The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1876, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and cioudy, probably with rain or snow, and followed by high winds and intense cold, "Watt Srneet Yxsrzrpay.—Some of the fancy stocks advanced, but subsequently declined, and closed with little change from she final prices of the previous day. Gold fell from 107 5-8 to 107 1-4, and is weak at the latter figure. Government bonds were also lower. Railway mortgages generally remain firm. Money on call loans was sup- plied at 5 and 4 4 t pe r cent. Boston is re inspec ting her places of amusement. How about New York? Tur Se oxpresse ny ‘itsolf yesterday against the e ence of the joint rules by a vote of fifty to four, some strong democrats voting with the majority. Tr Is Rerortep that owls are flying south- ward in great numbers. If these birds still maintain their reputation for wisdom we hope that they will not go farther thar Washington. Dr. Lemoyne wants us to burn our dead and devote the cost of burials, tombstones, &e., to the payment of the national debt. Such an undertaking might fitly be called both grave snd heavy. A Contest over a seat in the New Jersey Legislature, where there is now a demo- cratic majority of one on joint ballot, may possibly send into retirement the demo- cratic aspirants for Senator Frelinghuysen's Beat. Tne Loxpon Times is. doletully happy once more over the apparent failure of our constitution. Our English critics will yet learn that the constitution is a homemade article, and that its makers are perfectly competent to mend it whenever it shows need of repairs. Ir Axytnine can bring men of all denomi- nations together for religious exercises the memorial service over the victims of the Brooklyn tragedy will be largely attended Prominent leaders of widely to-morrow. differing faiths have been requested to officiate. Pansipest Wrrsn, of the Centennial Board of Finance, has heartlessly taken away from the newspapers the chance to abuse him for not repaying the government Centennial loan. He says that it is for the courts to interpret the word “profit,” upon which hangs the whole case. As the receipts of the Exhibition did not cover the outlay Uncle Sam will not get his money back if the courts are supplied with dictionaries, published every | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, U DECEMBER 9, 1876. —TRIPLE SHUET. Let Pre mt Grant Resign. We are approaching a dangerous crisis. Our institutions are about to undergo’ the severest strain ever put upon them. The ship is in the surging waters, which dash and roar around the borders of the mael- strom, even if it be not already within the edge of the circling current, which may whirl it round and round with ever increas- ing force and velocity until it is swallowed up in the fatal vortex. For the first time in our history the Presidential election has been so close that, at the distance of a month after its. occurrence, it is doubtful who is entitled to the office. A contest which began six months ago by appeals to public opinion has passed into a disgraceful competition of rival craft and cunning, Each party has come so near to victory, and there is so much real ground for doubt, that unscru- pulous tricksters on both sides are | ready to resort to any species of chi- canery, to any dodge or juggle, by which there’ is the slightest chance of foiling their opponents. Nothing is so demoralizing as a struggle for power be- tween contestanis each of whom seems to have victory almost within his grasp. All history attests that this kind of tempta- tion is too powerful to be with- stood by men of average virtue. In this country it operates upon men who had no public virtue to lose; men whose con- sciences were long ago blunted and seared by participation in unscrupulous politics; men of the debased type, who regard any means as fair by which they can attain their ends. Only consider what a campaign of quib- bling sharp practice has succeeded the reg- ular canvass which closed in November! What took place in Oregon on Wednesday is a natural sequel to the cavilling subter- fuges which have been the order of the day for the last three weeks in South Carolina, in Louisiana, in Florida. Who believes that the sharp Oregon manauvre would have been resorted to if the success of the democratic candidate had not seemed to be suspended on a single vote? Who believes that the Southern returning boards would have thrown out the Tilden votes if the elec- tion of Hayes had not been staked on those three States? State rights, State laws and federal laws have been alike warped and twisted in the desperate struggle of miscre- ant politicians for success. A trick in Ver- mont on one side, a bolder and more astute trigk in Oregon on the other side; uncertainty as to the real _ state of the vote in Lonisiana, Florida ani South Carolina; disputes as to the twenty-second joint rule; disputes as to the power of one or both houses to go behind the certificates of the Electoral Colleges; propositions for electing a new Presi- dent pro tempore of the Senate, to inherit the office of President if there should be no choice; claims that the House of Representatives have the sole power of deciding whether an exigency has arisen which requires it to elect a President. These are among the distracting features of the situation which make ‘‘ confusion worse confounded” and foreshadow a pandemo- nium of angry strife in the closing month of President Grant's administration It resembles the scene in ‘Macbeth’ where the assembled witches, plotting mis« chief in the disposal of a crown, flung their monstrous ingredients into the horrible hell- broth they were brewing, and all joined in the chorus after the contribution of each infernal hag— Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble. The fable of the witches was the poet's striking mode of representing the seditious and hell-born passions which agitate ambi- tions human minds and spur them on in a mad pursuit of power. We have as many ingredients of trouble and mischief in our seething political caldron as those odious midnight hags threw into theirs. Our politicians may be led on, step by step, as Macbeth was, to horrors not contemplated in the beginning. There is no passion so domineering and re- morseless as ambition inflamed by hope, and this passion, like the demons in sacred writ, may take possession of our poli- ticians and ‘lead them whithersoever it will.” Nobody can foreseo how far he. may be hurried when he is once drawn within the edge of the maelstrom. He may intend only one or two giddy whirls around its outer border, but the force of the revolving current may narrow the circles until passion and impetuosity sweep him, against his will, into the engulfing vortex. A maelstrom is not a thing to be played with, and this country, with its precious freight of popular institutions, is already on the peril- ous borders of a mighty political maelstrom. The waters above the Niagara rapids are smooth enough in appearance, but the fated boat which trusts their seeming smoothness is certain to be swept down the cataract. professions and intentions of our political | parties! The country was never before in such peril as it is at present. Not at all. But even then peace was not despaired of until the firing on Sumter stirred public passions to their profound- est depths. Why did that small in- | cident set the whole country | blaze? It was because the public mind had been rendered so combustible by previous discussions that any chance spark sufficed to kindle a conflagration. The public passions are becoming equally in- flammable in this perilous conjuncture, and as the accidental upsetting of a lamp in of Chicago, parched to tinder by dry prairie winds, into a blackened mass of ruins, so the merest political accident, in the excited state of feeling which is now upon us, may set our free popular institu- tions, under which we have so long pros- | pered, in a consuming blaze. If this Presidential contest leads to scenes of violence the civil war was a small danger in comparison. In that war we had a gov- ernment. Both branches of Congress had strong Union majorities, and there was perfect concert between Congress and the Executive. The government was not only efficient by its compact unity, but was doubly strong in the unanimous popular support of the loyal States. Men and money were | freely voted for the preservation of the | Let nobody be deceived by the peaceful | “But you forget the great crisis of 1861.” | in al a cow stable converted the doomed city | | mistakes might be easily made, and, in fact, Union, and there was no hiteh or FREI ment by parts of the governmental team pulling in contrary directions. The ter- ritorial war between the North and the South had all the essential fea- tures of a foreign war. of the United States had complete com- mand of the resources of the loyal States, and moved on with as little difficulty or dis- sension as if it had been a war with Mexico or with England. But, if the present controversy be pushed to the point of violence, the country will drift like o steamship whose screw has been broken and its rudder swept away bya tempest. We shall be without a government. With the Senate in the hands of one party and the House in the hands of the other the government will be virtually dissolved. As it requires the consent of both houses to vote either men or money a conflict between the two will deprive the government of all resources. It will | be as “helpless as a disabled ship in the trough of the sea. The result will be anarchy. ‘Tho contest will not be between one great geographical section and another great geographical section, but be- tween the intermingled citizens of every State, city and township in the United States. We shall then realize the horrors of a veritable civil war, in which neighbors and kindred seek to cut one another's throats. war between the North and the South was a bagatelle in comparison. In the excited state of public feeling likely to prevail dur- ing this winter any trivial but inflammatory accident may precipitate us into anarchy. What can be done to avert so terrible a calamity? Ofcourse all good citizens will counsel peace and forbearance, as they did in the memorable winter of 1860-61; but history shows how little fhat amounts to. We need some better guarantee tor the peace of the country. We do not want this Gordian knot cut by thesword. The impending crisis is of such a nature that a bold man in com- mand of the army might step in and rescue the country from anarchy by assuming im- perial powers. This is one of the conjunc- tures in which ambitious military chiefs have so often waded through slaugh- ter to supreme power. ‘The worst feature of the present situation is the fact that we have at the head of the government and in command of the army a man of strong will, consummate military talents and singular ambition. He has so strong a motive for letting this dangerous controversy drift into the domain of violence that he is not o safe man to be at the head of the government in such a crisis. This civil controversy should be decided by civil and peaceful methods. But there stands over it, likea gigantic spectre looming up in the horizon, a great and successful soldier, of unrivalled military talents, who may see in this polit- ical complication a possibility of gratifying his natural instincts. Is he a safe man to be at the head of the govern- ment in such a crisis? Even if the contest lay between the two party candidates the presence of a vigorous, able soldier, de- voted tothe fortunes of one of them would give an unfair advantage. The supporters of Hayes are emboldened to strain the law and trample on evidence #0 long as they feel that they have ao military chieftain at the head of the government virtually pledged to sustain them. It gives them the advan- tage of playing the game with loaded dice and provokes the democrats to stubborn re- sistance by the fear tl ey are not to have fair play. We therefore hold it to be the patriotic duty of President Grant to resign his office for the good of his coun- try. Senator Ferry, or whoever may be his legal successor for the remaining few weeks of his term, will stand in the position of a mere civil officer of the government. He will possess all the constitutional powers of the present Executive, but he cannot superadd the power and ambition ofa soldier to the authority of the Chief Magistrate. Mr. Ferry, strong partisan as he is, could not be suspected of a wish to turn this dispute t his personal advantage His bias as a partisan would not subject him to the suspicion of sinister personal aims. If the President is a patriot the emoluments of office for a few weeks will be readily surrendered to relieve the apprehensions of the country. The contesting claims of the Presidential candidates ought to be decided in accordance with law. With a civilian at the head of the government the law will havé a better chance to be heard. What- ever phase the controversy may assume Mr, Ferry could not be suspected of sinister aims, whereas President Grant cannot es- cape this suspicion. His resignation would remit the decision of the Presidential ques- tion to purely civil methods, undisturbed by the military element. The pence of the country and the permanence of our institu- tions require that law, and not soldiership, shall determine the result. Identifying the Dead, Surely the Brooklyn fire was terrible enough without adding the horrors of mis- management at the Morgue. Yet it appears that the manner in which the identification of the dead was attempted was unsyste- matic, and in some cases extremeiy careless. Persons who claimed to have found the bodies of their friends were permitted to remove them without the being clearly proved. No proper record of the number thus removed has been made, and thus the list of the ‘missing” is larger than it ought tobe. The disfigura- tion of the bodies by fire is so great that one corpse was positively identified by two claimants, and the dispute was only decided by finding a gold ring upon its finger. The proof of identity ought to be very great be- fore the Coroner consents to deliver a body to the claimant, for the suspicion of a mis- take would cause much distress hereafter in families. Another reason for a strict investigation of every claim is shocking to consider and yet must not be neglected. It is to be feared that there are men who would not hesitate to pre- tend to recognize a corpse to gain Possession | of it for mercenary advaftage. These are the ghouls who would gather up the sacred relics of the dead to sell them to the sur- geons or to keep them as curiosities, | The geographical | { The government | | not legal votes. ‘| north of the lakes developed southward trath | Plain Facts in the ‘Oregon Case. The Oregon situation adds s new compli- cation to the election trouble, and one which, under different circumstances, would | be much deplored. If Governor Hayes had received one hundred and eighty-five clear and undisputed electoral votes the action of the Canvassing Board and Governor in that State would scarcely find an apologist. If the reversal of the will of a small major- ity of the Oregon people were not set off by the supposed reversal of the will of a small majority of tho people of South Carolina and Florida, and of a very largo majority of the people of Louisiana, Governor Grover, his Secretary of State and the democratic elector, Mr. Cronin, would be denounced as warmly by all honest citizens as they are now denounced by republican partisans. But, after all, tho questions raised by the action of the Oregon authorities must be settled by the test of the law and the facts in the case. The republicans have insisted that the State canvassers and returning boards, whether their functions are judicial or ministerial only, must be the judges of what are and what are President Grant in his let- ter to General Sherman ordering the United States Army to superintend, as it were, the canvass of the returns in the Southern States, spoke of the duty of secing that all the votes “actually cast” were honestly counted, and the republicans as well as the democrats have conceded that the phrase “the votes actually cast” bears only one meaning, to wit, the votes ‘‘legally” cast. The Governor and Canvassing Board of Oregon have pronounced the votes cast for the federal Postmaster not ‘‘legally” cast, and have given the certificate of election as a Presidential elector to Mr. Cronin, the next highest on the list. It is complained by the republicans that this decision is wrong, because it elects a minority candi- date, and that, even if Mr. Watts, the Postmaster, was not elected, Mr. Cronin, who had not a majority of the votes, could not claim to be elected. But it must be remembered that not one of the eight Louisiana electors received a ma- jority of the votes cast, and it is only by throwing out the votes adjudged by the State canvassers alone to have been illegally cast that they can be declared elected. It matters not what made the illegality ; the decisions in Oregon and Lonisiana seem to be parallel cases, and are made by the same State au- thority. It is urged, in addition, that of the three electors declared elected in Oregon, two of whom were republican and one democratic, the two, being a majority, had a clear right to filla vacancy, while the one democrat, being a minority, had no such right. The two republicans who were declared elected did actually meet, fill up their number on the presumption that there was a vacancy, and cast three votes for Hayes. It is claimed that as these two were actually de- clared elected by the Governor's certificate, their action was legal, and, as they were a majority of the college, this position must be conceded, provided a vacancy existed. The only doubtful point is whether they could override the Governor's certificate and declare that a vacancy existed when Mr. Cronin, their associate, who bore that cer- tificate, had not resigned, but was prepared to act with them. Could they, in fact, ig- nore the Governor's certificate as far as it related to Mr. Cronin and thus make a va- cancy to fill? As to Mr. Cronin, if the de- cision of the Secretary of State, acting as a State board of canvassers, and of the Goy- ernor really made him a legal elector, which is very doubtful, it is difficult to understand how he could, as a minority of the college, declare that two vacancies existed, and pro- ceed to fill them. Indeed, the case is full of doubtful points, which can only be settled by a review by Congress of the action of the Oregon Canvassing Board and Governor. | But if Congress can go behind the electoral returns authenticated by the Governor's certificate in the case of Oregon can it not do so in the case of every other State in the Union? The Weather—A Great Storm. The prevailing conditions yesterday morn- ing did not indicate the change that took place in the Northwest and the lake region as the day advanced. The depression of Wednesday passed eastward and was cen- tral, with a reduced area, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The pressure in the West and Northwest was rising very gradually, but. there was nothing within the sphere of observation to indicate the approach of a storm centre. Yesterday afternoon, however, a small area of low pressure with great rapidity, and a correspond- ing and parallel increase of pressure oc- | curred to the westward, which brought the two areas close together with a barometric difference of over 1.25 inches. The result has been a sudden and general snow and rain fall all over the Platte, Lower Missouri, Upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the | region of the lakes, with gales of remark- able violence at many points within the area named. To give an idea of the extent of the influence of the storm the following information regarding it is presented:—Last evening snow was falling at Burlington, Vt. ; Gairo, Ill. ; Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio; Grand Haven and Sangeen, Mich. ; Erie, Pa.; La Crosse, Wis. ; Louteville, Ky. ; Ottawa, Montreal, Port Huron and Parry Sound, Canada, and all the intervening, country. The rain and snow area now ex- tends from the Missouri Valley to Vermont. Accompaning the storm high winds and gales have prevailed at the following prin- cipal points :—Cairo, Ill., 30 miles per hour; Escanaba, Mich., 32; Grand Haven, 39 ; La Crosse, Wi 32; Leavenworth, Kan., 29; Milwaukee, 32; St. Louis, 42; St. Paul, 24; Yankton, 28, and Omaha, 28, The interven- ing country, embracing an area of over four hundred thousand square miles, is pro- portionately affected by the winds. The sudden fall of temperature is also re- markable. While the morning records have been comparatively high, those of the after- noon, and usually the warmest part of the day, show an extraordinary fall. In the | Northwest the afternoon temperatureat Pem- bina was 21 degrees; Breckenridge, 19; Fort Garry, 17; Duluth, 14; St. Paul, 12; La Crosse, 8; Yankton, 4, and Fort Sully 1 de- gree below zero. At Omaha it was only one degree above zero. The isobars through the Upper Mississippi Valley are very close, giv- ing a barometric gradient- descending eastward of about 16 of an inch to the hundred miles, To this is due the violent winds on the western margin of the depres- sion now central over the upper lakes. A high pressure has also manifested itself in the Southwest, which has produced brisk winds on the Texas coast. It is certain that the temperature will fall considerably lower in the West during to-day. The weather at New York will be cold and cloudy, probably with light rain or snow, and high winds, followed by intense cold. The canals will probably be closed for the season by the coming cold wave, The Three Stricken States. There is no material change in the situa- tion of the three disturbed Southern States. Both parties appear to be proceeding with the work of strengthening their positions while preserving the peace. In Florida the feeling against the Returning Board is very bitter. The majority of the Board, disregarding the injunction of the Court, which sought to restrain them from canvassing tie State vote and declaring the result, have concluded the alleged count and announced the election of Governor Stearns by a small majority. Attorney General Cocke, obeying the order of the Court, refused ‘to sign the returns, anid claims that the law requires the action of the Canvassing Board to be concurrent. The conservatives are anxious for the ar- rival of the Congressional committee, in the apparent expectation that its action will better their condition. In Louisiana the democrats intend to in- augurate General Nichols, who they insist is the legally elected Governor, and to con- vene their Legislature independently of the republicans and ignore the action of the Returning Board. Governor Kel- logg is said to be straining every effort to win over conservatives conceded to be elected to the Legislature, to act with the republicans, after the fashion of 1875, He evidently believes that another ‘‘compro- mise” may be effected. In South Carolina the real trouble of the Chamberlain government has already com- menced. On the application of a number of taxpayers, Judge Carpenter has granted an injunction restraining the city banks which hold the State deposits, the pro- ceeds of taxation, from paying checks signed by the Chamberlain State Treas- urer. The Treasurer, under tho law of the State, holds for a term posi- tively fixed, and not until his suc- cessor is appointed. The bond he gives is released at the expiration of his term, which was on the 2dinst. The applica- tion for the injunction sets forth that Gov- ernor Chamberlain, being declared elected by the Mackey House, already adjudged by the Supreme Conrt to be illegal, is not the Governor of the State; hence any new bond filed by the State Treasurer on the basis of Chamberlain’s inauguration is illegal and worthless. Thus the whole question of the legality of Chamberlain's title and of the Mackey House comes up in the case. This money trouble is, as we have said, the rock on which Chamberlain's government is destined to be wrecked. No armed intervention, short of martial law and military rule, can save it from the ulti- mate power of the State courts. Mr. The peaceful retirement of Mr. Andrew H. Green from the office of Comptroller of the city of New York is o graceful compliment to his old and valued friend, Mr. John Kelly. For somb time disturbing rumors have filled the air to the effect that the city was to be plunged into litigation over the interpretation of the language of our re- markable charter. Mr. Green wasalieged to be resolved to hold possession of the Finance Department until the new Court House building should be undermined by man- damuses, battered with quo warrantoes and riddled with injunctions. It was supposed that through the slow process of the law the people would for months, probabiy for years, be spared the unusual sight of Mr. Andrew H. Green out of office. But contrary to general expectation, our—alas! must we write the words?—our “late” excellent Comptroller greeted his successor with the brief and courteous query “You say you are my successor to this office ?” and then putting on his hat and overcoat left the scene of his five years’ labor without another word. Mr. Green has been an honest Comp- troller, and if he had not been obstruc- tive, arrogant and uncomfortable, might have been a very good one. If only from the force of habit the people will miss him from public life; will miss the constant rattling of his newspaper artillery and his periodical assaults on laborers and scrub- women. Who now will rap the Mayor over the knuckles, bandy words with the Park Commission, snub the Commissioners of Accounts and supply hot water to the City Hall generally? However, it is not probable that Mr. Green will long remain out of office, The very idca that he will is prepos- terous. But the people owe him a debt of gratitude for retiring gracefully from the Green Retires. ’| Gomptrollership and sparing them a last lawsuit. He has given us litigation enough in his time, It is a kindness on his part to let us have peace at last. Mr. Green is so reticent that we are ignorant of the con- siderations that induced him to retire without a fight. Probably the numer- ous delegations that wanted him for Mayor gave him good advice, The con- tractors may have found that he could be of no further use to them, The blind men may have been unable to see anything in the case he made out against the authority of the Mayor to appoint his successor, However this may be, we are impressed with the conviction that it is a wise pro- vision of the charter which says (section 113):—“No appropriation or payment for the contesting of the office of Mayor, or any seat in the Board of Aldermen, or office in any department, or the office of any officer | whose salary is paid from the city treasury, shall be made to any but the prevailing party.” Cotoxen Oxcort assures us that we can be burned fora dollar and sixty cents each, . We know of thousands of people who would pay twice as much to be sur> of not being burned at all after decease. The Latest Centennial Exploit. The latest exploit of the Philadelphians in connection with the Exposition is not a pleasant one to contemplate, and will go far to justify many harsh phrases applied to the authorities by persons who, like M. Du Sommerard, do not readily enter into the spirit of democratic self-assertion. At the time complaints were made last summer by French exhibitors that their goods were stolen, a certain employé of the commission was arrested and tried tor theft. He was not found guilty, which doubtless was for want of evidence satisfactory to the jury ; but be- tween such an escape and innocence there is sometimes a large interval. This man, upon his acquittal, was reinstated in his em- ployment. Doubtless the Commissioners thought this due to the man. It would have been an evidence of sound judgment and good taste if they had thought what was due to exhibitors and to the character of the Exposition. Upon the protest ofthe French authorities the officer was re- moved from their quarters, and he seems to have interpreted their protest as an imputa- tion on his honesty, and very likely it was one. This person yesterday caused the ar- rest of Captain Aufrey, of the French Lega- tion; the French Vice Consul at Philadelphia and the French Consul in this city, on a suit forslander. This is simply a vexatious pro- cess that is an outrage on the representatives of a foreign country and a disgrace to Phila- delphia; for the machinery of justice is per- verted to the purpose of private malice. It remains to be seen whether the parties to this violation of diplomatic privilege are not amenable to the law. A Wild Propositien. Our special despatch from Washington shows that the excitable portion of the re« publicans in that city have been very badly frightened by the Oregon spectre, Some of them display their alarm by proposing all manner of wild and _ revolutionary schemes to head off what they believe is a threatening obstruction in their way, after the fashion of persons who on the first alarm of fire begin throwing their china and looking glasses out of the window. One proposition is that the Senate shall re- fuse to go into joint session to count the electoral votes ; but'this plan has scarcely the merit of Boys as it has heretofore been suggested by angry democrats as the proper course for the House to pursue. Another scheme is, if the election should go into the House of Representatives, for the republican members all to absent them-° selves, so as to prevent the constitutional quorum ‘of two-thirds of the States. But these astute plotters forget that the quorum required by the constitution for choosing the President consists of ‘2 member or mem- bers from two-thirds of the States.” With Colorado there are thirty-eight States, two- » thirds being twenty-six. The democrats have ‘a member or members” in all but eight States, those in which they are unrepresented being Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Colorado, In three States only—Iowa, Kansas and Michigan—their representation is confined to one member, and in Michi- gan there are two independents, The democrats have a majority represen- tation in four more than one-half of the States, so that the scheme to defeat an election, if the House should be called upon to choose a President, is absurdly impossible, All these proposi- tions to resort to tricks and technicalities to settle a great and grave question are reprehensible, from whichever side they may come. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Atlanta wants to sell only for cash. Milton Sayler 1s lazy and gentile and luxurious. There is canvasback shooting on the Chesapeake, Senator Dawes wears hair oil and long wristb&nds, Mr. John Roach, the shipbuilder, is in Washington, Mary Clemmer calis Henry Watterson acosset lamb, SSwinbarne has a thin, contracted and retreating chip. Bailey while lecturing lets his hair grow like a bustle. Randall has jet-black hair and a high metallic voice. It 18 colder in the South than ithas been for many years. Colonel Lamar says that the Hayes-Roberts story ir untrue, Mrs. Secretary Fish wears black velvet, with creamy old lace. Viscount Grimston, of England, is at the Hotel Brunswick. Miss Carpenter, cere of tho ox-Senator, ts visit- , ing Mrs. Sartoris. A girl in love should never seek advice from a biack- eyed woman, ‘The oysters of the Gulf of California are to be sold in San Francisco. Mr, G. Watson James is the editor of the revived Riebmona Enquirer. Vermont supplied as many carpet-baggers to the South as any other State. Hon, Calob Cushing, it is understood, will return from Spain in the spring. William Walter Phelps has almost entirely recovered from his summer’s sickness. Senator Price, of West Virginia, is sixty-five, and hag white hair and a white goatee. Essipoff 18 likened to in short, a kind of po: Senator Conkling’s eyes are still weak, and he has neuraigia, but wil! soon be well. There is not enough excitement in the Senate for the aggressive Blaine, and ho says he feels like a cat ina strange garret, Mayor Cobb, of Boston, alarmed by the Brooklyn a fire, has ordered that ail places of amusement in that city be inspected. Senator Blaine’s handsome bouquet which was placed on his desk on Monday was the gift of the wilco of a Treasury bureau officer. Tho Richmond Whig says of Wade Hampton:—“He possesses tho wisdom of a Clay and tho norve and vim of a Stonewall Jackson. Mr. R. v. Cartwright, Finance Minister of Canada, arrived from England in tho steamship Algeria, and is at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, Charics Fenno Hoffman was once a popular poct in this country, bat for twenty-six years he has been con fined in toe insane asylum at Harrisburg. | Waco, Texas, was couvulset witn laughter at the sight of a young man in beaver, bronde.oth and kite, driv ng an ox team and load of cotton into town. Evening Telegram bil of tare tor Shakespeare :— \ aabanatatanenta Me an neooceveresn cede sour. H Any pork Avon. Tame “Shrewsbury Oysters, RNTREKS. : Poached Eggs. ROAST. “Ham’-let, “As You Like It." VEGETARLES, L’ear of Uorn (French styie). GAME, From the Merchant of Venice-on, Twelfth Nightongales. DESSERT. Home-made pies vy the “Merry Wives”? i i | DRINKS. g + Ad tb bb Bb re HELE CEE EE BEL EDEOE DEES Even all round; 1m fact, “-Moasuro for Measure.” 3 Qrececceree-earseerereseseressee cere reaereeecereeert: