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

; 4 h, 4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1876. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, miblished every fay in the year. Four cents per copy. twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per nonth, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic lespatches must be addressed New York Tenaxp. Letters and packages shculd be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- mrned. PHILADELPHI SIXTH STREE LONDON OFFIC | . OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH | OF THE NEW HERALD. 5 SET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements’ will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SY GS THEATRE, W. J. Florence. AC WALL. [ THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P, SM. M. ©” THEATRE, M. ( THEATRE. S P.M. Matinee at 2. P.M. ARIETIES, WOMAN'S REV! CHATEAU } at8 P.M. MUSEUM. SPM. Matinee at 2 P.M, THEATRE. MOLLY MAGU THE VORES TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE, ®ARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M VARIETIES, M. PA mSP.M. Matmee a FIFTH AV PIQUE, at 8P.M. Fanny Davenport PARE THEATRE. | Ok, UNDER TWO FLAGS, at 8 P.M. | E THEATRE, Matinee at2 P.M. | FRODDEN DOW Matines at2 P.M. TIVOLT TH NTENNIAL PANTOMIME, TRE. cE: SP. M. Matinee at 2:30 | rs | more hopeful and patriotic than those of the | | of the war he never despaired of a tri- | umphant result, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1876, "From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-lay will be warm and generally clear. re | During the summer months the Hrraxp rill be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Noricek to Country Newsprarens,— For | rompt and regular delivery of the Heratp Jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage tree. Ir Wr Nor Br « Bap Omen for Servin if she strikes her first blow for complete in- | dependence to-day. ° Tur Hupson River Yacur Cuvz held their | regatta yesterday for second and third class | boats, and some well contested races were run, with a favorable breeze. | Unxver Or Frac.—The raising of the Stars | and Stripes over the city churches without | distinction of creed is a hopeful feature of | the Centennial celebration. Tey Wi Have no public celebration of the great national event at Chicago to-day. | Cause, no funds in the municipal treasury. The small boys, however, will see to it that the fire demon gets his annual chance. Siver continues to decline in value, and it is now asserted that the silver trade dol- lar can be bought for ninety-nine cents in papercurrency. This depreciation of silver creates one of the most difficult problems that financiers are called on to solve. Sunser Cox is not destined to be snuffed out of public life by his fiasco at St. Louis, His conversation with a Hrnatp reporter, which is published elsewhere, concerning his allegiance to Mr. John Kelly, the Speakership and other matters, will repay perusal. Grayt anp Yanyan.--Another chapter in this remarkable case is presented in our | Washington despatches. Senator Spencer tells his side of the story, which is essentially opposed to Yaryan’s. It remains to be seen what ‘other way” General Grant proposes | to deal with the ex-revenue official. Tue Vacation or Prorerty in New York for the purposes of taxation has been in- | creased by the Commissioners of Taxes and | Assessments about nine millions of dollars over that of last year. The greatest increase of valuation is made in the Nineteenth ward, where the advance is equal to thirty-three | per cent of that placed on the entire city. j As Wer Prepictep, the weather, though occasionally threatening, will be favorable | for the great celebration of the nation's birthday, and the ear-piereing trumpet and the clond-piercing rocket will give testi- mony of the universal joy in sweet sounds and those brilliant star forms which may be called the music of light. Tae Cexrenstan Canvass will be in full vigor in a couple of weeks. In fact, as soon | as the last rocket sends its red or varicolored | glare across the heavens the Hayesers and Tildenites will begin operations. In this State the democracy is o unit for Uncle Samuel. He will only have to face the reguiar republican fire in front, without even A. Schell raising a dust behind him. Tux Soctery ror THe Prevention of Cruelty | toChildren should add to its claims on pub- lie esteom by formulating a law to limit the slaughter of the little ones through the care- less use of firecrackers on the Fourth of July. We fear the list of acc will furnish them with a complete aloguo of the things to be put down by the law, since parents and guardians exercise so little dis- cretion in the matter. Ir Is Fearrvut to contemplate the amount of misery that is hidden away in the tene- ment dens of New York. In these forlorn | abodes, without hope of relief, although | within hearing of the busy world without, «men, women and children die of starvation slowly waste away for want of nourishing | food until merciful death comes to their rescue. Such a scene, surrounded with-a double measure of horror, ferers were little children, was witnessed by a police officer yesterday morning in Wash- ington street. Four orphans, the oldest not more than cleven years of age, were found dying of starvation on the bare floor of their wretched apartment. They had not eaten anything since the previons Monday. ‘This is a centennial scene not laid down in tb) programme. it makes an awful tableau, because the suf- | entered into the wilderness, and who knew | of these hundred years we who have in- | ster, a tyrant, a corrupt man, a gorilla; and | | yet Lincoln's name shines in the same | galaxy as la Republic—we have not fallen from the | standard of the fath Khe Anniversary. The hundreth anniversary of American | independence will be celebrated with un- usual splendor and enthusiasm. His Ex- cellency Governor Tilden has pointed out to us that the result of this century is that we are drifting into the worst phase of the older nations. Something may be pardoned to a statesman who surveys the world from the vantage ground of a canvass for the Presidency, but the thoughts of the Ameri- can people, as they dwell upon the solemn and holy associations of this day, will be Governor. It was the tendency of Gover- nor Seward’s mind to take a cheerful view of national affuirs, and even in the darkest days We may be pardoned something of Governor Seward’s feeling on this Fourth of July. There are two ways in which to look at our anniversary. In men’s lives, as we come to memorable anniversaries, the disciplined soul is prone to inquiry and meditation. ‘What have Idone in all these years? What opportu. | nities have I wasted? What fortunes have I lost? What would I undo if I had to live it | all over again? What have I achieved, what failed to achieve? How best can I apply | these lessons and experiences to the work | that may still be in store?" All men have these moods of self-examination, and on days like this nations may also indulge them. It is well enough to shout over our anniver- sary. The cannon will roar, the bells will ring; there will be pageantry and oratory, song | and prayer, as becomes a patriotic Christian The celebration in Philadelphia | will be the most magnificent we have ever known in our country. All eyes turn to Philadelphia as the seat of independence, | and the enterprise and genius of many lands have contributed an exposition which in itself is a celebration of the anniversary. We shall do our share in New York, and it is | pleasant to notice that in these festivities our foreign citizens take even a more promi- 4 nent part than the Americans. To our for- | eign citizens liberty is a fact, an experience, | To our people it is a sentiment, which, con- sidering that we are not sentimental, we sometinies view with cynicism. Those to whom America has given an asylum, to whom citizenship means liberty in the fullest sense, are not those who despair of the Republic. To them liberty is a possession, and when they join with us in celebrating the Fourth of July they do so with something of tho fervor of the ancient Hebrews when they celebrated the escape from bondage, the forty years in the desert, the manna, the ar- rival in the land of promise and refuge and freedom. Our fathers, who acentury since people. the perils of the journey, looked at the Fourth of July with different eyes than our | own, just as the founder of a great estate is apt to husband his possessions more care- fully than the improvident heirs. It may be, therefore, that during the latter part herited liberty have not always been pru- dent in its enjoyment. As we look back | over the century we can see points where we have failed to carry out the designs of our fathers. Our government is not as demo- cratic as it was in the beginning. We lack the simplicity and sincerity of the fathers. We have surrendered the civil service, the municipal and State independence, which | were among the virtues of the earlier time, and which republicans in other lands now consider the vital principles of freedom. It is sometimes questioned if public and private virtue are at as high a standard as they were a hundred years ago. This is one of the questions which are always asked and never answered. The reality of virtue is | not seen in the ostentation and clamor of political life. A hundred years ago, and | General Washington was the centre of | as many scandals, as much intrigue dissatisfaction as General Grant is to-day. And yet what a figure Washington makes in _ history !—austere, serene, illustrious; a fixed star in the gal- | axy of fame, whose brightness will last while time endures. Only afew years, a very few years have passed since Lincoln was a mon- | and as much that of Washington, and we apotheosize him as though slander had never breathed upon his name. We havo little doubt that a hundred years from to-day some Governor will be as anxious as Governor Tilden to “reform the country,” and “bring the government back” to what it was under Lincoln and Grant. Itis hard, therefore, to say whether in public.and private virtue we are any better or any worse than our fathers. We have a political class which did not exist in the Revolutionary times—a class which makes This is a low class, from the fact that our best men have their careers to form, and they find noad vantage in politics. Consequently our elections gre controlled by the‘large body of men to whom politics is a profession, and the few able men who have | the skill to seize on this body and wield it | for their own ambition. This evil, which is the gravest in our system, is one that time and education will Edueation will teach every man of honor that he can no more neglect his vote or his duty at the polls than his note ina bank. We look with confidence to the eradication of this evil in the education of the people and the eleva- ticn of national tone which education always Apart from this it is quite trne that in public and private virtue, in the amenities and graces of life, in mercantile and scien- | tific achievements, in the spread of religion and the cultivation of a beneficent and | kindly foeling—in all that goes to strengthen | politics a busines eracicate. brings. S | We are not among those who have fears for the future of the Republic. Were it other- wise we should throw aside any ch feel- ings on this angust and memorable day. If any one event in this century shows that we have not fallen from the fathers it is the war for the Union. However we regard that war, whether from the South- ern or Northern side, it showed the posses- sion of the highest qualities of a free people. That war is far enough off for both sides to see that any other result than the integrity of the Union would have been a calamity. standard of our | necessary for the Union, that the time had | led the way to emancipation all over the | was “loyalty” in both wars. There is no such | | dence we became the ally and not the enemy | ment—all the | rupt States cannot have; and when Turkey | will What # saa, sad day this would be if instead of one Union, one flag, one confederation of States, if instead of one common memory we should celebrate our independence as a rent Republic! It wonld indeed be the Centennial of humiliation and shame, The world, which honors us in honoring the day, would mock at a lib- erty which ended in chaos. The generation which celebrates our Centennial is the gen- eration which tought this war. It is a war which no one—Northerner or Southerner— can view with humiliation. In all the quali- ties of soldierly valor and achievement the Southerner who lost showed as nobly as the Northerner who won. There is no better assurance of a continued Union than what will be seen in the Centennial legion, com- pozed of Northern and Southern soldiers, which will parade in Philadelphia to-day, under the command of celebrated generals | of the North and South. This legion is the emblem of a reconstructed Union, of a Union which rejoices in Grant and Lee, and which hereafter to all the world is a compact, united, proud Republic, defending liberty and championing republican institutions. It was a terrible price to pay, that civil war, but we are not sure, when we come to the second Centennial of our independence, that wise men will not see that such a war was come for us to go through the fires, and that in achieving emancipation at home we onl, globe. Let us then, for one day at least, look | day let there be no sound but that of rejoic- | ing. Time, in encircling the Republic with | its hundred years, has extinguished every | feeling but that of respect for our fatherland | and for the King who, in defending his empire and his crown, taught us how to defend our | Union. It is not for the men who fought from Manassas to Appomattox forasentiment to censure the King who fought from Lex. ington to Yorktown for a sentiment. The cry | feeling in this wide Republic. We see that | it was for the true greatness of the English race that there should be a separation of the nations. In its trye sense the Declaration of Independence was an event in the history of England. If we look at the English race to-day, not as divided by political and geo- graphical lines, but from its higher plane, we see how the Declaration of Independence was a new era in its greatness. The Eng- lish spirit ruled America when it declared itself free from the European empire. The policy involved in the Declaration of Inde- | pendence, and which England learned in | the surrender of Yorktown, has governed her empire ever since, and bears fruit in the new empires which we see in Australia, Asia and America. In declaring our indepen- of England. In that spirit let us celebrate | this anniversary, and in doing so let us trust that when Time decorates us with an- other century we shall be in the enjoyment of ahigher freedom ; that we shall feel as | we do now, that liberty and republicanism go hand in hand, and that the example of | America has borne fruit in an era of univer- sal freedom and peace. The War in Europe. In its present stage the war in Europe is | the fight of four small Christian States to gain their independence and to be free forever from all further political connection with the corrupt and rotten Ottoman Em- pire. The united population of these small States is about three millions of people, or about what the population of our own coun- try was when the thirteen colonies one hundred years ago began their memorable struggle against a metropolitan Power cer- tainly far stronger then than Turkey is now. | It is not, therefore, in its most naked possi- bility a hopeless struggle for the Christian States. Doubtless the Atlantic Ocean was our great ally, but for whose ample breadth and defending storms the patriotic por- tion of a people divided among them- selves might not have successfully resisted the nation whose soldiers won the battle of Blenheim. But the Servians, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Herzegovinans hove equivalent advan- | tages in the peculiar nature of their coun- try and their foe and their relations to Christian Europe. Turkey is a great Em- pire on paper. But if itis to conduct this war as war is conducted by civilized States its resources will not suffice for one short campaign. It has no money and no capa- city to borrow. It must therefore, if it is to fight at all, recur to the simple methods that prevailed when the Asiatio horsemen first came into that part of the world; and if its war is conducted on those principles the revolt of opinion throughout Europe will be such that the wealth of London will tlow into the Servian coffers, the army of inde- pendence will swarm with heroic volunteers from every Christian land, and the Porte will be informed by the great Powers that they cannot idly contemplate the scene while savages from Asia make a desert on the Danube. This pecuiiar difficulty in Turkey's position points to the inevitable issue of the conflict. Civilized warfare to compel the submission of revolted States implies money, trained armies, mod- ern implements, ® commissary depart- things, in short, that bank- finds that she has not the capacity to con- duct war as it is recognized by civilized nations, and turns instinctively to that barbarous fighting by which alone she could win, then her operations will be arrested by stronger hands. Russia certainly protest at the proper moment, snd there will be no Power to obstruct her protest. England, the pres- ent great opponent of the Russian policy, will then have changed her attitude, Already the popular opinion is declared ‘vith great vigor in England against the support of the Mohammedan power by the Ministry; and this opinion rises in a way and witha force that leaves little doubt that the Minis- try will be compelled to respect it or give way to men of different views. The gloomy article from the conservative Pall Mall Ga- cette, and Disraeli’s refusal in the House of Commons to furnish material for a debate, are recognitions of the growth of the anti- Mohammed sentiment. As the war at pres- _ent stands, England bas, as the Times re- marks, no excuse for interference. With the | condition were sunk in this*spontaneons | countenance of the British government | outburst of national joy at the completion in withdrawn from the Power at Constantinople we may hope to see all the outlying Slavic States gathered under one independent crown—grouped about the Servian throne, perhaps, as the States of Italy were about the House of Savoy. There seems no prospect for the pacification of Europe short of that result. Centennial Precautions Against Fire and Thieving. We have taken occasion several times re- cently to warn the authorities and the pub- lic against a grave danger, which, in the ab- sence of proper precautionary measures, is not only a possibility for our city during the Centennial celebration, but also a decided probability. New York is just now a vast tinder-box, filled in every corner with the most highly inflammable and explosive ma- terials and substances such as bunting, dra- peries, light woodwork, illuminating oils and every form of pyrotechnic composition, A | prolonged period of intensely hot and rain- less weather has dried the buildings until they have attained at the present time the highest degree of combustibility, and the city is swept by « high wind which is likely to continue during to-day and to-morrow, and which would quickly convert an insignifi- cant fire into a conflagration that»might de- your the entire metropolis. The high state of enthusiasm to which our people are aroused by the celebration of the Centen- | nial of American independence, will cause 4 | many to neglect the commonest precautions j chenrtally upon thi) eRe yeaa OnS | against firo which at other times they would deem indispensable to safety. To-day and to-night the air will be laden with burning | particles of matter from exploding fireworks, | which will readily communicate fire to the woodwork or other inflammable substances on which they may descend, While we applaud the patriotism which finds such a grand expressson in the spon- taneous rejoicings of an entire people over an event of almost unparalleled importance to civilization, we must repeat the warnings | we have already given of the dangers that will arise from any neglect of the precau- tions which we instinctively adopt at all other times when the public mind is unin- fluenced by extraordinary emotions. To guard against this danger of a great fire in New York, without seriously interfering with the exhibition of popular joy over the nation’s hundredth birthday, we need only the strictest vigilance to be intelligently and inoffensively exercised by the authori- | ties in every quarter of the city of New York. Under no pretence whatever, short of physi- cal disability, should any member of either the Police or Fire department be permitted to be absent from duty during the days of the celebration exercises. ‘I'he police should vigorously prevent the discharge of all kinds of projectile fireworks except in open spaces, and where the displays are conducted by persons qualified to direct them with safety. The superfluous enthusiasm of the young and old, which finds its general expression | in noise and glare, can fiad fitting vent in the unlimited firing of crackers and tor- pedoes, the burning of colored fires and other comparatively safe displays of pyro- techny. The members of the Fire Depart- ment should patrol the streets and carefully inspect the illuminations, giving warning where necessary to any householders or others who create a danger of fire by an incautious or improper arrangement of lights and draperies, bunting, &c. Apart from those productive of destructive fires, although dependent on such calamities for its measure of evil, is another danger which must not be overlooked. The break- ing out of an extensive fire would be the signal for the assemblage of all the danger- ous classes in oyr population, who would hail the calamity as presenting the much desired opportunity for plunder and outrage. Indeed, there is always a cer- tain danger that on occasions like the pres- ent one great fires might even be started by the thieves themselves in order to create a panic and give them achance to makea general raid on property throughout the city. Now, in view of this possibility and to main- tain public contidence, the militia regiments that will take part in the parades and other exercises should be held in constant readi- ness to suppress any attempt at an outbreak of the dangerous classes. It would not ne- cessitate any extraordinary performance of duty for our citizen soldiers if each regiment was represented at its armory during the celebration by at least o division of two companies at atime under arms. Each company would be relieved after four hours’ duty, while only two hours would be spent in active guard duty, one company relieving the other. We would thus have a sufficient forse always ready to suppress disorder and protect property and soadd another important element to the necessary precautions against fire and thiev- | ing during the Centennial celebration. Now York and Brooklyn Last Night. Both cities were lighted up with the torch | of patriotism, and the streets were fairly thronged with eager, pushing, but well or- dered crowds of citizens anxious to enjoy a full view of the remarkable scene that was transpiring around them. Early in the evening locomotion on foot or-by street car | became a tedious experiment which by no means promised success. The blocked street | railroad impeded the advance of the pedes- trian almostas much as that of the impa- tient rider. The crowds seemed to concen- trate on a street obstruction like bees around and upon a saucer of honey, thus rendering bad worse in the fullest sense of the expression. But the coup d'mil along the wide avenves illuminated by thousands of lanterns and torches, as well as by hundreds of colored fires, was magnificent, Dense masses of sightseers lined the side- walks, while from tho brilliantly lighted | | usin our national rejoicings, The blending constantly moving streams of humanity be- | windows more thousands gazed down on the low. All points of vantage, such as shed roots, posts and the branches of trees, were occupied by adventurous youths, who kept up a continuous yelling, or blowing of tin horns, or throwing lighted squibs on the passers’ by. A sense of joyous exultation pervaded the great body of the people, as if their souls were filled with the deepest ap- preciation of the great event they were cele- brating. All jealousies of origin, creed and ‘ | peace and prosperity of the first century ‘of the life of the American Republic.” The Divorce Lawyer. The murder of House, the divorce lawyer, by his wife, draws attention to the sinister means by which he amassed a fortune. His was not the business by which the ordinary divorce, with good and sufficient cause, was obtained in the usual manner. He stood as the trap into which wives or husbands could fall who, at their first quarrel, found an un- scrupulous wretch ready, by a jugglery of the laws of certain States, to get man and wife parted on short notice and at low rates, The following case, which came to light in 1871, will illustrate one of this ruffian’s favor- ite modes of obtaining a divorce:—A man named Randolph, who left his first wife in St. Louis and later on conceived a passion for another woman in New Jersey, sought the services of House to obtain a divorce. The job was done for a hundred dollars. Connecticut was chosen as the State whose indiarubber divorce law was to be taken ad- vantage of. On a certain day in December, 1870, two men, accompanied by a local law- yer of indifferent repute, appeared before Judge Miner in New Haven. One of the men swore he was Randolph, that he resided in the State and that he wanted a divorce. The other man testified to immoral conduct onthe part of the first Mrs. Randolph in Brooklyn. The divorce was granted, and the case would have ended like hundreds of others had not there been some money in the case. Randolph, on the strength of the bogus divorce, married his inamorata, and her stepfather obtained an injunction against the bride's fortune, and after a short time the gay Lothario found himself a prisoner, charged with bigamy. House was arrested in this city and taken to New Haven, where he was charged with subornation of perjury. He put the amount of bail de- manded in greenbacks in the District Attor- ney's hands, was released and gayly returned to New York to continue his old course of obtaining divorces ‘‘with secrecy and de- spatch.” By a system of agents, chosen from the ‘‘shysters” of the legal profession, he was enabled to procure decrees of divorce in Indiana, Illinois and Connecticut, the New York courts being too open and costly for his nefarious system. That out of all the cases in which he abused the laws of different States he was arrested but once, and then, as we have seen, slipped through the fingers of justice quite easily, may be accounted for by the fact that the State ofticials cared but little so they got their fees; that the perjurers he hired lett the neighbor- hood of their crime precipitately, and, above all, through that shamefacedness which counselled women to submit to a private wrong rather than fight an imputation on their chastity in the courts. His career calls attention to the necessity for uniform divorce laws through the States, with publicity for all cases, and something more than the oaths of two unknown parties being required to sever the bond of mar- riage. The amounc of wrong which this man wrought, the number of first quarrels which his devilish readiness extended into lifelong miseries, the number of gross creatures whose carnal appetites he ministered to, would cause a shudder to society if they could be recounted, and that the bullet | which ended his miserable life was fired by the hand of a woman he had picked up in his loathsome business will not cause a wide regret. About the circumstances of his death we have nothing to say now. It will be fora jury to decide how far the woman who shot him dead stands accountable to the law. She apparently belongs to the same blonde tigress type as Laura D. Fair, and will deserve but little of the sympathy which the flabby- minded who cannot see any thing but an angel behind a pretty face will be pretty sure to extend to her as she takes her seat by her counsel, looking as gentle as a Sunday school teacher at a strawberry festival. The Blending of Flags. ‘ One of the most pleasing features of the flag decorations in this metropolis and proba- bly throughout the cities of the Republic is the blending of the colors of other nations with ours, the precedence, of course, being given to tho ‘Stars and Stripes.” In almost any other country such a course would be in the highest degree offensive, but here it is an earnest tribute to the genius of our institu- tions from the brotherhood of men. Every nation under the sun has contributed to our population, and it is not surprising, there- fore, that every flag under heaven should be given to the breeze in the centennial flower of our national existence. It is ‘a sign of fraternity and international fellowship which could in no other way find such fit expression. ‘the German hangs the tricolor of the Empire side by side with Ireland’s green and the Irish. man places Erin's harp and the black eagle of German prowess under the folds of the ‘Star Spangled Banner.” Even the tricolor of France is litted up by German hands, and wherever our flag is seen thero isthe emblem of some other nationality which has helped at some time during the century to raise it up in honor and in pride, As if forgetting all the resentments of the past and accepting as a matter of joy the Declaration of Independence itself, even the red banner of St. George is given to the breeze as an emblem of peace, as one hundred years ago it was the emblem of war. In all this there is a theme for reflection which cannot be lightly passed over, America isa home for all the world and all the world has come to find a home in America, We ask no one to forget what he left behind him, but to bring even his flag with him and entwine it with ours, both when he rejoices ‘in ghe good fortune of the land of his birth and when he unites with of so many colors with our own is only a sign of our strength; but over all and above all, in the heart of every American by birth or adoption, the first place will always bo given to the ‘Stars and ‘Stripes;” to the banner which means freedom, peace and fraternity as no flag ever meant them before. In this spontaneous blending of the colors of all nations which is so conspicnons an elo- ment in our centennial is the surest sign of the glories and prosperity of the future which nas been vouchsafea to the American at any time since the national centennial began. ; Let Yale Also Meet the Foreign Stu- dent Oarsmen. Before the Yale crew disbands there is more work which they ought to do, more difficult, to be sure, than they had last Frie day, but bringing far more distinction if they face it bravely and win. Let the best four of the eight, probably Messrs. Kennedy, Cook, Wood and Kellogg, row in the Inter- national Amateur meeting at Saratoga on the 7th and 9th of next month. They have ample time in which to get ready, and, as they are said to purpose rowing in the ‘Open Amateur Fours” at the Centennial races in the last part of August, they ought, as will many of their rivals doubtless, to thus prove their ability at long-distance racing, as the Philadelphia contests are for only a mile and a half straightaway. It may turn out that, while in the shorter work on the Schuylkill, the Argo- nautas, Atalantas and some of the student crews may be enough for the strangers, the latter can row our oarsmen all down over the longer course at Saratoga. Yale's train- ing has been directly for long-distance work. We do not want America to win simply at Philadelphia ; we want her to win in every contest rowed on our waters in an honorable and becoming fight, and it would be the height of folly to hold back the best men we have and be beaten when with those men we could have won. If those men are the four named none would regret such a result more than they themselves. Beside the Centennial and Saratoga events above specified two other meetings are already arranged—the one on’ August 13, between Dublin’s undergraduate four— Ambrose, ‘Towers, Poole and Cowan— and fours from the winners of the University race, and that with Dublin's stronger or graduate team—Pentland, Hick- son, and the two Barringtons—a day or two later. Notwithstanding Yale's withdrawal from the College Rowing Association, let her now ask to be let into this race of August 13, or, if she will row as a graduate four, into the one a day or two later. Both are to be at Saratoga, and thus, either in all four, - or at least three, of the severe races in store | for our oarsmen with a foreign foe, Yale, bril- liant as she has already made the Ceatennial year in her aquatic performance, may within the coming few weeks win new. honors, which, when she afterward comes to weigh them, will be seen to bring her far more enduring fame than she won the other day on the Cone necticut. . Tux Oxp Gvarpv returned yesterday morning from its trip to Charleston, S. C., accompanied by the company of Boston “Tigers,” the Clinch Guard, of Augusta, Ga., and the Washington Light Intantry. All the organizations, after enjoying a break- fast in this city, proceededsto Philadelphia, where they take part in the grand Centen- nial parade in that city to-day. Now that North and South have determined to cross “the threshold of another age” together wa may consider that the glories of the depart- ing century are crowned with the sublime blessing of domestic peace, and this thought should make the nation strong te“ meet the future with the same faith in whiah it vanquished the past. A Brurat Savacze named McCarthy af tempted to murder his wife on Sunday night ‘by cutting her throat with a razor. He will probably b2,tried for an aggravated assault, and be sent to prison for a few months, and will then return to us ready for another piece of butchery. Such wretches should be permanently exiled from society as unfit to take any share in the blessings of a civib ization which they never can appreciate, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Biaine is worse. Thurman is fifty-seven. Florida boys stone mocking birds, Watering the streets produces sore throats. Talmage, when a boy, used to run a tanning mill, The undertakers aro preparing for after the Fourth, McKeo’s lawyer is in Washington, trying to secure his pardon. Senator Bayard telegraphod congratulations to Gow. ernor Tilden. ° Rubinstein always nods at Wieniawski when he sees him in the audience. Jobn Kelly says that Tilden can be pulled through the State of New York. Dr. Slade, the spirit medium, will soon be invest gated by the St. Petersburg scientists, Danbury News:—‘Low shoes and a watch chain im part an appearance of coolness to a man.” Goethe :—"Let_ memory fail so long as you can rely upon your judgment at a moment's notice.” Emerson :—“Enthusiasm ts the leaping lizhtning, not to be measured by the horso power of the understand- ing.” . George Eltot :— that whieh reveal fore it.”’ Longtellow:—“‘Men of genius are often dal! in so- ciety; as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth 1s only a stone." General Colquitt, who is a candidate for Governor of Georgia, insists that he does not pay for liquor while making his canvass. Rochester Democrat:—‘‘Indignant remark by Henry Watterson, at St. Louis, ‘Is old Cashing running thia Convention, or am 17?” y General G, T. Beauregard writes a letter in which he accuses the Count of Paris of cowardice at Harctaon'e Landing, Va, under McClellan, The spirits have said that one of the children ob Kate Fox, tho colebrated Rochester medium, is to be the means of turning ine Church of England to Spirit ‘ualism. 4 Major B. W. Hoxsoy, a representattve of the old John Minor Botts family, bas returned South, with the ides that it requires head work to eave Virginia from the denfocrats, The Chicago Tribune calls attention to the fact that Mr. Tilaen has immense organizing ability, and that he will apply 1t toward consummating election as strena- ously as he used it in achiering his nomination. Speaker pro tem. Milton Sayler, who took Mr. Cox's place, was born in Obio, and ts forty-five years old. Mis education ts classical, and he 1s a Cincinnati law. yer, who has been shelved for somebody else in the next campaign, Tuck the top of the sheet under your head, make the gTapovine twine as if you were skating, turn over on your right side, leave a small place for breathing, and tell the flies that if they want you to jecture to make arrangements with Jim Redpath, Washington Sar:—“The cause of the rethoval of HLT. Yaryan, chief of the Special Agency division of the Internal Revenue Bureau, it is stated, was his course iu procuring the dismissal of a special agent recommended by the President, a man crippiea in war, and whose character was above reproach.” Governor Hendricks’ position towsrd the nomira, ton is just this:—He will accept if the spycie resamp. tion clause of that act 18 repealed, and having beea as. sured that it wili be by the demoeratie House, a leuer may be looked for trom tim vetore jong. Bat it as stated farther that i! the act is net so repealed within two weeks or thereabouts he will desliaa, . “The most powerful of all beauty ir ItSeif after eympathy, not be ~