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fully appreciated by u.s. Our public school
system affords facilities for the humblest child
to procure an excellent education. Foreign
talent is quickly recognized and native talent
Is equally well rewarded. Music and the
drama here find satisfactory encouragement.
The taste Of our citizens in this respect has
improved with their general culture, and sue
cess is dependent upon merit. Now that all
Europe is unsettled by the war, other fine
foreign artists should follow the example Of
Nilsson, Seebach and Janauscheck. and we
promise all Of them success in proper
ton to their talents. The amenities and
graces of social life are cultivated in New
York as much as in any city Of Continental
Europe. Hitherto Paris has been the great
centre of fashion for the world, but now New
York already rivals Paris. While the Grand
Hotel is turned into hospital, the theatres
are closed and the Grand Opera House is
transformed into a provision depot, oil the
hotels in New York are filed with guests and
the places of amusement are crowded every
night. The splendid display Of beauty and
fashion on the closing day of the fall meeting
of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park
this season surpassed anything Of the kind to
be seen in Europe. We should not be sur
prised If hereafter the annual meeting
Of the Jockey Club will be to New
York what the Derby day now is to
London. Foreigners will find how much that
species ofsport has been elevated by us. And
horaa or inataad NJ y,atrnpi1in0 Do rio OIL Tho
world will look to New York for the latest
fashions. This Empire City will become the
centre Of all that is most advanced in litera-
ture, art and science. The most vivid imagi-
nation can scarcely picture the progress that
New York must make in single genera
ton. The work of transformation Is fast
progressing, and we can compare it
only to the establishment of Paris under
the reign of the third Napoleon. Bridges
will bind together this and our sister city
Brooklyn, and the advancement that each
is making will be shared by both in common.
An extensive system of substantial docks will
afford convenient accommodation for our ship
ping. Increased facilities for travel will fur
nish rapid transit between the marts of busi-
ness and the homes of thousands situate far
away from the commercial heart of the me-
tropols. The great number and variety of
improvements on colossal scale already
in course of completion or in contemplation
point to New York, in view Of its central
situation, as the future great cosmopolitan
capital of Christendom
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Il RIPPLE SHE E T .
New York. Saturday, October ~, 1870.
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,S HERALD,

PAGE -o>~'oo~
advertisements.
2-Advertisements.
3-Paris: Herald Report OF the Situation In Tours;
The Cabinet Ready to Leave at Moments
Notice; Vigilance and Alarm OF the Ministers;
Amiens; Severe Fire from the Paris Forts Wed.
nesday Night; Failure Of Bazalne's Negota-
tions to Surrender; General Bourbaki en- route
Tor Lille; The French Army OF the Loire in
Good Conditlon-Lost at Sea: Wreck OF the
Steamer Cambria of the irish Coast The
Bark William Rathbone Lost OF the Coast of
Florida; The New Orleans Steamer Mariposa
Missing; The Cambria's Passenger List; Ter
The Earthquake in Canada-Great Fire in
Winsted, Conn-The Late Colonel Dana,
U. s. A.-The Free Trade Treaty Between
e-EurOpe: Rome rs 1t Was Seen on the Eve OF the
Plebiscifum; The Derenees OF Great Britain;
Legislative Affairs; The Emperor's Slaves
Canada-Naval Intelligence-A Woman's
Fatal Leap.
5-The CourtsEFire In Mott street-An Unknown
Man Killed-Fundng the National Debt-Ex-
plorations in Yarkand-Work OF the Chris
RegmeAProspect ] Park Fair eir GroandsHRaces Races
at Binghamton-Cock Fight-Engsh Sporting
Gossip-National Unitarian Convention-The
6-Editorias: Leading Article, The Course Of En-.
pire, the Future Greatness or New York
Amusement Announcements.
T--Editorias continued from Sixth page)-Tele.
graphic News from all Parts OF the World:
British Opinions OF United States Minister
MOTlous mdlZlul NOt GU fIcc, FTdHCc bOlIClS
q Spanish Alliance; Death OF Balfe the Com
poser-Potical Intelligence-Perso Intelli.
e-Obituaries-Business Notices.
S-The New Election Law: New Element OF
Bubble, Bubble. Toll and Trouble-The Canal
Reports-Tom Hughes Farewell--The African
Coast-Newark's Wayward Alderman-The
Irish Republicans-The German Vessels Cap
tured by the French of Rio Janeiro-The
Jumel Estate !: Mr. Nelson Chase Again Chased
by Fresh Claimants OF the Property-The Ger
man Sanitary Fair-New York City News
West Point Court Martial on the Colored
Cadet-News from Mexico-Marine Transfers
D-Financal ana Commercial Reports-A Mil
liners Bfn-New Jersey News-Marriages and
Deaths.
lO-News from Washington-The Irrepressibe Fe-
male: Anniversary of the First Blast for Wo-
man Sufrrage-St. Domingo-The Liberal
Cmb-Shipping observation-disclosures.
71-Advertlsements.
11-AdvertlsementS
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tance Of Fort Pickens, where the gallant Slem-
mer, with q handful Of Indifferent and un-
trusted soldiers, was holding the most impor-
tant position In the country, and when the
s'relief" that MIR. Welles claims TO have
been sent into the fort was kept about fv Q
miles of tied up with so much red tape that
the commander of the squadron dared not land
without special orders from the President.
We remember the satisfaction OF the public
when 1t was announced that the gallant Slem-
mer had been reinforced by Captain Meigs and
General Harvey Brown, and that the Pow
hatan was lying alongside the fort protecting
it and the stores with her guns, while Mr..
Welles' squadron, five miles off, never moved
tack nor sheet until forced from very shame
to take part in the landing. We remember also
that Mr.. Welles' squadron was the rendezvous
Of rebels, where the traitor Renshaw came on
board with an empty bread bag and left with
1t FULL while the indignant old sailors stood
by the gangway as he passed over and groaned
for the wretch who deserted his flag and
afterwards came to the squadron for food.
Mr.. Seward thought he could not trust the
fate of Pickens in that quarter, and we incline
to the belief that the willy old diplomat, who
fitted out navies and armies of his own, was
the right man in the right place. He saved
Fort Pickens. Mr.. Welles lost Sumter, and,
what was worse, lost his temper. What
matters it how many vessels he had or how
many he sent when he confesses that his feet
arrived off Charleston bar (Which none of them
could cross, owing to too much depth of keeD
only in time to witness the bombardment? |?
And yet he says that the expedition failed for
want of the flagship.
We are sorry to have to criticise
Uncle Gideons romances, but we must
guard the truth Of history. 1t is too early
yet to write the history of the rebellion.
People sometimes use history as cloak to
ventilate their animosities, and there seems to
be too much Of that style in the late attempt
of Uncle Gideon to throw light on vexed
question which is quite as clear as mud
Let us wait and see what the venerable and
sprightly Seward says on the subject. He has
written many volumes on matters relating to
the war, and will, no doubt, enlighten us in
the present instance. He will certainly notice
Uncle Gideon's attack on him, and we shall,
no doubt, have lively passage at arms
between these two gentlemen of the old school.
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UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OSBORN
has decided that the officers appointed spe-
cially to enforce the new law Of Congress,
under which the elections are to be held, have
no authority to arrest offenders. If this deci-
sion is to hold good, we do not see that the
law can be enforced at all, especially here in
New York, where the only terror the law
possesses for the roughs consists in its being
able, by prompt arrests, to prevent their vot-
ing at all. If they are not to be arrested, or
If the process of arrest is heightened out to
the traditional Indebtedness Of the course of
the law, they will all be enabled to cast their
numerous individual votes and snap their
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HARD Upon THE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE
FOR GovERNoR.-Mr. Stewart L. Woodford
is paying the usual penalty of venturing to be
candidate for a political Office. This republi-
can nominee for the chief executive Office of the
State had the misfortune Of having been once
Assistant United States District Attorney in
this city; and it is now charged against him
that in that capacity he was untrue to his
official duties, and did, for the sake of personal
gain, connive at the escape of vessel engaged
in the slave trade. The charge was publicly
made by Mayor Hall, Immediately after Mr..
Woodford's nomination for Governor, and has
been one of the staple arguments against him
in the political campaign. The Tribune has
been recently criticising the action of Mayor
Hall in that matter, and the Mayor replies, in
card to Mr.. Greeley, which we publish this
morning, together with an extract from COM
munication Of ex-Marshal Murray intimating
that an extraordinary pressure was brought to
bear upon him by leading republicans to sup
press his disclosure OF the facts in the case.
We publish these documents as contributions
to the political history of the day.
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Too Much Personality.

We have deprecated before the manner in
which the present canvass is conducted by the
party organs and speakers. To read the one
and listen to the other one would suppose that
every man nominated for Office by either party
was an atrocious rascal. Language can hardly
supply epithets or vituperation sufficiently
strong for the occasion. Why should this be 80
Cannot the political campaign be conducted
with some regard to the decencies Of society
as men know them and observe them in private
life? 1t is painful, for example, to see re-
spsctable paper like the Times charging the
Comptroller with a heavy defalcation in his
management of the city finances just at this
moment, in the passion of an election. OF
course there is nothing in the charge except
what the heat Of partisanship may excite in
the stormy hours of political contest. If
there be anything more than this in it the
Comptroller, who is trusted by the people, and
so far is without reproach, can certainly show
how the affairs of his department stand, and
thus satisfy the public that there is false
hood somewhere.
The abuse of candidates is 80 promiscuous
that one hardly knows who is the rascal and
who is the man clothed with all the public
virtues 1t reminds us of Dickens description
of our politicians and journalists as his vision
through the glass of caricature found them
twenty years ago. An ordinary reader of the
political papers to-day would get terribly
mixed up as to who are the scoundrels among
all the nominees for offce-whether 1t is
General Woodford, or Oakley Hall, or Tweed,
or Governor Hoffman, or Ledwith, or Bren-
nan, or any other man. If Mrs. Partington
were here she would be in her element of mex
tricable confusion, and would certainly give
us some brilliant scintillations of her incompa-
rable genius for blundering.
But all this is most indecorous and unbe-
coming. If it has any effect at all upon the
election-save to disgust decent people and
keep them from voting-it will be to render
the worst abused man the most popular, and
herein lies the weakness as well as the offen-
siveness Of this mode of managing political
campaign.
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MAzzINI, journeying toward Rome, the capital
Of his country, has been ordered by the Italian
government to remain at Leghorn. This is
only quasi sort of freedom. Leghorn is not
bad place, however. The great democratic
agitator can obtain a splendid new hat there.
He certainly could not expect to obtain hat
In Rome
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NEW YORK HERALD
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIEToR.
Volume xxxv................... mo. S00
ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.--TnE PAsroxMs OF
WrE WILLIE wIsKIE. Matinee at q
BowERY THEATRE, Bowsry.-THRoUGH M DAY
LIaHT-1nE FLYING DUTcHAAG
WITH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty.fourth s.-MAN
AND WIfE. Matinee at IN
poorH,s THEATRE. 2sd ST.. between 6th ana 6tn avs
RIp VAN wINKLE. Matinee At In.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE CTheatre Francais)-
Macy STUART.
wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway 18Th street.
Two ROSES
LIMA EpwIN's THEATRE, 7aO Broadway.-CIsDER-
ELLA-LA soMNAMBuLA Matinee at T.
NIBLo,s GARDEN. Broadway.-CAPrArN CHARLOTTE
ANDY BLAKE Matinee at J.
NEW YORK sTADT THEATRE, as Bowery-GRAND
GERMAN 0PERA-MARrHA
4 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth avenue and
1sd st-LA GRASDE DUoHRssE. Matinee at q
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Foarteenlh st-sHAKsPEARr's
Tragedy OF MACBETH.
WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner Both st-Perform
hncos every afternoon and evening"
GLOBE THEATRE 7ss Broadway.-vAaIEry EsTER
sAINnRNT-LUoRETIA BoRGIA NJ. D. Matinee at 2H.
I MRS r. B. CoNwAY's PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn
BOnN TO iooD LUCK-MIscHlEvoUs ANNIE, &c.
| TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 2ol Bowery-vA.
knrY ENTERTAINMENTS. Matinee at ~.
THEATRE coMIoUE 5l4 Broadway.-Coxro VOCAL
ISM, NEGRO ACTS &C. Matinee at 2E.
, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL 6ss Broadway
KELLY Icons MINsTRELs. No s0s Broadway
sTME ONLY LEoS-SwRETEsT OF WILLIAMS, &c.
, HOoLEy's OPERA HOUSE, Brookyn--NEGRo MIN
ETRELsY, BuRLE5QUEs, &o
/ BROOKLYN OPERA HoUsE--wELcH, HUGHES 4
THITEs MINsTRRLs-THE BIRD HUNTERS, &c.
HALL OF THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssoCIA-
NI0N.-GEoRGE VANDESHoFF's READINGS
NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strest.-soENEs IN
HHE RING, AcRoBATs, DC. Matinee at 2H.
/ AMERICAN INSTITUTE ExHlBITIoN.-EupIRE
RINK, Third avenue and sixty-thrd street.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY sls Broadway
SCIENCE AND ART.
DR.. KAHN's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway
SoIEN0E AND ART
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! ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT BAEz.-We
publish elsewhere in the HERALD extracts
from letters from Port au Prince announcing
the assassination OF President Baez, of St.
Domingo. These letters say that Baez has
been killed in some shape or other, or has
committed suicide. In the event Of none of
these desperate evils happening to the unfor-
tunate President, it is asserted he has fed the
country. That the story is as possible as
sensational will be generally admitted, but
there is too much Of the blood and murder
element in its manufacture to SAVIOR of truth.
Baez may have died by any of the forms
described; he may have fed the country, but
we think that the letters alluded to will be
found to have been written in the interest
of the Cabral faction and with the idea of
operating against Baez and the annexation
of st. Domingo to the United States.
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goorH's THEATRE. 23d ST.. between 6h and 6th avs
RIp VAN wINKLE. Matinee NJ In.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty-fourth st.-MAN
Ann WIFE Matinee at III
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THE WRECKS AT SEA.-The telegraph re-
ports that the Anchor line steamship Cambria
has been wrecked on the Irish coast and all on
board took refuge in the ships boats. One
sailor has been found and the rest may turn up
at any moment. The steamship Mariposa,
plying between New Orleans and New York,
has been at sea since the 9TH inst, when she
left New Orleans, and no doubt remains, from
debris picked up along the route, that she, too,
Is wreck and her crew are either lost or are
still hanging their hopes on the frail tenure of
The ships boats. Other wrecks are reported
In widely separate latitudes, and on the
Florida coast one steamship captain reports
having passed eleven wrecks in one day. The
shore Of that paradise of wreckers is strewn
Sor fifty miles with general assortment of
merchandise and the debris pertaining to
wrecks. The mighty Storm King has reaped
Hsh harvest
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ROwERY THEATRE Bowery.-THRoUGH ny DAY
IroHT-TnE FLYING DUTCHMAG.
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fingers at the law the next day. The decision
Of Commissioner Osborn prunes the Law Of
Its only effective point It leaves IT as nun
and void as the most enthusiastic ally Of the
rowdy democracy could wish.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-THg PANToMIME OF
urr WILLIE WINKIE. Matinee at q
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NEW YORK sTADT THEATRE, as Bowery-GRAsD
GERMAN OPERA-MARTHA.
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FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE crheatre Francais)-
~ grsfA
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth avenue and
2yd st-LA GRANDE DuCHRssE. Matinee at q
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NIBLo's GARDEN. Broadway.-CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE
Andy BLAKE Matinee at :.
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LIMA EpWIN,s THEATRE, 72O Broadway.-CIsDER-
rIIA-LA SoMNAMBULA. Matinee at Q.
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wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway ana 18Th stree
Two ROSES.
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There seems to be link wanting some
where in the chain Of Mr.. Welles history, and
it is shrewdly suspected that the gentleman
has only stated his side of the affair. 1t seems
to the uninitiated that there must have been
some reason for Mr.. Stewards fitting out the
Fort Pickens expedition without the knowledge
of Uncle Gideon. Indeed, the former never
hesitated to say that the ''ancient mariner"
was very shaky in his timbers, his planking
was decayed and he wanted good deal of
caulking-in fact, that he was s'quite leaky'
and could not keep state secret He fondly
held on to men in the Navy Department who
were known to be strong secessionists, and
friends every item Of interest that trans
pired We all know how Barron, Magruder,
Ingraham, Buchanan and others were trusted,
even after the Pickens expedition had sailed.
Barron, who comes in for some scathing
shot from Mr.. Welles, was the trusted one
whom Uncle Gideon sent South with secret
dispatches, and with whom he hobnobbed at
the wedding of Captain Buchanan's daughter
when that secessionist invited the whole Cabi-
net down to witness the ceremony, in which
his thirteen daughters and nieces, acting as
bridesmaids, represented the thirteen original
States. There the amiable Secretary Welles
led the bride to supper, while Seward was
dreaming Of his forthcoming triumph at
Pickens, and there Buchanan, Barron and
others Of that stripe were introduced by Mr..
of the Union, the men to be entrusted with
the honor of the flag They embraced all
around, as men always do when on the point
of turning faithless.
Specious as Uncle Gideon's romances are
they do not satisfy us that Mr.. Seward did
not pursue the right course in speeding the
Powhatan and Captain Meigs to the assis-
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner Both st.-Perform-
hncos every afternoon and evening.
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to make room for the enormous traffic.
New and substantial marble and iron struc-
lures are being erected in all quarters to
meet the demands of increasing business. A
host of hotels, large and luxurious, contribute
much to the beauty of the city and
the comfort Of its visitors. Additional hotels
are being built to accommodate the constantly
increasing influx Of strangers. At every point
the eye is attracted by magnificent public nst-
tutions. The architectural taste displayed in
our public and private buildings shows great
advance in that branch Of art among us, while
it adds immensely to the splendid appearance
of the metropolis. 1t is marvellous to lsok
upon the great number Of princely private
mansions that have arisen within the last few
years and those in course Of construction in
all the upper districts. Squares of costly pri-
vate dwellings are springing up in all direc-
tions, and the city proper is rapidly absorbing
all the suburbs. The region of the Central
Park, which few years ago was scene of
squalid ''squatter sovereignty" will soon be
the great fashionable centre Of the city. The
avenue extensions and the boulevards which
are being laid out and graded, when built upon,
as they soon will be, will make the upper por-
tion of New York more beautiful than any
section Of any other city in the werld. The
vast number of splendid churches, crowded
every Sunday with the respective classes Of
believers who worship God according to the
dictates of their conscience unmelested by the
mandates of any proscriptive poteatate or
priesthood, is an admirable illustration of that
liberAlity Of sentiment which is one Of the
glories Of our American institutions
All these are only few Of the outward in
dications Of the growing greatness of New
York and the excelsior spirit of Americans.
Literature aud art in al their branches are
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fodrteenth st-sHAKsPEARrs
Tragedy OF MACBETH.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-06-16
Tennessee Legisla ture.
Senate,


NASHVILLE, June 9.-The bill provid-
ing for the election of Judges and Clerks,
in accordance with the New Constitution,
on the first Thursday in August, passed
third reading.
A joint resolution, instructing the Ten.
nessee delegation in Congress to ask for
quarter mail facilities on riversin the State
passed.
A bill to destroy Bank of Tennessee
notes received for taxes passed
A bill to amend the attachment laws Of
the State, giving creditors the right to levy
on personal property, passed.
Mr.. Cooper, from the Joint Committee,
submitted and had read letter from Col.
John Baxter, in which Mr.. Baxter offers
to point out the corruptionists referred to
in his former letter, and to appear before
any committee the Assembly may appoint,
provided said committee has power to send
for persons and papers and will give him
the privilege to be present by attorney, to
cross-examine, &C., promising to substan-
tiate every charge he had made if the con-
ditions were agreed to. The Committee
submitted the letter with the report, and
suggested the appointment of a committee,
with the powers asked for by Mr.. Baxter,
and asked to be discharged. The report
was received and the Committee discharg-
ed.
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any other felony, crime or misdemeanor
ihall be committed, the offender, on con-
fiction Of such violation of said section,
ihall be punished for the same with such
Punishments az are attached to the said
ielonies, crimes and misdemeanors, by the
laws of the State in which the ofFense may
be committed"
The States may make acts offenses
which are not wrong in their own nature /;
and under this clause Congress undertakes
to punish man with penalties created on
ly by State laws, aud the laws not even
recited in the act under which the Gov.
ernment pretends to make them efficient
In section 20 the same thing occurs.
All through the act there is an attempt
to enforce upon State officer duties that
the Government cannot institute or COM
pei one to perform.
And the end is not yot, for the act con-
tains all the odious features of the fugi-
tive slave law, and then creates an unlim-
tied army of Federal officials to execute
its provisions: Again, to indict or con-
vict, mere prima tocie evidence, not the
grara of the offense, is all that is re-
quired, The whole act is simply infa-
nous, and every fair man who reads it
critically will say so. Democrats will not
hesitate to take it before the people for
discussion, for their judgement will be
ours as to the merits of the bill. To sum
up briefly, it is premium upon spies and
informers, created by the Federal Gov
ernment against the people and States Of
the Union.