The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1876, Page 6

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ATRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLA at GTLMO1 2 At aire M = SESE GRAND CONCE TRIPLE 7, 1876, rts this morning ae probabilities are that the anther to-day will be warmer and Jair, with propanly) light rains loward evening. During the summer months the Henan will de sent vs subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage, Norrcze to Counrny Nrwspravens.— For ipt and regular delivery of the Hemaup | fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to is office, Postage jree. Wat Srezer YesTerpay. —The stock mar- ket was heavy and prices receded from 1-8 tol percent. Gold opened at 112 1-8, de- clined to 111 7-8 and closed at 112. Money ‘was supplied on call at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were gener- ally steady. TuE Inst Home Rut. LERS still clamor for amnesty to the Fenians: their bretiren on this side of the Atlantic took the moro effec- tual course of taking a batch of them out. We do not suppose that either mode of | attack is pleasing to Disraeli. “IN THE Fonrrnowr or THE Barrie” was where a brave man was put to be slaughtered ome thousands of years since because the head of the government found him incon- venient. Custer's fate may show how little ‘the world is changed. Tae Scene at Monmouth Park races yes- terday was exceedingly animated. Fine ‘weather and a good track helped the sport. ‘There were four well contested races, won by Donnybrook, Patience, Tom Ochiltree and Coronet. Weicuty ‘Lromtatiox occupied the atten- tion of the City Fathers yesterday, and in two instances the ‘‘yea” of the Board over- whelmed the “nay” of the Mayor. Reform movements have taken all the spirit out of the sessions of the Common Council nowa- days, and business is mighty dull in conse- quence. Tue INVESTIGATION 0 or ¥ UNCLE Dantex con- tinues to occupy the attention of expert ac- countants, and the wonderfui tangle of his financial affairs will some time or other be opened up to his creditors. He did not do | business like anybody else ; consequently the ordinary Wall street man is puzzled. Dow Cantos, who has been studying gue- rilla warfare in Mexico with a view to in- troducing the latest ‘modern improve- ments” when he goes back to the Basque provinces, has been also, it is stated, losing money at monte. Civilization is spreading in the revolutionary Republi Tae Domimton Jovnnatists now visiting New York have been courteously received by our civio and Post Office authorities. Press Club extended to them its fraternal welcome, and after enjoying to the fullest extent the pleasure of visiting the American metropolis they return once more to the land of the pine. Tur Rerorr or tax Nationa Rirtse As- goctaTIoN, & synopsis of which we pub- | lish to-day, shows the growth of the fine sport of rifle shooting in the public favor. Whis is shown particularly in the tabular statement contained in our article, which findicates a steady increase in the number of competitors in the matches requiring first class marksmanship. ‘Tux Porice Commissioners are to hold secret meetings in future. The audacious re- porter is to be particularly excluded from the sacred sessions. We would tremble for our liberties and those of our children but for the consoling thought that the minds which ‘talled the new police hat into ex- istence exhausted in the effort all their powers of evil, and we therefore feel safe, Tar Mexican Revouvtion has subsided into what may be termed a series of Presi- | dential primaries. Each little fight is a ward meeting, as it were, to elect delegates for or against President Lerdo. If the government forces win, the ward goes for Lerdo; if not, for Chaos, a ticket that runs all the time in Mexico, As the government have carried most of the wards the revolutionists have « fallen back upon a paradoxical consolation ‘snd say:—“The re-election of Lerdo will ware his overthrow.” This reminds one “\ghn Phoonix in his terrible Californian “ Having inserted his nose between his “y's teeth he drew him down to the \vh a tremondous effort and there s %. iy ‘The | | {or a man of extreme moral sensitiveness | Indian affairs is the illustrious Sheridan, | gence. | charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, | graded the brave Custer, putting him in so | and his army; the second fruit is seen in “blunder perpetrated by | when, in a fit of undignified wrath and The Slaught Near the Little Horn River—Death of General Custer. The appalling news which reached this | city at three o'clock yesterday morning and appeared in a later edition of the Heraup, and of which we give fuller details to-day, is of a character to ‘‘give us pause” and raise the inquiry whether the present war against the Sioux was wisely undertaken and well planned, We had reason to expect something better under a President who is a great soldier and has himself had experience in the Indian country, and whose most im- portant subordinate in connection with an old and successful fighter against the savages, charged with a general superin- tendence and direction of military affairs in the present theatre of hostilities. Matters have become serious that it may be necessary for General Sheridan him- self to go in person to the scene of action, for it is too evident that the campaign isa blunder and a muddle, if indeed it be not a disgrace. We cannot be- lieve that General Sheridan is directly re- sponsible for these shocking fiascos in his military department. He is o subordinate ofiicer, and if he has committed any fault chargeable with any neglect it is in too | implicit a deference to the wishes or orders | of President Grant, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. But it is unfortunate and de- | plorable that with an officer of General Sheridan’s consummate ability and special experience in command of that department the country has not had the advantage of his skill and efficiency. ‘Some one has blundered,” and there are strong grounds for ascribing the mismanagement to Presi- dent Grant himself. In a fit of pique or ; spite he degraded General Custer, and we behold the result in the bloody massacre near the Little Horn which sends a thrill of horror through the country. The brave Custer, the best Indian fighter | in the army next to Sheridan, may have been rash in the desperate encounter in which he and his three hundred comrades dared death and scalping and met their fate, but we must treat his memory with indul- Not the famous six hundred in the 80 or is when Boldly they rode, and wolly” Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of holl, performed a more signal act of uncalculating heroism than the dasuing Custer and his Seventh regiment of cavalry. The country will give him its admiration, its tears, its re- grets; it will pardon his error, if he commit- ted one. and inscribe his name in bright let- ters on the roll of fame. For the planning of this mismanaged, ill-starred campaign he was not responsible. It was at first in- | tended that he should command it, and in that case the details would have been committed to his discretion and experience. But in an evil hour the President, acting on an unworthy impulse, displaced and de- subordinate a position that the campaign lost the benefit of his counsels and direction. The result was a blundering and disjointed plan of operations ; its first fruit the sur- prise, repulse and retreat of General Crook the scalps of three hundred and fifteen fallen soldiers dripping with blood at the belts of Sioux warriors. Some one may have | blundered at the Little Horn ; but this was merely one consequence of the parent President Grant petulance, he degraded General Custer after the latter had given his testimony in the matter of the post-traderships in obedience to the subpeena of a committee of Congress, and did not thereupon require General Sheridan to take immediate direction of the Indian campaign. But it would have been too great a compliment to Custer to assume } that nobody but Sheridan could usefully re- place him, and so the President committed the expedition to incompetent hands, with | the result which we see. General Custer’s desperate hardihood in riding ‘‘into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” was a niutural consequence of the treatment he had received from the President. The honor of a soldier is ‘‘the immediate jewel of his heart.” When his honor is impugned, when a stigma is pub- licly set upon him, in the face of the whole country, by his commander-in-chief, he is subjected to a torture such as only a soldier | who ‘feels a stain like a wound” can fully ; understand. Civilians are sometimes tempted to smile at the excessive punctiliousness of | army officers about questions of precedence | and relative standing; but it must be consid- ered that honor and estimation are the chief | reward of the military class, and that it is to their eager craving for distinction that the world is indebted for the illustrious acts | of heroism which emblazon the pages of his- tory. Ifthe intense, excruciating smart of soldiers under disgrace be o fault it is a “failing which leans to virtue’s side.” General Custer was a man whose mental or- ganization made him peculiarly vulnerable | to the sting of disgrace. It is only an im- petuous man of quick and almost boiling sensibilities that can make such a bold, | dashing cavalry officer as General Custer | had shown himself to be, It is in the na- | ture of such a man to be elated by marks of honor and appreciation, and to be plunged into desperation and despair by a public stigma fixed upon him by a superior whose acts it is not permitted him to question. General Custer went into the campaign, from the expected command of which he had been harshly degraded, with his heart torn by a keen sense of injustice and with an apparent determination to retrieve his standing by some splendid act of successful daring or die the kind of death which hal- lows the memory of a soldier in the hearts | of his countrymen. Had he been in com- | mand of the campaign a sense of responsi- | bility would have restrained and tempered his impetuosity. But this brave soldier had been rendered desperate by ill usage, and when ‘‘death was set in one eye and honor | in the other” he courted a heroic death | rather than endure the disgrace which the | cold malignity of the President had at- | tempted to put upon him. It would be | | | ' | “Behold your hands! they are red with the | bihod of Guster’ qua bls bois. dauee’ haw: | Indian Strategy and Personal Gov- dred.” The sun of General Grant's administra- tion seems to be going down in an eclipse. Alike in its earlier and in its later stages, it is an expression of the personal humors of the President ; but his earlier humors were more amiable and kindly. So long as he remained the chief object of popular favor he had a hearty enjoyment of his position, and it seemed to be his wish to make every creature connected with him by blood, mar- riage or friendship the sharer of his good for- tune. This showed an inadequate sense of his great public trust, but if it was selfish 1t was an amiable selfishness. Since the dis- appointment of his cherished hopes of a third nomination his temper has undergone achange, The spirit of indulgent nepotism has been supplanted by a fell spirit of re- venge, and his chief delight seems to be in punishing all who have been in any way in- strumental in thwarting his hopes. Hoe de. graded poor Custer because Custer testified to the truth of the charges against Belknap. He insisted on the dismissal of Yaryan be- cause Yaryan was active in ferreting out the whiskey frauds which came so near lodg- ing Babcock in a penitentiary. He is taking steps for tho dismissal of other officers who assisted ex-Secretary Bristow in his success- | ful efforts to expose and punish official peculation and thereby made it im- possible for Grant to lay his hands for a third time on the coveted prize. Whether in good humor or in bad humor President Grant is equally selfish and equally oblivious to the obligations of his public trust; but his good-natured nepo- tism was not so discreditable as his ill- natured spleen and petulance against all who have obstructed the path of his ambition His kindness to the Dents scems better +uan his relentless malignity tow.2a a valuable and truthfal officer like Guster. President Grant. is ending in a worse spirit than he began, and the country, ac- cordingly, awaits with deep interest the let- ter of acveptance of Mr. Hayes. Will he indorse this administration, or will he boldly wash his hands of it? The citizens of this Republic are anxious to learn whether Grant- ism will end with the retirement of Grant, or whether Governor Hayes, if elected Presi- dent, will sail the ship by the same compass and the same political chart. The country will stand anything rather than a prolonged reign of Grantism. On this point Governor Hayes must leave the people in no doubt. If he lacks the courage or the sagacity or the independence to tell the country une- quivocally that he will put the administra- tion on a new course he will miss that ‘‘tide in the affairs of men” which leads on to for- tune. Practical Reform. The gentlemen who went to St. Louis to oppose Governor Tilden’s nomination, on the ground that he was a “bogus” reformer and did not prosecute rogues with sufficient vigor, will no doubt be gratified to find that the State Engineer, who has been working with the Governor's co-operation, has taken | a practical and important step toward the protection of the State Treasury against the raids of the late corrupt Canal Ring. He makes a report upon outstanding contracts, recommending a final disposition of each, the original amount or total repudiation and abandonment. These contracts were all entered into in the glorious old days of | unbalanced bids, when the Lords, Denni- sons, Beldens and Joltnsons ran the Canal Board and the contracts at the same time. The Engineer's recommen- dations cause havoc among these profitable jobs, and as they will no doubt be upheld in the courts, should litigation ensue, they aro likely to prove profitable to the tax- payers. The last Legislature appropriated four hundred thousand dollars to provide for a final settlement of these pending con- tracts, and the Governor's opponents appre- hended that a job might be covered up in the appropriation. But it now appears that the disposition made of them by the State En- gineer will not consume more than a fraction of the sum. The report slashes deeply into the pros- pective profits of the Ring. ‘Doc’ Denni- son on a thirty thousand dollar contract gets reduced one-half, and on a thirty-six thou- sand dollar contract receives only eight thousand. One of his dummies gets nine- teen thousand dollars for a fifty thousand dollar contract ; another is awarded four thousand dollars for sixteen thousand; and another, who got a contract for eighteen thousand dollars, is found to have earned just two hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. On one of Willard Johnson's contracts for fifty thousand dol- lars all payment is suspended on the ground of alleged fraud. Of course Mr. Dennison and Mr. Johnson were opposed to Tilden’s nomination at St. Louis ; but the Governor's present action will no doubt bring them | back into the ranks at the heels of John Kelly and his Tammany braves. Tux Tomrxins Squart Nvursaxcz.—The | present condition of Tompkins square isa disgrace to the city government. Enough money has been expended on the square at one time and another to have made it, under honest and capable management, one of the most attractive public grounds in the lower part of the city. It is now but little better than a plague spot, full of holes, where, ina wet season, stagnant water can accumulate, and an inviting field for the operations of footpads and other vicious characters. It is one of the lungs of the city, choked up with dust and filth, breeding disease in the sur- rounding neighborhood. Some person must be to blame for this, It would not take a | great amount of money to turn the wretched square into a pleasant green spot, where the inhabitants of the close tenement houses might drink in health and strength. The people are not parsimonious and would not begrudge the appropriation needed for that purpose. If we had a capable government we should have no such public nuisances as the Tompkins squares and Harlem flats of the city. Tus Exousn Liperars seem ' dnstote to ernment. With a professional soldier for President it might at least have been expected that where the operations of the government in- volved the use of the army it would have been directed intelligently. But it seems that we have not even this little compensa- tion for all the evils involved in the presence of a soldier at the head of the State. Acts of gross ignorance, politically, were forgiven the President by the nation because of the common recognition that he lacked political experience ; acts that violated all the pro- prieties of official life were condoned with the notion that nice morality was not pro- duced in camps. Since the weary catalogue of Presidential shortcomings has been traced throughout to that cause on what ground will the President's defenders rest his terri- ble blunderings in those points with which, as a soldier, he should be familiar? Grant is the author of the present Indian war. It is the inevitable result of his policy, a policy pursued in his usual way, with the obstinacy of an opaque brain, not penetra- ble by a ray of intelligence. It is his per- sonal creation, for none other could have de- fended and maintained the system of nurs- ing the Indian strength by the praying bri- gade and of exciting the Indian fury by the depredations of the rings which plundered the appropriations and left the Indians to starve. As early as April it was shown in the Heraxp that an Indian war was immi- nent from this cause. Indeed, the fact was notorious, and the only person indifferent to it, of all those whose duty it was to be inter- ested, was the stolid occupant of the Execn-., tive cha‘-. .G.ant's malign influence is as evident in | the conduct of tho hostilities as it was in the creation of the war. At the outset he did what lay in his power to degrade and dishonor the distinguished officer who is the most brilliant victim of the butchery and thereby to dishearten to some degree every other soldier. Custer was called to testify before a committee of Congress, It was not even optional whether he should’ appear— he could not help it. Before that committee he told what he knew of certain transactions involving the President's personal friends, and that in the White House was regarded as the unpardonable sin, and the gallant soldier was deprived of his command. Be- cause he told the truth in a matter of public concern he was made to feel the wrath of the man whose sworn duty it was to uphold and protect him in that course. ‘This point illustrates to what a degree the President interfered with the conduct of this campaign and so removed and relieved the responsibility of those who otherwise would be responsible. By that means it comes about that our troops are sent to fall into the same obvious traps that Indian warriors have prepared from time immemorial. Srook’s soldiers in 1876 full precisely as Braddock’s men did more than a century before, surprised by a painted foe, Crook, Terry and Gibbons are sent to operate against a common enemy almost without concert or comprehension of their rela- tion to one another. Sitting Bull and his warriors were found in a triangle bounded by the Yellowstone, the Tongue and the Big Horn rivers, and acrdss the one either by payment in full, a reduction of | open, Baiph of He. disteies | his HoRUy, Gite cumscribed by considerable streams runs the range of hills called the Panther Moun- tains. Wary Indian fighters could have caught the redoubtable Sioux there in his own trap, for he cotld not have passed out- ward in the presence of a vigilant force ; and if the commander who first found him had secured the concentration of the other forces on his the savages could have been driven to a point at which they would have been shut between the difficult Yellowstone and the troops. There the war could have been ended by an example that would have been salutary. But this would have needed concert and intelligent direction, which cannot be had, it seems, in any movement where the Presi- dent's influence is felt. Now there is an ex- pensive Indian war on foot. There will be a carnival for contractors, and the personal friends of men in high places hope to have one more chance at the Treasury before the end of this Presidential term. Santa An’ The death of Santa Annain the City of Mexico removes from the scene a once pic- | turesque figure, which for years had lin- gered superfiuous upon it. Such strange fascination attaches to men of his stemp that, although the rumors that came from West Indian Islands and later from the City of Mexico always spoke of the old man as hopelessly retired from public life, no one would have been surprised if he rose into notice once more with his wooden leg well to the front in a revolution ora grasp at the great power which again and soldier, emperor, anti-imperinlist, presi- dent, minister, dictator, prisoner and exile. | He tasted the sweets and the bitters of life in a way and on «a scale that few can picture and but one in « hundred millions can experience, yet he has been over twenty years ont of pubiic life. Citi- zens of New York can recall him by the time he lived on Staten Island and made strange overtures to and wild speeches for the Fe- nians. The cali ending of life that compassed thirty years of intense action is worthy of remark, preceded as it was by a long repose. Of course for years and years he plotted and struggled to get back to power, but if one could study | the gradual dropping of the strings of in- trigue from the old General's weakening hands, how friends fell away as the deepen- ing years crept on, a picture more touching in its exhibition of fallen ambition could be | drawn than even struck Shakespeare's fancy when he penned the speech \ of Wolsey, Mn, Beron again appeals for the turtle, which cannot tell the story of its suffering except through its agonizing eyes and dis- placed viscera. He finds great fault with a minister who testified that it was a real kindness to the turtle to turn it on its back and pierce its flippers. This minister, says Mr. Bergh, was, ‘‘strange to say, a Baptist.” atone for the action of the tory Ministry in | Clearly, unless a minister of this persuasion regard to the extradition laws by amending | favors cold water and plenty of it for turtles, hardly too severe to say to President Grant, them. This is a very pleasant mode of po- } as well as mortals, Mr. Bergh thinks he is a litical martyrdom, very doubtful character. | the cekcomna is not, however, Mr. Bérgh's motto. He cites scientific opinions to show that the “pinned back” turtle is unfit Jor human food. There is a strong point for him to work on. Let him but convince/the justices that there is a sickliness in the soup of the “‘pinned back” turtle ; that his steaks have something inducing epigastric disturb- ance in them, and, our word for it, he will not have to turn the batteries of his garcasin on experimenting divines who tie ld in their back tegerdens, Is Tammany in neon The Tammany organization is/a great stickler for party fidelity and rules out reb- els with an iron hand. ‘The ‘Discipline” Committee iz formed for the of in- vestigating the action and ing into the words of every suspected m of the General Committee, and its, or even grumblers, are dealt with ily and driven from the organization. doors of ‘Tammany were closed against Senator Mor- rissey because he ventured 0 oppose the reduction of+the city laborers” wages by the Tammany officials and aided in getting up a demonstration to denounce the starvation policy. Judge Hogan had to leave the or- ganization because he ‘‘kicked” against a Congressional carpet-bag nomination in his district before it was made, but when it was known to be on the leaders’ slate. in many of the districts the greater portions of the delegations were expelled from Tammany Hall and other names substituted in their places because they dared to question the |, wisdom of a dictator's policy and.to- express opinions of thsiz wii,” ‘Tammany cannot deny to the State organi- zation the same rights claimed for the city organization. The State organization is justified by Tammany precedents in dealing summarily with rebels and expelling them from the State councils. JoBn Kelly, Mr. Augustus Schell and their followers rebelled against the will of the State organization and of the whole democracy of the State ag represented at the Utica Convention when they went to St. Louis with a ruflianly gang to oppose, and, if possible, to defeat, the wishes of the democratic party unanimously expressed at that Convention. The treason was the more marked and repre- hensible from the fact that the Tammany rebels formed part of the Utica Convention, and acquiesced in the action of the party which they afterward opposed and did their best to defeat. It will be retributive justice should Kelly and his followers be ruled out of the next State Convention. Certainly if rebels, still cherishing treason to the demo- cratic ticket in their hearts, are allowed to make State nominations for the democratic party, while true and faithtul democrats are denied admission to the Convention, the result cannot fail to be disastrous to the democratic Presidential nominees, The Gallant Custers. There isa terrible pithiness in the curt despatch, ‘The whole Custer family died at { the head of their column;” and again, “General Custer, his two brothers, his nephew and brother-in-law were killed.” Never, perhaps, in American history, dida family ever offer up so many lives for the flag in a single engagement. We recall the Curiatii from Roman history and the Mac- cabees from the Hebrew. Beside them in heroic remembrance must stand the name of Custer. In that mad charge up the nar- row ravine, with the rocks above rainjng down lead upon the fated three hundred, with fire spouting from every bush ahead, with the wild, swarming horsemen circling along the heights like shrieking vultures waiting for the moment to swoop down and finish the bloody tale, every form, from pri- vate up to general, rises to heroic size, and the scene fixes itself indelibly upon the mind. ‘The Seventh fought like tigers,” | says the despatch ; yea, they died as grandly as Homer’s demigods. In the supreme mo- ment of carnage, as death’s relentless sweep gathered in the entire command, all dis- tinctions of name and rank were blended, but the family that ‘died atthe head of their column” will lead the throng when history recalls their deed. It was mad, it was rash, but, though ‘some one had blun- dered,” it was Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to, do or die. Success was beyond their grasp, so they died-—to a man. Tux Murer or Pourceman Scort by a gang of brutal rowdies in Brooklyn calls atten- tion to thet growing evil, the dangerous class. The utfortunate man seems to have given the ruffians who caused his death no greater cause for the murderous assault than an order to disperse from their point of as- sembiage; that is to say, the simple dis- times reason to complain that officers | of the law use their clubs or their pistols too | again he had held. He was successively | freely, but here is a case where too much forbearance on the part of a policeman cost him his life. By astrange neglect of duty the Coroner failed to procure an ante-mortem statement, end very little seems to be clearly known as to the authors of the mur- der, In order to cover up their neglect to secure reliable evidence from the only one likely to be able to give it the police have made regniar razzia on persons suspected of connection with the gang that committed the murder. It seems tous that with ordinary energy the real criminals could have been arrested before now. This razzia business is a poor substi- tute for an intelligent and prudent per- formance of pores duty. ux Brexwar Laracuwent is now pro- ceeding in its regular course before the United States Senate, and the testimony of the several witnesses for the prosecution is being taken. The defence rests on the technical objection as t# jurisdiction in the case, but objects to particular points of evi- dence damaging to thé accused. From present indications the trial of the ex-Secre- tary of War will not last very long, Ayoraer of those sad incidents of our daily life is brought under notice by the death of Mrs. Hannah Burahamwn, a medical student. The unfortunate woman's move- ments previous to her death seem to point | to an intention to commit suivide, but there is room for the more charitable belief that “No case, abuse | death may have resulted from the use of an- | as wi charge of his duty. The public have some- | 7, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. | | esthetics, rendered necessary by an acute disease from which she suffered. The Butchery a Foregone Coneluce ston. The lamentable result of poor Custer’s attack on the Sioux was foreseen, by the Heratp at least, ever since we heard what disposition General Terry was making of his forces—a disposition which, for want of in- formation of the result of the battle of Rosebud Creek, he subsequently saw no rea- son to change. Independent, however, of that battle, the plan was faulty and hazard- ous to the last degree. In view of that bat- tle a fight with one of Terry's weak col- umns Simply meant butchery. The follow- ing extract from a Heratp editorial of June 27, or nine days in advance of the news, will give some measure of how small we deemed Custer's chance of escape :— “We should, indeed, much prefer this [Sitting Bull retiring out of Custer’s way] to have taken place than that the redoubt- able Indian, with his three thousand war- tiors posted in a chosen position, should fall in with either of the flying columns into which Terry proposed to split up hig com- mand and seek the Indians on the Rosebud, although one was to be led by the gallant Custer. Custer, with nine companies, after scouting up Tongue River, was to strike across country to the Rosebud, where, about the 21st, he would first learn of the fight of the 17th. ‘Terry, with seven companies, Wad’t march to meet Custer, and if they have suc- ceatvet: in making 4 junction there will be some chance of coping successfully with Sitting Bull should they strike his trail. Until we learn the result of the splitting of Terry's command we must await the news with anxiety, not unmingled with trepida- tion. When Crook, with thirteen hundred men, was unable to follow up a fight with Sitting Bull, we may well be anxious over the fate of either of Terry’s detachments, numbering less than seven hundred men, if they should meet the Sioux single handed.” Even as we wrote the above lines the gal~ lant Custer lay dead in the Little Horn canyon, his command cut to pieces—a life worth a whole tribe of Sioux laid down upon the altar ofan incompetency in the higher command unworthy of a militia captain in his first fortnight’s campaign. ‘- Dom Pepro aNp THE GEOGRAPHICAL Soe crery.—The Geographical Society give a re: ception ‘on Monday evening, at Chickering Hall, to Dom Pedro. There will be present a distinguished array of men, conspicuous in one walk or another, including Dr. Peter- mann, the great geographer of Gotha, Ger- many ; Professor Nordenskiold, the Arctic explorer, of Stockholm, and Dr, Berendt, of Guatemala. The latter gentleman will read ashort paper on the geographical dis- tribution of the ancient civilizations of Cen- tral America—a subject on which he is the highest authority now living, Short ad- dresses will be made by the President, Chief Justice Daly, Rev. Dr. Adams, Bayard Tays ‘ lor and Dr. Hayes. Tue: Turxise Wan is experiencing a lull since the victory of the Moslems at Saitechar, near the Bulgarian frontier. This is, as we have stated, Servia’s weak spot, the country there being open to an invading army and the Turks having the advantage of drawing their supplies by the Lower Danube. Rou- mania, it has been rumored, is gravitating toward a conflict with the Porte. This, if true, is highly important, for the entry of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern into the fray will mean Germany on the side of Russia. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Brot Harte carries a jaunty little satchel. Now is the time to twis: red currants in a towel, Racing is losing caste as a society sport in England Hon. Jobn Forsyth, of Mobile, is merry for Tilden Storey, of the Chicago Times, believes in Spiritual. ism. Victor Hugo is thickset, and he hears words in the ‘waves, The man who can get up a new style of flag will have a premium. Mr. R. L. Stuart, formerly the sugar refiner, 1s # Saratoga. Emerson can’t spare much of bis time tothe animad of human kind. Commodore Garrison is at Saratoga. Judge Hiltod also is at Saratoga, Senator Jones’ baby is sick at Deer Park, a reson for Washingtqnians. Along the Georgia seashoro turtles crawl up and aei the young green corn. Wait Waitman cats oatmeal and milk and wishos he had soft shell crabs. M. Rajon 1s executing a portrait of Carlyle, whieh will be engraved on steel. Carlyle always sits in the back yard of bis Londos house while he smokes that clay pipe. Joseph Medill, in bis recipe for cocoanut, pie, putt one-halt a cup of cocoanut to one cup of mie. Sutro’s tunnel is likely to be « success, bat the law is likely to cheat persistent Sutro out of his rights, Coliege students, both male and female, are serving rs in the White Mountain hotels this summer. In New Hampshire, the other day, a bear with a trap on one foot walked inio another trap with the other foot, in Warren. St, Louis says that Chicago is a “fast” city, Chicage says that St. Louw 1s “‘slow.’’ Gentlemen, mayhag there ig something in climate. The studs presented to Marshal MacMahon by the Emperor of Morocco have been turned over by the President to the State stables. iu a French novel it 1s said of aman who has gone out to get a cigar and bo has been gone eighteen years, that he is quite might, ‘*because he wants to chooses good one.’? Professur Seelye wants to go back to his college chair, but his constituents want him to go back to Congress. Iik2 a good little poiitician he recognizes the constituents aud not the chair, When the democrats wero vot in Congressional pewer John Young Brown, of Kentucky, made a large impority fuss; now that they are in power he sinks out of sight’ A majority may kill a politician. Whitehall 7imes:—‘A Boston taiior has had his bill. heads stamped with a picture of a torget-me-not This is all right as long a8 customers bave avemone.”” Nor. ristown Herald: —“Yes, but these dandy lions are apt to lilac blyzes. oD. R.—Sr. Tiden does not drop down the lid of one eye because be used to wear » watchmaker’s glass in lis youth. It 1s only away ho has of ehowing you that he can wink at you if he wants to, The doctors Bay it 1s a sign of paralysis. “Bill Sharon, the Bonanza miner, is fifty-five, and, le he studied iaw with Stanton, he was always a sort of agent for the Bank of California until his re. cent independent connection with the mines. Sharon {s 4 modest man in store clothes, The Mexicans of Stockton, Cal, said that the flag captured froin tho Mexicans ought uot to be displayed en the Fourth of July. ‘The Mexicans said iat in the fight between an American aud a Mexican tlag bearer an Indian rushod im amt saved the fing to the American, There wore lewer casaalties ow the Contenuial Fourth than on any previous occasion, That verrible expo- neut of suicide, arson and homicide-- that he apparently cave up the joh 1m dasaas