The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1876, Page 4

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Tam Enrorion i Gronora demonstrates that there is not much danger of a war of faces in that State, which affords a pleasing contrast to unhappy South Carolina. The colored citizens of Georgia voted the ‘demo- ratio ticket by thousdnds, and no violation or intimidation is reported. A Srxtw Vierzw of the Europa disaster ex- pired yesterday. mening. We hope the Coroner's inquest will develop the fall facts in the case, Tocrowd over sixty workmen into the hold of a vessel soaked with petro~ loum, and set them to sound her timbers by candle light, is to invite disaster. Sometimes the little politician of to-day is the big leader of the day after to-morrow. Sometimes the little politician will tell more of the workings of parties as far as he is concerned in them than the man in the big office will or can tell. The series of inter- views we print to-day with a number of our minor statesmen will on these and other grounds be found worth study. Tue Question or THE Day—‘‘How will Ohio and Indiana go?" The politicians of each party appear to be equally sure, but it is probable that they are equally alarmed. Republicans and democrats are like the Chinaman and the African who met in the streets of London. Cuffee had never seen John Chinaman, and the Heathen Chinee had never seen Cuffee, and they glared at each other in fear, cach supposing the other to be the devil. It is very much in this ter- rified state of mind that the politicians are gazing at each other now. Srrerrvatiest i is just now one of the sensa- tions of London, because of the discussion of Dr. Slade ‘as a medium and his arrest under the Vagrant act. The general opinion seems to be that he is a skilful legerdemain- ist; not as clever as Mr. Maskelyne, or Hermann, Cazeneuve, Blitz or any of _ the prestidigitateurs we know, but a grent deal more presuming. The trouble with Blade, as with all mediums of the kind, is that he refuses to submit his revelations to scientific tests, but always insists upon a certain margin within which deception is possible. Maraniau ‘Fever at the Centennial is something whose presence is undeniable. We think, in view of the facts which have come to light, that it would be much more becoming in the Centennial managers and Philadelphia editors to give the my- tiads of visitors a little plain ad- vice as to how they may best escape the Centennial sickness than to denounce os they do all who tell the truth about the matter. Woe advise the visitors from other cities to avoid drinking water in Phj) tel- phia that has not been boiled, or if they drink cold water to mix a little wine or spirits with it, not to go to the Exhibition very early in the day or remain very late, and, above all, not to tire themselves ont day after day tramping over the Exhibition grounds. If@n ordinarily healthy man or woman follows our advice they need have little to fear from a week's stay in Philadel- NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1876 .—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Elections To-Morrow in Ohio and Ind When the sun sets to-morrow evening the Presidential election will be virtually de- cided, if both Ohio and Indiana shall have been carried by the same political party. But if the republicans win in one State and | the democrats in the other there will bea more strenuous contest in the few doubtful States on which the Presidential election will then turn than has ever been witnessed in our political history. In that event New York will be the main battle ground, because its thirty-five electoral votes will probably turn the scale, We believe that the State elections which immediately precede a Presidential election have a malign and corrupting influence in our polities. They are to be deprecated from every point of view. They engulf all State questions in the maelstrom of federal politics, and give two or three States a disproportionate power in national affairs. If Ohio and Indiana should both go republican or both go democratic these two States will really choose the President, making the country at largo a mere register- ing body to record their political verdict. There is no fairness in lodging so much power in two or three of the thirty-eight States, and enabling them to decide the Presidential election forthe whole Unicn. We are con- fident that this unfair advantage can be of no long duration. We are encouraged to be- lieve that itapproaches extinction by the fact that so much progress has been made since the last Presidential election. Pennsylvania has made a voluntary surrender of her old position by o constitutional amendment transferring her State election from October to November. Since 1872 North Carolina, Connecticut and Nebraska have also amend- ed their oonstitutions, and fixed their State elections on the same day when all the Presidential electors are re- quired to be chosen. Ohio also at- tempted the same reform in the amended constitution which was submitted to the vote of her people in August, 1874. That constitution was rejected. for purely local reasons, but whenever a similar attempt is made Ohio will change the day of her State election, Wo trust and expect that before the Presidential election of 1880 all the States will choose their members of Con- gress and State officers on the same day, and that no member of the Union will have any advantage over its fellow members in the national eontest. Congress did its part toward this important reform by the act of 1872, requiring all members of the Forty- fifth and every succeeding Congress to be chosen on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November. It is owing, in a great measure, to that law of Congress that so much progress has been made toward uni- formity within the last four years. Un- fortunately, however, an act was passed March 3, 1875, modifying the law of 1872, “‘so as not to apply to any State that has not yet changed its day of election, and whose constitution must be changed in order to effect a change in the day of the election of State officers in said State.” This relaxation only postpones the completion of a reform which is in full progress. New Hampshire, which was not bound by constitutional restrictions, changed the day of her State election at the lgst session of her Legislature. Ohio, Indi- ana and Maine are the only States in which the change remains to be made, and we are encouraged to believe that this is the last of our Presidential elections in which particu- lar States will havea political weight be- yond that to which they are entitled by their population. *-Itis for the interest of the States con- cerned, as well as for the general interest, that they should surrendor this unfair ad- vantage in national politics. The only reason that was ever assigned, or that-e¥er can be assigned, for holding State elections on a different day from the Presidential election, is the expediency of separating local from national affairs. But experience proves that there is no such certain method of swamping all State interests in federal politics as the holding of State elections in immediate advance of the Presidential con- test. During the heated canvass which is now closing in the important October States both the native speakers and the great invad- ing army of stump orators on both sides have dwelt on national issues to the exclusion of State questions. State interests have no chance to get a hearing in the mighty irrup- tion of federal politics which deluges such States on the evo of a Presidential election. Such States are exposed to another evil of no small magnitude—namely, the coloniza- tion of illegal voters. It is industriously charged by both parties in Indiana that their opponents aro engaged in a gigantic attempt to import bogus voters from other States to control the result. Even if these mutual charges are calumnies they poison the political atmosphere ; but if they are true they demonstrate the evil effects of holding elections on. different days in neighboring States. If all the States held their important elections on the same day there would be no danger of colonization, because both parties in every State would need all their voters at home. Let us hope that before the Presidential election of 1880 the small residue of straggling States will follow the example of Pennsylvania, Con- necticut, North Carolina, Nebraska and New Hampshire, and that all the members of the Union will hold their elections, as a major- ty of them have long done, on the day of the Presidential election. When the time of the State elections shall be uniform through- out the United States every citizen will vote according to his real convictions, unbiassed by a factitious public opinion created in ad- vance in other States. ‘fhe general drift of expectation at the close of the canvass seems to be that the re- publicans will carry Ohio by a slender ma- jority and that Indiana trembles in the bal- ance. Four days ago the prospect was as favorable fora democratic victory in Indiana as fora republican victory in Ohio; but the unexpected withdrawal of Mr. Wolcott, the greenback candidate for Govornor, has so changed the situation in Indiana as to upset previous calculations. That the democrats think the sudden somersault of Mr. Woleott unfavorable to their prospects is proved by their vehement accusation that he has sold out to Morton. If the weakening or dis- banding of the third party were favorable 10] them they would be too well satisfied to bandy such charges. There has never been any doubt that the greenback ticket in Indiana tended to weaken the republicans more than the democrats. The rag money democrats .were tolerably well satisfied with the regular democratic platform and ticket— a platform which demanded the repeal of the Resumption act and a ticket which in- eluded the name of Governor Hendricks, The third party movement in Indiana was re- garded as a trap to catch the soft money republicans. Wolcott's withdrawal, coupled with a recommendation to go over to the re- publicans, spoils a very pretty game. It is as yet uncertain whether the greenback party in Indiana will disband, bat what is certain is that the flopping over of Wolcott on the eve of the election furnishes the re- publican soft money men a pretext, if they wanted one, for going back into the ranks of their own party. If the greenback organi- zation should disband and disperse in con- sequence of Mr. Wolcott's desertion the re- publican chances in Indiana will be ma- terially improved. If they should carry that State and carry Ohio, too, the moral effect of the double victory would prob- ably strand the democratic party in Novem- ber. And yet a great deal will depend on tho magnitude of the majorities. If the repub- licans barely escape defeat “by the skin of their teeth;” if they carry these States by such slight majorjties that they have but little to crow over, the democrats will not be utterly discouraged. When they nominated Mr. Tilden they made up their minds to throw away Ohio, and they confessed that they thought Indiana doubtful when they made their ticket incongruous by giving Governor Hendricks the second place, Let Indiana go as it will, they will make a deter- mined effort to save New York. But their outlook in New York will be quite the re- verse of promising if they lose Indiana, and not particularly bright if they should carry it by a majority so insignificant as to show that they had barely escaped a thrashing. Even if to-morrow’s elections turn out as well as the democratic party has any reason to hope it’ will need all its resources in New York. We therefore repeat our advice to the democratic factions in this city to harmonize their differences and make ‘‘a pull all to- gether” to save the State in the national can- vass. The table which we printed a few days since, grouping together in three sepa- rate lists the sure democratic States, the sure republican States, and the doubtful States which each party might hope to carry by strenuous effort, aided by favorable circumstances, will deserve care- ful study after the returns shall have come in from to-morrow's elections. That table made it apparent that neither party could expect to succeed without the vote of New York. But if Ohio and Indiana should both go republican it will be more emphatically true that all the hopes and prospects of one of the two parties are staked on New York. In any event, let to-morrow’s elections go as they may, the one certain thing is that un- less Mr. Tilden can carry his own State he will -haye reason to curse the day on which he was made a Presidential candidate. ja and Turkey. What diplomatists like the Russian and Turkish Ministers to England say in presence of acrisis like that at presentin the affairs of the Ottoman Empire must gener- ally be carefully sifted to find the real pur. pose which actuates their governments. Yet, as everything they utter may be taken as what their government is desirous to have believed as its opinions, the inter- views which we publish elsewhere with Musurus Pacha and Count Schouva- loff are particularly interesting. We can measure the strength of Moslem hate and gain a shadowy outline of Rus- sian ambition in their utterances, It is not singular that both should refer to the Crimean war, but the lesson drawn from it by each naturally conflicts with that of the other, Turkey still believes in the possi- bility of gaining allies in case Russia should try the test of the battle field, as she did in 1854. Russia does not think that Turkey in 1876 can gain the same support in Europe she did over twenty years ago, and believes, into the bargain, that the result to-day, even in face of o similar alliance against her, would be vastly different. Turkey, it is very cer- tain, has much less reason on her side than Russia in this statement of the case. Russia is better prepared to fight now than in Ori- mean times. France may, be counted out of the fray, and that England will take up the sword for the savage Moslem ig at least doubtful. One thing seems very certain—namely, that Russia is deter- mined to give England no adequate reason for going to war. If Count Schouvaloff's declaration—that the most desirable ont- come of the situation would be the erection of an independent Christian State in Euro- pean Turkey—may be taken as the aim of tho policy of Russia it is difficult to see on what grounds England could object. That such a State would be more amenable to Russian than to English influences is, of course, highly probable; but England would find it difficult to arouse any active hostility in Europe to the plan on that ground alone. Cvuna has during the last eight years been the grave of the ambition of a great many Spanish war captains, as wellas the grave of a great many Spanish soldiers. Martinez-Campos, with blushing honors thick upon him from the proclamation of young Alfonso and the campaign against the Carlists, is about to undertake the task of smothering the Cuban insurrection. Twenty-four thou- sand additional troops are going with him. General Jovellar is to remain as Captain General, while Campos will com- mand the armies in the field. Here, then, is a great chance forthe latter. Spain in send- ing this General pledges her utmost endeavor to cfush the rebellion. The arrival of Mar- tinez-Campos in Cuba will give o renowed interest to the brave struggle which the busy world has beon losing sight of for months ata time, and only recalling when the cap- ture of a town, the burning of an estate or the execution of a stray rebel has caught the eye in a brief despatch, Nonsense from South Carolinas. ‘That there are a great many men in South Carolina who are not of the same opinion on many points as the Governor of that State is likely ; but if there is an insurrection in that State the press of the whole country must be poorly served not to have some knowledge onthe subject. As no insurrection is re- ported it is safe to assume that none exists, and we respectfully suggest that the forces to which Governor Chamberlain proposes to appeal cannot be brought into operation where there is no insurrection, and were not provided to determine mere differences of opinion. Governor Chamberlain says that in a certain contingency he will avail him- self of the powers conferred upon him by the constitution of the United States. It is contemplated by the constitution that the United States may protect a State against domestic violence upon the application of the Governor ‘‘when the Legislature cannot be convened.” If the Legislature can be convened the United States can only listen to such an ¢ppeal from that body : the Gov- ernor has no standing in the case whatever. Are there any facts which render it impossi- ble to convene the Legislature in South Carolina? If there are, and if there is an insurrection that the State cannot deal with, then the Governor may call on the United States and the United States may come if it chooses. But Governor Chamberlain proposes to fur- nish his occasion by declaring the existence of aninsurrection. That will not answer. The insurrection must be a fact, and the evidence of the leading men of his own party is utterly against him, as will be seen from the letters of Judge Moses and the testimony of others on this point which we print to- day. The contingency in which Governor Chamberlain proposes to use the powers which he fancies are conferred upon him by the constitution is simply thise-in case certain volunteer mili- tary organizations do not surrender their arms. Yet the constitution of the United States, Amendment IL, says that ‘‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” and we suppose that the constitution really means this, and that it is the law in South Carolina os well as in Massachusetts, If there is no revolt it would appear from our despatches that the republican ‘‘managers” will leave no stone unturned to create one. There is so much danger in this course for the republican party at large that it cannot’ afford to see the mis- erable creatures who rule in the South in its name shamelessly violate the law of the land to serve their personal ends. Yesterday’s Sermons. Unbounded trust in the mercy of God was the theme of the majority of our preachers yesterday. The reasons for this trust furnished by the Word and the mani- fold occasions in our lives on which it is especially needful that we should confide in it would supply our divines with subjects all the year round. Mr. Beecher, who preached on repentance, marked out with his usual profuse illustrations the way forthe sinner to leave his evil doing behind and reach a state of well being of the soul. Ho was to turn his back on evil and trust in God. Wis drawing a sharp line between the tender watchfulness of God over His crea- tures and the ruthless indiscrimination of the laws of nature brought the reverend gentleman on very delicate ground. It brings to mind the Cromwellian advice, “Put your trust in God, but keep your pow- der dry”—advice which has never been as- sailed in point of’ worldly wisdom, but which when taken alone sounds like putting a limit to the power of the Creator to aid His creatures. It puts the believer in mira- eles to the blush, We may make up our minds not to expect anything miraculous in our lives, but what is to be- come of the violations of ‘natural laws” in the Old and New Testaments if modern liberal teaching sets up nature the immutable against God the Almighty? We do not answer the question wo put. We simply pose it to show that our di- vines should not be too prompt in “rush- ing in where angels fear to tread.” Mr. Hepworth in describing the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea indulged his boundless faith by speculating on the feelings of those who advised surrender to Pharaoh's host before the sea divided its waters. He stands at one extreme of belief and Mr. Frothingham at the other. The latter teacher denies supernatural interposi- tion altogether. Mr. Beecher seems to oc- cupy a middle ground, if there is any that can properly be called’ such in this great question. All three preached trust in God, which one of them, however, would call the | Good. The sermons inthe Catholic churches were directed to the same reliance on the grace of God, dwelling especially upon Christ's benign words to the sinner :—‘‘Son, be of good heart.” Labor and Liberty in Franco. The Congress of Workingmen recently held in Paris was an important fact and an im- portant evidence that the toleration of ex- treme opinions has already made great prog- ress there and that the government feels a conscious strength which has been very rare with governments in that country. These workingmen, though they shout for a re- public, are not very ardent admirers of the existing Republic, which guarantees them freedom enongh to meet and exchange opin- ions, and there has not been in recent gen: erations any government in France with such faith in its hold on the country that it would tolerate a convention of agitators who were not its admirers and whose opinions are known to be that the only satisfactory republic is the Red Republic. That such s conyention can now quietly assemble in Paris within five years of the exploits of the Commune is an evidence of great progress toward the conception of fair play for parties. It is one of the remarkablo facts in the history of French politics that the workingmen—the mechanics—have commonly believed that they were the nation; and their opinion has been accepted in this particular, for an in- tolerance of the pressure of authority which is peculiar to them has passed for a characteristic of the whole people. This trait is not possessed by the rural Frenchmen, apparently—a fact of which | there is an illustration at hand in the | vintages, which recent French papers an- nounce as just begun in several districts. Here is a case in which the people permit the authorities to tell them when they shall gather their own fruit. Men are not at liberty to gather the harvests of their own, fields at a time when, in their judgment, they may be fittest to gather. This was en ancient feudal regulation, and has persisted until this time, having lost but little of its force. It should not, therefore, be held that there is no conservative spirit in the French people. Proposed Wimtcr Campaign Against the Sioux. Our generals, having signally failed in their summer operations against the hostile Indians, propose to continue the war during the winter months. The cause of this reso- lution is partly military and partly political; for the authorities at Washington are natu- rally averse to acknowledging the complete failure of a campaign which was undertaken with great lightness of heart and without any thought of its seriousness. In fact, when our generals went out to fight they had only the wmistiest kind of idea what they meant to do or whom they were going to fight. No effort had been made beforehand to find out the strength of the hostile bands or the exact location of their villages. As a result the columns of troops which had been organized at great expense went wandering about in search of a foe much after the style of the lamented Knight of La Mancha; and when they did happen to stumble on the enemy the story of the windmill was reproduced, our gallant Indian fighters finding themselves generally very high up in the air, with only confused notions of what power had raised them so high up in the world. Now, we sin- cerely hope, for the sake of the poor soldiers who have to suffer from the stupidity of their commanders, and for the sake of the public who are made to feel the blunders of great generals through their purses, that the haphazard system of conducting warfare which obtained during the summer will not be tried again in the winter. The country does not want any wandering Don Quixotes marching up hill and then down again, in what they are pleased to call pursuit of the Sioux, when in reality the worthy men are simply fol- lowing their noses without the slightest idea whether they are following the Sioux or the Sioux are following them. That kind of farce has been played long enough, and should any great Indian fighter again try it the public would probably request Congress to relieve “him of his commission. A harsh measure, no doubt, but a justone, After all we pay soldiers, and especially generals, to win battles. We go to the trouble of educating them, so that they may be in- structed in the best way of accomplishing their work, and if they prove themselves in- competent there is really no reason why they should be continued in employment any more than any other class of profes- sional men. There is no position in which incompetence can do more injury than in an army, and yet by astrange contradiction it is the only place where: it is privileged, No matter how stupid a man who has man- aged to live long enough to reach the grade of ‘general may be, he considers-himself en- titled to exercise command, and his claim is acquiesced in. It is time for military men to understand that this system is on its last legs and that the American people will not permit an incompetent man to be intrusted with the lives of our soldiers, Our generals will do themselves and the country some service by keeping these considerations in mind, The summer campaign was arranged after the manner of a military promenade rather than planned for the accomplishment of serious work. It never seemed to occur to the military authorities that they could ob- tain reliable information as to the location of the hostile camp, and a fairapproximation to the fighting strength which Sitting Bull and his chiefs had at their disposal, by the proper employment ofscoutsand spies, In- deed, nothing was more painfully apparent during the progress of the campaign than that the generals commanding the various columns were in complete ignorance of everything which was transpiring outside their own outposts. Yet itis the first duty of a general to keep himself informed as to the movements of his enemies. Equal in- difference was shown in the matter of supply- ing the troops with medical and hospital stores. Only the most essential drugs were carried by the doctors, and in limited quan- tity. No preparation was made for the transportation of the sick and wounded—an error which, repeated in a winter campaign, would be sure to lead to the most fatal re- sults. Should these mistakes be committed again the military authorities could not de- cline to accept the responsibility. They may be sure that the country will visit with severe condemnation any neglect to secure to the wounded and the sick such care and attention as are bestowed on the unfortunate in civilized armies. In this, as in the general conduct of the campaign, the mili- tary authorities in Washington, as well as the commanding officers in the field, will be held to a strict accountability, Marnrep Womun as Txacnens.—If a woman is married should'she be permitted to teach in the public schools? That is the educational question which has been raised. We do not believe that marriage should be put under a social ban, but wo yield to our contributors some space for their opinions on this important subject. There is no reason why a brand, a stigma, should be placed upon marriage, If a married lady is unable to teach a school, dismiss her. But the discrimination between one lady and another must not be based upon marriage, but upon personal fitness. We should not have in our public schools any new Salic law which disqualifies the maternal duty and exalts tho celibate heresy, and we believe that the Board of Education Will see the fal- lacy of such an absurd distinction. Cuurcn Epirices.—New York, with all its satellite cities, is celebrated for the magnifi- cence of its church architecture. Yesterday St. Michael’s church, in Jersey City, another very handsome building, was dedicated by BishopyCorrigan. 4 | contracts he has illegally made. The Joint Canvass in North Carelina. Whichever party carries North Carolina the people will have been benefited and in- structed by the speeches of the two candi- dates for Governor, Jndge Settle and ex- Governor Vance, who, in the true and good old American fashion, have been travelling together through the State and jointly dis- cussing the questions of the day. Lately the two candidates for the Lieutenant Governor- ship have begun to do the same thing. It is a pity that ‘this plan of appealing to and in- structing the people on political subjects is dying out. There is no doubt that it is the best. It calls together the citizens of both parties and gives each side an opportunity to hear what the other has to say. It pre- vents misrepresentations and compels fair statements; for whatever is said by the speaker of either side is listened to by his opponent, who replies at once and to the same audience. It trains the people to hear both sides in orderly silence, and ap- peals to their reason and not to their preju- dices or ignorance. It brings out the issues of the day clearly and enables the voters to decide without prejudice to whom they will intrust political power. The other day, at Smithfield, in North Carolina, nearly three thousand persons gathered to listen to Messrs. Vance and Settle, and the two parties being very evenly balanced in number, there was great enthusiasm and perfect or- der. How much better this is than for each party to hold its meetings separately and for party speakers to address only or mainly those who already believe with them! . Liability of Directors. The principles of the relation of a director to the company for which he acts are, ag presented in the judicial decision cited in support of the steps taken in the case of the Michigan Central Railroad, as simple as those of master and servant or merchant and clerk. If a servant spends on himself the money with which he has been intrusted that it might be used to purchase some arti- cle for his employer, or if he sells valuable property for a small sum to a confederate, that the two may divide between them the larger sum the property will bring when sold again,in both these cases the servant is grossly dishonest and is amenable to justice ; and the essential principles of the case are not altered when this servant is called a director and the employer is called railway com- pany. If there is any difference in the change it is rather in favor of justice; for the law is able to reach the great breaches of faith more easily than the small ones. The remedy is satisfactory, for the dishonest director may be held responsible in his own property, and the law will declare void the This latter part of the remedy, if applied, will-prove better than a penalty ; it will be a preven- tive; for the parties who may lose by the repudiation of such contracts will only make, them after thorough discrimination, and this will prove an effective impediment to dishonest oporations. Swixpiep Savinas Bank Dzposrrors are fast becoming a large class among us. Scarcely a day passes but some case of especial hardship arising out of the crim- inal mismanagement of the bank officials is brought to light. There is one fea- ture of the successive breakings of the savings banks which makes it im- perative on the community to provide a means of punishing the rascals who dissi- pate the savings of the humbler classes— namely, the discouragement it gives to habits of economy among them. If the la boring man who spends his surplus earn- ings in rum is to be as well off at the year's end as his thrifty fellow who denies himself the bestial luxury of drunkenness that he may put a little money by for “the rainy day,” what encouragement has the thrifty man? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ivy absorbs damp trom stone walls. English ladies take large quantities of chloral. Light net-like tunics are worn over dark drosses. General Braxton Bragg’s life was insured tor $40,000, English ladies indulge in floricaltare at their coun- try seats. A bride’s travelling dress may be of dark green cash. mere and velvet. ‘The leaves in the Hudson Highlands are aflame with gold and crimson. Chicago's district refused to renominate Congressman Barney Caulfield because ho is nota good judge of hogs. This isthe time of yenr for a man to look along the midnight shelf and wonder which bottle nena the whiskey and whieh the ketchup, United States Senator-elect Grover, ef Oregon, is the present democratic Governor of that State and has plunged it into unconstitutional debts, The King of the Belgians has received from Mme, Heine-Furtado, of Paris, 20,000f. for the work of ex- Ploration and civilization of Central Africa, Josepu Mediil says that ignorant and wicked mon will be candidates tor office just so long as other mon will walk up to the polls and vote for thom. The leading crusaders in the Obio fight on rum are nearly all ranning for office, and yet Mother Stewart, who did more than all the rest, cannot even vote, Mr. E. D, Bassett, United States Minister resident and Consul General to Hayti, and family, havo arrived from Port au Prince and are visiting at their home in New Haven, Conn. An English prisoner being sentenced commented on it, and was fined for contempt of Court. Afterward the Court relented, and said that he had a right to ex- press his opinion abvat his sentence. Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, arrived at Toronto from British Columbia Saturday evening. To-day he returns to Ottawa, whence ho will make a Journey to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, ‘The Tarks have a home as well as a local government in Europe, and if they could be made to behave them selves toward othor sects than the Mohammedans they might be civilized better by being kept than by being driven away. Rhinebeck Gasette:—"We are told by the New Yore Hexaup that ‘Longfellow loves rural dances.’ Has the poet ever seen a farmer go down in the celiar bare. footed to draw a pitcher of cider, and bas he watched the delightful antics and terpsichoroan foats of the said farmer when he steps on the ragged edge of a tin pail?” Lord Waisingham, speaking atan agricultural meet- ing at Walton, Norwich, referred to the present un- Profitab!eness of farming, and sald a reduction of labor was inevitable, When he bad to discharge men ho selected unionists, because he respe more those who were notled away by unionists than those who allowed themselvos to be thoir tools for political pur- poses. From Punch:—“Sceno—The ballroom of a fashiona- ble seasido hotel; Lady Godiva Highjinks (to hor part. help my lady, many’s the pairof white satin shocs I’ve ’ad the pleasure of fittin’ on your ladyship at our ’ouse in the Burlington Arcade, And’—(sinking his voice toa Jascinating whisper)—-I must say that a moro hox- quisite foot than yours, my lady, I never Gets veld im my ’and’”” , ’ coe aeow ere Ae ae