The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1876, Page 6

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A Rror at Grmractar is a small affair avhen a few isailors only are concerned, but there is material for a row around those parts which would be heard all over the | world. Tue Truat or Barrett for the murder of Ann Hammar, last March, was begun yes- terday before Recorder Hackett and will be continued to-day. The testimony gives the picture of a horrid crime. The bleod onthe hands of the prisoner when he was arrested has to be accounted for, or he will find it difficult to escape a verdict of guilty. “We Aner apt to suspect a reform movement which goes around with a band of music. There is too much music in the Bristow canvass. That should be left to the Custom House brigade, under Davenport, and the Conkling light brigade, under the command of that brilliant cavalryman Colonel Crosby, | the Desaix of the New York canvass. Tue Jenome Park Racina and the Sea- wanhaka regatta and that of the plucky little Williamsburg Yacht Club were among the outdoor sports that attracted New Yorkers yesterday. The principal | sporting event from across the water which seeks our columns is the opening day of the Ascot meeting. Petrarch’s victory in the Prince of Wales’ Stakes brings that fine horse, on which so much was lost at the Derby, to the front again. Tse Escarep Frntans.—Pending tho arrival of details of the rescue of the Fenian | prisoners from West Australia, which has | only reached us in the merest outline, the story of an ex-Fenian prisoner, whose term expired in West Australia last January and who was cognizant of the plot for a rescue, will be read with interest. It may, however, only give an extra edge to the appetite for news on this‘subject which moves our Irish citizens. Tre Exarerricn at Putvapairnta should be free to the public on the Fourth of July, he Commissioners, who are willing to sac- wifice more than a million of dollars by clos- ing it on Sundays, ought not to grudge the:| public the privilege of free admission on the anniversary of American independence. We shall await with intcrest the manifestation of | & little liberality in the management of the | great national show, but regret to say that the indications thus far are as feeble as those of precious metals in the Emma mine. Tux Rix Tran Competition at Creed- | moor yesterday, with the shooting to be done | to-day, will decide who are to be the twelve | men on whom America will rely in the Cen. | tennial contest. The shooting yesterday was | very fine; the first cight having ninety | points above an average of centres, while | jhe first twelve made 2,482 ont of 3,000 peints, the last ‘our men of the welve only being eight points behind the sentre average. ‘This gives o percentage of 92.73, which is the best made since the thooting for places began. ‘The woather was iavorsblo to fine shooting. The new nen stand well forward, Messrs. Farwell wm Hyde hending tho list. We are glad to | acte that lor Fulton is redeeming his | \hieatened _ mania vindicating our good opinion, ! Blaine on the first or second ballot. We | ; Blaine is the republican party revolting | | of Grant’s administration; | count of his financial notions, We are afraid NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, -1876~-TRIPLE SHEET. The Republican Cinvenidion, Some enthusiastic correspondents from Cincinnati indicate the nomination of Mr. | have only to say that the nomination of | Mr, Blaine means the disruption of the re- | publican party and the almost certain elec- | tion of a democratic President, if the democrats do not throw away the | chance by a folly as great as that of | the republicans. The nomination of against its principles, its integrity and its | discipline. What severer accusation can the democrats make against the republicans than, would be implied in this repudiation this confession, for confession it would be, of a republican failure; this admission that every H»nanp criticism of Cwsarism was sound? It is not only a revolution in the republican party, but it is the victory of the democrats. It is a vote of censure upon Lincoln and Grant in this, that Grant is the natural successor of Lincoln and as much entitled to the party confidence. It makes the democratic can- vass a walk-over. This threatened result is said to come from the revolt of the Pennsyl- vania delegation against Don Cameron. We believe this theory of revolt is mere moon- shine. Mr. Cameron is the representative of the party in the councils of the President, and any revolt ends his career as a leader of political forces in Penn- sylvania. One of our correspondents says that Mr. Cameron won one point in the con- test and still holds his sway. If Mr. Cam- eron is sincere in his support of Mr. Conkling, as we believe him to be, he can carry all of his points, A successful revolt in Pennsylvania and the nomination of a candidate as weak as Mr. Blaine | will destroy the republican party as effectually as the whig party was destroyed when it abandoned its principles, its traditions, its discipline and its leaders and endeavored to crawl into power by the nomination of General Scott. We do not deny, even if we accept with reserve these speculations from Cincinnati, that Mr. Blaine has commanding strength. He has | now what he had ayearago. He has won a great triumph in this, that instead of standing before the bar of the House to | answer why he should not be expelled from the House for tampering with a witness and | suppressing testimony he is able to rally his forces at Cincinnati and enter the Con. vention as a leading candidate for the Presi- dency. We repeat that this isa great triumph, and itisdueto Mr. Blaine to say that he has won it by the persistence and en- thusiasm of his friends and by a display of assurance and ability that we have never seen inan American politician. But this does not assure him the nomination at Cin- cinnati. We have yet to hear of a vote that he has won in the canvass, The action of Pennsylvania is quoted in his favor; but, as the Hzratp showed a week ago in its in- terviews with the delegates from that State, Mr. Blaine had from the beginning warm and brave friends. The vote in the delega- tion yesterday shows that the Philadelphia Ring, which is believed by the best people of that city to be as bad as Tweed’s Ring, is dispésed to insist upon Mr. Blaine after Hartranft, This is the only change that we have to note in the situation as far as Blaine is concerned. His friends are mak- ing a desperate fight. Their policy is to carry him through on the hurrah on the first ballot, asa ‘‘rebel” martyr and soon. It is possible that this policy may succeed, as a convention is always a curious body. When a candidate for the Presi- dency has a good solid backing to begin with he can do a good business by promis- | ing Cabinet appointments and other little | perquisites. We are afraid that it was by a | trade like this that our martyr President won the States of Indiana, Pennsylvania | and Ohio in the Chicago Convention. What | the friends of Lincoln did sixteen years ngo | may be done by the friends of Blaine. We can therefore see how the nomination of Mr. Blaine is possible; but it will surprise us if the wise men of the party, who have the success of their cause at heart, consent to the selection of a gentleman whose canvass would be an apology from the beginning and who would most likely be beaten as badly as Scott was beaten in 1852, So far as New York is concerned, Mr. Blaine would never carry this State. His | nomination will give it as surely to the dem- ocrats as Maryland or Georgia. Thero is not a letter in the correspondence captured | from Mulligan that will not require explana- | tion and defence. A man who was so fruit- ful with his letters to railway jobbers may have others in existence which will rise up to confront him in the hour of trial. But this is the business of the republicans, and we do not propose to instruct them ns to what they shall do with the fair canvass which lies before them, a canvass which may be won if a candidate is named who can carry the party and not a candidate who will have to be carried from the outset. If New York is a necessary element in the success of the republicans, as we think it is, then the man to nominate is Mr. Conkling. We aro free to say that the only republican who can carry this State against Governor Tilden is Mr. Conkling. Mr. Morton cannot do it on ac that Mr. Washburne even would find it hard to maintain his position here. But the name | of Roscoe Conkling at the head of the ticket | -would poll a vote such as has rarely been cast fora republican candidate. The name of Roscoe Conkling at the head of the ticket gives the canvass the prestige of assured vic- tory in New York. It gives the party a name that will grow stronger with every phase of the canvass. What if he is haughty and imperious and distant? What if, as Senator Madden complains, he does not go | around the country shaking hands with | everybody? He is a high, proud, royal na- | ture, that never fawned, never lied, never | shrank from a party duty, and in this time | of universal suspicion has never had a stain | upon his eseutcheon. If the republicans | want a republican what man among them has a better record than our proud and brill- iant young Senator? If they want a patriot what candidate more worthy than this elo- | quent defender of the war and the Union, | who more capable than the Senator who stood by Grant and the Southern republi- cans on the Louisiana question at a time when Mr. Blaine was trimming on the Force bill and endeavoring to conciliate the rebel element? In every quality of statesman- ship, eloquence, fidelity to party and per- sonal character, in every attribute desirable in a President of which the country would be proud, Roscoe Conkling is to-day a head | and shoulders above any man who thus far has been named in connection with the Presidency at Cincinnati. If the republicans want to make a brilliant fighting canvass let them take with Mr. Corfkling some such man as Logan of Illi- nois. Logan would make a capital Vice President. If the friends of Governor Hayes decline to permit his name to be used for any but the first place let Logan Be taken. General Logan is one of the really great men of this nation—-one of the men who have shown greatness in peace and in war. His nomination would summon all the war feel- ing which is believed to be yet so potent an element in the politics of this country. Logan is the Murat of the republican party, and he comes at the head of the Illinois dele- gation. There is no soldier in the West who would excite so much enthusiasm as Logan, unless we name Phil Sheridan, whose place in the army takes him out of the possibilities of anomination. Conkling and Logan would represent the onthusiasm and the courage of the party. They would give the country a ticket which slander itself could not stain. The worst that could be said of it would be that it is an extreme republican ticket, which is what we expect from a repub- lican convention. New York, which would rejoice in honoring her brilliant Senator, would also rejoice in honoring the chival- rous leader of the republican party in Illi- nois. Ifthe republicans go into the fight with Conkling and Logan at their head it means ® ringing aggressive fighting canvass from the beginning. It means that it has as a party nothing to regret, nothing to explain, nothing to retract ; that it means to hold to the power which it has held for so many years. It will be a young men’s ticket, re- viving the enthusiasm of Fremont days. The nomination of any other candidate but Conkling compels the democrats to nomi- nate Tilden and gives this State to the democrats, as Conkling is the only man who can be depended upon to carry New York against our venerable Governor, Mr. Bristow would make a good candjdate but for the fact that his administration would, in the eyes of honorable men, be tainted with all the vices of the detective system. Mr. Morton’s health makes him out of the ques- tion, much to the regret of all who honor this noble Indianian for his patriotism dur- ing the war. In the event of the Convention escaping from the Blaine enthusiasm, which we suspect to be largely exaggerated, it will drift toward some unknown candidate. It may be, and possibly will be, in the power of Mr. Blaine to direct its course, in which event we look forthe nomination of Hayes or Washburne, But, in accepting or reject- ing Mr. Conkling, the Convention whieh meets to-day must accept or reject the elec- toral vote of New York. Tue Sovrnesn Denecates who are asked to vote for Mr. Blaine because he made a speech abusing Jefferson Davis should re- member that he did not make this speech until he became a candidate for the Presi- dency; that he made it against amnesty, a measure every American desires to see passed. They should remember that he opposed the Force bill to conciliate the democrats, and enabled them to have their way by aconvenient ruling. The truth is that Mr. Blaine has trimmed on this South- ern question. Mr. Conkling was a manly advocate of the administration policy at the | very time that Mr. Blaine was playing into the hands of the democrats. The only po- | litical principle which James G. Blaine | accepts and supports is the personal ad- vancement of James G. Blaine. He will take no risk in politics where that interest is concerned. Conkling’s record on the Sonth- ern question, although not altogether to our liking, is a manlier one than Blaine's, Exzames or Mr. Coxxirma, like Mr. Curtis, insist that he must be defeated in order to propitiate their support. But what is to be done for the friends of Mr. Conkling? It should be remembered that Mr. Conkling has a claim upon the party which no other | candidate possesses. He was offered the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court twice, and each time he declined it. He felt that his place was with the rank and file of the party, and he would not abandon it even for the splendid seclusion of the Su- preme Bench. If there is any discipline in the republican party, any consideration for party services, this fact should be remem- bered to the honor of Mr. Conkling now, when it is proposed to give him the com- mand of the party of which he is the most brilliant leader. New Yorx Nor Nexpep.—Our Cincinnati despatches report Colonel McClure, the edi- | tor of the Philadelphia Times, as declaring that the next election will go democratic or republican without the aid of New York. This is an intelligent assertion, but we are afraid shows the Colonel's overconfidence. The Colonel, as an old Greeley leader, is anxious to have a candidate nominated at Cincinnati who will be beaten, and is, there-. fore, a warm advocate of Blaine. Mr. Batstow is said to fave forbidden any of his subordinates to take part in the can- vass for his nomination. « This sounds well and looks like reform, But what is Bluford Wilson doing at Cincinnati? Mr. Wilson is an officer of the Treasury, and if it is true about Bristow he has resignéd his office. The Bristow reform movement is about as much of ahumbug as the Citizens’ Association, which started seven or eight years ago to beat Tweed, and which Tweed captured and owned as soon as it showed any strength, Ir Is Sar that the friends of Blaine pro- pose to make Wilson, of Iowa, Chairman of the Convention. Wilson, of Iowa, is one of the principal railway statesmen of the | time, and was as deep in the Crédit Mobilier tation. The Chicago rifle- | who did not need a Spenéer-gun contract to | business as Schuyler Colfax. He is just the Lapur his patriotism? If thoy want a leader | man to preside over a Blaine convention, The Latest Phases at Cincinnati. Yesterday was a busy day at Cincinnati, but the intriguing activity of the friends of the several candidates produced no very marked change in the situation. The Blaine managers profess increased confidence, but the only visible improvement in the pros- } pects of their candidate on the first ballot | consists in the removal of previous misgiv- ings as to the steadfastness of his original supporters, It is supposed thatBlaine will | hold all the delegates that were expected to vote for him at the time of their election; and if so he will make a formidable show on the first ballot. But he will nevertheless lack something like a hundred votes of a majority. The only encouraging sign for him after the first ballot is the action of the Pennsylvania delegation yesterday, But his friends interpret the Pennsylvania proceedings according to their wishes, and overrate their impor- tance. What the Pennsylvania delegates decided was that their votes should be cast as a unit and continue to be given for Hart- ronft until twenty members of the delega- tion wished to retire for consultation. This, on its face, is merely a provision agatnst wast- ing the inflnence of the State on Hartranft after the time comes for making it efficient. | The fact that they retire to consult will prove nothing as to the result of the conference. Twenty men can lead the horse to the water, but it will require thirty to make him drink. The delegation can be changed from Hart- | Tanft to some other candidate only by a ma- jority, and thirty is the smallest number that makes a majority of fifty-eight. It is possible that the Pennsylvania delegation may retire to consult several times before a majority consents to desert Hartranft. If they should stand by him beyond the third ballot the prospect is that Blaine will be out of the field by that time and the delegation be given to some other candidate when it is transferred. Unless Blaine makes decided gains on the second ballot his forces will break and scatter, It became still more evident yesterday than it was before that neither Morton nor Bristow has any chance of the nomination. The greater part of the Morton delegates are expected to go over to Conkling, but Bris- tow has a strong New England support, and this part of his forces will probably vote for Hayes and give him a nucleus around which some other broken delegations may rally, particularly the Blaine delegations of the Northwest. The contest will then lie be- tween Hayes and Conkling, and if the Penn- sylvania delegation is kept to Hartranft up to that time it will hold the balance between these two, and can give the victory to either. In such a conjuncture it might prefer Hayes if his friends would agree to support Hart- ranft for the Vice Presidency. Otherwise it would be more likely to go to Conkling. The Conkling forces will be ably manouvred throughout, and will depend for success chiefly on good generalship. The ability of Conkling to carry New York— without which no candidate can be elected— is the strongest point in his canvass. It is certain that Blaine would have no chance in New York against Governor Tilden running on the democratic side. If the Governor had the selection of his competitor he would prefer Blaine to any other republican, for against no other could his claim asa re- former—which is the chief foundation of his strength--be so effeetive. Next to Conkling’ Hayes (leaving Washburne out of thegues- tion) would have the best chance in New York against Governor Tilden, but it would be solely in consequence ofa great victory in the October election in Ohio, whose prestige would strengthen and encourage the republican party in all the other States, Governor Tilden isso unpopular with the Ohio democracy that a great republican tri- umph in that State would be easy with Hayes on one side and Tilden on the other, and this would damage Tilden and help Hayes in New York. But even then it is doubtful if Hayes could carry the State, whereas a republican victory would be reasonably certain with Conkling as the republican candidate. Wooprorn’s Ficur yor Civ, Servicr.— We commend Governor Woodford for his. efforts to compel the Republican Convention to adopt a plank in favor of civil service. But the Governor should do the President the justice to say that he did his best to carry out the civil service, and was only prevented by the revolt of the Congressmen, and espe- cially the Senators, who would have patron- age. The way to have civil servico is to re- form the delegations to Congress. Send good men to Congress, and when we have men as good as Woodford let them stay in, and not resign. This is the way to have civil ser- vice, and we hope our brilliant fellow citizen will persevere in his fight. Tae CENTENNIAL Quarrer.—Mr. John Welsh, the President of the Centennial Board of Finance, regrets that any public reference has been made to the quarrel with the Centennial Commission. He says that “harmony of action is paramount,” but we do not see the evidence of it. Thus far there has been nothing but discordance, and Mr. Welsh admitted it when he referred the question of authority to Mr. Charles O’Conor and other eminent members of the Bar. We trust that Mr. Welsh will not gloss over this matter, for if he does there will be disputes and disgraceful conflicts from now till the end of the celebration in November, Mr. Bristow will have leisure to attend to the duties of the Treasury withont any dis- tractions from the canvass, Mr. Bristow will not be nominated. For a reform can- didate his friends are spending too much money. dot A Sonny Excusr.—Our Cincinnati corre- gates from Philadelphia, as declaring that he will never vote for Mr. Conkling or any New York candidate because of the apathy shown by the New York people toward the Centennial. We are sorry to see the Centennial dragged into the canvass, If the Pennsylvanians wish to make it an issue they should put their feelings into a formal shape. A resolution expressing the sentiments of Mr. Mann would be in order. | The truth is the people of New York do feel | the deopest interest in the Centennial, and no one has done more for it in this State | thon Mr, Conkling, Woe fear Mr, Mann spondent reports Mr. Mann, one of the delo- | | Seeretary of War. | Ditious statesmen to pay Pinchback a little takes potty views of things. He is too small for Philadelphia, which isa great and self- respecting city, and should move to Camden. A politician who goes to Cincinnati to growl about the Centennial. is about large enough for Camden, or Peoria, or Rahway. Mr. Mann should be ashamed of himself. Speaker Kerr Handsomely Vindicated. We rejoice, both for Speaker Kerr's sake and in behalf of political candor, that his exoneration from charges of that perjured wretch, Harney, has been conveyed to the public in so noble and pleasing # manner, and that justice has been done with the added grace of courtesy. The conduct of the republican members of the committee ; and the House on this occasion was high toned and magnanimous. They not only attested his innocence by their votes, but stood up and bore cordial testimony to the uprightness of his stainless character as at- tested by his whole public career. The vote was unanimous that the accusations against Mr. Kerr were groundless and that his high reputation for purity is unsullied. For our part we have throughout considered the charges against him incredible, as much so as similar charges would have been against Charles Sumner or Silas Wright. We ex- pected his vindication, but we did not an- ticipate this display of chivalry on the part of his political opponents. We trust this great mark of esteem and confidence may solace him in his illness and contribute to his recovery. We would fain hope that this handsome conduct of the republicans is the harbinger of a better spirit in our political contests, ; The license of personal abuso and calumny which deforms our party struggles is a dis- grace to American civilization. Its reckless venom and unscrupulous distortion of facts disgust the better part of the public, and arouse, in many cases, such a sense of out- rage that people incline to discredit accusa- tions when they are well founded. When every party contest is a campaign of atrocious calumny from which the best and purest characters do not escape knaves find shelter and security behind so great a mass of un- founded libels and the loathing incredulity which they engender. We wish the good example set by the republican Congressmen in the case of Mr. Kerr might be imitated by both political parties in the strenuous Presi- dential campaign that is now opening. The Desaix of the Conkling Army. The despatches from Cincinnati are filled with the doings and achievements of a gen- tleman long known in New York and in the army, but now for the first time in politics. We mean Colonel J. Schuyler Crosby, the President of the Conkling Republican Club, who shows the brilliancy and dash of Desaix at Marengo in his campaign for Conkling. Colonel Crosby was a distinguished soldier during the war, and is the man to distin- guish himself in any position. It seems that some of our reformers thought it their duty to insist upon taking down the Conk- ling flag which had been hoisted under the command of the Colonel. We need not say that the flag was not taken down. The re- formers, who are mainly old maids in poli- tics, and have Bristow prayer meetings, found that in dealing with Crosby they had aman who would have -thrown them out of the window one after another and their tea- pots after them if they had* attempted to interfere with his colors. The Colonel’s gal- lantry has won him many friends among the Conkling leaders, and if our brilliant Sena- tor should be elected he will find it his duty to give the Colonel the best mission in his gift. An Anxious Democratic Spectator. Among the distant observers of the pro- ceedings at Cincinnati there is none, ex- cept the republican candidates themselves, who take so keen an interest in the result as Governor Tilden. What is dono at Cin- cinnati will be the making or the marring of his politie:1 fortunes. His hopes will rise and sink with the prospects of Mr. Blaine. Bluine’s nomination would both insure his own and make it equivalent to an election. No other republican candidate could bring Tilden’s peculiar strength into such bold re- lief, for against Blaine the whole democratic canvass from beginning to end would be concentrated on the reform issue, which is precisely where it is Governor Tilden’s in- terest, as it has been his constant sim, to place it. Blaine’s ugly letters would neces- sarily be the principal campaign documerts on the democratic side, and a reform candi- date would have to be taken to drive them home. Against such an opponent Tilden would carry New York by seventy thousand majority, and the party that wins New York will make a sure thing of the Presidency, as everybody concedes the strongest combina- tion for beating Tilden is Conkling for the first place on the republican ticket, with a | popular Western man for the Vice Presi- | dency. PENNSYLVANIA AND Yonk.—It was the vote of Pennsylvania in the Chicago Con- | vention in 1860 which defeated Mr. Seward, | who was there as the favorite son of New York. Conkling for the same reason that it de- feated Mr. Seward—nuamely, that he is a New Yorker. ‘here should be the kindest feelings between New York and Pennsyl- vania, Pennsylvania has now a fine chance | of showing them. Prxcupack ror tne Canrnet.—Shall there | be a colored man in the next Cabinct ? There should be if Mr. Morton is nominated at Cincinnati and elected, for Mr. Pinch. back, we learn, has organized all the col- ored delegates in his behalf. Gratitude would compel President Morton to make Mr. Pinchback either Secretary of State or [t might be well for am- attention, for he may be the colored War- wick of the next administration. But all depends on Morton. Vaunrixe Amurtion.—From the beginning of his career in politics Mr. Blaine fixed his eyes upon tho Presidency as his ultimate goal. For that he Inbored and struggled and planned. So it was with Henry Clay, with Daniel Webster, with Stephen A. Douglas, with Seward, with Chase, and in It would be a painful repetition of | | history if Pennsylvania were to defeat Mr. tration of “vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other”’—side of the Convention. Mr. Blaine is likely to add another name to the list of celebrated fail- ures, The Extradition Treaty with Eng- land, From the Standard, the Cabinet organ in the London press, we have a curious utter: ance on the attitude of the English govern. ment on the question of the Extradition Treaty with this country. At the same time the President has laid before the House ot Representatives a brief report from Secre- tary Fish on the matter, together with the correspondence, of which wa have already given the main points, The Standard, speaking semi-officially for Mr. Disraeli, concedes that the American position on the interpretation of the treaty, and possibly, also, on the application, or, rather, want of application, of the act of 1870 to the treaty, is ‘technically right,” but adds unaccountably that our position is also ‘‘sub- stantially wrong.” Leaving such odd logia to its self-destruction we meet with & proposition in the same article which may fairly be put as fol- lows:—The British government being technically wrong in the position it has' ‘re. luctantly” taken, we must hope that the United States government will soon find it- self in a position to assent to an interpreta- tion of the pres.nt treaty or the conclusion of a new one which will insure the objects the two governments have in view, for the British government, cannot depart from its present position, There is a mas- sive coolness about this, particularly that portion which suggests that America should assent to an admittedly wrong inter- pretation of a document which from its very nature must have a technical construction that is absolute. Mr. Fish in his able correspondence has left Earl Derby liter- ally nothing to stand upon except unlicensed stubbornness. Hence we cannot wonder that it should be as difficult for an ‘‘organ” to find arguments for an official in such an attitude as it was for the servant Goldsmith tells of to give plausibility to the story of his lordly master, who said he shot a buck through the right hind leg and the ear with the same bullet. The servant, after scratching his head, did it by saying that the buck was scratching his ear; but he begged his master in a whisper, ‘For God’s sake don’t make it so hard to make both ends meet.” The task given the Standard was more difficult, or the writer less ready wit ted, for we find that he can only wriggle in the difficulty, and not out of it, Mr. Fish, in his report, confines himsel! on the vexed question to the simple but em- phatic statement that ‘Great Britain has declined to surrender tha fugitives unless the government of the United States would give certain stipulations or make certain guarantees not contemplated or provided for by the treaty between the two governments.” Since it is admitted on all hands that the treaty does not contemplate or provide for the guarantees the British government demand, and that, notwithstanding, Earl Derby refuses to surrender the criminals committed under the treaty, we think its infraction by Great Britain is clearly made out, and it must lapse, This leaves the British Foreign Office in a position not creditable to either its ingenu- ousness of purpose or felicity in argument. There was a plain and honorable course open to Great Britain if it found fault with a treaty which has, however, stood the test of thirty-four years—namely, by giving the usual notice of its intention to withdraw there- from. By waiting until it had a batch of American criminals and then endeavoring to force a wrong interpretation upon us it has put itself in a sinister light before the world, and given Mr. Fisha masterly position in the negotiations to come. Tus Oxzy CanprpaTz who shows any growing strength at Cincinnati is Roscoe Conkling. He gains every hour, and unless the Blaine people carry through their policy of hurrah he will win. Mz. Bristow is a young man and can wait, He will learn in six or eight years that the most complete detective system will never make a President of the United States. We do not want a Fouché administration. Conxxixe axp Logan would be an eagle soaring, red hot, sky blue, Hail Columbia, Fourth of July ticket--just the ticket to run like lightning in the centennial year. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tarbox is from Massachusetts. If Blaino gets woll the homcopathists will brag, Purple and orange should not be worn by gaslight. A son of General Longstreet 1s running a village hote) 1n Georgia. If you want to make an Iowa woman talk tell her te | hold her tongue. Harriet Prescott, now Mra. Spofford, will spend the summer at Newburyport, Mass, Most of the chaplains favor Bristow; but we have not yet heard from Tipton, of Nebraska, Whenever Ben Butler sces that the affairs of this Re- public show signs of decay he goes fishing. Boston Post:--‘They've gota singing doll at the Centennial. She hums ‘I’m sawdust when I sing.’ ” Mr. Storey’s new Chicago evening paper is edited by Mr. F. P. Powers, formerly editor of the Newport News. There are reasons why it is painful that ex-Senator Matt H. Carpenter cannot be a candidate for Vice Pres. | ident. Men representing themselves as agents for Eastern florists and horticulturists are deceiving farmers in the Territories. The place where Bret Harte, of New Jersey, Is to stay for the season is very ‘‘swell,”’ and is called Mar. ray Hill House. A Springfiold, Mass,, baptism service was delayed the other day because one of the patients was trying to finish a gored dross. Goethe:—“It is extremely d'Meult to correct and sift whole, half and quarter errors, and to pat what of truth they contain in its proper place,’’ The French consider the wearing of diamonds on the street the height of bad taste; and a young lady, une married, who wore jewels, would be looked on asa parvenu. The editor of the Springficld Republican complains that somo fishermen on tho Connecticut use a four jneh, instead of tho lawful five-inch, mesh. He “wont in’? Sunday, and was caught by the ear. Perhaps there is nothing in this world that makes @ man £0 mad as to pose when he sces that a Jandscape Photograph is to be takoa, and whon it is printed dise covers that be appears not nke Washington or Napo- leon, but like a dilapidated pinhead, with his right boot on his left shoulder. It may bo of interest to ont free prairie readers te know, that when a Now York wife, living on ‘a fourth Story, and being too poor to havea servant, wishes to go to market, ste puts» basket on one arm and her child on tho other, and, locking her door, goes shop each illustrious instance it was only an illus | ping for stale radishes and pale greens,