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The New York herald., 1876-11-16
Cuba,s Struggle,

Important news from Cuba reaches us in
the latest dispatches from Havana. The
efforts of the insurgent Cubans have long
been directed against the town of Puerto
Principe, the last Spanish stronghold in the
interior Of the Eastern Department of the
island. Rumors have been floating around
for some days in New York regarding the
capture of the place by the patriots, but
they lacked any shadow of confirmation.
Now, however, we learn from Havana that
"well grounded rumors re current" of q
fight at Puerto Principe which resulted dis
astrously to the Spaniards. The report is,
as usual, supplemented by another of the
capture of Cuban correspondence, &C.. but
the public are already too familiar with
such cheap glory valiantly won by the
Dons from the coast fishing boats
There is the usual announcement of
an execution for political offences, but
in this case q woman is the victim to the
reported capture of the Spanish steamer
Moctezuma by Cuban refugees, off the coast
Of ST. Domingo, shows how daring the
Cubans have become in their operations
against their enemy. The killing of the
captain, chief officer and engineer was, per-
haps, unnecessary but it is probable that
these officers resisted the attack and lost
their lives in the struggle. The action Of
the government toward the patriotic Cuban
priests named in the despatch will have the
effect of weakening still more its hold on the
people by arousing their religious zeal
against n power that seeks to regulate by
police ordinances the prayers that are ad-
dressed to the Almighty. None but weak
government could be guilty OF such mon-
strous piece Of stupidity. We must there
fore conclude that the Spanish government
in Cuba is both weak and stupid.
The Senate in the eye of the constitution, is no
more than the House. II the former upon ap-
pontments the latter holds tho purse and the
sinews Of wal. ar.-ErpresS
Is it not premature and slightly incen-
diary to suggest just now ''the sinews OF
war;" What does the Express mean?
CRooK AND THE INDIANS. interview
which we print in another column between
company him in the character Of soldiers will
be read with no little amusement. 1t recalls
scene from opera boufe to see the sergeants
and soldiers talk up to their generals and
prescribe line of conduct for them. One
cannot help thinking that soldiers of this
class are not very likely to prove very effec-
tive allies, and if the government would
only undertake to encourage the soldiers Of
the army to do their own scouting the
result would be found to be much more
satisfactory than depending on treacherous
savages, who only wait good opportunity
to betray the paleface. The experience Of
the last campaign showed that the private
soldiers were both able and willing to dc
the most difficult and dangerous scouting
service. We are glad that General Crool
has made up his mind to push on the cam.
paign rapidly, but we hope precautions will
be taken to spare the troops unnecessary
hardships.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

A WARNING TO SAVINGS BANK oFFIcIALs-
If any of our savings bank presidents and
trustees should in the course of human
events find it advisable to leave the United
States and make pilgrimage abroad they
will do well to avoid Russia. The President
and officials of the Commercial Loan Bank
of Moscow, in that country, have been SEN
fenced, some to perpetual banishment and
some to imprisonment and fine, having been
convicted of '.irregularities" III the manage
ment OF the institution. Yet their offences
were trivial What would have been their
punishment had they offended like some Of
our savings bank ofhcerss
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unscrupulous demagogues, they must
see that this is time conspicu-
ously for moderate speech, for mu-
tual conciliation, for conservative lam
guage and conduct, for instructing
their people in the ways Of peace and honor;
and not for misrepresenting the facts of the
difficulty, melting to suspicion and distrust,
and thus infaming the minds of the ignorant
members of their party with sentiments
which can lead only to riot and civil dis
order and which to the cursory reader seem
deliberately intended to produce these
effects.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

CUSTOM HOUSE DIscoURTEsY.- would
surely rebound to the credit of Philadelphia
10 see that the foreign exhibitors when re.
moving their goods. which have made the
Exhibition instructive as we'll as attractive,
should experience no vexatious delay. A
little attention by the Centennial Commits
sioners in the shape Of a representation of
the facts to the Secretary Of the Treasury
should suffice to have the number of ap-
praisers increased until the work Of remov-
ing the exhibits could proceed without inter-
ruption.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

TRUANcY.-The Board of Education is en-
titled to particular credit for its endeavors
to deal with the knotty question of habitual
truancy in this city. 1t may be taken as
rule with few or no exceptions, that the hab-
itual truant of the lower orders is destined to
become a unit of the army of criminals later
in life, and every little brand OF humanity
snatched from the burning will be well
worth all il will cost.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

Incendiary Appeals to tho People.
The Express is, in some degree at least, q
recognized organ Of the local leaders of the
leaders of the party. It is the exponent of
theirideas, the supporter of their theories and
the vehicle of their hints and innuendoes
It criticises our argument that, SO long
as the political machinery Of the gov
ernment operates in its accustomed way,
so long as the law is observed
and acted upon in the choice of the Presi-
dent, the people must and will accept the
result, though there may be moral convic-
ton in some quarters that the election is de-
clared dishonesty. This argument needs
no support 1t is obviously true, unless the
public mind is already made up for another
civil war, since opinion is actually in such
a condition that if Hayes is declared Presi-
dent the democrats will believe they are
cheated, and if Tilden is declared President
the republicans will believe they are cheat:
ed. The moral conviction of wrong is GER
tain to exist on one side or the other But,
under the pretence of objecting to
our argument, the Express insidiously
urges that if the result shall be
declared against Tilden the people must
resist. They are reminded that the war
power of the nation is in the hands Of the
democrats that, to use its own words,
the democratic House ''holds the sinews
of war" They are told that the HEnALD's
argument for moderation proposes
cowardly surrender Of their rights. In
short, the poison of dissatisfaction with the
possible result Of the canvass is instilled
into the minds of the democratic voters on
no good basis of facts on no evidence that
there is dishonesty or is likely to be dis
honesty, but only on the wild theory that if
the result is against the democrats it must,
therefore, necessarily be a vllanous de-
ception~ Does this incendiary and suicidal
appeal represent the policy and the pur-
poses of the leaders of the democracy in this
city?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

The two houses are coordinate branches Of tho
Legislature, and tho attempt to set ono above tho
other to deny the powers OF either, or TO leave
making OF President to the Senate nttcr the elec
ton has been practically decided by tho people, 10
simply tho use OF the pen TO encourage the usc Of tho
sword-Erpress
This is very mysterious. What does the
Express mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

the Rocky Mountains. except in the Lower
Missouri Valley and at a few places in the
Upper Mississippi Valley where the weather
is clear or partly cloudy. The weather in
New York to-day will be cold and cloudy or
partly cloudy, with, possibly, light snow.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16
TRIPLE SH e e Il !.
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER le. 1876.
NOTICE 70 THE PUBLIC.

Owing to tho action OF portion of tho carriers and
pcwsmen, who determined that tie public shall
not have the HERALD at three per copy II they
can IT, We have made arrangements place the
HERALD in the hands of all readers at the reduced
price, Ncwsboys can purchase any quantity they may
desire at No 1865 Broadway and No. Ann street.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. opened
and closed at 109 3-4, with sales in the
interim at 100 SIS. Money on call loans was
supplied at and per cent. The stock
market, after firm beginning, ended weak
md feverish, with the bears in the ascendant.
Government and railway bonds were gen.
orally steady.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

THE Protestant EPISCOPAL CHURCH in
America opened its annual congress yester-
terday in Boston. The subject Of discus
sion was Freedom of Thought"-a very
wide one and scarcely to be disposed of in
few hours.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16
Nor. Eieetien muddles.

Many of our citizens are doubtless ignorant
of fthe fact that we have our own election mud
dies at home, as well as those in the South, to
amuse US. Certain enterprising politicians
who maintain that the election of aldermen
provided for in the charter by Senatorial
districts is illegal, and that the City Fathers
must be chosen under the Aldermanic dis
trict system, have got their names voted by
few persons in the old districts. and
now claim to be the regular Board OF
Aldermen of New York. Last year Board
of Assistant Aldermen was chosen in the
same manner and claimed to be regularly
in Office as portion of the Common Coun-
Gil. But their official services have been
only imaginary, and we presume the duties
of the contesting Aldermanic Board this
year will be much the same. Neither body
will be likely to receive its pay, and its en-
terprising members will always remain in
their own opinion much wronged creditors
of the city, unless, indeed, in some future
day, when Tammany resuscitates its Tweeds,
the contestants should get their claims
audited and settled. There is also an indi.
vidual, we believe, who claims to have been
elected Comptroller and to have legal title
to that office, but his case, although it occa-
sionally appears on the surface, does not
seem to make much headway in the courts.
At all events our election muddles are not
at present SO exciting as those in New Or
leans, Charleston and Tallahassee.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

Wc cannot believe the Americans arc as dem0razet
the HERALD seems TO believe. And we hope th
republican managers will not tako any encouragement n
from tho article Of that paper to carry out their ev
design and TO try the temper OF the country
What does the Express mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

The VIEws OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE in this
city and elsewhere, which we publish on the
question of the Presidency, may not be
of much value rs guides to solution Of the
great difficulty, but are certainly straws
showing how the wind blows.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

From orr reports h,s morning The probabil-
ties arc that the wed;her today ,cM DC cool and
partly cloudy or cloudy, ,cith, possibly, light
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

II Is ingenious and carefully prepared and it's sub
stance is that tho people must submit to the Of
tho United States Senate, whether right or wrong in
declaring who snail be President Erpress
Is it not on incendiary instruction to hint
that the people should not submit to the
appropriate authorities? What does the
Express mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16
Diphthorfa In New Jersey.

In the city of Paterson diphtheria pre-
walls to such an extent that the Mayor has
deemed it advisable to initiate extraordinary
ton of the city in its sanitary aspects.
Though official notice seems not to have
been taken of tho fact Jersey City is
scourged in an equal degree by this terrible
disease It's severity in the latter city is
readily enough accounted for by the general
filth of the place, its horrible condition as
to miasmatic emanations, and, above oil, by
the fact that the drinking water is
drawn from a stream contaminated by
the sewage Of the city of Paterson, as well
MS by the sewage from Newark, which is
sent up the stream by the tide. Paterson is
in better position with regard to the water,
but the sewers are in very bad way, and
are q source Of extensive contamination of
the air. This is factory town, with q
crowded and ignorant population, not only
unacquainted with hygienic needs, but in
different to all notions of that sort, and dis
posed to treat scruples in regard to cleanli-
ness as a kind Of fashionable nonsense. The
original Jersey element in the population is
not superior in this respect to the factory
operatives, and is equally intolerant of new
ideas in regard to the way in which people
live. With this sort of people there seems
to be sort of preference to sleep six In a
room as near as possible to the open mouth
of sewer or other source of poisonous gases,
and an epidemic is a necessary consequence.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16
A Few Plain Words.

We occasionally hear of an excitable
democrat here in the North who NUT
ters threats of what may happen if mat
ters do not eventually 60 to his liking,
and who 'feels in his heart that
Tilden is elected" 1t would be well for the
democratic party if such persons would for
the present keep silence. The country does
not forget that in 1860 similar threats were
made by democrats. and that in 1861 the
greater part of that party attempted in a
violent manner to overturn the result
Of fair election. Nothing can be
more damaging to the democratic party,
or can more quickly deprive it of
all public sympathy, than the utter
ance of foolish and perfectly vain threats
The country is not just now in o temper
to bear with such things. The cleo
tion is not yet lawfully decided; it will not
be until the returning boards in the dis
puted States have done what the laws in
those States command them to do. 1t will
take some time to complete the investiga-
tions prescribed by the laws; and what, in
the meantime, any one may 'feel in his
heart" is not evidence and is Of no impor-
tance. Measures have been taken to see that
the returning boards conduct their investi-
cations fairly; in New Orleans leading
democrats have invited leading republicans
to council for joint action, which is emf
nently proper, aud at this stage of the bust
ness no one has right to say that foul play
will be successful or even attempted.
Moreover, if the laws and the men who
execute them are bad in such States as
Louisiana, we beg the democrats down there
to modestly remember how they became SO.
If they had accepted their defeat in 1851 in
good faith they woald not be where they
are now. We do not countenance injustice,
nor does the North desire it. The recent
election should show the Southern whites
how little the North sympathizes with wrong
doing in the South and against the South.
Thousands of lifelong republicans here
have voted against their party on this South
ern question alone. We warn the Southern
whites that they will be sorry in the end for
any course which shall make these republi-
cans regret their votes. The laws as they
exist must be faithfully executed and scru-
pulously obeyed until they are lawfully
changed. That is the sound and only rule
in free countrv
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

What was the tea duty. the principle Of tax
alton involved. which led 10 the War Of Independence,
compared with overthrowng President who is
elected by the people and Installing q man IN the
Presidential chair who has been rejected by tho
people?-Erpress
What does the Ernress mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

Tho most miscnicvous article we have seen in the
press the Presidential difficulty is In tho HERALD Of
today.-Erpress
What does the Express mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

Every one knows that this means submission to
partisan and partial tribunal which there is
believe has made up It's mind in advance to throw
Mr.. Tilden and to count in Mr. Hayes, although Mr..
Tilden may have fairly and legally majority Of the
electoral votes as well as overwhelming majority OF
the popular votc-Express.
Is it not playing with fire to endeavor to
excite the people on dangerous assumptions
like this ? What does the Express mean?
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

The WEATHER disturbance which
Influenced our local weather during yester-
day has moved off the North Carolina coast
and is already on its way across the Atlantic.
1t is followed by the area of high pressure,
whence the recent ''norther" on the Texas
coast proceeded. and which now extends from
the Gulf to tho st. Lawrence Valley and
into Canada along tho western side
of the Allegheny range. The rainfall in New
York yesterday amounted only to 054 of an
inch, which is not very cheering exhibit
with reference to our Croton water supply.
AS already announced in the HERALD, an
other depression has moved from the North
west into Dakota and Nebraska, with com
paratively high temperature ut its centre; but
the surrounding atmosphere, even as far
south as Texas, is very cold. Cloudiness
generally prevails oil ever the region east of
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

UNCLE TOMS CABIN. nt : I. NJ.
GERMANIA THEATRE
THROUGH NEW YORK IN EIGHTY HOURS, at r. NJ.
BOOTHS THEATRE
sARpANAPALuS. a. T. NJ. Mr.. Bangs and Mrs Agnes
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
LIFE. atsP. NJ.
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
DOT. at 9 I. NJ John Owens
sARXuM's CIRCUS AND .fENAGERiE. a. and P NJ.
wALLaoIys THEATRE.
nan. ,,sp NIBLo's GARDEN
AMERICAN I.sTITuTE-
GRAND NATIONAL EXHIBITION.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM
BowERY THEATRE.
BUFFALO BILL at 3 p NJ.
KELLY 4 Icons MINsTRELs.
VARIETY. atsP.M.
VARIETY =. sqIMnpA p v as,Dss orEkA I = HoYsE
THEATRE COMIQUE.
VARIETY. atsP.M
VARIETY AND DRAMA at 4 7:s5P.M
,.n,rrv TONY, rAsTons THEATRE.
VARIETY. msr s'" 81 Matinee ,i,s at ar' Pm II. ''
MABILLE THEATRE
HABILLE MYTH, att I. NJ. Matinee at 2 r. 4
PARTISAN NARIETIES
VARIETY. at n. N. Matinee at2P. NJ
TIyOLI THEATRE
VARIETY, at +. VI.
EAGLE THEATRE.
VARIETY, nt p. NJ.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSrRELS,
PHILADELPHIA THEATRES.
THE GREAT SIEGE OF PARIS.
Daily, A. VI. Z. NJ, of tho Philadelphia
Main Exposition Building
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM
Ninth and Arch Streets -i"u ORPHANS
GEOLOGICAL. GARDEN.
KIRALFy'S AIHANRRA PALACE.
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
NEW NATIONAL THEATRE.
THE BLACK CROOK
KREUTZBERG's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
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VOLUME XLI....................... 32l
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
q ORPHANS al \ r. VI.
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BOOTHS THEATRE
sARDANAPALUS, al SP. NJ. Mr.. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

BROOKLYN THEATRE.
IT nj & +. nj. John Owens
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GILMORE GARDEN
pARNuM's CIRCUS AND GENAGERIE. at and p NJ.
wALLAcii's THEATRE.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN at \ l.. VI.
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GERMANIA THEATRE.
THROUGH NEW YORK IN EIGHTY HOURS at r. NJ.
The New York herald., 1876-11-16

The Senate. in tho eye of the constitution is no
more than the House. II the former acts upon ap-
pointments the latter holds tho purse and the
snews OF war-ErprcsS
Is it not premature and slightly incen-
diary to suggest just now ''the sinews of
war;" What does the Express mean?
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
From the New York Herald, Jan. %.

From the NelC York Herald, Jan. 23.
After the Judge had decided that there
was no criminal charge against them, the
lady was escorted in the most gallant man
ner possible to the carriage by young
Bridges, and with kiss of the hand the
fair prisoner that was disappeared in the
direction of Broadway, and proceeded di'
rectly to the Windsor. Before leaving the
court the party was joined by Mrs. Mack
enzie's brother and brother.in-law, both OF
whom used their utmost endeavors to per-
suade the erring fair one to return to her
grief.stricken and heart-broken husband
and children, but to no avail. She would
never leave her dear Frederick" she
said, and as for her returning to Montreal,
why, she could not for moment entertain
the proposition.
Bridges went to the Hoffman House,
where he registered as r. FL. Bridges, OF
Philadelphia. At s o'clock last evening
he took a carriage and drove to the Wind
sor, where he was again joined by his love
and her lambs. Here he purchased tickets
to Philadelphia, and as he lovingly handed
his Venus and the little ones aboard q
sleeping car attached to the $50 train
from Jersey City he presented fatherly
appearance.