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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06

A city fop being in Il country
tavern boosted Of his cash, and
agreed TO drop money in a hab
with any one present, the man
who held out longest to have the
wnole and treat the company,
which was very large. A farmer
accepting the challenge, the iop
dropped u five. dollar grcenbpcl,
in the hat and the farmer foll0t.
ed with a ten!ccnt shinplastet.
Go on" said Che top. II WON'T
snid the farmer; 'yon take Wh@lo
md trcat tlio rorr'nr'
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06

Happy are they that hear their
own dctractjonS, and can put.
them to mending.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06

To be well spoken of, you must
die. Even pauper, when dead,
Is mentioned without asperity,
and that is as much as any paupcr
can expect. y
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The unexpected action of the Board of Can
vassers in South Carolina raises several diff
cult questions. PartIsans will be in haste to
answer them, on one side or the other accord
ing to their bearing upon party interests, but
those who are independent and mean to be
candid and fair will find some difficulty in
giving answer until the facts are more fully
known.
On the face of the returns, there was n ma
iority for Republican electors. for Democratic
minor State officers, and for Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature by whom the votes for
Governor and Lieutenant-GOvernor are can
vassed. The Supreme Court, having elected
this information, manifested its intention to
order, in most extraordinary disregard Of legal
rules or common sense, that the Canvassing
Board had no power whatever to go behind
the returns rs to members of the Legislature
and State officers, but must go behind the re-
turns rs to electors. If the board possesses
judicial powers at all, ~ the law of South
Carolina and the practice for years lead us to
suppose, it possesses those powers alike as to
members of the Legislature and Presidential
electors. 1t was the belief of the board,
based upon evidence officially brought before
it according to law, that there had been no
legal election in two counties, and it had so
reported to the court OmittiGg returns from
those counties gave majority to the Republic
cans not only for electors but for State officers
and members of the Legislature. The court
therefore could serve Democratic purposes in
one way only-by denying to the board any
judicial power hitherto exercised in respect to
returns for legislators and at the same time
asserting that the board had power and that
it was its duty, in respect to electors, TO
examine the correctness of the county returns,
but not to consider whether there had been a
legal election in any county. This position,
all fair men must admit, seems on its face not
only inconsistent and untenable, but so flag
rantly unreasonable as to afford strong proof
of partisan purpose.
Ii must be remembered that two of the three
judges of this court had thoroughly identified
themselves with the Democratic party during
the recent campaign by published letters
Both hat strong personal hostility to Gov
Chamberlain, and the name of Moses has be-
come notorious in South Carolina politics. 1t
is scarcely necessary to refer to the manly and
honorable refusal of the Governor to give a
commission as judge TO the infamous person
who happens to be son of the Chief-Justice of
the Supreme Court. Hatred of the Governor
brought majority of the court over to. the
Democrats, and it must be confessed that there
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
nINIEL WERNTER.

Tomorrow the statue of the ExpOunder of
the Constitution Gas his admirers have rev.
erently named him) will be formally delivered
to the Municipality by the gentleman to whose
munifcence the Central Park will owe this
historical decoration. The occasion is one of
an interesting character, nor could the adj
dresses which will be made have been con-
fded to speakers more trustworthy than
Messrs. Evarts and Winthrop. The repre-
sentative of Massachusetts was the constant
friend and warrS admirer of the great orator.
while the City of New-York, the scene of
several of his forensic triumphs, will speak
through one of her own most accomplished
public characters.
An event like this enforces the comfortable
truth that republics are not always, and in
deed, are seldom, wanting in gratitude. When
Mr.. Webster died, it was confidently declared
by those to whom his political course had been
distasteful that he had left no permanent rec
ord, or at least that his name and fame had
reached their apex, and that hereafter they
were doomed to inevitable and mortifying de-
cadence. The event thus far has not justified
these assumptions. The world is always char
liable in its dealing with intellectual
power, and upon the point that the
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
Jnoex TO AoperiisemenIs

AuusgMESrs-3d pa0e--4th, 5th and 9th eOlumns.
RANKING HOUSES AND BASKERS-1h PdGe-6th column
BoIRD ASH KOOMs-6M Pd0e-5th column.
BusIEEgs CHAGcEs-6M Pd0e-3d column.
RusINEss NOTICEs--iM Pd0c-1st column
DANCING ACADEMIEs-6th PdQe-2d column.
DKNTtsTsY- 81 Pd0r-4th column.
FINANcIAt,-7M PGOp-5th and 9th columns.
FINE ARTs--3d Pdae-6th column.
FURNITURE- Sd Pd0e-4th cOluInD.
HELP WANTED--3d Pd0e-6th column.
HORSES, CARRIAGES, &c.--6h Page-0th column
HOTRLs-6A iG1e-5th column
IcK CREAM sd Pd0e-4th column.
lEsTRT CTION- ca Pd0f-2d column.
LECTURES AND MRETINGs-3d Fd0e-Otn coNutnn
LEGAL HOTICEs-3d Pd0P-3d and 4th column S.
marble AND SLATE AANTEIS-6m Pa0e- 90 column
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5M PG0e-Oth column.
MILIINERY-6M Pace-5th column. -, H., 20,
EIIAHEous Sd PaOe-4th column; 6h Fdge-otl
g. and 9th columns. o., H..
MN PU1IIC TIONs-6ih Iage-1st column.
PPOPosALs-3d PdQe-4th column.
RrII EsTATF For BALE-CITY-7h Pdge-6th colrinn
: COUNTRY-7M PGge-6th column; TO ENCHANGE-fH
stIFs ny AuCTON-7Lh Pace 9th column
SAVINGS BANKS-7h Pd0e-Gth column.
sPRcIAI NOTICEs-5h PaQe-6th column go
sITuATIoSS WANTED MALEs-3d PdGe-4th column
FrNAJRs--3d Iid0p--4tb 5th, and 9th columns. 49,
sTRANnoATn AND RAILROADS -6M Pdge-3d ana 4th COZ
umnS
sTpAMERs OcEAN-6h Pa0e-3d column
IN x,cuERs-6th PdOr-2d and Sd columns
To IIsT-lJTY PROPERTY-7h P00e-6th cOlnnns bEoOiS-
IYN-7M Pd0e-6th column; CoUNfRf-IM Aove-
column.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
TILE EASTERN CRISIS.

Nothing is more remarkable in the history
of the present European difficulty than the
sudden and repeated changes of the situation.
Immediately after the indirect menace of war
made by Lord Beaconsiield, and the naughty
answer Of Alexander H., Turkey accepted the
demands of Russia. Then, for few days,
warike rumors were suspended: the Confer
ence was assured, and the Marquis of Sails
bury, representing England, set ont for Constan-
tinoplc As if to confirm the new hope of peace,
the conversation between the Car and Lord
Lotus was published by the English Govern
ment. The very next day it was announced
that the new Constitution, promised to Turkey
six months ago, on the accession of Murad V.
to the throne (and of which nothing has been
heard in the nterim), has been framed, and
is to be Immediately promulgated and put in
force. Now we learn that at the very moment
when the Conference Is supposed to be organ
izing for its labOrs, the Vanguard OF Russian
army Is entering Scryia.
There can be but one explanation of all these
movements. Russia means to insist upon the
occeptance, rather than the discussion, of the
demands she has made of Turkey. Whether
or not she is seriously offended with England,
she evidently considers herself free to act, up
to n certain point, without England's inter
ference. She means to exert strong pressure
not only upon Turkey, but also upon the Con-
ference itself The new Turkish Constitu-
tion has been thus suddenly announced
by the Government of Sultan Hamid, in the
hone of procuring additional or more hearty
support from the other European Powers.
Finally, the march of Russian troops into
Seryia indicates a settled purpose to demand
the autonomy of the provinces, and to conquer
il by force if it should be withheld.
We can hardly be mistaken as to Russia's
policy: it will be firm, bold, and peremptory.
She has felt her way to the position she now
holds. with great skill and also with great
courage. Although she has reached the point
where her course begins to assume an arbl-
trary character, her statesmen have toreseen
the situation and are prepared for it, Even
this movement of troops is not yet
war. England will confine herself, for
while to come, to keeping watch over " the
international frontiers" and the other
Powers will follow her example. The Confer
ence at ConstantinOple will delay the result,
but cannot greatly modify it. Turkey will III
the end be forced to accept changes 'hateful to
the spirit of her Government and creed, and
TO furnish guarantees which she can neither
carry out nor neglect without provoking new
revolutions.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

phases of the present political situation: The ban
with which some boys were playing projected
by an unlucky chance into the yard of slaughter
house, and three of the boys leapcd promptly over
the fence to recover it, A brace of bulldogs with
blood in their eyes suddenly appearing upon the
scene two of the trespassers sought safety upon the
top of the fence but the third valIantly stood lis
ground and secured the ball. Whereupou one of
the youths who had perched upon the fence, ad-
miring the intrepidity of their comrade, remarked
to his companion, "What bravo fellow Tom islv
"No he amt nuthsr." scornfully replied No. 2;
them dogs is his'n."
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

| was little reason to expect strict justice from
such court. But the question is not whether
! the court deserved confidence, but whether the
action of the board was according to law, and
in conformity with the real will OF the people
Respectng the electors, there is little room
to doubt. first. that majority of all those
who voted in South Carolina voted for Hayes,
os the returns show, and second, that IN at
least two counties great wrongs. were commit
| ted by the Democrats, by which the votes of
many men from Georgia were admitted, and
the votes of many c0lOred Republicans were
excluded. If the board had no power to go
behind the returns, it was bound to give GER
tiicates to Republican electors. IL it pos
sessed judicial power at all, it was bound to
consider the legality of the election in these
counties, and, being the only body en-
| powered to decide upon such n question, its
decision is final. In either case we are forced
! to the conclusion that the State court had
neither the legal power nor the moral right,
by any arbitrary and inconsistent ruling, to
force the Returning Board to give certificates
| to electors whom the board believed not to
have been chosen.
Respecting members of the Legislature,
however, the case il not quite as clear. 1t in
wolves two questions Had the court any au-
thority TO restrain the board in its action
had its authority been so exercised as to be
legally binding7 In Louisiana, rs in some
other States, it has been judicially decided
that the Returning Board is itself the court of
last resort in regard to election returns, and
that there is 10 appeal from its action to any
other tribunal. Whether the laws of South
Carolina give the same power to the board OF
that State is disputed, eminent lawyers hold
ing either opinion. But if the court pos
sessed any authority, was 1t exercised ! The
board was required to report the facts to the
court, and did so. No later order of court, 1T
is claimed, had been served upon the board.
The time to which its sessions are limited, at
least by the customary construction. OF the
law, had expired. The Constitution required
it TO perform certain duties, and it performed
them, apparently without any formal authority
of the court restraining it. This seems to be
the fact, if the reports thus far are sustained.
I'm that case the decision of the board is final.
The court had opportunity to use any authority it
possessed, and had neglected to do so until the
time arrived at which the board was bound,
at least in its own Judgment and in custom, to
end its sessions. Later information may give
the facts different face. But if the facts are
as now reported, we do not see how the dis
charge of ITS duty by the board can be blamed
or disputed
As to the electors, it certainly cannot be.
The face of the returns gave majority to
Republicans; the board gave them certificates;
and there is no doubt, even in the minds OF
intelligent Democrats, that the electoral votes
they will cast express the will of majority OF
tbe DeODle
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
nLLn RETLLRN OE THEED.


The latest instalment Of the Romance Of
Tweed is its strangest chapter. Nothing in
the long and varied career of this once abso-
Lutte master, now most abject criminal OF the
metropols, exceeds in novelty the history
which we publish this morning of his flight,
pursuit, capture, and return to captivity III
this city. His bold and almost mconcealed man
ufacture of Mayors and Governors and Judges
of the highest dignity in the State; his daring
sacrilege upon the ballOt-b0x to affect national
elections; his fragrant robbery of the public
treasury by felony and forgery his seizure by
the aid of corrupt judges of great corpora
tions, of s0ulless railroads and charitable trust
COMPANIES his msolent dictatiOn to caucuses,
conventions, and senates; the shameless de-
bauchery and almost Oriental magniiiccnce
and extravaganza of his social life all these
incidents, only half revealed TO public gaze, have
in them less of the elements of pure romance
than the events of the past year. The flight was
made in the darkness of a dismal Winter
evening in a fragile yacht; the return was in
the broad glare of an Indian Summer sun in
the stanchest of the nations ships; certainly
two events Of marked contrast seldom crowded
into n single year of q mans life. The pur-
suit begun by a single county officer, unalded
and at his personal expense, became in the
end a man-hunt in which two nations en-
gagged, combining their military, naval, and
even diplomatic forces to track and capture
criminal whose singular personal appearance
no ingenuity could disguise, and whose import
ance was so fully recognized as to compel for
the occasion amity between nations which, even
in the case of a condemned murderer, had re-
fused to recognize the value and efficiency OF
extradition cOurtesies. A whole city was agi-
tated for many days over his mysterious escape /;
it betrayed yesterday equal curiosity over his
pompous return. OF the thousands whom he
enriched in his grotesqnely generous way of
dispensing stolen public funds, not one
dared openly exult at his escape; and not
half dozen outside of his immediate
family and personal adherents ventured to
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGS.-The Gar renewed his peaceful assur-
ances to the Austrian ambassador =- A Cossack
army of 10000 men is expected to enter Servia.
- The Sultan has abolished slave trade through
out the Ottoman Empire. = The Duke dl Cal
iiera, the benefactOr Of Genoa is dead.
DoMEsrIC.-Little progress was made in Louisiana
and Florida yesterday; in Florida the application
for an Injunction and mandamus argued, the
Governor denying the courts jurisdiction and Cen.
Barlow making the argument for the Republicans.
- Gen. Shermans report on the condition and
operations of the army during the year was pub
lshed.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-WilliamM NJ Tweed arrived
on the Franklin, transferred to Sheriff Conners
custody, and taken to Ludlow Street Jail. Numer-
GUS indictments are pending against him. and he
will probably spend the rest of his life in prison.
- A petition for Controller Green's reappont-
ment, signed by prominent bankers and business
men, was presented TO the Mayor. =- Charges OF
mismanagement and extravaganza were made to the
Mayor against Park Commissioners Martin and
ODonohue. 80 The Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
graph Company made arrangements for further
reduction of rates. - The argument for the de-
fense was made in the Martinez-De Vale suit --
Gold 1O9ss, 1898, 1O90s Gold value of the legal
tender dollar at the close OF 2O cents. Stocks IT.
regular and excited closing feversh and unsettled
THE WEATHER.-THE TRIBUNE's local observa-
tions indicate cloudy and threatening weather
80 In this city yesterday it was cloudy. Iher-
mometer 42o. 44o, 400.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

Mr. w. j. Butler seems to be q pubhc-spirted
lawyer and he certainly has an interesting client In
the person of Mr.. ElmOre. This latter gen.
tleman has an insurance on his life for
30 600 with the Equitable. He processes entire
satisfaction rs to tho security OF his insur-
ance but brings suit because he does not get sriti-
cicnt dividends on the profits of the company. His
policy being for 1000, and the probable dividends
allowable in part payment of his annual dues
for premium being say from $40 to $l5 or
500. this Interesting gentleman has thought it
worth while to hire lawyer, draw up expensive
papers, and institute elaborate proceed
ings to compel the company to disgorge
possibly So or $40 more per annum, out
of which he claims that q close computa-
ton of its earnings and fair estimate of the loss
through q failure to manage it according to his
policy show him to have been defrauded. OF course
il must be q bona fde suit, instgated solely by the
desire Of wronged man, who feels that he
has a large interest at stake, to secure
his own. OF course the case must be conducted in
good faith by a lawyer who only happens acci-
dentally to be engaged in similar cases against
other companies, for parties having equally
large interests at stake. But OH the
whole the worst thing which this suit brings out
about the Equitable is that il is only getting in these
flush times net income of per cent on the
capital invested in its building. Everybody
knows that great corporation, which in these days
of tight money market, active business, and high
interest cannot make double treble this beg
carly four per cent real estate investment of
two or three Millions must be wretchedly managed
indeed
We would not for the world intimate that there
is any such thing as blackmail in this suit or in
similar ones occasionally brought against the
Equitable, and others Of the strongest life
insurance companies. But it is worth whilo
for the public TO remember that If en-
terprisihg lawyers and litigious persons who
think it advantageous to acquire small interests for
the sake of bringing vexatious suits, are
disposed TO attempt blackmailing opera
tions, they are. generally likely 20 regard the
insurance companies offering fine field.
The companies which do not fight such suits TO tho
end had better go into liquidation at once. The
Equitable is DID, strong and admittedly safe. 1t is
good thing for the public to let the blaclSmailers
try TO sharpen their teeth company of that sort.
An eminent Democrat nauates the following, and
has an impression that persons skilled in the use Of
analogies will discover that it illustrates some
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
amrsrments ano aIsetinas 90 Nigbi.

Tsoorus THEATER" SardanaDalus"
FryTH AvBSUE THEArEK =" AS You Like It.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE." Uncle Toms laDin'
IYcEUM THEATER.-" Hamlet" BoOtn
NIaIO's GARDEN" Baba."
OLYNPTc NOVELTY THEATER-Variety.
San FRANCISCO MISsTREI&
TWEETYTHIRD STREET OPERA HoUsE.-kelly q Icons
MinstrelR
IJxToN SQUARE, THEATER.-" Miss Mutton"
WAIIAcE's T4RATER.- The ShauRhraun."
ASSOCIATION HALL--Lccture Rev. A. A. Willets, ID d.
AMHRIcAN INsTITTTE-Day and Evening: Annual Fair.
CIrMORE's GAkDEN.-2 aud Barnum's ENTERTAINMENT
HELLBR's WONDER THEATER ~Magieal ana MUSICAL reI-
formance.
EEw-YoRK AoUARIUM.-Day and Evening.
STEINwAY HALI--COncert-Mme EssipOn.
TAMMANY HALLS and 8: Billiard Tournament.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

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untovn aaversers can leave for THE TRIBUNE
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New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

Mr. EllwOod E. ThOrne resigned just in time
from the chairmanship of the Independent
Republican Central Committee, which recon-
mended "plan" last night for the settlement
of the Presidential controversy. The only fair
inference from 1t is that this distinguished or
ganizatiOn has gone collectively crazy.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24
Dnsiness Monies.

RoOTs. SHOES. CATERS. and INDIA RUBBERs.
A~ui'S '"'''' MILLER & Co., UnionSqu1ro
"NEC FRACTUM Nee FLEXuM."
lam happy that have purchased inc surrey
gallery n UnonsquaIe (wesu and RESUMED BUSINESS
h pacal facilities Of this establishment equal not sur
pas anything the kind in NewYOrk enabling me 10 posi-
by excel even the high standard Of artistic excellence attained
before the recent fire. shall GIVE personal aleh
ton to the posing Of sers from to 4ococS day'
viii remain as follows:
I,rpvprIt G ARDS .................. $50 per doS
CARTEs De VIsITEs- ''''''S7 pcr uo"
GEO. G RoCRwoOp,
CNext to Tifany's) ~ 7unionsquar'' t"esIl
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

There is q great deal of curiosity excited at
the present time to know what becomes OF
the fines imposed by the Police Commissioners
on members of the force. Pending inyestlga-
ton thus far leaves the matter i'll mystery.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

The Sultan has made "the bounds of free
" dom wider yet" His decree abolisling the
slave trade throughout the Ottoman Umpire
makes amends in some degree for the barbar-
ities in Bulgaria and elsewhere. Perhaps the
next thing will be to give the HerzegoXinians
an emancipation day." The moral suasion of
q Cossack army in Servia may render Abdul
Hamid prudcntly liberal.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

Mr.. Tweed came up the hay yesterday, play
ing quiet hand of solitaire. 1t used to be a
four-handcd game that Mr.. Tweed played
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

An eminent Democrat nanates the following, and
has an impression that persons skilled in the Of
analoges viii discover that it illustrates some
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

An old Democratic device comes up to
hEart new one The repeal by the present
House of the rule to prevent filibustering would
enable the Republicans, it is said, by datory
motions to prevent an election of President by
the House until after the Fourth of March.
Filibustering in the House of Representatives
is vastly to be preferred to flibusteFing in the
White House.
New-York tribune., 1876-11-24

An election does seem to be rather free
and easy affair in the South. Here is one
county at least in Florida from which no re-
turns have been received, although the election
took place more than two weeks ago, and in
Louisiana the Democrats make affidavit that
supervisors have been hanging around New
Orleans for week past with parish returns,
In their pockets, probably, IL not in their car
pet-bags, and that in one case candidate for
Congress is acting as custodian in this way OF
his own votes. 1t is TO be said for these people
that their education in the matter of elections
has been neglected. The ballot-box has been