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The New York herald., 1878-11-09

recent elections have taught the democratic
party anything. We advise the democrats
in Congress to 'stop fooling." They can
not hope to carry the country with the cry
Of Fraud" as they were last year silly
enough to suppose; for, if nothing else pre-
vented, the celebrated democratic cipher
dispatches bar the way. They cannot carry
1t by letting Ewing and Voorhees, rule their
councils. If they are wise they will de-
nounce as no democrat the man who even
whispers the name of the Resumption act;
they will cut the acquaintance of the famous
''dollar Of the daddies;' they will silence
Ewing and Voorhees,; they will forget
all about the Potter Committee ana try to
persuade the republicans to forget about it
too; they will ask such men as Senator
Bayard and Governor Seymour to frame
policy for them, and they will endeayor to
have fewer captains and more high privates
in their ranks The democrati. party does
not lack brains, as some Of the republicans
are contemptuously saying. IT has brains
enough, but it makes no use Of them. 1t
has allowed its heels to get uppermost, and
imagines that ii it only puts sufficient
number of ''blatherskites" to the front the
country will surrender at once. This is
where it blunders. The only way to cap
ture that noble bird, the American Eagle,
is to put salt on his tail. But that seems to
be among the lost arts of the democratic
party, which comes out Of the fall elec tions
not only outvoted, but outwitted, outgen-
eralled, the victim of its own follies and
the laughing stock Of its opponents. 1t does
a party no harm to be beaten if it stands for
the right; but to suffer de eat for a wrong,
and very silly wrong, is to become an OBJ
ject of contempt.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
Regulator Who Need Regulating.

Darke county, Ohio, must be well named
if some of its prominent citizens who have
banded themselves together as regulators
are to be accepted as specimens Of the in
habitants at large. These regulators, un-
der the pretence Of giving the public better
protection than is afforded by the laws,
have been committing NJ urders and indulg-
ing in all sorts OF illegal and violent acts,
until the whole country is in terror Two
men who were notified by the band to leave
the county under penalty Of death and
neglected the warning have been shot dead
One man who had incurred the condemna-
ton of the regulators was murdered in his
bed by the side Of his wife. Ten other citizens
have received orders to leave, and one Of
them, fearing assassination, has taken his
departure. There is, however, dispos-
ton to make n stand against the ruffianism
Of the band, and the Grand Jury have in
dicted seven OF the number for kidna piping,
some of the accused being men Of wealth.
1t is to be hoped that the law will be found
strong enough to regulate the regulators.
Al rare intervals, in new and wild COM
munity, where 1T Is impossible to enforce the
laws and criminals get the upper hand Of
society, vigilance committee may seem
almost justifable. But it is always peril
Gus experiment for men to go outside the
law and set themselves up as judges, juries
and executioners over their fellows.
The enforcers Of lynch law easily slide
into the commission Of the worst OF crimes,
and the severe punishment of few lynch
ers would be wholesome in this country.
Darke county Ohio, would be an excellent
place to commence such an example. The
murders committed by the regulators of
that county seem to be marked by extreme
brutality, and it would be well to prove
that when the law gets its grip upon the
murderers it will be as relentless toward
them as they have been toward their victims.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

In London they speak Of "a pain-clothes detective
London Is in state Of great excitement about the
electric light
Condor. the recently released Fenian, registers az
from England.
Secretary Thompson of the Navy is very busy on
his annual report.
Ma.orelect Cooper will have his summer residence
at Newport next year.
Buffalo Erp,,ss John Kelly gif Demegradic
hardy. Where ish dot hardy now o.
Senator Ben Hill ought % select another chair in
the Senate soon. Conklins's will not be vacated.
The channel produced by Eads jetties near New
Orleans is said 90 be good the entrance to New
York harbor.
The Crown Prince of Germany does great deal of
routine work, but his voice in the government Mt has
little weight.
Burlington Hauk,y:-"One Of the saddest and most
veratious trials that to girl when she marres
s that she has to discharge her mother and depend
upon hired girl"
The Englishmsn of the clerk or small shopkeepcr
class has few chances for amusement. critic says
that his time after working hours is chiefly occupied
in watching the clock to see when IL is bedtime.
The car Of Russia Is in alarming condition of
health and his will be intensely proSlayic
and anti.German Ia idea and much trouble may
suit therefrom
In Germany tbeman OF small income passes the
evening with his family during the summer months
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
" "a Terrible Temptation"

The story which was outlined in our
cable dispatches ofyesterday concerning the
alleged effort ofLady Gooch to palm off a
child upon her husband as his heir, that
child not being his or hers, brings to mind
the plot Of Charles Reade's well known
novel, "A Terrible Temptation" Where
great estates are involved in the lineal sue
cession of a family, where a failure to pre-
sent heirs male may send the property to a
distant branch of the family. or TO branch
which has been estranged by family quar-
rels, the temptation is very great,
indeed, for woman to seek n di-
rect successor by any means possible.
many were the strange stories circulated
in whispers of noble and wealthy families
10 which heirs had been denied in the usual
course of nature and wherein various
methods had been adopted to place a spu-
rious heir in the empty place, to the con-
fusion of expectant relatives Of many re-
moves OF blood. In the novel the childless
Lady Bassett adopts, with many precau-
tions, the offspring of her gypsy nurse, and
rears him as her own. The boy, as he
grows mp, is SO different to the fair haired
Bassett that the Baronet's brother, who
covets the property, casts suspicion upon
the wife, believing and alleging the boy to
ne the son Of clergyman. Out of this ma
terial Mr. Reade has wrought very ex-
citing romance; but the plain lines of the
story Of real life which the cable indicates
NAV prove Of greater interest still.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

UNION SQUARE THEATRE-MorHER AND Sos.
STANDARD THEATGE-ALsosT LIFE
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-CAMLLx
AMERICAN INsTITUTE-ExulHrrioN
NIBLo'S GARDEN-rHE DrLueE
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-Srguck on
NEW YORK AQUAR1uM-TesISkp HoRsEs.
PARK THEATRE-LorrA
GILMoRE'S GARDEN-BARsuM's Snow.
BROADWAY THEATRE-orro.
ACADEMY OF MUsIc-Matinee-IL TRoyAToRE
LYcEUM THEATRE-JosHuA wHrrcoxs
BowERY THEATHE-RosE MICHEL.
SERMANIA THEATRE-DIE RAuBrR.
BOOTHS THEATRE-FRKScn OPERA BorFrx-
HALLACK's THEArRE-THg RIVALS.
ACADEMY OF DESIGN-LoAS ExHiBlrroS
THEATRE CoMTQUE--NARIKrY.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-vAnprr.
ST. JAMES THEATRE-vARnsTY
EGYPTIAN HAIL-vARHrY
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
WINDSOR THEATRE-vARlErY
sTEISwAY HALL-sYapAosY CONCERT.
BROAD ST THEATRE, rhiadelphia-Hrss OPERA
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
Murder. for the Dis.eeting Room.


The crime for which Mrs. Alexander was
yesterday sentenced to Imprisonment for
life, ana for which young Bassett is yet
to be tried, is not without its proto-
type. Indeed, SO closely has the manner
of committing it been followed that it
would seem as though the story Of the
model crime had been read with care.
There are points Of variation, but these are
merely in the direction Of improved appli-
ances. Just fifty years ago fourished in
the city OF Edinburgh two rascals named
Burke and Hare, whose trade was murder
murder for the profit to be gained by sell
ing the bodies for dissection. Their last
victim was an old woman whose dead body
was seen in the rooms Of the murderers,
where she had been singing and carousing
a short time before. Blrke was arrested.
Hare turned kings evidence and the
former was hanged. Burke confessed
before execution to no less than fifteen
murders committed in company with Hare.
Their plan had been to pick up old or
weak-minded persons the street, bring
them to their residences, give them food
and drink, make merry with them. and
then when the liquor made them drowsy
put them to bed. Once asleep one of the
ticnds would hold one hand over the vic
TINS mouth and nose and press up the chin
with the other, while the other wretch flung
himself over the body to keep still the arms
and legs. The body was thus without
external marks Of violence; the body was
packed in box or barrel, and the surgeons
asked no questions. In the Bassett-Alex-
ander case the march of science is seen.
The victim once asleep, or even drowsy,
some chloroiorm took the place Of
the strangulation process. Fortunately
the law made the surgeon in this
case nice on the questions of where
and how the body had baen obtained, and
the students Of the Newgate Calendar found
that they had committed a murder, but
ctfer to buy bodies which DR.. Sanford is
said to have made before the crime to Mrs.
Alexander was sufficiently explicit as to the
source from which they should be obtained
does not appear. 1t is probable that as the
business in any case required defiance Of
popular prejudice Mrs. Alexander, in her
avaricious reasoning, leaped to the conclu-
sion that the scientific eagerness which
would risk running counter to prejudice
would not be stopped by an inquiry into
an infraction Of the law. 10 her depravcd
mind laws and prejudices were much the
her eyes than another. That is the way
crime is Matched. 1t is time that the SUP
ply Of the scientific need of subjects"
should be taken in every State out Of Grim
inal hands
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS ON THE AsrATIc STA
TIoN-oRDERs

MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS ON THE ASIATIC STA
TIoN-oRDERs.
WASHINGTON, Nov 8, 1873.
Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson. commanding
the United States naval forces of the Asiac station
reports TO the Navy Department from Yokohama
Japan, October IL, that the Monongahela, Captain
Fitzhugh commanding being declared free from
disease, and the cholera having entirely disappeared
from Shanghai, was to have returned to that port
from woo~ung bar October !, 10 complete repairs
on the boilers, &c. when she will proceed to yoko.
hama via Nagasali and Kobe.
The Alert, Commander Boyd. is at Foo Chow. where
he will remain till there IL no further apprehension
Of any nolestation of American citizens and thcis
property Thence she will proceed TO Hong Kong
and viii visit swatow, Annoy. &c. Commander Boyd
on leaving Annoy for Hong Kong. will make search
for the rock which the American bark Forest Belle
is alleged to have struck last winter.
The officers and crew of the Ranger. Commander
Mauley. having been subjected to the cncryntnu heat
of Hong Kong during the past summer, change to
more northern climate is deemed advisable and she
will on being relieved by the Alert proceed IN Nara.
saki and Kobe, and thence TO Yokohama.
The Ashuelot, Commander Perkins left Yokohams
October I'd inst and arrived at Kobe the 5h from
which place she will pIocecd To Bangkok Siam visit.
ing en- route Nagasaki. Foochow, Hong Kong aud
Manila On her return she will call al Saiuoon,
middle of February next.
The Palos. Lieutenant Commander Green, will leave
Tiensin for Shanghai before winter sets in An ex.
animation OF the hull Of that vessel and estimates for
repairs being made.
Donald Mckay. machnst for the Monocacy died Of
apoplexy Octobcrs. The health of the officers and
crew Of the squadron remains good.
NAVAL ORDERS.
Lieutenant Commander Oscar r. Heyernlan ID or.
dcred to the New Hampshire ut Port Royal. =. c.. 40
executive officer. Psymastor Joseph A. smith In or
dercd to duty purchasing pay master vt Washington
Pay Inspector W. W. Williams II detached ~ pur.
chasing paymastor 1T Washington aud ordered 20
duty ~ inspector In charge Of stores ~ Washington
Navy Yard.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
General Arthur.

A correspondent, who seems to think
he knows, asserts very positively elsewhere
that Mr.. Arthur twill never he re-
nominated to the Collectorship Of New
York unless Mr.. Conkling should be made
the next President" We do not perceive
the importance of this statement, unless
our correspondent wishes to incite Mr.
Arthur to increase his efforts to make Mr..
Conkling President.
He adds that the administration took no
part in the recent Mayorslty election. Ger
tainly we saw no evidence Its activity or
influence ia the recent election. 1t was
General Arthur's victory, and he deserves
the credit for it,
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
The AtaIanta-Nautilus Match To-day

The AtaIanta.Na utilus Match To-Day.
The special match this afternoon on the
Harlem between Messrs. Eustis and Downs,
the famous Atalanta pair, now the cham
pions Of the country, and Messrs. Levien
and Childs, Of the Nautilus Club, promises
to be very close and highly exciting
struggle, while the known fairness of the
men and their mutual good will insure
thoroughly fair and gentlemanly contest
throughout. Matched almost to a pound as
to weight and SO we'll as to size that together
they would make a rafting four-oared team,
the friends of both pairs are naturally very
sanguine as TO the result, and, ii the water
is smooth, there is little doubt that very
fast time will be scored; while, if the Maui
titus men should manage to win, they will
doubtless find, long before next season
opens, plenty of work cut out for lem by
Killorin and Smith, and other fast North
western oarsmen, to say nothing Of those of
our own State, who have no disposition to
let the National Amateur championship in
pairs rest quietly on the sluggish little
Harlem
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
Robbers An0at.

Four staterooms were robbed on Sound
steamer in n single night, and heavy sleep
ers in armchairs, without the small pro-
lection of stateroom doors, were "gone
through" in style not SO much practised
afoat rs on the benches in the city squares
Doubtless it is to be regarded as an evidence
OF moderation and frugal mind that the
thieves robbed only four rooms instead of
forty, and their success is not so much an
fortune in choosing reasonably good sleep
ers Bolts on stateroom doors are a good
security to passengers if the staterooms
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

have no windows; but if the bolts are tam
pered with SO as to be made impracticabfe
the mere locks on stateroom doors are no
obstacle to practissd thieves. On the Mas
sachusetts the bolts were wedged. But
when was this done? 1t may have been
done by connivance with some persons on
the boat; but even if there is no blame on
that score it is certain that it exhibits
grave want Of caution that there is no watch
man on duty in the stateroom saloon at
night.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
ADJUSTMENTS.
CARMEN" AT THE ACADEMY or MUSIC

CARMEN" AT THE ACADEMY or Music
George Bizet's opera of Carmen was performed
for the fifth time last night at the Academy Of Music
by Mr.. MaDlesons company. Miss Minnie Hauk again
playing and singing the title role effectively. The
sic Of this opera gaius steadily upon the appreciation
Of our public The various morceaur which have
gained commendation hitherto watched for
with eagerness and noted with pleasure The songs
of Carmen in the first act, the torcadors song and
many of the choral pieces thus intently listened
to. Sgnor Campanini Don Jose and Signor Del
Puente Escamillo were a. before. good in their
parts The choruses went well and the orchestra
under admirable discipline.
I'll Trovatore" at the matinee to-day.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

GENERAL HAScocK's recommendation that
more attention be paid to rifle practice in the
army is none too strong. If hundredth part
Di the ammunition used during the late war
had been expended in competitive marksman
ship the aspect of the struggle would have been
very different.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

EMIGRATION Of an undesirable kind will prob
ably set toward Virginia very soon. short
time ago a wife murderer was sentenced Tor
single year only, and similar punishment was
yesterday awarded to young man who Drained
Oil old one M the victim sat quietly at dinner.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

For SUCCESSFUL DoDGISG of candidates who
may become mischievous if elected the plan
lately followed ut Elizabeth. ~ j., is without
an equal. A person who received handsome
majority OF the votes for Justice of the Peace is
said to have been dead for ak months.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

FRANCIS MURPHY, the successful advocate of
total abstinence, begins tomorrow q long series
OF temperance meetings in this city. We hope
liz may catch enough members of the Assembly
to Justify hopes OF a sensible excise law being
passed next session.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

The WrATuER.-The movement OF tho high
barometer from the north and northwest into the
central and southern districts continues. hut the
prcssures are decreasing very decidedly. In the
northeast and central over Nova Scotia storm
centre has been formed on the northern margin
OF the Gulf stream with low pressure. heavy
north to northwest winds and soiue rain and
snow. This storm has been in process of ,leyel-
DpiDent for two daye, and early notice Of s clai-
actcr was cabled to London. Paris and Liverpool
,n Thursday Mt midnight The barometer is
again falling in the Northwest. with rising tenn
oerature. Vessels and steamers leaving New
York to-day for the east con4t and for Europe will
rrin quickly into the low pressures Of the Nova
scotia storm and will experience heavy winds
rom the northwest. II is probable hat very
dangerous tempest will be experienced north Of
attitude forty degrees and eastward of longitude
hxty degrees. Heavy rains and SHOWS are re-
ported from Europe, which threaten serious in
andations in the great river valleys. storm
centre il now on the British coasts, where very
,eavy gales are prevailing. This disturbance
arrived exactly at the time predicted by the
HERALD W Gather Bureau. The weather IN New
York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair
Dr. partly cloudy. Tomorrow il will be slightly
warmer and fair.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

The EVIDENCE upon insanity in the Wander
blt will contest yesterday would have beer
easier reading if the expert had merely in
dicated the classes of people who have no
streaks of lunacy in their mental composition.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

THE KID GLOVE FIGHT is TO be resumed in the
courts. There seems to be no more peace for
the bunderer than for the wicked.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

GENERAL ORD's REPoRT, of which We give
an abstract to-day, contains better description
of the situation ON the Mexican border than ID
likely to come from any political source.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

FIFTEEN HusDRED DOLLARS Is more money
than the average Eastern man would care to
trust himself TO carry, even inside of savings
bank; but the confding Westerner tries expert
mcnts--aud paws for them.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

The DOUBLE ROBBERY OF an Eighth avenue
jewelry store yesterday isa warning to owners
of open fronts who do not also keep private
watchmen
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was dull and weak. Gold opened at 1OOl4,
and declined to 1O0ls, the closing quotation.
Government bonds were firm. States higher
and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 4
per cent and closed at 3 a 4 per cent
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

BARBARIC AFRICA seems to have reproduced
some of its peculiar features at the scene of the
North Carolina execution yesterday.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

The RACE is not always to the rich. The
last horse in the great Lancashire Handicap at
Liverpool yesterday belonged to the Duke Of
Westminster, who is probably the richest man
In England
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
WITH SUPPLEM EN- r.
NEW YoRK. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ., 1873.

The probabilities are nat The ,ceaiher Ia New
York and lis rieini,y to-day rM be cool and fair
or partly cloudy Tomorrow il riH be slightly
rQrmer and fuir.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

How TESDERLY SoLICIToCs the police seem to
be for the comfort of wclLto-do proprietresses
la the disreputable districts. The complainant
against two of these women stood yesterday
among the prisoners while awaiting the calling
Of the case the persons com Llained Of, though
equally under arrest, sat in q comfortable room.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09

To-MoRRow a week of prayer for young men
begins throughout the world. They need it.
The New York herald., 1878-11-09
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in alarm and stbgnation. Then came the
concealed expectation Of unsettling the
Presidency, and its utter and ridiculous fail
ure to accomplish anything except the pro-
duction Of a set of unmtigated scoundrels
MS its favorite witnesses. When we men,
ton in addition TO these the silver folly we
have made complete list OF the demo-
cratic work in the last Congress, unless we
add the wonderful shrewdness with which
the democrats fostered the greenback party,
which has by drawing off democratic votes
helped the republicans to carry number
Of districts.
whenever all the democrats in the coun-
,ry vote the same ticket il they can Sc
cure the help OF the independent voters
they are very likely to carry the elec.
ton; but it is good while since the
democratic party was numerous enough to
divide in two with u reasonable hope
of success. Whenever it shows the country
that it is the party Of honesty, good order
and stability, it will have fair chance of
carrying the Presidency; but to do that it
will have to place itself under the control
of its wise and honest leaders, Of the men
who have held TO what are called sound,
old fashioned democratic principles" most
Of which have been coolly turned out OF
doors and lett for the republicans to pick up.
Congress will meet in few weeks, and
the people are waiting to see whether the
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-03-16
THE NEW DOLLAR.

A Description Of the New Coin it, Weight and
Wholesome Account Of silver as q Circulating
Medium.
The cuts Of the silver dollar given below,
which Congress recently ordered to be
coined, are engraved from a design fur
nished by Mr.. George 4. Morgan, an Eng
lish engraver who has been in this country
since 1876, and has been employed at the
Philadelphia Mint. The description of
the new coin is taken from the Philadel-
phia North american: