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Boston, Oct, 1870.
Mr. Fl. 4. S!o7cns:-
Dear Shiny daughter, after having severe
attack Of Whoopng Cough was left in feeble
state of health. Being advised by friend she
tried the VEGETINE, and after using lew
bottles was fully restored to health.
I have boen great sufferer from rheumatism:
have taken several bottles of the VEGETLNE K
for this complaint, and am happy to say it has
entirely cured me. I have recommended the
VEGETINE e to others with the same good re-
suits It is great cleanser and purifier or the
reron,mend it. James Morse
2Gt Athens Street.
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NOTHING EQUAL TO 1T.
South Salon, Mass, Nov. IA, 1876.
Mr. f. r. Stevens.
Dear Sir: have been troubled with Scrotula,
Canker and Liver Corlplsirt for three years.
Nothing ever did n1s any good unit L com
menced using the Vegetine. am now getting
along first rate, and still using the Vegetlne. /
consider there is nothing equal to it for such
complaints. Cen hesrtIy recommend it to eve-
rybody. Yours truly,
MIS-. LIZZIE NJ. PACKARD.
No 1G Lagrange ST., South Salem, Mass
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NOVELTIES IN DRESS BooTs AND SHOES
The most elegant assortment OF the latest Styles
Boots and Shoes ever seen IN thls country
com mprisips all the latest fashions. All or these
goods have been made to our own oioer' unoeI
our personal supervision, and accordl9g 10 our
idea of the tastes and wants OF tne t;h;t LeSai.
trade, We shall be most happy to exhibit
these beautiful goods to all, whether they de-
sire to purchase or not. WAppsh, VA
oct LIFT llo AIps S'lo0''
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CPOETSMHN'S DEPOT FOR SINGLE
= AND DOUBLE GUNS, Breech Losders,
Powder Flssks. Shot Pouches, Snot Belts; also
Repsir Pieces for Guns. Z lsTss s:ock OF tne
abnve goods in store and for sale st reduced
Tates by JAS. +. CAkLLH s. SONS.
sen y No. e3 King street
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When you 70 to Washington be cure to call
on s. katzerste;n, clothicr, 3lO TIN ST. Mr.;
VIM. Il. Devaughp, of this city, 10 connected
With the house. and will cfer his irlends spo'
cai induce merts.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
Down Among the StsIactftes.

Whether it be q shivering meteorologlst
reading the thermometer in the Arctic re-
gons when it registers fifty or sixty below
zero, or geologist in cavern, crowding
himself between ro;k walls, knocking his
head against stalactites and barking his
shns over stalagmites, in regarding their
devotion to science we are filled with
beautiful thoughts. ribald rhymester
once wrote and published burlesqne
upon such fine endeavors. 1T was called
''The. Hunting Of the Shark, and became
popular for while among the ignorant
masses, who do not appreciate these sub
lime inqucsts because they do not under
stand the lofty motive of the scientific
explorer. TO them u scientist squeezing
himself through remarkable cavern is
only man going through hole under
ground. We shall not stoop to point out
their mistake. Such people would be sat
isfed with the first thousand stalactites they
came to. They would not be wrought into
fine scientific frenzy and want to see any
more stalactites. They would enormously
say that one stalactite was as good as an
other. They bslong to that class who care
nothing about the solar spectrum, and
would not know the difference between
the Frnnenhoffer lines and clothes line.
But, scouting their sordidness, let us
point with pride once more to the votary
Of science who lays aside his stoyepipe
and his sober suit OF academic broad
cloth and takes his blue jean overalis
and his tallow candle, his compass and his
cold lunch, his Thermometer and his ball
Of twine, and goes wriggling and squeezing
along for whole days among exquisite stalac-
tai formations, bent-ay, often bent dou-
ble-on his mission of adding to our knowl-
edge Of the beauties Of the world. So was our
correspond ent lured to Luray, and how
fervently he examines and how lucidly he
explains the intricate labyrinth of rocky
delight to be found there may in other col
umns be more fully known to our readers.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
Anslrassy's Turn.

Exploding dynamite bomb in an alley
beside the palace in which Count Andrassy
was present at n banquet is very mild
demonstration of the spirit that is supposed
to be abroad in all the capitals of Europe,
and to menace the lives of all sovereigns
and magnates. near them. From the
desperate fellows in Pesth we should
have expected more than mere squiE
if we had thought Of them as likely
to emulate Passanante, Moncasi, Nobiling
and H0lel. But they may have wisely
thought that was enough for Andrassy. II
is very likely the Count would if his taste
We're consulted, rather face whole confec-
tionery shop full Of these bombs rather
have them at his table for dumplings-tha
encounter such an explosion rs that pre-
pared for him in the Austrian Delegation.
Austria was not very handsomely used at
Berlin, when she was merely authorized to
occupy the provinces her government GOV.
eted. She was shabbily used in those
provinces when the people fought desper-
ately against her intention to defend them
from themselves. But what WI re these mis-.
haps to the refusal Of the parliamentary
authority to entertain proposition to
pay for the occupation? 1t adds gall to
this refusal that it comes from the Aus
trian side Of the monarchy. From Hun.
gary it would have been natural enough;
but if the usually less cantankerous
side OF the monarchy cuts up capers Of thi:
sort where will such parliamentary difficult
ties stop? How quaint is the contrast be.
tween Austro-Hungary and England! Free
Britons were once never weary of de.
nouncing Austria as the type of all evil ab.i
solutism in government; yet in Austria to-
day there is u more practical parliamentary
control over the Ministry than there is in
England.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
slavery in st. CroIx.

The recent outbreak of the negroes in
the Danish island Of st. Croix, which re-
suited in the destruction Of so much prop
erty, cannot Of course be justified. In
taking the law into their own hands and
avenging their wrongs with the torch and
the dagger the unfortunate people were
guilty Of the gravest Of crimes, for
which, it is to be presumed, their ring
leaders have before this been severely
punished. But this is only one side of the
picture 1t will be seen from the letter
elsewhere printed this morning that there
is a terrible record Of inhumanity and
wrongdoing on the other side OF the ac-
count. For more than thirty years the So
called freedom Of the blacks Of ST. Croix
has been . mockery and a dslusion. Under
the forms Of law they have been plundered
and oppressed in every way possible, and
it is not surprising that, despairing OF o
redress Of their grievances, they at last
rose against their prosecutors and in q
few hours destroyed the accumulations. of
years. The authorities and the planters
cannot be held wholly blameless in the
matter. Common prudence, to say nothing
about justice and humanity, onght to have
prompted them to pursue different pol
icy; but they goaded the half-savage people
dependent upon them to desperation, and
to-day they bewail their folly amid the
wreck and ruin of their plantations. In the
end justice and fair play is the best, the
cheapest and the wisest policy, and it is to
be hoped the planters Of st. Croix have at
least learned this lesson from their terrible
experience
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
Medical Ethics and PufYery.

By the current number of the Medical
Record it appears that the supervising COM
mittee on good behavior of the local county
society has in the past eleven months caught
the professional brethren in zone hundred
and seventy-fve alleged breaches of the
Code Of Ethics" "--one hundred and seventy
five offences against that very code for the
violation Of which the profession has the
right to parboil its victims. 1t would seem.
therefore, that the committee has been very
acute and diligent in its inquiry or that the
profession is gloriously indifferent to the
obligations Of its own code. With this num-
Der Of violations actually discovered and
dragged into the light Of open day--brought
fearfully home to the trembling delin-
quents--one expects to read of the applics-
ton OF a discipline that will make these
cases terrible examples. But there was no
discipline at all for the delinquents, we
suppose, would not stand it. 1t appears
they did not know they were de-
linquents. They had certified with an
honest simplicity characteristic of oil
medical men that the public would be ben
Gifted by drinking a little water now and
then. As general rule oil water has cer-
tain value as beverage point that is only
doubtful as to the Croton in August and
the value Of water as beverage is nearly in
proportion 10 its purity. But even the Ger
man mineral waters are better than river
| waters. So the doctors delinquent had
urged the people to drink these. 1t was
plain puffery, as the committee on good be-
havior understood 1t, and they were ready to
put the sinners over tho knee of castigation !;
but when the case was explained the sinners
gave it up and promised to sin no more.
Thus have We narrowly escaped q fierce and
savage professional war. In this same Record
we notice, by the way, the argument from
DIR. Hammond that when you poke the end
of your finger in your ear the roaring noise
you hear il the sound Of the circulation in
your finger. II may be true But when
you poke the handle Of q knife in your ear.
and hear the same noise, what is the cause
| of that?
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
The Pommerania Disaster.

The latest dispatches in regard to the
loss of the Pommerania throw little or no
additional light on the disaster. Captain
Schwensen, whose explanation woull in all
probability clear up so many OF the
mysteries that envelop the case, is
SO prostrated by illness at Rotter-
dam that lie is unable TO make
a statement, and until he has 50 lar recoy-
cred as to be in condition to give his ver-
sion OF the calamity it will be impossible
to form an accurate judgment in the mat
ter. The captain of the Noel Eilian has
already told us all he has to say on the sub
ject and there is really nothing of inn
portance in the latest accounts the
passengers give of the collision. 1t will be
seen from our dispatches that in London,
where the calamity has made profound
impression, the fact that MI tho crew
should have been saved while so many
passen gers were lost, has attracted rs much
attention and comment as it has on this
side of tie water. In one of our de-
spatches this morning it is reported that
some of the crew were overheard de-
scribing how they drew their knives and
kept the passengers from the boats. This
may be an idle rumor, but it is hard to re-
SIT the conclusion that the conduct Of the
crew was not all that it should have been
when the supreme moment came For
exact information upon this and other
points we must. in all probability, await
the official examination.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Senator Ferry is registered in Chicago.
Absnthe popular in New Orleans.
Some Of these nights good frost will kill Sunse
Cox. Nt
Senator John II. Mitchell OF Oregon. is at the HofC
House.
The two strongest republicans in Ohio are GarfeN
and Sherman.
We suppose of the little Lornes will be called
Lornette. Sec?
Private Dalzeil says that Grant never appointed
private TO Office
Senator Jerome b. Chaffee. of Colorado. is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. fA
The lates. Julia has for her Christian name Alta
She ought not to draw Omega house.
In Brazil good slave costs 81 OOO and 1t costs in.
terest and ALL $40 month to support him.
The young men at the Academy who go out be-
tween acts probably go out for opera glass.
Time changes all things Yesterday it was the
turkey that gobblel, and to-day you gobblc the
turkey.
Sandwich Islanders are being constantly removed
to the plague spot on of their islands. They
secm to be piague-going people.
Here is an illustration of stupid English wit from
London Judy:-"When is a fve pound note like pic.
ture at IN auction? When it's .gone!"
Colonel I. L. MeKcnny. who for many years in
charge OF the Indian Bureau and who was an Epsco-
Indians was to send Roman Catholic priests among
them.
Captain Richard L. Law, United States Navy, Chief
of Bureau of Yards and Docks, arrived at Annapolis
Nd, yesterday, visit to the Naval Academy and
received salute Of guns from the United States
ship Santee
As Adjutant General To~nsendie past age for his
Office the two persons who prominently talked Of
FOR his successor General Drum, who ia next in
Of the Shermans
Senator Sargent said to Washington Star reporter
that the next Presidency depends upon the election
in California, which will go republican because the
State will poll large vote and the Kearneyites will
draw votes from the democrats .
London Tf-uh.-''rhat DR.. Newman is to be made
cardinal is not very prohable the rules of his order
forbid his accepting the red hat: and though this
difficulty could of be got by the personal
interposition Of the Pope the opposing influences
still likely TO prevent act OF justice whch
would be most popular among English Catholic lay
men,"
sidney Colyin says OF Englishmen and the study
Of classical art eff not be left behind by
Germans, by French, by Greeks, in that part Of
archaeological research in which we were till lately
foremost in the conduct Of actual explorations and
ON the Mediterranean coasts is to have bnc good
suit. at any rate the increase of the sum of human
knowledge and the advancement of culture
then let find the OF sending English scholars
work in the sites which scholarship holds sacred.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
A New General Average system.

The Association for the Reform and Codi-
fication Of the Law of Nations, which has
for its object the codifcation and unifca-
ton Of the international law, has agreed
upon a system OF general average, which
We publish elsewhere in to-day's HERALD
Official communications have been received
by the European committee and by the
secretary OF the American committee signi.
flying that England, Germany, the Neither
lands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, Den-
mark and France are prepared to accept the
new rules. Several influential meetings
have been held in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, ut which these proposed rules
have been approved, and it only remains
for the shipowners and underwriters OF this
country generally to express their approval
Of the new system to bring about uniformity
in most important branch Of international
relations.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28

in getting off the numerous heats darkness
will cut off the later events Great care
should be taken not to crowd too many into
one heat especially as the corners OF the
track are a little sharp and the men are
likely TO run unsteadily there. Doubtless,
if all goes off we'll now, winter meeting OF
this famous club a few weeks later Mt the
Hippodrome will draw even greater crowds
than did the police athletic. meeting last
winter, when these same Scotchmen showed
what they knew about the 'tug OF war.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
Fair oner for the Ablest Manager.

Fair OHer for the Ablest Manager.
There is in our possession check for
twenty-five dollars on the Brooklyn Trust
Company. drawn and Endorsed by Mr.. David
Taylor, the business agent of the Redpath
Literary Bureau, who have engaged Ole
Bull tor certain number Of concerts. 1t
1t was sent by Mr.. Taylor to an uttache of
the HsnALD, under the ostensible sugges-
ton that Mr. Taylor was the cashier of the
HKeALD and was paying off the attach6 for
work already performed on the paper, but
really as prepayment for weeks expected
notices in our columns. The check may
either be worth twenty-five dollars or be
valuable only as curiosity. The attache who
received it turned it over to US, as he was
in duty bound to do; and presuming that
Mr. Taylor is satisfied with this and other
notices we offer to dispose Of his check
as follows:-Let the visitors to the great
Cathedral fair vote this check to the
ablest manager Of place Of amusement
in New York, the manager receiv-
ing the highest number Of votes to
become its possessor, with such rights
as may be vested in it. Tins the ablest
manager will be honored like the most
popular general, who was voted sword
like the most popular police inspector, who
was voted a glorious shield; and like the
mos. popular editor. who was voted q gold
pen, or something of that kind, by admirers
visiting the great fair. As a United States
bond for large amount has been offered
to be raffied for at the fair we hope that
this little contribution Of Mr.. Taylor
check will be accepted. II is small in
amount, but the recipient will feel large
or course we do not need to indorse it,
but cnIy to present it to the abest manager
in New York. Visitors to the fair should
choose this manager by their votes. The
check might aiterward be framed and placed
in the corridor Of the place of amusement
conducted by the ablest manager. 1t would
be great advertisement for him. As an
Offering from the visitors to the fair il
would be worth more than many photo
graphs to the manager, and it would pay
him and the fair, too, il his friends would
flock around and support him. Perhaps
the fair might extend its time for iow days
i'm order IN allow ladies who attend matt
nees to express their opinions about the
.'ablest manager. Indeed, if the price OF
votes were small enough, Mr.. Taylor might
even become the owner of his own check,
as, Of course, he would if some other
''ablest' manager should get it cashed at
the desk OF the Brooklyn Trust Company.
Now, which of the lady managers or
which Of the tables will be first in the field
tor this check? First come first served.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
The Great Athletic Meeting To-Da y

The open meeting this afternoon on the
new grounds Of the Scottish-American Ath-
letic Club, at Ninth avenue and Fifty-fourth
street, promises to far outstrip, in point Of
number of contestants, any event Of the
kind ever known in this country, If not even
in England. Upward of five hundred
youth, including many well known ANA
teur athletes, are on the lists, and, as the
races are to be handicapped and the man
ngement is in the hands of men we'll known
and Of long experience in these matters,
the meeting will probably prove one of ex-
ceptional interest. This vast list Of entries
shows the wisdom of charging, practically,
no entrance fee, and how easy it is at any
time to get up fine field meeting, espe-
cially in this city or its vicinity. The hour
of starting is fixed so late--two o'clock 4
that unless the utmost despatch is shown
The New York herald., 1878-11-28

April as Thanksgiving Day in Novem-
ber. SO great and constant was the
anxiety Of the Puritans respecting their
crops that they assembled in their
churches in deep humiliation every
spring, before planting their seed, lest their
sins should be punished with IN unpropi-
tious season. The Fast Day was continued
in all the New England States down to a
time within the memory of people who are
not We. old. But when the harvest of each
year ceased to be the only barrier against
famine these obseryances gradually lost
their intensity until the Fast Day was dis
carded and Thanksgiving Day parted with
its deeply religious character and became
pleasant occasion for festive reunion Of
fani!ies-a beautiful holiday which retains
some tincture Of the profound piety which
marked its early history. Our special rea-
sons for thankfulness this year are fitly re-
cited in President Hayes excellent procla-
nation.
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
GENERAL LEES MONUMENT.
no SUFFICIENT FUND COLLECTED POSTPONE.
MEST OF TIE ENTERPRISE FOR THE PRESENT.
TRY TELEGRAPH 70 THE HERALD.


RICHMOND Va, Nov. a. 1875.
The Commissioners appointed to select the best
model for an equestrian statue OF General Lee
met to-day, and after brief examination of the
models on exhibition and inquiry into the fnAn.
cial condition OF the Lee Monument Association in.
definitely postponed the whole matter. There
present Senators Morgan of Alabama, and &arland OF
Arkansas; Representatives Rigan. Of Texas, aud
Manning of Mississippi; Colonel Green, of North
carolina: General Wilcox, of Louisiana; Captain
Hickey OF Tennessee; General Marcus J. Wright,
of Missouri; captain J.. NJ. Colston, of Mary
land: Governor Holiday. Treasurer IL. M.
n Hunter and Auditor Taylor, of Virginia, and
others. Congressman Regain was chosen chairman.
There were only four models on exhibition. of which
that sent by Mr.. Harnish. of Rome but formerly of
Philadelphia. was said to be the best
The entire amount collected by the association
ascertained not to exceed $4,000
Senator Garland then proposed the following reso-
luton. which was adopted:-
Whereas the funds IN hand for the completion Of the
monument are insufficient ~ insure the and whereas
the models presented ARE but few
Resolved, That this commission is prepared 70
select artist and that such selection be uu
such time US the Board of Managers may designate.
The meeting then adjourned. and until some'm
practical means uf raising funds is established the cf-
forts 10 build monument 10 the memory OF Lee ara
~ . standstiu,
The New York herald., 1878-11-28
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.


NIBLO SGARDEN-yIciLASrgs
GRAND OPERA HOUSEWIVES.
PARK TIlEATRE-coHspY EaRoRs
THEATRE coMIQuE-LoRc ,gE
LYCECN TIlEATRE-JosHuA wHircoxR
BROADWAY THEATRE-tprro
BowERY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF 'as.
NEW YORK AQuARIuM-TnAlSrD HoEsrs
wALLACK's TnEATRE-orn cLua
UNION SQUARE TIIEATRE-,a,rHEn AND soS
BOOTHS THEATgE-LAss or Low.IEs
CIIIcKERING HALL-ARAaiAS NIGHTS
STANDARD THEATRE-AL1osrA 4 IarE.
ST. JAMES THEATRE-rHE BELLS OF CoRSEvILLR
GILMoRE's GARDEN-BAESus's Snow.
GERMANIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Klaus
FIFTH AVENUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF VENICE
TONY PASTORS TIIEATRE-yARisTr.
WINDSOR THEATRE-fAniErr.
TIvoLI TuEATRE-y.gltrY.
EGYPTIAN HALL-y AGiErY.
ABERLE's AMERICAN rHEArKE-yAaIErY-
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
FoLIY THEATRE-vARilrY
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF NuSIC-SHAucHRArS.
BROAD ST. THEATRE. PlIILADELPIIIA-UScLED DAS'I