The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNK 27, 1876.—TR NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news Jetiers or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hznap. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ~ PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI. : “0, 179 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. —_---—_—_—_ PARK THEATRE. THE KERRY Gow, at 5 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE PIRATES OF THE ISLES, at 8 P.M. CHATRAU MABILLE VARIETIES, a8 P.M. Matines at 2P. M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, asP.M. Woor's MUSEUM. HARKAWAY AMONG THE BRIGANDS, at 8 P.M Mat- ineo at 2 P. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. THE VOKES FAMILY, ata P. N_ VARIETIES, M. ACK'S_ THEATRE, t8P,M. W.J. Florence. GILMOR! GRAND CONCERT, at 8 27, 1876, KEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and generally clear. During the summer months the Henaxp will be sent to subscribers in the cow at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Noricz to Country NewspgaLens.— For rompt and regular delivery ofe the Hzmatp yy Jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage jree. dull and lower. Gold sold at 1121-8, with intermediate sales at 112. Money on call was supplied at 2 1-2 and 2 per cent. For- eign exchange was.a fraction firmer. Southern State bonds were more active. Government and railway bonds steady. ‘Tae Frencu Caste is probably in working order again this morning, our latest advices reporting the act of making the final spliee. It is to be hoped that in the future there will be fewer breaks than has been the ease in the past. Tre Lovistana Repusticans at their State Convention at New Orleans to-day are likely to determine who is to lead the party. The contest for the nomination for Governor seems to be between Packard and War- moth. Racixe at Pamaperpyta seems to prosper this year, though almost everything outside of the Exhibition has failed to receive much attention. There were four good races at Point Breeze yesterday, which were witnessed by a fine assemblage. ‘Tue Wratuen yesterday was the warmest of the present season, tho thermometer reaching ninety-five degrees in the shade at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. But while the heat was intense and every- body was complaining of its intensity there were comparatively few cases of sunstroke. Tus Frencu Rervusiicans are anxious to push the University bill to a test before the Senate. The conservatives for their part desiré to avoid a contest just now. This makes it probable that before long the meas- ure will be pressed by the Ministry to a division, with a good chance of passing. ‘Tre Rariw Transrr Svrrs are still drag- ging their slow lengths along, and from present appearances it seems likely that they will be finished abont the time the tes- timony now being adduced is ready for the next Legislature. The real argument in these cases will be made at Albany, those before Judgo Sedgwick and Judge Van Hoesen being only preliminary. j ‘THe CotLeGr CoMMENCEMENTS are now in order, and notwithstanding the claims which politics have upon our columns during a week when a National Convention meets, we aro still able to give a part of our space to these annual festivities. We print this morning some excellent reports of these proceedings, which will be found a welcome rolief after the political reading of the day. Tue Posr Orrice Ixvesticatton yesterday showed something like s want of the proper and necessary bookkeeping touching the ex- penditures on the new building in this city, and exhibited, besides, a free and easy method of making purchases of lumber and other material used in its construction scarcely justified ins work of such magni- tude. * Evataxp axp Catva.—The English evi- fiently have designs upon China, end it need not be surprising should there be wer { between the two countries in the very near | fature. The presence of English soldiers in | Burmah ready to enter the Chinese Empire and of an English fleet in Chinese waters, when taken in conjunction with the haughty conduct of the English Minister toward the Pekin authorities, can have no other mean- ing than that of war. England has been panting for a war with China almost con- stantly during the past two years. Every event which gave even the color of an ex- cuse for arbitrary and arrogant conduct toward the Chinese has been employed for stirring up strife, and the Margary affair ap- ly is to be tortured into an excuse for invasion and war. Other nations, however, have interests in China as well as Great Britain, and it is not likely the rest of the world will stand idly by while the English are eating into the Chinese Empire, The Democratic Convention. The Democratic Convention will be called to order to-day. The fact that the interest in the deliberations of this body is less than was shown in the Convention at Cincinnati must not be attributed altogether to an ap- prehension that its deliberations will be for nothing. The meeting of a convention of office-holders, of men to whom politica in bread and butter, is apt to be more exciting than a convention of gentlemen who have not known power for a political generation and who have to fight for victory at tremen- dous odds, ‘The very fact that there should be eo much rivalry between democratic candidates, that there should be no strife between the partisans of Tilden and Hendricks unknown in the democratic party since the Douglas and Breckin- ridge time, shows that, in the minds of cer- tain delegates at least, there is the hope that nomination means election in November. Looking at the campaign from an impartial point of view, the chances of victory are in favor of the republicans. Whatever hope there was of triumph by the division of the republicans on the third term question, on the merits or demerits of Mr. Blaine, on the finances, on the State opposition to Mr. Conkling, Mr. Morton and others faded away with the nomination of Hayes. That nomination united the party, and for a mo- ment the gratification which this union pro- duced wns accepted as an augury of victory. But nothing is more uncertain than a can- vass for the Presidency. Hayesand Wheeler have yet to tread the wine press. We are all waiting for the Fourth of July to be over, for this '76 enthusiasm to abate, for the St. Louis people to declare themselves, before we go into the merits of the platforms and the candidates. If the democrats can hold the South as it isnow—practically a unit in their interest—and if they can hold evena fraction of the power they won a year and a half ago, they may win the Presidency. The republi- cans have too much to carry to make their race a walk-over. And if the Convention which assembles to-day is wise it may nomi- nate the next President. - In some respects itis a strong Convention. The States seem to have sent good men, and especially from the South. In some States we have animosities of an unfortunate char- acter, which threaten to break out in the Convention, and the effect of which will be toinjure the States themselves. There is the quarrel in New York, the quarrel in Ohio between Allen and Thurman. There aro extreme views on finance and other points to be reconciled. But these quarrels are not so bitter as many that pressed them- selves on the Republican Convention. ‘The fight between Tilden and Kelly, for instance, is no more bitter, evenif it is more noisy, than that between Conkling and Curtis. There was hardly a State among the republicans which did not suffer from internal dissensions. The democrats as a general thing are a unit on one point—namely, Who is the man towin? There isa kind of sentiment for Bayard in the South, for Allen and Hen- dricks out on the prairies, for Tilden in New York; but this sentiment is in no case overmastering, like that which Douglas and Ciay inspired, and which animated the fol- lowers of Blaine at Cincinnati. The enthu- siasm for any democrat is tame compared with that which followed Blaine and Morton and Conkling to the banks of the Ohio, For this reason, therefore, we expect a wise and con- servative Convention. The delegates care more for the party, forsuccess, for principle, than for a mere man. No matter who is nominated there will be a hearty acqui- escence in the nomination; for the prizes before this Convention are not limited to the * Presidency and Vice Presidency. Evén if Tilden should be beaten, as with all of his strength seems probable, there could be no demo- cratic administration which would hesitate about offering him #he State or the Treasury. Ifthe failed in the Convention it would be a failure like that of Seward, the loss of the Presidential office only to be the Premier of the new administration. In this sense, therefore, the canvass of men like Tilden, Bayard, Hancock, Thurman and the rest, is not wholly in vain. Victory means the State Department for one, the Treasury for another, the command of the army for Hancock, if it could be arranged, and the division of spoils enough to provide fora hundred statesmen. It is gs difficult to forecast the results of this Convention as it was in the Convention at Cincinnati. New York is divided. Ohio is divided. Pennsylvania is without force. Illinois has no candidate. Beyond a chival- rous sentiment for Bayard as a pure, lofty, noble name, which would honor the party, there is really no sentiment about the Con- vention. Mr. Tilden is the strongest candi- date. But it is nota ‘strength upon which he can depend. It is not like that which swept Cincinnati like a prairie fire whenever the name of Blaine was mentioned. It is rather a feeling which has been diligently fostered by the able and industrious men like Dorsheimer, Watterson, Hewitt and others, who have had ‘the Tilden canvass in charge, who have said for six months that “Tilden can win,” that “the can carry New York,” that there aro a large number of republicans— “Tilden republicans”—who would flock at once to his standard. These opinions have been spread over the country in the most in- genious manner, and the ‘‘enthusiasm” thus aroused is only the reflection of a feeling that perhaps, after all, the Governor is the man to win. We have never. felt this was a sound opinion, and we question if it will be accepted without reserve by the Convention. Governor Tilden would make ao strong candidate, and a safe, high-minded, self-respecting President, but he is not the salamander which his friends have so assiduously advertised, He will not break the republican party in this State. He will not carry away an omni- bus load of republicans. He will do well if he unites his own party. Themen who have gone to St. Louis at the heels of that roaring political madman, John Kelly, to assail him, are the men who would sell Tilden out next November ina trade for local offices. The Southern States care nothing for TiNen, ex- cept as the winner. They want the admin- istration, the offices, the power, and ‘‘the man to win” is the man for them. assembles to-day is not a Tilden Convention. It will do him great honor. It will recognize fully those achievements and attributes which make him one of our most illustrious fellow citizens. If he were wise he would be content with this recognition, and at once dominate the Convention. He does not want the dramatic glory of going down, as Blaine did, with his colors flying. He is too old for that, or for any prolonged career in the party. He is wise enough to see that if he cannot combine the elements of victory he should name the man who.could. It is not his fault that John Kelly is raging against him-like an Andalusian bull just en- tered into the arena, that the Ohio madmen are frothing over him in a state of political hydrophobia. ll of this is to his honor. Kelly fights him because he would not go on his knees to the Tammany Juggernaut, Pen- dleton assails him because he will not accept repudiation. A statesman who has assumed high responsibilities and uprooted deeply seated wrongs must pay the penalty which threatens the Governor at St. Louis. He will do wisely if out of this chaos, out of this tempest of detraction and calumny, he plucks the fruits of a real victory. It will be his victory indeed if, instead of being quietly butchered by the angry heelers of Kelly, the crazy re- pudiationists of Allen and the indifferent chivalry from the South, he rises above vanity and ambition, and, in naminga ticket like Thurman and Parker, names men who will poll the united strength of the demo- cratic party—a ticket as strong in a political and perhaps in a national sense as Haycs and Wheeler. The Crisis in the Enst. “The warlike attitude of Servia” is what now troubles the diplomacy of Europe. There is something almost comic in the efforts of all the great Powers with the exception of Russia to hold back this little State from making war upon the Ottoman Empire, like hal¥ a dozen men with an excited young bulldog by the tail begging him not to join the attack of his little brothers upon some huge but unwieldy animal. It is the secret plotting of Russia in Servia and Montenegro that gives the situation ita gravity, for whatever pressure is brought to bear upon Prince Milan by his subjects Russian hints of armed support and Russian appeals to panslavism are at the bottom of the agitation. At present it seems improb- able that war can be avoided. In case the dreaded eventuality arises, what will the great Powers do? Austria, it is stated, will remain strictly neutral. Great Britain stands in a manner pledged to help Turkey, but it appears that the English Cabinet is not a unit upon the grave question in what event and to what extent Turkey is to be helped. It is probable that one party in the Cabinet would help her against all at- tacks, while the other would only take hostile measures in case Russia came actively to the aid of the Principalities, for it is almost a foregone conclusion that Montenegro will go to war if Servia does, This reported division in the Disraeli Cabi- net may for a time lead to an abandonment of Turkey to her fate as Denmark was left to hers in the Schleswig-Holstein war, for in the difficulty of deciding between two costly and troublesome policies the Cabinet may fall back upon the easy compromise of doing nothing at all. Unfortunately if the combat once begins ‘‘masterly inactivity” will not be long possible for England. When she goes into the fray it will assume vast proportions on both sides. Turkey as a Moslem Power in Europe is more than ever doomed. Army Reorganizat' Congress has made a sensible move in suggesting an increase of the cavalry arm in view of the requirements of the service. In- fantry being comparatively ineffective against predatory Indians, it is suggested that this arm should be reduced three thousand men and the foree of the cavalry be raised to nine thousand six hundred sabres. As we are not likely to have any use for our sol- diers except in repressing hostile movements by India» tribes, our small army should be organized with special reference to the re- quirements of Indian fighting. What we need most is a large force of light cavalry, capable of moving rapidly from point to point of our exposed frontier and of follow- ing the savages with some chance of suc- cess over the Western plains. Infantry, no doubt, can be made use of with advantage, but our mfantry should be composed wholly of rifle corps, in which good marksmanship should be required as a test of fitness for the service. Under the present system of army organization the Indian despises the in- *fantry soldier, because he feels confident that he can accept or refuse combat with so slow an adversary according as it suits his convenience. It is to be regretted thata misunderstanding between the Senate and the House of Representatives should en- danger & reform in every way desirable. Though our army is very small it is very expensive ; therefore the public has a right to demand that it should be kept in the highest state of efficiency. Neither branch of the Legislature can afford to accept the responsibility of obstructing a measure that aims at making the army more effective as a guard against the hostility of the savage red man, Tue Heratp Covrrers.—The sad news which we print elsewhere of the death from drowning of Sergeant Fox, of the Sixth in- fantry, U.S. A., while bearing despatches to the Hxraup from the stockade on the Yellowstone River, recalls the tragic fate of Colonel de Bellefonds, from whose riddled body were t&ken the last despatches that have reached us from Henry M.Stanley, at the head of the African exploration expedition. A courier, bearing duplicate despatches to the Hrraxp of the fight on Rosebud Creek, is still unheard from, and it is feared that he has fallen into the hands of the savages, The great work of a modern newspaper re- quires frequent ¢xposure to physical dan- gers, not pnly in gathering but transmitting the news, which a quarter of a century since environed only the servants of governments in time of war. Tae Covompian Conaress now contem- plates the building of an interoceanic ship canal across the Isthmus. This will be the best way if the work is actually undertaken For these reasons the Convention which | and carried forward to completion. The Hide and Seek for Sitting Bull. ‘The letter which we publish to-day from the camp of General Terry, on the Yellow- stone River, dated June 12, will be found full of interest to the general reader, and of great value to those who have followed the course of the contending forces in this new Indian war, as developed in the despatches of a week past. It, however, leaves, we are sorry to say, no certainty that the War Department plan for the punishment of the hostile Sioux, headed by Sitting Bull, will be crowned with success in the near future. The columns headed by Generals Gibbon and Terry have formed a junction, as we surmised, on the Yellowstone, and will henceforth co- operate. But before we examine the plan of operations, which have by this time probably been carried out, it is necessary to recall some events, of which General Terry has, we suppose, remained in ignorance until perhaps a day or two ago, The battle in which Gencral Crook's forces received a complete check on tho 17th inst. took place on the head waters of Rosebud Creek, or about seventy miles from the Yel- lowstone River. The forces of Terry and Gibbon were encamped on the 12th, the former on the right bark of the Yellowstone, at the mouth of Powder River, and the latter on the left bank, at the mouth of Tongue River. These positions are respectively about fifty and eighty miles from the mouth of Rosebud Creek, on which river there is now no doubt the great Indian village of Sitting Bull was situated up to the time of the battle with Crook. The retreat of Crook southward after the battle left Sitting Bull free to choose the future seat of his opera- tions, making him a very ‘‘unknown quan- tity” indeed. The plan of General Terry, in- volving a delay of a week in sending a scout- ing party of six companies of cavalry and a Gatling gun on ao search for Indians where they are not likely to be met in force, is very regrettable with our present intelli- gence, but probably commended itself to that commander from the fear of leaving the valleys of two considerable streams un- searched. This scout would not allow General Terry to put his main plan in action before the 19th inst., by which time Sitting Bull had probably got well out of his way. We should, indeed, much prefer this to have taken place than that the redoubt- able Indian, with his three thousand. war- riors posted in a chosen position, should fall in with either of the flying columns into which Terry proposed to split up his com- mand and seek the Indians on the Rosebud, although one. was to be led by the gallant Custer. Custer, with nine companies, after scouting up Tongue River, wasto strike across country to the Rosebud, where, about the 21st, he would first learn of the fight of the 17th. Terry, with seven companies, was to march to meet Custer, and if they have suc- ceeded in making a junction there will be some chance of coping successfally with Sitting Bull should they strike his trail. Until we learn the result of the splitting of Terry's command we must await the news with anxiety, not unmingled with trepidation. When Crook, with thirteen hun- dred men, was unable to follow up a fight with Sitting Bull we may well be anxious over the fate of either of Terry's detach- ments, numbering less than seven hundred men, if they should meet the Sioux single handed. If Crook, with even his pres- ent forces, could be sent forward to the sup- port of Custerand Terry it might, although still at great risk, end the difficulty. Rein- forcements for both columns should be swiftly hurried forward. Boss Kelly at the Front. Boss Kelly seems to be raging around St. Louis. The Boss went out as his friends say to “harmonize the party.” But from all the reports it seems that his plan of cam- paign is like that of certain gréat captains— namely, to make desolation and proclaim it peace. Now, cool men would admit that even if a democrat did not believe in Tilden fot the Presidency he would recognize the right of that statesman to be a candidate and of his friends to support him. But the Boss thinks otherwise. He announces that the support of Tilden is war upon him. He de- clines the hand of Mr. Hewitt; he publicly threatens the Mayor; he tells Mr. Smith Weed that he must not address him again, and denounces Colonel Bagley in warm phrases. All of this excites” the democ- racy. But it does not surprise us. If the democrats submit to a boss they should take him with all of his attributes, A boss isa master. A master has a right to command his serfs. If he calls Cox from the Speaker's chair Cox should come, or pay the penalty when nomination day arrives. If Hewitt takes his office from Kelly why should he hesitate when Kelly commands? What higher function has Senator Kernan than to obey the Boss? Since Kelly is the accepted Tammany boss he should be respected in that capacity. This was the way in Tweed’s time, and Kelly, as Tweed's successor, should have his prerogatives. We do not think the boss system the best one and have often said so. We do not think o dark lantern Know Nothing lodge the true way to govern a free party. But the democrats think otherwise. When Kelly has offices to bestow, when he has a convention at his call, they follow him, praise him, crawl at his bidding. Is it any wonder he should break into a temper when they disobey him? So long as the democrats tolerate a boss we confess we like a man of Kelly's way. After all, discipline should be preserved, and the Boss does well to crack the whip and make the boys keep time. If they com- plain oi the new Frankenstein, let them re- member that the monster is of their own creation. Tae Scorrmn Riruemen yesterday re- sumed their competition for the team to shoot in the Centennial match, and under favorable weather conditions greatly bet- tered their record in the first day's competi. tion, showing conclusively that they will send out a team hard to beat. The aver- ages are very high, the twelvo highest scores standing 45 points above an averago of centres. The eight leading scores foot up 1,505 points out of 1,800, 0 percentage of 83.61. This is admirable, and if the Scotch- men, as announced, make an encampment at Creedmoor to study up the altered atmos- pheric conditions, they may readily increase IPLE SHEET. this high percentage by the time the match | racing track, and Yale seems to be fighting. comes off. We advise our riflemen to look to their laurels, Here be foemen worthy of their steol. The St. Louis Catechism. The democrats are simmering over their nominations, and they have our hearty sympathy if the- weather is harsh and warm. Itis hard to discuss these exciting questions in the torrid days, end we can think of nothing more calculated to awaken our sympathies than two gentlemen as sturdy and eloquent as Dorsheimer, the chief of the Tilden clan, and Wickham, the chief of Tammany Hall, in high delate over tho canvass, But, with good temper and plenty of mint juleps, we shall, no doubt, have a nomination. Here, however, is a little catechism which the uncertain delegates might cut out of the Heratp and carry about in their pocket- books :— ’ I. What is Tilden? “Any one to win.” The representative of the better sense of the democratic party in this State; apposed by the chivalry and the “bosom friends”— a man who would satisfy the rank and file of the party and bring credit to the State, and whose only danger is that if nominated the Tammany people might make a trade with the republicans and sell him out for the control of “the city, as they sold out the Judge of Appeals ticket some time since, IL What is Hendricks? A professional democrat, who represents the platform of repudiation in the North and revolution in the South, and who would not carry any Eastern or Middle State except Delaware. IIL What is Bayard? The ioftiest and the purest name before the Convention. One who would represent the traditions of the past and the hopes of the future, and whose Presidency would be a revival of the spirit of the Revolution; somewhat eager on the war questions, who sees only the ruined mansions on the Southern planta- tions and forgets about the cabins, Bayard’s nomination would mean an old-fashioned democratic fight without compromise or degradation. It would-be a chivalrous fight worthy of Roncesvalles. But would it bea winning fight? It is not a Marathon that is wanted by the’democrats, but an Austerlitz, IV. What is Hancock? A compliment to a gallant and courteous soldier—a sentiment. Because he fought in the Northern armies it is said his nomination would extinguish the war issue in the canvass. Allof which is moonshine. It isa mock bid on the part of mock auction politicians of Pennsylvania, who talk about Hancock while they mean all the time the best price for their votes. His nomination would mean a quiet canvass. V. What is Parker? The compromise be- tween Tilden and Hendricks, who would be to the democrats what Hayes is to the repub- licans—the candidate who would carry New Jersey and leave New York about as it is. VI. What is Thurman? A Western man with Eastern principles, who would repre- sent the common sense and patriotism of the party, and whose nomination would be a compromise between the soft money mad- men and the friends of the national honor. VIL What is Allen? ‘Full of sound and fary, signifying nothing.” The uncle of Thurman. Remembers Andrew Jackson, and used to smoke a corncob pipe with him, Would be pretty certain to go to the lunatic asylum, if brought before a court, on account of his money madness. VIIL What is Davis? A bubble. IX. What are all the rest of them? Bubbles. This is the situation of affairs at St, Louis. If any one can tell which democrat in this list or any one not in the list will be apt to win before the country he will name the nominee, Goldwin Smith on Political Corrup- * tion, Professor Goldwin Smith has written a letter on political corruption, which we re- print this morning on account of the ability and fairness with which the subject is dis- cussed. Professor Smith has mingled with the American people sufficiently to know and understand their real character, and he tes- tifies that whatever corruption there is in this country is confined to the politicians, The frenzy for investigation is doing us harm with the rest of the world, but it is purify- ing the atmosphere at home. This Mr. Smith recognizes in his admirable letter, and he points out that political corruption is not confined to the United States, Hoe also suggests that from political and parti- san motives wo are apt to give a single crime like the offence of General Belknap too much importance, In every coun- try from time immemorial men like Belknap have been tempted beyond their Strength, but it is not right to attri- bute the downfall of such a man cither to his party affiliations or his nationality. Curruption, like any other crime, is not con- fined toany country. In England it often happens that members of Parliament are un- -seated for bribery, and Professor Smith shows that during tho reign of George IIL andsince up to within » comparatively recent period political corruption was of the most unblushing character. ‘In France the down- fall of the Second Empire was mainly owing to political corruption existing among the ser- vants of the Emperor. Yet neither the English nor the French people was seriously affected by these things, because, as with us, the great mass was true at heart and honest in thought, in feeling and in act. The evils of which we now complain will correct themselves and investigation will hasten the cure, though it cannot fail to be a bitter pill to all who love their country and believe in its institutions, Tar Yare-Harvarp Racx.—-In another column will be found many details pertain. ing to tho work of the two crews up till last evening. Following apparently the example ofthe English crews Yale did not launch until a quarter of six yesterday afternoon, thus getting in practically two entire days of rest together. Taken in connection with her coming to the score too fine last year and hor present hearty and plump condition, it is evident that she does not mean to err this time on the sido of over- work. Ithas often been announced dur. ing tho year that the most approved plan lately was to get through the bulk of the hard work before coming un to the it out om this line. Meanwhile both crews remain unaffected by the change of water, and practically free from the boils and other annoyances which often beset the conscien- tious rowing man. This speaks well for their systems of training, and if they will give timely heed to the apparent mistakes they are making in the two directions noted they will have the satisfaction of rowing their race as it should be rowed, with every man in his best form. The Sewing Machine Companies and the Seamstresses. The hardy statement of a correspondent, describing himself as a bookkeeper, that the sewing machine companies ‘have. made no money during the last few years,” is one of those mild perversions of the trath which are easy to classify. It is also com- pletely aside from the point that machines are sold at enormous profits by them, entailing great misery on the poor and the hardworking in the endeavor to pay the sums demanded. ‘This has not been an- swered nor is it likely to be. We can well understand the troyble the companies meet in attempting to draw these extortionate tates from ,the needlewomen and that it would not do in all cases to hold the unfortunate creatures rigorously to the day on which their instalment is due ; but it is admitted on all hands that the sharpest practices are carried on in the trade, the only reservation being that it is ‘the rascal round the corner” who does _ these things. If the companies do not reap the old profit on their business that made poor men millionnaires in a year er two, they should learn the lesson of the times, that the falling off in demand means that they should seek an extension of busi- ness by selling at fair rates—rates that would not leave room for cases like Bridget Barry's, where a machine was taken away on which fifty-five dollars had been paid, probably three times the first cost of the article. But no! The companies want big prices, and by a system of combination that keeps small manufacturers out of the market they keep prices up. When a machine passes out of the hands of the monopoly and is sold at auction, say after being in use 8 short time, it rarely brings as much aa twenty dollars, indicating that half the present prices charged on instalments is what the articles are worth when new. Half the present prices would give a large profit. Instead we are treated by the dear big com- panies to disquisitions on their tender- heartedness, their poor business and “the large commissions to agents who sell their goods.” Precaution Acarnst Frez on the Fourth of July is agitating the insurance companies, which regard the day as one likely to be used by incendiaries to destroy their own property. It is acurious development of anticipated crime, and we are slow to believe in it. The real design, perhaps, in these pre- cautionary measures is to take advantage of the patriotic fervor of the Centennial to vitiate insurance policies whenever it is shown that people have failed to celebrato the Fourth after the manner prescribed by the companies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lotta is at Newport. Mrs, Agassiz is at Nahant Ex-Governor Gaston -has gone to Swampscot, Mase. Jadge Hoar will speak in Boston on Thursday eve ing. Hon. George H, Pendleton’s ilinoss still confines him to his bed. * Colonel John Forsyth, of Alabama, wants Tilden and Hendricks, Niagara Falls are to be illamiated on the night of the Fourth, The Chicago Times now thinks that the Old South church ought to save Boston. It may be a rehef to Stillson B. Hutchins to know that Washington had big fect, Itgrasavery little boy in New Jersey who said— “Yes, soda water's good; it’s like yonr foot’s ase.” In Texas cities people wear colored goggles to guard their eyes from reflection of tho san from the side walks. Biaine said that if the democrats bad nominates Hendricks and Hancock in 1868 they could have de. feated Grant. General Grant persists in believing that Hancock and Hendricks would be the strongest ticket tor the dem- ocrats to nominate. A New Bedford physician has given each hackman ot the city a dollar's worth of soda water tickets in the interests of temperance. The St. Louis Times is wrong in saying that Governor Hayes when in Congress voted for the salary grab. It probably refers to Hayes, of Alabama. Doré for over a year studied human faces in the - operating ward of a Paris hospital in order to study the varying expressions of misery in those who were being ‘operated upon. ‘The Paris Kentuckian says that the average age of the forty-five soldiers of the war of 1812 who inet in that city last Monday is eighty-one years, three months and six days, Ag American girl writing from Milan says that the stories that American girls are invariably insulted when they appear alone in the streets are exaggerated, A good girl is unmolested. A woman, seventy-six years old, pretends to. have walked irom Woonsocket to Providence and back, thirty-two miles, in one day, recently, and she says the feat 1s nothing uncommon for her. Sir Thomas E. May, author of the f os the “Law of Parliament” and of the ‘ tional History of Sngland,’’ has in press two on- titled “Democracy in Europe: a History.” That excellent historian, Joba Hill Burton, who has written so many volumes on Scottish history, will shortly give us “A History of the British Empire During the Reign of Queen Anne,” Henry Ward Beechor bas been path Bareau of Boston to lecture eighty nights the coming season for $40,000, Mark Twain will write and deliver some new aketches for a limited number of pights. Genoral Wade Hampton, who will command the parade at Charleston, 8. C., on the 28th inst, will wear the full unitorm of the Palmetto Guards, and will carry the sword worn by his grandfather at the battio of Eu- taw Springs. , Mra Abigail Warren, of Cincinnati, and eighty years of age, predicted seven years ago that Governor Hayes would be clected Presidont in 1876. This story should have been told before people committed themselver to Blaine or Conkling. Tho Milatka (Fla) Herald says that the inexhaust idle supply of palmetto in that State has suggested the idea of a largo enterprise in utilizing the pith or bud ot the root, sometimes called the cabbage, for pickles, which 1s far superior to the cacumber for that purpose, Atlanta (Ga.) Times :--'There are, perhaps, a jarges umber of self-made men in Atlanta than in any other city in the Siato—-men who, by indomitable energy, have risen [rom poverty to wealth; men whe started life with obly strong hands anu stout hearts, and have mastored fortune.” Prince Oscar Charles Anguete, Duke of Gothiand and son of the King of Sweden, arrived in this city yester- prod greg and took up his quarters at the nswick. The Prince 1s accompanied by Count Posse and Baron Posse, of Sweden, The party will Brobably leave the city to-merrow. 4 t