The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1876, Page 6

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KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, a: 8P.M. ah Nh ts OLYMPIC THRATRE, AUMPTY DUMPTY, at 8 P.M. PARK THEATRE. TRE KERRY GOW, at 5 P.M. WERY THEATRE. P.M. BC FATAL MARKSMAN, at8 ‘TRIPLE SHEET. “EW YORK, THURSDAY, Tv E 20, 878 —————— From our reports this morning the probabilities are pat the weather to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy. During the summer months the Henaxp will te sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of iwenty-sive cents per week, free of postage. Nonce to Counrny NewspEacers.— For ihe and regular delivery of the Hunaup iy Jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to thia office. Postage jree. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock market was excited, and, under the leader- ship of Western Union, advanced from 1-8 to 2 3-8 percent. Gold advanced from 112 to 112 1&8 Money on call was supplied at 21-2and 3 percent. Government and rail- ‘way bonds were steady. Foreign exchange firm. . Kauny's Victory over Tilden reminds us of his victory over Jones for Register and Hackett for Recorder. ‘Tue Latest Bonp Fonrcers are in a good ‘way of going to the Penitentiary. The evi- dence adduced yesterday shows that the rogues succeeded in victimizing several trust- ing people, and will probably secure the for some years. Ovr Enauiss Coustxs do not think very highly of the Cincinnati nomination. They want to know ‘Who is Mr. Hayes?” and de- clare that his principal ‘merit is that he is almost unknown,” which, in their matter-of- fact way, they consider a poor recommenda- tion for the office of Presideut of these United Btates. Wer Conoratutate the Honorable John Morrissey! Now is the time for the Honor- able John to take possession of Tammany and lead the reform movement. Wurx Lonp Drnrvsy asks America to guarantee the right of asylum by a treaty he is in the position of the gentleman who, when asking another to be his guest, “stipulates” that the guest will not carry off the silverware. Between governments like America and England something should be taken for granted, and one thing especially— that the right of asylum is sacred. ‘Tuens 1s No Discrpuinanran so severe as the convert or the recent ally. One would think, to see how Littlejohn and Dorsheimer swing around the St. Louis Convention, preaching ‘‘democracy” and ‘‘discipline,” they had been democrats all their lives, On the contrary, they are fresh from the repub- Jican lines, and have not yet worn out their republican uniforms. Taz Fis Fisxp.—Haunter's Point was yesterday the scene of a destructive fire, which at one time threatened to lay the whole place in ruins. Fortunately the Long Island City Fire Department proved equal to the occasion, and by dint of hard work suweceeded in subduing the flames, not, however, before several important establish- ments were destroyed and damage estimated at ope hundred thousand dollars had been done to the town. Ws Cononatciate Hon. Do Witt C. Little- joan! He will have abundant opportunity to wt up the affairs of the Oswego and fluence of the canvass. Bowoaiwe Suxsume axp Ex:ncise.—The of the lacrosse players by the Queen shows on the part of Her Majesty an intelligent appreciation of the value of these monly sports. Whoever contributes an inno- gent out-of-door amusement to a people is more of » bencfactor than he who organizes gnermy. ‘This is where we won the battle of Waterloo,” said the Duke of Wellington, keoking at the Eton boys in a cricket field. ‘What an immense advantage base ball has bow to our own country ! While the passion . fer it lasted every village bad its club and ‘i every stripling was running his bases. La- ercese is in this family of games—the family whieh inclades polo, cricket, base ball, and soon. It is a gave well known in Canada, but new to England. Her Majesty shows wisdom in approving it. Midland Railroad without the disturbing in- | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. . Governor Tilden was nominated yesterday on the second ballot as the lensocratie can- didate for the Presidency result fore- | shadowed by the drift of sentiment at St. | Louis for the last two days. The Tilden | canvass had been so complete and so adroitly managed, it had been conducted | with so much quiet efficiency and such consummate skill for months previous to the meeting of the Convention, that the less alert and less dexterous can- didstes bad no chance when the battle } opened. Whatever else may be said or thought of Mr. Tilden, it must be conceded by friends and enemies alike, conceded by democrats and republicans alike, that he ' bas proved himself one of the ablest and most astate managers that have ever ap- peared in the politics of this country. Apart from his own wonderful address and activity his chances for this high honor were very slender. He bad never held an impor- tant office until he was elected Governor } of New York, less than two years | ago. He has never been in Congress; he has never held a position of trust under the federal government; he has never had an opportunity to make himself conspicuous in national affairs; he lacks the experience at the federal capital which Thurman, Bayard and Hendricks have bad opportuni- ties to acquire; and yet, by the sheer force of his abilities, by his extraordinary capacity for politics, he has eclipsed them all in the estimation of his own party, and is selected | by the Democratic National Convention as its fittest standard bearer in an election of great importance, The selection of a citizen of his limited experience in official life and total lack of experience in federal affairs | over the heads of so many democratic states- men who have had superior facilities for making a national reputation is a tribute to his character and capacity of which he may be justly proud, whether he wins in the Presidential race or not. As he is a citizen of oar own State and an esteemed fellow townsman, we have too much local pride to be indifferent to his brilliant success at St. Louis, and we offer him our sincere congratulations. Governor Tilden’s nomination is not, how- ever, equivalent to an election, for this Presidential election is to be one of the most vigorous and most closely contested that has ever taken place in the history of the country. The result is so doubtfal that the canvass will have all the interest of a game in which the skill of the players keeps the judgment of the spectators in sus- pense. The chances are so doubtful that public expectation will be kept on the qui vive throughout. It is safe to say that we are entering on one of the most interesting, vig- orously contested and doubtful Presidential contests that have ever taken place since the organization of the government. In estimating Mr. Tilden’s strength as a candidate we will put New York aside until we have weighed his chances in other States. To be sure New York is the grand pivot of the canvass, for if Tilden should fail to carry this State he has no ebance of an election ; but we prefor,to con- sider the effect of his nomination in other States before coming to the main point on which the election will turn. Outside of New York, in the country at large, Tilden is undoubtedly the strongest and most popular nomination the democratic party could have made, A conclusive proof of this is the tactics adopted by his opponents at St. Louis. The sole ground on which they rested their opposition was his alleged inability to carry NewYork. Now, he may carry New York or he may not; the chances ‘are very doubtful, with perhaps a preponderance against him, but the form taken by the opposition to him at St. Louis was a conces- sion by his opponents that he is the strongest democratic candidate elsewhere, taking the country as a whole. But any estimate of chances from which New York is excluded is like the play of “Hamlet” with the part of Hamlet left out. The Presidential election will be | decided by the electoral votes of the Empire | State, and Governor Tilden will have a hard battle to fight here against powerful and for- midable adversaries. If he wins in this State he wins everything; if he loses this State he loses all. With his own party di- vided and his republican adversaries thor- oughly united, with the whole influence of the federal patronage exerted against him, and the discouraging effect of probable re- publican victories in the October States, he enters upon an unequal contest, and noth- ing but his remarkable ability as a political strategist can give him the victory against such odds. But whether Tilden wins the election or loses it the country has reason to congratu- late itself on the result at St. Louis. The vote on the platform, which immediately preceded the first ballot, was a sure augury |of the nomination * of Tilden, and it was so splendid # victory for soun ideas on the currency that agreat and depressing load of anxiety is | lifted from honest men and true patriots. We heartily congratulate the country on the | fact that both of our great political parties are sound on vital questions. We | give no credit to the manipulators | and wirepullers of either party for this reassuring result; the whole praise belongs to the people. If the dema- gogues could have seen their way clear to success by indorsing inflation or repudia- tion they would have had no scruples; but they were conscious that they were sub- | mitting views for popular indorsement, and the fact that both parties felt compelled to act on the presumption that tie people are honest, on the presumption that the people | would vote down any platform or set of candi- | dates who were not sound on questions affecting. the national honor, is a signal proof | that the great body of our citizens of both parties are thought by those who have the deepest interest in studying their senti- ments to be immovably upright on the vital qricstions of our politics. We rejoice that both parties have this | We announced by the two national conventions the country is safe, whichever party suc- ceeds. Both parties have bound themselves | by a formal, solemn pledge to restore « sound and honest currency at the earliest period when it can be done without a sud- den shock and violent derangement of business, and we have no doubt that either party, if successful in the election, will attempt to keep the pledge. Our confi- dence is not founded on the virtue of party leaders, which would be a frail reliance, but on the recognition by both parties that this is the will of the people. Politicians are mere tenants of the offices they may gain, and their consciousness that no party can stand in this country which does not conform to the general sentiment in favor of sound finance and honest administration is o hopeful and assuring sign of the times. We recognize the great service the St. Louis Convention has done in relieving the public mind from solicitude respecting the cardinal principles on which the government ought to be administered. It is a great relief to feel that this Presi- dential contest is a mere trial of party strength and rivalry of personal ambitions, and that whether Hayes is elected or Tilden is elected the country is equally sure that the government will be adiminis- tered on honest principles. No great public interest will be endangered by the success of either candidate. We may, therefore, dismiss anxiety and ap- prehension, and look upon this interesting canvass as a harmless struggle between two equally patriotic parties fdr public favor and approval. We shall have an honest Presi- dent, a safe administration and a steady progress toward specie paymerits and busi- ness prosperity, whether Governor Hayes or Governor Tilden carries off the honors of the | canvass. | Wr Conoratutatz Hon. John Kelly! To the Boss, more than to any other man in the State, Uncle Sammy owes his nomination. We hope some of Kelly's friends will bring him home on a special car, well provided with cooling drinks and sedatives. Amnesty to Communists. President MacMahon has exercised Execu- tive clemency in the case of some eighty- seven prisoners of the Commune. This act will do something to calm the fervor of political agitation among the friends cf the prisoners, and it is to be regretted that the President-Marshal did not go a step further in the road of reconciliation and make the amnesty general. Prosecution on account of participation in the Communist insurrec- tion is to cease, and with the end of vindictive proceedings on the part of the government it is to be hoped that the anger and desire for revenge on the part of the Communist radicals may also disappear. France now controls her own destinies, and those who desire the continuance of the re- publican form of government cannot do better than prove their fitness for self- government by displaying intelligent mod- eration. A certain class of theorists pretend to cure all the evils of humanity by the application of a favorite form of govern- ment, but the experience of free peoples in oll ages shows conclusively that misery and vice are inseparablefrom htman society, whatever form of government it may adopt. If the French radical republicans would only keep this fact in mind it would preserve them from many serious blunders, and would facilitate the extension of a per- fect amnesty to their comrades who expiate in prison their rebellion against society and government. We Coxcrarczats Hon. Erastus Brooks! His editorials supporting Tilden will com- mand the resources of his experienced in- tellect. Argap or tax Licut.—Sir Stafford North- cote said in the House of Commons on Tues- day evening that the British government deprecated -any discussion of the question of extradition. The reason is that the discus- sion would show that Mr. Cross and Lord Derby have forced England into a false po- sition; that they have entirely misconstrued the question; that upona mere suspicion and in the interest of large commercial houses in England who are believed to have knowledge of the defrauding of the reve- nues, they wantonly destroyed a useful and beneficent treaty. This is our conclusion after a careful reading of the English Blue Book. If the English government is at- tacked on this treaty it cannot hold its ground. The common sense of both nations looks. upon the disruption of this treaty as a calamity. We do not want our shores to be- come the asylum for English murderers and thieves. The English feel the same way about our criminals. In sacrificing this treaty Lord Derby made a grievous blunder. | No wonder his government deprecates any discussion. If Lord Hartington is wiso he will force it. We Concratunare Peter B. Sweeny! Peter B. can pursue those sesthetic studies which he has found so fascinating in his Paris life. He is said to have two inillions of dollars, which it would be well to have transferred into French and English securi- ties. Caprer Cuanors.—There is a general but erroneous impression that President Grant has made an extraordinary number of | changes in his Cabinet, Leaving out of the | reckoning the original appointments, he has made but fourteen changes in nearly eight | years. Mr. Lincoln made seven changes in four years; General Jackson made thirteen | in eight years; General Washington eleven in his eight years; Mr. Jefferson ten; Mr, Madison eleven; Fillmore made ten in his four years’ administration, and Tyler seven- teen. It thus appears that the Cabinet of General Grant has had abont the usual | stability. Mr. Fish, Mr. Seward, Mr. | Madison and Mr. John Quincy Adams are | the only Secretaries of State who served | through eight years. Mr. Monroe made could go over the earth. - ' ‘The War Cloud in the East. From the decided tone of our special de- spatehes it is evident that a few days at ntinost will witness the opening of hos- tilities betwecm Servia and Turkey. It seems out of the power of the Servians to withdraw now, and the three Em- pires,.with England and France, have apparently resolved to view the open- ing of the contest merely as spectators, deeply interested ones it is true, and, with the exception of France, each wishing for the moment when a sudden blow might be delivered on the favored side. It is a curious fact in this quarrel that not one of the pos- sible contestants among the great Powers has any sympathy with the tottering Ottoman Empire, yet England may soon be found fighting on its side from the hard motives of her policy as an Asiatic Power. If Russia takes, sides in the field against ‘Turkey it will be partly from sympathy and largely in pursuit of material gains both in | Enrope and Asia, It will be so difficult for | Austria to take part against the fighting Christians, and so dangerous for her to move at all unless on an understanding with Ger- many and Russia that the single temptation of England will not avail to place her on the side of Turkey. With Germany alone her pact would resemble that of the lamb with the wolf, and a pact with Russia alone would scarcely compensate for the danger that ‘would threaten her in the German provinces of the Empire. The exigencies of her posi- tion would, therefore, tend to keep her neutral unless she could come to an un- derstanding with both Germany and Russia. | It remains to be seen what tension the pres- | ent friendliness between the Czar and the Northern Kaiser will bear. What England | can do todetach the Teuton from the Museo- | vite will be done. A whisper of an under- j standing between Disraeli and Bismarck | came to us last Sunday from Paris. That this has effected more than a promise of neu- | trality on the part of Germany and her good | offices in the same direction with Russia | during a war between Turkey and the Prin- | cipalities is not now apparent. If this | understanding has been reached it is ob- vious that a similar pledge has been ex- | tracted from England. The neutrality, therefore, of all the great Powers seems as- sured for the present. Since the struggle of Greece for her inde- pendence fifty years ago no comparatively small war has attracted the absorbing atten- tion which all Europe will bestow upon the Slavs of the Danubian Principalities striking against Mohammedan thraldom. Itison the part of the Servians 4 war of ideas—the ideas of race, religion and country against a Power that, despite four centuries of sway, has re- mained a foe and an alien. They cannot fail in their struggle to attract the sympa- thies of all Christendom, and not a single sentimental regret would follow their final victory over the debased and debasing Power that overthrew the remnant of the Byzan- tine Empire. The question of the ultimate direction of the struggle is so crossed and barred with selfish interests, in which all the Powers have their share, that it is not likely the end will come without a contest that may shake down many a Power beside Turkey. We Coycrarcotatz Hon. Horatio Sey- mour! He was not compelled to accept the painful duty of resigning the nomination. Now that the Presidency is off his mind he can give his whole attention to our domestic fisheries and agricultural pursuits. “Tue Riout or Asyuum.”—When England wanted the famous Bank of England forgers Spain gave them up. Yet there was no treaty of extradition between England and Spain. Nor did America interfere, although Mr. Fish might have said, that in thé ab- sence of a treaty stipulation to the contrary, every citizen was entitled to the fullest right of asylum. But, as was well said at the time, the Bank of England was the prose- cutor, and the bank showed that her power This right of asy- lum business is utter quackery: It might be discussed with Turkey or China, but not ! with an enlightened Power, because every enlightened Power accepts it. Spain did right to give up the Bank of England forgers, and Mr. Fish did right to consent to the surrender. Yet if Mr. Cross had been Home Secretary the forgers would have es- caped, under his foolish sensitiveness about the right of asylum. We Coxoratonats Hon. William Allen! He can enjoy the repose he has so richly earned in a long and useful iife and tell | stories about his smoking corncob ‘pipes with Andrew Jackson. Tur Biont to Krt.—In the Recorder's | Court a young man named Keenan was yes- terday tried on the charge of manslaughter, he having stabbed one Richard Bell during | a brawl provoked by the latter. The accused | admitted the killing, but claimed that he was justified because he had been first attacked. Eyeept that the deceased man had made some insulting remarks to Keenan's wife the fight between the men was | an ordinary row. The jury took a lenient | view of the killing and acquitted the prisoner. From this decision Recorder Hackett felt compelled to express his dissent, on the ground thatthe mere fact that a man has | received a blow from the hand of another cannot be considered as sufficient justifica- tion for the hasty use of the knife. This isa sound position and will mect the approval of all intelligent citizens. The knife at best is a cowardly weapon, and juries should be careful not to encourage its hasty use, Cas Tupen Canny New York ?—The Governor is reported by one of our Albany correspondents as saying that he can carry New York by fifty thousand majority. We have no doubt the Governor thinks so. He carried New York once, and it is the most natural thing in the world that he should | expect to doit again. He is in the honey- | moon of the nomination nuptials, and must | | ofthe House. If the House asserts its au- | Dorsheimer, whose voice is a symphony and | and angry encounters on the stairs, and | have a seat or not—all the same. | have our Fourth of July, our fireworks—all , tion, pointing out its shortcomings and call- Wes Cowonarurate Te Community upon wholesome fear of public sentiment. fewer Cabinet changes than any other Presi- } be allowed the illusions natural to a candi- y The Point im Blaine’s Case. Colonel Forney writes an article, calling on the ‘Confederates” to cease their war upon Mr. Blaine, now that he is ill and has lost the nomination for the Pres- idency. The country shares Colonel For- ney’s sorrow for the illness of Mr. Blaing and trusts that he may soon return to public life with restored health. But at the same time it is not fair to charge the Confederates with the ‘‘war upon Blaine.” Mr. Blaine is in this pdsition:—He tampered with a witness under subpeena. He offered this wit- ness a consulate to leave the country and suppress certain evidence, and when this offer was rejected he took forcible possession of this evidence and still holds it in defiance thority it will either censure Mr. Blaine or expel him. Now this is a cold, passionless presentation of the case, which a gentleman as skilled in parliamentary law as Colonel Forney must see. The uproar about the Confederates was admirable as a flank at- tack in the House. It was fair ammunition in the hands of a fireworks orator like Inger- soll, of Illinois. But it should not deceive Colonel Forney. Mr. Blaine is in an unfor- tunate position so- far as the House is con- cerned. Nothing but the sympathy of the House can save him. The position is of his own seeking, and the poor Confederates, who will have enough to bear this summer, should not be charged with it. We Ooncratc.ats Major General Winfield Scott Hancock! It will not be necessary for | him to resign his commission in the army. It is a high commission and not to be thrown away. Then, if the new democratic administration can have a bill passed retiring | Sherman and Sheridan, Hancock can be comunander of the army. Any Rights Which Bound to Respect? The people are watching with great inter- est the case between the street railways and thesteam railways before the Superior Court. The owners of the street cars are exhausting every agency to prevent the building of the elevated or underground road. The burden of the argument is expressed by Lawyer Choate, who, all the time no doubt looking as wise as an owl, informed the Court that a steam road would be a ‘‘special injury” to the horse cars, because it would draw off their travel. We trust there is no judge on our Bench who will listen fora moment to this preposterous proposition. It is the old argument against progress, and experience shows how absurd it is. The effect of the building of the Gilbert road would be, not to destroy the franchise of any street railway, but to improve it. There would be fewer cars, but they would run more comfortably. There would be none of those sardine trips which we see morning and evening. The horse cars are needed for short journeys and will always be useful, and if well managed will yield a revenue to thtir owners; but the city has outgrown the capacity of the horse cars. They are not intended for long distances, and experience will show this when we have rapid transit. Grauxrcr Pang is the political Mecca, But there are two Mohammeds there resi- dent—Greenback Cooper and Hard Money Tilden. The Whiskey Thieves. It does not surprise us to learn that strong efforts are making for the pardon of Avery, the former chief clerk of the Treasury; McDonald, the St, Louis supervisor of reve- nue, and others, now in prison for defraud- ing the government. One of them was sen- tenced on Saturday to two years’ imprison- ment in the County Jail. His punishment is a nominal one, something like that of Boss Tweed. This leads us to say that our laws in dealing with ‘bosses are badly adminis- tered. If these persons had stolen a ham they would have gone to prison for twenty years; but they used their authority, in- finence and position, not alone to make money, for money they had, but from sheer avarice and to rob the government, and they must be pardoned. We trust the Presi- Peamsytvania and Hartranft. It does not surprise us to learn that tha’ friends of Governor Hartrantt, of Pennsyi- vania, complain of his treatment at Cincin- nati, They say, and with justice, that Hartranft was a better general than Hayes, that he has proved to be as good a Governor, that he was the choice of a great State, and that if Pennsylvania had been true to him he might have won. On the contrary, it was with difficulty Penncylvania could be induced to give him one ballot. Delegates who had been pledged to vote for him arose and publicly repudiated the pledge, and but for the firmness of a few friends his can- - didacy would have been a farce. If Penn- sylvania had voted for Hartranft as Ohio voted for Hayes, first, last and all the time, he might now be the nominee. There is much force in these complaints, Hartranft was badly used in his own State, But so long as the republican party. in Pennsylva- nia is under the rule of a ring like that which sways Philadelphia it will send pure chasable delegations to conventions. Penn- sylvania, one of the first of our States, an empire among commonwealths, and this year of all years laurel laden with honors— Pennsylvania was of no more importance in the Convention at Cincinnati than Texas. « Governor Hartranft may complain with rea- son. The Philadelphia delegation stabbed him. , —>+-—_——_ We Conorarctatz Hon. Joel Parker! He will not be torn away from his turnips and watermelons down in Monmouth to worry over the Presidency. Monmouth cannot spare Farmer Joel. Baby’ Farming in New York. The discovery of six helpless infants in various stages of starvation and all sharing a horrifying state of filth at the home of a Mrs. McCloskey, a professional baby farmer, shows that this slow but sure system of infanticide can exist in New York. Weare glad to say that the inquiries of the police into this woman's antecedents make it appear that even in the poorest localities her horrid practices failed to be tolerated. That she was allowed to move from one house to another for several months without attracting the attention of the police is. asad comment upon the indif- ference of people to wrong so it does not involve their own reputations or is not com- mitted before their eyes. We hope to see this woman severely punished. Crimes against human life committed by the cradle side belong to barbarism. The helplessness of the little sufferers cries out to our common humanity. The age which has fertilized the goodly work of St. Vincent de Paul until the care of the foundling has become one of the most tender and important of the chari- ties of all creeds is ready to take strong measures to stamp out a revolting crime, more heinous because more fiendishly pro- longed in its torfares than what is told of the abandonment of infants by the Chinese. Such wholesale baby-farming establishments as were discovered and broken up in Eng- land are not likely to exist-in America, for various reasons. The abandonment of even six children to Mrs. McCloskey’s tender mercies must have arisen through gross de- ception on her part, and gross carelessness, if no worse, on the part of the mothers or guardians committing them to her sinister care. We pity such mothers. The good work done by the Society for the Prevention | of Cruelty to Children in this case gives ita fresh title to public esteem. We Concratutare Hon. Williant Pors- heimer, Lieutenant Governor of New York! He has won a great victory. Uncle Sammy should resign the Governorship and thus give Dorsheimer a chance to have his por- trait painted at the expense of the State. Dorsheimer is a handsome man and would make a fine picture. Boss Kenzy 1x Srarz.—When Louir XIV. srose in the morning he was surrounded by noblemen who vied with each other in dis. charging the offices about his person. One enfolded him in the royal scarf, another tied the royal cravat, a third perfumed the royal handkerchief, a fourth pulled on the roya) © boots, and soon. Weare reminded of thir dent will ‘demy the appeal. Pardon would be a stain upon his administra- tion. It would do his party harm. It would confirm the suspicion that he threw Bristow out of his Cabinet because he had been a reformer. The higher the social and political position the graver the crime. The punishment shonld be equal to thegravity. Mercy would dishonor itself to interfere. - Asp Now raz Times informs us that Dors- heimer—the wise, the gracious, the sunny his smilea persuasion—has become ‘‘arrogant and overbearing.” This is all on account of the weather. Then we hear of nose pulling bosom friends like Kelly and Wickham in public controversy. The moral of it is, never hold conventions in midsummer, or, if it is necessary, let them be held on Pike's Peak, or on one of the Thousand Islands, | or in Sitka. It would not surprise us if this holding conventions with the thermometer ninety-tive in the shade were aguin to divide the democratic party. Arter Att Wuat Dogs It Amoust To ?— The sun will shine ; the grass will grow; we | shall have wheat and corn; taxes will in- | crease; we shall pay our car fare whether we We shall the same. Andina year from now we shall be in high feather over the new administra- ing for reform—all the same. Why not keep cool about it, remembering the state of the thermometer and seeing what has befallen poor John Kelly, and knowing that the world will go round and round all the same in spite of St. Louis and Cincinnati? A Hist to Ketry’s Fresps.—The friends of the Boss should keep cooling lotions abont him. A towel dipped in ice-cold water and applied to the back of the neck has been the conviction of “Dr.” Foote tor sending rejoice that the bert judges of popular ebseene works through the mails. We hope | sentiment in both parties agree in the con- the Jadge will mako an example of Dr. | viction that any attempt to acquire political | Fyote. Kraves who live by polluting the | power by pandering to the wishes of dis- mada of the generstion deserve the | honest men would lead to defeat and dis- | grace. With such principles as have been | dent, only three in eight years. date in that condition. But New York is a | known to produce beneficial results. The peculiar State. When Tilden carried it the | climate of St. Louis is too harsh. The Boss | We Coneratviate William Henry Hurl: } republicans were divided and the democrats | bert! He can throw all the brilliancy of his wore united. Now the republicans are genius into the canvass as editor of the | united and the democrats are divided. This | World and lead the way for reform. | is » woint well worth considering. as we read of Boss Kelly entering the St Louis Convention. On one side Fred Smythe carrying his hat, Sam Cox on tht other carrying his umbrella. Then came Olney with Kelly's cane, and Schell with hit green bag. Behind all came Tom Dunlap and Denis Quinn with a supply of fans. As the Boss walked up the aisle thus surrounded, and saw before him Hewitt and Smith Weed and other rebels, his aspect was terrible. How sadly Wickham must have felt, remem- bering that it was once his office to carry the hat, and that now he was out in the broiling sun! Hoxors to Mayor Wicksam.—The ladies of Sorosis held a picnic on Tuesday. We are informed that the occasion of this gathering was to celebrate the election of Mayor Wick- ham to be one of the vice presidents of the St. Louis Convention. As is well known the Mayor has been the candidate of the ladies for the highest office in the gift of the people. If the Convention had declined tc hear Miss Cozzens the other day it was the Mayor's intention to have thrown himself into the breach, But the chivalry of the gallant Watterson interfered. Watterson little knew the man he suppressed; for, as Colonel Tom Dunlap informed one of ous correspondents, Wickham's specch on the woman question would have recalled the days of Demosthenes and justified the en- thusiasm with which on Tuesday the Sorosis ladies toasted His Honor in lemonade and ice cream. Tho secret of the Mayor's popu- larity with Sorosis and kindred associations lies in his rare personal beauty, his poeticai temperament, his musical voice, his love for the beautiful and the true. We Coxoratvnat: Honorable Angustus | Schell! This venerable journalist can sup- port Tilden in a series of able, pathetic and retrospective articles that will add to the | attractions of the Centennial year, Honoxs to tax Press.—-The Convention | has shown its appreciation of our noble calling by the honors it paid to two great should be brought home in a special car and | taken at once to ex-Senator Norton's clam cottage on Conev Isiand. The sea sir will | restore him. democratic editors, Augustus Schell, the | editor of the Tammany organ, and Henry Beemer the Kentucky publicist. The speeches of Schell and Watterson read like v