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■VICTORY B TAMMANY ■B of New Ycik City Elect ljlll| Candidate for Mayor H®mous plurality ■■ Fusion Candidate, Snowed BSYikk Devery Was Total. 7 BHainaicd from Contest. gHHi remarkable campaign, in ■■re was united against him SljHiH of the newspapers and prac- MNBjß'cry minister of religion in ■■o-erge B. Mr Clellan, son of H|Hvnr general, was, on Tuesday, mayor of New York over fusii,nist, the p:v*.-.--nt may. largo plurality or Td.OhO. ■■l M. Grout was elected comp- HnHnd Charles V. Kornes presi ■Hh<- board of dddcrnr a. There Hgjkjgß were originally on the fusion ■'! were indorsed by Taaimany, H[Bm the fuslonists took their [Hou the Imw ballot and nomi- candidates. It was the ■Hon of Grout and Forties by H) that caused Hugh McLaugh ■H veteran leader of the Kings IHHomocracy, to bolt and declare ■■would not support men who HHt democrats. In spite of this however, McClellan, Grout carried Kings county. The of their campaign was r> r by State Senator Patrick Hamn, when McLaughlin re- aid. was the small vote for S. I,'every, former chief of po- ran on an independent ticket, «Hwiis given practically no sup- result, shows a tremendous in public, sentiment since May- BB’s election two years ago, when Sfli by 31,&?r. Ai that time he all the boroughs but Queens, BBrailty in Manhattan and The BHbeing 5,663, in Brooklyn 25,767 Richmond 763. In Queens, democrat, had a pllurality of |Bdny McClellan carried Manhat- The Bronx by about 58,000, a ■f 64,000; Brooklyn by about 6. ■ gain of 31,000, and Queens by a gain cf more than 4,000. a total net gain for McClei ■ about 103,000. as compared vote of two years ago. carried only one borough, Rkh ■ by about 20 votes. ■ result was known early, and at Mayor Low sent a tele ■nf congratulation to Colonel Mc- IBn. Hone) McClellan, who is at present of congress, made the fol |Bg statement: ■ini deeply grateful to r.iy fellow- Hns for their confidence in me. I the promise which I made be- election. go at once to Washington to for the extraordinary session Hs soon as the question of Cuban is disposed of I shall turn to the affairs of the city. the co-operation of every ■l, whether ho supported me or ■nnl regardless of his political ■ in the advancement of the city's the fall of darkness, till long New York city was the ■of noisy revel. The vigorous hum ■ commenced as the first few bui ■ appeared, soon grew into the |Htremendous liuman demonstT.a- delirious joy that tne city has ever seen. Hm\'s sute is repislican. ■ state Ticket of the Partv Claimed bv About 13,000 Plurality. ■>! upon returns from 115 voting |H-ts outside of Lancaster cmriy |Hlnt and Douglass county (Oiiia ■Hhe Nebraska republican stare committee at midnight Tuos |Hght made the claim of the elec- BB the entire republican state tiek- HB not less than 10,000 plurality. |B'iaim :s considered conservative returns tend to con- BjMNER OLSSCN IS EXONERATED. ■t that He Insulted Flag of Confeder* ■ acv Was Ba*-e Falsehood. ■ e story sent out from Newport Hs a few days ego relative to a H between Gunner Andrew' Olsson, H. N.. and Mayor Jones, of Hamp- H proven incorrect, and an injustice Hunner Olsscn. ■ was stated that the difficulty grew I of an insult to the confederate I on the part of Oisson and that I aliened desecration. oT the confed- Ite colors was resented by Jones, the encounter was really caused by other matter, altogether. COLOMBIA IS BLUFFED. Government is Convinced thAt insist ance to Secessionists Would b:' Hopeless Undertaking. After a conference Thursday after noon, Colonel Torres, commander of the Colombian troops at Colon, seeing that the situation was hopeless, agreed to embark his soldiers on the Royal mail steamer Orinoco, sailing for Car tegena at 7:30 p. m. A special train from Panama brought General Tovar, who also sailed on the Orinoco. The steamer carried twenty-eight officers, 435 men and thirty women. The people of Colon are now jubi lant. The flag of the new republic now flies from the railway stations at Gatun and Bahio Soldado, near Colon. The municipal council of Colon has notified the provisional government at Panama of its adherence to the new republic. It was arranged Wednesday that the government troops should withdraw to the outskirts of the town and they did i so during the night. Thursday morn ing, however, Colonel Torres marched ' the troops to the center or the town, w'hich caused a second lancing of American blue jackets from the Nash- 1 ville. Commander Hubbard does not think the Colombian troops will venture to attack the blue jackets, who are barri- 1 caded behind bales of cotton in front of the bank and the railroad building. About fifty rides were distributed to private citizens, who, with the blue jackets, are guarding the Barricades. General Guiterez, one of Colombia’s best generals, arrived at Colon during the day from Cartagena on beard the Austrian steamer Jenny. This has in tensified the situation immensely. Although Colon was pertectly quiet Wednesday night, the foreign resi dents continued to seek refuge 011 , board the ships in the. harbor or in the buildings of the Panama, railroad, ' which, as an American concern, will be protected by the forces of the Uni ted States. The United States auxiliary cruiser Dixie arrived late Thursday, after noon. *■ Rejoicing in Panama. A special from Panama says: Gen eral Tovar and his staff have at last been convinced of the uselessness or their resistance to the provisional gov ernment and have accepted tlie terms offered by the junta. The arrange ment to this end wa3 made through the efforts cf Commander HuTToard, of the United States gunboat Nash ville; Superintendent Shaler and As sistant Superintendent Prescott, ofi 1 the Panama railroad, who guarantee that both parties will fulfill their agreement. There is great rejoicing all over the city, because the stability of the re public now seems assured. The fact that troops were already moving to ward the line probably decided Gen eral Tovar and his staff to accept the terms of the junta. NEGROES RETURN FROM LI3ERJA. Dont Like the People or the Climate of West African Republic. Among the passengers on the White Star Line steamship Majestic, -which arrived at New York Wednesday were twelve negroes from the southern states who went to Liberia, W'est Aff rica, to experiment in cotton culture v.'ith a view to colonization mom thi9 country. They report that the experiments have been a failure from tne start and had les3 when they started home from Africa than they had when they land ed there. Without exception they say that any talk of civilized American negroes going to Africa with any ex pectation of bettering their condition is useless. One of them said after landing from the steamer: “I don't say that cotton won’t grow in Liberia, but 1 do say I won't raise it there, and it will be a l»ng time before anybody will raise it. One of the reasons is that you can’t get thise wild Africans to work steady. Some times you can get them to work on a farm, but most of the time you can t and anybody that knows anything about cotton knows that if you want to make a crop you must keep at it all the time. When I started tor Africa 1 thought it would be a good thing if there was a big immigration cf color ed people from this country to Liberia, but it didn't take me long to get rid cf that idea. I did not like tl* pec-pie nor the climate. The Unitea States is good enough for me. I want to be where I can see civilized folks and hear civilized talk. I don't believe they will ever raise cotton as good or ss apeap in the heart of Africa, where we have bee:-, as they can in Missis sippi or Alabama.” This view was Shared by other members cf the party. They all ex pect to start south early next week. REVOLUTION IS APPROVED Uncle Sam Will Back Up the Panama Secessionists THROUGH RECOGNITION Sccccss of New Government Will Mean Building of Panama Canal With out Further Hindrance. “The isthmian canal will be built by the United States and built at Panama,” is the significant declaration with great positiveness by a high ad ministration official iu Washington Thursday afternoon. Coming from such a source, this i 3 taken as notice to those in congress and out of it, who seek to take advan tage of the present complications to revive agitation in favor of the Nica ragua route that President Rooseve't has no intention of allowing him self to be swerved from his determina tion in favor of the Panama route. It also means that the United States gov ernment proposes to have peace on the isthmus even at the cost of lend ing its moral and actual support to the newly declared republic of Panama. To the representatives of ether gov ernments who called upon Secretary Hay Thursday to inquire concerning the attitude of this government, thi3 was made clear. Roosevelt Favors Revolution. There can be no doubt tffat the whole force of this administration is favorable to the revolution and the new' republic which the revolutionists claim to have established.. The posi tion of this government is that the general good warrants sovereign meui ods being employed. A high official of the state department state! that so far asi the present outlook goes, the only possible solution in sight are tnese: 1 — The Colombian government may make terms with the revolutionary party, which could only mean that the independence of tho provinces of Panama and Cauca would be recog nized by Colombia. 2 The United States may recog nize the independence of the isthmus. 3 The United States may deter mine that the situation requiresi that it establish sovereignty over the entire Isthmus of Panama. It will be seen that all of these con ditions load to the rame thing—the establishment of an independent gov ernment on the isthmus with w r hieh the United States can deal in its canal negotiations without iurther dealings with the Bogota authorities. The Associated Press is enaoled to state that this government will con duct affairs with a firm hand in the exploitation of the treaty of 1846. Or ders have been sent to the various na val commanders in the Caribean that the isthmus is to be policed, the tran sit kept open and also that bloodshed must be prevented at any cost. This is further than the United States ever has gone heretofore, and in the opin ion of the officials in Washington indi cates that the establishment of the new ogvernment at Panama, ff it proves stable and orderly, wilUhave the good wishes of the United States and our ultimate recognition and co operation in conducting an orderly and permanent government on the isth mus. Advocates of the construction of the Panama carnal say this assures I the exploitation of that project. FRANCE IS BEING DEPOPULATED. Remedies are Suggested to Put a Stop to “Race Suicide.” A falling off in the number of French recruits this year by 24,000 draws attention to the depopulation ot the country. An extra parliamentary eosantission is advocating reforms cal culated to lighten the burdens of the par«*ts of large families, improved sanitation in order to reduce infant mortality, obligatory naturalization, to gether with moral suasion and a prop aganda to deter the peasantry from flocking to the towns. DIFFERENCES OF OP.NICN Entertained By National Lew-Makers as to Cuban Traaty Legisation. A Washington dispatch says: There were some interesting developments Thursday as to the method of con gressional proceedure on the Cuban reciprocity treaty. It has been generally supposed that a resolution or bill approving the treaty would be all that was necessa ry, but members of the house and some senators take an entirely differ ent view. They say that a bill must be passed reducing the duty cn the products cf Cuba and that every pro vision affecting duties must be enacted