The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1876, Page 4

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MOLLY MAGUIRES. ‘Su. Matinee at 2 P.M, UNION SQUARE THEATRE. THE VORES FAMILY, at . M. TOSY From our reporls this morring the pro abilities warmer, and partly cloudy, with areas of rain, During the summer months the Heraxp will of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage, Noticz to Country NewspKaLens.— For pre and regular delivery of the Hzraup fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. ‘Tne Season at Newport promises to be of unusual brilliance this year. The pro- gramme of amusements through the sum- mer and the throng of fashionable residents will insure pleasant days around the beauti- ful old town. Tue Recorps or THE Trinity ConLEGE OarsMEN who are coming to row at Philadel- phia indicate that, despite their defeat at Henley, they will prove tough customers to beat. Our Dublin lettex}, giving their rowing history and other interesting information about the Trinity boys, will be found else- where. Tue Dancrrovs Smatt Boy.—Once more we call the attention of the grown up people of New York and the sister cities to the ne- cessity of keeping a strict supervision over the firework setting off of those who are too | | Pope taking possession of the schools and of young to know the danger to life and prop- erty which a moment's rashness may incur. Tne Heat Yesterpay reached a maximum of ninety-eight degrees in the afternoon, the highest temperature recorded this summer. The absence of fatal cases of sunstroke was chiefly due to the day being one of rest, and the fact that few felt inclined to expose themselves to the rays of the sun while rest and quiet indoors presented the only chances of keeping cool Potro 1x Panis.—Our_ correspondent’s graphic picture of a series of games on the yrounds of the Skating Club, in the Bois de Boulogne, shows that this fine sport has been fairly localized there. The popularizing of such a dashing outdoor amusement would be a physical blessing to young Frenchmen of the wealthier classes who at present mostly take their calisthenics in the close air of the salle d'armes, and who decidedly need | more bracing exercise. A Canexr or Crime.—‘‘Colonel” J. De- catur Potter, one of the most successful of the many swindlers that have preyed on an American community, is now before the public stripped of the ‘‘bogus” trappings of respectability which enabled him to victimize so many confiding fools during his long life of thievery. We publish in to- day’s Henacp a list of this fellow's exploits, | in the hope that the public will be aroused to the danger of trusting such characters, even though they flourish high sounding military titles and parade their ill-gotten gains as a bait for capturing public con- fidence. A Hint ror Tae Fovrrs.—Our authori- ties should exercise the greatest cau- tion on the Fourth of July. There will be unusual displays of fireworks and lanterns. We generally pay a terrible price for our Fourth in the way of fires and the loss of life. We think that an in- telligent public opinion will, sooner or later, do away with these fire displays. But as we shall have more than a usual show to-morrow the authorities should take the utmost pre- cautions. The polico should all be on duty; the firemen should bo at their posts. If necessary a militia force should be kept in reserve to aid the firemen and police in case of need. A little prudence may pre- venta terrible calamity. Since our people will play with fire on the Fourth let us see that as little harm as possible ensues. Sepuctive Tarataicats.—Our chatty Lon- don correspondent relates how an enterpris- ing manager conceived the idea of having plays acted by exceptional casts at the Crystal Palace during the afternoons. This allowed the public to enjoy a great treat, and did not interfere with the srrangements of the London managers whose artists were thus enabled to return | from Sydenham in time for the evening per- formances. In this way Mr. Wyndham has ceally provided a well baited trap for pious people who would not be seen inside an ordinary theatre, but who innocently wander from ihe beauties of the great glass honse ond the arcadian grounds without into a reguiar theatre. Up goes the curtain, and with its lot of silly jices, and converts are made to art that could not be otherwise induced to think of a stage play without » highly moral shud- der. | Tepresentation. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 3. 1876. , The Centennial Canvass—The Position of Hayes and Tilden—Is It To Be the Black Flag? It would be a misfortune if our celebra- tion to-morrow were to begin and end in the ringing of bells and the thunder of cannon. That is the attractive view of it, and we trust that the favoring heavens will give our people an opportunity for the perfect enjoy- ment of their patriotism. From what we learn all over the country the celebration will be one of unusual magnificence and enthusiasm. For the first time since the war the North and South will unite in the celebration of an event in which they have a common share. Whatever Northerners and Southerners may think of Lincoln or Lee, they have one opinion of Washington. | There is comfort in the idea that, after all these quarrels, these wars, these heartburn- ings, we can gather around the Liberty Tree of 1776. The practical value of the celebration to-morrow is its national character. There is no one thing for which the American heart has yearned more fervently for ten years than a restoration of fraternal national feeling. For this reason we esteem the Fort Moultrie celebration as a national event. The reception extended in Charleston to our soldiers from Boston and New York was of the heartiest character, and we are certain that our Southern friends will find it reciprocated by ultra-loyal Phila- delphia. The only point of difference be- tween North and South is the want of a proper understanding. This was one of the reasons that led to the war, and it has been at the bottom of our difficulties about recon- struction. In the beginning the South un- derrated the North. Victory has led the North to underrate the South. .There can be no reconstruction that will not begin withan old fashioned Fourth of July friendliness, When Northern and Southern men feel as prac Thai ike scenther! oe Sol bo decidedly: | “2° Tele Siemscultcie (and Brandywine sere will be true reconstruction. So far, there- | fore, as the Centennial is the bringing to- u 5 | gether of the two sections it will be a bless- be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate | ing to the country. This is alzo our centennial canvass for the Presidency, and, as even the Fourth of July does not drive that out of our minds, let us | hope that it will be a canvass of charity and good feeling. If it should so result we shall feel that our anniversary came opportunely in the heart of a severe canvass for the Presidency. Every four years we have a revulsion and uprisal of all kinds of elements—defamation, hatred, mis- The press becomes a sewer. The fairest reputations are defamed. Honest differences of opinion grow into animosities. All the virtues are with one party and all the vices with another, and what should be an intelligent, thoughtful discussion of the can- vass and the candidates falls into an inter- change of passion and hatred. If we were really serious in these recriminations it would be bad enough; but considering that wedo not mean them, that it is alla pantomime to delude the people, how base it becomes. One side talks of reform, which is quackery. The other side talks of the the massacre of the negroes by the white men, which is also quackery. All sensible people know that when one swarm of poli- ticians turns out another there is very little reform. They know, also, that there is no more danger to the school system from the Pope than from the Metropolitan of the Greek Church. But these issues are invented and thrown like firebrands into the canvass. They are angry issues, and the result is a bitterness which does harm. Let us trust that the coming of this centennial day, and of all the ceremonials that attend it, will have the effect of giving us a peaceful cam- paign. What acomfort it would be to have one election for the Presidency as tranquil as the canvass of Disraeli against Gladstone. Notwithstanding what should be the ameli- orating influences of the Centennial we have no hope that the canvass will be any differ- ent from the others. Governor Tilden does not intend to have it so, and as he commands one army his tactics will determine the cam- | paign of his opponent. Before we are through foreign observers will be asking why ninety-nine out of every hund@d of our public men are not in the Penitentiary. This centennial canvass will cither be one of the mildest or one of the severest in our history. If Governor Tilden’s order to raise the black flag is obeyed there will be retalia- tion, recrimination, every phase of bitter- ness. The policy of the Governor is to strike out every issue but one, and that one the only issue upon which he can win. This would be a master stroke if the republicans would be content. Buta war of recrimina- tion has two sides. Reform is not the only burning question before the people. We had “reform” as an issne four years ago under Mr. Greeley, who was a conspicuous reformer, and we see what came of it. Gov- ernor Tilden has three issues, neither of which he cares to encounter, all of which will be pressed upon him. There is the financial question as represented by Gover- nor Hendricks. | republican contemporaries intimates that Mr. Tilden is suffering from a stroke of apo- plexy, which, in the event of his election, might atany moment call Hendricks into the Presidency. We mention this to show that | the republicans are not limited in resources, that if defamation is to be the card there will be defamation enough. The pres- ence of Governor Hendricks on the demo- cratic ticket will become one of the potent agencies in the republican canvass, and the | leaders of that party will be lacking in re- sources if they do not prove beyond a doubt that the inflationists have a couple of Sicilian assassins in their employ to finish Tilden as soon as he is sworn in, so as to make Hendricks President. The sec- ond question will be the South. the S¢ygh as a unit for their electoral ticket. The wat has left a fire which may at any time burst intoa flame. ‘The third question is the schools. As we have said, the fear that the success of the democrats will im- peril our school system is utter quackery. ‘The whole business is quackery, and we are pointing out to Governor Tilden and his friends where his black fing will lead them. ‘This canvass will have two sides. As it now looks, although success is probable for y' Hayes, the canyass of Tilden isa good and Already one of our lively | It is not | good generalship for the democrats to count | | shifts in one direction, to-morrow in another. may become a winning one. He has fair prospects of success. * But he should reserve himself. It will do very well for Tammany politicians like Frank Spinola to harangue crowdsabout everything going to the bad and this being the centennial year of cor- ruption and misgovernment, but it is not what we expect from a candidate for the Presidency. The republicans can answer a fire of defamation with great ability. They have their own burdens. Much will depend upon the letter of acceptance from Governor Hayes. If this letter 1s a concession to the worst elements of the republican party, if it trims on finance, civil service or one term, if it shows the Governor to be a light, negative man, it will aid Tilden. The Yaryan case is on its face a small, insignificant matter, and remembering that Yaryan is only a detective we are disposed to dismiss it asa detective’s romance. At the same time no pebble isso small that in certain conditions it may not sway acurrent, and even Yaryan may become a prominent feature in the canvass. If the democrats can show that Generel Grant has been a party to whiskey or other frauds it will harm the canvass of Hayes, Just now the campaign rapidly takes shape. To-day it It will not do for Hayes or Tilden to make mistakes. Hayes cannot disembody himself and float through the fight like a phan- tom. He must bear the burden of his | party and the administration. Tilden can- | not carry his canvass on any system of | Chinese tactics— beating the reform gong and winning by terrifying his enemies. He will | have to carry the record of his party and meet the apprehensions of the country as to what would result if it came into power. We trust there will be a good, old-fash- | ioned Hail Columbia canvass, with patriot- ism, good feeling and all the gracious | attributes of this centennial time. But this | hope rests upon a frail foundation. It looks like a canvass of strenuous, earnest con- troversy. The consolation under all is that whether we have Hayes or ‘Tilden we shall have a good President, and we shall cele- brate our Fourth of July with every recur- ring season as heartily as we hope to do it to-morrow. England and the Eastern Question. The present sentiments of the English liberals are doubtless accurately reflected in our special cable despatch from London | with regard to the troubles in the East. The party still led by Gladstone and Bright would naturally oppose the active policy pursued by Disraeli in the East, because it was not their policy while in power, and because the alternative of keeping quiet amid all the broil and making money out of the troubles of others would commend itself to the mass of English voters, par- | ticularly when the alternative of war would bring them to the side of a rotten, corrupt and infidel Power. Although this sentiment goes deep enough with Englishmen, there is &@ pugnacious national feeling that goes deeper still, and in the event of a broad imperial policy, demanding the sacrifice of war, Disraeli, who knows his countrymen’s strong points and weaknesses as well as Palmerston knew them, could sweep the peace party out of sight with a ten minutes’ speech. It would but be necessary to say that English suprem- acy in Asia was endangered ; to stigmatize the opponents of his policy as the peace-nt- any-price party ; toadd that the price this time was national degradation and a large loss in pounds, shillings and pence, and | to appeal to ‘the flag that braved a thousand years the battle and _ the breeze.” It certainly looks as though the English Cabinet was convinced that England cannot long keep out of the Turkish quarrel. Patting the volunteers on the back by letting them hold a re- view in Hyde Park is a very safe thing to do; for, if they are haply not wanted, no harm will be done. They have the makings of fine soldiers in their ranks, but a great | number of these quiet, respectable citizen soldiers are sober fathers of families, who | would much prefer the indefinite continua- tion of their holiday marching to even act- ing as a home guard in a real war. It will probably be some days before we hear of actual hostilities between the Ser vians and Turks, at least anything beyond desultory skirmishing. Inthe meantime it is not likely that any important change in the attitude of the Powers not at present en- gaged will take place. To Servia and Con- | stantinople we must apparently look for the | next news of consequence, the condition of | affairs at the Turkish capital being quite as critical as the Turkish condition in the field. The Centennial Sermons Yesterday, The intensity of the heat yesterday, which, although it might be considered as illustrative of the warmth of religious feel- | ing that should animate the Christian's | and mercies of the Creator, still exercised such a prostrating influence on the poor tenement of clay that the thoughts of the most devout worshipper wandered away in spite of him from the draughts dispensed by the preachers from the living fountains of truth to those that afford a temporary relief from the pangs of fleshly thirst that are suf- fered when the thermometer marks nearly one hundred degrees in the shade. Not- withstanding this drawback the churches of New York and Brooklyn were well filled, and the several ministers took occasion to base their sermons on the great text supplied by the Centennial of American independence. This grand rallying point, where professors of every form of religions faith could unite in celebrating one of the greatest events connected with human prog- ress, was treated of with all the eloquence for which our ministers are justly celebrated, and many useful lessons for our future guid- ance were drawn from the experiences of the | past century. The spirit of sound patriot- ism breathed through every discourse, and if here and there a preacher was found to wander from his text into the byways of sectarian disenssion the exceptions only proved the rule that our people desire to be united at least in loving their country. Cororapo hopes to add its votes to the Electoral College this year, even if it is too Jate to hang its star on the Centennial flag. | Tne Coming Anniversary. Everything looks like a glorious celebra- tion of the centennial of our independence to-morrow. One point especially in which it will have a happy effect is the good that will come from this union of so many nationalities. In the past, unscrupulous politicians have never hesitated to tamper with religious and national feelings for their advancement. There have been no parties which have doneso much harm as those based upon Americanism and Know Nothingism. Of course, every such party was sure to fail, because it violated the first faws of common sense as well as political economy. We could no more build up _ this Republic without the aid of the older nations than the Egyptian King could have built his Pyramids without stone. The evil of these sectarian parties was in the acrid feel- ing they left behind them. Now, in this Centennial time, we honor what was done for freedom by men of ‘all creeds and all na, tions. In fact, we note that our foreign citizens are more anxious to have a fitting celebration of the anniversary of our inde- pendence than our native born. This, at least, is true of New York. Nor is it a matter that should surprise us. Liberty meons a great deal to the citizen who was born in the land of conscription, of compul- sory service—in the land where war usurps all other duties—where an alien system and an | alien army hold the native races in bondage. The*German from Bavaria, the Frenchman from Alsace, the Spaniard from Biscay, the Irishman from Westmeath, have braver ideas of freedom than our own people, who were born in freedom and who have never known the master's foot. Another point in this centennial celebra- tion is the presence of so many high and noted people from other lands. One effect of our civil war was to give us a rank among the great nations of the world. This rank is conceded by visitors as illustrious as the Emperor of Brazil and the Prince of Sweden, who take part with us in celebrating our anniversary. In the earlier years of our cen- | tury we were to the European nations in about the same position that Australia and New Zealand are to us. Since the war that is changed! Those who had looked upon the new Republic as very new indeed, with trees and prairies and buffaloes, but without the higher elements of civilization, found that is was a nation in the highest sense, Since the close of the war that recognition has been ours. If we cared to take any part in the diplomacy of the world, to throw our interests with those of the ambitious Powers; if we cared to take any part in the race for supremacy and empire, the sword of the Re- public would be as much respected as that of emperor or king. But one lesson has come down to us from the fathers, and, with all of our vagaries in other directions, we have never ceased to respect it—the lesson which forbids our accepting any entangling alliances with foreign Powers. Our friend- ship with foreign Powers has been the friend- ship of peace. With the exception of our war with Mexico, which was in many respects a family affair, springing from the irritation of jostling frontiers, we have had no foreign war for more than sixty years, and every year lessens any chance of war. While all the world, therefore, is in a seething, angry condition; while Europe resounds with the tramp of armed men; while emperors are holding anxious coun- cils and every moment may see the flame; while Servia strikes at Turkey, and we all | know that Servia is the lance head and Russia the lance; while even England shows the awakening of the warlike spirit, we close our century in profound peace. We cele- brate the peace in the great Exhibition. Here, under the flowering, majestic spread- ing branches of our liberty tree, is room | for all who choose to come. A century ago there were three millions—to-day there are more than forty. What may we expect in another hundred years? How often has it been said—how often will it be said, we fear, to-day and to-morrow—that Franklin and Washington would not know their land were they to come to the earth and take their places in Independence square with the huzzaing thousands who are to listen to the eloqueuce of Mr. Evarts? If we have done so much in one centyry what may wo not hope in the century to come? Let us enter upon the new era cherishing the lessons and heeding the warnings of the cen- | A ZA | foot, into their power, they cannot persuade | any honest thinking man that their pre- tury that ends to-day, with the hope and the prayer that another century will find us still in the triumphant enjoyment of liberty and peace, still striving for the highest and noblest destiny. The Protection of the Telegraph. The New York Times takes judicious ground on the question of protection to the telegraph which Mr. Morton has introduced into the Senate. Some time ago an officer of the House procured a quantity of telegrams which had been sold by the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company for waste paper. | soul when contemplating the great works | President Eckert sent word to the committee, hoping that the telegrams which he had sold to the junk dealer would be held sacred. The committee took no notice of this pro- tgst, but has continued to sort out the heap to find evidence. When we think of this mass of telegraphic matter in the hands of a committee of the House, aided by a jury of enterprising correspondents, we can readily imagine the sensation they could produce. We had an illustration of this some time ago in a series of personal and domestic de- publication of which wasan outrage. They had no bearing whatever upon the case before the House and had no business in print, As the Times aptly says:—‘‘Now, a telegraphic despatch is, to allintents and purposes, pri- vate correspondence. It has, or shonld have, all the inviolability which, in free countries, attaches to a letter, and any in- terference with this rule should hemmed in with checks and safeguards that its abuse would be impossible. The laxity which now prevails in regard to it in the practice of Washington politicians, and we fear, also, in the practice of the telegraph companies, is discreditable and dangerous. The whole subject deserves careful consid- eration at the hands of the Senate committee to whom it has been referred.” We cannot pass from this question with- out censuring General Eckert for his unpar- donable carelessness in permitting the copies of telegrams over his wire to go toa junk be so | Serving class of the community. Nothing | that embodied in Judge Duffy's deci i spatches of the Secretary of the Navy, the | prelate ge Dufty’s decision in shop. What confidence can we have in a company which is so careless of the feelings and interests of its patrons ? In the absence of any law such as is proposed by Mr. Morton it might be well for our telegraph companies to guarantee their service or to institute a branch which could be guaranteed. Suppose the Western Union or the Atlantic and Pacific were to say to-morrow that they would send over their wires despatches of which no record would be kept at either end. This would solve the problem. Customers who wished to avail themselves of this could sign a con- tract which might be printed guaranteeing the company against loss for any blunder that might occur in transmission. We be- lieve it is to protect itself against suits for alleged mistakes that copies are preserved | of all despatches. But unless some way is found of protecting the telegraph, at least | from junk shop dealers and curious news- paper correspondents, the whole system will fall into disrepute. The War with the Sioux. The rumor of a fight with the Sioux, the destruction of an entire village and a victory for United States troops not commanded by General Crook, which reached us a few days ago from Omaha, is repeated ih a modified shape by our correspondent at Crook’s head- | quarters, upon the headwaters of Goose Creek, under tha shadow of Cloud | Peak, in the Big Horn country. The news in both instances came from the Indian agencies where the Sioux not at war remain, The disposition of General Terry's forces, as detailed in the letter of our correspondent with that commander, makes it doubtful that, allowifg time for the news to travel, a fight could have taken place, except with the scouting party sent up Powder River. News of ja fight with Custer’s detachment, which, all going well, was to have been abont the 2lst ult. upon Rosebud Creek, where Crook's battle of the 17th ult. was fought, would probably reach us as swiftly from Terry's camp as round about by the Indian agencies. Still, as it is uncertain whither Sitting Bull went after turning back Crook, there may be a grain of truth in the story. A movement to the east would have certainly brought him in contact with one or other of Terry’s detachments, but if he retired further into the heart of the Rosebud Mountains the great fight of the campaign is still a long way off. Crook can- not move without reinforcements, and they will not be on the grotind for another fort- night or three weeks. This long inaction of the celebrated Indian fighter proves conclu- sively the superior strength of the In- dians, backed by their intimate knowledge of the country, which makes us hope that unless a fortunate chance has brought a considerable body of our troops suddenly upon the Indians, we may not hear of a battle before Terry has reunited his forces and Crook received his reinforcements. In the interval we might ask, with some em- phasis, Who is responsible for this war? Sewing Machine Privileges. The whole question of the desirability of allowing inventors or companies to enjoy paient rights which are equivalent to a mo- nopoly has been forcibly brought to light by the paving stone which Bridget Barry cast through the glass window of the Weed Sew- ing Machine Company, and there is little doubt that the public conscience will de- mand the extinction of the unjust privileges which have been too carelessly granted by Congress. The sewing machine companies resemble the boy in the fable who was not content with a reasonable supply of nuts from the jar, but, urged by avarice, would have nothing less than a handful. So the sewing machine companies are likely to find themselves compelled to relinquish the ad- vantages they have hitherto enjoyed at the expense of the most oppressed and most de- can better illustrate the meanness which at- tends modern money grubbing than that | huge corporations of men, making pre- tence to honesty and respectability, should be banded together with the object of oppressing helpless girls and women while pretending to play the réle of philanthropists. For, disguise as they may their system of payment by instalment and iniquitous contracts, which deliver the un- fortunate sewing women, bound hand and tended kindness is anything but a clever scheme for profiting by the ignorance and | helplessness of the struggling poor who are ever ready to catch at straws to save them- selves from social drowning. The system of special protection to companies manufactur- ing articles of prime necessity to the people is’ wholly indefensible, and it is just such in- cidents as the injustice which armed Bridget Barry’s despairing hand against the Weed Sewing Machine Comp .ny’s glass that com- pels public attention to the wrongs and | oppressions that the poor are suffering in | dumb misery. The sleek employés who are the passive agents in this wrongdoing are shocked that a police magistrate should think justice higher than law; but publio sentiment will always support those who, like Judge Duffy, act ina way to show that in this free country the magistracy is an agent of protection as well as of punishment. There can be no sounder or more healthy lesson taught to the suffering masses than Bridget Barry's caso—namely, that where a manifest outrage has been committed the law will look to the provocation in judging acts prompted by ‘‘the wild justice of revenge.” And similar decisions will be sustained by the conscience of the community, which never hesitates to cast its sympathies in fayor of justice and fair dealing. But the radical cure is the best, and it lies in the hands of Congress to seo that the sewing machine be placed within reach of the poor- est workers by refusing any extension of those ‘patent rights” which inake the manu- facture of these useful articles a monopoly, and so enable rich corporations to plunder poor seamstresses by selling their sewing machines at exorbitant prices, Tur Syivan Siapes along the Hudson and | on Staten Island were thronged yesterday by excursionists, who hurried from the sweltering heat of the city to enjoy he cool, refreshing breeses that play through the mountain gorges and from the great water expanses that sur- round New York. It was a relief to many eyes to exchange the dull land- capes of red brick blocks and dusty streets for those of the sweet shady lanes and green fields of the country, and the pure air inhaled into the lungs of our city workers will enable them to support the fatigues of the coming week. Grant and Yaryan. The documents which we print this morning seem to render it almost certain that Yaryan, the internal revenue detec- tive, was removed with great precipitation, and not only without adequate cause but without cause at all. The act is the Presi- dent’s own, and the republican party cannot properly be held accountable for it unless it accepts and adopts it. {fo do this there is apparently no disposition on the part of the republican leaders. Already there is talk of asking General Grant to dismiss Babcock from his civil appointment as Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds and to take the necessary steps for his dismissal from the | army. As a matter of course the President will decline to do any such thing. It was out of his blind friendship for his secretary and crony, if we are to believe the weight of the testimony already printed in regard ta this singular action, that General Grant dis- missed the detective. Even the reasons as- signed for his course, which would have been more than sufficient if well founded, seem .to fall to the ground unsupported, and the President, according to present appearances, is in the pitiable atti- tude of dismissing a faithful officer only because he discovered the wrong doings of one of the President's official family. If this is in reality the case, there can be little wonder that the republican leaders are alarmed and wish to assume none of the responsibility. The President, however, seems willing to take it all himself, and intimates a desire for the party to go ita own way for the future, leaving him to purs sue his during the rest of his term. There is an odd kind of fairness in this which no public man except General Grant would be likely to think of, much less to adopt. The President has all along regarded his high office as a sort of personal appendage to a suc cessful military leader, and his regret seema to have been that he could not always exer- cise his official prerogatives according to hia own sweet will. Now, however, that there is nothing more for himself, and since he can only serve his party by keeping within party bounds, he is anxious for the party to take care of itself and leave him to himself. Such a remarkable proposition could only emanate from such a source, and as the day of the President's power aro short and he can do less harm with the party out of sympathy with him than if he held it in accord, it ic best, perhaps, that he should be allowed ta go his own way. ‘Tue Sunxen Treasure in the wreck of the British frigate Hussar, lost while attempting to make the passage of Hell Gate, in 1780; ia now in a fair way of being recovered. The account of the loss of the Hussar in to-day's Henaxp shows the value of the prize sought to be won from the dark depths in which it is buried, and its recovery will pay well for the trouble of the undertaking. The melan- choly fate of the seventy American prison- ers who went down with the wreck, chained to the gundeck by their cruel captors, lenda 8 tragic feature to the event, which our peo- ple will remember in connection with the story. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr. T. C. Duran’ Ba. The bustle ts slipping out of fashion. Mrs Admiral Farragut is at Saratoga. ‘Thurman carries a bandana handkerchief. Professor Seelye likes bis eggs fried on both sides, Men who play croquet are now called the third sex. ‘A St. Louis girl was fined ono dollar for laughing tm court, Tilden sald in a direct sentence, “I can and will be your candidate.” Ex-Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, ts pulling his early crop of beets. It ts a pity that so many good and willing men shoulé have to stay out of the Presidency. Custer goes through the Wyoming enge brush sing- ing, “Oh, Sioux Anna, don’t you cry for me!” “Pa,” said a little fellow to his unshaven father, “your chin looks Itke the wheel In the music box.’” In Sacramento is an Indian woman with red hair. | Her mother was an Indian woman with black hair, The same barrel that was used to raise the pie plant may be used to sot three packs of fire crackers off in. ‘The first real, pungent, no-nonsense smell of Fourth of July began on Saturday, the 1st of July, at 2:17 P.M. It is pleasant to return to your boyhood home on the old farm and turn the woodpile topsey-tarvey in search for bait. A. H. Stephens now sits at his table In the white Mansion, under the great treos, where he lives, in Georgia. ZA St Louis Repudlican :—‘Thirteen languages are spoken by people living witnin a radius of five miles of Pierce City, Mo.” A Choctaw couple always live with the groom's Parents the first year, which he sponds in looking around for a divorce. Murat Halstead says that Slendricks will hart Tildes in Indiana, and that the proper candidate tor Vier Presidont was Morrison, of Iilinois, Hon. Milton Sayler, the pro tempore Speaker of th House, says be will vot, of his own accord, yield tht gavel to Mr, Cox upon his return from St. Loais, Norwich Bulletin :—“There is a good deal of disap pointment here over the democratic platform. It wat generally expected that the party would adopt a piaud to the eflect that Inger beer ts not intoxicating. ” The Cincinnati Anquirer, ina leading article, con siders the attempt of Mossrs. Henry Holt & Co. to “cw down’’ novels of Seott, Dickens and Bulwer as “hten ary mayhem.”” There was aman in from Colorado yesterday. He said, iu provincial accent, “Caw-lorado’s going to be admitted. I'm going fo the Centenniat on Tawa Scant’s road. Then I’m going to see my grawnmotho at Raw-chester, Jt is stated that Senator Jones wili visit Umatill: county, Oregon, 1mmediately after the adjournment o Congress, to view the Granite Creek quartz mines, particularly the lodge being developed by McDonald Burnbam & Co. Louisville Courier Journed :-— “Come, clean up the White House, Ulys., ‘The new tenant's wantin’ the buildin’; Unele Sam has @ lease on all this— ‘There's no other rhyme, 'Lys., for Tilden.” The Loudon second hant booksellers report of Ma+ caulay that he was aa omnivorous grabber of books, pamphless and periodicals known as “rubbish” in the book trade, This out-of-the-way literature, however, altorded fim original material not to be foand in the standard historical works and memoirs. Ire: Harte’s piay is to be brought out at Hoo- ley’s, Chicago, July 13, The three dig hits in it, if he reproduces the dialogue and scenes of the novel, will bo where Gabriel upsets the figure of Liberty on the Court House (which ought to equai the shooting of the Shanghrann), the appeal of Gabriel as ‘a brother Pagan” and the reply of the Chinaman Maggie Mitchell ought to be Olly.