The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1876, Page 6

atasafo distance, but to the Sultan they | NEW YORK — HERALD, TUES. SDAY, ¢ OCTOBER 10, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND AN ANN STREET. | JAMES GORDON — BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, published every | fay 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 flespaiches must be addressed New Yours RALD. Letters and packages should be properly bealed. Rejected communications will not be re- surned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE SIXTH Si LONDON OF HERALD-—-N PARIS OFFICE—AVE tA, Subscriptions and advertiseme nts will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. —NO.112 SOUTH | ] | a BROOKLY CONSCIENCE, at 7 THEATRE. Miss Clara Morris, | LLACK's THEATRE, FORBIDDEN FR IT, at RPM. i BOWERY. THEATRE DONALD McKAY, M ad Byron, ROUND TUF clock. ars? UNION TWO ORPHANS, at 8! BOOT: BARDANAPALUS, ats V. M. Booth. THEATRE Mr, Bangs and Mra Agnos PARK THBATRE, CLOUDS, at 8 lg M LIFE, at 8 P. ae GERD EMILIA QALATTI, at GRAND UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, at 8 Howard, NOUSE, Matinee at 2 P.M, Mra COLUMBIA O A HOUSE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M, Matinee at 2 P.M NIBLO'S GARD BABA, at 8 P.M. THIRD AVE VARIETY, ot 8 P.M. TONY PA VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI T VARIETY, at 8 P. M. PART BP. M, Matineo at RELLY & LE MINSTRELS, ateP.M, gu CUA’ ABILLE. VARIRBTY, at 8 I. M. z OLYMPIC VARIETY AND DRAMA, at AMERIC. ANNUAL Pare e® M VARIETY, at 8 P. TRIPLE ‘SHE E NEW YORK, TUE DAN. From our reports this morning the probabilitic are that the weather to-day will be cool and partly cloudy. Wart Srreet Yestenpay.—Stovks were active and higher. The improvement ranged from 1-4 to 2 percent. Gold opened ~ and closed at 109, with sales meanwhile at 108 7-8. Money on call was supplied at 3 and 2 percent. Government bonds were lower. Railway bonds steady. oC TOBE R10, 1876. Tae Firtn Day of the Jerome Park races will be signalized by five races of more than usual interest, closing with a steeplechase. Preparation for the coming election is mow in order, and we present in another column some valuable information touching the subject. Krxo Mixan will have to be content with- out a royal title. This he can yield to Russia all the more gracefully as his only alternative is to give up his principality to the Turks. Tae Fart Meena of the Nashville Blood Horse Association has closed. The revival pf the turf in the South is healthful, and woe trust it will be followed by the complete revival of business. Vimerta’s Posrtion in reyart to the Cen- tennial is a peculiar ons, and Governor Kemper'’s reply to the invitation of the Com- missioners to name a “Virginia day” re- minds us of the polite excuses of a proud but superannuated dame for not mixing with her panels A Dramatic Rernzsestarion is to be given in Italian in Paris in aid of the fund for rais- ingastatue to Goldoni, the Italian drama- tist, Madame Ristori appearing in the title réle in ‘Maria Stuarda,” and Miss Genevieve Ward playing Elizabetta, this being her début in an Italian part. It is not so easy to see any peculiar honor te Goldoni’s memory | in the representation of such a play as ‘‘Mary Stuart” with an American girl essaying a for- eign tongue as part of the cast. Istam IN THE Frieip.—It is not always | pasy to know what a people so indetinite as the Moslems want. But Europe has no longer any excuse for ignorance on that score. In a certain poster placarded at Con- stantinople the demonds of Islam sre laid down as follows:——*‘l. Servia, Montenegro and Moldo-Wallachia to become part of T'ur- key. 2 Russia to pny a heavy indemnity fnd to give up the Crimes and the Black Sea. 3. Europe must undertake to meddle no more in Turkish affairs.” If these terms gre not accepted the Turks will choosea new Sultan and march on Europe imme- diately. Those things aro ridiculous enough may have a different aspect. Tr Te Amazrnc that sucha report as that made by Judge Bosworth in regard to the | Guardian Savings Bank can be true, and yet | there is no reason to question it. Mr. Joseph J. O'Donobne, who is one of the Park Com- missioners, seems to have managed the con- cern after its failure in his own interest and that of his family. The story which we print in another column is a most instructive one, and shows that honor and integrity are ao longer considered necessary in the man- agement of business interests. A surety on ‘he bond of a receiver not only influences the action of the courts, but does it in his own interest and even seoms to share in the - defalcation of his puppet. Nothing could “bo more terrible than Judge Bosworth’s showing in this case, | | there | Carolina and of a dreadful South Carolina Politics. If the republican leaders have not lost their senses they will make haste to warn Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina. He is playing with fire. He is evidently stirring up trouble in order that he may have an excuse for calling on the federal | government to interferein the election. For- tunately this isa trick which has been played so often in Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Ala- | bama and elsewhere in the South, that it is now understood in the North, and if the | Northern republican leaders are base enough to play into Chamberlain's hands, to allow him to use them for his purposes, in the hope that his victory will help them—if they do this, they will hetween now and Novem- | ber cause a revulsion in public sentiment against them all through the Northern States. ‘This is not Mexico. ‘The war ceased eleven years ago; and all sensible men in the North believe that it is now time to let the Southern States manage their own affairs, and believe this because they see that wher- ever federal interference has ceased peace has comeat once, Governor Chamberlain issues a proclama- tion ordering armed bands to disperse. The | correspondent of a republican newspaper re- lates that he has made this proclamation on the report of United States marshals, whom, it seems, he sent to make investigations for him; and the same correspondent, evidently in Chamberlain's confidence, adds that the Governor means, if his proclamation is not obeyed, to call on President Grant for troops. Why? Suppose fora moment that there are armed combinations in the State actnally resisting and defying the laws— though this is denied by three Judges of the Supreme Court, sll republicans, But sup- pose it true? Has Governor Chamberlain used his own powers to disperse such com- binations? Evidently he has not. Appar- ently he does not mean to. He has issued his proclamation, we are told on republican authority, from his headquarters, Columbia, “with the intention, if the organizations do not disband at once, of proclaiming the State to be in a condition of domestic vio- | lence, and informing President Grant of that fact and calling upon him for military aid.” We warn the republican leaders that Mr. Chamberlain is drawing them toward a pit- fall which may prove fatal to them. He is evidently an unscrupulous man; all his recent actions have shown that he does not want to keep the State in peace, but that he means to have turmoil. When the excite- ment incident to the election had gone toa certain pitch the Governor, whose most im- portant duty as conservator of the peace was to remain in the State, coolly left it for a tour in New England. On his return he stopped in Washington, and from issued reports, since proved false, of violence done to negroes in South condition of lawlessness. Meantime there is evidence that negroes in different parts of the State have banded together for lawless purposes ; but the Governor takes no notice of this. And now his assertion thatthere are in some. parts of the State armed organizations defy- ing and obstructing the laws is at once and flatly contradicted by a number of republi- cans, amoug them three Judges of the Su- preme Court of the State. One of these remarks :—-‘‘I have seen no violence. On the contrary, so far as I have had intercourse with gentlemen of your party, I have ob- served less disposition to excited statement and personal bitterness than during any of the previous political campaigns of this State. I sincerely hope that the fears of many, that the lawless portion of the com- munity will be permitted to disturb the peace and injure the good name of the State, are groundless. I am satisfied that it is the intention of the leading members of your party to prevent such a state of things, and I believe they have the ability to do so.” Another, Judge Mackey, also well known as a republican, relates some facts which should show Northern republicans what is the animus of Chamberlain, and how he is conducting the electioa. He shows that the Governor, himself a candidate for re-elec- tion, has managed to obtain ‘‘a beard of State canvassers of election and a returning board, the majority of whose members are candidates on Chamberlain's ticket, and ninety-six commissioners of election in the several counties, seventy of whom are Cham- berlain’s declared partisans, while of the last number some forty are county treasurers and anditors or trial justices, holding lucra- tive offices by his appointment and remoy- able from office at his pleasure, or are known to him as declared candidates for office, indorsing his ticket, who unseat themselves if they make a declaration of the election which seats the candidates opposed to Chamberlain and his ticket.” Here is evidence enongh to justify the as- sertion of Judge Mackey that Chamberlain is really engaged in a conspiracy against the State. Is it not a monstrous and dangerous stretch of power to so constitute the electo- ral returning board and the body of com- missioners of election that the majority of these persons are in fact to decide upon their own cases? But, in addition to all this, the Governor, candidate for re-election, now | proposes to, call on the federal power for troops to help him curry out his scheme. It is very difficult for any one to believe that he is not an unscrupulous and very dangor- ous demagogue. if he means honestly why | does he not call upon General Hampton end the other democratic loaders throughout the State to assist himin restoring and main- taining the peace, which he says is not only menaced, but broken? These gen- tlemen have pledged themselves in the most solemn and public manner to see fair play between the two races. Governor Cham. berlain has on a number of occasions pub- ligly admitted that they have given him valuable and unpartisan help in managing the affairs and maintaining the peace of the State. They would not dare refuso him now, even if they wished to, which we do not believe. protends, but as other reputable and equally eminent republican citizens deny—if there are such disorders, why does he not call on the democratic leaders to help him in put- ting them down? It would be his first act if he were sincerely desirous of an orderly community and a fair election. The real condition of South Carolina poli- tics wo perceive to be thus:—The democrats Ifthere are such disorders as he | are ro nabed and the or abiigand are divided; Mr. Chamberlain has not, evidently, the con- fidence or support of a good many promi- nent republicans. This probably endangers his success, and he seems to imagine that in this emergency he may resort to the same means which Governor Ames 80 effectively used in Mississippi, which Governor Kellogg has used and Mr. Packard threatens to use in Louisiana, and which have been used until they failed in other Southern States. One of Sena- tor Spencer's deputy marshals, Perrin, shot a hole through his own hat, cried out “Ku Klux!” and summoned United States troops, and when he had thus obtained their aid he proceeded to make arrests cf | prominent citizens and to intimidate the democratio voters of two large counties. In what way does Governor Chamberlain's proclamation differ from Perrin’s shont of “Ku Klux!” except that Chamberlain's cry is exposed at once, and by members of his own party ? We have several times urged the colored voters of South Carolina to support General Hampton and the democratic State and local tickets. We cannot see how they can wisely do otherwise. They are citizens of the State: their welfare is involved with that of their white neighbors. Certainly, if they reflect, they will see that Mr. Chamber- lain has utterly tailed to give the State peace, prosperity or good government. Gen- eral Hampton, a man of influence and character, solemnly pledges himself and his associates on the democratic ticket to give the State honest government and to secure to the colored people every right. Why should they not take him at his word? We suspect that many of them intend to do so, and that this accounts for this last and des- perate expedient of Chamberlain’s which has been so promptly exposed by members of his own party, We warn the republican leaders that they had better very quickly set such men as Chamberlain and Packard adrift. They cannot efford to support them. In Louisi- ana the democrats have already appealed to Attorney General Taft against Packard's system of illegal and arbitrary arrests, They do not ask to be excused from arrest ; they only ask for speedy trial. Mr. Patton, chairman of the Conservative State Com+ mittee, writes to Mr. Taft :—‘“‘I am directed to request that, for the better protection of the citizens in their right to speedy exami- nation and bail, the United States mar- shals and deputy marshals be instructed by your department to take the accused per- son, when arrested, before the nearest or most convenient United States Commissioner for preliminary examination. The practice has been to bring such persons to this city from remote parts of the State, often several hundred miles distant, leaving the parties when bailed to defray their expenses home. This, coupled with the consequent prolonged absence from home at a critical moment to the crops and business, inflicts an unneces- sary hardship upon the accused which will be obviated by recourse to the United States Commissioners at Nachitoches, Shreveport and elsewhere. We deem the request, under the circumstances, a reasonable one, and in the interest of the execution of the law, ac- cording to yourinstructions, Weask of you a favorable consideration of this applica- tion.” We have not heard what reply Judge Taft has made to this reasonable request; but now comes Governor Chamberlain and stirs up strife in the hope that he will be able to command federal troops. These things will not do. They are revolutionary, and if the national republican party countenances them a great multitude of voters, who are now slowly making up their minds, will be rightly impelled to vote the democratic ticket in November. ‘War or a Conference. If the Sultan's Ministry rejects the terms proposed by the British government and supported by all the other governments , war will follow—that is to say, the Turkish ter- ritory north of the Balkans will be occupied by the Russian army on the one hand and the Austrian army on the other. Russia will occupy Bulgaria and Austria B-snia and Herzegovina. It seemed not long since that this movement of armies would involve a general war; but the case is changed in that respect. Germany has declared that she will be neutral in any event between Russia and the Porte and has so informed both Powers, England has informed the Sultan that her interest in his fortunes will end with the rejection of her plan, and in a war follow- ing such rejection he would consequently be without her support. Either France or Italy could only be drawn into such a war in the train of other Powers. Therefore instead of a general war it will be only: an armed occupation, for before the troops of the two empires the Sultan could oppose at best but a formal resistance. This would be the re- sult of his rejection of the proposal, and his acceptance of it would lead almost inevitably to arevolt of the Moslem population. It would appear, therefore, that the Sultan’s position is not a pleasant one, as it seems ut first sight that the Sultan must either accept or reject what is proposed. This, however, is not altogether true. If the suggestion made some days since by Prince Gortschakoff of aconference of Ministers of Foreign Af- fairs should be acted upon it would furnish a way out of this difficulty, Putting him- self in the hands of such a conference the Sultan would simply accept the will of Europe, which would satisfy the Powers, and the months that might elapse ere a de- cision was reached would probably give time to cool the irritation in Constantinople and certainly to concentrate there enough of the army to guarantee the government. Mr. Crantes H. Marsnart makes an ap- peal through the Hernatp this morning, in behalf of the Home for Destitute Children of Seamen, on Staten Island, which is worthy of the attention of all to whom it is addressed, No more worthy and deserving charity is to be found anywhere, Especially do we recommend this appeal to the steam- ship companies carrying passengers to and from this port. It is only just that the same facilities should be afforded for the collec- tion of funds for the American society that is given to the English, and we trust this hint will be acted upon without delay, Ohio and Indians. It is idle tospeculate now on results which we shal! be able to announce to-mor- row. But in the brief interval of suspense while the ballots are deposited and counted it may not be amiss to cast a retrospective glauce on the remarkable canvass which has just closed in these two States. The feature on which we desire to fix at- tention has not the interest of novelty ; but as an old practice has been carried to an unusual extreme this is as good an occasion as is likely to occur for pointing out its ten- dency. We refer to the practice of import- ing speakers from all parts of the country to influence State elections. Long usage has made this kind of outside interference so familiar that it will perhaps be dif- ficult to make readers perceive its in- congruity with the theory of our in- stitutions. But in reality such practices sap the very foundation of a federated re- public, which commits only national con- cerns to the general government and re- serves local affairs for local control. To be sure there is no violation of law in this com- plete subordination of State to federal politics; but itis nevertheless a total de- parture from the spirit and: genius of our double system of governments, each having its separate and independent sphere of action, State politics do not depend on State questions, but on federal questions, and this departure from the spirit of our system has never been more signally illus- trated than in the heated canvass which has been waged this year in Ohio and Indiana. These States have glowed like a furnace at whito heat ; but the bellows which have fed the combustion supplied wind from the country at large, delivered through intrud- ing nozzles. But of what interest is it to the country at large whether Williams or Harrison shall be the next Governor of Indiana, or who shall be elected to the trivial office of Secretary of State in Ohio? People outside of these States do not care a straw about the local offices or the candi- dates who aspire to fillthem. But the two great political parties invade these States and fight a great battle over their local officers, making them mere pawns in the game of national politics. There is, indeed, nothing new in this; it is in perfect con- formity with accepted and long-settled cus- tom, against which the most extreme State rights men have always been as far from protesting as the most high-toned cham- pions of centralization. Nobody has seemed to perceive that it subverts the indepen- dence of the State governments. It is not State interests, but federal inter- ests, which determine who shall be the next Governor of Indiana and the next Secretary of State in Ohio, This voluntary engulfing of State interests in the vortex of national politics by the uni- versal consent of men of all parties shows that, the founders of our system had no true idea of the way it would operate in practice. The States have no practical independence within their own sphere so long as they per- mit their local officers tobe chosen with sole reference to federal questions by the aid of outside influenca exerted to promote purely federal objects. State interests are mero chips tossed on the wave of federal politics. It is preposterous and even grotesque for the democratic orators to declaim loftily about reserved powers and State independence while they are as forward as the republicans in making all State offices a mere tail to the federal kite. We do not believe that the over- shadowing influence of national politics State elections will ever be got rid of. The most that can be hoped is that it may be somewhat mitigated and re- strained. It has reached such an excess in this strenuous canvass in the October States as ought to convince the country that a par- tial remedy is expedient. It could not go to such extreme lengths if all the State elec- tions were held on the same day, because, in that case, the politicans of both parties would find employment at home, and there would be no possibility of converging all their efforts to a single focus in one or two States. We have no doubt that this remedy will be applied and that all the States will be forced to come into line and hold their elections on the same day. Congress can promote this object by rigorously in- sisting that ll its members - shall be chosen in November. The act of 1872 requiring this has caused great strides toward uniformity within the last four years, and if a weak exception in favor of a few tardy States had not been made by theact of 1875 the result would have been already attained. We trust that at its next session Congress will repeal the act of 1875. The few straggling States will then have ample time for amending their constitutions, and if they choose to forfeit their representation in Qongress it will be at their own peril. Crowds and Discase. Few if any persons are kept away from Philadelphia by the apprehension that they may fall victims to the malady which has undoubtedly attacked many visitors and caused some deaths; and as people will go all the same it is certainly silly on the part of tho Philadelphians to deny the existence of on evil which does them little harm, when an open admission and the adoption of proper cautions might save many lives, It would be strango if the influx of visitors to such an extent as to nearly double the popu- lation of a provincial town did not have just such results as are seen in the ravages of what Dr. Clark so bluntly calls the ‘‘cess- pool fevor;’ becauso it would be con- trary to experience and would be a demon- stration that all sanitary precautions are useless. If two or three or four hundred thousand people could crowd themselves into the corners of a moderate sized city, without its ordinary population going out, and without any addition to its accommoda- tions in any respect, sanitary science might be contemplated as a grand delusion. In the Middle Ages Europe was scourged overy few years with a pestilence, and the East is scourged in the same way even now. Every one of those visitations may be connected with some event-which assembled hundreds of thousands of people in places where they could not be lodged without extreme crowd- ing; where the changes of diet and the | Variations of temperature taxed endur- ance to its limit, and where a drain- age equal to ordinary occasions was found the same as no drainage in extra- ordinary occasions. In Europe these gather- ings were also in some degree provoked by the great fairs which preceded the com- mercial system ; and in the East they are either of that nature or they are religious assemblies like the visit to Mecca. In Phila- delphia the samo cause has simply produced the same effect in a modified degree, and we may thank the improvements in medical science for the fact that the result is only a slight increase in the general mortality rather than a devastating pestilence, Spain and Cuba. The announcement that Martinez-Campos has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces in Cuba is a significant proof of the growing influence of the ex- Queen Isabella in the government of King Alfonso. The reactionary policy lately adopted by the young King’s government has been generally attributed to this influence, and this latest move shows, moreover, how soon the good work Jovellar has been doing in reforming the government service is for- gotten. Hitherto the Captain General has always been considered the Commander-in- Chief, and the arrival of Campos will tend to divide the councils at the palace in Ha- vana, and perhaps lead to that general panic which has long been feared in ease Jovellar should resign and return to Spain. Nothing could be more unfortunate for Spain at this juncture. As far as Cubnis concerned the change is of no consequence, for no matter who may be commandant and Captain General the war will be carried on in the future in much the same manner as has been done up to the present. The new commander will be able to accomplish as little as his predecessors in the field, and the war will drag on its weary length until Spain has completely exhausted her treasury and wasted the flower of her youth in the vain effort to subdue the Queen of the Antilles. Thousands of soldiers arrive yearly in Cuba bent upon crushing the insur- gents; but the soil seems to swallow them up, and the insurgents, year by year, grow more powerful. Eight years have passed since Cespedes raised the flag of revolt at Yara, and not a year has passed without the solemn announcement that the government was about to finally crush the insurrection. Yet all these prom- ises and efforts have proved vain, and the insurrection is stronger to-day than at any time since the capture of Bayamo. Great was the consternation when that event oc- curred; but the news brought by cable from Havana of the capture of Las Tunas, with its garrison, by the insurgents was far more important, because it told that the Cubans had broken through the system of trochas upon which the Spaniards depended for isolating the different Cuban armies and crushing them in detail. Las Tunas occu- pied the apex of the southern trocha, which cut off the Central from the Eastern Depart- ment. It was a point of the greatest stra- tegic importance and its seizure and de- struction have been long contemplated by the insurgents. The aspect of affairs in the Westorn Department is not much more fa- vorable. The forces under Maximo Gomez have steadily forced their way from Bayamo to Colon, some two hundred miles west, and have been able to maintain themselves, not- withstanding the advantage the Spaniards derive from the network of railways which centre in Havana. The district of Colon, which is the scene of Gomez's operations, can be reached from Havana by rail in six or eight hours. In 1873 there was no im- portant band of insurgents west of Puerto Principe, which is a hundred and fifty miles further east than Colon; yet Spain has been putting forth the greatest efforts to crush out the insurrection. The time has passed when it was possible to put down the insurrection. Spain may pro- teact the war until the population has be- come thoroughly demoralized by it, but she cannot reconquer her hold on the island: The rebels, inured to hardship and now skilled in the terrible guerilla warfare they wage, can afford to laugh at the raw troops sent against them. The nature of the country and the deadly effects of the climate on foreigners assure the insurgents that they have only to await patiently the hour of victory. PresmvENTIAL CANDIDATES AND CONFIDENCE Men.—Hitherto the confidence man has cut a figure in our politics, but not in precisely the way in which he has made his last ap- pearance. It is no uncommon fact for a man to trade in conventions of offices or else- where upon a capital that has no existence save in his own ingenious imagination, andy this is the ordinary réle of tho political con- fidence man. In the'case of the so-called American Alliance two Presidential eandi- dates, it now seems, probably were victim. ized in precisely the same way as the unsus- pecting countryman is victimized on the street by o sharper who sells him a brass watch for a “solid gold” patent lever. Gov- ernor Hayes and Governor Tilden—if the evidence is to be believed—both dealt on the assumption that the American Alliance was something better than solid gold, and it was evidently the poorest kind of brass. Centenntat Awarps. —Ono of tho grossest outrages khown to modern times has been perpetrated by the Centennial Commission- ers, It appears that there were forty or fifty exhibitors at the Exposition who did not yet any first prizes. They have complained, as it might be expected they would, and the Commissioners have appointed a committee to consult with them, take their case into consideration, find out just what they want and give it to them, If the funds are ex- hausted in the purchase of gold medals the enterprise will go down in a blaze of: glory. Having started so well and succeeded so nobly thus far in furnishing first prizes to everybody, we sincerely hope the Comunis- sioners will satisfy the few whom they had evidently only forgotten, Tnr Traror Mepivm sets up a queer story of partnership asa reason why he should not pay alimony to his alleged wife. If it is true his lot is a little hard, as a business partner has scarcely the right to consider herself a wife merely because sho is o woman, Registration of Voters, By a wise and wholesome law of the State no citizen can vote who has not previously registered and submitted his title to inspeo- tion and challenge. No matter how long a man may have resided in the city, he must make a new registration every year. He may have owned and occupied the same dwelling continuously ever since General Jackson retired from the Presidency, but unless-he registers this year he cannot vote this year, although every citizen of his election pre- cinct can swear that he is a qualified voter. In order to prevent dishonest voting the rule must be uniform, and good citizens will cheerfully submit to inconvenience when a relaxation of the rule would opeh the door to frauds which might nullify his vote. The qualifications for voting are that a man shall be of the full age of twenty-one years on the day of the ele2tion, that he shall have been a citizen of the United States for ten days, that he shall have re- sided one year in the State, four months in the county and for the last thirty days in the election district where he offers his vote. He is required to swear to these particulars and to answer on oath aset of questions which the officers of registration are required by law to put to him. We will attempt to solve in advance such questions as may arise in the minds of per- sons desiring to vote, First, as to age. It is not necessary that a citizen be twenty-one years old at the date of registration, but only that he will have fully attained his majority on the day of election. The election will be held on the 7th of November. Ifhe was born on the 7th of No- vember, 1855, or on any previous day, he is entitled to register and vote, and the fact that he is not quite twenty-one when he offers to register makes no difference. Next, as to citizenship. If a foreign born inhabi- tant, having the requisite qualifications of age and residence, has already taken out his naturalization papers he may register to-day or on any day when the Board of Registra. tion is in session. But if he has not already got his papers he must wait until he has re- ceived them before attempting to register. The intention goes for nothing; the fact of citizenship must be complete. If he gets his naturalization papers ten days before the election he can register on some intermedi- ate day, but he cannot swear that he is a citizen until he has actually become one. The Boards of Registration in the several election districts of this city meet for the first time to-day, and will be in session from eight A. M. to nine P. M., and the same hours will be observed on the three subsequent days, which are Wednesday, October 18, and Friday and Saturday, Octo. | ber 27 and 28. Intending voters who are already citizens will do well to register to- day. On the first day there will be no crowd, and citizens will not be subjected to the annoyance and delay of putting them- selves at the tail of a long line and awaiting theirturn. Besides, they will have secured themselves against the loss of their privilege by unforeseen calls of business which may take them out of the city, or by illness on the subsequent days of registration. We therefore counsel all citizens who can to make sure of their right to vote by regis- tering to-day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Autama streams are darkly maroon. ‘This 1s the best timo of year for tramping. Fulton 7imes:—“The weather is as changeable as-@ dollar bill’? Barnoy Aaron is said to bea democratic boy in blue in Indiana, Judge Jeremiah 8, Black, of Pennsylvania, is at the Astor House. fs Rear Admiral Alfred Taylor, United States Navy, is at the Gilsey House. Senator’ George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, ts at the Filth Avenue Hotel. E. A. Woodward wore spectacles while he was eler? of the Board of Supervigors, ‘The President will leave Washington to-day for this city, where he will remain three or four days, Rochester Democrat:—*-Dorsheimer fs s0 mad at In- gersoll’s infidelity that ho charges more mileage than over.”? . Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will lecture on the “Letters of Junius,’ according the authorship to Lyt- teton. Mr. Algernon Sartoris, the Fresident’s son-in-law, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Wash- ington. Mrs, Zina F. Peirce {nsinuates that women are a bur- den, and she probably does not remember when some happy young fellow carried her over a brook. Raleigh, N. C., which recently saw the death of the Journal is to have tho Observer, to which Mr. P, M, Hale is to contribute his expertenco and talent, The Chariosion News and Courier says that the whites of South Carelina must carry arms so long at they are left to the armed morcy of their former slaves, The extension of the Congressional session into sam. mer had a disastrous effeet upon the health of ou Congressmen, and a corresponding effect upon th¢ price of quinine, shooting 1 followed by theatricals anda ball. He gives a sete to the villagers evory Uctober in his orangery, Conductors of horse cars that start from tho now Post Oflico, alter getting slightly undor way, compel ladies to chase them and jamp on. No lady likes to runarace while the conductor stands beckoning to her and shouting, “Come on! Can't yer hurry ?”? Donn Piatt says that Senator Jones offered “Dr,” Slade $500 to tet him raise the slate while the pseudo spirits were writing, and that be, Donn Piatt bimecif, was puzzled s0 much that he does not believe tt possible for Dr. Lankester to have svlved the problem of Spirtualism. Western warehouses are glutted with grain, which the owners are holding so tha railroads may soon have so much to carry East that thoy may pat on the high tariff rate. Gentlemen farmers, how long will {t take you to learn that, so far as export is concerned, the price of American wheat isin Liverpooland nowhere else? Danbury News:—“This is not only an exciting, but avery interesting, political campal Women as weil as men have a duty to perform to their country, and they should not shrink from it. They cannot vote or appear in processions, but they can cnt the wood and Dring up tho coal, and thus leave the men more time to talk up matters,” Dr. Bennett, of San Francisco, stood besice the bed- side of James Lick w! tho latter was dying and de- scribed to the inquisitive crowd pow the man was; told the numver of pulsations to the ear of tho poor old man, and, bofore the light was out of the eyos 01 the patient, turned coolly and asked whether an un- dortaker had been engaged! An old man ef cighty-ono recently called on a res ident of Now Haven, saying that he bought an auger of bis father foriy years ago, but was too poor to pas for {t, He couldn’t be content to joave thro world with the debt unpaid, and s0, a8 he couldn't pay to ride, had walked ail the way from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to loave the $6 avd Interest with bis creditor's heirs, After doing this he started on his long walk home,