The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1876, Page 5

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We are in a crisis where dema- gogues may do infinite mischief; where they ought, by common consent, to be sent to the rear and true statesmanship should come to the front. But while patriotic self-restraint is required of both sides a very peculiar degree of responsibility rests on the republi- can leaders, We think it useful to point this out to them and the country. In the first place no greater calamity could happen to the country than the installation of a President about whose election there could be a reasonable doubt in the minds of reasonable men. Those who opposed him in the canvass would feel a constant and in- curable sting at what would appear to them @ gross wrong and injustice; of those who voted for him the honest and patriotic part would be tortured with doubts; and an ad- ministration so headed and formed could not have the moral influence without which the mere physical force of the government is useless. We need not go back in history to the civil disturbances which have been caused by a belief in the popular mind that a false heir occupied the throne, We have in our own country a conspicuous example of the terrible evils ee sure to fall one community when a considerable and intelligent part of it sincerely believes that its ruler was not legally chosen. We refer tothe unhappy case of Louisiana, A large and the most intelligent part of the voters of Lou- isiana have for nearly four years sincerely believed that Governor Kellogg did not in the election af 1872 receive a majority of the votes and that he is not therefore of right and lawfully the Governor of the State. The result has been s continuous state of irritation, restlessness, impatience, a growing hatred of what they believe to be a usurpation ; a condition of the public mind which has inflicted igealculable losses and injuries on the industry and the society of the State and which has on two occasions caused popular uprisings. To spread a similar plague over the whole Union would be a blow so fatal that we need not recite its results, We rejoice to see that President Grant perceives this clearly. In his order to Gen- eral Sherman in relation to the placing of troops, whjch we print elsewhere, he uses words which are most honorable to him and which accurately express the thoughts of all patriotic men. He says :—‘‘Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be re- ported and denounced at once. No man worthy the office of President should be will- ing to hold it if ‘counted in’ or placed there by any fraud. Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result ; but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the’ suspicion of illegal or falsé returns.” General Grant has done many wise acts, but this is the wisest act of his life. It will do much to reassure the public of both sides, and the nation will thank him for his timely and patriotic words. Indeed, too much praise cannot be given to the Presi- 1876, dent for the attitude he has now publicly taken. Whoever may be his successor, Gen- eral Grant will have the satisfaction that he has done his duty to the country; and the people will appreciate his unpartisan and patriotic *position. He repeated yes- terday the conduct which earned him the ean prevent it, we have made arrangements toplacethe | praise ot the world when-he received Heraxp in the hands ofall our readors at the reduced | General price. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may Gesire 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 ve warmer, cloudy and rainy. SHOULD THERE BE ANY GROUNDS OF SUS- PICION OF FRAUDULENT COUNTING ON EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD _ REPORTED AND DENOUNCED AT ONCE. NO MAN WORTHY THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT SHOULD BE “WiLLING TO HOLD IT IF “COUNTED IN’ OR PLACED THERE BY ANY FRAUD, ZITHER PARTY CAN AFFORD TO BE __ DIs- TED IN THE RESULT, BUT THE COUNTRY NNOT AFFORD TO HAVE THE RESULT FAINTED BY THE SUSPICION OF ILLEGAL OR FALSE RETURNS. U. 8. GRANT. Wax. Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was feverish, and prices foreshadowed Lee's sword at Appomattox. “Let us have peace.” The President's words of yesterday will live in our history, and, if carried out in his own straightfor- ward manner, will link his name with those of Washington and Lincoln. We call public attention.also to the ex- cellent suggestion of the President that representative and fair men of both parties shall go to Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida to satisfy themselves and the mem- bers of their parties that a fair count is made of the votes. We trust both parties will at once designate several of their most prominent and public spirited mem: bers to go to Louisiana, on which State the result of the election seems now most likely to turn. Such men as Mr. Evarts, Judge Hoar and General Dix on the repub- lican side, and Mr. O’Conor, Mr. Belmont the doubts which attach to election returns. | ang Mr. Groesbeck on the democratic, could Gold opened at 109 5-8 and closed at 109 3-4. Money on call was supplied at 4, 3 and finally at 2 per cent. Government bonds were steady, and railway mortgages com- manded their usual prices with but slight changes. Deszcration or Lixcotx’s Toms.—Tho attempted desecration of the tomb of the late President Lincoln is one of those stories which would seem to be- long to imaginative rather than real erime. It is difficult to believe that sven the worst of criminals would plan and endeavor to execute sucha project. Had it succeeded the wholé world would have regarded it with horror, and we may well believe that the expectation of a ransom with which the crime was planned would have led to the final detection of the criminals, even if they had succeeded in contealing their purpbse until its accomplishment. And even now, with the fuli details we have of the affair, it is difficult to conceive of such a crime or to accept the scheme asa reality. Countixo tHe Lovistxa Votr—Tho Fixnaup suggested yesterday that a commis- sion of prominent and good men of both parties, in whose fairness the public has sonfidence,: could most readily satisfy the public mind about the vote of Louisiana, The President now makes a similar suggestion, but he seems to us to be infelicitous in his selection of re- publicans, The names he is reported to have reconmmended are not such names as would satisfy both parties. We should say that such republicans as Mr. Evarts, Judge Hoar and General Dix would inspire greater confidence, and on the democratic side we would suggest Mr. Belmont, Mr. O’Conor and Mr. Groesbeck. The men of both sides ought to be of na- tional reputation for fairness and an impar- Mial spirit, It is not work for mere parti- render a verdict which’ the whole country would accept. There is no reason to fear that we shall not get out of the present emergency to the satisfaction of everybody. It only requires that some reputable statesmen of both par- ties shall come forward, amd, in a spirit’ of amity and fairness, superintend the count in Louisiana, and unite upon a verdict which shall answer all the doubts of the people. In this matter,however, the repub- lican leaders ought to make the first ad- vances, and ought, for the sake of their.own good fame and future standing with the country, to be the most solicitous for a set- tlement which shall satisfy everybody and all parties. They must not forget, in the first place, that, as the party in power, they are chiefly responsible for the peace and general contentment of the country, and for getting, it satisfactorily out of any trouble it may fall into. They cannot afford to forget,, either, that‘ the suspicion of in- tended frand by the republican leaders in Louisiana is well founded ; that these Louisi- ana republicans, whose partisan Returning Board is to scrutinize the vote of the State, were two years ago detected in the most glar- ingand unscrupulous frauds, which received the condemnation of a republican Congress ; that so much just doubt hangs about the elec- tion of Governor Kellogg four years ago that a republican United States Senate bas persis- tently refused to acknowledge the legality of the declared results, and at the last session finally condemned them by refusing to ad- mit Mr. Pinchback to his seat. They must bear in mind, too, that the State government of Louisiana, thus of donbtful legality by their own confession, and already convicted and condemned by them for elec- tion frauds, is now accused not merely of a design to make a false canvass of the vote, but of having purposely and causelessly prevented a part of the people of, Louisiana from voting at all, See oom missioners of Election in several democratic parishes from making the requisite and legal preparations for an election, and also by ordering multitudes of arbitrary arrests just before election day. That is to say, the republican leaders must not close their eyes to the plain fact that the republican rulers of Louisiana, who have managed the election and who are now to can- vass the vote, are legitimately objects of sus- picion to the country, and that the presump- tion of fraud lies against them by the open condemnation of two republican houses of Congress. If you have convicted your ser- vant of theft you may reasonably watch him while he is countigg the spoons,. The re- publican leaders cannot afford, for the saké of their own good repute and future stand- ing with the people, to lay themselves open to even the suspicion of partisan action in the matter of the Louisiana vote; they can- not afford to shelter Messts, Kellogg and Packard and their Returning Board. They can much better afford to give up the elec- tion of Governor Hayes than rest under a reasonable suspicion of having abetted or concealed a wrong in Louisiana. But no sacrifice ,is called foron either side. What the nation wants isajustand fair count; one so just and fair that no sensible man, of either side, shall have cause for suspicion or dissatisfaction. For the rest it makes but little difference to the people who is President. Now that the election hasbeen held the partisan journals frankly confess that their tears and threats of ruin were unfounded, and that the country will be safe under either Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes. We have no fear of the result, The American people have both common sense and patriotism. There are statesmen on both sides who have enough sagacity, pru- dence and love of country to take care that this painful dispute is settled ina way to make the whole nation contented with the result. Nor will the people forget to hold in execration, as a traitor to liberty and to the country any demagogue who seeks to increase the embarrassment or to bring about irregular action. Close of the Centen Exhibition. The International Exhibition, by which the American people sought to celebrate in the most fitting manner the centennial of their independence, and which began on the 10th of May, closed yesterday. President Grant opened it and he also spoke the words which declared it at an end. All things con- sidered the Exhibition was a great success. Even financially it far exceeded the expecta- tions which werp indulged in regard to it, and as an exhibit of the arts and industries ‘of all nations it surpassed any of the great expositions of the last quarter of a century. The awards, it is true, have not given universal satisfac- tion, but this was not to be expected, and whatever mistakes were made were more than compensated by the general excellence which characterized the management. We can all the more readily overlook the short- comings in this respect because the great purpose of the Exhibition was so completely attained. Our Centennial was in fact, as it was intended to be, adisplay of the progress ofthe Republic in the first century of its existence. Every State had something to show worth showing, and on every hand the evidences of skill, of art and of culture proved us to be entitled to a first place among the nations of the world. It was necessary in sorhe sense to prove this to the rest Of mankind. Evenour English cousins, who vainly tried to subdue the impa- tient provinces only a hundred years ago, had come to regard us as in some sort the descendants of the aboriginal savages or as Occupying a position scarcely superior to them. All this feeling with regard to Amer- ica has been dissipated by the Exhibition, and our place among enlightened nations is at last fully and completely recognized. Many prejudices have been dispelled, a bet- ter feeling has been engendered, and we may now enter upon the secorid century of our national existence encouraged to persevere as we begun and confident of our ability to accomplish all of the great purposes which are the end and aim of a civilized people. SHOULD THERE BE ANY GROUNDS OF SUS- PICION OF FRAUDULENT COUNTING ON EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD BE RFPORTED AND DENOUNCED AT ONCE, No MaN WORTHY THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT SHOULD BE WILLING TO HOLD IT IF ‘COUNTED IN” OR PLACED THERE BY ANY FRAUD. ErrHER PARTY CAN AFFORD TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULT, BUT THE COUNTRY CANNOT AFFORD T0 HAVE THE RESULT TAINTED BY THE 8US- PICION OF ILLEGAL OR FALSE RETURNS, U.S. GRANT, The Closing of the Centennial Loan Exhibition. Last night the most important exhibition of art ever,held in America was brought to a close at the Academy of Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art, after a career so successful that it fairly astonished its origi- nators. It was a magnificent proof of the cultivated taste andgpublic spirit of the wealthy citizens of New York that they took from their houses priceless treasures of art to place them at the service of their less for- tunate fellow citizens and offer a new source of pleasure to our country and foreign vis- itors. The exhibition was also intended to do a desirable work in helping to pay off the debts of the Academy of Design this important work it has practically ac- complished. During the time the Loan Exhibition has been open to the public more than one hundred and sixty thousand persons have visited it, An interest has been shown in the art works unpre- cedented in the history of art in America, Tho total receipts from all sources will be close on fifty-one thousand dollars, Whether we look at the exhibition from the e@ucational or tho financial point of view it must be pronounced a flattering suc- cess, Too much honor cannot be given to gentlemen like Messrs. Sherwood, Belmont and Taylor, who began the good work and carried it to sucha splendid issue. The bartists who co-operated may also congratu- late themselves on the result. © It did good service also in giving our foreign visitors a more correct notion of the art taste of the most cultivated of our art patrons, and cor- rected qny false impressions our visitors may have formed as to the state of our art education, and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and | William A. Wheeler and Louw In his despatches to General posites President Grant plainly indicated the State of Louisiana as the final battle ground for the Presidency. It is particularly unforta- nate for the republican party that its suc- cess depends on such a State, It is espe- cially noteworthy that its vote will be ab- solutely necessary to elect William A. Wheeler, of New York, Vice President, who gave his name to the celebrated compromise by which the infamously corrupt action of the Louisiana Returning Board in the elections of 1874 was reversed with the .ap- proval of a republican Congress. Mr. Wheeler's record in this matter makes it difficult to believe that he would accept a victory at the hands of this Board if there was any fair doubt upon the integrity of its work. Says Prebident Grant, “No man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it if counted in or placed there by frand.” ‘This appeals with equal force tothe candidate who at the death or disability of the President must take his place. Mr. Wheeler, therefore, is, particu- larly interested in the result. He has placed his knowledge and his condemnation of the fraudulence and corruption of the Louisiana Returning Borrd so markedly on record that he is bound now to second the desire of President Grant and of all good citizens to have the operations of this Board so scru- tinized that the result shall be above ‘sus- picion. When the select House committee on Louisiana affairs, of which Mr. Wheeler is @ member, reiurned to Washington the chairman presented the following preamble and resolution to the House, which adopted them: Whereas both branches of the Logislature of Louis- jana have ested the seloct committee of the House to investigate the circumstances attending the election and returns thereof in that State for the year 1874; aud whereas vaid committee has unanimously re- ported that the Returning Board of that State, in can- vassing and compiling said returns and promulgating the results, wrongtully apphed an erroneous rule ot were awarded seais in sen to which they were not entitled, and Dareone entitled to seats were de- prived of them; Resolved, ‘That it 1s recommended to the House of Representatives in Louisiana to take immediate steps to remedy said injustice and to place the perzous right- fully entitled in their seats. With this resolution were presented ma- jority and minority’reports. Mr. Wheeler signed the latter, which offered the previous excesses of the white democrats as palliating, in ameasure, the republican frauds. But this minority report contained the following pregnant passage, which shows that the present emergency was foreseen, It now sounds prophetic:— evil goes mach further. Upon she elections na, a8 in other States, depends the right to of Senators and Reprosentatives who are to ing laws for the whole coantry, and the choice of Presidential electors, upon whose vote may depend the title of tho office of the President of the United States himself. No party in the United States will like to submit to a result decided by the votes of electors chosen by such means. Each party -will be Nkely to credit charges of fraud and Violence mado against its own eile, There is, in our judgment, the greatest danger that these eloments may enter 1pto the next national election to so great an extent that it may leave the real expression of the will of the people in doubt, Here the danger of the present situation is boldly sketched out. President Grant's words appeal to the candidates ; the words we have quoted appreciate the danger to the national peace. This is acrisis in which every honest man of influence before the country should exert it to the utmost in the interest of fair play. We call upon William A. Wheeler, on his record, to come to the front and do his share of the work of finding an issue to the crisis at ence -honorable and peaceful. The Troops in the South. We understand that some prominent dem- ocrats complain of the order issued yester- day by General Grant supplying troops to the federal commanders in Louisiana and Florida. They are reported to say that in this the President is violating the constitu- tion. The President of the United States has the constitutional right to send troops into any State, county or township in the United States at any time, to quarter them there as long as he pleases and to mo¥e them about as he thinks the public service shall demand. In sending troops to General Augur in Louisiana at this moment the President acts most wisely. There is in that State, naturally, an extreme condition of excite- ment; it is of the greatest importance that order shall be maintained until the dispute about the election is settled. he mere pres- ence of the troops will restrain the passions of both sides, Tho soldiers can do nothing to influence the result one way or another. The election has been held.e The votes are cast. The returns are by this time in New Orleans, where they will be canvassed in the presence of leading men of both parties from the North, and all complaints will have a hearing. It is mere folly, under these circumstances, to suspect or im- pugn the motives of the President in sending troops to the State. When Gen- eral Grant allowed Governor Chamberlain to usé troops before the election in South Carolina the Heratp was the first to declare that he had committed an error, a political blunder, and we do not doubt that this act of the administration did lose the republicans thousands of votes. But even then it did not occur to us to assert that the President had no constitutional right to quarter United States troops in any State of the Union. We advise our democratic friends to keep cool, They mado a mistake in 1861 which has cost them and the country very dear. If they should make another mistake of the kind it will cost them very much dearer. The coun- try means that there shaJl be fair play, but it does not mean to stand any nonsense, SHOULD THERE BE ANY GROUNDS OF SUSPI- CION OF FRAUDULENT COUNTING ON EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD BE REPORTED AND DENOUNCED AT ONCE. No MAN WORTHY THE OFFICE OF Paesroanr SHOULD BE WILLING TO HOLD IT IF ‘‘couNTED IN” OR PLACED THERE DY aNx yRauD. ErrHen PARTY CAN AFFORD TO BR DISAPPOINTED IN THR RESULT, BUT THE COUNTRY CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE THE RESULT TAINTED BY THE SUSPI- CION OF ILLEGAL OR FALSE RETURNS, U. 8. GRANT. Have Pariexce.—It is now pretty evident that only the actual and official count in one or perhaps even two or three States will decidé the result of the election. Both par- ties are sending ‘estimated majorities” with painfal frequency; but such guesses decide nothing. We do not want to aness who ‘ia, road and on Commerce, elected, and we must wait in order to know. Let everybody have patience and dq what he can to allay the public anxiety and ex- citement. If the result shall depend on Louisiana we may have to wait a week to know how that State has really gone. In the meantime it fs the duty of every citizen to believe that no wrong is intended by the leaders of either party and that none will be done, The Americans are not a set of thieves, The Next House of Representatives. The observant reader will have noticed that in the list of Congressmen we have published from day to day. since the elec- tion there has been a change of name in several instances’ érom an original estimate, but aslight change, if any, from the demo- cratic majority in the next House of Repre- sentatives, No changes likely to occur in the figures we presentthis morning can change the majerity from twenty-five, where we now place it, toa lower number, while complete returns from South Carolina and Wisconsin are likely to increase rather than diminish the democratic majority. As regards the standing.of the House, it will be of about the same calibre in the Forty-fifth as in the Forty-fourth Congress. Butler takes the place of Blaine as the representa- tive of the dramatic element in the opposi- tion, and on the democratic side Lamar will be the most sadly missed. With these ex- ceptions the leaders on both sides will be pretty much the same. Sayler will be Speaker, os a matter of course, Cox having sacrificed the chance which possession gave him to his opposition to Tilden at St. Louis. The organization of the committees, too, will be very much the same, Morrison and Randall and Cox and Swann being all re-elected and entitled to the‘cour- tesy of their places in the committees of Ways and Means, Appropriations, Banking and Currency and Foreign Affairs. Knott is also re-elected and, we presume, will be able to hold his place at the head of theJudiciary Committee. Only two important committees will be remodelled, those on the Pacific Rail- Lamar was chair- man of the “one and Hereford, of West Virginia, of the other. Had General Ward, of this city, been chosen he would have been entitled to the chairmanship of the Committee on Commerce, and we shall not be surprised if the new Speaker takes advantage of these circumstances to repair the injustice done to Mr. Wood through the prejudices of the late Speaker. These speculations are only valuable at this time ss showing that the present régime in the House will be continued for at least two ‘ years of the coming administration, and as forecasting the kind of legislation we may expect in the near future. The next will be the complete counterpart of the present House of Representatives in every essential feature, the only difference being in the ab- sence of one distinguished statesman on each side and in the smaller majority which the country has accorded to the democratic party. a SHovLp THERE BE ANY GROUNDS OF SUSPI- CION OF FRAUDULENT COUNTING ON EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD BE REPORTED AND DENOUNCED AT ONCE, No MAN WORTHY THE OFFICE or PRESIDENT SHOULD BE WILLING TO HOLD IT IF ‘‘COUNTED IN” OR PLACED THERE BY ANY FRAUD. EITHER PARTY CAN AFFORD TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULT, BUT THR COUNTRY CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE THE RESULT TAINTED BY THE SUSPI- CIOM O¥ ILLEGAL OR FALSE RETURNS. U. 8. GRANT. The Weather—Another Rain Storm. As already announced in the Hearn, the storm centre now developing in the North- west has assumed a decided form, and we may* look for it in New York State by to-morrow or Monday morning. The pressure at Bismarck, Dakota, last even- ing was remarkably low, being 29.29 inches, and the isobars eastward wera close together, indicating a barometric gradient of one- tenth of an inch to a hundred miles. A still greater depression will probably take place at the centre of disturbance when it de- scends into the Upper Mississippi or Lower Missouri region, where the atmosphere rap- idly attains a high degree of saturation. Yesterday's light rain was due to the sudden movement southward along the coast of the low pressure that accompanied the recent rain area before the corresponding move- ment of the area of high pressure which was central in the northern part of Lowor Canada. In the West the afternoon tem- perature at Yankton reached 74 degrees and at North Platte 77 degrees—a phenom- enon worthy of the attention of meteorolo- gists, because of the fact that the surround- ing regions had temperatures of 11 to 20 degrees lower. As yet no rain has resulted from the development of the storm, but will follow its eastward advance. The effect of the approaching rainfall on the Croton water supply may be very hpneficial, but at pres- ent it is difficult to détermine what increase it will cause therein. ¥ The weather in New York to-day promises to be cool and cloudy, followed by higher t€mperature and “possi- bly rain. No Nonsense. We wish to give a little good advice to the democrats. They have a great deal at stake just now; but a very little imprudence or impatience may spoil all their hopes, Thongh the country has given them a con- siderable and perhaps a predominant vote in the election, they must not forget that it has done so with mis- givings and doubts, and less because it believes in them than because it has got tired of republican mismanagement. It keeps its eyes on the democrats and is very ready, extremely ready, to resent the least misconduct on their part. We advise them, too, to remember that of the large popular vote which they have ob- tained in the election only an insignificant proportion was cast by the Northern States. ‘They have majorities in only four out of twenty-two Northern States ; and this shows how far they are from having established themselves in the confidence of the North. If they are wise they will not impair this confidence by any misconduct, by rash lan- guage, or by needless and indecent mis- trust. They may be assured that the coun- try has not forgotten that on the democratic party reste the guilt of the rebellion; that their folly and wickedness broucht on us the civil war, with all thejlosses and the huge train of evils from which we still suffer. The country has not forgotten a these things, nor the agency of the demo- cratic party in bringing them on us, Modesty is a virtue the democratic poli- ticians will do well to cultivate. We repeat what we said yesterday, the people will not tolerate for an instant anything which looks to a disorderly or violent attempt to grasp power; they will resent in- stantly and fiercely even anything in their conduct or language which could be construed into a threat todo so, Let the democratic leaders join frankly in efforts to disentangle the present political maze, Let them show decent confidence in the honor of their respectable opponents, and if they shall prove to be beaten, which may happen, let them take their defeat good naturedly, and thus they will do'more to regain a permanent place in the confie dence of the people than in any other way, A Welcome Visitor. The reappearance of Mr. Dion Boucicault in his quaint creation of ‘Conn, the Shaughraun,” at Wallack’s charming theatre is an event which «we hail with ’ pleasure. Only to see .the mischievous twinkle in the eyes of Conn and to hear the nctuous softness of the vagabond’s brogue is a real relaxation in this season of political nerve-tension. You do not seo his dog, Tat- ters, but the playgoer who has a modicum of imagination can, we feel assured, mae terialize him at pleasure as fully, at least, as Mr. Hewitt and Zach Chand- ler have been able to materialize their majorities. To see Mr. Gilbert as the old parish priest alone is as good as a course of the beatitudes, Indeed, from the sentimental English captain to Harvey Duff, the Irish “‘informer,” there is nothing wanting to make the pice ture perfect. With such ladies in the cast as Miss Dyas, Miss Wood, Mme. Ponisi, Mrs. Sefton and Miss Bake we have a fine balance to the male portion. One of the great secrets of | the success of ‘The Shaughraun” is that, in addition to the story being full of dramatic interest in the acts after the first, every chatacter is a clear type, It R has been argued that these are hackneyed, but so is human nature, so are the Alps, so is the ocean, To have an author like Mr. Boucicault, who can write such a play and who can interpret its leading réle as no other man could, ia a great boon to New York. If, as we take Mr. Boucicault’s speech on Thurs. day night to convey, he intends re- maining with us, we congratulate him on his resolve and America on the stimulus its drama will receive. With Mr. Bouci- ° cault and Mr, Lester Wallack permanently combining their efforts to entertain the pub- lic we should be able to announce a new ere in the Thespian art. May it prove true, Tue ConeressionaL Denecation remaing almost unchanged from the lists we printed yesterday. J. M. Campbell, republican, has beaten John Reilly, the present incumbent from the Seventeenth Pennsylvania district ; Henry M. Pollard, republican, has been chosen in the Tenth Missouri district, and E. M. Ashcroft, republican, has probably de- feated W. A. J. Sparks, the incumbent from the Sixteenth Illinois district. These gaina will probably be overbalanced by other ~ changes, so that'the democratic majority in the next House of Representatives will be about where we placed it the morning. aftex the election. ' Evex rae Cxamper or Derurres hag noticed the Du Sommerard scandal. It is gratifying that the offensive letter has been shown to be a forgery ; but the purpose for which it was uttered is not so apparent. But for its official character the slander would havé had no significance, and the authorship of the letter being denied the matter is of no further‘importance, SHOULD THERE BE ANY GROUNDS OF &8US- PICION OF FRAUDULENT CUUNTING ON EITHER SIDE IT SHOULD BE REPORTED AND DE- NOUNCED AT ONCE. NO MAN WORTHY THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT SHOULD BE WILLING TO HOLD IT IF “COUNTED IN” OR PLACED THERE BY ANY FRAUD. EITHER PARTY CAN AFFORD TO BE DISAP- POINTED IN THE RESULT, BUT THE COUNTRY CANNOT: AFFORD TO HAVE THE RESULT TAINTED BY THE SUSPICION OF ILLEGAL OR FALSE RETURNS. U. 8S. GRANT. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE = Pay as you voted, Bluford Wiison 1s in Chicago, Mrs. Dion Boucicault has arrived frow Europe, Chancelior John V. L. Pruyn, of Albavy, is at or Windsor Hotel. The young man who on Wednesday morning said if wos mpand tuck, went and tuck a nip. since Mr. Cobian, of Philadelphia, was hit by a brick, bat on Tuesday, bo has been in astate of somi-Coh- Jan. Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, President of the Senate, may become a very important fuctor in this country’s history. Archbispop James F. Woot, of Philadelphia, and Bishop J. F. Shanahan, of Harrisburg, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. ‘The hatters who laid in a stock of seven-and-a-quar ter size hatsand had calls for six-and-a-nalt “= did not look out fur'a change. ‘That was a sight on Tuesday night fit tor a note in Hawthorne's diary, Ten thousand men struggling in front of the Hxratn office to know who was elected, © and there opposite, im the shadows, in St Paal’s cbarch- % yard, quietly lay the politicians who ruled provinces more than a hundred years ago. ‘The Philadelphia Zimes on Tuesday morning spread over its editorial page the sentence “Voto for Reform” im all imaginable langaages, not forgetting sweet j Italian, strutting Polish, indefinite Greok, clear, posi. tive Hebrew, and even endii with “Meiican man muchce want lefome; Chinam tce alle same, The Arening Telegram publishes this bill of tare for. tolegraphers:— It is an easter thing to tame the lightning than to concoct a good diener. We are sure that the electric spark, a8 applied to comestic cookery, never warmod a meal such ag we submit below :— perc roneneancecennarnner rere re parce nore) sour. Wire-micelly, Electric Ecls, caug! ENTRAR: Fried Liver (Associated). Pressed Beet. Mis-Sieaks (the company ts not responsible for these.) off the Battery. Ss. ROAST. Seventy halt.rate Mossages an hour. YRORTANLES. Salary—bi-moathiy, Thyme (as soon as possible). Sipe pian. Election seat ee toa return, 4A Little Dear!) “At toast #0 most people ate who send Despatches think, DRSSIRKT. Preserves trom Leyden Jars, WINKS Click—O1 Ti aiadliale pdedadaaenetotedteromeend A dinner like this may be eaten without reMase=. AON LO OL OE TEE LE EEE OOOO DELOLEEE IE: i H | | |