The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1876, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. a THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per copy eon jay excluded). ‘Ten dollars per year, or at tate of one dollar per month for any period ess than six feoee. or five dollars for six nonths, Sunday edition included, free of vostage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. OF et NEW YORK ‘TL PARIS OFFICE L DE L'OPERA. NAPLES OFFICE . 7 STRADA PAU. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ) OPERA ERA HOUSE. UNCLE rows’ Cay, arsP.M, GERMANIA THRATRE. fHROUGH NEW You! IGHTY HOURS, at 8 P. M. PHEATRE, Mr, Bangs and Mrs, Agnes E THEATRE. LIFE, ats? BRO OUR BOYS, at 81. BARNUM’S om i AN THE sHAUGHRAt en at NIBLO'S GARDEN, BABA, at 8P. M. UNION TWO ORPHANS, at 8 PM. STEINWAY 1 3 SONCERT, se at M 1c HALita CONCERT, at 8 p uM HELL VARIETY, at 8 P. COLUMB VARIETY, ats P.M. TUEA VARIETY, at SP. M. OLYMPIC VARIETY AND DRAMA, at , Mi. WS THEATRE, we at 2 P.M. i % THEATER, at2 P.M TONY VARIETY, at 8 P. M. THIRD AV VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Mat MABI MABILLE MYTH, at 8 PARIS! VARIETY, at 8P. M. TIVOL, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. EAGLE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, etsP.M. KELLY & LEO! atsP.M. 7 PHILADELPHIA THEATRES, PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM, Binth and Arch streets. O ORPHANS. ZOOLUG KIRALFY'S ALIA AROUND THE WORLD | NEW NATI 4HE BLACK CROOK. KREUTZBERG'S A! THE GREAT | from 8 A. M. to 1 PALACE, HTY DAYS, THEATRE. ‘OMICAL MUSEUM. iE OF PARIS. , east of the Philadelphia mW YORK, FRIDAY, “yo ~ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, Owing to the action of a portion of the carriers and newsmen, who are determined that the public shall nothave the Henatp at three cents per copy if they ean prevent it, we have made arrangements to place the Heratp in the hands ofall our readers atthe reduced price. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may fesire at No, 1,265 Broadway and No, 2 Ann street, From our rts this morning the probabil- ities are pl igi a to-day will de cool and partly cloudy or clear. Tur Express takes a back seat. Its owners see that its writers have made a mistake. Wat Srneet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was extremely feverish and irregular. Gold opened at 109 5-8 and closed at 109 3-4, selling meanwhile at 1097-8. Money on call was supplied at 2 percent, Railway mortgages were generally firm and govern- ment Londs steady. We Cory Qurrz Freety elsewhere from that revolutionary and secession sheet the Express. We regrot exceedingly that cir- “eumstances warrant us in so characterizing this newspaper. Over Harr a Mitz10on Dotars were ap- propriated yesterday for a year's mission work by the American Methodists. We hope they will do fifty million dollars’ worth of good among'the benighted. Dozs Mr. Kary Inporsz the revolutionary and secession hints of the Express? We and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him For Compiroller. te Foorsazt.—The progress which this simple and invigorating sport is making mong our youth is satisfactory. To have the changing seasons marked off to the boy by the round of healthy outdoor sports is pld-fashioned, but even to the precocious youth who can tell you all about the pro- session of the equinoxes it will be a boon in after life that he knew by the knocks on his shins when base ball was out and football was in. Dogs Mr. Kerty Ixponsr the revolution- ary and secession hints ofthe Express? We and the people of this city would like to know. Por, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him for i a Axornen Wan has been begun against the theatre ticket speculators, a single bold manager having assumed the offensive with tho determination to ‘squelch every ticket speculator in New York within thirty days.” The plan by which this wholesale result is w be effected, as reported elsewhere, is neither new nor startling. Efforts have been made at varioustimes to procure the passage of city ordinance restricting the specula- tors to the point of suppression, but hitherto without avail. The neatest way to accome plish the desired result is that of the theatre which employs men in opposition to the thereby compelling them to sell tickets at the regular rates or to abandon the business, _ NEW" YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. A Few Plain Words to the Repub- i It is a very grave misfortune and peril to the country that the Presidential election is to be decided by the votes of the three dis- puted Southern States. We havealready, in peremptory language, warned the democrats that they must not, in advance of the de- cision, make the unpatriotic error of stir- ring upsuspicion and discontent and ‘‘firing the hearts” of ignorant and inconsiderate people. There is no excuse for such lan- guage as was on Wednesday used by a dem- ocratic organ in this city, and we repeat that itis not only a blunder, but a crime, for democratic organs and leaders to use, at this time, language, and indulge in threats, cal- culated to produce needless irritation and suspicion, While this is true we desire to-day to call the attention of the republican leaders to certain facts and circumstances connected with their political course and their parti- sansin the disputed States, which, unless they are lost to a sense of public decency, and ready to condemn themselves to nothing less than political oblivion, they must feel to be extremely embarrassing, and necessitat- ing on their part extraordinary care that the publio shall be entirely satisfied with the result of the count in those States. The résumé which we present below must make the republican leaders aware that on them rests the most serious responsibility of the present crisis, and that, unless they are ready to incur the just condemnation of the Northern public, and to be retired to pri- vate life at the next election two years from now, they must successfully convince the whole public that no injustice will be done or has been done in the count of votes in Louisiana and South Carolina, in spite of the extraordinarily suspicious circumstances by which the process is surrounded. Thedem- ocratic party has no such responsibility in this case, and it can well afford to be de- feated now if this defeat comes tainted with the merest suspicion in the pub- lic mind that it has been brought about by fraud or wrong. The following are the circumstances which seem to us to make the republican situation at this time conspicu- ously awkward and embarrassing, and which the leading men of that party cannot afford to overlook, because the public certainly will not:— I. We will speak first of South Carolina, and we call the attention of the republican leaders to the following facts, in relation to their course and responsibilities in that State bearing on the election and the count, and showing clearly to everybody that the election machinery has been constituted and is used there by the republicans in a suspi- ciously unfair and partisan manner. Gov- ernor Chamberlain being a candidate for re- election he so managed the appointment of the ninety-six Commissioners of Election in the counties that seventy were his open partisans, many of them actually can- didates for election to the Legislature, while forty are office-holders who hold their place by Chamberlain's appointment. Such gross and indecent partisanship in offices which are judicial will make it difficult for the re- publicans to rebut charges of fraud in the local count, or of tampering with the vote after it is counted, if such are made. Al- ready we hear of one case where a republi- can commissioner, being charged with de- livering the county returns and ballots to the Returning Board at Columbia, has failed to deliver them and has kept them in his possession at Colwmbia for several days. This man is not only election commis- sioner, but candidate for the Legislature ; he isarepublican mulatto, a hot partisan of Chamberlain. Complaint of his conduct has been made by the democrats, but has received no attention from Chamberlain or the Returning Board. Is it not extremely im- prudent for the republicans to tolerate such agross abuse of trust? How can they an- swer for it to the country hereafter? But this is not all. The State Return- ing Board, framed by republican au- thority, consists of five persons, all repub- licans, and four of them candidates for election, and assuming therefore to sit in judgment on their own cases, and without permitting even a single member to the other side. This Returning Board is formed ‘strictly according to law; but its character is so monstrously unjust, the in- decency of a final court thus constituted is so great that it will be impos- sible for the republican leaders, not in South Carolina alone, but all over the coun- try, toavoid the odium of countenancing it ifthe conduct of this Board should not en- tirely satisfy the public. The whole course of the election in South Carolina subjects the republican leaders to the most embarrassing suspicions of fraud. They sent troops to the State without public or satisfac- tory proof of disorder; Chamberlain has on his ticket men notoriously unscru- pulous and corrupt; his own nomination was brought about by an arrangement witha corruptionist, who had threatened exposures, and who is himself on the ticket. Moses and Whipper, the judges whom Cham- betlain himself had denounced as in- famous, were somehow conciliated to his support and became his advocates | on the stump. Chamberlain for days after the election professed to have no returns, though the State is small and all the counties easily accessible, and even now he telegraphs only, ‘‘All is safe;” though transcripts of the official returns have been public for several days and show a demo- cratic majority. IL We turn next to Louisiana. There, too, the republicans sent troops and au- thorized Packard, candidate for Gov- ernor, and until long after his nomina- tion United ‘States Marshal, to make arbitrary arrests on the eve of the election, which was done; but the election day passed in entire peace, It is charged by the demo- erats that in some democratic parishes the Commissioners of Election were withdrawn | by Governor Kellogg, so that the voters could not cast a vote according to legal forms. It is notorious that in Louisiana, as in South Carolina, the whole power and in- fluence of the federal government were used to favor the republican party. And now there, as in South Carolina, while transcripts of the county votes are easily accessible, and have, in fact, been published, Packard and Kellogg continue to assert that they have no returns, but that ‘the State is all right Mor Hayesand Packard.” The vote is now Io be handled by the Returning Board. The present members of this Board were condemned by a republican House, in 1875, of having fraudulently manipulated the vote of 1874. The formal words in which this was officially done were these :— Whereas said committee bas unanimously re- ported that the Returning Board of that State, in can- vassing and compiling said returns and promalgang the results, mrenahiby apphed erroneous rule of . by reason f persons were awarded seats in tatives to h they were not ntitied to seats were deprived of entitied, and perso: them; Resolved, That it ts recommended to the House of Representatives in Lousiana to take immediate steps to remedy said injustice and to place tho persons right- tully entitled in their seats. che ‘unanimous report” finding fraud was signed by Mr. Wheeler, now republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. Nor is this all. Of the members of this Board, so condemned but: still holding office, one, Wells is now, by President Grant’s appointment and a_ republican Senate’s confirmation, Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans. Another, Anderson, was rewarded by having a relative appointed cadet at West Point. ‘Iwo others received their reward from Governor Kellogg in local sinecures for relatives. The demo- cratic member resigned. Itis now proposed to fill one vacancy in the Board by the ap- pointment of Flanders, a federal office- holder, Assistant United States Treasurer, the manager for Packard in the last Louisi- ana Republican Convention, and who brought about his nomination for Governor. Can the national republican party afford to countenance and to take advantage of such methods as these, no matter how strictly they may be according to the letter of the law? Can it afford to be put before the country as the aider and abettor in such manifestly unjust, such glaringly indecent proceedings? And can it afford to declare, by the help of returning boards so constituted and of political appliances of such a nature as we have recited, that its candidate is elected, unless this shall be shown to the entire satisfaction of both parties? We believe not. If its leaders hope for a political future, if they have any regard for the esteem of the nation, they must to-day prefer that Mr. Tilden shall be returned. It is almost impossible for them, under the circumstances, to obtain s yerdict favorable to their candidate which shall not bear the fatal taint of fraud; and we solemnly warn them that it is quite im- possible in such a case for them to escape the indignation of the North, which will cling to them and inevitably sweep them out of political life. Under the circumstances the democrats have only to wait. They occupy a position of advantage which only their own folly can deprive them of. But the re- publican position is painful in the highest degree. To satisfy the public mind that no wrong is done, where so many circumstances point to a deliberate intention of wrong, is very difficult for them. To count their can- didate in without so satisfying the public mind and disarming suspicion is to court disgrace, and at the next election to meet an irresistible burst of popular indignation. They may, by the methods which they are using and which we have described above, legally return Mr, Hayes, and as the Jour- nal of Commerce, a democratic journal, correctly says in a paragraph which we quote elsewhere, there will be no legal method of setting aside the result. The mation must peacefully accept such a legal result. But the republican leaders will, in, the act, dig deep their own graves, and two years hence they will be buried without hope of resurrection. Is Mr. KELLY an owner or part owner of the Ez- press? Guarantees Demanded by Rassia. Russia’s demands for the amelioration of the condition of the Sultan's Christian sub- jects are such as it does not seem possible an English government can refuse; but if an English government should refuse then it seems certain it must unite in opposition to its policy the whole intelligent opinion of Great Britain. Several of the demands made for reform in Turkish administration are inspired directly by the facts exhibited in the Bulgarian massacres; are aimed, therefore, to prevent any possible repetition of those atrocities, jand are precisely the measures whose success the English govern- ment would itself endeavor to promote if it were inspired by English opinion, It is proposed by Russia to disarm the population of Bosnia, Bulgaria and Herze- govina ‘‘without distinction of creed.” This is to make the Christians and Moslems of those provinces practically and effect- ively equal. At present the Moslems are armed and the Christians unarmed. Upon any outburst of fanatic passion defence is impossible—combat is impossible. Inevi- table collision becomes mere butchery. Turkey has herself frequently consented to the nominal equality of Christian and Mos- lem in those provinces, and England has supported the demand for such equality. But the demand has always been in the ab- stract. It has never aimed at the fact which created the inequality. Turkey herself has never stirred a finger to produce the equality she has promised. It remains to be seen whether England can support Turkey in her refusal to concede a reform whose one purpose is to procure that equality which England has herself urged as theright of the Christian subjects of the Porte. Two other points, the abolition of irregular troops and the transfer to Asia of the Circas- sians settled in Europe, are drawn from the experience of the Bulgarian butcheries. Certainly the horrible fame earned by the bashi-bazouks in their recent exploits entitles the endeavor to provide against the ex- istence of such troops in future European wars to. be regarded as a movement solely in the interest of civilization and humanity. The English government, opposing this proposition, would assume a grave responsi- bility. The demand that proceedings in the courts of justice and other public establish- ments shall be in the language of the country, that a native Christian shall be Governor in each province, and that these guarantees shall be watched over by a con- sular commission, are requirements of pri- mary necessity for the good government of the country. Should it appear that Russia demands no more than this it will be con- ceded that she moves with the greatest moderation, while if England opposes such ‘reforms it must appear that she acts under the inspiration of Mohammedan, not Chris- tian, opinion. Preparation for war is active still. In England and in Turkey the assignment of troops for duty is made, and while the Brit- ish War Office designates twenty battalions of infantry to be put in readiness to move the British Foreign Office protests to Europe that Russia imperils the peace of the world by a similar step. Russia prepares for im- mediate service about one-fourth of the army actually under the colors. But this hum of preparation does not ren- der the preservation of peace impossible, and the fact that nobody really wants to fight renders it yet likely that a modus vivendi will be discovered. Despite objection the Conference is to sit, apparently, and if it does the substantial justice and moderation of Russia's position may compel the assent of England and so avert war. Doxs Mr. Keury Inporsg the revolutionary and secession hints of the Erpress? We and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him for Comptroller. The Political Situation. There is no decisive news, but the demo- crats in Florida seem to be so assured of a majority for both the State and Presi- dential tickets that their Executive Com- mittee has issued a congratulatory address, and prominent Northern republicans are urgently requested to go to Florida tosee for themselves and for the coun- try. We believe General Francis Barlow has gone down to Tallahassee. He is an honest man and the country may safely rely on his testimony. The republicans, how- ever, are not to be outdone in boasting by their opponents, and send a counter address, which lacks figures, but asserts fraud and in- timidation, and declares the State safe for Hayes. This is signed, among others, by William E, Chandler, of New Hampshire. On the whole we prefer General Barlow to Mr. Chandler. In South Carolina the Supreme Court heard argument yesterday on the protest against the Returning Board. This peaceful and lawful appeal of the democrats is the only pleasing incident in the disagreea- ble political muddle, and if these South Carolinians go on as they have begun, and confine their opposition to what they and a great part of the North believe injustice, to measures looking to legal redress, they will not miss the sym- pathy of the North, which will be worth much more to them than even a political victory. The Court will give its decision to- day, whereupon it may be supposed the Re- turning Board will begin its work. In Louisiana the Northern republicans have, in a reply of some length, refused to confer with the Northern democrats assem- bled at New Orleans. The Northern public will regret this step, for much was expected from such a conference of leading men of both parties. But of the republicans who sign the refusal to confer only oneor two are men of such mark and independent character as to make their con- sent, or even their presence in New Orleans, of importance. We notice among the sign- ers aconsiderable number of Ohio politi- cians, friends of Governor Hayes. Their address refers the democrats to the strict letter of the Louisiana law, and omits to say anything of the bad character of the men who are to interpret and execute a confessedly bad law in their own interest. We should be sorry to believe this represented the opinions of Governor Hayes. The Return- ing Board has adjourned to Monday next. It is not now probable that we shall get decisive or official news from any of the dis- puted States fora week or ten days. The earliest news is likely to come from Florida. Order prevails in all the States ; the excite- ment in the public mind here in the North is apparently subsiding, and gold is steady. Dors Mz. Kexy Inponse the revolutionary and secession hints of the Express? We and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constiluents, support him for Comptroller. Costly Oficial Obstinacy. The closing of the menagerie in’ Central Park and the suspension of all the employés in the Park Department, with the exception of eight, is an extraordinary measure, and what President Martin has to say for himself in the matter is printed elsewhere. He lays the blame upon the Board of Apportion- ment and mainly upon Mayor Wickham, whom he accuses of bad faith. The situa- tion is this :—A certain amount was appro- priated for the department, with certain amounts for specified works. The Park President claims that these sums were either in excess or below the amounts absolutely needed, and that an under- standing was had with the Board of Apportionment that the department would be allowed to transfer unexpended balances to the accounts that were short. Hence, the department went on spending money on its own scale, and now finds its treasury, by the Mayor's refusal, empty of funds for the most needed work. There isa mixture of bad management and bad faith in this business which demands the fullest explanation. The Mayor is not a wise man and he may be the tool of somebody wishing to put the department in a bad light, but this sudden and theatrical shutting off of the service and letting ‘“‘everything go to the devil” has its weak spots. As President Martin says, the damage done by neglect will cost an immense sum to repair. But whose fault is it that things are brought to this disgraceful pass? What warrant had the department for living above its means? If.there has been flagrant bad management or spiteful bad faith let us know. We want to hear from both sides. Doss Mr. Ketrx Isporse the revolutionary and secession hints of the Mrpress? We and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him for Comptroller, Waat Pants Gosstrs Over is somehow always interesting to the rest of the civilized world. Every sensible man hopes to spend or has spent some portion of his life there, sind itiah Sides oad do in Paris. Testiaall like hearing of an old friend or a celebrated Person whose acquaintance one hopes to make. Apart even from this, at a time when Parisian ideas in art so largely dominate the world, hearing directly from the French capital is like being given a foretaste of what pleasure we shall experience when its latest creation reaches us. Dozs Mz. Keuty Inponsz the revolution- ary and secession hints of the Express? and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him for Comptroller. “Two Men and Six Valises.” There is something ludicrous in the fact that Tweed and his companion and their luggage should all have been receipted for by Captain Franklin asif they were so much merchandise—‘two men and six valises”— but the incident has a serious as well as an absurd aspect. In the day of his power Tweed was autocrat of the third city in the world in size and importance. No monarch ever ruled with a more absolute sway or despoiled his subjects with less fear of the consequences. Even men as eminent as Horatio Seymour and Samuel J. Tilden could not oppose this man in safety until his power was undermined and his own acts had furnished the weapons of his destruc- tion. Men like Brooks and Wood and Cox went to Congress only through his gracious assent. In this city the will of the people was merely the echo of his own. But he fell as corrupt men always fall, and became first a convict, then a fugitive. His flight was to lands where extradition treaties are un- known; but he found that in countries where a murderer like Sharkey could find protec- tion there was no asylum for him. Fleeing from Ludlow Street Jail to Cuba and from Cuba to Spain he reached the end of a long and toilsome journey only to retrace his voyage as part of ‘‘two men and six valises.” At any hour he may arrive to take up his old quarters in the prison in Ludlow street and await his release through the slow and tedions processes of the law. He is scarcely wanted now that he is coming, but his re- turn is none the less a warning to corrupt public servants of the woes which await official corruption. This man, once so power- fal and regarded as impregnable in his place atthe head of Tammany Hall, is not only ruined in his name and his fortunes, but there is no place of refuge left to him, and he is dealt with as a man who has no longer any rights left which even a foreign Power willrespect. A few more such examples as Tweed has been would cure the evils of political corruption in this country and force public men to be honest from fear of punish- ment, if from no higher motive, Dors Mr. Kerxy Ixporsr the revolutionary and secession hints of the Express? We and the people of this city would like to know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constiluents, support him for Comptroller. Commodore Vanderbilt and the New Opera Heuse. The magnificent project which Mr. Maurice Strakosch has formulated of erect- ing a temple for opera worthy of the metrop- olis of the New World and second in seat- ing capacity to none in the Old World de- serves the heartiest recognition: The site he has fixed upon is admirable. It is the heart of the city as it is and will be. In the future, when the great projects for the im- provement of the Harlem River and the water approaches by the Sound have borne their fruit in creating a vast commercial in- terest along the north as along the south, the esthetic centre wil) become permanently | crystallized where it at present is a mere indicated point—namely, above Twenty- third street and below Thirty-fourth, or at the utmost Forty-second street. A site fronting on Madison avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, is well within this territory destined to be the charmed home of art. The present accessibility of the site chosen is proved by the ease with which immense audiences gather and disperse from the building now known as Gilmore's Garden. The ground is the property of Commodore Vanderbilt, and the intention to devote the structure it is projected to build thereon to the ser- vice of the divine art of music suggests that no more enduring monument could be planned to perpetuate the public spirit and wholesome philanthropy of such a man than. the donation of this site. In America we ask more boldly of our great monarchs of money than ever favored nobles in Europe or Asia asked of their emperors and kings. To give New York a glorious home for music, where not alone the greatest vorks of the best composers of all nations would be interpreted in a fitting mannor, but where the art itself would be nurtured in the persons of the children of our great Republic who might be fittei to spread the sweets of harmony throughout the land, would be a monument better than stone or brass. The generosity of Commodore Van- derbilt adding another usefulness to the project of Mr. Strakosch would indelibly link his name with the fathers of our ad- vancing civilization. Is Mn. KELLY an owner or part owner of the Ex- press? Tue ‘“Haxsom” Vanrtery of the London eabby and tho widespread use made of hia light-running vehicle form the subject of an interesting article elsewhere. An appended article on the London tramways, or horse- car routes, shows how the principle of run- ning cars on tracks is making headway in England and Scotland. Since the conserva- tive Englishman is adopting ofr horse car why can not the go-ahead American adopt the Englishman’s cheap cab? Tl.» monarchy may be effete and unworthy of American im- itation, but the cab system is not. Is Mr. KELLY an owner or part owner of the Ez- press? To Drown on to Frizzix.—The inventor with whom the crowd of fire laddies were disgusted yesterday at Jones’ Wood was clearly the victim of cireumstances. He has a suit which was to have been partly filled with air and partly with water. The air was to breathe and the water to save the suit from burning by gradual evaporation. But they pumped air into the outer departments and water into the inner. Had he gone into the flames in this condi- tion it is tolerably clear ke would have been drowned first and then boiled. Happily he discovered the mistake by the water going down the smail of his back and filling up his helmet. If this inventor has to be saved himself every time he puts on his coat to save others he puts the world to a great Sen! of trouble for nothing. Tae Express takes a back seat. Its owners seg that its writers have made a mistake. King Leopold as a Promoter of Atri. can Discovery. We are indebted to the courtesy of M. Maurice Delfosse, the Belgian Minister at Washington, for a transcript of the dis- course of His Majesty King Leopold IL, at the opening of the Conférence Géographique at the royal palace in Brussels, and accom. panying documents. In publishing transla- tions we cannot withhold an expression of the sentiments with which we regard the zeal of this enlightened monarch for pro moting the interests of humanity and civili. zation by the extension of geographical knowledge, and particularly a knowledge of that great African continent which has been for so many ages a standing enigma, and in whose interior the curtain has begun to be lifted only within the last fewsyears. King Leopold expresses a laudable ambition to make Belgium the headquarters of African discovery. His modest allusions to the smallness and neu- tral character of his kingdom do not, to ow mind, suggest ideas of inferiority, but the advantages possessed by an able ruler whose mind is not oppressed by too heavy a weight of political responsibilities and is free to give attention to those broader interesta which are beyond the domain of ordinary statecraft. Small States have made an illus- trious record in geographical discovery. Isa- bella, the Catholic Queen of petty Castile, linked her name forever with that of Colum- bus, one of the very few names “not born to die.” What is now the magnificent Empire of Brazil was discovered under the auspices of the small kingdom of Portugal. The site of our own city, the metropolis of the Western Continent, and the noble tiver which flows past it, were discovered by Hendrik Hudson, sailing under the flag of the Dutch Republic—also a small State. If Belgium should make important contribu- tions to our geographical knowledge New York, whose early history is so closely con~ nected with the Netherlands, will be the first to recognize the service and award merited honors. As the extinction of slavery in Africa is one of the objects proposed by King Leopold, he deserves the support of philanthropists as wellas savans. We come mend his admirable address to the attention of both. Dozs Mr. Kzxiy Inporss the revolutionary and secession hints of the Express? We and the people of this city would like te know. For, if he does, we cannot, in justice to ourselves and our constituents, support him Sor Compirolier. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ! Wild geese are flying south. Governor Hartrantt of Pennsylvania is ia Washinge ton. In Stam the Rajah eats in @ room apart from bis guests, Count, brothers, count with care, Count in the presence of the missionaira Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch is at the Brevoort House. Motley began nis literary carcer with a novel, ar} he will ond it with one. Mr, Bowles during the lull is perfecting his machine for grating horse-radish. Jefferson Davis sailed from Queenstown for New York in the steamship Adriatic, Jay Cooke, who has been hunting and fishing slong Lake Erie, has returned to Philadelphia, J. R, Randall, editor of the Atianta Constitutionalist, is the author of ‘‘Maryland, My Maryland” Professor Swing insists that a hat won on a bet wil come down over the eyes of the winner's soal. Mr. E. & Stokes is in Philadelphia, where he wa born, and he is organizing a pavement laying company, Senator Blaine was in Boston Monday night to toter. ‘view Mr, Warren Fisher, Jr. Mulligan was not sent for, A democratic landlord has refused to let rooms to « republican because he does not like to read his news Papers. Paterson Press “funny” man:—“‘Neither party seems disposed to strike ‘their’ colors yet’—O Lind, ley Murray! A traveller says that the Southern white never ad- mits that any other people havo either social or political equality with him. Redfield, tho careful correspondent of the Cincinnat! Commercial, who 1s in New Orlcans, bas no doubt that Hayes is ‘airly elected in Louisiana, Passengers of the steamer Nestor recently off Malacca saw a sea monster 250 feet long and filty broad, and it was striped with black and yellow. By cn interpolation, supposed to bo necessary in a too brief item, General Sewell has beon made oncof the democratic candidates tor Senator from New Jorsey. :—“The young men of Beyrout ap ‘turally to journalism. They have 4 an association, each member of which pledges tell a hie.” tant Paymaster Jobn Breeze, United States Navy, who was reported as missing by the gov, ernment officials from Washington, arrived at hia home 10 Newport yesterday, Volonel Forney does not like the idea of changing from the electoral to a popular vole. He thinks that with a popular foreign vote New York city would counterbalance Connecticut or California, A Buffalo man asked a prayer meeting to advise him how to break the awful habit of telling whoppers, and he was assigned to the Editorial Notes columa of the Buflalo Azxpress as a hommopathic remedy. What honest democrats really is that no one shall take advantage of a technical error; but that the “will of the people” shall be obeyed. In the cases of the ineligible bat honestly elected electors, for instance, Norwegian tommings, which are rodents, periodi- cally take to the sea in great numbers and are drowned. It ts said that they instinctively go in search of some island, now lost, to which their progenitors were im the habit of colonizing long ago ‘The weather ts as changeablo asa dollar bill,—White. hall Times, Yes, the wind blows to-day from one quarter and to-morrow irom a dime-trically opposite point —Philadeiphia Bulletin, Somebody must be moncypulating it,—Burlington Hawk Eye The mas who gives carrency to such jokes has no cents, Evening Telegram bill of taro for prize fighters:— POPOLOELOOOLUDO PELE DDLDLEDELEDOLOEOLELEDELO DEDEDE 3 FISH, 3 Muscles, whales, : ENTREES. % Slashed chops, cross buttocks, upper ent; 3 stakes (theae aro better than they look N to be when you are first roped in). H Roast N A foul—Rounds of beof. N VRGRTANLES, Beats—Hearty chokes (chancery sauce); H thyme; anything olse that runs to grass 3 ; 3 3 3 3 aann ss armnevenseesooss se. POULTRY, A weil cooked goose spiced with Mace, DESSERT. A turnover, sponge cako, anything well poundod into a jelly. WINES, AC. Punch (in the mug), claret (first drawn), any- thing clse groggy. Qe ae ne ne EOE TELE DE LE TODE DELETE OE LEDODE DEDOOIOODIFE: A cigar aud a “match” that comos off to light it with farnish an appropriate wind-up.