The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1876, Page 6

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Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may From our reports this morning the probabite ities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and cloudy, with rain, followed by clearing weath:r toward night. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks were generally lower, feverish and _ irregular. Gold opened and closed at 109 3-4, with sales meanwhile at 1097-8. Money on call was supplied at 3 and 4 per cent. Gov- ernment bonds were dull, but firm, and rail- way bonds a trifle weaker. A Riven Prnate received a wound on Sunday night while attempting to rob a lighter in Whe East River which will prob- ably end fatally. A little marksmanship like this seems to be the best means of de- terring these pests of our city’s water fronts, who have shown in their depredations of late a boldness and desperation that needed a check. Unrmrortant jr Trve.—Our Raleigh cor- respondent sends us a report of a movement to throw out the whole electoral vote of North Carolina, on the ground that the bal- lots were priifted, when the North Carolina statute says the names shall be written. They seem to have a fair share of small attorney minds in North Carolina, as else- where. But that kind of mind is not going to manage this election case. A Persona Sacrtrice.— In a ‘a heated polit- ical discussion in Brooklyn the other day one ardent statesman deprived another of his nose. The situation is not yet grave enough to require personal sacrifices like this. If these local politicians will only | keep their tempers and hold themselves patiently to await events they are likely to find that all their causes of difference have adjusted themselves. ‘Tue Kuve oF THE Bexorans takes so gener- ous and enlightened an interest in the exten- sion of geographical knowledge that injustice is done when motives are ascribed to him which have not influenced his action. When a number of eminent philanthropists ‘and scientists assembled at the royal palace at Brussels by King Leopold's invitation some of the newspaper correspondents spread a rumor that one reason of his great interest in African discovery was a desire on the part of his government to establish a penal colony in Africa, We are able to con- tradict that ramor on the most trustworthy afithority. Such an idea may have been suggested by members of the Belgian gov- ernment, but it certainly had nothing to do with the recent conference between the King and the savans whom he invited to meet him in his royal palace for an inter- _ change of views respooting the best methods , of African discovery. | alone will be fatal. | will have to go upon. SEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. The Presidential Complication—Count- ing the Electoral Votes. Having demonstrated by arguments which seem to us cogent how vain and futile would be all attempts to instate Mr. Tilden if the regular certificates from the Electoral Col- leges should fail to give him a majority, we now proceed to consider a different branch of the question, Since there can be no resort to force nor to any sort of revolutionary or quasi-revolutionary proceedings, even to | redress a manifest wrong, it remains to con- sider what the democratic party can do to prevent the consummation of frauds, if frauds are meditated by the other side. The only defensive weapon which they can use with any effect is an appeal to the honest public opinion of the country. They must rely on the justice of their cause and their ability to convince at least some candid men outside of their own party that their claim is really just. In order to accomplish his they must make it apparent to fair minds that they ask nothing beyond strict equity, and that they will have re- course only to regular and constitutional methods to enforce their rights. With every one of the suspected returning boards in republican hands, with a Senate under re- publican control, with a resolute and per- haps prejudiced republican President in office in the interval between the final count in the presence of and the inauguration, every advantage is on the side of their opponents unless they | can make it appear, not only to themselves, but to others, that they are intrenched in an | impregnable fortress of legal right. Unless their claims and complaints are indorsed by the public conscience they have no ground to stand upon in a contest with the mass of official authority arrayed against them. The democratic party must, therefore, make no mistakes. If it puts itself in the wrong in any stage of the controversy its keen-sighted adversaries will take prompt advantage of its blunders and expose them with fatal effect. If it is foolish enough to indulge in menaces and threaten force, that If, hurried on by mere passion and blind impulse, it charges fraud where no fraud can be proved, it will be un- able to get an impartial hearing on points where it has a strong case supported by good evidence. The democratic party must be careful throughout this controversy to | keep the law on its side; to make no state- ments broader than the facts and thus ex- pose itself to refutation ; and, above all, it must not fritter away the real strength of its case by a multitude of petty, captious charges on minor points. Every time they are confuted on a petty charge they lose a portion of their power to command at- tention to substantial grievances. It is only by the utmost fairness, by a spirit of moderation, by insisting on nothing which? is not clearly just, by putting their strong arguments in the foreground and abstaining from doubtful cavils and questionable positions, that they can get a fair hearing before that great tribunal of public opinion to which their only appeal lies from the injustice of adver- saries in secure possession of all the official machinery by which the final result will be determined. There was never an occasion on which it so much behooves those who may think themselves strong in right but deficient in power, to ‘‘be as wise as ser- pents but harmless as doves,” and to avoid exposing a weak side to the enemy. The democrats are justified in regarding the Southern returning boards with suspi- cion and in watching their proceedings with vigilance; but they make a mistake in bandying charges of fraud in advance of the facts. Frauds in former elec- tions do not prove that frauds have been committed now, and it is a political blunder to toss about vague charges without specific evidence to sup- port them. We have as yet no accurate and complete information. When the official re- turns are all in and canvassed we shall know which side they favor, and we cannot know before. It is possible that they may give at least one of the three States to Tilden, and if this shall appear by the record he has a prima facie case. A returning board cannot throw out his votes without positive evidence of fraud or intimidation, and this evidence will be subject to the scrutiny of the ‘cloud of witnesses” of both political parties who are visiting the South to qualify themselves to testify before committees of Congress. Whatever is done in those boards will be done in a full blaze of publicity, under the immediate inspection of witnesses of the highest character for intelligence and veracity. If the democrats have a strong case in any of the doubt- ful States its strength, as presented to the public, will depend on the testimony of | these distinguished witnesses, and the democrats would do well to wait until they see what their provable case really is before deciding on their course of action. They weaken their influence by bandying indis- criminate and wholesale charges of fraud before they know what precise evidence they The more they in- dulge in bluster the more fatally they wili turn against them the fair-minded citizens whose judgment will be likely to in- flience the republican members of the Senate; and it depends entirely on the Senate whether Mr. Tilden's claims to an election will be admitted, in spite of a certi- fied majority against him, if they shall prove to be just. Unless the Senate concedes his title to the office it is quite impossible that he should exercise its functions. If the Senate does not acknowledge him as President it will not even consider, much less confirm, his nominations, and the Senate has so large a share in the Executive authority thata pretender to the Presidency is powerless without its co-operation. What can a President do without a Cabinet? How can a President have a Cabinet if the Sen- ate refuses to recognize him and to pay any attention to his appointments? The Presi- dent can commission no unconfirmed officer when the Senate is in session, He can make temporary appointments in » recess of the Senate; but there will be no recess after the 4th of March if the Presidential election is disputed. In accordance with » long line of precedents President Grant will call an extra session of the Senate for the 5th of March, to act on the nomination of his Congress | | successor, and the Senate thus called will not adjourn except at its own pleasure. The House will necessarily adjourn sine die on the 4th of March by the expi- ration of its term of service, and 18 successor will not meet until the following December. The republican Sen- ate will not give a Presidential claimant whose title it repudiates an opportunity to appoint officers during a recess. It will re- main, if necessary, in continuous session from the 5th of March until the first Mon- day in December, and meanwhile Mr. Tilden will be utterly powerless if the Senate re- fuses to recognize him as President. The only way to get his claim recognized against the official certificates from the three doubtful States is by mak- ing out so strong a case of fraud that the Senate will not dare to face a righteous and indignant public opinion. That kind of public opinion cannot be created by vapor- ing menaces, but only by solid, unassailable evidence, By the very nature of the case such evidence is unattainable until after the returning boards shall have | acted, and*a grand flourish of un- proved charges in advance of the facts evinces a self-defeating ‘‘zeal not according to knowledge.” It is not mere charges, but charges supported by specific and detailed proofs, that can have any influence on the public judgment. In opening the certificates the President of the Senate must necessarily be guided by | the evidence of official action in the States. Just as he opens the official returns from New York or Massachusetts because they | come to him certified in the regular way so must he also open the returns from South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, on the same color of regular State authority. If ob- jections are made they must be made by gress present at the counting of the votes; but objections so made will amount to noth- ing unless supported by strong array of incontrovertible facts, which facts must have been previously gathered and spread before the country to make any impression at the time of the count. With everything against them except the intrinsic strength of their case the democrats will act like simpletons if they weaken it by bluster, by threats or by any irregular or extra-legal proceedings that tend to excite alarms for the public tranquillity. The Constantinople Conference. Everybody concerned seems to assume that a conference at Constantinople is to be held, doubtless because they must all pro- ceed, formally and perfunctorily, until a positive obstacle is encountered ; for it is still far from certain that the conference will ever sit. Our special despatch by cable re- curs to Russia’s objection to ‘Turkey's presence at the conference, which appears to have been reduced somewhat, as it is now only a positive opposition to her presence at ‘the preliminary conference.” ‘The pre- liminary conference is doubtless to be for a mere exchange of views as to the basis and limits of negotiation in the conference proper. As the Ottoman government was in unqualified opposition to the whole project of the conference at the time when Russia proposed the condition that Turkey should not be represented in it that government did not express any opinion on this condi- tion, because, perhaps, it did not deem it proper to enter into the detail of that which it rejected in its entirety. But now that Turkey has assented to the conference it must also, if there is to be a conference, assent to this condition, and that it will do so is in the highest degree improbable. Either Turkey or Russia must yield on this point, which ~is not susceptible of compromise, or the conference will fail at the last minute. So much of the result of the British Cabinet council of Saturday last as it has been deemed proper to make public gives an ont line of the course to be taken under in- structions by the Marquis of Salisbury, one of the very capable younger statesmen of the tory party, who in the conference at Constantinople is to be associated as a Brit- ish plenipotentiary with Sir Henry Elliot, the Ambassador. The points of the in- struction as given are somewhat in the nature of glittering generalities. If they are to be strictly followed it is of little con- sequence whether the conference ever sits; for if it sits it must inevitably fail. It seems like odd diplomacy for a government to in- matic deliberation that if he cannot secure assent to its position he must withdraw with athreat. Naturally a suspicion arises here that there is some inaccuracy of statement in the report. England’s purpose now an- nounced—to secure the best conditions for the Christian subjects of the Sultan without encroaching on the territorial integrity of his Empire—is the same as it has been from the first, but it is not reconcilable with what Russia will persistently demand, and the way for the preservation of peace is there- fore not clearly perceptible. ‘Tue Cainest Proniem,—We print else- where a letter from San _ Francisco which gives some important and re- markable testimony, taken before a com- mittee of the California Senate, concern- ing the habits and practices of the Chinese now settled in that State. A committee of Congress has made a similar investigation and is to present its report to Congress. The evidence concerning secret tribunals among the Chinese, which under- take to punish and even to assas- sinate Chinamen who have broken their rules, is very curious. These societies, as they are called, seem to assume all the powers of courts of justice, and are for- midable bodies, managed, it would appear, by unscrupulous men. Wo shall recur to this subject at’ another time. { Lorp Saxtsnunr’s projected visit to Ber- lin and Vienna on his way: to Constanti- nople suggests that his line of argument will be similar to the Californian hunter's prayer to the Almighty:—‘‘O Lord, if you don’t help me, don’t help that bear !” Tux Home Insurance Companizs are threatened with the secession of the English companies from the National Board. The cause of the trouble is explained in an article elsewhere, members of one or the other branch of Con- | jand that Judge H. L. Bond, struct its representative in a grave diplo-. The Political Situation. In New Orleans yesterday the Returning Board met, together with the five members of each party. Mr. Wells, president of the Board, took the remarkable position that the Board need not fill the va vancy in its body unless it wishes to, and that the democrats have no claim to a member, He also annouuced that no Louisiana democrats would be per- mitted to be present at the meetings of the Board, and no strangers except the ‘visiting statesmen,” as they begin to be called. The public here does not forget that Mr. Wells is drawing pay as Sur- veyor of the Port of New Orleans, a federal office, while acting as president of the Returning Board. People here in the North are wondering, too, how far this Re- turning Board will go in excluding the pub- lic from its deliberations and in making 4 partisan board to scrutinize a vote of na- tional importance. In Florida the democrats have asked a judge of the Supreme Court for an injune- tion to prohibit Governor Stearns from making of himself alone a board of can- vassers, and a mandamus to compel the Re- turning Board to begin a scrutiny of the votes. The presence of General Barlow and Mr. Marble appears to give great satis- faction to the democrats. The republicans are silent, Mr. Marble expressed himself to our correspondent convinced that the State had gone for Tilden. In South Carolina the Court has not yet decided upon the proper functions of the Returning Board, but our correspondent remarks that the fact that four of the five members of the Board are can- didates for election begihs even there to. prejudice the republican side. We havea report that secret conferences of the republicans are held at the State House, of Balti- more, and ex-Attorney General Akerman, of Georgia, have arrived at Co- lumbia, Both are republicans. Our correspondent sends us_ the official returns from Congressional districts. If these are ‘confirmed by the Returning Board they show important gains by the demo- erats; the election of two democratic Con- gressmen, the Governor and a majority of the Legislature, with a majority in the State of four hundred and twenty-six votes. It remains to be seen, however, whether these figures get final confirnation. Washington is excited over the arrival of troops. Those now there number four hun- dred men, and General Sherman very justly says that their presence is advisable to pre- vent rioters and thieves taking advantage of the political excitement to commit a. burglary upon the Treasury, They are needed generally to protect the public property at the capital. Toa European ob- server the alarm and indignation at the quartering of four hundred troops at the capital will seem laughable and absurd. To reasonable Americans who have not lost their heads it will appear a very proper precaution. On the whole, the delay of the republican returning boards in all the disputed States about counting the votes impresses impar- tial Northern observers with the belief that they are not sure of the result. All the Southern’ States remain orderly, and the peaceable appeal of the South Carolina and Florida democrats to the courts for protec- tion has gained them sympathy in the North, while the suspicious dilatoriness of the republicans in counting the votes begins to create indignation here among repub- licans, Lincoln’s Tomb. Full details of the attempt to steal the re- mains of Abraham Lincoln from the tomb at Springfield, Ill., reveal a revolting story of crime in whatever light it is viewed, whether as a genuine plot or one ‘‘put up” by a sus- picious employé of the secret service to inure to his advantage. The bad character of the two men, Hughes and Mullen, makes it at present difficult to disbelieve the shape given to the conspiracy by the agent Swigle, but his character in turn makes it difficult to trust his story except where it is strong- ly corroborated. The act was certain- ly attempted by the two men arrested, and that should be sufficient to se- cure their punishment to the full extent of the law. Whether, however, Swigle’s part in it was such as he describes is another affair. If it should turn ont that he had been the originator of the plot we should not be astounded, for the manufac- ture of crime has been traced in the world’s history to officers of the law before now, but more frequently to the class of go-be- tween orspy. A suspicious point is that he should have egged the desperadoes on by showing the lightness of the probable punishment. The development of these points must not be overlooked by the detectives who have charge of the case. They must be very careful, indeed, before such a man is made a hero. That the hideous crime should be. seized by the ghouls who manage to squeeze themselves into all parties is not surprising. Fortu- nately the cireumstances made it impossible for the pretended confession, which we print elsewhere, from obtaining a moment’s credence, Had the sordid crime been suc- cessful the case might have been very dif- ferent so far as the nation’s peace is con- cerned. har RNRCRIAE AS Stormy Weather. # From Canada to Tennessee the influence of yesterday's great storm of wind and rain! extended with varying effects. The heaviest rainfall occurred along the Atlantic coast, and shows a precipitation at Baltimore up to five o'clock last evening of 1.23 inches ; at Philadelphia, 4.56 inches ; at New York, 1.06 inches, and at New London, Conn., .43 of an inch. Last night’s rain will prob- ably add .40 of an inch to the New York measurement of rainfall, making a total of about 1.50 inches. The westerly rim of the area of greatest depression passed northeastward slong the eastern side of the Alleghany range, after the storm centre had crossed the mountains from Kentucky to North Carolina, while following an unusual course for such disturbances. The peculiar arrangement of the areas of high pressure with relation to the storm centre has caused this change of direction from the regular track of storms | gency. coming from the northwest. It will be re- membered that we experienced very cool weather, with westerly winds, during Thurs- day last, which indicated the approach to and passage over New York of an area of high pressure. On Friday the wind became northeasterly, showing that the volume of dense atmosphere had drifted in that direction and was delivering its cur- rents of air toward a depression then central to the southwestward or in the Lower Ohio Valley. The tendency of the latter area was to seek an outlet to the ocean through the St. Lawrence watershed, but it was forced southward by the high press- ure in the northwest until it reached the Tennessee River. Then, while continu- ing its eastward movement, it began to be influenced by a high barometric pressure from the southwest, which forced it over the mountains into North Carolina, along a line which was the resultant of the two forces. There the shelter of the Alleghanies broke the force of the pressure from the southwest, while that from the northeast began to recede in that direction ; consequently the storm centre again assumed a northeasterly course along the mountains, as before stated, and became almost entirely a coast disturb- ance, ‘ The movement of this storm illustrates perfectly the influence of the counter condi- tions on the atmospheric depressions called storm areas. That one now passing has obeyed the various pressures to which it has been subjected with the sensitiveness of a billiard ball acted on by the propelling blow and the deflecting obstacles represented by the areas of high pressure and the moun- tain walls. The high winds that accom- panied the storm, and which at a quarter to three o'clock P. M. yesterday attained a velocity of fifty miles per hour at New York, gre due to the difference of atmospheric pressure between the storm area and that of the immense volume of dense air whence they flow. The barometric gradient at present existing between the areas of high and low pressure descends toward us at the rate of one-tenth of an inch to the hun- dred miles, which insures a great velocity for the air currents, just as a steep incline affects the velocity of flowing water. To- day the weather will moderate considerably, with a probable cessation of the rain and a fall of temperature accompanying the westerly winds that immediately follow the storm centre. The prevailing cloudiness will possibly be dissipated toward night. Another storm centre is now moving thypugh the Lower Missouri Valley, with snow in Dakota, and will probably ascend the Ohio Valley toward the lakes in its movement eastward, bringing with it cloud- iness and rain and higher temperatuze. The Manly Sports. Since the close of the war the American people have given a large degree of attention to all athletic games. When ‘the ranks were broken after the last victory our sol- diers brought back to their homes a certain pride of muscle and a love of physical ex- ercise which could not fail to produce an ef- fect on public opinion. Before the first alarum was sounded, which made us as by magic a nation of soldiers, we hadso far de- generated that we excited the criticism of the whole medical profession. We were told that Americans were fast becoming a bundle of nerves, and that the ordinary diseases to which flesh is heir were taking on new phases on account of our dilapidated condition. There has, however, been a healthy re- action within the last few years. Recogniz- ing the fact that if we are to continue in possession of the mens sana we must lay the foundation in corpore sano we have done what we could to lift physical development from the contempt in which it had fallen to its proper place in the economy of educa- tion. No one can have failed to mark the change which has taken place in this re spect. We are a healthier and a more en- during people than we were before the war. We have learned that brains and muscles are not only in close conjunction but that a man's intellectual prowess depends greatly on his digestixe organs and the tone of his bodily condition. Every nation that has made itself felt in the world’s affairs has encouraged all games and exercises which give endurance and daring to its young men. In most monarchies all classes have been compelled to spend years in the drillroom, and they have thus acquired a courage and a manly bearing which has proved serviceable in an emer- In the student life of Europe great importance is attached to the gymnasium and to those out-of-door exercises which render one proud of his broad shoulders and create an appetite for work which makes it pleasure rather than drudgery, Until within a decade no German student felt himself entitled to the respect of his fellows unless he bore the scar of a sword thrust and could boast of a score of duels. And even the gray-haired professor was not unwilling to show the ugly marks with which he had heen disfigured in his younger days. These were considered conclusive evidence of pro- ficiency in the college curriculum as well as in the manly arts of self-defence. The faculties of British universities have also offered every inducement to their stu- dents to improve their physique. The youth of England have for generations; been famous for their cricket and rowing contests. The high and the low have crowded the cricket ground and the banks of the Thames, and by their loud plaudits shown that these sports have a national interest and impor- tance. This spirit ofadventure and prowess is by degrees taking possession of the Ameri- can people, and it js safe to prophesy that the next generation will reap beneficial re- sults, The English students have as yet more back muscle than we, and asa class they are more athletic; but no one doubts that we can hold our own with the best when we once get down to steady work. The Americans are contestants worthy of the best endeavor of any who throw the gaunt- let at our feet, Give us a little more time and we can catch a ball on the fly or make a spurt which will often enongh throw the victory on our side. The Princeton and Columbia College clubs played a match on the cricket ground at Hoboken on Saturday last which did oredit to both sides. The university clubs of Harvard and Yale also played » game at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on the same day, which elicited great applause from the crowds that looked on. Other colleges are forming cricket and base bal! clubs, and their example is being followed by clerks and business men in various parts of the country. We are on the edge of a new cra, in which sick headaches, neuralgia, paral- ysis and premature debility will fold up their tents and silently steal away. Polo is also a game which might with evi- dent advantage be introduced into the cavalry service. To be sure, one risks a blow or a fall now and then, and it may not be particularly pleasant to constitute one’s self a mattress fora horse to lie down on; but these are only incidents in agame which gives a man steadiness of nerve, prudence, courage and a perfect control of his horse, which may be brought into very desirable requisition some day. Anything which makes one more vigorous and more quick- sighted to use an opportunity and gives him a larger command over himself has its value. We give honor to every attempt to lighten the hard work of life by making men broad shouldered and large chested enough to bear their burdens with a laugh. Br Jupcz Van Brunt’s Daciston yester- day Mrs. Davis, who prayed to be relieved of her husband and his name, found herself suddenly turned into Mrs. Taylor. It ap- pears that the Indy once went out to pick plums in Texas, but instead of doing so she went on the Chickasaw reservation and was married by an Indian medicine man toa Mr, Taylor. Atthe time of this event she was Mrs. Vance, whether a widow or not we are afraid to state. Mr. Taylor, immediately after this ceremony, went his way, leaving his better half to go hers in meditation fancy free. In this condition she met and wedded, as she believed, Mr. Davis. Latterly she hae been endeavoring to have this marriage dis- solved. The Judge’s decision is that she never has been Mrs. Davis, but is Mrs. Tay- lor since the day she went out to pick plums Tus Troors 1x Wassincton.—We hope nobody will lie awake of nights over the gathering of troops in Washington. Four hundred soldiers, chiefly artillerymen, are there. They are under the immediate command of General Hancock, who reports to General Sherman, whose superior is the President. If anybody imagines four hun- dred artillerymen, commanded by men like Hancock and Sherman, under, the orders of General Grant, are dangerous to American liberty, we advise him to move over into - Mexico fora quiet life. There are people absurd enough to believe anything in these days, but it is not easy to understand why an American,citizen should be afraid of harm to the constitution from such a force socom: manded. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Wade Hampton tg filty-five. Now the democratic farmer cries, ‘‘Co, boss.’ ‘The Rossians are taking steppes toward Turkey. Grant’s motwo:—‘Where the smoke is thickest,” “New bonnets are made of kid.”’—Boston Post, Banf Michigan has plenty of game, and even Detroit hag d rabbits. he Norristown Herald does not delieve in the freer dom of the ballet. Susan B. Anthony thinks she would rather be mare Tied than be President. ASt. Louts girl about to go to Boston packed ng her slipper by mistake. A lady writes about the “watery, sober really the moon was full. An Indiana woman tried to drown herself in a vine« gar barrel. She was soury. Oakland (Cal.) girl-thieves at pight pull false bats from ladies’ heads and run, Ex-Colonel Valentine Baker has not accepted mili- tary service under the Sultan. Senator-elect Teller, of Colorado, is a great railroad lawyer and a warm Methodist. Dr. José de Saldanha, Centennial Commissioner fo Brazil, is at the BuckinghamHotel. Colonel Brooks, of the Washington Republican, hag a Bible pocket made in his pantaloons. Heart disease 1s increasing in England, and ranks, filth in the list of diseases that result fatally. Louisiana has for its emblem the pouchy pelican, which can drink moro and say less than any other bird. Apsper says that Sergeant Bates has-written hie name immortally. Yes, he is a sort of indetible in- eabus. “A Bible, which formerly belonged to George Wash- ington and presented to him by the author,’ is adver- tised by a Western book store, Matthew Arnold believes that the purest and most far-seeing minds can never “lack a bond of prefound sympathy with popalar religion.’” Since that Philadelphia man bled to death from cut- ting acorn Chittenden, of the Milwaukee Times, hag had bay windows built on his boots. The London Temes says that Cardinal Antonelli be: longed to a race almost extinct~ the great ecclesiastic¢ having been also great statesmen. moon’ whem , ABareciona girl was possessed of 400 devils, whieh ‘were exorcised, and ifshe was an ordinary sized girt there was more than one little devil to every ouble foot. It is satd that the oceupation of France by Russiag troops after the defeat of Napoleon sowed the germ of thought to which the simple Russian mind had bees Previously inaccessible, ‘ The Pittsburg man defended himself by saying thet his attempt to kiss a young lady was caused by his in« ebriety, and was only a slip, There is many a slip be- twixt the cup and grain, and she signified to the former that thoagh 1 was Sunday she deemed the work one of necessity. A Florida negro was running down tho swamp with the clection returns when be wasshotat. He swal lowed the returns and then an alligator, ander the ow chids, swallowed the negro, It will be some days be fore we arrive at the result of this election. ‘The Commercial Advertiser makes & mistake in say- ing that the Hxnatp has complained of the President for sonding troops to the Southern States since the Glection. On the contrary the Heratn has repeatedly said that tho President has the tutional right to, quarter troops anywhere in the Union. It-was General John M. Palmer, then Governor of © Illinois, who, at the time of tho'Chicago fire, when the city was being plundered and the people were unpro- tected, abused the federal government because Gen- oral Sheridan, at the request of citizens, used soldiors jn a merely volunteer way, to ald im presorving order ‘and property, General Palmer now tries to makes row im Loutstana. Evening Telegram menu for ministers :— erooreovenrercoerorecersrerevere reserve rs recett were he sour. A ens — roup. Fi ‘tet riz soul. EATRERS. Sardéans in aisle, Roast. “amy of the flock, POULTRY. Roast ducksology, GAME. Prayerie chickens. VEGETABLES, Parsouips. DESSERT. Scandal sued padding— Bridal cake DRINKS. Aqua pewra, poe sste neon , saimipmaaearen aii