The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD 4 eat BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Your Henan. Letters and packages should be properly | vealed. Rejected communications will not be re- furned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112S0UTH SIXTH STREET. r YORK LONDON OFFICE OF THE } HERALD—NO. 46 FL EET PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, oar. M. PA UNCLE TOM’S CAB: BOOT OFFENBACH AND AIME BOWE. THE KIDNAPPER, ars P. min WOOD'S MUSEUM. DAVID GARRICK, at 8 P. M. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. THEATRE, VOKES FAMILY, ays ? FAGLe THEAT! Henrietta Chantran. SME VARIETIES, PARTED, at 8 P. M. CHATEA! arSP.M. Matinee ft) ar THEATRE, HUMPTY DUMITY, at THIRD AVE i “THEATSE, ON HAND, at3 PV. M. NIC! KERISG | HALL, GRAND CONCERT, at PARISI’? ycmieetks asP.M. AVENUE TITBATRE, ™. ght GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M FIT: PIQUE, at 8 P.M. WALL THE MIGHTY DOLL SHEET. QU ADR U PLE NEW ‘ToRK, pe our reports 3 this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and clear or partly cloudy. SU NDAr, "JUNE i, “1876, During the summer months the Henaxp rill be sent to subscribers for one doilar per month, free of postage. * Noricz to Country NewspEaLers.— For prompt and regular delivery of the Heraip i Jast maii trains oraers must be sent direct to this office. Postage tree. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | ket closed feverish, although in some in- stances it was hfgher. New York Central suffered the greatest decline. Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8, with sales meanwhile at 1121-2. Money on call was freely sup- plied at 2 and 21-2 per cent. The bank statement shows a loss in the excess of re- serve of est he 6 AND Now po poor little Denmark begins to arm ! . Tue Weatnrr Yesterpary was a trifle warm in the city, but to the tens of thou- sands who songht the scenes of sport abounding in the vicinity of New York the pleasant breeze made everything delightful. Matamoros will probably soon be the scene of a struggle for its possession between the federals and revolutionists to which the little fuss that marked the entry of Porfirio Diaz some little time since will not bear comparison. Grorcr Sanv.--We have an extraordinary despatch from France purporting to give an account of the deathbed of George Sand. This despatch tells how she writhed and shricked, This will give the clergymen a fine text. But why should these things be sent by cable? Wisconstx Conciupes to vote for Blaine and use all honorable methods to secure his nom- ination. It is a pity that some discreet friend of Schuyler Colfax was not present when this decision was given. Schuyler might have received the indorsement of Wisconsin for the second office. Blaine and Colfax would make a good run in Wisconsin. Tre Intsn sipiatin: as will be seen from our special despatch, have been working hard in the selection of their team, and ten of the gentlemen who competed at Dundalk have secured places for the final competition in Wicklow later in the month. ‘To these ten are to be added four, who will probably include John Rigby and Dr. Hamilton and perhaps Mr. Milner, who, in the face of ail his misfortunes as a marksman, is a strong shot. The Irishmen are evidently striving to win, and our own boys must watch their laurels. Tue Day or Sport had a splendid event to lead off with in the five capital races at Je- rome Park. The resolute spirit manifested by the American Jockey Ciub in keeping all the objectionable fedtures that are so liable to creep into horse racing off their grounds as well as their track has done much to save the American turf from becom- ing the prey of the blacklegs, ever likely to | enact their chicaneries to the destruction of true sport. The club reaps its own reward in the splendid animals it gathers on its track and the fine company that comes to bee the fun, Putrit Tories To-pay.—This is the an- | niversary of the general acceptance of | the doctrine of the Trinity, commonly called Trinity Sunday, and as such special services commemorative of this idea will be held in the Catholic and in many of the Episcopal churches. It is also the | day set apart by the Methodist General Con- ference to be devoted especially to the children, It is, therefore, familiarly called | among them ‘Children’s Day.” It is & pected of pastors that they will sermon to the children to-day, a lections will be taken up at a common fund from which poor ¢ both sexes are to be educated and missicnaries and teachers. Th known as the Children’s Fond. created a few years ago, but, we believe, has not been very dargely increased since. preach a | | sence of the master. | Harlem, Yorkville and the le | ward The Metropolis as a Summer City. When every one was talking about the Centennial it seemed as if the metropolis would have to sit in the shade and allow all the world to go rushing by to Philadelphia. Well, a good many people have gone to | Philadelphia and a good many are going to Cincinnati and St. Louis—and to many other places, for that matter; but the metropolis, without a prodigious show, without a con- vention, without any especial attraction, keeps on in its usual busy fashion. We have a multitude of visitors and going, and the hotels seem to have as much trouble to accommo- date their guests as at Cincinnati; but with all this tide of trade and these abounding indications of activity we see the signs of the sleepy summer season. The summer hotel keepers throw out their enticing advertise- ments, and the generally sober advertising columns of the Henaup begin to have a pastoral flavor, with their descriptions of seaand stream and fishing brooks and fresh butter and ‘‘all the comforts of a home.” In a few days the fashionable preachers will be off to the mountains; for the most elo- quent and saintly of men must have time for repose. In afew days we shall have no more of the comedians. The theatres are trying to drag out the stock of sensa- tions to the end of June. Sensible people, who know how to enjoy their summers, are looking over the passenger lists and securing good berths near the middle of the steamers ; and thinking of Baden Baden and the Boule- vards, Others are making ready for a sum- mer run on the Plains after buffalo, while others are mending their fishing tackle with views upon the Adirondacks, the lakes and Labrador, In a few days the great city will be a sleepy town indeed. Our avenues will be given over to the shopkeepers and servants and the mansions will begin to show the effect of dust and neglect and the ab- Just now we havea lingering temptation in the way of races and | summer gardens, and Mr. Offenbach, after a brilliant season of music and beer, is about to give us a week of opéra bouffe, with the sprightly and musical Aimée. We suppose some of us will remain in town long enough to see a new chapter of life in Paris, but Mr. Offenbach's wand will hardly be attractive enough for a season. Mr. Florence finds that his caricature of Bardwell Slote is quite in the fashion, and, as every one is thinking of the politicians, every one naturally de- sires to see how this consummate actor rep- resents one of the best types of a politician on the stage. But the dreary fact remains that we are at the fag end of the busy sea- son, and the question now arises, What shall we do for the summer? 7 Does it ever occur toour people that after all New York is attractive as a summer city? Why should we go to the Boulevards or Regent street, except that there is novelty in the trip and instruction? Already we have complaints from Philadelphia as to the heat, and a day on the Lansdowne terrace is said to rival some of Stanley’s African experiences. But no one has any such complaint to make of New York. We havea cool and bracing June, and, in fact, there are very few days in the summer when we do not have cool and bracing airs. We are surrounded by water. We have the Palisades for splendor of scenery, and within an hour's journey of the Hrratp office a dozen difterent resorts. Is there a city in the world which has as many summer possibilities as New York? Do we crave the sea. In an hour we may be tumbling in its waters at Coney Island. Do we wish the mountain air. We may be on Orange Mountains in an hour. Do we relish a more moderate amusement in the way of salt bathing than the seaside affords. We have Long Island and the hundred places along the picturesque and beautiful Sound. In an hour from the Henarp office the citizen may find a solitude as wild and interesting as in the heart of Spain. We have the Battery, which is as fine as the walk at Hamburg, with its sea breezes blowing in your face, and which the eaprice of fashion has happily abandoned to the poorer classes. We have the Central Park, which is always pleasant, even in the dead midsummer days. The city itself is a pleasant place, or, rather, would be if our rulers were to do with it what is done with Paris. Why should we abandon New York to the dust and the chambermaids for three long months? Why should our churches close? Why should we give over our best theatres to the clowns and negro minstrels? Why should we not utilize our squaresand parks? If our rulers were wise they could make New York as attractive in the summer as Paris. ‘There is the Battery, for instance! Why should we not have every evening, during the hot months, at least, a band playing? The fact that the Battery is the poor man's resort is the very reason why we should make it attractive. If some of our citizens who delight in good deeds were to improve the Battery in this respect we can- not think of a more delightful place in which thousands of our citizens could pass anevening. Then in the evening, when the avenues and Broadway are clear, what better evening drive than from Central Park to the Battery? Union square might become an- other centre of attraction. We have the Hippodrome, the success of which shows what our people crave for their summer nights, But the Central Park might be util- ized. The upper end of the Park, which is now within the range of a growing and interesting subrrb, should be made as attrac- tive as the Champs Elysées in Paris. Why should not Mr. Gilmore or Mr. Thomas be allowed to take an upper corner in the Park and arrange an entertainment like those in Vienna and Paris for the summer nights, and for the especial benetit of the residents in er purt of West- New York is m ter with should ta your chester county. Westc strides that we upper fh these ble. our gq Indian Maiden ellas t th rere is no yeason why, with a proper ad- coming | ing to- | | ministration of New York, we should not have as many summer travellers as Paris. The summer is the season when the Ameri- can delights to travel. He may go to Sara- toga and Long Branch and other seaside and inland resorts, but he soon tires of the monotony, the show, and, in time, the soli- tude of these summer resorts. If his home is in the country ‘and he is off sightsee- ing, he craves the majesty, the repose, the ever-varying interest of the great city. And if instead of shutting up our city like a castellated town during a siege or a plague—if instead of driving the traveller off by the presentation of bare and dusty walls we make our town bright and attractive— there is no reason why New York should not be the summer resort of thousands of Ameri- cans who now go elsewhere. We have every natural advantage, and all we want is an in- telligent governing spirit. “Let our churches remain open ; let our theatres give us a good series ot comedies and vaudevilles, If we do not care for ‘‘Lohengrin”,or ‘‘Trovatore,” or the majestic operas, there is our limpid and coruscating Offenbach, who will give us an opera as light and merry as a country dance. Let our public places be open, and while on that subject let us add to the at- tractions of our public places. The idea of a public aquarium is a good one. And while about this we should improve our Zoological Garden. There is nothing that adds more to the interest of a great city than a good zoo- logical garden, and ours is much inferior to that in Philadelphia. We have a fine library in the Astor, and when Mr. Lenox opens his new building we shall have another which will attract every scholarly mind that visits New York. Our Metropolitan Museum of Art is doing well enough, but we have not begun to do what we should. We have a few good pictures, say half a dozen in all, but there is no such ambition among our people to found an art gallery as we see in Russia and England. If New York could be made the city that it should be there would be less going away during the summer. As it is the older the citizen grows the less he cares to give up the comforts of home, the library, the familiar room, the daily walk, the accus- tomed places, the bath and the morning papers, to be shoved into a barn at the sea- side or tobe whirled up a dozen pair of stairsat the springs. A month of arun, et the best, is all that he wants, but as it now is he is driven out of New York, largely by fashion, largely by the stupidity of the governing powers, who think that the city is intended for the scavenger and the policeman from June to September. Now that our Philadel- phia friends are showing what they can do with a city during the summer let our own | people give some little attention to the wants | and possibilities of New York. There is no reason why we should not have in time a summer metropolis as attractive as Paris or London; a metropolis which will be the wonder and the delight of travellers, not ‘only from every part of America but even from the older world. Our Cable Letters. The letters which come to us this week by cable from London and Paris give evidence that the most prominent topic in Europe is the Eastern question. The effect of Dis- raeli’s palliative speech of Friday night seems to be felt in London, where war rumors have been running riot during the past week, but the undercurrent ot war preparations shows that the govern- ments themselves are not so sure of peace as they would like people to infer. From Paris we get a piece of news which it will be in- teresting to test by events—namely, that Germany is secretly opposing Russia's almost open schemes for her aggrandize- ment. All indications of what is beneath the surface in European politics are valu- able, and that Bisrgarck should say and mean different things is not new enough tg be startling, but that he is prepared to desert Russia in the interest of England needs confirmation. No wonder poor Austria is vacillating. Her traditional policy would take her to Russia, and if her old enemy, Prussia, were only on that side, it would | make her course easy, and she could go to war with ‘a light heart,” like M. Ollivier, England, our Paris letter says, holds the trump cards; but, as will be seen, it depends on Germany whether she will be allowed to play them. It may appear strange that amid all this fine diplomatic play the peace of Europe rests in the hands of the handful of Slavs of Servia. They may fire the train at any moment, and it will then be a question of who can take their powder kegs out of its way. Russia can light the match at any moment as a last resort to see who will stand fire. With the Slavs and the Mussulmans engaged, and Russia and England each en- couraging its friends, it would’ be wonder- ful if these Powers did not soon come to blows. Germany having nothing to fear from Russia, but anxious to rival England as a maritime Power, can control the course of Austria and keep her out of the war or put her in it on the side that suits her best. England's victory consists in putting all the great Powers on their good behavior ; hence we must look to Belgrade now for the most important news. On lighter topics our letters give us plenty of gossipy material, from Buckstone’s benefit at Drury Lane toa sextuple seventh com- mandment play at the Theatre des Arts. Political movements in France seem to start in some mysterious wey from the grave. The next political resurrection is to take place over the coffin of Louis Philippe, | which with its contents isto be brought trom England to France. It is a strange | characteristic in so live a people as the | French. Tue Conviction or Groner D. Lorn marks the first real triumph of Governor Tilden in his war on the Canal Ring in this State, vyordict of guilty against aman so powerfal in the councils of his party county will strike a wholesome the hearts of thos larly plundered the people. vitver the dem tic contest within nd make Gove Tilden's ene- e determined than ever on his de- thelp him at St. Louis r niin in the regard of & min, demoerat-and republican, in Monroe terror into » who, like him, have regu- This will ce or The | | and honest | litical, but legislativ Conkling and Hayes. There would be a geographical fairness, which both parties will probably observe, in giving the two candidates on their respect- ive tickets to different sections of the coun- try. Ifthe candidate for President is taken from the East the candidate for Vice Pres- ident will be selected from the West, and vice versa, The strongest republican ticket that can be made up from candidates who will be prominent in the earlier ballotings is Conk- ling and Hayes, including the two best men, who would also be the best located. In this Presidential canvass the two most important States are New York and Ohio, the ticket which carries both being certain of success, There is no man in the republican party who has so much prestige and influence in New York as Senator Conkling, and no man who stands so high with the republicans of Ohio as Governor Hayes. There is no reason of any force for tak- ing either candidate from a State whose electoral votes cannot be influenced by the personnel of the ticket, There could be no advantage in locating any part of the ticket in New England, for all the New England States, except Connecticut, are perfectly se- cure for the republicans, and no possible candidate would enable them to carry Con- necticut. There is just as little local reason for taking either candidate from Kentucky, which is one of those impregnable demo- cratic strongholds on which no impression can be made. The same argument does not apply, or at least not with the same force, to Indiana ; for although that State has been for several years in democratic hands, the republicans would have a very good chance of recovering it with Senator Morton as the leading candidate. But the resi- due of his strength lies chiefly in the Southern States, where his popularity with the colored citizens would not help the ticket, every Southern State, except South Carolina, being certain to give its electoral votes to the democratic candidates. Besides, the nomination of Senator Morton would be fatal on account of his bad record on the currency question, it being impo:sible forthe leader of the inflationists in the last Congress to get the electoral votes of New York. For the purpose of acquiring local support where local support is most needed there is no possible ticket that would have the strength of Conkling and Hayes. Each of these gentlemen is the strongest republican in his own State, and, taken together, they are the strongest hard money republicans that can be picked out of the whole list of candidates, Senator Conkling has the most enviable record on this ques- tion of any republican in the United States, and Governor Hayes’ leader- ship of the Ohio canvass last year, which turned wholly on the currency question, mado him a conspicuous representative of hard money principles, This ticket would be strong in Ohio just at the point of time when success in Ohio would strengthen the party in New York, and it would be strong in New York at the final pinch of the battle, Governor Hayes would be as useful in the October election with the second place on the ticket as with tho first, and a great victory then will be worth twenty thousand votes in the following month in New York. Butin New York itself Senator Conkling is a much stronger man, and is the only one of the candidates (unless Washburne should come into the field) that could carry this State. For obvious reasons Blaine would have no chance in New York against Tilden ; Morton could make no show here after his notorious advocacy of inflation; Bristow would be as weak in this State as Blaine, because he can be nominated only by the Blaine influence, and because the adminis- tration would not support the ticket. Un- less Washburne should come in at last the republicans can carry New York with no other candidate than Conkling among the names yet prominent. The influence of the administration is potent, and all it can do for any candidate it will zealously do for Conkling. His supporters are the most capable, energetic and dexterous politicians in the State, and they would do an amount of vigorous hard work for him which no other candidate could call forth. We are pleased to find that there is a growing appreciation of Mr. Conkling’s great strength among the assembling delegates at Cincinnati. The Civil Service—The Evil and the Remedy. We agree with much that Mr. Eaton says about the civil service in this country, and we trust that the issue in the next canvass will be fought upon that as far as possible. But it is a mistake to blame the President for the failure of civil service reform. The blame rests almost entirely upon the members of Congress. President Grant made a serious and continued effort to embody civil service reform in the administration of the govern- ment. He appointed a commission, and this commission formed rules and they were car- ried into operation. But from the very be- ginning the project was fought by the mem- bers of Congress and the Senate. ‘Lhey wanted patronage and would not be content with any diminution of their power. Members talked about civil service and preached about it, but at the same time went to the departments and insisted upon the appointment of their friends, and would hear of no “reform” which interfered with that privilege. The President was powerless in the presence of a House and Senate that would not aid him. No President can carry on a government without the aid of the two branches of the Legislature; and the major- ity in both houses said to the President that he must either give them control of the pat- ronage, untrammelled by any “reform,” or get along us best he could. The result was that civil service died; but its friends should do the President the justice to say that he fought for it to the end. The democvats when they came into power in the Honse had a fine chance to show their respect for civil service. There were a hun- dred officers, at least, in the House who had been in office for years, and who were worthy, meritorious men. Their duties were not po- and clerical. Well, the democratic majority had no sooner ob- tained power than every officer, almost with- out re from office. Doorkeeper Fitzhugh has put on record the pressure pnt upon him by the members for insignificant places. No extent of service, pxcephion, was poved _ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE H, 1876. --QUADRUPLE SHEET. | charge of no consideration | of fitness was allowed fora moment to interfere with the demands of the new members. Civil service was slaughtered as ruthlessly by the democratic “reformers” as it had been by the republicans. But we trust this will not dampen the ardor of our friends in behalf of civil service reform. It is a noble work. But the way to begin it is to elect members to Congress who will assist the administration in carrying it out. Civil service reform should be made an issue in the Congress districts. The Bottom Facts in Blaine’s Case. Wecan understand the enthusiasm with which the correspondents support Mr. Blaine. But this should not blind their judgment to the real truth in reference to his canvass for the Presidency. Mr. Blaine isnot in the field asa candidate. The reason for this is that certain private letters read by himself on the floor of the House of Representatives, written at a time when he was the Speaker of the House and responsible for the leader- ship of a great party, show that he was in the interest of a gang of railway jobbers who took advantage of the generosity of the gov- ernment to form rings for the purpose of dividing up among themselves all the money, bonds. and credit given by the government to the endow- ment of Western roads, These letters show furthermore that for this legis- lation, which a Supreme Court de- clares to have robbed the govern- ment of from one to two hundred millions of dollars, Mr. Blaine is to a great extent re- sponsible. They show that while in the chair he made rulings for the benefit of rail- way corporations who were trying to obtain the government money, and that he called the attention of a prominent railway jobber like Caldwell to the fact that ‘She had made them as a reason why he should have ‘‘fa- vors” in the distribution of the bonds and stock. Ifthe enthusiastic young men who are trumpeting the strength of Blaine will only give their minds to these facts for a moment they will see how foolish it is to expect a man with this récord, be he ever so brilliant and able as a parliamentarian, to go before the country as a candidate for the Presi Jency. Suppose Judge Waite had written a letter calling the attention of Caldwell to one of his decisions as a reason why he should have bonds and stocks and ‘‘consideration,” would that be considered a reason for nominating him for the Presidency? Would it not be a reason for his impeachment? And is not the Speakership of the House as important an office as the Supreme Bench? If Blaine, as Speaker, could use his office to oblige a gang of railway jobbers, why might he not do so as President, and especially after he had received the indorsement of the republican party and the Electoral College? If Mr. Blaine should be nominated for the Presidency he would be defeated by as large a majority as was cast against Mr. Greeley. Even if the St. Louis people were to nominate Bill Allen for President and Ben Hill for Vice President against him they would carry the country. We can stand an inflationist and a sound, honest rebel, but we cannot stand the chief of a gang of scoundrels like this Pacific Railway crowd, The Two-Thirds Rule. An evening contemporary makes an argu- ment against the two-thirds rule and advises the Democratic National Convention to re- scind it. This is futile advice, for the only part of theaction of she St. Louis Conven- tion which can be foretold with certainty is its readoption of the two-thirds rule. A rule of such long standing, which has been for thirty or forty years the common law of democratic national conventions, will never be abandoned except under the pressure of a strong party sentiment widely expressed through the party press, There has been no such demand in the democratic press and there will be none. Governor Tilden's sup- porters would be only too glad to have the rule set aside, but they dare not ask it, be- cause it would be interpreted by all his op- ponents as a flag of distress and as n confes- sion that they despair of nomination in ac- cordance with the settled usages of the party. If they were perfectly sure of a majority at the outset it might be safe to make the attempt; but until the first ballot is had they can have no such assurance. The rules for governing the proceedings will be adopted as soon as the Convention organ- izes, and if Mr. Tilden’s friends should make a demonstration against the two-thirds rule the vote on it would be regarded asa test of his strength, and they cannot afford to put it toa test at so early a stage. It is certain that all his opponents would vote to maintain the rule, but not certain that all his supporters would vote against it. It will be safer for his friends to postpone any test until the first ballot, because the opposition to him will then be scattered among the con- testing candidates and make no great im- pression, whereas a yote to sustain the rule would exhibit a compact, and therefore an | imposing opposition, If it should prove to be a majority, as it doubtless would, it would weaken him through all the subse- quent proceedings. It is certain that the rule will be readopted without a contest, and that Mr. Tilden will have to take his chances of getting two-thirds of the votes. Tur Interest at present centred in the Winslow extradition case makes every case of the kind of interest. In the case of the Nettels the defence avers that the evidence is only sufficient to convict of fraud, not of | forgery. In the Winslow case there is no pretence that the evidence does not cover a forgery, but turns on the refusal of the United States government to guarantee that he will be tried on that offence and no other, the refusal being based on two grounds-—first, that the Ashburton ‘Treaty does not call for such guarantee, and second, that, as he must be handed over to the State of Massachusetts tor trial, the federal government could not control the case after it reached the courts of the Com- monwealth, Tux Brooxtys Crus had not quite | so good aracing day as their brethren of the New York club, but the spectators were able toenjoy the sport without the disad- vantages of wet jackets or mal de mer. It is well that the compensation balance exists for humanity. . to London, English Opinions Upon America. We note a tendency on the part of certain of our foreign correspondents to tell us, with abundance of detail and warning, what the English newspapers think of many things inthis country. The latest interesting theme is the appointment of an American Minister When Mr. Dana was selected the English newspapers were enthusiastic and bubbled over with satisfaction because we had sent a gentleman to the Court of St. James. These expressions of satisfaction came back to us forourencouragement. When Mr. Dana was rejected by a vote composed of afew republicans and the united demo- cratic party we were told how the English journals howled over the decadence of re- publican institutions as shown in this indig, nity to a great and good man. We gathered the impression that many of these foreign journalists thought that Mr. Dana was the only gentleman in America, an impres sion which might be pardoned ta journalists who took their impressions of the country from a few lending newspapers. Now, when we nominate Mr. Pierrepont, we are told that the English press is not quite satisfied, that it does not think Mr. Pierrepont did what these editora | would have done had they been members of Grant's Cabinet. While he is not as desie rable as Dana he is better than Schenck! Does it ever occur to our friends across the sea that it is none of their business what manner of man we send to the English Court, so that he suits our administration and is not. unacceptable to the Queen’s government? We send our Ministers abroad to represent our nation, What would the English news- papers say if the New York journals were to discuss Sir Edward Thornton and other English diplomatists with the freedom they exhibit toward our representatives? We should have a howl from the Saturday Review and a lecture from the dignified Londor press upon the impertinonce of Americay journalists. More Trouble for Grant’s Friends. Now comes a rumor that Mr.. Mullett, the favorite architect of the administration, is t« be indicted for his complicity in some fraudt in St. Louis. This is another of the especial friends of Grant in trouble. What a strange fatality has fallen upon the friends of the President? Babcock, Belknap, Shepherd and now Mullett; and yet no one thinks that the President had any hand in the transac. tions for which these persons have fallen into trouble. Why is it, then, that no one of his friends could warn him of these asso- ciations? That Mullett business was on its face a fraud. Why should any one man, and he not an officer of the government with due responsibility, be allowed to spend millions upon millions of the government money without any check whatever? Why should Boss Shepherd be the favorite plumber and Babcock have four or five offices rolled into one? Why should Robeson be allowed to throw hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of a Jersey crony like ‘Lije” Cattell? Yet these things have been done for seven years, and the President has never prevented them. When the life of Grant comes to be written these questions will be among the most difficult to answer. Tne Sovrn In THe CAnvass.—We print this morning interviews with the delegates to Cincinnati from the Southern States from Delaware to Louisiana, and these\ bear fur- ther testimony to the growing strength of Roscoe Conkling and the diminishing sup- port of James G. Blaine. In Virginia Blaine’s most ardent friends are falling away from him, and the opposition he will encounter at Cincinnati will still further deplete the number of his supporters. Honse Ractna, yacht racing, boat racing, foot racing, coaching, polo, base ball, cricket and rifle shooting were among the sports which the good people of New York poured out their thousands to participate in or -ta witness yesterday. This wonderful prog- ress in manly outdoor sports is among the most encouraging signs of our centennial epoch. It will strengthen the moral as well as the mental muscles, and both need it. Tue Vicz Prestpency.—In the rush for the Presidency we should not neglect the Vice Presidency. This isa much more important office than our hungry politicians will be apt to imagine in their rush for the higher place. Three Vice Presidents have become Presidents by the death of the Chief Execn« tive and three others by promotion. We should take as much pains to select a good Vice President as a good President. Tre Contnrntan Reoatra of the Seawane haka Yacht Club was a spirited affair, the amateur sailors handling their craft in manner worthy of old salts. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Florida has apples getting ripe. Colone! Fred Grant's girl baby weighs twelve pounds, Delegate Elkins, of New Mexico, declines to be re- nominated, Boston. Post :-— Ball-briggans.” The Chicago Post and Rail says that Conkling will carry Cincinnati. The Empress | of Brazil while travelling wears » black dress and “blue vets, IMinot» fellows who do not like Blaine are hurrying down to Cincinnati tu favor Washburne, It you haven't got a silk handkerchief with an amaziug Vorder sticking out of your pocket you won’s get more than half a plateful at a free lunch. Mulligan is the treasurer of the Globe Theatre im Boston, and all the Boston editors «re praising him. He 18 getting out a new lot of complimentary tickets, It takes a bald headed man a govd while to learn the art ot switching a solitary lett hand lock over to the right band side without having it attract attention, At Basswood, Me, the other day, at dusk, whies boy was driving bome a call, a bear made a raid, The heifer ran, and the boy, neglecting to let loose of the heifer’s tail, was saved. Norwich Bulletin :—Tho Woman's Journal asks, ‘low shall we utilize the superfluous woman? Tt seems ag if she eal be Utahlized by forwarding her to Salt Lake City.” Norwich Bulietin:—'The man who is fortunate enough to win a bet with a lady usually gets it in sb Pp pera, The common devico is a blue silk rhinoceros rooting Up a yellow satin morass, and most men of fine feeling preier to frame them rather than to weas them.”* Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin:—A wost side man who saw a load of coal left at a house and arranged to go over and borrow part of 1 alter the other man was in bed gotaround that night and found that it had all been put into the cellar and carefully locked up before nightiall, He remarked the next day that it was Shocking to think how little trustiuincss peeple seemed to have ia human nature”? “The Vassar Nine call themselves