The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1876, Page 6

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A Sronmy Voracr was that of the United States steamer Ossipee, in which she passed through the centre of the great cyclone of the 20th while on her way from Hampton Roads to New Orleans. The very graphic account of the escape of the good ship and her gallant crew from the devonring waves which we print elsewhere will convey to the reader a wery clear idea of the awful power of these terrible meteors known as cyclones. To the meteorologists the story of onr corre spondent will prove of great valne, as he seemn to have noted carefully most of the pesaliur phenomena attending the storm. ‘Tax Senvian Wan anv THE Anmisticn.— The reported ultimatum of Russia, de- elaring that the Sultan must accept the armistice in forty-eight hours, or that the Rassian Ambassador will leave Constanti- nople, has mado a panic in Berlin and shaken the market seriously in London. This was, no doubt, precisely what the | story was invented for. Our own special from Constantinople, published yesterday, that the Sultan had accepted | the armistics, is inconsistent with the press despatch that steps were taken which assumed that he still hesitated, and our own despatch is the more relinble, No doubt the truth, as we published it, was also known to others in Europe, who saw that their last chance to strike the market on a punicky war story was slipping away, and who therefore resolved to improve the shining hour. Instead of war being in- evitable, therefore, it results from our own @espatch, tho credibility of which hos not been shaken, that tho prospect for peace is vaxy favorable, E NEW YORK | ET. | Mr. Evarts To-Night. It is not often that a gentleman of Mr. | Evarts’ eminence, being asked to address the public, haa not only his text but the rongh notes of his discourse so carefully prescribed to bim in the invitation, The | wish themselves and the general public enlightened by him seem to have been a little afraid of the spirit they were evoking ; and Mr. Evarts, who has a quick and deli- | cate sense of humor, must have smiled as | | he read the address of his petitioners, to notice the prudence with which they set ies to his eloquence, and not only ed his views but hinted to him what | those views ought to be like. ‘*Canst thon yout leviathan with an hook ?” we fancy | Mr. Evarts muttering to himself as he read. Nor can it be denied that this caution of those who have asked Mr. Evarts to address them is reasonable, He occupies a singular position in our politics. Less a politician than a statesman, he has filled important == | public trusts, and his name has been men- tioned for still higher, even for the highest, and always by the more intelligent and vir- tuous of the community. It is probable j that the best part of the republican party to-day wishes that he had pbeon made its Presidential candidate at Cincinnati. It is certain that a large part of his party in this State preferred him above all others as its candidate for Governor. It is not probable that Governor Hayes, if he should be elected to the Presidency, would make up his Cabinet without at least offering Mr. Evarts one ofthe most prominent positions in it. He is justly ranked, not only as one of the foremost men of his party, but as one of the greater statesmen of the country, a man whose sound judgment, eminent abilities and conscientious independence have won him the confidence and respect of leading men of all parties. Though accustomed to act with the republican party he has never surrendered his own judgment to party clamor or party expediency. He did not hesitate to accept the place of Attorney General at the hands of President Johnson, and he was the leader of the vigorous protest against federal military interference in Louisiana in January of last year. What he shall say, therefore, to-night will inevita- bly and properly have great weight with the country, because his words will be an ex- pression of his gwn views and opinions—the belief of a man of large experience in public affairs, of a wide and accurate knowledge of men and interests here and abroad, and of a sound and unpartisan judgment. Hitherto, in this exciting campaign, he has been conspicuously silent. We judge from the fact that the address of the merchants which calls him out now is without definite date, that he has only with difficulty and after some delay persuaded himself to accede to their demand. And as he cannot do less than give, as This own opinions, the fruits of his own re- flections upon the condition of the country, and as we, in common with the public, have great confidence in his independence and clear judgment, we are gind that the mer- chants have not merely asked for a general expression of his views, but specified the subjects which they wished him to discuss. They tell him that in their opinion the public credit and the repose of the country would both be imperilled by the election of Mr. Tilden, and ask him to tell them if he does not agree with them. For onr own part we have already expressed our belief that the safety of the public credit is not o question proper to lug into a party contest. We have reproached those, of both parties, who have with what seems to us an indecent as well as unscrupulous partisan spirit forced this question into the canvass; but as it is there we are glad that the question is now put toa man whom his fellow citizens do not regard as a partisan, but from whom they expect the words of truth and sober- ness. We, too, are curious to know if Mr. Evarts believes that the election of Mr. ‘Til- den—an event not at all impossible, and to be decided in less than a week—will probably endanger our national credit, impose new burdens upon the people by additions to the national debt, or seriously imperil the peace and repose of the country. There have been numerous swift witnesses ready to give their testimony on this vital qnes- tion; but they have been partisans, and it may bo said, we think with truth, that their evidence has not been held competent by that large court of the people who heard it. But here comes one from whom we may ex- pect competent testimony, and we wait with lively curiosity for his appearance on the stand. Of course Mr. Evarts will not confine himself to the questions put to him. He is too ready a speaker and too broad a man to spenk within the narrow bounds set for him. No doubt, too, he will make a republican speech; he will show the weak points of the democratic position; and yet it is not to be expected of him that he will make a merely partisan speech. We may suppose that he will criticise Governor Tilden's recent let- teras injudicious and needloss, or as plac- ing him in the position of one who in ex- cusing accuses his party; he may point out and Iash with brilliant wit the errors and blunders of the democrats, their nomina- | tion of a demagogue for Governor in Indi- ana, and of an inflationist for the Vice Presidency; their cowardly and impo- | | tent repeal of the Resumption act; | their too g readiness to pander to the lower forms of publio opinion and prejudice; their vices and weaknesses, which they have in common with all parties; he may express the belief that the time is not ripe for a democratic success; that the mem- ories of the war are too fresh, its wounds too recent and its burdens too great for public forgetfulness or an act of general oblivion, But he will hardly stop there, We may suppose that he will not omit to speak also some pregnant words against the abuses which prevail in his own party and which have brought itso far into disrepute with the people as to make the presentelection of doubtful result, Bemembering his frank | and trenchant protest against the dis- persion of « Lonisiana Legislature by federal soldiers, we may expect him | | two hundred merchants and capitalists who | to speak of the similar interference of soldiers in South Carolina, of the eve of the election there and in Louisiana; NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. and if, in speaking of these incidents of the | Harmony Among the Democrats. Southern republican canvass, he should | Nearly all the danger to the democratio chance to repeat the phrase which he used | national and State tickets that was caused in January of last year, ‘‘Iere we have a na- tional gendarmerie instead of a civil police,” we imagine he may bring dismay to some of his audience. If he should warn his party against these dangerous misuses of federal soldiery and authority he could not do it better than in the resolution to which he spoke on that occasion, which asserted that “Any use of the federal authority which teaches the newly made black voters to be- lieve that political problems can be solved by arbitrary processes or displays of physi- cal force better or more readily than by labor, patience and conciliation, is an offence against the national safety and welfare which calls for the severest condemnation.” We may suppose, too, that he will urge his party to reform of abuses in the civil service; to the appointment hereafter of Southern men to Southern federal offices ; to the distribution of the lower offices for merit, and not for partisan services; to the necessity of selecting the best and most competent men for the honorable places in the government; to the advisability of cutting adrift from the adventurers who in States like Louisiana and South Carolina misrule in the name of the republican party, and who have too long been unworthy favorites at Washington. But whatever he may say on these and other heads, we shall be surprised if he does not strongly urge good will, forgetfulness of the past, fraternal concord between the sections, and sucha policy within his party as shall put a stop to the abuses which have been favored by it in the South, and which have there united the whole intelli- gence and property of the States against the republican party, and pre vented the operation of natural causes to put an end to so injurious a condition of political society. This is our centennial, and an appeal for peace and good will by a statesman like Mr. Evarts would reach all honest hearts. Finally, we must repeat that while we are sorry the publie credit has been dragged into partisan discussions, as it is there we rejoice that Mr. Evarts has consented to give ushis opinion. Aside from the thousands of individuals interested in our national se- curities hundreds of thousands of the Iabor- ing poor are interested in them through savings banks and life and fire insurance com- panies, If un impending and not impossible event is likely to seriously impair the value of these securities the sooner we know it the better. The Contumacious Newsmen. We contjnue to receive letters of com- plaint against those recalcitrant newsdealers who either charge their patrons more than the legitimate price for the Hxratp or do not supply them at all. In both cases we shall see that the remedy is applied and that the increasing demand is met promptly by an ample supply of papers at the low price. Meanwhilo it is creditable to the body of small dealers that they are attend- ing to business and profiting by larger sales of Hxgazps instead of wasting their time in useless protests. ‘By sell- ing a hundred additional Hxgaxps,” said a shrewd Newark dealer, “I get the other tmde of those hundred cus- tomers.” This principle is not confined to any particular branch of business. Every grocer knows that retined sugars are necessary to the completeness of his stock in trade, notwithstanding the fact that they are sold at such a trifling advance over refiners’ prices that the profit is merely nominal, and that there are often times when aslight fluctuation in the sugar mar- ket compels the grocer to sell his stock ata loss) Yet no grocer would think of refusing to sell refined sugars, or much less of charging more than the market rate for them. He knows that if his customer cannot get them of him he will go elsewhere, and ho deems it to his interest to keep the cus- tomer’s trade. ‘My father stopped taking Henatps when the price was put down,” said the childin charge of one of the Harlem news stands as reported elsewhere, “but so many people called for ’em he had to put *em on again.” ‘This states the whole argu- ment with the veracity proverbially accred- ited to fools and children. The desler found it a business necessity to supply his cus- omers with the Herarp. He did not reason further than this immediate necessity, but like many others is finding by experience that increased sales are not only helping other trade, but gradually bringing back the former profits on the sale of Hrraxps. Those who learn the lesson first will soonest reap the benefit. ‘*’Tis the early bird catches the worm.” A Good Nomination, Mr. L. P. Morton, of the house of Morton, Bliss & Co., is the republican candidate for Congress in the Eleventh district, and his election would insure to that district a capa- ble representative and to Congress a mem- ber eminently fitted to be useful in its most serious deliberations, Mr. Morton has been a merchant in this city for many years and is acquainted with the whole fabric of our commercial intorests, while there is cer- tainly no man in Congress better fitted to give a practical direction to financial legislation than the head of a house which has had a leading relation with all financial events of any consequence since the war. In other parts of the country—-in the minor cities and the little towns—where the con- trol ,of conventions is in the hands of the people, they send their leading bankers and merchants to Congress. Here we send, with very rare exceptions, mere politicians. Hence it follows that the metropolis is com- monly of no consequence in Congress, and any little town outweighs it where practical knowledge is called for; but if the example set in the Eleventh district should be suc- cessful at the polls and should be followed the city might cut a didferent figure in its influence on legislation. Tuxee Is Mvcn Gosste and speculation touching the attitude of the independents and Germans since the indorsement of Smith Ely, Jr., for Mayor by tho anti-Tam- meny party. The conferences to-day are likely to decide the whole matter; but the course of these organizations is no longer of spe: srrests by federal officers on the |.much importance, let the policy finally determined upon be what it may. by the division and warfare of the city demo- crats has been put aside at one stroke by the manly, politic and straightforward course of Mr. O'Brien. He has acted boldly the part which, as we have several times pointed out to the democratic leaders, was the only one that could save their national ticket from the ruin that must certainly follow the division of the democratic vote in this city. He is the only one of those who, justly dissatisfied with the control of Tam- many and resolved to fight its abuses to the last, has had the sngacity to perceive first that in the present occasion Tammany has yielded to public opinion in the choice of candidates, and therefore has corrected for itself its greatest abuse, and next, that to continue the fight against Tam- many when such a course must im- peril the national ticket is simply to burn down one’s house in order to roast chestnuts. That the anti-Tammany demo- crats were in treaty with the republicans for acombination on candidates which might defeat the Tammany ticket by a union of republican and anti-Tammany democratic votes is, of course, well known. In ordi- nary canvasses such a course would be justi- fiable, because in such times the only prin- ciple there is in our local eleotions is to beat Tammany. But when behind Tammany there is a national canvass of great consequence, and when the national ticket must be certainly injured by such a combination of discontented democrats with the republicans, then the combination becomes a party treason. This is the senti- ment evidently involved in Mr. O’Brien’s declaration in favor of the support of Mr. Smith Ely—a course which we fancy has thoroughly broken the “slate” as to a hybrid ticket. Mr. Morrissey did not appear prom- inently in the proceedings, but as he cannot possibly be a party to any move against the Presidential ticket he sympathizes, no doubt, with the views expressed by O’Brien, and gives them an effective support. Theo “failure to connect” with the discontented democrats compels the republicans to nomi- nate a full ticket of their own—which is the best they cando. It will not afford them a chance to carry the city, but it will help to bring out.their full vote. Surveying the Isthmus. The paper prepared at the request of the American Geograpbical Society by Com- modore Daniel Ammen, United States Navy, touching the surveys and reconnoissances on the American Isthmus for a transcontinental ship canalis the best presentation of the question which has yet been made. M. Léon Drouillet, a French engineer of eminence and a member of a commission of commer- cial geography lately formed under the sanction of the French Société de Géogra- phie, declares, in a pamphlet very widely published, that the problem of interoceanig navigation is at present incapable of solution on account of the insufficiency of geo- phical data and of the contradictions which exist in these data. It is in answer to these assumptions that Commodore Am- men's paper is written. No one is better fitted to speak on this question than Com- modore Ammen, and his opinions will be regarded as a settlement of the point raised by the French engineer. The American sur- veys from the beginning have been in ao measure under his supervision, and he has made a more complete etaudy of the subject than any living savant. He points out the work done by the Navy De- partment, especially since 1870, under Cap- tain Schufeldt, Commander Selfridge, Com- mander Lull and Lieutenant Collins, and makes the value of the information thus obtained so clear that even M. Drouillet could scarcely overlook its importance. The Frenchman chose to put himself in a queer attitude. He refused to regard the surveys of the practicable routes as worthy of his study, and yet. com- plains that those of the impractica- ble ones were not made more complete. M. Drouillet is hard to satisfy, but it is to be hoped Commodore Ammen's paper will give him clearer views of a subject upon which he speaks with so much confidence and so little knowledge. Besides showing the absurdity of the French assumption Commodore Ammen has done an important work in putting together in compact form the results of the American surveys, and the extracts (rom his paper which we print this morning will be read with much inter- est by all who are curious on the subject or desire to sce a ship canal constructed across the isthmus. State Prison Reform. The proposed amendments to the State constitution, which are submitted to the people of New York at this election, are ex- cellent, and should be voted for irrespec- tive of party ; but that which is most im- portant we think to be the amendment which abolishes the office of Inspector of State Prisons and substitutes a Superinten- dent, appointed by the Governor and con- firmed by tho Senate, who is to hold office for five years, and to appoint the warden, physician and chaplain, the clerk being chosen by the Comptroller. It is believed by those who know best our prisons that this change in the system will effect a much needed reform. New York has three great prisons, which, year after year, have become more corrupt, more expensive and more in- eflicient. Tho criminals of the State prefer Sing Sing and Albany to the local peniten- tiaries because of the looseness of their dis- eipline and the opportunities afforded by them for consultation and escape, The present system encourages crime rather than restrains it. Eleven years ago there were 1,885 convicts confined in onr State prisons; last year there were 3,755. Crime has evidently increased. But, be- sides this, the expense to the State is much more than it should be. The cost of sup- porting each prisoner over his earnings was, in 1863, only $55 66; in 1875 the excess of cost over earnings was $153 82. The total annual cost of crime in New York amounts to nearly $30,000,000. When we add to this pecuniary extravagance and loss the fact | that ‘‘our prisons are places where crime is taught and organized, and new gangs are | formed for fresh depredations,” it is evident that the prison system needs reformation, ‘We must not only protect the treasury, but society. The Prison Association of New York believes that asystem of discipline and economy can be secured by the constita- tional amendment now before the people It is designed to withdraw the prison admin- istration from political influence and make it independent of parties. We urge every demoerat or republican who wishes to re- form the evils of the present prison manage- ment to cast his vote for this important amendment, Indian Campaiguing. Sitting Bull has been overtaken at Inst, and, if not very severety punished, he has at least been forced to fly, with Miles’ bul- lets whizzing thickly about his ears. Our despatches, which afford us this intelligence this morning, give us no details of the fight, but it seems pretty clear that Colonel Miles’ force is in hot pursuit of the flying warriors, ‘We trust the savages will be overtaken and that the campaign will be pressed until complete suocess crowns the efforts of our little army. It is the halts and delays which allow the Indians to avoid the troops and escape from their pursuit, and if proper steps be taken by the military authorities to enable the troops to keep up the pursuit without unnecessary delays the Indians will be caught or compelled to surrender, There is little probability that any large body will be encountered, but the bands of Sitting Bull can be beaten in detail The policy of disarming the agency Indians should be carried out vigorously. When it has been accomplished the Indian question will be in a fair way to be solved. This is apparent from the impudent proposition of Sitting Bull touching a peace. That wily warrior makes the sinews of war the basis of his negotiations; in his opinion powder and bullets are indispensable todiplomacy. The manner in which these were given to him by Colonel Miles is the only way in which they can be given with safety or effect. It has too long been the policy to arm the Indian previous to fighting him. Now we can only make peace by continuing to fight him in the hills and disarming him on the reserva- tions. And next to the Indian we must look after our Indian agents. These officials usually do more to bring about war with the tribes than the Indians themselves, and to- day we have a despatch relating the queer conduct of Mr. Howard, lately the Indien Agent at Spotted Tail In Mr. Howard’s opinion it is wrong for Indians to assist the government in fighting Indians, and we trust the agents will receive the same rig- orous treatment that is due to Sitting Buli and the others. All Hallow Eve. How All Hallow Eve originated is really unknown, for, like many other customs, it is prehistoric. The superstitions of the Old World become the holidays of the new, and what was probably once a religious cere- mony is now a festival As May Duy is ded- icated to flowers, so Hallow Eve is conse- crated to fruits. It comes in the fall of the year, with apples, pears‘and nuts of all kinds. The squirrel. celebrates it in the woods, and man follows his example. Tho Italian vender of nuts and apples blesses the venerable event, for it increases his sales, Who would not buya pint of pea- nuts to celebrate the ancient holiday? Perhaps it was on ‘Hallow E’en” that “a sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lsp, and mounch’d, and mounch’d, and mounch’d” Poetry is full of ref- erence to the day, from Shakespeare and Halleck to Robert Burns. It is pleas- ant when an old custom descends to as in such a friendly and sociable form. But All Hallow Eve has one fault, and that was expressed by Lazy Lawrence when hediscon- tentedly said, ‘“The worst of nuts is you must crack em.” But that is the moral of the fruit, for there is nothing swect or sound in the world that is not secured by labor. The truest repose is that obtained through toil, and the best nuts are those which have the hardest shells. Thus there is a moral in the nut as well asakernel. We trust the good people who cracked their jokes and nuts last night, and drank their cider, ap- preciated tho dignity of their performance, Year after year tho old customs fade and lose their meaning, and it is well to preserve as many holidays of the kind as we can, Young ladies no more use charms on Hallow Eve to discover their unknown husbands to be, yet probably the courting goes on just as well with boiled chestnuts or roasted ap- ples by the fireside, Tas Wearuen.—''wo barometric depres- sions, caused by the division of the main area of low pressure into two parts, as explained in yesterday's Hrnatp, continue to exist in the West and are separated by the protruding portion of the area of high pressure. This causes a steepness of the barometric gradients, and, conse- quently, high winds. Scattered over tho northern sections of the United States cast of the Missouri min arenas moved slowly eastward yesterday ; but the precipi- tation was very slight except at Lenven- worth, whore it amounted to sixty-four hun- dredths of an inch, Warm weather gener- ally prevailed south of the lakes, but will probably be followed by a sudden fall of temperature and heavy frosts northward of latitude thirty-five degrees. This change, however, will not take place for some days yet. In New York to-day the weather will be warm and partly cloudy or cloudy with, possibly, light rain, Tue Repvprzcan Trcket.—The Repub- lican County Convention have at last placed aticket in nomination, The delay was a dangerons one, but it could not be avoided in view of the possibility of a coalition, Only a week remains for the local can- vass, but the ticket presented is a respect- able one, and will undoubtedly win votes among those who look for good names when selecting candidates for office in our city government. General Dix is named as the republican choice for Mayor, William H. Gedney for Sheriff and Thomas Murphy {or County Clerk. With them aro many good names for the minor offices, and it is to be hoped that, having nominated a straight ticket, the republicans own show their strength and deserve victory even if they do not ettein it, whose appearance in politics the people are seldom indifferent; a man who has grown old in the public service, who is widely and deeply respected for his probity and his capacity, and who may justly be said te merit whatever honor it may please his fel- low citizens to confer upon him. But his appearance as candidate for Mayor will surprise rather than inspire‘his ardent ad- mirers, It rather upsets ordinary notions as to pride of place to see the downward scale so freely takqn. Only the other day the General was esteemed in the number of candidates for the Presidency as not by any means the least likely figure; and for a gen- tleman to indicate by his acts that heis will- ing to become the successor of Mayor Wick- ham if not wanted in the White House will induce the sarcastic wits to recall the case of the man for whom no favors were too small, and who, though he would have liked to represent his country at a foreign court, was prepared to accept an old pair of pantaloons rather than leave the White House empty handed. There are ill-natured people who accuse Gen- eral Dix of an undue readiness to be- come a candidate on any and every oc casion ; and it can scarcely be deemed that their charge is scandalous when an ex- Cabinet officer, an ex-foreign Minister, an ex-Governor and an ex-candidate for the Presidency is ready to disport himself in the small pools of municipal politics. It is true that the General only accepts the candidacy, and will never be called upon to accept the office. His canvass is utterly hopeless. Ho is named to an honor that is not smaller than it is empty; or if there is any service in the case it is merely that of making a ticket to keep the voters together. Perhaps it was this consideration that induced the General to stand. He knew he need have no apprehension of being made Mayor and was willing to risk his dignity to help the ticket. Only the Subordinate. It is to be regretted that the very serious complaints made against members of the Centennial Guard by the French Commis. sioner to the Philadelphia Exhibition did not receive more attention from the authori- ties of the national show. The free citizens of this great Republic are so much accustomed to be treated with incivility and rudeness by minor officials that we would not think of complaining about trifling annoyances, such as hayvé ruffled the good temper of some of our visitors, We take these things as a matter of course and put up with them philosophically. It is evident our French friends have not yet been educated quite up to our standard, and look for something'like the deference and respect to which they are accustomed in their own country. The mem- bers of the Centennial Guard evidently for got the difference between » guest and the mere American public—an oversight thai grieves us considerably. Alittle considera tion for the good name of their fellow citi- zens might have induced the subordinate officials at Philadelphia to strain a point in favor of the foreigners, even if they wera to treat the natives with a little additional incivility as some compensation for theis sacrifice of official dignity. It is some con- solation to know that the higher authorities at Philadelphia have shown every desire ta treat our visitors with all due consideration, and that rudeness and want of civility were confined to those who were “only subordi- nates,” Presrorntua, Berra, excepting private bets in rare instances, is ata standstill, as will be seen from the general tenor of our despatches this morning. In the Southern cities, where there is more confidence in the result than in the North and West, the betr are five hundred dollars on Tilden te three hundred dollars on Hayes. In most Northern cities the chances are considered about even, but the betting mon are holding off for more certain indications. The result in this State generally finds more takers than the general result, thé odds being in favor of Tilden about 100 to 60. All this in dicates the betting interest to be decidedly Tildenish, but the absence of operations shows that nobody is confident of the result, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Sartore is in Chicago. Snow in the Sierra Nevadss, Parson Brownlow ‘s ut the Contenntal English laborers dtstrast one avother. Lieatenant General Sheridan arrived ia Washingtes yesterday. Senator William BL Barnem, of Oownecticnt, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral George H. Preble, United States Bavy, fs at tho Everett House. And now we have that fine eld Roman, fve hundred and nine, for Mayor—DIX. ‘An English al says that Dr. Stade, the spiritual medium, looks like Mark Twain, Bafley, tho Danbury News man, is being Benteed in Boston, where he lectures twice a week. Chief Justice Horace Gray, of the Sapreme Jedietal Court of Massachasetts, is at the Albemarle Hotel Colonel Valentine Baker ts in Constantinople, and Be oes not onderstand Turkish harem-scarem ways, Titled English ladies have a 1a for salmon fish- 19g Probably they have been ing “The Princess of Thuk.”” Tho Eighth Senatorial district of New York has highly honored itself in nominating Colonel Wagstaf for the Legisiatare. Savannah negresses complain that among the pre visions sent from the North to relieve their necesst ties thore is so little sugar. A dry goods merchant or # hardware dealer ts catt> oa profit of ten per cent; why should @ make twenty-five? IL Hayes te running for Assembly in the Seventh istrict of New York, and {t is to be hoped that all good citizens will send him as far toward the pole as Albany. Lady Thorton ond éanghters and Hon. H. Power B. Le Poer Trench, of the British Legation at Washington, arrived in the city yesterday and are at the Claren- don Hotel Dr. Redfield saya that the election may depend epon either South Carolina or Loutsiana or Misstasippt, and he figures it that the seven votes of South Carolipe ‘will deotde the result. A Southern correspondent says:—“At Jackson, Misa, the night before the remarkable election lass Norem- ber the democrais an old cannon going all night lone It was caleuiated that euch shot kept at least tweive darkies from the polls, und as tho powder cous only about as many ceots aloud it was making votes ebeap’”” ln the Congressional district wnich covers Erte, Pa, the democrats have been wise enough to nominate se safo and responsible s citizen @s William 1. Boow If the democrats everywhere would nominate their real representatives there woald be ne dowbt ef the en. promacy of their party im this country for ali time to come