The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JU JUNE 16, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. | Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York LD, ‘ Letters and packages shculd be properly | sealed. i 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—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. NO. 168 ~AMU SEMENTS 'S TO-NIGHT. BOWERY THEATRE. EIDNAPPED, as 5 P. M. WOOD'S MUSBU! LE TOUR DE NESLE, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2P. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIBTIES, ars P.M. OLYMPIC fiigarne.” HUMPTY DUMPTY, at § BROOKLY? ea cmy MARIA AND MAGDALENA, at 8 P. M. Miss Von Stamom- witt, THIRD AVENUE THEATRE. 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Government bonds were stronger and higher. Tue Farunes are announced this morning of English, Scotch and Irish houses all with heavy liabilities. Hard times are not con- fined to this side of the Atlantic. Ir THE CoxvENTIoN should blunder upon Conkling and Logan it will give us a brill- lant ticket and one that will rally the snthusiasm of the country. PropaBiy ‘“McPuensox can carry Pennsyl- vania for Blaine. The Convention should have thought of this when it snubbed Cam- ron. Turns Anz Twenty Men in the republi- can party whose nomination would do more for the republican party than Mr. Blaine’s. The fact that none of them has any chance in the Convention. shows the degradation that has fallen upon the republican party. Ivy rae Rervstiican Convention will only ppen the way to the destruction of the re- publican party by the nomination of a man who is in danger of expulsion by the House for tampering with a witness and suppress- Ing evidence, it may confer a great blessing apon the country. A Granp Review of French troops took place at Longchamps yesterday. The occa- sion was a brilliant one, but it appears from our special despatch this morning that the skill and discipline of the cavalry and artil- lery have deteriorated during the year. This must be a great annoyance, as everybody in France loves the military. Tue Ascot Races yesterday are reported at length in the Hznatp this morning, and our special despatch will be read with in- terest. One of the winners, Apology, it will be remembered, was a filly belonging to the late Rev. Mr. King, and was so called by the racing parson after a reprimand from his bishop. Ir Is a Purasant Centennial thought that the delegation from Pennsylvania to the Republican Convention opposes Mr. Conk- ling for the same reason that it opposed Mr. Seward sixteen years ago—namely, that he is a New Yorker, and that Pennsylvanians have no higher duty than to oppose every New York ambition. This point will fit nicely into the oration which Mr. Evarts is to make in Pennsylvania on the Fourth of July. Tue Srawant Estare.—The legal fight for the estate of the late A. T. Stewart between the legatees and the outside claimants representing the Turney family has commenced before the Surrogate. The defensive measures adopted by Mrs. Stewart and Judge Hilton indicate that a stubborn battle will be waged by the present possess- ors against all comers, and during the present summer a dish of the highly sensa- tional order will be served up to the public, which will be devoured with anusual relish, Canzizss Navication is again displayed by the commanders of ourSound steamers, and 8 collision has taken place which jeop- ardized the lives of passengers.on two large steamers. Really the government should adopt some vigorous measures for the pro- tection of human life by severely punishing every shipmaster guilty of an infraction of the navigation laws. Until this is done we cannot hope for any reform of the system which now prevails, and from which some t | his friends make The Convention at Cincinnati. The enemies of Blaine and the true friends of the republican party won a victory at Cincinnati yesterday when they compelled the adjournment of the Convention without action on the Presidency. The session was a drawn battle between the friends and the enemies of Blaine, so far as the ulti- mate result was concerned. Whatever strength Mr. Blaine may possess in the Convention depends upon the use of this enthusiasm. Every hour of delay is a defeat to his mounting hopes. The whole day was spent in motions and countermotions to stave off the inevitable. Whenever the Con- vention came toa vote there was a success for the friends of Blaine. At the same time there was a failure to grasp the fruits of victory, which is incompatible with intelli- gent leadership. We regard the adjourn- ment of the Convention as a serious blow to the hopes of the ex-Speaker, unless, as may prove to be true, his enemies have it in their power to postpone destiny without avoiding it. The great difficulty in the way of defent- ing Mr. Blaine seems to be the impossibility of concentrating the opposition on any can- didate, It is natural that the friends of Morton, Conkling and Bristow should sup- port their chiefs with chivalrous devotion. The Olympian prize of the Presidency is so high a stake that we can understand how the friends of any of tho chiefs should stand by their leader while there is hope. In a wild convention, which is, after all, a mob, there are so many chances of victory—the turn of a delegation, the speech of some eloquent or noisy dele- gate, asudden combination, death, illness, some new revelation, anything in fact in the chapter of accidents—that we can understand how even the friends of the winning candidate, unless they have assurance doubly sure, As it now looks Mr. Blaine has carried out this policy of desperation. Wherever he has found an opposing idea he has fought it. Wherever he has found a vote to be won by force he has taken it. The defeat of Spencer in Alabama, of Douglass in the District of Columbia, the election of McPherson as the President of the Convention are so many rude triumphs. We cannot understand them except upon the theory that victory is so desperate with Mr. Blaine that he can only win by re- garding every element in the Convention that is not in his favor as an enemy of the party. He has adopted the rule or ruin policy. Inall cdnventions there is a spirit of concession, which is inspired by the thought that after the Convention thero comes an election. There never was a canvass where concession was more necessary than in the present. Yet Mr. Blaine and his friends have treated every republican aspiration as an enmity. How else can we account for the election of McPherson to the presidency of the Convention and the humiliation of Secretary Cameron which that act implied? If the canvass of Mr. Blaine were a winning campaign—if there were no thought but the good of the party and the election of the ticket—we should have a different policy. The treatment of Mr. Conkling has been as rude as though he wereademocrat. In fact, we think the name of Governor Tilden would receive more courtesy in this Conven- tion than has been accorded to the most distinguished republican leader in the Senate. Supposing the nomination of Blaine, which seems probable from all the accounts, how can his friends expect that harmonious union of the party without which any victory under the best aspects is impossible? How can he expect from the friends of Conkling in New York, of Morton in Indiana, of Cameron in Pennsylvania, any support except that of cold duty? Is it necessary for the triumph of Blaine that every anti-Blaine candidate should be humiliated? And yet the whole action of the Convention has beena policy of humiliation and revenge. This may mean victory, and to over- anxious politicians it may seem like victory. To us it is the harbinger of defeat—if not at Cincinnati at the polls in November. If any candidate should pursue the policy of conciliation it is Mr. Blaine. He is now in danger of expulsion by the House for tam- pering with a witness and suppressing evi- dence. We do not see how the House when it comes to consider his case can refuse to censure or expel him. Ho has confessed that as Speaker of the House he sold decisions to railway jobbers and had written to his customers reminding them of what he had done and asking certain fa- vors in return. He has trimmed on every question of vital interest to the republican party. the nation’s agony and effort, when a Logan and a Grant were offering their lives to the Union, he had no higher duty than to lobby around the War De- partment seeking contracts for the Spencer Arms Company. If any candidate needs the indulgence of a party and all the bene- fits that may come from a policy of con- ciliation it is Mr. Blaine. And yet the cam- paign of ‘his friends at Cincinnati has been upon the theory that he is the only repub- licag entitled to respect. We cannot see how the friends of Mr. Morton, for instance, can support the nomination of a candidate who has treated that illustrious Senator with the studied insults bestowed | upon him by the friends of Blaine. If the | friends of Morton were animated by the same spirit they might answer that Morton was a pillar of the Union, and a pillar with- out whose support the Union would have fallen, when Blaine was a mere lobby- ist about the War Department. Wo can- not see how the friends of Cameron in Pennsylvania can vote for a candidate who has insulted the Secretary of War and the administration by elevating McPherson. for the single purposeof wounding the most powerful republican in the State of Penn- sylvania, and gratifying the Phila- delphia ring of republican office-holders. As to New York, tho treatment be- stowed upon Mr. Conkling and his friends by a repulican convention would justify their leaving it. In defiance of every parliamentary precedent we saw a delegate from New York rise in his place and attack Mr. Conkling with all the graces of studied have been justified in leaving the hall when or aaa sess certain to arise meer | tr The friends of our Senator would should fight to the end. He has confessed that in the hour of | Mr. Curtis was allowed license never vet before granted in a republican convention. Altogether, looking at the results of the first day's contest in the Convention, we find @ disposition to strike at every aspiration that interferes with the ambition of Mr. Blaine. The fact that the Pennsylvania delegation strikes at Mr. Conkling for the same reason that it destroyed Mr. Seward sixteen years ago—because he is a New Yorker—is only a trifling incident, but one that comes unfortunately in this cen- tennial year of pence and harmony. ‘hat is a question which the republicans of New York and Pennsylvania must settle among themselves. As we have said all along, if the republicans choose to nominate Mr. Blaine against the advice of every indepen- dent journal in the land, against the judg- ment. of every conservative member of the party—if these desperate gamblers in Politics resolve to force upon the ticket a candidate whose nomination will mean a canvass of apology and expla- nation, upon them be the responsibility. Speaking for the high patriotic sense of the country we say to the Convention that it will never accept as President a gentleman whose record is stained with jobbery, and whose devotion to union and reconstruction may be summed up in his speech about the Duke of Alva and Jefferson Davis. The nomination of Mr. Blaine means the defeat of the republican party as surely as the nomination ot Scott meant the defeat of the whigs twenty-four years ago. It means that all the pride, all the nobility, all the high aspirations of the republican party have gone out of it; that nothing is left but a scramble for office, There isas much dif- ference between a convention that nom- inates Blaine and the conventions which gave us emancipation as between the Roman Republic of Augustus and the Empire of Otho and Augustulus. Perhaps it is the best that can happen to the country. We are tired of the republican party, and the sooner it is out of the way the better. Blaine will be the Brutus of to-day. He will have killed Casar and his friends, but in doing so will save the country from further fraud and corruption, for the democrats will surely win with Blaine as the republican candidate. When a crew of shifty politicians, office-holders, railway job- bers and gun contractors are deemed worthy to rule it the sooner its mission is over the better. Thus far the best opportunities of the session have been wasted in an effort to screen Belknap and apologize for Blaine. It is proper that the Cincinnati Convention should continue this work of apology. It makes the cam- paign an easy one, and, looking at the whole situation from a national point of view, it may be for the best if to-morrow we can say that the gods who make mad those whom they wish to destroy have taken possession of this corrupt and degraded organization, and in nominating Mr. Biaine have made it the duty of every honest man to aid in its destruction. A Newspaper Enterprise. There is nothing gives the Henanp greater pleasure than chronicling the happy journal- istic strokes of its contemporaries, because, apart from the advantage which journalism in general gains from each, the Hmaatp has many debts of recognition to pay, and is always glad to meet with a brother worthy ofa word of praise. The enterprise of the Cincinnati Enguirer in printing daily during the sessions of the Republican National Con- vention a special edition of the same day's New York Henatp is something never before attempted or accomplished. The managers of the Enquirer were aware that the presence ofa great number of Eastern delegates and their separate armies of friends and sympa- thizers would create a demand for the Heap which nothing else would satisfy. To thousands of Western and Southern re- publicans who take the Henatp regularly the opportunity to acquaint themselves with its latest opinions would, they wisely fore- saw, be instantly grasped, so that apart from the attention which the novelty of the enterprise would attract there was a large field for making the undertaking profitable. The selection of the Hznatp from among its Eastern contemporaries we take as a graceful testimony to independent metropolitan jour- nalism, and hence our very modest share in the enterprise was fulfilled with cheerfulness and a fall appreciation of its complimentary character. Such amenities mark a forward step in journalism, and while paying a de- served tribute to the Enquirer we once more make acknowledgment of the pride we take in the Heratp’s selection for this suc- cessful experiment. Tue Exrenor or Brazn, after a flying visit to Albany, dropped in upon Saratoga yesterday, and in a way which His Majesty has made peculiarly his own managed to seo all that is to be seen of our famous watering place in a few hours. The various frank criticisms or hearty encomiums which Dom Pedro has made cn portions of our country and the work of man therein, which we have chronicled from day to day, are of great value in our eyes, They are the comments of a keen observer, who is sifting our institutions for the good and bad in them, with the important object of applying what he thinks worthy to the development of the great country he has been called upon to rule for nearly half a century and over which his rule may extend for at least a quarter of a century more. Leaving aside, therefore, the pretty things His Majesty has found himself able to say of what hoe has seen, it will be worth noting how much of our secret of progress he will extract from his journey and apply to Brazil. : Tux Frrexvs of Mr. Conkling showed un- usual magnanimity in allowing Mr. Curtis to arraign their candidate before the Repnb- lican Convention. This has never been done before in any convention. It is a good way to secure harmony for the party. Tuene Is Some Tax of Wheeler for Pres- ident as the Great Unkown. It is against Wheeler that he was Chairman of the Pacific Railway Committee when all the jobs were passed. Some or Tan Newsparer Bors have sug- gested Blaine with o consistent enthusiasm which recalls the brightest days of Schuyler Colfax. | Tmo Cincimnati—Bad for Blaine. The action of the Republican Convention yesterday is both a tribute to Blaine’s strength and a proof of his weakness. It was like drawing the cork from a bottle of champagne and then leaving it to stand for sixteen hours before pouringit. Its foaming, offervescing quality will be pretty well dead- ened by the delay. Blaine’s power to carry the Convention depended on a coup demain; on a sudden, enthusiastic rush, tak- ing certain delegations captive by one of those unreflecting impulses which operate like contagion in an excited, tumultuous assembly. Two effectual checks were put upon this order of tactics by the action of the Convention yesterday, one of these checks lying in the rules adopted for regu- lating the proceedings, and the other in the adjournment without a ballot. The rules will prevent a wild stampede to Blaine on a sudden change of votes in the midst of a balloting. That part of the fourth rule which will prevent the Convention from being carried away by a fit of contagious enthusiasm against its dolib- erate judgment is in these words :—‘‘And when any State shall have announced its vote it shall so stand until the ballot is an- nounced, unless in case of numerical error.” This guards against the danger which besets allsuch bodies, of being carried off their feet in a moment of excitement, when an unex- pected gain by a particular candidate leads to a change of vote by some delega- tion, followed by a storm of applause, caus- ing other delegations to follow, and setting the Convention crazy in favor of a candidate who is not the deliberate choice of delegates. This rule makes it certain that Blaine can- not carry the Convention by storm, and that if he receives an unexpected accession of strength on a particular ballot there will be an interval of cool reflection before any delegation which has tlready voted against him can transfer its vote. This protection against ambuscades and sudden surprises is unfavorable to the tactics of tho Blaine men. But a more important check to their hopes and expectations is the adjournment of the Convention yes- terday without a ballot. It is a decisive proof that, at the hour of adjournment, Blaine had not made such inroads into the delegations supporting other candidates as would give him a majority on the second baliot. If his friends had got pledges enough from members of the other delega- tions to secure his nomination his secret supporters, united with his open support- ers, could have prevented an adjournment Halt at and have nominated him yesterday on a second ballot. The statement that the hall cannot be lighted in the evening is a frivolous reply to this ar- gument. The Convention adjourned at six, when there were yet two full hours of day- light. There might have been at lenst three ballots before the shades of evening began to settle upon the Convention. The adjournment was a piece of strategy, and not a necessity imposed by want of gas- lights. It gives the opponents of Blaine time for making combinations against him, and damps the enthusiasm of his supporters by delay. He is more likely to lose than to gain by postponing the ballotings. Yet the fact that his opponents did not dare to come to close quarters with him yesterday is a signal proof of his strength ; but, on the other hand, the ability of his opponents to stave off the balloting proves that he had not a majority at the hour of adjournment. A successful combination against him is per- haps impossible, except upon Governor Hayes or a new candidate, and if his oppo- nents should be unable to agree upon a man the nomination of Blaine and the destruc- tion of the republican party may be in the chapter of events. The applause which greeted the speeches made in nominating the several candidates counts for little. Bristow got nearly as much of this kind of support as Blaine, and the enthusiasm for Bristow was a protest against Blaine's nomination. The strong indorsement of Bristow from Massachusetts and Vermont shows that Blaine is not strong in New England, where he is best known. Blaine had more claquers in the Convention than any other candidate, but this is a mere consequence of the division among his op- ponents. It is possible that he may be nomi- nated to-day, but if he is it will be the knell of the republican party. Blaine and Bayard in New York. No candidate whose relations to railway operations areas open to suspicion as are those of Mr. Blaine will be acceptable to the people of New York. Only a blind political machine would insist upon attempting to place in the Presidential chair a man who must be defended before the country from serious charges surely to be brought against him. Neither can Mr. Blaine nor any other republican candidate succeed in divert- ing attention from any just accusa- tion against himself or his party by endeavoring to throw the people back to where they were eleven years ago. Should the democrats nominate Mr. Bayard, who has been steadfastly true to the North and fearlessly just to the South, this reckless attempt will receive the full measure of the rebuke it deserves. Mr. Blaine's weapon will be turned against himself and his party in this year of national unity and of national progress. The American people have learned much by the experience of the past, and they will not permit designing politicians, whether they be republicans or democrats, to manufacture sectional divisions for their personal ad- vancement, and the election of Mr, Bayard will be a warning against similar attempts in thefuture. The ‘‘machine” controls Cin- cinnati. Let not the same thing be said of St. Louis. A political organization may nomi- nate a candidate in disregard of the press and the country, but to elect him is another mat- ter. We therefore repeat that a candidate whose record in connection with railways is open to unfavorable criticism will not be ac- ceptable to the people of New York. Tax Exrcrion or McPuenson was a com- pliment to Bill Stokley, Bill Leeds, Harry Bingham and the gang of Philadelphia strikers who are in the delegation ‘for Hartranft,” and a blow at the Secretary of War. Before the canvass is over the | thoughtful men of the party may think that ‘from resumption in 1879 and taken refuge in some aomailinialins for the War Secretary would have been desirable. A national convention should not descend to the busi- ness of fighting local quarrels. The Cincinnati Piatform. The declaration of principles put forth yesterday by the Republican National Oon- vention is noteworthy on but two points— namely, the currency and the school ques- tion. On other matters it relates to subjects which can have little in- fluence on the Presidential canvass. On the currency question it is halting and timid. It quails before the Western demand for a repeal of the act of Congress requiring a resumption of specie payments in 1879. Instead of standing by the act and declaring an unalterable purpose to carry it into effect, the Cincinnati plat- form makes a virtual but stealthy abandonment of its chief provision. This cowardly concession to the in- inflationists will not help the republican party in the Eastern States. Instead of pro- claiming steadfast adherence to the law requiring resumption in 1879 the Cincinnati platform merely pledges the party ‘to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.” This concession to Western sentiment, this admission that resump- tion in 1879 is not intended by the repub- lican party, is a virtual indorsement of the persistent attempts of the inflationists in the present Congress to repeal the act. Such o concession deprives the republican party of all the political capital it might have made in the resumption of spe- cie payments, It has gone back upon its own record; it has given up the legislation of a republican Congress; it has retreated vague generalities about resumption ‘‘at the earliest practicable period,” which is, in effect, an indefinite postponement of specie payments, This is precisely the ground of the Western inflationists, The republican party has stultified itself by abandoning its legislative promise to resume in 1879. It remains to be seen whether the democratic party is wise enough to take ad- vantage of this blunder. But whether it does or not the republicans have put it out of their power to help their can- vass by claims founded on their hard money position. The act requiring resump- tion in 1879 has been strangled by the Cin- cinnati Convention, which has substituted for it a vague promise to resume specie pay- ments ‘“‘at the earliest practicable period,” which may be as many years hence as the soft money men of the West may think fit. The resolution on the school question is an appeal to the Protestant feeling of the country and an attempt to turn hostility to the Catholic Church to political account. The position taken by the Cincinnati Convention on the school question is right in itself, but the subject is beyond the domain of national politics. The public schools are supported out of taxes levied by the State governments. There is no State in the Union in which the Protestants are not in a majority of six or seven to one, They can protect the public schools wherever they think them endangered without the aid of the federal government. It is absurd to drag this question into national politics, and if the republican party did not feel that it is losing its hold.on public confidence it would not have made this appeal to sectarian animosities. The Racing Season. The Jerome Park summer meeting will close with the six races to be run to- morraw, and from the character of the events we may confidently predict that the end will be brilliant and worthy of the American Jockey Club. Yesterday four fine races were run before an attendance which, in point of numbers, was not all that could be wished. The victories of Leander, Sul- tana, Ore Knob and Sunburst would have repaid a greater number of spectators than were on the ground. It strikes us that one great fault in the Jockey Club meetings is that they are spun out too much, and made to extend over too much time. The interest in the racing suffers from paralysis midway between the first day and the last. If the events were compressed into a solid week of racing, with Taces every day, the exeitement over them would be quintupled, and sustained instead of being let drop because of the intervening off days. The sports, both new and old, which attract our people now have a manli- ness about them full of the best promise for the muscles of the rising generation. The typical American of English caricature will have no representative in our national youth hereafter if the sports now popu- lar continue to attract the attention they receive. When all work and no play made young America slab-sided, high-shouldered and shuffle-gaited he was fair game for the caricatarist. To wearing work succeeded either absolute rest or fever- ish pleasures that only sharpened the angles of his ungainly frame, but with the spread of | yacht racing, boat racing, rifle shooting, base ball, cricket and our latest sporting ac- quaintance—polo—we hope to see young America as strong in physique as in brain. We have called polo our latest acquaintance, but it is a very old sport, whose ex- cellence in the East has been at- tested by generations upon generations of players. New York is a summer city in | everything but the whim of fashion which says it is not, and it needs but a glance over the sporting columns of the Henan for the past week to show how brilliant, varied and well attended have been the outdoor joy- ances of the city, presenting an array of amusements that no Saratoga or Long Branch or Cape May could gather with the expenditure of the greatest effort, while with us they were merely the recurrence of certain features of the regular sporting year. In to-morrow’s racing five events have been announced, but another will be added—namely, a hack race, in which the members of the Jockey Club will ride their own animals. At the close of the racing s match at polo, being a further contest for the cup, will take place on the grounds of the Polo Club, hard by the racing track, and altogether a fine day's sport may | be anticipated, A game or a race which | makes it the fashion for young men to be on their horses instead of behind them is worthy of being fostered and encouraged, Release of Winslow—The Extradition Treaty Dead. Winslow was discharged yesterday. This not unexpected event creates an unpleasant complication in the relations between out government and that of Great Britain, and it may affect the stability of the Disraeli Ministry. The public'opinion of this coun- try unanimously supports Mr. Fish, but the public opinion of Great Britain is not united in supporting Lord Derby. Several of the most respected organs of British opinion admit that Secretary Fish has the best of the argument, and if a Parliamentary attack should be made on the Disraeli government for this unwise embroilment of friendly relations with the United States its oppo nents might gain a great advantage. If s man commits the crime of forgery and alsa the crime of murder there is no reason why he should not be tried and pun- ished for both crimes. If he flies from justice and takes refuge in a foreign country what interest has that foreigs country, or what interest has anybody ex cept the criminal himself, in protecting him from the penalties he deserves? The pre tence of the British government is that it i bound to maintain the right of asylum for political offenders. This is an utterly absurd and irrelevant pretence to bt set up against the United States, which has never, in its wholo history, punished an individual for a political offence. We did not even try Jefferson Davis. Political offences apart, there is ne reason in the world why a criminal who has fled from justice, when he has been sur rendered by a foreign government should not stand precisely in the sam¢ position as if he had néver escaped. The British pretence is utterly ab surd. Suppose, for instance, that a person is extradited forthe crime of murder, but that it should appear on his trial the evi- dence is only sufficient to convict him of manslaughter, ought he to escapeall punish- ment because he was extradited for murder and manslaughter is a different offence? It would be easy to suppose scores of cases where the pretence thatacriminal can be punished only for the crime for which he was extra- dited is equally absurd. The enlightened opinion of Great Britain will indorse the American position, and the Ministry which succeeds that of Mr. Disraeli will probably be willing to negotiate with us a rational and satisfactory extradition treaty. The Indian Battle. General Crook's command has had a sharp skirmish with the Sioux warriors who have deserted the Red Cloud Agency for the pur- pose of preventing intrusion into the Black Hills country:. Three thousand more war- riors are reported to have left the reserva- tion in war paint, and it looks as if wé are to have a serious Indian war. These reports have reached us through many per- ils, and it is only through dangers escaped that we are able to print this important news this morning. General Crook is to be congratulated upon the vigor he shows in pursuing the savages, and we may be sure that he will teach these treacherous maraud- ers a salutary lesson before he gets through with them. But tho necessity of an expedi- tion of this kind is in itself asad commentary on our Indian policy. For years and years we have been feeding these wild men of the woods in the vain hope that they could be civilized and Christianized, but during the whole history of the Republic the savage has gone upon the warpath whenever he grew tired eating the bread he had not earned. The Sioux, especially, must be compelled to undergo a very different experience. The Indian must be made to work and required to take his place in the new order of life ta which it is necessary he should conform by force and not merely by moral suasion. HU he goes to war then the only thing for him and his tribe is extermination. It has long been evident that no other policy would settle this Indian question, and this latest Indian battle is only another proof of it, Waat Ang Tae Commissioners Parp?—The question as to whether the United States Centennial Commissioners are entitled to compensation under the act of Congress creating them a supervisory body has been submitted toa numberof the leading lawyers of this and other cities by the Board of Fi- nance, and the decision has been unani- mously in the nogative. Yet it appears from our Philadelphia letter that in defiance of this opinion the Commissioners are paid by the Board, and that the Board declines ta furnish a statement of the expenditures to the public. This kind of thing will not suit the people who are expected to pay the ex penses of the Exhibition. There is no rea son why the exact cost of the Centennial fair and its exact receipts should not be pub. lished every week. It is not a private but a national enterprise, and the managers are simply trustees for the people. Tue Ficur To-Dax is between Blaine and the Great Unknown, | with the chances rather against Blaine. Ir Is Oxe Turxe to nominate Mr. Blaine and another to elect him. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tho Centennial is depopulating the Virginia Springs. New Orleans Picayune :—‘Fitzhugh says that his letter was ‘dambly mucilated.’ "” Congressman T. C. Platt, the logroller at Cincinnati, is the owner of extensive sawmills. A prominent hotel on Broadway dries its washing on the roof in plain sight of the populace, The bulk of the old Merrimac, which was sunk by the Monitor, will be manufactured into canes, Fitzhugh in writing his two-column letter of ex planation looked at the dictionary 419 times, A good deal of tho white oak cheese of the last season is so hard that it !s caliea lumberger. The salmon put into the Connecticut River two years ago are now from four to six inches long. Ben Hill is tho personal enemy of Proctor Kunott,®e- cause neither he nor Knott vanquished Blaine, In the famous old Berkshire towns of Massachusetts the maple is dying out, while the elm sturdily keeps its ancient place by the roadsides, Eight men while on their way to the Centennial re fused to pay for their dinners on the growad that. they ‘wore members of the Connecticut Legislature, Norristown Herald : Frozen blue’ isa new stylo ofsevening silk. You can get the exact shade by flavoring your ice cream with a little indigo,"* Danvury News:—“Helmboid wont insane, and now Doctor Ayer is alanatic. It is too much strain on @ man’s nerve tissues—trying to cure everything for @ dollar.” Worcester Prest: ‘A beautifal female foot,’ @ writer, ‘should be one-seventh of the weare1 height’ That is,@ beautiful female should be seven feos high." i