The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1876, Page 6

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Money on call joans ad- vanced to7 per cent, gold, but numerous loans were made at 4 1-2 and 5 per cent, Ruiilway mortgages continue steady, Wuorven Is Loxarne for a new and power- inl romance may weave one for himself out of the report of the train-wrecker who hung himself in the Connecticut State Prison on Sunday because his wife had applied for a divorce. Notall the human compounds of tascality and tenderness were among “the Argonauts of '49." ‘us Trirues Exrryprp for Christmas gifty may os well be made to serve a double purpose and help a charity while commemorating a friendship. The fair in aid of the church and orphan asylum of St. Vincent de Paul, of which a description is given elsewhere, offers all the attractions of other holiday bazaars, and affords, in ad- dition, a good opportunity to aid a most excellent cause. Tne Bnrooxryn Ant Association havo opened their winter ‘exhibition with an as- sortment of pictures more remarkable for quantity than quality. There are several reasonable explanations of the lack of can- vases of great merit, but while the fact re- mains that it is from exhibitions of this kind that the public obtains the principal portion of its art education it is the duty of artists to spare no effort that can elevate art to its proper position. All endeavors in this di- tection are really of as much benefit to the artists as to any one else; for no picture- buying class ever exists until there are plenty of pictures worth buying. Mr. Evanrs’ Puax.—It is said that Mr. £varts proposes for the settlement of the disputed succession the appointment of a receiver. For some years the great lawyer who crumpled up the impeachment proceed- ings against Andrew Johnson has not been | ot the same mind with the President of the United States, and it is rathor startling to find that their opinions are in agreoment in the present crisis. With the most resolute director of physical force and the most sabtle legal thinker in the country in full har- mony of opinion on a very important point it may be deemed a bad lookout for people who think differently. General Grant is also in favor of the appointment of a re- eaines—and he wants to be the receiver, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER» ‘45, 1816.-TRIELE SHEET. in | South Carolina. Notwithstanding the President's disclaim- ers of any purpose to interfere with the Legislature of South Carolina, and his denials that he has done so, his conduct re- mains open to censure. It is no secret that there was a difference of opinion in the Cabinet, and that the point in dispute re- lated to the action of the troops at Colum- bia last Tuesday and the three follow- ing days. If President Grant's inten- tion in the beginning coincided with the Cabinet decision of Friday it is difficult to conceive what the dissension in the Cabi- net was about, or what occasion there could have been for a protest by some of the members. After the Cabinet decision had been reached the President tried to explain away his previous conduct and to reconcile it with the view finally adopted. But that was too evidently an afterthought. Had his first purpose been what he now claims there would have been no room fora dis- pute among his official advisers. After all his explanations and excuses the | fact remains that the State House at Colum- bia was taken possession by federal troops twelve hours in advance of the time ap- pointed for the meeting of the Legislature ; that members were refused admission and the passage blocked against them by federal soldiers, and that their credentials were sérutinized and passed upon by persons having no other authority than the federal bayonets which protected them. These facts must have been known in Washing- ton within half an hour after they oc- curred; but no countermanding order was sent to General Ruger. The whole country was kept in excitement and alarm for three days before any attempt was made to quiet and reassure it, when, after a long Cabinet consultation, a lame attempt was made to explain away the facts. A purpose to interfere with the organization of the Legislature was only then disavowed. The public naturally believes that a ‘‘change of base” was forced on the President by the in- dignant rebukes of the press and the pro- tests of dissenting members of the Cabinet. At first the President listened to bad ad- visers. Itis true that no blood has been shed by General Ruger’s troops; but can it be said that they have practised no co- ercion? They were a standing menace to the Legislature, and seemed to court a pre- text for converting menace into fact. They have acted like a tall bully unwilling to strike the first blow lest he should be prose- cuted for assault and battery, but eager for ®& provocation to pitch in. What took place yesterday looked like a deliberate plan to get up a scene of violence in order that the federal troops might have an excuse for intervening. Governor Chamberlain’s special constables had assembled in the State House in large force ready to pounce on democratic mem- bers and drag them out, and his minions pretended that federal troops were in readiness to support them if resistance should be made. It was expected that the special constables would succeed in pro- voking ao scuffle, pretend that they were overpowered and call on the troops for help. The democrats were too wary to be caught in this cunning trap. Their Speaker gave them notice of the stratagem, and they adjourned to another place. This attempt to provoke a breach of the peace for the mere purpose of creating an occasion for military inter- ference deserves to be denounced, and if any officer abetted it he should share the denunciation. The democratic members wisely avoided furnishing the pretext, for, the ice once broken, the soldiers would not stop. As soon as,they had oan excuse for interposing to ‘restore order” they would be masters of the situation and would not loosen their grip. Chamberlain's satellites were seeking a breach through which the soldiers might enter. It is assumed by the President and his apologists that his right to intervene to keep the local peace is unquestionable. This is a fundamental error. It is no part of the business of the federal government tc do police duty in the States. This function belongs to the State governments. It is only when their power has been exerted and has failed that the federal authority can interpose, and then only in a manner which is strictly marked out by law. Any interference to maintain the local peace in a State is illegal and unwarranted until all the conditions prescribed by the federal statutes shall have been complied with. The law does not permit the President to give military assistance in every case in which a State Governor may apply to him, but only “‘in case of on insurrection in any State against the government thereof.” As yet there is no ‘insurrection in the State ; of South Carolina ‘against the govern- ment thereof.” ‘There is, in fact, no insurrection at all nor any likelihood of one, and a mere scufile or broil between two po- litical parties in the streets of Columbia, or even in the State House, would not be an insurrection against the ‘government” of | the State. A thousand applications from Chamberlain would not warrant federal in- terference without actual domestic violence | directed against the State government, The President is not bound to do the mere bid- ding of a State Governor, He must judge of the exigency for himself and keep within the limits of the law. Even in an actual insurrection against a government of a State he is not permitted to employ military force until he shall have issued a proclamation calling on the insurgents to disperse. The language of the statute is ex- plicit on this point~‘Whenever, in the judgment of the President, it becomes neces- sary to use the military forces under this Title, the President shall forthwith, by proclamation, command the insurgents to disperse and retire penceably to | their respective abodes, within a/| limited time,” (Revised Statutes, section 5,300.) This section sets the President's duty in a clear light. Betore he can employ military, force there must be a body of ag- sembled insurgents resisting the State gov- ernment. It would be absurd for him to command them to disperse and retire peace. ably to their homes if no such body had | assembled, Vresident Grant has issued ao such proclamation in this South Carol) J case. Itwould be ridiculous, under the ciz- j cumstances, for there is no mob of in- to whom it could be ad- It seems to be his intention to employ the troops at once the moment there isa disturbance, without a proclamation and without fixing a time within which the in- surgents are required to disperse. But if he employs troops without these prelimi- naries his action will be plainly illegal. He ought long ago to have instructed General Ruger that he must not direct a bayonet ogainst any citizen of South Carolina until after a proclamation by the President, giv- ing the massed insurgents a limited time to disperse and “retire peaceably to their abodes.” ‘The President seems to have a mistaken impression that he can use federal soldiers to perform police duty in a State whenever its Governor requests it. The Supreme Court of the United States has declared that he possesses no such power, and that its ex- ercise would. be repugnant to the constitu- tion, In the case of the United States vs. Cruikshenk, decided in October, 1875, Chief Justice Waite said, in deliver- ing the judgment of the Court:—‘‘Lhe charge as made is really of noth- ing moro than a conspiracy to com- mit a breach of the peace within a State. Certainly it will not be claimed that the United States have the power or are required to do mere police duty in the States.” But President Grant assumes that he has a right to do what the Supreme Court considers as so absurd, He seems to think that the doing of “mere police duty” in the States is one of the regular functions of the federal army, in spite of a solemn decision of the Supreme Court that it is a violation of the constitution to employ them forthat purpose. The peace of the States is to be preserved by their own militia until that proves insufficient, and then, as a last resort, the President can be applied to for aid. But what the constitution makes the last step in the procedure the President has heretofore seemed to regard as the first. The To apprehend any serious consequences from the ministerial crisis in France would be to forget entirely the many evidences the republicans have recently given of a capacity for moderation and a purpose to restrain those inordinate impulses which formerly defeated all attempts to establish the Republic. They have defeated the Ministry on a legitimate issue of parlia- mentary government—the expenditure of public money—and it is fair to credit them with the intention to obtain, if possible, a Cabinet in harmony with the majority in a point of such consequence. It is altogether gratuitous to suppose that they will seize the opportunity to force upon the President a Ministry of the most extreme party views. To do this would be an act of folly, and there are no longer the reasons which once existed for supposing that the French republicans will push their advantage to an obviously dangerous and factious point. As it existed the Ministry was republican, but far from radical; and in the estimates for public wor- ship it must be conceded that it had carried complacency toward the clerical sentiment to the utmost point that it could be hoped the House would accept. It proved that the House was of a very contrary opinion from that held by the Ministry. Its action determined its want of confidence in the Premier—a liberal of forty years’ service. But to record its rebuke of his action accom- plishes the purpose of the majority, and if it can secure a Ministry of the same quality and political tint, and one that will profit by this experience, it will do well, Crisis in France. The Weather. The centre of high pressure has at last crossed the frontier and moved southward into the Indian Territory and Northern Texas, being followed by a rapidly falling barometer in the Northwest. On the Nova Scotia coast the pressure is also changing from low to high, showing thatthe westerly margin of the storm area that hung so long in that quarter is now moving away. With reference to this great disturbance we pre- dicted on November 27 and at the time it was being developed by the merging of sev- eral small storm areas, that ‘It is almost certain to be followed by high winds and Atlantic storms, which will be felt severely on the European coasts.” In verification of this prediction we learn by cable that ‘a terrible gale has prevailed throughout the British Isles since Saturday,” causing im- mense damage toshipping, great inundations and considerable loss ot life. The actual time that the storm took to cross the Atlantic was seven days, counting from the 26th of November. The northeasterly course, gen- erally followed by such disturbances, would carry it directly over the British Islands and with the effects described in yesterday's cable despatches to the Henaup. I: is prob- able that the storm in England will continue for several days, and that it will be followed by extremely cold weather, with heavy snows. With the exception of a small area in the lower lake region the weather to the west and south has been clear or fair and cold. Light rain has fallen at Dubuque, Iowa, Cincinnati, along the Lake Shore and in northern New York and New England. The weather in this city to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or clear. Mr. Boxen’s Srercu.—Mr. Boker appears to have made aspeech at Tsarkoe-Selo which surprises people at Berlin, Without any satisfactory account of what the speech was it is impossible to judge whether the sur- prise is legitimate. In such a case, when people condescend to be surprised, this is to be taken as an intimation that they did not think you would say such things ; that you Lave gone beyond the limit of what they ex- pected of you, and consequently beyond the limits of what was proper om your part. Surprise is, therefore, a mild name for criti- cism and dissent. Perhaps we may agree with the Berlin criticism when we know better what was said ; for all will assent that Ministers Plenipotentiary are very capable of saying foolish things, especially in gushing moments. In the Minister's assurance to the Czar that he has the sympathy ofthe American people in his policy with regard to Turkey ho has certainly not gone beyond the truth, though truth and diplomatic propriety are not always yoke-fellows, A Cross-light on the Situation. An eager and protracted parliamentary de- bate arose at the beginning of the present cen- tury with regard to the relations of Congress and of the Electoral Colleges on the election of President of the United States. This dis- cussion was continued during the sessions of the Sixth and Seventh Congresses, until, in the end, the whole country was called to participate in it while the twelfth amend- ment of the constitution, with its new pro- visions under this head, was pending before the Legislatures of the several States. That amendment was adopted in 1804, and hence the period of time extending from 1500 to 1804 may be justly called the classical era of political and constitutional discussion on this topic. We give, in another part of our paper to- day, an outline of so much of this debate as immediately preceded and attended the election of President Jefferson, when the functions of Congress with regard to dis- puted elections of President and Vice Presi- dent were taken into formal and deliberate consideration by the statesmen of that epoch, and when a bill, thongh not the same in its terms, was passed by both houses for the purpose of expressing and defining the jurisdiction of Congress in the premises. If the reader shall not be able to find in our review of that discussion any easy solution for the pending complications of our present political situation he at least cnn find a good deal in it which should serve to discourage the schemes of all hot and heady partisans, whether republican or democratic, who pur- pose to stretch the constitution in pursuit of their political aims. The republican zealot who now proclaims, without hesita- tion, that the Vice President is clothed with plenary power to count the votes as well as to open the certificates of the electors, and that Congress plays the part of dummy in the high transaction, will find in this review as little solace as he can find in the record which his own party has made on this subject during the last twelve years. The republican Senate of to-day, which denies the right of a democratic House to reject an electoral vote deemed by it to be tainted with fraud, will find from this re- view that in the year 1800 the Senate of that date refused to accept any plan for the set- tlement of such disputed questions unless it proceeded on the assumption that either house of Congress could interpose its check to the counting of any electoral vote or votes. The democratic House of Represen- tatives, which to-day contends for the right asserted by the Senate of the year 1800, will find that the House of that date refused its assent to such a proposition, and claimed that the concurrence of both the houses should be required only for the re- jection, not for the acceptance, of an elec- toral ballot. That is, under the stress of the circumstances which alter cases, there has been an entire inversion of ideas and a complete tergiversation of parties upon this question, The only conclusion, then, to which the fair-minded and honest reader can come from this historical retrospect is that it points a moral against the extreme pretensions of both the republican and the democratic leaders. The extreme pretensions of each, if arbitrarily carried out in the counting of the , electoral votes, without regard to the assumed rights and undoubted convictions of the other party, would involve, as wo see, not only a wrench and strain on the constitution of the United States, by requir- ing something to be read between its lines at the points whero its text is obscure, but would also open a hideous chasm in the civil history of our country. The party which shows the most reverence for the constitu- tion and the most scrupulous respect for its limitations is the party of the future. The constitution of the United States is still the corner stone of our politival fabric. ‘The party which falls upon this stone may be broken fora day, but the party on which this stone shall fall will be ground by it to powder, An Error at Starting. The action of the majority of the House of Representatives yesterday in the case of the member elect from the new State of Col- orado was unfortunate and ill advised. Im- mediately atter the roll had been called Mr. Holman offered a resolution to proceed to the election of a Speaker. Mr. Banks, as a question of privilege, raised the point that the name of the Colorado Representative should be first placed on the roll, so that he might participate in the election of a Speaker, and to that end he sent up to the Chair the credentials of the new member. Mr. Holman and other democrats objected, contending that the election of a Spenker was tho first business in order, while Mr. Banks and others on the same side insisted that all members had a right to take part in the election, and hence it was the privilege of the Colorado member to have his name placed on the roll. ‘Ihe Clerk of the House decided in favor of Mr. Holman’s positicn, whereupon an appeal from the decision was taken by Mr. Banks, which, on motion of Mr. Cox, was laid on the table. So the House proceeded to elect a Speaker with- ont admitting the member from the new State, In the Senate the two Colorado Sen- ators were admitted without objection, took the constitutional oath and drew for terms. Under ordinary circumstances there would be nothing important in the action of the House. It was simply a question upon which members might honestly disagree, whether the first business in order was the election of a Speaker or whether the admis- sion of a new member as a question of supe- rior privilege should take precedence. Com- mon sense, and we believe parliamentary law, favor the position taken by Mr. Banks, It is possible, although not probable, that on some occasion one-half the Representatives might be new members, and in that caso where would Mr. Holman’s parliamentary practice leave the House? Besides, it seems only reasonable that every member should enjoy the high privilege of partaking in the election of a Speaker. But the error of the democrats in opposing the proposi- tion of Mr. Banks lies in the fact that their course will be construed as foreshadowing a determixation to resist the admission ot the Colorado member at any time during the present session, in order to raise the ques- tion of the completeness of the admission of the new State into the Union ame of her right to representation in the electoral vote. We are unwilling to believe that any such folly can be contemplated by the democratic leaders, who have heretofore displayed commendable prudence and good sense in their course during the excite- ment that has followed the election. Colorado was admitted as a State of the Union in February, 1875. The proclama- tion of the President, issued in accordance with the law in August of the present year, announced the fact of the required action of the State Legislature and thus made the admission complete, without any further proceeding on the part of Congress. The democratic party in Colorado took part in the Presidential election in that State, and the democrats all over the Union counted Colorado as a State that would probably elect a democratic electoral ticket. If such had been the result no one will believe that the majority of the House of Repre- sentatives would have raised a question as to the right of the State to representation in the electoral vote, It has been alleged that the admission of Colorado under the exist- ing conditions is without precedent, but such is not the fact. Missouri was admitted to the Union by the act of March 2, 1821, with the proviso that the new State should, through her Legislature, assent to the fundamental condition of admis- sion and certify such assent to the President, who should “by proclamation, announce the fact, whereupon” (in the words of the act) “and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the ad- mission of the said State into this Union shall be considered complete.” The attempt to embarrass the admission of Colorado would, therefore, fail. It would, besides, fatally damage the democratic position, which is at present strong. We are unwilling to believe that it will be made. The President's Thought.” The despatch from our special correspond- ent at Washington is more hopeful and satis- factory than the intelligence from Columbia, President Grant has renounced his partisan predilections and decided to stand neutral in the contest between General Hampton and Governor Chamberlain in South Carolina, The best public opinion of the country will warmly support and indorse him if he main- tains this just and impartial attitude. He has given Governor Chamberlain a decided rebuff, and had the true state of the facts been known at Columbia yesterday the course of the democratic members would have been different. It wasthe purpose of Chamberlain to eject democratic members from the legis- Jative hall by his special constables, and he failed to make the attempt only because he could not get an assurance either from Gen- eral Ruger or from Washington that ho would be supported. He telegraphed an urgent appeal to President Grant, and when Senator Patterson went to the White House to deliver it he found, to his inexpressible disgust, that the President was closeted with Mr. Hewitt. This is the most amusing picce of political news we have had in a long time. The President afterward refused to modify his orders to General Ruger, and Patterson has- tened in alarmand vexation to the republican Senators to get them to prevail on the Pres. ident to change his mind. Senators Morton and Logan undertook the mission in behalf of Chamberlain, but the President was im- movable. It is believed in Washing- ton that he cannot now be induced to favor cither party; that he will recognize no Legislature which has not an unquestionable quorum, and that he intends promptly to recognize Wade Hampton as Governor if he should be de- clared elected. If this be his real posi- ober Second tion we congratulate both him and the country that he at last sees through the graceless plotters that have been attempting to hoodwink and de- ccive him. Lethim do simple justice be- tween the two political parties. We have never questioned the rectitude of his inten- tions, and we rejoice that he now inclines to take a more correct view of the situation. He is not the President of a party, but of the United States, and we trust that in the crisis that is upon us he will rise to the full height of his great responsibility and aim only at peace founded on impartial justice and strict adherence to law. The situation begins to brighten. The Newark Murder Case. The case of Ryan, the man who was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged on January 5, in Newark, has at- tracted great attention because of a wide- spread und profound belief in his innocence. Even if the evidence is taken on its face, without reference to the possibility of mis- take, it is clear that Ryan did not fire the fatal shot and did not premeditate murder, Admitting all that is claimed, it does not appear that he was anything but an unwill- ing and astonished spectator of the crime of another, That the law makes an accomplice in a minor crime, as burglary, a partici- pant in a greater crime which may procced trom it, is well known, and the action of the Court is not to be ndversely criticised. ‘The Judge had but one imperative duty, and he performed it according to the letter of the Jaw when he sen enced Ryan to death, with his companion. But it is precisely where the letter of law ends that the spirit of justice sometimes begins. All civilized communi- ties recognize this fact when they vest the pardoning power in the exeentive or judiciai departments; then the strict, unre- lenting tribunal, which knows only the crime, has beyond it the higher couri of ap- peal which deals with the equity of the ease and the criminal, We believe that there is no recent event in which the prerogative of mercy deserves to be inyoked more than in that of Ryan, who, in the worst phases of the affair, is only guilty of murder by con- struction and not by real act. In the meanwhile steps have been taken which may prove this unfortunate man‘s in- nocence. A Dill of exceptions has been filed, and Judge Depue will consider it. His signature will carry the ense to Chancellor Runyon, and it he consents it will be examined by the Conrt of Exrors. If he rejects it there is no furthor chance for vindication afforded. Then the only hope for Ryan will be in the Court of Pardons, which is composed of Governur. Bedle, Chancellor Runyon and Lay Judges Lilly, Green, Lathrop, Wales, Dodd and Clements, The course of this honorable body in recently commuting the death sen- tence of John Schwamb inspire us with hope that careful examination of the facts im Ryan's case will end in a merciful decision. It was especially fitting that the bust of Horace Greeley, which was yesterday un- veiled in Greenwood Cemetery, should have been presented by American printers. Dur- ing his lifetime the old editor's busy brain impelled him to ventures in many depart- ments of thought and action. He was by turns agriculturist, philosopher, orator, his torian, theologian, Congressman, Presidene tial candidate. He even wrote art criticisms and perpetrated poetry; but his judicious friends admit that his best work was done in his profession as a journalist, and his actual intimates know that he himself was never so happy as when absorbed by the intellectual and mechanical details of his profession. The pen and the press were one and the same thing to him; the rattle of great presses was his favore ite music, and he never seemed more at home than when leaning over an imposing stone or fingering type at a case. Letters from politicians and statesmen were always on his desk, but the most important of these were often swept aside while the vet- eran printer answered with keen delight the missive of some puzzled or discouraged country editor, or some enterprising young typo who wanted to start in business and wrote, as the most natural thing in the world, to ask advice of Horace Greeley. Not all the printers in the coun- try accepted the various theories which first saw light in the ‘Tribune; there were thousands upon thousands of them who did not vote for the old journalist in his single and pathetic struggle for office; byt for Greley, their fellow craftsman, the man who in his early days had stood at the “case,” hung over the “stone” and fed the press, and who, in the hour of fame and for- tune never scorned or forgot the ladder by which he had climbed to his final high posi- ion, nor ever failed to have a friendly word and an open hand to those whom he had distanced, they cherished a kindly regard which grew in fervor when the generoua hand dropped lifeless and the genial tongue was forover silenced. The words spokbn over his grave yesterday were heartfelt and eloquent, but in the bust itself is em- bodied the sentiment of the old editor's most enthusiastic admirers. * PERSONAL INTELLIGENGE, Gough is in Minnesota. Bob Ingersoll is in Hartford, General Howard is in Oregon, Turks steal Armenian women. Talmage is lecturing in the West, Hon. Milton Sayler has gray o¥>s. Robert Collyer will lecture in the East, Hugh McCulloch is at Fort Wayue, Ind Schuyler Colfax is lecturing in Massachusetts, Godlove Orth has returned tu the practice of law. California farmers aro holdivg back their wheat, Mayor Wickham has rooms at a Washington hotel, Most of Heanessy’s brandy is shipped to Eagland, Tho Duke of Abercorn will leave Dublio this week. Senator Sharon will leave for Washington next week, Snell, ivery and ebony have superseaed pearl for fons. Senator Logan is not sure of a re-clection from Illinois. Tho Pacifle Ocean has sixteen per cent more salt tham the Atlantic, Chanceller John V. L. Proyn, of Albany, is at the Brevoort House. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, left tho city last evening for Washington. Bailey, ‘*the Danbury News man,” will lecture thig weok at Princeton, N. J. Parke Godwin will lecturo before the Yale Art Schoo} on the ‘Theory of Art.'? There is a complaint that French racehorses are running out the old Englisi stock. It costs little to Keep a pot of hot bean soup on your kitchen stove for tho cold and hungry beggar. American meat is liked in Engiish markets, and it brings from twelve to seventecn cents a pound, The Hotel and Traveller's Journal, a new enterprise, ought to be successiul, The field is a large and good one. When your party doos a mean thing you call it fight- ing for the right; when tho other party does it you call it a despicable trick, , Tho Santa Klaws Klan, of Vickeburg, Miss,, will hola a grand carnival, Monday evening, December 18. The alfair 18 likely to be brilliant. jeftin cask for seven years will lose its id a critic says that none less than seven years old should be consumed. A foreign writer ascribes the impracticalness of French political philosophers to the fact that they are not trained in government employ, San Francisco eats 90,000,000 oysters a year, one- third of which are transported trom New York ana © Baitimore. They cost Ofty cents a plate. When a Californian gets rich he buys grotesque Chinese bronzes and decks his wife out in gaudy reds and yellowa, He givos his catldren a fine education. In Warsaw, in 1861, the Russians perpetrated upon Polish men and women the samo atrocities, only on @ smaller scale, which make tho Czar angry with the Turk. ‘The grape which yields the finer red wines of the Saumur district is the Broton, said to be the same ag the Carbenet-sauvignon, the jeading vine in the grand vineyards of the Medoc, Professor Ranyard, of London, says that Vonus has adonse aimosphere, because he saw A sad+aze-shaped area absorbing light. Doves this prove that in Venus, too, there are boarding houses? A Boston man writes trom is that American | bankers there will not be civil to a stranger without a yetter of credit, and that many Americans couse- quently patronize French bankers. Memphis Appeal:—‘‘Hon. Jefferson Davis, who ar- rived jn this city yesterday from Europe, will leave fur Vicksburg this evening. He has by his trip to tho mother land renewed his lease on 1ife, is enjoying um usual good health and looks and bears himself with all his wouted strength and vigor. Alter a jew days spent in Vieksburg he will leave for New Orieans, his bush ness headquariers.”” They are telling a good story in Hartford at the ex- pense of a well known humorist, who was so impressed with afunny story that a Vermont countryman had wid a fricud that he sent $50 to the Vermonter, with the request that he write out the story and send it back, too Motive being to issue the story in its origi- inal quaint form and asa fresh thing ina new book. In due time back camo the story, with the explana. tion that not “bein much at writin” he bad got the local editor to fix it up, and he enclosed tho printed copy cat trom the puper! Evening Telegram vill of fare for skaters :— Qroreveroccccesvccerrece recess vecereteneeneel sor. Noodle soup for skatorial sweethearts, visit, Boiled sknte—Frost fish. RNEREES. Cold cuts, only in the fall senson—Limo lights, ROAST. Sheep's eyes done ill they are tender. VEGRTADLES. Sudden turnaps—Water cressea, GAMR. Spread ba “4 Ps capera, Rolls and vt ci i chiliyton cheese, ESSER. Turnovers—W inierborrios—Buckloborrion, DER-RINKS. Cold schnapps on ice—all sorts of drops. ead OO TELEEE DEEL LOL EE EO EE EE DE IE EEEE