The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1876, Page 9

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Newsboys and dealers can purchase any quantity they may desire at No, 1,265 Broadway and No. 2 Ann atreot, and also from our wagons on the principal avenues, All dealers who havo been threatened by the news com- panics are requested to send in their orders direct to ms, at No, 2 Ann street. From our - reports this morning the probabil- ities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by higher temperature, possibly with light rain, _ Ware Srnrer Yusrerpay.—Stocks were dull and firm. Gold opened at 108 1-2, de- clined to 108 1-4 and closed at 108 3-8, Money on call loans was supplied at 4 and 3 per cent. Government securities were lower and railway nortgages steady. Foornatt, a game that tries wind, limb and temper, and which fits our bracing fall weather admirably, was the cause of a gath- ering at Hoboken yesterday, where Columbia College and the Stevens Institute furnished the players. Colnmbia’s luck and pluck carried the day as described elsewhere, Write tHe Ramroap Compantes are squabbling in the courts Fourteenth street, near Union square, is bedevilled by the track layers and the track tearers in turn. ‘The order of Judge Lawrence in the matter will, it is to be hoped, allow the suits to go on without rendering city travel of all kinds more dangerous than it is ordinarily. Wut Ir Come to Tus witrk Us?—In another column is presented a statement of how Mexico lately went through the form of electing a President. In view of contem- porary events the patriotic American may well ask himself the above question as he reads of the Mexican Presidential cam- paign Tar Eventxe Posr had a manly leading article yesterday on the indefensible inter- ference of the federal troops with the South Carolina Legislature, an article which we ‘warmly commend and copy in another place. “We protest,” says the Post, ‘not only in the name of liberty and justice, but in be- | half of the republican party, whose good name and worthy record are brought in question by this resort to military force in a question purely political.” We cannot doubt that the Post expresses the sentiments of multitudes of faithful republicans, Mns. Guxason’s Oasz as developed by the inquiry before the Board of Charities and Correction does not bring to light other eruelties in the unfortunate lady’s treatment than such physical hardships os are appar- ently inevitable in these deplorable cases. One thing, however, is brought to light— “upon women at the option of the nurses. It is all very well for doctors to say weeks atterward that they have no doubt this resort was necessary, but we think that it _. ghouid in all cases be ordered by the doctors | pm the first instance put | Giving Thanks, Thanksgiving Day isa peculiarly American festival. The colonists brought over to this country with them a number of English, Dutch™und French holidays and festivals— Christmas, New Year's, Hallow Eve, Easter Day, May Day, various saints’ days—and all continue to have more or less observance in different parts of the country, These we have inherited from ‘‘the Old Country,” but Thanksgiving Day is our own. It is purely American. It dates trom the early settle- nient of New England. It had its origin in times of hardship and suffering and among a people who, under all circumstances, even the mo t unpropitious, were taught to find thank the Giver of all good. The grim old Puritan deacon who, in a time of fam- ine, invited his friend to dine on a dish of clams, flanked by empty plates, and began sustenance and re- freshment,” spoke and thought in the devout spirit which still the day, and though we, the more fortunate descendants of those earlier and poverty stricken days, sometimes misuse our abun- dance to the getting of an indigestion, the day is still one of thonks aswell as feasting— one on which Americans are accustomed to survey their lives and to speak out their gratitude to God. “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,” says the Psalmist. It is a pleasant and a useful custom by which on one day in | the year we join in agencral, a national act of gratitude, It will be well if for one day we can turn from the turmoil of politics, from the scheming and self-seeking of poli- ticians, from the cares of business and the anxieties of daily life, and, whether in church or at home, review our lives, the events of the past year, the joys and sor. rows, anxieties, satisfactions and disappoint- provided for our j ments, and, so reviewing, lift up onr hearts in gratitude to God. ‘There axe parts of our population to whom perhaps the giving of thanks to-day will seem as strained as was the Puritan deacon’s gratitude for a dinner of clams, and yet he might have had less. It is the centennial, and it is certainly a matter for special gratitude that the blessing of Divine Providence has been upon our land solong ; that liberty has been maintained among us; that the union of States still exists ; that in this century since the foundation of the nation we have in- creased not merely in numbers and wealth, but, as we believe, in virtue, in intelligence, in all that makes a people really great and a nation enduring. The temporary evils from which 8 community suffers seem often to overshadow the good; but if we look back into our past we shall see that, on the whole, evil and wrong have been temporary and evanescent with us to a remarkable de- gree ; that, on the whole, those things which make for the soundest happiness and pros- perity of a nation have been stronger than any evils or wrongs. Those who look only at recent events in some of the Southern States, who see only the soldiers in the South Carolina State House, the rogues in the Louisiana Returning Board, the scheming and unpatriotic poli- ticians in Washington and elsewhere, the indecent and reckless conduct of partisans, may prefer rather to keep fo-day asa day of fasting and humiliation ; but, discouraging and disgusting as are these things, we pre- fer to believe that they are temporary, and that the corrupt and reckless partisans to whom we owe a national disgrace will work their will but a little while, and the cause of right, of humanity and constitutional liberty will not suffer permanent injury. Surveying the year since last Thanksgiv- ing Day we have many and various causes for gratitude to the Disposer of events. Abundant crops keep famine from our doors ; improving business gives us hope of increased prosperity for next year. No pes- tilence has attacked our lives; no war has scourged us. Our mechanics and skilled laborers have heard the praises of their in- genuity and industry from the mouths of all foreign visitors to the Centennial Exhi- bition. We have held a most exciting Pres- idential election without disorder. We are at peace with all nations, and have neither suffered nor done wrong toany. For these and many other blessings we may well give thanks to-day. And if we must member the anxious condition of the public mind about the acts of bad men in the disputed States, the reckless partisan spirit which is there cast- ing a shade on the fair fame of the country, surely we may be both grateful and proud put upon the temper of the people, not only down there, but everywhere, has so far worked no evil. No American to-day can help but berproud of his countrymen, to see that in spite of the rash measures of the politicians lawful methods alone are used to obtain justice ; and patient endurance of temporary wrong—the true and only course for men who desire to remain free and who yalue liberty—has been the rule, no matter how great and pervading the sense of wrong. It is a day of prayer as well as thanks, and from millions of pious hearts will go up to- | day devout petitions that these trials which the nation is now undergoing may be turned to our good ; that the people may learn wis- dom, as they are practising patience and seli-restraint ; that the peace and civil order, so long and so wonderfully unbroken | amid great excitement, may be maintained; that the statesmen of both sides may be ani- we call ourselves a Christian people, so the true spirit of Christian patience and for- bearance may rule in the councils of the nation, and that we may speedily reach a difficulties. These will be the petitions o millions of Americans to-day who love their country willing to let “government of the people, who wish to hand down to their children | and children’s children the ble have themselves enjoyed, of liberty | peace and order, and who are very woury of the wrangling of politici and the turmoil | in which the country is kept by men who | pears passion enough to bring abo bs affairs to a deadlock, but riot wisdom to f eaclance us trom the miserable muddle something still in their lives for which to | | the meal by offering ‘thanks to God for the | bounty of the seas, of which He hath | characterizes | re- | that the strain which has been so needlessly | mated with wisdom and patriotism; that, as | satisfactory and honorable solution of our | and its institutions; who are not | | by the people aud for the people” perish; | Vin into which their mismanagement has plunged us. We cannot well give thanks for the- troops in the South Carolina State House or for an insulted Supreme Court ;. we cannot be grateful for | the unblushing trickery of the Louisiana | Returning Board ; for the shocking story of poor Eliza Pinkston ; for the unconstitu- tional and dangerous partisan course of the President ; fox, the low arts by which reck- less politicians are secking to carry a dis- puted election. But we can and ought to give thanks for the absence of civil dis- orders; for the calm and patient temper of the public mind ; for the evident determina- tion of the great’ body of Americans to main- tain peace and order at all hazards and | under all circumstances; for the sound be- lief which prevails everywhere among good citizens that with peace all wrongs can and will be remedied. And while we thus give thanks we may hope that even the present untoward events may be turned to our good as a nation and that the experiences of to- day shall not be lost upon us in the future. British Arctic and American Criticism, Public opinion is divided in England re- garding the conduct of the Arctic expedition sent out under the command of Captain Nares. Some British journalists object to the manner in which Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, has criticised in the Hxraup the recent attempt of their countrymen to reach the North Pole. They complain that, while his opinions are entitled to great respect, he expresses them without due regard to the feelings of the British public in general and the returned expeditionists in particular. On the other hand, several correspondents of leading London journal not only in- dorse the views of Dr. Hayes and the Hrnaxp regarding the conduct of the expedi- tion under Captain Nares, but go much fur- ther, in suggesting a rigid inquiry into the cause of the failure, and do not hesitate to characterize it as indicating a deplor- able want of perseverance on the part of the explorers. The scurvy trouble is fully dealt with by these English critics, one of whom gives a list of the quan- tities of antiscorbutics supplied to the Alert and Discovery in addition to their already ample stores of prepared provisions. By the writer’s showing there must have been something radically defective in the manage- ment of these government ships, when ill- supplied whalers are generally exempt from this Arctic scourge. It is even suggested that for the future the British Board of Trade can have no case against merchant shippers and whalers on the ground that their crews have suffered from scurvy. In his recently printed communications to the Hzraup Dr. Hayes gave what we con- sider to be very sound reasons for his belief that Captain Nares’ conclusions regarding the permanent character of the Arctic ice were based upon false premises. His own sledge journeys in Smith's Sound were made over water that was found open by Hall and Nares. This is shown by the fact that the former took the Polaris as far north as latitude 82 deg. 16 min, and tho latter the Alert to 82 deg. 27 min., while Hayes and Kane found the | limit of navigation very much further south. Dr. Hayes, however, was stopped in his northward journey not by a ‘Paleocrystic sea” or by ‘ancient ice” one hundred and fifty feet thick, but by open water over which his sledges of course could not pass. It is reasonable, therefore, to infer with him that if he had had’a boat he could have reached the Pole, or at least a point as near to it as was attained by Markham with sledges. The assertion of Captain Nares that a route to the Pole is impracticable when weighed against all the evidence’ to the contrary is found to be very light indeed. It is about ona par with an- other statement in his report that no land exists northward of Cape Columbia and that “President Land” is an Arctic myth. Con- sidering that his sledge party travelled a comparatively short distance toward the Pole from the northernmost point of the American continent and was obstructed by heavy masses of ice, over which it had to climb, and was furthermore enveloped in mist, there are no grounds on which we can accept the report of ‘‘no land,” when it was absolutely impossible to determine whether Jand lay to the northward or not. It is cer- tain that in this sea of ‘ancient ice” seventy fathom soundings were found atthe most northerly point attained ; but Markham did not discover whether the water shoaled to the north or to the sonth from the point where he took soundings. It is to be re- | gretted that Kane, Hayes or Hall did not Exploration—English | have such an equipment as was furnished to Captain Nares, If either of these ex- plorers had been so fortunate there is no doubt that the Stars and Stripes would long since have been planted at the Pole. The Russian Fleet, It is reported that the Russian flect lately in the Mediterranean is ordered to this side ofthe ocean, If this be true the step is, of course, taken with a view to the imminent likelihood of war. Should war occur be- tween Russia and Turkey ao Russian fleet could probably accomplish little for its government in the Mediterranean, while, if England should bea party to the war, the co-operation of the British and Turkish fleet would insure that the Czar should see his lofty frigates no more. Against such a danger it is now too late to take | tho secarity of the ice-bound North, for entrance to any Baltic harbor is impossible. If the intention is to give these ships a safe anchorage in American waters our obligations as a neutral Power will require that the ships shall be regarded in the same light as soldiers driven o tuke refuge from the enemy by crossing the frontier. Should they use our harbors | as a secnrity and then sally out at their con- venience to assail the enemy's ships this | would run into using our ports as a base of | operations against a Power with which the United States is at peace, and this is forbid- den to our laws. It is not to be presumed that the Russ 8 hav y neh purpose, A Frise Disrtay | or SupMantse Buastixe | was made yesterday in the process of de- molishing Diamond Reef, which lies between Governor's Island and the city. Ton by ton the irom teeth of the drill are eating away 1 our Larbor obstructions, NOVE OVEMBER 20, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The South Carolina . hanneminnaon: It ought to be remembered that the inter- ference of the President with troops in South Carolina has no relation to the elec- toral vote of the State and can find no excuse in such a plea therefor. ‘The troops were used by tho President to control, by the force of bayonets, the organization of theiState Legislature. Federal soldiers took possession of the State House, admitted to the legislative hall such persons as General Grant chose to admit, and kept out those whom it did not suit his purposes to let in. Now, where in ‘the constitution does the President find authority given him for de- ciding who are and who are not meibers of a State Legislature? His duty is to ‘‘pro- tect” e State against invasion or ‘domestic violence” on the declaration of a Legislature or Governor that these are unable, with the State forces, to repulse invasion or repress violence. There has been no violence in South Carolina, as everybody knows. There has not even been a threat of ‘domestic violence,” although the constitution ig careful to warrant no interference on the mere excuse ofthreats. Where, then, does the President get his authority? And if in so grave a matter as this he has acted without author- ity must he not be held responsible? If he may post troops in the South Carolina State House, and take upon himself or delegate to any other person to decide who are and who are not members of the South Carolina Legisiature, why shall he or some successor of his not do the same thing in New York, or in Massachusetts, or in Ohio? When federal soldiers removed from the Louisiana Legislature in 1874 members pointed out to them by an agent of Governor Kellogg the public resented the outrage, but the Presi- dent was not held to his responsibility for a clearly unconstitutional act, because it was said there was no danger that it would ever be repeated. ‘To-day we see it repeated. Nor is this all. So unjust and inexcus- able was the President's violation of the constitution in his interference in Louisiana that a republican Congress felt itself forced by public opiuion and by the facts devel- oped on an investigation to replace in their seats the very men whom the federal troops had by bayonets expelled from the Legisla- ture. In spite of this warning and expo- sure, in spite of protests from the most eminent men of his party, General Grant, after two years, once more sends troops to take possession of a State House and once more assumes to decide who are and who are not members of a Legislature. Thus for a second time he sets a precedent which can surely no longer be held without peril. If such lawless acts are overlooked to-day who shall assure us that under another President or another party these precedents will not lead to interference nearer home? The Story of Eliza Pinkston. Governor Palmer, of Illinois, was right when he said, before the Returning Board in New Orleans on Tuesday, that the story of El®s Pinkston concerning the murder of her husband and the brutal barbarity with which she herself was treated, must be in- vestigated. In fact, we go further and ask why was it not before investigated? What have the local authorities of Louisiana been about that such a piece of brutality, com- mitted on the 4th of November, has at- tracted no attention ; has caused no efforts of the officers of justice to investigate it and to arrest the perpetrators, and only now, twenty-four days after its commission, is made public, and then, not by the officers of justice, not before a court, but for politi- cal effect, before the Returning Board? Louisiana has a republican Governor, with powers, under the State constitution, as great and comprehensive as those of the third Napoleon in France. Almost every county in Louisiana has a republican Sheriff and District Attorney, and where one of these officers fails of his duty Governor Kel- logg has authority to remove him and put another man in his place. The Governor has power to appoint and pay a special local police in every county at his own will, and in as great number as he sees fit; he has authority to send a brigade of metropolitan police into any county at his own will, and has a steamboat at his command to move them. It is his sworn duty to maintain the peace of the Stute, and no Governor of any State hes, under its constitution and laws, such great, and, in fact, unlimited powers. Why, then, the public will reasonably ask, has this savage atrocity, for which even Indians would blush, been concealed s0 long? Why havo not the republican officers of justice done their duty? The attempt to impress and disgust the North by a dramatic presentation of this gross and inexcusable outrage is certainly unworthy. The assassination of Eliza Pink- ston’s husbend and the brutalities practised on her and her child have but an incidental relation to the question which the country is waiting to have decided by the Returning Board: That body is to make a fair and honest count of the State vote, to examine impartially into charges of intimidation and to throw out precincts where the evidence shows there was intimidation or other action by either party sufficient to prevent a fair election. It is bound to hear the evidence of Eliza Pinkston and all others who come before it; but the fact that such an atrocity has been committed in one Louisiana parish does not decide the State elec. tion, except so far as that may be influenced by the throwing out of a vote. To telegraph wildly about it, therefore, and j attempt to use this case to inflame and | prejudice the Northern mind is pure dema- goging. As cruel. atrocities as this have been committed in Pennsylvania within the year, Let the affair be investigated ; but let the Governor see to it, too, that the mur- derers are brought to justice. Else it will be thought that this murder is of interest to him only as a means to affect Northern opinion. Tur Brock Mucnpz&-—-An attempt is | making by the counsel of Oschwald and Ryan, now confined in the Newark jail under sentence of death, to procure a writ of error and bring their case to a hearing before a higher court, on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to identify them as the persons who committed the murder. Whether this attempt succeeds or i mot we see no good reason why the full rigor , ; of the 1aw snould be exercised on Ryan, who was merely present while Oschwald fired the shot. While there may be no difference be- tween the two in law there isa broad dif- ference in fact, and Justice should not be blind to facts. There ought to be a distine- tion in the punishment corresponding to different degrees of their participation in the crime. If there should not be a new trial it is a case for the interposition of the pardoning power. If the sentence of the lesser offender were commuted to imprison- ment for life the safety of the community would be equally protected and the popular sense of equity be better satisfied. Oatdoor Sports. Americans in the younger days of their country’s growth had so much work to do in winning first subsistence and then prosper- ity that the kind of outdoor exercise which we call sport was not so necessary to the development of robust manhood as it is nowadays, A change and not a good one came about. Congregating around indus- trial and commercial centres, nailing them- selves down to desks and counters, Ameri- icans began to pass their youth in close toil, relieved by spasms of nervous excitement or enervating pleasure, and grew into lank, sallow, dyspeptic, prematurely-aged men. The typical American was seen smoking, chewing, whittling or making a stump speech, but not amusing himself in a manly way out of doors. His highest effort in this direction had the element of business in- grained on it—namely, running to fires, As a fireman and a man of business he burned the candle of life at both ends. Then came the war. @t wrought an immense change. During the past ten years great progress has been made in every department of out- door sports. Base ball became a passion; cricket cdme in; football added its uproar- ious fun; boating rowed itself into davor; yachting took hold of those who could afford it and gave young men of money the bronze of health in exchange for their pink and white or green and yellow; the old American sport of rifle shooting banged itself into championship, with all the mod- ern Wimbledon improvements; polo from the old Orient galloped to find enthusiasts in the young Occident; coaching cracked its elegant whip and won to its side a num- ber of virtuosos fit to hold the ribbons behind a four-in-hand with the best that ever “tooled” a drng—and this ‘‘tooling” of. a four-in-hand is no more to be suc- cessfully attained at a first trial than a man is likely to play one of Paganini’s pieces the first time he takes upa fiddle. There is no better amateur whip in England than Mr. Kane, and no professional could have been more punctual in the performance of the task that he im- posed upon himself. His season, which ends on Friday, has been more successful than that of any of the English amateur coaches, and the rush for seats during the last days of the run to Pelham shows that our citizens appreciate Mr. Kane’s efforts, not as an odd novelty, but a regular addition to our health- giving opportunities. When our Coaching Club meets next May not less than twelve and possibly fifteen well appointed drags will appear on the first parade, Then, as far as ap- plicable, the majority of these sports, with many others, such as running, walk- ing, jumping and* gymnastic feats, have been made their own by our colleges, so that the youth of this generation will come to a vigorous manhood ready to take their part in keeping the round of outdoor amusements rolling side by side with the sterner round of the great battle of life, The latest English “sport which it is sought to introduce here is fox hunting, but there are a great many ob- stacles in the way. The first and greatest is the climate. While in England and Ireland the scariet-coated gentry can ride to hounds six months of the year, it is barely possible to ride across country in this latitude for more than two months. There are other difficulties which the sportsmen who meet at Hackensack to-day will encounter. Prophecies and Hints in Europe. Indications in regard to the possible up- shot of the Conference to be held at Constan- tinople seem to be sought in Europe with great avidity, and there are plenty of proph- ets ready to foretell the political weather. But the larger number of them resemble rather the old-fashioned weather guessers of the almanacs than the modern devotees of meteorological science, who reason on a large accumulation of facts. M. Thiers, however, isa man of ‘such ripe experience and such extensive knowledge of the condi- tion of the nations of Europe that the expression of his opinion on a given prob- lem canuot be regarded merely as a guess. It is significant that this veteran believes there will be war. He may be mistaken; but his view that the Turks will fight Russia alone rather than submit to her demands is made highly probable by oll that is yet known of Turkey's attitude. It is possible, however, that Turkey may not be left by other Powers free to choose even the alter- |* native of war with Russia. England may at last see such good reason to apprehend the ultimate result of war between Turkey and Russia as to be led to exercise pressure to induce her ally to accept the Slavic demands. The hint from Russia as to what Salisbury has probably learned at Berlin and Vienna will not be lost. Its boastful implication that Russia has the full support of the two Cabinets which are of conseqnence, and that she has only re- frained from making all the use she might of this circumstance in order not to precipitate unpleasant relations, is a glimpse of oa revelation of which Europe is likely to see the full real- ity at on early day. Protests against the proposed constitution for Turkey seem to be the order of the day. One is made in Constantinople, another in St Pe- tersburg. It will seem more natural to the world for a grand vizier to object to a con- stitution than for a sultan to order the pro- gramme forthe creation of one, so that the present reference to this instrument is more in character than the one which came a few days since. But the Ministry which advises the Sultan from @ stand- point of constant dread and apprehen- sion of the softas, which is for or against any policy, as it hopes or fears it may excite or nlaaste the fanstical elements. can scarcely contemplate a constitution with any sentiment but that of horror at the dangerous audacity of proposition. This objection to the tion is an in- dication, doubtless, that ftas will not hear of it. Russia evidently regards this constitution in the light of asop to Cet. berus—an attempt to satisfy European opinion with guarantees of printed paper. Since the constitution does not seem to de ceive any one we sha!l soon hear the last of it. Governor Chamberlain's “Quorum.” The South Carolina republicans have taken the position that a quorum of each branch of the Legislature does not consist of a majority of all the members, but a majority of those_having certificates from the Board of Canvassers. This pretense is contradicted by the usage of all the State governments, There is a difference between the State constitutions and the federal constitution on this point. The State constitution, unlike the federal consti- tution, fixes a definite number of mem- bers of which the lower House shall con- sist. In the State of New York the Assem- bly consists of one hundred and twenty- eight members, of which a majority is a quorum. It has never been pretended at Akbany that Iess than sixty-five members could transact business, and disputed seats have never made any difference in this respect. The same rule has al- ways heretofore prevailed in South Carolina, ‘The constitution of that State declares that ‘the House of Repre- sentatives shall consist of one hundred end twenty-four members,” and that ‘a majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business.” The plain meaning is a mm jority of the one hundred and twenty-four But Chamberlain's satellites have set up a new rule, and claim that a majority of those who have received certificates is a quorum, reducing it from the sixty-three which the State constitution requires to fifty-nine, They were unable yesterday forenoon to got even this bastard quorum, owing to the desertion of one or two repub- lican members, and all their procoed- ings were brought to a dead halt for a time. If one of the republican members should absent himself it will be impos- sible for Governor Chamberlain to get him- self counted in, even with the aid of the federal troops. But, asthe Governor holds his office ‘‘for two years and until his suc- cessor is chosen and qualified,” Chamberlain will hold over so long as the deadlock may continue. If the republicans should get the full number of the false quo- rum together, canvass the votes and inaugurate Chamberlain we suppose he might be dispossessed by the Supreme Court if the law of the State were permitted to take its course. But it looks now as if the State tribunals would be set at defiance by federal troops, if Chamberlain should be sworn in and the Supreme Court of the State decide that he had no legal title to the office. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lucca is thirty-four. Mr. Evarts is in Washington. General Sickles is in Washington. Muskrats aro building their shanties high. If there is war it will not be in Potter’s Field, To-day the second joint rule will prevail, Wool-growing in Georgia pays sixty-three per cent, Adirondack Murray apostrophises cold baked beans Senator Conkling is now able to leave his darkene¢ room. Some Lonaon ladies wear jackets of rough pilot cloth, A wild deer ran through a Kentucky town and escaped. ‘The ballot boxes may not have been stuffed, but the turkeys are. An Indiana girl raised 930 pounds of tobacco on@ quarter of an acre. Richard Henry Dana, the poot, has celebrated bit eighty-uinth birthday, Towa debaters decide that fishes have ro voice; yet somehow they run their scales. Mr. Tilden 1s said to resemble Napoloon except in the face. Napoleon wore No. 9's, Dr. Slade says his partner is taking in for him plenty of money. It is olu per-Simmons. This is the time of year when boarding house tea begins to feel a change in the weather. Mr. G. Willamov, Secretary of the Russian Logation ‘ashington, is at the Everets House. Buckwheat cakes, to bo good and light, should be as fall of hoies as a Creedmoor bull’s-cye. Patients in the Chicago hospital are fed on sirloin of blacksmith’s apron, with potatoes and molasses. From our weather reports this morning the prob- abilities are that yesterday was quite cloudy or clear. A musical correspo! it gays that to-day the Ameri- can army will enter Turkey, Otvoman to be allowed to live after that? Senator Allea G. Thurman, of Uhio, and Represent- ative Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The widow and two daughters of General Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, will return from Paris to Washington for the winter. Ex-Rev. John Weiss, tho fashionable hoterodox re- ligious lecturor, of Boston, is a man of startling simi- Jes and a horse-radish voice. Mrs. Senator Sargent, the Florence Nightingale of ‘Washington, is to receive a marble bust of her husband trom his friends in Califorma. “Why,” asks an English review, “is the British lion so afraid of having his toes stepped upon?” Because he once had a unicorn on them. Stoughton felt all right until a darky took his head for a Jamp mat, and then he said he didn’t caroa tin A Connecticut pleasant to a tired man than the song of tho coffee pow Yes, when it sings “Chicory, ebic-ory, chic-o-rye.”” An aged bachelor finds a dried curl of hair in an old bureau drawer with the same grim pleasure with which a Jerseyman sees a dried mosquito in November. Goethe says that we all havo a nervous orgamzation easily worked upon, that most of us aro easily puzzled, and that we ought to be cautious about believing sorcerers, An obituary notice of a young man was handed in last night for insertion in our columns, concluding with the following touching remark :— Gone before the Le gm Board May ho be counted von pereR He Americans inténding to pad the winter in Italy will be glad to learn that one of our eminent physicians— Dr. Ceecarini—has settled in Rome for the season, where he will be giad to give his attention to those needing his skill. Evening Telegram bill of tare for a picnic party at the Aquarium :— Qroceroversce recone recese toners, Pe baataaay carne csi Hookra, Fis. Tankchovies, ENTREES, Blue fish, sea egg dressing—ragout of eatfish— small bid of any kind, OAS, “albany bee! ’—sheepshead, VEGETABLES. Sea cucumbers, i z GAME, Parrot fish—tlying fish. shark, Dussurr. Jelly fish—rock tish candy. 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