The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1876,-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |™"’ Republican Platform at Cincin- 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 letiers or vena patches must be addressed New York Letters and packages should be properl; sealed. packages perly Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Sandy PHILADELPHIA UF 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PIQUE, thn ba uimanaey ‘eg C'S THEATRE, at P.M. W. J. Flopence, GILMORE'S GARDEN. GRAND CONCEKT, at 8 I KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. PARK THE KERRY GOW, «t 5 P.M, BOWERY THEATRE, UNDER BAIL, at 8 P. M. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, 8 P.M. THIRD AVE! JACK SHEPPARD, at 8 P. WOOD'S MU THE DOGS, at P.M. M UNION SQUARE THEATRE, THE VOKES FAMILY, ai 5 I’. M. VARIETIES, ™M. RIPLE SHE NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUN the probal partly cloudy ports this ng are that the weather to-day will be or clear. During the summer months the Hera will | be sent fo subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Norick to Country NewspraLenrs.— For rompt and regular delivery of the HzzaLp ‘ Jast mail tgains orders must be sent direct to | this office. Postage free. Wart, Srrezr Yesterpay.—Stocks were more active and excited. Some of the fan- cies were higher. Gold opened and closed at 112 3-8. Money loaned on call at two per cent. Government bonds were strong. Rail- way bonds and investment shares steady. | Tae Cenrennian Yacut Reaatras will be- gin to-day with a race for first and second class schooners and sloops, twenty-two en- tries in all. | To Inrenpinc Democratic CanpIpATEs.— Is there anything ominous in the fact that Cincinnati stands between St. Louis and Washington ? A (Cxosz Vorr may be expected in the French Senate on the University bill. Its rejection would mark the beginning of a fierce contest between the Senate and the Obamber. Tae Krxo or Danomey has withdrawn his royal promise to pay the fine imposed by England’ because the latter has withdrawn her man-of-war, the only kind of tax collector | his black Majesty can appreciate. Tue Way to Exect Hares ann WHEELER. — The Associated Press sends us this de- spatch:—‘‘Negroes Hanged. New Orleans, June 20.—The Picayune to-day reports the hanging of five negroes at Mount Pleasant by white Regulators.” Tax New Casinet.—If Mr. Hayes’ man- agers at Cincinnati effected his nomination by arranging his Cabinet Mr. Blaine does not | seem to have been a party to the bargain. Is he certain, therefore, to be Secretary of State? There are two reasons why he may not be—first, Hayes may not be President; second, Blaine has compromised nothing yet but his own reputation. Tax Wan Porentiatrrr of China has never been fully developed, and this is | something for the outer barbarians to thank God on. It has always seemed ridiculous that Powers like England, France and Hol- land could be able to make any impression on an empire so mighty as China. Now, however, that the Chinese are sending stu- dents to Berlin to learn the art of war and to study the military system of Germany, it will be perceived that the spell of ages | seems about to be broken, and that China is preparing to play a new réle in the world. Rvurezrs Cotircr, New Brunswick, cele- brated its one hundredth and sixth com- mencement yesterday with more than cus- | + tomary enthusiasm and brilliancy of display. This old seat of learning holds its rank well | after educating the youth of the Revolution- | ary days and their descendants who cele- | brate this year the centennial of their | country’s independence. The long list of | graduates and others who have won college | honors at Rutgers this year is a pleasing | evidence of the vitality of the institution, | and reflects well deserved credit on the able | corps of professors that direct the studies, Tae Heratp at THE CenTennrat.—One of the attractions of the Centennial is the Bul- | lock press in the Machinery Hall, which prints copies of the Heratp from stereotype plates sent over in the early morning train. This machine is one of the latest improved double Bullock perfecting presses, which, at stated times during the day, runs off our regular edition. The printing of the Hrrarp in this public manner is oneof the sights of the Centennial, The Bullock press is one of the achievements of modern science and has solved a problem of the most important character. We have now in our press room five double sized Ballock. presses, each of which will print, ty thousand copies an hour of a sixteen paged Henaty. We have two single Bullocks in addition, giving us a capacity for printing one hundred thousand complete of the Henatp an hour at average and one hundred and fifteen thousand anhour at full speed. The Bullock inven- tion has been a revolution in the printing of the daily hewspaper, and visitors to the Centennial should not fail to see it in opera- tion in the Machinery Hall. nati. When the Committee on Resolutions of the St. Louis Convention meets next Wednesday we advise its members to make aclose examination of the Cincinnati plat- form. That so called ‘declaration of prin- ciples” is as weak and frivolous a document as has for many years been put forth by either of the great parties, and the demo- crats will, if they are wise, to use a phrase which is familiar in St. Louis, ‘see it and go one better.” The first of the Cincinnati resolutions is a truism which it might nevertheless be wise in the St. Lonis Convention to adopt with- out change; for it is a facton which the dem- ocrats insist even more than the republicans, that ‘‘the combined workings of the national and State governments under their respect- ive constitutions” secure the rights of citi- zens and the common welfare. The second resolution is mere buncombe and brag. The third was adopted while the Convention was squinting toward the Southern colored delegates ; it was the Convention's milk and water reply to the Rev. Henry High- land Garnet’s plea that justice should be done by the government to the poor colored laborers who were robbed of over three millions of their hard earnings by the republican managers of the Freedman’s Bank, and the resolution seems to have been written by one of those imag- inative politicians who have ‘‘soarings after the infinite and divings for the unfathom- able,” but who never pay cash. Instead of this buncombe the St. Louis Convention would do a just and also a shrewd ac\if it should adopt a resolution declaring that ‘the Freedman’s Bank swindlers ought to be prosecuted and that the government under whose encouragement and authority the freedmen were asked to deposit their small savings in this bank is justly and morally re- sponsible for the losses and ought to make them good. The fourth Cincinnati resolution relates to the currency, and it carefully evades all direct or practical committal of the party to sound money. What is a ‘‘continuous and steady progress to specie payment?” Clearly the republicans did not mean resumption in 1879; for when that honest gentleman, Governor Davis, of Texas, offered. a plea for the Resumption act he was contemptuously and summarily voted down by the Convention. Nor can it be said that the republican party has done anything since General Grant came into power to.set- tle the currency question. The volume of currency is at this moment far greater, com- pared with the business of the country, than it was when the party made the declaration in favor of resumption, about which it has ever since bragged, and the Resumption act of last session—an excellent measure—has fallen into contempt and suspicion only be- cause the republican administration has treated it as a nullity and paid not the slightest attention to it. In consequence of this neglect of duty it may be now too late to resume in 1879; but as the St. Louis Convention will undoubtedly adopt a hard money platform why should it not solemnly pledge itself to the country to bring it back to specie payments, if not in 1879, yet during: the four years which are included in the next Presi- dential term? That would be a practical engagement, a promise for the fulfilment of which the people could hold the party re- sponsible, and upon which business could be based all over the country. Such a specific and definite pledge would secure the support of thousands of business men all over the country. Nor has the democratic party anything to risk in making it, for its struggle will be, aside from the South, in hard money States, and with so practical and square an engagement on the currency question the democratic party would proba- bly carry more Eastern States than it needs in November. The fifth Cincinnati resolution is an ex- tremely mild allusion to civil service reform. It the St. Louis Convention should declare for permanence in the lower offices, depend- ing only on efficiency and.good behavior, it would place itself on ground where, before an- other four years are past, both parties will be compelled to stand; and if it should forbid federal office-holders to interfere in politics in the States where they hold place the dem- ocrats would commit themselves against one of the most dangerous practices of which the republicans have been guilty, in the South mainiy, but also in the North. The sixth resolution is also buncombe. Instead of that the democrats will probably frame one demanding and promising econ- omy and retrenchment in government expen- ditures and lower taxes—a policy which the | republicans not only did not dare to assert at Cincinnati, but which the republican Senate is now resisting even at the risk of embarrass- ing the government. The seventh resolu- tion, relating to the grant of public funds to sectarian institutions, ought to be adopted verbatim at St. Louis. So far as the action of the federal government is concerned it amounts to nothing, for the federal govern- ment has no occasion to make grants to sec- tarian schools or other enterprises. So far as the policy within the States is concerned it has the consent of all sensible men, Cath- olics as well as Protestants, and it aims to cut off gifts which are as often and in as great sums made to Protestant as to Catho- lic solicitors by State Legislatures, If the democrats cannot frame a resolution on the revenue more pointed and satisfactory than No, 8in the Cincinnati platform we shall think little of them. A more in- genious straddling of the political fence they cannot contrive. The ninth and tenth lutions are good enough to copy. As fol the rest—eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen—they will probably find their counterparts in the St. Louis platform. Everybody understands that they mean nothing, but are merely complimentary—or the reverse. But when the Cincinnati com- mittee, in its seventeenthly, at the close of an inordinately long and meaningless series of resolutions, and when the Convention was already tired and had ceased to listen, in- sinuated a compliment to General Grant's administration, they gave their rivals an op- portunity and excuse for a solemn indict- ment, which we trust they will know how to use, and not abuse. The democratic party has peculiar rela- tions toward the country. It has not gained the confidence of the people—therefore it must speak out more frankly, must promise more definitely than its opponents need to. But it has the good fortune that it seeks its support in States where the frankest speech and the most definite promise can- not hurt it] where, indeed, a clear and pre- cise committal on the currenzy, the revenue and other really important questions will help it to an important vote—independent, liberal and lukewarm republicans—which it can hope to gain only by such pledges and by the nomination of statesmen of known opinions and high character. If the St. Louis Convention is timid, if it tries to look both ways, it will undoubtedly insure a re- publican victory. If it offers nothing better than the republicans then the country will take the republicans. But if it offers the country statesmanship, definite pledges, a well defined policy, instead of cant and bun- combe, then it may hope for the support of the immense number of discontented voters who are dissatisfied with the republican ad- ministration of affairs, do not see much hope of improvement in another republican success; but prefer to risk that if they donot see a strong hope of improvement on the democratic side, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The position of Pennsylvania and Ohio in the Convention at Cincinnati is worthy of note, Ohio came into the Convention with her candidate. She stood by him like a stone wall. There was no surrender, no concession, no second choice. Every bar- gain was thrown aside. It was the first place or nothing. When each ballot was called Ohio's ‘forty-four for Hayes” rang out like a broadside from a line-of-battle ship, and in seven broadsides every flag was lowered but the flag of Ohio. Well, Pennsylvania came into the Con- vention with fifty-eight votes and a crowd of water department, gas works; State House row heelers, in white hats. She, too, hada candidate—a soldier, like Hayes, but with a better record—-a Governor, like Hayes, and as popular in Pennsylvanian as Hayes is in Ohio. There was just as much reason for the nomination of Hartranft as for that of | Hayes, But Pennsylvania, as soon as she arrived, began to dicker and quarrel, Hart- ranft was thrown aside. The Ring poli- ticians of Philadelphia under General Bing- ham did not want to give him more than one ballot. On the third ballot there was a secession, a wrangle in the open Convention. Pennsylvania’s chairman was ao partisan of Blaine. The result of this quarrel was that Pennsylvania had no voice in the Conven- tion. But for the firmness of a few friends of Governor Hartranft he would have been dropped on the second ballot. The reason why Ohio gained so much and why Pennsylvania lost everything, even the respect of the other States, was because Ohio was true to the State and the candidate. If Ohio had her heartburnings they did not appear to the Convention. There was no washing of dirty linen. A faction in Penn- sylvania slaughtered the distinguished Gov- ernor of that State to gratify a political fend with the Secretary of War. The “‘humilia- tion of Don Cameron” was a higher purpose than the nomination of Hartranft, the honor of the State, even the nomination of Blaine. As it was, Hartranft was beaten, Blaine was beaten, the State was shorn of her influegce, and Don Cameron was victor. We might say something of New York also, but the theme is not worth pursuing. But when these two great States—Pennsylvania and New York—again enter a political con- vention let them think of proud, patient, decorous, self-respecting Ohio, and by follow- ing her high example they may win their share of her high gains. The Queen's Cup. There is a good deal of excitement in yachting circles in reference to the Cen- tennial races, and more especially the sailing for the Queen's Cup, in answer to the challenge of the Countess of Dufferin. We are glad to see so much interest in this noble sport, and we trust the centennial season will justify the best expectations of the yachting public. As to the race for the Queen's Cup, we of course trust that the vessel selected to represent the United States in the contest will win. At the same time we are disposed to agree with the London Field that the possession of this trophy is like the proprietorship of a hornets’ nest. The contest in which it wag won was a trial between nationalities and models. The victory was that of the American over the English model. It represented, therefore, not merely skill in seamanship, in the direc- tion of a race, but skill in ship- building, as should be the case in every international race.- But no such condition will exist with the Countess of Dufferin. That vessel is an American model, and her victory would be the victory of a flag, nothing more. This whole busi- ness of the Queen’s Cup and the deed under which it is held are so much of an annoyance that if it were not unpatriotic we could wish that the cup might be carried away by the English and never returned. If the club should retain it they might return it to the donors and say that they do not care to hold itany longer under the conditions of the present deed. Ifit is thought worth while to encourage international races let the deed be so amended that victory will mean some- thing. As it now stands it means nothing, and the possession of the cup is an annoy- ance and not a triumph. Wer Parst this morning another contribu- tion to the series of interviews with delegates to the St. Louis Convention with which our pages have been enriched for some days. The States included in the present chapter are Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansns and Nevada, and the opinions of tho delegates | from each of them will be read with interest by all persons who care to study the opinions and the preferences of the men who are to make the democratic nomination for the Presidency. Victvatiise Nicstc seems to be the chief aim of the Turkish troops in the revolted provinces. A quantity of provisions has been thrown into the town without opposi- tion from the insurgents. More food is to follow, as the Nicsicians are reported very hungry. General Hanceck. This excellent soldier and upright citizen is among the minor candidates talked of for theSt. Louis nomination, but the support he receives can have no other effect than to prevent a concentration of votes on the stronger rivals before the delegates have a6, to survey the ground and compare vie General Hancock has no chance for the nomination, not even as the dark horse. The country has had enough of, military Presidents, The democratic party especially has strong motives for taking the civil war and all questipns connected with it out of Politics and abolishing the memory of that family quarrel. General Hancock's candida- ture rests entirely on the part he acted asa soldier, and his nomination would make the war the pivot of the canvass. But the sooner the war passes entirely out of politics into history the better for the demo- cratic party and the better for the country. No new evidence is needed that the South accept the political results of the war as irreversible, and it would be neither delicate nor magnanimous to keep flaunting in their faces the fact that they were forced into submission by military power. Even apart from the general disgust with military Presidents, and apart from the impolicy of keeping alive'the memory of a bloody conflict between citizens of the same country, there is no fitness in nominating a man for President on his war record so long after the end of the contest. Just after the close of a war it may be proper enough to bestow civil honors on a general as a mark of recognition and.gratitude, but the war for the Union is too long past for this feeling to have much force even if general cock were the fittest object of it, Ifwe were in expectation of a new war there might be sone advantage ih electing a generat to the Presidency, and in such a contingency there isno man in the army whocould be | more safely trusted than General Hancock to keep the military subordinate to the civil authority and prevent the arbitrary abuses and the dangers to lib- erty which are too apt to attend a state of war. But we are happily exposed to no such peril. What the country needs is a wise, steady, sagacious civil administration, such as we can only expect under a Presi- dent of statesmanlike abilities and large ex- perience. To put General Hancock at the head of the government would be as impru- dent as it would be to put Senator Bayard in command of an army. General Hancock might make an admirable Secretary of War under a democratic administration, but that is as high a civil position as he has any title to aspire to or as the country would consent to have him occupy. The President and the Convention. The friends of Mr. Blaine now say that he was compelled to fight the power of the administration. This is utter cant. The administration, so far as the President is cozcerned, showed great delicacy about this Convention. It allowed Bristow to run asa reformer on a platform certifying that Grant's administration was corrupt, and that he, Bristow, 4 prominent member of it, was the one man to purify the government. Grant even submitted to an indignity in this, which Old Hickory would have. re- sented without delaying longer than was necessary to pull on his boots. Jewell was a candidate, and all the postmasters were in his interest. Judge Taft supported Hayes, as was his duty, coming from Ohio. Chandler and Robeson were openly for Blaine. Fish was for Blaine after himself. The only member of the Cabinet who cared for Conkling was Cameron, and he voted for Hartranft. So far as the President is concerned he said nothing. It was supposed that he preferred Conkling, and no doubt he did, for the natural reason that he knew Conk- ling to be head and shoulders over every other candidate and naturally preferred the strongest man to succeed him. But Mr. Morton has gone on the record to the effect that he is satisfied with the President's im- partidlity. We have yet to hear of a single Blaine man who has been even reproved by the administration. The President behaved well in the whole business. The complaints of the Blaine men are only a part of that sys- tem of fraud and false pretence which de- stroyed the canvass of the member from Maine. Comixc Down.—General Eckert, the Presi-" dent of the Atiantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, announces that there will be a reduction in rates during the sessions of the Democfatic Convention at St. Louis, This shows wisdom, a proper appreciation of the uses of the telegraph and fine business sense. General Eckert’s business capacity comes more and more into relief every day in his management of the opposition lines. Why should not Mr. Orton, the President of the Western Union, follow this example, or, what would be much better, give a new one by coming down to a lower figure than his rival? Mr. Orton, in addition to his high qualities as the manager of this vast Western Union, is an eloquent and efficient leader in politics, He knows, therefore, how popular such a movement would be among the people. Competition is the life of trade, and we have no doubt that an honorable competition between these two telegraph lines would give new life to the telegraph business and in time strengthen the re- sources and the revenues of both companies, Tae Farat Exproston in a Jersey City per- cussion cap factory, by which a number of children as well as grown people,were killed and wounded, shows the criminal folly of em- | ploying such inexperienced hands, at such a dangerous occupation. Fulminate of silver, with which the caps were loaded, may be justly regarded as one of the most highly explosive substances known, and very small quantities of it have been found sufficient to produce most disastrous results when ex- ploded by accidental concussion. Famili- arity with the handling of this terrible ex- plosive may make regular workmen careless, but it isa cruel thing to place young chil- dren in danger of their lives for the sake of the little snving effected in the payroll. Tue Natronat Gaze is now turned upon Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Hayes and his interesting family pursue the even tenor — of their lives. What one of the Governor's intimates says of his political tact, his oratory and his personal bearing generally in the campaigns of the ballot is pub- lished elsewhere, and will pleasantly supplement the stories of the Governor's service in campaigns of the bullet. Although the ladies have no vote they have much power, and they will doubtless be gratified to learn what manner of lady of the White House Mrs, Hayes would make before directing their lords and masters on which side to vote. Hence the pretty pic- tures of the Governor's wife will be welcome to the fair sex. ‘Will Semator Bayard Be the Win- ming Horse} If the two-thirds rule should render the nomination of Tilden impossible Senator Bayard is the candidate on whom Tilden’s supporters could most easily unite. He represents the same views on public ques- tions and is the spontaneous second choice of probably nine-tenths of the Tilden men. From the moment that he received any con- siderable support from the Northern dele- gations there would be an enthusiastic rally to him by all the Southern delegates. He would be the first choice of the whole South if the democrats from that sec- tion could be assured that he would receive Northern support enough to secure his election. Personally he is the most popular man in the democratic party, and if it should be found that Tilden cannot be nominated the transfer of the Tilden votes to Bayard would make him the triumphant candidate on the first ballot after Tilden was withdrawn. There is no section of the democratic party either in the East, the West or the South that would not support Bayard, if he were nominated, with the same vigorous zeal and heartiness with which all the republicans have rushed to the support of Hayes. The only weak point in Mr. Bayard's canvass is his locality ; if he were a citizen of a Northern State no candidate could prevail against him. The New Secretary of the Treasury. Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, has been ap- pointed as Secretary of the ‘l'reasury in place of Benjamin H. Bristow. Upon one point we presume there will not be two opin- ions—the excellence of President Grant's selection. Although Mr. Morrill’s term in the Senate will expirc simultaneously with his retirement from the Cubinet, yet it required some self-sacrifice in the Senator to accept a place under the administration in its last days, especially as his chances of re-election are thereby impaired. His refusal of the War Office upon Belknap’s downfall shows that he was not seeking a place in the coun- cils of General Grant, and gives to his accept- ance of the Treasury Secretaryship at this late day an appearance of yielding to the stern demands of publicduty. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations Mr. Morrill must have acquired that thor- ough knowledge of the department he is about to control which will enable him to assume the place not entirely as a new and inexperienced incumbent, and in no respect is the country likely to regret Mr. Bristow's retirement. Frequent changes in the Treasury are not desirable; and it must be confessed that General Grant has seen more secretaries in this department than is credit- able to his administration; but it is not likely that Secretary Morrill will have a suc- cessor until Grant also is succeeded by another Executive; and the change in the present instance, to say the least of it, is one which can do no harm. Tux Inwa Rirvemen have now got through the first step in the selection of their team for the Centennial match. The ten highest of those competing at Dundalk will meet on the 28th and 29th inst. at a range in Wicklow, where certain other designated shots will compete, with them for the honor of representing Ireland in America next September. By this means a very strong team will be finally selected. The ten scores represent 3,590 out of 4,500, or a per- centage of 79.77, while the first eight, or shooting force, of the team have 2,905 out of 3,600 points, or o percentage of 80.694. Both these percentageg are somewhat behind those of our own team, but, taking into con- sideration the fact that the weather here during the competitions was almost perfect and that such was not the case in Ireland, it will be seen that our boys must work very hard indeed towin. The men to be nomi- nated will, doubtless, add to the force of the Irish team, Mr. John Rigby being a host in himself. Tue Heratp 1x Brazit.—The safe arrival in the United States of His Majesty Dom Pedro was, of course, duly transmitted by cable to the Princess Regent at Rio, and through the Court bdfficials, doubtless, to the papers ; but until the arrival of the Heratp of the 16th of April by steamer from’ New York all details of the trip were wanting. Our correspondent at Rio humorously de- scribes the anxiety of all classes to get a peep at the wonderful paper, and how at last, to satisfy the increasing demand, he had to bulletin the coveted pages where they could be read from morn till dewy eve. ‘The Brazilian papers all copied the Hznaty account of the Empetor's voyage hither and reception here, and have been pleased to sny many kind things of our enterprise. We are gratified at this, but our best pleasure arises trom the belief that we have been enabled, in chfonicling the peoples to take a lively interest in each other. Ix tHe Ixtknests or Raprp Transrr evi- dence is being presented to prove that equine nervousness should not be regarded as @ sufficient ground for defeating the attainment of a great public object like rapid transit. According to one witness the indifference to steam locomotives displayed by sober minded horses in Greenwich street was perfectly astonishing. In other parts of the city where the dummies rattle along over the elevated railroad track the horses view the passing trains with a smile of undisgnised contempt on their countenances, /In the face of this evidence we cannot see why the subject of hippo-neurology should be intro- duced into the discussions on rapid transit by the street railroad philohippists, movements of His | Majesty, to bring two great American | Benator Thurman. It seems to have been conceded—perhaps too hastily conceded—that this eminent and able democratic statesman is an impossible candidate for the Presidency since the fail ure of hisown Stateto indorse him. But the supporters of Allen outvoted the friends of Thurman in the Ohio Convention by only aslender majority, and the certainty that the vote for Allen will be merely compli- mentary raises a question as to where the Ohio delegation will go.when Allen is aban- doned. If the other opponents of Tilden should unite upon Thurman and the vote of Ohio would turn the scale there can be no doubt that it would be given to Thurman rather than to Tilden. It is said that the name of Thurman will be presented to the Convention by Virginia. With this start on the first ballot he may gain strength afterward, if Tilien should be so formidable that no other candidate would seem to have any chance against him. There can be no reasonable question that if the candidate is altogether the strongest man. The nomina- tion of Hendricks would be fatal ; he could not carry a single Eastern State, and, least of all, New York, without which the election of a democratic President is impossible, Thurman is a statesman of solid abilities and unassailable integrity, and his superior experience in national affairs would make him an abler President than Tilden. His chances for carrying New York would be very hopeful indeed, with a good Eastern man on the ticket for the Vice Presidency. Thurman and Parker would be a popular ticket ; Thurman and English would not be quite sostrong. But it would be better to take the second name from New York rather than from New Jersey or Connecticut, and there are democrats in this State who would add greatly to the strength and popularity of # ticket headed by Thurman. If the second candidate were taken from Western New York Thurman and Church would makes ticket which would arouse all the enthusi- asm of the New York democracy. If the nomination were given to the eastern part of the State Thurman and Poftér would be a popular and probably a winning ticket. Either Church or Potter would bring more strength to the democratic side than Wheeler can possibly bring to the republican side. Tne Wrarner Cuance predicted in last Friday’s Heraup for the end of this week is about to be verified, and an area of low barometer, which manifested itself at an early hour on yesterday morning, is ap- proaching from the west, being now central over the territory lying between the M's souri and Mississippi rivers. This area of lew pressure was observable on the Pacific const toward. the end of last week, and we duly announced its advent. The eastward movement of the centre of disturbance will be marked by the prevalence of southerly winds, which will gradually veer to the westward as the low barometer approaches the meridian of New York. Beyond feeling the influence of its passage in the shape of increased cloudiness, a comparatively low temperature and local rains, any violent changes of weather are, from present indi- cations, improbable in Southern New York and the New England States. Tae Pracur is THe East.—An English physician declares that the disease now deso- lating Mesopotamia is the veritable plague, Its ravages have decreased with arise of¢em- perature, which is said to prove conclu- sively the nature of the malady. It will be remembered that a physician writing from Bagdad some time since stated that it was not the plague, but a disease yielding to treatment with quinine. Now isthe time for a medical hero. The disease, whatever it is, should be closely studied for the benefit of mankind. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Italy sends hats made of bamboo shavings to France A Paris wusical composer now gets up “original” street cries. Mrs. Senator Logan and family have returned to Chicago to live. Spotted Tail was in Cheyenne the other day inquiring about the price of hair. The income of the new Sultan is $250,000 a month, and yet he 1s not coming to the Centennial, Supposing Tom Scott did write the Caldwell despatch! He is not a candidate for the Presidency. M. Legouvé, President of the Paris Boxing Club, is the meekest man in that city. Gourge Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda” bas sold to the ex- tent of 40,000 copies in England. A girl’s best chances of marriage are while she is be- tween twenty-one and twenty-two. Ex-Governor Noyes, who is to Havedtwhat Rawlins ‘was to Gran', ‘s earnestly practical. When Ben Batler asked the ‘‘blessing” at a picnic the other day the silence was profound. Tae watering place darkey slaps at the inrocont fly with his n in and waits for specie payments, Hayes is a Presbyterian, but, according toa Cleve land paper, it did not prevent him from taking his “back pay.” : A good reason why the pawnbrokers should profit by the Centennial exhibition :—Philadelphia and Penn- sylvania have “put up’’ the Memorial Hall. When the names of tho new candidates ran a race over the wires from Cincinnati the country operators said ‘So much for Proctor Knott's lightning.”” An Arkansas profestor says that for $10,000 he wit! drive the Indians oyt of the Black Hills in two weeks with balloons and sharpshooters, A Sioux once saw s smal! balloon at a circus In St Paul, and he fell back dead. «A school of electric whales has just been discovered in the North Pacific, and when an iron ship approaches within ten miles the crew bave to stand on glass to eos, | cape the terrible shafts of electricity that shoot out in all directions, Ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodford is a very magnetic young man, witha pale, ingenuous face, a plentiful, sandy mustache, an approaching bald head and an ir. Tesistib! er of speaking that poliah¢s up a com. monplace till it looks like a rolling pin decorated with chain lightning. Ox tar Way to St. Lovis.—Mayor Wickham, Mr, Marble and several of the leading friends of Governor Tilden for the Presidency, leave for St. Louis to-day, accompanied by Mr. Belmont, Mr. Belmont repro sents the sentiment in New York in favor of Senator Bayard, a sentiment which he would naturally accept as an admirer of the chivalry and statcsmanship of thy Delaware Senator, The presenco ot Mr. Beimont 1s the Tilden delogation suggests this inquiry, Will Mr, Wickham succeed is converting Mr. Belmont to the side of Tilden or will Mr. Belmont bring over our elo quent Mayor to the side of Bayara’ It would be inter esting to bave a shorthand report of the debates be tween Mr. Belmont and the Mayor, We are giadte note in this connection thatthe Mayor Is showing un usnal aptuessas a politican. Ho is learning silence am discretion and will vot be quarantined by any inter. viewer. This gift of reserve, added to the Mayor's git as an orator and rhotorician, will give him grea: | ower at St. Louis, and it would not supriss us it he wers t¢ turn out as able a general as Don Cameron or A. it Cornell, and rally the boys for as tremendous afgotl ' favor of Tilden as Don Cameron made og.inss Blaing taken from the West Thurman would be . »