The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1876, Page 8

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During the summer months the Heraxp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of terenty-five cents per we ree of postage, Notice to Country NEwspEAuErs.—For pene and regular delivery of the Hznaup Jast mail _trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. . Watt Srrzet Yzsrernpay.—The smallest transactions of the year were recorded, the sales of the day being only 33,700 shares. The prices were unsteady. Gold opened at 112, declined 1-8 and closed at 112 1-8 Money'on call loaned at 2 percent. Gov- ernment bonds were active. Railroad bonds steady. Tux Rerorm Issvx will not’ amount to much in the Centennial year. We are go- ing to have a six months’ Fourth of July this summer and will not worry about politics. Tae Reception to Governor Hayes by the citizens of Fremont, Ohio, although not pro- fessedly a partisan demonstration, will be noted as the republican Presidential candi- flate’s first public appearance in that ca- pacity, and will attract wide attention. Our special despatch describes the interesting scenes that took place. . Tae Amaryuuis has been ruled out as the winner of the yacht race on Friday, because she was not considered a racing yacht in the proper sense of the word. However, the committee could not refuse to recognize her smiling qualities, and it is proposed to grant her a diploma and certificate of her remark- able performance. ‘Tue Latest Rumor is that Postmaster Gen- eral Jewell means to set up as a reformer and retire from the Cabinet, on the ground that the administration did not support Bristow in the recent canvass for the nomination. Jewell makes a mistake to go into this line of business at this time. The canvass for the Presidency means a canvass for roast beef. The reform issues will be postponed. Jewell should wait for four years, and then we shall have a reform canvass. Ir Witt Br Srey, from the additional con- tribution to our series of interviews with the delegates to St. Louis which we print this morning, that New England is almost a unit for Tilden. All of the New England States are included in this chapter, and the prefer- ences of every delegate are given. Nothing of this kind was ever before attempted in journalism, and the success of the undertak- ing was only equalled by the inherent inter- est of the matter we have been printing from day to day during the last fortnight. A Femarz Brute, having the appropriate name of ‘‘Wolf,” has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for shockingly ill- | treating an unfortunate, motherless girl, abandoned to her care by an equally cruel | father. The barbarity of this'fiend in female form was so shocking as to excite the indig- nation of the residents in the neighborhood, who interfered and rescued the mangled victim from the hands of her assailant. While the she Wolf is punished as she de- serves an equally severe lesson should be administered to the father of the girl on the duties of parents and the rights of children. A Pentixest Quxstiox.—Tho Sun asks why itis that the republican reform clubs are so hostile to Mr. Conkling. It might also ask why it was that at the meeting of the Union League Club to ratify the nomina- tions of Hayes and Wheeler there was not one of the eloquent gentlemen who ad- dressed that assemblage of expectant Cabi. net Ministers who had a word to say in be- half of the gallant and eloquent Senator from New York. The question might be usked, ‘Is this the way to harmonize the re- publican party ?” Tux Scpvex Waren Rise ix rar Savvy Samte Marie Canan, which has astonished the natives of that remote corner of the na- | sonal domain, was probably due to the movement of a tornado across Lake Su- perior near the entrance of the channel. These metéors produce on the water sur- faces they cross local disturbances which tival in energy the effects of the fiercest pecan storms, and the swelling of the waters of Lake Superior into the narrow limits of the canal was doubtless due to the move- ment of a great wave generated by the pas- sage of » tornado, RO ee a ee eee The News from the Frontiers—A Centennial War. The fact that we are really at war comes like a shock in this centennial season, which was, according to the poets, to be a season of peace and reconciliation. It was only the other day that Mr. Bryant told us in his gem-like little ode, which we are all to try and sing on the Fourth, about the peace and prosperity which were to come after so many b'oody tides of war. While we are pre- paring to celebrate with becoming fitness the hundredth year of our independence there comes upon us suddenly the announce- ment that we have a war, a battle, and if not a defeat, certainly not a victory. It is hard to understand the exact position of affairs in our Indian country. Some time ago we knew of certain regiments going into the Yellowstone region. Why they went there is not so clear. But, after weeks of silence, | we suddenly hear of an encounter with the Indians—a battle, and, as we have said, if not a defeat, certainly nota victory. The graphic despatches which came from our correspondent with General Crook, and which we printed exclusively, will show the exact results of this engage- ment. It is difficult to describe it without telling what has already been told so well, An American commander, with thirteen hundred and fifty white and two hundred and fifty Indian troops, attacks an Indian force of twenty-five hundred under the Sioux chief Sitting Bull. As a result of the contest dur Indian allies run away, because, as they allege, we did not support them; we have ten soldiers killed and twenty wounded, and we do—well, we can scarcely say what except ‘hold our ground.”’ We do not wish to criticise an absent com- mander in presence of a foe, and we can well believe that General Crook will do his best in any position; but we have not been in the habit of losing battles with the Indians, especially where sixteen hundred men under a regular officer have twenty-five hundred savages opposed to them. If the Sionx tribes can meet our regular army with this odds, and under brave and gifted cap- tains, and even hold their own, the Indian question will assume a new and serious aspect. We shall defer any criticism upon the battle in the Big Horn region until we know all about it. We can rest content with any campaign in the hands of Sherman and Sheridan. If Crook cannot find the Sioux and whip them other commanders will be more successful. Critics of the admin- istration will say that if Grant had not removed that superb Indian fighter Custer, to avenge Belknap, we should not now be mourning ten dead and twenty wounded soldiers. But criticism of this kind is not fair. The best that could be done has been done, Our captains were loyal and skilful, and our soldiers fought their pitiless foe with gallantry and zeal. The practical fact is that we are in the pres- ence of an Indian war~another of those small, cruel, expensive, teasing wars, which do our arms no honor, which are stains upon our history, which have been marked with perfidy and outrage on one and some- times on both sides. There is not a high- minded American who, when he reads his country’s annals, does not skip, witha shud- der and a blush, the records of these wars. Our treatment of the Indians is the blot upon our civilization. It is written that we came over the seas ; that we found this new land ; that we planted empires here—Latin em- pires, like those in the South ; Saxon empires, like those in the North ; that in a short time, as the world’s history goes, we built up on this open, unknown, savage land, nations that will live with Greece and Rome, Eng- land and France. It is written that in do- ing this we founded a political system which commands the admiration of the elder and the wiser world. But while we may proudly claim all the honors that this implies it is with shame and sorrow that we think of the Indian and the manner in which we have treated him. We have no doubt we could settle the In- dian question without a war if we gave our minds to the work, and, as we are not neces- sarily a cruel people, we could do it with humanity and justice. No one wants to deal hardly with the Indian. We all respect the sentiment which surrounds him. We may not share the poetic conception of Pope or the romantic ideas of Cooper; we may have our own ideas about Logan and Red Jacket and Tecumseh; we may know the Indian to be a false, cruel, perfidious crea- ture, to whom blood is as much a pns- sion as it is to the tiger or the shark, who has no possibilities of civiliza- tion, and whose fate must be extermination ; we may think this, and with justice; but it | in no way excuses our treatment of the In- dian. The fact that the whole question is a sentiment is, perhaps, one reason for the way in which we treat it. ‘The Indian, even now, is as much of a romance to us as the caliphs of the ‘Arabian Nights.” We do not know him. We never see him. We are indifferently acquainted with his manners or customs, We ques- tion if one in twenty, even of our educated people, could tell where tho Apaches, the Utes or the Sioux inhabit, We know in a vague, half-informed way, that out in the vast expanse beyond tho Mississippi there still wanders a remnant of those say- age men who once ruled and dweit here. Before we had the rebellion to discuss we used to shout about our military achieve- ments over these tribes, and we once went 0 far as to elect a soldier President because he had overcome a savage at Tippecanoe. But this was when the trophies of 1812 were worn out, and before the new ones came. As a general thing we know nothing of the Indian, and as a consequence he has fallen into the hands of robbers and adventurers, He has been plundered and starved. We have kept no faith with him. We have hunted him as a bear or a panther. As one of our most elo- quent and enterprising correspondents showed some months since, in this very Sioux region where blood has been shed there has been a systematic robbery of the Indians. The beneficence of the govern- ment has been diverted to ring after ring. Tribes have been compelled to live on dogs and ponies, that the friends of Belknap might | live in purple and fine linen, The Indian General’ NEW YORK HERALD, had either to die in his hut from starvation or on the field in arms. We shall have to fight out of this as best we can—as we have before—with triumph in the end, but with humiliation, all the same, with a loss of money and, per- haps, of life. But now, when we are mourning the death of brave men, and what looks like a reverse to our arms, why can we not again take up the Indian ques- tion and solve it? The President started out well, but he broke down, as in civil service and other reforms. Can we not deal justly with the Indian? Of course Sheridan will rein- force Crook and of course there will be another battle and a terrible punishment of the Indians. But is this all? Why not end the whole question now? Why not make one job of the Indian business? Why not march against the Indians with force enough to make every onea prisoner? Then why not give them some one place to inhabit and keep them within its limits? There are not as many Indians in the whole country as there are inhabitants in the lower wards of New York, and we certainly could handle them without this constant drain of blood” and treasure, We might take Arizona or New Mexico, or we might purchase Lower California and have a territory under mili- tary rule where every Indian could live and work ont his own salvation, It is inconsis- tent with our civilization and with common sense to allow the Indian to rove over a country as fine as that around the Black Hills, preventing its development in order that he may shoot game and scalp his neigh- bors. That can never be. This region must be taken from the Indian even as we took Pennsylvania and Illinois, But while we build empires on _ his plains we should not kill him, we should not rob him, we should not treat him as a panther ora grizzly bear. If the exciting news from the Sioux region only awakens in us asense.of duty neglected, of opportuni- ties wasted, of unnecessary losses in money and life, if it only compels us to do justice to the Indian, it will, in the end, be a blessing to him and an honor to ourselves. Our Cable Letters. London, rid of its war clouds, seems devot- ing itself toa host of society enjoyments. State concerts, State balls, the Italian opera and French plays, the Four’in Hand and Coaching Club meetings and charming din- ners at Richmond by the silver Thames, do not occupy the time of more than the upper ten thousand, but the three mill- ion and some odd hundred thousands of cockneydom find varied ways of their own of taking their share of the cream of life. The excursion of Jack, the coster- monger, and his mates, who load their in- teresting families on their donkey carts and trot out behind their long-eared pets to ’Ampstead on a Whit Monday, is not put down in the ‘‘Fashionable Intelligence,” yet no one will doubt that they enjoy their picnic as much as if they were eating truffled turkey above an emerald lawn that sloped down to a lovely river. Jack, however, can join my lord in witnessing a boat race, and we have no doubt that, although the odds were all in favor of the English in the race with Frankforters, the banks of the Thames were lined by thousands of all classes yes- terday. From Paris we are glad for the Parisians’ sake to learn that things political are quiet there, the election of M. Buffet to the Senate and the University bill being the only rip- ples on the surface of the Legislative pool. The theatres are closing or have closed, but the engagement mill is going briskly and great European singers pop out of the hop- per with small fortunes attached to their names as the condition of their warbling for anightortwo. The fashionable world there will soon be running off to Trouvilie, Biar- ritz or the hundred and one new seaside re- sorts; the gouty and the dyspeptic will be on the wing to Vichy, and the burgesses will make cool excursions to Vincennes and en- joy long and sumptuous repasts at half the cost of a trip to Long Branch. Tue Buve anv Gray.—The celebration of the battle of Fort Moultrie bids fair to be one of the most interesting events of this centennial time. We are glad that two com- panies from the North, one from New York and the other from Boston, will be present. On their return our Northern companies will escort the Charleston and Georgia companies, who are to celebrate the Fourth of July in Philadelphia. The bine and the gray promise to have a good time, and we trust that their coming together in the Northern and the South- ern cities will have a good effect upon the relations of the two sections. What a mis- take it is that our people North and South do not throw out of politics the bloody shirt, the shotgun and all the symbols of hatred, wrath, conquest and oppression, and rally about the Union of 1776! Why not have a real Centennial—one of peace and recon- struction. Tue Heratp Preprcrioss of Friday last regarding high winds in the West have been fully verified by the movement of fierce tor- nadoes and the prevalence of gales in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. The tor- nado which devastated a portion of Paris, Ky., on the evening of the 23d was particn- | larly violent, and was generated by the steep thermal gradient that existed in the vicinity of that city. Yesterday the wind at North Platte was blowing at the rate of thirty miles, and at St. Louis, Mo., at twenty miles per hour. From the conditions prevailing to-day on the Western plains we anticipate a recurrence of the tornado move- ments in that region, prevailed yesterday all over the country, and to-day promises to be very warm and partly cloudy, with probable local thunder storms in the State of New York. International Coprnicnt is the subject of an interesting letter published in to-day's Henaxp, in which the writer sets forth very clearly the facts bearing on this important subject, and, furthermore, shows that opposi- tion to a sound, legalized system of inter- national copyright does not come from our side of the Atlantic. The American people are fully sensible of the right which authors claim for the protection of their works, and are willing to accept any arrangement hay- ing that object in view. A high temperature | Our Summer Season. The watering places and seaside resorts begin to claim attention, as may be seen in the increased space given to summer adver- tising. The poet’s fancy, that God made the country and man made the town, was never more manifest than in the tendency of all city human nature to run to the mountain or the seaside as soon as the thermometer runs upto the nineties, We may say what we please, and with justice, of the attractions of our beautiful city, of the Battery and the parks, and the cool breezes that ccme from the sea, of what the metropolis might be made with a little money for our parks in the way of music and evening amusements. We may dwell upon the wondrous advantages of acity which has the finest suburbs of any city in the world, which is withinan hourof moun- tain and lake and sea-side, And which is sure, no matter how warm the day, to have some remembrancer of forest or the stream in the breezes which come from the Palisades or the Jersey shores. All of this looks well in the columns of a newspaper, and if we have to remain in the city we may as well make the best of it. The tendency of human na- ture is to the green fields, the brook, the hillside and the shining seashore, and accordingly nothing interests us more than the narratives which now begin to fill the columns of the newspapers of the pleasures of a country life, There are three great summer resorts which appeal especially to the New Yorker—- Long Branch, Newport and Saratoga. Sara- toga is rather later than our other summer places, but it continues into the autumn, and we sometimes wonder, considering that it is a sanitary more than a pleasure resort, that it does not have an all-the-year- round popularity. If there is any value in the waters to tired human nature: they are as important in the December as in the July months. We presume there isa fascination in the fact that one can enjoy the breezes, the ride to the lake, the regatta, and the manifold comforts of a magnificent hotel, and have thé consolation that it is not alto- gether recreation but health building. Sara- toga, with its races and its regatta, will have an additional attraction in the presence of foreign boating men. The centennial year is to have a return match between the Eng- lish and American crews, and the always pleasant regattas will have a new pleas- ure in the emulation between the two flags. It is. something to have the colors of rival colleges fluttering down the lake, but how much more to have the colors of Eng- land and America, with America just a little ahead! Saratoga has become a part of our summer life, and we are so accus.vomed to it that we can hardly dismiss it as | a summer resort. We may say the same of Long Branch, which is really a metropolitan suburb. The value of Long Branch is that the business man may have his morning sea bath and be at his affairs in New York at the opening of the day’s business. This is a great deal to a busy citizen ; and while Long Branch is neither Saratoga nor Newport, but always ina hurry, as it were, it has a genuine, solid value, which wecannot but appreciate trom year to year. Speaking of Newport, we suppose that all Americans will concede that it is the finest watering place on the continent, if not in the world. There is city as well as seaside life. Old Newport is like an heirloom in our family history—an antique gem, as it were—with as much of renown and tradition as can be found in our new Ameri- can land. While our seaside resorts are in many cases a collection of pine shan- ties, uncomfortable, forlorn, whitewashed contrivances, Newport has all the repose and majesty of a full grown city. The sum- mer tide which pours in from Boston and New York, from the populous New England States, and in fact from all the country, makes it the seaside metropolis. Newport has been, as a general thing, conservative, and giddy people have complained that it was not’as noisy as more ostentatious places. To those who regard even a summer resort as a home this reproach is un- just. But Newport in the past year or two has become as ambitious as Saratoga. What with steeplechasing, the coming and going of the yachts, polo, racing and coach- ing, Nawport may claim precedence ‘in the outside amusement-loving phases of society as she has so long held it in the solid domestic qualities. Altogether, we con- gratulate our people, or those of them at least who can go away, that the country and the seaside will not lose their attractions in this centennial season. Palpit Topics To-Day. After such a day as yesterday and as to- day promises to bo we shall look for fewer topics during the rest of tho summer. Already we have indications of the longing of the city pastors for the cooling breezes and the flowing springs of the country. Mr. Pullman will sink an artesian well of living water this morning, and Mr. Johns will re- trace Ezekiel's vision of the holy waters, while Mr. Moment will take a quiet walk over that lonely road between Jerusalem and Jericho. We hope he will fare better than a certain man who travelled that road cen- turies ago and nearly lost his life on the way. Dr. Armitage will take a landscape view of God's plantation, and then in afew days will regale himself on man's estate so that he may be ready when the great trumpet shall sound the home call for all God's people. Bishop Snow, too, who delights in fire and brim- stone, will change his topic to-day and talk about the harvest and vintage, albeit his ingathering time is the Judgment, which, he thinks, has already begun. If it has we fear the court calendar has been turned up- side down and the big sinners are left for the last. Mr. Alger will break the dead monotony of superstifion to-day by giving us the freshness and variety of true religion, and he, too, will hie away to the flowing streams and hills so green in a few days, Mr. Jutten will not leave until he has set up the hopeless lamentation for some of his hear- ers, who, if they are not saved to-day, may never be saved. God being with Mr. Hep- worth and his church just now, he proposes that they shall lay up treasures in heaven, though they probably will not neglect to lay up some on earth also—perhaps a little more here than there, Mr. Rowell SUNDAY, JUNE 25. 1876-QUADRUPLE SHEET. will mark Christian progress in these days, and show what§ opportunities are opening before the Church; while Mr. Hatfield will point out how much may be done through love for the Church—such loveas the first martyr exhibited. The call of Matthew, eighteen hundred years ago, will give Dr. Deems an inspiration and a theme to-day: and the pilgrimage of Abraham as well as the last night of Belshazzar’s earthly existence will mark, with Mr. Liloyd’s skilful handling, a striking contrast between a good man and a badone. Mr. McCarthy will give us the solu- tion of suffering and show us how moral and physical maladies may be cured. Mr. Harris will present the claims of Jesus Christ as the Jews’ Messiah, and Mr. Giles will explain what the Apostle John meant when he described the holy city the New Jerusalem descending from God ont of heaven. And so will the Sabbath be profitably spent by pas- tors and people. The Religious Press on the Nomina- tions, The nominations made by the Republican Convention at Cincinnati are variously re- ceived by the religious press, The Independ- ent, while expressing its preference for ex-Speaker Blaine, cordially accepts the nomination and promises to do what it can to elect the ticket. The Methodist advises Christians to keep cool in the cam- paign, and not create hot blood by hot words, but to pray a good deal. Excellent advice for both parties. The Christian Union is delighted that the republican party was able to avert the danger that threatened it by factious opposition to any of the four lend- ing candidates by the friends and followers of the others, had either one been nom- inated by the Convention. The nomina- tion of Hayes and Wheeler was not only a surprise, but a deliverance. The opposing contestants all yielded gracefully and at once to one who had excited no animosity. “The republican party,” says the Union, “presents to the country candidates that cannot fail to win confidence. They are personally irreproachable—not because un- known, but because after years of public service they have established a reputation for prudent management, for honorable fidelity and for scrupulous integrity.” Tho, Churchman sees no reason why liter- ary men who are capable should not take part in politics and be elected to political offices, But it adds that no man aan serve both literature and politics successfully with his whole heart. The Jewish Messenger sees in the nominations a hope for the nation, They are, it says, of special signification. They give a new definition of availability to suit the times. The gentlemen selected as candidates were chosen because it was neces- sary to present names untarnished in public or private life. ‘The available man to-day is not the merely insignificant personage who is too contemptible to have open enemies, but the positively honest and upright statesman who has been tried and found faithful. This is demanded os the pre- requisite. Tho same influence which compelled the selection of Mr. Hayes at Cincinnati will secure the choice of an honorable competitor at St. Louis. The great democracy cannot afford to be represented by a candidate whose record-is stained or whose reputation is doubtful. Dr. Talmage, who paid a visit to the House of Representatives in Washington a few days ago, tells the readers of the Christian at Work that he was amazed at the slaughter of public men that was going on there. Good men were slaughtered indis- criminately with the bad, and. he instances Speaker Kerr as one; so that the Doctor left the place in doubt whether he had been in a wholesale butcher shop or a pandemonium. The Tablet rejoices in the defeat of such a partisan as James G. Blaine, whose claims had to give way to the safety of his party, which would have been seriously endangered, if not completely undermined, in the approaching campaign by his candi- dacy. But tne corruption in the govern- ment is so gross that the very atmosphere of Washington reeks with the foulest odors. If the people are true to themselves and mindful of their own interests a public revolution which will sweep from the places of trust and power the party which has proved itself unworthy of public confidence and support is, says the Yublet, inevitable. The one great overruling necessity is a Te. form in the administration of the govern- ment. Asto the candidates presented by the Cincinnati Convention, they may be all that their partisan adherents claim; but their election will not bring about the change so much needed and so earnestly desired. ¢ “It isa great point gained,” says the Evangelist, “that the whole drift of the na- tional sentiment has been turned toward the attainment, if possible, of public virtue and the utter condemnation of all connection of commercial speculation with oftices of public trust. The case of Mr. Blaine affords a warning to political aspirants, which is ren- dered all the stronger by the very explana- tions and palliations which are offered in his behalf. The lesson of the caso is that a man must avoid even the appearance of evil if he would hope to pass the ordeal of can- didacy for the highest trusts of the people.” The Freeman's Journal thinks that Governor Hayes, standing on the republican platform, will be like the man dressed in store clothes—— they don’t fit. The platform was made for Blaine, and the Journal thinks Governor Hayes’ first response looks as if he might | decline to wear the suit of clothes made for | another. Ax Unsrieasanr Arrarr, growing out of the publication in the Aligemeine Zeitung of certain correspondence reflecting on the honor of the American officers serving in the | army of the Khedive, has disturbed the friendly feeling which existed between tho libelled officers and Dr. Schweinfarth, the | German savant now travelling in Egypt. We publish in to-day’s Henavp the letters interchanged by General Stone and Dr, Schweinfurth, and are glad to see that the | latter gentleman disclaims any part in the origination of the calumnies, While the honor of our countrymen has been fully vin- dicated we must denotince the cowardly attack made on them by anonymous slan- derers in the German press. —— The Turkish Outlooke Troubles come thick upon the Ottoman Empire, whose rule in Europe is surely approaching an end. Scarcely has England forced the three empires to take their hands offand leave the new Sultan to his devices when intelligence comes of revolt- ing and wholesale massacres of the Chris- tians in Bulgaria, the report to the London Daily News placing the number of the slaughtered aot from eighteen thousand to thirty thousand souls. This statement has not been promptly confirmed, and we must hope that it is an exaggeration. In the temper of the Moslems a sudden burst of atrocity like this is always possible, and the Grand Vizier's: proclamation urging concord between the Christians and Mohammedans of Bul- garia certainly looks as though there was some truth in the terrible story, and that the Porte was acting in its usual feeble way upon the remonstrance of England in the matter. Tho attitude of Servia is more menacing than ever, and the news of the slaughter in Bulgaria, if con- firmed, will have its effect upon the Slavs of Montenegro as well as upon the insurgents in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While this state of affairs exists in the north things at Constantinople look very gloomy. ‘The assassination of Hussein Avni Pacha and Rachid Pacha has brought down the police upon the Circassians at the capital. The new Sultan is reported sick, and well he may be on the hotbed which he has found the throne to be. Perhaps even now he is wishing to be back in his cellar, where his late uncle Abdul used to keep him cool. We have all along contended that between the promise and performance in the matter of reform there was an impassable gulf that no sultan or grand vizier could bridge. The great Powers have taken off their hands, and England is busy making remonstrances against the continued bar- barities of the Turkish troops; as if any merely moral power could stay the hands of such fanatics, Events in the East seem shaping themselves for the extinction of Mo- hammedan power in Europe in a manner that makes all diplomatic intrigue and counter-intrigne of no more account than the fly on the coach wheel. Tue Torers or Ovr Crry are looking forward to the Centennial celebration fora grand holiday time, and many employers have already signified their intention of closing their places of business from the Ist to the morning of the 5th. ' This is an excel- lent idea, and one that should be promptly adopted by all our merchants and manufac- turers. The occasion is one that calls for an expression of universal joy; and we know oj no better way of inducing such a feeling than to give the toilers of our city a chance to enjoy themselves. Counecz ComMENcEMENTS continue’ to be the order of the day in academic circles. The exercises at the College of the Holy Cross were presided over by Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, and attracted a large number of visitors to the ceremonies. In memory @ bygone days the associate alumni of the Normal College held a reunion yesterday, which was made the occasion for the revival of many pleasant reminiscences of school life by graduates who have commenced the- study of real life. Mrstarure Yacutine is daily growing in popularity among our young lovers ‘of aquatic sports, and bids fair to rival in in- terest the racing on a grand scale of the real sloops and schooners of the New York clubs. We must not regard the sport as unim- portant becanse the first prize is a butter knife and the second a sugar spoon, for small beginnings often end in great achieve- ments, and our young yachtsmen may one day contest for ‘Queens’ cups” with some of the most experienced champions of blue water, and beat them at that. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Hayes’ two sons graduated at Cornell, President Grant walks on the sunny side of the street, An Arkansas musician says his daughter can sing just as good as Wagner, but she is poor, Red Cloud will not deliver his Centennial addres until the Custer City Court Houso is finished. Next to cheap whiskey nothing excites so much ad- amiration on the Pacific const as a dead Chinaman, Simon Cameron gays that economy is the beginning of virtue, ,That is why he gave Blaine s0 few votes, It is about time for ex-Commissioner Smith to want money, for the heathen that he went to educate in Africa. “Livy and Let Livy” was the text of Orator Chang How at a mass meeting in San Francisco the other evening. Since the recent ‘nvestigations in Washington Schuyler Colfax’s smile has nearly recovered its former radiance, Strangers going to St. Louis are informed that the mercery in that city ran up to 110 in the shade tes years ago. Mr. KE. T. Sickels, formerly superintendent of the’ Union Pacific Railroad, 1s one of the engincers on the Missrasippt jetties, Kilpatrick is going to stamp the country for Hayes and Wheeler, That will give him a chance to explain about Butterfield’s $20,000. Untess Congressman Randall persuades the Senate to pass his Appropriation bill the United States Treas- ury will soon be as empty as Fred Graut’s bank, A Black Hil!s refugee came dashing into Fort Lara. mic the other day and did not notice a hatchet sticking in bis head until one of the soldiers broke the handle in trying to pull it out, Now that Bristow is free from the Treasury Depart- ment he can do some good work as an attorney in the whiskoy cases, . If Babcock is wise he will retain bim and demand a new trial. Seiior Antonio A. Munoz, Vice Consul of Venezuels in this city, has received from his government the medal of Bolivar, the highest decoration granted by the Venezueian government, Rey. CG. & Vedder, the poot vastor of the old Huguenot church, Charleston, 8, C., will deliver the poem before (he Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union Col. lege, New York, on the 28th inst, Captain Eada, the jetty engineer, has terrified the New Orleans contractors. His new channel for the Mississippi is a success, and thé r dredges will soon be left several miles out in (he cuantry by the changing stream. ‘The chairman of the Music Committee at the Cen. tennral Exposition was examining an E flat cornet the other day, and he reinarked, after hoaring some one run the soale on it:-—“Well, now, i thnk that ere im strument basa pretty far reach,” ‘This isa new mu- sical term for cotnpass, Mr. W. S. Ward, ucting under instructions from Mr. Coup, of the New York Aquarium, sailed for Europe te thesteamer Egypt yesterday morning. Ho will visit the great aquaria of London, Brighton, Manchester and Paris, As naturalist to the Now York Aquarium Mr, Ward will try to secure for this home enterpriee all the Special attractions which have rendered the Buropeas aquaria 80 popular, 4 é a aT a eR sR SO ee