The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——_—_— THE DAILY HERALD, published every fay in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- fay excluded). Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month for any period less than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York LD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLE STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TOLUME XLI- ANUREMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND BVENING, BOWERY THEATRE. 2: ca eet ge M. Sid © France. ARE tees ON Two ORPHANS. a8 i BOOTH BARDANAPALUS, at 5 Booth. PARK THEATRE, BWEETHBARTS and TOM COBB, at 8 P.M. BROOKLYN THEATRE. 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TRIPLE SHEET iR OF PARIS, east of tho Philadelphia WEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, octoneR 25, 188, NOTICE TO THE “PUBLIC. Owing to the action of a portion of the earriers and @ewsmen, who are determined that the public snall not have the Hunatp at three cents per copy if they ean prevent it, wo have made arrangements to place thé Hexap in the’ hands of all our readers at the reduced price. Yo that end wo have sceurcd wagons and Bewsboys to patrol every thoroughfare of this city to accommodate our readers. Newsboys can purchase apy quantity they may desire {rom tne wagons at the ‘usual wholesale price and also at 1,265 Brodway and No. 2 Ann street, NOTICE TO NEWSMEN. All those who will promineutly display on their stands @ notice to the public to the effect that they ere seiling the Henaup at three cents per copy will <meet with no opposition by boys or others sent from thjs office, ph From our reports reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and clear or partly cloudy, possibly with light rain in the morning. Waxy Sraxrer Yxsrexpay.--The stock mar- ket was buoyant and active, strength being shown in nearly all railway securities. Rail- way bonds were firm and government bonds ashade higher. Gold opened at 109 3-4 and closed at 109 7-8. Money on call was sup- plied at 5, 3 and 2 per cent. Sz. Domtneo has deposed another Presi- dent. If the reeent rate of depositions is kept up there will soon be no Presidential timber left in the Republic. Ovr Twip did not arrive yesterday, in spite of the announcement of his coming. It is possible, however, for him to put his foot upon the island which was once all his own at almost any time now. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents. Tua Prizx Rixo Munper ‘Tran has been postponed until next week. The case is one which excites » great deni of interest, be- | cause its result can scarcely fail to dis- courage the exhibitions of brutality which have lately been of such frequent occur- rence in this country. Rep Cxovp's Hostirx Ixtextions were nipped in the bud by General Crook's fore sight and determination, and the chief has been deposed, as if he was only a Sultan or other more commonplace person than an Indian warrior. This is the only way to deal with the savages—take their guns from them if we are going to feed them. Ir Gexsnat Cary goes on talking as he talked to a Henaxp reporter yesterday, and is reported this morning, he will soon be come our Uncle Samuel, a position to which he is partly entitled from his association with Grandfather Peter. He is able and ex- ect, voluble and confident, and in all mat- ‘tote pertaining to statesmanship and politi- cal economy he is the rival of that famous amen of the past, who could aaadietiogaiad, and divide A haiz. bwixt south and southwest side NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. Why South Carolina May Go Deme- eratic. The republican fallacy in regard to South Carolina, which affects many Northern minds, is that because the colored voters are in a considerable majority therefore the State must of necessity be repub- lican, and the mere attempt of the demo- crats to carry it argues an intention to commit intimidation or fraud or both. It ought to be enough to reply to this that if it were true or reasonable all voting in a State like South Carolina would be a need- less effort. An appeal to the census would be sufficient to declare the nominees of the re- publican party elected without further trouble. An election would be a mere farce. The decision of a republican convention would settle the political fate of the State. Of course it is not true, though it forms the basis not only of republican argu- ment but of the President’s military inter- ference in South Carolina. The political condition of that State does not differ from that in which other Southern States, like Arkansas and Alabama, have found them- selves, but out of which they have semerged into peace, The republican party in all the Southern States consisted origi- nally of a certain number of honest white men, a certain number of, energetic and un- scrupulous adventurers, also whites, and the negroes. The latter were ignorant, grateful to the North for their freedom, and for two or three years after the war in many localities justly apprehensive of abuse and | wrong at the hands of the native whites, who, irritated at their defeat and outraged at seeing their former slaves made their political equals, jected their political alliance and foolishly, but very naturally— for they were human beings—drove them into the arms of the republicans. The con- sequences of this inevitable beginning were these, and we describe them because, when they are understood, the situation in South Carolina becomes plain:— 1. The republican party in all those States fell naturally into the hands of the most aggressive and unscrupulous of its politi- cians. This is the tendency of all parties which havea sure lease of power. These persons used the ignorant negro vote to ad- vance their own fortunes. They corrupted the negro by dividing with the leading blacks the plunder of the States they mis- ruled. Secure of the negro vote they stole right and left, and made the very name of republican odious to the men who owned the property and possessed the intelligence. But this is not all. The honest republicans of those States were equally subject to this misrule. Most of them were Northern men and attached to their party. They waited in silence and hope for a day when hon- est counsels should prevail. But the rogues had the ear of the federal government; they sent their representatives to both branches of Congress; they crushed every honest republican with an unflinching hand; and so in Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Arkansas, in Alabama, as in South Caro- lina, the rogues ruled and continued to rule, because their allies were appointed to the federal offices and they were able to show the negroes that they, and not the hon- est republicans, had the favor of Gen- eral Grant. To the ignorant plantation negro the supposed wishes of General Grant are the supreme law ofthe land. If to-day the President should issue a procla- mation telling the South Carolina blacks to vote for General Hampton seven-eighths of them would do it, 2. At last the honest republicans rebelled. In Mississippi, last year, they openly op- posed the misrule of Governor Ames and helped to defeat him and their party. In Arkansas, in 1874, the same thing occurred, In Alabama the honest and decent republi- cans refused any longer to be the tail of Senator Spencer's kite. In Louisiana, this year, leading republican politicians have abandoned the State ticket, and refuseto help Packard and Kellogg. That is to say, the party splits. Was it not inevitable? Was it not the best thing for the State? But when this split occurs the factions divide the negro vote. Nor is this all; the demo- crate, who have had time to learn wisdom, take pains to secure a share to themselves of the negro vote. The result has been shown in Arkansas, in Alabatna, in Missis- sippi, where the republican party organiza- tion, in the hands of corrupt men, was at last defeated. 3. Note the result. Arkansas and Ala- bama havo been at peace for eighteen months in spite of the President having in both those States appointed to the most impor- tant federal offices the very rogues who were beaten by the joint action of democrats and j honest republicans. Even Mississippi, nat- | urally a rude and turbulent community, is so far at peace that the republican leaders have as yet found -no pretext for sending troops there, And the change has been sat- isfactory to the honest republicans, black as well as white, of those States. 4 The process we have above described is now going on in South Carolina and also in Louisiana. In the first named State three parties appeal for negro votes. Hampton corruptionists who are his supporters and allies? Ought they not, on the contrary, to have the good wishes of every honest North- ern republican? Can they not hope to carry their ticket without intimidation, when they have the support of the most intelligent and honest. republicans? They have been so sure of it that their whole plan for the can- vass avoids and necessarily excludes intim- idation. They seek to get the negro vote by persuasion and by ail the political arts which are practised and tolerated wherever in the North ignorant voters are to be influenced. 6. But into the midst of this canvass the President chooses to inject the army. In a Northern community the army, even though it came at the request of a Governor, would have no political effect, Butin the South, in South Carolina, it has a prodigious and well known effect. The negroes see that at Chamberlain’s call the President sends troops. That certifies to them that Cham- berlain is “General Grant's man,” and turns the mass of them, against all argu- ment, to Chamberlain. That is why troops were called to South Carolina, and that is why this federal interference in favor of republican corruptionists is so iniquitous and so mischievous. When last year the honest republicans of Mississippi broke away from Governor Ames he called at once for troops. When troops were refused him the negroes turned against him. They no longer believed him to possess General Grant's favor, and did not scruple to yote | against him or to stay at home. Ames knew very well that if the troops had been sent him he could have carried the State, not by their use but by the conviction their pres- ence on his demand would inspire in the blacks that Ames was ‘General Grant's man.” This is the secret of the use of troops in South Carolina just now. But this misuse of power is made by the Northern republican leaders to support a notoriously corrupt set of men in South Carolina and secure their continued pre- dominance. The honest people, repub- licans as well as democrats, of that State, are united in an effort to secure reform and honest government. The managers of the national republican party use not merely their influence, but extreme and dangerous measures of military interference, to prevent this reform, and to reinstate in power the men who have plundered the State. That is the situation, and it is that which North- ern votsrs are to consider. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. Bad for the Newsd In their determination to regulate the prite of the Hzraup the newsdealers are not likely to prove successful. A few hundred middlemen cannot successfully combine against the whole people of New York. If they persist in their folly they will simply bite off their own noses to spite their unbe- nign countenances. The price of the Hznatp is three cents, and they are in duty bound to sell it at that price; but-if they do not it is easy to find other dealers who will, or to devise other means equally efficient for the distribution of the paper. In our efforts to meet a public want in this matter we shall be sustained by the public. No man wants to pay four cents a day for the Hrrarp when its price is three, or to make his newsman a present of three dollars and thirteen cents a year. The newsman who exacts such a demand from his customer will not only lose the sale of the Hzratp but his customer also. Every man buys where he can buy the cheapest, and our columns this morning bear ample testimony to the fact that the public will not encourage the deal- ers who overcharge them. From many dif- ferent quarters we have notice of the exac- tions of the dealers, showing that the public is co-operating with usin securing the re- duction of the price of the paper. One of the most notable evidences of the kindly spirit in which the reduction is re- ceived and of a disposition to assist us in enforcing it is the action of Mr. Field, the Superintendent of the Third Avenue Railroad.. He has directed the con- ductors on his line to eject any boy found asking more than three cents for the Hzraxp, ortrying to force other papers upon pas- sengers instead. This action is necessary to secure the interests and accommodation of people on the street cars, and we com- mend it to the superintendents of the First, Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth avenue lines, the Broad- way and Belt lines, and the Forty-second, Twenty-third, Bleecker street and all other crosstown ‘lines. It is an important work that we have undertaken—a work in which the public is deeply interested and ready to assist us. If the newsdealers stand in | our way it will be bad for the newsdealers, The price of the Hunatp to-day and hence Forth will be three cents. Let Bygo Governor Tilden speaks out manfully on the question of Southern claims, not evad- ing the issue in any way, but meeting it squarely in every particular. Spme of the republican leaders had charged that if the Be Bygones. heads the democratic ticket, and in many of | democrats were restored to power the South the counties where colored men predominate | would seek to obtain payment for losses by in numbers the democrats have put negroes | on their ticket. Chamberlain heads the “regular” republican ticket, and on the ticket with him and among his supporters are the most notorious corruptionists of the State, with whom, when he failed to get the demo- eratio nomination, for which he was in- trigning so late as last July, he made his bargain. Such men are Elliott, Moses, Whipper-—-men whom last year Chamberlain denounced, but who this year are his allies. It must be remembered that the Judge Moses who now opposes Chamberlain is not the corruptionist of that name. Whippera few days ago made a vehement Chamberlain speech at Columbia. Elliott is on the ticket with him. Last comes a considerable num- ber of very influential republicans, who sup- port Hampton and oppose Chamberlain. Among these are most of the judges of the and planters, all men of intelligence and property and therefore of influence. These use their utmost efforts to carry with them | a part of the colored vote for Hampton. 5. This being the situation is it unreason- able in the democrats to hope to carry South Carolina and to defeat Chamberlain and the Supreme Cuurt, many Northern merchants | the late war and would posibly ask for the assumption of the rebel debt. This charge was made merely for political effect, but its insincerity is so transparent as scarcely to call fora reply. While regarding it in this aspect Governor Tilden yielded to the desjre of his party to express his own views and policy regarding the South, and these are contained in a letter which we print this morning. His policy is, simply, let bygones be bygones. The civil war is over and all questions pertaining to it are settled. They must not be reopened. The fourteenth amendment must be maintained, executed and enforced in absolute good faith. No rebel debt can be assumed or paid, and no loss by the emancipation of slaves or dam- age caused, by the war will be allowed, whether covered by the fourteenth amend- ment or not. The Governor thinks the past cannot be considered at all, but that the only safe rule is to turn to a new and better future, and on that basis to assure peace, reconciliation and fraternity, These sentiments are not only manly but states- manlike. The country has too long been fighting over again the issues settled by the war instead of burying them with the dead of that fratricidal struggle. When the past is entirely forgotten, and only then, will there be perfect accord between North and South and a return of that prosperity which only peace and unity can quicken and create. It is for these reasons that we say with Gov- ernor Tilden, let bygones be bygones. The price of the Hemaup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. The New Loan—?rifling with the Na- tional Credit. The managers of the republican canvass seem to have become alarmed, and their fears have got the better of their ‘patriotism and discretion. If the success of the new loan is imperilled by the character of the democratic nominations it has taken a long while to make the discovery. The demo- cratic nominations were made four months ago, before the present Syndicate had been formed. The whole arrangement was begun, continued and completed after the demo- cratic ticket was in the field. After the bargain had been made—made with full knowledge of the hands into which the gov- ernment would goif the democratic party should triumph—the brilliant success which followed was in face of the political situation and the possibilities of the canvass. The exultant joy of Secretary Morrill, which he so eftu- sively communicated to the newspaper correspondents, was not damped by any- thing in the Presidential canvass, then fully opened. Months passed without anything to mar the complacency and satisfaction of Mr. Morrill until since the October elections, Now, what has changed since the October vote? Not the democratic ticket or plat- form; not the character of the democratic party; not the views of the Syndicate, for there is no reason why they should enter- tain a different opinion of Mr. Tilden or his party from theone they held when they began the negotiations, What, then, has changed? Nothing but the party hopes and expectations of the republican leaders. Their confidence has been shattered, and they are trying to retrieve their prospects by an act of desperation. Mr. Morrill never thought of saying to the Syndicate, at the time of the negotiations, ‘‘this loan will be good ifone of our two parties succeed in the Presidential canvass, but worthless if the other party should carry this election.” No such thought ever crossed his mind; he would have been ashamed to avow it if it had. It would be idle and absurd to say that the members of the Syndicate have had any reason to change their minds. They made this arrangement in full view of party con- tingencies. They made it in the midst of the Presidential canvass. Tilden wasin the field; Hayes was in the field; they knew that one of these two would be our next President, and they are the last men in the world to have made a gambling stake on the result of an uncertain election, They had no ‘idea that the credit of the government would be affected bya change of adminis- tration. If they have any reason for thinking so now they had precisely as much reason for thinking so then. It would be ridiculous to say that they entered into the arrange- ment on an assurance given them by Mr. Morrill that the St. Louis ticket could not be elected. My. Morrill would have de-- served impeachment had he told the Syndi- cate that the safety of their arrangement de- pended on the shifting results of our party contests. Weare liable toa change of ad- ministration every four years, and an Ameri- can finance minister would render himself infamous if, in selling bonds of long date, he should tell foreign purchasers that their value depended on our party politics, and that a Presidential election might render them worthless. Of course Secretary Mor- rill did not steep himself in such infamy. Four Presidential elections will intervene between the date of the bonds just disposed of to the Syndicate and their maturity, and a Secretary of the ‘Treasury could not perpetrate a greater crime against the public credit than by giving it to be under- stood that the value of the bonds would be affected by any of these elections, It would be a preposterous fetch to say that the Syn- dicate consented to take the bonds only in the belief that Hayes, and not Tilden, would be our next President. The chief adviser and representative of the Syndicate at the time of the negotiations was Mr. Belmont, who both wished and believed that Tilden would be elected. The great European house which is the main pillar of the Syndi- cate was quite as likely to share Mr. Bel- mont’s belief on this point as anybody's. But the Rothschilds dia not concern them- selves either way, not thinking that the credit of our government would be seri- ously affected by our ever-shifting domes- tic politics, Every member of the Syndi- cate knew what parties and candidates were in the field for the coming election, and none of them thought he was staking his money on a party result. The only thing which has changed since the negotiation is the opinion of the repub- lican party respecting its own prospects. Since the October elections its chances seem so doubtful that itattempts to improve them at the expense of the national credit. This is nota pardonable license even fora des- perate political party, and it would be a grave breach of trust on the part of any’| officer in the government. We hope that it will be made to appear that Secretary Mor- rill is not an accomplice in this attack on the public credit. There could not be a more scandalous breach of duty than for a finance minister charged with negotiating a long loan to countenance the idea that the security of purchasers can be impaired by our elections. An officer set to guard the national credit could hardly commit a more inexcusable breach of trust than to permit foreign financiers to suppose that the na- tional credit hangs on. so frail a support as the success of a political party. President Grant has appointed five different Secre- taries of the Treasury in the brief period of seven years, and it is absurd for‘so ephem- eral an officer to say that the value of our bonds depends upon the fitful changes which occur in official life. Our political parties rise and sink; the tenure of our finance ministers is even more brief and transient than that of the political parties to which they belong; but our government is permanent. It entera into ancagements to be fulfilled at the ena of fifteen, twenty or thirty years, and s temporary officer would disgrace himself by maintaining that the long bonds of the government may be made worthless by the mutations of our party politics, Parties come and go, but the na- tional credit and the national honor are per- ennial. Russian Term Turkish Delays. There is an appearance of impatience: manifest on the part of Russia with the slow course of the negotiations, and we may at any moment hear that she has presented a demand for the acceptance of her terms, coupled with an alternative of invasion within twenty-four hours. It is certainly not magnanimity that has controlled the Russian government in permitting the oun- ning tactics of the Turks to trifle away so much time ag has already been lost in the negotiations but gained in the Morava Val- ley, In Russia they perceive clearly the difficulties of their own case, and the hope that they might gain their point by negotiation rather than by war hae sus- tained them in a policy of forbearing pa- tience, General Ignatieff's proposition to the ambassadors, as reported by way of Bucharest, is, perhaps,’ an indication that the Russian patience has reached its limit. The demand that on armistice shall be con- ceded immediately, and that all topics be- yond shall be determined by a conference of the Powers, at which Turkey shall not be present, places Russia boldly on the ground that the great Christian Powers of Europe are the arbiters of Turkey's destiny, and if they treat with her as an equal only do so from their own volition, and not because she has any right to demand it. It assumes, indeed, that Turkey is a nation in acondition of tutelage; that she isin the number of nations what a minor dr imbecile is among individuals—one for whom some one else must always become responsible. Although England has herself hitherto acted on the same assumption it is very possible that she will refuse to accept it now as a principle governing Turkey's relation to other Powers. One of the things that General Ignatieff holds must be settled by a conference of the Powers is the significance in their relation to the present negotiations of the words “autonomy” and ‘‘guarantees.” Autonomy in its ordinary sense implies that the au- tonomous State shall be independent, and there is an apparent inconsistency therefore in the application of the word to a State recognized as subject to some higher sovereignty, by the fact that this sovereignty concedes autonomy as an amelioration of its condition. But literally this word only implies that the people shall be gov- erned “in accordance with their own laws,” the payment of a tribute to the sovereign being the general satisfaction of his demands, Russia was herself once autonomous in this respect under the supreme sovereignty of the Khan of the Golden Horde. But this word is susceptible of so much variation in its significance thata treaty which used it and did not strictly define it might prove waste paper; and Russia gives evidence of her intention that in this negotiation the Moslem shail not slip through the meshes of a loose phraseology. As the reforms that the Sultan is to concede are to be ‘“‘guaran- teed” it must evidently be known precisely what sort of guarantee is meant—that is, if the reforms are placed under the guarantee of Russia it must be understood that Russia shall have the right to occupy the country and put the reforms in execution in case their execution under the Sultan altogether fails. This is the pith of the whole negotiation. The common énd of every treaty with the Ottoman government is that whatever it agrees to do is not done. There is a present illustration of this in the case of the Bul- garian atrocities. Under the pressure of England the government at Constantinople declared its purpose to punish the authors of those outrages, and appointed a commis- sion for the purpose; but the English diplo- matic report now is that all the good inten- tion so exhibited was a mockery and a delusion. This is always the way. The Turkish government has not the power to perform an act disagreeable to the Moslem people, andthe guarantee must provide for the likelihood of sucha failure. There seems a probability that an uprising of the Mos- lems and a general attempt at massacre may, at an early day, compel all Europe to assent to the occupation by Russia of all Turkey in Europe, including Constantinople, The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents. Counting the Electoral Vote. We havecompiled elsewhere a summary history of the laws, regulations and pro- ceedings relating to the counting of the electoral vote for President and Vice Pres- ident. The occasion is always one of in-7 terest, though usually of little importance. There has been at no time so far any dis- pute about the count which involved serious consequences. Under the notorious twenty- second joint rule, in 1873, the electoral votes of Arkansas and Louisiana were thrown out for various reasons; but the ma- jority for General Grant was so great that this made no difference. It should be un- derstood that this joint rule was not re- adopted by the last Congress, and is, there- fore, no longer effective. Accordingly, the next counting of the electoral vote will take place on the second Wednesday in February under the following Leia cpus > provision and law:— AnticLy12—* * * The President of the Senate shall, in the presenee of the Senate and House ot Kepresentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person havin; nuinber of voles for Prosident shall be snch number be a majority of the whol electors appointed; and if no person bi jority, then {rom tho persons having the by bers, not exceeding three on the list of as President, the House of Representat immediately by ballot the President.” * Suction 142. —Congress shail be in session on the sec- ond Wedaesday in Febraary succeeding every meeun, of the electors, and the certificates, or so many ol them as have been received, shall (hen be opened, tho votes counted and the persons todill the offices of Presi. dent and Vice President ascertained and declared, agreeably to the constitation. It has been generally held that the duty of the two houses and of the President of the Senate in the matter is merely ministerial, and relates to a scrutiny of the records sent in by the electoral college, so far only as to see that they are regular in form, according to the requirements of the law of Congress and the laws of the different States as to the manner of certification, For instance, the law requires that the electors shall meet in the different States om a fixed day; and the vote of Wisconsin was once thrown out on the ground that the electors did not meet on that day, a snow storm having prevented theirassembiing. A yague apprehension has been felt of possible trouble in the counting of the next electoral vote; but there is no ground for this, We do not live in Mexico, and the people would frown down any attempt to interfere with their will by tampering with the votes of the electoral college. Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that the next Congress will adopt an amendment, favored by many prominent men of both parties, electing the President and Vice President bya popular vote. If is a simpler “and better way. Under the present system many Presidents have ree ceived but a minority of the popular vote, The price of the Hepaxp to-day and heneee Sorth will be three cents. Tux Wearurn.—The clear weather experi- enced yesterday in New York presented a remarkable contrast to the conditions that prevailed in the West, North and Northeast. The barrier of the Alleghanies, of which we have so frequently treated in our weather articles, has in this particular instance exer- cised acontrolling influence on our local weather by shielding this vicinity from the great rain area that is yet moving over the regions west and north of that chain of mountains, The depression which brought with it the drizzling rain and the fogs of the last few days has moved away to the northeast, but is followed by an- other which descended from the British possessions to the lakes and now hangs over Lake Huron and the adjoining regions. High winds prevail on the western and southern edge of this depression, and the rain area extends southward as far as Louise ville, Ky., and westward to Milwaukee, Cool and clear weather is experienced in the South and Southwest, with the increasing pressure, but cloudiness continues in the Northwest and North. The weather in New York to-day will be cooler and clear or partly cloudy, with, possibly, light rain this morning. Waarever May Be tHe Menrrs of the quarrel between the New Jersey Central Railroad and its employés, the conduct of the engineers in inaugurating a strike which has already closed can only meet with publia disapprobation. A simultaneous stoppage of travel without warning of any kind and regardless of the public inconvenience and discomfort is one of those outrages which no community can meekly endure. If the passengers had applied the whipping post to an engineer who left his train and them in the woods at midnight he would scarcely have received his deserts. By their con- duct the engineers have deprived them- selves of the sympathy of the public in their contest with the company, even if they de- served it and made it necessary; besides that the most guilty among them should be punished in some way for their outrageous behavior. The price of the Sialiaty (6-day ond hences Sorth will be three cents. ‘ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Mra, Lincoln is in California. Pumpkin lanterns are im season. , Senator Frelinghuysen is a grandfather. Senator Newton Booth has arrived at Sacramento. ~ General Samucl F, Cary, of Onio, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, ¢ at the Glenbam Hotel. Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial is at the Brevoort Houso, Ex-Governor Stanford, of Calitornta, will leave New York for home this woek. Wendell Phillips says:—' Adamees is that of sunset.’” General George B. MoCiellan and family yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. Japanese Custom House officials tried to open a case of dynamite with a bammer and chisel. There is nota running gristmill in Newfoundland, tho millers having diod out with smallpox. You lose tho full virtue of your watercresses by not treating them asa salad, using oil sparely. Not one person who read the Personal Intelligence of the HxRatp bas been powoned by mushrooms. Rear Admirals Charles S. Boggs and George H. Preble, United States Navy, are at the Everett House, Cineinnat; Enquirer (advertisement io “Wanted”):— “As graveyard roper fora student. Address Ghost, this office.’ “M. A. C.".—The best way to stady the Turkish lan. guage ix to take an old clothing pad and translate it into Sioux, Springfeld Repudlican:—"Card in a bank window, signed by one of the clerks, ‘Wanted, a girl to go to dancing school.’’” Major 8S. Coutinho. Pedro Paes Leme and Dr. Nette Teixeira, of the Brazilian Centennial Commission, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, Bowles wants people to conduct this Presidential campaign so that English visiters who come to the Centennial may feel weil. Restaurant dinner for one:—Soup, consommé; broiled squab, with green peas; boiled mutton and cauliflower; half pottle of red wine; plam tart and coffee. To boil oggs properly get the water in pan boiling rapidiy, tako the pan off th your eggs into the water and let them remain for trom six to mine minutes, Rochester Democrat:—‘*A human footprint two feet long has been found in some Connecticut sandstone; showing conclusively that there were Chicago women in those days, too.” Nevada never held 60,000 people. It contains one dosert which alone covers 30,000 square miles. None ofthe mountain Territories will average one acre in twenty fit for cultivation. “The light that gilds the belt buckles, There is a dampness in the air which should be guarded against.” Whitehail Times:—-Corn husking partics are now in order, and we expect to hear that red ears will produce Fesults that thay causo the finders to get each other by the ears some timo hence.” Detrott Free Press:—*‘An English surgeon says that women can be easily frightened to death, and every husband ought to be careful how he climbs into the pantry window when he returns from the pro- cession.” Nowhere was the ancient Slavonic superstition more deeply rooted than in Prussia, Every native of the country was allowed to havo three wives, who were regarded as slaves, and on tho death of their husbands they were expected to ascond tho funeral pile or others ‘wise put an end to their lives, Danbury News:—*The New York Hera has re duced its price to three cents. Tho growing activity of ess and the equalization of values, it tells ite is the cause of this move, which might have deen expected from the intelligent management of that feat morning dail: With its reduced prico it will be more popular than ever.’’ Horace White has written for the Fortnightly Re- view an article to show how in America since the re- volt of the colonies there havo ulways been two ele- Monts underneath two popular parties, one having a tendency to conserve State rights and the other to ex- tend tho strength and sovereignty of the nation, The late war decided only that State could noe secede,