The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1876, Page 4

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W ‘TORK, ‘SATURDAY, JULY nour Tne ‘this m¢ s t the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. ing the svimmer ouke the Henaxp will to subscribers in the country at the rate ndy-five cents bai week, free of postage. ace to Country NEwspEALERS.~-For t and reguar delivery of the Heranp tt mail_trains orcers must be sent direct to lice. Postage free. ty Srrezr Yesterpay.—The activity strength of the market were chiefly o Western Union and Lake Shore. was steady at 112 3-8. Money on call iat 3 percent. Government and good y bonds continue to be in request by Ors. ennok TinpEN entered quite freely onversation with a Hxraup representa- yesterday, and he was especially out- n in regard to his chances in Novem- He counts upon carrying not only York, but Indiana and Michigan as and he expects to sweep the Southern with the exception of South Carolina, ge German and granger vote he con- his own. Evidently the Governor has d-fashioned idea of candidates for high that he will be able to divide the party ‘f the opposing candidate. {RE IS A Srncutan and startling phi- ry in the murder of the newsboy Dolan day. He was murdered by two other mply because he undertook to follow ling in the downtown wards, which hers regarded as their exclusive do- This spirit is becoming an absolute : in great cities like New York, and it ly be eradicated by the stern punish- f the crimes whieh grow out of it. 4 Paixrvt Story which is told in the Piemorning of; ths, sine destitute | claimed the danger, may be permitted to who were yesterday seeking food and in this city, but who failed to find The Turkish Consulate in New York ssarily only a commercial adornment | netropolis ; but it seems that the Com- vers of Charities and Correction ought + ad the same aid to these people that vald to destitute Germans, French or Natrona, Boarp or Traps closed its s yesterday after a somewhat ineffec- ting. Out of a congressof this kind, ly in a crisis like the present, ought come suggestions which would have sed the attention of the Congress of sed States and compelled the respect political parties. Instead we have solutions in favor of fast mail trains, established, suggestions for and ees to ascertain the very things the | | tion of the Union; but Governor Hayes is | merely one of hundreds of citizens who are | sould be the first to suggest and ad- The Board was not even prepared im encouragement of skilled labor | nical education, and its eighth an- | ion will have no wee effects, PoriTictans seem to possess the of impracticability wherever they .n Kelly, the New York home syed a losing game at St. Louis the lin the English Parliament yester- Butt, the Irish home ruler, imilar experiment by asking fora | mimittee to inquire why Ireland ot have the desired Irish Parlia- here was no special occasion for | mand at this timg, and any one 1 impracticable politician knows uest too often preferred can only effect of preventing its being » until long after the time when it erwise be granted. SpRED THOUSAND CHILDREN were som the public schools yesterday, »xt two months ought to be made honths of recreation and recupera- pt the\next term may begin with erica strengthened for its duties. magniseent Central Park so jcessible + iy not necessary for take their children to the coun- hose who would extend their cx- beyond that splendid reserve will interesting nooks in the vicinity ropolis which are not only un- the tourist bat to most New YORK HERALD ted communications will not be re- | | out ingratitude. | who ret Dangers Escaped—The Political Situ- ation, There is a larger view of politics than the contest for offices, and in this larger view | thoughtful men will find reasons for satis- faction and subjects of congratulation in the present aspect of the Presidential canvass. Within the last two years there has been so much occasion for anxiety and appre- hension, and the dangers which threatened the country have so happily passed, that a | few words of retrospect may not be out of | place. Since the action of the national con- ventions of the two political parties a great deal of distrust and misgiving is removed, and we may confidently assume that there is nothing more serious in the immediate future than one of our old-fashioned con- tests between two political parties, both of which mean well to the Republic. It is partly owing to accident and good for- tune, partly to the sound sense and patriot- ism of the people, that we have escaped the peril which loomed up as a @ark cloud in the political horizon in the form of Cmsar- ism. That portentous and formidable spectre cast at one time so malign an influ- j ence that the whole country was uneasy and disturbed. Its approaches were at first so stealthy and insidious that they attracted no notice until the Hrratp raised notes of warning and sent them far and wide through the country. The people came slowly to a perception of their danger, -but within eighteen months from the time when the Hxravp excited the jeers of the thoughtless by its persistent cries of danger the press of \ all parties had come to make the third term the most prominent topic of polit- | republican | of | | there will be a substantial unanimity of ical discussion, and even conventions in half the States the Union uttered protests more or less feeble or more or less forcible against so dan- | gerous an innovation as the third election of a President. If the overgrown federal patronage could enable a President to break a uniform line of precedents which had come to have alinost the force of a constita- | tional provision, it might enable him to get himself elected not merely a third, but a fourth and a fifth time, and all barriers | wonld be broken down against a President for life with power to designate his successor. There was too much ground for the alarm which atJength came to pervade the whole country on this subject. That President Grant was really aiming at a third election every intelligent person had ceased to doubt. The remarkable letter to a citizen of Penn- sylvania, in which he so stoutly maintained the right of the people to re-elect the same President as often as they please, opened the eyes of all who had affected to underrate the danger. Any President who respected the example or the authority of Washington and Jefferson—one of whom set the example and the other gave cogent writ- ten reasons why it should be permanently binding—would have given the whole weight of his influence in support of their opinion, instead of offering arguments to refute it. General Grant cherished hopes of a third election until after the meeting of the pres- ent Congress. The indictment, trial and disgrace of his private secretary gave the first check to his ambition, and the impeach- ment of Secretary Belknap put a final ex- tinguisher on the flickering flame. Previous to these humilitating exposures he was the | strongest man in the republican party, and, with the solid support of the South- ern delegations and such reinforcements | as the office-holding brigade might have bronght to his support, he could have controlled the national Convention. By a concurrence of circumstances, dis- graceful in one view but fortanate in another, the nomination of President Grant was made impossible, and the country es- caped the greatest danger which has ever threatened its institutions, with the one exception of the Southern rebellion. The Henaxp, which first descried and pro- congratulate the country on its deliverance. We are bound in candor to say that the action of the Cincinnati Convention has freed the country not merely from Grant, but from Grantism. The nomination of any of the stronger candidates might have per- | petuated the system while discarding the man, but the nomination of a modest, | quiet, discreet, unambitious man, like Gov- ernor Hayes, brings perfect relicf from that source of danger. Governor Hayes, even if he had General Grant's stubborn will and strong thirst of power, has not the brilliant, solid and fruitful services to plead in his favor which General Grant rendered in the war for the Union, and which the country can never forget or undervalue with- It would have been hard to deny anything to a man to whom the country is deeply indebted for the preserva- equally honest, able and patriotic, and there will be no reason for perpetuating power in his hands when there are so many others are every way his peers in talents and public services. The danger of Cmsarism was the joint of two factors—one the enormous | patronage of the federal government since y simply because he was impracti- | the war, the other a man wielding that pat- ronage whose force of will and unequalled claims on public gratitude made it a danger- Hayes is elected the patronage will indeed remain, but the man who controls it will not have a colossal personal influence founded | on services which will always live in history and on the vigorous abilities and strength of character which made General Grant's great ties do not rise much above respectable mediocrity and whose character is chiefly remarkable for moderation, is, perhaps, the best sedative after the alarm and anxiety of the last two years. The tranquiility of the public mind will not be dis- turbed respecting the growing power of the Executive when exerted by a citizen so modest and unaspiring as Governor Hayes, ‘The third term discussions have done great good in ealling attention to one of the main points of danger in our institutions, and let | | us hope thet during the period of quiet which is likely to follow the next Presiden- | tial election means may be salen. a make | the Prosidenay annette cof> . | matter of economy. product | ous instrument in his hands. If Governor | political military achievements possible. A | President like Governor Hayes, whose abili- | fluence or by one who is barely qualified to discharge ils duties respectably. A one- | term amendment and permanency for faith- ful subordinate officers are changes which we believe the requisite three-fourths of the States would ratify after the educative effect of the univeral discussion of Cwsarism | which was started by the Hrzarp. Another great danger with which the country has been threatened for the last two or three years, and which it has fortu- nately escaped, is the inflation heresy, which threatened financial derangement and ruin. Since the action of the two national | conventions the country may feel quite easy on that subject. The nomination of distinguished champions of hard money on both sides is worth more than the plat- forms, although neither of the platforms is very objectionable on this head. But on | each side the candidate is the real platform on the money question. Governor Hayes owes all his distinction in national polities to his victorious canvass last year against | the Ohio inflationists; and to Governor Til- den more than any other man the credit is due of keeping the New York demo- crats up to the highest pitch of correct principle on this question, The very weakness and hesitation of the two | | platforms on this great subject will serve a good purpose. Both of the candidates being stiff and bold hard money men, neither party will be under any temptation to explain away the tions in its platform; but, on the contrary, each will accuse the other of timidity and wavering, and a controversy conducted on that basis will strengthen the hard money sentiment and the hard money committals on both sides. Before the end of the canvass opinion among all our citizens in favor of a genuine, steady progress toward specie pay- ments with as much rapidity as the finan- cial condition of tho country will allow. This is a surprising and satisfactory gain upon the state of public sentiment two years ago, when the country was saved from being launched on the wild sea of infla- tion by a republican Congress only by the , veto of President Grant. We distrust poli- | | tribes as it is for the auriferous fables about the Black Hills which have already cost | ticians and their ways, but we have an abiding faith in the honesty and good sense of the people instructed and guided by an | enlightened and independent press. ‘The soft money demagogues in both parties have | been forced to recoil before what President | Van Buren called ‘‘the sober second thought of the people, which is generally wise and | always efficient.” We shall never despair of the Republic so long as the great body of our citizens are virtuous and right-minded, and the press of the country, which is their great source of instruction, is vigilant to detect and courageous to expose and combat the designs and sophistries of demegog tes, The Deadlock at Washington. The appropriation deadlock is a blunder, aserious blunder. It is not a question of reform, but of party tactics. This is not the way to carry on agreat government. We must keep the machine running somehow, and thus far we have seen no approach to real reform. The way to cut down expenses is to go into the root of the whole matter. It is asmall business to pare down sala- ries. Instead of paying too much, in some branches of the administration we do not pay enough. Thus, wherever money is col- lected or disbursed, wherever justice 1s to be dispensed, wherever large hospitalities are imposed, we should not be niggard in our payments. Instead of cutting down the army we should keep a large staff, a well | supplied artillery, engineer and ordnance corps on a war footing. We need the skele- ton of an army in the event of anew war. The staff would be useful in drilling new soldiers. As tothe navy, wedo not need many ships, but, on the other hand, we should have a large torpedo service. We have no colonies to protect in Africa and Australia, and a nayal service will be little more than a service of ceremony. It willbe many years before we shall have a commerce to defend, if, in fact, any commerce can be defended from a maritime enemy, Tho timidity of the com- mercial mind will drive any marine to a neutral flag’s protection the moment a gun is fired. As to the Indian, now one of the most ex- pensive branches of the administration, it will be wise for us to arrest the Indians and board them at our first class hotels as a We spend more money now in the support of the Indians than would pay this board. The true plan is to make the Indian the ward of the army. There is no reason why these savages should be al- lowed to wander over the vast and fertile territories of the West, killing bufla'o and scalping each other, It is a travesty upon government to permit this, At the same time no one wants to kill the Indian or to carry out the cruel and merciless policy which has disgraced our civilization. let us have a broad and generons policy. We can economize ‘diplomatic service. in cutting down our We should do away with it altogether. We have no need for it on its present seale. We should reduce the nuam- ber of our offices and enforce the collection of our revenues. Herein lies true reform. What is now proposed in Washington is only mmanceuvring for effect *upon the elections. In this sense it is unworthy of the Senate and the House. We should never permit the exigencies of a campaign to interfere with the public welfare. This is what both democrats and republicans are doing. Wen Tae Reronrens called on Governor Hendricks and asked hingfor copies of the despatches addressed to him about the Vice Presidency the Governor, as became a high-toned gentleman, said he could not print them without the consent of the senders. We commend this example to Governor Tilden, whose secretaries are rnsh- ing into print with private despatches in the most indiscriminate manner. As the Gov- ernor is on a “reform” platform here is a | fine chence for reform, We Arr txrormep that the Honorable John | | Morrissey offers to bet all that h vis worth that Tilden will be elected. We trust the Honorable John will be prudent. Jf Tilden resumption declara- | | wrong, and that they are prosecuted entirely | 7 | which the party in office has fattened. | dating parties of savages ;” Tn this | The Indian War. The clear, concise and graphic description of the conflict between General Crook's com- | mand and the Sioux braves at Goose Creek, telegraphed from the field by our enterpris- ing and intrepid correspondent, does not, we fear, augur well for the permanent ad- vantages to be derived from the Big Horn expedition, while the dearth of further in- formation, probably owing to the distance of | the expedition from lines of communication, leaves the public mind stil] unrelieved as to | the real result of this first battle of the | campaign. Meanwhile the opinion is rapidly, per- haps justly, gaining ground that the mili- tary expeditions into the Sioux country are | to be satistied with a moderate can- | a mistake and a very grave one, as well asa great wrong, and likely to precipitate what is described as ‘a general Indian war,” and may be more properly called a general Indian massacre. The tribes thus attacked on what they have the most solemn right to consider their own territory ,will not only carry on waragainst the United States troops sent against them, but, acting in accordance with their own savage instincts, will surely proceed to exterminate frontiersmen and their families, and to retaliate in every bar- barous way that their wild instincts may dictate upon the defenceless whites within their reach. Leaving the simple question of justice un- considered, the record of past Indian wars shows that they are fomented by fraud and in the interest of the frontier towns and of | the army contractors, whose advantages in teains, ; | storage, &c., are as numberless as they are Incrative, and it is by the fortunate indi- | the providing of transportation, viduals enjoying such contracts and by the { organs they control that parties of Indians legally hunting on the ceded lands west of their own reservation are called ‘depre- while other bodies of Sioux ‘moving on their own terri- tory are pursued and attacked by the military as “prowling bunds.” The combi- nation which controls contracts and manu- factures “‘outrages” is as responsible tor the present state of irritation among the Indian hundreds of lives to the country. General Harney has been quoted as the author of a computation that every Indian warrior killed costs the United States one soldier, one horse and five thousand dollars in money, and this arithmetical view seems to have been borne out at Goose Creek. The last report of the Interior Department estimated the Sioux nation at forty-three thousand souls; of these, certainly nine thousand may be taken as fighting men, and in the event of a general war, which, if successful, means almost extermi- | . | St. Louis will be given to the canvass. nation, its close will tind the country (by General Harney’s ready reckoner) bur- dened with forty-five million dollars ' addi- tional debt and thirty-four thousand old Indian women and children to be supported or to be left to die of starvation. There is a tribe of savages on the African coast, described by Edmond About, whose limited vocabulary has but one word to sig- nity ‘‘to hate” and ‘‘to kill.” Are we not doing our best to teach the same simplicity in language to our savage dependents? The Yale a Harvard Race. In the university race between the Yale and Harvard crews at Springfield, yesterday, Yale won an easy victory, taking the lead at the start and keeping it until the finish. ‘The triumph was honorable alike to Captain Cook and the Yale stroke, but it is not a pleasant augury for the future of col- lege boating, nor a justification of the withdrawal of the crews from the great event which for two years has been rowed on Saratoga Lake. Yale is only partly excused for its action in withdrawing from the National Association by defeating Harvard in case Harvard wins this time at Saratoga. Three years of defeat for both in the great race is a bad record upon which to retire from these annual contests, and the limited interest which was felt in the race yesterday is a clear indication of the begin- | ning of the decay of college boating. There is no good reason for the secession of these crews from the rest of the American colleges, and if Harvard fails in her contest with Columbia, Cornell and | other universities this year, the inferiority of the two New England crews will be yen- | erally accepted as established. Yale had pluck, but bad fortune in the past; but her quarrels were with Harvard, and Captain Cook cannot win back the rank of his col- lege by simply beating Harvard at Spring- field. The whole business is unworthy of these universities, and the country re- cognizes that they are in the position of two foolish boys who retire from the game only because they are sates ‘4 The delegation of French workingmen which bas arrived in this city on their way to Philadelpbin has been captured by a committee of workingmen mostly of foreign origin and strongly suspected of intense Communistic tendencies. If the visitors desire to gain an accurate knowledge of the | views of the mass of workingmen in the United States they must seek it outside of that element of our population which is | linked by sympathy, if not by aftiliation, | Mr. ‘Thurman, who was then a prominent | if the President would order the arrest of all | | win, and this policy was never abandoned. | to ‘help Tilden.” | see, but which the Governor's policy will be | Hayes, but now that Uncle Samuel raises | No American desires that oar visitors should refuse to renew their old time connection | with the socialists or Communists who may | have founda home in our midst, or that they should shut their cars to whatever criticisms | these advocates of social revolution may offer on onr institutions. But in the interest of the French working classes, who will form | their opinions of moderate republican insti- tutions on.the reports given by their chosen | Aelogates, Americans wish that the visiting | delegation should come in contact with the | working American population; not neces- sarily with native born workmen, ‘but, at least, with the masses who have accepted in good faith the rights and responsibili- ties of citizenship and adopted American | ideas on the relations whieh should exist | between the workingman and his employer. | By carrying back to the ateliers of Paris cor- rect ideas on these important nointe the tAclegnies gan do to tied - ts important’ servi * e | it has for the last four years granted to one Words of his agreement with the Commis- NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1876. -WITH SUPPLEMENT. | radical application of socialistic theories | which hitherto has been the cause of much suffering and disaster to the wage-earning class in France. By all means let the dele- gates amuse themselves among their country- men, but when they begin their work of in- | quiry into the political and social status of | the working classes in this country let them | seek their information from the real Ameri- can workingmen. Sam Hoists the Black Flag: | The little speech made by Governor Til- den to @ militia company in Albany is worthy of note as his first public expression since the nomination. In this speech the Governor calls upon his followers not Uncle vass, but to make an aggressive war upon the enemy. A _ Tribune reporter, who was charmed with His Excel- lency’s ‘glittering blue eye,” quotes the | Governor as saying there must be no ‘‘still | hunt.” In this speech the Governor strikes a low key. He describes the wolf at every | door; he avers that for eleven years the yov- | ernment has expended the in:ome of all the | labor and capital, and that taxes have in- creased fourfold. ‘The government no | longer exists for the people—the people ex- | ist only for the government.” ‘Our Cen- | tennial product is the wrongs, license and | evils to eseape which our ancestors aban- doned their homes.” The remedy is ‘‘re- form.” The Governor sneers at his rival as | a “negative,” adopted to save a system upon | This | speech of Governor Tilden is in marked | contrast with that of Governor Hayes, who went out of his way to pay acomplinent to candidate for the democratic nomination, and to inculeate harmony and good feeling in the canvass. Now if fe have a vigorous campaign we | shall be disappointed. We want a quiet, temperate, patriotic Centennial canvass. ‘The Governor carried the St. Louis Conven- tion by Cossack tactics. He rode down bis opponents, They were assailed in every | form, The “deliberations” of the Conyen- | tion recall the worst days of the Jacobin | Club, and already there are rumors that the President of the Convention will have to | fight Sunset Cox. At one time it looked as | the anti-Tilden men. ‘The policy was to The treatment of covery leading anti-Tilden man ‘was harsh, and after Mr. Hendricks | had declined the Vice Presidency he was | rudely taken and forced upon the ticket | The editor of the Rich- mond Enquirer, a leading democratic news- paper, openly says that money was used to nominate the Governor, and expresses a hope that only half as much as was spent at The success of the Governor may justify the tactics at St. Louis, and we infer trom his little Albany speech that they are to be ap- | plied to the country at large. The reason why we deplore such a canvass | as Mr, Tilden proclaims is that it will do no | good. If the democrats make a rancorous | war upon the republicans they will return the fire. Mr. Tilden’s orders will reach his own forces, but the other side must be con- sidered. The republican candidate has counselled moderation and good temper, but if the democrats mean to take their cue from Tilden there will soon be an end of it. “Reform” is a captivating issue, but so far | as the democratic party is concerned it is an | issue of prcmises and not performances, There are other issues that will be invented or revived—issues which we do not care to | sure to provoke. There is the question of | religion and the South. If the Governor insists that the campaign shall open by de- nouncing the republicans as robbers the re- publicans will go into the business of prov- | ing that the Governor and his allies are | “Jesuits” and “assassins.” So from one point of defamation we shall go to the other, | about nothing. docks wished to use their own hose and, engines to pump water for their supplier the monopolist resisted their purpose an¢ cansed the water to be shut off. ‘They are te pay this monopolist, or they must go else: where for water—to Jersey City, perhaps, oF even further. In some other senports care is taken to provide at the cheapest possibie rate all the conveniences which are needed by ships. But we are above such petty arts. ‘The idea of imaking New York a cheap, sate and convenient stopping place for ships ir preposterous. If we should undertake te | do business on that principle what would become of the city government and its friends? We ure not surprised to read that the demand of the steamship owners to be allowed to pump water with their own en- gimes and through their own hose was treated with contempt by the Water Com- | missioners. Long live monopoly! Rumors from ¢t Euat. The news from Turkey and Servia this morning is little better than a series of un- confirmed rumors, most of them probably without any foundation in fact. First of al’ we havea fresh story of the new Sultan's difficulties and a report of his intention to abdicate. Then come tales of Turkish preparations for war, end a terrible ‘‘it is re- ported” about arming eighty thousand Bashi-Bazouks to menace if not massacre the Christians. The Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has not been recalled, as was previously reported, but he daily receives insulting letters and is “exposed to imunie nent danger.” Anstria is said to be troubled | over some mythical Herzegovinan refugees in Dalmatia, neither daring to keep them manfully nor to return them openly. We have it besides—and this must be veracious history-—that the Russian representativeat | Belgrade has been doing everything in bis power, under the Czar’s orders, to persuade | Prince Milan from making war on Turkey, } but that the Prince will not be persuaded. To complete this long series of absurdities, Mr. Bourke, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said in Parliament yes- terday that, so far as the English gov- ernment could ascertain, the Russien Grand Duke Vladimir is not in Servia, Al! this is very entertaining reading; but it id not the kind of news to base purchases ot stocks upon or to give any hint as to whether the great Powers are really going to war It will be seen, however, thut Turkey and Servia, Mourad Effendi and Prince Milan, Russia and Austria and the Emperors of both, all receive the attentions of the news gatherers, and that the situatiou being unchanged the interest is maintained by spicy paragraphs from every important point and concerning every important per- sonage involved in the coming struggle. Tue CeNTeNyrau CrLepnanion at Phila» delphia will begin to-day. On Sunday it bwill be just one hundred years since the Declaration of Independence was adopted, | the Fourth of July being the day on which that magna charta was proclaimed to the people of the American colonies. As the hundredth anniversary of its adoption comes on Sunday the commemorative ceremonies will take place in Independence Hall to-day, In another column will be found the pro- gramme of the contemplated celebration, A Posacy or Concuuiation is in order. Un cle Sammy should come down to New York and send for all the boys ta.come to Grant ercy Park and conciliate. ‘There was some hard and heavy hitting at St. Louis. But now let us have peace. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Newton Booth. Paris ladies patronize balls. The California honey crop is very big. Hendricks likes red currants and white sugar, How much are you guing to sleep on tho night od July 3? Ab Sin, looking at the two platforms, says, “Meno shabbce; Mellican man big jackqssec. Lavater docs not say that the concave nose means statesmanship; yet Morrissey bas a concaved in nose. Littlejohn, in the novel of ‘Ivanhoe,’ 1s something and the result will be a deplorable canvass, full of bitterness and passion. The truth about the whole thing is that | these cries are claptrap. Tilden wants | power and Hayes wants power. If Tilden | wins times will be about as they are now— the same influences about Washington, under the sway of new men. There will be the same complaints about taxes, the same dissatisfaction with the currency. The new | men will do about as the old men are | doing—namely, take all they can find and hold on to it. Our hope is that the canvass will be orderly, respectful, decorous. This | hope was justified by the speech of Governor | the black flag we shall probably have musi¢. | For the Encouragement of Commerce. This city is, or used to be, a commercial port. It has 1 commodious and safe harbor, an admirable water front and all the natural | advantages which a great seaport onght to have, But this is not all. It has a city government, fearfully and wonderfally | made, which seems to exist for the purpose | of showing to the mariners and shippers of the world how much human ingenuity can | do to counterbalance the gifts of nature. This city government has maintained at an expense of many millions the most incon- venient end unsafe piers and docks to be , found in any first class seaport. It per- taxes on shipping by a “health officer,” and | of its favorites the monopoly of supplying water to the ships which still, in spite of these and many other abuses and extortions, | frequent our port. Fora swin paid monthly this person enjoys the privilege, in the sioner of Public Works, “exelusively to supply with Croton water the entire ship- ping of the port of New York, including therein ali ships, vessels, steamships, steamboats, and férry and tugboats of what- soever kind, name or description, sailing to and from the port of New York, or plying to and fro in the harbor thereof, for the certain period of five years, commencing on the 4ih day of June, 1872, and ending on the 4th day of June, 1877.” Very naturally, a person who has been lucky enough to obtain such a monopoly, doce not atten? t Ve mwa business 8 vine Aw eb cont taghor bing. which ue 6 Souuak romantic, Inthe St. Louis fiction he is far from ro- | mantic. ‘The bet, “Put up or hut up,” is becoming a powor- ful influence in a campaign, and John Morrissey is its statesman. The types made this column say yesterday that “Mr, Hayes was born in Kentucky.’’ It was Mrs, Hayes who was born in Kentucky. There was a ramor that Miss Braddon, the novelist, with Mr. Maxwell, her husband, would reside in America, bat the rumor was untrue. Mayes would not have been Governor of Ohio, nor have beon nominated for President, but for his slim majority of 259 votes 10 the whole State. Sunset Cox is like one clothespin trying to keep fourteen sbirts irom fluttering on a clophesline, He can’t be at every place on the line a+ once, A son of old John Brown Lives on Jay Cooke’s Island, of Gibraltar, in Lake Erie. His hair is the style and color of that seen in the paintings of the Saviour. The other day the Worrell Sisters troupe, dressed in miners’ clothes, went down into the Bonanza mine, and sang to a lot of half-elad men, “A Letter in the | Candte.” A Washington sign painter has executed a pictere o} Chariotte Corday that resembles Rose Kytinge. Ho i to become a fine artist, says the Cincinnati Com- | mercial, A velegraph operator in New Hampshire had a thumly taken off by a discharge of clectricity while at his key, and a lady operator along the line was at the same time rendered deat in ouo ear. It you are a Fourth of July Committee you can have the salates tired at the furthest end of the town irom your houge, but you don’t dare to poke your foot from | under the sheet for fear of that ily. Kar! Albemarle relates that when the Dablin belies used to recd;e invitations to picnics they stipulated | that the migcti@vons boy, Arthur Wellesicy (afterward | mitted for some years the levy of exorbitant | with the socialistic republicans of Europe, | the Duke of Wellingfon), should not be there, Boston Globes" A Uhl §3 caloulased to rate the calmest temper: to sel with care a seat on th shady side of the street car, apa them to recollect thas the line turne off inan almost directiov.” At one of the Queen's ai rooms a lady pre. sented to Her Majesty ¢ a tow and joyat courtesy, and she was so laced ‘that she could nev straighten herself until she was imto an upmghs position by the attendants. When a Stoux Indian to tell a) he tnrows his blanket over her breathes into her ear, anda very) hor bead mufied up ia this way a halt day, oven in hot weathor. Wendell Phillips, prats gays that it grows as oaks the time ix coming wh corning the constitution: found in tts amendmonts? 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