The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1876, Page 4

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Nothing can be lost to the company by these reductions, because the cheaper the rates the greater will be the business. With such advances toward cheapness it will not be long until the tele- graph supersedes the use of the slower pro- cess of communication through the mails, Mementors or tie “Rix” occasionally crop out in the most unexpected places. In the Supreme Court a suit has just been brought to compel the executors of the late James M. Sweeny to refund a sum of money paid to Sweeny for his “influence” in ob- taining an award for property appropriated for a new avenue. If the whole story of the corruptions of the “Ring” is ever told it will be found that the exposures which destroyed ‘Tweed, Sweeny and Connolly searcely went beneath the surface of the sore. Tur Wearnex.--The depression which passed through Canada yesterday is now off the coast of Nova Scotia, accompanied by a small rain aren which does not extend fur- ther north than Halifax. In New York city the westerly wind following this disturb- ance continued to prevail until late in the evening, when it changed to southwesterly and southerly. A slight depression is now central in the Lower Ohio Valley, and is moving rapidly eastward. The rain area at- tendant upon it extends from Oswego to | Lake Michigan, but the precipitation is | small, Comparatively warm westerly winds | follow this disturbance. It is possible, TRRNOON AND. EVENING, | ; men of | | to further the personal ambition of po- | | be dangerous toa nation when a consider- | cannot afford to blunder ; for if they do the | It used to be said during the war that the however, that as it advances eastward a | more » lig Buffalo, Rochester, Osw 3 hington, Chatham and East- Last evening there were light rains Leuis and Vicksburg, and a heavier t New Orleans. The winds on the coast continue high, owing to the pressure west of the Missouri River and in the Indian Territory and the movement of a storm across the southern portion of the | Gulf of Mexico. The weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or cloudy and warm st midday, but cool in the early morn- Jing, pad possibly with light rain or snow, decided barometric fall may ocenr. | fell yesterday at Escanaba, Mich., and | ht rains fell at Leaven- , | fifty thousand, and Wisccnsin fifteen thou- | thousand. | shows a republican loss in four years of nearly | i | thing that the country possesses so large a | number Pa SASS eee Lessons from Election Figures. A correspondent who sends us some inter- esting election figures, which we print else- where, remarks upon them:—-“‘When we examine the details of this republican loss we find the State of Illinois losing thirty- six thousand of her republican majority of four years ago; Indiana losing thirty-two thousand; Iowa twenty thousand; Michigan sand. In the East we find the republican majority of four years since reduced in Con- necticut seven thousand; in Maine eightcen thousand; in Massachusetts thirty-four thousand, and in Vermont ten thousand. In the Middle States we find the enormous losses of the republicans since 1872 to be in New Jersey twenty-five thousand; in New New York eighty-four thousand, ‘and in Pennsylvania one hundred and twenty-four On the Pacific side California eight thousand, and Oregon of three thou- sand.” There are several instructive lessons to be drawn from these figures. The first and most important seems to us to be that they establish the existence in this country of a very large number of independent voters, neither the crea- tures nor the slaves of party, who ex- ercise their individual judgment in voting, | and have eat heart mainly, and before | verything else, the welfare of the country. hese men may be democrats or republicans | ual affiliation, but it is evident that y leave that party which they believe to be injurious or no longer useful to the country and go to that which, at any election, they may believe prom- ises good government and the reform of abuses. It is certainly a good intelligence, of such voters, of independent judgment, who look only to the country's welfare and exercise their political power not litical favorites or the fortunes of a party, but to secure the best government and to check abuses. Party government ceases to able proportion of its citizens are thus inde- pendent and intelligent critics of political | action. The independent voters appear at this last election to have very largely supported the democratic ticket. There were many reasons to lead them to this course, Cer- tain reforms were urgently desired by thoughtful people, but the republican leaders made the blunder during the can- | vass of saying little or nothing for these reforms. They seemed to hold in contempt the letter and the record of their candi- date, and only here and there was Governor Hayes even mentioned. It is now gener- ally acknowledged that this was a blunder of the first magnitude; and we do not doubt that if it had not been for the manly and statesmanlike letter of Governor Hayes, which made a fixed impres- sion on many minds, the republicans would have lost a number of Northern States be- sides those which did go over to the demo- crats. Their small majority in such States as Ohio and Pennsylvania shows how nearly disgust for and lack of confidence in the men who managed the republican canvass overcame the respect inspired by the charac- ter and the letter of Governor Hayes. So far the democrats may take comfort from the action of the mass of inde- pendent voters. But no truer word was said this year then Governor Seymour's remark that ‘‘the country has lost confidence in the republicans without gaining confidence in the democrats.” The half million of North- ern independent voters who this year swung over tothe democratic party did so provis- ionally. They said to themselves, ‘We will give the democratic leaders a trial; we will give the republican leaders a check. If the democrats be- have themselves we will continue to support them ; if they do not, then we havea new election two years hence.” Nothing, in fact, is clearer, or should be more con- stantly borne in mind by the democratic leaders than that, though they have gained this important accession of the independent vote, it will swing back to the republicans the moment the democrats misconduct them- selves. The past record of the democratic party does not inspire confidence. Its blund- ers and its unpatriotic conduct during the war are remembered against it. Its tol- erance of abuses and corruption in our larger cities is not forgotten. Its professions of reform are not more than half believed. Its hunger for office and its pro- clivity to the low arts of demagogues offend the public taste. Its lack of discipline and of settled and statesmanlike purpose in the last House brought it into contempt and distrust with a considerable part of the public. Its nomination of a greenback candidate for the Vice Presidency with a hard money head to the ticket once more lowered it in the public esteem and confidence. Under these circumstances it must be plain to the democratic lenders that they half million of independent voters will sweep back into the republican lines at once. That force, so formidable, so necessary to the democratic future, so indispensable to them, they can lose far easier than they gained it. If, for instance, they should show themselves unreasonable and disposed to stir up disorder in the matter of this disputed elec- tion, they would at once lose the confidence and support of this half million of voters, and, in fact, incur their deep resentment, as having misled them into a false relation toward the vital interests of the country, use of a general is to win battles, and that, no matter what merit he has, if he cannot do that he must retire, With the same truth it may be said that the use of statesmen is to carry a nation peacefnlly and | sately through just such emergencies as that which we have now met. If the democrats have statesmanship enough for this, no mat- | ter what may be the immediate result, | their ascendancy is secure for the future; because the country will not forget nor easily forgive the mis- conduct of the republican leaders in the canvass, nor the support they are now | less than this, though they may count in patience to grasp power or lack of states- manship, the demoerats should alarm the country and threaten it with revolutionary movements, they would suddenly and surely find themselves deprived of the sup- port of the mass of independent voters who have given them their present standing be- fore the country. To the republicans we need hardly point out the lesson of these election figures. They speak for themselves. The republican leaders have by their miscon- duct forfeited the confidence of the great mass of independent voters in the Northern States. They have need to be careful. It is extremely unwise in them to give their coun- tenance to the suspicious actions of the men who control republican politics in the three diyputed States, The people are very patient, but they are not dull; they will not forget what is now happening in lican leaders are to-day supporting as their allies the corrupt politicians of those States, and supporting them in acts which offend the public sense of justice and propriety, and expose the count of the votes to just sus- picion of fraud. If that which is now going on in those States with the counte- nance of the republican leaders could have been foreseen by Northern voters there is not the least doubt that there would have | been an immense and overwhelming repub- lican vote cast for Mr. Tilden ; for the American people do not tolerate the pre- dominance of disreputable and vicious cle- | ments in national politics. They never have | and they will not in the future. If the repub- lican leaders hope for a future they must | take care now that the count in the disputed | States, in the handsof their own partisans, is so conducted as to satisfy the country of its absolute fairness and honesty. If they do their candidate, they will prepare for them- | selves a disgraceful and overwhelming de- | feat at the next election. Unveiling of the Webster Statue. The interesting ceremonies appointed to take place in Central Park at two o'clock to-day will naturally attract a large con- course of auditors and spectators. Thomas Ball’s colossal bronze statue of Daniel Webster, a noble gift to the city by Mr. Gordon W. Burnham, will be unveiled, formally presented by the donor and ac- cepted by the Mayor. The speeches of pre- sentation and acceptance will be brief, but | addresses of greater length will be made by | Mr. Evarts and Mr. Robert ©. Winthrop, of Boston, two of the most interesting speakers woe have in the present state of American | eloquence and the two most capable inter- preters to this generation of the celebrated lawyer, statesman and orator of the last. Mr. Evarts is especially qualified to speak of Webster as a foremost member of the pro- fession which he himself adorns. Mr. Winthrop has peculiar qualifications in another direction founded on long per- sonal acquaintance and political associa- tion with Mr. Webster; both have a sympa- thetic appreciation of Mr. Webster's elo- quence, patriotism and largeness of view. These two addresses will probably give us the mature and enlightened estimate of Mr. Webster's genius and services which has been formed, not merely by their authors, but by the most competent judges on both sides of the Atlantic; for these gentlemen have a large European acquaintance and must often have heard his character dis- cussed in circles of the highest intelligence abroad, as well as at home. As appropriate to this occasion we print an interesting descriptive letter from a cor- respondent sent to Marshfield to gather facts relating to the history of Mr. Webster's family since his death, the ownership and present condition of his homestead by the seaside, the family vault and its: silent tenants, the relics and mementoes which still exist as he left them inthe rooms which used to be brightened by his presence, and various other particulars which will be read with interest at this time. It will be noted that the Marshfield homestead is occupied by Mrs. Fletcher Webster, the daughter-in-law of the great statesman, and descends to her children, the laws of Massa- chusetts not permitting property to be en- tailed beyond the second generation. It may seem paradoxical to say that the country is more indebted to Mr. Webster than any other individual, living or dead, for the preservation of the Union, but we believe this to be an easily demonstrated fact. In the great conflict of opinion which preceded the conflict of arms Mr. Webster was the most important figure. The contest wes waged in the arena of debate before it passed to the field of battle, and in that arena Mr. Webster was the victorious cham- pion of the Union. A match for Mr, Calhoun in logic and argument, more than his match in eloquence, he impregnated the North with his constitutional doctrines, as Calhoun had impregnated the South with his. Web- ster did not invent his views of the federal those States, nor that the Northern repub- H ’ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NUVEMBER 25, 1876. -WITH" SUPPLEMENT. fires. Next to Washington there is no man to whom the country is under so great obli- gations, The Political Situation. The Louisiana Returning Board yesterday refused to admit the press to its sittings, and, our correspondent reports, refused even to receive the respectful written appli- cation for admission offered by the journal- ists assembled in New Orleans. We can see that the Board may not like to be watched by reporters; but surely it need not have insulted while it refused them. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, told our correspondent he thought the refusal indecent, and he and other Northern republican lookers-on are reported to be in a state of disgust with some of the other rulings of the Board. That asserts, for instance, that the returns of thirteen parishes are not yet received ; but some of these parishes are only halt a day’s journey from New Orleans; all of them, by a singular coincidence, are parishes which cast democratic majorities, and it is said to be susceptible of proof that the republican supervisors have been in New Orleans with the returns for a number of days. Application was made to the Board to compel these supervisors to hand in the returns, but Mr. Wells promptly decided that the Board has no power to compel supervisors to surrender them. It must be remembered that the decisions of this Board are final and without appeal. Some people fancy the re- turns are kept back to be doctored; but ac- cording to Mr. Wells this would be need- less—they need not be handed in at all. In the case of one parish whose returns were opened yesterday the supervisor of election was found to have flung out seven of the fourteen precincts on his own responsibility, charging intimidation. imagined himself, like Governor Stearns in Florida, a competent returning board. His action will come up for consideration on Monday. In Florida the Circuit Court is still hear- ing argument, and General Barlow's address on Thursday seems to have alarmed even his fellow counsel. his friends here also, who were disappointed to see him and Mr. Marble taking sides down there. In reply to Mr. Barlow's threat to coerce the Court with federal troops one of the democratic counsel made the point that by such action, violently interrupting the course of justice, the electoral vote sent to Washington would go tainted with fraud and wrong, which would make it liable to be flung out and the State deprived of its vote for President. We suspect this point will turn up again. f From South Carolina our reports are ex- tremely interesting. The Supreme Court yesterday asserted its dignity and ordered counsel for the members of the Returning Board to show cause why they should not beheld for contempt. United States Dis- trict Attorney Corbin answered that the Board was no longer in existence, but Jus-- tice Willard promptly replied that the mem- bars could not escape the jurisdiction of the Court unless they committed physical su- icide. The colored justice, Wright, in a few words strongly held with the other judges that the rule for contempt could not be evaded, and declared his determination to vindicate the dignity of the law and of the Court. The members of the Returning Board were ordered to make answer at four o'clock yesterday, and their counsel then appeared and asked further time, which was’ offered if he would engage that his clients would in the end obey the mandate of the Court. This promise he refused to give, and thereupon the Court directed the order of arrest for contempt to be made out. This will require time, as all previous pro- ceedings have to be recited ; and the Court adjourned until to-morrow—but not until Justice Willard had, in solemn and dignified language, shown the enormity of this delib- erate and, as he said, unprecedented defiance “by officers holding limited powers and sub- ject to the jurisdiction of the Court” of the supreme judicial tribunal of the State. It should be remembered that all three of the Supreme Judges are repub- licans; one is a colored man, for- merly a member of the Penhsylvania Bar. The Court*evidently means to assert its power and tocall upon the Governor to assist it if it is not obeyed. What is wanted by the country is a count ao fairand conspicuously honest that every republican can properly ask his democratic neighbor to accept it. Mr. Stanley and the Philanthropists. An attempt was made at the last meeting in London of the Royal Geographical So- ciety to induce that body to pass a resolu- tion of censure on Mr. Henry M. Stanley for his so-called ‘unjustifiable method of dealing with the natives of Africa.” But the society refused in a very practical way to make itself the tool of the persons who engineer this clamor. It may be remem- bond; they were to be found in the judicial opinions of Chief Justice Marshall, and even in the later writings of Madison ; but it was reserved for Webster to clothe them in such forms of expression as gave them universal currency in the non-slave- holding States. The power and splendor of his greater passages put them into all our school books among the finest specimens of oratory for forming the taste of students, There was no seminary of learning in which extracts from his speeches were not de- | claimed by youth of the best gifts, whose | opinions they fixed while moulding their minds to a just taste in eloquence. The consequence was that when the great storm came it struck a generation whose minds had become imbued with Mr. Webster's glowing sentiments respecting the Union, and all our | younger men were of one mind as to the | duty and nobleness of fighting for its de- | fence, as the young men of the South | were, by admiration of Mr. Calhoun, as to the duty of fighting in de- fence of State rights. Had Mr. Webster never lived, or had he not been gifted be- yond all other Americans with the kind of eloquence which makes sound ideas admired and popular, the North would not have been sufficiently united at the outbreak of the giving to their partisans in the South, in measures repugnant to the public sense of | North glowed like a furnace it was because decency and honor, But if, through im-| Mr. Webster's eloquence had kindled the | to be attempted on Tuesday next. war to cope with the situation. If the whole bered that the gricvance against Mr. Stanley is that on one occasion when he deemed himself in danger from the hos- tile purposes of the savages he defended himself, and as his arms were more effective than those of the Africans they suffered se- verely. It is the opinion of some people in Bondon that the number of negroes killed on that occasion by the explorer was unnec- essarily large. This may be true; but, as ‘This man evidently | It surprised many of | Importance of tne Biack Sea to Russia. If England limits her interference in the ' Turkish troubles to tha defence of Con- stantinople there is some probability that the Black Sea will become a Russian lake, such as Aral and the Caspian. The entry of a British squadron into the Euxine as an aggressive force would be a practical abrog.tion by England of the convention Signed at Paris on March 30, 1856. This agreement between England, Turkey, Rus- sia, France, Austria, Prussia and Sardinia provided against the occupation of the Black Sea by any armed vessels of the subscribing Powers, except such small ships as were necessary for the revenue service of Russia and Turkey. But as the Treaty of Paris has been practically Czar during the Franco-German war it is perhaps too much to expect that Russia will respect its stipulations in any difficulty with Turkey. In order that Rus- sia should be enabled to make any success- ful attack on European Turkey she must control the Black Sea with her iron-clad fleets. Tho heaviest battalions are now the weakest forces that can be employed in war unless they are armed with modern breech- loaders and fed from unfailing depots of supply. These latter cannot be securely es- tablished on Turkish territory without the most extraordinary military and naval suc- cesses and powerful fleets of war ships and transports. There are no railroads south of the Dannbe that can be used with effect to further the operations necessary for success ; therefore without a naval superiority in the Black Sea the advance of a Russian army southward would be subjected to iniumera- ble obstacles and delays that could not fail to tell against the invading forces. Another line of advance is open toa Russian army operating against Constantinople as the objective point of attack. This starts from the base of the Caucasus, with Tiflis as its chief depot, and follows the southern | shore of the Black Sea by Trebizond and Sinope westward toward the Bosphorus. But, although less objectionable than the Euro- pean line as regards the military obstacles to be overcome, it still possesses disadvan- tages which would necessitate the most extra- ordinary exertions and precautions to con- quer. - In the first place, while the army may not be menaced on its front, its left flank and rear would be continuously open to attack by the irregular troops raised in the more southerly districts, and who would rush to the Sultan's standard at the first call. The communications of the army would thus be constantly menaced by a foe that would not risk a regular battle under any circumstances. Every post passed by the Russians, such as Kars, should be occupied, strongly garrisoned and well provisioned, which would weaken the strength of the Ozar’s field forces consider- ably. The chief ports of the coast already named should be captured and fortified against attack by the British and Turk- ish fleets. The object being to secure for the army 4 certain supply from the sea, this could not be obtained unless the Russian fleet was strong enough to defend convoys and hold its own against a large number of the enemy's ships. Without entering into any details of the operations necessary to secure success for a Russian army of in- vasion by either of the lines referred to we have shown that, in order to be able to even attempt the invasion ofSouthern Turkey and an attack on Constantinople, the Black Sea must first become a Russian lake. So long as it remains open to the fleets of England and Turkey the Balkan Mountains mark the utmost limit of Russia's possible advance into Turkish territory from the line of the Pruth. we have hitherto taken occasion to observe, Mr. Stanley was on the spot and his London critics were not; /| and the white man on the spot is the only competent judge of the exigencies of such an occasion. It is not to be assumed that he was more bloody in his acts than the occasion required. It appears that the Coun- cil of the Geographical Soviety judged the ease in this light, and was determined not to be carried out of its way to cast odinm upon a traveller who cannot defend himself. Lord Napier of Magdala, Captain Cameron, and some others who have made excursions in Africa, were present and gave counte- nance to this act of justice to the holder of | one of the society's gold medals. ‘Tne Answer of Park Commissioners Mar- tin and O'Donobue to the charges of the Citizens’ Committee is substantially the plea of not guilty. The next step will be to bring proofs of the allegations, and this is The City Expenses for Next Year. The Aldermen have completed their re- vision of the city estimates for next year, and have increased the total amount one million and seventy-five thousand dollars over the sum fixed by the Board of Appor- tionment. The principal additions have been made in the Departments of Public Parks and Police, the Street Cleaning Bureau and the Board of Education. The Park Department received nearly six hun- dred thousand dollars in 1875, and the ap- propriation which was honestly expended was not found any too large. Last year a reduction was made to four hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, and this in- sufficient appropriation produced the diffi- culty under which the department has labored and endangered the proper care and protection of the Central Park, although, through economy on the part of the Commis- sioners, enough was saved from special appropriations to supply the deficiency in the maintenance fund. This year the Board of Apportionment, for some reason or other, again reduced the appropriation to the utterly inadequate sum of three hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars for 1877, which would leave the department crippled long before the close of the year. The Aldermen have very properly increased the estimate, and the Board of Apportionment will no doubt admit the necessity of the in- crease. ‘The Street Cleaning Bureau amount is yaised, because there will be unavoidable extra expenses entailed on the bureah next year which will require a larger expendi- ture. The estimate as fixed by the Alder- men is, however, onlya trifle higher than in 1874, and the work, which was then notori- ously neglected, is now well done. The ap- propriation for the Public Works Depart- ment is increased about twenty-three | thousand dollars, but the increase is made in the item of supplies, pay of janitors, &e., when it might have been more properly given to the repairs and renewal of pave- ments. The city expenses neither the Board of Apportionment nor the Aldermen touch the true source of extrava- gance. The departments employ too many people. A private business could be con- ducted quite as well with one-half the num- ber. Useless commissioners should be dis- pensed with; clerks and other employés | who are not needed should be made to earn | a living outside and not be pensioned on the city treasury ; the machinery of the gov- | ernment should be simplified so as to abol- | ish a number of departments and bureaus which are about as useful as fifth wheels | would be to conches. These are the leak- | ages that should be stopped. The people ‘ ignered by the | | of the do not begrudge money honestly spent in maintaining our beautiful parks, in improv- ing the horrible condition of the streets and in keeping the city clean and healthful. Ample appropriations should be made for these necessary objects, ani this could be better done ifa proper economy were to be enforced in the directions we have pointed out. The State Finances. Our Albany correspondence gives some interesting details from the forthcoming report of Comptroller Robinson. It appears that the State debt has been reduced during the year ending September 30 over five mili- ion dollars ; that instead of the usual de- ficiency there is a surplus in the General Revente Fund of seven hundred thousand dollars; that the one-third of a mill tax of last year for the extinguishment bounty debt, due next April, will, with the moneys already in hand for that purpose, really clear off that part of the debt, while a contingent debt of one hun- dred thousand dollars will also be paid off this year. This is an admirable financial exhibit, and we shall look with interest for Governor Robinson's inaugural message, in which he will doubtless make important and sensible suggestions concerning the State finances. ‘The prisons of the State have this year ex- pended seven hundred thousand dollars— more than ever before—and of course the deficiency is also larger than in other years, The passage of the constitutional amendment will doubtless stop that great leak, The public buildings have also cost a good deal— one and three-quarter millions during the year—but that was expected by everybody who knows how difficult it is even for pri- vate individuals to control the outlay ina building project. On the whole the State finances seem to be prosperous. We wish the city would make as fair a showing. Now Tuat Tween is safely back in Lnd- low Street Jail the question is, What are the lawyers going to doabout it? Nobody seems to know, and the truth probably is that no plan has been agreed upon as yet in regard to action in the matter. So far Tweed him- self has given no indications of his own feelings upon his return, It is fair to as- sume, however, that the end will be exactly the same that it would have been had ho not escaped at all. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Garfield is tall and gawky. Florence is registered in St. Louis, The average woman wears No. 6 kids, - Boston invalids are sailing for Florida, Hungarian students cheer for Turkey. Andy Garvey welcomes the old Sailor Boy. Invalids aro bathing at Santa Barbara, Cal. Jean Ingelow, who writes about butvercups, le fat and forty. * Englieh ladies are lining the hoods of their cloaks with fur, It 1s now settled that Queen Mary’s hair was golden, almost red. Tweed, while coming over, bad as big sick’s @ man usually has, », That chunk of mince pie ia now called Teanyson’s masterpiece. are too high, bat | Mr. Robert C. Winthrep, of Boston, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indtama, ts at the Fifth Avende Hotel. « Cazenove, nogro member ef the Louisiana Returning Board, ts an undertaker. Mr. Estill, of the Savannah (Ga.) News, having re- covered from his recent illness, is a candidate for the Legislature, Ex-Senator Matt Carpenter, who recently met with an accident by slipping on the ice in true academic style, 1s recovering. Colonel Ingersoll sald in one of his speeches that the country was full of fellows who wore invincible i: peace and invisible in war. Captain Luiz de Saldanha, of the Brazilian Navy, and Captain L. P. Semetschkin, of the Russian Navy, are at the Buckingham Hotel. Perhaps there is no country in the world whero the great masses of the people are so thoroughly confined to one language as in England. Sir Julius Vogel, Postmaster General of New Zea land, arrived in the city lust evening from San Fran cisco and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Cardinal Manning is avout to take up his residence in Rome, and negotiations are going on forthe ap- pointment of his successor in England. Men who sue for libel aro usually not those whe proudly believe that their characters susiaim their reputations and that their reputations are geod. Bayard Taylor believes even in stop-mother’s-in-law, but he probably never had ono to sing out to him io the blue murkiuess of the night, Stop hangin’ on that gate, or git.’? The reason why Tennyson refused to permit Long. fellow to use one of his poems in a volume of reprints was that the Laureate hus no groat love for piratical American publishers, Virginia Enterprise:—‘‘Out of the sixty-five votes cast by colored men in Virginia City only one was cast for the democratic ticket, Thatone was cast by Billy, Bird, who claims to be 4 colored Irishman.’ In Turkestan, Asia, the food of tne higher classes consists of stewed kidneys and mutton chops, liver fried in the fat of long-tailed sheep, peaches and plums excclient grapes of two kinds and delicious purple figs, Le Marquis de Piechae has arranged with the parents of Mile. Hubert that for a certain sum of money, which shall settle upon her, he and sho shall be wedded; he is only eighty-six; she ts nearly eigntevn. Louise, @ French Alsatian girl of much beauty, and living with her parents in Algiers, married tho negro who worked for them as a farm hand because he threatened to leave them to starve, Yetshe is happy and prosperous, Hon. Matt W. Ransom was unanimously .renom- inated fur United States Senator on the 22d inst, at Raleigh, N.C. The name of no other candidate was mentioned—a thing unprecedented in the history of North Carolina. ‘A marble tablet bas been placed on the front of No, 96 Rue Saint Honoré, at Paris, bearing the following inseription in French:— ‘This house has been built on the site of that in which Moliére was born on the 15th of September, 1622.’” A young Scotchman or Englishman, coming into possession of an estate worth a few hundreds a year, sells his scaaty acres, according to Mr, Froude, and invests his capttal where be can geta better return, or goes into trade or emigrates, Saturday Review:--'*Wben, in social life, a man per. forms an act ot politeness, not from a chivalrous sonse of obligation, bat in ordor to exhibit some pecuiiar grace or style, we feel that a dignified motive has been exchanged fora paltry one.’ Evening Telegram vill of iaro for a couple eloping on horseback :— Qrecccerecorsscrerocerererece cece rececsreccoeeesress sour. 3 ‘Turtle—dove Soup. visi “Fioller—but’’ not too loud, #N At the first minister ROAST. Saddle of Beet with Horseradish. STARLRS. retina Greens, SSENT. Lady Fingers—K\sses—*“Charlotte, sweet Charlotte, this > Fuse," Roamin’ Panch, vein, No Cantetopes. WINK, Mumm’s the word, young man, and may be parson. beware of ihe Pop. BONG. “The Old Folks at Home,” to the tune of “The Gal | Had Behind Me."? POLO LODE DO IOEOLIOC EO IE DE OCLE ELE EL TELE IODE LOCO CEE! Cnccees renee sete seee tt tO ege NE LEE LE ETE te Saas EE ee