The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1876, Page 8

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Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may desire at No, 1,265 Broadway and No. 2 Ann street, From our reports this morning the probabil- ities are that the weather to-day wili be slightly ‘warmer and par' tly y cloudy or cloudy. Watt Street Yesterpay.—Stocks were dull and irregular, business being interrupted by 8 political meeting in the neighborhood of the Stock Exchange. Gold opened at 109 3-4, and closed at 1097-8. Money was supplied on call loans at 3 and 2 per cent, Govern- ment bonds were firm and active. Railroad bonds were gene rally steady. WHERE a TweEp 2—WI hat has become of the great B Where does he linger? Do unpropitious gales blow him off the coast? What has become of him? Is he really at sea; or is he biding his time and waiting to make his appearance as a Boss Roorback at t the last moment ? Grave Frans of ‘trouble i in Louisiana on election day are entertained by many citi- zens in New Orleans, but Governor Kellogg, and General Augur, commanding the federal troops in that State, unite in saying that there will be no disturbance. A remarkably full registry in the Crescent City, which leads to charges of fraud on both sides, is a promi- nent feature of the situation. as it has been in many of our Northern citie Tue Frencn Mintsrenran nists, believed to be imminent, has been avoided by a com- promise on the Gatineau bill. The long threatened conflict between the Senate and Chamber. of Deputies has been again post- poned. It is a good sign that there is suffi- cient moderation and good sense among the leaders of parties in Frauce to keep the wheels of leg: islation a unologged. Turkey's Gis cer, which has always risen in proportion to her success in the Servian campaign, has passed away for the moment, The details of the armistice are being ar- ranged, and diplomacy has its chance to put things in condition to make war impossible. It is not so desper- ate a chance as it appeared a week ago, but the fact that one animal was down the stream did not hinder another animal who was up the stream from eating him because he muddied the water. When the animal down the stream is « Turkey the sympathy that went out for the lamb in the fable will not follow him if the Russian bear finds an excuse for Picking 1 his bones, ‘Tne Wearaen. ati high pressure and lower temperature generally prevails over the | United States eastward of the Mississippi River and in the Northwest. These con- ditions are, however, accompanied by areas of light rain. In Dakota and Wisconsin snow fell yesterday morning, and an ex- tremely low temperature has marked the presence of the prevailing high pressure in both sections. Along the Sonth Atlantic and Gulf coasts the morning temperature has been comparatively low, being forty- nine degrees at Mobile, fifty-two degrees at St. Mark's, Fla., and fifty-one degrees at Savannah. The weather in New York to- day will be probably slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, é *, City Nominations. Let us not forget, in the excitement of the Presidential election, that the citizens of New York are to confer on a handful of their public servants, forthe year beginning on next New Year's Day, the comfortable sum of about three and a half million dollars in salaries and pickings. The following table shows the salaries and fees of certain officers to be chosen on Tuesday:— Annual Salary or Fee, Surrogate Superio Marine Court Juugs Fresionnt Board color eee A Three Coroners. There are cities on this continent where the Sheriff, County Clerk and Coroners serve their public for a regular and not im- moderate salary and turn the fees into the Treasury. It does not seem to have occurred to any citizen of New York, at any time, that these officers might be made to do so here, Yet, allowing them ten thousand a year each, which would be handsome pay, considering the work and responsibility, this would effect a saving to the city of one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year—a sum worth while saving with our heavy debt, But it 1s too late to speak of this just now, or, perhaps, too early, For the next year the taxpayers, which means all the citizens, agree to fling away to five politicians one hundred and ten thousand dollars more than by the most liberal estimate they ought to receive. Meantime, however, this is a matter which the voter may as well think over as he determines to which of the can- didates he will give these rather fat pickings. The patronage of the superior officers, of | course, goes to make up the bulk of the | three and a half millions of servants’ wages, j fees and pickings which the New York voter ‘gives away next Tuesday. That part only | which will fall in during the next year + amounts to two and a half millions ; a good deal to pay out as part of our servants’ wages | for keeping the city in such order as it gets for the money. Bear in mind this includes | only a part of the salaries, and none of the cost of tools and work done, such as street repairing, kc. We reprint here some figures which we published several weeks ago, to show the details of this part of the city | housekeeping. { PATRON, | One Police Commissioner One-third patronage of Po! per tax levy of 1876.. 1,363,000 Two Commissioners of 6,000 | Patronage of office, 187 6,000 One Supervisor City Record. 5,000 Patronage of oflice, 1876. 25,000 One Commissioner of tion 5,000 One-thu patronage. . 93,000 One Fire Comission 5.000 One-third ghare of salary patronage. + $49,000 One Health Commissioner. 5,000 One-third share of patroi 000 Une Dock Commissione! 3,000 One-third share patrona, 100,000 One Park Commissioner. ae One-third share of sulary patronage 151,000 One Commissioner of Taxes and Assessmenis 5,000 Ove-third share of ely Patronage, 34,000 Superintendent of Buildings. 6,500 Patronage of office 68,500 Comptroller (probal 12,000 Patronage of office 230,000 Corporation Counsel (probably . 15,000 Patronage of office 145,000 In addition to this we have the patronage of the Sheriff's and County Clerk's offices outside the fees of the principals, and of the Surrogate’s office, estimated as follows :— Sheriff's patronage. County Clerk's pat: Surrogate’s patronage. —Making a total of $2 salaries and fees in the first list. There are great private houses in England whose owners are said to be ‘‘eaten up by servants’ wages and pickings.” Might not the same thing be said of the city of New York? At any rate it is easy to see why city offices are a bone of fierce contention; why men are not merely ready but desperately anxious to serve the city. Itis rather a ‘good thing” to get in anywhere on its payroll, and a man could hardly be so ruined that a term as County Clerk or Sheriff would not ‘set him on his pins.” Some day, perhaps, the people of New York will think over these figures. We print them just now, on the eve of the election, in the hope that here and there a taxpayer may cut them out and put them away for reference after we all return to our sober senses, and when the brass bands and torchlight processions no longer remind us that the country is in imminent danger in case somebody on one side or the other should happen to be elected. We are supposed to be living ina reform year, and though the year is drawing near its close some people hope that the re- form period will stretch over into 1877. New York is a strongly democratic city, and the election of the democratic candidate for Mayor is, therefore, a conceded fact. Let us rejoice that Mr. Ely is so capable and hon- esta man. We have a right to expect of him that he will do his utmost to give us good and cheap city government. We have a right, too, to expect that he will take an in- telligent interest in those public works and improvements which the city needs to pre- pare it for a new term of prosperous com- merce and to enable it to maintain its mer- eantile pre-eminence. No city has been so greatly and shamefuily neglected as New York. Its people are crowded into @ narrow space and into tenement | houses for lack of rapid transit roads to carry them to the borders of the city where they could live in comfort. Its shipping is part of our noble water front unutilized, Its warehouses have no proper or rapid and cheap connection with the piers and wharves. Its streets are ill-paved and dirty. Its docks are inconvenient and unsafe. To all these matters we trust the next Mayor will direct his attention, as an iritelligent merchant and an old citizen may be ex- pe@ted to. As for the remainder of the two tickets, both are indifferent. There are some good names on each, and the intelligent voter | ought to take pains to mark his apprecia- | tion of that fact on the ticket he votes, Whether he prefers a republican or a dem- ocratic city ticket, in either case he ought to scratch off some of the names, If this could be generally done we | might hope for the selection of a moderately crowded into a small space, leaving a large | good set of city officers. That it will be done only by a small part of the voters ought not to discourage these or make them less vigilant. If but one citizen had the honesty and courage to scratch the bad names from the ticket he votes, his single protest thus recorded against bad govern- ment would be valuable and important, and his example would find imitators in subse- quent elections. The aim of political par- tisans is, of course, to carry their whole ticket, no matter-what bad men are on it. The aim of the voter, especially in city poli- tics, ought to be to secure the election of the best men only, entirely regardless of general politics. What difference does it make whether a Surrogate or Coroner or Mayor of | New York is a democrat or republican? But | it is of the utmost importance that these and | all the other city officers should be able and honest men, Close of the Sporting Scason. With the extra races at Jerome Park yes- terday, and the polo match which followed them, the sporting season for 1876 may be said to have virtually closed. As we look back over the history of the year we cannot fail to recognize the season as one of extraor- dinary brilliancy. The turf showed not only signs of growth, but gave promise of still greater popularity and permanence. In the South there was something like a revival of the old-fashioned sporting habits of the people. At Washington, Baltimore, Long Branch and Saratoga the meetings were unusually good. The races at Jerome Park were even more brilliant than usual, and the extra race day yesterday closed and | celebrated the first decade in the history of the American Jockey Club in a way worthy of an occasion so important. The new game of polo also made great strides in popular favor during the year, dnd as it becomes better known is achieving a popularity second to no attraction on the sporting calendar. It will be seen from our news reports that the j match yesterday excited as much interest as the splendid racing even. These events are a fitting close to the sports of as great a year as the American Centennial, when the skill of all the world came here to contend in friendly rivalry for distinguished honors, On the Schuylkill English and Irish rowing clubs contended with our own to carry off the honors of the oar. | At’ Creedmoor, too, the Irish, Scotch, Australian and Canadian riflemen gallantly, but vainly, tried to grasp the honors which our American team had so nobly won and still more nobly wear. As the first fruits of this victory the English riflemen can scarcely failto come here next year to contend for the championship of the world, and, altogether, we ought to have a sporting season almost if not altogether as brilliant as the one which has just closed. In no other part of the world is there a more magnificent field for outdoor sports, and we have only to keep on as we begun—a begin ning of which the past season was an ex- emplification—to make the present pros- perous outlook the complete triumph of manly and athletic sports in this country. Cardinal Antonelli, As it is one of the experiences of human history that an unusual event occurring once is repeated several times in similar. circumstances, it may be hoped that Cardinal Antonelli is to make the year memorable with one more illustration of how near a distinguished man may go to the gates of death and yet recover, if not his health, at least a fair hold on life. In this connec- tion it will be a comfort to the admirers of the great prelate to re- member that he is but seventy years old, and that is not a great age in Italy. But if we measure life not simply by the calendar but by the possible endurance of painful impressions, it-may be said that no other vital span ever stretched over what has been crowded into the career of the man who was the Prime Minister of the Papal government in 1848, and who has lived to see Rome become the capital of a constitu- tional monarchy. In the most terrible crises of Papal history this man has been for thirty years in the intimate councils of the Sovereign Pontiff, his associate in the endeavor to avert calamities that were inevitable, and a participator in the prostration of hope which results when men believe they see the triumph of all that is evil in the world involved in the providence of God. How- ever we may differ in opinion with those who view the establishment of the Italian Kingdom as a great evil, their view is readily comprehensible to the mind that assumes thir standpoint. Thirty years of cohstantly repeated defeat and the sublime despair of eventual failure in the attempt to re-establish the political fortunes of the Papacy must prove a tre- mendous burden on any life ; and if he falls under it the Cardinal will die a martyr toa cause that he justly deemed a great one, though it was one for which the progress of the world had made success impossible, Secretary Mornint’s Srexca.-—The Secre- tary of the Treasury, in his address to Wall | street yesterday afternoon, made an impor- tant remark. He asserted positively that it is possible to resume specie payments in 1879, and that his party mean to do it if they are kept in power. Fortunately, the Secretary of the Treasury is the best au- thority for his party on that question, and | he has now fully committed them. As Mr, Tilden and his friends have asserted that they, if they are putin power, can and will resume specie payments even exrlier than tion of specie payments and rotwn to a stable currency, may, we hope, he consid- ered settled. Whichever of the two parties is successtul we are gunarentecd by their most responsible members resumption by or before 1879, or in little more than two years. Let us not forget this at any rate. As to { Mr. Morrill’s dispute with Mr. Beimont, we leave them to settle that at their leisure. THe Coron Line 1x New Yorx.—A row between a colored republican club and some democratic whites on the west side on Fri- day night resulied in the wounding of two men, one seriously, by pistol balis:; The | colored folks were uninjured, principally, it is believed, because their assailants threw the bricks at their heads, The rumor that Zach Chandler has applied to the President for troops is unconfirmed, 1879, this long vexed question of a resump- | Apartment Houses. There is, perhaps, no species of real prop- erty in this city which paysa greater return on the amount of capital invested than the better class of apartment houses; none, cer- tainly, which rents so readily, even in the most depressed times. It took at first some considerable effort to overcome the preju- dice against the apartment system, which existed among our wealthier classes, who only too frequently confounded it with the tenement house system. ‘This idea, how- ever, was soon exploded by the building of expensive and elaborate apartment houses destined solely for the wealthy. Since the altering of the Haight House, the pioneer apartment house on Fifth avenue, numerous similar establishments have made their ap- pearance on the avenue, both above and be- low Fourteenth street. Of these the most notable are the Grosvenor, the Berkeley, the one over the jewelry store on the corner of Twenty-eighth street, the Osborn, and finally Sherwood's, higher up the avenue. There is still another apartment house now in course of construc- tion on the northwest corner of Forty- second street and Fifth avenue, which, if report be true, promises to eclipse all its rivals in elegance and comfort, It will be finished by May next. The greater portion of these costly build- ings are rather hotels than apartment houses, thongh universally designated by the latter name, The distinctive feature of the apartment house, strictly considered, consists in suites of apartments provided with separate kitchens, laundries and all modern conveniences necessary for house- keeping. The Fifth avenue houses are for the most part not organized on this plan. There is one large kitchen, one or a series of common dining rooms, while those who desire it can have their mealy served in their own apartments. All this is expensive and can only be afforded by per- sons in certain conditions of fortune. The system is particularly attractive to young married couples, and recommends itself generally to that numerous and rapidly in- creasing class in this city desirous of avoid- ing the cares of housekeeping. Meanwhile the real apartment house has taken firm root in our midst and flourishes vigorously in different parts of the town. The more successful and better sort are found chiefly on great thoroughfares and hundred foot streets. Broadway, between Fiftieth ond Fitty-seventh streets, might be called an apartment house quarter. We find here the Albany, the Newport, the Saratoga and the Rockingham, all of recent date and admir- ably adapted to the purposes for which they were intended. The Rockingham, on the corner of Fifty-sixth street, the last expres- sion of this class of apartment house, and consequently of considerable interest to those who study this question, occupies about six lots of land, valued at $150,000, while the building is said to have cost $300,000. It offers suites of apartments con- sigting of nine rooms each at prices ranging from $90 to $145 per month, or from $1,050 to $1,740 perannum. While the accommo- dation offered is certainly admirable it is only within the reach of those having from $4,000 to $5,000 income per annum, Cer- tainly no one in the enjoyment of less than $4,000 would be justified inleasing, furnish- img and occupying these apartments, ifa proper ratio between living expenses and rent is duly maintained. These apartments do not appeal to that very large class of small traders, clerks and employés in the enjoyment of incomes or salaries of from $2,500 to $3,000. There is a great and press- ing want of suitable apartment houses, fin- ished with all the conveniences and com- forts of the Albany, the Newport and the Rockingham, but adapted to the purses of the numerous class we have spoken of. Those who first cater to this want will open a gold mine which can be worked with profit in this city for many years to come. The apartment houses on the east side of the town—the Kensington, on the corner of Fourth avenue and Fifty-seventh street; the Madison and the Washington, on Seventy- second street and Third avenue—have suc- ceeded beyond the most sanguine hopes of those who projected them. The Kensington has this summer | been enlarged by an additional build- ing fronting on Fourth avenue. We be- lieve an apartment house every way equal to the Rockingham could to-day be built at such lower rate for the land and building as would enable the builder to realize a hand- some profit for suites of nine rooms at rentals ranging from $700 to $1,300 per annum. Seven full lots, which would admit of larger rooms than those of the Rockingham, could be had, say on Fourth avenue ox Seventy- second street—at all events in that neigh- borhood, and not east of Fourth avenne—for certainly $70,000, if not less, including a corner; the building could be erected for $200,000 at present prices of ‘material and labor, making an investinent of $270,000, instead of $450,000, which we understand is the estimated cost of the Rockingham, being a difference of $180,000 in favor of the new building. We recommend these considerations to all those contemplating new building enterprises on the east side in choice locations. Puipit Topies To-Day. Five years ago Mr, Kennard entered upon the pastorate of the Pilgrim Baptist church, and to say that he has maintained the church and kept it as well as he found it would be saying a great deal, consider- ing the number of churches all around it. But his ministry has enlarged its borders and made it stronger, and to-day he will fitly remind his people of their mutual relationship and what they owe to God in view of their prosperity. The pootic element has so greatly developed in Bishop Snow that he will add an original poem to his attraction of the abomi- nation of desolation spoken of by Daniel. The fading and fadeless will do as acontrast to the unpitied Saviour by Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Searles will tell us what a woman's mission is, while Mrs. Benton will give a sketch of her mission among the Alps of Lebanon, St. Paul and Mr. Moment counted the cost of a religions lite, and they, with Dr. Deems, experienced something of the love that passeth knowledge. Religions SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1876 QUADRUPLE. { remove some of ‘them he will deserve the thanks of the community. Dr. King will tell his people what are the duties of citi- zenship and how to discharge them; Dr. Armitage will explain the intimacy that must exist between the soul and the Saviour when the former can be guided by the lat- ter's eye, and Dr. Kendrick will explain why the wicked prosper in their way and the lesson of eternal life. Water! Water! The people of New York may be said to | Gasp this appeal to the powerless guardians | of the Croton fountains. Like the Israelites in the desert a vast population is suffering from the want of one of the vital necessaries of life, and there is no Moses to strike the rock with his rod and cause the waters to leap forth to the relief of the famishing multitude, It has been truly said that cor- porations, be they municipal or private, have no souls, for if that of New York was gifted with the commonest intelligence and foresight we would not now suffer allthe discomforts and be exposed to all the dangers created by a water famine. We are told that all we need is water storage accommodation to remedy this crying evil. The construction of new reservoirs will, it appears, make everything right again. But in the interval between now and the time of the completion of these neces- sary structures what are the people of New York to do? The large reservoir being built in the Croton district will take a year to complete. There is little prospect of a heavy rainfall over that region for a long time. The present sources are exhausted, and the chief engineer of the aqueduct says, ‘We cannot control the heavens.” The chances, therefore, of a maintenance of even the present poor supply of water are very slim, so that we must look forward toa season of dire distress unless the Depart. ment of Public Works awakens to the gravity of the situation and adopts energetic measures to relieve the city. What these measures should be the officials are paid large salaries to determine, and the pub- lic, not unreasonably, looks to them for relief. Judging from the condition of affairs up town, as shown by the article printed elsewhere in to-day’s Hrrap, and by letters from citizens resident in the famine stricken districts, the gravest catastrophes may be looked for unless something is done imme- diately to increase the water supply. Why cannot temporary pumping stations be established at once on each of the Croton lakes and the waters below the level of.the outlets be raised and discharged into the streams leading to the reservoir? The cost may be great, but the relief would be certain. Five steam pumps, each with a capacity of twenty thousand gallons per minute, would give us one hundred and forty-four million gallons of water in twenty- four hours. The Croton and Central ‘Park reservoirs could at this rate be soon filled and the city supply fully maintained, anda reserve would be created from sources that are at present unavailable. Election Speculations. The following estimates have been made public by the central national committees of the two parties. It is possible, of course, that each may have concealed some part of its expectations, but, so far as the general public is allowed to know, these are, for both parties, the’bases of their hopes of #uc- cess:— REPUBLICAN ESTIMATE. Certain Repubrican States California Nevada,....... . Colorado. Michigan. Minnesota Nebraska, Total... Bl Sain BiBoee Connecticut Florida, Louisian Total... ‘The democratic estimate is as follows:— Certain Demacratic States. Alal Missoori. Ark Conneetieu Delaware, Florida. Georgia Doubtful States, California .... 6 Wisconsin...........66 Yenosylvania, Total It will be noticed that the republicans give Indiana to their opponents in their estimates and put North Carolina, Florida end Louisiana among the doubtful States; but they claim New York and Wisconsin, both said to be doubtful. If they should lose these two States, they would have but 160 votes; but if, losing these, they should gain North Carolina and Louisiana, this would give them 178 votes. In that case an- other State, either Wisconsin or Mississippi, would give them either 188 or 185, or in the first case three more thana majority, without New York. Of course if they should also warry Indiana they would come in by what in this election would be called a handsome majority. On the other hand, if we take the democratic estimates we shall find that if they should lose North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, all of which they count among their certain States, they would have | but 173 votes left, even giving them NewYork; and they would need to gain both California and Wisconsin to secure them a majority. To sneceed it is evident that not only New York must be carried, but some other States, which the best judges believe to be doubt- fal, must be saved by the party that is to win. Lock Boxes.-Merchants, and in fact all people doing a large business, have to trust somebody in their employ, but it is a great | mistake and often a great mistortane to leave any position of trnst entirely under one employé’s control. It has been discov- ered thata youth who hed the charge of a law firm’s Post Office box used it to decoy the Heraty's advertisers for lost articles into sending him money on the pretence that he could restore the articles. The youth was doubtless a rogue in the grain, but the simple device of changing the messenger to the Post Office, so that no one could abso- lutely control all the letters arriving at the box, would have prevented roguery in that prejudices are bad, and if Mr. Rowell can J direction at least. Look Out for Roorbacks: From now until the polls close on Tues day the American voter will need to guard himself against false reports. The partisam journals of both sides will probably bristle with rumors, We shall hear the most astone ishing tales, calculated to harrow the soul of the voter, and intended, at the last mo- ment, to make him change his vote. The political excitement has not for many years been so intense; each party, by long and frequent repetition, has at last per suaded itself that its success is necessary ta the salvation of the country. Of course this is not so. The country is safe anyhow. The Union is not so frail a fabric, and our liberties are not so insecurely founded, that any party in power can endangerthem. But a good many of the political leaders of both sides have persuaded themselves that unless they succeed liberty, security and honor are gone for the country; and so’believing they will not omit any means calculated to win voters; to alarm those who, they fear, will oppose them; in short, to carry the election, Election Roorbacks are among the unfaile ing incidents of the closing days of a can- vass, when a lie can make headway before its exposure can get started. Our advice to voters is to yote early; to scratch all bad or doubtful names off their tickets; to insist that the election shall be peaceable and orderly, and sternly rebuke. all attempts to create disturbance; and, finally, to believe no political rumor or tale which they do not find confirmed in the Henan, which, as the organ of the independent, voter, will take care to print nothing but the impartial truth, The Centennial’s Last Days. The Exhibition at Philadelphia is in ite unconsciousness as well as its intent a com. pendium of the United States. It is big, bigger than anything of the kind ever held in Europe; its points of interest are far apart, fike our great cities ; it is immense in the aggregate, but poorly digested in ar- rangement ; it has intelligence throbbing in every part of it, but in separated nerves rather than in o ganglion. It im- presses the man who traverses its walks and aisles at the soles of the feetas wells the brain. We may say, too, it has proved a success, and that covers a good’ deal of shortcomings. The Ex. hibition is approaching an end now, and its attractiveness is proved by the fact that the attendance has in- creased and averages little short of one hundred thousand a day, Next Friday is set down for the closing day, and it is safe to as- sume that all efforts to keep it open as a na- tional attraction any longer will fail. So many thousands of the exhibitors have made arrangements to remove their goods after the 10th, inst. that it would be almost impossible to keep any- thing like a sufficiency of them together to prolong the Exhibition as it is. Those who make up the rush to see the great fair now are going because a certuin day is fixed for the closing. The people who put things off to the last moment would wait another weck if the date of closing was a week later. Our Philadelphia correspondence gives some humorous points of the attendance during these finishing up days of the great fair. Excitement in Georgia. A Henatp correspondent. telegraphs from Atlanta that a letter of United States Mar- shal Smyth to the city authorities, telling them what he means to do in relation to the coming election, creates a good deal of exe citement. Georgia chose State officers some weeks ago. On Tuesday her people vote only for members of Congress and Presiden- tial electors. Under these circumstances Marshal Smyth has appointed deputy mare shals to keep order at the polls in Atlanta and other cities, acting under the law of Congress which requires marshals to do this on the request of citizens. He notifies the municipal authorities that the help of the local police is not needed and their intere ference not desired. He is acting under sec- tion 2,022 of the Revised Statutes, which makes it the duty of deputy marshals to keep order at the polls, and gives them authority to make summary arrests for offences com mitted in their presence. United States Marshal Smyth is a care fal and thoroughly honest officer, who will not misuse his authority for partisan pur- poses. Weare glad to notice in our dee spatches that the city authorities of Atlanta, while apparently undecided as to the an- swer they shall make to Colonel Smyth, are determined that there shall be no collision between him and themselves. We have similar reports from South Carolina and Louisiana, where the whites, though greatly excited with the hope of freeing themselves from the rule of men who have shamefully abused their powers, are determined to sub- mit to arrests and all other annoyances by their opponents and maintain absolute peace and order. It is very important that they should do th do this. Le VERRIER, zh ths French astrononibe, doea not give up Vulcan because he could not be found on the sun's face last October. He may turn up next spring; but if he does not we need not expect to see the little intrae mercurial planet before 1885. Too bad! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Will the Aquariam support Ely? Plenty of diphtheria in New bogland, Many Russian girls study medicine in Switzerland, Mr. Richard Grant White bas arrived from Europe, Governor Rice sings, “Will coe bet on the Bay?” Un Wednesday you will seo the gall darned jade wince, Wasbington used to have his horse's hoofs blacked and polished, Ex-Senator Wilham Sprague, of Rhode Island, is af the Hoffman Honse, General Todleben, who 80 bravaly defended Sebastoe pol, has gone to the Crimea. Goneral Jolin Meredith Road, United States Minister to Greece, is at the Fifth Avenuc Hotel, Rev. Stopford Brooke would rather be annihilated than have 10 join such spirits as the modiums bring forth. ‘The editor of the Chicago Temes sings:— Tho nose is red, the violet’s bine; ‘This 18 red J, and hore’s to you. A dinner party passed to M. Dumas their crystal gobleis so that he might write his autograph with @ diamond, M. Karr, who paid for the dinner, paid alse for the expensive ginssware, A hand i writes;— Waee er} Yes, sir, Tilde Hendr-icks } Nicks,