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Laniont; Executive Clerk, Good- '' win Brown; Stenographer, Irving F. Cragin; Messenger, Charles A. Earl. Mr, Lamont will also serve as Military Secretary, without pay. Such one. of the executive clerks as Governor Cleveland shall, from time to time designate; will attend to the clerical duties connected with the filing, classifying | and synopsizing of papers in matters of appli- eation for clemency. To the matter of hear- ing and determining requests for pardons, the Governor will himself attend, Lieu tenant-Governor Hill has made the follow- ing appointments: President's: Clerk, John B. Locke; Messenger, Harris A, Correll. Coupxcror Rosertsox says he is. not in a resigning mood. MansHat Hexry's | brother, . another friend of Garfeld, has been asked to resign, Last evening: Gambetta's condition gave occasion for alarm among the physicians, \ dated 2:20 o'clock this mora ing, at Paris, indicates that Gambetta is dying. Trg hour and minuto hands plumb at midnight move on for another hour, another day, and another year, as we write this paragraph. ., : Taz speech of Licut-Gov. Hill, in New York, nn abstract of which wo carry, is a faithful index to that gentleman's charactor, convictions and patriotism. A7 the meeting of the National League in Dublin, yesterday, Labor and O'Donnell made speeches that-were too immoderaté in ~torie to be forceful and salutary, Tag Louisville Commercial, the leading Republican pmper of the South, begins a mew volume, this morning, as a strictly Independent journal, abandoning all politi- cal sympathies, Srxaton Srexcen, of Star route fame, is careful to get out of this country and stay out, but he is willing to make a deposition, in London, if desired. He stys rather hard things about several persons of promi- nonce. Junaz Brtaos, of the Common'Pleas bench of Penneylvaitia, has delivered a long opinion, ruling that \all who do not be Hievé in a Divino Being and divine rewards and punishments, aro incompotent as wite nesses.\ THE Secretary of the Missouri Emigration Society ascertains, from very reliable dats, that the immigration tothat State, for 1832 reaches 80,000. The average increase in the value of land during the year, reaches near- ly twenty per cent. Tr is gratifying to know that at the port of Boston, for the past year, there can be re- ported an increaseof | American vessol clearances, and & decrease of foreign clear- ances. - And still there is a mortifying bal- ance against American shipping, Gzxzrat Grosvexon, of Ohio, cannot be charged withawarded being a \pension fraud.\ He was recently nearly five thousand dollars under the arrears of pensions act, but he has turned the entire amount into the treasury. This is one of the \idees\ that Ohio is troubled with only in spots, Hox. Cas. C. Trowsripor, of Detroit, whose birthplace wasin the city of Albany, was entertained at a public dinner, Friday, the occasion being his eighty-third birth- day. Hehasbeen prominentlyconnected . with the financial, educational, religious and social interests of Detroit for more than Lalf a century. Irecrexast.GoversorDavio B. Hut has in years past given excellentservice to the people, in their Assembly. He has always been prominent in the councilsof the Democracy as one who would make the party better and not worse. | As Mayor of Elmira,his fellow-citizens have received mh'manucenentaflministmfion. His nomination by the Democracy was recog- Mbyflxepeop'nefiffi a response which mafigfiMtzsmgnifieent. He will awupmhisdufiesxstheprfi'fingofi‘icer of the Senate with the assared affection of all of his Democratic colleagues, and with the respect as weil of every Republican raemberof the bodys \The incidental duties bf his office will bring Lim Into relations ~ HB State Interests and with State depart ments, His excellent business ability and 'his trained and incisive legal mind will enable him to forward every interest of economy and reform and to see in its entirety, on the instant, every scheme of indirection, challenging opposition and ex- posure, - He has the best wishes of the peo- ple for his happiness and success, and their confidence that in his great office he will continue the record of intelligence, industry, integrity and equity which have given him a worm place in the esteem of the Demo- cratic party, and in the respect of the pub- lic, as well as an honorable distinction in the service of the State. THE ADVENT OF A NEW ADMINIS TRATION. * People remember why they were asked to vote for Mr. Grover Cleveland, | They re- member what positions he took in his pub- lo statements, - 'Wo advise the public to re- call those reasons and declarations now. Candidacy did not change the character of the man. © Election has altered nothing ex- cept his responsibilities, and they have only been increased, | The canvass on his behalf was free from sophistry, exaggeration and passion, It was made for truth and nob \for Buncombe.\ His own written and spoken words were a reflection of the frankness, simplicity and excellence of his character and of the lucidity and force of his mind, - The questions which he touched and the fesues which he mef were not novel. They could not be, inasmuch as the problems of government for New York are made by an unchanging constitution and by recurring public conditions, 'The peo- ple, therefore, had the opportunity to seo how he addressed liimgelf to familiar sub- jects and to compare his treatment of them with that of his predecessors, when candi- dates, and with that of his competitors for' the office, Whether his utterances and actions are considered by themselyes, or whether they are measured by the response of the voters, the hope is well founded which anticipates an honest, direct, practical and homespun administration, The course of Mr. Cleve- land at the bax, in the public service and as a candidate before the people has made it certain that his administration will trans- late his charactor, his mind and his disposi- tion into action, © In other words, the kind of man he is and has been is the kind of Governor lhe will be, This, enables one to foresee the future from the standpoint of the past and the present, in its controlling principles into harmony with which the de- toils will arrange. themselves, with the ve- rncity and proportion predicable of all that is true to itself innature or in morals, As an active and trusted member of the party to which he belongs, the influence of Mr, Cleveland with the Democracy of Erle county was always marked for its ethical character and for ites practical force, He believed that nominations which vindicated themselves the moment they were made were the ones which ought to be made. He believed that a canvass which combined an appeal to the approbative conscience of voters, with an appeal to their intelligent self-interest, was a canvass: most worthy of the Democracy, inasmuch as it carried the desert of success, irrespective of the iuci- dent of victory or defeat, He believed, also, that a candidacy for public trusts was never a thing to seek and not a thing to re- fuse, when one's party laid. either the bur- den or the honor on a citizen, | Office ho re- gords as a duty neither to be solicited nor declined, Hence we find him acting as sheriff, as prosecutor and as mayor, on the clear theory that the peoplo had the enme right to draft him into. civil service that they have to drafé a citizen. into their mill« tary service, irrespective of his interfering will or interests. His discharge of the trusts committed to him has been such as exhibited a revival of the usages of the earlier days of the Repub» lic, in their industry and integrity. | It ost curred in the experience of the city of Buf- falo that a condition of bad government stirred the citizens toa choice of him, to make it better, | That fact coincided with a purpose of the 'people of New York, to re- store the reform principles which had not long before benefited and honored their State. | The order in which elections happen by law gave Buffalo a year's experience of Mr. Cleveland, as Mayor, and the State a year's observation of him, in that office, his election having been an event which attest: ed the ethical spirit of the city and which attracted the interest and expectation of the Commonwealth, Before the year had far proceeded, ovents proved that the Demo- cratic party was uniting and the Republican party was dissolving, under the tests to which a reform sentiment was subjecting political organizations, . Meanthile, Mr. Cleveland, as Mayor, was giving such an administration as attracted wide notice-in a way to prove that duty, and not any de- sign or expectation of conspicuity, was what was moving him. He was velo ing rapacity In large and inlittle, with an array of reasons which was not to be auswered, He was performing the affitmative part of his executive du. ties with the precision, care and thor. ougbnéés of & lawyer attending to the in- terests of & client, The methodsand man- ner of the administration were no more sensational than the order of business in a counting houss-and they were just as exact, thorough and systematic. A city found that none of its stores or raanufac- tures was conducted markedly different from the business of its municipal corpo ration. The wonder at first was, why and how is this? Then the wonder was, why has it not always been sof Then came the foquiry why should, why can it not always beso? 'There is that which is so natural in good government that it cannot surprise men, unless it displaces a course of bad gor- ernment, so that the contrast is supplied. Xo oneis surprised that our great private enferprisesare run on business principles, class, whose profession it was to live. off of the public purse. To rook out all the old conditions, to start and to succeed with the new, and to do both so modestly and well as to refute the suspicion of self-sceking, proved: mental and moral qualities in Mr. Grover Cleveland, which the State deter- mined to take into its service, for like tasks at its capital. The happy events which made him the Democratic candidate, and tho remarkable Democratic and Republican vote which gave him. nearly 200,000 majority, are' history. He: comes to fhe Governorship well-nigh unopposed, and his own mind has expressed all the pledges under which he is, They are pledges to recognize in the Governor ship the principles of the Democratic party and the desire of New York for the restora- tion of administrative reform to the action of the State. The painstaking care with which he has mastered every official duty heretofore is earnest of the «conscientious study, with which he is now considering the lorger duties, to which he has been 'chosen, On a single occasion, in addres- aing his fellow-citizens since the election, he has indicated his view of. the principles and obligations devolved upon him. The occasion was his reception by the Manhat- tan' Club in New York city, and the words which he then employed were evidently ad- visedly chosen as a frank intimation to the people of the State, | They were aqfollpws ; Governor elect Cloveland returned. his thanks for the hearty reception, and said; \' We stand, to-night, in the fall glareof a grand and brilliant manifestation of the popular will, and in the glow of it how vain and small appear the tricks of politicians and tho movements of partisan machinery. | He must be blind who cannot see that the people well understand their power, and aro determined to uso 1b when their rights and interests ate threatened, Thero should be no skepticism to-night as to the strongth and porpe- tulty of our government, | Partisan leaders have learned, too, that the people will not unquestion- ingly and blindly follow, and thatsomething more than unwavering devotion to party is necessary to secure their allegiance. | T am quito cortain that the late demonstration did not spring from any pre-existing love for the party which was called to power, nor did the people put tho affairs of State In our hands, to be by them forgotten, Thoy voted for themselves, and in their own futorest, If we retain their confidence, we must deserve it, and'we may be sure they will qall ou us to give an account of our stewardship,. We shall utterly fail to read aright the signs of the times, if we are not fully convinced that parties ore bub instruments through which the people work. out their will, and that when they become less or more, the people desert or destroy them, The vanquished bave sadly learned these things, and the victors will act wisoly if they profit by the lesson, I have read and heard much of late touching the great responsibilities cast upon me, and t is usually predicated upon the fack that my majority was so large as to indicato that many not members of the porty to which I am proud to- belong supported me, - God knows how fully I appreciate tho ro- eponsibilities of the high office to which I have zen called, and how much I sometimes fear that I shall not bear the burden well, | I6 bas seemed. to me that a cftizen who has beon choson by his fellows to dischargo public dutios, owes no less nor more to them. whether he is selected by a small or a large majority, | Iu either event ho owes to. thepeople who honored him his best endeavors to carefully protect their rights and furtberthelr interests, An. adulhistration: Is only successful in a partisan senso when it ap- pelics to bean outgrowth and result of party: prin- ciples and methods. The time-honored doctrines of the Democratic party are doar to me, . If hon- neatly applied {n their purity, I- know. that the affairs of the government will be faithfully ond honestly administered, and I belfove that all the wants and needs of the. people would be mek They have survived alt changes, and good, patrl- otle men bave clung to them through all disar- ters as the hope of political salvation, Let us hold them as a sacred trust, but not forget that the intelligent, thinking, reading poople will look to a party which they put In power to sup- ply all their various needs and wants, and that the party which keeps pace with the develop- monts and progress of tho times, which keeps in sight its landmarks and yet. observes the things which are in advance and. which will continne true to the people ns well as to {ts traditions, will be the dominant party of tho future, My only sepiration is to faithfully perform the du- tles of tho ofllco to which the people of my Stato have called mo, and 1 hopo and trust an honest endeavor will light the way to a successful administration.\ in the spirit of this utterance the new ad- ministration will begin--and can be pre-in- terpreted, - Upon its commencement the people fire to be congratulated, It com- moences with the intention of good govern- ment, and it has, atthe start, the respect and the esteem of the people. The quietness and unostentation, with which it opens, are ngreeable to the sensible citizens of the State, - The fact that a legislature and State judiciary bave been elected in sympathy with the views and instructed by the people to be in sympathy with the policy, of the Executive, renders accord probable and the responsibility for results clearly placeablé. 'The predominance of the better influences in politics and in government was the de- sire of the prodigious vote which those who were pledged to those influences received, In theeffort to redéem the pledge, the re- united Deinocracy and their agents-who have become also the agents of the State-- should have the best aids of press and of public opinion, the assistance of every good citizen, within. his citcle of influence, and the confidence of all in the ability of unsel- fish intentions, and of a controling desire for good government tocommand therecog- nition of the intelligence and the reward of the affection and confidence of the people of the Commonwealth of New York, ozzie ies Carer Jobo WirurawCrawrorp Reoen will to-day assume the dutics, to which he is elected. He will sucteed to the place, whereto Judge Folger was chosen, im 18%, and from which be, resigned, in 1891-and to which, on the happening of thevacancy, Gov. Cornell appointed Associate Justice Charles Andrews. | Judge Rager will bring to the Appeals Beach the deserved reputa- Ton of a great master of law. His mind is extraordinaryforunderstanding, for know! edge and Sor Jostice, His studies have been rot merely in the crises which Lavecome to his hand in an Hlostrioas career at the bar, but they have deals with the history, tke Hfferafure and the science of the profes- wiow, as that profession bas existed nal and Takds, To fecalties thay are regal in, their power, to « learning which is wonderful in its depth and.scope, and to. a legal experience of unsurpassed value as an education for the: bench, Judge Ruger adds a character instinct with honor, and a record in private and. public life mating with the virtues of the jurist and states- man, from whom he drew his being. By the bat, by the public and by his dis- tinguished nesociates of the Court, the Chief Judge will be welcomed to aud honored in his great office, 'That he will ideally well perform its duties is not to be doubted. That his experience may be one of inppi- néss to himself, as ib will be of usefulness to justice among men, is our. sincere wish. A Happy New Year to A DemocRamIc TeoistaTURE, The Senate, which holds over, and the Assembly, just elected, will shortly. begin their duties, 'The members are about all gathered here now, and their exchange of old fellowships and for: mation of new ones, are being putsued, under influences which attest good feeling, high hopes anda purpose to do . well by the State and deserve well of the. public. The Democratic majority appreciate the responsibility laid. upon them,, 'They.show, that they are conscious of the solicitude of the people for good government and for a real reform record to be made.by every act and fact of the two- Houses. This solici- tude of all the people is especially predica- ble of the Democratic party, | Ib is on tril. Its present action will largely. affect its: future position in the public mind and, therefore, will largely affect the destiny of the country. The desireand care to take no hasty, false, reactionary or rash steps are manifest, | At the eame-time, the plain truth that duty clearly\ seen and wisely performed is a wisdom transcending all policy: or calculation, is fully perceived. Right doing is right planning, Present wisdom ensures the record now which com- mands the future. T is evident that the best of feeling prevails, that unity on principle already exists, and. that unity on - the - details; - which | the | wisdom of the majority shall prefer, < will also be reached. The canvasses and consul- tations among members hayo been earn- cat, frank, good natured and honorable. The intelligence and character of. the two houses will compare favorably with the re- quirements of the reform restoration; which the people have voted the members to effect, It is only necessary to preserve the present standard of motive and the present consci- ousness of the necessity of satisfying the moral expectations of the people, That done, a record of legislation will be made which will benefit the State, honor the members and ensure a permanent and large majority. to the Democracy in the State and in the Union, when éxisting confusion in party attachments shall setiledown to mare definite. political divisions, - The principles of. the Democratic party when exemplified by superior candidates, illustrated by wise results in government, and vindicated by their normal effect of uniting all the ole monts of the organization into a common purpose for achieving success by deserving it, can be confldently reli¢d on to win a vic- tory for themsolves in a large majority of the sixty counties of New York, 'The pres- ent Legislature can do. much to perpetuate the great preponderance which the party bas, and which many suppose to be transient, accidental and freighted with incitoments to extravagance, discord and folly, If the magnitude of their success is made the mensure of their responsibility, by the mem- bere, the people will have the inducement to continue the trust in as large a degree as they bave just experimentally done, This is not dificult, | Itis easy, 'The method is not mysterious. It is plain. Simply do what is right for the business of the State and what would bo fair, between man and man, in the measures by which either the divided interests of the people or the an- tagonistio elaims of parties aro concerned, and the definition of Democracy, in its ac- tion, becomes economy, wisdom and justice, That will make lasting Democrats out of our Republican fellow citizens who, disin- térestedly, have helped the party. The Argus confesses to an earnest wish that this Legislature may do its duty thoroughly, | It shall welcome every effort that will conduce to that result among the members,and itshall not forbear to oppose-and exposs-every influence or measure which would tarnish the record which ought to be made by the elected trustees of the people, in the Senate and Assembly. AR. BCLKELY, in a manly letter that would have done credit t5 less manly men in the political history of this country, declines, in the most positive manner, to have any part or parcel in counting Governor Waller out on technical grounds, saying that \\in no event will I take the position I believe it was the intent of electors to give to an- other,\ Tm prison discipline of other States than New York is being greatly improved. The penitentiary of Illinois was for many years an expensive affair, | During the past year, involving transactions of $239,050.81, the deficiency has barely reached $5,000, and the superintendent expects that 1893 will produce a bandsome profit, Personalities. Arabi Fashs has lately grown a long gray beard, andhe looks entielybroken down. Horperaberger, a young American artist at Home, is to make the Garfield statue for San Francisco. * Ars. Mary Hallock Foote, the wellknown artist, whose story of the \Led Horse Claim\ is row running m the Centaty, is the wife of Arthor Foote, a mising engineer. Mr. Fuoteis brother of Senator Hawley's wife. Reports come by the way of Paris that King: Hambert of Italy is sinking into a condition of confirmed melancholy, For days together, siysa. correspondent, he does not spesk a word to any human being. Hoappestsastths Queen's recep- tions, but does not open his lips. Megale Leightos, = Hite {Mm-dd artisticciay models, made entirely by herself with an 6% ease \The liitle girl fs sail to seribe. 'She Is sixty, but does not look fifty; har eyes are bright and happy and hor form woll pré® \served Hor home is spacious and attractive. She retaing warm mentories of the stage, andhas kindly welcomed and advised the young singers who have sought her out,. Bub hor genoral ad- vice to aspirants . 20. Charles Reado. fold a correspondent of the ~Philadelpbis 'Times that the favorite character of all his novels was Margaret, in \Clolster and Hearth,\ | \To me my characters have an ex Istonce,\ ho eaid, \not always pleasant, it is trup but always fully individualized, thoroughly: buman, and with possibilities of an intimacy end an scequaintance,\ He thought that bis weakeat story was \White Lies,\ which he de- scribed as a splendid conception spoiled in the cartying out: - 3 © f The delicate health of the Princes Loulso glves and wilt probably pass the winter in. Bermuda, after which abo, will return to England, In writing about her royal bighness, Mr. Labou- chere, who is no admirer of. royalty, recently said that the princess may be styled tho beauty of the royal family. She has regularfestures, which a sculptor would be under no temptation to correch, and an admirable presence, Fircitms on. the Stage. The acoldental shooting of the young actress at Cincinnati by Frank Frayne and the recent casualty of a slmilar nature whichhappened to another at Rocheiter, New York, have lead to a good deal of criticism upon the practice of using Jonded firearms upon the stage, 'The 'bsro stg gestion that their use should be entirely. pro- hibited wilt undoubtedly raise a how!. of dissent from a certain class of play-goors who delight in such realistic scenes of carnage as aro furnished by Buffalo Bill and his numerous imitators, as well as that class whose morbid appetite for sen- sation can only be appeased by seeing some m{- -raculous mprksmnn give a practical illustratym of his skill and audacity by shooting the pips out of the mouth of a supe or an apple off the head of 'the star actress, . 20 - The world would rayolve once in twenty-four hours, as usual, however,. if theso sanguinary frequenters. of the blood-and thunder theatres were deprived of their favorito scenes of blood and. dangerous dextority. | The old. Romans thought they couldn'tsleep nights without the' privilege of seeing a lot of gladiators chop gaoh other in pieces, . Somehow, people of the prasortb day manage to onjoy 'themselyes pretty well without such diversions, | The Spaniards are the only people of this ago who fualst on an approxi- mation to the old Latin diversions and nineteouth century Americans enjoy: good average. health without oven witnessing a bull-fight. The best seritiment of American people would undoubtedly favor the entire prohibition of the \use of frearime in public entertainments, for two good reasons: First, because the custom Js very dangerous and human lives are frequently saorl- ficed by it; and second, because it cultivates in the minds of the young and uncultured a morbid passion for scenes of tragedy and: bloodshed. Tho various evil passions which dwell in human breasts will furnish all the food for powder that 1s need in any civilized community. Human lifo is for too precious to bo sacriliced for mero amusement. The plays that cannot be presonted without the use of Toaded firearms can well be consigned to oblivion, | The law should compel the entire disuse of platols or other loaded fire- arm at all public or private entertainments.-- [Phila, Times, THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW. Bynopsis of a Sermon by Rov. Dr. Leech, of Grace Methodist Church. Yesterday morning Dr. Leooh discoursed from tho words of David \I remember the days of old,\ and the word of God to Moses at the Red Een, \ Command the children of Tsraol that they go forward.\\ Dr. Leoch sald thero are tinies when men should puse and look bobind them in life's journey,. The last day of a dying year Is a At standpoint from which to lool back and pon- der on blessings, privileges, responsibilities, sor- row, and slie, and then, full of noble resolve, go forward, . To many, the old year has had a dark side. - But the poor may lean on divine promises, To thousands it has been a period of spiritual defeats, - Admirable | resolutions | bave beon broken, The year has been one of religlous failure, Vow ngals, Renowal of effort bas been tho seerct of success in every victorious life, - To multitudes the fading year hasbeon one of physical sufering. But does nob God lay us on our backs thrt we may the better look beavensard 1 To myriads this closing year hns been one of heavy beréavemonits, | Caskets have entered the patlor empty and been carried away full of precious freight. But is nob donth the key of gold, grasped by our dear ones, . with which they unlock the gutes of the celestial capl« tal 1 Does God not suffer the casket to crumble apparently prematurely, that Ho may secure the gem 1 But how brilliant has been the other side of 18821 Tho individual splendor of mercies has been lost in their multitude... What a panorama of magnificent gifts sweeps before memory 1 From many a standpoint the year bas been as Tominous with bleeslogs as is a tropical sky with stars. The recollections of these mercios should be as sunny and green as the falands that sleep on the broasts of southern seas, | Spiritually; the old year has had s side as dazzling as the cole- brated shfeld of the guard of Saladin. To many this has been the brightest year of life, be- cause God. has conferred on them the honor of sonthip. + To-day we should look frontward and onward, and propose advance as we follow the star of divine Providence. | What duties are peculiarly appropriateto-day 1 First, reflection on the value of time and opportunity, Hours are of more worth than the diamonds of Indis. We cannot recall opportunities, 'They aro like the light- ning bolts that dis forever as they blaze, Call beck opportunities 1 You might as wall call back the shot that has left the red lips of the cannon, or bid the sun climb backward when ha is alak- ing to his evening fest, What a standpoint from which to reflect on the mmission of life! Why are we here? No man liveth to himself, What sublime conceptions of duty were enter- tained by the apostles and martyrs of bistory. Work engirds us. Fields white unto harvest surround us. To-day let us divest ourselves of iI-will towards others. | In Germany, New Vear's day is devoted to the exchange of greetings among alienated friends | We cherish emotions of revenge ab a fearfal risk to our souls.. The saddest scene in Roman history is that of Fulvia mutilating the gory bead of Cicero, her husband's enemy; and the toblest act in life was his tears and bor- ror when presented with the bloody bead of Pompey, his military rival. 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