The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1876, Page 6

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. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. ‘ All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yong Henan. Letters and packages should be properly ed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPH FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms in New York. VOLUME XLI.. AMUSENENTS THIS APTERNOON AND RVENING, TRBATRE COMIQUE. VARIBTY, ot 8 P.M. Matince at 2 P. M. WALLACK'S THEATRE. LONDON ARBURANCE, at 8 P.M. Lester Waileck, BOOTH'S THEATRE, STAB OF THE NOBTH, ot 81’. M. Miss Kellogg. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P.M. UNION SQUAKE THEATRE CONSCIENCE, at 8 P.M: OC. R. Thorne, Jr. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, mer. M. 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Money loaned on call at 3 per cent, In- vestment shares, government and railway bonds were generally steady. Hesny Warp Bercuen has been lecturing at Port Jervis, taking for his subject ‘“Edu- cation and Religion.” His audience was large and his reception enthusiastic. Tue Beacn Prevmatic Rarway Company, galvanized by recent legislation, again shows signs of life, and we hear talk of tunnelling Broadway and giving us rapid transit in earnest. Let it come! Tue Trovsxes or Turkey come not in single spies but in battalions. The Bulgarian in- urrection, incited by Servians, is spreading apidly, and the Porte is sending forward troops to the theatre of the difficulty as speed- ily ns practicable. Ir Is Srarep from London that no further rioting had occurred at Barbados, but the Colonial Office has received intelligence of disturbances at Tobago, one of the Windward Islands. A man-of-war has been sent there, and the Colonial Secretary is anxiously seek- ing further particulars of the trouble. Tnx Ownens of the steamer Strathclyde, which was run down in the English Channel by the Franconia, have gained their suit for damages against the latter vessel. The amount claimed was two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, but it is not stated whether the verdict covered the whole sum. Tnex are having some tall walking in London. Fourteen Englis pedestrians are contending for a purse of five thousand dollars, and one of them, named Vaughan, walked his one hundred miles in ten minutes less than O'Leary's famous time. Probably London will soon get about as tired of these pedestrian feats as New York is. Is tue Marten or Street Cieanina, the removal of manure and the regulation of slaughter houses, New York is a quarter of a century behind the age. The Board of Health had these subjects before them yes- terday, and although they took no definite action it is gratifying to know that the mat- ter is receiving attergion. One of these days the Board may actually do something for the protection of the health of the city and the abatement of intolerable nuisances. Revpexsreim’s Deatn.—The sudden death of Rubenstein in his cell is an event that ean scarcely fail to excite many and varions suspicions, and yet it can be sufficiently accounted for without reference to other than stnetly natural causes. Dramatic fancies ate popular, and it is so much in the style of romances that catch the general applause to assume that a condemned murderer who suddenly dies has by some deep ruse “cheated the gallows,” that many will resolutely persist in that opinion. But it is more rational to believe that a step of that sort, if taken, would only Be taken when all hope from the courts was gone. Ruben- stein had wel! nigh starved himself to death by fasting, and a mind sustained him and his weakness was nottelt. But a day of exhaustion came, the niind that had alone sustained him broke down, and collapse resulted. This seems tho just explanation of his death: id not know, perhaps, how | far he had gone with this, for an excited | The Opening of the Centennial Ex- hibition. This morning, amid the ringing of bells, the thunder of cannon, the blare of trum- pets, the military display of regiments of soldiery and the enthusiasm of a great city, the Centennial Exhibition will be for- mally opened by the President of the United States. All the high officers of the govern- ment, the President and his Cabinet, the Senate, House and Supreme Court, the foreign Ministers, the Governors of various States, will take part in the ceremonies. And, as if to add to the historical signifi- cance of the day, the Emperor of Brazil will show by his presence his friendship for our people and his interest in this international fair. The American character of the Cen- tennial Exhibition is seen in the interesting fact that the rulers of the two great Ameri- can nations will take part in the dedication. The interest felt in the Exhibition by New York will be shown by the presence of Gov- ernor Tilden, Mayor Wickham and many of our best citizens. Altogether, if the weather is propitious and no unforeseen calamity occurs to mar the festival, this 10th of May will be a historic day, even in this historic centennial year. If the Centennial Exhibition were simply a show of wares and fabrics it would be use- ful. Civilization becomes more and more a question of pence, and peace is confirmed by nothing so much as these comparisons of national industry and skill. In the olden times the comity of nations was shown in the interchange of princely visits, the retinue of one sovereign displaying its splendors at the court of another. All that the people saw of their neighbors was an occasional pageant. But in our days the people, who are sover- eigns, exchange these visits. Instead of a royal meeting on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where rival princes vied with each other in the brilliancy of their trappings, instead of a sumptuous carousal at Hampton Court, or s tournament at Whitehall, wo have the artificers of England and France, of Russia and Spain, nay, even of farChina and Japan, coming to the graceful palace on the woody Schuylkill banks to exchange rivalries, to show mankind how far they have failed or succeeded in the development of civilization ; for those men whose works will to-day be spread before us in the Centennial Exhibi- tion are the true kings. To them we owe the comfort and repose of our daily existence. They have torn out the depths of the earth, they have pierced the subtle mysteries of the skies, they have traced paths in the midst of the sea and over the mountain summits; they have put the universe under discipline, that we may live a wiser and gentler life. When we compare their achievements, which find expression ina hundred forms in the life of the humblest, with the glowing deeds which historians record and which some foolish painter emblazons on canvas, how much higher they are! We are not indulg- ing illusions as to this exhibition being ‘‘a harbinger of universal peace.” We wish it could be. The skill which built it, and which fashioned its millions of objects, may go ont to battle again, for there are many questions, unhappily, awaiting battle. But very such display is another step to peace. These friendly contests will determine new friendships and strengthen old ones, and bind the nations closer and closer together. Take, for in- stance, countries like Japan and China, who are here in fervent competition with our own laborers, and the fact is full of em- phasis. This Japan, which twenty years ago was only a geographical name about which hovered dark memories of cruelty and superstition—this Japan, for instance, which at the time of the English Fair was only a pale, sinister star in the galaxy of nationalities, is seen to be a refulgent, glorious planet, worthy to rank with the brightest of them all. And so we might continue this thought, deducing the lessons that intelligent minds will see in the presence of nations like Brazil and Peru, of colonies like those of England and the Netherlands, of civiliza- tions as venerable ,as those of India and Egypt. If the imagination is strongly moved by trophies which tell of the glory of Sesostris and Alexander, by remnants of ages and races which have faded from the memory of man, it is no less impressed by the fresh glory of countries like Australia and Canada and California, only yesterday the home of the savage and to-day standing breast to breast with us in all the essentials of a refined civilization. Which lesson will be the mostyinstructive to the philosopher? That which he learns within the gloomy portals of the Khedive'’s palace, over which the brooding Sphinx sits in sad, questioning silence, or that which young Australia ob- trudes upon him in the mountain of gold which tells of her wealth, or the photo- graphic panorama which tells of the won- ders of her new world? For the Centennial Exhibition has a high use in this, that within the four walls of its main palace we have every phase of civilization. It is the nineteenth century, with its past and ihe promises of its future. As the mind follows the flags of the great nations of Europe it recalls the hundred battles in which, even during our centenary, they have waved in victory and defeat—the hundred bat- tles from Jemmapes to Sedan. But in spite of these dark memories here, under the central towers of the muin palace, they unite in friendship and | peace. It was happy thought to bring to- gether, in the very heart of the Exhibition, | England and France, Germany and the | United States, Itseemsonly yesterday when two of these nations were at swords’ points, and hero, under the flag of America, they meet in peace. If we dared to indulge a ro- mantic and unavailing hope, which at all events is in keeping with the day, it is that the ties which bind tho genius of these mighty nations together to-day—which brings England and America, Germany and France into the friendly strife of industry against industry—may never be broken, and that the prayer for peace which the reverend prel- ate wili offer this morning may be blessed to one and to all. It will be some time before the Exhibition is thoroughly ready. We must not be im- patient because of delays, nor must MEW TORE. HERAL the illusions of its projectors. It will not be a great business success, There will not be a vast increase in the business of Philadelphia or New York. We shall have few visitors from Europe, A half dozen past fairs and a new one tocome in France will satisfy our friends over the water. The prostration of business in this country arises from causes which no world’s fair can rem- edy. We do not expect much of the “‘recon- ciliation” that was to spring up between the North and South under the Centennial towers. We are not surprised to learn that outside of the unusual number of invited guests in Philadelphia there is even now no extraordinary crowd of strangers. Asa prac- tical show for purposes of gain, with the hope of large revenues, the Centennial Ex- hibition is a failure, and we have no idea that any of the money will be returned to its owners. This does not disappoint us, for we have supported the movement from the out- set, believing what we now believe as to its success financially. We felt then as we do now, that if every dollar invested in the Ex- hibition were to be lost it was still a glorious and noble thing todo. We were glad to show to o sister city and a sister State that we recognized their his- toric precedence in the events of the Revolu- tion. We believed that it would have been unpatriotic in every way to allow this mo- mentous year to pass without recognition. We were anxious to show the artificers of the world that if we failed at Paris and Vienna and London it was our misfortune and not our fault. We felt that we could show tho world that we were a much greater people than we were supposed to be in many things and much’smaller in some, We wanted our workingmen to see that with their boasted skill there was scarcely a land which could not teach them something. Finally, we be- lieved that the Centennial Exhibition, even though not'a dollar was returned, was the thoroughly American thing todo, We re- joice, therefore, in its success, and we send our friendliest greetings to the hundred thousand enthusiastic spectators, who this morning will make the Lansdowne woods ring with their rejoicings, as amid the ring- ing of bells, the thunder of cannon and the tumultuous melody of Wagner’s ‘‘March,” the President will throw our flag to the breeze and officially declare the Great Exhi- bition open to all the world. The Fatal Outbreak at Salonica. The accounts of the deplorable event at Salonica, as given by the American Consul on one hand and by the Turkish government on the other, differ in some important par- ticulars. According to the Henaxp's special despatch by way of Paris the young girl whose rescue from the Mussulman crowd by the American Consul originated the difi- culty, was being taken, against her will, to the mosque, and her cries for help induced the Consul’s interference. But the Porte sends a different version of the story to the Turkish Ambassador at London, The gov- ernment statement is that the girl desired to embrace Mohammedanism, and was quietly on her way to the Governor's house when the American Consul, with a crowd of a hundred and fifty men, seized and carried her off by force, When the Governor learned that the German and French Consuls had gone to the mosque he hastened thither, fearing trouble, and did all in his power, although vainly, to save the lives of the unfortunate men. The murderers, it is added, have been arrested. The American Consul at Salonica is a Greek, and here, probably, lies the ground- work of the trouble. If he had been an American the French and German Consuls might have been alive to-day. It does not setm that there was any reason to suppose that the girl was an American, and the pro- priety of the Consul’s interference does not satisfactorily appear. However, the tragedy is likely to give new trouble to Turkey, al- ready distracted and Worried enough. Ger- many is said to have expressed a willingness to be satisfied if prompt justice be meted out to the murderers ; but France and Italy are hurrying their iron-clads to Salonica, and the belief in England is that the event will bring the troubles of the Porte to a climax. Dank Honszs.—It is rumored that all the leading candidates have an equal and natu- ral dread of the dark horse which, as it is so commonly thought, is to carry off the honors of the Presidential race. This ap- prehension has taken a characteristig’ form, and some candidates are actually training dark horses of their own, with a view to con- tingencies ; for the next best thing in the mind of any candidate to winning himself is to have the race won by a dark horse in which he has the lively interest of owner- ship. Thus Mr. Conkling is a candidate of great prospects, as the public knows, and has the sympathy and support of the Presi- dent; but it is hinted that the Senator and the President have agreed between them- selves on a dirk horse, whose triumph, pro- cured by them, will be almost as satisfactory as if it were their own, and that this dark horse is Mr. Fish. It is further thought that Mr. Blaine, not to be behind his adroit competitor, encourages Hayes as a dark horse in his interest, and that this accounts for the evident rapidity with which Hayes comes to-the front. Paxsipentuan Tacrics.—If, as believed by Mr. Seymour, the West and South will resolutely combine in the National Demo- cratic Convention, it is probable that Mr. Tilden, though a very strong man, may not get the nomination, for there are Southern antipathies to a Northern man that are diffi- cult to overcome, and Western antipathies to an Eastern man that are equally difficult, and if these twoare strengthened by mutual support they can hardly combine on one who is both an Eastern anda Northern man. But if he does not get the nomination for himself Mr. Tilden may still control it, for his resolute support of either Bayard or Thurman, adding the strength he has to their strength, will determine the choice. He has two strings to his bow, therefore, and cannot fail, with skill, to shoot the Presi- dential arrow as he pleases. Parncr Gortscuaxorr and Count Andrassy are to go to Prince Bismarck’'s official resi- we: expect too much. We have given | dence to hold the conference arranged be- the Centennial movement a sincere support and yet we have never shared tween those statesmen. fights on his own bill, The Prussian bird Field Sports. Among the pleasanter features of our growth as a people we may count the hearty will and happy facility with which we take to field sports, Hardy, bold and energetic races of men have been distinguished in every age for their love of vigorous sports that taxed at once the endurance of the physical frame and the nicety of the senses, upon which depend the acquisition of skill, and we prove our blood in our characteristic fondness for these manly exer- cises, In the fullest degree we have this instinctive love for the indulgence of the power of our muscles and for their applica- tion to our entertainment in whatever games may present themselves—an instinct that comes naturally from our British an- cestry, and is rather fortified than otherwise by our original draughts on those races of men from the earlier commingling of which the British race arose. Despite the objection that the progress of civilization has very justly excited to any sports that tend to brutal results, the two greatest nations of the earth were but a few years since absorbed in the deepest degree over the results of a gladiatorial combat— absorbed in pure love of sport that lost sight of the offensive features ofa particular form of sport. With what anxiety the same na- tions have dwelt on contests in which the puint at issue was a test of the respective strength and skill with which their sons could wield the oar or the rifle! With what epic earnestness they have gone into the struggle to prove that they had on either side a better breed of horses and bet- ter horsemen, and how the sailor descent and maritime tastes have come out in sports that tried their craft and their seamanship! Every great sport—racing, rowing, shooting, riding, wrestling, boxing and all the games that are contriving to produce or to exhibit proficiency in these sports, are the common property of the British and American peo- ple, as, indeed, they are of nearly all the vigorous races of men. But every now and then some new form of one or the other of these is brought from some obscure district into general notice, or an old form is revived with new impulse under the influence of some accidental circumstance. They may possess no absolutely new feature, yet they give variety. So an inventive genius in the kitchen may startle the palates of a whole city if he fall into the right hands, and yet he must do it with the same old mutton and veal and beef that has palled on every appetite for generations. It is thus with those happy recent intro- ductions, coaching and polo. To drive a stage is nof new, and as for polo it is made up of ball play and horsemanship—old enough, as all men know, both ofthem. Yet polo and coaching are both evidently des- tined to have the greatest success with our people for good reasons. Mr. Kane, for instance, drives his coach on a delightful excursion, and so is enabled to charm and please a large number of ladies and gentlemen fond of that sort of a refined picnic, and to cultivate and practise a very fine style of driving, which ifithave no other effect at least induces rich men to spend their money in a way that is pleasant to their friends, agreeable to themselves and good for improving the breed of horses and the style of vehicles. Outlets like this for the superfluous cash of the wealthy are public benefits, and he must have but little philosophy in him who does not readily perceive their advantage. Polo is a game recently brought from India, where it has been practised for ages by people who live in the saddle, and it has been caught up with great favor wherever people are interested in equestrian skill, and consequently in any exercise that tends to put this sort of skill to an extreme and severe test. It is with great regret that we see our contemporary, the Sun, seems to depre- cate that these sports are imported and to reflect that many things adapted to habits of foreign people have no reason to be on our side the water—a position which it illus- trates by reference to the custom of banging horses’ tails, which it derives from fox hunt- ing, and the influence of the fox hunters on public tastes. But banging arose as much from the fact that the long tails of thorough- breds become unpleasant in muddy weather, and as there ‘is mud in all countries and thoroughbreds are to be found wherever there is money to buy them, even this custom is not necessarily local. It is true that coach- ing and polo are imported sports. So is rowing. So is boxing. So is horse rac- ing. Thero are o great many things in this countrythat are imported; and it is even suspected that our very freedom itself—the germs of our inerad- icable love of liberty and our constitutional system—were actually brought from England in aship cAlled the Mayflower. In short, the American people is an imported people, | ‘and consequently the various adjuncts of its civilized life came with it or followed it from other countries. A wiso man said that he stole from the antients without compunc- tion, because if he had lived before they did they would have stolen from him. It need | not trouble our consciences, therefore, to | borrow our sports from nations older than ourselves; or, where all our games have come from abroad to object that one or two came later than the others. Free Grass. The land embraced in the Central Park was taken and paid for by the city for the pur- | pose of insuringa breathing place for the | people in the heart of the metropolis and preventing the confinement of a large popu- lation in a straitjncket of streets and avenues and heated bricks and stones. ‘These reserved spaces in a great city, devoted to health and recreation, have been aptly called its “lungs.” They are enjoyable to all classes, The rich probably make tho most out of them, because they have leisure to drive in them daily and to take advantago constantly of their pure air and well kept roads. But public parks are not an actual necessity to the wealthy, because rich people live in spacious houses, located on broad, healthful thoroughfares ; and if there were no such open spots in the city they could drive their fast horses and easy car- riages beyond the dusty streets into the surrounding country roads, The poorer classes, however, depend for the enjoy- WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. ment of s few mouthfuls of fresh air almost wholly upon the public parks, They send their children out of fever- breeding neighborhoods and crowded tene- ment houses into these open spaces, to drink in health and life, and thus they not only find recreation in them, but protection against disease and death. They are entitled to these privileges because they have paid for them. It isa stupid error to suppose that property owners alone pay for public im- provements. The expense they entail on the city is met by taxation, and taxation falls at least as heavily on the poor as on the rich, The latter pay taxes directly; the former pay them indirectly in increased rents and enhanced prices for all the neces- saries of life, The people ef New York, therefore, own the Central Park. To judge from the action of our officials one might sometimes sup- pose that the ownership vested in three or four Commissioners of the Park Department, who confer a favor on the citizens by allow- ing them to have any privileges at all within its limits. It is very proper that certain regulations should be adopted and enforced by the management to prevent the destruction of shrubbery and to preserve public order and decency. But outside of what may be necessary for the proper preservation and regulation of the Park it should be as free and open to its owners as is the air they breathe. Aboveall, no needleas restrictions should be placed on the enjoyment of all its privileges by the young. The idea of excluding children and others from the Park grass plots by an iron rule and preserving the grass for pasturage for somebody's sheep and cows is preposterous, The pretence that the grass would be ruined by thousands of feet tramping over it is ab- surd. All the European parks, and Pros- pect Park in Brooklyn as well, are open to the public in every part, except the flower beds; and yet the grass is in as good order and as well kept in all of them asin our Central Park. People do not care about looking at the green, tempting grass; they want to ran over it, to roll on it and to romp with their children among the daisies. It would be as charitable to display a good dinner before the eyes of a starving man and to order him to keep his hands off the vic- tuals as it is to show a crowd of poor ten- ement house children a refreshing grass plot and warn them against putting their feet upon the green carpet spread before them by the hand of nature. The hot summer months will soon be upon us. Those whose means enable them to do so will be rushing off to the green fields and the cool sea shore. But tens of thousands— hundreds of: thousands—who have not the means to get away will remain pent up in the close, suffocating streets of the city. We insist that to these less fortunate beings the grass of the Central Park, owned by them, should be free. We therefore call upon the Park Commissioners to remove their hateful notices, and to give liberty to the children of New York to run and roll and romp on the fragrant grass of the Cen- tral Park to their hearts’ content. The Democratic Triumvirs. With any just comprehension of their re- lations to one another, and to the country the three distinguished men who are recog- nized as the foremost individuals, in demo- cratic opinion, in the three great sections of the country, will not let a great opportunity drift away and be lost in a profitless conten- tion as to which of the three shall be nomi- nally first. They must settle this point between themselves or permit it to be set- tled between their immediate intimates, and when their names come before the Conven- tion they must not come as resolute and re- lentless opponents, any one of them ready to rise on the ruin of the others; for it hap- pens they must all fall together. They must go before the representatives of the National Democratic Convention prepared to hear with satisfaction the judgment by which it gives precedence to one, and ready also to ratify the virtual compact that the other two shall be associated with that one in office if he shall receive the suffrages of the people. It may be said that this bargains away the great offices before they are secured; that it commits the President to a pledge before he receives office that is to bind him in office, and that it requires of him action that he may not deem altogether wise when the occasion comes to act’ Every government that is a good government is founded on bargains just like this; is a scheme of pledges and guarantees and compacts be- tween the various parties to such+ bargains. All government that does not proceed on bargains like this is mere personal govern- ment, the result of the seizure of the polit- ical machinery by armed force, as in the case of the first Napoleon, or by intrigue and conspiracy, as in the case of the last Napo- leon. Every President is put in office with us on the assumption that he will govern by means of the great men of the country, as every constitutional king holds his throne on a similar theory. General Grant and George III. have been cited as the most conspicuous instances of the violation of the theory, and they violated it in the same way and substantially for the same reasons. George III. indulged his personal preferences in the choice of Ministers, and perhaps was unable to comprehend that that was improper. He did not perceive any constitutional duty in the premises. He did not want disagree- able statesmen about him who would bother him with politics, He wanted about him the men he could like, and thought the men he liked could do all that was necessary, and so he went on thinking till he lost to his king- dom s world of great colonies, snchas no nation ever had before. Grant also fell into the same amiable error, and has caused to his country a loss that may prove greater than that which George III. caused England, for he has half forfeited the triumph of the North gained in our great war. It is proper, therefore, fo return to that traditional system of our great parties which gives a guarantee that great offices shall be filled by great men under compacts that have behind them such sanction as the assent of party conventions ; and it is especially wise to return to this system now when it points the way to s harmonious issue from the rival claims of the great men of a party happily well supplied with such material, Speaker Husted and Rapid Transit. Mr. Husted, besides being among the the office of Speaker at Albany, is also on of the best legislators for this section of the State which he in part represents, except in matters which have a party bearing. The cause of rapid transit,for example, is more indebted to him than to any other indi- vidual, and herein his zeal conduces as much to the prosperity of his immediate West- chester county constituency ‘as to the pros- perity ot New York city itself. The value of every square rood of land in Westchester is enhanced by the growth of this city and by increased facilities of travel and communica- tion between the two. Westchester county is to be congratulated that she has a repre sentative so attentive to her interests and who does her so much honor by the very able manner in which he discharged the duties of Speaker in the late session; and the tender of such congratulations can come from no other source so ap- propriately as from New York, whose growth is necessarily in that direction. We must not be understood as approving the course of Mr. Husted os o partisan, and, least of all, as indorsing the coalition be- tween the Custom House and Tammany, in which he is said to be implicated. But jus- tice constrains us to say that in non-partisan matters he is one of the most useful mem- bers sent in recent years from this part of the State. He was the author of the Rapid Transit bill, under which preparations went on so successtully during the last year; and when obstructions were thrown in the way a few weeks ago by proceedings in the courta he prepared a bill to cut tbe controversy short and came very near carrying it through the Assembly, Had he been supported by all the members from this city he would have succeeded. ‘We trust that Westchester county may long be represented by mem- bers who have the same intelligent percep- tion of the connection of its prosperity with that of New York city. Tux Ovrzacz on Gunenat Cusrze con- tinues to excite the attention of newspapers everywhere. At least three-fourths of them bitterly denounce the President for his cruel and autocratic action against the gallant In- dian fighter. “Even the papers friendly to the President speak of the affair as one which need not have occurred, and are sorry that he should have been injudicious at a moment when his party depended upon him for wisdom. Something was due to public opinion, which is just now very sensitive to any needless exposure of private spleen in its servants. There area few papers which defend the President on technical grounds, byt the people will not easily be convinced that in punishing General Custer the Presi- dent did not really commit an outrage on themselves. President Grant is not at this day in a position to put himself in contrast with any faithful military or civil officer be- fore popular opinion. The odds are against him, and he will suffer with little effort on his own part. That he acted angrily and unwisely seems to be his own late opinion ; for, as will be seen from our St. Paul de- spatch, he will permit General Custer to accompany the expedition, not as its com- mander, but as a subordinate—that is, Gen- eral Custer goes in disgrace, being permit- ted to fight, but to fight only under punish- ment. This last bit of news shows weak- ness and apology on the part of the Presi- dent, but it does not wipe out the stain with which he has covered himself. Me, Sreppixs anp tre Park Depart. MeEyt.—There is a report that Mr. Henry G, Stebbins, who has been so long connected with the Park Department, is about to retire from the commission, which has now passed into the hands of Tammany. It is to be hoped that Mr. Stebbins will do no such thing. His services have been of great value tothe peo- ple, and as he is entirely familiar with the wants and interests of the Central Park he will be useful in s board which may need watching. His taste and judgment cannot be ignored by his associates, and his intin. ence for good will be great, although he may bein a minority in the Board. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A defanct gambler bas had bis odds—and ends. Lieutenant Governor Dorsbeimer is rusticating ia Baffalo. Providence is to have an eccentric club composed of crooked old sticks. Ex-Governor Joel Parker’s chances for the democratic nomination are increasing. The Cincinnati fiend advertises for men with fever and ague to shake carpets. ‘ ‘ The man was flirting with drowsiness who sald he couldn’t get. a wink 0’ sleep. The St. Louis Republican wants a President who will know how to eclect a great Cabinet, * Tho new Senator from Texas isa fighting démocrat and will be a hard Coke nut to crack. A Nevada court grants divorces when one mate sub. Jects the other mate to “mental cruelty.” Hindoo and Neapolitan girls are said to owe their beauty of form to the practice of carryyng Jars of wator on their heads. ‘The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle thinks that Tammany Hall is the one strong political clab in the world. It is the ace of clubs. A Nevada newspaper office is 6,840 miles above the level cf the sea, and yet its editor is always several sheets in the wind. Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is at Chicago, He thinks that the republicans of Indiana prefer first Morton and then Bristow. The Cinctnnati Commercial is authority for the state. ment that Ole Bull’s young wifo, who lives in Wiscon- sin, left him because of Ill treatment. Chicago Times:—-‘‘The most conspicuous idiots in the East at present are young mon whose collars are but. toned on at the waist and end at the eyebrow.” A Canada editor the problem whether it is veneficial in schoola to have compulsory kissing. He ie not able to decide because he 13 not going to school. ‘The defence offered tor the Rey. Mr. Kendrick, the clerical scoundrel of Georgia, is that be must be insane because he once had an affection of the ear, Pshaw! The editor of the Rochester Democrat has had cle. pnantiasis of the ear for years and nobody has defended him on that ground. The ‘‘coaching” season has begun in London this year with as much animation as ever before since the great “revival” of coaching nine years ago by Lord Carington and his allies. On the 22d of April Mr. Shoulbred started his coach, with “four splendid well bred horses,” from Hatchett’s Hotel, in Piccadilly, for Guillord, in Snrrey; and on the 1st of May three moro gentlemen were to take tho road with conches for Windsor, Dorking and Oxford, Tho latter ; Toute, close upon sixty miles in length, runs through one of the loveliest region: Engi!and; but surely it might be possible to select a of oqual jengtn out of New York which should offer sufficient attractions to warrant some of our aspiring youth in tackling it. |i the en to Trenton and thenee by special train to the Centennial Exposition ?—[World of ycs- orden eee wT