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New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

in the Republican party, which these men IN
minor degree represent, il more snaipv
drawn than ever. The better impulses OF cho
party must be respected; the cleaner, hlgner-
minded men must be put at the front; inc
camp-followers must be sent to the rear, OF
there ia an end of the Republican party.
Whether Gov. Hayes becomes President or not'
il is in need of all its resources, all its capacity
for self-regeneration. There is greater need
of them if he should become President than III
he should not No matter by what clear ana
impregnable title he holds his place, there VIII
always be a considerable section of the people
to believe him to have obtained 1t unJustiy'
Torestore good feeling between all sections OF tne
country and reconcile those who will still cherish
the memory of an injury which was never commit
ted, there must be not only in Gov. Hayes's ad-
minstration but in the conduct of the RepuD-
lican party, the utmost cOnscientlousness, the
highest purposes displayed in the loftiest
practices The choice of unworthy men to fill
high Offices Will only feed the grudge OF those
who will persist in believing that worthy
man has been chosen to the highest of offices
by unworthy means. The Speakership of the
New-York Assembly is not a national office,
but it is by no means an obscure one. Ihe
Empire State casts million of votes, and the
head of the popular branch of its Legislature
should be the best man that can be found 10
I'll the place. That man is not Mr.. Alvord.
The time has passed when the Republican
party could safely confer its high hOnOrs ON
this OF any other representative of a corrupt
school. We need men with clean hands.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
THE CESNOLA COLLECTION SECURED.

TIE CESNOLA COLLECTION SECURED.
1t is a matter for public cOngratulatiOn that
the energy and liberality of few of our far
seeing, intelligent citizens have finally secured
TO us the new and remarkable collection of
iewelry, bronzes, marbles, and inscriptions
made by Gen. di CesnOla in Cyprus. The
sum of $4,000, necessary to close the pur-
chase, has been subscribed, and the remain
ing $4,000 will he forthcoming when due.
Henceforth New-York will possess the only
complete museum of antiquities in the
world, which supplies the most import
ant link between the civilizations of
Egypt and Greece. Not only as a nucleus
around which further acquisitions of ancient
art may be grouped, but in its own intrinsic
Importance, its value can scarcely be over
estimated 1t comprises the richest spOils of
the most famous Cypriote cities - Paphos,
Amathus Idalium, Golgos, and Kurion,-with
many remains which reach beyond the historic
age of Greece, and indicate an earlier cOnnec-
ton with PhGnicia, Assyria and Babyonia. 1t
brings to us the early art, knowledge, and faith
of the East, in forms so rich and varied that
il will be long before our scholars shall ex-
haust their secrets.
In Europe, where the true value of the col
lection is so keenly appreciated its destination
will undoubtedly be a cause of great regret
But is it not time that we, in this country,
should claim and hold our share of all the
legaces of the Past 7 The circumstance that
we have possessed new continent does not
invaldate our hereditary right. We are
equally descended from the races who recorded
History, created Art, and made Beauty i'm
perishable. The forms of Phidias or the Pan
hellenic friezes can no more be exiles here than
they are in London, Paris, and even Rome /:
they are at home, and breathe their native
air, wherever there is knowledge to appreciate
and sense to delight in them. Even as in our
Libraries we hoard the works of all ages, so
our museums of art, in order to exercise any
genuine and vital influence upon the people,
must include all that we may be able to re-
cover from the graves of the ancient civiliza-
tions.
Many rare opportunities have been lost
within the last few years. There have been
chances for the wealth that is among us to
earn lasting gratitude and renown. -Four
years ago the Villa Albani, outside of Rome,
on the Tiburtine road with its famous collec-
ton of antique sculpture, collected by Cardi-
nal Albani and arranged by Winckelmann.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
THE CHARMS OF FLORIDA.

The peninsula of Florida, thumb of the Gulf
States, must be a pleasant dwelling place.
The dispute now raging has brought it some
what largely into the public eye, and made
conspicuous some of its special charms. Ii
seems to be State in which not only the face
of nature but the condition of politics, which,
offers the highest encouragement to both par
ties, continually suggests the line, "Where
"every prospect peases," and q very brief con-
temptation of the condition of society turns
up the remainder of the quotation with a snap.
There seems to be a slippery quality about
this remarkable neck of land which is beginning
to give it in the public mind notion of resem-
blance not only TO thumb, but to q
creased thumb. There may be facts down
there somewhere, and we presume there
are; simply as a matter of physical
geography there must be basis of fact for it,
but what facts there are are of the most elusive
character. Possibly they have taken to the
abundant swamps. Possibly the citizens of that
pleasing cline, standing by as spectators of the
efforts of sundry "visiting statesmen to get al
some solid basis of truth with reference TO the
late election, may make the same answer tC
their foundering investigations that the boy
did to the reprOaches of the traveller whom he
had directed "Look here, boy" said the
traveller, as his horse sunk to his belly in the
swamp, 81 thought you said there
"was hard bottom here" "Well, there
"is," said the boy. "but, bless ye, you
haven't got half way to it YETI
There is probably some truth in Florida
but it must be either at the bottom Of
= e Al.
so far as the efforts of the in
vestigators are concerned. It's enough tC
take the top of an ordinary mans head off Il
undertake to follow the testimony and keeT
track Of the witnesses in these contested
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
Netu'a(ork Daily Gribmt1e.
FOUNDED by HORACE GREELEY.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876.
THE NEWS THIS 1ORNING.

FoREIGN.-Prince Bismarck has spoken on the
Eastern question. declaring that Germany would
be neutral. - Owing to the defeat oil the
Amnesty bill the French Ministry have resigned ;
President MacMahoR is disinclined to accept their
resignation - Russia has sent agents to Rou-
mania to make military surveys. - Atghans are
about to invade TOOrkistan
DOMEsuC.-Two members of the Repubhcan
House in South Carolina have gone over to the other
organizations otherwise the situation is unchanged
the Florida and Louisiana elections have now gone
TO the canvassing boards for decision. = Mr..
Randall has been chosen in caucus for Speaker OF
the House. - The report of the Secretary OF the
Navy was given to the public.
City AND SuBURBAN.-The suggestion that one of
the Hayes electors might vote in such way as to
throw the Presidential election into the House OF
Representatives causes much interest in this city.
- James S. Thayer will decline the Controller
shlp. "A large illicit distillery in West Forty
first-st was broken up; the revenue officials were
afterward attacked by ruffans. - Gen. Sickles
gave his views concerning the Southern troubles
and commended President Grants course -
Gold, IOS8, 1884, 10Sos. Gold value of the legal
sander dollar at the close. 90 cents. Stocks dull
but higher, closing steady and without feature.
WFATHER-THR TRIBUNE's local observations IN
dictate intervals of partly cloudy weather, with no
marked change of temperature. In this city yester-
day it was cold and generally clear. Thermometer,
500, $50, 2So.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

was offered for sale. 1t contained about 12o
ancient statues, bas-reliefs and vases, and
was considered second in character and
artistic value to the museums Of the
Vatican and the Capitol. The price asked
for the entire property was 100000;
but the real estate, lying directly in the path
of the new quarter of Rome built under Victor
Emanuel, was worth at least s5OO,OOO. After
being offered for some months, it was bOugh.
by Prince Torlonia, the Roman banker. Yet
by buying the whole property and selling ths
land, the collection, one of the finest in Europe
might have been secured for this country at a
cost far below its intrinsic value. We men,
ton this as one of many instances where
a priceless opportunity has been lost So much
the more must we rejoice that we shall possess
the Cesnola collection entire. 1t is an acquisi-
ton not only for our city, but for the whole
American people, and those who have so gen
erously given their time and means to secur-
ing it have earned the fullest gratitude OF the
latter
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
TILE COLORED VOTE.

This week electors will cast their votes.
But. for the first time, the votes of electors
will not be universally accepted as expressing
the will of the people. If majority vote for
Mr.. Hayes, large proportion if not ma
iority of the people will hold that he succeeds
by virtue of fraudulent returns, or improper
use of power by returning boards. If Mr.. Til
den succeeds, it will be for the reason that a
part of the people in Louisiana, or in other
States, were not allowed to vote freely. A
Presidential election which Is not accepted as
an expression of the popular will Is most un-
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
The SPEAKER or THE ASSEMBLY.

TIE SPEAKER or THE ASSEMBLY.
The difference between the Tweed 0l FIVE
years ago and the Tweed of to-day is not more
marked than the difference between the Albany
of then and now. When the Tweed Ring
broke, the old regime in Albany went down in
n heap, and when Gov. Tilden blew the Canal
Ring to pieces with n single broadsidc, the
c1ound was cleared even of the fragments.
With the retirement Of Gov Hoffman to per-
mancnt obscurty, the slow restoration of the
capital of our State to something like its for
mer integrity began. DIX, Tilden, and now
Robinson-these are Governors of whom any
State might well be proud. Under the first,
but more especially under the second began
those reforms in finances and administration
which the third may be trusted to continue.
There is bribery and corruption at Albany yet,
and will be, but it has now become shameful
where once it was shameless. The State Gov
ernment is administered now throughout al
most every branch by men of acknowledged
ability and unquestioned integrity; the Senate
is the ablest and the purest that has been seen
in n generation. The Assembly is constantly
shifting its membership, but the Improvement,
even in that body, is scarcely less marked than
in the other branches of official life.
The question now is, Shall that improvement
90 ON, or shall there be long step backward
II rests with the Republican members OF the
Assembly to say. 1t now seems that they must
choose for Speaker of the incoming Assembly
between Geo. b. Sloan and Thomas G. AlyOrd.
.Judge HogebOom would make an unObjectiOnable
Sneaker, but his health was 80 much affected
Inv the lack of ventilation in the chamber last
session that he was not seldom incapacitated
for work and Gen. Hustled, it is understood,
does not desire the place, and there would be
n strong opposition to him if he did. AS
between Mr.. Sloan and Mr.. Alvord, it is diff
cult to see how any conscientious Republican
can hesitate. Mr.. Sloan is an honorable gen.
tleman, with no spots on his record, with moth
ing in his past that he needs to explain. He
il in the direct line of promotion. In the last
House. he acquitted himself most admirably as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, and was made Speaker pro tenn. Mr..
| Alyord has seen longer service in the AS
! sembly, but he has distinguished himself chiefly
as the apOOgst Of rings, the leader of the
| lower and baser element in the party, the
representative of canal contractors and railroad
corporations. No one so far as we know, has
ever accused him of actual bribe-taking. But
all his official characteristics can be summed
up in single item of description, that is to
be found in the current. Albany phrase, that
he has done ga good deal of dirty work for
nothing" AS a presiding officer, his ability
cannot be questioned. He has every qualiica-
ton for the position but the necessary record
and the requisite dignity of character.
The people of the State of New York do not
want this man for Speaker; the Republican
party cannot afford to make him Speaker. For
the future the line between the two elements
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
PERSONAL.

Mr.. j. F. Banks, son of Gen. Banks ap-
preached death very closely the other day when an u
nense y-whee OF the sutro Tunnel. near Virginia oV'
burst into small pieces
Prof. Boyesen, who has been staying fe"
days this city spent Saturday evening at the n
He Is about publish IN Scribner serial stosJ 0"
bining Morse and American life.
President Grant has bought house ~
washlncton III one which has Just been ereeteu -
the intersection OF Vermont and Rhode lslanaVes w
posite the Thirteenth-st. circle
Chief-Justice Tancy was most loyaly u'
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04
qmnsemenis auo aIeetings 60 Might.

BOOTHS THEATER.-" King Lear"
FIFrE AyEvUE THEAIEK -" As You Like IT,
1aRASp OPERA HOUsR.-" Grabbed Age"
LYoEUM TEEATER.-" King Richard IL" BOOTH
NIHO's GARDEN--" Baba."
OLYMPIC NOVELTY THEATER-Varety
PARK TaEATER.-" MuZette."
SAE FRANCISCO MINsTREIS-
roNY PASTORS NEW THEATER-VarietY:
YYESTY-fHIRD STREET OPERA HOUsE.-heIy * Lcohs
,instrels -
r,NION SQUARE THEATER.-" Miss Mutton"
WAILACK's THEATER.-"The Shaughraun."
ACADEMY OF DEsIGN.-JOhnstOn Art Collection
,,HICKRBING HALL.-Leeture. James I. Fields.
,;IIgoRFs OAKDEH-2 and 8 Barnum's Entertain
ment
HEILER's WONDER THEATER. Magical and Musical
Performance. ,,-...,,.
MASONIC TEMPLE.-CrOmwePs Illuminated luustrauohs
NEw-YORK AOUARIUM.--DaY and EVelnng
NEW AMERICAN MUsEUM-Day and Evening
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

DAILY TRIBUNE Mail Subscribers. 81 per annuln.
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WEEKLY tribune. Mail Subscribers, 81 per annum.
Terms cash in advance.
Address. THE TRIBUNE. New-York.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

The impartial editors who advising some Re-
publican elector to vote to throw the election
into the House, because in that way Mr.. Tiden can
bo made President in accordance with the forms OF
law, and thus avoid all dangers Of disputed cleo
ton, ought TO remember that if Mr.. Hayes receives
ls5 electoral votes his choice will also be strictly
legal The worst that could possibly happen in the
latter case would be suspicion that the Louisiana
Returning Board made an improper use of its legit
mate powers while in the former case, beyond any
question, the Republican electOr who cast his vote
for any other candidate than Gov. Hayes would
shamefully betray his trust and violate the ex-
pressed will of the voters of his State This pressure
upon Republicans to make some conspicuous sacr-
fee in order to avoid disputes is altogether mis-
chievous for it encourages their adversares to per-
severe in their systematic policy of vaporing and
menace. When conservative gentlemen advertise
their personal anxiety to be intimidated they VIII
naturally be accommodated, for a very little buser
will suffice to terrffy them; but the mass OF
people are not so easily frightened. Ono excellent
way to avoid disputes Is to refrain from disputlng.
and this would to be quite timely counsel 10
Democrats as to Republicans.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

in what respect the action OF the board
has not been above suspicion, while, on the
other hand it is shown cOnclusvely how the
Returning Board is bound by the laws of the
State, not as they ought to be, perhaps, but
as they are. The situation in Florida ana
South Carolina is also outlined In care1ui
dispatches. Gov. Hayes's honest majority In
Florida, it is now thought, Is from 700 to
1000, and Democratic assaults upon some OF
his majorities have completely broken down.
There are some fears among Republicans that
Nebraska and South Carolina may be pre-
vented by technical obstacles from casting
their electoral votes at all.
The monument which the printers and jour
nalists of the United States have erected to
the memory of Horace Greeley will be dedi-
Gated to-day, the fourth anniversary of his
burial, at his grave in Greenwood Cemetery.
The ceremonies, which will commence at half
past o'clock, will consist of an Introductory
address, by Thurlow Weed prayer by the
Rev. DR.. Chapin; poem by L. e. Stedman;
a presentation address, by William III. Bod
well. late President of the International Typo
graphical Union, after which the colossal
bronze bust of Horace Greeley, by the sculptor
Caverley, will be unvailed; and an address of
acceptance by Bayard Taylor. The aspects OF
the weather are so favorable that there is no
probability of the dedication being postponed; F.;
and it is to be hoped that all the friends of
Horace Greeley, who are able to obtain re-
lease from their other duties of the day. will
join in this final testimony of esteem and
reverence. THE TRIBUNE Office, with the ex-
cention of the cOuntiup " -rOoID will be closed
between the hours of 1 and p. NJ to-day.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

Nevertheless, Mr. S. S. Cox is in favor o.
getting that other electoral vote for Gov Ill
den, if it can be got.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

Those fidgety gentlemen who are beseeching Gov.
Hayes to get of of his balance and come out" or SAY
something or "do something" ought to be more
specific in their requests. Do they want him to in
struct the Louisiana Board TO which set OF elee'
tors they ought to return 7 Do they want him 10
state whether he will viii not accept the Presi-
dency if it comes TO him in regular form Has no
such doubtful reputation that he needs to lay ms
hand upon his heart and assure the world that no
desires a fair count Gov. Hayes perhaps conside"
that for all practical purposes sufficiently large
number of persons have already Z" come ont" Some
self-contaned people imagine that If very many Oh
his felow-countrymen had said less and been les
frantcally active the embarrassments of the stua'
ton might not have been so serious. The very lac.
that Gov Hayes, all through tho wild excitement o,
the campaign. has been and is today, quietly ana
earnestly attending to his official duties ENCOURAGES
his friends 10 believe that when the time comes ol
him to speak he will have something to, say. anu
when the time comes to act he will act with prohpT
ness and discretion.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

Gen. Ruger's blunder was Gen. Ruger's
own, and not President Grants. So says the
President. The people will be glad to be
assured of what they already believed, but 1t
hardly helps the case for Gen. Ruger.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

The vocabulary Of political speech boasts recent
addition for which, together with so much that has
contributed TO ournatOnal activity in the last fifteen
years, we must thank the Southern leaders. This
valuable epthet condenses the past and epitomizes
the present in one ord-Impudence-as applied to
the voting freedman. The gentlemen from Aiken.
who replied in THE TRIBUNE to Miss Schofed's ar
raignment of their civilization. bore testimony that
the lady's labor in educating the black man had
made him "impudent." In other words it had in
clned him to assert himself as human being, with
q modicum of human desires, ambitions and prefer
ences. altogether inharmonous with his previous
record as q chattel. The Superintendent Of Educa-
tion for the State of Georgia-that beautiful banner
State of white rule, whose late State Treasurer
is a defaulter to the tune of S300OO0-in the
fair Eden of Georgia the Superintendent requests,
in his annual report that the State appropriation OF
so 900 for Atlanta University be withheld, =" be-
cause white teachers have been known TO accept
invitations to entertainments given at the houses OF
colored citizens" and because the education OF
blacks by whites tends TO ruin of the social order,
and-impudence, generally. Mr.. Charles Tidwell
thus testies before the Louisiana Returning Board
with regard to the Pinkston murder: Mr. PnkstOn
took very little part in politics and stood very well
with the white people. He sometimes got drunk,
but never saw him intoxicated to such an extent
as to make him impudent." The witness does not
carry out his train of reasoning but anybody can see
that if PinkstOn only had been impudent What
would be the manifest duty of every true Southron.
As testimony to the value of free speech In the
South the word is jewel.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

We learn that Tourgueneff's great poem about the
croouet balls (recently published in translation in
this country has famed the modering Pan-Slayonc
sentiment in Russia into bright fame. He has
spoken the great word of the hour and his nation is
at last ready to accord him the place in their aec-
tons to which he has long been entitled. The poem
has been recited at court, and at hundred Pan
Slavonic fairs throughout the empire. The poet, in
his literary secusion in Paris fOrgets the dangers
and insults to which his manly and courageous con-
duct in his former years exposed him, and now re-
members only that he is Slave" As we know
from the most trustworthy source, he contemplates
returning to Russia in February or March. He re-
CARDS the war as inevitable, the logical result OF
forces too tremendous to be arrested by polite dpo-
matte notes. Any who has read Tourguenef
Alright knows well that Russia has no heartier and
sincerer lover than he. The Gar has himself ad-
mitted that it was his memoirs of Sportsman
which convinced him that the abolition OF serfdom
was an imperative necessity if Russia were to keep
pace with other cvizednations. he is poet sdns
peur ct sans reproche and If his fearless uterances
have occasionally given oiense to the ruler and to
wronQ-headed Pan-Slavonic enthusiasts, the blame
was theirs and not his Tourgueneff has always
taken hearty interest in American affairs. and has
often expressed his delight at the sympathetic and
intelligent appreciation he has found with the best
mart of our public. Although himself noble of the
buest Muscoyite blood, his sentiments lean strongly
toward democracy. He is exceedingly well read in
American literature, and doubt if there Is asnge
author on the continent who feels more kindly to-
ward us and knows more abont us than this large
hearted, generous Russian. He has just completed
short story called "The Dream" which will ap-
pear in Scribney's Monthly either before or stimuli
taneously with its publication in Russia and France.
The only portrait which, so far we know, has yet
been engraved of the Russian author, will appear IN
Scribne, accompanied by critical paper OH his
works by Prof Boyesen of Cornell, who has been in
intimate association and correspondence with him
for years.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-04

Just now is the day of advertising small
things. This Southern complication has made
shoals of second-rate lawyers and unimportant
carpet-baggers famous, but the most striking
example of large reputation On a small cap
ital is that of Dade County, Florida. Now,
Dade County had kept us somewhat in sus-
pense. The country was informed week ago
that Gov. Hayes had the State by majority
of two score, but that Dade County was not
vet in. Dade County is in now, and casts
nine votes for Hayes and five for I1lden, or
a magnificent total of Ia. With nearly a
month of uninterrupted facilities for voting,
this sluggish population cast barely a dozen
votes. With little energy they might have
turned the State and the country over to Til
den. Il is chance that is gone forever. 1t
isn't likely that the Dade counties Will be
allowed to settle the next Presidential election.
In both of the still contested States the end
Ia very near In Louisiana the work OF de-
cision upon the returns has already begun,
and in Florida it begins to-day. Those who
wish to get clear and truthful impression OF
the situation as it is in Louisiana will read
the review made By our correspondent. In
this it is pointed out with entire impartiaity