The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. 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. AL business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hznaw. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 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 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WooD's MUSEUM. HARKAWAY AMONG THE BRIGANDS, at 8 P.M Mat- ince at 2 P.M UNION SQUARE THEATRE. THE VOKES FAMILY at SPM. sr. M. FIFT’ Vv PIQUE, 8PM Fann WALLAC! ATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P. M. W.J. Florence. , GILMORE* ! GRAND CONCEKI, at 8 KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, er. OLYMPIC THEATRE HUMPTY DUMPTY, at 8P.M. PARK THEATRE THE KERRY GoW, at 8 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE. FATAL MARKSMAN, at 8 P.M. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, m8 P.M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE. VARIETY, a 8:15 P. M. WITH SUPPLEMENT. WEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, a From our reports this ade | the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be partly cioudy : and foggy. During the summer months the Hrnaxp will be sent to subscribers in the at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, postage. Norrcz to Country Newspxarens.— For Fan and regular delivery of the Hznaup u Jast mail trains orcers must be sent direct to is office. Postage free. Watt Srazzr Yzestzxpay.—Stocks were firm and active. Gold opened at 112 1-8 and closed at 112 3-8. Money on call was supplied at 3 1-2and3 percent, Government bonds were strong, railway bonds generally steady and investment shares, with the ex- ception of New Jersey Central, steady. A Picron-Snoorzr’s experiences in Eng- land, as related in an interview elsewhere, will yield some pleasant information to our wing shots, Tux Anti-Tammanyitzs are out already with enthusiasm for the St. Louis-nominas tiohs. The hall with the big Indian on top is still silent and gloomy. Bepror’s Isuanp is to have the greater part of its gunpowder taken away, so that the nervous citizens who have not slept easily since the Bergen tunnel explosion a have a prospect of some repose. Tue Frencn Worxivomen who form the evant garde ofthe labor delegates from France have gone about the work of seeing tho city ina manner not calculated to alarm in the least M. Buffet himself. Tux Derzcrives of the Secret Service Bureau have made an important capture of counterfeiters in Brooklyn, where these artistic engravers of ‘‘bogus” bank bills were Tue Preparations for the Yale-Harvard race at Springfield to-day show that no pains have been spared to make it interesting. Our despatch in another column describes and comments on the latest practice of the cival crews. ‘Tae Norte anv Sovurm have united to celebrate the famous victory of Fort Moul- trie, won a century ago in the harbor of Charleston, 8. C. It is pleasant to note that the memories of our recent fratricidal war are being completely obscured by those of Yhe struggle that ushered in our national independence. Tux Inwa Rircemen have been busy with the work of selecting their team. Of the ten names given in our special cable de- patch as having made the highest scores in two days’ competitions but two are those of the Irish team that came here in 1874. The records made by the others are very high, Mr. Fenton, whose name is second on the team list, is the winner of the American Challenge Cup. Dnusisnep Tempznatvny, due to the west- erly after winds which follow the movement eastward of areas of low barometer, such as that which has passed off our Atlantic coast, gave us a breathing spell yesterday which enabled us to recruit after the exhausting _ @xperiences of the previous five days, al- though by comparison with the records of Yast year we find that the weather is now gormally warm. Still, the change from " minety-five degrees at three o'clock on Tues- day afternoon to eighty-four degrees at the | same hour yesterday is a decided relief. The eases of sunstroke reported probably origi- mated during the recent hot days, and the , being weakened by astendy increase yet heat, was unable to resist its influence. ‘Tax Sap Storr of a poor woman who has wrong at the hands of a sewing ma- ¢ company which we publish elsewhere that the case of Bridget Barry is by "mo means a solitary one. She paid fifty dol- _, Aare in instalments on a machine sold to her for sixty-five dollars, and probably costing » ‘he manufacturers not more than fifteen to “twenty dollars. Her machine was taken ‘gway on a temporary stoppage of the instal- ments, and when afterward she offered the " Bfteen dollars balance was told she should in addition six dollars and a quarter for tev the machine.” As this was out + of her power she has neither seen machine . money since. If this is not extortion the poor we should like to see a defi- he The Democratic Platform and Candi- dates. The St. Louis platform differs from ordi- nary party manifestoes of the kind in the marks it bears of perfect unity of composi- tion. In point of fact it is the work of one skilfal hand—that of Mr. Manton Marble— and was adopted almost precisely in tho form of his original draft. It is framed with great artfulness, especially on the financial ques- tion, all the ingenuity of the author having been exerted to give it the appearance of a compromise while making it substantially a hard money declaration. Mr. Marble’s refusal to serve on the committee was a diplomatic stroke for shielding the plattorm from suspicion, and the protest signed by Mr. Dorsheimer and other Eastern delegates was conceived in the same intention of smuggling wooden horse into the soft money Troy. Mr. Ewing was astute enough to detect the arti- fice, but powerless to frustrate it. Behind the concession on the Resumption act, which was intended as a mask, the platform com- mits the democratic party toa resumption of specie payments. This is apparent both on an analysis of its artful language and in the circumstances which attended its adop- tion. We will first consider its cunning phrase- ology. It denounces ‘‘the failure for the past eleven years to make good the promise of the legal tender notes, the non-payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the nation.” This arraignment of the re- publican party for its long neglect to redeem the greenbacks is an implied admission that resumption of specie payments has been too long delayed and an indirect promulgation of the hard money creed. There would be no sense or consistency in denouncing the re- publican party for its failure to redeem the greenbacks unless redemption is regarded as sound policy. ‘The platform goes on to “denounce the improvidence which in eleven years has taken from the people thir- teen times the amount of the legal tender notes without accumulating any reserve for their redemption.” This virtually commits the democratic party, if it comes into power, | to accumulate a reserve for paying the legal tender notes; for if the neglect is a reason for displacing the republicans the democrats are bound to adopt a different course. The platform further proceeds to ‘‘denounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption.” These three separate denunciations involve much needless repetition, the idea being identical in them all and the rhetorical vari- ations adding nothing to its force. It would have been bolder and better to have said once explicitly what is said so often by im- plication. If the platform had unequivocally pledged the party to begin at once the accu- mulation of a stock of gold for the redemp- tion of the Legal Tender notes, and to repeal the legal tender act as soon as this stock be- comes sufficient, it would have established a more solid claim to publicconfidence. But in this courageous form it might not have been adopted, and so a wholesome medicine is sugar-coated with the artful rhetoric and diplomatic finesse whjch made it more easy for the soft money patients to swallow. It is, nevertheless, a very tolerable hard money manifesto. If there could be any doubt on this point after an examination of its language the doubt would be removed by the opposition made to the platform both in the committee and the Convention. The text, both of the republican and the democratic platform, re- quires some commentary to fix its meaning, and the best commentary is found in the action of the respective conventions. The Cincinnati platform demands ‘steady progress toward specie payments,” but when a motion was offered to make this vague declaration more explicit by committing the party to resump- tion in 1879 it was voted down by a large majority, which was an abandonment of the Resumption act. The democrats stand on precisely the same ground although they have reached it in a different way. They openly demand the repeal of the resumption clause in that act and virtually pledge their party to accumulate a stock of gold for re- sumption. The opposition of the soft money men shows that in their view this is the real dritt of the platform. Although the two platforms are substantially alike on this sub- ject more praise is due to the democrats be- cause St. Louis made an advance and Cin- cinnati a retrograde movement in reaching the same position. The republicans made a virtual retreat from the Resumption act, whereas the democrats got a better and more united expression in favor of hard money than they have been able. to secure during the session from their members of Congress. Both parties stand on the same ground, but it is more creditable to have reached it by an advanco than by a retreat. The question can have no effect on the canvass, and Governor Tilden and Governor Hayes being both sound hard money men there is no reason to fear a revival of the soft money craze, let the election go as it will. The only other part of the democratic plat- form which is of any significance in the can- vass is the declaration on ‘‘the Heathen Chinee.” St. Lonis has outbid Cincinnati for the vote of the Pacific States, and the abhorrence of Chinamwen being a fierce and pervading passion on tho Pacific coast very likely some political capital can be made out of it. The civil service declaration in the St. Louis platform is mere cant. The author ofthe platform would be laughed at if he should seriously express the opinion that Mr. Tilden, if elected, will retain all the republicans in subordinate offices against whom no objection can be made but their politics, This election will be but slightly affected by the platforms; it will turn chiefly on party spirit and zeal and the personal strength of the candidates. The second place on the democratic ticket was given to Hendricks with reference to the October elections. Governor Tilden is the most un- popular candidate that could have been se- lected for running in Ohio and Indiana, and it was the aim of the Convention to supple- ment him with a man who is more accept- able to the democracy of those States. There is probably no expectation of carry- | -at home. ter chance of doing it than any other second name that could have been put on the ticket. If Indiana goes democratic in Octo- ber it will break and soften the blow which is pretty sure to come from Ohio ; but if the party loses both of those States it will have searcely a chance of carrying New York, and the contest will be virtually decided before any State votes for Presidential electors. We see no reason why Mr. Hendricks should hesitate to accept the nomination, for if he is beaten he can attribute his defeat to the unpopularity of Tilden in Indiana, while, if he succeeds, he will have the credit of saving the State, and the dignity and salary of a very high station. Except in Ohio and Indiana Governor Tilden is probably the strongest candidate everywhere outside of New York which the Convention could have nominated, Whether any other candidate would make a better run in this State is a point on which opin- ions have differed and will continue to differ. Almost any other democrat would have cor- dially reunited the party in New York, but no other has such a thorough knowledge of the State or could approach Mr. Tilden in the political activity and dexterity with which he will conduct his own canvass. His extraordinary capacity as a party tac- tician will make him formidable, and his success in managing State conventions, and more recently in outmanwuvring all rivals and opponents at St. Louis, will inspire great confidence in his resources, His skill as a politician will give his party faith in their leader, and this is sometimes worth as much in politics as in battle. He will have a powerful coadjutor in Governor Seymour, whose unbounded popularity and‘persuasive eloquence will be potent in healing the recent dissensions. Highlanders do not follow the chief of their clan with more devoted zeal than the New York democrats follow Horatio Seymour. And yet, with all Tilden’s dexterity and Seymour's speaking, the contest in this State will be close,and doubtful, with the chances rather against the democrats. Prince Milan Takes the Field. Prince Milan, of Servia, is a mere youth, but the eyes of Europe are following him in his march from Belgrade to join his army on the frontier. The announcements of Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby to the English Par- liament yesterday upon the matter keep the point in view that the blow has not yet been struck which may precipitate a European conflict, but the believers in peace at any price cannot gather hope from the tone of the Ministers’ remarks. By far the most im- portant conclusions can be drawn from what they did not say. We find no as- sertion that in the event of war Eng- land will feel called upon to interfere openly. For all the display of energy that Disraeli has made, it would seem that prudence has advised a neutral atti- tude so long as the war js only between Turkey and the small Danubian States. Perhaps the English Cabinet believes that Turkey is still able to cope with her revolted subjects and vassals, If so°she is likely to be rudely undeceived. That the Turks can fight is beyond question ; but that in face of their failure to crush the rebellion in Herzegovina and Bosnia they can success- fully face the Servians as well is very doubt- ful. It must be remembered that Russia is secretly behind the Servians and rebels, and that she can aid them with money without inconvenient questions being asked Foiled in her first plan to crush out Turkey under the weight of three em- pires, by the rescluteness of Disraeli, she has fallen back on the safer but less direct mode of setting the Servians to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. In the events since the rejection of the Berlin note by England the work of hidden hands reveals itself on every side. When the inner history of the over- throw of Abdul-Aziz on one side and the declaration of War by Servia on the other comes to be written it will be seen that the era of subtle and unscrupulous diplomacy did not end with Talleyrand. These events are moves on the Eastern chessboard made respectively by England and Russia playing under the table, but beyond the fact that Sultan Mourad and Prince Milan change their positions in the game the general pub- lic is at aloss for the true details. In the mo- ment of suspense before the first gun is fired there may intervene another of those myste- rious moves. We should not be surprised to see Montenegro, the other Russian pawn, moved over the Turkish lines, white, if Ger- many is about to make a deal with Russia, Roumania may be put forward. This last move is questionable as yet; but from the first crossing of Turkish and Servian bayo- nets we may recognize that England and Russia are at war, although vicariously, Tux Campion Joxe of the horse car com- panies is that made by Judge Comstock yes- terday in arguing against a rapid transit road on Sixth avenue, Having painted all the wrongs the company would endure if a road were built he drew smiles of pity from the listeners by saying :—‘‘ The defendants propose to run noisy trains of cars over- head, and the plaintiffs claim that their passengers should not suffer from this nuisance.” Never before has a man got up with asolemn face to express such tender- ness on behalf of the companies for their passengers. We fancy we see a horse car director weeping at the thought of the pas- sengers in a sardine-packed car having their ears tingled by the noise of a car over head. Jam them in, crush them together until decency is outraged, health endangered and their fares collected, but let there be no noise over head. With such stuff as this the chartered plunderers of New York seek to stop rapid transit. A Currovs Question 1y Law arises out of the loss of the City of Waco, in Galveston Bay, in November, 1875. A husband and wife named Rogers were among the ill-fated passengers, and the heirs of both are con- testing a claim toasum of money left in bank by Mrs. Rogers. The case turns on the question, Which died first, the husband or the wife? If the former, then her next of kin can claim the money. If the latter, then the husband became her heir-at-law, and his next of kin has the best claim. It is a diffi- ing Ohio against Governor Hayes, but if | cult matter to settle this case under the cir- Indiana can be saved Hendricks has a bet- | cumstances. Some Hints to the Campaign Poets. In the nominations for President and Vice President the interests of the stump orators have been better looked after than those of the campaign poets, When the late Horace Greeley said, sarcastically, to Thurlow Weed after the Convention of 1860, ‘Let me write the campaign songs of a party and I don’t care who makes the nominations,” there was more poetry than truth in the Sage of Chap- paqna’s remark. The founder of the Trib- une wrote some verses in his youth, but never claimed to be a poet. He was, how- ever, fond of singing— What means this great commotion, Motion, motion, The whoie land through? ending up with ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” And as he hummed into Mr. Weed’s ear— For Van ls a used op man, we have no doubt the latter turned away in disgust. Turning from those musical mem- ories of the log cabin and hard cider time to the cacophony of ‘Tilden and Hendricks” and the rhyming difficulties of “‘Hayes and Wheeler,” we shed a tear for the campaign poets of our day. The howling radical upon the stump can divide the unmusical demo- cratic ticket on his lips if he cannot conquer it at the polls; he can roll out ‘*’Rah for Hayes and Wheeler” like a bugle blast. The whooping democrat can put ‘Samuel J.” before his Tilden and ‘Thomas 4.” before his Hendricks, though he may not put either in a rosy light before his hearers. But the poets, alas! they must double and squirm around their respective tickets to project them into the heaven of verse, as the salmon takes his tailin his mouth to jump upa waterfall. For the past ten days the republican poets, although hard at work, have been unable to grind out a ‘Hayes and Wheeler” refrain. Rhymes for Hayes they found plenty os blackberries, and, despairing of finding a decent,/rhyme for Wheeler, they have let loose upon us an avalanche of poems—bless the mark !—which ran from “blaze” until they ended in ‘‘craze.” There has been a perfect fog of long ‘‘a” rhymes since this Scotch Hayes has covered the land. Now, however, with two tickets before the people, the poets are on their mettle, We have received two poems already on Tilden and Hendricks, which we publish as terrible examples to warn our poets forever from wrestling with such jaw-breaking subjects for verse. One is from a republican; the other is from a democrat, They are equally infamous. The republican monster writes:— The fight they'll all get killed in, Tho’ they dodge about and blend tricks; We'll scalp old Sammy Tilden Ani likewise Tommy Hendricks The democratic demon utters the follow- ing discordant shriek:— Our ticket wants no gilcin’, In the ghme wo'll take the ten tricks;, Hurrah for Sammy Tilden And a tiger for Tom Hendricks, The last line of the democratic horror be- trays its source. The Tammany tiger was all along for Hendricks, and 1s now repent- ant enough to hurrah for Uncle Samuel. Another democrat has dodged the full names on his ticket and taken refuge in the first syllable of our respected Governor's name. It is altogether too free and easy, and takes the liberty of speaking for Mr. Tilden in a manner he could not approve. It begins as follows :— Tm bappy as a clam; My name is’ Uncte Sam, And I don’t care a button For Wheeler or tor Hayes. Now for our hints. We advise the poets not to put either the easy rhymed Hayes, the sinister rhymed Wheeler, the mutilat- ing Tilden or the impossible Hendricks at the end of their lines. Hide them safely where quantity alone is to be wres- tled with. Unfortunately, they must be crammed in somewhere, or Hamlet would be out of the play and the poets lose their occu- pation. Let them, therefore, fasten like bar- nacles upon some catching, sonorous word to rhyme with, and then they need not trouble about putting any sense into their verses. Ata tremendous outlay of handkerchiefs to mop our forehead, with three small boys gracefully waving enormous fans and a swift succession of cooling drinks, we have evolved the following as a hint to the dem- ocratic poets. We give them their catch- word, It is:— Reform! Reform! Give it ’em warm. Tilden sweeps over the |. nd like a storm. Chorus it, boys, from the East to the West, ‘Tilden and Hendricks, that ticket’s the best. On tothe White House we'll mar h tnaswarm, Singing for Tilden and shouting *‘Reform !”” We would willingly have furnished a sim- ilar specimen for the republican poets, but the handkerchiefs and small boys have given out, and further iced drinks might defeat the very purpose we have in view. New York and Paris. The bill allowing Paris to raise a loan of twenty-four millions of dollars to improve the city has passed the Senate. This seems to be a large sum, especially tb saddlo upon a city that has been burdened like Paris. Then one would think that the French capital was already so beautiful that further expenditure would be gilding refined gold. But the French are wise! The alert men who govern that wonderful land know that every dollar expended upon the improve- ment of their capital will come back twenty- fold. Trade wili revive, capital will come, the city will continue its supremacy and every day new advantages will accrue, New York has come to a standstill. While Paris, notwithstanding her bombardments, her fires, her Commune insurrections, spends this vast sum, New York does nothing. A few thieves like I'weed gained power aad stole some money. Beeause ot that we have resolved to spend no more. We are like the merchant who allows his business to go to the bad because a clerk ran away with the cash box. Our city isin many waysa disgrace to civilization, The streets are shameful. Sanitary precautions are neglected. Wo offer a premium to malaria. Contagious diseases are on the increase, We have given typhus and diphtheria the freedom of the city. Docks and wharves are postponed. With the exception of a few boulevards, which we owe to Tweed, we have nothing to show in the way of city improvement. It was wellenough tostop the leaks, but why should the policy of robbery give place to the policy of garroting ? Tweed robbed us, but Tweed’s successors are stifling us. Every interest suffers because of this policy. The time has come for it toend. Let com- mon sense prevail here os in Paris. Let us elect men to office who will spend the money minnie ri ela iii eee rte en nS honestly, and then let us give them fifty | will leave the business of —_—— _\ millions and say :—‘Take this money and make New York the metropolis of the Union. Give us good streets. Give us rapid transit. Build the Brooklyn Bridge. Surround the island with docks and piers like those in, Liverpool. Improve our parks. Tunnel the Hudson River, so that the great trank lines shall ome on our island as the Central does, and not drop their fatness in the Jer- seys. If the fifty millions will not do there area hundred more. All we want is to have New York metropolitan.” A policy like this may seem fantastic and extravagant, but it is the policy of economy and growth. See what we have lost in the Past few years by trade going to Baltimore and Boston, by popniation going to New Jersey and Long Island. While the Jersey towns have grown with prodigious strides we have stood still. Beautiful Westchester and the region around Harlem and Manhattanville seem to have fallen* into a paralysis. Now and then some at- tributes the cause to malaria, But there is no more malaria in Westchester than over the rivers, and we all know that it disappears before settlements and high til- lage. The evil isnot one that can be cured with quinine. It is a political evil. We have neglected the great city, and we are now suffering for that neglect. The time has come forthe people to take the matter in hand. Let New York, instead of talking about a canvass for the Presidency, go into @ canvass for Metropolitan Existence. That is the fight in which we all have an interest, If our people are wise they will begin now and fight to win. Paris gives us a noble ex- ample, The Extradition Question. We have a profound respect for Mr. Fish. He will carry out of the Cabinet the blue ribbon of the administration, as the one Minister whose fame not even slander has stained. But the fault with Mr. Fish is over-sensitiveness, a tendency to suspicion, tolose his temper. He is easily huffed, as was shown in the Catacazy case and the treatment of the Grand Duke Alexis, which almost terminated diplomatic relations with Russia. We fear the Secretary is falling into an irritable mood with England on this question of extradition. We have rumors that he finds ugly gaps in the printed Eng- lish correspondence ; that he thinks Lord Defby and Sir Edward Thornton have suppressed something, He has been com- paring dates to see if there has been foul play, and it would not surprise us to hear of a spicy despatch to Mr. Pierrepont or-a peppery interview with the British Minister, “asserting the dignity of the government.” If Mr. Fish is to fall into one of his un- amiable moods we shall lose extradition. There is no necessity for temper. . Extradi- tion is a bridge between the two countries in the service of morality and justice. Itis to the interest of both nations that it should be kept intact. Outside of Newgate and Sing Sing there is no body of Englishmen or Americans who do not view the abrogation of the treaty with alarm. We donot want the United States to become the asylum of English criminals. England certainly does not wish to harbor ours. The difference be- tween the two countries is technical, arising wholly, it seems to us from a careful perusal of the British Blue’ Book, from the obstinacy and narrowness of Mr. Cross, the Home Sec- retary. England says:—‘‘We cannot allow the hospitalities of our flag to be invaded. We cannot surrender the right of asylum. We cannot allow you to take a man from our soil on a charge of burglary and try him for treason.” This is high, patriotic ground, and England would dishonor her flag if she surrendered it. But no one asks her to sur- render it. Her claim is the common law of international intercourse. England claims what everybody concedes ; what certainly no civilized nation denies. So Mr. Fish might say as to extradition:—We mean to protect our own right of asylum and to respect that of other lands; we do not neod “stipula- tions” on the bubject. Extradition has fallen because Mr. Cross insisted upon dealing with America as he would deal with some half civilized Power. Instead of trusting to our honor to respect the right of asylum, instead of waiting at least until we had violated it, he insists upon 4 “‘stipulation.” So far Mr. Fish hasa sound position. He is sustained by the English press, by such men as Sir William Harcourt, by the common sense of both countries. There will be a Parliamentary battle over it, and Mr. Cross will havea hard time in defending his ground. But Mr. Fish must not let his opponents spring a new issue upon him. He must not allow the English to say that he proposes to menace the right of asylum. ‘They will say this if he loses his temper and goes to writ- ing angry despatches. His true plan-would be to ask Sir Ldward Thornton to dinner, with plenty of roast beef, plum pudding and fine old port, and when it comes to the’ wal- nuts and the wine the two diplomats can go over the whole ground and arrive at a sensi- ble conclusion. England wants extradition and so does America. We want a compact, closely woven treaty that will hold every scamp. Mr. Fish should not leave the de- partment until we have such atreaty. It willdo him tar more honor than an angry correspondence and bitter misunderstanding, The National Board of Trade Banquet. The banquet given last night at Del- monico’s to the National Board of Trade was a brilliant success. The large room was crowded and the assembled merchants were as jolly as though they had never a venture onthe seas. The coming together of the business men of this country for the pur- pose of discussing the conditions and pros- pects of our commercial relations cannot but hgve a happy influence. From the speech of Mr. Low, who may be garded as in some sort the official spokesman of the assembled merchants, we judge that our’ business men look with confidence to the future. The partial dis- tress existing in business is attributed by them to its true cause—the overproduction which has taken place throughout the civilized world during the last decade, aggravated in our case by the sudden retarn of forty-tive millions of people to economic habits. But the merchants believe im the return wave of prosperity which must come 88a reaction from natural causes, and which Te- | ¢ better and sounder basis than it ever before » occupied. The Cuban War. The telegraphic news from Cubs is as lite tle reassuring as ever. Though we hear lit- tle of the insurgents their presence makes itself felt in the burdens imposed on the commerce of the country by the heavy war taxes, which seem to have reached their ut- most limits. Yet the war seems further from 9 a termination than ever. Measures of re- pression are now adopted with the utmost severity in the jurisdictions of Sanctus Spiritan and Remedios, Four years ago the insurgent cause seemed lost ~ The Cinco Villas had been abandoned, the troops of Agramonte and Cespedes were separated by a barrier that the Spanish gove | ernment deemed impassable, and it was an« nounced confidently that the extinction of the insurgent bands was merely s question of time. But since that period the Cuban revolution has taken new lif—it has broken | through the much vaunted trocha and swept | westward until it has reached the very oute skirts of Havana. Now, when the closeof the civil war promises to allow Spain full use of all her resources to reduce to subjection the restive “Queen of the Antilles,” yellow fever steps in and threatens destruction to the newly arrived soldiers. In the meantime the insurgents, though quiet, are not idle They are taking advantage of the truce ime posed by nature on their enemies to restore wasted supplies of ammunition and enjoy needed repose. Ill fortune continues to at- tend their naval expeditions. TheSpaniards report the capture of a launch bringing from Jamaica ammunition and arms. But probe ably the patriots will not allow this misad- venture to deter them from trying again. Frees anp Finzworxs will be among our principal dangers on the Fourth of July. Superintendent Walling has issued a general order to the police regard- f ing the discharge of firearms, the use of cer tain dangerous fireworks and the prompt ree porting of cases of fire. The small boys ‘ are already exploding their crackers, and a case was reported -at the Henatp office’ last evening of an ignited cracker being thrown into a Third avenue cat coming down Chatham street, ‘its explosion covering a lady passenger with sparks and burning embers. It would, there- a fore, be well for the police to keep a sharp lookout for these dangerous young offenders before as well as on the Fourth. Our citizens should acquaint them- \. selves with this order to the police. q Eanraquages have occurred at classig Corinth, and Maryborough, Queensland, which latter locality is now experiencing x the antipodal winter, and caused consider. - able alarm in both places. The phenomenon at Corinth will probably precede a period of heavy rainfalland storm in that region and will be followed by a possible eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which forms the great terrestrial safety valve of Southern Europa, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, pS Mr. Hayes was born in Kuntuoxy. ‘The liberal party is entirely played out, ' The latest ia England is buttoned stockings, Democratic Congressman Neal, of Ohio, wil suppard ' Hayes. Mr. Goorge J. Hager, the artist, will summer en the Passaic. d The Fortnightly Review wants to abolish marriage veils, Well, let ’em go. Congressmen will probably meet in Independence Hall, Philaaelphia, July 4 Storey, ofthe Chicago 7imes, would make an enter prising Governor {or Illinois. Frank Moulton was in Chicago on Monday and was asked out to drink a good many times. Mulligan says that Blaine read every syllable in the Warren-Fiske letters, und this lets Blaine go. ig Two Icelanders descended into the crater Askya t 8,000 feet below tho upper margin and found @ lake of seething hot water. - Oregon salmon are shipped direct to Liverpool, where the fish, in cans, bring from sixpence to ashil- ling (English moncy) a pound. A cable telegram from Pau, France, under date of yesterday, brings the following announcement:—-"The wife of Don Carlos has been delivered of a daughter. * One clergyman, who has a living 10 a mid.and town, England, not far from the hardware capital, bas made as much as $1,200 in a single soason from a single rose ‘cad i Mr, D. O. Mills, President of the Bank of California, succeeding Ralston, is at No(Ort. Mr. Malis isthe { owner of the fine piece of statuary of “Hagar Going into the Wilderness.” Norristown Herald :—{‘‘In Lapland a native would not think of taking even an icicle not hisowa without asking for it’ That is because be has never beene member of Congress.” London Punch:—“Nurse—! wanted to go into town this afternoon, if you could spare me, togetanew | bonnet; and, I admire your taste in bonnets somuch, mum, I was athinkin’ I coulan’t do beiter than go te F; the same shop !”” February, 1877, is the bicentenary of Spinoza’s death, and it is proposed to erect a statue of Spinoza at The Hague, it possible, in sight of the spot where he spent the last ten or twelve years of his short life and wrote the works that were to be his legacy to mankind. When, recently, the Derbyshire magistrate fined the Duke of Portiand $25 for allowing « traction engine to goalongaroad without a flazman abead, and the Duke's steward said that His Grace would be dissatis. fied with the decision, tho justice said he could not help it. x General Jubal Early sa7zs:—Governor Mayes eerveé only once with the army of the Potomac, and that was at South Mountain, in Cox’s division, from Western Virginia. His other service was ia the Army of West Virginia. His military career was so obscure that his ame is noteven mentioned tn the published roports, and thouga now he is esented to have done wonders se under Sheridan in tho valley I never heard of him be _ fore in that capacity.” Hon. W. A. Wheeler, republican candidate for Vice f President, says the Baltimore Sun, took very effectual means for returning his Congressional back pay inte the Treasury of the United States. He had opposed ‘ the bill in the House earnestly, and thereiore to take the increased pay be declared did not comport with his views of consistency or propriety He bought with the funds twenty-five bonds of the United States and ‘ assigned them to the Secretary of the Treasury fog cancellation, The two elder sons of the German Crown Prince, bow pupils at the pudlic gymbasium at Cassel, attract much popular sympathy by their ontural and ‘unpre suming ways acd their easy camaraderie. The newest story about them, whieh has given great satistaction in popular circles in Berlin, whore the Israclite ele. ment enjoys @ certain prevaleuce, is that they have strack up ap ardent fricudship with a young Jewish jad, the son of & poor woman, the widow.otene of the ill-paid teachers at a German public school. Lapland mothers are not in the habit of staying at b hone with theit babies, The Laps are avery reiigious people, aud take jong journeys to hear their pastora, As#oon a8 the family arrive at the litte. wooden church, ud the reindeer are secured, the father a shoveis.a snug little bed in the snow, and the mother wraps the buby in skins and deposits it therein, Thea the futher piles the snow around 1t, aud the dog te'set on guard, while the parents go decorousty. into the church. Often as many as thirty babies may be secs laid away in the snow about « church.