The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1876, Page 6

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Bavanta, famous for its patronage of the highest forms of the musical and dramatic arts, has also some curious popular features in its third rate theatricals, which are amus- ingly described in a letter elsewhere. A Worrsay Iysrrrctiox, the Old Gentle- man’s Unsectarian Home, needs the assist- ance of the charitable people of New York. We hope that generous contributions to the fund will be made, for the resources of the establishment are exhausted. Tux Axnomrnatiox oF Desotation has fallen upon the grounds at Fairmount Park, where the Centennial Exhibition was held. The Philadelphians, who were so reluctant ® month ago to think of seeing the buildings swept away, will ere long clamor for their demolition. This isa transition which oc- ours everywhere a world’s fair is held. Svrran Anput Hastrp is reported to have issued an order abolishing the slave trade throughout the entire Ottoman Empire. This is progress, although it may be viewed by the cynical as a Cerberus-sop to Exeter Hall. It will certainly have a good effect in England, but it is a long way from abol- ishing slavery itself. Recervers’ Fres.—The Rhode Islanders are at present much exercised over this mat- ter in the case of Mr. De Wolf, the receiver of the Franklin Institution for Savings of Providence. It is time that some limit was made to the amount which these officers can claim for their services. At present the given time in which a receiver can eat up the wreek of an estate is alarmingly sort, Rovsanta’s Gurevances against Turkey, as detailed in our deoply interesting letter from Bucharest, are manifold, but the sum total of them appears to be that a civilized Christian State is tributary to a semi- barbarous Moslem Empire which would | not have notified the Court? ; Supreme Judges? do by a trick what they assert to be right? | trample it in the dust if it dared, and which has nothing in sympathy with it. It is easy to judge, in case of war, how welcome the + Ressiana would be in Roumania, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 18 The South Carolina Trickery. At this moment the attitude and the wise counsel of Wade Hampton in South Carolina are worthy of the imitation of his fellow democrats all over the country. The South Carolina democrats appealed to the Supreme Court of the State, consisting of three judges, all republicans, to decide the proper functions, under the constitution, of the Returning Board. That Board consists of five republicans, all State officers and three candidates for re-election and therefore sitting as judges on their own cases. The Supreme Court heard argument and issued a temporary injunction, pending further argument, by which the Returning Board was ordered to count and report to the Court the actual votes cast, | according to the returns of the county com- missioners, and to await the final decision of the Court on the further question whether the Board had, under the constitution, such judicial functions as would anthorize it to | hear objections or decide generally upon the validity of the votes, On Monday the Board accordingly reported to the Court that the returns showed the Senate to consist of eighteen republicans and fifteen democrats; the House, of sixty republicans and sixty- four democrats—one majority for the demo- crats on joint ballot. Thereupon the Court proceeded to hear further argument on the functions of the Board, and while this was going on, and while the counsel of the Re- turning Board were actually in Court and toking part in the proceedings, the Board met privately, flung out two democratic counties, on, as one dissenting member declares in a written protest, merely ex parte evidence; hastily made of election to republican members of the Legislature and to the Hayes elec- tors and adjourned sine die. The members claim that ten days was the legal limit of | their existence as a Board; but if they be- lieve this, and if their counsel, one of them curiously enough the United States District Attorney, so advised them, why should they Why did their counsel attend on court at the very time of | this action, and thus help to deceive tne Why should the Board ‘this is what the country asked yesterday when the news was read. Under these grave and exasperating cir- cumstances General Wade Hampton issues an address to the people of South Carolina urging the utmost order, absolute peace and patience. The advice is sound and patri- otic, and the North, without respect to party lines, thanks him for it. The recent atti- tude of the democrats in South Carolina has been a model of self-command and loyal submission of their interests and rights to the proper arbitrament of the courts, The country has watched them with anxiety, but with increasing satisfaction. We hope they will observe strictly the admonition of their leader and candidate for Governor. We are a free and law-abiding people, and this mat- ter will be settled according to law. Irri- tating, justly irritating as such unworthy trickery is, the North, too, must command its temper and have patience. The snarl we are in can be untangled only with patience and by orderly and lawful methods. Any one who.to-day or at this time counsels or even fails to condemn violence, any one who adds by incendiary advice or suggestion to the prevailing and just irritation and ex- citement, does an unpatriotic act and de- serves the severest condemnation of the pub- lic. We are glad to find in the most influ- ential democratic journals here the soundest advice on this subject. The Journal of Com- merce, which represents very ably the senti- ments of our democratic merchants, said on | Saturday :— Ifany of those who assume to lead the republican party really desire to perpetrate a flagrant wroug in thwarting the will ot the people as lawfully expressed at the polls, they could not be moro ably assisted in such a nefarious enterprise than by the exhibition of & belligerent tcmper and spirit in the ranks of the opposition. Loud denunciations, Invec- tives, organizations for armed resistance, and all that can be represented us betraying & fierce and rebellious temper, will only render the proposed violation of popular rights the easier tor those who may have undertaken it. The moment that the projectors of such a scheme can tire the hearts of all who have heretofore acted with the dominant party, 80 that tbey will band together again tu carry out whatever their leaders suggest, no outrage will te wo great that it canbe peacetuily resisted. Let bu! opposition begin to breathe out throatenings steoghier and the real saleguard of popular libe Justice will no longer stand in the way of the wrong- doers. The Sun, one of the most vigorous and powerful supporters of the democratic cause, said on Tuesday, ‘Better submit to wrong for the time, however gross, than appeal to any but legal, constitutional and peaceful methods.” General Hampton urges the same course upon the people of South Carolina. In New Orleans promi- nent men who have just been there say the attitude of the democrats is absolutely quiet and orderly ; they await in confidence the justice of the North. Let them have patience and confidence. The North, the Northern republican party, is fast awakening to a comprehension of the situation. This is not a matter in which the democrats can usefully act. The initiative does not belong to them; their part is to wait in patience, in absolute order and quiet. The chief duty of the crisis falls upon the republican masses. They are honest and sensible, and they will not tolerate wrong or trickery, or even the appearance of wrong, in this matter. It is for them to demand, and we believe they will demand, in public meet- ipgs, not only or merely an honest count, ut such measures as shall assure them and their democratic neighbors and friends tliat there is no taint of suspicion about | it. Unless we greatly mistake the temper and attitude of the republican masses they will make themselves heard and their influ- ence felt to this end very soon. As we write we have before us a private letter from one of the leading republicans of Massachu- setts, who writes us:—‘‘What think you of the result of the election? I hope Tilden will get it as the matter stands.” That is what to-day nine out of ten ot the honest republicans think; and we say to the repub- lican leaders, plainly, that they have be- come within the last week objects of suc- picion to their own party and the pub- lic, equally with the returning boards in whose proceedings and character they are involved ; and that unless they at once and conspicuously condemn and oppose them- selves to all trickery and to everything which | bears even tho faintest odor of intended fraud they will seo the honost men of their out certificates | own party rise up in public meetings all over the country to denounce them. The republican party is not made up of rogues and Tombs lawyers. It contains a great mass of honest, honorable, patriotic men, and these will not tolerate what would make them hang their heads with shame; they will not allow their leaders to resort to trickery, to base devices, to doubtful means to count in their candidate. Already the republican opinion of the proceedings in the disputed States is such that it has become almost im- possible decently to count in Governor Hayes. Already the wisest republicans say in conver- sation that for the sake of their party they hope for Mr. Tilden’s return, As yet the honest republican masses are waiting in si- lence, but with decreasing patience. But any further appearance of trickery, any, the least, continuation of these attempts in the disputed States to take advantage of shallow legal technicalities, to resort to underhand and unworthy means, such as the recent hearing of testimony charging intimidation, on which the Louisiana Returning Board has, it is said, determined, will give voice to the smothered indignation of the republican party, who cannot stand silent and see | themselves and the good fame of their party sold into disgrace. ——-——— | Tweed. The prodigal has returned. Mr. William M. Tweed, statesman, presents his compli- ments to the people of New York. He begs to say that husks are wretched food fora man who has dined at the Americus Club. The taverns of Santiago, though ‘‘conducted on the European plan,” he found less com- fortable than the Sheriff's accommodations ! in New York, The rocks on which he was | landed on the Cuban coast seemed to him harder than the chairs on Blackwell's | Island. The Spanish flea he regards as the | determined enemy of the Tammany Society. He returns to his native shores a sadder and | somewhat thinner, if not a wiser man ; and after many wanderings and vicissitudes he | hailed the sight of Sandy Hook as the j promise at least of a decent dinner. Mr. Tweed begs to inform his friends in | New York that a somewhat varied experience | has impressed upon him the truth of a neg- | lected proverb, ‘Be virtuous and you will | be happy.” He has come to an age and | figure when the practice of strict honesty seems to him desirable. Once he thought of having a monument erected to himself in | New York. Now he prefers a cell in Ludlow | street to either Santiago, Vigo or the Atlan- tic Ocean, There may be joy in travelling and instruction in seeing the world, but as for him, give him New York-—— Here we must stop Mr. Tweed. We can- not give him New York. He had it once, and he made a mess of it. Instead of giving him New York our advice to Mr. Tweed is to give back to the city treasury the immense | sum he stole from it. If this should seem much toask of him we may tell him that it is after all very little, He cannot give back the public opinion he depraved by his bad example; he cannot by any possible restitution redeem us from the corruption he brought into our local politics; he cannot by a long life of repent- ance and virtae, if such were possiblé to him, make up for the misery his wastetul career has imposed upon the industrious poor of New York; for the heavy debt which burdens our taxpayers; for the mismanage- ment of city affairs from which we have not yet recovered; for the corruption of public and private morals to which his vicious career gave rise; for the misgovernment of which he was the main cause and which sapped the prosperity and even threatened the commercial supremacy of the city which, as it was his birthplace, should have been to him sacred. ‘Tweed's bad career should teach our ambi- tious young men that on the whole honesty is the best policy. It would be a badly ar- ranged world if this were not true. A career of successful and truculent vice like those of Tweed and Fizk does its greatest evil not in the robberies it involves, but in the lesson of wickedness which it teaches to the young men who seeit. These men’s greatest crime was that by their lives they struck a blow at social morals. But their fate may warn men against undue haste to be rich. Fisk, shot down like a dog; Tweed a wretched wanderer and fugitive, like Cain, concealing himself from the faces of men, and now brought home to disgrace and the contempt of the city he robbed— these are spectacles which may warn men that moderate and honest living, fidelity to trust, and a preference of honor to ill-gotten wealth are after all sound rules for the conduct of life. GenzraL Suerman’s Axxvat Report on the condition of the army and its services during the past year discloses the fact that there are at present twenty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-one men in the service ; that they have been keeping up the seacoast fortifications, acting os federal policemen in the South, looking ont for hostile Mexicans in Texas, hunting the hostile Sioux in the Northwest, garrisoning forts here and there and spreading them- selves out generally so as to appear as much like half million of soldiers as possible. This is always a difficult task, but by keep- ing the boys on the move the General has come quite near to that high figure. He pays a well deserved compliment to the West Point Academy. ‘he only thing at all calculated to startle the country is his statement that ‘there are no hostile Indians in the Military Department of the Atlantic.” This has been our own view, but it may be news to somebody. | Maaetixez-Dev Vautz.—This suit, which has occupied a good share of public atten- tion, in. spite of the anxiety over the politi- cal situation, will probably come to an end to-day. The ‘woman in the case,” from the Garden of Eden to the Siege of Troy, and so on down to the latest sensation, makes—as Mr. Choate insinuatingly remarked to the jury yesterday—sympathy an essential part of what goes to form an opinion. We do not see anything for Mr. Choate to call lucky for his side in the fact that the older men of the jury were placed nearer to tho plaintiff. We saw it stated in a late number of the Saturday Review that ‘‘the old ones _are the worst.” The Politien! Situation. In South Carolina the Supreme Court has | issued a mandamus to the members of the Returning Board commanding them to show cause to-day why they should not be com- pelled to compare tho managers’ with the loca! election returns. One member of the Board has resigned; another, the Secretary of State, was busy all day yesterday issuing bers of the Legislature, members of Con- gress, kc. The Legislature assembles next Tuesday, and the Governor should be inau- gurated on Thursday. The President is be- lieved to have promptly notified Chamber- lain that he means to support, him as he did Kellogg in 1872, and indeed ever since. The State is of course deeply excited, but the excellent letter of General Hampton has 8 good effect, and there is an evident deter- mination among the democrats not to help the republican party out of the dirty waters into which it has got. A ‘Southern out- break” would be thought ‘providential” now by some of the republican managers. In Florida the Circuit Judge heard argu- ment on the application for an injunction to restrain Governor Stearns from canvassing the vote and giving certificates to the elec- tors. As the Governor's counsel opened the argument with a declaration that the Goy- ernor had no intention of doing so, the whole proceedings seem, at this distance, somewhat ridiculous. We notice with regret that one of the most hope- ful of the ‘‘visiting statesmen,” (en- eral Barlow, has become counsel for Governor Stearns, We cherished the hope that he and Mr. Marble would act down there as counsel for the people of the United States, and take sides with neither party. Meantime the Florida Returning Board has not got to work yet, although all but three of the county returns are in hand. Here in the North people are wondering why the republicans down there are so re- luctant to begin counting the votes? The Louisiana Returning Board also takes matters very leisurely. It meets late, ad- time in discussion. It has energetically ex- cluded the press, and it now holds four kinds of sessions daily—an open session, an executive session, to which, as we under- stand it, the ten “‘visiting statesmen” are admitted; a secret session, from which they are excluded; and a private caucus in the evening, which the repub- lican party leaders attend. Tho number of parishes asserted by the republicans to have been ‘‘bull-dozed” increases. Ten days ago five were named; now ten are spoken of. The returns do not seem to ‘‘pan out” as well for the republicans as they hoped at first. The attention of the Return- ing Board was yesterday called to the curi- ous fact that a number of republican super- visors of election have been in New Orleans for a week and even ten days with the ofticial returns in their possession and have not yet handed them in to the board, which is their only legal custodian. In one case a repub- lican candidate for Congress conveniently brought down the vote of a county, and has retained it fora week. Even the most un- suspicious people are reminded by this incident of letter from the Secretary of the Republican Committee to supervisors, which we printed on Tuesday, in which these officers were admonished before the election that they must return the repub- lican vote fixed by the State Committee, and it was significantly added :—‘‘ You must ob- tain the results called for herein without fail. Once obtained, your recognition will be ample and generous.” Possibly these recal- citrant supervisors are waiting for ‘‘recog- nition.” In 1874 there was at least one case where a supervisor gave the returns to awomun and sent her to sell them for a good price. The ‘visiting statesmen” at New Orleans are for the moment silent, and the politicians have ceased guessing. It isa significant fact, however, that the three most trustworthy journalists from the North now in New Orleans, all three republicans and of excellent reputation for accuracy, unite in saying that Mr. Tilden has an un- doubted majority in Levisiana. The notable feature of the situation is that irregular and suspicious conduct on the part of the republican managers seems to increase. In the North republicans are slowly making up their minds about: this Southern business, and it may be said that disgust and alarm increase. The Next H According to republican estimates which be a republican majority of one in the next House of Representatives if New Hamp- shire sends a full republican delegation, as is not unlikely. This result is obtained by counting every doubtful district as republi- can. Two democrats are likely to have been elected in Florida, but one is given to each party in this estimate. In Illinois every district: which, at the latest reports, was considered doubtful, is classed as republi- can, the delegation standing thirteen to six. The Louisiana delegation is evenly divided, three and three. Missouri sends four re- publicans to nine democrats; New York, sixteen republicans to seventeen democrats ; Pennsylvania, nineteen republicans to eight democrats ; South Carolina, a full repnbli- can delegation ; Tennessee, two republicans to eight democrats, and Virginia, one repub- lican to eight democrats. ‘There is some- thing very peculiar in theso figures, to say the least of them; but what makes them even more suspicious is the fact that they give the republicans the centennial majority of one. This, too, by counting the five dis- tricts of South Carolina, one district in Florida, two districts in Tennessee instead of one, the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth districts in Pennsylvania, and the,Twenty-ninth district of New York as republican. We shall not be satisfied with the republican claim in any of these districts until we see the official count, which, strange to say, has not yet been re- ported. Tur Reat Estate Investments by the in- surance companies of New York show an immense total, but owing to the deteriora- tion of values in that class of security, esti- mated at forty millions of dollars, the com- panies are chary of advances upon it. The effect of the panic continues so far as real estate is concerned, although other certificates to the Hayes electors, the mem- | have been very widely published there will | | | are signs, too, that vicious legislation in re- journs early and consumes a good deal of | 76.—TRIPLE SHEET. interests have improved considerably. The truth is we enjoyed a period of artificial prosperity that had no solid foundation in real values. We discounted the future of New York too heavily and are now paying the penalty of our indiscretion. Busine-s is most prosperous and property most relia- ble as an investment when both rest on the solid “hard pan” foundation of legitimate trade and real values, The Speaker. ‘When Congress meets, on the 4th of De- cember, the House will be called to order by its Clerk, and its first business will be to elect a new Speaker. ‘There is no lack of candidates, this city alone furnishing two in the persons of Mr, Cox and Mr. Fernando Wood. Mr. Sayler, Speaker pro tem., will have supporters; Mr. Randall has many friends; Mr. Heister Clymer is spoken of ; Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, at one time had hopes, but his course in the House was not so judicious as to win him confidence; Mr. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, would poll astrong vote; Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia, would be even stronger, as a more experienced and more conservative man; but if the democrats are wise they will choose between three men-—Messrs. Morrison, of Illinois; Lamar, ot Mississippi, and Randall, of Pennsylvania. Of these three Mr. Mor- rison would probably have the best chance of an election, and he would make an ex- cellent Speaker. | The Speakership of the House of Repre- sentatives is always an office of great power and responsibility. By his selection of the committees the Speaker in a great measure shapes and controls the legislation of the House and. therefore of Congress. During the session soon to begin many jobs will make their appearance which their authors kept out of sight and ont of the House last session ; the Speaker ought to be a man awake to the danger and able to guard against it by the selection of proper men for the important committees. There gard to the currency will be attempted, and the Speaker ought to be a man about whose views on this and other important public questions there can be no doubt. We hope, therefore, to see the democrats in the House select one of their best and firmest men for Speaker. This is very important not only for the country but also for their party in- terests. A blunder here will draw them into very deep waters. Peacefal Words and Warlike Acts. Judging the possibilities by the view taken in the London Times, war seems im- possible; judging by the report from Servia of Russia's activity there, war might be already a flagrant fact. ‘hese contrary in- dications are, however, not absolutely irre- concilable. ‘he interpretation of the ap- pearance of a large body of Russian troops on Servian territory seems to rest upon the statement made by a commander of Cos- sacks, and this is not an authority above suspicion; but ifthe report of the fact and the alleged motive shall be authenticated it will appear that Russia is disposed to take such o guarantee as is within her reach against what the Turks may do if by the expiration of the armistice terms of peace are not agreed upon. The Emperor of Russia in his conversation with Lord Loftus explained that Russia had sent her famous ultimatum to the Sultan at the moment the Servian army was thor- oughly beaten simply to prevent a repeti- tion in Servia of such atrocities as had oc- curred in Bulgaria. The timely occupation of Servia by a Russian force may be a provi- sion of the same nature, since if the armis- tice should expire with peace not concluded the Moslems would encounter no resistance on the march to Belgrade and would in- fallibly butcher in that city all persons in- imical to their rule. In Constantinople it is held that Servia is Turkish territory, and from that point of view the movement of troops as reported is an invasion; but Russia does not assent to that position, and though England may not quite agree with Russia in this regard it is clearly her policy not to have any opinions that are inconvenient on points not of the first importance. Russia's movement, therefore, will not precipitate events, and, as it indicates her readiness and is just short of a threat, it may have an influence in inclining to peace the councils of the negotiators. The words cabled from the Times’ article are practically a repetition of the decision of the Cabinet council of the 11th inst.—that England would only act for | the defence of Constantinople. She will | assent toany proposition made by Russia which does not involve a transfer of torri- tory ; if a proposition is made that does in- volve a transfer of territory she will assent to that also, provided the territory involved is not the city of Constantinople. England, therefore, will certainly not take any posi. tion in virtue of which the movement just made by Russia will become an obstacle to peace. Central Park. Mayor Wickham’s small-beer-politician sensation about the Park Department has given birth to its mouse, Having first brought about a deadlock by re- fusing to transfer the unexpended balances | the Board of Apportionment, yielding to public indignation, yesterday consented to such transfer, ‘This gave Mr. Green an op- portunity to shed a few crocodile tears over the poor trees that he saw planted years and years ago, when, as little saplings, they used to make childlike boughs to him as he passed on his rounds. It is always touching to hear | Mr. Green praise himself, whether receiving | a deputation of contractors who want to see him Mayor or when he can at the same | time pour a little viaegar into the wounds of his enemies, be they poor scrub women or merely Park Commissioners. ‘Che mouse we have referred to came from the pocket of that pure patriot, Rush C, Hawkins, in the shape of impeachment charges against Com- missioners Martin and O’Donohue. These grievous things are, first, that these Commis- sioners removed some of the Comptroller's friends from office ‘without cause,” and, second, that they paid the poor laborers two dollars a day when they could be had for one | dollar and sixty cents. This isa very small | mouse, even for Mayor Wickham and Comp troller Green to go fussing about.’ ee neer ee stab bt tb Oh Oe bE tL TEU LELOLICEIE EE EE: \ Another Trick. Our New Orleans correspondent tele graphs that the Returning Board has de- termined to hear evidence on charges ot intimidation in secret session. Why secret? What are these men thinking of? Do they imagine that there is no power of indignation among Northern republicans? Can they not see that by their tricks and secrecy they are making public satisfaction with the counting in of Mr. Hayes an impossibility? ‘They will hear evidence in secret session, and will then make up the totals of the State and electoral vote on the day the elec. tors are to meet, we are told, so as to .pre- vent appeals to the courts ; that is to say, they mean to repeat, but with an adroit im- provement, the South Carolina trick, Is it not time for honest republicans all over the North to speak out? to let these political gamblers know that they must stop? The democratsare silent and passive; that is their duty; they must remain so, But the republican merchants, lawyers, clergy, farmers, mechanics—can they afford to remain silent when such things are done in South Carolina and preparing in Lonis- iana? Evidence accumulates that there is aconcerted plot to count in Mr. Hayes in the three disputed States by open and shameless trickery. That is not what the republican masses want. ‘They wish fair play. Is it not time for them to speak out in public meetings ? Tue Weatuer.—We are experiencing the usual barometric rise that follows a depres. sion such as that which has just passed away into the Atlantic Ocean. Already the press- ure at New York has fluctuated between 30.05 and 29.94 inches, showing that the edge of depression central in Northern Canada has just extended to our latitude. From the Southwest the isobars of high pressure curve toward New York, bringing with them clearing weather and slightly higher temperature. The ‘‘norther” in Texas hus been felt as a twenty-cight mile gale, and very heavy rains prevail along the Gulf coast eastward from Galveston. In the West the pressure is falling rapidly as a storm centre, the approach of which we have pre- dicted advances eastward. Intense cold prevailed yesterday in Manitoba, where the thermometer ranged two and throo degrees below zero. Snow fell at sev- eral places in the Northwest, along the lakes, and even as far to the South as Indianapolis; but as the area of precipita. tion did not extend much lower than the Canadian boundary the fall was light at the points of observation. To-day the weather in New York will be warm and partly cloudy or clear, possibly with morning and evening fog. Ne Exxction News 1n Pants,—No matter how much an American has given himself up to the sports of the gay capital or to the busi- ness abroad which gives him a convenient excuse for ‘‘seeing life,” he never forgets ta orate on the Fourth of July, if he can fish outa fellow citizen. Under o similar pa- trioticimpulse he seeks early and late, after the first Tuesday in November of the leap year, for “returns.” ‘This granted, the in terest displayed by the Americans in Paris, who crowded the Henaty bureau on the night following the election, as described in our Paris letter, will be appreciated, PERSONAL INTELLIGA&| NCE. Colorado cures asthma. Tweed is being ’counted ‘out. Hewitt and Morrison jead tor Sponkor, Sayler 18 a good deck hand tof the suip of Stato, Liverpool has just sent a cargo of salt to Now England. Emperor William, of Germany, continues to be ty dechuing health. Protessor Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, is at the Everett House. Senator Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jerscy, is at the New Yorls Hotel. At Clayton, N. Y., they havo sparring bees, at which they give bee’s whacks, Mr. G, Willamov, of the Rassian Legation at Wash- Ington, is at the Everett House. A scientist says that it isa south wind that makes a man snore, Thought it was snore-east. A Buffalo man voted tor Susan B, Anthony for Sena- tor, and now they are trying to count her in, Sefior Don Demetrio V. Guzinan, of4he United States and Mexican Claims Commission, 1s at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, Fanny Kemblo thinks that Amcrican and En; girls are too much trained to music that they cannot understand, Put your tork into the sweet, round cye of tho oys ter as you lift it, and gay to the box-boy, “Did you say they wero I'rovidonce Rivers ?” ¢ Some French toilets are Hoed with cork for warmth; and the editor of the Chicago Winter-Ocean, baving contracted a cold in his head, has ordered cork soles for his hat. The sun was going down over the Jersey meadows in blood muroon, deeply darkened with dun blae, and a Newark girl said, “What kind of feathers are you going to put on your fall bat,” Mr, Jackson S. Schultz, in his recent wark, says that 1,800 pounds of bemluck bark will tan 130 pounds of Jeather; bat forgets to tell us how many pounds of Jeathor will tan a boy, Athencum:—*It is only too common to divide the inhabitants of European Turkey broadly iato Turka nd Curistiaus, We seem, however, to recognize three distinet classes of Turks—the agricultural Turk, who possesses all sorts of primitive virtues in perfection; | the official Turk, who plunders, and tho bashi-bazouk, who murders.” Al Cognac strangers are struck by the carbonized state of the roots and walls of all tho more anciont houses, the grimy appe: ce of Which they at once axcribe to the smoke from surrounding distilleries, Tuero are, however, no distilleries at Cognac, Thee blackened wails are simply due to the chemical action of the vapors arising rom the cau-de-vie stored in the vast entrepots of the brandy capital. | The Cologne Gazette suys that the present position of the woul manufacturing industry in America. is Most unfavorable. The protectionist system has cer- tainly led toa great inctease in the number of fac torice, bat 1 hes diminisued the average amount of production, The rise in the prices of all necessarios of hte and of manatactaring industry has rendered the cost of production much greater than formerly, More. over, the quantity of most woollen goods, especially of those of an tnlerior kind, is greater than the coun try can cousume, aod any exportation of them, at the prices now current, is not to bo thought of. Evening Telegram Vill of fare tor prisoners :— Qeece rere nereseneeere reese re vers ee reed eeee se bene bene FY sour. Tom>’ato Soup, Striped Bass—' ‘ked up’ Codfish ENIRERS, Bacon that has beeu saved—Any eatry where there's an overcoat on tue rack, MEAT. Broken “pits? cll kinds, sine pitt, Sky-"‘Iighes.!” 3 “Collery squashes, a (a iudictment—“Plants,” ge—Sweet Sing- uprom ee, DESSEET. “Peach”. pie—""Wall”-nute, DRINK, ‘Jimmy’'aca Ram—ob; (Crackitt) of Ala, Ke ciGA “Skeleton Key"? 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