The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1876, Page 6

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M PARK THEATRE. aM. ate P. TRIPLE Si WEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 8. s morning th: are that the weather to-day will be fair. During the summer months the Heraup will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Noticzs to Country Newspgaurrs.— For prompt and regular delivery of the Henarn by Jast mail trains orders must be sent, direct to this office. Postage free. Wart Srreer Yxstrrpay.—Stocks were again inactive and prices irregular. Gold cpened at 111 7-8 and closed at 112. Money on call was supplied at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were steady. Gewerat Surnman has ordered twelve ad- ditional companies to Crook's command. The stronger the force the better, as the war against the Sioux must be short, sharp and decisive. Mr. Horack Marnarp since he became Minister to Turkey has not been much in the speech-making way, and the Fourth of July must have been a godsend to him in enabling him once more to exhibit his divine gift of speech. Tur Dominican Insvit to the American people in boarding the steamship Tybee and forcibly removing one of her passengers pught to be speedily and sternly punished. The half-clothed barbarians of St. Domingo must be taught that they cannot carry their petty political warfare to the deck of an American ship. A Goop Porst was made by Mr. Kernan In the Senate yesterday. It having been charged that the action of the House in re- ducing salaries in appropriation bills was Bullification and revolution Mr. Kernan said the country was prepared to stand a ‘ good deal of this kind of nullification and revolution. Tux Pacrric Rarroap was an all day theme in the House of Representatives : yesterday, and at the close of the debate Mr. Lawrence's bill, requiring the companies to create a sinking fund to reimburse the United States, was passed. Tho public money was lavished on these projects in the beginning, and it is about time means were devised for getting some of it back again. ‘Tue Kuevive is not so independent as people thought, and is sending his regi- ments to assist in upholding the Ottoman Empire. The Bey of Tunis, too, has in- formed the Porte that he will send a regi- ment to Constantinople. This is the most important news we have this morning from the East, and this is only important that the Bultan can still depend, in some degree at least, upon the most powerful of his satraps, Tene Is Honzstr still in the public ser- vice. Mr. New's accounts as Treasurer of the United States were found to be precisely as the books represented, and only a discrep- + ancy of less than five dollars was found in the amount of money on hand, this being caused by slight errors in making change. Mr. New will not require the aid of Congress to relieve him from the responsibilities of his position, and the country, in consequence, has more reason to regret his retirement. ‘Tax War Not to Do Ir was again illus- tated yesterday by twelve ycn'!emen repre- senting the Council of Political Reform, the Chamber of Commerce and other like asso- ciations, who were appointed tocxamine into the doings of the Dock Department, but who gravely resolved they were to do nothing an- tagonistic to the department. The commit- tee to do nothing is in a frir way of accom- plishing it, as until yesterday it has not had | » meeting since April 1, and has again ad- journed without day. 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We print this morning brilliant descrip- ; tive letters oonveying a circumstantial ac- count of the horrible slaughter on the Little Big Horn River, so faras the facts were as- certainable by a survey of the ground, scat- tered over with mute corpses, on the third | day after the battle. The body of Mr. Kel- | logg, the special correspondent of the Heraup, lay among them, an additional proof of the fidelity with which we are served by our agents when we send them to scenes of danger, and of the heroism which is so abundant in the profession of journal- ism. His cold brain and fingers, stiff in death, had no palpitating account to farnish of the ghastly scenes he witnessed before he | fell, and none of the poor dumb corpses that lay strewed around him could tell the story of that horrible day. ‘This is the first time in the last fifteen years, 80 | fruitful in exciting battles in both hemispheres, when we have been un- able to furnish a prompt and vivid de- | scription of the details of an engagement | furnished by the ready pens of eye-witnesses who watched the varying features of its | progress. All we know of this harrowing massacre is learned by an inspection of the dead. General Custer and his brave five companies advanced to the attack, wero | veiled in the smoke of murderous muskets, | and none escaped to tell the tale. This appalling tragedy is rendered, if pos- sible, more tragic by the gradual lifting of the curtain on that scene of horrors, When General Terry and General Gibbon, in their approach to the place of the massacre, dis- | covered Crow scouts swimming the river and | gave a signal to attract them, they had no sus- | picion of the fearful news which those dusky savages had to communicate. When they had told their story it was received with in- credulity. General Terry doubted if there had been a battle; but, if there had been one, he utterly disbelieved that its conse- | quences could have been so fatal. We desire our readers to note this incredulity, as we shall find occasion to recur to it. Terry and Gibbon continued to advance, and soon discovered evidence that the scouts | had not misinformed them respecting the fact of a battle. They marched over ground dotted with corpses, but even then they had no adequate conception of the horrible reality, although their minds were filled with dark forebodings. In this state of anxious suspense a messenger, who had run himself out of breath, came to them from Reno's intrenched position, where he had preserved the remnant of his part of the command, But even then they had buta dim perception of what had happened, for Reno himself was in utter ignorance of the fate of Custer and his five companies. He had parted from them, knowing that they were to make an attack, but he had had no tidings from them since. By the time he had joined and consulted Reno General | Terry must have prepared his mind for the worst; but even with this gradual un- folding of the tragedy the visit to the scene of the massacre must have filled him with horror and anguish. The mutilated and disfigured corpses which lay around him, with the still sky bending over a deep solitude where, three days before, the crack and flashing of rifles and the infernal yells | of infuriate, exulting savages had rendered | the wilderness vocal with horrors, must have made an impression never to be forgotten. The mysterious silence which reigned over those mutilated dead must have been more eloquent than any words, because «mid such surroundings conjecture, aided 1, ui. .. tion, must have drawn a more dreadful pic- ture of the battle than the tongues of the déad could have given had they been able to speak. All that we are ever likely to know of the immediate circumstances of the battle is mere inference from the position and ap- pearance of the corpses. A dark pall of mystery hangs over the scene and will hang forever. We will now recur to the incredulity, already noted, of General Terry when he first heard the news, and to the similar incredulity of General Sheridan, who was interviewed by one of our correspondents in Philadelphia on the same day the news was received. General Sheridan, who isa keen judge of such matters, quite dis- credited the account, and felt sure that if there had been a mishap it must have been magnified and exaggerated beyond all bounds of truth. We wish to fix particular attention on this strenuous disbelief of Generals Terry and Sheridan, because it has an important bearing on the question of blame and responsibility. A strong dis- position is manifested on the part of General Grant's military subordinates and favorites to make poor Custer a scapegoat and to charge this disaster to the ‘‘rashness” of that dashing soldier. We will not stop to inquire whether this stigma on the heroic dead is generous ; we confine ourselves to the question whether it is just. It is fortunate for his memory that the strong expressions of incredulity which we have noticed have been made so public, They are a complete protection to the reputation of the vigorous and daring Custer. Neither General Sher idan nor General Terry is a man to discredit important news on a mere whim or without strong reasons. Sheridan is in command of that department; Terry was in immediate command of the expedition. They are the two men who, above all others, are best qualified to judge, and have the best means of judging, this campaign against the Sioux. They planned it, and were bound to take | account of all obstacles. They knew Custer perfectly and intimately, and Sheridan, at least, was qualified to take his exact meas- | ure as a soldier. Why did they believe it impossible that he should have encountered such a defeat, and why were they so con- fident in their opinion, when separated by a distance of two thousand miles, that they at once formed the same opinion that news bearing every mark of authenticity was spurious? There is but one possible answer to this question: They had entirely underestimated the and numbers of the Sionx. This mis- judgment of the Strength of the enemy is the capital blunder of the campaign, and both Sheridan and Terry have put it out of their power to say that they did not share the mistake. Their strongly expressed in- credulity admits of no other explanation. | They deemed it impossible that Custer's strength | command should have been cut to pieces and annihilated, because it was quite be- yond the range of their calculations that he would be outnumbered in the proportion of four to one, which was actually the case. Custer no doubt shared their error; but it was their business and not his to be well in- formed respecting the strength of the enemy. They had supreme direction; he was a mere subordinate. If they had any sort of justification in believing that he could not be crushed by overwhelmingly superior numbers he was also justified in holding the same opinion. That this was their tenacious opinion is proved by the prompt and strong way in which they discredited the news when it reached them. ‘They could not believe that Custer could be badly beaten in an onset on any Indian force which he might fall in with. He cannot be justly blamed for sharing in and acting upon the view of his superior officers when one of those officers was the illustrious Sheridan. If he paid the penalty of a mistake it was as much their mistake as his. The deplorable truth is that President Grant is chiefly responsible for the appalling miscarriages which have attended this disas- trous campaign against the Sioux. The proper commander of this expedition was General Custer, unless General Sheridan chose to go in person to the scene of hostili- ties. Custer, next to Sheridan, was the ablest Indian fighter in the army, and his superior fitness was recognized in the orig- | inal intention to put him in command. After it had been decided, on grounds of merit, to put him in charge he was sub- penaed to Washington, against his will, to testify agninst Belknap, Like a man of honor he swore to the truth, and immediately thereafter President Grant, in a fit of petulance, degraded him from his command, and we behold the result in the most disastrous and inglorious cam- paign ever organized against the Indians. Grunt’s parasites will do their utmost to ex- culpate him, but the country will not over- look the fact that the soldier who had been selected on grounds of pre-eminent fitness was flung out to gratify a personal pique of the President. Is this kind of personal government to be perpetuated? Will the country indorse the sacrifice of important public interests to the malignant spite of the President against able officers? The people are anxious to learn the attitude of Governor Hayes toward Grant and Grantism. They await his letter of ac- ceptance with deep interest. Will he repu- diate Grantism? Will he have the courage, the moral eleva‘ion, the independence to out loose from and condemn the system of per- sonal government which has so long pre- vailed to the detriment of great interests, or will he cravenly swim with the stream? We shall soon know, and the Presidential election may turn on Mr. Hayes’ political intrepidity or his lack of it. Moore Versus Yaryan. Mr. W. B. Moore sends us a letter defend- ing himself and assailing Yaryan—a letter which we willingly print, notwithstanding its occasional bad temper and bad taste, be- cause it goes back of the immediate parties and lifts the curtain on a strange condition of things in General Grant's administration. | Mr. Moore's letter will not end the contro- versy between him and Yaryan, and we shall not undertake to settle the questions of veracity which have been raised between them. When all has been said on both sides we may be able to form a judgment. What is of most interest in the present stage of the controversy is the unseemly revela- tion that these men, Moore and Yar- yan, have been mere pawns in a po- litical game which the President and the late Secretary of the Treasury played against each other. It is difficult to believe the charges made by Mr. Moore ngainst his su- perior officers in the Treasury Department, but supposing them true they reflect as much discredit on President Grant as they do on Secretary Bristow. With so sharp and faithful a spy in the enemy's camp as this Mr. Moore the President must have had im- mediate knowledge of the electioneering manceuvres in the Treasury Department, and if the charges contained in Moore's present letter are true General Grant is inexcusable for his failure to remove Bristow several months ago. we are to acccpt them as credible—are a two- edged sword, cutting both ways and wound- ing Grant quite as severely as it does Bris- tow. If Bristow and Bluford Wilson did what is charged Grant was wholly inexcus- able for retaining such men in office ; for the President cannot escape responsibility for what he permits to be done in the depart- ments. Mr. Moore, who hails from Texas, alleges that in February Solicitor Wilson asked him to obtain a list of the Texas delegates to the Cincinnati Convention, which he did, through the assistance of Senator Hamilton, from that State. A few days later he met one Reinhart, a Texas man, who said he had been appointed on the secret service force, at the same time showing Moore a copy of the list of delegates which he had prepared at the request of Bluford Wilson, and in- forming Moore that he had private instruc- tions from Wilson to proceed to Texas and canvass the delegates in the interest of Bristow. Moore tried to get Re nhart retained for a few days to assist in searching a steamer suspected of smuggling, but his re- quest was not granted, and Reinhart pro- ceeded to Texas, wearing the cloak of a rey- enue agent to cover his secret political mis- sion in the interest of Bristow. Now, con- sidering that Moore has been a pet and pro- tégé of General Grant for several years, noth- ing is more unlikely than that he kept such « fact to himself when he had discovered it. It was, of course, made known to the Presi- dent, and the failure of the latter to rout outa nest of political conspirators from the Treasury Department was a grave derelic- | tion of duty, Both for General Grant's sake | and Mr. Bristow’s sake we are reluctant to credit the statements of Mr. Moore. Comprnoiten Green's TRencBaNT ARRAIGN- ment of the Park Commissioners for their action in regard to Tompkins square will re- ceive attention, It is shameful that a work of this kind once begun should be neglected so that the people will lose the benefit of the | Park for a whole year, So that Moore's statements—if - Custer’s Battle. Our special correspondence from the scene of the fierce zonflict on the Little Horn gives a vivid picture of the bloody and, from the first, hopeless conflict. In this recital we see a heroic commander followed to the death by two hundred and forty soldiers of his regiment not less heroic than himself, and all these lives, qualified to make splen- did the annals of our race, wasted in a mad battle with from four to five thousand say- ages not without the virtue of courage, and made daring in this case, apparently, by the consciousness of their overwhelming strength. In this battle the Little Horn River is a capital feature. On the left bank of that stream, at about fifteen miles from its con- fluence with the Big Horn, was the village of Sitting Bull. On that side the edge of the river is timbered, and between the river and the hills, for a distance of several miles, isa level and beautiful valley—a bottom land. On this valley was the village, peo- pled by upward of four thousand warriors. On the right, or opposite side, the river and the plain are dominated by a range of high hills or bluffs. In his approach Custer looked down upon the village from these blufis, and there divided for an assault on the position a force that, if combined, would have been unequal to the struggle. He placed three companies on these heights in reserve, sent Colonel Reno to the left to ford the stream above the village and attack from that side, while he moved along the heights én the right bank to cross the river further down and attack at the other extremity. Colonel Reno passed the stream as ordered, formed his line across the bottom land and advanced on the enemy. But his advance was fiercely resisted by the Indians in the hills on _ his left, and before he had _ reached the village he saw the imminent probability that he would be qut off from the reserve. He charged to keep open his communication with that force, Apparently this movement was not intended as a retreat, but a retreat it became; and in a few minutes Colonel Reno, instead of assailing the Indian village, was fighting a battle for life with forces that obstructed his retreat. His men fought their way to the ford, and there, crowded in the stream,were butchered by the Indian marks- men. Once more across the stream they were knocked over by the Indian rifles as they clambered the heights. Yet the larger num- ber escaped. But what was their position then? They had failed in their movement, had not co-operated with Custer, and had left him to bear alone the brunt of the whole battle. Reno's retreat permitted Sitting Bull to concentrate every man against Custer, and his fate was a natural consequence. He was annihilated, and then again the Sioux turned their attention to Reno, who meantime had fortified himself on the heights. They would have annihilated his force also, but their operations were cut short by the ad- vance of Gibbon, which our correspondent records in detail. Our Danger. Of the evils which bad government has brought upon the Republic, and which are a danger to the permanence of the Union, cor- ruption is one of the chief. If it could be destroyed by the removal of unfit men, by the impeachment of Beiknap or by sending a thousand thieving officials to jail, it would be a trifling danger. But the task is not so easily performed. Corruption is not the in- cident of an administration, which dies with it; it is a disease which is inherited, and our next President cannot hope to escape the consequences of Grant's weakness any more than an innocent child can escape constitu- tional predispositions imposed by consump- tive parents. This complicated evil of bar- gaining, plotting, robbing and degrading national trusts to personal ends, can only be expelled from the government by a long con- tinued effort. We are firm in the belief that if the corruption of the government as it has been ruled by Grant should be permitted to multiply upon itself a few years longer the downfall of the Republic would be as certain as the fall of the Roman Empire or the ruin of the Napoleonic dynasty. But this is not the only great danger which the gov- ernment has brought upon the Union. Cen- tralization of power at Washington is per- haps a more immediate cause of that jealousy, suspicion and fear which have les- sened the love of the people than even cor- ruption, The Union was not established for the purpose of ruling the whole country from the capital. Its objects and powers were clearly defined in the constitution. But there has been a policy of encroachment and usurpation. We would say to the next President, whoever he may be, ‘Take the heavy hand of the administration off the States.” There is no longer the pretext of the war for this interference with the sov- ereign parties to the national compact. It has prevented the pacification of the South, aroused the indignation of the North and threatens to be as pernicious in its influence in the West. Never until the unjust inter- ference with States and the tendency to cen- tralization is checked will the old, fond, en- thusiastic passion for the Union be restored ; and those who would depress that nobie sentiment are the enemies of Liberty herself. The leaders of both parties in this critical contest would do wisely to reflect upon the great changes in the condition of the coun- try. They will see the South with no other reason to dislike the Union, now that slavery is destroyed, than the mere memories of the war, which are fading, as the Stuart rebel- lions in England vanished from English politics and appeared in poetry and romance. They will see the West a giant power, which has no motive for distrust of the Union if the government does not interfere with the development of its prosperity. They will see the Pacific slope, a younger giant, grow- ing up by t! ide of its mighty brethren, rejoiced to maintain the Union for the glory of all, but uneasy under the fear of central- ized interference. They will see the East, wherein the Union had its birth, conscious of the fact that it is no Jonger a compact of the Atlantic seaboard, but a confederation of the continent. If they comprehend these changes they will know that the Union is not to be ruled with imperial sway from the capital, and that its dangers are, not what they wore in Wash- ington’s time, from without, but from within. The Cincinnati Convention gave these subjects no consideration, but Mr. Hayes has ample time to express his views in the canvass. But whatever may be discussed in the canvass the vital question is to be decided by the next administration. The fate of the American Union, for a hundred years, perhaps, de- pends upon what is done in the next four, and in all the work before us nothing is more important than the removal of corrup- tion by the slow, steady process of reform, and the destruction of centralization by an immediate change of policy. The Destructive Storm in Iowa. During the past few days the Western States, particularly Iowa, have been swept by a feartully destructive rain storm, which has deluged the lowlands and converted the smallest rivulets and streams into foam- ing torrents that sweep away everything ex- posed to their fary. The crops, which, up to the commencement of this disastrous change of weather, gave promise of rich har- vests and large profits to their owners, have, in many instances, been washed out of the ground or beaten by the violence of the wind and rain into utter ruin, as if an army had trampled the growing grain into the mire, Not only is the Western country suffering from a deluge, but it has also been torn by a tornado of extraordinary and fatal violence. ‘The latest accounts from Des Moines, Iowa, inform us that probably one hundred and fifty houses have been de- stroyed and many more seriously damaged in Madison county alone, ‘‘and that the destruction of crops, fences and ani- mals by Tuesday night’s storm was im- mense.” If the ravages caused by these terrible meteoric visitations were limited to the overturning of houses and the ruin of crops we could look at the condition of things as unfortunate and distressing but reparable; but when we read of the whole- sale loss of -life, the annihilation of entire families by the angry elements, then we learn to what an appalling extent this Western land has been scourged by the tempest. ‘The estimates vary, and are therefore unre- liable, as to the loss of life in Iowa, but there can be no doubt that it must be very great. It is reported that in Warren county, Iowa, alone, forty persons, mostly the wives and children of farmers, have lost their lives, and in Madison county some seven or eight more. The storm as such first manifested itself within the sphere of scientific observation in the southeastern corner of the State of Nebraska, where at Omaha, at Blair station, Washington county, and at Ashland, Saun- ders county, it proved exceedingly destrac- tive to property, but was attended with no fatal results except at the last-named place, where a man was killed by the lightning. Bursting into Iowa the storm swept through the centre of the State, devastating War- ren and Madison counties in the manner above described, and extending its influence far to the north of its central track, and as far to the south as Little Rock, Arkansas. Cedar Rapids suffered severely and Fort Madison, Lee county, was almost obliterated by the violent tempest. Dubuque was del- uged in turn, and every railroad and other bridge as well as many houses were swept away by the floods created by the enormous rainfall. But it was at Rockdale village that the most terrible and fatal force of the storm expended itself. he village, being built in a ravine, was entirely overwhelmed by the bursting of a mill dam located further up the stream on which the settle- ment stood. Every building was swept away and forty-two persons are miss- ing. Already thirty-three bodies have been recovered, but fears are entertained that the others are swept away into the Missouri. That such a terrible storm should burst on these States without any warning from the Signal Service Bureau is, at least, not creditable to the efficiency of that organ- ization. In glancing over the ‘‘probabilities” for the days preceding the storm we fail to find any prediction of its coming, or even of the possibility of its development This in- formation may have been in the possession of the Chief Officer at Washington, but that was of no service to the public. On July 2 the Hexatp predicted the approach of bad weather from the West, an area oflow barome- ter having manifested itself the previous day off the Californian coast, and appeared to be rapidly advancing. We announced this fact and fixed the day of the arrival of the low area on our local meridian as the fol- lowing Saturday (to-day). We farther pre- dicted violent winds in the West during the ensuing week. Now, it would seem that the people of Iowa and the Mississippi Valley must depend entirely on the Hrratp for their weather news, although an expen- sive organization at Washington is charged with the duty of sending out precautionary warnings. We would say to the Signal Bureau that it must not be too cautious in its predictions. It is better to cry “wolf” a hundred times in error than to allow the beast to steal unawares on us once. Tas Is a Fir Season for New York to ex- tend her hospitalities to the citizen soldiery of the South. One hundred years ago the Southern provinces were well represented in the little army which was defending the city against the approach of Lord Howe and Sir Henry Clinton. They were here when the Declaration of Independence was read to the troops on the 9th of July, 1776, and assisted in the subsequent battles of Brook- lyn Heights, Harlem and White Plains. Now they come as guests, to glory in the independence which their fathers and ours achieved on the fields of the Revolution, and the freemen of New York ought to make their brethren of the South doubly weloome at this time. Mr. Lor M. Morait was sworn in as Sec- retary of the Treasury yesterday evening, and during the day he made his last speech in the Senate, defending the Committee of Appropriations, of which he was chairman, in its course in regard to the differences with the House touching the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill. Evi- dently Mr. Senator Morrill did not wish the clerical force in the Treasury Department weakened during the time of Mr. Secretary Morrill, ESS NES 87 Dom Pedro. His Brazilian Majesty isa model of energy. Not even the terrible summer heat can deter him from pursuing actively his intelligent inquisition into our social and industrial condition, We do not believe that any visitor to our country has ever made himself so fully acquainted as His Majesty with our resources and out industries in so short a space of time. I the Emperor of Brazil works only half a hard at home when he is in office as he dow now, when he is supposed by a pleasant fice tion to he taking a vacation, he will have few idle hours to answer for. He certainly isa model, even tothe busy and energetic citizens of these United States, and many of our public men could take a leaf out of his book with advantage to themselves and their country. We hope sincerely that His Brazilian Majesty has been pleased with his visit. Our citizens will always have a warm welcome for him should he do us the honor of a second visit. When he leaves our shores he will carry with him the good will and respect of a republican people, who see in him a monarch truly desirous of advanc- ing the interests of his people, a friend to science and to liberal government. We wish His Majesty and his amiable consort a pleasant voyage and safe return to the land they rule and adorn. Creeping Ah: Governor Tilden will not do justice to hig reputation as a shrewd politician if he does not recognize the fact that Governor Hayea is stealing a march on him ip the opening of the Presidential campaign. The republix can candidate is making a modest but tell. ing tour through the country, has visited the Centennial Exhibition and bus made some sensible, and, above all, brief speeches, We do not know whether Mrs. Hayes accom- panies her husband, but if she does the peo- ple will see very handsome and amiable lady, who would grace the White House if she should be called to preside over it, and who, as the leader of Washington society, would overthrow the reign of shoddy and restore the grace and refinement of the ear- lier days of the Republic. Governor Tilden remains in Albany, and his friends, with very bad taste, send reports from that city stating how fully his time is occupied, and sneering covertly at Fourth of July pilgrimages to the Centennial. If he does not desire to see Governor Hayes creep shead Governor Tilden should start at once for Philadelphia, calling on Mr. Oswald Ot- tendorfer on his way, as 9 set off against his antagonist’s visit to Carl Schurz, and making speeches at appropriate points. If our Governor will by practice drill himself into making short, pointed addresses, which will not tire his audience, he may, in this respect at least, manage to keep up with Hayes, But he must not neglect this important preliminary, for if he indulges in his usual speeches he will not have time to make more than half a dozen of them before the day of election arrives. Tae Lawysns snp THE Courts have a happy knack of interfering with business of every kind by means of injunctions and. other annoyances. Some days ago Judge Donohue granted an injunction forbidding the payment of dividends by the Western Union Telegraph Company, and yesterday Judge Westbrook vacated it. It is not neces- sary to know anything about the merits of this particular case to know that the pro- ceedings are wrong at one end or the other, and the Bench and the Bar would both stand higher in public esteem if there was not such constant juggling with the law and the practice of the courts. Camp Mezrinas have become a popular institution, and to-day we print an account of some of those which have been or are to be held. Even if they fail to bear much spiritual fruit they are to be encouraged because of their encouragement of out door life. a, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Custer was proud. Jn England clerks are a drug, ‘The Spectator says that the English aro not a book- buying peopte. Tho Saturday Review says that Bret Harte’s long story is a failure. Speaker Kerr, who is at Rockbridge Alam Springs, Va., is convalescing. Tom Allen has arrived in Cincinnat! and has gom¢ into training ‘or his ight At Nashua, the other day, a boy of twenty-qne mar ried a woman of sixty-one. Ex-Mayor Opdyke, of New York, and ex-Chancellog Willamson, of New Jersey, are at Saratoga, General Schenck, of Emma mine notoriety, is the guest of Trenor W. Park, at North Bennington, Vt. They say that Murat Halstead makes an item out ef a man’s putting a charge of nigger head tobacco into a dudheen pipe. A live eagle, the emblem of American nationality, 1s a crook-necked, mean-looking animal that stands on its hind jegs. M. D. Conway:—“I heard Cobden say, toward the close of bis life, that there was another roform bill im John Bright yet.” Baring de Ringhoffer, Baron Herring-Frankensdort and Baron Klein-Wisenberg, of Austria, are at the Hotel Branswick, ‘There # an agreement within the democratic party that Mr. Hendricks isto be nominated for President four years hence. Mr, and Mrs. Carvalho Borges, Brazilian Minister, and Madame De Caster de Bolanger, of Brazil, are at the Bucgingham Hotel. The Marqais de Kochambean, of the French Cen- tennial Commission, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Pbil iphia, The Indians make a circular cut in the top of the head, take the hair with a twist between tro flogers, and, giving it a yank, have a scalp ina jifly. Ex-Unitea States Senator Traman Smith, who read the Declaration of Independence at Litchfield, Conn., on Tuesday, read it at the same place fifty years ago. On the day when Sitting Bull was born a buffalo pull sat down on the ground « short distance from the tent of that warrior, This circumstance named Sitting Bull. The petition sent from Nice, Cannes and Menton to the French Senators, asking that gambling be stopped in Mopaco, shows that many suicides follow losses at tables. Critics ougut not to say too much against Bayard Taylor. He bas written two or three poems that aro magnifice: Even for language look at his pocm on “The Neva,” in which be says— ——Thy golden domes remote Above the sea misi float, A correspondent irom Ems writes :—This little pare adise of a place is looking its loveliest; roses in profu- sion everywhere, biackbirds, thrushe: birds carolling im all directions; ore bands play. ing, gay company prowevading under the sweet. scented lime trees, the Emperors of Germany ane Russia taking their walks ebroad like ordinary inds. viduals, meeting with respectiul salutes, but not mobbed and chivied about as is the fate of royalty else where,” =