The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD —_—-—_—_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —-—_— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Hn. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. SEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRE, i Broadway.—HANUY ANDY, aud THK TRISH EMI- GRANT, at §P. M.; closes atil P.M. Dan Bryant. WOOD'S MUSEUM, 1 Thirtieth street—THE GOLDEN BOMRAF LA wr 2°. Me THE LANCASHIRE LASS, BE BEM cloves at 10:80 P.M. Louis Aldrich and Miss Miles OLYMPIC THEATR: Broadvay.—PEEP O'DAY, at M. Miss sara Montague, LYCEUM THEATRE, Hy Fourteenth street and sixth avenue —LA TIMBALE | D'ARGEN/, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mlle. Aimee, Mile. Minelly. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? OR, JEALOUSY, at 8 P. 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Tre Rirtemes of this country are likely to have an early opportunity of reciprocating the attentions everywhere shown our base ball representatives during their visit in Great Britain. The famous Irish team will shortly arrive in this city and a series of international matches will be contested at Creedmoor. Turre Was Bravutircy Wearnee for the Long Branch races yesterday and the oppor- tunity was well improved. Quits won the one mile and a half race and Bayminster the mile race. The third contest was brilliant and ex- citing, as it required five heats before Jack Frost could beat the veteran Fadladeen. Tue Inqvesr in the case of Robert Sands, who died soon after taking medicine at a New York drug store, resulted in a verdict that his death was caused by excessive use of ardent spirits. The druggist was honorably exon- erated from the suspicion of carelessness, but the advice of the jury that the practice should be discontiuued of selling opiates to unknown persons it would be wise to heed. Tax Mayons of New York and Cincinnati embraced yesterday. As Mayor Havemeyer is ® great deal older than the city Mr. Johnston represents the Western delegates gazed up to him with wonder and veneration. Some or Ove Inpran Trovsies are compli- cated by the bitter hatred of one tribe for an- | other, and are not entirely caused by the gen- eral hostility to the whites. An example of this | is given in our correspondence from Omaha | to-day. The Sioux are reluctant to abandon | their hunting grounds on the Republican | River, not so much beeause of their love for | the buffalo as for their hatred of the Pawnees. To go to the White River will be to abandon | their annual war. Little Wound refuses to obey orders and resolves to hunt upon the | Republican, but General Sheridan has taken measures to check his insolent march. Grxrrat Grant anp Mr. Fenton. —The President has informed District Attorney | Bliss that he does not like the proposed ticket of Mr. Cornell for Governor and Senator Fenton for Lientenant Governor. “If I were a citizen of New York,” said he, “that is a ticket I should certainly vote against.” After- ward the President repeated the remark to Mr. Cornell, and added that his name was not the one he objected to. It logically follows that General Grant’s objection is to Mr. Fenton. "This does not look very promising for a union — — sa . r \ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. ’ Tne Gubernatorial Candidate or Temmany Hall. If, as seems probable, Mr. Tilden is nomi- nated by the democrats, it will be the joint result of Tammany intrigues and his own per- sonal activity in securing delegates. Nobody, either in the democratic party or out of it, believes that a body of delegates elected in the various Assembly districts without outside wirepulling would make choice of Mr. Tilden as their candidate for the Governorship. Why, during the thirty years he has been prominent in politics, has he never been thought of for that office before? It has never occurred to the democratic party that this respectable gentleman had a stock of avail- able popularity which might be turned to account in strengthening a State ticket and carrying an election. ‘This steady neglect is not owing to any shrinking coyness on the part of Mr. Tilden, who has never allowed the party to forget his existence. He has been an intimate associate of the democratic leaders who have controlled conventions and made nominations ; but with all their opportanities they never discovered in him any trace of the popular strength and good running qualities which made it desirable to assign him a place on any democratic ticket ina contested election. Nor have they made any sudden new discovery now which impels them to do tardy justice to a man whose popular strength they have so long failed to appre- ciate. The democratic masses and leaders think of Mr. Tilden as they always did, as an estimable, prosperous gentleman, willing to purchase political prominence by liberal con- tributions to election expenses, but possessing none of the popular qualities which make a winning candidate for votes. That this opinion of Mr. Tilden remains unchanged is a fact easily proved. The Buffalo Courier, edited by a prominent mem- | ber of the Democratic State Committee, whose name is signed to the recent call as Secretary, with that of Mr. Tilden as Chairman, makes | this Significant statement: —‘‘The members of the State Committee from the country districts were emphatic and unanimous in the expres- sion of their opinion that the candidate for Governor should be taken from outside of the | city of New York.” This is, of course, | directed against Mr. Tilden, no other candi- date from the city having been thought of. The opposition of the rural democrats is as much to the man as to the locality, though the latter is a consideration of some weight and is courteously used to veil their sense of Mr. | Tilden’s personal weakness. That New York city is hkely to be for some time an unde- sirable residence for a democrat aspiring to high office seems to be the impression of ex- Governor Hoffman, whois about to return from his long sojourn in Europe to fix his home in Albany. The city democracy has never been in good repute with the perty in the rural dis- tricts, and since the explosion of the old Tam- many Ring it is less trusted than ever. Time out of mind it bas been an element of dis- | turbance, bringing its disgraceful broils to the State conventions and enacting scenes which the rural delegates regarded as the scandal and opprobrium of the party. With the ascendancy of the old Tam- many Ring it tried to put on | a garb of respectability. It made the same | use of the decorous Mr. Hoffman which Tam- many Hail now proposes to make of Mr. Tilden, and for a while this stratagem prom- ised success, But when the Ring was shat- tered into fragments the rural democrats thought worse than ever of their city brethren, and restored confidence will be a plant of very slow growth. It is too early for them to be willing to accept Mr. Tilden as a cloak for Tammany, although Tammany professes to be reformed. Nor do they relish the idea of city dictation, though sensible that the party has no chances without a large city majority. But if such are the sentiments of the rural democrats, why, it may be asked, do they not take the remedy into their own hands and control the State Convention? The answer to this question lies on the surface. The democratic voters have next to nothing to do with the choice of delegates to the State Convention. In the city this is notorious. A small oligarchy in Tammany Hall, of which John Kelly is the controlling spirit, actually selects all the city delegates, as a similar oligarchy selected them under Tweed. The city delegates will this year be unanimous for Tilden, not because the demo- crats of the city prefer him, but because such is the bargain between Kelly and Tilden, Tammany esteeming Tilden a useful decoy | duck for enticing ‘‘reformers’’ to support their | city ticket. Rural delegates will be secured for Tilden by means quite as anti-demo- cratic—namely, by his facilities as chairman of the Democratic State Committee. Hoe wants the nomination and has been working for it for months. ‘The position which he has held in the party for so many years has brought him acquainted with the leading local politi- cians in every part of the State, and by flatter- ing attentions and correspondence he has created a body of instruments whom he is now using to serve his ambition. By the aid of this machinery he will easily succeed in con- trolling many of the Assembly district con- ventions, and has probably satisfied him- self that he has already a majority of the delegates as good as secured. No rival candidate possesses any such advantages, and Mr. Tilden will very likely receive the democratic nomination against the judgment and wishes of the great body of the party. But he is acting against his own true interest os well as in a spirit of doubtful fidelity to his trast as the head of the democratic organiza- tion. Even if he could be elected he makes a mistake, The emoluments of the cffice would be nothing to him, and its duties irksome and confining. Bat he cannot be elected, and defeat will annoy and mortify him more than it would most men. He would be much more powerful, respectable and honored if he could be con- tent to occupy 4 position like that so long held in State politics by Dean Richmond or | Thurlow Weed, as the Warwick of his party, | guiding its counsels, harmonizing its differ- ences, persuading impatient candidates to | postpone their claims,’ making Governors, Senators and other high officers, while steadily of the liberal republicans and the administra- | tion party this fall; but it may be intended to | force Mr. Fenton to a speedy decision. In any | event, it would bo well for him to examine the matter, for the President Is yewiiug to be a | shrewd man and seems to undersiaiid Neq | To exchange such o position for office York politics better than our own voliticiana, | wonld he itiwise, bit to exchange it for tho refusing to accept any office himsel‘, and thus maintaining bis control andascendancy, while a with the changes of poli tics and mutations of popular regard. | succession of ephemeral favorites rise | {and fall wounds and humiliation of a beaten candi- date is unworthy of the character and sagacity of Mr. Tilden. Besides, what right has he to employ the advantages which he has acquired in @ position of trust for the general good of the party to preclude an equal competition be- tween himself and other candidates? Mr. Tilden is even less popular with his party than he was three years ago, when no democrat had ever thought of him as a strong candidate for any high office, Hig course in the State Convention of 1871 gave great dissatisfaction. After his election that year as a reform candidate for the Assembly he made himself so un- popular with all parties in that body that he soon gave up, any regular at- tendance at its sessions, In his prosecution of the Ring suits he staked everything on a po- sition which the Court of Appeals has this year decided to be bad law, thus delaying proper legal remedies until the stolen property sued for has slipped beyond thg reach of courts and sheriffs. In 1872 he caused the nomina- tion of Francis Kernan as the democratio candidate for Governor, putting it on the ground that Kernan was the first eminent democrat he consulted before beginning his war on the Ring, and that Kernan zealously supported him, and the re- sult of the election showed how little strength & democratic candidate for Gov- ernor derived from participation in the retorm movement, It will do no more for Tilden than it did for his adviser, Kernan. Last year, mortified with the results of his strategy in 1872, and uncomfortable at the growing alienation of his party, Mr. Tilden went to Europe and stayed until after the po- litical canvass. Fearing that the State Con- vention would displace him from his position asa member and chairman of the State Com- mittee he ‘committed snicide to save himself | from slaughter” by sending a letter of resig- nation to John Kelly. Why he addressed it to the head Sachem of Tammany instead of to the secretary of the committee is a point somewhat better understood now than it was at the time. The Convention, however, restored him to his old position, and the readiness with which he again accepted it proved that the motive ot the resignation had not been misunderstood. And now this highly respectable but never popular demo- crat, though scarcely reinstated in the good will of the party after two years of alienation, is to run for Governor under the auspices and as the especial candidate of Tammany Hall. He will receive but a languid support even from democrats. He will draw off from Governor Dix not one of the republican votes which contributed to his splendid majority ot upwards of fifty-five thousand two years ago. The President’s Tour. The voyage of the City of Peking from New York to Newport was exceptional in the char- | acter of the passengers upon that noble steamer. Our special correspondent in his | accurate log describes the brilliant company, and could not fail to reflect upon the awful results to the country if the City of Peking had foundered at sea. The loss of the President and Vice President, the Secretary of War, the Postmaster General, Congressmen, politicians and scores of famous men would have almost deprived us of a government. But fortunately the winds were still, ‘and on the Jevel brine sleek Panope and all her sisters played.” No incident marred the pleas- ure of the trip, and even the apparent coolness between General Grant and Mr. Wilson did not affect the warm spirits of the company. The President left Newport in a special train for New Bedford, and bad cordial receptions at the different towns where short stoppages were made. He reached Martha’s Vineyard yesterday afternoon and had an enthusiastic reception at the camp meeting ground, where be was formally received by the Rey. Dr. Talbot, the President of the Association. There were no religious céremonies in the large tent, but the Methodists shouted just as loudly when they saw General Grant as if his visit had been a revival. Bishop Haven placed his cottage at the disposal of the Presi- dent and Collector Simmons had covered it with flags in honor of the unusual guest. The rest of the week will be devoted to 9 tour among the islands. i The Ferocity of Benevolence. There is scarcely any class of outrage that more naturally and properly excites the indig- nation of right-minded people than that of cruelty to children of the sort of which one of our “charitable” institutions has just been the scene. An athletic wretch, left to administer machine benevolence, switches into his grave 8 poor little boy of five years, a helpless little creatare out of the city streets. As the testi- mony taken before the Coroner shows, he beat the naked child for five minutes with a rattan; and as he was in a violent temper it is readily enough conceived that such a creature, at once brutal and ignorant, laid the blows on with all his might. Then the child was put into a bath, and when he came out, and while yet naked, he was beaten again. Such a pun- ishment for such a subject is as if a full grown man should receive on his bare back about two hundred and fifty strokes with the cat-o’-nine- tails. Not one man ina hundred could sur- vive such an infliction, and we need not wonder that this baby did not survive, With a surface peculiarly susceptible to irrita- tion and a nervous organization incapable of great resistance, boys like the one just killed are peculiarly likely to be the victims of such catastrophes, and it is a disgrace and a scan- dal that the institution supposed to have the countenance of this community could be in charge of a man who did not know this, or, knowing, was savage enough not to heed it. The establishment in which this event has oc curred is one of those traders on popular be- nevolence that we felt called upon to expose last winter, and this case of ferocious cruelty is an evidence of the spirit in which it admin- isters charity. It collects money from the public for its schools, spends the greater part | in salaries on the relatives of the Superintend- ent, of whom the present culprit is reported as one, and if any innocent child whose ill health subjects him to a disagreeable infirmity attends its school inflicts a savage discipline until he leaves or dies under the blows; and this is charity. Tax Exourn Annuat Crampaxe of the Fat Men's Association was held at Gregory's Point yesterday, and of the marvels of the occasion we vublish a victuresane bot. faithful acronme ! out, and Senator Ferry (inflationist) was in- Our Political Conventions. We are rapidly getting through the State conventions of our various political parties preparatory for the more important work of our approaching autumnal State elections. Among the latest of these conventions that of the Ohio democracy at Columbus and that of the democrats of Illinois are the most impor- tant, touching the principles upon which they go before the people for their suffrages, and particularly upon the currency question. The Ohio democrats declare that a sound currency is indispensable to the welfare of the country, that its volume should be regulated by the necessities of business (which means 4 flexible currency), that all laws interfermg with such natural regulations are vicious, and that “we are in favor of such an incroase— i. ¢, inflation—of the circulating medium as’ the business interests of the country may from time to time require.’ Furthermore, the Ohio democrats declare that not less than one- half the customs duties should be payable in legal tender notes of the United States commonly called greenbacks, and that they are in favor of the abolition of national bank notes and the substitution of legal tenders as soon as the same can be safely and prudently done, and that the five-twenty bonds, by the letter and spirit of the law—that is, the origi- nal law, rejecting the subsequent coin act of March, 1869, as a needless and wicked sacri- fice of the interests of taxpaying laborers for the benefit of the non-taxpaying bondholder— are payable in greenbacks. This was the redemption doctrine of “Old Thad Stevens’ and of General Butler, and it still 1s the doctrine of Mr. Pendleton and is generally known as the Pendletonian demo- cratic redemption policy. But the Illinois democracy flatly reject it. True, there were some earnest Pendletonians in their Conven- tion, but after an exciting discussion of sev- eral hours they were silenced by the adoption of a resolution in favor of the restoration of gold and silver as the basis of the currency, and for the resumption of specie pay- ments as soon as possible without disaster to the business of the coun- try by steadily opposing inflation, and “in favor of paying the national indebtedness in the money of civilized countries.’" The ‘tmoney of civilized countries’ is generally understood as meaning coin, though it may be interpreted on the stump as an expression also applicable to paper money, or why not use the word coin? Nevertheless, upon this currency question there can be no wider differ- ence between democrats and republicans than there is between the democrats of Ohio and the democrats of Illinois. The Pennsylvania democrats reject the financial platform of their Illinois brethren, and content themselves on the currency with “glittering generalities’ that are on the side of safety ; but on the tariff they stick to the incidental protection of American iudustry—a doctrine which is an abomination to the West- ern democracy, from Ohioto Oregon. , The Michigan republicans, in their State Convention, had a firebrand thrown in among them in the form of a resolution approving the President’s veto of the first inflation bill of the late session of Congress ; but it was thrown dorsed with the indorsement, ‘‘as wisely and timely, of the measure finally agreed upon by Congress between conflicting interests and op- posing theories,”’ and by favoring a system of tree banking regulated by the business law of demand. This action is equivalont to the re- pudiation of General Grant's financial policy by the Michigan republicans, and does not promise much in his behalf fora third term. The New Jersey republicans yesterday nom- inated George A. Halsey for Governor, and the usual oratory was furnished by Secretary Robeson and Senator Frelinghuysen. Noth- ing was formally declared upon the third term question by the Convention. The clergyman, who by all our political bodies seems to be used ns a shield to protect them from an of- fended Heaven, compared the republicans to grasshoppers—an unfortunate simile, when the manner in which those insects have de- yvoured the substance of the country is con- sidered. The Democratic Convention of Pennsyl- vania nominated Warren J. Woodward, of Berks county, for Supreme Judge; John Latta as Lieutenant Governor, General Will- iam McCandkss, of Philadelphia, for Secretary of Internal Affairs and Justin F. Temple for Auditor General. The platform is a strong indictment of the republican party, but does not take any ground in regard to a third term. This omission is a political blunder. The conservatives of the metropolitan Con- gressional district, Virginia, met in Richmond yesterday, and nominated ex-Governor Walker with enthusiasm. Governor Walker made an admirable speech, and not only declared against the re-election of Grant, but registered himself as an advocate of the one term prin- ciple. In Missouri the democracy met at St. Louis yesterday, but did not make a State ticket. The platform adopted takes the popular Western ground upon financial questions, and favors the abolition of the national bank sys- tem, under certain contingencies. The New York liberal republicans, mean- time, are actively engaged in the election of the delegates to their own State Convention, which will be held (at Albany, Septem- ber 9,) a week im advance of the Demo- cratic Conventicn and two weeks before that of the republicans. From this fact it is ap- parent that the liberals have resolved in our coming State canvass to take the field as a third and independent party, or to name in advance the terms upon which they will affili- ate with the republicans or democrats in the election. Negro Disturbances in the South, We are in doubt whether it should be deemed a good or a bad omen that the recent bloody and shocking collisions between the two races have occurred in States like Kentucky and Tennessee, where the white population is so large that it has nothing to fear from the polit- ical ascendancy or the physical preponderance of the negroes. In neither of these States do the blacks even hold the balance of power be- tween the two parties. Both are securely dem- ocratic by majorities which cannot be shaken with the aid of the negro vote, The legisla- tion of auch States is in the hands of their white citizens, all taxes are aid by their rep- resentatives, the people are perfectly safe {rom the evils and perils of negro government which | @ppress and inoensa the vronerty holders of States like South Carolina and Louisiana, where the colored inhabitants are 9 majority. Sarely there ought not to be any chronic trouble with the negroes in Kentucky and Tennessee, where white supremacy can so easily be main- tained through the ballot box, and where law and order, regular trials and only legal panish- ments would ke expzsted from the constitu. tion of eoclety and the numerical proportion of the two races. While it is a just cause of alarm that bloody outbreaks have taken place in such communities let us hope that they are merely accidental local disturbances, which the sentiment of order in those States indignantly disapproves aud which their au- thorities will promptly punish, making them a warning anda terror to the evil disposed. The Governor of Kentucky has acted with praiseworthy energy, and it isto be hoped that the authorities of Tennessee will imitate his example. But when excited passions and the animosities of race lead to such outrages ; in the border States, where the negroes are few and destitute of political power, there is reason for the gravest apprehensions as to what violent and desperate men may be im- pelled by their blind, unreasoning passions to do in those States further south, where negro insolence and white exasperation are in con- stant danger of coming into deadly collision. The Black Elephant of tho Repub- lican Party. The white elephant in Siam is a sacred animal, but he is a costly beast. He is more ornamental than useful, and, as the granger would express it, he soon eats his head off. Hence the term ‘‘whito elephant,” in its general application to any cumbersome and costly undertaking by a government, ao party or an aspiring politician. For example, the late ‘peculiar institution’ of the South was the white elephant of the demecratic party; | and as an object of veneration it was some- what profitable withal, until the pampered pachyderm turned upon its keepers and trampled them in the dust. The republi- can party then came to the front, and, after slaying the democratic white elephant, as St. George slew the dragon, in a right royal way on the field of battle, set up in his place its black elephant, or, as Mr. George T. Downing defines him, ‘the American citizen of African descent,” or as the dis- gusted one line democrat describes him, ‘the | almighty nigger.” And from 1860 to this day, | in following his banner with its strange de- vices, the republican party has had ‘the vic- torious career of a grand combination men- agerie and circus on a summer campaign. Beginning with its revolutionary victory in 1860, under the bold declarations of ‘‘no fur- ther extensions of slavery’ and the ‘‘abolition ot those twin relics of barbarisin, slavery and polygamy,” the republican party, in the re- peal. of the Fugitive Slave law, in the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, in the emancipation proclamation, in the war against slavery and in the thirteenth, four- teenth and fifteenth amendments of the con- stitution, has marched from victory to vic- tory. But with the legacy from Charles Sumner to the republican party of his Civil Rights bill, its black elephant, we fear, is | overloaded. Logically this Civil Rights bill may be necessary to complete the work, to cap the pyramid of civil and political equality as between whites and blacks under our new constitution; but practically the bill promises nothing but mischief to Southern whites and blacks and to the republican party and its carpet-baggers. General Grant expressed the opinion some time ago that the republican party was carry- ing such o heavy load of monstrosities that the time had come for throwing some of them overboard. And he set the party some good examples in lightening the ship in casting overboard such deadweights as the would-be Governor Davis, of Texas, and the would-be Governor Brooks, of Arkansas. And since the settlement of the Arkansas gubernatorial squabble the President, in declining to be used by the Southern blacks in their local riots against the whites and among themselves in Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and other Southern States, has shown that he, at least, has had enough of armed intervention in the local concerns of those States, and that he believes it will be well to try for a season the constitutional experiment of giving to the Southern States the same general jurisdiction over their State affairs that is exer- cised by the Northern States. We dare say that General Grant is opposed to this sweep- ing and dangerous Civil Rights bill, now only awaiting its passage by the House of Repro- sentatives and its approval by the President | to become a law, and we dare say that upon the test of this bill, if made alaw, the republi- can party will be disastrously defeated in every Southern State excopting South Caro- lina and Mississippi. As the bill stands the general hue and cry | of the Southern whites against it has driven even the republican carpet-baggers to special pleadings and explanations. But the South- ern opposition elements say this bill was adopted in a Congressional republican cau- cus as @ party measure, that as a party measure s0 decreed it was passed by the Senate, that as a party measure several at- tempts were made to rush it through the House, and that if defeated by Southern re- publican votes, cast against it in every at- tempt, the bill may yet be passed at the next session of the same Congress, when the State elections of this year will no longer be in the ‘way. , Many Southern white republicans recoil with indignation from the civil rights pro- posed to be enforced under this obnoxious | bill, particularly the right to enforce the mix- ing of black children with white children in | the public schools on a footing of equality, and under the power of the Executive and the Judiciary, and of the army and navy of the United States if necessary. Evidently in several, if not in most, of the Southern States the blacks are estimating at too high a figure the advantages they are sure to gain under this Civil Rights bill. They even seem to think that in anticipation of this bill they may do as they please, and that the govern- ment is bound to sustain them. We are | gratified, therefore, to perceive that they, too, are to be taught submission to their local laws and suthorities, and that government bayonets are no longer to be used in support of the colored citizens of the South, whether they are orderly or riotous, right or wrong. We | have had quite enough of the supremacy of tha federal bavonet in tha local affuira af the South, and we are glad that there is to be an end of it. ‘The whites of the South, we are pleased alse to perceive, have some rights which the re-, publican party is bound to respect for fear of the secession of the whites, which, though few in number comparatively im the South, stilt Teaven the whole party and give it its unity and power even in Sonth Caroling In a word, having trotted their black elephant around the country om a triumphal tour of fourteen year's duration, and having given him all the rights he could in reason demand under the existing state of things, would it not be well for the republican party to stop this superfluous civil rights pro- cession and try some other game ? Another Republican Blow at the Third Term. The Republican Convention of Kansas has boldly taken the bull by the horns and made | an unequivocal declaration of its hostility to President Grant's well known aspirations. It delivers its shot squarely, like a soldier meeting his adversary in the open field, dis- daining to skulk behind any bush for the pur- pose of concealing its aim. Though not first in the field, like Pennsylvania, Kansas has the higher merit of saying explicitly what it means without any softening subterfuge. The Pennsylvania republicans put on the thim disguise of naming Governor Hartranft ase suitable candidate for the Presidency in 1876, seeming to ignore the existence of the third term question, while virtually condemning another re-election of General Grant. The republicans of Kansas are less artful and more manly. They face the real situation with- out flinching, acknowledging the existence of the danger by recognizing the necessity of a public declaration on the subject. ‘Their resolution is in these words:—‘That the unwritten law enacted by the example of the Father of his Country in declining o re- election to the third Presidential term is as controlling gs thongh it was incorporated in the national constitution, and ought never te be violated."" This timely protest is the more valuable as coming from a State where the republicans were not prompted to make it by any local party exigency. If parties were equally balanced in Kansas and the contest doubtful the republicans might have made this declaration for strategic reasons to pre- vent the democrats from turning the scale on that issue. But, in point of fact, they out- number their opponents more than two to one. Their protest against a third term is not, therefore, extorted from their doubts of local success, but is the expression of their judgment and their justly alarmed patriotism. If the other republican conventions would fol- low this wise and courageous example they would quiet the fears of the country and de- prive the President of the merit and opportu- nity, which he has so long neglected, of mak- ing a voluntary and graceful retreat. Mr, Crevezanp thinks that the report of the Investigating Committee will convince all rea- sonable minds of Mr. Beecher’s innocence. | We infer from this that the committee will present new evidence, for the testimony | already published has left many persons in doubt. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Delano has returned to Washington. Comptroller Nelson RK. Hopkins 18 at the Fifte Avenue Horel. Marquis de Argudin, at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor J, A. Burbank, of Dakota, is stay, ing at the Astor House, General E. F. Jones, of Binghamton, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel C. L. Best, United States Army, is quar- tered at the Grand Hotel, Mr. George W. Unilds, of the Philadelphia Ledger, 1s at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Major J. R, McGinness, United States army, registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Oswald Chariton, of the British Legation, has arrived at the Westmoreland Hotel, Lieutenant Governor John C, Robinson is among the recent arriva's at the St. Denis Hotel, Signor De Barrilis, Italian Consul at San Frans cisco, is residing at the Hotel Brunswick. Major L. L. Dawson, of the United States Marine Corps, has quarters at the St. Denis Hotel. On the Paris omnibus lines even the horses can now see the streets—for olinders are suppressed, General W. T. Sherman was at the Astor House yesterday on his way from West Point to Washung- ton. £x-Governor Alexander R. Shepherd arrived | from Washington yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel. The o'd studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds in Letces- j ter square, Lonaon, has recently been converted | into an aucuon room, Zorilla, who, a8 Amadeus’ Prime Minister, did to much to drive nis sovereign from the country, has gone over to the repuolicans, Mary Willlams was sentenced to death at the Liverpool Assizes, on August 13, for the murder of Nicholas Manning, by shooting him. There will be @ congress of deaf mutes at Vienna, on September 6, and the members wit ilinminate one another in their usuai light-Angered way. Rochefort, shut out even from Carlsbad, will go to Hungary, to Baiaton Fured. That is perhaps better than New Caledonia, but alas! it is not Paris. In favor of the Legion of Honor it is held thats man who {s decorated with it may carry home » melon ander bis arm and not be mistaken for his servant, There are four or five bishops at Vichy, and tt to thought unpardonable that they should go there for water when they have such @ wonderlul daid at Lourdes, The water in the hot springs near the Geysers visited by the newspaper correspondents in Ice- land was found to be exactly the temperature ior ot Spain, has apartments | making hot Scotch whiskeys. The Pau Malt Gazette remarks that “she most ab- solute form of government which now exists im Europe 13 that of the London gas companies.” But New York suffers despotism in this respect. Quite acrop of carbuncies and malignant pos- tules appeared at Varennes, France, brought trom the Beance tn sheep skins; but they were stamped out dy 10dine injections into the cellular tissue. Temple Bar, London, is private property and be longs to the Jersey tamily. The rooms tn it com- municata With Childs’ Bank, and have been used for 200 years as storing places for the old acconus books. ‘The kicking to death mania has extended to Ireland. Aman named Nolan, in the county of Meath, recently received fatal injuries by being kicked by some persons who are not yet fally idtntified with the crime. Bazaine’s bargain was apparently made with s steamship company at Genoa—a gentleman and lady chartered a little steamer jor an excursiom along the iittoral, with privilege to stop at any point for any time, to ve paid at 60 much a day. Donna bianca, the wiie of Don Alphonso (brother of Don Carlos), Who accompanies her husband im his campaigns, is nominally a Portuguese orm- cess, but really a German. Her father was Don Miguel, expelled from the Portaguese throne. Her mother was a German princess, Adile de Loewen stein, and Donna Bianca waa herself born In Gar~ many and grew un thare, His