The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1876, Page 4

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While we economize the water let us be doubly vigilant against fire. Ovr Lrrtte Parks that dot the city’s ex- panse and break the monotony of red brick walls and white pavements with their cheer- ful patches of bright green grass and dark green foliage, their pleasantly shaded seats and pretty fountains, deserve all the atten- tion and care the Park Department expends upon them. A Lavpaste Enterprise is that of the “Ladies’ Protective Union and Directory,” organized for the relief and protection of female servants when sick or out of employ- ment. The good ladies who have charge of the institution appeal to the charitable for help, and we trust that the appeal will not be made in vain. Mr. McEnenry, who was elected Governor of Louisiana, but who was deliberately “counted out,” sends us a circumstantial table of the vote of the parishesof Louisiana, which gives Tilden a majonty in the State pf eight thousand. The republican side fur- nishes no figures, This is suggestive. They only claim the State. Lonrp Beracoxsrretp’s Latest Arrempt at making an after dinner speech is likely to be followed by consequences to the peace vf Europe which that very eloquent put indiscreet statesman evidently did not yontemplate. The Czar of Russia has taken he postprandial remarks literally and is very angry. Shrewd diplomatists already lespair of securing » peaceful conference for the settlement of the Turko-Servian liffeulty, and the Russian Guard has been ordered to Poland for the double purpose of keeping the country quict and flanking any movement of Aus- tris or Gormany in that direction. The growling of the war dogs that was temporarily hushed is beginning to be heard again in Eu- rope. and it now looks as if the time and in- yenuity spent in negotiating the six weeks’ armistice were wasted. All this trouble is ‘gaused by Lord Beaconsfield making the British lion roar ‘‘between the walnuts and the wine.” We fancy that the Premier's friends now wish that he had been ‘too full for utterance.” A LaweAbiding People Confronting @ Dangerous Crisis. The American people are now passing through one of the great trials to which national character, at intervals more or less distant, is subjected under all forms of gov- ernment, and which test the fitness of a people for their institutions and the suit- ableness of the institutions to the circum- stances of the people. We have strong con- fidence that the citizens of this Republic will sustain this trial, as they have all former trials, with credit and reputation to them- selves and safety to the essential features of our free institutions. We frankly concede that the federal constitution is not perfect. Among the features of it whose weakness has been demonstrated by experience the weakest of all is the clumsy machinery it provides for the election of the Chief Magistrate of the nation. This ma- chinery, as originally constructed, broke down in the fourth election of a President. Between the fourth and the fifth election the constitution was amended, but the change was hardly sufficient to prevent the recurrence of'the emergency which came so near dissolving the government in 1801, when the House of Representatives con- sumed seven days in going through thirty- six ballots between Jefferson and Burr, who had received an equal number of votes in the Electoral Colleges, The only important change made in the amendment which then followed was the provision that the Presi- dent and Vice President be separately voted for. The farcical machinery of Presidential electors was kept in force, and no means were provided for deciding questions which | might arise as to the regularity or legality of disputed electoral votes. The absurdity of the present system has been recognized and deplored by many of our wisest statesmen for more than half a century, and it is to be hoped that the present alarming crisis will lead to adequate amendments of the consti- | tution before the next Presidential contest. But, for the present, we must loyally ac- | cept the constitution as it stands, and trust | to the virtue, moderation and law-abiding spirit of the people to tide the country over a grave danger. The sheet anchor of a re- public is the supremacy of law. If the existing laws are imperfect, inequitable or injurious in their operation, we must, never- theless, submit to them until they can be | changed by regular and constitutional methods., This law-respecting and law- abiding spirit is of the very essence of re- publican institutions. Itis a fundamental principle of our government that the will of the majority legally expressed shall have the force of law, and that the law—the law as it exists for the time being—is the su- preme rule for all. Without this implicit obedience to law, so long as the law is not repealed, a republic is a mere form ofanarchy, and is always on the brink of dissolution whenever any powerful party is dissatisfied with the result of an election. Our boasted institutions are worthless if we hold them by so fraila tenure. Even ifthe law works injustice we must submit to it until it can be repealed; for ‘sovereign law, the State's collected. will,” is our only safeguard against civil broils, disruption of the Com- monwealth, and that most intolerable of evils, the reign of blind passion and the “eonfusion worse {confounded” of polit- ical anarchy. The American people are too intelligent, too virtuous, too cautious, too self-contained, moderate and wise to substitute passion and force for the author- ity of law, when they have it in their power to change the law, and even the constitution itself, which is the supreme law, if they find it works injustice or oppression ina particular instance. We are entirely con- fident that, whoever may be counted in or counted out, this Presidential election will not lead to another civil war. The Amer- ican people are not so flashy or impulsive as to attempt to remedy by force an evil which may be redressed By a@ peaceful change in the laws. The present deep excitement is premature and uncalled for. There are, as yet, no complete and authentic returns from the three doubtful States. It is hardly supposable that when at last all the official returns are received their genuineness will be open to question in every one of the States now classed as doubtful. If it shall appear that Mr. Tilden has carried any one of the three the controversy will be substantially at an end ; for the electoral votes of one will in- sure him a majority, and it will be of no practical consequence how the two others are counted. It is hardly supposable that all three will be counted for Hayes unless they really belong to him. There is time enough, there are motives enough, facilities enough, and there will be men enough of un- questioned high character engaged in thein- vestigation to ferret out and ascertain the ex- act truth before the votes are finally counted on the second Wednesday in February, No fraudulent electoral votes can be counted in February without a full blaze of exposure pouring upon the count with the vividness of a concentration of calcium lights. A de- liberate and manifest fraud would ruin the party that should undertake to perpetrate it. The eminent citizens of both parties now on their way South to watch the local count will be unimpeachable witnesses when this subject is investigated by Congress, and it is not for a moment to be doubted that their concurrent testimony will be accepted. Whatever is done will be done in the full light of publicity, and an enlightened public opinion will not permit o President to be elected by fraud, Frauds may have been attempted, but they cannot successfully run the gauntlet of three months’ active and in- telligent scrutiny. This consideration alone should allay the.present feverish excitement and anxiety. We disapprove and reprobate all the at- tempts making by both parties to prepare the public mind for resistance. There will be no occasion for resistance, and agita- tion with that view is mischievous. The democratio journals are insisting on Mr. Tilden’s large majority of the popular vote, It is true enough that he has a popu- Jar majority, but that is no reason fora democratic mutiny against the Electoral Col. leges. It has been one of the commonest things in our history for » Prosident to be elected who had only a minority of the pop- ular vote. Mr. Lincoln had only forty per cent of the popular vote in 1860, Mr, Buchanan only forty-five per cent of it in 1856, General Taylor only forty-seven per cent, Mr. Polk a trifle less than fifty per cent. The popular vote for the two candidates is entirely irrelevant to the question which occupies the public mind. The single pertinent question is whether Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes has re- eeived a majority of the electoral votes fairly given and honestly counted., The election must be decided in accordance with the constitution, and it only confuses the pub- lic mind to withdraw it from the law and fix it upon the popular vote. The popular vote is not to be considered at all if the Presi- dential electors have been legally chosen. If they have not been legally chosen in any State the popular vote in that State becomes a legitimate question, but not otherwise or elsewhere, We believe that ‘the public sense of fair play can be safely relied on to prevent the election of a President by a fraudulent count. We think it wild and absurd to imagine that in any contingency the democratic House or republican Senate will refuse to meet for the counting of the electoral votes or will retire in the midst of the count. The law gives them no such liberty; the law makes it their duty to be present, and it is not supposable that a majority of either house will desert their posts and violate their oaths. If either party were bent on revolution it might resort to this revolu- tionary proceeding; but we have too much confidence in the good sense, steadiness and patriotism of the American people to believe for a moment that they would countenance a coup d'état, and too much knowledge of poli- ticians to believe that they would fly in the face of their constituents in such a crisis, We have but little patience with the spec- ulative refinements of irresponsible cavil- ers whose chicaning imaginations suggest that one or the other house may do this or do that to precipitate the country into anar- chy. We believe that the sound good sense and broad patriotism of the people will | frown down all such wild and insane sugges- tions, and that the majesty of the law will prevail over ill regulated impulses. The men who transiently hold seats in Congress are created by the breath of the people, and the breath which created may be so swift .to destroy that they will not dare to defy the steady devotion of the people to law, order, equity and peace. We have faith in the rectifying good sense and controlling influence of the American people, who will not per- mit the country to be precipitated into another civil war to gratify the ambition of any man or the greed of any party. Long before the day arrives for the final counting of the electoral votes it will be fully known whether any of them are tainted and nulli- fied by fraud, and neither party will dare to perpetrate a great wrong in the full blaze of exposure. It is possible that all alarms may be rendered idle within the ensuing two days by the admitted certainty that some one of the three doubtiul States has given its electoral vote to Tilden ; but, in any event, the country will know the pre- cise state of the facts long before the second Wednesday of February, and fraud has no chance to prevail against the honest public sentiment of the people, The Water Famine—Immediate Relief Needed. It is the rule that whenever a great public calamity threatens, such as the more than possible water famine in New York, there are not wanting individuals who see ways of avoiding it; but their plans nearly always mean only the substitution of another evil for the one they seek to avert. In our corres- pondence recently published we find the sug- gestion that water meters would prevent the waste of the precious Croton, and thereby save us from a water famine. In theory this is cor- rect, but in practice it would lead. Bod a condition of things very little Jess dangerous to the sanitary condition of the city than the present intermittent supply and the waste. We must, therefore, con- demn the use of meters in regulating the household supply as calculated only to sub- stitute one evil for another. We do not believe that the question of using salt water has received a proper consideration from the authorities. ‘The cost of laying additional pipes and erecting pumping stations will not be too great to warrant the rejection of that scheme, and some other and more valid objections must be raised before the proposition can be safely dismissed as unworthy of adoption. We ask, therefore, another investigation of its merits and a clear explanation as to why it should not be tried, even on # small scale. The increase in the height of the water at the Croton dam, while it is encouraging in the face of the present condition of the water supply, proves beyond a question that we must rely on rain storms in the future for our water, for the Croton watershed appears to possess no resources beyond those common to the ordinary house tank or old-fashioned catch- water barrel. Whatever remedies are adopted let us have them applied without delay, for the sufferings of the people in some districts are really intolerable, Caprarn Nanxs’ Narnative of his recent at- tempt to reach the North Pole with the British exploring expedition will prove highly interesting to our readers. While we cannot but believe that the gallant Captain was mistaken regarding the permanent char- acter of the ice that barred his advance we must accord to him and his brave com- panions the fullest measure of praise for their conduct in an undertaking fraught with so much difficulty and danger. Some Brooprumsty ‘‘Rerormers” have attempted to reform a train filled with pns- sengers on the Utica and Black River Rail- road into a swamp. A similar attempt was recently made on the Watertown and Og- densburg line, but fortunately both attempts failed. We would recommend the residents in both these districts to reform the mis- creants, if they catch them, by the strongest line procurable, with one end fitted with a slip noose and the other attached to a good stout branch of a tree. Pourricat Butires must be sternly dealt with whenever they attempt to intrude their insolent individuality into the discussions of peaceable citizens, A Quiet Sunday. After a week of intense excitement New York settled down to a Sabbath yesterday of more than ordinary quiet. With its genial influence upon us we can lift the curtain of the day of rest and look back upon the fer- ment of the six days gone by. Monday came with the earnest thousands busy in preparation, and the last line of cam- paign torchbearers filing grotesquely past behind the last brass band, beat- ing the lively funeral march of the Presidential canvass, until the glare vanished in darkness and the blare died in silence. No more gay kerosene for a possi- ble Tilden, no more wild horn toot for & possible Hayes, Tuesday came with enthu- siasm turned to grim determination, as throngh the rain one hundred and seventy thousand citizens marched without serried rank or drumtap or any music to the polls. Then, like farmers who, having sown in the morning, expect to reap at sundown, the citizens came trooping to the Hznap office to see what man they had elected President. Those who could not find what they wished to cheer at the Henaxp offico—and they were hard to please, so bountifully did the returns favor each side in turn—went to other newspaper offices where hot-cooked placards blazed for democrat or republican, as the case mightbe. All parties went homo excited and happy, but on Wednesday morn- ing only the democrats awoke in good humor. Throughout the day they tasted freely of the inebriating liquor of success, while the republicans crunched the unripe persimmons of defeat and made wry faces over the juice, It was a very exciting day, but at night a suspicion came that the banquet had been spread for the wrong party, and those that‘had been eating the bitter fruit, whose lips were so pursed that they could not whistle ‘Hail to the Chief,” made what demonstration of delight they were yet capable of. Under all the outward show of hesitating exultation and angry doubt there ran an ominous murmar of trouble ahead. A feverish night followed, .and Thursday saw the circle of doubt narrowed down to three names. The parties were ‘‘at sea.” Between the time they spent in frown- ing at and threatening each other they grasped at every straw that floated their way. Surely one plank of the three would come to bring the democrats to land ; ‘“‘surely we shall get and bind all three together to float us into harbor ; no less will do,” said the republicans. ‘But all that day both sides got only straws. Were ever parties in such need? Friday found them swimming still, with all hands hoarse and wet, but determined. Saturday came and shrewd old political shellbacks saw signs that the tide was rising which would bring into view the missing Palmetto tree, the log with a Pelican thereon and the Alligator that looked like a log. The parties wero soberer and cooler now, as well they might be after three days of cold water. The three floats were coming down the bay, but for whom? On this conundrum they went to sleep. The strain of all this upon the American consti- tution was very great, but, a Sabbath full o¢ that rest that Hawthorne longed for between death and"judgment came, and the people will rise to-day refreshed and calm to hear what is to be. American Translations of Homer and Dante. The London Spectator, a weekly journal of high literary repute, while indorsing, in the main, the views expressed by the London Times as to the fairness and effectiveness of the Hrratp's reply to the Marquis de Talley- rand-Périgord’s book, takes exception to our statement that the most successful transla- tions into English of the works of Homer and Dante have been executed by American poets. We are amazed that the Spectator does not seven know to what translations wealluded. That journdl says:— A recent attack on American civilization by ‘the Marquis de Talleyrand-Péricord has indirectly at- tracted come attention here through the animated re- ply of the Naw Yorx Hzrap to its allegations—a reply which, at least, in not in any way extravagant in its clams for the United States, and frankly admits YY for United States authorship made in that article which must, we imagine, be fanciful. For instance, “Within the last fow years,’ writes the Naw York HeRALD, ‘‘we have produced the best transia- tion of Dante, the best translation of Homer and the Dest translation of Goethe’s ‘Faust’ in the English jJanguage.”’ It may be dniy our own ignorance, but as regards the first two instances we do not even know towhat works tho Hxnaxo refers. It would be nard, we fancy, fof any American work to approach the poetic merit of Worsley’s “Odyssey,” or of Carey’s or even Wright’s “Dante.” With regard to Goothe’s “Faust,” the reference ts, of course, to Mr. Bayard Taylor, whose transiation we noticed favorably, perhaps even too favorably, in these columns. This extract contains the most surprising confession we have ever met in a journal of high literary pretensions. ‘It may be only our own ignoranee,” says the Spectator, ‘but as regards the first two instances we do not even know to what works the Hxratp refers.” Can it be possible that any scholar in England has not yet heard of Bryant's “Homer” and Longfellow’s “Dante?” Long- fellow and Bryant are names not unknown in England as original poets, and nobody in that country would think of comparing ver- sifiers like Carey, Wright or Worsley with either of them in point of poetical genius. It is too evident that the writer we have quoted has never heard of the admirable translations published by these Amorican poets within the last six years, although they have been reviewed with warm commendations in the chief liter- ary journals of Great Byitain. ‘We do not even know to what works the Henatp refers,” says the Spectator. It is too obvious that the only works to which we could have referred with so emphatic a claim for excellence were Bryant's version of the “Ilind” and “Odyssey,” and Longfellow’s of the ‘Di- vina Commedia.” As the writer in the Spectator makes it evident that he has not seen or heard of either of these important translations we trust we do not o’erstep the modesty of criticism in assuring him that he has a great pleasure yet.in store, and that when he comes to examine them he may find reasons for agreeing with the great body of competent critics who have assigned them the highest rank as translators of their re- spective originals. Dancers Innvwenpie seem to surround ihe throne of the new Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid. In our correspondence from the Turkish capital, printed elsewhere, we are told of the existence of a widespread conspiracy to dethrone and murder the reigning sovereign and to send his entire NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. family and Ministry to keep him company in Paradise, The arrest of the chief con- spirators has for the present paralyzed the action of the party of reaction, but the Sul- tan has no lease of his life or his throne so long as the embers of revolt smoulder in his dominions. General Ignatieff’s expressions of friendly regard for the ancient foes of his country have contributed somewhat to se- curing the granting of the demand fora six weeks’ armistice; but no one who has studied the history of the relations that really exist between the two nations can be deceived by the diplomatic soft soap which Russia has used to move Turkey to the acceptance of her terms, The British Mohammedans. Earl Beaconsfield declares that “if Eng- land commences”--if she goes to war—she will not stop till right is done. He does not give any definite indications what events may induce her tocommence, but he vaguely hints that she may fight if her “liberty or empire” are menaced. It may fairly be doubted whether any course that Russia may take with regard to Turkey, even though she should occupy all the Danube provinces, could be regarded as a menace either to England's liberty or “empire,” unless we attach to the word empire loose and figurative significations. It seems, there- fore, that the Prime Minister has declared that England may possibly fight in case Russia or somebody else should do something which there is not at present the remotest possibility that Russia or anybody else will do, If this warlike declaration has no otheréf- fect it may satisfy the martial spirits of those Hindoo Mohammedans who tho other day called upon England to come to the defence of the Sultan. If the government officers in India organize a demonstration which calls upon the government ‘‘in the name of forty millions of Mohammedans,” and the govern- ment answers at the Lord Mayor's dinner, it is a pretty, piece of official courtesy on both sides; and if Indian mutinigs or other Moslem revolts are kept down thus the government has an easy remedy for what might be a great’ evil. South Carelina’s Vote. Governor Chamberlain’s despatch to the Henaxp contains but little, so far as the re- sults of the voting last Tuesday are con- cerned, and that little strangely vague. It is more than curious that in a State like South Carolina the Executive thereof should not be able to furnish us with some- thing more definite. It will be fairly believed by the impartial that the dem- ocrats who have given the count on the vote for Governor in every county are correct. The most, striking point in his despatch, however, is the evident determination to throw out sufficient votes to give the republicans a majority. Gov- ernor Chamberlain acts precisely as if the votes cast were to be but a small factor in the determination of the result. The means taken by the democrats to proclaim the actual state of the polls at their closing have forced, the game of Governor Chamberlain, and a desperate game it is. He has clearly announced the startling fact that a board composed in the majority of officers seeking re-election to their present posts shall pass upon the validity of the returns and throw out districts at will; nay, that enough will be thrown out to settle the result. After all the parade of troops to “protect the colored citizens,” after all the republican jubilation that now every one could cast his vote in peace, after an elec- tion without riot or disturbance of any kind, we are treated to a glimpse of fabricated charges of ‘‘wholesale in- timidation,” a sort of sickening post- mortem and inquest on the ‘bloody shirt.” Ifthe troops had not been poured into the State; ifthe murders and assaults and browbeatings of the colored democrats had not been notorious; if the United States marshals had not had the whole State in their hands for weeks before the election, arresting white men right and left, the country might, for all its suspicion of the rascals who have ruled in the South until it is impoverished and almost bankrupt, have lent an ear to Governor Chamberlain's ghost stories. They will not be listened to now. The troops are already in the State and there is no danger of any disturbance, but we earnestly entrent tho re- publicans who aro above winning by fraud to join hands with the democrats, who only ask an honest count of an honest vote, to send representative men to be present at the canvass by this suspiciously composed Board. A Place for Comptroller Green. The people of New York will be gratified to learn that an opportunity offers for con- tinuing Mr. Androw H. Green in public life. Mr. Lucius Robinson, the Governor elect aud now Comptroller of the State, will resign his present position some time between December 1 and December 10. Tho appointment of his successor, who will hold office until January, 1878, will devolve upon GovernorTilden. Mr. Green's term of office as Comptroller of the city of New York ex- pires about November 20. He would make an excellent State Comptroller, and if the numerous delegations that recently pressed on him the nomination for Mayor will wait on the Governor and urge Mr. Green's fit- ness for the office abont to be vacated by Mr. Robinson, Governor Tilden will, no doubt, give their application respectful considera- tion, As Mr. Robinson has stepped from the Comptrollership into the Executive Chamber Mr. Green may find the same path of promotion open to himself. Under this arrangement Mr. Green would only be ont of office from twelve to twenty-one days, or less time than he was retired in the brief interregnum between his Park Commission- ership and his first appointment as Deputy Comptroller. To be sure it will seem strange to miss Mr. Green from the city government to which he has been attached, we believe, for nearly twenty-five years, with the excep- tion of the brief interval to which we have alluded ; but then we shall console ourselves with the reflection that he is doing excellent service in the State, We were afraid that Mr. Green would have to wait at least twelve months for another office, but the vacancy in the State Comptrollership comes oppor- tunely, and we commend him to Governor Tilden’s favor for the position, The Sermens Yesterday. Doubtless it was difficult for New York to © shake off the feeling that a grave political crisis was agitating the country when the church portals opened yesterday to the mul- - titudes that sought admission to the houses of God. While there was some dangerthat the citizen might forget he was a Christian there was very little possibility that the Chris- tian could forget he was a citizen. ‘There- fore men went to pray with their thoughts perhaps more than half bent om earthly things and wandering from Zion to Talla. hassee. But notwithstanding the distract ing influences of polities the soothing words of salvation that poured from the lips of the preachers, like oil upon the troubled waters, served to allay that nervousness, akin to irritability, produced by the recent exciting events and present uncertainty. Mr. Froth- ingham, at Masonic Temple, spoke earnestly on the effects of truth and doubt on relig- ious thinkers, and dwelt on the necessity of faith. ‘The dramatio and the ascetic spirit was the subject of Rev. Mr. Alger’s sermon at the Church of the Messiah. At the Pres. byterian Memorial church Dr. Robinson preached on the “Morul Reform in Large Cities,” a subject full of interest to the en- tire community; but the Doctordid not han- dle it with becoming good temper. The Rev. Mr. Herr, on the other hand, sought by the “Message of Comfort” to allay the fieroe passions of man. Mr. Colcord also spoke soothing words in his discourse on the “Election of the Soul,” and Mr. Beecher in his sermon on ‘‘The Influences of Holiness.” Mr. MacArthur traced a parallel between the spiritual and political elections, showing the importance of the former. At St, Patrick's Cathedral, Father Walsh, of Halifax; spoke on the intercession of the Blessed’ Virgin Mary for sinners. Dr. Bellows, in speaking of the duty of Christian citizens in periods of high political excitement, took occasion to praise the spirit and tone of the New Youre Heratp in the present crisis. The Domin- ican Fathers continue their mission at St, Stephen's church, and Father Lilly, of that Order, preached on the eucharist and Catho- lic teaching thereon. At tho Central Pres byterian church the Rev. Mr. Wilson gave good counsel to his hearers regardirfg the political excitement. Altogether the church goers had little reason to complain of the spiritual repast spread for them yesterday, and which will renew their forces to meet the toils and excitements of the coming week, The Weather. Two decided storm centres are located within the sphere of observation east of the Rocky Mountains. One in the West in the Upper Mississippi Valley, and the other in Nova Scotia. The first named, as already stated in the Henan, is followed by extreme cold, with brisk winds and snow; the second by a rain area which extends frum the eamt- ern end of Long Island to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and embracing the New Eng- land States and the adjoining British pro- vinces. As the former alone interests us we will note its features as presented by the latest observations, Snow has fallen and probably continues at Fort Garry, Pembina, Bismarck, Cheyenne and North Platte—that is, on the northwestern and western mar gins of the depresston, At the centre, which is a little westward of Lake Michigan, the temperature is sixty-five degrees, at St. Louis on the southern edge seventy degrees; at Yankton, on the western’ edge, twenty- four degrees; at Bismarck, on the north- western edge, fourteen degrees, and on the eastern edge the temperature varies from sixty-three to fifty-one degrees. [t will be seen from this that remarkable variations of temperature exist over a comparatively small area, and that the ap- proaching storm will prove very severe on that account. From present indications, however, it is probable that New York will be visited by the southern edge only, but that the changes of temperature will be all the more rapid and trying on that account Judging from the wind directions and the atmospheric humidity on the western side of the coming storm, we believe that anothes disturbance is central in Western Texas and New Mexico, and which will present itself in the course of the next few days, The weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy. Cuamman Marrix, of the Republican State Committee of Florida, telegraphs that the majority for Hayes in the republican counties is so large that the democratic counties cannot overcome it unless——, We wish they would send us something more tangible than ‘‘about five thousand,” qualified by ‘‘if,” ‘‘but” and ‘unless,” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, James T. Fields is in Chicago. Richard Grant White is a violoncellist, Miss Rose Sartoris wiil marry Lord Cardrosa, Julia Ward Howe and family will winter at Newport, Mr, Evarts believes that the merit of schooling is its discipline, Buchanan Reed once described Tennyson asa dilapi- dated Jupiter. Arkaneas papers favor Governor Garland for United States Senator. Mr, James W. Barclay, M. P., of London, is atthe Sturtevant House. Senator Sharon is showing Senator Morton around tho Nevada mines, Tilacn is likened to the boy who stood on the barne ing deck. Whist! Senator William H, Barsum, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A Wyoming man who was lynched said, mate the kind of tyneh-pin Iam.” ‘A burning barn in Germany #0 warmed up an erche ard that the trees bore new leaves and blossoms, ‘Two young girls of Reading went to the Contensial, and getting out of money sold thotr hair for enough to take them home. So much has been misstated about the whereabouts of Ole Bull that we aro justified in saying that he is certainly in Boston, If Tiden shoutd be elected the republican leaders of the Senate, Edmunds, Conkling, Biaine, Logan, Sar- gent and Dawes, will havo serious work to do. From Londoa Punch:- ‘Medical Adviser—Now, first of all, you must not drink beer in the morning Patient—No more | should, old fellow, but it so hap pens there’s not a drop of brandy in the house!” Whitehall Times:— lady residing up town has shown her benevolence by presenting the benevolent society three pairs of old white kia gloves, a damaged “pack mb, and a fractured bustle, for distriby: {ion among the poor. Brookiyn Argus: —“My son,” enid Ma Marrowtat te Aftexerxes, “you are old enough now to chooses vocation in life. What pursuit do you think you would preter?’ “Father,” said Artaxerxes, “you know I cannot tell alte, If Tilden ts olested I want to be « railroad wreeker,””