The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1876, Page 4

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Owing to the ection of a portion of the carriers and pewsmen, who are determined that the public spall pot have the Heravp at three cents per copy if they DAY, NOVEMBER 7. ton prevent it, we have made arrangements to place tho Henan in the bands of all our readers at tho reduced price. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may fesire at No. 1,265 Broadway and No, 2 Ann street, From our ‘reports this morning the bil- Wies are that the wea:her.to-day will be slightly warm and cloudy, with rain. Watt Srnzrr Yestenpar.—Owing to the excitement connected with the election busi- ness was almost entirely neglected, the trans- actions amounting to less than 41,000 shares. Gold sold at 109 3-4 a 109 7-8, Money on call was supplied at 3 and 2 per cent. Govern- ment bonds were generally firm and the rail- way bond market was quiet and steady. Twat a Lance Coxsicnmext of Tweed ar- rived here yesterday and was put up ina new six million suit is a sheer story made put of whole cloth Tue Roorpack is heavy on the wing, and, like other birds of passage, will die on the way to the polls. It has astonished a good many, but then it is a migratious bird. Like the Snark, when it hunted down, it is only o Boojum of.er all. Tue Nomination or Mn. Anexanper Tar- zor, Jr., for Assembly in the Second dis- trict of Westchester county, is so excellent a one that his election should be certain. We need such sterling men as Mr. Taylor at Albany if we ever hope for honest and in- Yelligent legislation. Dr. Srrovsnerc, the Russian railroad builder and swindler, has been found guilty at Moscow, and will probably soon be on his way to Siberia. He is. practical man and may aid the progress of that sparsely settled part of the Czar's dominions. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Mr. Surrx E ty, Jr., will make an ad- thirable Mayor, and no person will rejoice at his election in the end more than Gen- eral Dix, who is anxious to see the city of New York well governed. Mr. Ely will not only be no man’s Mayor, but he will be the city’s Mayor in earnest, and will see that all the departments of the city government are efficiently and honestly managed. Bounoraa’s Day.—The Sabbath, which is to the work day world a day of rest and to the Christian world a day of devotion, is to our burglars a day of profit. Scarcely a Monday morning passes without some vigilant police officer or early porter discovering that a rob- bery was committed the day before in some of our business houses. Then the astute police captain and the mysterious detectives arrive and find out how the burglars got in and how they got out. ‘‘No clew to the tobbers.” The latest silk robbery, reported elsewhere, isa fair sample. Sunday in all countries where the Sabbath is observed is the great burglar's day. It gives them twenty-four to thirty hours for operations. This is known to the police as well as to the thieves, and should bo better guarded against. Our merchants must be also aware of it, yet. it is astonishing how negligent they are in the matter. The detection of the burglars at Claflin’s by an automatic -Nwuealer elerm should not be lost upon fe History of the Centennial Canvass. The Republican National Convention as- sembled on the Mth of June at Cincinnati. The delegates came together with a near approach to unanimity as to the main issues they wished to present in their platform, but | with great diversities of preference respect- | ing the leading candidates. The friends of the three strongest men in the republican party—-Messrs. Conkling, Morton and Blaine—were pressing their claims, and the likelihood that all three might be put out of the field by mutual rivalry encouraged the pretensions of lesser candidates. Mr. Bris- tow was tuken up by the advocates of ad- ministrative reform, and Messrs. Hayes, Hartranft and Jewell were presented by their respective States in view of the con- tingency that the choice would at last fall on some compromise candidate. There were seven spirited ballots, resulting in the nomination of Governor Hayes. Mr. Blaine steadily led all his competitors by a large plurality in every ballot but the last, and even in the last he had a greater number of votes than in any of the preceding. The supporters of most of the other candidates broke on the seventh ballot and concen- trated on Hayes and Blaine, Hayes receiving 384, Blaine 351, and Bristow, the only one of che other candidates who did not entirely disappear, dwindling to 21, The con- centration on Hayes was chiefly due to Don Cameron, and was a recognition by the Convention that the party could not afford to lose both Ohio and Indiana in the October elections. It was a wise choice, for with any other candidate Ohio would have been lost, and with it all the chances of electing a re- publican President. The Democratic National Convention met in St. Louis on the 27th of June. Unlike its republican predecessor, which was pretty well agreed as to principles, but split up in respect to candidates, the Democratic Con- vention found less difficulty in uniting on a candidate than on a platform. Mr. Tilden had got so decided a start of his competitors that even the two- thirds rule did not obstruct his nomina- tion. He had a majority of ninety-five on the first ballot, and was triumphantly nom- inated under the two-thirds rule on the second ; the ground of preference being his reform record, which was expected to draw away from the republicans 4 large part of the friends of Mr. Bristow—an expectation which has not been as well justified by the canvass as the republican calculation that Hayes could carry Ohio, The platforms of both parties were adopted previous to the selection of candidates, in accordance with usage, and each was padded with a mass of truisms and platitudes which have had no influence upon the canvass. We will insert only the points deemed im- portant at the time of their adoption. The republican platform included these declara- tions:— The permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union and the complete protection of all 1s citizens iu the free enjoyment of all their rights isa duty to whicu the republican party stands sacrodly pledged. Commercial prosperity, public mor ind national credit demand that the pledge of ( ss tor the re- demption of the Gaited staves notes in com be tulfilled by asteady and continuous progress to specie pay- ments. ‘The invariable rulo in sppointments to office should have reierenco to the honesty, fuelity and capacity of the appointees, giving the party iu power the placos where harmony avd vigor of udministration require its policy to be represented, bit permitting all others to be filled by persons selected with sote relerence to tne efficiency of tho pubjic service. ‘Lhe public school system is tne bulwark of tho American Republic, and wo rocommend an amename: to the constitution of the United States forbiad! he application of public funds to schools under sectarian control. We note with deep solicitude that the democratic party counts upon the clectoral vote of a united South, and Wo invoke the attention of the country te the grave truth that a success thus achieved reopen sectional sirile and imperil national honor aad human rights. The school question, from which 4 great deal was expected, has hardly made a tipple in the canvass, and civil service reform has been pushed into the background by more stirring issues. The republicans have made the canvass revolve around two cardinal issues—namely, the Southern question and the financial question, giving precedence to the former. For effect on the public mind they selected wisely, and have really caused a great popular ferment respecting what they call a united South. The democratic platform contained a larger amount of ex- traneous and merely declamatory matter than the republican—matter which, by ring- ing all possible changes on the word “reform,” aided the nomination of Governor Tilden, but was of no service in the subse- quent prosecution of the campaign. The following are the points of the democratic platform on which chief reliance has been placed in the canvass :— Reform i3 necessary to save the Union from a cor- rupt centralism which, after infheting upon ten Sta the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies, has honeycom| the oflices of tho federal government itself with inc: pacity, waste and fraud, and locked the prosperity of an industrious people im the paralysis of hard times, We denounce the fin 1 ambecility which has made no advance toward resumption, and has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto, As such hindrance we denounce the Pesumptton elause of the act of 1875 and demand its repeal. Reform is necessary in the civil rervice, EMeient, economieat conduct of the public business is not possi- bie if 118 Civil service be subject to change at every election. The civil service question has had no in- flnence on either side, although this im- portant reform was strongly indorsed in the letters of acceptance of both candidates, The real battle ground was selected by the republicans at an early stage, with great strategic skill. They have made the South- ern question eclipse and dwarf all others, and to-day the issue uppermost in the minds of a majority of Northern voters is whether the peace and credit of the country would be safe under a President indebted for his election toa solid South. The attempt of Governor Tilden’s supporters to make the canvass hinge on administrative reform has not succeeded, and for the last week or two their chief employment and anxiety has been to ward off charges connected with Southern war claims and the national credit. In other words the strategy of the republi- cans has been successful in compelling their adversaries to fight them on ground of their own choosing. During the first three months of the can- vass it was hoped by both sides that a deci- sive result might be reached in the prelimi- nary contest in October. IfOhio and In- diana had both been carried by the same party that party would have walked over the course and the politicians would not be in an agony of doubt and expectation re- specting the vote to-dey. But, in spite of herculean efforts, the October elections proved to be s drawn battle, and the coun- :try bas since floundered in uncertainty. Since the memorable contest of 1824 no Presidential election has been so doubtful as the present seems on the morning of the day when the vote is to be taken. The electioneering topics of which most use was made previous to October had but little effect. They were on the one side the bloody shirt and Mr. Tilden’s income tax, and on the other the corruption of republi- can office-holders, carpet-bag misrule and stagnation of business. After the drawn battle on these issues the republicans sought for others, and discovered two which they have been using for the last two weeks with a vigor which has spread alarm through the democratic camp. The most potent of these new issues is the charge that if Mr. Tilden should be elected the solid South would force the payment of an astounding amount of Southern war claims, large enough to double the present national debt. This charge proved to be so alarming and damaging that Governor Tilden was forced to the front in contradiction—an evidence of fright, or at least of uneasiness, which showed how skilfully the republicans had selected their weapon. The other election- eering topic introduced by the republicans in alate stage of the canvass was the as- serted effect of Tilden’s election on the market for our bonds in Europe. This republican shot aiso proved to be well aimed, if we may judge by the fluttering it occasioned. It was so promptly denied and sharply , resented only because it was damaging if believed. So far as voters can be persuaded to believe either this or the charge about Southern war claims they will be pretty sure to vote against the demo- cratic candidates. Thesenew elements may possibly change the drawn battle of Octo- ber into a republican victory in November ; but even since the introduction of these new issues the contest is so doubtful that we must awnit the returns before we can have any secure basis for an opinion. But whichever of the two candidates is elected the country will be safe, at least for the next two years. Even if Mr. Tilden is elected there will be a republican majority in the Senate until March, 1879. The re- publican Senators cannot only block revo- lutionary legislation, if such should be attempted, but they can reject every appointment by a democratic President which they may deem unwise for the public interests. If the democrats carry the election they will be held in check by the Senate for the first half of the Presidential term, and they can have no hope.of con- trolling the Senate for the last half if they should have the folly to launch into re- actionary measures. There will accordingly be no reason to despair of the Republic, let the result of to-day’s voting be as it may. Tae Sxnatontan Exxcrion.—The Fifth Senatorial district, in which a vacancy now exists through the death of Mr. Booth, com- prises the Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Six- teenth wards, The candidates are Mr. F, W. Seward and Mr. A. Wagstaff, Jr. Mr, Booth’s majority last year was eleven hun- dred, the democracy then being divided. Mr. Wagstaff has the nomination of both the Tammany and anti-Tammany democracy. Both Mr. Seward and Mr. Wagstaff are un- exceptionable candidates, and either would make a good State Senator. It is probable that each candidate will poll his full party vote, and the people of the district will bo capably and honestly represented, whichever may be@uccessful. Death of Cardinal Antonellt. In tHe political decadence of the Papacy, in its disappearance as a State, it has stood before the world in the persons of two men— the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli. One of these has now passed away, and the other cannot, in the course of nature, remain much longer. That the Papacy as a political power should be practically blotted out of the rec- ord of European history would not long since have seemed wildly incredible, and yet in the recent reconstructions of Europe it is difficult to see what has been left of it except what was inseparable from the names of these two men. With the great Secretary gone, and with the Pope at the threshold of another world, it is conceiy- able that the present generation may see the Power that governed more widely than any empire which ever existed dwindled toa mere bureau of correspond- ence in the Sacred City in communication with the churches of the earth. It cannot be made the reproach of Antonelli that the Papacy fell away from its splendors while he was at the helm; for though the dénoue- ment came then the drama was prepared beforehand by changes so deep and great that no human genius could have averted their legitimate consequences. If Pius VIL. had not refused the propositions of Napo- leon the fate of the spiritual sovereignty of the world might have been different. Na- poleon comprehended that the Papacy wasa mediwval Power, and that unless recon- structed it could not survive in the modern world; but the Pope opposed that reconstruc- tion only to defer an inevitable conflict in which his sovereignty should ° fall into hands less disposed to respect its proper limits. In these days the Papacy reaps the fruit of that error. It is not pos- sible that a new Pope can have outside the Church the moral influence that has been exercised by the names of Pius IX. and An- tonelli, and as that moral influence is the main substance of its power the Papacy will be poor indeed without it. The German government, because of its quarrel with the Church, will take an immediate interest in the future of the Papacy to secure in the main position and as the successor to An- tonelli men amenable to its views, and as that government is omnipotent in Europe that will be the issue upon which the per- sons of the Papal government will be ap- pointed. Ir Wovrp Be a Goop Turxa if we could choose all our important public officers from ‘the class of citizens of which Mr. Levi P. Morton is a type. New York has a special interest in national legislation and should be represented at Washington by her best business men, As Mr. Morton has consented to run for Congress in the Eleventh district the people should take care that he is not felt to be fatally | The Congressional Candidates. Seven Congressmen are to be chosen in the city to-day, and as all the districts are at present represented by democrats any break in the phalanx will be a republican gain. The present solid representation was secured two years ago, when the democratic tidal wave rolled over the country, and as three of the districts at least are considered debatable there will no doubt be a spirited struggle for the ascendancy. We commence in New York with the Fifth Congressional district, which is composed of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth wards, Nicholas Muller is the democratic candidate and Mr. 8. Spitzer the republican, and as the district is largely democratic Mr. Muller's elec- tion is certain. He now represents the First Assembly district in the State Legis- lature. The Sixth Congressional district is com- posed of the Seventh, Eleventh and Thir- teenth wards. The candidates are S. S. Cox on the democratic and A. J. H. Duganne on the republican side, Mr. Cox is also sure of his election, his party majority in the dis- trict being about ten thousand. eS The Seventh Congressional district ooh: tains the Tenth and Seventeenth wards and that part of the Eighteenth ward lying west of Third avenue. Mr. Smith Ely, Jr., the present candidate for Mayor, wos elected in the district two years ago by a majority of twelve hundred votes, out of a poll of four- teen thousand. The candidates now are Anthony Eickhoff on the democratic side and W. P. Groom on the republican side, Thero is little margin for choice between the two. The Eighth district takes in the Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards and that part of the city bounded by Fourteenth street and Twenty-ninth street and Fourth and Sixth avenues. The candidate of the democrats is the present Congressman, Elijah Ward, and of the republicans General A. G. McCook. It is a somewhat close district, Mr. Ward having been elected two years ago by less than one thousand votes, out ofa poll of nearly twenty thousand ; hence it is fortunate that both are really good nominations. The dis- trict will be intelligently and faithfully represented whichever candidate may be successful, The Ninth Congressional district is sup- posed to be held in a sort of political mort- gage by Fernando Wood, who is again the democratic candidate for re-election. It takes in the Twentieth and Twenty-second wards, embracing all that part of the city lying between West Twenty-sixth and West Eighty-sixth streets, west of Sixth avenue. The republican candidate, Mr. G. W. Da Cunha, is a very respectable gentleman, fully competent to represent the district, but the democratic majority is too large to render Fernando Wood's defeat prob- able, which is the less to be regretted since Mr. Wood makes a desirable Repre- sentative. The Tenth Congregsional district com- mences at the East River, at Fourteenth street, running along the north side of that stteet to Fourth avenue; along Fourth ave- nue to Twenty-sixth street, thence along Twenty-sixth street to Third avenue, up Third avenue to Eighty-sixth street, along Eighty-sixth street to tho East River, and down the river line to Fourteenth street. It also includes Blackwell's Island. Here Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt is renominated, as he de- served to be, by the democrats, against the wishes of the Tammany leaders, and Mr. H. Babcock is his republican’ opponent. Mr. Babcock will receive the honest support of his party, but there is no reason to believe that there will be any democratic defection that can endanger Mr. Hewitt's success. The Eleventh Congressional district is irregularly framed, taking in part of the Twentieth ward, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, part of the Twenty-first ward, be- tween Third and Sixth avenues ; part of the Twenty-second ward, between Sixth and Eighth avenues; part of the Nineteenth ward, between Third and Sixth avenues ; part of the Twelfth ward, between Thirdand Eighth avenues, south of Eighty-sixth street. and between Eighth avenue and the East River, north of Eighty-sixth street. In this district Mr. B, A. Willis, the present repre- sentative, is the democratic candidate, and Mr. Levi P. Morton the republican nomi- nee, Mr. Willis was elected two years ago by ‘over two thousand majority over a competi- tor who was not popular in the district. Mr. L. P. Morton is a. strong candidate, and it would be well if such nominations were more general. As a leading banker and a citizen of sterling integrity and high social position he willcommand a large vote in the district, Keep Cool! There is very littlo danger of any trouble at the polls in the Northern States to-day, and even at the South, where the canvass has been so hot and exciting, the day will prob- ably pass quietly. Yet there is no harm in advising everybody to keep cool, quite cool, breezily cool. Some of oor little pin-wheel partisan papers have been giving bad and fiery advice, saying, ‘‘Keep firm.” ‘Keep at the polls till sunset,” ‘Keep challenging,’ and so on to the end ‘of pepperishness. We say, vote early and keep cool, calmly cool, deliciously cool. The walls of the city are covered with inspiriting, nay, exciting pla- cards, telling democrats to beware of re- publican tricks, and vice versa; the adver- tising columns of the papers bear witness to the anxiety of each party lest its followers should be entrapped by its rival. Read your ballots carefully, O citizens! but do not let your eyes blaze and your checks flush hot with anger if you discover that a cunning satellite of your political enemy has been shoving o doctored ticket upon you from out his little -box of rough pine boards. On the contrary, keep cool, collectedly cool, Arctically cool, while you take every ticket that is offered you, and reject all but the one that you want to vote. If you, a rightful, honest voter, aro challenged by the truculent minions of the opposition, then is a great moment to keep cool, cool as a cucumber, ineffably cool. You are all right, and by and by you will cast your vote. Keep a defeated. His services would be of great | cool eye upon each ballot until it is safely = to the city, and the candidacy of such men should be encouraged. dropped into its crystal globe, and not down the sleeve. of the inspector, We are aware that our people's common sense is too great to allow themselves to be unnecessarily ex- cited over the simple operation of casting ballot. There are some people who work themselves into a passion, like Sir Anthony Absolute, while telling other people to keep cool. We are not of this class. There are other good people who cavort like a: bull at Sight of a red rag upon hearing cooling ad- viee; they look on it as an insult to their equanimity. To these exceptional people we say nothing; but citizens in general will let our words, which are writ in ink just pleasantly above freezing point, drop into their hearts with a beneficently cooling sensation. Therefore, we repeat, keep cool, freshly cool as a violet on a springtide morn- ing, dewily, balmily cool. Election Weather. The science of politics inthe United States involves a close study of the various idiosyncrasies of the population by which have been discovered certain laws that govern the results of elections, no matter how important or exciting the issues may be. Parties being but the aggregations of in- dividuals, whose temperaments give a ¢olor to their opinions, it is a well established fact that avocations and surroundings in their reaction on temperament determine the bias of the individuals that make up parties. Hence we find that considerable importance is attached by the leaders to conditions that are apparently foreign to those that produce political differences. The weather has frequently exercised a powertul in- fluence in determining the results of popular elections, It has grown into a popular belief that fair weather is good for the republican party, and that bad weather is favorable to the democrats. Why this should be it is not difficult to understand, especially in the qase of the larger cities of the East. ‘Lhe re- publican ranks are largely recruited from the wealthier classes of the community, the men who live in comfortable houses and wear good clothes, On the other hand the laborers, the men who earn small wages and work with their hands, form the bone and sinew of the democratic masses. But these conditions do not prevail equally over the Union. In the West the farming classes, the hardy pioneers of civilization, frequently form the republican strength, while the pro- fessional men and those engaged in trade form that of the democratic party. The Southerp proprietors and business men, like the Western, are by tradition and condition democratic, while their la- borers are in the opposition ranks, In the East and North we are im- porters and manufacturers. In the West and South production and exportation form the bases of prosperity. The election to- day will no doubt be similarly influenced throughout the country by the state of the weather, as have former elections, and with a view to informing the readers of the Heap on such an interesting subject we present the following series of ‘‘weather probabilities” for the several States, which are arranged in alphabetical order:— Alabama, cool and clear. Arkansas, cold and clear. California, temperate apd_.clear. Colorado, cooland clear. Connecticut, warm and cloudy, with rain. Delaware, warm and cloudy, probably with rain. Florida, warm and cloudy. Georgia, warm and cloudy, with rain. Illinois, cold and cloudy, or partly cloudy, with snow. Indians, cold and clear, or partly cloudy, Iowa, cold and clear. Kansas, cold ond clear. Kentucky, cool and partly cloudy or clear. Louisiaya, cool and clear. Maryland, warm and cloudy, with rain. Maine, warm and cloudy, with rain. Massachusetts, warm and cloudy, with rain. Michigan, cold and cloudy, with snow. Minnesota, cold and clear. Mississippi, cool and clear. Missouri, cold and clear. Nebraska, cold and clear, or partly cloudy. Nevada, cool and clear. New Hampshire, warm and cloudy, with rain. New Jersey, warm and cloudy, with rain. New York, warm and cloudy, with rain, probably clear- ing toward night. North Carolina, warm and cloudy, possibly with rain. Ohio, cool and partly cloudy. Oregon, cool and partly cloudy. Pennsylvania, warm and cloudy, with rain. Rhode Island, warm and cloudy, with rain. South Carolina, warm and cloudy, possibly with rain. Tennessee, cool and clear. Texas, cool and clear, Vermont, warm and cloudy, with rain. Virginia, warm and cloudy, with rain. West Virginia, warm and cloudy, with rain. Wisconsin, cold and clear. The terms, warm, cold:and cool, used above, are relative to the average temperatures of the sevefal States at this season of the year. A Water Faurnz such as that now pre- vailing in New York serves to show how necessary it is for the authorities to refrain from subordinating great public interests to petty political quarrels. Here we have a grand city suffering ‘rom a want of water, and all because of a system which gives us an alternation of knaves and fools in the control of our affairs. The fools, with the specious cunning peculiar to their kind, re- fused to adopt a precaution against n water famine merely because it was suggested by their predecessors, the knaves, ‘fhe latter did many great things for New York with the view of hiding their peculations under the cloak of improving the city, but the idiots who came after them have exhibited a virtuous incapacity which proves as dan- gerous to the interests of New York as the worst thievery of the old Tweed Ring. Our article and the communications printed elsewhere show the extent of the danger to which we are exposed. Unless the upright and capable citizens of New York soon take the control of her affsirs her future is men- aced by a continued reign of allied wrong and stupidity. A Goop Assrmpiy Nomrxation is that of Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, in the Seventh district, which is composed of parts of the Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards. Dr. Hayes has experience, capacity and integrity to bring to the discharge of an Assemblyman’s duty, and the presence of such a man at Albany is wholesome and ad- vantageous. Last year he was elected by two votes to his opponent's one, and, as he has served with credit one session at Alkany, his majority should be even larger now than it was @ year ago, The Herald Bulletins. Our reports of the election returns will be shown to-night, as fast as received, at seven different places by means of large bulletins, so illuminated by calcium lights and the stereopticon process as to make the figures distinctly visible. The points at which, the returns will thus beconspicuously exhibited are:—The Hznarp Building, corner of Broadway and Ann street; at the stereopti- con view on Twenty-third street, opposite Madison square; on the square at Fourth avenue and Thirty-fourth street ; at Broad- way and Thirty-fifth street, Aquarium Building ; at Harlem Bridge; at Yorkville Post Office ; at City Hall square, the junc tion of Myrtle and Fulton avenues, Brook. lyn. The public in the various districts near to theso points will thus be able to ob- tain theearliest possible information on facts likely to affect the great issue of so mush legitimate interest to all. Au Interview with the President. President Grant has again given an exe pression of his views on important public questions to the world through the columns of the Herax, this time stating with fulness his reasons for sending federal trvops to South Carolina, and his forecast of the contest to be decided to-day at the polls, On the South Carolina ques- tion he simply adheres to the line of defence for his order which has been made for him by the prominent men of his party. It is , no more satisfactory from a constitutional point of view than the statements of his apologists, but it leaves little doubt that the President acted from a sincere sense of duty and after his constitutional law adviser had sanctioned the course adopted. Weconfess ~ to complete surprise in finding that marching “in columns of fours” ta political meetings is insurrectionary, and the description of the men who so marched as “armed, organized and uflawful bodies” strikes us as not necessarily congruous. Ifa terrorism prevailed, as Governor Chamber- lain pretended and President Grant believed, which would have made the summoning of the Legislature, as required by the constitu- tion, ‘‘physically impossible,” the President was right in his action. Ifthe ‘armed, organized and unlawtul” would not, as the President says, have allowed the Legislature to convene, if they would have murdered the members on the road or on their arrival in the State capital, the President is justi- fied. But we can deliberately say, upon the fullest information, that all this vision of murdered legislators is the purest chimera; that nothing like it had the remotest chance of happening. Gov- ernor Chamberlain himself does not urge such an absurd reason in extenuation of his failure to convene the Legislature. He simply said he had no funds—not a word about the danger of murders. It never seems to have entered his mind, for if it did we donot think he would hesitate to say it. We are sorry, therefore, that the President does not yet stand justified, however consci« entiously he may believe he does, On the results of to-day’s election his opinion is worth something, and as it will be tested within twenty-four hours it will be read with interest. He gives the Southern States to Tilden, South Carolina excepted. He thinks the republicans have, however, some chance in Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina. He gives all the Northern States to Hayes, excepting Oregon, Indiana and Connecticut, Conceding, therefore, al the South, except South Carolina, to th’ democrats, his estimate is one hundred and sixty electoral votes against two hundred and nine for the republicans. The transfer of New York alone from this estimate, not ta speak of New Jersey, would send Tilden te the White House. Staniey and the Philanthropsf Recently some English philanthropisty, who are the howling dervishes of civilization, have made an outcry over the statement that Henry M. Stanley, our correspondent in Central Africa, had killed or wounded four- teen of the savage natives of that country in circumstances which in the opinion of the philanthropists, safe in London, did not justify such vigorous proceedings. We give their views elsewhore. If this sort of criti- cism were confined to the professional phi- lanthropists it would be worth little notice, but these persons have by dint of addresses and petitions drawn from Earl Derby a letter which seems to express that that important official personage sympathizes with their views. This we cannot but regret to learn, though the fact seems to us comprehensible on grounds apart from a fair judgment of the case, It is certain that a sentiment of hostility to Stanley has made itself fell in geographical circles in England, as well as in that part of the public service that deals with the Oriental world. None can have forgotten how resolutely Stanley was belit- tled by these people when his discovery of Dr, Livingstone was first made known. They refused to believe in it until made ashamed of their own incredulity by overwhelming evidence, and when compelled to believe in the discovery they vilified the discoverer, In all that there was evident a mean and ungenerous animosity toward a daring tray- eller, simply because he had beaten them on what they had before that always regarded as their own ground. Their recantation, when it came, was not honest, but was made meré¢ly to save appearances, and out of re- gard to that dilapidated tradition, the na tional reputation for generosity and fair play. In the present assault on Stanley there is, if wo are not greatly mistaken, a little of the oid spite. It is so easy to raise a clamos against ® man in his absence, and if they are persistent they may, they fancy, make the opprobrium so great that he can never remove it on his return. For our part we do not doubt that Stanley's case is better than he has himself presented it. If it is desirable, as we believe it is, that white men should travel into unex plored countries to further the great cause of geographical: science which is at the bob tom of so much progress, then it is justitia ble that they should remove, as best they may, whatever obstacles present them selves, and that they should at any cast da d