more than Lom donors do. Bishop John Freeman Young, of Florida, ts at the Coleman House. Swarms of butterfiics are passing westward over Towa and Missouri. It was a drunken carpenter who said he could mot bout to introduce twenty-five cent plated watch chains into England, Dom Pedro while in Russia was mueh interested is reading Russian newspapers, = * A Londoner gasps:—"‘November may bring fogs, bul the oyster lines them with silver.” ‘Whonever there is a sudden riso of the barometer an equally sudden fall may be expected, Toe Scotch herring fishermen are this year poorer by $300 a crew than they ly A Woman may woar raw hatin November, bute man bas to ‘shoot it” in September, Dr. Nicolau J. Moreira, of the Brazilian Centennial Commission, is at the Buckingham Hotel, Colonel Manuel Freyre, recently Peruvian Ministes at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. In London recently a snako climbed Into the second story of a house where a lady was sewing. Seftor Don Antonio Mantilla de ‘ios Rios, Spaniel Minister at Washington, is at the Hotei Brunswick. Associate Jusiice Ward Hunt, of the United Stater Supreme Court, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from his home in Utica, Rochester Democrat:—‘‘An eacaped tiger, formerly of Amburgh’s show, is roaming around New Jer- sey, bowling for Tilden and reform." Major Lrech, and Messrs. Miliner, Fenton, Pollock, Rigby and Evans, of tho Irish riflo team, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington, Rochester Democrat:—*-A Cal:fornia woman offered Rdwin Booth $100 tora single kiss, Edwin gavo th kiss and then passed the money over tothe poor, 188 California story, but t may be true,” vi