The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1876, Page 4

2 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR hae yoapd HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents copy. Teelvo dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letiers or telegraphic despatches must be’ addressed New York Henav. Letters and es should be properl; Pi packag: perly Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE 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. VARIETY, at 8 oyratie — PARK THBATRE. THE KERRY GOW, at 5 P. M. BOWERY THEATRE. PIRATES OF THE ISLES, at 8 P.M. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIRITSS, m8 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE. CONCERT, at 7:30 P.M. ‘ THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, ats P.M. ‘0OD'S MUSEU: e BARKAWAY AMONG THE BRIGANDS, at 87. M. Mat- inee at 2 P ae THE VOKES FAMILY at SP. M. PARISJIAN VARIETIES, 8PM. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Fanny Davenport. pe ci From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy. During the summer months the Heraxp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of iwenty-sive cents per week, free of postage, Notice tecne Courrsy NzwspxaLEns.— For spt and regular delivery of the Henaup bi fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to 8 office. Postage Jree. Tue Hor Weatuer YesTerpay, with its warm southerly breeze, sent our citizens out of doors. in search of the shady, the cool and the refreshing. The throngs in Central and Prospect parks evinced that it was well known where these desiderata could be in- nocently had, but locomotion was at best a burden. This leads us to ask how our thirsty fellow citizens managed to get along without their lager beer, or whether, indeed, the Excise law was strong enough to make them do without it? Tux Gancs or Rurrians, young and old, whose outrages against the peace of the city and the lives of law abiding citizens only - come to the surface when some unusually @aring crime has been committed, should receive more attention from the police than they do at present. The case of the gang which, after committing a series of depreda- tions in Union Square Park, wound up by stabbing an unofwnding man in the eye, probably with fatal effect, is one in point. The most severe punishment should be meted out to the offenders, whose class is the terror of the city after nightfall. These gangs are well known to the police, but they are allowed to roam about the streets in a semi-intoxicated condition without the smallest interference. Tur ArrrruE or Sxrvia makes it appear that Russia is not to be balked in her deter- mination to bring the Christian knife to bear apon the Mohammedan ulcer in Europe. Her agents are still said to be busy at Bel- grade egging on the Servian war party, and Prince Milan is said to find himself between the alternatives of revolution or war. In truth, nothing is worse for a poor State like Servia than the state of armed peace which she is at pres- ent enduring. Her first step across the Turkish frontier will cost, no doubt, but we scarcely think that she will be long left to bear the burden of the fray. Another revo- lution at Constantinople is among the possi- bilities, and amid the demoralization of the Moslems the Slavs will find their long- wished-for opportunity. Tue Harvarp anp Yate Unrtversrry Racr.—The first eight-oared shell race in America comes off between the University crews of Harvard and Yale on the Connecti- out, at Springfield, on Friday afternoon next. ‘We present to-day an account of the course | and the opportunities for viewing it, of the crews at practice, their styles of rowing, the difficulties of the coxswains’ task, the dimen- sions of boats and other matters bearing upon thecoming struggle. Unless Yale is to row a quicker stroke in the race than she has yet shown it looks like a contest between the slow and fast strokes, and, while over so long a distance the former ought seemingly to win, it is by no means certain to. Yale keeps four of her old men, including Captain Cook, while there is but one of last year's crew in the Harvard boat. The Connecticut is higher than in 1873 and in order for a fast race. ‘Tar Mxmony or Hocug, the gallant soldier of the first Republic, was celebrated on Sat- urday by a distinguished body of French re- publicans. No sounder or wiser words than those of Gambetta on that occasion have been uttered by any republican since the famous 4th September, 1870, when the Empire fell to pieces. The danger to the Hepublic, Gambetta - feels, can no longer come from without, and hence fhe force of his warning to his Brethren not to be intoxicated with vietory.and so raise up dangers to the Re- public from within. To bear and forbear, to march in the road of peace, to educate, are the main points of the republican pro- gramme as he framed it. He keenly sees the moral and material advantages to the coun- try by keeping the path of peace amid the distarbances of Europe. It is lucky for France that the leader of th» republicans is a man of such hard common sense. ‘NEW YORK AERALD MO The South at St. Louis. One of the noteworthy features of the Presidential canvass is the moderate and reasonable attitude of the Southern dem- -| ocrats. They hold assured control of a ma- jority of the electoral votes on which the democratic party depends for success, and are, accordingly, in a position to dictate the candidate if they chose to exert their power. But they wisely abstain from any attempt to force their preference on the Convention, and express their readiness to surrender any preferences which have been indicated by their State conventions if it shall appear that some other candidate would have a better prospect of success. Governor Tilden having thus far deployed more Northern strength than any of his rivals, a majority of the Southern delegates are provisionally for Tilden, but they are willing to transfer their votes to any other candidate as soon as they shall see that some other would com- mand a larger support in the Northern States. This is so different from the dicta- torial spirit exhibited by the Southern dem- ocrats in former times that it deserves notice and recognition. Tho old breed of ‘‘fire- eaters” has become extinct. Therc are no longer any signs of the Southern arrogance which was determined to rule or tain, The Southern democrats have ceased to be Bourbons, ‘‘who learn nothing and forget nothing,” and give evidence of having laid to heart the severe lessons of a disas- trous experience. The exhibition of politi- cal sense and sanity which the South is now making at St. Louis is worthy of commend- ation. In order to estimate this spirit of defer- ence and forbearance at its full value we must advert to the fact that this is the first Presidential election since the outbreak of the civil war when the South has had any real political power. In 1864 the greater part of the Southern States con- sidered themselves as ont of the Union, and took no part in the Presidential election. In 1868 and 1872 they were either excluded because they had not accepted the recon- struction measures, or their States sup- ported the republican ticket by the negro vote, carpet-bag influence and federal co- ercion. But within the last three years the democrats have recovered control of every Southern State except South ° Carolina, and the recent decision of the Su- preme Court, which virtually annuls the Enforcement act, deprives the republican party of its chief lever in Southern elections. The democratic party has this year a more secure hold on the South than it ever had in any Presidential election previous to the war, for even in 1860 the Bell-Everett ticket received all the electoral votes of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and barely missed those of Missouri, whereas the democratic candidates in this election, whoever they may be, will receive all the electoral votes of the South, except a pitiful seven from South Carolina. And yet, although the party is stronger in the South than it ever was before in any Presidential election, and although the party in the North is so weak that it would be beaten two to one, or three to one, without the Southern electoral votes, the Southern delegates bear themselves with the utmost modesty and reserve at St. Louis and pro- fess entire willingness to relinquish their own preferences in favor of any candidate on whom a majority of the Northern dele- gates can agree. This is the first time in our history when the Southern democrats, with any approach fo their present power in their own section, have shown a submissive deference to the Northern wing of the party. The republicans will of course say that this is mere stratagem, and that the South “stoops to conquer.” But, conced- ing this to be so, it must still be admitted that the South has learned some wisdom, for she has never stooped before in a na- tional convention when backed by so much real power at home. This yielding and compliant disposition on the part of the Southern delegates may have a decisive influence at St. Louis in certain contingencies that may arise. Such of them as are counted for Tilden are not thick-and-thin Tilden men; such of them as are counted for Hendricks are not first- and-last Hendricks men; they all stand ready to yield their present choice in favor of a new and rising candidate. They would go over en masse to Bayard, with warm ac- clamations, if Tilden should fail to get two- thirds and a majority of his supporters should take up the popular Delaware Senator, They would go with equal facil- ity, though with less enthusiasm, to any other candidate whose Northern support should designate him asthe winning man. This plastic condition of the Southern dele- gations is the most unique feature of this | Convention. It isa potent, variable element, which baffles calculation. Other delegations have favorites whom they mean to stand by ; the Southern delegations have no favorites | whom they are not ready to relinquish. Their only stable preference is for the strongest man, and they are watching to find out who he is. If the early ballots convince them it is Tilden they are for Tilden ; but they acknowledge no allegiance that can bind them to him-for a moment after they find he cannot get two-thirds, and his whole strength may at any time suddenly cave in by the de- sertion of his Southern supporters, But if he ‘develops unexpected strength in the Northern delegations they will throw their whole influence into the scale and make his victory decisive and triumphant. They are prepared to act on the maxim, ‘To him that hath shall be given, but from him that hath’ not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” The South do not mean to ride a dead horse in this Presidential canvass. They lean toward Tilden so long as he seems strongest in the North ; but if his real sup- port falls short of the boasts of his friends on the first two ballots they will put a | speedy end to his hopes and start on a fresh search for the winning man. It is only Mr. Tilden’s Northern adherents that will proye stanch and steadfast if his success in thi Convention is not immediate, and when his loosely attached Southern supporters have dropped away his devoted Northern follow- ers will be of no avail. He must either suc- ceed early or fail utterly. If he is very strong at first the Southern Hendricks men and Hancock men will come to the rescue ; | but if the bragging estimates of his friends are belied by the first and second ballots the Southern Tilden men will waver and break. The looseness of the Southern alle- giance to persons gives Mr. Tilden no reason to hope that any of the Southern delegations will fight a persistent battle for him. What they are in quest of is a man who will sub- stantially unite the Northern democrats be accepted with the vigorous unanj which has greeted the nomination of Hayes on the republican side. The South do not want a candidate who would be exposed to a democratic fire in the rear. The present strength of the democratic party in the Southern States is a signal illustration of the futility of political plans and calculations. From the moment that the civil war approached its close it was the chief study of the republican leaders to pre- vent the democratic party from regaining its old ascendancy in the South and again con- trolling the politics of the country, with the aid of a few allies in the Northern States. This was the guiding idea of the reconstruc- tion measures, which gave the republican party control of Southern politics for a short period, but which, by a powerful reaction, resulting from the abuses of the system, have made the democratic party stronger in the South than it ever was previous to the war. Judged by the result, that system of measures is one of the most egregious mis- carriages in political history. The South- ern communities have been kept in a state of turmoil and disturbance for ten years to fasten on them a system by which the democratic party was to be kept out of power by the negro vote, and the result is that the ‘democrats never had such complete control of the Southern States as they possess in conse- quence of that stupendous experiment. Even with the Enforcement law in full prac- tical vigor, sustained by federal bayonets and backed by republican ascendancy in every department of the national govern- ment, the democratic party regained its control.of the South. The Enforcement law has since been shivered like a piece of fragile pottery by the Supreme Court, and the at- tempt of the Senate to cement the fragments together is utterly idle against the demo- cratic majority of the House. There was never a more conspicuous instance of politi- cal engineers being ‘‘hoist by their own petard.” Curiosities of the Extradition Nego- tiation. Two members of Parliament on Thursday last gave notice of inquiries into the condi- tion of the relations between Great Britain and this country on the subject of the ex- tradition of criminals. These inquiries will be based on the papers entitled, ‘‘Corre- spondence Respecting Extradition,” which were laid before Parliament on the 8th of June, and copies of which were received in this country by the last steamer. A com- parison of this official publication with a similar one submitted to Congress by the State Department on the 10th of June reveals some sifigular and disagreeable omissions in the return made to Parliament, the reasons for which deserve inquiry in England. In the first place, these papers were pre- sented to Parliament on the 8th of June, and are supposed to contain the entire correspon- dence. But an important despatch of Seo- retary Fish is suppressed. This despatch is dated May 22 ; it was received by Lord Derby on the 6th of June, asis shown by a published despatch from Mr. Hoffman to the State Department of that date, and it was in con- sequence of the receipt of that despatch of Mr. Fish that the British government asked the remand of Winslow until the following 15th. Why was this important despatch from the United States, received two days before the papers were sent to Parliament, omitted ? Bat there are still other omissions in this curious return to Parliament. The last despatch it contains is one from Lord Derby to Sir Edward Thornton, dated May 29, or seven days after Mr. Fish’s despatch. In this Lord Derby says :—‘‘I have received | your telegram of the 27th inst.,” &c. But no such telegram appears in this return—no telegram of that date from Sir Edward Thornton. Buta more serious matter remains. In the same despatch of Lord Derby to Sir Edward Thornton reference is made to ‘Your despatch of the Ist inst.”—that is to say, of May 1, which is said to refer to remarks of Secretary Fish in regard to the wording of an act of'Parliament. But no such despatch from Sir Edward Thornton is published. Was date? Referring to the papers submitted to Congress we find a memorandum of a conversation between Secretary Fish and Sir Edward Thornton, dated May 27. It is sup- posable that Sir Edward may have sent a telegram concerning some part of this con- | versation to Lord Derby some days later, sag on the Ist of June. But in that case how could Lord Derby refer to it on May 29, unless, indeed, Lord Derby's despatch was had received a despatch of the Ist of June from Sir Edward Thornton, or even after, on the 6th of June, he had received a copy of Secretary Fish’s despatch of the 22d of May; for in that we find, to our surprise, the very remark concerning the peculiar wording of the British statute to which Lord Derby replies? ‘This matter is very awkward, and we hope a rigid inquiry will be made in England, both as to why Mr. Fish’s de- spatch and Sir Edward Thornton's two despatches were omitted in the return to Parliament, and how it comes that under the ostensible date of May 29 Lord Derby replies to an objection made by Mr. Fish in a de- spatch dated May 22, which was not deliv- ered until the 6th of June, and which he has suppresced in his official publication of the correspond ence. Ir Is Some True since we have been called on to chronicle a railroad accident as disas- trous as that which occurred on the Barce- Jona and Saragossa Railroad, in Spain, on Saturday. Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-seven injured. What has come to be regarded as the accident season on the English railroads begins about July and reaches its highest average in August, when | the passenger traffic is swelled enormously by the cheap special exoursion trains that | run in all directions from the great me- tropolis, there any such despatch of that’ | October The Democratic “Dark Horse.” Governor Tilden continues to be the lead- ing democratic candidate, and, thus far, he seems to be gaining, rather than losing, by the demonstrations made against him at St. Louis by his New York enemies. It is barely possible, although it does not now look probable, that he will have a majority on the first ballot ; but even with a majority he will not be so near a nomination as Mr. Blaine was at Cincinnati. Unless he finally succeeds in getting two-thirds of the votes he might as well have none, and his strength at the outset causes his rivals to fight against him instead of fighting one another. None of them has any chance until he is disposed of, and if they make a partial concentration on Hendricks it will be merely to give the opposition to Tilden a greater appearance of cohesive vigor. ‘Tilden’s leading opponent is sure to be defeated if Tilden is, for his friends can yield with a better grace to anybody else than to his most formidable competitor. Besides, Hendricks is the favorite candidate of John Kelly and Tammany, and if Tilden is defeated his friends will not allow the New York faction who have gone to St. Louis to oppose him to triumph. If they are not strong enough to nominate Tilden they are at least strong enough to prevent such a humiliation as the success of the Tammany candidate. Gov- ernor Tilden’s supporters may be unable to control two-thirds of the delegates, but they can certainly control more than one-third, which will suffice for defeating anybody favored by the anti-Tilden faction in New York. The prostration of Tilden will necessarily carry with it the destruction of Hendricks, from the same motives that would have im- pelled Blaine’s friends at Cincinnati to resist the nomination of Conkling with more vigor than that of any other rival. If Tilden can- not pass the ordeal of the two-thirds rule an attempt will be made to bring in some dark horse that can unite and harmonize the party. Senator Bayard would be an excellent compromise candidate if his location were not against him. No democratic statesman is more admired or enjoys greater personal popu- larity ; his principles are sound, his integ- rity is incorruptible, his sense of honor high. The friends of Tilden could cor- dially accept him as a second choice, the South would stand by him with chivalric devotion, and no rival could feel hurt or humiliated by his success. His weakness does not consist in what is thought of him inside of ‘the democratic party, but in what would be said of him outside of it He would be unscrupulously assailed by the re- publicans as a Southerner and a representa- tive of the old Southern aristocracy, and it is doubtful whether any amount of enthusi- asm or effort by the democratic party could elect him. Although no candidate could be more popular with democrats, it is not likely that the Convention will think it expedient to give him the nomination if the two-thirds rule should force Governor Tilden out of the canvass, General Hancock is esteemed and popular, and his admirable war record would blunt the edge of republican assaults; but the whole country, including the demo- cratio party, has had enough of military Presidents, so General Hancock’s chances for looming up as the successful candidate are very slender. Senator Thurman's possibilities as the dark horse are perhaps worth as much as ‘anybody's, although he has, at present, but little show of strength. Allen has no pros- pect of a single vote outside of the Ohio delegation, and his strength in that delega- tion is perceptibly diminishing. If it is transferred to .Thurman, and Ohio should give him a united and hearty support, the concentration on him might be wonderfullg rapid if Tilden should be withdrawn. There is no other Western democrat whom the Til- den men could support with so much satis- faction if they cannot have their first choice, He would get the electoral votes of every State which any democratic candidate could carry. He would make a better contest against Hayes in Ohio than any other demo- crat, and if he did not recover the State he would prevent the republican majority in from being so large as to discourage the democratic party in other States. If the nomination of Bayard should be judged inexpedient on account of his location, there is no other democrat whom the friends of Tilden would be so likely to support as Senator Thurman, if events in the Convention should compel them to make a second choice. Fenton as the Coming Man. The veteran leader of New York politics, Governor Fenton, comes gratefully into line for Hayes and Wheeler. This was to be ex- pected after the success of the Governor and his friends in the nomination of Mr. Wheeler. It is a sign of harmony to see Fen- ton back among his own boys. He never seemed natural out in the democratic fold, antedated, and was really written after he | but looked like a poor relation or an unin- | vited guest. Asa democrat Fenton would be one of the smallest fractions in the polit- ical arithmetic. As a republican he becomes a power. We hear already that the friends of Wheeler propose to run Fenton for Gov- ernor. It seems that Wheeler's nomination was really the overthrow of Conkling, and this overthrow it is proposed to complete by returning Fenton,to his former position asnleader. Speaker Husted, Senator Rob- ertson, General Merritt and others are all said to be busy in this new combination, and in proof of this it is pointed out that Robertson and Husted both voted for Blaine, It is said also that Mr. Curtis, the Union League reformers and others are ready to throw up their hats for Fenton. Chauncey M. Depew, Ben Field, of Albion; Waldo Hutchings, Register Jones, Lyman Tre- main, Jndge Fithian and a number of statesmen who have been hibernating for a few winters, all begin toshow renewed activ- ity. Fenton was not a reformer when he was in the leadership, but heehas been quarantined ‘so long tha: he can come back with a clean bill of health and talk as wisely as any one else about ‘good government.” It would make the next republican State Convention lively to have Fenton and Conkling once more fighting for leadership. It is very certain that the men NDAY, JUNE 26, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. mean, if they can, to drive him out of the party. New York was in danger ofa. mutiny as severe and humiliating as the mutiny of Pennsylvania. It was avoided by tact. But the elements of discord exist and are active. At the Union League meeting the other evening—a meeting held to indorse the re- publican nominations—not one word was said about the canvass of Conkling, not a word of sympathy or appreciation. This shows how the club feels toward the first orator of the party and one of the most gifted men who ever sat in the Senate. So when the State Convention meets look ont for music. Five years ago the chiefs of the re- publican factions were known as Red Cloud and Spotted Tail. Red Cloud was defeated at Cincinnati, and it would not surprise us to see Spotted Tail on the warpath when the Governorship is to be won. The Sabbath Pulpits. The heat yesterday tested the faith of Christian New Yorkers sorely. Piety evi- dently has calorific limitations to judge by the way a few extra degrees on the ther- mometer thinned out the churches. Huge hot air farnaces have triumphed over the cold of winter in the sacred edifices, but as our church walls are not often built of the solid masses of stone that keep the great cathedrals of Europe cool under a blazing sun the pious must perspire. The tempera- ture of our city churches yesterday must have awakened a desire in many for that breezy primeval worship which we call the camp meeting. It is natural that in a country of brick and wooden churches the grateful shade of the woods should be preferred in summer time to the close precincts of the meeting house. A good many of our divines have preached their farewell city sermons for the season, and hereafter they will be heard from in the watering place notes, and now and again ata camp meeting or hotel parlor service. Dr. Dix reminded his hearers that ‘‘festina lente” applies to the ways of Providence, whose apparent glowness our im- patience fatally misconstrues. Mr. Beecher attempted the hazardous task of analyzing the attributes of God as He was mentally projected by the prophets of old--hazard- ous, because it involved a comparison of the narrow ideal possible to human minds with the undefinable Infinite. Dr. Hepworth had to preface his sermon with an appeal for money. He only wants thirty thousand dole lars to secure the edifice to the congregation, and it is to be hoped the wealthy disciples will rally around their pastor in his time of tribulation. His sermon was directed ‘toward advising his hearers to lay up treasures in heaven, where, we may add parenthetically, there are no “hard times” or mortgage foreclosures. It would be a dis- grace to this wealthy congregation if they should desert their hard-working pastor. The Democratic tl Call. We complete this morning the long series of interviews with the delegates to the Dem- ocratic National Convention which we have been publishing during the week, and sup- plement these remarkable contributions to the political history of the day with a care- fally compiled statement of the personal preferences of every delegate to St. Louis. This summary will enable the reader to take in at a glance the relative strength of the rival candidates, and although we can scarcely expect it to be absolutely accurate it will be found very nearly to represent the number of votes each candidate will receive on the first ballot. It must be remembered that it takes two delegates to a democratic convention to make a full vote, and so these figures represent twice the number of votes, This invaluable table does even more than indicate the relative strength of candi- dates—it shows where each of them is strongest. For instance, as werun down the list of States, we find that Tilden is strongest in New England, the Gulf States, the Northwest and the Pacific slope. Bay- ard’s strength is in his own, State and in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina ; but in most of these there are grave doubts as to his availability, which makes the votes credited to him of a merely complimentary character. The Southern delegates are not pressing his nomination only because his Southern sentiments and sympathies might prove detrimental to the party. Ex- Governor Allen, of Ohio, has little or no strength outside of his own State, and it is not often that the “greenback” delegates even are found bold enough to express a pref- erence forhim. Thurman has friends scat- tered all over the country, and Joel Parker is frequently named as second or third choice. The same thing is trae of General Hancock, but there is some opposition to naming a military candidate. One or the other of these last named may become the favorite in case the antagonisms between the more pow- erful of the candidates are too strong toallow the nomination of one of them; but our figures show Tilden far in the lead, and ref- erences to the second and third choice of delegates will show that he has considerable reserve strength. In any event, the table is full of interest, for itis the only complete approximation that has yet been made of the interesting question of strength at St. Louis, and will be examined with eagerness by all who are anticipating the action of the Con- vention. Tue Crrzexs or New Jersey were again surprised yesterday morning by a supply of Sunday Heratps that were borne by spank- ing teams into the heart of the old Revolu- tionary State. This is not so great a feat in its way as running a train to San Francisco in eighty-two hours; but it brought joy toa wide circle of Hznatp readers; and that these were near to New York is a strong rea- son why they should not be neglected, while points hundreds of miles away are reached and filled with the latest intelli- gence. Sparn ts Sxrvrixo THE Arm afterthe manner ofa high mettied horse at the thought that England is about to ask impertinent ques- | will read hke a romance. tions ‘regarding what Spanish officials may | choose to think a liberal construction of the | talking’ at’ Wreutefan, “Toleratiom clause” of the new constitution. No question has been asked by England, but the sensitive nostrils of the Spanish dons have smelt something like a question. The utterance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on this matter was merely a sop to the who went to Ohio to defeat Mr. Conkling | Church party. The Sioux War. The serious check experienced by General Crook’s column in its recent battle with the warriors of Sitting Bull, and which was fully described by our special correspondent, has shaken public confidence in our ability to conquer the Sioux as quickly as was anti- cipated at the outset of hostilities, especially when it has been made known that General Crook has ordered up five companies of in- fantry and the Fifth cavalry as reinforce- ments for his command. The activity of the Sioux and the breadth of their field of operations show how serious is the danger that menaces, for it is evident that scouting parties of Sitting Bull's force are scouring the country, even in the rear of General Crook's position, A late despateb informs us that the courier who was sent to Fort Fetterman on June 19 with duplicates of the Hzraup special despatches from the field, published in last Saturday's issue, has not yet reported at the fort, and fears are en- tertained that he has fallen into the hands of the Sioux. There is evident need of sending strong reinforcements to the different columns of troops acting against the Sioux. In arrang- ing the plan of-campaign the military au- thorities seem to have underrated the im- portance of the enemy. At least we judge so from the disregard shown to the sound principles of war which forbid the use of converging columns in the face of an active and resolute enemy unless there is good reason to believe that each column is more than a- match for any force that can be brought against it. After the experience ot General Crook's command it would bea little rash to say that the smaller columns are not in danger'of being beaten in detail. A large number of troopsis at present distributed over points where their presence can easily be dispensed with, and it would be only prud- dent to place as many of them in the field as would remove all doubt.as to the issue of the present campaign against the Sioux. Whatever . opinions may be held as to the justness or expediency of beginning this new Indian war, now that we have it on our hands we must carry iton vigorously and successfully for the sake of the frontier settlements. We who are un- acquainted with the war-whoops of the sav- ages can afford to receive with philosophic calm the news of the reverse sustained by * the troops on the Plains, confident that, sooner or later, the power of the govern- ment must make itself felt; but, for the dwellers on thé’ frontiers, disaster to the troops meang burning homesteads and murdered fathilies. : Those who have fos- tered this war cannot escape from the re- sponsibility for any outrages that may be committed by Indian bands except they send every available man to the front, so as to se- cure an early termination to a war that endangers the safety of an extensive and poorly guarded frontier. Tse Baccataurgate Sxxmons delivered yesterday contain much food for reflection, tendered by cultured experience to the young men and women who are exchanging the seclusion of the college rehearsal for an active and uncurtained participation in the great drama of life. The farewell re- marks of President McCosh, of Prince- ton, to the departing graduates were full of sound sense and solemn warning, and might Be listened to with profit by all our youth, collegiate and otherwise. President Raymond, of Vassar College, was equally eloquent in addressing the lady students who have completed theis studies; for his text, though trite, contained all the precepts of the moral law. The other sermons we print to-day will be found full of interest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A hundred yeara ago Blaine was the Great Unknown, Ulysses Grant, ase looks like a spruce young mim ister. Daniel Drew a blank and tho fickle goddess went back on him. Charles Franc Adains’ platform is one-cighth Bowles and the rest Adams. Private Dalzell is closing up his affairs so as to wel- come Castelar to the Centennial. A gontleman who bas travelled says that Bayard is the democratic favorite of the rurat fireside, There are now more democratic hotel keepers in St, Louis than there haye been for five hundred years, Congressman Chittenden opposes firecrackers for the Centennial. His house eells dry goods. Buyreuth, in Bavaria, is honored by the genius of two great men—Jean Paul and Richard Wagner. No man In Congress attracts more visitors than doer Charles Samner’s old residence by the Arlington, A Western paper thinks that Grant will becomes fine orator by the time he is elected to the Sehate, Ben Batler always closes one eye before he gets off + joke. He keeps the other open to see if it “takes.” In Penneylvanin the campiign cry is “Bread oF blood.’? Next fall it will be more coal and less whiskey, The Indians who have dono the most scalping im Dakota are going to Canada to organizo a peace com- mission. Tho boat in which Washington crossed the Delaware is to be sent to the Centennial, The owner has just had it painted. The Massachusetts brass factories are running night and day to supply orders from the brass band manu- factorics, Mr. Darwin's forthcoming book is entitled “The Re sults of Cross and Sclf-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom.” “It you wish to visit the tomb of your country’s father just jump into my carriage,” said a Washington hackdriver to Dorn Pedro, . The weathor is getting so warm around Duluth that most of the whiskey has thawed out and the wheels of commerce revolve once more. When the story of Wendell Phillips’ life is written it Love at first sight was the cornerstone of his domestic career, Emerson dresses vory plainly, and if his umbrella were lett in the new Post Office on a rainy day no one would touch it for a month. An Arkansas Jadgé bet in favor of the prisoner. The jury heard of 't and the Judgo had to “divide up” bee fore the proper verdict could be rendered. An East India naturalist has discovered a new species of indiarubber vine in the Ceylon junglos It is of @ purple color, and climbs trees like a k.tten. The first thing & Black Hills father does in the morn. ing after prayers is to nail bis boy's hair on, and start him for Custer Gatch school on the rua, Every Indian agent that the Heeatp investigated and found ‘irregular last year has resigned and turnea his attention to the wellare of our American youth. Garibaldi ased to make candies on Staten Island. He ought to send a box of them, with his sword, to the Centennial. Both have turnished light tor the world, Guil Hamilton, who lives in Biaine’s family, does the After Uy 0 great states: rushes down to the Capitol and shakes things pier the reat of the day, ‘We think that J. R. Osgood & Co. have made a mis take in not giving the slightest note or bint in their re. publication ot Hawthorne's “Fanshawe” of the period | Of its original publication, or of its having been as anonymous and suppressed book of its distiaguisned —_