The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD pail sor nates BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New lone Letters and packages shculd be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. FSH RO I Wee PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH | SIXTH STREET. me | 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 XI AMUSEMEN UNION SQUARE THEATRE, THE VOKES FAMILY, a3 P.M. VARIETIES, CHATEAU MABILI ees P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE. HUMPTY DUMPTY, a8 P.M. THIRD AVENUE THEATER, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, TS TO-MORROW. PERE we P.M, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Fanny Davenport, WALL. THE MIGHTY DULLAK, GILMORE'S GRAND CONCERT, a 5 P. M. KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS, atsP.M. GARDEN. PARK THEATRE. THE KERRY GOW, «t5 P.M. Joseph Murphy. BOWERY THEATRE, KIDNAPPED, at 8 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM. THE DOGS, at SP. M. Matinee at 2 QUADRUPLE S HEET. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, uith occasional rain, the summer months the Henaxp will be sent to subscribers in the cow at the rate Of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Notice to Counrry Newspxarans.— For Bret and regular delivery of the Hznaup fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to is office. Postage free. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks were Irregular and dull. Shares of the coal car- tying roads were lower. Gold opened and | closed at 112 1-2, with intermediate sales at 112 5-8. Money on call loaned at 2 1-2 and 2 percent. Government bonds were strong. Railways firm. The bank statement for the week shows an increase in the excess of re- serve of $1,446,428. Economy in Spanish Frnance is sadly needed, and the cutting down of the esti- mates noted by cable will raise a flutter in the bosoms of those individuals who hold | Spanish bonds. “Flassan, you are an ass, ‘assan,” was a joke in the old burlesque of ‘‘Ali Baba,” and it may be revived now as a comment upon the hempen close of the Hassan’s career who piled a cord or more of dead Turkish Minis- ters in the palace of Midhat Pacha last Thursday night. Tue Day or Sporr at Jerome Park gave splendid enjoyment to a magnificent assem- blage yesterday. Seven races were run, and all went off well, except the occasional jockey who went off his horse. There wero no serious injuries, however, and ‘Old Probs” kept off the threatened rain and gave cool breezes, so that those who crossed the Harlem River to see the sport had ‘‘n good time” of it. Ovr Loxpon Canrz Letter is brief this week, news in the British capital having shrunk to small dimensions indeed. The Londoners are not much troubled about the release of Winslow, a respectable forger more or less making little difference in a jJarge community. Such small topics as the rumor about Heligoland furnish the only subjects for newspaper discussion outside of the dispute with Russia about the Turkish question. Just as the money markets of Europe were acquiring s more confident tone the news of the assassinations in Con- stantinople unsettled values somewhat, but without inducing the feverish symptoms of a fortnight ago. Firznves anp Company figure among the defunct corporations since the dismissal of the president of the organization from his position as Dookeeper of the House of Rep- resentatives. The extract from the corre- spondence of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, pub- lished elsewhere, throws new light on this enterprising person, who, in the matter of turning his position to account with ‘a skill worthy of a better object, certainly deserves to be considered ‘‘a bigger man than old Grant.” Some of the late company’s stock- holders are anxious to meet Fitzhugh. They have something to communicate to his ex- Doorkeepership. Sprerrcan Guiprs Versvs Sprarrvariss is the latest development of the troubles of ghost raising as a profession of religion, at least so say the artists in ether in defence of their ‘‘séances.” When the interference of the law iscalled in to decide the knotty questions raised in this conflict of opinion it shows, at least, that the adherents of both sides of this curious quarrel aro willing to leave its final settlement to a jury of live men instead of a host of the disembodied. The shades of Cicero and Demosthenes should be retained for the defence by Mrs. Anna Eva Fay. By such astroke of Spiritual- istic policy the whole fabric of the oppo- sition case might be demolished by the sim- ple appearance of counsel. Tae Gar Cartrat or France, heedless of the warlike rumors that are disturbing Europe, is bent on enjoyment, and, as we sre informed by an interesting letter pub- lished in to-day's Hrnaun, is now indulging inthe most vigorous and exciting outdoor sports. After season of gloomy and cold weather the citizéns of Paris throng the spa- cious Bois de Boulogne to witness the polo matches and the pigeon shootings, which ——— / have become the popular amusements of the day, Tho spirited description by our cor- respondent of the rapid evolutions of the polo teams as they charge, wheel and rally as the flying ball bounds from point to point between the goals, will be read with interest even by those who have never witness7d this most exciting game NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1876.—QUAD ‘The St. Louis Convention. Nine days intervene before the meeting of the Demoeratic National Convention, but | before the close of this week most of the delegates will be on the ground trying to form combinations to strengthen favorite candidates. ‘The democratic party has the advantage of knowing what it has to meet ; | | but its opponents, being first in the field, have had the greater advantage of selecting the ground on which the Presidential battle isto be fought. The republican plan of cam- paign has been settled more by accident and good fortune than by foresight and skill ; but it is, nevertheless, a plan which will tax the skill of the democratic leaders to the utmost. The Cincinnati ticket, though not imposing in point of ability, will thoroughly unite the republican party and insure it an ensy victory in «ll the republican States not here- tofore classed as doubtful. It is also well fitted for success in the particular doubtful States on which the election will hinge. Had Blaine been nominated at Cincinnati the St. Louis Convention could hardly have made a blunderstupid enough to destroy its chances. It cannot afford to blunder now. The reform element of the republican party accepts Goy- ernor Hayes, not indeed with alacrity and fervent enthusiasm, but with a placid ac- quiescence which will suffice to prevent de- sertions, and will warm into vigorous sup- port as the public mind begins to glow in the progress of the canvass. Governor Hayes was not the first choice either of the machine men or the reformers, but no other candidate could have so completely secured the sup- port of both after his nomination. What is mere acquiescence on the part of the extreme left and the extreme right (to borrow the phrases of French politics), will soon be- come enthusiasm. When men have once taken sides in an American political con- test it is not in the excitable American char- acter to remain lukewarm in the sweat and dust of the race. Even before the St. Louis Convention assembles men of the type of Mr. Curtis, Mr. Halstead, Mr. Medill, Mr. Horace White, and the class of voters they represent, will have been carried away by “the noise of the captains and the shout- ing,” and it will have become impossible even for Governor Tilden to make any serious inroads into the reform element of the republican party. Governor Hayes has the negative sdvan- tage of perfoct freedom from all connection or complicity with the jobs and the ex- posures which will be the staple of the democratic canvass. All the arrows barbed with charges of corruption will be blunted upon his shield and fall harmless at his feet. The unassailable purity of his private life and the modest lustre of his virtues make him invulnerable to the kind of attack on which the democratic party stakes its hopes of success. Before the St. Louis Convention meets Governor Hayes will have written his letter of acceptance and he will pitch it in such a high key of reform as will satisfy all republicans and the independents,. who acknowledge no party allegiance, like the leaders of the Fifth Avenue Conference in this city. We expect to see Mr. Schurz on the stump advocating the election of Gov- ernor Hayes, and re-entering the republican party through this open door. No other nomination, except that of Bristow, could have made his return so easy. Mr. Schurz came back from Europe last fall earlier than he had intended in order to go to Ohio and speak in support of Hayes. Nobody ever doubted that in that close contest Mr. Schurz turned the scale. Governor Hayes is really indebted to him for the triumph which made his nomination for the Presidency possible. If Hayes should be elected with the aid of Mr. Schurz’s eloquence there is no man in the country to whom the new President will be under such deep obligations, and this would pave the way to the honorable restoration of Mr. Schurz to a high official and personal position as a republican leader. He has nothing to hope from the democratic party, ever. if he should support its can- didates. He deserted the republican party because he was dissatisfied with the personal government of President Grant ; but Grant will soon ke out of politics, and Hayes is a different style of man. We have dwelt on the probable position of Schurz because his influence with citizens of German birth is of great importance in every doubtful State, The logic of the situation and his personal sympathies will naturally carry him to the side of Hayes, to whom he rendered such splendid and effective service last autumn. Another great advantage which attends the nomination of Hayes is the strength he will lend to his party in the pre- liminary contest in October. If the republicans should carry both Ohio and Indiana in October by large ma- jorities, the moral effect of such victories on the November contest will be immense. | The influence of such preliminary successes | is commonly overwhelming and decisive. It makes a great difference whether a party is fighting for victory or merely to cover a retreat. In 1872, when Pennsylvania was also an October State, the republican victory in October added more than a hundred thousand to Grant's majority in Pennsylva- nia alone, to say nothing of its tremendous effect in other States. In October, 1872, the republican majority in Pennsylvania was 34,368, and in November it rose to 136,118, There were similar results in the other Octo- ber States. In Ohio the republican majority of 12,104 in October rose to 34,268 in Novem- ber. In Indiana the democrats carried the State in October by a small majority of 1,337, but owing to the Pennsylvania and Ohio elections the republicans carried Indiana in November by a majority of 21,090. Consid- ering the stupendous effect of pregeding elections on those that follow the dem- ocratic party cannot afford to abandon Ohio and Indiana without a contest. It is fortunate for the party that Pennsyl- vania has passed out of the list of October States. If the democrats should give up Ohio in advance the republicans will carry it by such a stunning majority as will knock the breath out of the democratic party in New York. New York can be saved to the democrats only by maintaining the last year's strength of the party in the October States, and it will require a very strong man indeed to do this in Ohio against Govegnor Hayes, The Cincinnati nominations have, thero- fore, put the democratic party under bonds for good behavior. It cannot succeed with a weak candidate. It cannot succeed with a candidate who is strong in New York+ but States. If it were New York that is to hold jan election in October, and if Ohio and | Indiana stood in the common rank of in New York would be ber, strength State, As it is, success in Ohio and Indiana votes in New York to the party that wins in October. ‘he Republican National Com- mittee had an intelligent perception of this truth when they located the Convention at Cincinnati, and the accident (for it was not | deliberate plan and foresight) which gave | Governor Hayes the nomination forces the | democratic party to meet its adversary in Ohio as the chief battle ground of the cam- paign, The St. Louis Convention will have to consider not merely who would be the Strongest candidate if no electio& inter- yened between the date of the nomination party will be the most solid rampart against the discouragement and demoralization which would follow an overwhelming defeat in the October States, \ If the October elections were not so potent an element in the canvass we have no doubt that Governor Tilden would be the strongest candidate in fact, as he is already the strongest in the confidence and good will of the party and in the amount of its assured support. He is likely to lead in the.early ballots as Blaine led at Cincinnati. But he may fail, as Blaine failed, by the eombina- tion of his rivals ona different candidate. “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong,” especially in a national con- vention. ‘The fact that a candidate enters a convention with the largest support tempts his rivals to combine against him it they can find a plausible ground of opposition. The objection to Governor Tilden will not be of the same fatal kind as that urged against Mr. Blaine, but it may have force enough to de- feat him. It will be said, and stubbornly repeated and insisted on, that he is the weakest of all candidates for carrying the October States. He alienated Ohio last fall and excited bitter malevolence by his real or fancied wish for the defeat of the democratic party. Some of his most devoted organs in this State—the Brooklyn Eagle for one—openly and strenuously advised the hard «money democrats of Ohio to defeat the ticket. If Tilden should be nominated the unforgiving Ohio democrats would let the State go by default, and its triumphant republican ma- jority would be a dripping wet blanket on the party in New York and in every other doubtful State. This is the line of argu- ment that will be pursued by Governor Til- den’s opponents at St. Louis, and inasmuch as it is only necessary to convince one-third ot the Convention of its soundness Governor Tilden may fail of the nomination in spite of his great apparent strength, . The Political Hyena. Nothing is sacred to.the average politician, A post tradership, a family scandal or a funeral, it is all the same to him. The world in which he moves is his oyster, and he must investigate it should there be some- thing in it of which he can make capital, political or financial. All is fish that comes to his net, Household, Church, the grave itself, is not exempt from his insatiable cu- pidity. We have ao striking example of the hyena nature of the average politician in an article published in another column in reference to Greenwood Cemetery. This city of the dead, in which over one hundred and eighty thousand peo- ple await the call of the last trumpet, and which, in its natural and artificial beauties, will compare favorably with any cemetery in the world, the pride of New York and its sister city, the Mecca of many a mourner and the shrine of many a loved one, is the object on which the hungry eye of the poli- tician has been for some time fixed. Re- gardless of the terms of the’ charter of the cemetery, the politician said it was only right that this vast, silent army, over whose graves the cypress droops and the mourner kneels, should pay texes toward the thou- sand and one improvements going on in their neighborhood. Beaten in the Legisla- ture, where he first sent up his howl, the political hyena next invaded the chamber of the Board of Aldermen in Brooklyn. Baftled there, he still sends up his plaint and yelps around the walls of the cemetery sacred to every good Christian. It appears that there is a reserve fund of over eight hundred thousand dollars in the hands of the trustees, and for this the political hyena incessantly howls. Again, a large number of laborers is employed in the cemetery, and, as each is 2 voter, the politician's appe- | tite is additionally whetted. Whatever may be the necossities in life in which we must submit to this unconscionable individual, Heaven preserve our dead from the clutches of that human hyena, the average poli- tician. Lacrosst axp Poo axp Piagon SHoorrna continue to be the aristocratic amusements in England. Tho Canadian and Iroquois teams of lacrosse players have struggled for the palm of victory before a select company at Hurlingham Park, the white men winning the match. Polo also proves to be a popular pastime among the blue bloods, and some fine matches have been played at Hurling- ham between ropresentives of England and Ireland, in which the team of the former proved victorious. ‘The Oaks Handicap” match of pigeon shooting camé off on tho Hurlingham grounds with twenty-seven competitors and resulted in Mr. W. C. Alston winning the first prize after a very exciting contest of skill. Movrap tHe Firrn is credited with being & man of enlightened ideas, the outgrowth of his French education, and in the cor- respondence from Paris which we publish to-day a very favorable future is anticipated for the new ruler of Turkey. Our cor- respondent had written before the an- nouncement was officially made that the deposed Sultan had died of self-inflicted wounds—a manner of “taking off” which no one now oredits, and this clear case of mur- der will detract considerably from the | cannot make a good fight in the October | States that do not vote until Novem- | everything, because a great victory here | would turn the scale in every doubtfnl | will be worth from thirty to fifty thousand | and November, but which statesman of their | | The “Unit Rule” fn National Con- pai ‘. Be One of the most excited and interesting debates at Cincinnati was thet which took place on the last day, when some of the Pennsylvania delegates mutinied against the unit rule and claimed the right to vote ac- cording to their individual preferences, It was decided by the Convention, after full discussion, that the instruction given by the Pennsylvania Convention to its delegates to vote as a unit under the direction of the majority was not binding. As the same question may come up in the St. Louis Con- vention it is worth considering on its merits. The New York delegation to St. Louis is in- structed to vote as a unit, and if the instruc- tion is obeyed Governor Tilden will have the whole seventy votes of the delegates counted as for him so long as his friends can control thirty-six of them. If it should happenin the progress of the proceedings that the dissent- ing minority of the delegation could defeat Tilden by voting as individuals they may pursue the same course that was adopted at Cincinnati by the Pennsylvania dissenters and compel the Convention to decide whether they are entitled to exercise their own judgment. Governor Tilden's ultimate success or defeat may depend on the decision of this question. It was ably argued on both sides at Cin- cinnati, the defenders of the unit rule main- taining that delegates who accepted an elec- tion after the State Convention had adopted this rule were bound in honor to submit to it, but the opponents of the rule contended, on the ether hand, that the National Conven- tion has supreme authority to determine the tules of its own proceedings, including the method of voting, and that no resolution of a State Convention can prevail against the decision of the National Convention. This last would seem to be the sounder view ; at all events, it was deliberately indorsed by the Cincinnati Convention after full argu- mentand debate. If it should be also adopted at St. Louis it would make a very material change in tho action and methods of national nominating conventions, It is s strong presumption against the unit rule that nothing resembling it obtains in the nominating conventions held by either party in the separate States. In every State convention each delegate votes with perfect freedom according to his own choice, and an attempt to have votes against a can- didate recorded as if for him would be hooted down as the height of absurdity. No such mode of voting is tolerated in Con- gress. It would be a flagrant violation of legislative independence for the majority of the members from any State to assume to cast all the votes of the State, and to defeat or pass bills by arbitrarily counting votes as fora measure which were really against it, and vice versa, Fortunately the constitution does not permit in Congress this kind of tyranny and this subjugation of indi- vidual judgment. It degrades a large por- tion of the members of a nominating convention into mere passive tools, to be used by schemers and tricksters as if they were voting cattle. The minority of a dele- gation might as well be so many oxen when they are deprived of all choice and are counted as being ona different side from that which they approve. Under the opera- tion of the unit rule a candidate might be nominated by the minority of a convention, This would always happen when he received only a bare majority of the recorded votes, if that majority included any that were counted for him under the compulsion of the unit rule. If the part so counted against the real choice of delegates should happen to be large a candidate might be nominated by less than one-third of the members of the Convention. If it be said that the unit rnle, so absurd on its face, is conformable to the democratic theory of State rights, it may be replied that the foremost champions of State rights have held the rule in utter detestation. Here is a short extract of what Mr. Calhoun said in denunciation of it :—‘I hold it indispensa- ble that the delegates should be appointed directly by the people, or, to use the lan- guage of General Jackson, should be ‘fresh from the people.’ I also hold that the only possible mode to effect this is for the people to choose the delegates by districts, and that they should vote per capita. Every other mode would be controlled by political ma- chinery and place the appointments in the hands of the few who wo: ‘ Money There is a slight ripple of excitement just now among those who happen to have Turney or Stewart for a last name, The faintest prospect of getting one’s fingers into the ample cash box of the great merchant is & piece of rare good fortune in these hard times, and sanguine and imaginative people are building air castles at whose door stand richly caparisoned steeds, curbed by servants in gaudy livery. The fly leaf in dusty Bibles that until now have had no value whatever is read with studious care in the hope that some distant relationship may be proven therehy. The one cry of the im- pecunious heart—and its name is Legion—is that it may discover one drop of that precious blood which flowed in the veins of Alexander the Great, who founded the down- town wholesale and the uptown retail store. That single drop might become the fulcrum on which to fix the bar of a claim in law which might terminate in o freestone front on the corner, or, at least, a modest four story domicile on a very respectable side street. To us, whose middle or last initial can by no eccentricity of handwriting be twisted into T or S, there is something very ludi- crous in the avalanche of letters which is falling on the marble palace of Thirty-fourth street. One of these, written by a woman of sufficiently varied fortune, has particu- larly attracted our attention. Every ill that flesh is heir to has fallen to herlot. Her first husband heard the blast of war, and in three cruel months was laid in o martyr’s grave. His weeping widow expected to get “a big pension and back pay” with which to assuage her grief and as tho basis of a new matrimonial contract. Her hopes were real- ized and the money deposited in the bank, It was too great a strain for that institution, however, and it and the widow's mite went into a receiver's hands, leaving her to con- sole herself as best she could with that famil- brillisncy which surrounds the accession of | iar song, ‘Fading, Still Fading.” Mourad to the throne of Othman. She next married a man on his deathbed | merchant and his generous widow. ~ KUPLE SHEET. and thus put herself beyond the possibility of domestic quarrels, Atten in the morn- ing she wus a second wife, and at ten in the evening she was again a widow. A third time she lifted the veil that covers the future and saw the stalwart form of Willie A. Stewart, on the strength of whose potent name she has indulged in great expectations. Misfortunes, however, were still in store for her, She was walking out one summer day when, “by stepping into n little hole on the sidewalk,” she received an internal injury. She at once called in the two best surgeons of the town, but one of them was soon after “throwed” by his horse and ‘‘injured se- riously and fatally.” The other became ‘‘para- lyzed,” and in a few days gave up the ghost. Having thus satisfactorily disposed of sev- eral husbands, and all the best surgeons in town, she now turns her attention to somo of the broad acres which her ‘dear friend and aunty” has inherited. Not over- sanguine, but still reasonably hopoful, she directs that the few thousands which may be spared for her benefit shall be sent to either of two named banks, which are not likely to fail before she van get her check cashed. Such a catalogue of miseries deserves atten- tion. With a httle ready money she may still again indulge in the delight of matrimonial prospects and live happily to the end of her days. What a pity to interrupt such a dream of bliss! “Second Best” Ticket and the Newspapers. While the Times exults over the Cincin- nati nominations the Sun perceives nothing but ruin ina party which chooses men of little character and of unimportant lives, Hayes was supported by the Tribune for Governor, and it will not now give him any- thing but praise asa candidate for President. He is heldin high esteem by the Graphic because he was the second choice of every- body. The Mail finds that Hayes will de- velop the working strength of the party, and the Commercial Advertiser is too strong a par- tisan not to acquiesce in the nominations with grace. It praises the Heraxp for its “magnificent fight for Senator Conkling” with o heartiness that shows a little disap- pointment. The Post, which worships the perfect, but obeys the possible, believes that the canvass promises to be respectable and that the democrats will be forced to nomi- nate pure men. The republicans will be glad that the Express gives the can- didates tHe praise that they are re- spectable. The Philadelphia North American, with the air of a centenarian, finds that there is now a chance for reform within the party. Mr. Forney is too old a politician not to show in the Press a tone of regret that neither Hayes nor Wheeler has a name to elec- trify the nation, and he calls them safe and formal men. Colonel McClure went into the canvass with the belief that Blaine is the legitimate successor of Henry Clay, and with some indignation the Philadelphia Times gives a hint that the Prosidency is to be conferred upon mediocrity. In New Jersey the democrats are finding 4a little satisfac- tion with the result, but republican papers, which usually sympathize with Ohio affairs, The welcome Hayes with forced ardor. It is noticeable that Connecticut journals accede dismally, pulling up the party flag with one hand and wiping their eyes with the other. The Hartford Courant crystallizes the sentiment by saying that it supports this ‘‘second best ticket.” Most of the Pennsylvania republican press would prefer Wheeler at the head of the ticket, and think that Hartranft is a larger man than Hayes. The I'roy Whig is one of a few papers that says republicans speak of the ticket with terror; and it wonders why General Sherman or some other great Ameri- can could not have been chosen as a com- promise. There is in the tone of the press a singular expression of placid contentment on one hand and of nervousness on the other. The strongest arguments in favor of the nominations are that Hayes ‘fought in the war,” and is as well known as Lincoln was before his nomination. The general and weakest argument is that the demoorats have little to say against the ticket. The general newspaper feeling is that there is little to say either for or against it. President Grant’s Congratulations. Governor Hayes is the recipient of more telegraph messages conveying congratula- tions and assurances of cordial support than were ever before sent to a Presidential can- didate. That of President Grant is the most valuable of them all, and not the least graceful. It insures for Governor Hayes a full exertion of the colossal Executive influence to promote his election. Such au implied promise would scarcely have been given by the President either to Mr. Bilsine or Mr. Bristow, and its promptness and heartiness will ea strong impression favorable to Governor Hayes’ success. The reform element of the party, which has no reason to distrust Governor Hayes, will be satisfied that he is a stronger candidate with President support than Mr. Bristow could have be elected is a more eligible candidate a violent reformer who could not. Governor Hayes’ supplanted rivals hastened to sud him their con; and tender theirearnest support. Conkling and Morton would not have sent such sages to Blaine nor Blaine to either of t! or to Bristow. Governor Hayes is forturgate in having no envious enemies in his party, but troops of friends among its powerful leaders. No other candidate coBid have so completely harmonized the pality after the late jealousies and dissensions. Bf the democrats have any hope of defeat: Hayes they must stop their bickering backbiting, select their very best candi and then make ‘‘a long pull, a strong p and a pull altogether.” Tar Woman's Horen, erected by the A. T. Stewart, is rapidly approaching co: building will be comfortably turnished, and good meals will be provided at a cost of hot more than forty-five cents per day, so that the fortunate ones who will secure rooms in this mammoth hotel will have good reason to bless the munificence of the departed Pulpit Topics To-Day. Swedenborgianism claims to be anew Uni tarianism which teaches the absolute per- sonal unity of God ina much clearer and more exact form than it has ever been taught before. But at the same time it shows that | this unity is not only compatible with the | divinity of Jesus Christ, but necessitates it, Mr. Giles will, in some measure, set this doctrine forth to-day. Dr. Deems will give his people some sensible advice about secret prayer and ‘devotion, and abont grieving the Holy Spirit by neglect and disobedience, Mr. Hepworth will tell New York business men what are the laws of success in life—he is doubtless familiar with them—and Dr. Tal- mage will warn against the temptations of summer watering places, albeit in less than ao month he will be off to a watering place, but of course to one where there are no temptations, The doom of the first murderer is a little shrouded in mystery, but Mr. Hatfield will, in a measure, lift the veil to-day, while Mr, Herr sets up his banners and makes astrange choice, or tells about some one who has made such a choice, and perhaps felt some of Mr. Leavell’s peculiar attractions of the cross, and, with Mr. Moment, engaged in Christian work, and were thus prepared for the second coming of Christ, so that, as Mr. Snow predicts, He will come. to others, He will not come to them as a thief or as a unawares, The Sunday question, which is one of growing interest here, will be consid. ered by Dr. Rylance, who will also indicate the morni qualities that are symbolized by serpents and doves. All the Protestant de- nominations are at this time taking more or less interest in the conversion of the Jews, from which we may infer that ‘the times of the Gentiles” are nearly fulfilled. Hence Mr. Harris, himself a convert from Judaism, will preach the second of a series of sermons to Israelites on Jesus, the Messiah, by whom, as indicated by Mr. Jutten, we all constitute one Christian fam- ily, and, therefore, as Mr. Rowell suggests, we should reverence the Son and not spend so’much time with Mr. Seitz taking account of loaves and fishes. Mr. McCarthy's propo- sition is a plain one—namely, that repent- ance is a divine necessity in a corrupt age, especially for those who are corrupt and im- penitent ; but his illustrations of the vices of the tongue by the policy of slandering those who have wronged him are, to our thinking, a little too savory of his recent trouble with a church that he has left. The pulpit is the place for preaching Christ, and not for ven= tilating personal wrongs and animosities. These may be taken before another tribunal, where justice can be done, but let the Gos pel, and it alone, be ministered in thé hous¢ of God and in a service devoted to His wor ship. The death of Sennacherib’s army and its lessons will be presented by Mr. Lloyd, and other topics of interest will be discussed by other pastors. Tax Rarmroap Wag is being vigorously waged by the great transportation com. panies, and the result is a reduction in rates, which means a speedy settlement of the quarrel. A temporary advantage is reaped by the public daring these periodical dis. plays of jealousy by the railroad corpora. tions, but in the end they make new treaties, offensive and defensive, and the people have again to submit to their terms. Opposition is the life of trade, and what New York really needs is a direct line to the great West which cannot be controlled by existing combinn- tions. Unless we cansecure an independent means of transportation of this kind oar city niust remain at the mercy of monopolies that will never permit our interests to inter« fere with their own. Tae Escarep Fexraxs—Some details of the escape of the Fenians from West Austra- lia have reached us by mail from England, and they will be found elsewhere. It will be noted that the rescue was carried out minutely as said to have been arranged in America. The story closely agrees with the plans announced, even to the whaler which took the men away lying outside of English marine jurisdiction. The men who did all this knew what they were about, * Ax Ixterviezw with Govenxon’ Hayzs, of Ohio, the nominee of the Republican Conven- tion, will be found elsewhere. He says that there will be no trouble about the money plank of the platform; he praises Blaine, doesn’t know Wheeler, but is of good cheer generally. Yesterday he received the com mittee of the Convention, but has not given forth his formal acceptance of the honor yet, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Toombs is in Atlanta, Ga Dio Lewis is camping out In California, Gonoral Sherman calls at the White House, Mulligan was the Delilan who cut Blaine’s hatr. The Mormons are being reinforced by emigrants. Biaine’s 44,000,000 confidence game did not work. Wendell Phillips will summer at Watertown, Mass. A Madison, @a, girl has just Onished a bateh of forty quilts, A Texas man makes a $1,000 year from each acre ofan field. ‘The wife and daughter of Dake Gwin, of California, will summer at Saratoga. “The man who laughs,” Gymplainen. “The man who doesn’t laugh.”? Jim Blaine. X! General Stoneman has been appointed one of the rail- road commissioners of California. President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail. road, has returned East from California, Coloael Ingersoll, of [liinois, came out of the Cinein- natt Convention with the largest armiul of laureis. The Rochester Democrat, trying to ‘imitate the httle paragraphs inthe Hxratp about fashions, says that mazziin’ is the latest fashion for dogs, General Bonuregard said of the young actress, Mary Anderson, who is making a largo American reputation, that she has the finest voce he ever heard. Colonel MeClure says that Blaine bas found his Har. rison im Hayes, and that he will find bis Taylor in somo one else, but that he wil! continge to be the socond Henry Clay. ‘Yn Saturday morning 41,000,000 of people waited anxtously for one another to ask “What do you think of the nomination?” so that they might carelessly reply, “Oh, it looks a little iibeen " Detroit Free Press:—“It is against the ordinance to sell leo cream in Newark on Sunday, but twenty-five | Joafers can bang around a corner ali day and leer as passing femaies."” Wendell Phillips, speaking in favor ot say! South Church on Thursday, said:—“We Hide e world that achurch without a bishop and a State ithout a king (8 an actual, real, everyday possibility,” BK Lyno Linton telis of characteristic old ‘Maids as. those whu are masculine in tastes and areas; id, those who aro strong minded and advise