The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1876, Page 6

; . att a NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. saieepeagetion THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded). tate of one dollar per month for any period less than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday cdition included, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE —NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Pars TO-NIGHT. RA mpiE. YM. Mrs. Howard, FORBIDDEN F BE THE HUNUHBAC NIBLO'S BABA, at8P. M. Bow ACROSS THE CONT 0) LOTTERY OF LIFE, as UNION sgt TWO ORPHANS, at 8 THEATRE. M. Mr, bangs and Mrs, Agnes jooth. L LADY OF LYONS P.M. AR SWEETHEARTS and TOM AMERICAN 1 GRAND NATIONAL EXHIBI BARNUM’S CL UFTH AY Fr THEATRE, LIFE, at8P.M. Charles nn, NEW YORK AQUARIUM. Open from 9 A. M. to 10 AY HALL KT, at 8 PM, THEATRE, st. THOMAS' GRAND CO. MA EHRLICH ARBEIT, at 8 P Ten dollars per year, or at | TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE VARIETY, at 82. M. Matinee at2 P.M. TIVOLL THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRULS, aap. M. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS atsP.M, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE VARIETY, at 8 P. M. _ THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 8 P’. M. OLYM HEATRE, VARIETY AND DRAMA, M. THIRD AVEN VARIETY; at 8 P. M. THEATRE, PHILA DEL ‘Winth and Arch streets A MUSEUM, ) ORPHANS, L GARDEN. W NATIONAL THEATRE. 20K. TOMICAL MUSEUM. KIRALFY'S ALIAMbRA PALACE. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. THE GREAT SI Daily, from 8 A. M. to.10 P Main Exposition Buildin f OF PARIS. +. east of the Philadelphia NEW YORK, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1876, ~The pri ce of the Hema to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and cloudy, possibly with light rain. Wart Srrset Yestenpay.—Tho foreign news produced little effect. Gold opened and closed at 110 7-8, with sales meanwhile at 1111-8. Stocks were active, the widest fluctuations occurring in Delaware ond Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson. Some of the Western securities were higher. Government and railway bonds were firm. A QUESTIO; If all the white citizens of South Carolina were republicans and all the colored citizens democrats, does any one be- lieve that President Grant's proclamation would have been issued ? forth will be three cents. Tux Perrorecm Trane, like nearly every commercial interest in this country, is in the hands ofa combination which controlsthe supply and regulates the price at pleasure. ‘We print an interesting review of the trade this morning, including the views of a num- bor of business men upon its condition. New Jersey Pourtics are active. Most of the nominations have been made on both sides, and everybody is confident of suc- cese. We print a résumé of the nominations for Congress and the State Senate, together with some speculations regarding tho result and its consequences. The price of the Henaip to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Ir Szems THAT THE Lawyers will never get through the task of arguing the Tweed suits. The motion for a now trial in the six | million suit was before Judge Westbrook, of the Supreme Court, yesterday, and all the old points were presented anew and pressed with as much vigor as when they were fresh. % ‘Tax Sranisu GovsnnMent is showing some spirit in its intercourse with the See of Rome, and is not content with the apology of Cardinal Antonelli in regard to the course of the Church toward the Spanish pilgrims of Carlist proclivities, but demand an ex- planation from the Holy Father himself. If Spain is firm the Pope may be compelled to avow whether or not the papacy still favors the pretensions of Don Carlos. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. nis . Cavirat, Pustsamznt might as well be abolished in this State, since its enforce- ment has become impossible. Another mur- derer, Francis McGuire, who stabbed his wife during a quarrel, was yesterday con- sicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the State Prison for life. We see nothing to object to in the punishment, but the finding is wrong. Convictions of murder in the second degree in cases of crime like this divests the pen- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1876.- Reduction in the Price of the Herald. ‘The Henaxp to-day reduces its price from four to three cents. This step is taken in | pursuance of a determination formed many months since, but whose execution has been deferred until we could feel that the busi- ness prospects of the country could be cal- culated with some reasonable approach to certainty. We have watched with anx- ious interest for signs of a healthy revival of business, with prices approximating, as present prices do, to the specie basis. The new activity of trade which has been in prog- ress since the beginning of autumn, and which has inspired the commercial commu- nity with hope and cenfidence, encourages us to believe that the time has at length come when we may safely readjust the business of our establishment with refer- ence to the future. We have long foreseen that the prices of newspapers must follow the law which imposes a general re- duction in the prices of other things. We have only waited for trustworthy symptoms of a general revival of business without a new inflation of prices. If the country were to recover from the prolonged stagna- tion of the last three years only by a bounce backward to the same speculative and in- flated prices which preceded the grea panic it would be imprudent for newspapers to take steps which they might be compelled to retrace. We now present the best proof which is pos- sible for a public journal to give of the sin- cerity of its belief that the recent gratify- ing revival of business is sound and stable and is destined to continue with- out a relapse to the bloated and unhealthy state which caused the ruinous collapse of 1873. We have such perfect confidence in the convalescence which has set in on what is substantially a specie level that we do not hesitate to readjust our own business in expectation of its permanence. We should hazard too much in reducing the price of the Henaxp if the inflation era could return. We make this change from delibernte cal- culation and foresight, and against our im- mediate interest. Our circulation was never more satisfactory than it is at present, being much larger than it was in the autumn of ‘last year. A part of this increase is due to transient causes, such as the great tide of travel in connection with the Centennial Exhibition, which brings to this city, as well as Phila- delphia, an immense influx of strangers, most of whom buy the Herarp. It is also due in part to the keener interest in politi- cal movements in the year of a Presidential election, and in part, just now, to the ex- citing nature of the European and the Southern news. We were certain enough of continued large sales at the former price, and we no doubt relinquish a present ad- vantage by o reduction when the flow of business is so full. But the Heratp regards itself as one of the permanent institutions of the country, and attempts to regulate its business, not by hand-to-mouth expedients, but on a broad and forecasting policy. Having long ago de- cided to reduce our price as soon as we could feel assured of a healthy return of general business without a relapse into inflation, we carry out this purpose in accordance with our settled design, on finding reasons to believe that the present revival of trade is likely to be permanent, with a scale of prices which will facilitate an early return to specie payments. This hopeful business revival without the new expansion of the currency for which the Western States have kept up a persistent clamor, will give a final quietus to their in- sane agitation. They have stoutly asserted that a revival of trade was impossible with- out more currency ; but their theory is now so effectually shattered by facts that it can never be reconstructed with any expectation of regaining its former hold on a large section of public opinion. At any rate we believe that the crazy inflation heresy is at last exploded and demolished, and that it is now safe for all business establishments and all business men to make their calculations and shape their plans with reference to a stable and prosperous future. We remodel our own business on that expectation. In 1861 the Henaup had long been sold for two cents, and we regret that we cannot put it back to the same price. But we could not do that withont also putting it back to the same quality, which is quite out of the question. It has been the ambition of the Henaxp to be the first newspaper in the world in the fulness, freshness, variety and comprehensiveness of the intel- ligence which it daily spreads before its readers. It is as impossible for us to go back to our condition previous to the war as for well grown bird to go back into the shell from which it was hatched. Perpetual progress is the law of all things destined to a long and vigorous life, and in nothing is this law so inexorable as in its application to the public press. We are satisfied that in the specie paying times which are so aus- piciously dawning upon us no first class newspaper can be sold for a smaller price than that which we have now fixed for the Hrnatp. Instead of receiving domestic news by telegraph and foreign news chiefly by the mails, as we did previous to the war, wo no longer depend upon the mails for anything. Submarine cabling, as everybody knows, is enormously expensive; but in spite of the heavy expense the Hrrarp publishes each morning everything of inter- est which has taken place on the preceding day in any part of the civilized world. There was nothing approaching this promptness, energy, comprehensiveness and lavish expense previous to the civil war. It is contrary to all the laws of growth for the Henatp to shrink back into its former shell. On the contrary, its irrepressible enterprise, ‘forgetting the things which are behind, and pressing forward to the mark of its high calling in the things which are before,” must maintain itself on the very crest of the fore- most wave of progress. It will hereafter bo much cheaper paper at three cents than it ever was previous to the war at two cents, It was originally published for one cent, and when it advanced its price from one cent to two it gave a better equivalent for its cost than it had ever done when it was sold fora cent, as it will now bea far cheaper paper for three cents than it ever was at two. While the Hxnarp steadily grows and over abreast of the edvanoing ciriliza- | tion of the age, it maintains a steady ad- herence to the principles by which it has been governed from the beginning. To it belongs the credit: of inangurating the era of cheap newspapers and popular journalism. There were so-called newspapers in this city sold for a cent when the Hrraup was started, but they were papers without news, containing nothing but trum- pery, local items and gossip. The Hrnarp dealt from the beginning with all the greater interests of society with a vigor and vivacity which had the exhilarating effect of 2 per- petual newsensation. It speedily destroyed all interest in the slow, heavy, high-priced journals which had previously held the field, and its suecess revolutionized the press of the country. The other two-cent journals in this city previous to the war— the Tribune, Times and World—were the progeny of the Hrrarp, as were also the leading papers in the Western cities, of which the Cincinnati Commercial and the Chicago Tribune were leading representa- tives. Having been the originator of cheap journals of the enterprising order; having broken down the old-fashioned, heavy, high- priced newspapers in this country; having led by its successful example to the establishment of the London Telegraph—a cheap newspaper which threatens the supremacy of the Times —the Henaxp remains true to its old instincts and takes the lead in reducing the price of the largely circulated American journals as soon as it feels that it has a solid assurance that there will not bea return of infiation to carry up general prices. The Henaup has never rested its claims on mere cheap- ness, but on cheapness combined with copious news, with enterprise, with dash, and, above all, with independence. When the Heratp was as yet scarcely two months old it gave the keynote of the sur- prising success which has attended its re- markable career. It snid:—‘‘What a free, noble, inéelligent, independent city New York is! Here is the little Hznatp, not yet two months in existence, and already out- numbering the subscription list of the largest, mightiest, broadest of the ten-dollar daily prints. Now, to what cause is the success of the Hxzranp to be attributed? It is entirely to be attributed to its spirit of independence, its un- conquerable love of liberty, its disregard of all merely party or partisan results, its con- tempt for those self-constituted bodies called partisan committees, and its resolu- tion to tell the whole truth at all hazards.” A few weeks afterward, in the same vein, it concluded a leading editorial with this characteristic sentence:—‘‘So,. therefore, men of every party may expect truth— naked truth—from the Hzraup.” These brief quotations are the key to the policy of the Henarp and explain its marvellous success, if we add the fact that the Hrnazp has im- measurably distanced all rivals from the beginning of its wonderful career until now in the promptness and copious fulness of its news from all parts of the world in which anything of interest was transpiring. We trust it may not be thought inoppor- tune if we avail ourselves of this occasion to briefly state our relation to the pending political contest. We take no sides, feeling that we have no other duty than to give citizens of both parties correct information for their guidance in casting their votes- Whichever party succeeds we expect to be of service to it and the country in giving the new administration good coun- sel and warning it against mistakes. We think it inexpedient to impair our influence in that capacity, by taking sides in the elec tion. We are afraid that President Gran has been hasty in his recent South Carolina proclamation, but we are prepared to sup- port him in any constitutional and necessary interposition to suppress do- mestic violence. A mere call by a State Governor does not bind him to interfere unless his own judgment is convinced, after full examination, that he cannot evade so unpleasant a duty, and we earnestly hope that no merely partisan con- siderations will be permitted to influence his official action. The price of the Hxraup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. The Democratic City Nominations, The local Democratic Convention, held yesterday afternoon, does not disappoint previous expectation. Mr. Smith Ely, Jr., was nominated for the Mayoralty, and the city democracy is to be congratulated that, among the many excellent names suggested, it had one of such singular and pre-em- inent merit. Mr. Ely is the peer of Mr. Agnew, Mr. Royal Phelps or Mr. Kane on the grounds on which they are strong, and he has the additional advantage of being thoroughly and intimately conver- sant with city affairs. He long ago took the measure of all the leading politicians of the city ; he knows their character, understands their relation to one another and to schemes for spending public money for private ad- vantage, and is better qualified than any other thoroughly honest man in the city for circumventing their corrupt projects. It is a nomination fit to be made, and which public opinion will heartily indorse. No opposition to it has any chance of suc- cess. It substantially unites the democratic party of the city and materially strengthens its State and national tickets. It puts an end to all hopes of a successful coalition between disaffected democrats of the city and the republicans. Mr. Smith Ely, Jr., is as certain to be our next Mayor as the sun is to rise on the 7th of November. It is for- tunate for the democratic party that it has, in this crisis, a candidate so perfectly fitted to meet every requirement of the situation. Of the other nominations, that of Mr. Cal- vin for Surrogate is the only one on which we desire to make any remarks. We wero at first led to distrust him, but as his opyonents failed to make any definite objection to his fitness we began to suspect that there was no solid ground of opposition. Taking a gront interest in having this important office woll filled, we suggested some excellent names, taking especial care to say nothing impugn- ing the integrity or capacity of Mr. Calvin. Within the last few days we bave mude in- quiries of impartial Inwyers competent to judge, and were surprised and gratified to find that their indorsement of Mr, Calyin's red x decided. We, therefore, ceased to insist upon anything beyond a thorough scru- tiny into his fitness, should be elected if no blot could be found upon his record. We have been un- able to find a scintilla of proof that he has not discharged the duties of his office with fairness, intelligence and ability. We have, therefore, no grounds for saying a single word in disparagement of his claims to an election now that the nomination has been made. We were only anxious that Mr. Calvin, who was a mero ap- pointee of the Board of Supervis- ors to fill a vacancy, should not be elected to the office by the people without proper inquiry into his fitness. Our own special inquiries satisfied us that the oppo- sition to him had no tangible foundation, and we cheerfully acquiesce in his nomina- tion. Of the other candidates we will say nothing, for we can say nothing favorable. We only hope that they may not weaken the really excellent names with which they are associated, The price of the Heraup to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. The Railroad War. With reviving business and returning con- fidence commercial questions become more important than the discussions forced upon the country by the politicians. In the grand revival of trade there must be no uncertainty as to the position of New York. Whatever Ashe has lost by neglecting to provide the necessary facilities and offer the proper en- couragements, by the apathy and self-confi- dence of her merchants, by the selfishness and temporary greed of her railroad mana- gers, ought now to be regained and retained. While Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston have done all that they could to increase their trade, and their municipal authorities and business men and railways have acted in harmony and concert to this end, New York has relied upon her prestige and un- equalled natural advantages alone. This was safe enough so long as our financial and shipping facilities commanded the traffic; but now rival seaports have steamship lines connecting directly with their railroads, they are free from the onerous harbor ex- penses incurred here, and they possess supe- rior terminal facilities for the cheap hand- ling of produce. Under these circumstances a few cents a hundred turns trade away from us. The combinations of the trunk [lines prior to last winter, while fixing re- munerative rates for themselves, always conceded a less price to Boston, Philadel- phia and Baltimore than to New York. Last fall we felt and saw the disastrous ef- fects of this policy so severely that all our mercantile bodies protested against the dis- crimination in favor of Boston, and unani- mously declared to our railroad companies that unless stopped both our business and business houses would go to Boston. The New York members of the combination ad- mitted the force and justice of the demand and partially remedied the difficulty. But we had already permanently lost the hand- ling of many staples. In March last it was found that the usual five cents a hundred concessidn to other ports was denuding us of the grain trade. The vast com- merce in the cereals of the . West from the opening of the Erie Canal had been the main source of our supremacy and prosperity, and yet our rivals had so far progressed that by this discrimination we temporarily lost almost the whole of it. Mr. Vanderbilt then saw that the prosperity of New York and of the New York Central Rail- road were identical. The growth of the one was increased traffic for the other. He declared the time had come to discard mileage as an element of charge, and to establish the just and equitable rule of equal rates to the seaboard. The effect upon our trade and the volume of business by the New York Central to this port was in- stantaneous and immense. The other lines immediately began to reduce rates to maintain the discrimination and to force its continu- ance by the starvation policy. Mr. Vander- bilt’s position was undoubtedly purely sel- fish. But it was very wise for the future of his property. It helps New York, and on that account is entitled to our support. If it is ultimately successful, then, as a matter of course, all other things being equal, the great mass of the Western trade will seek this port. But say the competing lines:— The position of the New York Central is contrary to established principles of railway management; it must end in the ruin of that company. If that be true what more can they desire? Why not quietly wait until the smash-up vindicates their action and secures their mileage concessions? New York is say seventy-five to one hundred miles further from the principal Western points; the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania have shorter distances and cheaper coal; still the four tracks of the New York Central, its low grades and ability to draw double and treble the number of cars to a train, more than compensate. Railway managers have sud- denly discovered that the volume of busi- ness adds so little to the cost that a fair profit can be made at a very Jow rate if the mass carried is sufficiently large. Mr. Vanderbilt assures us that he has paid his interest and dividends from the net earnings, and from no other source whatever, and that he has no doubt of his ability to do so in the future. The creditors and stockholders of the New York Central aro protected, and we have the right todemand on behalf of the public that there shall be no surrender of principle to any new combination which does not recognize equal rates to the sea- board. The claim of Baltimore, Philadel- phia and Boston and of the railroads cen- tring at these points for lower percentages is plainly stated—a request that New York shall assist in promoting their business by voluntarily assigning her trade to them. While we are always ready to help our sister cities we are not yet quite prepared to retire in their favor. Wall street is full of rumors of moetings between the railroad officials and terms agreed upon by them. The New York Central can safely assume that our merchants will not submit to a return to the old system, and that so long as they can do business as cheaply by that line as any other it will have their preference and sup- qualifications was so unanimons and 60 | willing that he | ' anne SHEET. The War in the East. All eyes naturally turn toward England, for upon her course depends the peace of Europe. It is evident that if Russia moves into Turkish territory and Turkey is not assisted by a Western Power that the event will be so unlike the collision of equal forces that it may be called an armed oceu- pation rather than war. This will be even more flagrantly apparent if Austria takes part in the invasion. In its moral charac- ter, also, the Russian movement is unlike ordinary hostile operations. In the politics of the German Empire certain warlike acts are called ‘federal executions;’ they are wars, to be sure, but wars not of fury or am- bition, since their aim is to enforce upon some delinquent State the common will of the other States. The present movement of Russia is of that nature. She moves to en- force the will of the civilized States of Eu- rope upon o semi-barbarous State, and the mere demonstration of her force will compel submission if Turkey remains unsupported. But if England shall undertake the active support of Turkey the war may be made obstinate and bloody by her resources, courage and skill. That England is now actively engaged in warlike prepa- rations does not necessarily mean that she will espouse the Sultan’s cause, She has interests of her own so com- plicated with Turkey's interests that she cannot protect one without seeming to pro- tect the other ; but she will know how to draw the line when the time comes, if it is her intention to draw such a line. That she will not supinely contemplate the trans- fer of Constantinople to Russia may be con- ceived, and that she will ‘take a bond of fate" in Egypt is certain. And the present attitude of England would be the same if she intended to do no more than protect herself at these important points. The re- ports that the British Ambassador has gone to Livadia, the residence of the Emperor of Russia in the Crimea, and that the Czare- witch is on his way to London, indicate dis- tinetly that a great effort to preserve the peace is on toot-between the two important governments. On the other hand, the report that the Russian troops have crossed the Pruth—if not premature—shows that war is actually begun. Russia's operations will scarcely be limited to one continent—certainly not if England becomes a party to the war; for then operations on England's Indian frontier will be added to those contemplated in Armenia and those actually on foot in the valley of the Danube. But the immediate scene of activity is in the latter district. By the arrangement made with the Ronmanian Railway Company for the transport of Rus- sian troops the Czar may in two weeks movea quarter of a million men from Bender, on the Dneister, to Rusckuk, on the Danube, within three or four marches of Schumla, and the imminent probability of the appearance of such a body on the Danube will compel Abdul Kerim, the commander of the Turkish army in the neighborhood of Alex- inatz, to consider his relations to a line of retreat. It would be a splendid stroke of skill and energy if a Russian commander should move rapidly enough to cut off and capture this important army, and the feat is not impossible. It was demonstrated by Field Marshal Diebitsch Zabalkansky that a Russian army with its train and artillery can march over the Balkan almostas rapidly as it can march anywhere else, and if the snows do not prove an early impediment there may be a foot race for Adrianople between the Russian troops and Abdul Kerim’s army—an event that would give an immediate military interest to the operations. There is no likelihood that the Turks could dispute the march of their enemy to Adrianople. They might at that point be able to fight; but whether they are or not the great inter- est of the struggle will begin there, for at that point the giants will come within strik- ing distance of one another. England’s fierce resolution to defend Constantinople and Russia's patient determination to have that city will give an epic interest to the conflict, and must lead to a gigantic display of force on either side. England may learn the difference between Stamboul and Gibraltar, and between Russians and Spaniards, at great cost. The report in our Belgrade letter in regard to the use England may make of Sepoys in the war presents her in the peculiar light of a Moslem Power ; but the number of Sepoys that she can send is stated far too high. The price of the Herat to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents. . Tar Weatuen.—A Gulf hurricane and a storm in the West are the chief meteorologi- cal items of interest that will engage stten- tion during the next few days. Both of these storms have been duly predicted in the Henap, as we have been noticing their ap- proach for several days, The hurricane in the Gulf is now moving with great energy northwestward over Cuba from the Car- ribean Sea, and will doubtless be severely felt along our Atlantic const as far to the north as Cape Hatteras. The storm rim had already reached Key West on yesterday morning, where the barometer fell to 29.57 inches, and the velocity of the wind rose to forty-four miles an hour. From the wind direction, which was then northeasterly, wo judge that the storm centre was somewhere in the vicinity of Jamaica, or perhaps between that island and eastern Cuba. Heavy rains prevail all over the Western country north of Cairo, and will cause a rapid rise in all the rivers of the Mississippi basin. As pro dicted in yesterday's Hzratp, we shall ex- perience this storm during the next two or three days. The price of the Hrnaup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents, Mr, Bevmont on tHe New Loax.—We print in another colamn a brief communica- tion from Mr. Belmont exposing the shal- lowness and folly of a Washington despatch to an evening contemporary, which holds up the ridiculous bugaboo that the snecess of the democratic party would arrest subscriptions to the new four and a half per cent Joan. Mr. Belmont maintains, with great justice, that no change of parties can impair our national credit. Whether Mr. Tilden is elected or ‘Mr. Hayes is elected the credit. of our gov. EN ernment will be among the best in the world ; but Mr. Belmont as a zealous demo- erat naturally thinks that it would be- strengthened by the electionof a President of great financial ability, like Mr. Tilden. The price of the Henaxp to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. South Carolina. The features of the situation in South Carolina, as they are reported in our news columns this morning, are an address by the Democratic State Committee impeaching the veracity of Governor Chamberlain and deny- ing the truthfulness of the statements upon which the President's proclamation is based, and the details of another ambuscade and murder of white men by armed negroes, the present outrage being committed in Edge- field county. In view of these murders by the State militia and the denial of the political character of the rifle clubs by the Democratic State Committee, the whole question becomes one of inquiry, so that the truth may be established. Fortunately we have already some testimony on the sub- ject. An address, signed by the German mer- chants of Aiken, in South Carolina, to their fellow Germans in the Northern States, has been sent to the Heraxp for publication, and we print it elsewhere, together with a letter from a Northern merchant, long engaged in business in Charleston, who gives a temper- ate and evidently impartial review of the situation in the State. His reference to the disappointed political hopes of Governor Chamberlain explains a peculiarity of the present troubles there. Mr. Chamberlain ardently desired to receive the democratic. nomination for Governor. So late as the Ist of last July he still expected this; but when, after the Hamburg riot, he ran up to Wash- ington to consult with General Grant, in- stead of doing his duty ss Governor of the State, he was cast off by the democrats, and for this they are not to be blamed. They wanted a Governor, one who would seo justice done and would enforce it by the power lodged in his hands. Thereupon Governor Chamberlain procured himself to be nominated by the Republican Conven- tion, took on the ticket several notorious corruptionists and began to complain of law lessness. General Hampton, the democratic candi- date, is a man of character and responsi- bility. No one pretends to doubt that he will stand by his word and fulfil his prom- ises. He has all over the State pledged him- self in the frankest and most positive man- ner that if he is chosen Governor he will protect the colored men in all their rights, and make them absolutely secure in person and property, or rigidly punish any one who attempts to injure them. We urge the colored people of the State to take him at his word, They ought to see that their in« terests and those of their white neighbors are the same; that peace, honest govern- ment, strict enforcement of the laws, are needed to encourage the industry of both races. Governor Chamberlain and the persons now on the ticket with him have not given either peace or security to the colored people. General Hampton pledges himself that he will. We advise them to take him at his word; to put the responsibility on him; to trust him en- tirely, and see if he fails. The colored peow ple of the South ought to understand that the arm of the federal government is too slow to afford them effective protection. It cannot act promptly; it never has; and a Governor who, like Mr. Chamberlain, in- stead of doing his own duty, runs to Wash- ington to cry for troops, will never protect them if they need protection. Ifthe col- ored people of South Carolina are wise they will in this canvass put themselves in har- mony with the best sentiment and the most influential class among the whites, repre- sented by General Hampton. Let them show themselves the friends of honest and reputable government, and place themselves by the side of Hampton and the respectable white people of the State. Thus they can help to bring peace and renewed prosperity to themselves and to the State in which they live. The price of the Heraup to-day and hence» Sorth will be three cents. Tae Enouisx seem as anxious fora war with somebody as the typical Irishman at Don- nybrook Fair was said to be fora fight, Even the settlement of the Margary affaiz does not suit the English residents in China. The price of the Heraup to-day and henom Sorth will be three cents. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bancroft’s hair is white as snow. Sopranos and tenors are usually blondes. If vou aro inclined to be soa siek stay upon dock, Sir John Kean, of Ireland, is at the Everott House, Englishmen bave a passion for mountain citmbing, Count F. Posse, of Sweden, is at the Hoffman House. Donald Ross, who saw Sir John Moore shot, has Just died. The price of the Heraup to-day and henceforth will be three cents. Secretary of War Cameron arrived last evening at the Brevoort House, One day in September tho tide In the Thames ebbed so low that navigation was suspended. An English critic says that no orders can turn a Polish province into a Russian province, Count d’Oultremont, of Belgium, and Baron W, de Wagstaff, of Russia, are at tho Windsor Hotel Vice Admiral 8 C, Rowan has been temporarily de tached from duty at this city as Port Admiral, Sefior Don Manuel M. Peralta, Minister for Coste Rica at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel, General Samuel F. Cary, the greenback candidate for Vico President, is at the Filth Avenuo Hotel, A Fronch laay ars best on prome: English laay makes her advantage at broaktast table or while wrapped for ridiag. Mon. Matt H. Carpenter, of Milwaukee, nas cancelled all his political engagoments, so that he may arguo a case be¥oro the Supreme Court at Washington. Hon, Powor H. Io Poor Trench, Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, and Major W. Le Poes Trench, of tho Royal Engineers, British Army, are a the Clarendon Hotel. James T. Fields, speaking of Tennyson's immor tality, #xys that tho time will, of coarse, como whes weshallhave to go through the little formality of morely burying him. Easton Jree Pres ‘Just now the average politician Inquires after a fello ealth and his wife's health his family's healt anxiously as though he was lertaker looking for a job.’? Thoughtless, that is to say, selfish poople who hoist car windows at this eoasonof the year, and let the wind blow upon peoplo behind them, are morally re