The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1876, Page 4

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Postage free. ‘Tae Puxisument or Exrozsron from the Reform Club of London has been visited on two prominent English liberals for support- ing the tory government. This is party dis- cipline with a vengeance. . . Tue Finst Saot.—The first election shot against Hayes is that he took the back pay. This is a picket shot. After the Fourth we shall have things livelier. It will be a dull canvass if Hayes and Wheeler are not ac- cused of highway robbery before October. Porircr Brurauitirs are becoming s0 tlarmingly frequent that our citizens will won come to regard the patrolman as a danger, instead of a protection, unless the Police Commissioners interfere. As long as positions on the force are made rewards for political service this disgraceful state of iffairs will continue. Ax Ispiarunper Ticxet,—The republi- sans have nominated an indiarubber ticket and platform. They suit everybody— from Soft Money Kelley to Hard Money Woodford, from Protection Casey to Free Trade Opdyke, from George William Curtis to Boss Shepherd. It is wonderful how a party will enjoy porridge and milk when it can find nothing better. Tne Manxep Depreciation 1x THE VALUE or Sizver is causing uneasiness and consid- erable discussion in England, and yet the decline is steadily progressing. The Bank of England has a plethora of bullion in the vaults, which must necessarily depress the market. The subject of the low value of silver is one that should enlist the attention of our national financiers. More Warcurvtyess is needed at our city hospitals over patients liable to fits of delirium. A woman under treatment at the Centre Street Hospital attempted to reach the street trom a high window during the absence of her attendant, and is now dying from the effects of a terrible fall on the pavement. The danger of a similar calamity might be obviated by a few iron bars placed across the windows and by proper vigilance on the part of the nurses. Newrort Conrinves to be the favorite seaside summer resort this year, and we publish in to-day's Henaxp along list of visitors already settled down there for the season. Everything that can contribute to the enjoyment of summer life at Newport will be secured to the visitors, and we learn that outdoor sports, such as polo, pigeon shooting, rifle matches, coaching and other equally enjoyable and exciting amusements, will form a part of the grand programme for the coming season. Tae Cestexniac Rirtz Matcn.—The correspondent, ‘‘Creedmoor,” who furnishes some interesting comparisons between the practice shooting of the American and Irish riflemen in their competitions for the re- spective teams, must remember that the Irishmen have not concluded their shooting for the selection of a teain, and that, except for an approximation, no comparison is absolutely reliable where the shooting to be compared does not come off at the same time and place, or under conditions precisely similar. Hence it looks a little cruel to place the Irish and American percentages side by side. The Hxnary has avoided this, merely stating that the average of our rifle- men was slightly higher than anything we had heard of from the other side of the Atlantic. Apart from the question of taste, it is safer for our riflemen to contain their jubilation until the match is over, when we shall be glad of the opportunity to join their shout of victory. NEW YORK The Two-thirds Rule. According to present appearances the greatest obstacle to the success of Governor Tilden at St. Louis will be the two-thirds rule. He will enter the Convention with about the same relative strength that Mr. Blaine had at Cincinnati; but Mr. Blaine would have been nominated if he could have obtained a majority of the votes, whereas Governor Tilden cannot succeed with any- thing less than two-thirds of the whole number, unless the rule should be discarded. It is quite possible that a demonstration may be made against it, but the success of such an attempt is more than doubtful. If Gov- ernor Tilden were absolutely sure of a majority on the first ballot it might be a safe experiment, for a simple majority is all that is necessary to set aside the two-thirds rule. But it is not expected that Tilden will start with’a majority, and it cannot be known what his exact strength is until after a ballot. If an attempt should be made to dispense with the rule the vote on that question would be regarded as a test of Tilden’s strength, and as some of his sin- cere supporters might vote for the rule, and all his hollow supporters would be pretty sure to do so, his opponents would gain a triumph at the outset, which would impair his prestige. It is for his interest to appear as strong as possible in the first test, and it would be fatal to make that test in the pre- liminary proceedings unless the result were known beforehand to be beyond doubt or question, We incline to think that his friends will regard it as an experiment too hazardous to be made. Even a majority of the New York delegation might be found voting to sustain the rule; and every such vote, however intended, would be construed as hostile to Tilden. A proposal to repeal the rule is quite as likely to be instigated by his strength to this insidious test and dam- age him before the balloting begins. The first thing every Convention does after electing its officers is to adopt the rules which are to govern its proceedings. This is always done by a simple majority, so that the friends of any candidate who has a firm and perfectly assured major- ity may easily vote down the two- thirds rule. It may be said that this did not prove to be the case in 1844, when Mr. Van Buren entered the Conven- tion with a clear majority of pledged dele- gates; but the reply is that many of them were glad of an opportunity to violate their pledge in substance while keeping it in form. After the fatal letter on the annexa- tion of Texas, which he was entrapped into writing, many of the delegates who had been chosen to support him desired his defeat, and support of the two-thirds rule wasa convenient method of enabling them to vote for Van Buren, as they had been instructed, without incurring any danger of his nomina- tion. Inthe same manner, if any of the professed Tilden delegates at St. Louis are willing to see him defeated their sup- port of the two-thirds rule would enable them to desert in reality while keeping faith in appearance, As his supporters cannot know at the outset how much secret disaf- fection there may be in their own ranks they are not likely to force the matter toa test in advance of the first ballot. An attempt to get rid of the rule in his interest would be interpreted as a symptom of weak- ness and a confession that he could not be nominated in accordance with established paity usage, and a failure of the attempt would be proclaimed by his opponents as the destruction of his chances. It seems more probable, therefore, that the two-thirds rule will be readopted without serious oppo- sition. The most common argument against the two-thirds rule is that it was a cunning device of Southern politicians for defeating a Northern candidate who was not sub- -servient to their policy. Even if this were accurate in point of fact it would be a mal- adroit line of argument to be taken up by Governor Tilden’s friends at St. Louis. It is their cue to court the Southern dele- gates. They cannot afford to rake up old grievances by dwelling upon that part of the history of the two-thirds rule. Besides, while it is true enough that the Southern politicians worked the two-thirds rule as an engine for defeating Van Buren, it is also true that it was even then the ordinary usage of democratic national conventions, ‘The statement we are about to make will strike many people as strange, but it is nevertheless strictly accurate—namely, that in the whole history of democratic national conventions, from first to last, there has never been a single ballot for candidates ex- cept under the two-thirds rule. We make this broad statement after a fresh examina- tion of the records, and certify that it is true without exception. The ordinary popular impression is that the two-thirds rule was invented by the South in 1844 for the pur- pose of killing off Mr. Van Buren. Among a more intelligent class the impression is that, although the rule was of earlier origin, it had fallen into disuse, and was revived for the same purpose for which most people think it was invented. There is a color of truth in this, because it is correct to say as a mere naked fact that the Convention of 1840 did not adopt the two-thirds rule. But why? For the very sufficient reason that no ballots were taken in the Convention of that year, and there was, consequently, no place for a rule regulating the result of ballots. In 1840 Mr. Van Buren was the unanimous choice of the party for re-election, Having no com- petitors there was no need of a ballot; he | was nominated by a resolution which was offered in the Convention and unanimously adopted. Another resolution was at the same time offered and adopted declaring that the Convention would make no nomi- nation for Vice President, but ‘leave the de- cision to their democratic fellow citizens in the several States, trusting that be- fore the election shall take place their opinions shall become so concentrated as to secure the choice of a Vice President by the electoral colleges.” The state of the case was that while the dem- ocratic party in all the States had nominated Mr. Van Bureri for President, there were so many nominations for the second place that | the Convention thought it inexpedient to | alienate any of the supporters of Van Buren by making a selection from among so many jealous rivals, For the reason that no ballot his enemies as his friends, in order to bring , HERALD SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1876.——-WITH SUPPLEMENT: | was taken, or meant to be taken, there was no rule regulating the result of ballots— neither the two-thirds rule, nor the majority rule, nor any rule whatever. It is therefore strictly and incontestably true that no bal- lot was ever taken in any democratic national convention except under the two-thirds rule, In all national conventions of the party previous to 1840, and in all con- ventions subsequent to 1840, the two-thirds rule has been in force, and no rule of any kind was adopted in that year because there was no balloting for candidates. This uni- form usage of the party since it began to hold national conventions in 1831 is not likely to be broken at St. Louis in favor of any candidate, Usage apart, there is a great deal to be said against the rule and some things in its favor. It was very ably discussed in the Convention of 1844 in a long and impas- sione1 debate, the weight of argument being against the rule but the preponderance of votes in its favor. It was detiounced by Mr. Van Buren’s friends as undemocratic, as enabling the minority to defeat the choice of the majority, and as subversive of the only reasonable principle on which a body of assembled men can transact busi- ness together. On the other side the speak- ers made a great flourish about the estab- lished usages of the party, and appealed more to the prejudices than the reason of the Convention. The only real argument for the rule in that inflammatory debate was founded on a recognition of the majority principle. It was asserted that without some such precaution a minority of the party might select its candidates and thrust them on the acceptance of the majority. The States where the party has no strength have just as many votes in the Convention as if they could aid the election, and without the two-thirds rule the representatives of a mi- nority of the party might choose the candi- dates, If each State was represented in the Convention in proportion to its party strength, and the delegates voted per capita, without any unit rule to conscript the mi- nority of particular delegations, the two- thirds rule would have no defence beyond mere usage ; but so long as the unit rule is permitted, and the delegates are not appor- tioned according to the number of demo- cratic voters in the States sending them, there is a great deal of force in the argument that the two-thirds rule is necessary to pre- vent a minority of the party from selecting its candidates. The Extradition Question. “A Fenian” correspondent in the Heratp of yesterday thinks that General Grant should make the eourse of the English gov- ernment on the Extradition Treaty an act of war, and should send for O'Donovan Rossa to counsel him as to the best way of fight- ing England. When we last heard of O'Donovan Rossa he was lecturing to the Californians and striving to raise a ‘‘skir- mishing fund” from the chambermaids. This is much more practical work than fighting England. The extradition question is most important to our country, as well as to England. Extradition between civilized countries is one of the strongest bonds of society and order. No question is more easily determined. If an American mur- derer escapes to England we want him home to be hanged. Ifwe havean English murderer weare only too anxious tohave him go home. Neither of the nations wishes to violate the right of asylum. There is no civilized country that would think of asking for the return of a political prisoner upon another charge. If, for instance, we had asked the extradition of Jefferson Davis on some technical charge of crime, and had tried him for treason, it would have been an outrage, an act of perfidy, that would have dis- honored us in every nation. Such a thing was never possible, certainly, between two countries like England and America, The Extradition Treaty falls through the over-sensitiveness of Mr. Cross, the English Home Secretary. _ It was Mr. Cross who be- came alarmed lest the Americans might try Lawrence for an offence other than that for which he was extradited. And although the American government did not do so—al- though the President expressly forbade any such trial, in deference to the English sensitiveness on the subject—Mr. Cross, in the case of Winslow, refused to issue his warrant until the American government gave a guarantee which was not required by the treaty. Ofcourse no self-respecting govern- ment could do this, and the treaty fell. The English are right in their resolution to protect the sanctity of asylum. No one will censure a {ree nation for loyalty to its flag and the hospitalities of the flag. But we do not see that the right of asylum be- tween countries like England and America needs a treaty for its protection. It is a part of the common law of civilization. For the English to assume that we intended any violation of it was a grave error and a want of statesmanship on the part of Mr. Cross and Lord Derby. Mr. Fish is right in his refusal to amend a treaty under a menace, and especially in resisting the pretensions of Great Britain to make a solemn treaty to- day and to annul it to-morrow by an act of Parliament. So there is right and wrong on both sides, and especially on the side of America. The true way is for Mr. Fish and Sir Edward Thornton to sit down after a good dinner, talk the whole subject over from the beginning, and arrange a treaty that will satisfy every one but the thieves and murderers, who rejoice in the destrue- tion of extradition. As to O'Donovan Rossa, his services may be declined with thanks. The ‘skirmishing fund” will keep him busy. Tue Anti-Cuixeszr Panty on the Pacific slope will doubtless redouble their efforts to stay the tide of cheap labor from the “Flowery land” when they learn that Wah Lung, a blanchisseur, residing in East Broad- way, New York, has clubbed two Bowery roughs who insulted him at his washtub, The spirit of resistance aroused in Wah Lung is reprehensible enough without his daring to use a club for the redressal of his wrongs. That instrument of authority and discipline is properly monopolized by ‘the finest police in the world” in their skull frac- turing exercise among women and children of this city, and we hope Mr. Wah Lung will be content with his victory and not aspire to # position on the force, The Battle in the Big Horn Country. The first regular battle between the United States forces and the hostile Sioux has resulted in what looks very like a defeat of the soldiers, The graphic despatch from the Hznaxp correspondent accompanying the expedition, and who witnessed the fight, will be found elsewhere. From it we - learn that after a rapid march from his supply camp on Goose Creek General Crook, with one thousand threo hundred mounted men and two hundred and fifty friendly Indians, came upon a force of Sioux warriors two thousand five hundred strong, under the command of Sitting Bull, near the head waters of Rosebud Creek, a tributary of the Yellowstone River. The attack was begun by the Sioux, who rolled back the In- dian scouts on the main body. We judge that the friendly Crows and Snakes precipitated the fight before the troops could take position, in their haste to attack their traditional foes, the Sioux. The latter, who appear to have acted bravely, and to have been superbly handled, soon repulsed this Indian rush, and then took up commanding positions on the lower ridges above Rosebud Creek, from which they were dislodged only at great exposure to the troops, and retreated only to take up better positions on the higher ridges, In thus driving the Indians the troops had become dangerously separated and in danger of having their flanks turned, necessitating a reconcentration in face of a galling fire. The strenuous effort made by the Sioux to p-event this junction of the separated forces shows that their leader thoroughly understands the art of mountain warfare ; and, although his war- riors were finally dislodged from their highest points, the absence of pursuit, and the fact that his prompt attack on the column saved the great Sioux village, proclaim him the vic- tor. That he was able to cope successfully with such a force of regular troops backed by In- dian allies and to march off free to choose his next battle ground marks out Sitting Bull asa formidable foe. There is no necessity to lay blame at present upon General Crook, whose decision not to pursue the Sioux into a dangerous country was probably the best under the circumstances, Whether he blun- dered in the fight we do not presume to say until he has been heard from at length. While Crook’s forces have been practi- cally brought to a standstill for three weeks at least, he having returned to his head- quarters on Goose Creek, and while Sitting Bull is free to move his village off where it may take two months to find him, we must revert to the other two bodies of troops moving against him under General Gib- bons and General Terry. It has been re- ported that Gibbons was checked in his attempt to cross the Yellowstone by prob- ably a detachment of the same band that stopped Crook. General Terry at last accounts was in a quandary on the Little Missouri River, whither he went to seek Sitting Bull, and although he may have effected a junction or established communi- cation with Gibbons it seems extremely doubtful that he even now knows in what direction to seek the Sioux. The best for- tune we can hope for is that Terry shall find Sitting Bull and prevent his running East, so that by the time Crook is ready to ad- vance there may be a chance of co-operating with him. The war now looks as though it would be protracted, bloody and very costly, Ten killed and twenty wounded on our side against thirteen Sioux scalps is not an encouraging beginning. The Scandinavian Prince. The second son of King Oscar of Sweden has arrived in Philadelphia. Three years ago the King, in an interview with a corre- spondent of the Hxranp, expressed his warmest interest in the Centennial Exhibi- tion, and, regretting he could not visit it himself, promised to send his son. This Prince is the second son of His Majesty and is in his seventeenth year. Like his father his profession will be thenavy. The visit of this young Prince is an event that should not be passed without notice. The ruler of Sweden and Norway has always been a warm friend of our country. No foreign ruler has shown a deeper interest in our Exhibi- tion than King Oscar. The display from his kingdom is one of the most attractive in the main building. Moreover, we owe to Sweden and Norway some of our best citi- zens. Wherever throughout the West the question of emigration is discussed the uni- versal opinion is that no settlers are so de- sirable as the Swede and Norwegian, They fall into the duties of citizenship readily and do credit to the country of their adop- tion. Any honor we pay to the son of King Oscar is a tribute to the unbroken friend- ship which has always existed between Sweden and the United States, to the high rank of the King as a man and a sovereign, and to our Scandinavian fellow citizens, who will rejoice in the coming of one who may be said to be the representative of their Fatherland. We honored the Prince of Wales and the Grani Duke Alexis with un- usual ceremony. We were anxious to do the same with Dom Pedro, had he not waived aside our courtesies. Sweden is as close to us as Russia, England and Brazil, and now that a Prince of Sweden is out guest let us hasten to honor him, and through him the intelligent, brave and high-minded people he represents. Our Inrenviews with delegates to the St. Louis Convention from the Northwest are remarkable as showing the hard money sen- timent in Wisconsin, lowa and other States which were supposed to sympathize with the Allen heresy. In Wisconsin, for instance, Tilden is strong because his views on the currency are sate, This is an olement in the canvass that was scarcely counted upon in that section, and if it is to be taken as a test of the action of the Convention the financial plank will be after the pattern framed by the old-fashioned democracy, Writs, Braise Go Ixto tor Srxate?—Wo are inclined to think that Mr. Blaine will accept the appointment of the Governor of Maine and go into the Senate. Many points would be gained by this. It would give Mr. Blaine a less active field of labor. It would enable him to lie in wait for Morton snd Conkling, and worry them for defeating him at Cincinnati. It would lead to his election by the Legislature for the unexpired term. It would satisfy the republican party throughout the country, who think Blaine is a kind of martyr who has been in a political Andersonville and has scarcely escaped. It would also put an end to the investigations. Mr. Blaine may be summoned at any time to appear before the bar of the House for gross contempt of its authority in tampering with a witness and taking evidence from his possession, and there is no knowing what the House might do—expel him, perhaps. Then these investigations and letters, and Heaven knows what, and ill health to crown all! By all means let Mr. Blaine go into the Senate as the successor of Mr. Morrill. It will solve a dozen political problems. The Sewing Machine Compantes and the Seamstresses. The invention of the sewing machine has not been an unmixed blessing to those who live by the needle. An engine driver is not ® more enviable person than the driver of an old-time stage coach, The ma- chine sews at oa rate that fingers cannot compete with. It has brought needlework within the things requiring capital It has made the possession of o sewing machine a necessity to all seam- stresses, The tools that could be had three for a cent have been raised into an article costing sixty-five to seventy dollars, or representing the entire wayes of from eight to eighteen weeks, The struggles necessary on the part of a poor girl or woman to pay this extor- tionate sum for an article not costing the manufacturers more than one-fourth the amount can only be faintly depicted in words. No description would do justice to the pinching process by which week after week, in the face of a hundred needs, the mite ia put by to pay the instalment on the machine which the glozing agent sold her on such “easy terms.” So easy indeed are the terms that if she by sickness or loss of work fails in a payment he will have the company’s men, armed with a replevin, come and carry off the machine, and refuse to return her a cent of what she has paid, even though, like Bridget Barry, she has paid fifteen dollars more than the cash selling price. Often and often this has happened without a word of complaint from the poor, starving creatures, who think that there is no redress for them when a rich company sets its lawyer to work at their cases. Surely they think the rich company, if it has no more heart than a stone, would not. go outside the law. They-have paid all they could, and in some way—which, to be sure, they cannot understand the justice of—they are to lose what they have paid. Ah! they do not know how the rich company has counted on their poverty and their ignor- ance. Well, as there came a man called Al- exander, who settled the Gordian knot by cutting it with the edge of the sword, there came, in a moment of despairing madnéss, a woman named Bridget Barry, who settled the sewing machine demon with the first paving stone that cametoher hand. The crash of the plate glass that followed the flight of that paving stone has made known her wrongs and those of her sisters in suffer- ing to the world. Now, what the exposure of her sad case teaches is this, that the poor women who have entered into these contracts should not submit to having every penny they have paid withheld from them in case, by. stress of circumstances, they should be unable to complete their payments. The poor women should not sign contracts that place them absolutely at the mercy of the sewing ma- chine cormorants, whose manners are plens- ant until the payments cease. It should not be difficult to find charitable and well-in- formed persons to look over these contracts before they are signed. But there is another point to which Bridget Barry's case calls attention—namely, the huge privileges en- joyed by the monopoly through Congress, which, by extending patent rights, has enabled the manufacturers to prey on the poor. The inventors have been long ago amply rewarded, and no application for the extension of a sewing machine patent should be entertained. Congress has already re- fused to extend some important patent, and this practice should be rigidly followed in all future cases. It is time that this business was limited to the profits which are recog- nized as fair in every other business, Evrnory rx tum Canvass.—Our proposi- tion to subscribe to a fund of a million dol- lats, to be given to the poet who would re- deem the republican canvass from the mis- take the Convention made, in a musical sense, of nominating two men like Hayes and Wheeler, by writing a patriotic ballad that would arouse the country, has excited the poets. T. M. D. sends us the following:— Hurran ! tor Hayes as Icader, Woll provided with a Wheeier; And ing now is quite the rage, The Republic's Centennial stage ‘Will sately reach the White Houre From Ohio's granite State House, And the rictory will be won By the Union's favorite son. This will do for a beginning, but at the same time it lacks many elements of poetry and song. It would be hard to adapt a melody to this, and some of the rhymes are bad. ‘Leader’ can never rhyme to “Wheeler,” not even in a campaign song. T. M. D. will have to try again before he earns the million dollars. Tux Exoutsu Arctic Exprprrion has had a mild winter in the icy northern circumpolar regions, according to recent advices from North Greenland. Although no news has yet been received from Captain Nares, who commands the expedition, there is reason to hope that it has made satisfactory progress toward the Pole, and, af.er the mild winter, is now moving onward to the mysterious goal. Our Yacutinc Men were treated to a genuine surprise during yesterday's regatta in the sailing qualities developed by the nautical “What Is It?” from Providence, which showed some of our crack yachts the way over the course. A spirited account of the race is given iu to-day’s Henatp, which is a perfect pen picture of the contest from start to finish. Brotnzrs 1x Porrrics.—Among tho enr- liest arrivals at St. Louis, in the interest of Governor Tilden, was his brother, Henry A. Tilden. Onndidates for the Presidency should neither have brothers nor brothers- in-law. The Appropriation Bills. . There is a great deal of buncombe in this deadlock between the Senate and the House on the appropriation bills. The pretext of the House to govern the country by means of the appropriation bills is untenable. Once concede that, and there will be no use of a Senate or a President. The argument that the Senate is resolved upon no course that will not admit of corruption is unfair and untrue. The Senate is quite as honest a body as the House, and the republicans who control it know as well asthe democrats who control the House the advantage of econ- omy as a cry in the canvass. The trouble about this reform question, this cutting down of expenses, is that the republicans and the democrats alike seek political and not national ends, This is not the way to reform any government. We need so much money to carry on the government, so much for the different branches of the service. We need asmall army, enough to picket our frontiers and to keep the skeleton of a future organi- zation if needed. We should have a large staff, engineer and ordnance corps, be- cause in the event of war the eff ciency of the volunteers will de- pend largely upon the manner in which they are organized. The artillery, infantry and cavalry might be reduced—the infantry especially. There is little use for a marine corps. As to the Marine Band, how- ever, that should be protected by an amend- ment to the constitution. The navy should be reduced. But we should have the most perfect torpedo system that science and money can obtain. Upon our torpedoes and the extraordinary progress science has made in the adaptability of electricity to explosive substances we must depend for the defence of our coasts. When our coasts are secure the country is secure. We have no missions on the high seas, no empire to extend over coral reefs and African jungles. Canada and Mexico are ripening pears. They will be ready to fall into our pouch as soon as we are ready to hold it out. As to the Indians, they should be transferred ta the War Department. We spend money enough every year to keep every Indian in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. That fountain of corruption should be sealed. As to the foreign service, almost any change would be an advantage. One or two good, level- headed ministers, one in London and the other on the Continent, in some central point like Geneva, are all we need. ‘Then we could have consuls or consular agents atthe other capitals to transact any business we may assign to them. We have no such necessity for embassies as our friends in other nations over the sea. As to our home civil service, we do not sec how it can be benefited. We pay poor salaries all around, and as a consequence are poorly served. The only reform we would suggest in that direction is an increase in the pay of the smaller officials and civil service, Strike out the whole business of patronage. Pay a clerk what he is worth, keep him steadily at work,-and as long as he behaves himself and is really needed keep him employed. This would be a reform worth paying some money to attain. Moreover, it is idle for the mejority of the House to talk about economy when we see it passing a measure so iniquitous as the bill for the equalization of bounties. This bill proposes to pay about a hundred millions of dollars over to claim agents and brokers wha have bought up claims for asong. Those claims never rested upon a solid foundation, They were a fraud at the outset. The House, in passing them, has approved of the fraud. Now, if Mr. Randall and some - of the reformers will induce the Senate to defeat this most iniquitous measure they will save the Treasury much more money than can possibly be squeezed out of the appropriation bills. Warzntoo.—The English War Office re- ports thirty-two officers still living who took part in the battle of Waterloo. Yet this battle was fought sixty-one years ago. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hayes likes to fish, Mr. Grant. Fenton will-go to the Adirondacks, Jay Gould will go to Long Branch. Babcock will remain ia New England. Mrs. Hayes is going to do up quinces, Longteliow wiil summer in Pennsylvania, Senator Sargent will go to Newburyport, Protcssor Seelye is not feeting very well George Eliot will go to the South of France, ‘Walt Whitman will summer at Camden, N. J. The Pelham coach will not be idie at Newport. Bryant will go to Massachusetts for the summer. Congressman Garfleld will find timo to visit Uhio. Bristow is gomg back to Kentucky to play croquet, ‘The leader of the Turks is a barem-scarum sort of a mit ircestone pedestal awaits the statae of Livingstone m Edinburgh. bi Joaquin Miller will equceze any lady's hands at any watering place. An Arizona editor says that George Eliot is a fair writer, considering that he is an Englishman. A Boston paper says that George William Cartls is the ablest man who parts his bair in the middie, Hayes bas a light-cotore! blue eye, generous, soft and a little less than enthusiastic, though excitedly moist. A veteran just from the Black Hills says that the banana crop on the lino of the Northern Pacilic Rail- Toad 1s not promising. ‘The Rev. Mr. Bjerring was at the last meeting ofthe Executive Council of the Arcadian Club unanimously elected an honorary member. The London Court Journal calls Brot Harte’s new novel “bewildering.” That is what Grant said whoa he was kicked by the dark horse. Panbury Newe:— Nothing 1s prettier than a clear crystal spring under some great tree.—New York Heraio. The tree prevents ono from falling into it, you know, London Punch:—Mediuam—“The spirit of the late Mr, Jones is present.” Jones’ widow (with emotion) hope you are happy, Jones!’ Jones (raps vut)—“Far happier than I ever was on earth!”’ Jones’ Widow-- “Oh, Jones! then you mast bein Heaven!” Jones. “On the contrary!” An English paper says:—"The immense janding stages at Liverpool are completed. The docks of the port now cover an atea of 420 acres and form a con- tinuous line of more than six miles in length. Their value ts £20,000,000. Twenty thousand vessols onter the port of Liverpool every year."’ h A cavie telegram from J.ondon, undor date*of this morning, announces that General William Rose Mans. eld, ¢reated in 1871 Baron Sandburst, aied yesterday ot congestion of the lungs. This distinguished sofdies was born on the 2lst of June, in the year 1819, He was the filth son of the late John Mansfield, Keq., of Herts, by his wife, Mary Boa chavan, danghter of General Smith, of the United States, Ho entered the army from Sandhurst 10 1835, and irom that time until 1875 was employed in active service, carning a most brilliant record in India and Tarkey, where he acted as military adviser to the Brit ioh ombasay in Constantunania