The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 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 will be warmer, cloudy and possibly rainy. Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it shoud be reported and denounced at once, No man worthy the office of President should be willing to hold it if ‘counted in” or placed thereby any fraud. Either party can afford tobe disappointed in the result, but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns. U. S&S GRANT. War. Srreer Yesteapay.—The stock mar- ket was feverish, and prices were irregular, although firm at the close. Gold opened at 109 3-4, declined to 109 3-8 and ended at 109 1-2. Money on call was supplied at 4 and 2 per cent. Government bonds were firm and railway bonds without material change. ’ Tue Brecuer-Movutron difficulty will now be removed from Metropolitan nostrils. The decision of Jadge Westbrook sends them to Delaware county for a trial. We only wish he could send the whole thing—— turther. Avyotusr Ramnoap Accrpsnt, fortunately anattended by loss of life or even by serious injury to the passengers, occurred at the Jersey City terminus of the Jersey Central Railroad. The details are fully given else- where. It was evidently caused by careless- ness and .might have proved a pecs disaster. ‘Tax Sommeranp Caxanp.—In another col- umn we present our readers with an inter- view accorded to our Paris correspondent by M. du Sommerard, the Chief Commissioner of France at the Philadelphia Exhibition, whose name was used to floatan infamous libel on America. The gentleman's denial could not be more explicit. Poro.—Although the weather yesterday was threatening it did not deter the lovers pf this manly sport from assembling at the Westchester Polo Grounds to witness the games. The scene was enlivened by the attendance of the Coaching Club with o large party of friends, who thoroughly en- joyed the spirited contests. Polo bids fair to become the favorite game of the futuro, 1s it combines all the attractions needed té make it popular with the players as well as the lookers-on. Some Fixe Suoorure was done yesterday at Creedmoor for the Turf, Field and Farm badge and the Sharp’s Rifle Company gold badge. Four out of the eight best marks- men made scores of two hundred and over out of a possible two hundred and twenty- five. In the short range match eight com- petitors made forty-two out of a possible fifty, which shows that there ‘is no falling off in skill among the frequenters of the range. We are glad to see that the noble sport of rifle shooting is maintaining its popularity, and that the prospect of anothe American victory next year at the interna- jional match is very decided, Crumbs of Comfort for Both Sides, The singular greed of men for political power leads them often into courses which deteat the purposes they have most at heart. The eagerness with which political leaders of both parties are now struggling for suc- cess isa striking illustration of this truth. The democrats are wild with a desire to get into their own hands the reins of govern- ment; but toa thoughtful man it appears quite certain that if they should now be de- feated and should accept their defeat with loyal good nature they would be far more certain of a lasting victory four years hence. The truth ig the fruit is not quite ripe for them yet. If Mr. Tilden shall prove to have been chosen his party will enter on the administration under great and almost disabling difficulties. It does not possess the confidence of the country to the degree requisite to make its task any- thing but most difficult. The dem- ocratio President and Congress would have to contend, on the one hand, with rash, impetuous and foolish persons in their own party, full of crude and ill-digested projects and of schemes repugnant to the public will and interests, and they would meet on the other side popular suspicion, frequent misinterpretation of their motives and a powerful and skilful opposition. They would find imposed upon them tasks of the most difficult kind; for they would be required to bring the country back to specie payments; to maintain absolutely the equal rights of the blacks in the South and their security in life and property ; to reform the civil service and to frame such ‘wise measures as would raise our industries to renewed prosperity. Every proposition they brought forward would be rigidly sera- tinized, not only by their opponents in Congress, but by the people at large, and they would need almost superhuman wis- dom and prudence to conduct their admin- istration in such manner as to win the public approval and a re-election in 1880. If, however, the democrats shall have lost the election, they will still have a strong in- fluence in the country, which can be im- paired only by their own blunders. Witha strong representation in both houses of Congress they would be able to take advan- tage of every mistake of the republicans, The responsibility for currency, civil ser- vice and other reforms would rest with the latter, and if these failed to redeem thoir pledges, if they continued to suffer and en- courage misgovernment in Southern States, or continued their corruption of the civil service, or paltered with the currency ques- tion as they have done for so many years, or omitted such measures as are needed to bring us back to prosperoys times, the coun- try would undoubtedly in two years give the democrats a majority in both houses, and in 1880 put them in the executive under con- ditions which could hardly fail to give them a long and secure lease of power. Take now the case of a republican victory and we have only to reverse the picture. If Governor Hayes is elected he will begin his administration either by « trying struggle with some of the most skilful and deter- mined leaders of his own party, who are opposed to the reforms to which he is pledged, or he will have to surrender to these, in which case the reforms he has promised, and on the faith of which he hag been chosen, would be abandoned. But in that case he and his party could look forward only to a humiliating defeat in 1880. If the republican party succeeds now it is almost certain that it will fall into disintegration or into public disfavor before the next Presi- dential election, but if it should now prove to be defeated, nothing is more likely than that, purified and strengthened by four years of adversity, retaining all its skill and ability, but disembarrassed of its camp fol- lowers, it would be re-elected in 1880, and retain power for a number of terms there- after. In fact, there is scarcely a doubt that the party which shall succeed now will be over- thrown four years hence, supposing, what is not probable, that it survives so long. But it is equally certain that the party which fails now may expect to succeed in 1880, and, if its leaders are men of only moderate wisdom and prudence, may hold power for a number of years. Of course we do not expect either‘party to give up its chances on any such considera- tions ; but in what we have above written there are suggestions of comfort for the de- feated side which will commend thémselves to thoughtful party men. The truth is that the office of President for the next four years will be one of the least comfortable places in the hab- itable part of our planet. Unless Mr. Tilden prefers deliberately to sacrifice the favor of the country to the demands of his party he will have to give deep offenee and dissatisfaction toa great multitude of his supporters from the very start, and will arouse such a storm about his ears as will go far to disintegrate his own party, while we believe at the same time it would rally to his support the best men of both parties in defence of true and necessary reforms. We have confidence that Mr. Tilden, if he were President, would attempt just this course, and that his aim would be to reform not only the public service but his own party. This would be consistent with his own lines of thought. Of course it would brivg upon him and those who acted with him bitterness and denunciation from the rag, tag and bobtail of the party, and it would in all probability end ina thorough breaking up of party lines. But the case of Mr. Hayes, if he is elected, will be no happier. Hoe stands personally very distinctly pledged to certain reforms, mainly that of the civil service, of the absolute necessity of which the most intelli- gent part of the country is now firmly con- vineed. But the leading men of his party are not desirous of such reforms. They defeated General Grant when he attempted them, and Mr. Hayes will have to encoun- ter their skilful opposition from the start, Of course they will attempt totemporize and make delays and to put off the day of reform, and he may be weak enough to yield to them. If he does he is lost, and not he alone, but his perty with him; forthe opposition, under his administration, would be strong enough | to expose all palteritig, and people are now determined on reform. Thus, if Mr. Hayes | police, and the danger of hydrophobia should fail to redeem his promises, he would NEW YORK HERALD, SUND AY, bring defeat on his party ; but if he should | attempt to carry them into effect he would have to begin by striking mortal blows at the men who have headed his canvass ; who are wedded to the system which he is pledged to destroy, and who will fiercely re- sent the attempt of one they calla ‘new man” to rule them and prescribe to them a new course in politics. Politicians and people may as well remem- ber that a thorough break up of old parties is imminent whoever may be elected Presi- dent, and that, whatever party may succeed, the people will make it uncomfortable for the party leaders, Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent voting on either side it should be re- ported and denounced at once. No man worthy the office of President showld 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 the country can- not afford to have the result tainied by the sus- picion of illegal or false returns. U. & GRANT. The Uncertain States, As we go to press it seems probable, but not certain, that in Florida tho democrats have carried both the State and national tickets ; that in Sonth Carolina Hampton is elected, while Hayes has a.small majority on the Presidential vote, and that in Louisiana the democrats have a moderate but sufficient majority. These, it must be remembered, are only probabilities, and nothing more. We advise everybody to wait patiently for certainties, which can be got only from complete official returns. It must be said, ,however, that there is more matter bearing a resemblance to evidence this morning than we have had heretofore. Light begins to appear where for some days there was only a muddle of darkness, We call attention to one singular contra- diction in the opposing statements from South Carolina and Louisiana, the more ‘Yemarkable because it occurs in the re- ports from both States. The repub- licans assert that authentic statements aro at hand from but very few counties. The democrats assert that authentic statements are at hand from nearly all; and, indeed, a late despatch from South Carolina gives re- turns, claimed by the democrats to be from the board of managers of every county in that State. Now, as to Louisiana, there are some few far away, outlying counties from which returns may not be receivable fora day or two; but there is no reason in the world why transcripts of the official count from every South Carolina county should not have been by this time obtained from the democratic member of the county elec- tion managers by the democrats and from the republican manager by the republicans, either at Charleston or Columbia. We beg Governor Chamberlain to beware of any appearance, even, of huggermugger- ing the returns. He and his -no- toriously corrupt allies—Elliot, Moses and Whipper—are already objects of suspicion here in the North, and justly so. They must remember that this is not merely a State election ; we are electing a President this time, and there must be no nonsense, Mr. Chamberlain is too smart and practised a politician to waste time in gathering the returns; there has been time enough to get at least acomplete summary statement. of the votes of all the counties. If the demo- cratic side have got it, as they assert, people will hardly eredit Governor Chamberlain's professions of ignorance. In Florida, as we write, as near as we can cipher out the statements cf both sides, the counties which remain to be heard from officially are all democratic; and those known, 33 out of 39, give;a democratic ma- jority of 308. If the six other counties give majorities equal to the last election the democratic majority in the State would be 1,029. Mr. Tilden is said by the democrats to run in the counties heard from about 200 behind the State ticket. This means that Northern men living in Florida voted the democratic State ticket, but supported Mr. Hayes for the Presidency. The admission made by the Democratic State Committee that Mr. Tilden runs behind the State ticket certainly gives an air of truth to their report Northern Public Men Going Sonft- It will allay the public anxiety and ewite- ment to know that a considerable number of eminent and trusted public men are steady on their way to New Orleans, Columia and Tallahassee to assist at the scrutiny of the votes of the three doubtful Statesand give the nation assurance of fair phy. Such men as Charles Francis Adams, “Ir. Evarts, General Dix, Senators Edmund, Randolph and Sherman, and others whop names are equally honored and honorabe, will satisfy the country by the decision ti¢y shall make. We are sorry that General Jogan and some others, more noted for partisan zeal than calm judgment, lave been asked | by the President: to ake part in this important business, arl we still hope that the two national ¢oumittees, republican and degocratic, wil) meet and select, out of the considerable number of gentlemen who are willing to sve, three on each side, for each of the threr States, to make a report to the nation. What is required is a report from men in whose statements both parties will have absolute vonfidence, both because they aro men of honor and because they cannot be easily decfived. The appearance of such men, uponéuch duty, will calm tho public fears at ghee and give assurance of justice. We caution the people in the States where this inquest is to be held that whichever side proves to have lost must give up at once, loyally and cheerfully. There must be no grumbling, no thrents of resistance, no schemes for further dispute ; the resull must ke accepted with good-natured resig: nation. That is the American way. The defeated have the satisfaction of knowitg that we shall have another election in tvo years. A Doa's Brre has resulted in hydropho# bia and the death of another victim to that terrible malady. The deadly nature of the poison took over seven months to develop, and its fatal effects could not be overcome by the appliances of medical science. All homeless curs should be destroyed by the ald thus be lessened. NOVEMBER 12, 1876,—QUADRUPLE SHEET. . The Color of the Reports. From a close study of a great mass of con- tradictory statements, which we publish elsewhere, concerning the vote in the three disputed States, we get a feeling that on the whole the case, in all of them, looks more hopeful for the democrats than for the re- publicans. The democratic statements ap- pear to us to be more moderate than those of their opponents; the democratic claims ure more discriminating and more modest and thus convey the impression to the im- partial seeker after facts that they are more trustworthy. For instance, General. Hamp- ton sdmits, in his despatch to the Huraxp, that Mr. Tilden has run behind the State ticket, which was natural, and admits with evident regret that he has run.a good deal be- hind. The body of New Orleans merchants also speak specifically, but moderately, and indeed, to-day at least, the democrats who communicate with tho North by telegraph havea more moderate, a calmer tone than the republicans, who seem to be getting moreand more excited. We recommend both sides to be calm. Loud talking and boasting will not help them. Both parties here in the North are inexorably determined to see jus- tice done in all three of the States—on that democrats and republicans down there may as well rely. If the republicans have really carried them they will have them counted on the Hayes side as sure as the sun rises. If the democrats have carried them they will be counted on that side with equal cer- tainty. And woe to the demagogues and scoundrels on either side who shall be caught attempting to cheat! A sufficient number of impartial, eminent and respected citizens have gone to New Orleans and will go to South Carolina and Florida to examine into the disputes there, and make a decla- ration to the nation which will satisfy both parties. Highflying Body Snatchers. If credit is to. be given to the report ine regard to the attempted desecration of the tomb of President Lincoln it is one more indication of the mischievous ingenuity of the rogue of the period. Body snatching in the ordinary way is bad enough; but the theft of the body of any ordinary or obscure personage is atrivial offence by comparison with the crime proposed in this case, which would have been an insult to the whole people, an ontrage upon the sensibilities of the nation. There seems in the very propo- sition of this offence a necessary inconsist- ency. If there is in the whole category 4 human activities one that is grovellixg, mean, despicable, vile in every conceiyble aspect, it is that of the body snatcher In the brute creation it is only the fouleé and meanest of creatures that tears its pry from the grave; and as the loathsome hymna is to the lordly lion or tiger that ki} its own game, so is the body snatcher to any rogue with manly instincts. Yet it isproposed to commit this lowest and meanet of crimes onagrand scale; to play for millions the greasy game of corner begars. It would have been a strange fact if He man who was murdered by conspirators who began with the intention to kidnap /him had been at last stolon from his gra/@. But we doubt this crime. We do rt believe in these rogues. The story ha the air of an inven- tion by detectives. “here were some per- sons who personate/ the body snatchers of the invention, and the pistol that went off “by mistake” wa ® signal to them to get out-of the way. * Should therexe any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent cowting on either side it should be re- ported and deounced at once. No man vorthy the office of President should be wiillng hold it if ‘‘counted in” or placed there by ay fraud. Lither party can afford to be disappoited in the result, but the country cannot afford # have the result tainted by the suspicion of iliestl or false returns. *° U. &. GRANT. F 4 Wheeler's Chance. “tis reasoned upon by some persons as a pssibility that the choice of a President aay fall to the House of Representatives un- der the constitution, and further that the gs may not be able to agree, and may thus fail to make a choice within the month which the constitution gives for the purpose, The likelihood of these points is not ap- parent, for if the election goes to the House there is no known obstacle to its choice ; but it cannot go to the House until it has failed before the country, and if the three States in doubt are thrown out for fraud Mr. Tilden will still be chosen. But if the two points supposed should by any chance prove realities then it is possible that Mr. Wheeler may be the next President of the United States. In the case in which the House has to name the President, the Senate names the Vice President—and a majority only is necessary to a choice, Now the Senate has a republican majority. There is no restriction upon its action, except that it must elect one of the two persons who have received the greatest number of votes for Vico President. It would choose Mr. Wheeler on the first ballot, and a Vice Presi- dent thus chosen will become President ‘if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 4th day of March next following.” Tho Weather, Tho storm centre in the West has now moved southeastward into, Iowa, and is followed from the northward by an area of high pressure which closely at- tendsit. As the eastward movement pro- gresses we may look for the development of a rain aroa from the present conditions of cloudiness and high temperature that ac- company the depression. In the East the area of low pressuro continues to hang over the New England coast, with light rains from the lakes to the Atlantic. Inthe Southwest, owing tothe Iowa storm centre, the winds are southerly and the temperature high, but clear or partly cloudy weather prevails. We jay therefore expect within the next three x four days rapid changes of weather from arm and cloudy, with rain, to cold and lear, and possibly occasional snowfalls. It is certain that during the coming winter uch suffering will be caused by these sud- for we have observed that even in the com- the several areas of high and low pressure | toa purpose to pervert the results of the have been exceedingly rapid. Therefore | election, and who wildly jump to the oon- let the charitably disposed citizens who | clusion that the result is to be, not the inau- have much to share with the poor give early | guration of Hayes, but the perpetuation of and often, for they cannot plead s want of | Grant, wogld be sorely puzzled if called foreknowledge of the sufferings they express | upon to state by what conceivable steps out @ willingness to alleviate. The weather in | present arithmetical confusion could lead to New York to-day will be warmer and cloudy, | such an issue. They sorely underrate the possibly with rain. em nation who believe that ten iat or fifteen thousand troops can « Rumors and Rumor Mongers. American people or dence grea We print elsewhere a curious report sent | of action contrary to the popular purpose, Us from Washington by an occasional corre- | This nation means that either Hayes or Til- spondent of certain mancuvres of demo- | den shall be its next President, though it erats regarded there as suspicious. There | is yet a little; uncertain which. There may is also a report from Philadelphia of an at- | be contingenciés in which this uncertainty tempt to get possession by a forged order of | would alarmingly divide the country, but the telegraphic despatches sent by the | they are not imminent Against any other Prosident day before yesterday. For this | result the country would be united, and last trick there seems to be no motive 5- | there are somewhere in this country wearing signed. The public mind is just now in an ex- cited state, and all rumors gather volume, and no doubt many are wrongly credited by excitable people. We print these mainly because they furnish us a convenient text for a little Sunday morning sermon to the political gamblers of both parties. We warn them that this is no time for tricks. The people of the United States have got their eyes open; they will not be deceived; they do not mean to be sold out; they do not care much who is President; but they mean to have an honest and fair count. | civilians’ clothes not less than a million. veteran soldiers. All the talk, therefore, about Frank Blair's prophecy is just now rather mischievous nonsense. The pastors as well as the politicians are in doubt about the result of the election, and very wisely will say little or nothing about it to-day. It is yet possible that they might speak on the wrong side, no matter what their political tendencies are. Instead thereof thoy will discuss such topics: sthe battle between the theatre and the Church, We are not so foolish as to suppose that | which battle can hardly be said to be waged the leading statesmen of either party would | to-day; sociology, by which we ought to gain condescend to trickery or fraud. But in an | some practical hints about social and com- emergency like this the personal interests of | munity life; buying up opportunities, which a lower class are involved, and this especial- | is much better than buying votes, if ly in the Southern States now in dispute; | the opportunities are to be rightly and the fraternity of political gamblers | and wisely used; the house we live may have among it some superserviceable | in, including the furniture and garniture, members who would not ‘hesitate at any | of that house. These are topics that will trick. If these people will take our advice | interest aclassof church-goers. But another they will keep their hands off ‘hey are | class will probably wish to hear something certain to be discovered, and the country | about the matchless love of Christ—thesilent will then be too hot to hold them. No party | Christ, whose last worgs to His mother con- will be pewerful enough to shelter them, | tain lessons of filial affection and faith even if it wished to, and no decent man of | which will be expanded so that men and either porty will want to. women of the world may not only see a No doubt we shall have in the next few | vision of living waters but may drink days some wild and startling assertions | thereof, and thus make their election sure of ‘trickery, corruption and fraud from | by experiencing heart religion and engaging both sides. Overanxious, superserviceable | in church work, and walking surely and ani disappointed partisans will become the | steadily in the way of faith before the world, prey of their diseased imaginations and | Christ in such lives will not be misjudged, produce the gravest accusations. We ad- | because the influence of faith will be ap- vise everybody to remember that we are all’| parent on the character, and men will rejoice Americans, and the greater part of us decent | and be happy in the power which such alife Christian people; neither republicans nor | develops and in the relation that they bear democrats, taken as 8 mass, will consent to | as part of the one family of believers on fraud; no leading or prominent member of | earth and in heaven. Philip the evangelist either party would consent to it; neither | belonged to this class of noble men, and his Mr. Hayes nor Mr. Tilden, anxious as both | character will constitute a theme for pulpit doubtless are on entirely public grounds to | consideration to-day. Joseph the patriarch be elected, would accept the Presidency if | was of this sort too, and whether in the dun- the election rested under the taint of fraud. | geon or near the throne of Pharaoh he ex- The office-holders and the office-seekers | hibited moral qualities which will be held are naturally yery deeply excited over the | up to admiration to-day. By such lives and result; and one or the other will be deeply | characters men can be accounted saved, disappointed when it becomes known. They | But others, again, will want to know\ are the real authors of most ofthe excitement | which side of the great moral issues of the we see; the people, though doubtless anx- | day their neighbors are, just as they ious to see on each side its favorite success- | have lately asked concerning political ful, are mainly solicitous that an honest and | issues; and, whoever may be the people's fair count shall be made. They do not | choice, s message of comfort ought to be care much whether Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes | very acceptable to both parties. And such is the next President. They believe, rightly, | a message will be offered this morning. The that the country is safe under either, and | accredited exponent of the mind and will of they know perfectly well that if the party | God should receive as cordial welcome and which shall now prove successful does not | as hearty support as the exponent of the conduct itself with remarkable prudence | people's will, and when the Gospel is and wisdom they can turn it out of Con- | brougiiit to the people, as it will be to-day, it gress in two years and ont of the executive | should receive careful consideration and in four. No political party can ruin or dan- | ready acceptance. Whatever Eve's tempta- gerously injure this country in two years; | tion was, it was not the sin against the Holy that is the rock on which the permanence of | Ghost that never hath forgiveness, and our institutions lies. Last week the parti- | hence we who may have yielded ‘to like san journals of both sides were vehemently | temptations can rest in the hope of immor denying this fundamental truth. To-day | tality and of the recognition of our friends they already freely admit it and range them- | in eternity. And thus Christian faith and selves on. the gtound where the Henaxp | morals will be strengthened to-day by the stood—alas! nearly alone—during the entire | pulpits of our city. asgenal Twrxp at St. Taomas,—We learn that the Franklin, which certain wiseacres were looke The Czar’s Be! erent Speech. den alternations of the weather conditions, | While diplomatic Russia was agreeing toa peace conference on the basis of the integ- rity of the Ottoman Empire imperial Russia was making a speech which smells strongly of gunpowder. We have read from time to time during the past six months of Russia's designs being circumvented, of Russia’s in- finence being weakened, of Russia's diplo- matists being outwitted and bullied into acquiescence ; but while carefully noting all this we have not observed that, after all has been said, anybody could lay his hands on an actual concession by Russia which has stayed her preparations or stopped her hopes short of the goal to which all these things tend. Diplomatic peace talk is well enongh in its way, but we are too old to believe that this polite manwavring either blinds the diplomatists themselves or binds the nations they represent, if they have definite objects to subserve, England never hesitated to throw diplomacy to the winds when the time came to draw the sword. Neither did Germany nor France. If we recall the doughty speech of Lord Beaconsfield the other day we shall find that it looks to war with Russia as an event- uality. The speech of the Czar Alexander is an answerto this. On the showing of the Emperor thé) course of Russia has a moral purpose behind it which recommends it to the civilized world. We all know what material benefits would accrue to the Em- pire of the Czar if its moral purpose with regard to the Christian population of Tur- key wereaccomplished. The liberation of the Christians from Moslem rule, and the consequent rise of o friendly Power on a greater or lesser territory now in the. hands of its foes and the foes of civilization, would benefit Russia as well as humanity at large. That the Russian Emperor declares it his purpose to take up arms if the conference fails to do right and justly by the Christians in Turkey is, therefore, an important an- nouncement. It means precisely that com- promise can only be made within very nar- row limits, It throws the fighting-shop- keeper policy of England on the defensive. It goes behind the Treaty of Paris and all _treaties wrung from the ‘misfortunes of war to assert the cause of humanity. The lines sre clearly drawn at last Sit down, gentle- men, and confer. Tue Anmy anp THE Countay.—They who believe, or affect to believe, that the despatch ing for off Halifax, put into St. Thomas fos repairs on the 5th inst., having had a stormy time of it. She was short of coal but not of Tweed, who, we are informed, was in excel- lent health. The fidelity to duty will long be remembered to Captain Franklin and his officers and sailors. The temptation during the tempest to play Jonah with “Big Six” must have been enormous; but they had been ordered to bring him home, and se kept the old man from the whales, Whether any of them could have stomachs strong enough to keep him three days is a matter we shall never know. He should be here in a little less than a week. Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be reported and denounced at once. No man worthy the officeof President should be willing to hold it if “counted in” or placed there by any fraud. Either party can afford ta be disappointed in the result, but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by suspic cion of illegal or false returns. U. 8. GRANT. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Evarts, that pali-back has “busted.” Uregon’s Mount Hood bas a hood of Hon. A. H, Stephens walks three m: day. Snow Ss driving Alaska miners out of the mountaing San Francisco hoodlums conttaue to assault Chinese boys. Tho rainy season in California seems to bave begun early. General Sherman has Gatly interviews with the President. In England the walking mania has succeeded the spelling bee. Kx-Governor Reed, of Florida, 1s rapitly reeovering from bia fllness. Mr. David Chadwick, M. P., of England, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. On the 30th ef October there were fresh raspberries for sale in Carson, Nev. Rear Admiral EK. G. Parrott, United States Navy, ie at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel. . * str Charles Deeimus Crosly, formerly High Sheriff of London, is at the Grand Central Hotel, Seior Don Manuel R. Garcia, Argentino Minister a8 ton, is at the Albemarle Hotol. The President has recognized Samnel K. Spring a8 Consul of the Argentine Ropublic, at Portland, Me. Ex-Semator Matt Carpenter's wound received by falk ing on slippery saow is severe, but not dangerous. Senators Thomas F, Bayard, of Delaware, and Willie 'W. Eaton, of Conneetieut, are at the New York Hotel, Mr. Charles Francia Adams, with his wife, daughter ; and son (Mr. Brooka Adams), arrived at the Windsor Hotol last evening (rom Boston. Hon. Cateb Cashing will rotarm te his post im the Ministry to Spain carly in December, Mr. Cushing it mencement of the season the movements of | of troops to the Southern States is rolated | ooxing well and he wears a white mustache, -