The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1876, Page 6

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Tne Cuancrs against the Superintendent of the new State Capitol at Albany are to be investigated by order of Governor Tilden, This is the only way that truth in regard to this matter can be ascertained. Tue Races at Jznomz Park yesterday pre- sented some very interesting features and were largely attended. Every year Jerome Park seems to grow in popular esteem, and the semi-annual meetings are fast attaining @ national character. Caxpmarrs ror Concress are not always well selected, and the view of the party nominees in Michigan, which we present in another column, will show that there as elsewhere there have been some unfortu- nate nominations on both sides. Comprnotier Green's Frrexps are deter- mined to support him for Mayor whether the machine politicians nominate him or not. If their purpose is to elect him, how- ever, it would not hurt his chances to get the support of on8 or other of the machines, Tre Death Sentence to be inflicted on John D. Lee, the Mountain Meadow mur- derer, is as remarkable as the crime or the long delay in bringing the chief criminal to justice. Having the choice of the manner of his death, Lee has chosen to be shot. There is good taste in this selection, whatever may be said of giving such an option to convicted murderers. In rae Evrora Inquiry the Coroner's jury find that the Board of Health should cause a scientific investigation to be had to ascer- tain whether the gases from petroleum oil will remain ina vessel after sho has been ventilated, Such a verdict ought to lead to the acquisition of some practical information which will tend to prevent disasters similar bo that on the Europa. Pactric Mar, Acarx.—Every step in the investigation of the Stockwell transactions in the affairs of the Pacific Mail brings new surprises. Another chapter in this remark- able history is printed in the Hrnatp this morning. It will be seen that an effort is to be made to hold the directors personally re- sponsible to the shareholders. principlo is universally adopted there wiil be no security in dealing with vast money corporations. Tue New Scnrax, in announcing the de- position of Sultan Mourad V. and his own ac- cession to power, utters some very pious and enlightened sentiments. He deplores the irregularities in public administration shown in the past, insists upon the necessity of strengthening the public credit and shows ‘ himself an ardent advocate of civil service re- form. Nobody is to be appointed to office fm Turkey hereafter unless he is fit for the place, and no one is to be removed except for cause. An American Executive could . pot issie s more wholesome proclamation; and it may be thatthe new Sultan will prove NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Elections Yesterday in Ohio and Indiana—A Drawn Battle. The returns thus far received indicate that Ohio has been carried by the republicans with a moderate increase over their majority of last year, and that Indiana has gone democratic bya majority somewhat less than that of 1874, the date of the last election. There has been no very marked political change in either State, the republicans having gained no more in Ohio than might have been expected from the fact that one of its citizens is the republican candidate for the Presidency, and the democrats have lost no more in Indiana than can be accounted for by the fact that its last election, with which the present yote is compared, was held in the year of the famous “tidal wave,” and that in all elestions held since 1874 the democratic majorities have fallen off except in the Southern States, There is nothing in the returns to encourage either party to hope that it will walk over the course in the direct contest for the Presidency. It seems clear enough that the Presidential election was not decided yesterday and that there lies before us during the ensuing month a strenuous and impassioned contest. Mere hair-breadth majorities in close States like Ohio and Indiana decide nothing as to the drift of public sentiment, Both parties have substantially held their own, and there is nothing in the returns which should very much clate or discourage either. In estimating the results we must | consider the expectations of both parties when they put their respective tickets in the field. The republicans expected to carry Ohio, and supposed that the nomina- tion of Hayes would insure them a large ma- jority. They have done no better than they expected at the outset of their canvass, nor quite as well, although they have carried the State, which was already theirs by last year’s election, and has been, for the most part, a strong republican State for the last twenty-one years. Within that long period the democrats have succeeded in Ohio but three times. Allen was elected in 1873 by a slender plurality of only 817, with a temperance ticket in the field which polled 10,277 votes, drawn almost entirely from the republican ranks. In 1874, which was an exceptional year—the year of the so-called tidal wave—the democrats had a plurality of 17,202 on a very light vote, and aided by a temperance ticket, which polled nearly 8,000 votes. Considering that Ohio has been, in the main, steadily and strongly republican ever since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the fact that the republicans have carried it by a moderate majority now gives them no great reason for exultation. It was a repub- lican State last year; itis the home of their Presidential candidate; it has been saved only by gigantic efforts during the last two or three weeks of the canvass. Such a vic- tory does not show a powerful drift of public sentiment in favor of the republican party. On the other hand, the loss of Ohio by the democrats does not disappoint any calculations made by them in the beginning of the campaign. The nomination of Tilden was a deliberate surrender of Ohio to the republicans. No possible dem- ocratic candidate was so unpopular in that State. The greenback supporters of Gov- ernor Allen, forming a large majority of the democratic party in Ohio, detested the very name of Tilden, The unanimity with which they have come into line, and the vig- orous campaign they have made in be- half of an unpopular candidate, is a marvellous demonstration of the power of party pride and discipline. The most sanguine democrat would not have pre- dicted that his party would make so good a fight in Ohio with such a Presidential candi- date as Tilden. As to Indiana, the democrats organized their canvass with an expectation that they could carry it, but the nomination of Hendricks proved that they, were not very sanguine. The only excuse for this hybrid ‘ticket was a belief that Tilden codld not carry Indiana with-! out a soft money man of great local popu-~ larity in that State to balance the ticket. Mr. Tilden’s nomination was almost as repulsive to the greenback democrats of Indiana as to their brethren in Ohio, and so Until this | the St. Louis Convention, fearing the effect of the October elections, tried to save Indi- ana by nominating Hendricks. This was a confession that a consistent Tilden ticket would lose the State. Yesterday's elections will have no effect one way or the other on the vote of the Southern States, which will be solid or nearly solid forthe democratic ticket, as it would have been in any event. There is nothing in the results yesterday to reduce the Southern democracy to despair, and even if Ohio and Indianahad both gone republican by large majorities it would have made but little difference in the South. The republican organs and orators have had a great deal to bay about a “solid South,” which is an implied concession that they expect nothing from that part of the country. Assuming, then, a “‘solid” support of Mr. Tilden in the South, his prospects are by no means ren- dered desperate by the returns of the Octo- ber elections. In addition to the ‘'solid South” he needs only the three States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to insure him a majority of the electoral votes. One hundred and eighty-five is a majority of the Electoral Colleges, and the united South with these three Northern States give 188 | electoral votes, or three more than a | majority. But these three States went democratic in their last elections, and each of them has at present a democratic Gover- nor. Unless the elections which took place yesterday can be rogarded as such a drip- ping, chilling wet blanket as will extinguish democratic efforts and hopes in these three | States, which are already theirs, if judged by the last elections, the Presidential contest cannot be thought to have been decided by the result in Ohio and Indiana. It seems more reasonable to suppose that the only effect of these elections will be to make the contest in New York, New Jersey and Connecti- cut more yehement. Although each cf them was carried by the democrats last year the majorities were not large enough to discourage republican effort, and within this small cluster of the most hotly contested political battle ever fought in this country. The republicans seem to concede that the ‘‘solid South” is against them, and if this impression should be verified it is as certain as the rules of arithmetic that their Presidential ticket will be defeated if Tilden carries his own State and the adjoining States of Connecticut and New Jersey. To be sure, the democratic party can derive little hope or consolation from the October elections ; but it must be considered that the three pivotal States are already democratic, and that the republicans must not merely hold their own, but make conquests to wrest them from democratic control. The democratic party has also some chances in “California and Oregon, which would more than balance South Carolina if the republicans should carry that one Sonthern State. Yesterday's elections, instead of deciding the Presi- dential contest, will make it more close, doubtful, strenuous and resolute than any national canvass in the history of our poli- tics. The Colfax Massacre. Two colored men, Ward and Flowers, formerly prominent republicans in Louisi- ana, have recently given their adhesion to Mr. Nichols, the conservative candidate for Governor, and in public speeches in New Orleans gelate a singular tale. They assert, with circumstance, that the notorious Colfax riot, in which a number of whites and seventy-four negroes were slain, was brought on deliberately by Governor Kellogg and | Marshal Packard, both of whom, these men assert, knew of what was coming, were urged to prevent it and refused, and by their refusal caused the massacre. If it be said that this story is incredible the reply is that it is not without precedent in Southern republican politics. Governor Ames, of Mississippi, according to the testi- mony of eminent men of his own party, brought on the Vicksburg riot in precisely the same way. He was shown that an ac- commodation was possible and easy, but re- fused, and told the negro Sheriff Crosby to summon the blacks from the surrounding country to march with arms on Vicksburg, and thus created the riot, in which many colored men were killed. The Vicksburg and Colfax riots were very useful to Ames, Kellogg and Packard, and tos the corrupt men in league with them, because they were enabled, by these events, to appeal for Northern sympathy. Can the republican party afford to countenance such men? Mr. Green’s Lotter of ‘ Acceptance. The desire that Mr. Green shall issue his letter of acceptance before he is nominated increases on all hands. A morning contem- porary now wants to know what he thinks about the dirty and ill-paved streets. By all means. For our own part we should hke to see what Mr. Green thinks of the wharves ; of the Harlem improvement, which does not get improved ; of Mr. John Kelly asa politi- cal leader and great statesman ; of the con- tractors ; of the organ grinders and the other “deputations.” This is a good time to speak out. Wedo not want to buy a Mayorin a poke, so to speak. Mr. Green's letter of acceptance will be interesting reading. We’ trust he is busy with an amanuensis now, and that it will soon be issued. He ought notto lose any time in flinging his banner to the breeze and announcing the condi- tions upon which he will accept the Mayoralty. Mr. Green is a kind of modern Moses, He has aimed to lead New York about in the wilderness for some years with a vague promise that some day he may, if we are good, lead us outofit. If heshows some in- firmities of temper with us sometimes, that is probably because he thinks many of usare given to the worship of strange gods, like Boss Kelly. But he ought tocome down ont of his eminence and set us right. Let him spread abroad his letter of acceptance and show us the way out of our wilderness; or at least show that he knows the way out. De- lays are dangerous. The Guardian Savings Bank Case. The report of Judge Bosworth, the referee in the case of the application of the cred- itors of the Guardian Savings Bank for the removal of the present receiver, Mr. Peter J. O'Donohue, reflects seriously on the conduct of the former receiver, Mr. Jeremiah Quinlan, and of his surety, Mr. Joseph J. O’Donohue, Judge Bosworth finds that when Mr. O’Donohue became Quinlan's bondsman the latter was indebted to O’Donohue in the sum of eighteen thousand dollars for money lent, the whole of which was paid by Quinlan subsequent to his appointment as receiver, and Judge Bosworth brings forward evidence in support of his conclusion that some of ‘this amount was paid out of the bank moneys. It is stated in the referee's report that when O’Donohue consented to goon Quinlan’s bond it was stipulated that his brother-in-law should be engaged as the re- ceiver’s clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars a year, and that Quinlan should divide his fees or commissions as receiver with O'’Donohue, his surety. Peter J. O'Donobue, who succeeded Quinlan in the receivership, is a brother of Joseph J. O’Donohue, and the latter is his bondsman, as he was Quinlan’s. Tho referee recom- mends the appointment of a new receiver, It is to be hoped that the serious charges made or implied in the referce’s report can be met and explained by the late receiver and his surety, Mr. Joseph.J. O’Donohue isa Park Commissioner, and if he cannot clearly and satisfactorily explain his share in these remarkable transactions he should at once resign his office. Mr. William A. Darling was removed from office by Secre- tary Bristow in consequence of his share in the Third Avenue Savings Bank frauds, and if Mr. O’Denohue has availed himself of the favor he extended to the receiyer of the Guardian Savings Bank to benefit and secure himself at the expense of the victims of that institution he is not fit to hold a public trust. As Mr. O'Donohue and Mr. Quinlan have been heretofore regarded as honorable business men it is to be hoped that they may be able to make a satisfactory explanation of all these affairs. But, under any circumstances, the change of receiver- ship recommended by the referee should at 'e@ Vigorous in action as he is in speech, adjacent States we are likely to witness | once take place, The War in the East—An Armistice. It has been determined that Turkey shall grant an armistice for six months, and there is no reason to doubt that this determination will be accepted by Ser- via or that it will be ratified by the great Powers. If there is to be a European war, therefore, it follows that it will be in the spring, when great armies can move with celerity and effect. The next question is whether the great States most in- terested in thisstruggle, as Russia, will cease their warlike preparations. If Russia con- tinues to prepare for war England will be forced to do the same thing, and it is not likely that ‘‘the busy note of preparation,” which the telegrams report as heard in the southern limits of the Czar's dominions, will stop. It wilJ not be an inexpensive luxury for the Emperor of Russia to assume all the lines of railway that can be used to move troops toward the line of the s8uth, and be ready to move them should the ar- mistice be broken or should a European war result at its expiration: To be ready at all times is Russia's safety, and it is perhaps the best guarantee of the peace of Europe. To Russian preparation more than to any other cause is the armistice due, and it is to the aid and sympathy she has so far ex- tended to Servia that a European war has been averted. To see the day when the Russian standard may be borne beyond the Turkish frontier without involving a war between Russia and any great European Power is a triumph of Russian patience and policy, and a fact sufficient to crown with a halo of national ; glory the reign of the Emperor in whose lifetime the event occurs. It is strange that this glory, so often dashed aside in the reign of resolute, ambitious and warlike ralers, should almost be thrust upon the Emperor who, of all Russian sovereigns, has the most persistently adhered to a peaceful policy on all occasions. But the triumph of Russia on this occasion practically flows from her peaceful policy. It is a result of her ‘‘mas- terly inactivity.” It has been often noted in war that the greatest successes are less frequently due to the genius of the tri- umphant commander than to the blunders of his enemy; and the same thing is true in diplomacy. England has always been the head and front of every European coalition that opposed the application of Russian force to the settlement of difeulties con- nected with the presence of the Moslems in Europe ; but in the present case the incal- culable blunders of the British Ministry have opened the way into Turkey to the Russian troops whenever they choose to march into the Ottoman Empire, and it is only the armistice which has been agreed upon that will keep the forces of the Czar off Turkish soil until the spring. The Law of Islam. One of the noteworthy things in the Otto- man government is the respect for what may be called constitutional forms. In a sway really arbitrary and influenced only by cor- rupt means there isa Puritan and Presby- terian horror of corrupt practices and the strictest regard in appearance for a rule that is supposed to render the arbi- trary impossible—the rule of the sacred law. As with us every problem of law and government eventually goes to the Supreme Court, so in Turkey it goes to those learned in the law of Islam, and the “fetva” of the Turkish law and the judg- ment of our courts of last appeal differ only in the fact that our judgments are given on cases while the fetva is given on a proposi- tion stated in the abstract, but so as to cover acase. They are, therefore, more precisely analogous to the “‘answers of the learned” in the Roman law. If an intrigue is on foot in Constantinople to remove a Sultan, and the Shiek-ul-Islam is in sympathy with it, the law of Islam is far more readily twisted to their purpose than even our city ordinances to the small job- beries of Aldermen and their confederates ; for no case can be conceived which cannot be so stated as to violate the law of Islam if those who state it are ingenious and the guardian of the law is somewhat fanatical. The fetva forthe dethronement of Mourad is an illustration of the form in which this process operates, His caso of insanity was stated in abstract terms and the demand made if the removal of such a Sultan was lawful, and the answer was in the affirma- tive. By such simple jugglery the nominal head of a nation is removed and another put in his place, by which it may be seen that there is hardly any ruler in the world who is not more sure of his place than the Grand Turk of his. War Claims. One of the more terrible of the stories in- vented for campaign uses is that, if the democrats recover the power they will bank- rupt the country by the payment to the South of indemnities for all the losses caused by the prosecution of the war in the Southern ‘States. There seem to be some persons of lively imagination who contem- plate such a dreadful possibility as that our government in democratic hands may even pay the Confederate debt. It is to be hoped that the holders of government obligations at home or abroad do not lie awake nights worrying over this danger, and on the ruin of our credit which might be the conse- quence. If there were no other security the constitution of the United States is some guarantee on this point, and itis not easy to either amend or disregard it. It directly provides against the largest single item of loss caused to the South by the war, as well as against all debts contracted to support the war. But if the dreadful democrats were thus evilly disposed in regard to payments not forbidden by the constitution, how does anybody suppose that this thing could be done without the enactment of o law, and how could such a law be enacted without the co-operation of the Senate, which is re- publican? It could only be done by the purchase of several republican Senators, and if m measure is to be carried by the pur- chase of votes it might be carried even if the democrats should be beatey in this canvass. If the indemnification of the South for the losses of the war were to be made the basis of an enormous transaction on the ring principle, like the Crédit Mobi- lier scheme, it might get through Congress, not otherwise. Butin such a contingency can anybody suppose that the projectors of | and visitors squander their earnings in the | i with a democratic administration? Could they possibly hope to do better than their predecessors have done with successive re- publican Congresses? Is there any place in the world where a few thousand dollars could ‘do more good” for such a scheme than in the pocket of a highly moral and Patriotic republican Representative? The War'in South Carolina. A Hznaxp correspondent, whose letter we print elsewhere, gives the first careful, suc- cinet, and evidently correct account of the so-called “ war of races” in South Carolina which has been published, with a complete list of the killed and wounded. The Ellen- ton riot, in its different phases, was un- doubtedly an exciting affair; but it is over, and we do not see anything in its history to warrant the charges which Governor Cham- berlain, candidate for re-election, publishes against the white people of the State. There was disorder on both sides, but it is clear from our correspondent’s account that while the negroes, ignorant, suspicious, under the leadership of men of their own race, who prefer mischief to peace, and, wrongly alarmed, brought on the strife, and through- out acted without authority or warrant of law, the whites acted asa sheriff's posse, had with them the colored Sheriff, who was wounded by the fire of the negroes, and it is clear that the white men conducted them- selves with order and self-restraint. What we chietly notice in the whole mat- ter is that the Governor of the State appears to have taken no part in it or notice of it. He seems to have turned it over to the fed- eral powers; and it remained for United States troops to step in between the com- batants and stop the struggle, which was done at once, the whites disbanding and going home without a minute's hesitation, as soon as the federal captain appeared and promised that the negroes should also dis- band and cease hostilities. Now, there is no hope of any community where the local au- thorities are thus abject and inactive. If Governor Chamberlain had in no other way shown his unfitness for the office to which he aims to re-elect himself his con- duct in this Ellenton affair ought to cause every man, white and black, in the State, to vote against him. The colored men, in particular, ought to vote against him, be- cause they above all others need a State government prompt to put down lawlessness, whether ‘it arises in their own ranks or among the whites. All experience since the war proves that the negroes cannot make a successful stand against the whites in these irregular and internecine conflicts. They have, as at Vicksburg and elsewhere, been ready enough to begin a fight, but they always get the worst of it, because they are badly led, by designing knaves who lead them into trouble only to desert them in the moment of action. General Hampton has, on every stump in the State, promised equal and complete protection to the blecks, We advise them to take him at his word and vote for him solidly. He is a man of chfr- acter, and cannot afford to forfeit his word; nor does he want to. The colored men of the South have no more zealous friend than Senator Boutwell. Let them act upon the advice which he this past summer, ona full view of the situation in Mississippi, gave to the leading colored mén in that State. He advised them to nominate for every office in the State prominent hon- est white men, natives or old residents of the State and fully identified with it; to trust themselves to these and vote for them in a body. Under this advice the colored voters of South Carolina should not hesitate to support General Hampton and the demo- cratic State and local ticket. If they do this they cannot fare worse.in any event than they have under Chamberlain, and they are very sure to fare better. Governor Chamberlain has not brought peace or pros- perity to the State orto the negroes. His unfitness for the place he holds, and self- ishly schemes to retain, is manifest, He sought the democratic nomination, and, failing to get it, he now tries to plunge the State into disorder to secure his re-election asa republican. Respectable colored men can have no interest in making themselves the tail to Mr. Chamberlain's kite. Their interest lies in good government, and that experience has shown them Mr. Chamber- lain lacks either the capacity or the desire to give them. Gambling in Monaco and New York. The little princedom of Monaco, which, since the downfall of Baden-Baden, is the great centre of gambling in Europe, is said to be about to pass under the regency of a Prinée Albert, as its present ruler, Prince Charles, is suffering from a mental disease. But the real monarch is M. Blanc, who pre- sides over the Casino. |He derives his im- mense revenues from roulette and rouge et noir, and in turn the State is paid by M. Blanc for the privilege of plundering visit- ors. But the splendor and gayety of Mo- nacoare based upon wretchedness and gloom, like those old palaces which were built over dreadful dungeons, Avarice and hate and envy and murter stalk through the gar- dens and the magniticent halls like the pesti- lent Red Death through the banquet cham- ber in Poe's story. The blackguard ond the belle, duchesses and the demi-monde, meet at the gaming table on the pertect level of a consuming passion for gambling. They live on this poison of excitement until it be- comes the nutriment of their minds, They are possessed with the fatal dream of making great fortunes by a Iucky turn of the cards, and, like the buyers of lottery tickets, submit cheer- fully to inevitable losses in the expectation of future gain. The gambling table has its traditions of beggars who have been sud- denly raised to affluence, of men who by per- sistently holding to a system of playing have broken the bank at last. These tales form the dazzling net, at the centre of which M. Blanc sits like a spidey; but the fluttering victims do not see the bones of those that have been eaten, ‘Thus Monaco is infamous in ite splendor, and the day will come when the Casino will be suppressed as an injury to tho little principality; for gambling can never pay any one but the professional | et Here, in New York, there are’ little Monacos, where clerks and merchants efforts of our authorities to break up the ‘gambling houses deserve the highest com- mendation. The public is surprised at their number, and can judge how much evil they must have wrought while they remained unmolested. The fight is a hard one, for gambling is deeply rooted in the folly, the excitement and even in the polities of a great city; but the Police Commissioners have the support of the public in their waz against the Monacos of New York. Two Governors. Last April there was trouble in the iron district of Ohio. A riot arose, which the Sheriff, a democrat, found it difficult to master. He called upon the Governor in the following despatch:— Massr.ow, April 15, 1876. To Tax Goversor oF OnIO:— From reliable information 1 have no doubt of the imminent danger of mobs and riots of 8 dangerous character in the neighborhood of Massillon, and | am Satistied that no posse which I could secure would be ablo to afford protection against the same to i) and property. I respectfully invoke tho aid of the Governor to prevont the threatened mobs and riots, and to enforce the laws. J, P. RAUCH, Sheriff of Stark county. Governor Hayes responded | promptly ; called out the militia, issued a proclamation ordering the rioters to disperse, and quiet was restored without difficulty or delay, Compare this with the conduct of Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, in the Ellenton affair. He hears of a riot in which his own political adherents were clearly at fault, and instead of aiding the Sheriff, a colored man, he calls for United States troops, puts the blame on the whites, wha were at the time and all through acting as a sheriff's posse and had the colored Sherifl actually with them, and issues a proclama- tion whose only consequence must be to stia up more strife and bitterness, and with the declared purpose of calling for more United States troops. Which of these twois the American way? Tue Prorection or OCnrmprex.—One of the societies for minding other people's business that seems to be eminently worthy of respect and encouragement is that for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Societies of this class are practically organ- izations for compelling exceptional people to govern their conduct in accordance with the common opinion of what is decent and moral and nierciful. They are, therefore, subject to be abused by those who give ef fect to their purpose. If, for instance, ¢ man of fierce and cruel temper outrageously abuses his child the society steps in as the defender of the little one, and all good people rejoice that there is such an authority ; but if such a society should be controlled mainly by persons fanatical on the subject of gentle treatment for the little ones the opinions of cruelty on which it would aot might sometimes lead to unjustifiable inva sions of the domicile. The society seems t¢ have steered clear of such difficulties very happily, and its report of nearly three hun- dred rescues in six months shows substan tial reasons for its existence in this commu. nity. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bret Harte ts in Baltimore, Anna Dickinson is in Cincinnatt. General G. B, McClellan is in Cincinnat|. Ex-Governor Hoffman ts at the Centennial, A son of a Gann has been married in Massachusetta, Frosty mornings make the bittersweet break into blushes. Senator William W. Eaton, of Connecticut, is at the New York Hotel, General Belknap is tn Washington, and in good heslth and spirits, Ex-Senator William Sprague, of Rhode Island, ts af tho Hoffman House. ne The wild gentian, on the coid green bill slopes, goeg purpling toward heaven. Dickens, while travelling, used to carry his ows brandy for his night caps. Milwaukeo is called the Cream City on account of the amber of pumps in its streets. The Fifth avenue Presbyterian church spire is twe foot higher than that of Trinity. Mr. G, Willamov, of the Russian Legation at Wash. ington, is at the Kv House, General Ben Harrison, of Indiana, is now called @ swell All’s swell that ends swell. When « Toledo girl is kissed she says, ‘‘Si—oneh!” and he isn’t mach of a slouch eitheP, A Nyack man got out of plaster and finished the sideg of the pagor with thirtoen pumpkin pies. * Tho President and Mrs. Grant arrived from Washings ton last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, An litinois German, Zeher by name, was presented with five children in one year—threes and twos, French gamekeepers are allowed to kill for their owa use one rabbit por day and a hare for Sundays, Southern domocratic papers are saying that States may impose a property qualification for voters. Aspeaker in the Wom: why a vest is as good Rov. J. H. Newmai & good; but it gives an opening to falso liberty.”? James Lick, whose property will soon be 1n litigne tion, will, at least popularly, be adjudged a lanatic, A Portland Jady has been round the world foun | times, and she is as proud as a barrel with four hoops, Brigham Young says that he would have been twice | as bald if he had only one wife to concentrate her ate. tention. 4 The republicans avenged themselves by making t States out of Virginia and giving two oxtra Senators a solid South. Mendelssohn’s home at Leipsic has been completely » restored, eveo to the broken plaster where the rolling pin missed his head and bit the wall, Itis a statistical fact that only three mules died {1 Louisiana last year, which explains why the New Ore leans Bulletin continaes its original jokes, A536, Paul vestryman who keeps his left hand on big giri's shoulder never lets bis right hand know what his Jeft hand aooth, which Js the right way. A personal advertisement in a Cincinnati paper says:—-‘‘A youn; blonde widow would like to cor respond with a middle-aged coal merchant” “What,” said Bonaparte to Las Casas, “is more overbearing than weakness which feels itself protected by strength? Look at women, for example,”” The republican party has been accused of being fond of 4,000,000 blacks; but if a democratic procession cas get hold of only one fiity-cent negro it cheers him all aiong the line. Bret Harte, in ‘Gabriel Conroy,” vented his spite on California and made several people teel uneasy, and now California pays him back by suggesting thas in that State the great genius was a dead beat. ‘Tho Jersey Vity man who only three yoars ago told her that be would cut his hand off if she told him to, tried to beat down the tombstone man five per cent besause he was a plumber aud belonged to the trade, Washington Nation: —* ‘Be original or nothing’ warns the Rochester Express, and then it prints the following and more from the New Yore Hrratp without giving credit:—‘The fingers of old peoplo are like skeleton leaves.’ "” The Earl of Dufferin, Governor Genoral of Canada, accompanied by his aide.de-camp, Captain Frederick ‘Ward, arrived in this city yesterday and is at the Bree voort House. Alter a brief stay in this city the Gov- ernor General will leave for Philadelphia to visit the Centennial Exhibition. Goorge Sliot:—"So deeply inherent is is in this life "| of ours that have to suffer for eacn other's sing, ‘#0 inevitably diffusive is human suffering that ever Jastica makes its victims, and wo can percoivo ne Fetribution that does not aprena beyond its mar& im pulsations of camerited pala” , a ’