Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1876 — Page 5

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Sf«% gto//e.

"SHAKE, PARTNER."

HOW

THEY

K.VSHAH

TOOK A VOTE OX A

UAILROAD TRAIN.

Vrout tu Kauiiuit I'auiflc Times. lively, iri-ky granger came cm boaru -Kansas tram it Abilene tin •. her morning. le had a red face, on. de ui WHICH was Ui&tigured by a quid of tobacco, from which he squirted

J°ncr»..s r,,..« as he shouted, "duray far Hase'n Wheeler!"

rtuw,

U.e.c .iaopened to be in that car nurtv ,i raiiro:iJ olhfiais from St. U^i*, two ot whom weie not Hase'n Wheeler men. One of them waSa»®'l- u»c«, TM',cn withal a strong partisan ot Mr. lilden.

The K.ai.sa» icU-leg looked tercciou-Iy

OVI the

car attcr shouting a second tune.

-Iluray lor lia-e-n Wheeler," and the., coolv announced his intention to throw out of that

car any

man who.would say

he was not going to vote toi ilasc Wheeler. ,, 11.

molded

two or tliree intimidate

passengers iwar the door, and they all

announced the intention

to vote

tor

H-.KC-nWhet.ler. '1 hen lu: came ami,

afler

giving his revolver a hitch higher, drooped iiimselfdown in a neat alongside lite prominent St. Louis railroad oflu-i 1. 1 hen, putting his red nose and

t|c

stained fa around in front oi

the Tilden man fc.ee, he said

U,[hU^''C'tCVCanL

"ev"i

voii. who are you goin' tew'vote fur?" -[''or tir ilaves and

Wheeler."

Tneti the re :-leg got up with a oign ol disappointment, while tlu- little man's frit ti an he in high glee. Tin were just making up a little account lor^the lit-

wake,

however, he

coinmt.ncvd to elongate. First, the upper doubled up section rose up fiom between ftt seat: then the body straightened ont, showing up a navy, and an "Arkansas toothpick." After wiping away a little of the long hair from his face," and settling his broad, ragged "sombrero'' upon his head, he fixed a pair ol sparkling Wlue eyes upon the Kansan, and said: "What's this yeah you a-given me pard?''

Who are you goin tew vote lor,Hayes or lilden? Speak qui:k, for I'm a taken a vote in this keer."

In a minute that toothpick was flashinir in the sunlight, and the 1 exan lelt hand clasped the startled red leg's shoulder as he said: "Well, I votes for Tilden, I does, and so does all the toiks whaie I comes ltoni, and 1 don't 'low Kansas K.adicals tocpiestion mi1 politics, I don't an et you hev anything to sav agin Tilden an' wliats his name, jest vou spit it out right hyar. I'm on it, I am."

The Kansas bully extend his hand amicably, sat ing, while a ghastly smile prevaded his catfish countenance: "Shake, partner, shake I fillers did like a man wot stands up to his principles.

Then every body in the car laughed.

How The JEyeBeconu se rieetcd

as to Discover Colors.

Science fives us interesting details about what the human eye has been and what it may become. The Vedas of India, which are the most ancient-written documents, attest that in times the mos: remote, but still recorded in history, onlytwo colors were known, black and red. A very long time elapsed before the eye arrived at the perception of the color yellow, and a si ill longer time before green was distinguished and it is remarkable that in the most ancient languages the terms which designated yellow insensible passed to the signification of green. The Greeks had, according to the received opinion now, the perception of colors very well developed and yct authors of a more recent date assure us that in the time ol Alexander, Greek painters had for fundamental colors only white, black, red and vcllow. The words th designate blue and violet were wanting to the Greeks in the most ancient times of their history thev called these colors grey and black. It is thus that the colors of the rainbow were onlv distinguished gradually, and, the great Aristotle only knew four of them. It is a well-known fact thai when the colors of the prism are photographed there r«.mains outside the limit of the blue and violet in the spcctrum a distinct imprest-ion which our eyes do not recognize as a color, vAccording to physiologists, a time will come when the human eye well be perfected so asto,discern this color as well as the others.

A YVONDE.HFUL BIRD „AM0 DOG STORY. [Newaik Atlvrvt iser.J

J)r 1'v.nt. a' lrvington, has an Kng1H, pointer dog v.hich is the admiration nfihe nei»hborhood and the terror of namps Madame has canary-birds Yesterdav morriihg ori of them escaped and the usual s»tern chase succeeded 1 he bird made along detour, closely tollowed to her occasional resting places, until nearly an hour had been wasted, while the pursuers had grown six in number, we mkht sav scTtti, for old Dash^ had been "at heel,'' and was interested in the result. Suddenly the bird flushed, sailed swit'llv across the street, with Dash hard after her. The bird was flying low, all the pursuers trying to call off Dash, but he kept on, made a sudden leap in the air,

caught

fellow

and instinct?

"You want nothing, do you?1 "Bt dad' an' if its nothing ye want. find it in the jug, •was.'

:v*

VICTORY, 'y

[Continued trom first page.1

Tribune bulletin boards are deserted. Dispatches to the National Committee, specials to the Sun and Associated Press dispatches show that Florida has gone Democratic from 2,000 to 5,000 majority, Louisiana is claimed by 10,000. It will take the official count to decide Wisconsin. There can be no doubt about Til den's election.

Washington, November 9.—The ex citeinent here is unprecedented and in tense and large crowds are at the newspaper and telegraph offices. In the executive departments no business is being done. Every one is jng the definite returns from any any one of the States regarded doubtful.

TERRITORIAL.

Yankton, l)akot?h, Nov. 9.—The election returns come in slowly, but radiate larger republican majorities than ever given before. Yankton county casts a total vote of 1,4°?' g'v'Po Kidder, republican for delegate, over Jink, a majority of 107. All the county republican ticket is elected, except one outside the county. Kidder's majority probably reaches 3,000.

Washington, Nov. 9.—lion. Chas.

Gorham,

assistant secretary of the Inte

rior, received at noon to-day, a telegram Irom Secretary C-.andler. saying. without qualification, that Hayes h« 18^ votes, and is elected. Sec. Chandler will return here trom N. Y. to-night.

Philadelpia, Nov. 9.—The excitement con. erning the election is greater to-day than at anv previous time, owing to the prolonged doubt about the result. Large

crowds

... 11den man to pay when

he got. to St mis, when the laree turned into a serio-c nnc tragedy. The ollicious rowdy had reached near the end of the car, and liatl esactcd a pledge from all to vote for his favorite candidate or be thrown off the t.ain,when he struck his hand upon a bleeping passenger ho had got on the at Ellsworth. 1 le was a rough, rain looking Texas "cow-boy." He was slow to wake. When lie did

surround all the bulletin hoards

and the interest is intense. The President and Mrs. G-ant, and Secretary Cameron are in the city, the "uests of Geo. W. Childs. he I resi--jent and the Secretary visited Drexels hanking house this morning, and much excitement was produced among the brokers, by a rumor that they had given their decisive information of Haves election.

The rumor was soon ascertained to be talse, however, and the excitement died away. Philadelphia day at the Centennial, is marked by a very large attendance in spite of tiie political excitement. The weather i* deliglutul, and in every way lavorable.

Vijfo County.

The following vote with majorities is coriectly ascertained troin the most reliable sources at 3:30 r. M.

1 st Ward 2nd Ward 3rd Ward 4th Ward $th Ward Oth] Ward Harrison tp. Honey Crk tp. Sugar Crk tp. Prairie Crk tp. I'rairieton tp. Nevins tp. Linton tp. Picrson tp.

arms,

the bi. in his mouth, as an Irv-

inftonbov would a ball on the fly, and &roppedto"ch»«." Of course the bird was oaten up and swallowed? Ot course not. Mr.C.W. Harrison ran up, •ind th'^re was the bird tenderly imprisonS »,uS. th. .?d

/. W

1—j

399 4-20 •237 2S2 39? 341 329 2S7

7' 48 60 95

Lost Creeck tp. 139 153 Fayette tp. Otter Crk tp. Riley tp.

21 45

52 4-

43s 45s '9s 2lf 204 176 I50 '34 '44 175 120 11S

.S3 40 12 67 22 36

12 26

'oo »5

1.5 3

100 197 173 126

64 164 112 30 37 73 74 28 59

36 85 47

107 1S3 9s '55 i7( *33

Total

16 57

3747 355°

1J°5 197•

TILDEN HENORUKS ANO VICTORY.

Gazette Special Telegram-

Indianapolis Ind Nov- 9, 11.50 A.M. The Republicans cioncede the election of Tilden. General Tcrrel is now in our headquaiters says there is no doubt of Tilden's election.

T. T. S.

grapegatherTngdamsels. The war correspondent of the London Telegraph writes: "A prettier sight presently came beneath my notice, one forming a strange contrast to the heavysaddening spectacle 1 had lately witnessed. I have mentioned tlitt mevards of Turkey and Servia. Those of the last-named country have, wherever we have gone, been very effectually cleared of whatever grapes titicy boasted but in Turkey the harvest has notf come, and as in the times when Uoratius kept the bridge •in the brave days of o'.d, so now the girls of the country have to gather the vintage. The sires have had to drive the wagons of grain, forage, and ammunition to the army have had to take back into Nisch the .wounded soldiers who have fallen" in the fight, have been told off to bury the dead out of the sight of the living, and aid in moving the tents and material of the army. Thus to these young maidens has been entrusted the task of gathering in the wheat and barley, and to'them also has fallen the labor of bringing in the grapes. I suppose that even in better times this has been their work, for the harvest cf the vineyard has many a pretty custom connected-with it whieh'surely cannot be he outgrowth of a devastating war. It is when the grapes are purple or transparent that the Bulgarian damcl dons a new attire plaits her hair with f^audy ribbons fastens,, to her headdress pieces of gold iP she* be rich, or copper if she he poorer, and sallies forth to pluck the lie 1 fruit. Wc met a little procession of these youthful dames 'joing out to tlie vine, ard' on our "why to N isch. seated in the rough \vaborts of the country, with baskets on their

gay in their bright dresseJ and radiant \vith smiles, tnev were being slowly drawn by bullocks which, beipg lazilv tended by boyish drivers, rolled first to oneiside and then to! the oths.xj6f the

rough,

just

nromptly surrendered Da key to

hands, with hardly more

Mr. Harrison's hands, with hardly than a ruffled feather. The affa,r was wonderful in two things, the accuracy of the catch, and the gentle shelter Dash cave the

little

.fugitive in the only spare

room he has,—his capacious mouth. "Where

the border-line between reason

ve'll

where the

badly-made i*oad. Every nw

and then one ot the party would break out into snatches of song, atid then thdbe would be a peal of laughter, so careless we--e th :v of the passing hour. To one

fresh from "the horrors of war it war 6trange to see such merriment so close to so much devastatio

JACKSON'S BENEFIT BALL The bei eat ball tendced to Tl onas Jackson, the cripple, oc urs at the City Ilall to-morrcw night. following are the manag-rs: Recrp tio 1 committee

Andrew Drought, L'. L. Holmes. Foor manage-*—NeKon Baker, R. Sullivan and Sylvester Jackson. Tom has 5 jbeen rather un ortanate tor s. .via. ta.s, said Pat. and deserves to be Pjt"0 «d. lfyou

don

want to go

whisky seventy-five centf who will go —[Mail.

.?•

_\curselt,bu\ a'idtet for

give to somj one h01"*1

THE TERRE HaUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

ANew Device for Calling. N. Y. Sun:" You see we are running our ca-ri system with lightning, or electricity, it's the same thing," said Mr. William Ebricn, as I stepped into the famous Eighth avenue store on Saturday afternoon. "Heretofore on Saturdays, pjrticularly in the afternoon, the din and contusion, and the incessant call of cash!' 'cash!' 'cash!' by our saleswomen and sal jsmen were absolutely deafening. So my brother Louis and I put our heads together to invent something that would call the cash girls witoout so much noise. I suggested lis, dut Louis said, 'No, that would be as bad as the cash calls. One ddy he came to me and said excitedly, William, I've f*und it. Electricity is the thing.' I declare I thought Louis had gone crazy. 'Found what?' said I. '.Vhat is electricity the thing for? Our cash girls, he leplied. 'In the name of conscience, Louis ,' said I, what are you going to put electricity on our cash girls lor? I don't see that anything is the matter with them.' Then Louit begain to laugh. He explained that he meant to appiy electricity to call them, instead of ttie cash call used in all the stores in the city from A T. Stewurt's to ours. Nowcome and see the invention." tie took me at once to the register in he centre of the store under the main staircase, and showed me the thirty or more little circular silver plated drops, lapel leu "hosiery." "hottons," millinery," and so on,with numbers also to correspond with the sections. livery now and then, as if by magic, down dropped one of the little silver plates. A young man standing by the side of the register instantly spoke, "hosiery," or "trimmings," 1, 2 .jr 3, as the case might be, and as soon as he thus announced the department and number off started the head girl i.i the line of cash girls seated on the other side of the register. In the mean time others came up as fast as the first departed and took their seats in the line. 1 i.-re was 110 confusion, no harry, not a cah throughout the large and busy establishment when dollars and parcels by Hie hundreds were passing over the counters. 1 hen Mr. Ehricl. took me to one of his counters and showed me the little cordlike straps running back of the saleswo man that they pulled whenever a purchase was nade and a sale completed, and which he explained to me were con nected \\iih electrical wires running under the floors and joined to the drops that I had seen at the re^tster. "An advantage In this system in addition to what you can see for yourself," said Mr. Ehrieh. "is, that we can so regulate the labors of the girls that each one is obliged to do her share, and whoever lias the most cash checks credited to her at the end of the week we give a premaun of lir'ty cents over her regular v/ages. See how orderly ann composed th lo.)k mpared with th 1 fcrmer dis-y traction under the old system."

It was a fact. The little girls looked perfectly sell-possessed, calm and selfre: pectt'ul, and the saleswomen were no longer fretting and scolding, and calling 10 get attendance, and the hundreds ol ladies at the counters were collected and easy in theta^k of shonuing on S 1 urday afternoon.

DOUGHERTY Ori CAMEHON. On Saturday, in a speech at Philadelphia for Tilden, Daniel Dougherty was hissed when he denounced Simon Cameron. He then repeated: "I am on my native heather. I am a Philadelphian, born and bred. I glory in Pennsylvania, but I never yet have bowed the knee to oimon Cameron, and, so help me God, I never will. I respect integri y. I honor statesmanship. I care not how a man may differ from me. For this reason -1 can truly say that I shall never ceasc to deplore that such a man as Simon Cameron is a crowning disgrace to the proud state of Pennsylvania. So long as he is in the Senate of the United Ststes, the voung Republican of the state" (and here the speaker was reminded of his young and honorable friend, Henry Armitt Brown, "can never hope for political preferment except he bo.veth the knee to the Gesler cap of Cameron. But this is not all, an attempt is now clearly seen to make Cameronism hereditary, and to this end Gen. Grant »pits in the lace of Pennsylvania, by lifting the son Don, who never set a squandron in the field, to the high and responsible position of secretary of war.

Ropp's Commercial Calculator.

A VA-U V3L 1 I.

C. Ropp, Jr. of lilooiiiingtou, 111. has issued a calcalaton of mu.:h nure than ordinary merit. It is useful not alone (as some calculators) in estimating interest, but is invaluable to the carpenter, brick mason, tock buver, and, i:i fact, to everyone having business calculations of any importance to make. The points may be tnus succenctly stated: 'The tirst part contains an entirely new system of fables, which show, at a glancc, the accurate value of Wheat. Corn. Rye, Oats, Barley, Ca'tle, gs, Hay, Coal, Lumber, Merchandise, etc., from one pound up to a car load, and for any price that the market is likely to reach the Interest on any sum tLr any time, at (, 7, and io p.'r cent. the Wages firany time, at various ratjs per week, or month the correct measurement of Board.*. Scantlings, Timbers, Suv Logs, Cisterns, Tanks, Wells Granaries, Bins' Wagon-beds, Corncribs. etc.

The second part ii a practical Arithmetic, and embodies a simple mathematical principle, which enables ANY ON it conversant with the fundamental rules to become a lightning calculator. It contains short and original methods by which over two-thirds of the figures jind mental labor, required by the ordinary methods, and fractions with their complexities, arc absolutely avoided i.i practical calculations.

MR. D. G. EARLE will, doubtless have crowds from Paris, Sullivan and iBrazil, to witness his performance 01 Hamlet. lie has a number of friends and admirers in all these places.

AT Turner hall, the entertainment next Sunday evening will consist of ele gant vaudevilles, finely performed. A new concert troupe will perform 6ome excellent muric.

IN an

tther column will be found an

idvertiscment of E. J. King, Terre

slove8

hr)mC

TheM an of Destiny.

The Strong Points of the Next President of the United States.

Characteristics of our Candidate.

A Faithful Pen Portrait of one of th8 Greatest Men of the l'imes.

From Cock's Life of Tildeu.

The power of the man lies in his ability to concentrate his mind upon his work Where others vaporize, he crystalizes. The realm of speculative philosophy lia? no attraction for him. He reduces sta'es manship to one of the exact sciences. 11 treats a problem in government as hi would a problem in matheir atics he takes all the factors, discovers their relative value, and then uses them. Glittering generalities are his abhonence Facts are his friends and figures his de light.

Out of this power ot concentration spring two anomalous characteristics— absolute fearlessness linked to great cau tion. Nobody who knows Mr. Tilden

ever

dreamed of frightening him. lie i.impcrvious to threats. He dislikes thost ,vho rake counsel ot their apprehensions. But he never moves until he has provided against every possible contingency, lie vindicates his courage in his designs and displays his caution in the execution thereof. He did a bold thing in the summer of 1S75, when, a governor of New York, lie promised the people in hi.* speeches at Buffalo, Syracuse and Utica, that their taxes should be^ reduced f6,000,000. Bin he did a cautious thing when he fixed the sum at six millions while he was paving the way for a re tuction of eight millions—which was effected.

Tn-i defects i.i his character appear to be surface faults, but they are ineradica ble, inasmuch as they all grow out of his concentration of mind. When he has leisure to be agreeable, few .nen aie brighter or more sparkling than he. On rare occasions he gives rein to his wit and his imagination, which are the more brilliant perhaps on account of their infrequent use. But when iie is busy he is noi companionable, lie never stops in his work to utter the meaningless phrases ol the average politician, lie cannot leig'i any delight at the sight of persons concerning whom he is indifferent But he suinetimes wounds the sensibilities of those whom he really loves if they happen to approach him at a time when hi* liind is occupied on a question which ah-' sorbs all his power of thought. They have only to meet him when the perplexities of duty weigh less heavily upon him to discover what social resources he holds in reserve. Whe he has finished, to 11

own

satisfaction, any piece of work on which he has been engaged, he is as happv as a boy just released from school The ti oubled 1 -ok in his eyes passes awav, the wrinkled brow grows srao th, and hi* face beams with the sunshine of good na ture. This humor lasts until some new problem demands solution, and then to that he surrenders all his powers.

Mr. i'lldjii is no se.iUiiie itaii.it, but in possesses a great deal of sentiment friendship means more to him than to the poets who sing its praise, or to the weak creatures who yearn for it without understanding the possibilities of sacrifice which it involves. When he was past 40 vears of age, he voluntarily took upon

himself

pecuniary obligation equal to all

the money he had earned by twenty years of laborious efforts, that those who were bound to him by the ties of relationship might escape a threatened reverse of .fortune, and the declining years of his Mged mother might be full of peace and free from sorrow. This is not ihe place to repeat the story ot his benefactions to others. My knowledge of his generous deeds is not derived from him. It is a subject on which he never talks, and on which he will not permit others to talk in his presence. The late Judge Martin Grover, of the New York Court of Appeals, who was one of the wisest jurists and closest observers of character that the country has produced, was speaking of Tilden one day, long before his nomination for governor, and remarked: "That man has given away more money, and made less fuss about it, than any other man in the State of New York. He doesn't wive on any abstract theory of philanthropy, but because his friends get themselves' into trouble, and he ca l'l resist the temptation to help V..i oat.'' Mr. Tilden was very busily engaged in the preparation of a public paper in Albany when the report was brought to him that

Charles O'Connor was lying so seriously ill that the hope of his recovery had been abandoned. He did not utter a word He dropped his pen, and hiding his fa-:e from observation, he sat for full five min utes lost in deep, sad thought. His work wasnot resumed. He journeyed to New York that clay, that he migtu oe near to his old friend in the hour of his extremity. To him no other duty was so imperative at that which summoned him to the bedside of the man he loved. Fortunately, Mr. O'Connor recovered. Mr. Tilden returned to Albany, and went to work. Those who saw him grappling with the finances of the State in an eflo.t to reduce the taxes, would not imagiue that his abstracted, and .sometimes pctulent manner concealcd such fountains of deep feeling.

He is ashv man. lie dt.es not readily reveal

hiiWlf

who see

evert 19 ,t^o^f»vhp "$j|BljS

thev have known'him for years.' HK Occasional efforts to appear wholly at hi-, ease in the presence of strangers are amusing rather than successful. It is almost impossible to und the -pths ri his uature. His intellectual resources afe inexhaustible. But his shyness—his unwillingness to make any display either of his learning or his wisdom—makes him appear commonplace enough to many

him for the first time. He has

lived in New York city for forty years, mingling in the best society of the metropolis, but the manner of the student is upon him still, The great problem which he seeks tc solve, the h.-rd lessons wh-ch he has set himself to learn—the problems which have eluded the efforts ot other statesmen, the lessons which must be rightly read,

Hautes Stove manufacturer. He makes 18tri.et. It is sub-ta uially furnishecV^onta a vast numuer of books, a tew pieces oi siatuary. and pl-nty of picturts. But kes he

ard his foundry being a

instictition deserves the patronage

,nsU!,_

of the people.

LH Ma'uai," the tr I thing that btrikeo 1

-a ntxt&gifr W

he absolute freedom from ostentatious lisplay. All that refined taste can susj^est is ther but refined taste in its similkity. Mr. Tilden's sister, Mrs. Pelton, 1 Uracious gentlewoman, of charming manners, presides over his household. ler son, Coknel Pelton, and his wife r.d daughter, complete the family circle.

At his oton table, Mr. Tilden is the est of hosts, because the least obtrusive his hospitality Children always take

him. Hs is fond of them and they of oim. Soon after his nomination a little {ill in Georgia sent him a letter of congratulation. She was only eight years id, and she had printed out the words with laborious effort. None the less they had the freshness and sweetness of childish prattle. She closed her letter by saying "I did rot have any middle name, and ma said I might take one. So I took iour name, because I like Tilden best of all. Do you care?" He did care. He cared so much that all other business was laid aside for five minutes, while he wrote 1 pleasant answer to his little friend in Georgia. Some of the letters which he receives arc amusing, and he enjoys them ts much as anybody. He employs plain, matter-of-fact clerk, who indorses on the back 01 -•ach epistle the su'tstance of i:s conrents. He was running over a pile of these letters one day, reading indorsements iloud, when became to one over which ue paused a moment, and then read ''Invokes the blessing of God upon you. and wants you to marry a Massachusetts idow." A quizical smile beamed in his ice.and utili/.i.i t.i expression whic. ie is charged with using pretty often, he -marked, "I will see later." Hi' irizes at its full value the relaxation and omtb which his home life ufiord* i'ti, hut the I trrer ?ha of h's time for forty years has been devoted to work, and he could not if he would release himself I'rom those habits of industry which arc woven into the warp and woof of his nature

Martin Van IJurcn said of Samuel Tilden, twenty years ago. ''He is the ost unambitious man I ever knew."

Ir. Van Hircn viewed Mr Tilden from his own standpoint, of course—the stand

point

of one who had sacrificed much to :he attainment of political honors, and vno, after holding all the highest officef in the country,found himself disappointed and defeated at the last. His acquaifti.ice with

I'il

len's boyhood, his appreci-

iiion of his talents, and his knowledge ol he opportunities for advancement which ie had rejected, le I him to make ^he re mark. He could not understand how a nan might gratify a certain sort of ambition by attendingstrictlv to his professional pursuits, winning the confidence of those around him, and discharging faithfully his duties as a citizen. Yet that sphere of life filled the measure oi Mr. Tilden's ambition and would fill it to-day if he had not beeu driven forward bv circumstances stronger than he could control. He has been charged with overwhelming ambition, and yet he never sought a public position in his life, lie has been accused 1 working for his own .dvancement. He has -\orked for the advancement of a cause which he be ieves to be essential to the preset vation of Republican institutions, but lie is no sclfeker. If he could have found his alter ogo—some man who possessed the courage, the intelligence, and the desire to bring about the reforms which he had sought, and which the country needed— he would have supported that man for Presidency, and gladly have remained in retirement himself. But the man was not to be found, Mr. Til den told Secretaiy Stanton, 1S62. that a great military genius rose only once in two or three centuries. A great political reformct rises hardly as often as a military genius. The civic hero's task is more difficult, his labor more thankless, and his reward less certain. If it he ambition which induces and man to grapple with fat, sleek thieves, well intrenched in power, then it is that sort of ambition which prompts a soldier to volunteer to lead a forlone hope in battle. Sometimes the leader ol a forlone hope survives, and great is his glory.. Oftener he is slain and forgotten. The chances are so much against him that his very existence demonstrates his unselfishness.

The enthusiasm which Mr. Tilden arouses is not of the frothy sort. It is based on the judgment of men, not on their impulses, and is, therefore, enduring If the Democratic party had not been convinced that he was the best representative ot its best ideas he would not have been nominated, From the first there was a feeling safety under his leadership nis feeling of safety begets confidence confidence begets buoyancy, ami buoy ancy begets enthusiasm, which sweepaown barriers and makei heroes ot us all.

He is the best financier in the United States. He never made a mistake in a question of finance. These are broad assertions, but they are fully justified by the facts. His council had been sought lor twenty years by the safe and conservative capitalists of the country, and not bv the stock jobbers and reckless speculators, for with them he refused to have anv dealings. His financial ability is one of

tne

elements

The love which

Mr.

equa.itv,

the wellarc of the

people is to be preserved, will engage his attention while he lives. His home.i is comforuoe and pleasart. His house in .sew York in Gramercy Square is a lirge brown-stone front, tne lot extending back to the next

the

Ti!den inspires iri

the hearts of his personal friends is.«. rf.vtry ep. Ahnos-t any man who knows him well would V(illinglv lake the risk of death in his be half— with a tolerable feeling of confidence,

however,

that

Tilden would

Ftop at the last moment and save him. But confidence alone dots not make love. One secret of his hold on the affection of tho.-e who arc near him is- that he never patronizes anybody. There is not in his nature one atom or 'race of that vanity which gratifies itself by the contemplation of a position superior to that of others. He meets everybody on a plane of perfect equality, not with an affectation of

but with a manner which makes

th. visitor forget in a moment that he is in the presence of the governor of New York, a.id rerr.cr.iberonl that he is talking to a plain, sensible, and wise man.

Governor Tilden is five leet ten inches in hight, spare figure, light complexion and blue eyes. His head is large and round. His hair, originally chestnut, is nt plentifullv sprinkled with gray, but is stuiof abundant growth. He has enfe eJ his sixtv-third year, but retains hi* rength an vigor in a rc ma kab j. gr e. ue pities ot a lotig-lifed tami-1 v. The record is preserved of fourteen W:i-bavc'incd Dr. Bu of his ancestors

011

his tathvi's and moth' up

t-r's dj, .11 1 direct hue, a'.d ii sho

visitor is!thatt.ieir average a,e was upwardoi introiuce'd

ikct

seventy-nine years. If Samuel J. TiMeti should be ra'led to the presidence, he would, in hi* ot*ji words, enter upon the great duties th& would fall upon him, "not as one enteric upon a holiday recreation,but ve.-y muC in that spirit of consecration in which a so dierent. rs battle." He has drunk deep the fountains of patri itism. He gives to I his coup try that love which others yiela, ,,.,M to wife and children. He is whole himself, possessing •firmness witV-

out obstinacy, courage without bravacl^, religion without cant. The tradition ol the fathers are his inspiration. He h#i no personal ends to serve, no other ambition than to save the lnnd of our lo^p and commemoration from ihe Cinker Cp corruption which ate out the heart df every republic of ancient times. That the purpose to which he has consecrate* himself may be a.tained, through him Or through others, is surely the prayer of emcry patriotic American.

Election Bets.

A Cincinnati Judge Lays DomQi the Law to the Grand Jury

On the Question of Betting On Elections and Pool Selling.

The Grand Jury for the Novcmbw term of the criminal side of Comnflfci Pleas was impaneled, yesterday afternoon efore Judge Murdock.

Judge Murdock. in his charge, calleB •articular attention to the law relating ft 'Icial voting, betting and pool-selling On elections.

BETT1XG OX THE ELECTION*. Upon the second ooint, he said ••It is hardly necessary to impressupO» the jurv the importance of seeing thjl he elections—the mode in which we s#lect our rulers, those which make 0* laws, as well as those who execute thcTh —should be kept as pure and undefiled as OO.MDIC N-» right thinking man needs a u'one, h" their arguments or by any other mode that ihey may make iue 3* legita v.ately, to urge upon him to s«e hat the ballot-box be k-.-pt pure. Eve right-thinking man feels that, that oug to be done'without any one makiog 6U a su°"'estion to him. The feeling is most Implanted in everyone's breast _b* nature. The Legislature has passOT ,r ih' pur.i of protecting the purity of the ballot-box. We call your attention to this legislation, and more p»iiarticularly, gentlemen, because we haw just passed through a very exciting citation. and are about to enter another—ma election so exciting thai it was very wfiB calculated to tempt men who are not vefjr strong-minded, men who vere vojr strongly-grounded in the purest of feellqjf and 01 idea, to infract some one 01 u* i.vsp.issed for the purpose of preserving

upon

attention to certain things, ho that gentlemnn, may see that we do not. read you the section which provides_ th, the act shall be given especial charge to the grand jury, by the court. We a* compelled to give the act in charge fo the grand jury. We would be,violating our oath «f office of we did not.

POOL SELLING.

As to Pool selling the Court said: "It has coiiie to our knowledge, the newspapers and elsewhere—we

in the newspapers—win. l'"-'

liculurly how it is

his strength, is it not

true, if the finances of the Government Were wisely and economically managed bv an experienced hand, that the currency problems which troubled the theorists would solve themselves? ..

uicujd,

Sd Jury to l» guilty of tbecnnK,or wtomjf sonaoly

stipeucd nIfti

thX'we havcVretoforc looked upon ftt

upright m®.1^ '^-^(e^Um^an^agai^, ^an3M f***

U'-i,

Mr.

ofthis crine, time and again, aruf been, lio mutur who th.y ,'hcy should Ik presented, if is

jf they have beer are proof

offered, and

Cdi'n

ving Art Stiti33»

Mention hnold hive been

The store roam occapwi M• doiphG-.ggis beiogre oorHe is in Uie meantime oi..upyma UK roc-m immediately cast.

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.»or family» vr "ti v»

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purity of elections, very well calculated to draw away men who arc goH men ordinarily, men who would nQl commit crime, but who, on the contrary, ibhor it. yet who are carried awav by tflfc circumstances that surround them, Br uieir favorite candidates, and tempted £b commit some of the crimes made pimisfciblc bv the to which ''•ill yot» attention. The law is a* tollOWt: l'hat if any pertott suait any be" or wager upon the event of anv el« tion, held or to be held under the laws* this State, or shall make any bet JO wager upon the election of anyperson to any ..flice,post, or situation, which by tW Constitution or laws ol this State, made elective, or shall make any bet Or wa»er upon the election o» a President or Vice President of ihe United States, or

the election ol electors of I re#dent and Vice President of the Umg» States, each person so offending shift upon conviction thereof, be hned in any sum not less than $5 »or

for a coufeh orc.-W

P. ice 25 cents.

n,ore

^00 "We have frequently called the attrition of

the

other

grand jury to this act, atfiJ

acts of a similar nature, and

have seen statements in Umj newspaper i,. years gone by, perhaps by who did not know the

lu*V?r.dld

Pjj

chink that the courts were officious, thf* they went outside of their

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dunes

to ct»

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til

frdtn ha«e

,hlr'

engaged in a large class of pcrsons,eaJ

,v,ol

sellin". We have seen it advertiztil

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stated that it is a mode of bettinn, in» ft is simply making use of terms"? mdu«e oeoDle to believe it is not gambhn,,. Jt as come to our ears that it is noth.« more than betting-betting on election, or prize light, 7£°»« hatred in poal selling are liable to be fc-

and punished if convicted. At* 1

SJire let

say,that it is theduty of tig

:4* f,' K'l ',*1 I

piopl pun

it convicted,

reviewing the law, reference ille"at voting, the Court distinctly direofc ed fh'tattention of the jury to .ts several provisions. ,v

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the-e column of the classical statues which will exhibit a* the Op-r"" House on next Monday evening.

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