The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1874, Page 6

6 . NEW YORK HERALD iterate BROADWAY AND ASN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. nual subscription price #12. Rejected communications will not be re- grdlished every An- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. oe LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 468FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. * sixth, avenne.— yoM.; closes at iw f M, Jokp . Rogers Randolph. PUSS TN HE DWARFS Louis Aldrich i be. M, gud Miss Sopuie Aliles. NIBLO'S GARUEN, between Prince and tonston streets.— Nin at SP. M.; closes at 1035 P.M. and Miss Lienrietia [rvi Broadway. JOKLYN THEATRE MRS. CONWAY'S BRC OLIVE; Ox, TUB MYS Y,at 5 Pal. Miss Lillie ; Closes at Il fHEATRE, 408 BML; closes at 10:40 GLOBE THEATRE, #o, 72% Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes atl0 METROPOLITAN No, 685 Broadway.—Parisian Canc Rowery.—V rr clages at 10:50 P. M. 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Lieutenant General Sheridan, in the inter- view printed in the Hzraxp of Saturday, made some valnable suggestions towards a reform of our Indian policy, and, among them, two of capital importance, though neither is original | except in the application he makes of it to | present circumstances. We allude to the | supreme importance he attaches to collecting all the Indian tribes upon limited reservations and resolutely holding them there, and to his | opinion that the management of all the wild | and roving tribes should be transferred to the | War Department. These two cardinal features in the reform of our Indian policy need to be supplemented with others of nearly equal im- | portance, but without these all others will | prove nugatory. The time has come for a | | new departure, for a complete change of measures; and it gives additional weight to General Sheridan's ideas that they are not only the conclusions of an active-minded offi- cer of large experience among the Indians, | but that they are in strict logical pursuance of | principles which our ablest statesmen of a | former generation adopted and applied ina | more limited field. | We do not suppose that General Sheridan | has very diligently explored early precedents, | His views are the fruit of strong common sense, acting immediately oa his personal ex- | perience. If Calhoun and Jackson, the two | former statesmen who had the deepest insight | into Indian questions, had never existed, | Sheridan would have discovered their princi- | ples tor himself, and have applied them on a | broader scale commensurate with the greater | Magnitude of the problem. There is needed no light from the past to show the utter in- compatibility of the settlement and civiliza- tion of the vast regions which we have re- cently organized as Territories with the ex- istence of wild and marauding tribes over- running the country in pursuit of game, and exposing the settlers to violence and outrage. Aside from the terror inspired by the Indians it will soon become impossible to tolerate the prodigious waste of land incident to the habits of savage life. A tract barely sufli- ‘cient to supply food for balf a dozen families, who subsist upon the game they | can shoot, would maintain ten thousand people in comfort and opulence by civilized ‘agriculture. The nomadic occupancy of the Indians cannot be much longer permitted ; ‘and if they are not to overrun vast regions and exclude civilization it is evident that they must be either exterminated or confined to small reservations. Extermination is too hor- rible az alternative to be deliberately adopted by a humane people, and nothing practical remains but to collect the roving tribes on reservations and keep them there. It is too obvious for argument that this can be accomplished only by military force. The Indians will never voluntarily surrender their wild, wandering life and submit to the re- straints of regular labor in the cultivation of | the soil. They have got to be put upon the assigned reservations by force and forcibly de- tained there. ‘This force can be exerted only by the army, and uuatil the work is accomplished the army should not be thwarted or interfered with. Of course } it must always remain subject to the Wart Srresr Yxsrerpay.—Stocks were | authority of Congress and the control of the strong and fairly active for the season. Gold | War Department, and little discretion will be Was quiet ; 109} a 109§. Tze Boyapartists have elected another member of the French Assembly from the De- | partment of Calvados. enormous. Fortusz continues to attend the Americans abroad in their cricket matches with the English. Yesterday they won another game in one inni: Mr. Movrron has at last announced that he will reply to Mx. Beecher’s charges of black- mailing. This is one more step towards the truth, for Mr. Moulton cannot defend himself by vague denials, Cuns is unhappy enough without having bandits added to her troubles, but she cannot even escape that evil. The latest Havana news is that Carlos Garcia and his band are ravaging the plantations. Torrepo Practice--The weakness of our mavy makes harbor defence of more impor- tance to us than perhaps it is to any other of the great nations, and the Navy Department deserves cre:li Y with which it conducts experi sin torpedo practice. A sumber of recent inventions were tested yes- terday ai Newpori, and most of them with en- tire success, Tux Qu to Ireland Great Bri or Exauanp docs not often go in tact she has visited that part of but three times during her reign, and this neglect has -bad its natural effect. Our Dublin nt to-day inti- mates that there isa palace at her disposal, | and gives a picturesque d ioa of what may hereafter be one of the royal residences, Balmoral is said to be poor when compared | with the Castle of K. lemore. Enousa Lirerarure at pri de- scribed by our London correspon is bet- ter in the old than the new. Even in this dull season there are plenty of fresh novels; but few of them are likely to live more than as year ortwo. It is so easy to find a pub- lisher nowadays that though, luckily, it is not everybody that reads, The republication of the old English drama- tists seems to be one of the most important events in the book world of London, and we wish a similar enterprise would be under- taken here. The majority of American readers know little of Webster, Dekker, Middleton, Heywood, Marston, Marlowe, and other carly dramatists, simply because of the difficulty of finding their works outside of | libraries, Governor Ames. — Columbus (Miss. ) Under has a habit of replying to the Herarp ‘which we appreciate very much, as this course ‘tends to promote fairness of discussion and ithe dissemination of the trath. In ove of its mecent issues it differs with the Hrnanp’s esti- imate of Governor Ames and boldly prints its- yown opinions. ‘These we transier to our col- | womns this morning, both in a spirit of fair- 1 toward our contemporary and to ilins the difficulties there are in the way of a | er becoming naturalized in the | ‘Southern States, And perhaps the Index will ‘be kind enough to inform us when Ames can "become a citizen of Mississippi or what reason thore is for talking about bia home being in Massachusetts, ——_T> SE Qo The wajority is | everybody writes, | | given to individual commanders except in | matters of detail. But the Interior Depart- | ment, which has at present the management | of Indian afizirs, would only be an obstruc- | tion and a nuisance when so serious and essentially military a piece of work is to be undertaken as the gathering in of all the fierce and warlike tribes and their forcible detention in limits only sufficient for agricultural life. We do not at all understand General Sheridan as desiring Congress to reinstate the War De- partment in the complete control of Indian affairs, which it held for more than half a century. The tribes which were earliest put on reservations, like the Cherokees, Creeks, &c., and have become quiet and comparatively civilized communities, he would leave under the control of the Interior Depart ment, claiming for the War Depart- ment the exclusive management only of the roving and unguiet Indians, snch asare not yet collected on reservations or | mutiny against their confinement. Once ad- mit that the reservation policy is the only means of saving the Indians from extinction— and we do not see how this conclusion can be resisted—let this be once admitted and it in- evitably follows that while the change is going on the unsettled Indians should be put in exclasive control of the War Department; ' and, what is still more important, the army | should be so increased as to expedite the work | and render resistance on the part of the | savages hopeless, When the government de- termined to remove the Cherokee nation to its | present home beyond the Mississippi it sent | General Scott in command of a volunteer army so large that opposition by the Indians would have been sheer madness. In the ad- | dress he issued to the Cherokees Scott said: — “My troops already occupy many positions in the country you are to abandon, and thou- sands and thousands are approaching from every quarter, to render resistance and escape alike hopeless.” But how small was the | task of removing the Cherokees, who had al- ready become an agricultural and partially civilized people, compared with the difficulty | of establishing in fixed homes the ferocious and scattered tribes of the vast West. The difficulty in President Jackson's time was very different from that which now faces jus. The tribes which he removed existed | within the limits and jurisdiction of several of the States and claimed to be independent | of State authority. The United States Su- preme Court rendered a decision sustaining the Cherokees against the State of Georgia; but President Jackson refused to execute the decision. ‘‘Well,” said he, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” It was to avoid sach conflicts of au- thority that Jackson devised and carried the policy of removing the Indian tribes out of the Southern States and fixing them on dis- tant reservations. The object of his policy was to prevent constant exasperating collisions between the whites and the Indians. | policy advocated by Sheridan is an application of the same idea to new circumstances. The management of the Indians when gath- | ered into reservations opens a wide and inter- | esting field of discussion into which we will not now enter, It is an altogether different The | habits of settled industry previous to their removal. Among the mitigations of the change one of the most important is the pos- sible enlistment of Indian warriors as regular soldiers in our army. General Sheridan speaks favorably of their capacity and fidelity in this view. The chief advantage of taking the most restless and warlike spirits are those who would probably enlist, which would re- move them as a disturbing and insubordinate element in the reservations during the early stages of the difficult transition from a nomadic to an agricultural life. Our whole Indian policy must necessarily be changed with the opening of the remote West to settlement, and the force of circum- stances will not permit the change to be long delayed. We have already outgrown the folly of treating the Indian tribes as independent nations with whom we can do nothing except by solemn compacts and treaties. We must respect their interests; but our view of their interests must prevail, not theirs. We must treat them with kindness and humanity; but it must not be the absurd coddling kindness which has been attempted by the administra- tion of President Grant and his Quaker advisers. Our attitude towards the Indians must not be one of persuasion or supplicatzon, but of firm, peremptory authority, which speaks only to command, and commands with a fixed determination to compel. Whatever policy we adopt must, therefors, be backed by irresis\ible physical force. Our kindness must follow and accompany obedience, and it will be all the more effectual when the Indians see that it is not extorted from weakness nor offered in the spirit of a bargain to purchase their good behavior, They must be taught that we shall execute our policy in any event, and that they can escape our severity only by compliance. When they have learned this lesson kindness will tell; but not before. Their forcible settlement on reservations, with a division of the land in small parcels, is the ‘corner stone of the only sound policy; but the plan of the edifice to be built upon this corner stone requires the exercise of much thought and wisdom. The American Musical Colony Abroad. ‘There is a world always struggling, striving, hoping and fearing of which the great world knows little or nothing. It is the musical world. Not long ago there came to this city a ‘Scotch lassie;” without either money or friends, vainly expecting that her ballads would soon command the hearts and the dollars of the Americans. Yesterday morning a very pretty and skilful young pianist exhibited her talents and a¢qniré- ments toa select company of musical con- noisseurs in the undefined hope of reaching profitable engagement. To-day and to-mor- row and this year and the next troops of artists will come as these have come, some succeeding nnd more going away, poor in purse and loud in their imprecations upon the American people. In Paris and ali over Italy America has a colony of young men and young women studying music under expen- sive masters, all of them expecting to achieve in Europe what these other young people from abroad expect to accomplish in America. Miss Blanche Tucker, of Chicago, expects to become in Paris what Patti and Nilsson have been, and Mlle. Heilbron, the young pianiste who tempts fate in New York, is quite sure she will go back to rival Essipoff in Lon- don. Both may succeed, in which case all will be well, and both may fail Failure, however, will not deter others from attempting what these young girls have attempted, and it is the brilliancy of success and the almost cer- tainty of failure which give zest to the effort. A young American girl studying music in Paris is an interesting creature, even if she has nota note in her throat or her pocket. She will not become uninteresting until she has tried and failed. It is this peculiar qual- ity, based upon improbabilities, which gives piquancy to the letter of our correspondent this morning on the American musica! colony in Paris. Besides Miss Tucker, of Chicago, there are Miss Annie Montagu, of San Fran- cisco; Miss Emma Abbott, of Oak Creek, Wis- consin; Miss Nita Gaetano, of we don’t know where, and some fifty others, all studying in the French capital. Here, certainly, is a large planting of prime donne, but we can predict nothing in regard to the crop. While they are fighting their battle our correspondent’s letter will be found pleasant reading, even if we should smile a half bitter smile at their earnest talk, purchased wisdom and not un- dimmed hope. On the Way to Iceland In another column will be found a chatty, pleasant letter from Dr. Hayes, at Thorshavn, in the Faroe Islands, at which place the party of Americans on their way to Iceland had ar- rived. In that out of the way corner of the world, which our correspondent identifies to his own satisfaction with the ultima Thule of the Romans, life is still a very primitive affair, not greatly different, perhaps, trom what it was when the Romans looked in on them; and the glimpse given of the quiet ways and habits of a people utterly remote from the circle of the virulent activities of our time—‘‘ who eat, and sleep and drink and know not” Ulysses in any shape; who have, perhaps, scarcely heard that there is such a thing as progress in the world—is o very refreshing contemplation in the hurly-burly of 1874, with its third term, and its Havemeyer, and ita Tilton, and the other dreadful savages of civilized lite. Our correspondent recites in his letter that they already felt themselves at the Faroes as on the threshold of Norseland, and saw the flaxen-haired people, and heard a mixture of the Norse tongue in the words of the common speech. There was also in the same town of Thorshavn 4 Danish king on his | way to celebrate the thousandth anniversary; | and we may let fancy indulge herself with pictures of thé occasion as a universal festival | of the Scandinavian people till we hear, as we shortly shall, just how it was ail done, ‘Tar Monster born at Bloomington, Dl, | should be photographed as the nearest pos- sible similitude of the Beecher scandal. Un- like its Brooklyn prototype it was fortunately born dead. Lane Saratoca is, for the second time, to be the scene of a great regatta. Three days at the close of August will be given to a contest | between the leading boat clubs of New York, and others from Charleston, Saratoga, Nor- problem from that presented by the Cherokees | folk, Georgetown, D. C., Savannah and other and other Southern tribes who bad acauired | cities, them into the military service would be that | The Annexation of Porto Rico by Germany. What can Spain give in Europe to Germany for the inestimable service she has received ? This is the first question that is suggested by the successful effort of Germany to obtain the recognition of the Republic by ‘the principal Powers, and the direct aid she has given Serrano in the suppression of the Carlists. There is nothing in Europe that Spain would dare to part with, nothing that Germany could take which would not cause a general war. Startling confirmation of the opinion that the designs of the Empire are very dif- ferent from this is tarnished in our columns to-day. It was rumored that Santofia was to | be ceded to Germany as payment for her ser- vices. This is a fortified town in Spain, on a peninsular headland in the Bay of Biscay. That it should be given up to a foreign Power is incredible, for no Spanish government could afford to surrender an inch of Spanish soi. This report has since been denied, and it has been necessary to look elsewhere fora solution of the problem. It has been said, therefore, that Spain is pledged to an offen- sive alliance with Germany in case of a war between the latter and France, and this is probable, But such a war is uncertain; it may be indefinitely postponed ; the success of either the Bonapartists or the Bourbons would probably make the policy of France one of peace for years. Thus, while it would be prudent in Germany to provide by a Spanish alliance for the contingencies of the future, her spirit of ambition and acquisition would lead her to demand of Spain immediate compensation for immediate aid. ‘This was tho view the Hznatp was logically compelled to take when German interven- tion in favor of the Republic was followed by the support of England, Italy, Aus- tria, Belgium, Holland, and even by France, which does not appear to have hesitated. And the only territory with which, in our opinion, Spain could part with- out humiliating national pride or provoking a European war would be some of her pos- sessions in the West Indies, That conclusion pointed directly to the island of Porto Rico as the object of German greed. Some tine ago we pointed out that Porto Rico was prob- ably the price Serrano intended to pay for recognition, money and the of aGerman fleet against the Carlists. The remarkable information which we quote to- day from the Freeman's Journal will be read, therefore, with intense interest by Americans. It claims to have ite facts from unquestionable sources, and refers for confirmation to Admiral Polo, the late Spanish Minister at Washington, who, it is important to remem- ber, was recalled a few months ago because he would not carry out the instructions of his government. While we cannot vouch for the authenticity of the statements given, wo un- hesitatingly express our conviction of their substantial truth. It is unlikely that such cor- respondence would be published, and a denial | of ita accuracy so peremptorily challenged, unless the Journal were sure of its authority. If false it could be too easily disproved. At least we cannot lightly dismiss the assertion that in April last Admiral Polo received from Madrid a despatch to the following effect: — “‘As the government recognizes the impossi- bility of suppressing the Carlist insurrection and the rebellion in Cuba without foreign help, and as the government of His Majesty the Emperor of’ Germany has made us over- tures at once honorable and acceptable, it is desirable that this department should know what position the American government would take in the event of the cession of our isle of Porto Rico, temporarily or definitively, to the government of His Majesty the Emperor.” Here, then, is an event which must com- mand the attention of the country, as, we trust, it has already received that of our gov- ernment. Europe now exercises too much authority upon North American soil, and her further acquisition of territory cannot be safely permitted. The American policy upon this subject is well defined; it is thoroughly known to Germany; but the danger that she may persist is evident. The recall of Admiral Polo and the important assistance rendered to Spain are unmistakable indications that, un- less the President and Secretary Fish are firm, another European monarchy will establish itself at the gates of the Republic. It this is to be then it was not the French alone but the Americans that were whipped by the Prussians at Sedan. A Balloon Chase After the Comet. The theory that comets are wandering non- entities of space, like earthly travellers who neither give nor take information, has not con- vinced Professor John Wise, the celebrated aéronaut, whose account of his recent aérial experiences was published in yesterday's Heraup. During the time that Coggia’s comet was hanging abont the earth the scientific directors of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia were suspicious of its move- ments, and probably thought it had evil de- signs upon the Centennial. They, therefore, commissioned Protessor Wise to go up and in- quire, and we are very glad to know that he has come down again, The Professor has brought with him an in- teresting account of the novel phenomena he | observed, which deserve further investigation. Every one should know that as we ascend from the surface of the earth the temperature of the atmosphere becomes colder in proportion to the height. This ts a well known fact, illustrated { by the eternal snows which crowns the summits of the highest mountains, and by the records of | innumerable balloon voyages. Professor Wise had found this law invariable during thirty- nine years of adventure in the air, in which | he had made 446 ascensions. The 447th, on the 30th of July, astonished him, for the higher he rose the hotter it became, till, as he expresses it, he felt as if he were approach- ing a conflagration. This reversal of all ex- perience he attributes to cometary influence. This ballcon ascension was made at four o’clock in the afternoon, when on the earth thé thermometer stood at 72 deg. utes afterwards, at a height of 5,400 feet, it registered 81 deg., at 5,600 feet it was 86 deg., but these proportions were not always exact, as will be seen by on examination of his tabular | statement of the variations of heat com- pared with altitnde, Thus, at only 1,450 feet the thermometer was 90 deg., and half an hour afterward, at 4,900 feet, it had fallen to 70. This irregularity he explains by the fluctuation of the perpendicular and horizontal movement of the balloon, and nerbans the accidental co-operation Nine min- | influence of the comet yielded at times to the force of natural laws, But however this may be, his tables are important, as showing an exceptional condition of the atmosphere. He also noted a peculiar shadow that fell across the city of Philadelphia in a direction from northwest to southeast, although there were no clouds in the sky to produce it Professor Wise says of this remarkable phenomenon, “nothing could satisfy my conjectures of the cause so well as the idea that the attenuated envelope of the comet was transmitting beams and rays of sunlight, with focal power, into our atmosphere and thus producing posi- tive and negative lines as we find them un- der the spectroscope.” The hypothesis that this dark appearance was simply a portion of the city which had not been reached by the street cleaners does not seem to have occurred to him, and we dismiss it as unworthy of no- tice. The peculiar shadow was no doubt caused by some atmospheric condition, and not at all due to the Board of Health. Whether or not the comet was responsible for this well-defined penumbra, as it certainly was fora great many shadowy theories, we are not prepared to say ; but the observations made by Professor Wise deserve the investiga- tion of meteorologists. He has always been an earnest worker in the cause of science and his reports are entitled to acceptance, what- ever the scientific world may think of this particular theory. The Race Conflict in the South. We print ao letter this morning from a cor- respondent at Austin, Mississippi, which de- tails the recent difficulty at that place and the troubles which preceded it in other parts of the same section of the country. The letter is a clear and unimpassioned narrative of the white view of the situation, and up to the present time it is the best statement which has been made of the race conflict in the South. In order that this conflict may be still better understood we append to the letter an article in reply to the Hznanp from the Columbus (Miss. ) Index, and another, of a different way of thinking, which we find in the Columbia(S. C.) Union-Heraid. The letter and these newspaper | opinions give us very clear ground for form- ing an opinion of our own, and, after re- viewing the whole situation, we see no reason for changing our original view. The more closely we examine the question the more are we convinced of the ihsignificance of the race issue. The outbreaks’ that have taken place so far were mere brawls. The fight at Austin was one that might have taken place anywhere where the law is loosely administered. ~fhav the law was not properly enforced with regard to thé bailing 6f Dz. Sutith we tave no doubt; but the only moral that we can draw from the whole case is that the negroes were unneces- sarily incensed and the whites thoroughly and almost ludicrously frightened. It was the same kind of trouble which might have been: occasioned in Pennsylvania twenty years ago, when Judge Black used to deal out very stern justice to the negroes and comparatively mild purishments to the whites for the same grade of offences. Ontside of this view of the case there was no race issue at Austin at all, and the appearance upon the scene of the military company from Memphis was absurd. Our correspondent’s letter clearly proves this, and it shows that the previous troubles were equally insignificant. There is another view of this question, how- ever, which is of a much more serious charac- ter. While it has been our object to discour- age any race issue among the people of the South, we are equally outspoken in our desire to encourage honest government in the South- ern States. It is as much the interest of the negroes as of the whites to overturn many of the existing State governments. But this good result is to be obtained by discouraging rather than fomenting race issues. The Index searcely does us justice in regard to our treatment of Southern questions. This we can afford to forgive, however, for it is often the case that local politicians overrate their own and under estimate other people’s knowl- edge of affairs. For instance, there is a State in New England not much larger than a tenpenny nail where the people fondly believe that their triplex politics can be understood by noone except a native. This seems to be the trouble with the Index, but if we are agreed not to quarrel with its opinion of Tweed and Havemeyer, it certainly will not be very much displeased with our views of the Austin and other so-called race diffi- culties in Mississippi. But we cannot accept its dicta that the outbreaks and strifes of which we have heard so much lately are really “tokens of a deeper trouble than any which sends the combings of shallow waves to break forth upon the Heranp’s page.’ If the no social difficulties with the negroes of any very great moment, whatever may be the po- litical troubles in Mississippi and other Southern States. A Few Legal Questions. ‘We have squandered a large amount of money in blundering and unprofitable litiga- tion within the past two or three years in the city government. The “‘ring suits.’ after being “vigorously prosecuted” at a cost of many thousands of dollars, have been upset by the Court of Appeals and must be commenced de novo. We now hear that proceedings have to recover money paid on city warrants when the signatures of the parties entitled to receive ) the amounts were, as alleged, forgeries, Two suit will involve very heavy legal costs to the city, may as well be considered before any more legal mistakes are made. The money on these warrants, if improperly paid on for- geries, belonged to the people whose names were forged. Is the city the right plaintiff to sue for its recovery? The City Chamberlain is the custodian of the public moneys, Ho gives heavy sureties for their safe keeping. He selects a bank or banks in which to deposit the moneys. If one of these banks should fail, or misappropriate the moncys, or pay them out on jorged checks and warrants, the City Chamberlain, and not the bank, would be responsible to the city, and he or his sureties would have to make good the loss. The city would have nothing to do with the defaulting or careless bank. | Which is the proper party to sue in the case | of these warrants with allegod forgeries in the | rants, if the city is the party entitled to sue for monoy at all? The bank or the City been commenced against the Broadway Bank | whites are wise and considerate there will be | i Chamberlain and his sureties? These are legal points which should be decided before the city is involved in more litigation, for lawyers’ fees have swallowed up hundreds of thousands of dollars of the people’s money, and it is well to be on the safe side before any more large fees are paid to legal favorites out of the city treasury. The Third Term—Vice President Wil- son’s Optnion. The recent disclosures from a HeRaLD cor- respondent at Long Branch, touching the new departure of General Grant for a third term, have caused a general reawakening of the public press of the country to the discussion of this important subject. Nor does it appear probable now that this discussion will cease until we shall have secured an official and. decisive settlement of the question. A travel- ling correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal (Senator Morton’s home organ), im a recent letter to that paper, reports a conver- sation which he had the other day with Vice President Wilson on the Henazp’s third term revelations, and in the course of this conver- sation it appears the Vice President declared that “he did not know whether the President really aspired to a third term,"’ but ‘that if he did he would certainly find that the Amer- ican people would elect no man for o third term to the Presidency, no matter how merito- rious his services or record;”” and that so far as he (Wilson) was concerned, he ‘‘would have as soon joined the rebellion in its first con- ception as to join now the tail of it which yet showed life.”’ Now, when ‘it is considered that from hia many years of active campaigning among the masses of the people in all sections of the country Vice President Wilson knows per- haps more than any other leader of the repub- lican party of the prevailing political senti- ments of the masses and of the great currents of public opinion, it will be admitted that his judgment and his position upon this third term question are entitled to groat re- spect. He cannot believe, however, that the President encourages any such idea as that of, a third term, and here the Vice President may be greatly mistaken. He is evidently upom ‘this matter not in the confidence of those little knots of office-holders and other flatterers who gather round the President from day ta, day, and buzz-in his willing car the safety of the government in his careful hands and the dangers of a premature changé end even of & formal abdication of his position as the sure reliance and general expectation of the conn- try. It is evident, too, that General Wilson has Fa 2 to ask.or to fear from the admin- istration, for otherwise, like the great army of officeholders atid republican expectants of favors to come, he would ngt forget that pro- found old maxim that ‘a still tongue denotes a wise head.” ms It is none the less, however, a seasonable and powerfal protest which the Vice President has entered against the idea ontertained by many politicians of venturing upon the hazardous precedent of a third term to General Graut. In all‘ the current political opinions of the day there"is none which, under the existing conditions surrounding the Presi- dent, he can more profitably accept as @ warning voice from the people than this warm ing voice from the Vice President against » third term. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “No play” makes all the Jacks dull boys at Baden Baden. It seems dificult to find a Soutnern man’s brams with a bullet. ‘The Princess de Bauffremont nas obtained @ decree of divorce. Ah! if Madame Bazaine had only worn the im expressibles at Metz. ‘ The greatest trouble with tue temperance party ig that money is tight, Bishop Joseph ©. Talbot, of Indiana, is residiag at the Albemarle Hotel. Great Britain uses 29,000,000 gallons of “proof British spirits” in a year. Captain RoBert H. Hall, of West Point, is stop- ping at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Governor R. C. McCormick, of Arizona, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Secretary of State Henry OC. Kelsey, of New Jere sey, 18 At the Metropolitan Hotel, General John N. Knapp, of Governor Dix's staf, 18 quartered at she Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, of California, is among the recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor Alexander R, Shepherd, of the Dis- trict of Columbia, 18 staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday alternoon trom Long Branch. Bazaine’s first lecture will be entitled—“On the folly of fighting when there is a chance to sur- rendor.”” Sypher in Louistana is looking out for number” one in order that he may be of some account im the world. Associate Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the United: States Supreme Court, ts registered at the Metro- politan Hotel. #x-Governor Andrew G. Curtin and Judge Jere-’ miah §. Black, of Pennsylvania, have apartments at the Astor House. Mr, George W. Childs, of the Philadetphta Ledger, and Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, the Philadelphia’ banker, are at the Brevoort House, 'y. T. wrote to dear Elizabeth that he “ielt like an India rubber ball,” and Elizabeth remembered this when she determined to “bounce” him, On ait that the Count de Chambord will make the pilgrimage to Lourdes, and thence will go to spend & month at the Chateau de Chambord. Charles Rand, of Chicago, aged fifteen years, te chronicled the youngest person who ever reached the summit of Mout Blanc, He made the ascent this July. Henry West, a Church of Engiand clergyman, “vigieatly assaulted is sister, knocked her down, | knelt upon her and pounded her eyes.” She was questions present themselves which, as the | wicked, probably. At a recent marriage ceremony at Jevington, East Sussex. Engiand, the wedding ring was | placed on the third toe of tne bride's left foot— signatures of those entitled to receive the war- | because she had no hands, M, Adolphe Levy, an operator on the Paris Bourse, bas “jumped,” as they say there, with 2,800,000 francs, or $500,000 and over. ‘They Jump better with a good weight in hand, Dr. .Kenealy cannot dine at Gray’s Inn any more, but he can get better dinners in a great many otner places. Let us hope that ti he leaves England he may think well of Australia, Some of our exchanges are publisiing the dea tails of the Beecher-Tilton scandal under the heading of “Sporting Intelligence.” Funny, tan’ it, but not so ivappropriate aiter all, Quite a row at Marseilles about the police. Like our own, they have bad tempers; but instead of clubs they carried sword bayouets, and the results. are consequently different. Just now they happen to have slashed a marquis, and it ts as bad as it would be here if they had killed an alderman, MOVEMENTS OP THE PRESIDENT, Long Beancn, August 17, 1874. President Grant, accompanied by General Babcock, his private secretary, and Commodore Ammen, of the United States Navy, lef here thia morning On the eight o'clock train tor New YOrKs, They will return ob the evening boat.