The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD tn esac oars BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every in the - Four cents per copy. Bars gate wee year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letiers or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ed. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—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. VOLUME XLI..-.--++-+0+ sensceessececeseeeeNO, 169 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, LE TOUR DE NESLE at SP. M. Matineo at 2P. M. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, tS P.M. Matines at 2 P. HEATRE. atines at2 P. M, OL’ HUMPTY DUMPTY, E THEATRE. 30 P.M. Fanny Daven- . M. WALLACK* RE. TOUR MIGHTY DULLAR, 8 VM. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. W. J. Florence. GILMORKL'S GARDEN, GBAND CONCERT, 1 8 P. M. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, es P.M. PARK THEATRE. THE KERRY GOW, ats P. Marphy. M. Matinee at2 P.M. Joseph BOWERY THEATRE. KIDNAPPED, at 8 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. RRW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1876, — —— From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with rain. During the summer months the Heraxp will be sent to subscribers in the cow at the rate of twenty-five cents per weelc, free of postage. Noricz to Counrry Newspgauens.— For | fast maii trains orders must be sent direct to ypt and regular delivery of the Hzzaup Oy office. Postage jree. Want Srreer Yesrenpay.—Stocks were feverish on a dull market. Only 83,700 shares were sold. Money on call loaned at 21-2 per cent. Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8. Government bonds were strong and railway bonds firm, Tue Exectton or M. Burret to the French Senate by a majority of three shows how finely balanced the parties are in that body, and, above all, the strength of the con- servatives, since the whole force of the Ministry was brought to bear against the ex-Premier. Tue Yacutmrxc Season or THE Royan Tuames Civs has been inaugurated by a series of matches which have afforded much agreeable sport to English lovers of amuse- ments on the briny deep. A large number of fast cutters took part, and a fine sailing breeze with a clear sky added to the general enjoyment of the yachtsmen. An AccomMopATING CarmInan was Chris- tian Klotz, who killed a young girl in Mary- land for ‘‘devilment” and shortly after con- fessed the crime. On some of the neighbors proceeding to hang him summarily some others objected, and he was cut down, but only to be invited to commit suicide by hanging himself. He did so with alacrity. We cannot compliment the cowardly wretches who took this Pontius Pilate method of keeping their hands clear of his blood. Tue Srazet Rarzoap War Acarnst Rar Transrt progresses in the courts, and our sitizens are in some danger of being delayed in their enjoyment of the long wished for boon by the solicitude of the street car com- panies regarding equine nervousness, We can assure the humanitarian officials that an overcrowded car is far more destructive to the nerve forces of their horses than the shock likely to be administered by the sight ofa passing rapid transit train. Heuicoranp, the little island off the mouths of the Elbe and Weser, over which the English flag waves, is not, we aro in- formed, to pass under the flag of Germany. This island is the subject of a periodic ru- mor of the same kind. A few years ago there was a general rejoicing in diplomatic circles over the report that Heligoland had been so burrowed out by rabbits that it was likely some stormy night to disappear in the German Ocean; but this has proved un- founded. There are only five square miles of it. ar Ae Se Tnx Nontn any Sovrn, inspired by the memories awakened by the centennial year, which should elevate all our citizens above the passions and prejudices “engendered by sectional strife, have agreed to grasp hands ‘across the bloody chasm” of the past, and our gallant Old Guard have accepted the cordial Invitation of the citizens of Charleston to | pay that famous city a friendly visit and participate in the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of a battle against 1 Revolution. Tax Werarnzn To-Dar will probably be warm and rainy along the Atlantic corst, the latter condition prevailing as far south as Cape Hatteras, and will be followed by cooler and clearer weather by Monday next. There are indi- cations of the approach of another areca of low barometer on the Pacific coast, which we expect to experience before the end of the coming week. A high tem- perature prevailed from the Mississippi to the Atlantic const during yesterday, except in the portion northward from Sandy Hook, with winds from eastwardly points. Clear ‘weather prevailsin the Southwestern and the Western Gulf States, with southerly and easterly winds in the latter. ’ NEW YORK HERALD, SATUKDAY, JUNE 17, 1 The Republican Convention—Hayes and Wheeler. The most important political Convention since that which nominated Lincoln at Chicago, in 1860, adjourned yesterday, after nominating for the Presidency Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, and for the Vice Presi- dency William A. Wheeler, of New York. It was a dramatic, picturesque, fighting Con- vention, All the pent-up animosities of State politics had full play. Penn- sylvania fought over the hereditary quarrels of the house of Cameron. New York re- vived the strifes of her Montagues and Capulets. Illinois seemed to have no higher purpose than to defeat the nomina- tion of the one republican, Mr. Washburne, whose name would have been an assurance of victory. Ohio and Maine seemed to be the only States who stood by their colors with unfaltering courage. Hayes won the nomination for the Presidency, while Blaine comes out of the fight as much the leader of the republican party as Henry Clay was the leader of the whigs in their palmiest days. Mr. Blaine made what we might call a Henry Clay canvass. We cannot but admire the gallantry and the resolution of his friends, Never was a leader so bravely supported. ‘There was something like chivalry in the way his friends nailed his colors to the mast and went down with them floating in the breeze. What is to us the attractiveness of Mr. Blaine’s canvass was really its wenkness. It was a series of cavalry charges. Mr. Blaine fought for the nomination as though he were fighting for an election. He treated his party brethren as though they were dem- ocrats, He had the Convention from the first. His policy was plainly that of alliance and conciliation. But the tactics he used in fighting Ben Hill were applied to his rivals. Mr. Tilden’s name, for instance, would have had more courtesy than that of Mr. Conk- ling. The election of Mr. McPherson as President was a useless blunder. Some impartial man like Mr. Curtis, Mr. Dana or Governor Chamberlain might have been given this honor. But Mr. Blaine’s friends must go into the Pennsylvania dele- gation and elevate a man simply to humiliate the Secretary of War. The throwing ont of Frederick Douglass was also a blunder. Mr. Morton had secant courtesy, while Mr. Dena was actually hissed for making a reform speech. It was rule or ruin with Blaine from the beginning, and the result was that every element in the Convention combined against him. In- stead of breaking the coalition, arraying one against the other, capturing some and coax- ing others, Mr. Blaine's leaders managed in two days to combine every element in the Convention against-him. The cup pressed his lips, only to be tossed away by the heed- lessness of his own friends. While the great defeat, as a matter of gen- eralship alone, fell upon Blaine’s lieuten- ants, the tactics of his opponents were mas- terly. Don Cameron comes out in this Convention in bold relief as by all odds its most skilful and daring leader. Mr. Cameron seemed to be the especial object of the assaults of the Blaine lines. He had ac- cepted the War Office and the Blaine forces chose to regard it as an_ cffence, os if he had not a right as a re- publican to accept any honor the Presi- dent bestowed upon him. The delegation mutinied. It was proclaimed to the world that the administration, in the person of its War Minister—and the Camerons espe~ cially—were to be humiliated on the floor of the Convention, Every despatch from Cin- cinnati told the same legend. The end was terrible to the hopes of Blaine. Don Cam- eron took command of the anti-Blaine forces at once. In a minority always, he won every point. His mutinous Pennsylvania delegation was held in subjection until the time came, and then it was launched like a thunderbolt at Blaine's trembling columns. If Penn- sylvania could only have been wrested from Don Cameron's leadership on the second ballot Blaine would have won. This was the expressed purpose of Blaine’s friends. Mr. McPherson, from his place in the chair, led the movement. But the young War Secretary was the master of his opponents. He held Pennsylvania while it pleased him, and only loosed his hold to defeat Blaine. This episode is the most dramatic incident in the Con- vention—the one brilliant achievement in political generalship. As our despatches show, the position of Cameron was not of his own secking, but a position forced upon him. The Blaine forces offered him no al- ternative but humiliation. The result is that Blaine's victory turned into a defeat, leaving Cameron victor in the Convention. New York was forced into the same position by the treatment bestowed upon Mr. Conk- ling. Because of an unfortunate personal difference the friends of Mr. Blaine re« solved that Mr. Conkling should share in the humiliation imposed upon the Camerons. As one of our correspondents said the other day, Mr. Conkling was treated as though he were a democrat. He was arraigned upon the floor of the Convention. When Mr. Woodford presented his name he had barely civil treatment. ‘he most elo-~ quent republican in the Senate did not re- ceive the courtesy frour the friends of Blaine that they would have shown Tilden. Asa consequence New York, which, under ordi- nary circumstances would have voted for an Eastern in preference to a Western candi- date, in the critical moment was thrown into the anti-Blaine balance. The truth is that | ; | Mr. Blaine’s friends so managed his cause common enemy in the trying days of the | that only one path was open to self-respect- ing republicans. After a cavalry charge or two they exhausted their strength. When the steady fighting came the columns of Morton from Indiana, of Bristow from Kentucky and the contingents of Cameron and Cornell combined. And yet | the Convention was so peculiarly arrayed that ‘much of this could have been avoided. The friends of Blaine went to Cincinnati to rule or ruin, and they were ruined. Beyond their chivalrous devotion to their chief, which is worthy of all com. mendation, their campaign was one of folly, presumption and ignorance. defeat which such campaigns are sure to invoke. So far as Mr. Blaine’s defeat is concerned we have only congratulations for the repub- lican party and the country. We have the kindest feelings for Mr. Blaine. We recog- nize his rare and winning qualities. We think in some respects he hag had hard usage. But his nomination at this time would have been the downfall of his party. He would have lost this State. He would have given the democrats a walk-over. He may be as pure as snow; he may be the victim of ‘‘a conspiracy to assassinate character”—all of this we con- cede and trust it will prove true; but his record since these railway troubles began made him an impossible candidate, Even this fact is conceded by the leading journals of his own party. To have placed him in nomination in spite of this record would have invited sure defeat. As it now stands the ticket is a fair one. It is no such ® ticket as Washburne and Logan, Conk- ling and Hayes or Morton and Hartranft would have been. It means nothing but mediocrity. Governor Hayes is a good man. He defeated Thurman and Allen in Ohio, which shows how strong he is at home. His personal character is stainless. His record, if he has any, is calm, placid, uneventful. He has been a quiet, sensible Congress- man, a modest general and a fair Gov- ernor. If elected he will bring these qualities into the White House. There are, we have no doubt, ten thousand repub- licans any one of whom would make as com- petent a President as Hayes. He has no such hold upon the country as Blaine or Morton, Conkling or Washburne. Hé hap- pened to have fewer edges than any other candidate, and the party took him. It may be a choice as wise as that of Lincoln or as foolish os that of Tyler. Time must determine this. Mr. Wheeler, the candidate for the Vice Presidency, stands well in this State. Hayes and Wheeler will poll the party vote. They will call out the solid, hard working party men. As o ticket Hayes and Wheeler represent the average common sense, sober minded classes. When we see the work of St Louis we can then estimate at its true value the work just achieved at Cincinnati, At Jerome Park To-Day. The last day of the American Jockey Club meeting will be marked by a number of fine races, seven in all, and will undoubtedly attract the most brilliant concourse of spec- tators of the season. First of all will be a mile dash by three-year-olds that have not won anything at this meeting, which will bring Woodland, Leamington 2d and Ambush to the post. Then will come the Centennial Stakes for all ages—a run of two and three-quarter miles—which will send such grand horses as Tom Ochiltree, Olitipa, Acrobat and Viator prancing away at the fall of the flag. By way of interlude will follow a three-quarter mile consolation dash, starting Australind, Waco, Cyril and Pera in search of honors they have missed during the meeting, and which three of them are likely to miss a little longer. Here comes in a dainty race in which club members will mount their own hacks and try over three-quarters of a mile whether Mr. Howland, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Center, Mr. Peets, Mr. Scott, Mr. Phelps or Lord Mandeville can beat Mr. Purdy or any of the others. Following this will be the handicap sweepstakes of a mile and an eighth, with Leander, Egypt, Freebooter, Huckleberry and 7 mes A in the running. Then, ww to the ladies, comes a grand steeplechase of two miles and a half, with such fine fence flyers as Trouble, Hermione, Resolute, Risk, Bullet, Stanford, Colonel Nelligan and War- like td contest every inch up hill and down dale. Closing the racing of this memorable day will be a steeplechase match be- tween Mr. Lawrence on his horse Resolute and Lord Mandeville on the Gladiateur gelding—a race which will awaken the liveliest interest. To crown the day's sport the Polo Club wil! play a match for the cup on their grounds in the park. When we add to this splendid programme the pleasures of the drive to Westchester and back to town it will be seen that a similar opportunity for enjoyment on the turf has not presented itself for many a day. Tue ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CENTENNIAL CxrLEBRATION are rapidly progressing in New York, and we may look forward to the per- fection of a programme worthy of the Em pire City. A pleasing feature of the affair is of the nation’s birthday are being made by our public spirited citizens themselves, who are determined to secure for the city a dis- play in keeping with her rank and impor- tance. A considerable sum has already been subscribed by prominent merchants and others, and an invitation is extended to the general public to aid by their contributions in this most desirable object. The occasion is one in which all our people can join in a grand tribute of love to the great nation of which we are members and of reverence for the memories of those who have made this cause of rejoicing possible. Tur Stewart Caanrrizs.—From a goodly list, published elsowhere, the public is in- formed of the bestowal of the very large sum | of seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars | on various public institutions, mostly chari- table, in this city, by Mrs. Cornelia M. Stew- They met the | art, in obedience to the expressed wishes of | her Inte husband, the great merchant. | Already the faithful employés, whom Mr. | Stewart desired to reward, have been handed | their munificent bequests. Nor is this all, | for Judge Hilton states that the good lady is | still engaged in examining the claims of other institutions with a view to making do- nations to those of a deserving character, | These are noble uses for the overflow of a | rich treasury, and the blessings of the needy will be earned not only by the thoughtful- | ness but by the promptness that has marked the carrying out of Mr. Stewart's generous wishes by his widow. An Ixtxnestina Account is published in to-day’s Henaxp of the grand polo match and the team of Munnipoories, played in presence of the Prince of Wales during " visit to the East Indian capital. The pic- turesque costumes of the players, together with the exciting nature of the game, made it one of the most pleasurable incidents of the Prince's visit, that the efforts to secure a fitting celebration | betweeen a team of the Calcutta Polo Club | Senator. Conkling. The Henaxp has no reason for regret or mortification in consequence of its having so steadily set forth the claims and qualifica- tions of the eminent New York Senator. He is a citizen of our own State, and we trust it is a pardonable State pride which desired the recognition of the ablest New York re- publican when he is also the ablest and broadest republican statesman in pub- lic life. Senator Morton and Mr. Blaine may be his equals in native vigor of intellect, but in culture and ac- quired accomplishments they do not ap- proach him, He is also their superior in a quality which ranks higher than mental force or culture—a high and proud sense of character which scorns to stoop to the arts ofa demagogue. He has done nothing in this exciting canvass to forfeit the esteem of his countrymen, founded on his high tone as » man of honorand principle. He has made no exhibition of himself for stage effect. He has attempted no in- trigues to promote his nomination. He has not descended to that busy electionecring activity which has made the lives of his principal rivals so feverish for the last few months and is so inconsistent with dignity of character. He has borne himself through- out with the decorous reserve and freedom from the electioneering fussiness which is so common among our public men. The State of New York may feel a just pride not only in his distinguished talents and high character, but in the manner in which he has borne himself during the period whon he has been made by his friends a prominent candidate forthe Presidency. He has done nothing during this trying ordeal which the most fastidious of his admirers would wish dif- ferent. He has been defeated, to be suro, but in this respect none of his prominent rivals has any advantage over him. It is safe to say that Senator Conkling’s political future is attended with brighter tokens of promise than that of any of the rivals who have shared his fate at Cincinnati. He is still young and, four years hence, he bids fair to be the recognized and peer- less leader of the great political party of which he is already the best equipped mind and the brightest ornament. ‘The Henrarp has satisfied its sense of State pride and its sense of fitness in the disinterested tributes it has paid to this distinguished son of New York, and it expects to see him rise constantly higher in the confidence of his party and of the country. We look to him as one of the few public men by whom the politics of the country are to be elevated, and the one, above all others, who can best afford by the strength of his talents to emancipate himself from narrow partisan” views and ‘wisely guide the opinions of his countrymen. Had he been nominated for the Presidency he would have been compelled to’be a mere representative of party; but he is now free to fulfil the higher mission imposed on him by his great abilities, and to be the trusted adviser of the nation. He is strong enough to check and moderate the unreflecting impulses of his own party and to bring a spirit of wisdom and considerateness into the counsels of the government, whether he is destined to act with or against the party in power. It is a great thing to have in public life men whose judgment on public questions their political opponents are compelled to respect. We trust that the action of the Cincinnati Convention yester- day will make Mr. Conkling less of a parti- san than he has been heretofore, and lead him to assert his true rank asa national statesman ; for he is the only man in public life whose abilities qualify him for so dis- tinguished a part. He is head and shoulders above the average type of men who succeed in gaining cfficial positions, and if he will hereafter wear his party fealty with a little more moderation he has the best chance of any American statesman of being looked upon as a “‘pillar of state,” against which the country will lean in every grave emergency. The vigor with which Mr. Conkling's friends have supported him for the Presi- dency has had a salutary effect. It is the one thing which has prevented the ruinous nomination of Mr. Blaine, Hd Conkling been out of the field there can be no doubt that Blaine would have been the success- ful candidate. It is something to have defeated so ruinous a nomination. Conkling’s chances ‘for the nomination would have been excellentif the data on which his friends reasoned had proved to be correct. They expected tho solid and zealous support of the Pennsylvania delega- tion, and if this expectation had not been disappointed Mr. Conkling would have been the nominee of the Convention. Hs friends also counted on the vigorous support of President Grant, who in fact stood aloof as an inert spectator of the contest, although he hada passive preference for Conkling. A strong support from Pennsylvania and a strong support from President Grant were the two most important factors relied on by Senator Conk- ling’s friends in their efforts for his nomi- nation, and if their reasonable expectations on these heads had not been disappointed he would have been the nominee. The Heratp has all along had o clear and con- sistent sense of the insecurity of these ele- ments, and as often as it has set forth the claims of Mr. Conkling it expressed its dis- trust by intimations that the dark horse might win, and a declaration of its belief | that tho contest lay between Conkling and the Great Unknown. The event has vindi- cated our judgment and foresight and proved the correctness of our opinion that Conkling could not be beaten by any of his prominent rivals, but only by the dark horse. Tue Harrex Reoatrsa.—The fourth annual regatta of the Harlem River boat clubs will take place this afternoon over the Harlem | course, and will prove to be one of the most exciting rowing events which has taken place in or about New York for years. Tho contests embrace single sculling, pair-oared towing, four-oared shell and six-oared gig racing. Ali the prominent clubs—Athletic, Atalanta, Columbia College, Nassau, Nane tilus, Dauntless and New York Kowing— have made entries, and the number of oars- men interested be close on fifty, In 876—-TRIPLE SHEET. the four-oared race the Columbia College crew and a crew made up principally of the famous Wesleyan crow of the Atalanta Club will meet in the same race, together with the Athletic four which recently won 80 handsome a victory on the Passaic. All the races promise to be very close, and the oars- men engaged are among the foremost ama- teurs in the country. : The Assassinations in Turkey. The methods of change, not to speak of reform, are apt to be violent in a country ‘ruled as Turkey is. Mourad V., scarcely seated on the throne from which his prede- cessor, Abdul-Aziz, bad been hurled in a night to die a dog’s death a few days later, will not find much to reassure him in the story of the murders carried to him Thurs- day night. Foremost among those who led the softas and the Mohammedan mob when they called upon the late Sultan to lay down his authority as Caliph and Sultan were Hussein Avni Pacha, Rachid Pacha and Kaiserli Pacha. Turning a deaf ear to his entreaties, his frantic offers of long-hoarded coin, they saw Abdul-Aziz disappear from power with an odd mourning train of fifty-three boatloads of wives, eunuchs and slaves. Then they went and took their future sovereign out of a cellar, where his uncle Abdul had kept him cool for a few months. Then came the murder of the dethroned Sultan, which these quick-handed pachas glibly told the world was a suicide. There were, however, ® good many reasons why Abdul could be relied on to be quieter in his grave than out of it, and these trusty Ministers of Mourad, the ex-cellarer, wanted, above all, peace and quiet in the governing circle. Hence nobody outside of Turkey believed that the spirit- less, worn-out debauchee had cut the veins of his arms ; but, what was more to the point, nobody cared. Everything looked smooth for Young Turkey. Midhat Pacha, the Grand Vizier, gathered his co-mates of the late revolution about him and proceeded, under the sheltering wing of the wizard Disraeli, with the huge task of fighting, fix- ing and conciliating which still remained to be accomplished. Now, it required a revo- lution to put them in their position of un- disputed power; but a revolver sufficed to settle two of the Ministers—Hussein Avni “and Rachid—as effectually as the scissors that nicked the life thread of Abdul-Aziz, while wounding a third Minister and scattering lead among ministerial satellites in a terrible way. The revolver was held by a Turkish officer, a Circassian named Hassan, who had been released on Thursday from prison, where he had been lying charged with refusing to go to Bagdad, whither he had been ordered. There is a good deal unexplained in the late career of this officer. We can. imagine that a dashing soldier would prefer a command in the revolted provinces, where he might win his way by potting at the rayahs to smoking life away in plague-smitten Bagdad. That he was not sent to fight and was ordered to Bagdad suggests that this fiery officer had in some way fallen under the suspicions of the powers that be. Smarting under his real or fancied wrongs was he not just the man in whose ear Conspiracy might whisper? We have heard no political motives assigned for his act, but that may be the very reason for suspecting them. It will recall in Americathe crime of Booth, happening like it close on the heels of a great change in the fortunes of a party. If, asseems likely, he was attached to the late Sultan, the assassination will wear a different appearance from that of the drunken soldier revenging his petty wrongs. In the escape of Midhat Pacha from the bullets of Hassan the government of Mourad has escaped a great peril. Hussein Avni, great as was his influence, had neither the brains nor the,representative character of Midhat. The uncomfortable event will not, as far as at present visible, have much political effect outside Turkey, though it opens up avenues for office in the ranks of the Moslems. Yet it will be asked, ‘Was the hand of Russia in this as England's was in the undoing of Abdul-Aziz?” Mr. Butstow's Restcxatrox, when the Re- publican National Convention has declared the choice of the party for the Presidency during the next four years, will not have the significance which would have been attached to it a few days ago. His retention of the office up to the last moment shows that he had resolved, if fighting for the nomination, to do so within party lines. His quittance of the field now will mainly be interesting in discovering whom the President will take to fill his place, whether the Secretary of the Treasury is to be a friend or a neutral in the campaign now opened. The selection will mark in some sense the degree of interest taken by the incumbent of the White House in the struggle that will end in November. * Tar Execution or Lowxny, the South Caro- lina murderer, is a fitting vindication of the law in the case of an atrocious criminal whose hands were stained by the slaughter of many victims, and who, besides, was guilty of other crimes almost equally hein- ous, Another rufian named Bill Lee was also hanged at Oquawka, Ill., forthe mur- der of an unfortunate girl named Jessie McCarthy under circumstances of revolting | atrocity. The advocates of mercy to mur- derers must admit that agrave public danger would be created if scoundrels like Lowery and Lee were permitted to believe that “hanging is played out.” The lesson of the death penalty must be persistently admin- istered until such villains learn to respect the law and the rights of their fellow men. A Muzcacne sr Sioux Inpiays of fifteen settlers in the Platte Valley is reported as the latest development of the war on the | Plains. This butchery only goes to prove how relentless is the hatred borne by the savages against the whites, and also shows that, however intractable they may be, an unwise policy has been pursned by the Indian Burean in its dealings with the red man. ‘The Canadian Indians give no trouble to the British settlers, because they have learned to rely on the good faith of the latter, and are not subject to the alternations ‘The Power of the West. | The triumph of the West in the Cincinnatl Convention yesterday shows conclusively, if any further proof than had been already afforded was needed to show it, that now, as in old Bishop Berkeley's day, ‘Westward the star of empire takes its way. The East has not had a President since 1860, and it is not likely that the East is to have one now. The Western republicans, at least, had no serious thought of conceding the Cincinnati nomination to Mr. Blaine or to any of the East ern candidates. It remains to be soen whether the Western democrats will be more forgetful of their section ; but whether they are or not the fact temains that the West is determined to rule this nation. Weste ern ideas and Western interests are to be paramount in our politica, There may be an alliance with the South if the South will do the bidding of the West, but, in any event, or un- der any conditions, the West is determined to rule. It has the power and means to éxercise it. We saw this in the election and re-clection of both Lin- coln and Grant. We saw it in the fact that Colfax and Indiana were givena place on the ticket with Grant and Ili- nois, We see it in the nomination of Hayes over the worth of Conkling and the enthusiasm for Blaine. We shall see it in the future as we have seen it in the past. ‘he President is not to come from the East for many years if the West can help it; and the West means to help it. While we are busy with commerce and mana. factures, with the development of coal and iron, and heedless of partisan, and especially sectional, politics, the West is making politics a business, and combining to have its own way in everything. Apparently there is no help for it, and we shall ‘be compelled to let matters go as they are going, at least until we acquire Western tactics and learn to combine against Western combinations. Now we are out- mancuvred and outvoted, and at almost any time the majority of votes is likely ta be against us. We may look upon all this with a sort of equanimity, for, after all, the West is in itself a great empire—an important part of the nation. We must, however, demand justice ven against an adverse will and overweening power. The Weat cannot afford to be unjust to the Enst. The Western “statesmen” may have the offices if they want them, but we must have protection against Western fallacies in political economy and crude no tions of business honor and public faith, Our commerce and manufactures must not be stricken down because another section of the country is jeal- ous of our prosperity and inimical because the money centre is at New York instead of at Cincinnati or Chicago or St. Louis. The West cannot get along without the East except in the distribution of patron- age and the designation of office-holders. For these things we care comparatively little, and, we have no jealousies because power and empire have gone to the West, but we want this new Cwsar to take only the things that are Omsar's. Politics may remain the study and pursuit of the West if there are no unwarrantable interferences with the pur- suits of the Enst. Ohio may have its Hayes in the Presidentis! chair as Illinois has had its Lincoln and its Grant if the West can elect, as it nominated him; or it may have its Thurman if it can nominate and elect him, but we must not be told that printed pieces of paper are dollars and that Western Presidents are to be chosen to show the powercf the West through obnoxious and hurtful legislation and the enforcement of obnoxious and hurt ful laws, Tue Sours Amentcan Rervszics are make ing efforts to develop their resources by the expansion of their present means of trans. portation, The Darien Canal project is gaining in popularity under the influence of the local authorities, seconded by foreign capitalists. In Pera the enterprise of Mr. Meigs promises to produce great results in he extension of the railroad system of the Republic, and hopes are entertained that sufficient capital will be subscribed to complete such an undertaking. A direct negotiation between the President and the European bondholders is expected to result in the more satisfactory condition of the affairs of Pern. The fatal fire caused at the city of Cuzco by the reckless discharge of a rocket in a fireworks factory has resulted in considerable damage, and furnishes another lesson on the dangers of dealing carelessly with explosives, Tae Exrnaprrion Trmary with England, | which died a violent death at the hands of - Earl Derby in the release of Winslow on Thursday, seems to trouble the English papers as a ghost that will not down. The London Times, commenting on the action of the British government, concedes that “argu- ments have been advanced on our side which we c&nnot but hold to be quite un- tenable.” Mr. Fish’s course is said to have been disputatious rather than practi- eal. This is only another form of the Standard’s remarkable phrase that we were “technically right but substantially wrong.” The plain English of all this is that Great Britain, right or wrong, wants a change in the treaty, and, to carry her point, takes the course most inconvenient to herself and America, In the meantime England and America are likely for some time to be ferry landings for the criminals of America and England. Mn. Ixz Cox, @ notorious desperato, of Port Hudson, has had his name added to the necrology of 1876. Having early in life im. bibed o desire for shooting and stabbing every one against whom he entertained any dislike his fellow citizens at length became tired of Cox's manner of settling his private quarrels end shot him down like a dog—a fate which he richly deserved. Tite Srwinc Macuinz Conmonants are exe citing public indignation by their cruel op- pressions of the poor sewing women. Tho of cheating and slaughter which seem to be . system of contract sales is productive of the foundation of the relations existing | great evil, especially when abused in the between the whites and Indians on the | manner that has been recently described in Western frontier. _ | the Hezaz, Arich corporation that thug