The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.” JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Pendle ath 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. i All business, news letters or telegra hie despatches must be addressed New Youk Letters and packages should be properly sealed. D Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AV E DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. % seeeeeNO, 164 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE, THE KERRY GOW, at 8 P. BOOT OFFENBACH AND AIME BOWERY KIDNAPPED, ats P. M. f WOOD'S MUSEUM. JEAN VALJEAN, at SP. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. EAGLE THEATRE. PARTED, at 8 P.M. Henrietta Chanfrau, CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, SP. M. QLYMPIO THEATRE. HUMPTY DUMPTY, at 8 P.M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE. VARIETY, at8 PM. E! i CHICK GRAND CONCERT, at 8 atsP. M. FIFTH PIQUE, at8 P.M. GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Ay WALLACK’S THEATRE THE MIGHTY DOLLAK, ats P.M TAM MALL BILLIARD MATCH, at GARDEN. @ KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, aeP. M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. CONCERT, ath P.M. TRIPLE SHEBT. From our reports this morning the are that the weather to-day wili be warm, partly cloudy or clear. During the summer months the Hrraxp will be sent to subscribers for one doilar per month, free of postage. Notice to Counrry NswspEaLers.— For promel and requiar delivery of the Heratp y jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. Mr. James Russert. Lowen, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke and other imprac- ticable delegates to the Cincinnati Conven- tion, want a candidate for President who has had large experience in public affairs but has never held office. Becrn at tue: Bearsnrxa.--We sometimes think there is a good deal of cant about a Presidential canvass reforming and _purify- ing the country. The President has only limited authority. He can carry out no re- form unless he has the aid of Congress. Thus Grant tried to give us civil service reform, but the Congressmen would not per- mit it. The way to secure this or any other reform is for the people to see that the different districts elect good men to Cone gress. There is where reform will begin. We give the Presidency too much impor- tance. We can never havea good adminis- tration until we take pains to keep the bummers and strikers out of Congress, Tue Vienna Scanpat.—Mr, Jay, our late Minister to the Austrian Court, is evidently determined not to leave the scandal that was such a reproach to the American nation during the Vienna Exhibition rest in its present half-buried condition. His letter, published elsewhere, asks very pointedly, and, with a variety of apt illustration, Why does not the State Department respond to the request of the House of Representa- tives by communicating the report of the special commission and the correspondence in the matter to the House? Can there be any truth in the statement that the House has been discourteously dealt with because “the whole subject is painful to the Presi- dent?” Such an excuse cannot be enter- tained and no other is vouchsafed. Let the House have the papers. Mr. Peter Cooren evidently thinks that he may be called upon by the House of Representatives to take up the onerons position of President of the United States after the 4th of March next. The interview with Mr. Cooper, in another column, lays his political aspirations before the country. If the Presidency comes to him he will resign himself to his fate, but there is a touching indication of his large-hearted nature in the hope he expresses that ‘‘Old Bill Allen” will carry the rag-money banner through the coming campaign. What the nominee of a political convention for the Presidency has to say upon the chances of his party is worth hearing, and from a philanthropist like Mr. Cooper these views carry their title to respect, even if they meet with no accept- ance. Tue Tie ror Evrorr.—The steamers which sailed on Saturday were filled with pleasure-goers hurrying over the seas to the boulevards and the springs. On the other hand, we do not observe any increase in the travel to this country. That tide that was coming to the Centennial does not come, Two things are evident, as we predicted from the beginning—there will be no increase in travel to this country and no diminution in the travel to Europe on account of the Centennial. Foreigners will hardly care to cross the stormy seas to see a show which is only what they have seen over and over again in London and Paris and Vienna. Dur own people will have their run to Killarney and the lakes and sce the Cen- tennial when they come home and the weather is not so warm. It is pleasant to see how heartily the foreign correspondents, and especialiy the correspondent of the London Times, speak of the Centennial. After all, the special correspondents are the real ambassadors of peace and good will be- tween the great nations. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1876.--TRIPLE SHEET. The Republican Convention—The Flashes from Cincinnati. All eyes are turned toward Cincinnati— the republicans, naturally anxious who is to be their leader ; the democrats hoping to profit by the blunders of their opponents. It is not too much to say that the Conven- tion which meets on Wednesday will deter- mine the administration for some time to come, if the choice of the republicans will guide the choice of the democrats. If the republicans take a strong man, a candi- date who will unite thie severed forces of their party, who can bridge over the gulf between the extreme right and the extreme left, who can command the support of Boss Shepherd and Charles Francis Adams, it will be necessary for the democrats to show similar prudence and to name a man who will unite the East and the West, the friends of hard and soft money. It will be no time for per- sonal ambition or political revenge. If the republicans should name a machine candi- date the democrats will feel that the cam- paign will fall to them anyhow from the dis- satisfaction felt by the country toward all that relates to Grant and Grantism. St. Louis will take its tune from Cincinnati, and all who are anxious for good govern- ment, regardless of party, will. study with anxious care every flash from the banks of the Ohio. As a manifestation of the forces which rule our Republic the Convention at Cincinnati is most interesting. Here is a body of pri- vate gentlemen, without any legal or official status, who assemble in a theatre in a West- ern town and dictate the government of the Union. They have no control over a single vote, except so far asthe votes of men are governed by party discipline and affection ; yet their mandate will govern the votes of a million of Americans. From this decision there will be really no appeal. No matter who may be nominated at Cincinnati he will receive the bulk of the republican vote. Conkling may hate Blaine, and Blaine may decline to know Conkling, but in the event of the nomination of either the other will take the stump and tell admiring thousands that his rival is all that patriotism and chivalry could want in a candidate for the Presidency, and that the country will go to the bad unless the people rally and elect him. It will be the same with the democrats at St. Louis. If Gover- nor Tilden is nominated, as now seems prob- able, we shall have Boss Kelly and Schell and all the anti-Tammany delegates walking in a shouting column to Tammany Hall to “ratify” a nomination they deplore. The decision of these two conventions will be binding upon two great parties. The interesting question is, How far will it affect the votes of that small fringe of independent and indifferent people who only vote when there is an important question before the country, and who will reserve their judgment until they hear both sides ? Of course there will be music and shout- ing, and every hour will have its rumor. The long and brilliant despatch which we print elsewhere from Cincinnati and the ono we printed yesterday belong to the sen- timent of the Convention. The boys must have something to amuse them- selves, They must kill time, and what better than to go shouting around the streets with a band of music? Then this is the first real old-fashioned Convention they have had since 1860. Since then events have made the candidate. The war forced Lincoln and Grant upon them, and all their enthusiasm went out to the Vice Presidency, which, after all, is not much of a place. But now, with Grant out of the way, thanks to Belknap and Babcock, the boys have something to shout about and a real Presi_ dent to make. Our readers, while they en- joy this spectacle, must not suppose that bands of music create Presidents. These delegations are to the great political drama which is soon to be played what the super- numeraries are to the leading tragedian. It is not what the Custom House boys under “Johnny” Davenport, or the Indiana screamers under “Bill” Holloway, or the Pennsylvania roarers under ‘‘Bill” Leeds, or the Maine howlers under somebody else say or do that will nominate a President. That problem will be decided by Logan and Morgan and Don Cameron and half a dozen discreet and able men, who have two ques- tions to decide—first, Which candidate will give the party the most strength? second, Which of the strong candidates will do the most for one’s self and one's friends ? There are three marked influences at work in Cincinnati—the administration regular army, divided between Morton, Washburne and Conkling ; the volunteer army, looking toward Blaine, Hayes and Hartranft, and the reformers, who think the country needs Bristow. As the lines are drawn this divi- sion becomes more and more apparent. If Mr. Blaine had not fallen into the hands of Mulligan, if he could have shown a stainless record in these railway matters, it is prob- able that he would have won the prize. Asit is, the enthusiasm which his friends show for him under so many adverse circum- stances is a tribute to his rare qualities as a leader and statesman. +The rank and file of the party like Blaine, and it may be that if the wise heads do not keep them in hand they may carry him through anyhow. As the wise heads generally have their way in these bodies of men we do not ap- prehend such 1 contingency. The administration will support Morton and Conkling and not oppose Washburne, | It does not surprise us that the Morton and Conkliag men should begin to serenade one another. Between these two candidates the President has expressed neutrality, and but for the unfortunate iliness of the eminent Senator from Indiana there is little doubt that he would be chosen to lead a party in which he is so conspicuous and brave a leader. But the fear abont Mr. Morton is that, in electing a gentleman who has suffered for years from an incurable disease, the party might be electing another John Tyler or An- drew Johnson. ‘This feeling will throw the vote of Morton to Conkling as a second choice. This is especially true of the South, whose delegates care only fora man whose record is true on the Southern question, | and who, while giving Morton their affec- | tions, will, when the time comes for action, | go for Conkling. Aun alliance between Mor- | ton and Conkling seems to be a natural and inevitable result. The strength of Bristow remains to be developed. As we have said. Bristow has made a summer lightning canvass, which has interested the party without impressing it. He is a good man and would make a good President. Somehow the people have an idea that Bristow would surround himself with detectives and give us an administra- tion like that of Fouché under the First Empire. No gentleman, however much he may admire Bristow, cares to have an admin- istration based upon these principles. The next forty-eight hours will be given to the development of these various influences. When we see how strong each party really is we may form an idea of the probable alliances and developments of the Conven- tion. If the friends of Blaine and Bristow should break from their candidates and unite their natural choice will be Wash- burne or The Great Unknown. If the friends of Governor Morgan in this State should, as is hinted, take part in any such move- ment, with a view of making the Governor Vice President, the Conven- tion will nominate Mr. Washburne. It will be an argument in favor of such a combination that Washburne and Morgan would make the strongest ticket that could be nominated. If, on the other hand, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio can unite, giving the first place to Conkling and the second to Hayes, we shall haven ticket which will poll the full strength of the party. As it now looks the tides seem to drift to- ward Washburne and Morgan on the one side and Conkling and Hayes on the other. The first will be a compromise, the second aregular old-fashioned, true blue republi- can ticket. There is, as we have said, The Great Un- known. But we trust the republicans, when they are about it, will give us a man and not aname. We know Washburne and Conkling, Morton and Blaine. These men are the true leaders of the party. It will be cow- ardice for the party to take any one buta leader. What we want is a fair, up-and- down, hit-from-the-shoulder, courageous canvass, with a republican on one side and a democrat on the other—a canvass for men, not myths. The Vice Presidency. We print elsewhere a curious and interest- ing historical sketch of the Vice Presidents, intended as a reminder of the importance of the second office in the government. In the contemplation of the framers of the con- stitution the Vice Presidency was a more important office than it has proved to be in practice. Until the constitution was amended, after Jefferson's first election, there was no such thing as a separate vote for President and Vice President. Each mem- ber of the electoral college voted for two candidates for President, the candidate hav- ing the highest number being elected Presi- dent and the eandidate having the next highest number of votes for President being elected Vice President. It was the probable intention that the Vice President should per- form the duties of the highest office when- ever the President was absent from the seat of government or disabled by sickness, in the same manner that the President of our Common Council discharges the office of Mayor under similar circumstances. But this was never done. A precedent has estab- lished the rule that the second officer never performs the duties of the first unless the Presidency becomes vacant by death, resig- nation or removal. But these contingencies render the office of Vice President of great importance. The highest office has already been thrice vacated by death, and in each case the party electing the Vice President has suffered by its want of care and fore sight in selecting him. It is to be hoped that a similar distraction, which so scriously impairs the efficiency of the government, may not occur again, and that no man may be nominated by either party for the second office Whom it would be unwilling to trust with the duties and responsibilities of the first. Tur Inuyess or Mr. Braye, which on the first reports assumed an alarming character, is now stated as likely to yield promptly to the vigorous treatment he received at the hands of the eminent physicians called in. The remark of Mr. Gar- field as to its being ‘‘assassination” was evidently due to an_ excited imagination. We cannot afford to miss Mr. Blaine from the canvass at this juncture, and the report of his improved condition will be received with pleasure by all fractions of re- publicans. To his friends the news will be doubly gratifying, and to his opponents at Cincinnati it will be matter for rejoicing that they will not be called on to make war ona sick candidate, who carries sympathy in pro- portion to his suffering. Tue Ractya at Lonocuamps yesterday drew together a magnificent concourse of French men and women and _ had the coun- tenance and presence of the Chief of State, The French do not think it any harm to go to a horse race on Sunday, but for all that there is no Excise law to confine the thirsty to cold water and the seltzer varieties, They can en- joy their opportunities Without any objec- tionable results. Our special despatch gives us many interesting facts. Unfortunately, the racing was very one-sided, Kisber, the Derby winner, coming to the post in a can- ter. Ovr Interviews with the delegates to Cincinnati are continued this morning, the strongholds of Blaine and Bristow being chosen for these interesting reports. In Maine everybody is Blaine, asa matter of course, and in Kentucky everybody is for Bristow. The other States are about evenly divided between the two champions, with a strong undercurrent in favor of Conkling and occasional whispers of Washburne and Hayes. ‘These reports show that Conkling’s chances were never better than they are to day. Tus Conviction of one of the Lords is another scalp in the belt of Chief Tilden. It comes in good time, with the Convention | | it might be in the main, jacks that quality about to meet at St. Louis. If Uncle Sammy could only find Tweed what a lift it would be to his canvass. The Lobby at Cincinnati. The hosts of friends and claqueurs of the several candidates who go to conventions to “work” (as they call it) for their favorites has never been so great at any Republican National Convention as it is at Cincinnati. | In 1864, 1868 and 1872 the choice of the con- ventions was a foregone certainty before the delegates assembled. In those years only one republican candidate was talked ot or thought possible, and it would have been a bootless business for a big lobby to throng to the scene of the nomination under the pretence that they were to ‘‘work” for him. But this year there has been no such concentration of republican sentiment in favor of any candidate, and a numerous lobby has gone to Cincinnati to “make night hideous” around the corridors of the hotels by their brawling advocacy of ‘favorite sons.” These busybodies will make a great figure until the Convention meets; they drink, swear, buttonhole, predict and manu- facture a spurious enthusiasm for the candidates under whose colors they en- list; but they can exert no real influence. Why then do they take so much foolish pains? It is to establish a claim on the candidate they profess to serve if he should be successful. They mean to re- mind him, after his election, how much they did to promote his nomination, in the hope that he will reward his zealous and disin- terested friends in the bestowal of offices. They will be the most persistent and “cheeky” of all office-seekers if their candi- date should be elected. But they will deserve nothing, because they produce no more effect on the result than the flies that light on a coach wheel do in setting the vehicle in motion. They recall an anecdote which some ancient author tells of Diogenes, the cynic philosopher. When Sinope, the town where he resided, was: besieged by the enemy and all the citizens of military age were busy in gathering arms and strengthening the forti- fications, Diogenes was observed to be in- dustriously engaged in rolling his tub back and forth in the streets, puffing and sweat- ing with the unwonted exertion. ‘‘What are you dving this for?” said a bystander. “When all the citizens are so active in de- fending the city,” was the response, ‘‘it seemed necessary that I, as a good patriot, should do something.” The hosts of lobby- ists at Cincinnati are merely trundling the tub of Diogenes. A Mussulman Possibility. Our correspondent at Constantinople touches on a subject which engages a good many earnest minds in Europe at present, both from a political and humanitarian standpoint. If we could suppose England and Russia thoroughly agreed upon the fate of the tottering Mohammedan Empire, and prepared to see some form of government set up within its borders consonant with the majority of its inhabitante and seeking to be abreast of civilization, the startling question would remain, What is to be done with the three millions of Mussulmans? They cannot be exterminated ; they cannot be deported. It would be futile to expect a race used to domination to act loyally to a government composed of aliens in creed, and any scheme of government that would not accord. equal rights to Méhammedans and Christians would be repugnant to the rest of Europe. Our correspondent thinks that a voluntary exodus of the Osmanlis would result, This would no doubt be gradual, but the broils that would ensue when the Mussulman found the despised infidel made his equal would hasten it. Then opens out the great Moslem possibility. Almost a third of the great Asiatic continent would lie before the emigrating Mussulmans. The elements for a vigorous and united Moslem Empire, with its capital on the banks of the Tigris, are not perhaps apparent, but there is no moulding force in political experience comparable to that of religious passion and the passion of an aggressive religion whose traditions are of the cimeter and the battle field above all. The impetus of persecu- tion—for that is how every believer in the Prophet would regard the flight of the Mos- lems from Turkey—would produce a segre- gation of Mohammedans capable of creating a power in Asia that we might mark out en the map, but whose resources we could not so easily measure. ‘The scattered khanates at war or ready to war with Russia, the stagnant Kingdom of Persia and the sleepy Mohammedan countries to the borders of Hindostan and China might be vivified and incorporated with it. The idea would certainly present itself, and an idea of this kind, sifting millions as through a sieve, is sure to find the man to attempt, if not to succeed, in its application. All we know about the Mohammedan in Europe is, that he is out of place, long an anomaly and soon an impossibility. If the revivification of Western and Central Asia, often the home of magnificent empires, would result from the elimination of Mohammedanism from Europe, those liberal minded people who do not think that aman should perish because his ideas of the manifestation of God to man differ from theirs will not see cause to mourn. All the world would be better for the stimulation to commercial activity that would ensue. Tue Senmons Yesterpay.—The passing of Trinity Sunday attracted the attention of the Roman Catholic and Episcopalian di- vines to the great mystery of the Triune God, and in the story from the lips of St. Augustine, repeated by the Rev. Mr. Flagg, all that is possible to be comprehended thereof is illustrated. The sermon by Dr. Dix on the text, “Iam that I om,” wasa beautiful tribute to the majesty of the Creator. We have two sermons among our reports on the enforcement of the Excise law, which the clergymen evidently think would cure intemperance, as if the tim- ber in the door of a liquor store could keep out the tide of drankenness in one position more than in another. Dry up, O ministers, the fountains of sia in the hearts of men, and the doors of the liquor saloons may be open from sunrise to moonset for all the harm they will do. A political sermon is not very inviting, for the cloth in polities is seldom welcome, and the advice of Mr. Eggleston to his congregation, sound though of practicability which one éxpects from a | worth listening to, The “right to bolt” is not the sum of sound political doctrine; it is often only the last resort of men who neglected their duties in the nomination of proper candidates on their own side in polities. us G ‘And he said, ‘Can this be?” is the form in which Bret Harte relates the emotion of Bill Nye when Ah Sin “laid down the right bower which the same Nye had dealt unto me.” Our correspondent, “Behind the Scenes,” hints at a programme to be adopted at Cincinnati which would certainly stagger the present candidates if put in practice. What if, after all the dealing and slipping of right and left bowers up the sleeves of poli- ticians, the game was to be decided by such a coup de main as settled the game of Ah Sin? Supposing Blaine, or Bristow, or Morton, or all of them, to represent the Heathen Chinee, and that Conkling represents the Truth- ful James, who received the right bower from Grant in the character of Bill _Nye, can we not easily picture the President rising with a sigh, saying, can this be, and amid the war whoop of the onlookers going for the Heathen Chinee until there was not enough of him left to fill a cigar box? Who will not admit that there is life in the old man yet? Amid all the noise of the canvass there has been but little sound from the direction of the White House. It is gen- erally conceded that the President has dealt the right bower to the Senator from New York, but consider his consternation at see- ing Blaine, or Morton, or Bristow take the same right bower from his sleeve to play it on the Convention. As he rose in outraged majesty and went forthe Heathen Chinee might he not carry all the republicans along with him? Score One for Bergh! Mr. Bergh has won a point on the turtle question.“ He remonstrated about the manner in which the turtles are car- ried from Key West. To this answer was made that any way with a turtle was ® proper way, as it was an animal with- out feeling and could be carried in any po- sition without causing pain. Whereupon Mr. Bergh prints a certificate from Agassiz showing that the turtle isa sensitive ani- mal, and that there could be no severer tor- ture than that to which it is exposed by our dealers. He suggests that when turtles are brought to market they should be kept in tanks of water and allowed as much comfort as possible while they do live. We think Mr. Bergh is right. lt is just as easy to bring the turtle in a tank of water as it is to tie its fins and throw it into the hold of a vessel, or tie it on its back in an attitude which an eminent scientific authority de- clares not only to be torture to the animal, but the cause sometimes of poison in the food. Mr. Bergh’s plan will be kinder to the turtle and more wholesome to the lover of turtle soup. It is in this aspect of his work that Mr. Bergh appears at his best. When he shows how an abuse can be reformed public opinion will sustain him in reform- ing it. Axspun Azz.—We are afraid the friends of a monarchical system of government fail to do justice to the royal virtues of the late lamented Sultan of Turkey. When he fell his country was impoverished and its debts were dishonored, But this thoughtful mon- arch had millions upon millions stowed away in his cellars, When he was king there was no department of his Empire so well protected as his menagerie of wild animals. When he was deposed he went into seclusion with ‘fifty-four boat loads of women.” In fact, since the death of the first gentleman of Europe, His Revered and Gracious Majesty George IV., whose memory is so dear to the present royal family that the Queen resented the Greville Memoirs as an affront, there has been no king who has shown himself so true a representative of the royal quality as this Sultan. He did what he pleased, had every- thing his own way, and allowed the country to go to the devil. He was king by ‘‘the grace of God.” We hope that his character will receive justice at the hands of some of the eloquent admirers of a royal system. Dox Cameron To tHe Front.—If any one supposed that Don Cameron wonld stay away from-his place at the head of the Cameron clan at Cincinnati because of a paltry Secretaryship of War they did not know the man or the tribe. The Highland chieftain was always found at the front when the fighting came. Don Cameron has work to do at Cincinnati. He means to do what he can for Hartranft, to give the Goy- ernor a good record in the Convention, and then, when honor is satisfied, go over to the banner of Conkling. Conkling did the Camerons a favor fifteen years ago, when the enemies ‘of old Simon had him down and thought he was slain. And now the Cam- erons, who have Highland memories, propose to show Highland gratitude. Don Cameron will be the last warrior to leave the Conkling banner. Tue Braztrzan Entrrnor certainly goes about the business of inspecting the points of interest on his remarkable tour of observa- tion with a vim rarely observable in crowned heads and, indeed, not often to be met with in any walk of life. His Majesty, during his sort time among us, has seen more of America than most Americans, and from the keenness of his mental vision he has doubt- less been enabled to lay by a store of remin- iscences that will well repay him for the energy he has expended in gathering facts and seeing things with his own eyes. “Trent Is Muste 1x THE Ar.” —We told our readers that when the time~came for shout- ing the Conkling leaders at Cincinnati would see that the Oneida chiof Was not neglected. Every despatch tells us of “Conkling music"and “Conkling enthusiasm.” How could it be otherwise when we know that the enthusiasm is under the especial com- mand of ex-Coilector Murphy, Colonel Frank E. Howe and Hugh J. Hasting} the friend of Andrew Jackson? These are the boys to see that the noise is not neglected, and noise is sometimes potent in a weary convention. West Porxt and its cadets have put on summer raiment, and everything there is preparing for the Arcadian time when the man who gives an opinion that he thinks | natty fellows go into summer encampment, - What Is In a Name? A correspondent, who thinks that Harb ranft for President and Taft for Vice Presi. dent would carry Ohio and Pennsylvania, “besides rallying the German vote,” should remember that something is due to eaphony and our national love of harmony. What orator could turn a period with Hartranft and Taft? What poet could finda rhymo for Taft and Hartranft ? . There should be some law on our statute books or, some canon in our ecglesiastical formulas on this subject of names, When as man child is born it should be seen that hd has a sweet, chivalric, rolling name, one that would sound well in conventions. Prove idence, it is true, has in many cases given such names to men ‘born to high deeds. Names like Alexander, Hannibal, Charle- magne, Napoleon, Marlborough, Plantage- net, Washington, were all in keeping. Some- times, as in the case of Cesar and Grant and Lee, we see a nature which rises above the poverty ofa name. If Grant had only been called Plantagenet he might have won his third term in spite of Belknap. . We trust that our conventions will give us amusical ticket while they sre about it. Conkling, Morgan, Washburne, Sherman, Frelinghuysen, Sharon, are good names for prose or poetry. We do not like Blaine or Hayes so well. A name like Frelinghuysen would be as good as a new coat of paint to the White House. It would inspire respect and terror in the breasts of the aristocrats. It sounds like a roar of artillery, Buta name like Blaine or Fish or Jones or Wade or Taft would be misunderstood. A long name with a good many consonants is what we want in a canvass, Tho democrats are more fortunate than their opponents in this respect. They have the imperial name of Bayard to begin with and Tilden to fall back upon; both good names, although we wish the Governor had some Christian name like Roger, or Roderick, or Mortimer. Samuel is one of the worst names that could be submitted: to a free” There is no name, unless it is Peter, with which the common mind is apt to take so many liberties as with Samuel. More than all, it is an unlucky name, as will be seen by a careful study of the annals of our glorious country. There has never been a Samuel in the White House. We have never had a Samuel in the Vice Presidency. ‘The only Samuel who ever sat in the chair of the Senate as a presiding officer was called Smith, and that was many, many years ago. There has never been a Samuel Speaker of the House, and the nearest to it is Pro-Tem Sam Cox, who changed his name to Sunset, with much discernment, before he became acandidate for his office. There has never been a Samuel in the State Department, and so we might continue showing the importance of this apparently trifling question in a time like this. It is most important that parents who expect to have their sons in the White House some day—and where is the proud parent who does not have this dream ?— should see that they have noble, resonant names, which may catch the imagination of the people. people. How Weut tHe Democrats Stanp By Each Orner.—We are told that the committee on the Kerr scandal bave agreed upon their re- port exonerating the Speaker, and that it is to be unanimous. But we are told also that the examination has not been concluded. We like this democratic devotion to men and principies. At the same time we do not think the democrats treat Mr. Pendleton or Mr. Schumaker fairly. These gentlemea are as much entitled toa report upon their cases as Mr. Kerr. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lawyer Fullerton is going to Europe, Bancroft is going to Newport this week. Mr. Thurston, of Texas, is only seven feet six inches. high. The Long Branch Surf has issued its first number for the season. * Kate Field is expectea home before long to marry aw American eritic, Speaker Kerr is accused of having been a Son of Lib- erty during the war. ‘The Countess de Pollone, daughter of A. L. Brown, of the late firm of Brown, Hall & Vanderpool, is at Long ° Branch. x Louisville Courier-Journal: —“Mulligan pretends to have more letters from Biaine. When shall thesetwo Presbyterians meet again ?”’ Mr. Augustus Whiting, of New York, has arrived with his new coach in Bellevue avenue, Newport, R. L. It is the first coach of the season. A Tennessee man bas been going about and marryiflg wives until he has six, and yet they were all aware thal he was a sewing machine agent. Mr. McCrary, of Iowa, who 1s spoken of as republican candidate for Vice President, isone year more than forty ;has lived in Iowa nearly all his life; hasbeen a Con, gressman for sevoral years, and is a fellow townsman of Belknap. Friday night being free lunch jnight in Washington the religious editor ot the National Republican says:— “It it takes 1,000,000 of pine knots to make a barrel of tar, how many Proctor Knotts will it take co make a Tarbox 2” cago Tribune, speaking of a Chicago concert 3. 1. Mills, of New York, played a tarantelle and an étude of Chopin, “It was the best inter- pretation of Chomn we bave ever had here, not even excepting Von Biilow.”” . Fitzhugh, the late Doorkeeper of the House, writes a loug communication to the Washington Capital, in which he says that his recont letter was intentionally ridiculous and meant to amuso @ friend, and that it was used for blackmail by Clancy. The only thing that wins attention in Fitzbugh’s letter is his stato. ment that at the age of sixteen he volunteered as ¢ private soldier in the Mexican war. A mining character along tho Comstock lode, Ne vada, hates a tree or flower; he swears; cuts with his knite; 19a good feliow; plays faro with a policeman for a dealer; gets arrested jor drunkenness and assault and battery, which are locally called ‘a jamboreo;’? digs himself out of the boara jail with a knite, and ro. turns to the prison only because he may got tho watch. man into a scrape. Glendenning proached at Henry, Tll., and a Chicago Times’ reporter thus says:—‘He thon arose and read his text:—John ti, 16—'For God so loved the world,’ &c. He spoke for forty minutes in a perpetual flow of words, arranged tn beanti‘ul sentences, which heid the attention of the large congregation so that children in arms could not draw the attention away from the speaker by their discordant screams but for a moe ment.” Acorrespondent writing concerning tne historical, social and political matters of Bloomfield, Nelson county, tays that Speaker Kerr a few years ago ta a flouristing school there, and during his stay made many friends who still number themselves among his warmest admirers, The poliqeal sentiment of the community is strongly democratic, the majority are for Tilden, but all will stand by the St. Louis nominee and platiorim, The prevailing discase 18 the gout; there ts one doctor to every one hundred inhapitante; trade is ively, and a firm under the real name of Punch & Judy is among the most eDlerprising business establishments, Nanas