The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1877, Page 4

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VOLUME XLII AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGH FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Byaiisn Oren PARK THEATRE—-Crousuxy Tracavian, NEW YORK AQUARI EAGLE THEATRE—Ja GILMORE'S GARDE: WALLACK'S THEATRE-M BOOTH'S THEATRE—Riy Van Wines, BROADWAY THEATRE—Brvxut. GRAND OPERA HO! NCui Tom's CaBixe BOWERY THEATRE-Ox t NIBLO'S GARDEN: SAN SAN FRANCISCO M BRYANT'S OPERA HOU: TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanter OLYMPIC THEATRE, TONY PASTOR'S—Vani MEADE’S MIDGETS HALL WITH SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 6, 1877. Imrontant Notice to Apventisers.—To insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absohuely necessary thal they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports chis morning the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be very cold and cloudy, with rain or light snow, followed by clearing weather. Watt Srreet Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket continued dull and inactive and there was a general decline in prices at tho finish. Gold ad- vanced from 1025, to 1027 at the close under the pressure of news from Washington. Gov- ernment bonds remain steady, while State and railroad bonds are irregular. Money on call ‘was casy at 5 a 7 per cent, closing ut 6 per cent. Mr. Joun Keuty has found time to write tuother letter in regard to the city debt. Tho Comptroller is fast earning the reputation of the great American letter writer. Work Has Been Broun on the first section of the Gilbert Elevated Road and its comple- tion is promised early in March. It is three miles in length and begins at Forty-second strect. Tne Tria. or tue Ovvicers of the Popular Life Insurance Company on the charge of per- jury in swearing to false returns of their busi- ness will be watched with interest by the public. Whatever the result may be it will have a good effect on the managers of similar institutions, Tue Litre Femace sneak thief admitted her “sgguilt before the police magistrate yesterday. The scene in court was extraordinary. Her thetts amount to about fifteen hundred dollars, and her numerous victims who appeared against her were many of them moved to tears by her youth and seeming innocence. Tex Broxck, it looks now, will not again ap- pear on an Eastern course for sometime. It has been decided not to start him in the race to-day aguinst Parole, which will be a great disappoint- ment. All the other contests at Jerome Park will, however, come off unless the weather proves to be exceedingly unfavorable. A Lanes Number or Eseerment Surts have been entered against the striking cigarmakers, which cannot but add to the complications and difficulties of the situation. Aguin it is reported that contracts have becn mado with large num- bers of Chinese, who will arrive here in a few weeks. The winter prospect for those out of employment is gloomy, and if those who lead them are at all wise they will endeavor to make @ compromise as 800n as possible. Turre Seems to be a difference of opinion among the trustees and engineers of the Brook- lyn Bridge in regard to the kind of steel to be used in a portion of the work now under construction, This is a very important matter, and the decision of s0 serious a question ought not to be left to the chance vote of any one who fs not an expert. The city is spending an enor- mous amount of money on this structure, and it ought in some way see that it is spent wisely. Tue Weatiten. e rain storm is now mov- ing along a line southward and parallel to the St. Lawrence Valley. The attendant rain arca extends westward to the Mississippi River and eastward into the Atlantic, embracing Upper Canada and the Middleand New England States. As we stated in erday’s Henan, the depres- sion is surrounded by the sharp curvature of the tone of high pressure, and, therefore, having no outlet through w its area can extend so as to produce a diminution, geta energy. From all sides the winds pour toward the centre of lowest pressure, preserving the organization of the storm, However, as it approaches the Atlantic coast there are indications that the storm avill decrease in severity. The high pressure to the castward of its centre is moving in that direction more rapidly than the high pressure to the westward follows the dis- turbance. Hence, while the area of low barom- eter increases in diameter the wind velocities must diminish, During the early morning of yesterday a very low temperature caused the precipitation on the northern and west- ern quadrants of the storm to take the form of snow. Our special reports show that the storm of wind, rain and snow was fear- fully severe on Lake Michigan. Another and temporarily distinct depression oceurs on the Gulf coust, attended by very heavy rains, which extend from Texas to Florida and as far north as Tennessee. This disturbance will probably be dissipated during to-day, but with the low pressure area in the north will form the elements of another storm which will be organized on or near the coust of Europe. As the north- ern disturbance has advanced so far to the eastward, the weather west of the Allegha nies will clear rapidly, with very cold northerly to northwesterly winds. The highest tempera- ture is now on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the lowest in the West and Northwest. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will a | of the next Legislature they will be able to | reapportion the State according to their | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1877.-WITH S The State Elections To-Day,. Elections are to be held to-day in twelve States—namely, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vir- ginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minne- sota, Nebraska and Mississippi. It would be bewildering to follow such a multitude in minute detail, nor is there any reason why readers should be tired with a particular discussion of transient phases of politics which have only a local interest. Except to the citizens of each State its politics mean nothing beyond its own boundaries unless they have an obvious bearing on the general politics of the Union. We may therefore lay out of view, as intelligent read- ers will in perusing the election re- turns, the greater part of these twelve States. Mere statistical details relating to the ordinary course of elections in distant States are ‘‘as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage,” and should be left to local journals which address tho limited public, which alone takes any interest in them. We accordingly pass with a bare mention the States whose elections havo no national bearing or significance. In Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Mis- sissippi it isso much ao matter of course that the democrats will elect their tickets that a New York journal would put the patience of its readers to a needless test by a recital of the names of men who are running for local offices and by a description of petty features which would bore readers who aro not residents of those States. The same remark applies with equal force to local elections in States like Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, where the success of the republicans is be- yond question. There are but three of the twelve States in which elections are held to- day where the results can be of national significance. These three are New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. We will bestow a hasty glance upon these in the to be the opinion of the coolest judges that the State will go democratic, although it gave Mr. Hayes a majority of 18,000 last year. The loss of Ohio almost necessarily entailed the loss of Pennsylvania, and the bestowal of the English mission is not likely to prove a trump card, The only other State whose election has a direct bearing on national politics is Massa- chusetts. The Republican State Conven- tion unequivocally indorsed the policy of President Hayes, and the loss of that State would be almost as mortifying as was that of Ohio. Massachusetts has been a much stronger and steadier republican State than Ohio, and if the democrats should carry it to-day the republican opponents of Mr. Hayes will flaunt the result as a signal rebuke of the policy of the President. But, in spite of several adverse influences, weincline to think that the republicans will retain control of the State. They are handicapped with an unpopular candidate for Governor, while Mr. Gaston, the democratic candidate, is a great favorite in his own party. Besides, Wendell Phillips is running as the candidate of two separate organizations, and will draw off more republican than democratic votes. In consequence of these adverse in- fluences the republican majority in Massa- chusetts is likely to be small, but the pres- ent indications are that by some majority, greater or less, but one largely reduced from Mr. Hayes’ majority of 40,000 last year, tho republicans will carry the State. ‘The elec- tion returns to-morrow will he closely scanned with reference to tho result in the three States of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Spain and Caba. In the Spanish decree for the exemption of certain Cuban interests trom taxation for five years may be seen a substantial evi- dence of the liberal spirit of the Ministry toward a country that has experienced in order in which we have just named them, In all of them the broad interest of the re- sult, beyond their own limits, lies in their bearing on the question whether the policy of President Hayes is indorsed by the people and by his own party. To begin, then, with Now York. There is no other State in which the policy of the President has been so contomptuously flouted by his own party as it was in thes Republican State Convention at Rochester. After that strange performance there is no reason why Mr. Hayes should feel that the credit of his administration is in any degree staked on the result of the New York elec- tion, The State did not support him last year, but gave Mr. Tilden a majority of more than thirty thousand. Even if the Presi- dent had been strongly indorsed at Roches- ter there is no reason why he should be mortified by a repetition of that democratic victory. To have lost his own State of Ohio, which gave him a majority in the Presidential election, was, no doubt, keenly felt os a personal and political humiliation, but for New York to go now as it went last year need not hurt Mr. Hayes’ pride or sensitiveness, even if Senator Conkling had permitted him to be indorsed by the State Convention of his own party. But, considering how strangely the Roches- ter Convention ‘acted, we do not see that President Hayes has any interest in the re- sult of the New York election. An indorse- ment of Conkling would bo a plain con- demnation of the President, but, on the other hand, a democratic success cannot harm him in a State which Mr, Tilden car- ried by more than four times his own ma- jority in Ohio. ‘The republican vote of the State may fall off, but the dem- ocratic vote will also fall off, both parties losing by the lack of interest in an unimportant election. If there shoald be a larger proportional decline in the republican than in the democratic vote it might be accounted for either on the ground of republican dissatisfaction with the President's policy or as an expression of republican disgust at the insulting attitude of the Rochester Convention toward Presi- dent Hayes. ‘Tho last of these two explana- tions will be thought quite as plausible as the first, and wo do not see that Mr. Hayes needs to concern himself about the result of the New York election. There is almost a certainty.that the democrats will elect their State ticket ; but their prospect is not nearly so good for securing the Legislature. Al- though the ‘Vilden electoral ticket last year had a majority of 32,738 the republicans elected a handsome majority of the Assembly. The State is so districted that the democrats have not a fair chance to clect the Legisla- ture. Since the State census of 1865 New York, Brooklyn and other democratic strongholds have gained largely in popula. | tion, and a just reapportionment, according to the census of 1875, should give them as good a chance to elect Legislature as to elect State candidates. But the republi- cans have for two years inexcusably neg- | lected to reapportion the State, and tho democrats are under a great and unjust dis- advantage in voting for members of the Legislature, It is altogether more impor- tant for the democratic party of the State to elect the Legislature this year and securo an honest apportion- ment than it is to elect their State candidates. enough to have a majority in both branches own ideas, and the election of a democrat to succeed Mr. Conkling in the federal Senate would be as certain as anything future can be in American politics, ‘Lhe Pennsylvania election is of more in- terest to the country at large than that of New York, because Pennsylvaniais a here- tofore republican State which scems likely to be lost, while New York is only a demo- cratic State that is likely to remain demo- In their State Convention the re« publicans of Pennsylvania did not ignore the President's policy, like the republi- cans of Maine; did not insultingly con- demn it, like the Republican Convention of New York; did not fully indorse it, like the State Convention of their party in Massachusetts, but gave it a halting and qualified support. ‘That Mr. Hayes has been anxious about the Pennsylvania elec- tion is proved by his strange attempts to cratic, If they should be fortunate | almost the last possible degree the dovasta- tions of war. Under this decree, by the ex- tréme latitude of its terms, the grater part of the property in the island must be re- leased from the burden of contributions; and unless the contributions were be- fore enormously in excess of the needs of government in the island, it will be necessary now to supply ordinary expen- ditures even from somo other source. Is this deficienoy to bo supplied from Spain? Are the already overtaxed people of the Pe- ninsula to bear the weight of new taxes for the support of this liberal and even gener- ous policy toward Cuha? If so, Spain cer- tainly gives an indisputablo evidence of her disposition to make great sacrifices for her pride in holding on to this remnant of the Spanish colonial dominion. Will this meas- ure to encourage the introduction of capital prove effective? Security is the one indis- pensable condition of such o success, It is of no advantage to offer premiums of this nature for the reconstruction of estates if the government cannot make sure that the same elements which at first destroyed them shall not destroy them again. It was de clared to a Herat correspondent in Madrid, some days since, by the Minister of State, that the Spanish force in Cuba was onc hun- dred thousand men, ‘here must be still great vitality in a rebollion that can only be repressed by such numbers; but it is scarcely possible thatsuch an army, handled with only ordinary talent, cannot guarantee any designated sections of country against incursions, and there is every reason to be- lieve that the army is now well handled with a view to that specific purpose. Congress Yesterday. Nine hundred bills were introduced in the Housea week ago, and yesterday a fresh stock of nearly two hundred was luidin. At this rate the printing and paper account of the present Congress will exceed that of four or five of its predecessors put together, and the statutes at large, if those passed beara reasonable ratio to those introduced, will assume startling proportions. ‘Lhe passage of Mr. Bland’s silver repudiation bill and the passage of a resolution making the bill for the repeal of the third section of the Resumption act the special order for to-day were the noteworthy features. The two re- quired and obtained a two-thirds majority. Mr. Buckner brought forward a measure looking to the restriction of the application of the fifteenth amendment to the constitu- tion, the object of which is to exclude the Chinese from tho suffrage. ‘he same gen- tleman had the courage to father a very toolish schemes for the establishment of a national university for women at the capital. The bill transferring the Indians to the War Department ought to be passed; also the bill of Mr. Phillips, of Kansas, creating postal savings banks, as suggested by the Henaup. Mr. Wood succeeded in securing the adoption of resolutions in regard to the Spanish tonnage tax and to the four per cent syndicate, on which subjects ho ap- pears to be exceedingly anxious for some information, The Senate was not in ses- sion, Now for the Ballot Box. The polls open this morning at six o’clock and close at four o'clock in the afternoon. ‘The law fixes these hours. The excitement of the canvass is now over, electioneering has ceased, and the sound of the dreadful travelling bell designed to call people out tothe several district meetings will, hap- pily, be silenced until another general elec- tion day rolls round. The people have by this time made up their minds how to cast their ballots, and if they vote in accordance with their conscientious belief in the merits of the candidates they support they will havo the satisfaction of knowing that they have done their duty as good citizens. The unanimous nomination of J udge Brady for the Supreme Court—a de- served tribute to purity and ability on the bench—renders his election certain however the political strife nay result, Tho same qualities that won for Judge Brady the high compliment he has received ought to insure the election of ex-Judge Loew. Probably before these lines meet the eyes of the render the bulk of the yote will have been cast, for people are now ac- eustomed to get their bullots into the boxes atan early hour of the day. But if any conciliate the republicans of that State by be very cold and elondy, with rainor light snow, followed by clearing weather. , have not yet discharged tho duty of an |. means of the English mission. But it seems | elector they should proceed to the polls at \ once, The registration is by no means o large one and should be as fully polled as possible. It is a discouraging sign for good government when a people desert the battot box, even in an election of less than ordi- nary interest and importance, Inflation Rampant in the House. The mischievous inflation measure known as the Bland Silver bill, which passed the House of Representatives yesterday by more than a majority of the entire number of members, has, we are happy to say, no chance of becoming a law. ‘The Senate is not at all likely to pass it, and the Presi- dent may be relied on to veto it if by any chance it should slip through. This assurance, however, is by no means an offset to the deplorable spectacle of a majority of the popular branch of Congress aiming a deliberate blow at the national credit for tho sake of a little demagogery. The vote that followed on the anti-Resump- tion Dill shows that the dollar-of-our- daddyites are resolved to do nothing by halves. It is time, therefore, that the lines should be closely drawn. Secretary Sher- man’s position on the matter has been too uncertain. In his desire for a re- publican triumph in Ohio he coquetted so with the wild “isms” of the West that the administration’s views on the subject of inflation and resumption havo since been liable to misconstruction and, therefore, to misrepresentation. ‘The dol- lar-of-our-daddyites have not lost their chance, and behold one hundred and sixly- three out of the two hundred and ninety- three members of the House stand recorded on the side of the absurdity that the world must take as a dollar that which is not worth a dollar. They stand recorded in favor of the monumental dishonesty that such ao breach of faith with the nation’s creditors as paying them in a base coinage implies, The gentlemen who legislate for the igno- rance of their constituents do not, we sup- pose, charge their brains with the ramifica- tions of such a thing as the national credit. A foreign bondholder is a capital joke to them, and the thousands and thou- sands of savings bank depositors whom the bill would also rob are a pack of fools who do not know thai robbery is good for them, although they have had so much of it lately from thioves of another kind. It is enough for the dollar-of-our-daddyites if some po- litical quack has told them that silver is a salve for everything from soft boils to hard times. It is enough for some of tho sharper among them if they can make a charity market for somebody's bullion. We are told apologetically that certain ‘good men went wrong” yesterday in an involun- tary way and voted for the Bland bill be- cause they could get nothing more moder- ate, This is puerile. In defeating or de- ferring resumption there is some room for the plea of ignorance. An act of great stu- pidity may therein be perpetrated for want of ability to rise to the opportunities of the occasion, but no such excuse can avail with the Bland bill, which is stupidity and dis- honesty combined. Judge Loew for Register. When a man of the calibre of Judge Fred- erick W. Loew comes before the public as a candidate for an office of importance like the Rogistership it becomes a duty to vote for him, no matter who nominated him. An estimable citizen, a lawyer by profession and for years seated on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, he brings to the duties of Register an array of qualities em- inently desirable. The only objection it has been possible to urge against Judgo Loew is that he was put in nomination by a party machine. When, however, the ‘‘ma- chine” throws aside its ancient tactics and nominates a good man like Judge Loew we can see no objection to voting for him. The “machine” may nominate and may elect o man, but unless the man is good he will not mako a good official. When, however, the ‘‘machine” finds that it cannot make a Register unless it pomi- nates an able and honest man, the ‘‘machine” is losing its dangerous qualities. In the case of the office for which Mr. Loew isa candidate the man is everything and the “machine” nothing. This has been shown in the case of this very office of Register in years past when Tammany put a weak can- didate in the field. The people threw him aside and elected the strong man. Now, however, that the tables are turned—that the candidate it puts forward has all the advan- tages of character, ability and honesty—all, in fact, that can make the good official—we hope to see him elected. A Brooklyn Tragedy. The suffocation of a young mother and her child sixteen months old in the fire at Gates avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday fore- noon, is one of those exceedingly painful tragedies whieh occasionally send a thrill of horror through a community. The poor woman, in the midst of her daily household duties, in broad daylight, with life and activity all around her and not dreaming of any danger, found horself suddenly sur- rounded by devouring flames. She could not have had time to conjecture what had happened, but, seizing her child, was at- tempting to escape from the building, when the hot, suffocating smoke enwrapped and overpowered her, She was found on the landing of the third story which she oc- cupied, her baby strained convulsively to her breast, and both quite dead. Her husband was among the crowd outside, called to the fire from his work, and the bodies of his wife and child were carried tenderly from the building by the firemen and laid before him. Such an affliction, breaking down in an instant a lifetime of happiness and hope, is too painful to con- template. But who is responsible for this horrible tragedy? It appears that the scene of the fire was a row of eleven three story frame buildings, so flimsily constructed and so destitute of the most ordinary precautions against fire that it is a won- der they have not long ago been swept away by tho flames. ‘I'o increase the danger a baker had his ovens in a cellar of one of these traps for human life. It was in this bakery the contlagration commenced, the immediate cause being the upsetting of a kettle of boiling lard on the tire, Escapo from the stairway was instantly cut off by UPPLEMENT: the volumes of dense smoke which rolled upward, and, there being no partition walls, the flames rushed right and left through the spaces between the top ceilings and the roofs, just as if a train of gunpowder had been laid in their destroying way. Surely the fire and building authorities of the city ought not to have suffered such buildings to exist within the city limits. There must have been criminal carelessness or neglect somewhere, to which the poor mother and child owe their fate and the hus- band his bereavement. It is to be hoped that the matter will be properly investi- gated, for if the law permits such buildings within the fire limits of the city of Brook- lyn it must be greatly in need of revision, The Russians Still Advancing. The vigor with which the Russians aro pushing toward Orchanie must soon bring about .an engagement in that quarter which will . settle the fate of Sofia and either give the Russians the road to Adrianople or keep them close to the Danube for tlie rest of the year. Tho Turks must still have a good force for de- tensive operations there, although the bulk of the great army is shut up with Osman in Plovna, ‘he attack’ by Turks from south of the Balkans on the Russians posted near ‘Elena was probably intended as a feint to draw troops in that direction, but the Russians on the ground seem to have been able to take caro of themselves, and the operations on the Lom and around Plevna will proceed unembarrassed by this diversion. Suleiman Pacha is keeping very quiet for the fighting general which he is. In Armenia the outlook for the Russians is very bright. Kars is closely invested and Ghazi Moukhtar's ‘‘revenge” seems further off than ever. Mr. Potter and the Pacific Railroad Commission. The statement from Washington that Mr. Clarkson N Potter is reconsidering his refusal to serve as chairman of the Pacific Railroad Committee has, we aro assured on the best authority, no foundation whatever. The nice sense of propriety—unfortunately as rare as it is commendable—which prompted Mr. Potter to decline the un- expected honor tendered him by the Speaker would debar him from listening to any suggestion of a reversal of his action. ‘tho idea that Mr. Potter's with- drawal places the Speaker under any sort of obligation, imposed either by custom or courtesy, to advance to the chair- manship the second member of the commit- tee as originally announced is entirely cr- roneous, The Speaker is at liberty to fill the vacancy at the head of the committee in whatever manner he may deem proper, either by naming as chairman any one of tho remaining members of the committee or anew member. Hence Mr. Potter's declen- sion has neither placed the Speaker in an embarrassing position nor. been productive of any other inconvenience than a brief delay in the completion of the committee. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Whittier is poor, Bryant studies Cowper and economy, &£x-Sonator Logan's bair was born black, 2 The Thauksgiving turkey says “Give ug a robat.” McCrary is the moat sonsible looking man in the Cabinet The Whitehall Review says that thick tissues will bo fashionable. Fresh tomatoes and fresh tomcats have disappeared for the season, Stbinway Hall, London, will be opened the middio of this month. Reverdy Johnson ranked Morton with Webster, Clay and Calboun. President Hayes and Oakey Hall were classmates at Harvard Law School, Goldsmith Maid and Schuyler Colfax will no longer appear upon the turf. Kmergou {3 physically cadaverous and his style of writing 18 not very fat, Gladstone viously timid man who bas spasms of conscientious and indiscroet goabeaditivencss, The shawl ridden by Jeff Davis during tho late war of the rebellion bas died and ts to Dave a monumont, Pinwhools will not be worn uatil the next Fourth of July, but political orators in New Jersey are being bit with ‘nirm eggs. A note comos from Chicago saying that Julia Rivé, who is now Mr¢, King, has becn invited to travel with the English opera troupe, and that she bas declined, Tho Courier-Journal is nothing if not nothing. ‘It says that thonew Wolsnman of the United States to England 1s sugar refiner whose sands of life have neariy run out, ‘rho man who has a great sonse of his own !mpor- tance keeps his arms close to himself; the man who has a graud idea of the importance of bis position swiogs bis arms in aroundish mannor far (rom him. At Denver, Vol., there is such a thing a8 a “mom sociable,’?to whieh ton cents adinissivn is chargod, Ifa man speaks he 1s flued Oficen cents, bus the privi- lege of speaking, aud receives a ticket for relrosn- ments, London Punch:—“Botanical old geot (in the Brigh- ton Gardens)—Uan you tell mo, my good man, if this plant belongs to the “arbutus” family? Gardener (curtly)—‘No, sir, it doan’t, 1s b’longs to tho Cor- poration?’ ’” Loadon Fun ;—''She—‘How lovely tn the calin atill- ess Of eveulng to listen to the nightingale’s note,’ He—‘Ye'sb, he’s a doocid fine follow, ts the afghtia- gale; but 1 thay (bright idea), ho must be a beatnly noo’thance to all tho other little birdth that want to go to thiecp,’ President Hayes, the great American humorist, in hia speech, satd:—‘I—(laughter)—vog leave—(‘Hear, hoar!’)—to tell a littlo—(applause)—story. There was a man—(roars of laughter and three choers for the President of the United States)—who onco said—(‘Hear, hoarl’ and tumultuous applause)—that he wus not a gander, because ho was u goose, (Ili, yl, yl, yi, bip!’ Uproars @ apptaase, during which tho Presiaent of the United States leaned bia left obin on his right collar and smiled ‘beautiful.’) As I wus—(uproars of applause, drowned by the band)—saying—(hore the uproare of laughter were tumultuous, and the Presi deut said)—I introdaco to you (‘Hear, hear, hear, hear!’).”” Kyes have they, but they see noi—potatoes, Ears have they, but they hear not—corn stalks —Detroit Free Press. Arms have they, but they hug nsot— windmills. —Fonkers Gazette. Tongues bave they, but they talk not—wagons —Poughkeepsie Press, Legs bavo thoy, but they walk net—tables,—/oughkeepsie News, Heads have they, but they think not—cab, bages.—//udson Register, Hands have thoy, but they toll not—tramps,—Camden Post, Noses have they, but they smell not—pitchors.—New York Express Lips bavo they, bat they kiss not—tulips. —Phifadel- phia Bullen, Teeth have they, but they chow noi— bucksaws —Detrowt #ree Press. Wings have they, but they fly not—houses. Feet have they, but they walk not—verses,—Loston Globe, Panos have they, but they grumble not—windows —Lowell Courter. Joints have they, but they bend not—grain stalka, Hoarts have they, but they love not—troes, Diaphragms have they, but they sneezo not—shellfish, Pulso have they, but it throbs not—gardens,—Zosfon Advertiser, Moaths they have, but they speak not—rivers, Knees they havo, but they koeo! not—ships, Sculls they hava, but thoy think not—boats, Beards have they, but no hair—oyeters.—Joston Bulletin. Sinowa havo they, but they ain not—nowspaper mi Reads have they, but thoy go not head Urat—lobsters.<.New Yorn Hana TELEGRAPHC NEWS From All Parts of tha World. MACMAHON’S LAST DEFEAT, Republicanism Gains Another Great Triumph. COMPLETION OF THE NEW MINISTRY, Grant’s Visitors Paris. General in [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD] London, Nov. 6, 1877. Returns received .in Paris up to midnight show that 567 republicans and 350 conservatives have been elected to the Councils General The republe cans have gained eighty-five seats, and twenty-nine second ballots are necessary. MANY DISTRICTS UNHEARD FROM. Five hundred and sixty-eight districts still re main tobe heard from. It is not yet known how the republican gains are distributed, and consee quently how they affect the majorities in the varie ous Councils General. MODIFICATIONS, PROBABLE. This is animportant point. It is expected tha® when the complete returns are in the republican triumph will appear considerably modified. ADDITIONAL VICTORIES CLAIMED. The republicans, however, clati large gains in the elections for Councils of arrondissements, waich were held simultancously with those fog Councils General. CORRECTED LIST OF THE MINISTRY. The Paris Montteur of yesterday says the negotiaa tons for the formation of a new Cabinet have not yet been concluded, but it belicves that the list of Ministers will be as follows:— President of the Council and Minister of Ph nance—M. Pouyer-Quertier, Minister of the Iuterior—Baron Léon Le Guay. Minister of Foreign Affairs—M. de Vogtté. Minister of Justice—M. Delsob Minister of Public Instruction—M. Dumas, Minister of Public Works—M. Montgolfier, Minister of Agriculture—M. Clément, Minister of War—General Berthaut. Minister of the Marine—Admiral Gicquel deg Touches. ‘The last two are members of the preset Ministry, Baron Le Guay is a conservative Senator and sup porter of President MacMahon. YH LEP? PERSISTS 1N ITS POLICY. A Paris correspondent telegraphs the follow, ing:—At an important meeting of the Deputies ofthe Left to-night it was decided only to unseat Deputtes whose election was plainly duce to official pressure, 1t was alsodecided to maintaina strictly expectant attitude and furnish the government na pretext for getting out of its embarrassment; but on no account to accept a Cabinet contrary to par liamentary rules. It was resolved that no mem: ber of the majority should undertake the formation of a Cabinet without stipulating for freedom of action and guarantees against the recurrence of events similar to those which have just occurred, RESULT OF THR ELECTIONS, “In the departmental elections the republicana have, on an average, gained one or two arron dissements or geheral councilors in each depart ment, If the gain were equally distributed it would not materially affect the Senatorial election, but it 1s so distributed as to give advantage to the republicans in several Departments, for instance in Yonne, Lot-et-Garonne and Meurthe-et-Moselle.” INTO VOLUNTARY EXILE. It Is assePted in Paris that Coppet, Switzerland, Mme. de Stael’s retreat on Lake Geneva, Is being prepared for the reception of her grandson, th¢ Duc de Broglie. GENERAL GRANT'S VISITORS, Geveral Grant received visits in Paris yesterday from Mme. MacMaboo and son, M, do Talleyrand-Perl« ‘gord and Admiral Gicquol des Touches, Minister of tho Marine. SPAIN NERDS MORE MONEY. A special despatch trom Paris says the Spanish gove ornment Js negotiating with Madrid bankers for a loan of 30,000,000 pesetas ($6,000,000), Thoarmy estimates show a reduction of 3,000,000 pesotas. KING ALPONSO'S MARRIAGE, Tho moderate party have passed a ragolation ap proving the proposed marriage of King Alfonso t¢ Princoss Maria do las Mercoder, daughter of the Duk¢ de Montpensier. A BENEVOLENT NATION, The prospcets in tho famine districts of India bave become so fuvoratfe that the Governor of Madras bas telegraphed the Lord Mayor that the Mansion House subscription may beclosed. The subscription amounts to $2,230,000, besides $175,000 raised at Manchester, TWO KX-CHAMPIONS HAVE A RACE, Tho sculliug match on the Thames yesterday, from Patnoy to Mortlake, for £400, between Joseph Sadler aud Harry Kelley, resuitea in a victory for Sadler, CUBA. A NEW DECREE, WHICH MAY PROVE BENEFIe CIAL IF ADHERED TO—E¥¥FORTS TO RESTOBE THE ESTATES, Havana, Noy. 5, 1877. A decree, dated November 3, has been issued, de claring that all estates ruined during the war and ig the way of reconstruction shall be free (rom contribae tions for five years from the date of the decroe, Every new catate and all now property acquired in cities of villages uf the Central and Oriental departments will have the same ilege, All industrics and com. merce tn said di merts newly estadlishea will be exempt for thre rs from contributions, All female catile, other Spanish or foreign, imported into Cuba with U xolust’ bys a of raising stock, will be duty troe for two years, instructions fur the fulfilment of this decree wil be given at the respective centres of the istand, Tho decroo |s received with much satis~ faction, RAILROAD ACCIDEN'T, Sr. Jouy, N. 8., Nov. 6, 1877, An excursion train from Fredericton this morning ‘was tbrowa from tho track at Waasis tion, an Om known person having disconnected the switch rod and wodgod the frog. ihe cars were badly damaged, bai no one was injured, THE FISHERY COMMISSION. Hauivax, N. &. Nov. 6, 1877, Tho Fishery Commission mot to-day. The whole session was taken up by the argument of Hom Dwight Foster, on behalf of the United States. Mr. Duuo, ov the samo s.de, will address the Commission to-morrow. FATAL STABBING AFFRAY. ‘ Montrwat, Nov. 5, 1877, Aman named C, Brisbois was attacked by ruflane On the street ou Saturday night and stabbed in the abdomen, He died this morning. Two men named Narcisse Lepive and Ferdinand Corriveaa have been arrested Jor the murder, THE EARTHQUAKE. Tononto, Oat, Nov. 5, 1877. The earthquake shock was distinctly felt Sunaay morning in the Bay of Quinte district, HE BROKEN CABLE. Pontsmovrn, N. H., Nov. 6, 1877, Tho cablo steamer Mioia, Captain Welch, been lower harbor ali day unable on account to procood in sourch of tho ends of the