The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1876, Page 3

Grime, sae macequacy Of the present jaws and the tution upom the subject of the election of the ‘Presidest will be provided for, and most probably the cumbersome machinery of the Electoral College wili be changed for a less complicated method. GOING TO LOUISIANA. EX-STATE TREASURER MACKAY WITH ORDERS FROM DON CAMERON. Paapatrnia, Nov. 12, 1876. The knowledge has come from entirely trustworthy fources to me that Don Cameron, the Secretary of War, has sent Robert Mackay, the late State Treasurer, te Louisiana, with ordersto leave nothing undone to Secure the State for Hayes. Mr. Mackay is the con- Bdential agent of Mr. Cameron, and has already gone ‘with a plodge of money, guns and men. 1s te not thought that General Grant indorses this ultra movement, PROMINENT TENNESSEERANS ON THE WAY. ‘Muururs, Tenn. , Nov. 12, 1876. J. M, Keating, editor of the Appeal, and W. H. Carroll, prominent democrats, left to-night for New Orleans, to be present at the count of Louisiana’s vote. GONE TO FLORIDA. Avovera, Ga., Nov. 12, 1876. Ex-Govervor Joseph E. Brown left to-night for Florida, having been requested to go there by Mr. Hewitt, FRAUDS IN VIRGINIA. MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT—RE- PUBLICAN PRECINCTS THROWN OUT BY DEMO- GRATIC COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION—COM- PLAINTS OF 4 BEPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN. Prrerasura, Nov, 12, 1876, Jorgensen’s (rep.) majority for Congress in this district, the Fourth, is over 1,000 on the official count, Rotwithstanding that the democratic Commissioners of Election bave thrown out the republican precincts, Giving in the aggregate 1,700 republican majority. ~ VIOLATION OF LAW, ‘This was doneim open and gross violation of the State law by election officers appointed by democratic judges, Unusual care was taken to draw their atton- ‘tom to the especial law providing for such cases, but tn deflance of it, particularly in Nottoway county, very mcarly all these precincts wero thrown out. NO REDRESS, ‘The courts are in the hands of the democrats, and the Commissioners feel perfect immuuity from punish- mont for these gross violations of the law. Leading democrats here have said openly that any means, fraed or otherwise, were justifiable to prevent republi- can success, J, H VAN AUKEN, @hairman of the Republican Executive Committee Petersburg. MAINE. HAYES’ MAJORITY IN TH STATE. Avavara, Nov. 12, 1876, Returns from 400 cities and towns give Hayes 64,349; ‘Tilden, 46,998, Republican majority, 17,351. Gre bicreeoniie, WAITING FOR THE TRUTH. A QUIET SABBATH IN NEW YORK—THE CALM THAT FOLLOWED EXTRAORDINARY EXCITE- MENT—POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS AND OTHER CENTRES, ‘Was it merely reaction, or did the Sabbath come in with boncficent sway to stay the turmoil which has of late made the days feverish and the nights shortlived and {il favored? However it may be, people awoke to calmer life yesteraay. The dim, shadowy dreams, thick with phantom presidents of the future, and arithmetical probiems of great perplexity, were dis- solved in the bright sunshine, and the peals of church Dells told fora season, at all events, of hopes and doubts which do not belong to the Presidontial election. The triangular méiée in which the three outstanding States are supposed to be hotly engagea claimed but hittle attention, and asthe populace had no motive or eue fora fie titio jtement, and needed some repose, it did not distarb itseif unnecessarily. In quiet the day seemed by contrast to have fallen below the customary condi- Bion of uneventful Sundays. Devout church people fell kindly into their Sunday routine, and others who are only “veneered with sanctimonious theory,” had as fair a seeming as profound devotees. Bat iha few of the churebes election concerns passed through the doors; which always metapboricaily open for the mmgress of sinners, and got behind the church rails, andeven popped up in the pulpits. They made no great noise there, however, and did not much disturb the heavenly aspirations of the religious. Jn the streets, parks and all places of public resort the day was singularly uneventful. Not only was ex_ citement suppressed, but discussion was almost hushed, The great bourgeosie had nearly worn itself bourse in assertions which might not pass unchallenged, and in the refutation of other assertions which it could not escape, It bad declared truce without ceremony, and probably whon the time arrived it was ready to break it without apology. In the neighborhood of the Bewspaper offices yesterday was a blank so far as cx- citement was concerned. The party journals camo un- der Sunday influences, and seemed determined to con- fino their summing to the other six days of the week. They still threw their flags out asan indication that they declined to surrender; Dut they forbore to proclaim each other’s mendacity. Their bulletin boards were vacant, and they them- eelves, in common with the popular opinion of the community, were in statu quo, Everybody rested and ‘Waited, and was glad of the breathing time. There was no use in further trying to forestall results, and to re- matin qviescent was a policy which had been gaining ground for some time. The weather was just proper tothe season. It was not yet chilled by the breath of wintery and too much of the milder influences of the early year did not cling to it, Everything was nor. mal, of spparently so, and if the popular pulse is ready to throb fiercely again om slight provocation it ‘was temperate enough yesterday. The great centres where political news might be ob- tained were not, however, without some stir. For tertain people anxiety never sleeps while any question which touches them is held jn suspense, and so around the headquarters of the two parties the suspension of the excitement was only comparative There are slovenly, unhandsome corpscs which will come be- twixt the wind and some people’s nobility, though they should like it never so little. DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS, ASabbath qaiet pervaded tho affairs of the National Democratic Committee yesterday, though the rooms were occupied during the entire day and evening, Messrs. Magone and Pelton were present and attended to the necessary businoss that presented itself. Private despatches were received from Louisiana confirming previous reports and claiming a democratic majority of 1,800, one parish only being estimated without returns, A message trom J. W. Patton, chair- man of the Louisiana Democratic Committee, stated that no material change had taken place im the situa- Despatches from private sourees in Florida also con- Grmed the former claims of a democratic majority, and fixed it at 1,650, The following gentlemen left last ovening for Florida at the request of the National Democratic Committee ;— Hon. Manton Marble, New York; Ho. W. E. Niblack, Indiana; Hon. I. 0, Saitonst sachusotis; Son- necticut; W. Frankl, Con- 0, Broadhead, Miesouri; Hon. J. R. ; Messra, Thompson and Seilers, ator Eaton, Cor THE REPUBLICAN HEZADQUARTERS. At the National Committee raoms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel was even quieter than tho day be- fore. No fresh despatehes were received during the day excepting those from all parta of the country ask- for news. There was no change in the opinion of the committee, and to every question on the subject thoy returnea the answer that Hayes was elocted. GENERAL PLEASONTON'S OPINION. General Alfred Pleasonton, who is thoroughly ac- quainted with the people and politics of Florida, said last evening, in conversation with a representative of jhe Haravo, that in his opinion there was a large republican majority im Florida if voted. Not only wore the negroes republican, but many white men, <* During tho war the people of Florida were always passive, taking—shat isa large minority of them—no interost in the matter at all, In bis opinion the “poor white trash” of that State would the republican ticket ~— than hi © rutuer bority. Ti that , wid If repob- also said that there waa NEW YORK: HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1876 ‘& strong reel of antagonism between the peopie of p Reomybeeyssd people of Georgia, This sometimes Jed to local brotis and differences. fn all probability if the people of Florida knew that the Georgians voied the democratic ticket they would vote the other way for spite, if nothing else. The General regarded the election of Hayes as certain. ALEXANDER MITCHELL'S OPINION. A representative of the Heratp called upon Alexan- der Mitchell, at tue Union Club. Mr. Mitchell bas boen prominently named as probable Secretary of State in case of Governor Tilden’s election, alr. Mitchell was smoking a cigar, and seemed in the best possible spirits, In answer to inquiries Mr, Mitchel! said that be had no doubt that Tilden was elected. With honest voi South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana would give undoubted demo- cratic majorities, Mr, Mitchell thought that th: of the committee of gentiomen going South would be to compel an honest canvass of the returns. The gen- CT n thought that the American peo; ould not tolerate anything like fraud in tne ret! of those doubttul States, The immense popular vote of Mr, Tilden would insore bim fair p! Mr. Mitchell said he was sorry that Wisconsin had not gone democratic. It would undoubtedly have done so but for troubles in Milwaukee. GOVERNOR TILDON'S RESIDENCE. Governor Tilden remained confident and agreeable, as is bis wont, yesterday, though busy in the reception of guests and the transaction of some pecessary busi- mess, Although the day was Sunday there were many callers at nis house. The Governor enjoyed a ride in the saddle during the morning, but was at home the Fort of the day. His house was closely observed by all passers by, who all desired to obtain a glimpse of the great man. senan bad em 7 with Rasa hempovertes during 6 jovernor Tilden expressed his complete con- fidence in his election to the Presidency, provided there was a fair count of the votes cast in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, He did not seem to be at all exercised over the uncertainty of the result of t election, but was apparently quite willing to await ti coming of the official returea, ‘and to let them deat the disputed point without any further anxiety. SUPPORT TO THE PRESIDENT. Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, has just sent the following from this city to President Grant at Wash- ington :— The entire republican and independent press of Massachusetis heartily sustains you in sending troops to the disputed States to preserve the public peaco, and the poople will as loyally abido by the result of the election when honestly det ined, ALEXANDER H. RICE, TROOPS IN THE SOUTH. [From the Boston Post, Nov. 11.] The sensation of yesterday came late in the day, when Grant’s order was published stripping South Carolina of troops and concentrating them imLouisiana and Florida, for the alleged purpose of securing an hon- est and peaceable count of the vote in those States, This was roasonably considered, in the light of past experience, as preparation for a repetition of the frauds that havo made the administration rule in Louis! of issued through Mr. ing a Committee of prominent parts of the North to meet “to counsel peace aud a fair and honest return.” proposition, if accepted generally with as much hearti- ness as in this city, will avert what yesterday seemed aterrible and throasening danger. Later despatches confirm the previous statements concerning tho suc- a of the democratic ticket and the election of Tilden. The most notable is the despatch signed by twelve of the leading bank presidents and merchants of New Orleans, protesting re inst the decept! tised upon th ‘ellogg and reaffirming t! least 7,000. jen has, without doubt, carried the three Southern States whose returns havo been de- layed, and is elected President of tho United States, THE MISTAKE OF THE OANVASS. [From the Springfield (Mass.) Union, Nov. 10) ‘The fact that the republican party, defeated in the North, finds its last ditch in the South, and will elect Mr. Hayes, it he is elected at all, by Southern votes, points to the grand, and it may yetprove fatal, mis- take of the republican canvass, Had-e small part of the electioneering, the money and tho speaking which were wasted on Indiana and New York been devoted to the South, the republicans could have made sure of Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. But the republican party in the South was left to take care of itself, altbough far more in need of outside assistance than were the republicans of the North, Had the Southern States above mentioned been filled with repubiican speakers and newspaper correspondents there would have been no intimidatio: the negro vote would have been encouraged an brought out, white republicans emboldened by such powertul aid and countopapce, and several States now democratic would have gone republican. Campaigo oratory, electioneering devices, processions and fire- works go agood deal further with the excitable and enthusiastic Southerners than they do here at the North, Bat instead of diverting even a part of their cam) “7 material to the South the whole was lavished on the jorts, whero it accomplished little or nothing, LOCK BOX NO. 163. THE BEAUTIES OF LOUISIANA REGISTRATION, [New Orleans letter to Pali Mall Gazette, ) The city of New Orleans is so overwhelmingly demo- cratic that it was not considered worth while by the republican managers to appoint a body of examinersite verify statements of residents, and 60 0! bad been done by their opponents; but the majority had to be cut down somehow. At firatthose who received the tollowing circular (which was distributed by hundreds, some say thousands, through the ) merely sup- posed that one other sewing machine company had arisen to perplex, pursue and persecute mankina, This Binainanam, Al Sin—We respectfully solicit your at { sowing machine, c F and irom Increased Orders received ‘assured that the public fully appreetate home As our terms are invariably ash we can deliver the “Southern Chain” in any part of ri For further particulars addross all com- Seeyel, Petterson & Co., agents, lock box ans, pes were addressed in many cases with just ion trom the exact name as it stood in the directory and registry books as to tempt an ignorant servantor a householder who smelt.a circular to de- chine it, and on the outside was printed, “It not de- livered within two days to be resurned to Crowell, Petterson & Co., Age: lock box 163, New Orleans.’’ Now, 1t is a part of the law of registration that if you change your residence between taking out your papers and Voting you must notily such change, be objected to when vou come the box. And supposo whi one munications & Co., because he could not bo residence,” you would perhaps not be propared with evidence to the contrary, and would certainly not dream that the fates had used a sewing machine against you. House delivery ot letters in New Orleans, as indeed in most other American cities, is exceptional. Everybody who is anybody bas his box at the Post Office, and Sunday a list is to be called were not in favor ot your circa! but written very small inside 1t was your ward namber and the number of if this came back to Cro- communication between of the Fr accident inqguirios wi ing machin phere and the trick ‘went up.’ ertainly scored one by exposing it. The Post OMce ‘borities deciare that the circulars wore posted, Gelivered or returaed in the usual course, and I dare say this isso, I suppose it would hart the party for them to disclose who is the renterol lock box No. 163 A SUGGESTION FOR MR. TILDEN. To Tux Evitor or rie Herato:— At this time of distrust and doubt as to the result of the late clection I desire to call your attention to the extraordicary position of Mr. Tilden, as the cynosure of all eyes and as the recipient of nearly two-thiras of and to suggest thata patience forbear- ance to thé iew malcontents who are cry’ and revolution, until the result can be hi mined, would do far more to pacity any elaborate arguments of our politic of Mr. Frosident Grant, New Yoru, Nov. 12, 1876, RIGHTS OF FREE SPEECH. New Yor, Nov. 11, 1876, To tas Eptror or THe HeRanp:—+ It seems it is not sate in this city for a man to speak Well of the independent newspapers, Ina quiet, un- obirusive conversation with a friend this aiternoon I advanced tue sentiment that I tad no confidence in any paper in New York politically excopt the Henan, lethe Journal of Commerce and the Jost, and was im- medintely assailed by a bully, and only escapod a por- sonal encounter through the interposition of a couple of gentlemen to whom T & stranger; and only | “brought the most prompt and unqualified threat, ifthe villain harmed me, ne would then and there be laid out by the revolvers of the gentlemen. 1 afterward learned that scoundrel was in some way connected with the Evening Mail ol- fice. Tho Evening Mail and all its satellites may rest assured that it cannot {otimidaie mea 1 am po poll- tician, but, like yourself, Ron-speecbmaking man, depositing my bailot with any one being the wiser as 40 or for whom it is given, Respectfully, JAMES LYMAN, POLITICAL NOTES. Philadelphia Bulletin;—Our prophecy is that if Tilden shall enter the White House, the nation, before bis term has expired, will look back epon the present administration with passionate regret and wonder at the madness which rejected a good and true soldier who fought as Grant did, and chose in bis stead a rebel sympathizer and secessionist.” Albany Evening Journal:—“There is an end of the imposing figure of Charles Francis Adams’ imagiuary popular necromancy, He actually runs behind Tilden tm Massachusetts. It is a just rebuke.” Hartford (Conn.) Times:—*'A number of significant facts in connection with this audacious plot to set aside the result of the Presidential election by fraud are all found to point unerringly to one thing. It is Certain pow that this infamous scheme was all planned and arranged before the election,” Buffalo Courier (dem.):—‘Victory will not be stolen from us if tt belongs to us Patience, and await the returns!’” Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer (dem.):—‘Our roosters are ft. They have been in coop tor sixteen years.’’ Springfleld (Mass. ) Repudlican:—"‘Now that election is over wo are promised Grant's (arther revelations against Bristow and Bristow’s revolations about Grant in re- ture, The Kentuckian ig understood to have only Deen waiting till after the voting, 80 that the party wouldn’t be hurt, to make some brilliant contributions to the cause of truth.’” “Give tno old man a chance.” Mr. Bowles says that the republican elector who would prove recreant to his candidates, and by voting for Bristow give the election to Tildeu, would be driven out of the country by a ‘m of obloquy. Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer (dem.):—‘For the first time in sixteen years the Southern democrat can call this ‘his country.” The vote of Chicago on Tuesday was 62,000; of Cin- ¢invati, in round numbers, 47,000, Buflalo Commercial (rep.):—‘In a city of the intelll- nce to which Buffalo lays claim it ts safe to say that one-sixth of the logal voters stayed away from the polls, making all allowance for personal inability, sickness, accident, error and bad weather. Had the republican wards done their duty the disgrace of representation in Congress by a democrat would not. have attached to Erie county.” Rochester Democrat (rep.):—‘‘Governor Hayes has at loast won the res) f the people of this country for his dignified demeanor throughout the canvass, and Ukewise for the quiet, thoughtful, unsolnsh way in which he has received the varying news which has reached him since the election.” Old-Man-Atraid-of-His-Fiorida 1s the latest. Portland (Me) Advertiser:—' ‘Oh, that this too, too solid South would melt!’ Well, it has thawed a little,” \ A LADY'S CHALLENGE. To rum Epiror or tas Huratp:— Having travelled from Chicago only a few days previous to my walk with Miss Von Hillern, and feel- ‘Ing that I nave not accomplishod what I desired—which I attribate tothe want of necessary training—I now challenge Mr, William Van Ness, or man, fora match for $500 a side to walk me for three consecutive night: twenty miles each night, to commence Thursday o! next week and end on Saturday night, the winner of any two nights to receive the money. My deposit is now in the bands of the Proprines of the Central Park Garden. ‘iss MARY MARSHALL. THE NEWMARKET HOUGHTON RACE. The sporting critic of the London Times makes the following remarks respecting the victory of the Ameri- can horse Bay Final in the Dullingham Handicap which was won on the Cesarewitch Course on Thurs- day, October 26:—The Dullingham Handicap was won after a dead heat by Mr. Sanford’s Bay Final, by Lex- ington—Bay Leaf, from a fair field, but although every one was pleased at the success of the Amorican stable, who have been most unfortunate this year, the performance was by no meansa meritorious one, The English three-year-ola colt Broadside, carrying 7st., was mado favorite, the French La Coureuse, 5 yrs, 9st, being next in demand, while among the outsid- ¢rs ina field of nine runners the American four-year- old Bay Final, handicapped at 6st. Sibs., was supported for a small stake at 10 to 1 At the Bushes Hill the weight told on La Coureuse, who was not persevered w'th, and Bay Final and Broadside were left to fight the struggle out. Rising the ascent to the finish Bay Final ap- peared about to win in a canter, but he hung so much Vhat tho English colt on the opposite side of the Course got ‘up in the last stride and made a dead heat of it, Im the deciding race the English three- rae Was made favorite, though meeting Bay ‘inal at a disadvantage of 19 ibs., compared with the Weight for age scale, under which at this season of the | hed & four-year-old should allow a three-yoar-old 3 Ibs., but, tiring under bis impost alter a second time completing the long two wile course, he was cleverly beaten by the American by half a length. According to this running, it may be inferred that, as Broadside was abvut ninth or tenth in the Cesarewitch, Rosebery, who gave him nearly a stone in weight and a 2st, beating beside, is fromsist. to 4st, better than Bay Final, of the same age. Springfield, too, won the free handicap for three-year-olds over the one and a quarter miles Across the Fiat, hard held, from Gavarui and two other opponents, though his staying powers were doubted, owing to his never bay- ing run a milo previously. Heis certainly a magnifi- cont horse to look at, being full of quality and of good size without being big and jumbering. FOX HUNTING IN CANADA, 4 LONG CHASE AND THE HOUNDS BAFFLED, [From the Montreal Herald.) The weather was bright and sharp, After the eom- pany bad exchanged mutual feficitations the hounus ‘wore thrown into the copse immediately bekind Mr. Crawford’s house. lt was not long betore the ‘view halloo” proclaimed to the aaxiows huntemen that Reynard wasathome. The hownds took scent quickly and led the fleld ata merry galt, making the weikin ring as they coursed round and through and round the copse again, in their eagerness to kill poor Reynard on bis native heath or drive him over the fields and pastures, Reynard led the field in a lively dance from copse to copse, oftep in full view of the ladies in carriages and the pedestrians. He crossed the aqueduct at the new cut, and being entered the copse The huntem erected there. Hi ned fy . im @ sorely twas: ut foxy way, and, breaking cover again, hied y for Peniston’s farm, doubiing sto! fan Y cent as if desirous of stopping to tak henroost. The vie ec ali the field we i pace, tuki ‘oasod ig to the canal th took 4) hounds ‘and huntsme hounds crossed the to be “cailea off,’ as it was a@ stickler for the field. Some little time was jost in the exchange, vat tho two were soon in the van. Fox Ne. 1 bein; lost, some of the fleld returned to Verdu: more intrepid huntsmen remaiood in tho a many minutes elapsed the tally-bo! echoed the limber. ‘The fox-—this. times REPAIRS AT WASHINGION’S TOMB. [From the Cinctonati Commercial.) Mount Vernon never looked so attractive as now, and thither go each day from 600 to 1,200 piigrims, and such pilgrims! *1 went dows on Friday, ‘and the Arrow was crowded to its utmost capacity by tourisis who all look alike, talk alike and dress alike. Every lady almost wears over her waterproof at least ten feet of gold cable chain. 1 coantea seventy quite near me. What on earth they want with so much chain is a puazzie that no fellow can make out. They aro inquisitive to the inst degree, and their ap- petites are never satisfied, They venerate any relic from Mount Vernon, trom a brick to a of them are grossly ignor: Since last May they ba’ he died 4 here, madame. be did; here, Jace, who was whales ever come up this far?’ wharf. The crowd bad been so the had the ceilings He order. ich Washing! died is not yet fitted ap with handsome be! a0 but I understand ‘shat the State of New York in bend, Now T cannot better illustrate its size than h made by a Wisconsin man to his wite:— bew, Mariar! that’s an uncommon short bed. W: o} mm didn’t bi much room to kick out, did he “No,” replied Mariar, ‘maybe he laid cat-i-cornered.” “That’s so; maybe he did And that’s where he died” —to the watch mi “Yes, ” “Well say, 1's @ monstrous wonder he didn’t hav bed to on instid of a shuck mattress; gton moved of her Lgenye selecting it because @ window she could see thetomb. Tis room has been clogantly Btted up by Mra. Mitchell, wife of the great road king of Wisconsin. The hangings of the bed are of silk cretonne, lined with rose-colored silk futings; the quilts of Marseili b igvmerind in satin; the pillow covers are fashioned wi linen cambric, with the Washington crest embroidered under the The carpet covering the centre of the as manufactured in Paris, and patterned after &@ scrap of the original bg? carpet. It ts of Axminster, d cost $9 yard. The chairs, three in number, in Paris, and cost $300 each, They are air, and in patterns similar to camel’s bair shawls. The agent of Mrs, Mitchell arrived last week With authority from the lady to put ap additional $1,000 in the room, but Colonel Hollingsworth said there was nothing left to purchase, ARCTIC EXPLORATION. EXTBACTS FROM CAPTAIN NARES’ OFFICIAL BE- PORT TO THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY. . London, Oot, 31, 1876, The following particulars regarding the stay of the Alert ana Discovery in the Arctic Ocean is compiled from Captain Nares’ official report:— Instead of land extending far toward the north, as reported by the Polaris, Robeson Channel opens directly into the Polar Sea, Pushing to ti jorth- ward beyond the channel the Alert was pped by heavy ice and compelled to wine pass tl ter off an exposed coast in latitude 82 deg. 27 min. north The sledge crows, with very se- vere labor, travelling northward’ over extraordi- marily heavy and broken up ice, were unable to advance beans latitude 83 deg. min., leaving a distance of miles still to be travelled over before the Pole is reached. Between Melv: Bay and the entrance to ‘Smith Sound no ice was but on the 30tb of July the pack was sightod off Sabine, in latitude 78 deg. 4min. Here the expedition was detained in Port Payer for soveral an attempt being made to pro- ceed further northward by passing to the westward of ‘tho isiands in Hayes Sound, but that opening not lead- ing {nto the ed for direction the ships returned. I il uncertain whether a channel monicating with the western sea by The opening extends a considerable dist » Barrowed by numerous islets, which prevent the ice from clearing out until late in the soason. At last a 6, but before reaching tho ps wore caught in the pack. After this date the progress to the northward ‘was an incessant struggle with the ice; and, although Ro single opportunity was lost, advance was only pos- sible for short distances at a time whenever the wind or current formed lanes of ir between the ice and the land. So close was the ie on every occasion the water channel by which the ship advanced very soon Glosed bebind it, rondering it as difficult to return astoprooced north. On the 25th of August, after many hairbreadth cacapes, 1 sheltered harbor was reached on the west sidu of "@ Basin, north of Lady Franklin Sound, in latitude 81 dey min, north. Here the Discovery was secured for tho winter, a few miles north of Polaris Bay, which was in sight on the oppo- site side of the channel. GRANT LAND, The Alert, pushing onward, rounded the northeast point of Grant Land, but instead of fi ous coast line leading 100 ‘a every one had expected, found herself on tbh thi er Presented itself, In leu of finding an “open Polar sea,” the ict of most unusual age and thick- ‘ness, resembling, in a marked degree, both in ay ance and formation, low floating icebergs, rath: ordinary salt water ice. It has now been term “Sea of Ancient Ice’—the Palmocrystic or Palw- eruic Sea; anda stranded mass of ice broken away from an ice floe has been named a flocberg. as OF- dinary tee is ustally from two feet to ten feet in thick- ness, thatin the Polar Sea, in consequence of having so few outiets by which to escape to the southward in any appreciable quantity, gradually increases in age a thick until it measures from eighty feot to 121 floating with its surface at the lowest part fifteen fect above the water line. Str as it may appear, this extraordinary thickness of the ice saved the ship from being dr.ven on shore; for, owing to its great depth of flotation, on nearing the shal ach it grounded and formed a barrier inside tively safe. When one against the oth F aad the edges broken up, the crushed pieces are raiged by the pressure into a high, long, wall-like hedge of ice. BUILDING AN ICT ROAD, When two of the ancient floes of the Polar Sea meet, the intermediate lighter broken-up ice which may happen to be floating about between them alone ers; it 18 pressed up between the two closing masses to a great height, producing a cbaotic wilde ‘ness of angular blocks of all shapes and sizes, vary1i in height up to fifty feet covering an area upward of a m: aa icy road, which was to be continuous, de- je itself being reacned it was determined by advance as far as possible, and during the spring of this Fer & party, headea by Com- der Markham and jeutenant Parr, mad gallant and determined attempt, They we seventy-two days from the ship, and on May su jed im planting the British fag in latitude 20 min. 26 sec, not From this position there appearance of land to the nort riously enough, the depth of water w: F only seventy-two fathoms. Owing tothe extraordinary Dature of the pressed up ice a roadway had to be nearly half the dis- formed by piokaxes tor tal travelied. before any advance could be made, even with light loads; this ren- it necessary to ara, . Although anec made good ‘was only seventy-three miles from the ship, 276 miles were travelied over to accomplish it. The result of their severe labor proves the utter impracticability of travelling over the Polar Sca to any great distance from land, also that Baron von Wrangel was per- feetly cor ip his expressed opinion that before the orth Pole can be reached i ts first necessary to dis- cover a contingous coast line leading towards it, OUT INTO THE NORTH. Lieutenant Aldrich, engaged in pioneering the way for the main party, which was led by Commander Markham, on the 27th of September advanced three miles beyond Sir Edward Parry’s most northern posi- tion, and from @ mountain 2,000 feet high sighted land towara the weat-porthwest, extending to lativude 83 deg. 7 min. Noland was seen to the northwest, Thus within four months of leaving England the mystery concerning ¢! pen Volar Sea” was cleared up. The Alert, adv: rors hes the limit of navigation, bad reached latitude than any Be aaledge men commanded by Sir ry J. Ross. The Union Jack pianted by them passing into the guard and keeping of their conntrymen to be again pushed for- ward in advance during the following spring. The cold experienced during the 1y spring was consider- abl; ater than that in more southerly regions, and puts an ond to the idea that “a warm country ex: at the Pole, teeming with lifa’’ The lowest temperature observed was 72 degrees below zero of Fahrenheit, or 104 degrees beiow ircezing point The mean temperature ior thirteen consecutive ee a was 5 50 degrees below zoro—by far the cold experienced before, and tho mercury sevon days during the winter. ‘Captain Stepnen- son, desi looking after his own division, visited 1 Alert, and 0 «made two trips across Hail’s Basin to Groeniand, and Captain Nares e the rest, wita Captain Feilden, natural- y all the provision de- po pl line of route and the safety of the travellers insured. In fact, with t ception of v baa yar hon senior medical officers, all were absent—the latter gentlemen, unfortunal baving more than enough todo taking caro of invalids, CAPTAIN HALL’s GRAVE. at Polaris Bay Captain Stephenson hoisted the and fired asalute as @ brass tabi g' advancement 0! science, on Novem- ber This tablet has been erected by the British Votur Expedition of 1875, who following in his foot- steps, ha’ profited by his experience.”’ In aa dition to northern travelle Aleri’s posity by a party under 6 extreme posl- tion reached was latitude 82 deg 10 min. north, longitude 86 deg, 80 min. west, the coast line bein, continuous from the Alert’s winter quarters, T most northern land, Cape Columbia, is in latitu 83 deg. orth, longitude 70 deg. 30 min. west, he coast of Greenland was explored by travelling parties from the Discovery, un- der the command of Lieutenants Beaumont and Raw- sop. They succeeded in reaching a position in TORKEY’S DANGER. CONSPIRACY TO DETHRONE THE SULTAN AND ASSASSINATE HIS MINISTERS—IGNATIEFF “THE FRIEND OF TURKEY”—VICTORIOUS ADVANCE OF THE OTTOMAN TOWARD KRUJEVATZ—THE MONTENEGRINS SNARED. Comstantivorie, Oct, 27, 1876. ‘The Sultan and his Ministers have been menaced by anew danger. The hand of the assassin was only stayed from perpetrating a more terrible tragedy than that of the 15th of Juno last by the timely discovery of a wide-spread conspiracy which had for its pro- gramme the destruction of the whole ministry, the dethrone of Sultan Hamid and the prociamation as Sultan of Youssuf Izzedin, the eldest son of the late Abdul-Aziz, an ill-conditioned young cub, who, during” the reign of his father, was universally bated and feared for the vicious and cruel nature of his disposi- tion, Mahmoud Pacha, the favorite Grand Vizier of Abdul-Aziz, is believed to have be: TMB INSTIGATOR OF THE PLOT, Exiled after his mastér’s dethronement, he had a fow weeks ago petitioned the Sultan to be allowed to return to the capital, and his prayor had been granted, Knowing that his career was closed under the present régime, and burdened with 0 political opinions of bis own, he attached himself to the old Turkish party, as most likely to find in its ranks the assistance he required for the development of his plans, Most of the persons arrested, pachas and ulomas of the upper grades, belong to this party. ‘These mon, from the first, set their face against the Christian peoples of the £mpire, deriving an equal benefit with Mobammodans from the reforms in con- tempilation. To maintain THE IMPERIAL RIGHTS OF THE OTTOMANS they would recklessly have tbrown down the gaunt- let to all Europe and have resisted the demands of the Powers in favor of the Christians at the point of the sword, Fearing, from the decided nd the Sultan had taken in favor of peace, and from the conciliatory policy of his Ministers, that thoy wore about to givo in to the abominable giaours, the conspirators de- termined to prevent so undesirable an end by seizing the reins of goverumont with their own hands and placing as their ostensible head the boy Izzedin, or, as others have it, the imbecile Murad, The arrest of the ebief eunuch of Murad’s household and two of his chamberiains gives some color to the last supposition, ‘The inquiries of the police are, of course, carried on in all secrecy, and the governmont allows but littie in- formation to ooze out beyond the fact of THE NUMKROUS ARRESTS x that are daily being made and of the precautionary measures taken to protect the Ministers’ residences and the Sultan’s palace {rom any sudden attack, Asl write the report has reached me that the Grand Vjzior has beon shot at, An amusing story is told of the manner in which some of the leading conspirators were drawn into the clutches of the law. The police authorities caused a secret iutimation to be sent in the name of Manmoud Pacha to a number of suspected individuals to meet him at a place designated. The conspirators answered to the invitation aud were ro- ceived by a person at the door, who ushered them ‘nto an inner room and begged thom to wait until the force of Zaptichs, Too late the conspirators found out their mistake; they were already in the atip of the Jaw, and the law disposed them then and there. The least guilty were of taken at once on board a gg oo outlying provinces, while the greater disappeared; but ‘whether they are dupgeon or are lying at rest at the bottom of 1 phoras will never be known. RUBBIA’S REPREGANTATIVE. ‘The return to Constantinople of General Ignatieff is no longer @ matter of speculation. After many false alarms His Excellency arrived last week and entered at once upon the duties of his post by paying official vVisite—rat to the British Ambassador, then to tho Austrian Minister, and later to the Grand Vizier and Minister of Foroign Affuirs. Two days ago he had bis first audience of the Sultan It b been the tactics of the General to offer the ve! the Turks, sinco his return, he has loudl; himself to be “the friend ot Turkey.’ hi communical in friendly confidence to the Grand Vizier that the demand of an administrative ie is said to jonomy to the revolted provinces mspired by land, and that Russia, left to herseif, would never proposed anything s0 distaste: to Ottoman bi fooling. THE OBJECTIONS OF RUSSIA to the six months’ armistice offered by Turkey were made, according to the General's showing, purely out of irfendly anxiety lest Turkey should grant too much, Ip support of this @ conversation is related to have taken piace between the Grand Vizier and the General, im which the latter remonstrated with the Ot- toman Premier against the length of the armistice. “Why do you give six months?’ says the General, ‘which if accepted ties your bands for so long Why not give six weeks instead? as, when that torm is over, we sball have to ask you for six more, and probably after that a further extension. The granting of soveral short armistices, instead of a Bu long one, willbeso many more acts of con- descensions on your part, 60 maby concessions to the wishes ot the Powers; nor will you have given us any more than you now offer ina lump, and you will get the credit of having bestowed repeated favors.” THE INSIDIOUS FLATTERIES of the Genera! have quickly borne results, Woe are authoritatively informed to-day that the Porte has rt ks’ armistice, and the clause which the Turks wiabed tu introduce, to the effect that tho armistice should be prolonged for another six weeks in the case of the peace negotiations falling through in the meantime, will, 1 is expected, be agreed to by tho other Powers, THR TURKISH ARMY, During the past week the Ottoman armi been actively engaged in the feld. They resum Ri ben y the 19th Ottomans have ment, have broke: Official telegrams iniorm us that the re of all the Servian positions in the direction of Djanis and Kav: consequence the road to Krajevat rough the valley inte the Servian line of defence, tude 82 deg. 18 min. north, longitude 50 deg. 40 wost, seven! milos northeast of Re- oy 4 HMarvor. The jand oxtended as far as latitude 2 deg 54 min. porth, 11 48 deg 33 min. nied its character h, with lofty mountaios and glacier filed valieys rd. Lieutenant Fulford sod Dr. Coppia- Fiord, finding it blocked up with from shore to Sound the coast Hi h Sound bas now bean Xplored from north to All the Polaris’ cajrns were visited. At the boat depot 19 Newman's Bay & box chronometer, by Negus, of Now York, was tound to be in perfect order alter an gxposure of tour winters. It has since been keeping excellent time on board t! wheat sent outin tho Polaris w of the Morava, is now open to the Ottoman army. IN MONTENEGRO Dervish Pacha has at last succeeded in inflicting a sevore loss on the Mantenegrin forces. His eldest son had been killed in a previous engagement, the bereaved father vowed to avenge bis so! For.this purpose he devised the following strat: for luring on the Mentenegrins te their destructio! He prepared a letter for Moukhtar Pacha, in which be described his position as one of imminent 1. His men wore in want both of tood and ammu' 5, They came down in all haste easy victory, but the Pacha d prepared bis d, engaged itn the fight ie surrounded thom and who at onco acted on it, to the attack, confident bad sailfully laid his p! and when the enemy were Turks placed in ambu cat them to pieces. CAUGHT AT LAST. A NOTORIOUS THIEF CAPTURED AND STARTED FOR CHICAGO, (From the Baltimore Gazette, Nov. 11.) About two months ago Marshal John T, Gray received a letter from Moses C. Felkor, a Chicago detective, asking that efforts. bé taken to effect the arrest of Edwin M. Baker, a railway ticket swindler, who was a fagitive from justice, and was supposed to be in this city, The accused was discovered, after a soarch of several weeks, and Detective Folker notined. Pending bis arrival Baker was kept under surveillance by the police authorities, and upon tho arrival of the detective yesterday he was arrested and placed in the city jail. The arrest of Baker is the sequel to one ipendous swindies in fraudulent railway tickets ever perpetrated. In April last a number of railway corporations in the West discovered that they losing hi iy by reason of well executed cot ets. The companies were the Ubicago and Alton ; Lake Shore and Erie 5outh- ern; Erie; Ohio and M-ssissippt ; Philadelphia, Wilming- on and Baltim Baltimore and 0! peka and Santa M Rati and St Louls, and this time Baker was detected in Chicag tompting to dispose of tickets purported to have been insued by the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fé company, and placed im confinement. The detection was caused ing for salo two series of tickets bearing the imber. A man pamed Story was employed by ag a decoy, and Baker being bail he was ac- companied by Story to St Louis, where it was ascer- tained that an employé of the 3. Louis Bridge Com. named Jeflerson Brolaski, who married was the principal inthe swindie, After noe the latter was convicted and re- coived s sentence of two years in the Lilinois Poniten- tary. In the meantime Story became so fascinated with the business that he wished to participate in th ewindie, Being dissuaded or warned vy FF against such a proceeding, Story th: jaformed Bal of the whole affair, and the latter absconded, At she time of Brolaski’s arrest the crib used by the gang in ‘St. Louls was searched aud $6,000 in the fraudulent Uickets discovered, in addition to the dies, stamps and other appurtenances used in printing them. In addi- tiom to Brolaski anu Baker, a brothor of the former, « woll known boot and shoe dealer, of St Louis, and a clerk employed by bim, named Gard: dis. coverel to be if 4 were because of -- teket, sR oah counterfeited and disposed maine St others, The gang ¢: 3 Se eae EEN RE RI FARRER IRRRAR RARE REERIRRR ER RRRREERERRRERERREEE eee Rene” it has s bed on whicn Be aied, very shert wide, ize @ large of money by means of Centennist Sickess, and undoubtedly would have succesded iL sne Job had not been nipped ia the bud in ite infanor BakeF isa native of Baltimore, and will be tacan to Chicago by Detective Felker to-day, where he is under indictment, aud will probably receive a heavy sen- tence, as the companies have consolidated to prose- cute all implicated in the fraud. SPIRITS IN COURT. HOW DB, SLADE WAS CONVICTED OF VAGRANCY, Lowpow, Nov. 1, 1876. “Hard labor for three months in the House of Cor. rection,” Sueb is the sentence pronounced in the Bow Street Police Court on ‘Dr,’ Slade, after a pro: cution which, although s nine days’ wonder for the present, must pass inte the history of legal investiga- tions ag a curiosity of the first class, one which will puzzie sorely some future investigator of the manners the nineteenth century, attended by an even larger crowd then bad assembled before, among them many ‘‘mediuma’’ and Spiritual- ists, malo and female, The points upon which the bad to decide were two, which he thus stated:—L Were the facts alleged as committed by Slade an office under the Vagrancy act? and (2) did Slade do he was alleged to have done—via, used pal: and other subtle craits, means and devices, with the purpose of deceiving and imposing upon Her Majesty’s sub- jects?” The char, of having conspired with his agent or manager, Simmons, to obtain money under false pretences, bad failed, owing to the absence of sufficient evidence of guilty knowledge on the part of Simmons, and the points at issue were narrowed down to the two propounded by the magistrate, Mr, Flowers, who at once proceeded to deliver judgment ia a calm, matter-of-fact manner, which must have vexed the disembodied spirits generally (for they were no doubt present on such a momentous occasion) and that of “Allie” in particular, THE SUMMING UP. “I think,” said Mr, Flowers, ‘that in order to com atitute the offence defined in the Vagrancy act twa things are necessary—using some subtle craft, means or device like palmistry, and an attempt to deceive or impose on some person, Palmistry is defined in Richardson’s Dictionary thus:—‘Divination by inspec: tion of the hands, from the roguish tricks of the pretonders to this art; to palm; trick, or play ® trick; to impose upon, or practice a trick, imposition, or delusion; more restrictedly to palm isto hold and keep in the palm, to touch with tho palm, to handle, ? And the definitions given by Jonnson’s and Webster's aro very similar, magisirate BLADE'S TRICK consists in falsely pretending to procure from spirits messages written by such spirits upon aslate held under the table by Siade for the purpose, such message having previously been written by himself Such « trick seems to me to be ‘a sabtie craft, means or de vice’ of the same kind as fortune telling. In each cage the impostor pretends to practise a magical, or, at least, an occult art, 1 am condrmad in this view by the language of another statute to which reference bat been made in the course of these procredings—the 9th George LI, c 5. This act repealed that of James I, c. a by which witchcraft was made felony, and prohibite prosecutions for the offence of ‘witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment and conjuration,’ which, apart from the statute of James, was punishable by the ecclesiastical courts and perhaps atcommon law, It then emects that for the moro effectual preventing and punishing any pretences to such arts or powers as are before men- tioned, whereby ignorant persons are frequently do luded and defrauded, or if any person pretended to ex- ercise or use any kind of witchcra(t, sorcery, enchant ment or conjuration, or undertook to tell fortunes, oF pretended, from bis or her skill or kaowledge in any occult or crafty science, to discover goods sup- posed to be lost or stolen, he shall, upon conviction or ‘an indictment be liable to a year’s imprisonment, and be set inthe pillory four times. The punishment of the pillory 1s abolisked, but the rest of tne section re- mains in force, and I refer to it only to illustrate the meaning of the Vagrancy act. It seems to me that statute forbids substantially the same thing:—'The practice cf occult and craity sciences,’ to use the words of the act of George 11. ; ‘subtle, craity means or devices, by palmistry or otherwise,’ to use the words of the act of George IV. For those reasons L think that, if by the trick | have described Slade tried to impose on Protessor Lankester and Dr. Donkin, he committed an offence against the Vagrancy act.” Referring then to the vast amount of irrelevant testimony which bad been imported into the case, but which, owing to its very mature, was unavoidable, Mr. Flowers went on to consider the question as to whether Siade actuaily did the trick or not, the whole case turning om tne evidence of Professors Lankester aud Donkin, which, briefly stated, is to the effect that they saw Slade’s hands move as if he was writing, and that ou snatching the slate from him immediately afterwards, before it was placed boon position in which the spirits were to act, and without any sound as if of writing, they found wordsupon it, ‘If this be true,” said Mr. Flowers, it involves the inference that Slade produced the letters himself, and tbat therefore he could not think eo spirits of bis wile hac written them. I mast decide according to the well known course of nature, and if it be true that the twe witnesses saw the motions that they describe, an¢ found the writing on the slate immediately afterwards, it 18 impossible tor me to doubt whatever happened oa other occasions. Slade did om that occasion write those words on that slate in order to sheat Professor Lankester and Dr. Donkin. It is trae that Simmong said there was nothing to pay, as Lankester and Donkin were not satisfied; but the question ts, whothet subtle craft, means, or device was used to impose om and it clearly was, as the money paid it the trick had not been dis THE SENTENCE “Upon the whole 1 think that an offence against the Vagrancy act has been preved, and, considering the grave mischieis likely to result from such practices— inischiefs which those who romember the case o Home, alsoa faves medium, cannot consider un. substantial—I feel I cannot mitigate the punishment the law imposes, aud therefore I sentence the dofend. ant to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor in the House of Cerrection.”” Had « thunderbolt tallen among the Spiritualists in court their ‘could not have been bianker or Jomger. And yet no clenched spirit. fist evolved itscit from the murky atmosphere of the court room to box the daring magistrate’s ear; no resounding raps of disapproval frightened the Court from its propriety; thefa (id not get up om end and spill the Judge, wig and all, into the waste paper besket; nor did avenging tambourives bang the counsel for the prosecution over the head. Nothing of all this—only a berst of appiauso from the anbelievers, and then the formal notice of appeal against the decision, which the unmoved Mr. Flowors said he was very glad to hear! Bail in the sum of £200 and two sureties ef £100 cach wore at once given, and pending the appeal the ‘‘Dog tor” wag not sent to prison, but emerged into the outer ete rings ‘and hisses and drove of in @ cab with his partner, the manager, Never since the days of the Ghost of Cock Lano have supernatural affairs received such attention in the me- opolia as guring this extraordinary case, and, as is usually the ease in novel test actions in Eng! one of the best results may be a revision of the ANTIQUATRD CODE of English law. ‘The battle will be fought over again at the Session: Westminster, and meanwhile, of course, @ flood of facetiousness will be poured over the con- demned medium and bis supporters Of this we have already had a foretaste in a ‘‘Humorous Seance” at the Globe Theatre, entitied “Slate Pencillings, or Out of e latter title being just mow peoniiarly ap- Docver, who cannot but be “down on hia prospect of oakum pieking, unicss, in- away into some more eongenia) vil moment arrives, EVENING WEATHER BEPORT. Wan Dararrusrt, ‘UFFICR OF THE CHIBY SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasnmixatox, Nov. 12—7:30 P.M. Probabilities. For Monday, in the South Atlantic States, falling barometer, warmer southwest winds, cloudy or partly cloudy weather will prevail, For theGulf States, stationary or falling barometer, warmer southerly winds, cloudy and rainy weather, possibly followed in Toxas by a severe ‘‘norther.” For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, falling barometer, warmer southeast to southwest winds, cloudy weather and posmbly light rain, For the Uppor Mississippi and Lower Missouri val- loys, rising barometer, colder northwest winds, cloudy weather and possibly light snow. For the upper lake region, northeast winds back to northwest, followed by colder, cloudy weather and rising barometer. For the lower lake region, thereasing southwest winds, warmer, partly cloudy and hazy weather, with falling barometer, For the Middle States, diminishing northwest, shift ing to warmer southerly winds, hazy or partly cleudy weather and falling barometer, For New England, northwest to southwest winds, warmer, partly cloudy und clearing weather and gen- erally higher pressure. The rivers will coange but little THe WEATH: YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parison with the corresponding date Of last year, as in- pharmacy, dicated b; ies thermometer at Hudaut’s jai 1g :- Haman oes 1876, 41 a a Avornge 1m ature Tereay, aNerens womboratere corresponding