The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD ————_e— BROADWAY AND ANN ST Thanks be to praise—General Grant bas at REET. last acquired an igiand! gsined. For more than four years now the President, like Sancho Panza, has hankere@d after an island. St. Domingo snited bim, but an obdurate Senate refused his wishes. | Sumoa will suit him equally well, if we may believe the glowing accounts of its fertile soil, its intelligent poople— who only need a pair of trousers or so, it seems, to make them fully GORDON B&B PROPRIETOR. JAMES ETT, NOTICE TO SUBSCRib! On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editious of the New Yors Henap will be sent iree of postage. se THE DAILY HERALD, published every| most of which, we read, would be perfect if | Four cents per copy. | they only had an entrance; its grand moun- Twelve dollars per yéar, or vue dollar per | tains and perennial summers. There were people malevolent enough to th, iree postage, bse: S A pasos: ee et (10 satnaribers, _ | say that Goneral Grant wanted St. Domingo All business or news letters and telegraphic | 5g sort of corral for four millions of Ameri- despatches must be addressed New Yous | cau citizens ot African descent; that he meant day in (he year. nied a Steinberger, wiser than Sumner, has the equals of Stemberger; its lovely harbors— | Herraxp. | to mass the colored vote on that island, and Letters and packages should be properly | thus secare to Kellogg, Packard, Casey and | Senator Spencer a safe and steady con- sealed. . ” stitaency. And truly enough his St Rejected communications wil! not be re- | Domingo Message spoke of the enor- turned. | mous profits of the carrying trade | : —__—+ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | PARIS OFFICE—RUE s(ikisu. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | jreceived and forwarded on tlio same torms ‘as in New York, NIGHT. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth sireet-—English Opera —1HG ROSE OF | AUVERGNS and CHILPEKIC, ats UM. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE j Third avenue and Fifty-eighth streci.—Benedt of Mr. | Cariverg. TIVOLI THEATRE, | Eighth street.—VAMIETY, at 32. M. Wood's MUS) way. corner of Thirtieth INENT, at2P. M. and 82, M.: c Broad ACROSS THE ONT wt OMG a, Me | GILMORE’S N, Tate Barnun 's Hippoares PULAR CON. | Creat, at sr M. ; closes | OLYMPIv THEATRE. VARIETY, at 37. M.; closes at 10 45 No. 624 Broad way. P.M, 7 oe CENT PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOM CONCERT, ats. Mm fe: a WITH SUPPLEMEN T.| NEW YORK, FRIDAY. JULY 23, 1875. sf MMER RESORTS, | =_—__ WHE HERALD FOR THE (Te NEWSDEALEES AND THE PuBLie :— | Tux New York Hzrarp runs a special | every Sunday during the season, | between New York, Niagara Yulls, Sara- | ‘toga, Lake George, Sharon aud Richfield | Spri leaving New York at half-past | two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at | ® quarter to two P. M.,, for the purpose of | supplying the Scwpay Hexawp along the line } of the Hudson River, New York Central and | a with that island, by monopolizing which, iu his opinion, we might easily and rapidly pay of the national debt ; having done which wo could all bave lived im ease and comfort on | the surplus revenue. There were people— | Senators—dull enough to laugh at this bril- | liant conception of General Grant's; spiteful | enough, even, to speak disrespectfally of the “carrying trade;"’ but they will now see. Colone! Steinberger is in Samoa. Tho Hunatp, which never omits an opportunity to please or instruct General Grant, gave him the glad tidings on Wednesday morning, be- tore breakfast—that is to say, if he got up be- fore breaktast. The Colonel has issuod his proclamation, He bas been “‘sent by the President ot the United States,’ and like the President he docs not omit to | speak of the sacrifices he has made | in conung, and in accepting the office of “Premicr,” which—still like his master—he takes only at the urgent solicitation ot the people. How good and how familiar it all | | sounds! Is it possible that Cvlonel Stein- | berger wrote General Granv’s letter before he sailed? We hesitate to believe it, and yet— well, Colonel Steinberger says, “Let us have peace,” and to make his meaning plaim he remarks that he has brought along a few can- non andaiew ‘‘gentiemen” to hold offices, | and be points out to these happy Samoans that, having been ‘‘sent by the President,"’ it will be necessary to have a government house, and a fort, and tax collectors, and po- -lice, and an “armed guard,” and ‘‘popular enlightenment,” and—-who knows? tho Colonel shrewdly leaves it unsaid—perhaps a | nationsl debt. Samoan sixes, what music there is in the alliterative and seductive title! What a picturesque security they would make if, during General Grant's third teria an obedient Congress should ““guarantee’’ | them, and the banking firm of Grant & | Cooke negotiated them! And there is to be | “carrying trade,’’ of course. Au island is Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Wewsdealers und others are notified to send | their orders to the Hxnaxp office as early as | ible. For further particulars see time | Table, | pe eae are omen ok | From our reports this morning (he probabilities , ‘are that the weather to-day will be warmer, | ‘cloudy anid rainy. pees ! Persons gomg out of ton for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Hrrarp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Tae Manuarran Yacut Crve bad a spirited | regatta yesterday, in which the J. M. Sawyer, Oriole and Skip Jack came in winners. Tax Froops xx Evrops this year have been wery general, and few countries seem to have | been exempt from such a dreadiul scourge, We hear of disasters in Silesia, immediately | r the sad tidings from France and Eng- dong. i ‘Tar Kovar Acapemy or Ants in London is | Pvincing a lively interest in the forthcoming entennial celebration in Philadelphia, in ‘palling upon the British government to lend ita aid ix securing a proper representation of | British art on that memorable occasion. | A Dayornovs Expxnmrmnr.—At Newark, | Ohio, last night, while the Mayor and other officials were about to test the efficacy of a | new fire extinguisher, an explosion of coal oil fook place in the building selected for the | experiment and the entire party were seriously injured. Tax Swiuminc Marcu between Coyle and Johnson took place yesterday at Chester, Pa., | ond resulted in the victory of the English- | e being tuken out of the water al- | incensible long before the proposed dis- | dance was traversed. The winner was sp- | parently a: fresh as when he started. | , Tae Hartem Fuars are being slowly filled | tp under the direction of the Board of Health, and even such tardy action in regard to a positive nuisance is hailed with pleasure | by the residents in the vicinity of the horrible | Mistrict. A few thousand laborers should be set to work at once there, instead of the slen- der number now engaged. Svurznmrespent Fox, of the Brooklyn po- ice, is being hauled over the coals for the nu- ymerous cases of gross negligence or iuecompe- Bency on the part of the gnardians of the peace, so plainly shown for months past. A rial or two of the same kind on this side of the river might be beneficial, especially if a" were directed agains! the higher Ts. Toe Comurrirz on Crpwe, appointed by fhe Legislature, bas succeeded in arousing the New York police captain from his | nothing without a carrying trade, When the “governqent house” is built and furnished— | let us hope the Colonel took out with him a plan by Mullett—when the artillery and the | police are both mounted; when the “armed | guard’ has got over the awkwardness of | marching in pantaloons ; when the works of defence are completed, which an engineer of the Colonel's ability and experience has no doubt already planned, and the islands are | surrounded and defended With gorges, scaffolds, breaches, ditches, mines; | With culvertns, whole and demi, aod gavines; | With treach, with couuterscarp, with esplanade, Wiih curtath, mote and rnombo and chamaee; Wita polygon, epaulment, bedge and bank; ~ With angle sauleut aud witb angle dank; then, at last, we shall see the “carrying trade” begua; then the real object of General Grant's deep diplomacy and cunning strategy will be discovered by a grateful nation—at least we hope we shall all be grateful, Already, no doubt, to the President, As buay fancy patots the gaudy dream, I deal Cocks wita shadowy navies teem; Whatever on sea, on !ake or river Quate, | Ships, barwes, rafts, skills, tuvs, Oat-pottomed boats; Smitos, sailors, carpenters in busy crowds; Mast, cabie, yard, Sati, bowsprit, ancaor, shrouds; | Kulves, gigs, barpoous, swords, mandspikes, cute jase es; Guns, pistols, swivels, cannons, cannonades; All rise to view! ail Died tu gorgeous show! ‘Tritous aad tridents, turpentine, tar—tow! How charming is the picture ! Surely there is nothing like o ‘‘carrying trade.’ When the excellent Uolonel, who, by the way, has taken the precaution to accept his Premier's place “for life,’’ gets an entrance blasted out for one or two of his harbors, and when he has | inspired the ‘intelligent native'’ with a strong desire for trdusers, then, indeed, the money will begin to pour into our depleted Treasury. Mr. Bristow will have no more trouble about | specie payments. It will be seen that the late Mr. Greeley was right, ond that the true way to resumption is to resume; Mr. Henry ©. Carey will propose a protective tariff upon Samoan products, with ‘incidental revenue,” of course; the Postmaster General will con- clude a postal treaty; the Secretary of the Interior will favor the Colonel with an ‘“In- dian policy,’ calculated for Southern lati- tudes; Mr. Kelley will submit to the Samoan Premier a now way'to pay old debts, and Gen- eral Grant will, we trust, take the trouble to | plan for him an extensive system of internal | | improvements, including the tapping of tho | principal volcano for a supply of sulphur. | Then, too, o8 in the story of the three | | kings of Chickeraboo; — Ambassadors, yes, and attachés, too, ‘Wiil be picked Out, to sail lor Chickeraboo, And on the good ship’s overcrowaed deck, A Bishop, 6€@, WO goes Out on spec, There was a pretty general belief, about six months ago, at the time when Colonel Stein- berger sailed. for Samoa, that be was only the advance courier of General Grant, and that our excellent President, determined no longer | world at Philadelphia next year will be ac- | and unable to get through all that it has to to continue those sacrifices which he made in | him, in any case or on any pretext, to make What a Sumuer de- | *2Y further personal sacrifices on our account. Noblesse oblige. We may find it bard tu get on | without him; doubtless he will be missed by | such patriots as Spencer and Kellogg, Shep- herd and Brooks; but no honorable cit could, under the circumstances, ask the Presi- | dent to remain longer in that public Life | which he hates. | The Elcho Shicld, Atter one of the closest contests thatebas | yet taken place at Wimbledon, the Irish eight | were declared the winners of the Elcho | Shield. This vietory makes them once more | champions of Great Britain, and «ill do much to console them for their defeat at Dolly- | moont. The success of the Irish riflemen | will give general satistaction in America, where | they havo secured so many friends by the | manly wey in which they accepted defeat at the hands of their American opponents, both } at Creedmoor and Dollymount. No doubt something of national sell-glorification will enter into the feeling with which we regard this last Trish success, In defeating the picked teams of England and Scotland the Irish riflemen make good their boast, that though unable to defeat the Americans, they could beat any team in Great Britain. The work done by the English and Scotch teams shows them to have selected with care from the very best material available, and their defeat is practically a second victory for America, The absence of Messrs. Pollock and McKenna from the Trish oight makes the victory won by the Irish the more significant, as they were replaced by marksmen confess- edly inferior. The team which has carried off the trophy of championship is unquestionably inferior to the one defeated at Dollymount, and this fact enhances the significance of the defeat suffered by the English and Scotch riflemen. By the victory of the Irish eight America assumes the championship of the world, and we gain all that a victory at Wimbiedon would have given us had our riflemen been admitted to compete by the authorities of the English National Rifle Association, We ‘hope the invitation ex- tended to the riflemen of the world by Colonel Gildersleeve to take part in a grand - contest for the rifle championship of the cepted, so that a decisive trial of skill may be had. Mr. Plimsoll Gut of Order. Evidently the enthusiastic friend of the sailors and enemy of ‘floating coffins” has beon indulging himself in very wild antics; for though in the usually decorous House of Commons that would be shocking as an im- propriety whicl: would not seem far out of the way in some more free and easy parliamentary bodies, yet, for the head of the goverament to take so extreme a step as to*propose @ gen- {leman's removal from the house, must be pc- copted as an evidence that provocation had gone very far indecd. Mr. Plimsoll has so given himself to the subject dealt with in his bill, is so entirely wrapped up in it, that he has become a man of one idea in the court sense. He can see nothing else in the world. He sees in every ship a trap to take sailors out to sea and drown them, and in every shipper an owner and keeper of traps. His enthu- siasm is to break up the traffic in sailors’ lives by the machivery of rotten ships ‘aad insur- ance. [His object is a good one, and there is room in the world and abundant occasion for his activity. But there are also two or three other things in the world, which he, like a true enthusiast, either ignores or denies, With the government, however, overloaded do, some part of the load must go overboard, and they cannot accept the standard of the en- thusiast as to what part it shall be, It is, per- haps, hardly in the range of fair treatment of the subject to doubt their motives. With us it would be very readily implied that the money of the ship owners had been put in the right place, but if this happens in England it cannot be shown, and it probably does not happen. Mr. Plimsoll’s bill has been crowded to one side from the necessities of the case, and it is to be regretted that his enthusiastic opinion of its urgent necessity has put him in so awkward a position. Rapid Transit—How Not To Do It, The Rapid Transit Commissioners may probably be guided as to the proper way in which to give New York such rapid transit as the people require by considering the best and easiest way of “how not to doit.” If, for instance, they should decide to take some other route than the Third avenue and Bowery from Harlem Bridge to the City Hall or the Battery it would be a wide stride in the wrong direction. If they should propose an extension oi Mr. Vanderbilt's Harlern and Hud- son River railroads to the City Hall or the Battery it would be another wide stride in the wrong direction—wide enough, indeed, to carry us away from rea] rapid transit for the next twenty years, if not to kill the project outright, It will be all very well for the Greenwich Street Elevated Railroad Company, in accordance with its new privileges under the jaw of last session, to build ao continuation of their road west, and to run a branch over to the Forty- second street depot. This will accommodate the residents on the west side and those who live iu Westchester county. But an extension of Mr. Vanderbilt's freight and passenger roads to the City Holl or the Battery, while it would, no doubt, be convenient and profit- ‘able to» the railroad magnate, would be a swindle on the people of New York, who | hope for rapid transit for city travel to en- able thern to get to Thirticth street and to | every street beyond that point up to Harlem Bridge at five and six conts fare by trains running every three or four minutes and med apathy and fancied security. The itrangest revelations are being made every , and charges of a very ugly complexion preferred against our blue-coated guardi- The proceedings before the committee tyegterday were of unusual interest. » Tux Macparey’s Vow.—A very touching my took place yesterday at the House the Good Shepherd, in this city, in the pelebration of St. Magdalen’s Day and the re- of vows and acts of consecration by a number of the penitents attached to the \ tation, ‘The good Sisters, in reclaiming | accepting the Presidency, would follow his | friend, the Colonel, and for the remainder of | hhig life devote tiimesl?, (0, Abe introduction ot | VS2'Y-Sve minutes. How not to build rapid transit is easily doing the through distance in twenty or | shirts aud the establishment of a carrying trade in these islands, Our readers will ro- member that at the time we expressed some | doubts of the correctness of this report, It ia possible that General Grant may have thought of a Samoan kingdom; but if he did we are sorry to say bis friend Steinberger | has—to speak somewhat profanely—euchred him; for we notice that the new Samoan con- stitution contains a one-term clause. The Premier holds office for lifo, but the King ch fallen ones and bringing them back to and purity, accomplish a task before hich pale the most glowing records of those hjstexy's Leroines holds only for four years and cannot be re- elected. Of course this saves General Grant | to the noovle of the United Siatoa, but it awa | learned. A study of the points may enable | the Commissioners to, best discover how to make their work a success. Tax Poor Onrpren of the Sixth ward are in a state of high expectancy and feverish excitement over the steamboat excursion which will be granted to them to-morrow. phere of those foul spots that scurcely de- | breathe for once the pure air of the country and to enjoy pleasures usually associated with The little ones, sweltering in the fetid atmos- | | serve the namo of home, are delighted to | Westwarf the Siar of Empire Files. | Upon us 4! a solemn obligation not to permit | theirs. The charity that releases those little Prisoners from the miseries of tho midsum- mer in the Sixth ward is of the noblest kind, The Harvest and the Prowpeet. For the first forty days of sommer it was constantly dry, and the grain and hay were starved down to half, or, at most, three- quarters of a crop; and then exme the rai, too late to help the crop, but just in time to Prevent the possibility of barvesting in good condition even what there was of it. From the consequences of this departare from the happy order of nature bali Europe sees be- fore it in che near tutare the calamity of dear bread; and we ourselves have had such an ex- perienes of this perversity of the elements as will impress the lesson deeply in the eoo- nomical tables, though, fortunately, our ex- perience is not that of Europe. Our bay crop has, perhaps, suffered most ; for, though there is a good crop om all the low meadows, the loss by thinness and poor quality at ali points where rains in May and early June are necessary to give a good result, will reduce the yield to a fifth or sixth less than is ob- tained in a good year, Our farmers are, therefore, poorer by at least one hundred million dollars, or, may be, one haodred and fifty million dollars, oa this one count. Per- haps the first estimate is more nearly arca- rate, for the higher price that is of course the immediate consequence of the short crop will establish the equilibrium agaiost whatever is lost in excess of that sum. All the loss by grasshoppers and potato bugs will not equal the toss by hay; but with these loses added to that the sum represents an enormous ad- dition to the regular burdens of the agricul- tural interest, though, by the same machinery of the adaptation of prices, the burden will be distributed moro or less evenly over all classes, But though we have not altogether eseaped the evil consequences of the disastrously ex- ceptional weather of the year, we have reason to congratulate ourselves on a happy escape by comparison with what has happened in the Eastern hemisphere, and on the advantageous ion in which we stand with regard to the markets with our grain crops, All over Europe the weather has been bad, but worst in France. There is little precise knowledge of what has happened in the great grain dis- tricts of the Black Sea country, but the gen- eral reports indicate that the yield will be less than usual and the quality poor, All the valley of the Danubo has suffered by the weather. In France more is due to the gen- eral bad weather than to the destructive inun- dations, but the inundations themselves seriously disturb the balance of supplies in that country. These inundations, though not of regular recurrence, often return every year or every other year for four or five or ten years, and they seldom spare the district for more than twenty years at.atime. They have occurred always within the memory of any record, and are not, as has been mooted, the result of the denudation of the mountains. In the sixth century, in the twelve years between 580 and 592, there were eight inun- dations, and probably very little wood had been cut from the slopes of the Pyrences then, But the inundations that occurred in that far away time as well as all others that have occurred there in the times anterior to the es- tablishing of rapid and easy systems of com- munication and transportation, such as we now enjoy, had one common result—they produced famine and pestilence that depopu- lated the country—famine, because the means of transportation then in existence and the absence of a commercial system of any extent stood in the way of supplying the people whose crops were destroyed by the water; pestilence, because the unburied bodies left everywhere by the retiring waters and the apathetic stricken people filled the air with poisoned odors that could not be endured by men and women whose half starved condition disposed them to febrile diseases. But the fact that always produced famine and pesti- lence in the valiey of the Garonne down to the fifteenth century acts otherwise now. It moves the current of supplies toward that dis- trict from other parts of France, But what is the condition of the crops in the places upon which that current must draw? In tho centre of France, in the Southeast, in the West and the North, the cereals are in a bad state. Though these countries are not inun- dated they had continued dry weather through April and May, and then for the few weeks be- fore harvest heavy continuous rains, so that the crop is small through the drought and poor in quality from the bad condition in which it was harvested. Outside of France the first draught is upon Algeria, and there also the crop has been ex- posed to the same conditions and is in the same state. France, therefore, must buy largely. England, as is already known, must also buy largely, and Germany and the East- ern districts will, perhaps, esteem themselves fortunate if able to supply fully their own wants. Thus we shall be without competi- tors for whatever we have to spare out of our great grain crops. Undoubtedly, the prices to which grain will be carried by this move- ment will fall somewhat heavily upon poor people here, whose loaves will be the dearer for the competition of European hunger; but this small addition to the people's expendi- ture will be more than compensated by the impulse that will be given to every branch of industry as a consequence of the general ac- tivity that this current of supplies toward Europe will set in motion. If people get em- ployment at fair wages out of an event that at the same time adds a cent to the price of | every loaf they will scarcely grumble about that cent. Peren Cooper on tHe Curnuncy.—Mr, Poter Cooper has just written a letter on the currency, in which he endeavors to explain the causes of the recent shrinkages in value, especially in the value of real estate. Mr, Gooper is a very old man, but he has not yot learned to desl with these questions very clearly. The remedy, how~ the mind of the venerable political philoso- pher than the causes of the disease. If we cannot understand his explanations of the one we see clearly enough the purpose of his sug- gestions in regard to the other. Mr. Cooper | wants a convertible currency, and he thinks he can get it by making greenbacks converti- ble into interest-bearing bonds. Of course | the bonds would bo convertible into green- childhood when goat in & hapnier lot than backs aa welkas the greenbacks into bonds; ever, appears to be more important in | NEW YORK HEKALD, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMEN site aaa! anperrierrnttis but here® the convertibu'ty of both would stop. Xt does not occur to a ig that ng power of the currency. Interest-bearing bn.“ Which, 85 @ matter of course, are payable in 8T¢°O- backs, have no real redeeming valuo, ar. 1 are surprised that so old a philosopher shou ' thimi that five or six per cevt interest to paid in greenbacks would make the currency convertible. ‘The Case in the Cabtact. Grant bas been guilty of the grest indis- cretion of taking three.honest men into bis Cabinet, and this is likely to give him troable. They threaten to surround him, and he may be cut off from his supports and lose his communications and line of retreat upon the Department of the Interior and the cor- rupt authorities of the District, which would be the most startling and significant fact of the time—an event of great importance to the people, but of even greater consequence to the republican party. Hitherto the President bas been cursed with a sort of politival pocket handkerchief of a Cabivet, 8 body as subject to his will and his humors as that indispensable article of common convenience, Two-thirls of the rogueries that have been practised through him are due to the fact that these obsequious gentlemen never opened his eyes to the true nature of schemes that they doubtless saw through and of which he may bave been in- nocent. Tre consequence was that the coun- try was governed, not by the Cabinet and the government, but by influences analogous to those discussed in Buglaud in the great bed- chamber question, His Excellency, for in- stance, if any topic of patronage or policy or appointment was to be discussed in the Cabinet, was probably ignorant of it through and through; but some handy trend him—or priwed him, rather—and if, in giving His Excellency some information this bandy friend put the information in a shape to belp the scheme of another friend, is that any more than hu- man? In this way every topic was settled in the President's mind by some good friend. Sometimes the friend was a brother-in-law, may be. And where is thers greater evidence of self-abnegation than fora man to bolivve in his brother-in-law? Sometimes the in- formation came from a person who had sup- scribed freely to some valuable testimonial given to the President, and gratitude required that ho should at least boar this friend pa- | tiently, And when did gratitude coase to be avirtue? Thus, through his virtues end the censoriousness of the world and the obse- quiousness of the Cabinet, Grant has been looked upon as the prot: ctor of robbers. For, of course, shen the President wont into Cabinet council ou these topics his mind was mado up, thanks to bis friends, and the Cabinet did vot indicate that his mind was made up erroneously. It was too considerate for that, and the Cabinet did not resign when it cow that it was a mere perfunctory body, for it never had the nocossary self-re- spect. But now there is a change. Jewell | and Bristow and Pierrepént have different ideas of the functions and relations to the public of the offices they bold, and there wil be a dispute, and we cannot say exactly how His Excellency will come ont, for these gen- tlemen are probably in earnest. They are at this moment face to face with a most dificult | dilemma, and they can only cope with the case successfully in 60 faras they are in earnest, Wherefore we hope they are in earnest. If they are not in earnest they will get the worst of it. It is evident to these three gentlemen that | ple if the thieves are not sent to the right about they themselves cannot stay, so that the real point of the issue, as practically made up, is, whether the only respectable part of Grant's | Cabinet shall leave, or whether Grant will _ dismiss and-cease to support the corrupt per- | sons whom he has put in office and who are making the most of their time at the expense of the taxpayers. With Fisher continued in office, the Postmaster General found he could not fight the thieves that trouble him, and after a hard fight Fisher is apparently gone. As Bristow has hada similar experience be was with Jewell, and as for Mr. Pierrepont, a man who lives so broadly in the light of public opinion cannot afford to be on any other side than that of honosty. But all these gentlemen together were, it appears, able only to get the official sealp of the already half | dead Fisher. The Secretary of the Interior, as it is reported, retains his place. Porhaps this trouble was so deep that a full remedy required that Grant himself should go out if | Delano did. But we donbt this Although Grant is wonderfully given to sticking to his | friends, he also possesses the capacity to drop | them when they are too heavy. The Maryland State Convention, The democrats of Maryland seem (eter. | mined to infuse # little auimation inio poli- tics, and to that eud they have had a fierce contest in their State Convention. What they were fighting about is not very clear. It was not over rag money, evidently, for every- thing relating to the platiorm was referred to the Committee on Resolutions without debate, — A whole day and the greater part of the night | were spent in securing a permanent organim- | tion. Subsequently several hours were passed in voting down motions to adjourn and ia charging attempts at bribery upon the iriends of the rival candidates for Governor. The Convention even refused to adopt ny rales for its government, aud when at about five o'clock yesterday morning it agreed to submit to parliamentary law it was at the price of an adjournment. The whole question seems to have been upon the time for the nomination of a candidate for Governor, the friends of Mr. Jolm Lee Carroll desiring to procegl at once to # ballot, while those of ex-Senator Hamilton were anxious for delay. Neither | side would yield, and though there was not touch to be gained by the conflict both fac- tions kept it up apparently for the pure fua of the thing. We must not imagine, how- ever, that the contest will have no good re+ sults. It was one of those old-fashionel democratic fights which for nearly half » ovn- makes little difference which of the rival ean- didates for Governor carried off the prize, so far as tho struggle in the Convention is con- cerned. The friends of Hamilton will now support Carroll with mora than the zeal they would have shown in his behalf had he been tury kept the spirit of the party sfame | Seligman, Everybody was in earnest, and, being | aroused, will keep in earnest till theend. It of ine american coiony, keaded by Mr. nominated without a contest. ‘luo same thing would have proved trae of the friends ot Carroll bad the nomination gone tu Hamilton. Like a thunder storm ona sultry afternoon these passing storms only sc rve to clear the political atmosphere. Tho democrats ot Maryland have begun their canvass with a determined fight, and though the result of it sannot please everybody yet its effects for ‘drather than evil will be felt throughout the a ™paign in reviving the political spirit of the p rople and giving renewed life to both We must remember to their credit, . parties. also, that bir platform opposes am increase of paper wor yand asks Congress to take such measures a! Will make rosumption of specie payment poms dle. Verdict, A Sensible Whitewashing verdicts .by coroners’ juries in all cases where wealthy’ corporations are coveerned have been go gem tally the rule, even after the most frightful dix ‘ters, that it is cheering to find a notable exca,?tiov, such as we record to-day in the cona'usion of the inquest rigarding the slaugh ter ou the Southside Railroad of Long {sland on July 5. The evidence was certainly overpowering and showed beyond a doabt that the most ordinary precautions against disaster were disregarded by the precious company in charge of the road, One witness testified to the fact that a man inexperienced in the business was substituted for the regu- lar engineer of the train, and the testimony of the Superintenlent of the line was of the most crushing kind. The evidences of reck- Jessness and carelessness were so palpable that even a stronger and more denuneiatory verdict might have been expected. But coroners’ jurigs are so seldom given to condemnation of rail- road companics, no matter what their short- comings may be, that the action of the inves- tigutors into the causg of the murder of those poor people, on July 5, may be regarded im the light of a reform. Now the matter passes. into the hands of District Attorney Downing, and there should be no delay on his part to bring those scoundrels to justice who regard human life as of no earthly consequence a long as they pocket their ill-gotten gains. AL. INTELLIGENCE. PERSON Seth ibe The ex-Empevor Ferdinand left a fortane of $00,009,000. Pendieton saya tho Olio platform means cota for currency. The Dake of Connaught goes yachting to the Coast of Syria. Generali James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, te staying at the Brevoort House. ; Andvew G. Carun, of Pennsylvanta, arrived last og at tho Filth Avenue Hotel. Professor ©. H. Ff. Peters, of Hamitton College, is sojournmiog at the Hoffmen House, Senator Branch K. Brace, of Mississippt, ts registered at the Westmoreland Hotel, Mayor N. BF. Graves, of Syrecuse, is among the tate arrivals at the Filth Avenvo Hotel. Obambord has goue to Marienbad to drink the waters, for his obesity becomes a burden, M. Chevalier, French Consul General at Qaebeo, is residing temporarily at the Brevoort House, Commissiouer Smitn, of the Indian Bureau, re- turoed to Washington from this city yesterd General Stowart Van Vitet, of tue Quartermaa- ter’s Department, United States Army, las ar- Geveral Joveph E. Johnston, of Georgia, has been elecied President of the Arkuusas Ladus- trina: University. The Marquis d'faatpoul, who sacrificed his life in the ioandations, wes found naked, with one finger cut off, On that Moger he always wore @ very valuable ring. They taik of tuking “the onaplet off of braina putting 1 apon brawn’ in ‘he Saratoga race, ‘n is very apt to win In those cases, and peo- ho are ail brains vaght not to cater, Wonderiul |s the effect of some judicious tnves- tigations, Within a jew days the police have caught four or’ five thieves before the robberies | they had committed were twenty-four hours ola, Lafayette’s etatue will appareatiy not be uncov- ered tii next year, Lafayetre bimself arrived in this country on Apri 24, 1777, and it Is almost @ | pity the stave should not especially honor the oentel Mulversury of that event, Many youog Turks pursue advanced studies at Paris, ani are all under the supervision of the Torkish Embassy there, for thetr expenses were Gefrayed by a Subvention of their government paid cirectiy to the Frenek government, Now the Sanlime Porte hes discontinued the sabvention tantinople a law senoot the Turks mast svady at ponses. P csident MacWahon has just pardoned Baron aivry, condemned two years ago to threo years! imprisonment, I) Was & case that would never bave come to trial in this country, He would Dave been polite'y bowed out by the coroner. He was shooting ducks In Japan and killed a native eccidentaily. He # tous been to prison twe yours to learn Got vo play ducks and drakes with tue J eno. : ny perplexed readers’’ want to know if the Presiden (6 gran ison—ii tle Sartoris—ia “eligivis to the office of President irrespecuve be father’a alleg ance: Ne ts just as eltgipie any other Dative of (his Coeniry, a4 Will be a clus” upon attaning the proper age, aud w.li be en- titled to wil the rights of @ “wative bora citigen," phtlows in the Meantiae some stops anali be taken by bum oF oD bis benalf to claim for him che rights of a citizen to bis father's country. “Tee dvess Was of tue rleaest ivory satin, a With point Guchetee lace and orne with exquiete wreaths (en tablier) of aod orange Sowers; « veil of white COTONSt Of OrAanKe DioSssO™m.” Mi thas ty Isabel Geraldine ver square, and ine happiest man io the party Was the Hari of Kim. veriey. Tee workmen emploved ‘pairing the doa. jon keep o the wallving at Rowen ‘celled the Tower @ Joan of Are recentiy found the es cutchron of F *, Carved om the eomt of the Vaulted roo, @ & perleet sate Of prowervation, Ths coat of armas is, to al Appearance, of the time Oo: Petlp-Aagan an, tue foaader of the castie, of Weick that tower is tee jast remnant. The dis. covery if therclore Of some tmortence from tne duubie of view of history archmolocy. By hie of the Duxe of ok," june publisged In Parte, 18 appears to went sous by him viewed Lous Napoie prisen of Ham, io 1841, and ga¥e to the e 800,0007.,. on $100,000, wits waren be brined jatlora and se cused bis freedom. Tae coneiu wos thal the Prince showld sigh & tromty With (he Dake, o Which the fipet article ran taus:—"We promise Bnd sweat On OUF LODYE Hed the Moly Seripturea, On one pert, W FO-CRtAUlish the Duke of Broas wiok ia ne duchy, 20d, U postbie, to waive Ger many O86 One Dationelty; om the olecr part, esse the Prince Napoleon to Lis jesige to resiore 10 France ber DATiowa! Kovereny e that name. French capi'al were present, with ia Wan. une | burne, United States Miniter. Among | frieuda of Yas two families remarked were © | Camondo, MM. Hparass, @unavurg, Poutd, | Edouard Kona, Oppenneim, Aloerri, Kes Olgewar. ter, Munroe, Stern, Hares, Dr, Worms, MM. Caro | lus, Doras, Tropper, Or, Evaas, 4. strakosea WANG ane ,