The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1876, Page 7

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NEW YORK, WEDNE "NOTICE TO NEWSDBALERS AND THR PUBLIC, SDAY, NOVEMBER 1876, Owing to the action of a portion of the carriers, pewsmen and news companies, who are determined that the public shali not bave the Hrratp at three cents per copy if they can provent it, we have made arrangements to place the Hxraup in tho hands of all our readers at the reduced price, Newsboys and dealers can purchase any quantity they may desire at No. 1,265 Broadway and No. 2 Ann street, and also from our wagons on the principal avenues. All fealers who have been threatened by the news com- panies are requested to send in their orders direct to us, at No, 2 Ann street. From our ors this morning the probabil- ities are that the weather to-day will be cold and partly cloudy or clear. Wata Stkeer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket closed firm and with a general improve- ment on the prices of the preceding day. Gold declined from 109 to 108 5-8. Money on call loans was supplied at 5 and 4 per rent. Governmient securities were lower. Railway bonds were steady. Jerr Davis came and went like a summer cloud. The strangest part of it is that his old friends in this city saw nothing of him, Tur Statesmen about the City Hall are busy speculating in regard to Mayor Wick- ham’s nomination for Comptroller, and some very wild and absurd theories are advanced in which the name of John Kelly appears with unnecessary prominence. We presume, however, that the Aldermen will confirm Mr. Thayer's nomination, that Mr. Thayer will accept, and that that will be the end of it. Crime Fottows Upon Orne, and our col- ait uimas this morning bear ample testimony to the frequency of homicide in this neighbor- hood. We have fuller details of the Hun- ter’s Point tragedy, together with an ac- count of the commutation of the sentence of Schwamb in New Jersey to imprisonment for life, and the story of mistaken identity upon which Ryan and Oschwald expect to receive a new trial. And these are only part of the record of crime for a single day. Tux Exevarep Ramnoap in Greenwich street and Ninth avenue has grown from a small beginning to a most important under- taking. After this weck two hundred and four trains daily will be run and the inter- val between trains will be only eight minutes. This is a great public accommo- dation, as is evidenced by these increased facilities, and what is most remarkable is that there has never been a serious accident on the line. Tuanxxsarvixe Dixnens have become the essential feature of Thanksgiving Day, and our news columns this morning show that the public and private benevolent institu- tions of this city will afford them to their inmates to-morrow. But while wo are feasting, ss is our wont on this annual season of thankfulness, it would be well to begin to remember that there are many others who have less reason to be thankfal, ‘The winter will be an unusually severe one and Thanksgiving Day is an ex- eellent season to begin the work of practical Densvolence, NEW YORK At Columbia Yesterday. We congratulate the country that the exciting day at the capital of South Caro- lina yesterday passed without any breach of the pence. Whatever there may be of shame or reproach connected with the extraordinary proceedings at Co- Iumbia does not lie at the door of Wade Hampton and his supporters. We doubt if the citizens of New York or Massa- chusetts would haye gone through a similar trial with equal credit. If, in a contested election, when both parties claimed the Legislature of this State, federal troops had been stationed at Albany; if the soldiers had taken pos- session of the State House at midnight preceding the day when the Legislature is required to meet ; if they had barred the entrance of members claimed to have been elected by one political party; if they had thus given the organization of the Legisla- ture to a party which had to strain the law to give it the false appearance of a quorum, we doubt if the citizens of New York would ‘have been as patient, as forbearing, as self-controlled as the citizens of South Carolina showed themselves to be yesterday when federal bayonets hedged the passage to the legisla- tive hall against persons who had at least a colorable claim to take part in the proceed- ings. ‘The bearing of South Carolina citizens in the great trial to which they were subjected yesterday was admirable. There has never been a more critical and dangerous con- juncture in the history of Ameri- can politics, The whole country had its attention fixed on the proceedings at Columbia, and there was a great strain ofanxiety and apprehension lest scenes of violence and bloodshed should set the whole country on fire and inaugurate anew civil war. Public passions are in so inflammable a state that a mere spark might have kindled a conflagration of which the ; consequences would have been appalling. Happily no spark fell into the dry tinder, and we felicitate the country that the point of danger is passed. The credit of preserving the peace at Columbia yesterday is due to General Wade Hampton, the democratic candidate for Governor. He had only to lift a finger, he had only to signify the slightest assent, and the State House would have been rescued from the federal soldiers and his supporters could have controlled the organization of the Legisla- ture. The federal troops were only three hundred, and there were at least eight thousand democrats present. in Columbia accustqamed to the use of arms, with arms probably upon their persons, who could have crumpled and annihilated the small federal force had they given way to their in- dignation and their sense of wrong. It is | fortunate that they have a leader so strong, so sagacious, so self-poised and so thor- j oughly trusted as Wade Hampton. He per- fectly understands the situation, and, if we may judge by his conduct yesterday, he will make no mistakes. There was danger at one critical moment that the excited citizens might press their way into the State House in spite of the federal soldiers, but General Hampton came forward and made a speech to the in- censed multitude which calmed their pas- sions and caused them peaceably to disperse. His supporters have too much confidence in him to do anything against his wishes, and he understands the situation too well to per- mit any resort to violence. He is too clear sighted and cautious to give the republicans such an advantage, and we are encouraged to hope that this difficulty will be settled by peaceful methods. It is clear enough that the use made of the federal troops yesterday was without any constitutional warrant. At the very utmost there is nothing which they could legally do beyond the preser- vation of the local peace. But they undertook to decide what members are en- titled to seats in a State Legislature. They assumed to overrule the judgment of the Supreme Coart of the State and to decide that claimants to seats should not appear to present their claims. There is no federal Jaw which authorizes this kind of interfer- ence. The constitution and laws of South Carolina make the Legislature itself the sole judge of the election of its own members and their titles to seats. But the federal troops took the question out of their hands and decided in advance that demo- cratic members should not only be excluded from seats, but that they should not even be allowed to enter the legislative hall to present the evidence of their title. There could not be a more wanton, monstrous and indefensible violation of law than this assumption by the federal army of a right to decide who had and who had not been elected to a State Legislature. This is not merely the opinion of the Herarp--it is the opinion of the ablest republican lawyers. If we had space for quotations we could show that it was the opinion of Mr. Evarts, Judge Selden, and the most re- spectel members of the Bar of this State when a similar outrage on law and decency was perpetrated in Louisiana in January, 1875. The whole speech of Mr. Evarts at the Cooper Institute in that memorable month was an argu- ment to prove that no such power exists and a vigorous denunciation of the attempt to exercise it. Even President | Grant himself was forced to admit that the federal government has no such author- ity, A few days after the gieat in- dignation meeting in New York he sent to Congress a special Message on Louisiana affairs, in which he admitted that the troops in New Orleans had exceeded their authority. He professed that the in- terference with the Louisiana Legislature was without his direction or orders and without his previous knowledge. He told Congress that his first information of that transaction came to him through the newspapers, after the thing had been done. He proceeded to make a formal and emphatic disclaimer of any federal right to interfere with the Legislature of a State. We may be per- mitted by way of reminder to quote his language:--‘‘My first intimation,” said President Grant on that occasion, ‘was from the papers of the morning of the 5th of January. I did not know that any such thing was anticipated, as no orders or sug- gestions were given to any military officer in that State prior to the occurrence.” Now mark the language in which Presi- dent Grant proceeded to deny and disclaim all right of interference. He stated the true doctrine on this subject with a precision and force which would have left Mr. Evarts himself no ground of objection. ‘I am well aware,” said President Grant in his special Message of January 13, 1875, ‘that any military in- terference by the officers or troops of the United States with the organization of a State Legislature or any of its proceedings, or with any civil department of the govern- ment, is repugnant to our idens of govern- ment. I can conceive of no case, not involv- ing rebellion or insurrection, where.such interference by authority of the general government ought to be permitted or can be justified.” President Grant, on that occasion, shielded himself from censure by professing that the interference with the Louisiana Legislature was without his direction, sanction or knowledge, and to clear himself more fully he made the sound statement of constitutional doc- trine which we have just quoted from his Louisiana Message. But can he pretend ignorance now? Can he expect anybody to believe that what was done at Colum- bia yesterday was done without his sanction? Unless he can plead ignorance and disclaim responsibility now, as he did in the Louisiana case, he stands condemned out of hisown mouth. But who will accept such a plea with respect to the transactions at Columbia yesterday ? Judged by his own declarations the mili- tary interference yesterday was utterly with- out warrant or justification. For him to re- peat his former plea of ignorance in this case would be ridiculous, If he ordered this plain violation of law, or if, with so many reasons for supposing it would take place, he did not prevent it, he must shoulder the whole responsibility. Judged by his own declarations to Congress it is a monstrous violation of Jaw and of the spirit of our institutions. With that message on record we do not see how he can escape on a plea of ignorance. If the law is such as he described it he has clearly made himself liable to impeach- ment by this new interference with a State Legislature. Unfortunately for hin the impeaching power is now in the hands of his enemies, and there is no reason why they should not exercise it. We pre sume the first business of the House of Representatives, when it assembles next week, will be to vote ehis impeach- ment and appoint a committee to draw up the articles. It will easily be made to appear that President Grant has not only violated the constitution but sinned against knowledge. The passage we have quoted from his Message leaves him without excuse. Mackenzie’s Fight, The Powder River column has succeeded in finding the enemy, and seems to have found pretty tough customers. After a march uninterrupted for twenty-four hours the column of cavaley, ono thousand strong, under the command of General Mackenzie, came upon the village of the Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife and at once attacked. Owing to the difficulties of the ground the Indians were able to offer a determined resistance, and by last accounts they were not inclined to abandon the battle field. The mistakes of the last eampaign have reacted on the savages, and they no longer fear our soldiers even when these happen to be in superior numbers. However, it is satisfactory to know that the savages have now in front of them a soldier whoeis esteemed not unworthy to rank be- side the lamented Custer as an Indian fighter, and the bad weather will seriously hampet the movements of the savages, en- cumbered as they are by their families and camp equipage. General Crook has now a good opportunity of showing how much he deserves his reputation as a sdldier by at once going to the help of his subordi- nate and trying to prevent the escape of the savages. If our cavalry are good for any- thing a thousand of them ought to be able to hold the Indians until Crook comes up with the infantry, which onght to have been sent on behind the cavalry, unless our gen- erals learned nothing from the experience of the summer campaign. General Mackenzie will probably try to prevent the escape of Dull Knife and his band, and though In- dians are very slippery he certainly onght not to allow them to escape in view of the great numerical superiority of his force, which is wholiy composed of cavalry. ‘fhe troops acted magnificently, and our gallant correspondent with journalistic chivalry rode among the foremost into the midst of the fight. We hope soon to hear | that a complete victory has been won, as | some compensation for the loss of valuable lives. Among the killed on our side was Lieutenant McKinney, whose early death will be regretted by his comrades, by whom Ir Szems Hanper to establish the identity of the man charged with forgery under the name of Ralston than to prove the forgeries themseives. One intimation thrown out in this case'is worthy of careful consideration—- namely, that the aceused is only a sneak thief named Sheridan, who was arrested for the purpose of secnring the reward. The criminal classes have no friends, and when there isa resemblance it might be easy to hold and even convict one in place of the other. The case will be given to the jury, and some interest will be felt in the verdict owing to the peculiarity of the defence, Cuannes Reape'’s Descnivtion of the flood which swept everything before it, as in the case of the Mill River disaster, would scarcely suffice in its intensity for the thrilling and terrific accident reported in our columns this morning of a runaway coal train dash- ing down an inclined plane in the moun- tains of the Pennsylvania coal regions, The is easier to describe the velocity and de- structiveness of a cannon ball than such a spectacle. No words could picture it, and it must be left to the imagination. ‘ scene is one which may be imagined, but it | HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMEKR 29, 1876:-TRIPLE SHEET. The Oregon Presidential Electors. We have received the following communi- cation from one of the most eminent jurists of the United States. As we are always will- ing that our readers may see the strongest arguments that can b® made against any po- sition taken by the Hxnatp on important public quesiions we give a prominent place to the letter of Mr. Lawrence :— To tux Epiror or tnx Hxratp:— Do you do justice to the Gorernor of Oregon and to the demoeratic party in your article in this morning’s Papor in regard to the electoral vote in that State? would first call your attention to the fact that the President, 30 lar from being chosen by a popular vote, the operation of the electoral system has been such that in several cases the successful candidate lins been ina minority, In Mr, Lincoin’s case, while he had up- ward of 200 electoral votes, and ther were only 72 tor all other candidates, he had in the popular vote a million less than the aggregate vote of his opponents, and now Mr. Tilden is hait a muilhon confessedly beyond Mr. Hayes. The constitution is not less explicit that all votes given for electors who hold offices of profit or trust under the United States shall be void than that Oregon, with a population scarcely entitling her to one Representative in Congress, shall have the right of casting three elec- toral votes ior President; andif this highly favored constituency are not competent to select qualified electors assuredly no ome can complain that flagrant inequality should be diminished as a result of theirown ignorance, or, it you please, vy accident. It 1s one of the resaits of the ciectoral machinery, which does not profess to make the election on exclusively popu- lar grounds, It reems to me inconceivable how, in any event, ex- ception can be taken to Governor Grover’s course, The law of Oregon requires that the canvass for elec tora shall be made in the sume way as is provided for tbat of members of Congress and State officers, the votes being counted by the Secretary of Stace in pres- euce of the Governor. The ineligibility of the Post- master must have been supposed to have been known to all electors, which would meet any points raised in the decision of some of the State courts, but whether known or not ft is an immemorial rule of that common Jaw which we have inherited from our English ances- tors that votes cast for incompetent persons are void. The case of John Wilkes, which occurred in 1769, Is in point. After his expulsion trom the House of Commons he was repeateuly unanimously re-elected, the House retusing to receive him, At Jast Mr. Luttrel was induced to run against bim and the House admitted him, though he had only 296 votes against 1,143 for Wilkes, There was no question that votes given for a disqualified ean- dicate were void, but it was contended that expulsion did not exciude re-election to Parliament. may add that considering what is going on in Louisiapa and” South Caroling it seems most extraordinary that ex- ception should be taken to the democrats tf they avail themselves of all constitutional means to meot the frauds. As to the Governor, he performed a simple duty, as I understand it, and as I believe it 18 under- stood by most constitutional Inwyers, WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE, Great as is our respect for the legal attain- ments of our distinguished correspondent we must be pardoned for saying that in this instance he has given expression to a hasty opinion formed without due investi- gation. It by no means follows, as Mr. Lawrence seems to think, that when an ineligible candidate has received a majority of votes his competitor is elected. ‘The Court of Appeals of the State of New York has had _ occasion, to adjudge a case of this kind, and its judgment does not sustain the view of Mr. Lawrence. Our Court of Appeals decided that the ineligible candidate who received a majority of votes was not elected, but that it did not thence follow that the candidate receiving the next highest num- ber had a title to the office. The decision was that there was no election at all, and that the office still remained to be filled, The Court of Appeals made a distinction between blank votes and votes for an ineligible can- didate, Blank votesimply that those who cast them are willing to waive their right of choice. They are of no more account than if the voters had stayed at home. But votes for an ineligible candidate are pre- sumably cast in ignorance of the fact of in- eligibility, and instead of implying indiffer- ence indicate a choice, They show that those who cast them prefer a different candidate from the one who stands next on the list. The Court decided that the intention of the voters is so far to be respected as to prevent the election of a candidate whém the voters clearly did not want. The office, therefore, remains to be filled either by a new election or by the appointing power authorized to fill vacancies. Applying the principle thus established by the New York Court of Appeals to the Oregon case it follows that only two Presi- dential electors were chosen in Oregon, and that there is a vacancy to be filled according to law. By a statute of that State (if we are not mis- taken as to the Oregon law) the other elec- tors are entitled to fill this vacancy when they assemble as an Electoral College, and they will, of course, fill it with a republican. This accords not merely with strict law, but also with fairness and equity, for there can be no doubt that the citizens of Oregon in- tended to give their three electoral votes to Hayes and Wheeler. The Weather. True to the Heraxy’s prediction of several days ago the areas of low barometer that traversed the northern sections of the coun- try during the latter part of last and the be- ginning of this week have merged in one off the Nova Scotia coast, and high winds prevail along the valley of the St. Lawrence below Montreal. But when the depression so formed, and which yesterday morning exhibited a pressure on the coast of only 29.19 inches, reaches the open ocean, the storm will probably become very violent and dangerous, An area of high barome- ter is now moving southeastward from Manitoba, which tends to separate the de- pression in Dakota and Nebraska from that on the eastern coast. The interposition of this volume of dense cold atmosphere be- tween the two low areas will cause a heavy precipitation of snow on the advanced mar- gin of the western one. This has already commenced at Bismarck, Fort Sully, Yank- ton and Omaha, but as yet to a limited ex- tent. ‘The area of snow and rain that accom- panies the eastern storm centre extends westward as faras Lake Michigan, causing a snow fall at Grand Haven, Oswego, Mon- treal, Quebec, Chatham, and at points on the northeastern coast. Rain has falien ail over the lake region and along the St. Lawrence Valley. <A barometric fall is noticeable in the Gulf, with rain at New Orleans, The wind directions also indicate a small local disturbance near the Texas coast. The temperature yesterday shows considernble variations, ac- cording to locality. Thus, at Breckenridge, Minn., in the morning it was 20, and at Pembina 10 degrees below zero, At Chey- enne 1, St. Paul 3, Duluth 8, Chicago 14, Indianapolis 19 and St. Louis 23 degrees above zero, At New York it was 33, Wil- mington 50, Jacksonville, Fln., 55, New Orleans 58, and at Nashville, Tenn., 40 de- grees above zero. It is probable that in the New York canal region the temperature to- day will fall to or even below freezing point, The weather at this city to-day will be cold and nartly alondy ar clanr. Stanley, the Bambirehs and the Fellows of the Roy: Geographical Society. One of the Fellows of the Royal Geo- graphical Society has undoubtedly suc- ceeded in winning some notoriety in England by his attack upon Henry M. Stan- ley, now in Central Africa. Although defeated as much by the good sense of the members as by a technical objection raised to the introduction of his condemnatory resolutions, Mr. Hyndman, F. R. G. 8., is one of those individuals ‘not to be put down,” and renews the assault on the absent explorer in the columns of a Lon- don journal. Whether this ultra philan- thropist’s views represent the opinion of a large number of his fellow countrymen or not we cannot say, but we sincerely hope for the credit of English consistency that they do not. Viewed from Mr. Hyndman’s standpoint, and at a safe distance from Bambireh, a strong case can undoubtedly be made out against Mr. Stanley. But when we look at the question with the solitary explorer’s eyes, and from the uncertain refuge of a frail canoe on the stormy Vic- toria N'yanza, then Mr. Hyndman’s virtuous indignation becomes supremely ridiculous. In the prosecution of his arduous under- taking, a work surrounded with peril, ina region far from the friendly white man’s aid and peopled by savages who do not hesitate to destroy villages and desolate large districts in order to secure a few of their own race for the Arab slave traders, Mr. Stanley has been forced by the supreme law of self-preservation to kill several na- tives as a punishment for their attacks and to deter the survivors from repeating them. There is no difference in the motive that induced the British commanders in India to blow their unfortunate Sepoy prisoners from the cannon's mouth and that which actuated Stanley in firing his elephant rifle into a canoe full of bloodthirsty savages. If Mr. Hyndman believes that the first act can be justified on the grounds of stern neces- sity, surely he must more readily grant that the second was infinitely less tainted with sternness while more justifiable on the grounds of necessity. If a small but well equipped Indian army, acting under the or- ders of a civilized government, found it ad- visable to strike terror into the hearts of a large hostile population by such a barbarous expedient as blowing prisoners from the eannon’s mouth, how much less blamable is the dernier resort of an individual whose position is rendered desperate by its isolation? Does Mr. Hyndman imagine that Stanley has returned to the Afri- can jungles in order to afford the Royal Geographical or any other society an opportunity to spout eulogistic obituary speeches about him as a martyr to science? No, he has gone to solve the mystery of the Nile and the Congo, and hus wisely resolved that if the Bambirehs, the amiable cannibals, for whom the ‘“arm-chair geographer” Mr. Hyndman is so solicitous, undertake to kill him and plunder his train they will not suc- ceed if he can help it. If he acted other- wise he would be unfit for his mission in the field, and worthy only of a seat beside Mr. Hyndman, listening to his goody, goody stories about the gentle Bambirehs, Constitutional Turkey. Few things could be more incongruous than the proposition to suddenly convert tho Ottoman Empire by decree into a mod- ern monarchy of the European type, with parlinmentary limitations; yet the an- nouncement made by cable that the draft of the law, promised by the circular of October 12, has been already sent out, seems to imply that the Turks are in earnest on this subject and that the half-drowned sovereignty grasps desperately at the parliamentary straw. In theory the Sultan is an absolute mona but this is in theory only ; yet the limita- tions to which his will is subject aro not of the kind that are made effective through public opinion or that can have any possible relation to the functions of a representative chamber ; and therefore there is little chance that this attempt to graft English institutions on Turkish history will be successful. The notion of making Tur- key o constitutional monarchy originated with the progressive party of the Sultan’s Mussulman subjects, and pre-eminently with Fazil Pacha. It was the theory of this party that the troubles of the country were not due to Mohammedanism, and, therefore, that there was no insurmountable obstacle in the way of a remedy. They at- tributed all evils to maladministration, and held that the reconstruction of the administrative system on the basis of a constitution which should recog- nize the equal rights of every portion of the people would put the nation in harmony with other nations of Europe. They de- manded aconstitution which should establish a perfect equality of rights and duties be- tween Mussulmans and Christians, This the Sultan has now promised to give; for, being very sick, he is very contrite. In the anticipation that a Turkish movement for reform will take the wind out of the sails of the great Power now resolved to enforce reforms in Turkey the Ottoman Ministry is mistaken. Aun Austrian Crisis. Upon the overthrow of Austria by Prussia in the Sadowa campaign the ancient impe- rial government was thrust out of Ger- many, and, by the loss of its relations with the German people, underwent a great change in its internal equilibrium. In that crisis the Austrian government was very much like Washington Irving’s great man, who was so tremendously great that when he went to the West the Eust.tipped up. Its principal anxiety was to steady the ground it stood upon. Thitherto Hungary had been a merely dependent part of the Empire, un- able to make its rights respected in the impe- rial councils, and equally unable to conquer |. those rights by revolt. Bunt by the change referred to the rest of the monarchy as- sumed very much tho appearance of a de- | pendency of Hungary, and the Hungarians, as the most important single element of a composite monarchy, assumed a dominant position, the balance between the parts of the Em- pire, and compacts have been constantly made, revised and repealed for one or an- other reason. They are still engaged in this Sisynbian Jabor, and their latest ex- Since then the main labor ot | Austro-Hungarian politics has been to keep citement is due to the endeavors of the Austrian National Bank to defeat the scheme for a reorganization of the financial administration in the interest of the Hum garians. Good Sense im South Carolina. There is at least one fact in the news from South Carolina that will be contemplated with satisfaction by the’ whole country. This is the attitude of the people at Colum: bia. They exhibit forbearance in circum. stances that inevitably excite deep passions and a respect for the majesty of the law worthy the highest praise, and which indi- cates also the disciplined spirit that per- ceives how easily in this oritical hour a trivial explosion of wrath might imperil the just assertion of the most important princi- ples. Before any one loosely declares that the people of South Carolina submit because in the presence of the troops they cannot help themselves it will be well for him to reflect upon the particularsofthesituation. There are three hundred soldiers of the United States Army in Columbia. This is not a great force, and, everi if we concede that the troops are supremely excellent, it is plain that num- bers so small could be readily overwhelmed; for there are in the same city five thousand men, members of the now notorious rifle clubs. It has been reported by Governor Chamberiain and his friends that these rifle clubs are regularly trained military organ. izations, made up in great part of the veteran soldiers of the Confederate army. If this be true it is evident that a force of that na- ture in such numbers, or even in far lesa numbers, could be supreme in Columbia at any moment. It is true that if they assailed the force their triumph would be but tempo- rary ; but men in such a position and under the iafluence of great excitement seldom com- monly reason well, and we are glad to note that the people of South Carolina are an ex- ception to the rule. They protest against the use of the United States troops simply as itisan appeal to force in the settlement of disptted issues ; but they recognize that that force represents the law, and they bow to the law. Tuzrz Is a Mystery about the Mocte- zuma, but it is not unlikely that the theory that she was to carry arms to the Cuban in- surgents and then to be sunk is the true one. She could scarcely have been at sea since her capture by the Cubans without something being heard of her whereabouts, and it is probable that the first news we shall have of her will be from Cuba. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Black ink is again tashionablo. Senator Bayard has eleven children. Cardinal red shirts moko bulldozers mad. The German Emperor bas the best living cook. Mrs. Irene House is looking for Daniel Deronda. Several freshmen are trying to enter the electorm® college. Toombs will bet $10,000 that Tilden will be tnau- gurated., Eighty-five Chinamen from Nevada will colonize in Chicago. There have been great snow storms in the French provinces. Do not wash lamp chimneys with soap and watery use a dry cloth. The rovivalist of the Cincinnati Times sings, ‘Return, Board, Return.’? Lord Rosebary leaves to-day for England on the steamer Russia. Some of those canvassers in Louisiana seem to have taken time by the fetlock. St. Paal, Minn., has a population of 33,504, and tts suburo, Minneapolis, 40,612, In Prussia there 1s one savings bank depositor te every sixty-two of the population. ‘A party of English bloods are in Omaha getting Toady to destroy buffaloos for sport. Mr. R. von Pestel, Minister for the Netherlands at Washington, 1s at the Hoffman House, ; The St Louis Republican says that the days are only half as long vow as the gas bills. Senator William B. Allison, of lowa, is at the Bre. yoort House, on th y to Washingtou. ‘The tashionable ‘Polo Club jacket” for ladies is of woo|— sleeveless and trimmed with silk, Harriet Beechor Stowe and family have left Hart ford tor thetr winter home at Mandarin, Fla, James G, Fair, the big bonanza mao, has bought the old Oakland (Cal.) residence of J, Ross Browne. Mr. George Williamson, of Louisiana, United States Minister to Central America, is at the Astor House, An col will live over twenty years, and yet asa first rate wriggler Andy Curtin will beat him by a good cel, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter, wife of G. B. Lathrop, assistant editor of the Al/antic, has boautiful blonde hair. Ex-Treasurer Spinner says that there will be trouble before this alfair is over, and that he is not too old to shoulder a musket. Old Abe, the veteran war eagle of the Kighth Wis. “consin regiment, 18 to be exhibited in the Old South church tn a fow days. General Schenck’s daugiters are not considered bandsome, but are said to be the cleverost and witticst girls in Washington. Ex-Empress Eugénie and the Prince Louis receive popular demonstrations of respect at Florence when tbey appear in public, An interest in the North American Review has been purchased by Mr. A. T. Rico, an Oxtord graduate, wha has become its editor, Colonel K. P. Brooks has résigned from the Wash- ington National Republican and has been succeeded by Colonel Nat, Davidson. The Tribune of yesterday says:—‘A new journal has sppeared in New Orleans, callea the Empire, which tavors making General Grant Emperor.” . The gevlogist of the Burlington Hawk Eye thinks that toads get into rocks by digging down with toads’ tools, ‘nis is incorrect; they get into the rock because it is a sort of trap. Dr. H. 8, Redileld, whose mind is usually inclined to be (air, writes that Louisiana ballot boxes no doubt contained 7,000 or 8,000 majority for Hayes, but that it the negroes had voted as treeiy as they could in Ohio Hayes would have had 15,000 majority. Our versatile and imaginative coutemporary, the World, contrived yesterday morning to build an airy palace of inference on a very small foundation of fact, Srtipped of romance the story of Lord Conyogham’s Sévres ornament is simply this.—That His Lordship fis sold a picce of Sévres furniture to an anonymous pur- chaser, who, while he has removed and paid for his costly plaything, has refused to disclose his name, But not the wildest dreams of excited Jameses or of elderiy epinsters, feverish for strong gossip to mix with their weak tea, lave ever equalled the explaua- tion given by the World's “member of the British Pare amont’? (by which we suppose it means an M, P.), which attributes tis purchase to the Prince of Wales, Who this “‘membdr”’ may be we cannot guess; but, unless he be instanfly placed in s iunatic asylum on Md a peer, a grave stigma rests upon the House of 8, wotle npthing can oxcuse the Word for credit to his incoherent atterances, bill of {ere for policemen :— OCU ACCO TELE LEOE RODE NDEEIODEDO LODE OEE, sour. Peaco soup. ny PIs, Siar aoe caught trom the docks, ENTREES, Pludk, with club ranee, ROAST, ‘ Lamb, With horse radish for the mounted squad. VEORTABLES, Beala—broken heaas of cabvage—green M, ’.’s. b Gann, * Wild goose, BREAD, ’