The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1876, Page 3

CAMPAIGN ISSUES. Hon, . William M, Evarts on Tilden and Hayes. THEIR PLATFORMS EXPLAI ED. No Faith To Be Placed in the Democratic Programme. SOUTHERN PACIFICATION —_ DISCUSSED. The Republican Nominee To Be Trusted To Save the Union. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM NECESSARY. Democratic Piedges of Reform a Sham and a Snare. ‘The throng that assembled at Cooper Union last evening to hear Mr. Evarts spoak on the issues of the campaign may be regarded as the lust grand rally of republicans before the final battic. The hall was filled to its utmost capacity and the enthasiasm seemed gen- uine, On the platrorm wero many of the most promi- Bent business men of the city. At precisely eight o’clock Mr. Evarts made his appearance amid a per- fect storm of applause. Mr. John Jay then came forward and said that, on behalf of the Committee of Arrangements for the moct- ing to hear the Hon. Mr, Kvarts, the chair would bo taken by Mr. W. E. Dodge. Mr. Dodge said that on looking around on the vast audience present and the gentlemen who occupied the plutiorm—gentlemon who were not political partisans— he asked himself why was this great gathering. It was not because it was simply a political meeting on the eve of a great Presidential election, but it was because these gentlemen (occupying, many of them, the highest positions of financicrs and of business men) and the active business mon of the city felt alarmed and apprehensive as they looked around and saw a solid South looking forward to present themselves in our next Congress with asolid and united delegation coming there with the tull and distinct understanding tbat as they had so greatly aided in giving to the party the Presidency that they would be able, with the aid of those from the North who sympathized with them during the war, that they would be able to secure for their constitucnts largo sums for damage and loss Sustained during that struggle. Mr. Evarts, who spoke in a rather low lone, wa. listened to throughout .with breathless attention, wa then introduced. His views on the financial quos- tun were evidently relished, but the all-absorbing por- Hon of the speech was the solid South. ‘The speech was as follows HON, WILLIAM M, BVARTS’ SPRECH Mx. Cuaiax axp GxsTLEwEN—The wise man bas @aid that there’ is a time for every purpose undor heavon ; and in enumerating the vicissitudes of human affairs and {ae varietios of human conduct to’ which thero was always an appropriate time he fhas Teeounted a time to keep silence and a time to speak, The American people have long ago made uptheir minds that the beat of o Presi- dential canvass is not the time to keep Bilenco and w a time to speak. (Applause.) ‘Whether or no I should have found in special considor- &tion some reason to doubt whether I might not keep silent and might not speak, yet when the call of these merchants that make up so much of the prosperity and pride and hope and energy of Now York assigned fo me this duty, I could but accept it. Nay, more, the development of the canvass and its issues, and the smmense stake that stands upon the vote of Tues- day next, bave satisficd me that no man who could ex- pect to take the ear of the country in the least was justified in bemg silent. (Applause.) Whichever ho sbould speak ho could not belittle or undervalue the occasion or the issue, and if his voice could serve it should be heard waile there was yet time. In the methods of our politics, gentlemen, we are anable to separate the question in the popular mind or in the popular vote as to which party it would will- Ingly entrust the conduct of public affairs, from other question as to what man, or which men, of the party that they preforrod, they would select. Neces- sarily, therefore, there comes to be some contusion of ideas in @rawivg the distinctions between personal preforence: \d measures of the forco and faculty and strength of will amd character of the opposing candi- dates, when alter all the real question is, aud must be, hich party will you have to take your goverament; lo which will you entrust your interests; where is the satiety of the republic tu be found in the period of the text Presidential term? (App'ause.) NOW IN THESE CONTESTS OF OURS, 80 frequent and so familar, there are always three in- terests that enlist more or less the popular feelings aud the popular passions. The first we nay dismiss lightly; it iathe interest of the officeholders and the interest of the office seekers, intense and important to them and to their frionds, and in the great mass of our olfices, of course, an clement of power and force fo the community. But the commotion which those interests in their competition excite, are neither very wide nor very deep. They fo not mach touch the public peace nor iffect the public purse. But beyond this in all these popular clections there is an enlistment of the enthu- masm and the admiration of the great mass of tho people presumptively for ope or the othor of the statesmen of the country that are to lead tho canvass, These sometimes come toa great height, and they pometimes simulate in solicitude and in carnestaess the real anxieties that touch the public interests, But these, gentlemen, we are always suro to find never tarry the agitation of the public mind beyond a limit that 12 quite safe for the public peace and quite con- sistent with the permanence of the value of public securities, And alter the election, when even onry Clay is defeated and when Polk 1# elected in Mou of him, the agitation of communities subsides. Parties are always in the range of equal daties, and the peace of tho country is undisturbed and its public credit uninjured, And, genorally speak- fog, and in the happy condition in which our country bas generally been placed in that Presidential clection, what! have now assigned is THE WHOLE LIMIT AND RANGE of the interest and excitement that attend an election, ahd in that sense, and under those circuumstances, it fa true that a decision by the ballot who shall be President of the United States carrics no more peril to the public credit and the public peace than in England change from tories to liberals or the reverse But, when there docs enter into the canvasa QUE‘TIONS THAT TOUCH THE VITAL POINT, the integrity of the government, the permanence and welfare of the State, then the agitation that attends those questions supplant and overwhelm ali tho lesser qoestions that make up the staple of political discas- alo and differences. And the peopie of there United States determine for themselves in any pend- ing electio! ther the vital aterests are included or are not; and if they are, the people will act up to them; and if they are not, they will not bow down at tho bid of amy master or teacher, either foreign or mative, I take it the people of the United States know ‘as much about liberal and tory politics as the financial agents of European houses in Wall street. (Cheers.) 1 take ft that it is possible that on the issues of Amorican politics they know and feel a great deal more ‘As L bave said when these issues come in or give in- fluence to the contest and redivide the lines between parties, Itake it that then the Northern people are better custodians of the interests that the Northern yeople maintain than anybody else can be, even their ywn countrymen residing in other parts of the land. Jometimes these issues come up late in tho canvass, sna the good temper, the good faith, the bonest pur- pose of the great masses of the American peeplo make hem to believe evil of any of their country. men—(cheers)—so slow in their past histery that potbing but a war that buried half a million of chosen NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. youth, and exhausted $5,000,000,000 of thoir treasure could open their eyes. (Cheers) But we do not need a second such eye opener as that—(tremendous | cheers)—im this generation. Sometimes these grave issues are stifled tll tt tgtoo late, then the nation has to fight its way back to the ground of safety that it had silently and foolishly surrendered. (Cheers.) There was some danger of that in thiscanvass. (Ap” plause.) The South bas come to be so much exhausted in their strength, and all their animosity so completely removed, their unintimi- dation of our fellow citizens isso well known to us, they have been so unwarhke in the past—(laughter)— and so unhostile to the burdens of taxation—(laagh. ter)—that it is scarcely to be imagined that there could be any danger to tho public credit from the advance, ‘en unopposed, of so peaceful and placid a party. But the American people, after all, when it comes to the point, had rather trust themselves than anybody else—(laughter)—and if a bear should propose to one of our backwoodsmen alter ho, the bear, had been worsted in a fight, to prove by experiment (the bear’s strength having been exhausted) by trying another bug witn bim, I think the backwoodsman would prefer that It should be triod with somebody else—(laughter)— or in some other form, say with a siip-noose around his neck, to see whether he could not throw the bear shat way. Well, gentlemen, we are in the miast of a canvass, and simple as the call of the committce which bas hon- ored me with the invitation is in its terms, no one can fail to sco that in the great re-enumeration of the subjects of discussion, which may be announced, as matters touching” the pubite credit, the public service and the public peace, wo havea Presideutial canvass where the isgues are of the greatest vitality amd search- ing character. (Applause.) 1 would first say whatever 1 have to say of the two candidates of the party. And 1 WILL SPRAK PIRST OF GOVERNOR TILDEN becaure I shall bave less oecasion to expatiate concern- ing bim, as you all know him as well asl do, (Laugh- ter). But bave not one word to say in disparage. ment of bis abilities, which are distinguished; or of the character of his mind, which is very mar: Nor shall I deny that he has performed services of great value to the people of this city when he was fighting the democracy. (Laughter and applause.) And yet ho iso was doing @ great service in the State when he was diminishing the taxes of the farmers. And | do pot doubt that = in those spheres of public usefulness he ought to be encouraged and continued by the people of the country. (Ap- plause,) There he has made his fame, and whoover interrupts him in reaping the true harvest of these Invors does fim no service and may do the country a harm. ut the question ts obviously very different whether Governor Tilden at the head of the democracy, and of the democracy made up as it is Oghting the re- publican party, 181m the same line of usctulness as when he was fighting Tweed und Tammany Hall. (Ap- pluuse.) And there is room to doubt whether the war claims of the Southern people will be as greatly diminished, as what he has done toward reducing the taxes of the farmers of this Stave and in the service of the city. These services may entitle Goveruor Tilden to a ride over some other route by some otuer train, but not by this woich leads up to the White Houge.. (Applause.) And yet I can conceive of an arrangement of the democratic party where Governor Tilden might be useful and safely its feader, even in conducting tho great affurs of the federal government, But 1 think the republicans will preier to choose a President of their own, and that the time ig not yet come when they will clect Governor ‘Tilden, and it the republicans do not clect him every- body knows he will never be elected at all, NOW, GOVERNOR: HAYES, is to me personally almost entirely a stranger; bat there are some traits in bis character, somo facts in bis life, some purposes in bis cundoct, which, when once recognized, make him or leave bim a stranger to no true lover of nis country. (Applause) He is a gentleman ot education. Whatever of instruction or benefit trom instruction 1 received trom the ie masters of the law at whose icet 1 sat—Judge Story and Protessor Greealeat—the samo instruction and the same advantages bad Governor iiayes. 1 should have been olfended, if I not been an with the fact that many republicaus fel t liberty to slight the personal cluims of Governor Huyes because they had not beard of him. Well, be had lived to be afty-four years old. a man of education and of character, bign principled, having reopal virtue, and tho people in the a which he lived had heard of him. (Applause.) How many people bad heard favorably of Governor Tilden whilo be was in the secrets and the councils of Tammany Hall? (Laughter.) W: Gov- Hayes, atthe age of ilty-iour, was discovered and made known to the great mass of his countrymen, and one thousand, one million itelligence, bung on his life and record, there has been nothing tor him to explain, or explain away. (Applause., But let us seo t are the traits that our people valued in their citi- zeus when they offerod thomseives ior their suffrages. Let us compare bis war record, for instanco, wiih thi of Governor Tilden, How many seasons would it have taken to overcome the rebellion if Governor Tilden aud the American people had fought it vut on tho line that he had done? (Laughter.) And how vust would have been the treasures for distribution among the soldiers 2nd suliors of sho were Oghtiog for ‘us if his methed of repie img the Treasury came into operation! (Laagbeer.) 1 take itas it is, but I say that he was not « joremost captain or general in arma, and when the country was in necd be did nut hurry with gifts of gold, frakinconse or myrrh. (Laughter,) That is alll say of him; that te ol! that ~~ of his friends can say ol bim. Vell, now, there aro ® great many soldiers that bo- come so from professional obligations, There are otuers, alas! wtas! that sought the service to repair a sbattored character, and others that cuuid pot tind avy- thing loss dangerous and more profitable. But! put it to you now, gentiemen, as citizens of New, York, whether, when you find @ man ios peacetul protes- sion, in sue bosom of a family, with his wile and chil- dren about him, ot ample jortune, with no military obligations whatever upon him, aud that mun s for the war and fights his way through it, 11 he not done as much as any American expects a cit! zen todot (Cheers.) Or tuke @ feilow citizen in the great an ad- Inapy a roal (Appi for which we have so owe organization miration and to whom we manly thing in going in fora three months’ service of their country. 1 think their fellow citizeas thought so too. 1 aid for one, and 1 should not think any com- pany of honest would depreciate that degree of ullttary service the partot these gentlemen, sur- rounded us they are with all that makes home attrac tive. But Governor Hayes, with everything about hin, enlisted Jor the war, (Applause. ) And somehow or other, peiiner in classical times nor since, has there been supposed to be any greater honor than to be wiiliog to die tor your country, Governor Hayes showed tbat willingness, and that toucn of pa- triotic duty can never be disparaged in any company of citizens that was in tavor of the war ii which Le fought, (Cheors.) But they eay he Js notastatesman, Well, he bas been a very good cundidate. Cones.) That is all we have to do with him at present. He bas beatea In succession all tho favorite democratic statesmen of tho State of Obio (cheers), each of the “three great statesmen of his own State whom the democratic party thought iit to be a candidate for the Governorship. But he has been thrice Governor of the great State of Ubio, and thrice he discharged the duties of the office without fear and without reproach, and 1¥ He WILL DO FOR US AS PRESIDENT au well as he did tor the people ot tho State of Ohio as Governor, we should be sorry to see bim preciude bim- self trom re-election. (Cheers and laughter.) Now, gentlemen, we come to the consideration of some of the tupics Which touch, reully, the call and the isgues of the canvass—the idct that these merchants want to know WHAT EPPECT OX THR VALUE of the securities with which their safes are stocked will result from the election of Mr. Tien or tho vlection of Governor Hayes. Now, it ts pretty clear they would not have asked the question unless they felt vome doudt about 1%; and it is pretty clear what when the merchants and baskers doubt, wl humblo people that cauaot allord to tose thet savings im bank deposits or lite 1 had botter be stirring themselves, ‘The grout of political credit sustains ail values Interests, It 1ygot the futerest of the rich, wi poor man’s property 1s shrinking, to buy itup. The rieb Man does not lose auything, yh over the public credit, and Perturbation occupy the inasses of the people, then comes and the crash upd the loss and tb And when that ch: tooir aflairs arrives, produce without their thought, perbape, but not withuut their fault, if they have so blinded their eyes from party zeul as not to gee the dillerence to the securities of & country, whether its government is im the bands of those who carried tt through im war sustained ft, or in the hands of those who fougn’ plause.) We have a homely maxim Money are soon parted; aod those who expose them- by that toily to that loss of propery come within that maxim. (Laughter), And 1 will neither console sueir self-complaconcy bor restore their property to know tl as Mr. Belmont thought so tov. It is said that it is not or prudent to trust the repubhean party mi nt of your Unances, your debt Well, why? ‘They ce: y sv far. The oniy serious complaint that | heard for years against the adminis- ne of the finances by tho republican party was u THRY WERE PAYIXG THE DXBT TOO FasT— (laughter)—and taking too much money out of the ‘apply itto tbat object. Woll, gentlemen, buve beea sone force in that, but see what a bold and fathiful that was—facing the oppro- brium of heavy taxation, insisting ‘upon the come tax to pay the debt, Public servants cannot very well increase taxation with a view of public favor; bi the great lesson was to bo taught this people that their energies were not crusned by the war. they were not impoverished, 3 of labor, and th reduced the volume bat thut they coula necks. (Applause.) There was statesm ip for vo unpopularity, to adverse er: party could point to the expen: tho government regularly paid and $656,000,000 of tho devt discharged, (bey oan tace the world aod meet any another’ rebellion. Well, we bave reduced th terest thirty odd millions A year, and wo have reduced the taxes $300,000,000; and st seems to Ine tbat as the possibility of the in- creased payments of the uebt the decrease of interest and the decrease of taxation are multiplying on every side, that our wise will let a party that has paid so much of their debt, diminished their taxes much and the burden of interest on the unpaid debt so muco, go eu and do the same thing till they are tired (Laughter.) | I never knew a farmer discharge a man because he dug too many potatoes in a week—(laughter)—and | never heard of a person disebarging a clerk because he could sell too many boxes of goods to asolvent customer; but {nsensible ax propositions of that kind ure, and hopeless of any influence oo the public mind, there 18 another und & graver subject—to wit, the resumption of specie payments, |, how, why {s i that itis import- ‘ant for a people, especially a people mude up of men who work and thrive and commence with nothing but sue capitul of thetr labor out or which to make their fortunes—why is it important for them that ‘THEY SHOULD HAVE TRE Basis OF SPECIE for the measure of their labor? The law a that the currency, whatever it may be, they ball take for their labor; and when men print currency it is quite obvious thut there is not quite so much tabor in the making of a dollar as thero is iB doing a day’s work; but when gold and silver are the Measure of a man’s labor they measure it not by the imprint ow the metal, jor that is merely a certificate of the government so as to be understood by everybody it is gold and how much tnere is of it—it does not a Dot & particle—it gets its value from other men’s labor, because up to the last penny weight of 1t8 substance it je the exact measure of somebody else's labor that got it out (Applause.) aud when men labor in this world they ike to be sure when part with 18 that they get measure = of ~— poor man’s labor in return, and that is the reason the dem- States. It was the Pantheon of the laborer, of the farm- er, of all mon who, by totl, add to the public good, and nothing bas dismayed me more than to see the utter pred naay, ofa party that has thus allied iself— identified i—with the cause of ti laboring man and tied down the currency of the country throug long series of years of 113 standard of gold and silver, ow scouting as an fliusion and a snare, and hoping that the nation of the printing press shail make the volume of mouey th. claimed for the poor man. THRRE OUGHT TO RE 4 DIVERSITY of opinion as to that, but I do not kuow what has hap- pened to this democratic party to change their opinion astothat. | know they said it would never be paid, I krow they derided and decried it aud lumented even an war that the people could vot pay specie payment to their soldiers and for the commodities of lite; but now we are told that it is the interest of labor and of honesty that gold should be the American people are not stupid. aman in the country that does not know that a gold doilar is a gold dollar—(appiauro)—and that a paper promise to pay a gold doliar i: value becuuse the gold dollar 1s expected to come scme time or other, I have watched this point and | really do pot tind that there 1 y danger of the American people being fond of money without intrinsic value that is made for them by iho councils of Congressmen, Does anybody doubt that the republican party is in favor of specie payments? Does anybody doubt that Governor Hayes ig in favor of specie payment? Nobody. Iv YOU WANT SPRCIE PAYMENTS you will get them trom Governor Hayes and the re- pablican party. (Applause.) If you don’t want them, why then you have choice betwoen voting for Gov- ernor Tilden or our esteemed fellow citizen. (Ap- if Mr. Tilden wanted speci but time when y votes by on per, an honest man, 8 Dot to want itall tnetime, (Applause and laughter.) When you look at this matter you wiil that on this question of specie payments* is not any doubt on one side and there is great uncertainty on the other. Now, the re- publicans asked a bill, one of whose clauses was th: specie paym hould be resumed on the 1st of J: uary, 1879. ‘Thatis the law of the land to-day—(ap- plause)—and the Secretary of tbe Treasury should prepare to meet that duty thus imposed upon him by surplus fromthe revenue or Regotiation of bonds payadlo with Now, Governor ‘Tilden, before ho the currents of Pri nual aspiration, thou, that was a good law; that one of the best things it was its vefiniteness, But now he bas .disco that in naming the day for resumption thero is offered an insurmountable impediment; (hat resuming with- out preparing was nugatory, and that pre- paring I suppose without resumption was bet. ter. (Laughter.) He says it {s a good thing to name th on which you are to start on a voyage, but thas it reat embarrassment to know when ‘ou are to arrive ut he end of st The mor or the locomotive would be apt to burst its boiler in doing it. 1t 18 not aceording to the sonse of the American peo- ple. (Applause. ) I should as svon think of Governor Tilden ascribing his long anmarried life to the trequency with which he bad named the day for 1t—(applause)—as to bave bim persuade us that, baving a certain time within which to prepare confused and embarrassed the propo- sition. The trath m, gentlemon, that this aemocratic profession and fondness of paper money, the fondness for republican unconstitutional raga, 1 always seomed to me the extreme of political eflrontery, and 1 have seen some specimens of political effrontery, sometimes even in the party to which I belong (Laughter.) 1 think, therelore, that THX BANKERS IN WALL STRERT do not reed aby insiruction as to whetuer the repub- licans would bandie tne Quances woll or whether they would bring about specie payments. They wanted some shrewd intelligence, if tney could fod it, that would prove to them that the democrats would do the same thing; and 1 coniess their obligation to that service 14 u complete failure. Lave turned it over in 'y way that l could, 1 have read Gover- of acceptance backward and tor- 1 have endeavored to see whether pecle payment sooner with Govornor Tilden President snd Mr. Hendricks Vice Prosi- dent, or with Hendricks President aod ‘Tilden Vice President. (Appiause.) I have endeav- ored to see what there was that should prevent the democratic party in submitting to the stimulus of the republicans as to the time of payment, and spend the two years alter thi iden up to the 1st outing Menng: 4 then, through gress and « democratic Senate, if they have oue, to extend the time, say for sixty or ninety days, or some such short time, (Applause) But ft, and therefore my counse! bankers that the repubdlicans will take good care of the finances, will re- sume specie payments, and that the democ: ats will do us they shall be advised after tho election. (Ap- plause.) Now, under these circumstances, as you cannot advise them aftor the election { think you had better exercise your inilaenee before it. Well, there is another topic of very great interest to us, and that 1s THE CIVIL BERVICE— the reform of the civil service. -(Applause.) I tuink the past history of the democratic party is not satisfactory. 1 think that while the democrats were in power, say up to 1860, they had introduced, devel- oped, expanded and burned into the system of the polities of this country the doctrine that the civil service belonged to the people tuat distributed *or cajoled the votes. Well, now, the republicans had a great many things on thoir hunds besides attending to the civil service. They suppressed the Rebellion. (Applauge., They maintained the institutions of the country unbroken. They restored its peace; they have paid off its debts, and they have been wanting in some degree in their conducting of the civil service, 1 will not conceal or exteuuate their faults, vut 1 would lke to compare the record of the democratic party with a budget as big as the republicans have bad before 1 will preter the democrats. (Cheers.) They had a budget ‘vf $60,000,000 or $80,000,000 before the war; the de- tails of the pecubations and of tho deductions which those peculations paid irom the volume of that revenue have been spread before the public Now, before they compare themselves with the ro- publican party in the civil service and the adminisira- tion of the revenues of the country 10 that connection, T woald like to see them with a budget of $300,100,000 to givo an uccount of to this people year alter year tur twelve years; or, rather, I would take that back, for I would not lke to have them have that Dudget, even for the purpose of making that record. (Laughter.) I would rather concede the point than concede tho budget. (Cheers.) Weil, | the future question of this country is precisely that, | heey wo aro to curb tho powor of the iinmmense range of | otfice-holders over the politics of the country. They are killing all the statesmaoship; wey are belittling ol the issues; they are discrediting all parties; they ‘are injuring all politics. But it is not a thing qo be done away with In a day. The vicious | circle bas beeu keenly touched by Gov- ernor Hayes in bis letter of acceptance (Applause.) TI iclous cirele by which the placemen Make the Congressmen and the Congressmen make Placemen, and both leave the people out, has been by Governor Hayes. And tho first ground of my contidence physician to cure un iil or heal a wouad be iro that he knows what the ill is the-wound 1s, Now, I think you may Tildoo’s long leier ot accep with candies and you won’s wud any deelw he means to make wur on democratic placom making democratic Congrossinen, or democratic Von- gression making democratie piacemen. He thinks bt to be curefully scrutinized— | siready done that. All the talents and virtues that our poor bumanity can collect | that wants au oilice won't pass the has the quaifications which mocratie party was the first to re- ‘and will be the last to relinquish. ts impossible that the touched as with a peed (Cheers. ) in any is quire But you will observe that Gemocratic party should begin the reform of the pub- Hie serviee while all the offices are filled by republi- caps, That would be too much for human natur that would be a barren viciory; that would be a ai aod) spoils that they Therciore, ta pared Bot on political grounds, slanderers, Well, we shail airaid, too much parties for their action. epublican party hus a right to Gov- ernor Hayes if elected with wi Vody of office-hoiders, speakiug generally of the satne poll teal party with bimeelf, y Dave aright to vemand of him, nominated because favor of civil reform, accepting the nomination given him because he was in favor of civil service reform, and, with this before Lim, it will be easy work in weeding out un- worthy, incompetent republicans, and filling their laces with honest, worthy republicans, it their num- r holds out, and if not with honest, worthy demo- cratsy. (Cbheers.) That is the war we aro in for now. A ontiemen, this question dves not much credit, except the sonse of public feel for their gov I will not say during the last sixteen y: the last forty years, by the prevalence o! ment of the fair patriotism aod of the coustry in the in. terest of what is called in§ gross language) ‘the machine,” Bub that belongs to neither party. Ibis the struggle of bE age and that may be in- trusted tothe party that did rot imveut it, and that has stroggled pretty hard to put an end to it, Ido not understand that the nominatien of Governor Tilden ac St. Louis, by which he triumphed over bis competi- tors, turned on the ground at all that he would not appoint democrats to office, that all he would have re- quired would be «rigid exaction of those acts which would preclude political issues, I think we must con- elude, then, that ull people that are honestly in favor Of civil service reform will tind in Goverhor Hayes a fearless, open and firm supporter of the principles Which will load to that reforta, Now I am brought to what would be THE THIRD ToFIC of administration to be expected from one party or the other, I mean the treatment of toat vital question of the pacification of the Soutb—o! the pacification of the country—of the preservation of the fruits of the war and tbe discharge of the obligatiens of good faith which the republican party has assumed as ove of tho results of the war, But I am at once admonished that I cannot meet the comparison between administrative action and administrative promises between the par- ties, because the democratic party, as a party in ite Organization and in its action as a party, bas never done anything except to produce, to prolong, to om- barrass the war and to render it wholly nugatory. I cannot tell what they would do if they undertook the service of provecting those republican lambs down South. 1 don’t know what they would do with the observation © of the poblic taith in « debs that has been created in maintaining the government, and which is ® burden upon the people. | don’t kuow what they would do in regard to the maintemance unbroken of the right of sultrage im the freedmen—(applause)—a duty to which the white men of this country can never be recreant, unless, at least, they are ready to admit that the freedmen are better ablo to govern them than they are to govern, 1 do not wish to be romantic, I don’t wish to be exorbitant; but if there 18 one thing that will be a curse and a disgrace to thif nation, it will be the desertion of the treedmen, ‘by leaving them a prey to the Tebels of the South. (Applause) Now, as I do know what the republicans will do and wish to do, some- times fortunately, sometimes insufliciently, sometimes thwarted and opposed beyond their strength to over- come resistance, I preier to view the continuance of that duty in the hands that have thus far discharged it, and in the hearts that do feol the obligation, (Ap- plause.) Iam theretore obliged, instead of pursuing doi to what will be ‘the better course, to at ones what includes the whole, Is i safe for the people of tho United St to intrust to the democratio party, or ized and constituted as it is, led by the candi- dates that they propose for your suffrages, with the record of the party constituted as tt now is and of the candidate during the period of the struggles of the war, during antecedent steps that lod to it, during the process of pacification that has followed? Is it wise to trust it to them at all? (No! no!”) Ifyou trust what been gained by so much blood and sacrifice and treasure and lose it, whon will you have blood or trens- ure to save your country again? Now, there might be a demoeratic party tha, would include a majority of tho thoughtful and honest eitizons of the Northern States, Now, then, the democratic party would include a majority of the thougbtiul and honest citizens of the Northern States, led by a candidate who, notwith- standing party professions, bas presented himself to the loyal people to redress the rebellion; and there might be economic issues—probleins of finance, prob- Jems of administrative, that by a measuring class or that by a lurge volume of superwrity the people of the United States would trust to that democratic party, thus constituted and thus maintained, | um discussiug no abstract proposition, Tam describing no abstract party. 1am not saying a word against the thousands and thousands of democt soldie! that fought on our side—(applause)—the thousands and thousands of democrati¢ voters that voted on our side. (Applause. ) For uught I know those who voted with the demo- cratic party were honest in their judgment when they voted with the party to which they were allied by birth or inclination, and a democratic purty made up in its preponderance ot soldiers, so far as there are soldiers in it—they who fought against the country and of voters an the magses who voted aguinst the country and did not help by voice or word to support the maintenance of the great institutions of liberty, th enunce of the pation. I will say that when th gone through these immen: by their own vote to determine whether they will re- invest with power the democratic party that im its constitati dt its loaders is, in my judgment, wholly undisting le in principle or makeup from the party as we expelled it from pi posing @ movement of this tolerable to their self-respect, incompatible with the salety of the country, inconsistent with the mainte. Manco of the constitution, (Applause) It was thought to be a very good lesson of our war, and one ‘tbat would not be forgotten, that men would fight as they voted; that i! the muss of those people had de- termined that Abrabam Lincoln should be Pres:deut, that was suflicient to make him President. (Applause. ) Bot now the proposition on the part of the democ- Facy 1s, that although wo fought os wo voted, we wouldn’t vote as we fought. Well, gentlemen, we won’t vote as we fought; we will have some reason tor changing our vote as wo understand what the tasue is, and if, understanding that, we should make up our moinds that wo will surrender our character, our con- duct, our hopes; but we won’t do iton any sach toolsh Feason a8 that. THK BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION. Now, is the democratic party, as now constituted and as‘now led, substantially analogous with the dem- ocratic party as constituted and as led when James Buchanan was President and a solid South existed? I do not think you can search the record ot a single statesman of the democratic party and find a closer analogy shown by the circumstances which led the Southern people into tho folly of armed resistance tot government, and exposed the Northern peoplo to tolls, Iubors and sacrifices of maintaining itecif, as ‘between Mr. Tilden and Mr. Buchanan. (Applause. ) There are no cerements of the grave about him, but that bey goes to make clear the fact that it is not Bu- chanan himself. There is the same halting betwee themn—the same “I dare not,” ing upon would;” the same imbecility to ippress rebel- hon—ah, gentlemen, there is the same odor of denationality about him. —_(Applause.) Now the whole question whether the South ought to measure their strength and fly to arms against tho government was to be solved in their jadgment by the question whether the government would fly to arms against them, And the terms were by the dem- ocratic party saying that there was no license in the Constitution to do so, and that the moment a military rebellion took place that was the end of the Union. Bat the repubilcan North—did I say the republican North’ no, the loyal North—led by tho republicans, (applause)—determined that the question whether a uuiitary rebellion against the government of the United’ States would be suppressed, and upon the question whether the resolution and patriotism of the organ‘zed military of the country was stronger than what Governor Tilden calls the organized rebellion. (Applause) As was sald by a lawyer when a client came to consult bin about his brother as to whether he could be put m jail by the cause of action. “No” saidthe lawyer, ‘Well, but,” said he, my brother is in jai! now,” (Laughter.) And'now, whe- ther wo got it constitutionally or uncenstitutionally, we did get it, and judgment has been entered, und now an appeal is taken, und tho democratic party, submit- ting in arms, Dow says that It {s going \o show that all that wes unconstitutional, and what the consequence ‘will be of that correction of the law of this land you, gentiomen, can judgo us well as |, if you aro fools enough to have the correction made, 1 think the judgment we have got is a good one for us, and wo will hold to it. Now, { bave said—tor [ will be guilty of no injustice ard no contusion about Govervor Tildenl —have said the \uromg point was whether tho loyal people of the country would find bim right, authority and power to suppress that rebellion, und the question whether the South should bo urged on to the fatal and irrevocable step of military resistance or be settlod by their political alles at the North, after the election of Lincoln, Now, I would Itke to bave you understand what the Southern doctrine about this constitution of ours is, Away back in 1798 tho Southerners undertook to determine the doctrine by whict the Union should last as iong as they wanted it andend when they sucked it dry; and this doctrine waa that whore two nations have no common judge each purty haw an equal right to judge tor itself, and at the end of a generation they thought they would buy tout, And now let me show you the auvantage of having a democratic President at the head of affairs not in accord with the majority of the people of the United States in crushing out the largest reboll'un the world ever saw. It was in tho democratic doctrine that the means was found to nip that rebellion tu the bad S WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONE. Let us ere, then, what might have been dono when tbe revelhon broke out, had the imcumbent in the Presidontual chair belouged to that party. I knew of a democrat who was ax loyal as any man that evor lived. The exnortation of 0 addressed to the peuple of the South s: ould never n unless the Star Spangled Banner of their country fluated over thon, that -‘you will not be stig- 4 when dead and dishonored and sovrned while re %, a8 the authors of the wurst the constitution. Its destroyers you cannot be. You may disturb its peace, you may interrupt the course of its prosperity, you cloud ite reputution with bloodshed, but ite tranquillity will be restore prosperity will rowrn a character will be transferre blot of the way with the notion shat republicabs & distinction between ourselves in loyalty, in courage, in de- No, we draw a distinction between the democraus who are courageous and firm and the dewocrass that joyal, timid and bas plause,) And distinction 1 long as (his draw. (Applause. ) like 1% they cannot like {t worse than they di this te a free country | prop And if the democrats do not Hked the exhortation of Jackson, and 1 could not beat that wt to try all night. (Laughter). Let us see now, Tha down to 1352. Buchanan came along tour years ward and lasted until 1860, nounced from the Pres: al chair to the government the Jackson had exposed his opin aboa thirty years, See whether it sounded like Jackson, the exhortation of Buchanan, when you seo that seo whether it sounds like Tilden 1. you think it id like Tilden, (Applause. ) bi gach power has been del ow department of th: be was too €0 tion in the | in thundering vengeance u; the poop! doing what they had a rig vo do. On the 26th day Oct ir, 1860, at precise! ly of jy the same stage tn the Presi- dential canvass that wo siaod at now, Governor Tilden, then @ pri sop, but @ great credit as a doctor to the democracy, wrote this lot. ter in the very stress of tho incipient rebellion, But yet he bad not changed a hair of his head, says, not ona Now, king of ‘the Statos, he 20d Inter states —[vbas is the op “Keach is organ! | posing parties)—“‘with complete governi the purse aud the sword. T gether only by a compact Now, does not that sound like Buchanan? Ba chanan did not write bis message — that read from until thirty days after this letter o! of confeduration. ” (Laug’ which hoids States im confederation bas no strength compared with the compact intertwining fibers which bind the atoms of hutwan society into one jormation ral growth." What au admirable piece of that was. If rhetoric could have satistied Soutbvern ambition this would have dove it, But they contracted their fibers and united their atoms in the form of squadrons, regiments, and ali that which 1s not of vatural growth, Now ‘our fathers,’”? he says, “recognized no right of constitution joa, bat left revolution organized whenever it should be demanded by the public epinion of the States, leit with power to snap the tie of sonfederation as a nation swpel coercion ag a nation admirable composition! ized forces of revo- loyal States some of us turned our at manifest and noble opportunity which ty im the other States presented. (Ap- quite clear that if vou get the patriot. Urago and the wisdoin of a majority of % New York in favor of blows to government, then you have got the or- gunized loyalty of the State of New York that tights With its whole power and prowess against the orzan- ized disloyalty of South Carolina Ab! but, gentic- ‘mon, there was the turning point; there was the ques- tion that Governor Tilden laid bis Gnger oo when he ‘told the democrats of New York to tou not With one fluger the unholy effort to use force to marniain lution in th tention to the government, (Cnoers.) And if we bed not found a great many democrats who looked at things as Jackson «didnot as Buchanan or. Tilden = dit—wo ever = should — havo had the organized loyalty of the State of New York, but would have been counted on the side of organizea revolution. I was one of five men who-on the Tucs- day after the firing on Fort Sumter, met in a private office in Pine street to feel the pulse of the people and Touse them and to cull a meeting, and we didn’s know whether we dare do it lest the fewn of o numbers should be construed into weakness. Theo we didu’s dare to ask for the Academy of Music, for tear our shrunken columns would have displayed the barrennoss of the patriotism ot Now York. But by Saturday, the 19th April, we determined there was no place that could hold the loyal poople, the organized loyalty of Now York. (Cheers.) On tho 19sh April we had 100,000 men there, and there would have been 100,001 if Governor Yuden had been there. (Cheers and Jaugh- ter.) There were 99,000 without Fernando Wood, Wo went on and appointed a committeo of safety, We actually manued steamers and raised regiments in our own name, and with our own tuads, and without the power of taxation, and we fought it out on that line and our own construction of the constitution—Jackson construction, (Muck cheering.) And we have no hesitation in denouncing unybody and every- body that fought, or wished, or felt with the other side as Jackson denounced these people. Now, gentlemen, I have never aeon any retraction of those political opinions on the part of Governor Tilden. 1 have never seen any retraction of those political opinions on the part of the solid South, aud if they get a solid South wishing to dissolve the Union through fear or intercst or hatred, I do notthink they would have avery strong barrier against it in those opinions backed by Samuel J. Tilden. (Cheers.) And if Attorney General Black should bé recalicd to that office I don’t think you would get very scrviceable law to uphold the govern- ment, for has he uot practically supported and ad- vanced those opinions’ Now, what does the South qgemaud? That the debts of the war should be borne equally all round, the losges to be divided, that bygones should be bygones, and (he whole matter to be settled by putting us on an eqaality of common ruin, THK DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS. Governor Seymour—a most oxtraordinary recom- Mendation to a party that is seeking the suffrages of tho Republic agaist tne opposite party—Govervor Seymour beseeches his countrymon to confide the Executive branch of the government to the democrauc candidate, because if ho undertakes to carry out bis principles the republican Senate will prevent it, jkauaties) And Governor Tilden suys in his last jotter that if the democratic Congress of his party undertakes to do these things he will veto them. I havo understood you might accuse General Jackson of vetoing a bavk measure of the whigs, but I have never yet heard of supporting @ candidate ior the Presidency because he would veto @ measoro bis party was in favor of. It seems to me 1s democratic party comes mincing upto gain of the American people, and relies for the graces both of its coctour and ils drapery upon the same things that our modern ladies do, the pull-backs. (laugheer.) Bat if th pull-back would break, as x knew what would happen to a lady, [ cannot tell what would happen to this democratic party. I remember, many years ago, to have seen u story, told by Ettrick Snepherd in Blackwood's Maga- zine, of those who went out boar hunting; but their purpose was not so much the destruction of the sa the succulent und savory tood of the young. And ove of them went into the den where he heerd the squeal- ing of the litter of young boars, and he lett his com- panion, Sawney, outside to look after the old boars that were pepoer y along. Well, Sawncy was brave, but his gun miss fire, and tbe boar passed him and got ito the opening of tho den; but Sawney, with great presence of mind and great strength of body seized hold of tho boar’s tail, and, twisting it around both his hands, pressed his fect against the side of the den. Well, his companiog in- siue, Onaing the light darken, called out, “Sawney, Sawney, what "? Sawney was a man Ol few Words and no strength to waste, and his com- t, “If the (Laughter. ) not be but Iam inclined to think jor that af the veto breaks you will find oat what will happen. it Mr. Evarts wont on to say that it a Pri freo country attempted to break any measure against the will of the ple the people would break the Presi- dent it they can’t break theveto. Lincoln, whose memory we revere as only second to thatot Wasbington, (Ap- panion, apprehending his tail breaks you'll fina out.” plaase,) “WI! will Mr. Lincoln do? Can he be ex- pected as President to understand the States, or of 1n- luence in apy other senso than that of his own partisan policy? Can be do otherwise than maintam the power of bis party the same meacs by which they have acquired Can be free pbimself from the domination ofthe ideas that influenced him in bis rise to power?"’ GOVERNOR TILDEN WON'T CHANGE these political opmions. They aro bono of his bon and flesh of bis flesh. He would no more change the: opinions than I would change mine, who hold that the offspring of our Revolution in 1776 was pot that tho States should have no tio, but that which was severed when they parted from the mother country, but that y should be linked together in the bonds of a United States of Amorica—(ap- plause)—by the of God free and independent of all the world, tucluding South Carolina, Now about tho ability of the peopie te keep to theso promises when the party differed trom him. See what be thought in thi President Lincoln. Well, now, nor Tilden certainly woula not expect the A chavging bis views, not speak in entire good faith in respect to President Lincoln, “Deteat Lincoln, interests and bopes are unqui will say defeat Tilden and all our interests and hopes are all unquestionably (Applauge.) Now, gentle. meu, we repubiicaos made record aud we incurred the hatred of a great of our couutrymen, but in arms everybody recofuized the power of this country ; knew that it was a pation, and fad as much power t keep its nationality as God bud ever given to any pation tu the world (Appia ) Our land was powerful in arms and in the greut urca of its fruitiul soll, And now they ask us to bring back the séme men iato power and the same President that we expolied. A nation uevor did that, A nation never will do that. True that the Engliwh nation recalled the Stuarts and bore the penance or twenty years for doing so. But, thea, it was tbe army that recailed them and not the people, Humun naturo is the sume in every country. What did the Stuarts do? Cromwell that stood to the English people as Lincoln stands to the American peo- ple, dead, Cromwell was exhumed, his head cut off by the executioner and displayed over Westminster Hall, the home of Justice—that head, the greatest inEngiand and the most torrivie lesson to all feeble lovers of liberty that like to bring back the toe that they banished. (Applause.) Now tbe manners of OUR TIMES HAVE CHANGED. Such revolting barvarities will never be practised; but the undying batred wich the banished sixve power will feel for us loyal people is something to be guarded against, If, after having the courage and the fortune to rescue’ the couvtry from them, we by our wilhog vote, having the question ia ourown bands decide to let them teach the okt par- amentary story should teach us wisdum and pru- dence :— "Methinks I hear a lion in the lobby roar, Mr. Speaker; shall we bar the door and keep bim out, or Jet him in aud take our chances to get him out again?" (Laughter.) I do mot think that the path credit or the public faith would be safe in the hands ot the democrats. answer these merchants and bankers mw tho gross. That i# my opimon ot the prudent choice between two. Governor Tilden cannot be made President of the United Stas, in any view of the canvass, without tho vote of the State ot New York. He cannot carry the vote of tno State of New York unless he carries the vote ut tho ed of the city and its neighborhood, (A Voice—“Poter Cooper is going to be next Pres- ident!) And you, the citizens of New York, only wield that influence that belongs two wealthy intelligent enterprise to your connection, with jodustry and the prosperity of all the land, but you get actual hold on the power itself, aud as you doter- mine, and as you act from now onward to the ith of November will depend to a great degree the solution of the problem as to whietl the domocratic majorities can be overcome by your aid aud that of the rural population of tho State. I speax as I believe to wise men. Voto for Tilden if you please, but vote knowing what will hap what you are doing and wilt ought tt t at My countrymen, with the developed tears them ia time, sould be the phantom of Buchanan’s likeness ‘enme It may ig ivercary of t! ring at Sumter Lincoln, Governor Tilden may be Its Chiet Magistrate, but Heaven, and I never shall fterward. (Cheers) It that the peopie uf this ut Mr. ‘rdom by the veice of a free I don’t believe it bet have occasion to believe it may be that Il don’t believe country, with its record of the political opin’ Tilden, and this record of the party that is bebind him and wi presents him for your waffrages, may clothe bim wi he purple of their power, may put the goiden chain ¢ Aan Biel Lek a Eee astigns may applaca ‘a the man that this poo) eth to honor. But I don’t believe they will, and if the depth and the measure of their repentance {t s@ not worth while now to insist upen, Mr. Kvarta revired midst cheers, :. age boar as to gotting inside of their dens and securing | bs § POOLS ON THE ELECTIONS. As the day of election gro earer tne poo! rooms are nightly more and more crowded, ‘The Paris mutual pools command the attention of those who speculate on small margins, while the beavy bettors confine themselves to the auction pools, Whether it is owing 10a prevalence of democrats among those who bet or not it is certaim that the confidence of @ democratic success is daily incroasing among thom, ‘The following will show the feeling om tho national and some of the State elections, as evidenced by the betting last evening: — ar souxson's General resuls.. New York State General result... New York State. General result . New York State Indiana... . - 100 Ap even was offered that Tilaeu would havo three times the majority in New York Stato that Hayes would have in Ohio, At Kelly & Rhee’ $100 even was bet that Tilden would ‘ry the four Stutes— New York, New Jersey, Cou ious 4 indiana Two thousand dollars to $1,800 was offered at Morris. #ey’s on Tilden’s election, BETTING IN WASHINGTON. Wasuinetox, Nov. 1, 1876. Three pools wore sold here to-night on the Presidential election, as follows:—General result, Tilden beats Hayos, $100 to $80; Tildon carries State of New York, $50 to $30; Tilden carries Indiana, $70 to $50, Sse eS Se FLORIDA FOR ‘TILDEN. WHAT HON. BEN H. HILL SAYS HE HAS OB: SERVED AMONG THE ‘‘FLY-UP-THE-CREEKS." ATLANTA, Ga,, Nov. 1, 1876. Hoo, Benjamin H. Hill, who bas just returned from & stumping tour in Florida, pronounces that State cer- tain for Drew and Tilden by not less than 5,000 ma. jority. He says the Northern settlers in Florida, who hold the balance of power, have ulmost without excep- tion deserted the republican party and are supporting Doth State and national democratic tickets, Ho say it is simply impossible to beat a people so full of en. thusiasm and iospiration as tho democrats of Florida now ure, GEORGIA AND SOUTHERN CLAIMS, GOVERNOR TILDEN'S LETTER INDORSED BY THI DEMOCRATIC , SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEM OY THE STATE. % ATLayTa, Ga, Nov. 1, 1876. The Secretary of the State Democratic Committee of Georgia bas telegraphed to the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee that Georgia demo- crats indorse fully and sincerely the etter of Governor Tilden on the Southern claims question. The press and politicians of Goorgia have spoken unanimously in indorsement of Tilden’s letter, The committeo is indorsed by Senators and Congressmen of Georgia WATERING OIL, THE PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION COM= PANY'S TROUBLES—VERY LITTLE KNOWM IN PHILADELPHIA—AN INVESTIGATION MADE AT QITUSVILLE, AND MB. HARLEY HAS SATIS« FACTORILY SETTLED. Puinapexpmia, Noy, 1, 1876. Except to the stockholders of the company nothing seems to be known in this city of the troubles of the Pennsylvania Transportation Company, the new oil pipo lime, which 1# in course of construction from ‘Titusville to Philadelphia. On Third street, among the brokers, a few had heard vague rumors that something was wrong, but what (ne nature of it was no one had any positive information. After a diligent bunt the fow that are pecuniarily interested in that company bere were found, and from them all the knowledge they professed to have concerning the alleged crooked practices of the President was ob- tained by the Hxratp correspondent, The Hon. Will- tain . Kemble, President of the Pacific Ban k; state ‘Treasurer Robert W. Mackey, and ex-Recoiver of Taxes John L. Hill are about the only stockholders now in Philadelphia of any prominence. The story they toll amounts to this:— Last Saturday the directors first received an intima- tion that the certificates of the company were selling in Pittsburg and in the ot] regions far below what they had beon bringing and what those of other ofl com- panies were quoted at. This at onco excited suspicion, ‘and an rpvestigation was thought necessary. A mect- jug of the directors was called at Titusvilie on Monday, end their examimations into the affairs of the company are now being made, the direction still holding their sessions there. It appears joged that Mr. Harry Harsloy, the president any, with o.ber oificers, havo traudnlent certificates tor their own use. These certi- ficates purported to represent large amounts of oil re- ceived by the company for shipment, to the extent of soveral hundred thousand dol orth, #¢ is rumored. The fraudulent paper yeasteg @ signateres of the was used as collateral borrowed by Mr. ‘A later despatch was received to-night at the Girard House, from Titusville, to Hon. A. K. Gordon, stating that the investigation is concluded and Mr, Harley has sottled satistuctori! WAS MR. LICK SANE? HIS SON, IN PUSHING THIS INQUIRY, TO BR MET BY A DENIAL OF HIS OWN LEGITIMACY. San Francisco, Nov. 1, 1876. It has been ascertained thatthe main grounds on which John H. Lick !utends to contest his father’s trust deed are insanity and undué influence on the part of the trustees and others, who, it is alleged, have used means to prejudice the deceased + agen 4 bis son by falsely accusing the latter of the ge = through «tl Legia- a Dill providing decedent should devise over a cortain proportion of his fortune to charitable or other objects, aside trom the natural heirs, by which and other alleged untrue representa~ tions the deceased was induced to leave the estate in trust, to the prejudice of the petitior The legiti- mucy of John H. Lick be made a promin feature in the contest by the trustees, and an im- pression prevails that it will be difficult to joe any logit action on tho part of his father by which macy can be established, “A BAD PLACE TO WALK Boston, Nov. 1, 1876. James Daly, whilo walking on the track of the New York and New England Railroad, near Readville Sta tion, this afternoon, was struck by an engine and re- ceived injuries which resulted fatally in a short time afverwi AMUSEMENTS. ARRIVAL OF MADAME ESSIPOFY. Madame Annette Essipoff, the famous Russian pianist, arrived in New York yesterday on the French steamship Labrador, She proceeded at onee to the Clarendon HoteL A sketch of this distinguished ist has already appeared in the Hemarp. At her apartments in the hotel she found a magnificent grand y, voyage the fair pianist sat down at once, aud for a haif hour, before a tew Iriends, she played = number of with marvellous skill Madame Kes MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Tbe Crabbed Age” will replace ‘Tom Cobb” at the Park Theatre next Wednosday. Tho fifth Sunday concert at Booth’s Theatre has been postpened by Mr. Fryer until the 13th inst, on account of the excitemont preceding the election. Elaborate preparations are being made for “As You Like Iv’ at the Fifth Avenuo Theatre, Miss Fanny Davenport will appear on the 11th as Rosalind and Mr, William Castle as Amiens, Edwin Booth will begin his engagement at the Lyeoum on November 20, in ‘‘Hamiet.” The following are the principal members of tho company Mr. Mc: Vickar has engaged to support -~Clara Jenaings, Jonnie Carroll, Alice Brooke, Florence Stratton, ERe Johns and Frederic Robinson, Milnes Levick, James M. Hardie, Frank Pierce, Hart Conway, W. A White ear, W. H. Collins, ¥. R. Foster, T. J. Hinds, W. W. Grant, Lewis Baker. ©. W. Millor and othera The complete company includes elghty-seven personae, A CARD FROM MISS CLAXTON, To rm Evrrom ov tux Henap:— ‘Will you allow me to correct a misapprehension in regard to my engagement at the Union Square Theatre? Iam still a member of the company at that theatre ‘and hope ever to remainso. 1 upon the house as bs Ae tee. seamajeehy Me ‘suook rs fri Livmee § have kindly given me perm: to fuldl a fow woe! tar nts which I have made in the interior these are concluded | hope to return Pret to