The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR tii vpaadriideeiaeeaieiaaes 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 Nxw York | HeERarp. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF eit NEW Zone. HERALD—NO. 4¢ t PARIS OFFICE—AVE Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. JE—NO. 112SOUTH EVENTS THIS APTERNOON AND. BVENING, NEW, THEATRE. QuARE “ian . R. Thorne, Jt. RK THEATRE: ee SPM. Mrs. GC. Boward UNCLE TOW’S Ca oy THEATRE, Martp or THE WARPATH ats P.M. CHATEAU MABILDE VARIETIES, { atS P.M. 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Gold opened at 113 and closed at 112 7-8, selling meanwhile at 113 1-8. ‘Tue Otp, Oxp Story of protection was lov- ingly told by Pig Iron Kelley to the House yesterday to ears not so likely to be charmed with his sonorous tones as were the houses of the not so long ago. Poricr OvrracEs.—We hope that the cases described in to-day’s Heraxp will afford an opportunity to the courts for administering a wholesome lesson on the duty and its lim- itations of policemen. Tur Enciisn Stock Excnanar shares the general European fever over the Eastern question. - After a vain effort at a rally from the depression of Saturday it suffered a bad relapse. The pulse of the stock market is a fine indication of the health of the body politic. How to Sunnenper A Forcer GRACEFULLY is one of the things on which we cannot in- struct the English government, but, as ‘she who gives quickly gives twice,” we would suggest a prompt delivery of Winslow as the most satisfactory and, perhaps, the most graceful thing under the circumstances. Preepytrrman Unrry.—The long existing breach between the Presbyterian churches ofthe North and South has at length been satisfactorily closed, and both branches are again united in the bonds of fraternal friend- ship. Thisis only asit should be, and augurs well for the re-establishment of complete nnion in political sentiment as well as in re- ligions faith between the lands of the blue and the gray. ‘Tue Investications IN 7 2 Unirep Srates will probably set the investigating mills in England going briskly. The Emma mine inquiry here will doubtless be followed by one at the instance of the English House of Commons. The currents of corruption, like those of the ocean, touch many lands, and in this instance the English have an oppor- tunity of gauging the density of one of our Gulf Streams of jobbery and frand. Moopy axp Sankey axp Metuopism.—The ministers of the Methodist Church are en- deavoring to measure the effects of the re- cent Hippodrome revival by counting the | converts made during that period of religious enthusiasm. The results do not appear to five satisfaction, and it is the almost unani- mous opinion of the experienced Methodist tlergy that revivals do not reach the public heart as well as the regular church mission- ary work. Iv tax Dank Honsz Is to Wix he will come from the Valley of the Mississippi. (limois steeds have wonderful going and staying qualities. Think of the fine strains that have come from the prairies--Donglas, the “little giant ;” Lincoln, the ‘rail split- ter;” Baker, the “volunteer hero ;” Lo. | gan, the ‘“‘irumpet-tongned ;” Ulysses, the “anconditional surrender” cap- tain. There is no better running blood | than this prairie stock. If a dark horse is | needed let our politicians pick out the one whose rider's colors are Galena lead, who | was sired in New England, raised on the | prairies and brought into condition in Paris | under the fire of the Prussian guns, and | whose name, as it may be announced toa shouting convention within the next sixteen days, will be Elihu B, Washburne, of Ili- | | a literature as Haslitt, | fever heat. - AEW YORK # HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 36, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. j The Canvass and Public Opinion—The Power of the Press. As the supreme moment arrives—the mo- ment which is to determine the fate of so many mounting ambitions—which is ‘not only to decide the character of the adminig | tration for the next four years, but the po- | litical tendencies of our people for the next | generation, the excitement increases to a Speculations run wild. This is the season for false information—for those | “Roorbacks,” as they used to be called in the political nomenclature of the past, which are put into circulation at the last moment to disturb the unwary and carry the conven- tions by storm. There is nothing the aver- age politician likes better than a majority. Many a convention has been swept by the im- pression falsely created that some scheming politician really had a majority. This is the secret of the canvass of Blaine. There are influences at work in this canvass that would not respond to any quack medicine system of political advertising. There are issues to be settled too grave to be re- manded to a shouting mob at Cin- cinnati and St, Louis. Those who have looked carefully at the varying moods of the canvass see it every day as- sume a graver shape, The republicans are fighting for power—for the issues of the war, which the earnest members of that party believe to be in peril from the success of the party which was in opposition during the war. The democrats, conscious of the great need for government reform, are anxious to show the country that the gov- ernment of a reconstructed Union might be intrusted to them without any fear of the disunion element, and are resolved to name the man and construct the platform that will give them victory. The political campaigns for the last twenty years have been shaped by events—by the overmastering importance of the slavery question and by the war. The republican conventions have since the nom- ination of Lincoln at Chicago simply re- corded the understood wishes of the people. For twenty years events have controlled conventions. Now conventions bid fair to control events, It is the earnest will of the people seeking to find expression in various ways that leads to this excitement. It is a mistake to sup- pose, as is gravely asserted by the editor of our brilliant and daring contemporary, the Sun, that this excitement is the consequence of any special newspaper pressure. We do not undervalue the power of the press, but “that power is the expression of the public opinion of the hour as it shapes itself, and not a mysterious dominating influence, which commands the will of men in an Oriental, ecclesiastical fashion, like a Sultan oraPope. Public opinion has overridden the voice of the press in many instances where that voice was in opposition to the sentiment of the country. On no occasion was this so manifest as in the last campaign for the Presidency, when our contemporary, with all the genius of Napoleon and ali the fire of Murat, was leading the columns against Grant. If ever the press hadan independent influence then was the time to show it. In saying this now we are not unmindful of the high rank which the editor of the Sun has attained in a profession of which he is a veteran, recalling, as he does, the days when Raymond inspired the Times, when Greeley made the Tribune an overmastering influence in politics and legislation, when the Hzratp gave voice to the genius and courage of its founder, the Nestor of the American press. The editor of the Sun is the last of this race of giants. Upon his shoulders we sometimes think their united mantles have fallen. If any journalist could’ control public opinion it would be a man of so much ability, ex- perience and courage, We speak of the editor of the Sun as a veteran, as one who flourished in the days when the press was controlled by giants. It is this feeling of dutiful respect to one whose years and service can never be overlooked that makes us listen with attention to those ‘frequent, and brilliant utterances in which the veteran chief deigns to admonish and instruct and encourage his younger brethren. His position is something like that of the Cen- sorin the philosophical government of China, ® position which comes in appropriately at atime when, thanks to Colonel Olcottand other deeply-peering and enterprising in- tellects, we are to have a new philosophy in our religion and our life. The duty of the Chinese Censor is to speak out his mind to everybody, even to the Emperor. It isa posi- tion calculated to arouse a finely formed relig- ious ascetic nature. We never heard that it ‘was an office either of popularity or ample pay. A censor in Washington would be as badly off as the chairman of a committee of in- vestigation. ‘ For this reason we honor the holder of the censor’s thankless post. At the same time we do not think he does jus- tice to that body of modest, retiring, un- ostentatious gentlemen connected with the press, whose names are not known out- side of their own circles, who give their lives to their work. A generous censor who went below public rumor would be too glad to do these men the juse tice which their own modesty has denied them. There is Whitelaw Reid, the young, able and dignified editor of the Tribune, of whom, if he were to die to-morrow, it might well be said that he has newer written a line which would cause his friends to blush, Then we have the retired editor of the World, Manton Marble, whose name will always be written with honor on the scroll of news- paper fame, and his brilliant successor, Mr, Hurlbert,. whose genius has found recog- nition in two continents and half a dozen tongues. We have George William Cur- tis, a man whose intellect we always honor except when it comes down from the sweet seclusion of society and literature to the muddy pools of politics, who will always be remembered for the beauty and sincerity of his life and the beneficence of his influ- encg on the manners of our time, There is the intrepid Louis J. Jennings, of the Tunes, whose control of that paper is among the heroic epochs of New York journalism, and whom we should be glad to welcome back to a position of similar dignity and influence. We might commend to his kindness of soul the peculiar facility of Mr. Howard, of the Star, or the exquisite style of Mr. Winter, who bhs made dramatic criticism as much of There also is the Welbeabian cs genius of Augustus Schell, who comes into journalism as our old Dandolo, to save it eyen if he | the agility and freshness of a young man in his management of his journal. Then, com- speak encouraging words of those in our own family—we have Thomas B. Connery, George W. Hosmer, John D. Stockton, Charles Nordhoff and John Russell Young, gentlemen worthy to be named with any in this catalogue. If we do not have the giants men to whom journalism is a pride as well 38 profession, and whose services are felt every day in the direction of public opinion. We say “direction of public opinion” with a reserve, for, as we said in the begin- ning, not even the mature and massive intel- lect of the veteran of the Sun—who sits over his thundering presses like an Olympian javelins at others—not even the varied and comprehensive powers of the other gentle- men whose efforts we are glad to seek out amd recognize can affect, except in a distant and subordinate manner, the result of this canvass. Asthe campaign in favor of Mr. Greeley was beyond the reach of the press, even with Mr. Dana himself in the advance, so will it be with these nomina- tions at St. Louis and Cincinnati. What we see is an earnest feeling in the councils of both parties. The republicans fight for power, for continued and growing power, for the immense results of the war, They fight, as the ganvass now looks, a winning victory, which we are assured the astute men who lead it will not throw away. The dem- ocrats fight for victory in administration if possible; for recognition at the best as a loyal party competent to rule the Union. The interest of the situation is the interest that men always feel in any supreme mani- festation of strength or activity or enthusi- asm, which is inspired by a battle, a tem- pest, an aurora, a swelling sea, a parade, an angry mob, a world drama like Appomat- tox or a world pageant like the opening of the Centennial. We look at the canvass in this spirit. We note its changes, its advance from day to day, the rise of one flag and the fall of another. We record these incidents with fitting comments ; but none of us, not even the mighty editor of the Sun, are in direction. That authority is with the people, who after all form the two parties and who mean to nominate and elect the President of their choice, whether in doing so they please or displease the press of New York and the country. Alas! Mr. Blaine. We are sorry, for Mr. Blaine’s sake, that, as things now look, he has buta slender ptos- pect of receiving the support of our shrewdest and most sagacious city contem- porary in his aspirations for the Cincinnati nomination. To have ‘‘a giant’s strength” is no doubt a comfortable thing for its pos- sessor, but to “use it likea giant” does not bring much comfort to the victim on whom it is exerted. Why should our strong and keen-witted contemporary ‘gore with his horns” and ‘toss Mr. Blaine as an infuriated bull tosses his human an- tagonist in the favorite spectacle of the grave Spaniards? Our sprightly contem- porary praised the brilliant new editor of the democratic organ for keeping his temper and ‘fighting for the fun of the thing;” but does the admiring critic him- self.‘‘fight for the fun of the thing” when he paws the sand of the arena and bellows, and, as often as Mr. Blaine’s name is men- tioned, lowers his horns for the onset and flings up his tail and heels as if a red flag had been shaken in his face? We fear that all the “fun” in this kind of encounter is on the side of the bull, and that the victim has no great fancy for the sport. Why does our contemporary pursue Mr. Blaine in so fierce a temper? We can understand and appreciate its preference for Mr. Conkling as a Presidential candidate, Mr. Conkling is an eminent citizen of our own State; State pride and pleasant per- sonal associations may lead our contempo- rary to look with favor on the canvass of Mr. Conkling. Mr. Conkling’s abilities, elo- quence, pride of character, scorn of mean- ness, contempt for hypocrisy, his high bear- ing and his freedom from every suspicion of sordid pecuniary entanglements, are justifia- ble grounds for looking with more than in- dulgence on his political hopes by citizens of his own State. But is this any excuse for rancor against Mr. Blaine? Onur truthful contemporary is constrained to concede that Mr. Blaine is a man of great vigor and address; that he has magnetic ele- ments of popularity; that he has rendered conspicuous party services; and it virtually confesses that it can find no other tangible grounds of opposition to him than the stories set afloat by his énemies connecting him with improper railroad transactions, But where will our carping contemporary stand if, before the meeting of the Cincinnati Con- vention, Mr. Blaine should satisfy all his countrymen of both parties that his record is clear, and if he comes forth like pure gold thrice tried in the crucible? Even if ourcon- temporary's last charge is sustained, is it an unpardonable sin for a Speaker of the House to help his friends to a splendid speculation in railway stock? The transaction was, in- deed, of such a nature that the Speaker could not touch it himself, and he thought it prudent to warn his friends to conceal the fact that he had discovered a big bonanza and offered it for their acceptance; but this merely shows that Mr. Blaine belongs to that noble order of characters that ‘do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.” We can understand and approve our contemporary's willingness to aid the chances of the emi- nent New York candidate, but why should it pursue the Maine aspirant with charges which will react against his accusers and make him triumphant if he satisfies the American people of his innocence before the Convention meets? Berotars i Vincivia are treated in a manner not at all calculated to encourage the fraternity. The volley with which the owners of the burglars’ tools, described in our Norfolk despatch, were met on their calling at the railroad station for their prop- erty and the fight that ensued shows what a | capacity for melodrama lies in the Old | Dominion. destroys his beloved Tilden, and who shows | ing nearer home—for we never hesitate to | of the past we at least have a generation of | god, tossing laurels to some and hurling | The Peace of Europe. England refuses to sustain the Berlin pro- gramme of reforms for Turkey; she greatly strengthens her naval force in the Mediter- ranean, and the Rothschilds are reported to be unloading their consola, Can it be that England is putting herself in a position to | sustain forcibly her-own views of the rela- | tions of Turkey to her neighbors? Events have that appearance. For England the | law of the case is still the Treaty of Paris. | Inasmuch as she has committed herself to the declaration that the reforms demanded of | Turkey are impossible, and therefore a nul- | lity, she is still morally bound by her pledge to sustain the integrity of the Padishah’s territory, unless she cares to plead that the repudiation of the treaty by Russia in 1870 deprives it of all obligation for other Powers. If England is animated by the resolution to withstand the Powers the distribution of | force is not favorable, though no battle is absolutely desperate where the British en- sign covers the fighters. But Russia, Prus- sia and Austria are actively committed to the support of the note, and the note is so framed as necessarily to involve the not re- mote exclusion of the Sultan from Europe, That fact was contemplated by certain of the parties as the ultimate objective, and they cannot any of them greatly care whether the result comes a few years earlier. Only Aus- tria can be greatly dissatisfied at the Sultan's obstinacy, and she is not so much dissatisfied that she will venture to oppose the Northern Powers, though if England distinctly as- sumes a hostile attitude it will go far to im- ply that she counts upon Austria, But it would be a great blunder for England to fight in this cause on these conditions. It would be an injury to the world ifs disas- | trous war should put England where France is with regard to her loss of weight in the councils of Europe; and the case would be still worse if in such a war the enemies of England should have justice and the cause of humanity on theirside. Though we have become accustomed to expect blun- ders from the present British Ministry, let us hope they will not venture heedlessly into a position from which retirement will be far more difficult than they have found it in the repeated recent missteps of domestic politics. It is more to be apprehended as an imme- diate consequence of the position England appears to assume that the Sublime Porte will be encouraged in a resistance to Eu- ropean opinion which it cannot maintain jand in which England cannot eventually support it, and thus that the necessary and inevitable political reorganization of Turkey, which would be made tranquilly ifthe Sul- tan’s government saw the hopelessness of resistance, and were not encouraged by vain illusions, will only follow a barbarous con- flict of the people and an armed occu- pation of the country; for the north- ern’ Powers cannot now recede. They are’ constrained morally by the steps they have taken to take others. They must go forward and execute what they have undertaken, or a great national act of intervention, sanctioned by the consent of the three emperors, becomes a farce. Im- perial dignity can accept a bloody but not a ridiculous issue to its acts. If they should hesitate now they would permita solemn en- gagement made with them to be repudiated at the Sultan’s whim—worse still, at the dictation of the mob of Constantinople. They experience that the present difficulty of dealing with this trouble is greatly in- creased by the fact that they have in the past too often receded for slight reasons from po- sitions as distinctly taken as the one in which they now stand, and they are not likely to repeat the error. Turkey accepted Andrassy’s note, and the Powers must and will hold her to the obligations that note implies. It was considered at Berlin between Gortschakoff, Bismarck and: An- drassy what steps were necessary to carry out practically the fine points of the note, and it was held that one primary necessity was a two months’ suspension of arms. To this it is said the Sultan ‘‘will on no account con- sent,” He has agreed that there shall be re- ligious and civil liberty in the land, reforms an the collection of the taxes and in the land laws, and that the government in these re- spects shall be in the hands of a mixed com- mission. All those beautiful propositions of the protocols he assents to; but when it is proposed to put a practical stop to §he cut- ting of throats his sensibilities as a Sultan are offended. He is like the gentleman down East who was in favor of the Maine law but opposed to its enforcement. He will-have as many reforms as you choose, but any propo- sition to make thsm effective he regards as monstrous. But none of the Powers that are parties to the compact which Turkey entered into by the acceptance of the Vienna note will per- mit it to be dealt with in that way. They will go on, because they cannot recede ; but how they shall go on will depend upon the resistance they encounter. Further steps will, therefore, turn upon the attitude of Turkey, and that will be affected in some de- gree certainly by England. It seems a pieco of the irony of international politica that Asiatic superstition and ferocity should from their last stronghold turn for moral or phys- ical support to the enlightened home of civil and religious liberty. Out of the fact that England refused her assent to what was done at Berlin, however, the Sultan's ad- visers have extracted some comfort, and have even had their hopes raised so high as to believe they could appease the storm by throwing overboard o biscuit ; for there is no other comparison that so avcurately measures their proposition to surrender Her- zegovina and Bosnia, In the winter this would have been received. It is too late now. The drama must reach a fairer dénone- ment, and it is to be hoped that England will not force it to a warlike one. But the other Powers seemed disposed to make some sacrifice of their own views to sécure her assent—a circumstance which gives color to the notion that England's hostile attitude is due to the fact that she has made some demand in regard to Turkey which has been rejected by the other Powers. Tue Srewant Witt excitement is one of the things which could scarcely attain its present dimensions in any city outside New York and scarcely could grow at all in any other country than America, That | Fe so rich a man should die and leave nothing | mr, to ® pack of persons claiming to be his blood relations is nothing new, and in a man growing from the small begin- nings of Mr. Stewart it is not un- natural that he should have hosts of thir- ty-first cousins that he never knew or dreamed of, and who from their poverty be- came separated from him by a hundred bar- riers. That such a man should make his wife residuary legatee is as just as natural. With an adviser as astute as Judge Hilton there is not the faintest probability that there was a legal flaw in the will, and that it expresses just what the shrewd merchant de- sired is the smallest tribute we can pay to Mr. Stewart's sense, ‘ The Graves of the Soldiers. ‘ With almost the expiring breath of spring the day comes round again to lay garlands of bright flowers on the resting places of the dead of the war. It is now eleven years since the strife they fell in closed, secur- ing, we trust, forever the stability of the Union. If from this day forth the graves were to be forgotten and undecked, and all save the names of the mighty captains of the war, the fights they made and in what cause, were to be obliterated, this year, at least, should the beautiful practice be observed. In this year are joinéd two mighty warlike memories, that amid all the softening dis- tances of time call out to us for homage. We dare not let them pass without a respon- sive throb, and though our tears are not yet dry upon the chaplets of one struggle we cannot ignore the glory of the cen- tennial dead. The human pity that twines garlands for tho graves of gallant friend and gallant foe of the struggle but a decade dead has been eliminated from our regard of the throes that shook a continent when our Republic was born. In- dividuality has faded froff the mass of tagged warriors that bore our flag of thirteen stars, and their hallowed bones form but the pedestals of the few giant figifres that crown the monuments to"American liberty. Here, then, as North and South bend flower-laden to-day above the graves of the battle slain, with scattered seeds of hate perchance still lingering in their breasts amid the blossoms of sympathy and love, isa mighty object to which both can lift their eyes and see how the passions of the present become.trans- muted in the light of the past. We would not spare a tear or a flower or a myrtle ora cypress branch that is given to any grave in the wide world, and least of all to those which typify the exalted love that comes nearest in the short reach of human expe- rience to the love of all human kind—the love of country. In the South as in the North the ennobling idea of patriotism comes forth grandly and surely, if slowly, from the yearly tribute to the remains of those who stood shoulder to shoulder with the living in the smoke and trial of the fray. Then, as the Moslem, in whatever land he be, turns to the East at sunrise, as the Chris- tian in the busy city or the trackless wild raises his prayer to the one God, let the children of the Union, blue and gray, North and South, raise their eyes to-day from the mounds they beautify with fading flowers to the great genius of American liberty that has taken its human type in’the majestic form of Washington. Asa thousand attributes of other men merge in that mighty figure so let the thought of the dead we honor now become an outer circle of the halo around the ideal of national liberty into which Washington is transfigured. Time will bring: this; about within another decade, whether we will or no, but we can anticipate the hoary teacher by taking calmly to heart the lessons he has stored for us. While a beautiful custom survives let us better our hearts by learning and applying its noblest lessons. Oh, Mr. Morton. We fear that the brightest and shrewdest of our city contemporaries does not always “reck its own rede,” and that it sometimes gives advice to others which it is not scru- pulous to follow itself. It is not long since it-warned the younger writers on the World against attempts to imitate the style of Mr. Hurlbert, a man of genius, telling them that imitators never make much of a mark, and that a genuine silver coin is better than a bogus gold one. But is our contemporary quite free from the fault it deprecates in others when it advises Mr. Morton to turn over his strength to Mr. Conkling? It may, perhaps, strike readers of the Hzrarp that they have seen advice of this kind before. ‘‘Imitation,” some one has said, ‘‘is the sincerest flattery;” but ‘even the recipients of this kind of homage have more respect for the genius which strikes out new paths. Still, borrowed ad- vice may be good if it was sound in its original source, and if the bor- rower applies it to analogous circum- stances, Our contemporary tells Mr. Morton that ‘the can do a great thing for himself and delight his party by making an alliance with Senator Conkling and put- ting the nomination of that gentleman by the Convention at Cincinnati beyond any shadow of doubt or uncertainty.” ‘Let him make friends with Senator Conkling and render his nomination certain. There is nothing else in this world so beautiful as cordial affection and brotherly harmony vice in this vein is familiar to readers of the Herarp although they have not seen it offered to Senator Morton. If he were a strong candi- date it might, perhaps, be more appropriate as applied to him. But his chances of suc- cess are so slender that his withdrawal would be no great stretch of magnanimity, Mr. Conkling is his natural ally, and we ex- pect to seo Mr. Morton's Southern sup- porters go over to Conkling ; but this seems so in the stream of natural tendencies that we have thought it superfluous to tender the advice. _ It is a thing that will come of itself, Advice is more properly given to people who have a choice; but Mr. Morton has really no option as to where the Southern delegations will go'when he is out of the field. The influence of President Grant will inevitably carry them to Conkling, and it is futile to advise Mr. Morton to favor a result which he cannot help. Tue Betenar Casx is declared to be within the jurisdiction of the Senate. Kerr and the Greene-Harney Scandal. — The scandal with which an endeavor is made to smirch Speaker Kerr is one par- ticularly worthy of note in this era of mud, throwing. The story is simply this:—A Mr. Greene, of New York, having failed to obtain an appointment by ordinary and honorable means, applied to a doorkeeper of the House » of Representatives, one Harney, who pro- posed finally to get Greene the posi- tion through Mr. Kerr, and upon the payment of a sum of money, which was to go to Mr, Kerr through . The appointment was made, Greene having been introduced to Mr. Kerr by Harney, and hav- ing a subseqent interview with him, at which, be’it noted, the subject of the money Greene had paid to Harney was never alluded to. Before touching the money ques- tion let us glance at another—namely, why Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, gave'an appointment at all to aNew Yorker. The evidence of Greene and Harney establishes that Mr. Kerr had made an appointment from his district, but the appointee declined to go before the ex- aminers and the appointment remained open. This also explains why Harney selected Mr. Kerr as his victim, no other Congressman being found with an appoint- ment not already taken up. We see the money safe and sound in the self-confessed rascal's pocket; there is no dispute about that. But before the committee yesterday, after a display of unwillingness recall- ing the coyness of that monumental slanderer Iago, Harney asks the world to believe that he handed the money to Mr. Kerr at the latter's request, Such is the flimsy story to which Mr. Kerr yesterday gave an explicit denial, and on his record and his circumstances—those of a man still poor in the midst of a hundred temptations to become iniquitously rich— there is no difficulty in deciding whom to believe—the thrifty creature driven to a corner and with ao present partisan cause for attacking the Speaker of the House, or the statesman of unblemished character and proud record. Where the money that Mr. Verdant Greene paid to Harney remained we think can be judged by a parallel with the following authentic case:—A gentleman un- used to business transactions, about to go to Europe, and not intending to return, was told bya ‘friend” that he would not only attend to getting the ticket but procure it at a reduced rate, The sum named was handed to the “friend,” who said it was all right, but) deferred giving the ticket until the steamer was about to sail. Then he pinned it in the gentleman’s pocket, to ‘‘ save trouble, avoid risk of thieves,” &. When fairly at sea the gentleman examined the ticket and found it was afree pass. The beauty of this transaction was that the gen- tleman had clear evidence that his “friend” wasa fraud. This describes Greene's rela- tion to Harney. Mr. Kerr, like the steam- ship company, was innocently abused in the shabby transaction. The Bulletin on the Sixteenth Day. It is always a mistake—and this we say in deference to the Sun—to suppose, as Andrew Johnson did, that any man, whether at the head of newspaper or a government, can- make a “policy.” We cannot make this can- vass. We cannot shape it. We do our share when we write its history. At this moment, within sixteen days of the Convention at Cincinnati, the canvass shows Conkling in the lead, with Hayes, of Ohio, as the proper man for Vice President. If Conkling can- not win then Washburne comes to the front as the Dark Horse, the Great Unknown, If Conkling can keep his pace for sixteen days he will carry the Convention by storm, If he falls away then Washburne advances, Blaine is too heavily handicapped with Pacifio railway bonds, while Bristow was never in the field, and will probably be scratched for Washburne when the time comes for serious talk and work. This is the bulletin on this the sixteenth day, as we gather it from our correspondents who have been scouring the country for the past few weeks in search of accurate information. But, as we have said, sixteen days remain. The world was made in six days and many a canvass has been unmade in less time. No one knows what a day may bring—what horses may be favorites to-morrow. Conk- ling is ahead and shows increasing strength. “Can he keep the pace?” his friends may well ask. That is the question the answer to which means either victory or defeat to the son of Oneida.’ The Athietic Contests To-Day. Nothing could better attest the increased interest in athletics in this country than the number of the entries for the annual spring meeting of the New York Athletic Club, One hundred and one contestants, a ing the Scottish-American Athletic Club, of this city; the Caledonia, of Hartford; the Chicago Football Chub, the athletic asso- ciations of Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Har- vard and other universities, the Nautilus and Neptune rowing clubs, the New York Canoe Club, athletic associations of New York, Harlem and Yonkers, Wood's: Gym- nasium, thé Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation and many others, are sufficient guar- antee for unusual work im all the races, Such names as those of Messrs. Stern, Mc- Ewen, Minzesheimer and Francis in the among politicians of the same stripe.” Ad- walking races ; Messrs. Curtis, Lamontagne and Sprague in the running, and of Messrs, Buermeyer, McMillan, Melrose and McCosh in throwing the hammer, putting the shot and in the running high jump, also give promise of thoroughly first class performance throughout. A cinder track, free from dust, easy and springy to the foot, being only a fifth ofa mile, keeps the racers constantly almost within stone’s-throw of the spectators, and brings them swiftly past the stand so often that the interest never flags, while a fall corps of officers, familiar with the duties, look to keeping tho course clear, start- ing, scoring, timing and handicapping. Of the eight entered for the club hundred. yard run Mr. William B. Curtis, the famous oarsman, gives the others a start varying from ten to thirty feet. Though Captain Stern saves himself for walk only it is rumored that (brille jant and unusual as his record is) he may find plenty to do, all the way down the homestretch, Wo trust so, for it is this close racing that intensifies thane the three-mile