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The New York herald., 1878-09-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Prince Bismarck has gone from Berlin To vafzin.
Senator Roscoe Conkiing Is at tto Fifth Avenue
Hotel
Colonel Robert G. IngorsOn, of Illinois. Is at the
Holman Rouse.
Associate Justice Samuel i. Miller, OF the United
States Supreme Court, Is at tho Park Avenue Hotel
Secretary Evarts arrived at the Brovoort House
yesterday, and returned by tho evening train 10
Washington.
Thomas Carlyle's house In Chelsea, London, is OF
yellow BRICK and II looks like the house OF MIlwau
kee mechanic
Grand Duke Michael s 80 tall that when he kneels
In pras the battle nod his head appears two feet
above the heads of his staff
A brother OF Lord Bcacons1sld, Ralph Disraeli, is
chief clerk TO the Master OF the Rolls, Sir George
Jessel, the most eminent Jew IN London.
II the democrats OF tho Fifth New Jersey Congress
sional district renominate Cuuer this wosk the
pum-g grecnDackcrs will probably put forward ticket
In Germany n a common soldier onters u restaurant
and sits down to cold ham when the King happens 10
be present he is taken OF to The guardhouse and pun
ished.
special cable despatch from London TO tho To-
Globe says the iron-cad Northampton Ia being
Lorne to Canada
Secretary Schurz will not mako his speech In
Cincinnati until Saturday night, The Committee Of
Arrangements having beon disappointed in procuring
Music Hall (whicn will scat 5000 pcrsons) before
that time Tho Secretary Will leave Tor Cincinnati on
Eriday.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
The Democratic Convention.

Matters at Syracuse are tending toward a
compromise, although n great amount Of
sharp and defiant talk is kept up on both
they committed great blunder by their
abusive assaults on Governor Robinson,
who is very popular with the rural
democrats, and they IRE likely to with
draw their opposition to an indorse-
ment of his administration by the
State Convention. This retreat from po-
sition of venomous hostility to the Gov
ernor is a consequence of the fact that ma
jority Of the delegates have confidence
in him and will insist on on indorse-
ment of his administration. The Tam
many democrats think it inexpedient to
they would certainly be voted down.
They will silently swallow their noisy
abuse, which has been SO incessant for the
last four or five weeks, and consent to m
Endorsement of Governor Robinson. But
they will try to put coating of sugar on
this bitter pill by including an indorsem ent
of all the State officers, some Of whom are
nOStlle 10 the GOVeruOr.
The Robinson faction have been careful
not to commit themselves as body to
Judge Hand, although some of them favor
his nomination. But there are probably
more Robinson men who favor other candi-
dates for the Court Of Appeals than Robin
son men who desire the nomination of Judge
Hand. His defeat, therefore, if he should
be defeated, cannot be claimed as victory
over the supporters of Governor Robinson.
There are indications that Mr.. Kelly has
abandoned his original purpose of making
resistance to Governor Robinson as o test Of
the Tammany strength. All that he con-
tends for now is understood to be the i'm
mediate admission Of the Tammany dele
gates on their prima facie credentials,
which will probably be granted without
much opposition if it be true that
he has abandoned his war on the
Governor. The Tammany delegates are
fairly entitled to admission at once, both
because they are regular and because they
represent the democratic party of this city.
The prospect for harmony is better than it
was before Mr.. Kelly discovered that his
abuse of Governor Robinson was political
mistake. He finds that he is too weak to offer
battle on that ground with any chance of
success, and if he is disposed to be reason
able the other faction will have no desire
to humiliate him. Matters are as yet un-
settled, but nothing is to be inferred from
the action of the State Committee which
was appointed last year by tho Kelly Con-
yention.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
The Saratoga Conven tion.

There is no early rush Of republican del
egates to the State Convention Of their party,
because Mr. Conkling has so large and un-
disputed majority that nothing can be
accomplished either for him or against him
by preliminary manDuvring His friends
have no anxiety and his enemies no hope.
1t is only when there is some likelihood Of
q contest that the pioneers of clashing fac
tions think it important to be on the ground
carly in order to intercept the delegates as
they come in and practise upon them the
arts Of persuasion. There is mono of
this sort of alert button-holing activ-
ity now. The Conkling men are too
fully assured Of their majority to take any
further pains, and the Hayes men are too
sen sible OF their overwhelming and ire
trievable defeat to have any heart or hope
for further resistance. Mr.. Conkling's
friends rest in the repose Of assured success,
and see no need OF fastening to the scene
of action. Senator Conkiing is himself a
delegate, and when he appears in the Con-
vention he will have such perfect command
OF his forces that ali the proceedings will go
smoothly on in accordance with his wishes.
Mr.. Conkling's position in the Conven-
ton being so strong and invulnerable, he
can afford to be forbearing and even mag
nanimous II is for his interest and will
no doubt be in his disposition to promote
harmony. In order to carry the Legisla-
turo the votes of the Hayes republicans are
needed, and it is of vital concern to Mr.
Conkling that he do nothing to estrange
them from the party or furnish them with
excuses for sulking ut home on elec-
ton day. He may even be SO con-
ciliatory as to consent to mild
means Of taking the wind out OF tho
sails of Mr.. Curtis, and isolnting him
from the more moderate Hayes republicans.
This being accomplished, il Mr.. Curtis
should ''lift up his heel in the Convention
and attempt to make fight he may get
moro sarcastic and memorable dressing
down than he received ut Mr.. Conklings
hands in tho Convention of last year.
1t is understood that Senator Conkling
has prepared an elaborate speech, which
he will deliver in the Convention. He
will, Of course, do his best, for there
has never been nn occasion when he
had 50 deep ON interest in making
q good impression. If this speech is
made in an early stage of the proceedings
tho applause it will receive from favoring
audience will so increase the difficulties of
Mr.. Curtis position that he may recoil
from the task of rowing his oratorical skiff
up political Niagara. Mr.. Curtis, who is
already at Saratoga, seems to have full
appreciation OF Mr.. Conkling's strength,
and is assuming non-resistant attitude.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

be counted upon as certain to be hurled at
any man who halted only hairs breadth be-
hind the radical projects. The depreciation
OF moderate men indicates the danger OF
Gambetta's course that it is susceptible to
misrepresentation as an anti-religious prop
aganda, and that no party can afford to
affront the religious sentiments of a nation
even in appearance. Another objection not
without consequence is that this departure
indicates point of unity on which all the
enemies of the republican party can act to-
gether against it. Every other party Las
been by turns the organ of ultramontane
projects. In the latest conflict the Orlean-
lists held that position. and the imperial
party and the legitimist party are equally
subject to this controlling interest. 1t is a
blundcr in politics to give prominence and
leading importance to an issue on which all
your enemies can readily combine.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
Gnmbetta's Position.

Gambetta's speech at Romans, that seems
to lead the way for a republican campaign
against the ecclesiastical party-which is
now the only formidable enemy tho Re-
public has in France-is deprecated by
moderate men as liable to the misinterpre-
tation that it seems to array the republican
party against religion but, on the other
hand, it is denounced by the radical doc
trinaires as falling far behind the demand
for the absolute repeal of all laws in virtue
of which the people are taxed for the sup
port of public worship-the abolition of
the Church rs an institution for which the
government is responsible. Ordinarily the
denunciation Of extremists is somewhat in
structive Us to the direction in which u
politician who wishes to economize, not
waste, his strength with tho peo-
pie may safely move; but in this
case the radical denunciation might
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
WHO WROTE IAN OPEN vERDICTr
STANDARD THEATRE, NEW YoRK, Sept. "a,

STANDARD TnEArRE, Nav YoRK, Sept "a, 1873.
TO InE EDITOR OF THE IlkRALD:-
Manager Henderson has been greatly annoyed by
tho persistent inquiries OF groat number Of persons
who wrote .'An Open vordict." II has been In
sinuatod tha. Mr.. Henderson know ami was guilty OF
fsisohood in stating that ho did not. His entire
knowledge Of tho origin OF tho play Is ths:--n was
brought TO HIM last spring by ID. W. Waller, who
stated that he was bound by solemn promise not to
reveal tho authors name. On being questioned, he
pledged his word that Mrs. Waller did not write u.
During tho summer he stated IN a most emphatic
manner that Gail Hamilton was In no way ted
with It. Alter it's production he was again urged to
gvo the authors name. Ho SAID that tho writer was
u well known political gentleman OF this city Moro
than that no refused to tell
Several professional persona whose not OF
enough Importance to mention, havo circulated re-
port that Mrs. Henderson wrote H. This statement
is wholly untrue. MIRA Henderson never saw me
manuscript but once. Hoping that this will Tree US
from further annoyance remain yours respectfully,
w. J. HENDERSON,
J. Business Manager Standard Theatre.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

neither the government at Washington nor
any political party desires war with
Mexico; and if such an event could be OF
any profit or advantage to any clique OF
jobbers or schemers desperate enough to
hope to provoke it there does not exist in
the country any irritation or excitement, or
even any state of opinion, upon which they
could operate for the furtherance of their in
trigues. All this is known in this country,
and it is known equally well in the Mexi-
can capital Why, then. did the head OF
the Mexican State spend money on this
side the border in order to produce an i'm
preston that our government was endeav-
oring to force a war, when he knew as well
as any man living that our government
thought of war, and did not believe
even that war would result from the
pursuit of cattle thieves upon Mexican soil?
Did he do this merely to cover the paltry
game of the cattle ihieves? That is un-
likely. II there is any man in the world to
whom war between Mexico and the United
States might prove an advantage that man
is Porfrio Diaz He has already seized the
Executive Office in his country and holds it
by extra constitutional methods, but pre-
tends respect for constitutional forms. He
does not want to suddenly abandon that
pretence, yet is loath to face the possibili-
ties of an approaching Presidential cleo
ton. 1t is believed he will declare him.
self dictator without waiting for the cleo
ton; but the excitement, enthusiasm
and madness that he might stir up with the
cry of war against the Northern barbarians
would greatly help his scheme. and his
reptile fund might even make the Mexi-
cans believe that the struggle was holy and
patriotic.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

The WEArHER.-The barometer is high over
the Atlantic coast districts nerth of Virginia. and
also in the section OF the lake regions. 1t
is, however, falling rapidly on the western mar
gin of the high area on account of the advance
OF u depression through the Missouri and AIissis-
sippi valleys. This depression, although small
in area at present, will probably enlarge itself
during its passage over the lake districts, and
possibly develop storm centre of considerable
energy. It's general course will probably be over
the lake regions toward the st. Lawrence Val
ley so that it is not likely that the weather in
our district will be very much influenced by it.
It's western margin not being well defined 1t is
difficult to tell ut present its exact nature and
movement. Theprcssure is low over the Gulf, but
pnly relatively so The winds have been from
fresh to brisk in the lake regions, brisk to high
In the Northwest aud generally light elsewhere.
Rain has fallen on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
the lake regions and the Northwest. Tempcra-
lures have risen in the Middle Atlantic and New
England States and the lake regions. In the
other districts they have been variable.
perature continues relatively very high, and
there seems very little probability Of cool
weather in those sections for some time TO come.
The weather In New York and its vicinity to-
day will be wnrm and cloudy with rains, clear
Ding toward night. Tomorrow it promises TO be
cooler and partly cloudy, with an occasional
bshower.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

At the election In the philharmonic Society yestcr.
day Mr. Ncrondorl was elected as conductor.
Tho last nights OF Theodore Thomas' concerts at
Giimoro's irdcn arc drawing to n close. But tour
moro remain.
Lotta opened at the alnut Street Theatre In "La
Cigile," Monday night, to full house Tho play
was well received.
Mary Anderson will play Evadns for the last timo
tonight fazo, for tho frat timo this season, and
the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliot will be
givon Friday ight ior Miss Anderson's boneat
Tho Alhaiza Opcratic Concert Company arrived by
steamer Perere yesterday morning IRON Havrc, after
q very rough passage. Tho company comprises tho
following :-Aline Aihaiza, prma donna; Mathiida
Tomasi, meEzo soprano: signor Luberti, tenor; SIG
nor BoniveTi, baritone. and Franz Rummel, pianist.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

THE LARGE and respectable audience that
filed Faneuil Hall last evening to hear Mr.
Blaine discuss the financial question and to rat
ify the Worcester nominations is not calculated
to give General Butler much comfort. Ex-Co-
lector Simmons presence on the platform ind-
catcs that he has escaped from the leading
strings of the Essex statesman.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock market
was fairly active and prices were generally
higher. Gold was steady all day at 1OO3s.
Government bonds were slightly weaker, States
dull and railroads firm. Money on call lent
easily at Z u per cent.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

AN EMrnATIo DENIAL is given by Commits
sioner Campbell and the engineer of the Depart
ment OF Public Works to the recent charges of a
former employe in regard to the-sewera OF the
city. The vile odors ut West Twenty third
street are, they assert the result of the negli-
gencc Of the Dock Commissioners. We sup
pose il is useless To remind them of the fact.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

IT MAY POSSIBLY INTEREST SOME PERSONS to
know that the present cost OF crippling a man
for life is q little than twenty thousand
dollars. This is the tariff of the Court OF APP
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

In TIE BILLINGS TRIAL yesterday the defence
succeeded in materially strengthening their posi-
tion in establishing an alibi. The examination
Of witnesses will probably be finished this week.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

GENERAL GRANT is at present in Switzerland
but will return to Paris to-day 1t will be seen
from our special cable despatch that he was hos
pitably entertained Monday evening in the city
<,f Zrr;cb
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

IT Has BEEN DETERMtSEDby the Bar Assoca
ton to present the charges against the Sheriff,
Register and County Clerk in regard to the
alleged e&acton of Illegal fees To the Grand
Jury. The contest on the subject at the meet
ing last night was long and bitter.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

The ANTI-BUTLER DEMOCRATS who ran away
from Worcester meet in Faneuil Hall to-day. 1t
is not improbable that the valiant General has
mother surprise in store for them
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

TRAINS WERE Run on the New York Elevated
road up to midnight for the first time last night
During the week ending September u the enor-
nous number of nearly three hundred and forty
five thousand passengers were carried on tho
road.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

Two OF THE BIGAMIsT HoFrMANN's WIVES
have succeeded in sending him to the Peniten-
tiary for eight years. At the end of that time
the other seven will have their turn at him.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

THE FEATURE in the Mary Stannard murder
trial yesterday was the testimony Of Mr. Hay
den, the accused clergyman. He OF course dc
MED all knowledge of the crime.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

THERE WAS SOME good racing on the Louis
ville course yesterday. jerome Park next
month.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25

THE REPUBLICANs OF CoNNECTICUT at their
State Convention yesterday wheeled into the
political line on the hardest of hard money plat
forrns
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
TRIPLE SH E d Il .
NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1878

The probabilities are that the ,ccauser in Ncsc
York and its cici,ity today aciH be acarm and
cloudy sciM rains, clearing to,oard night. To-
mo7ov it promises to be cooler and partly cloudy
rith Qn occasional shomer.
The New York herald., 1878-09-25
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

VOLUME XLIl.. ........................NO 2G
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-03

%, says: Appalling details, it is said, reach
Vienna from the scene of the recent catas-
trophe in Hungary. The town of Meskolicze
is a heap of ruins. What were once the
streets and public square are still bestrewn
with ~disfgured corpses, although a whole
regiment and the local fire brigade have
been at work for the last two days.
The remaining inhabitants are in
deadly fear of fresh disaster, the
sky being thickly overloaded. One
correspondent says that words can not de-
pict the sight that met his eyes on arriving
at Meskolicze. The once thrifty commercial
town no longer exists. APPLE of bricks and
mortar now stands in its place. The sur
vivors are almost without exception utterly
ruined. The mischief was done not by an
ordinary flood, but by the instantaneous
rupture of a colossal water-spout over the
very heads of the population. The shock
was terrific. Furniture was hurled in
every direction. The houses reeled for
a moment from the basement, and
then came down with n tremendous
crash. In the village of Mad the greatest
damage seems to have been done by the
flood that followed the breaking of the
water-spout. Huge masses of water were
suddenly rushing down the side of the hills
behind the village like lava yomited by a
volcano. The panic-stricken inhabitants
fed in wild disorder, many of them to meet
with death a few yards beyond theil
thresholds. Forty houses were completely
destroyed, and the rest all more or less
damaged. Total number Of victims moi
yet known. The Emperor has sent ar
aide-de-caDp with Eve thousand forms to
relieve the most urgent cases.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-03
Grains of Gold.

A year of pleasure passes like a fleet
ing breeze, but a moment of sorrow
an age of pain.
The affection of parentsis best shown
to their children by teaching them what
is good and true.
Great souls are always loyalty sub
missive to what is owe them; only mean
souls are otherwise.
Courage, the commonest of the vir-
tues, obtains more applause than discre-
ton, the rarest of them.
Love can excuse anything except
meanness; but meanness kills love, and
crippl les even natural affection.
Censure is most effectual when mixed
with praise; so when a fault is dis
covered, it is well to look up a virtue to
go in company with it.
Never retire at night without being
wiser than when you rose in the morn
ing, by having learned something useful
during the day.
The mai who violently hates OF
ardently loves, cannot avoid being in
some degree OF sense a slave to the per.
son he detests or adores.
The habit of resolving without acting
is worse than not resolving at all, mas
much as it gradually sunders the
natural connection between thought and
deed.
Many persons are purified and exalted
by sickness, as if the hand of disease
had been stretched out oyer them only
to make the sign of the cross on theil
souls.
A diseased mind turns every chanc,
accident to its own ~distempered view
and makes the terror, or the sorrow
which exists but in its own imagination
a very reality of evil.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-03
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-03
Stories Of Admiral Drake.

No single man in naval history has
ever attained the celebrity acquired by
Drake. The common people in England
itself, more especially in the western
counties, believed any quantity of
fables concerning him, some of them
verging on childishness. He had only
to cast a chip in the water, when it
would become a fine vessel. SIT was
not by his skill as an engineer, and the
munificent expenditure of the wealth
which he had so daringly obtained,
that Drake supplied Plymouth with
fresh water, but by mounting his horse,
riding about Dartmoor till he came to a
spring sufficiently copious for his design,
then wheeling round, pronouncing some
magical words, and galloping back into
the town with the stream in full flow,
and forming its W channel at the
horses heels"
One of the popular stories regarding
him is briefly as follows: When Sir
Francis left on n of his long voyages,
he told his wife that, should he not re-
turn within a certain number of years,
she might conclude that he was dead,
and might, if she chose, wed again.
One version places the time at seven,
and another az ten, years. During these
long years tie excellent lady remained
true to her lord, but at the end of the
term accepted an offer. Gone of brakes
ministering spirits, whose charge it was
to convey to him any intelligence in
which he was nearly concerned, brought
him the tidings. Immediately he loaded
one of his great guns and fired it right
through the globe on one side, and up on
the other, with SO true an aim that it
made its way into the church, between
the two parties most concerned, Just as
the marriage service was beginning. 1T
comes from Drakel' cried the wife to
the nov unbrided bridegroom; The is
alive! and there must be neither trpth
nor ring between thee and men"
Drake is described al of low stature,
but well-set, and of an admirable
presence. His chest was broad, his hair
nut-brewn, his beard handsome and full,
his head remarkably round," his eyes
large and clear, his c~ountenance fresh,
cheerful and engaging. "It has been
said of him that he was a willing nearer
of every mans opinion, but commonly
a follower of his own," which, as a rule,
was really sure to be judicious. He had
a quick temper, and. when once offended,
was "hard to be reconciled % but his
friendships we're firm he was ambitious
to the last degree, and the vanity
which usually accompanies that sin laid
him open to 1attery." He was afable
with his men, who idolized him as the
grand commander and skil1ful seaman
that he most undoubtedly was.