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From our gre that the weather to-day will be very warm and fair, with, possibly, rain in the evening. reports this morning the probabilities During the summer months the Herat will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of dicenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Notice to Counray NrwspsaLers.—For prompt and reqular delivery of the Hmranp by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. Wan Streer een —The stock mar- ket was dull but firm. The principal deal- ings were in Lake Shore and Western Union. Gold was steady at 112. Money on call loaned at 2 and 21-2 per cent. Government and railroad bonds were firm. Foreign ex- change steady. One Huxprep Yzans Aco this evening, Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., was grandly illuminated and independence proclaimed amid the firing of musketry. Tur Ixpray’s Game.—When we want sport we go with a shotgun for partridges or duck. If we want better game we go farther West to slay buffalo with a revolver orrifle. But when the Indian wants sport he goes for the white man, whom he looks upon as his legitimate game. Tre Stck Caripren’s Sanrrartum deserves lo he liberally sustained by our charitable titizens. to suffering little ones whose homes in the hot city tenements afford them neither the one nor the other. We publish in to-day’s Herat a list of subscriptions already sent in and will be glad to see the list grow in length week after week during the summer. Waits or Error.—These instraments for reopening the cases of criminals regularly convicted and sentenced for serious offences are very frequently obtained by the convict's counsel, even after a considerable part of the term of imprisonment of his client has been served. The granting of such orders, which reflect on the justice of the court that has tried the offender, suggests something wrong in the administration of justice, for the trial that terminates with conviction ought to be conducted so that no doubts can arise after- ward that strict justice has been done. Tus Nxcrors aNp THE Wuirss are having another émewte in the South, this time at Hamburg, opposite Atlanta, Ga. silly thing to drag # lot of negroes before a court for obstructing the roads when they were merely playing soldier on the Fourth of July, and it is thoroughly reprehensible that armed whites should support unasked the power of the magistrate while the cause was on trial. The negroes cannot be justi- fied in their petty warfare any more than the whites; but the aflair seems to indicate that in parts of the South there is one line of conduct for the blacks and another for the Caucasians. Tue Lavon Qvestiox tn ExGranp has again become one of serious importance. Trade must be depressed indeed when not only reduced wages and reduced time, but a limit of four working days in the week, are fctermined upon. Whether such reductions | are justifiable or not their effects cannot fail Jo be most deplorable. At the present rates jhe condition of English operatives is not a happy lot. With reduced wages, and only four days in the week to earn even this, no fate could be much worse than is likely to | Depressed as everything is | befall them. with us we have not yet fallen so low as the rondition of things in England. aN Querr Wri Case is now being con- | tested in Rockland county, in which the syidence is so diametrically opposed that the Surrogate is puzzied. An old man dies, leaving a considerable property. He is a paralytic and incompetent to manage his own affairs by reason of mental derange- ment. He is lying sick to death at his son’s house in Rockland county on a certain day, and attended there, and while in that con- dition, by an eminent physician. Yet a claimant for the property, in no way related to the deceased, presents a will for probate, which he alleges was executed by the tes- tator on the cermin day above referred to, and ina beer saloon in Fulton street, New It will afford relief and enjoyment | It seems a | | | the Yellowstone region as a disaster not | | arms toa successful result. | terminate York. This will devises all the property | away to awoman who is a relative of the claimant, but net of the testator or his | family. The claim is, to say the least, very attanuated. | NEW — YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Indian Question—Let Us End It Now and Forever. The country looks upon the massacre in without its compensations, if it leads us to taxe hold of the Indian question with cour- | General Sheridan writes a despatch to General Sherman, in which he asksffor a lit- tle time, and says that everything will be straightened out. He thinks we have men enough in the Sioux region, with the rein- | forcements sent out t» Crook, to prevent any recurrence of disaster and push our He does not favor any enlistment of volunteer troops, and thinks we should have two posts in the Sioux country. It will be seen from the despatch of Sheridan that Sherman defers to him as to the conduct of the Indian war. This is proper, as Sheridan is an officer of high rank and _ experience, who served for « long time in the Indian country and knows how to deal with savages. The fact that a soldier who has won so many victories as Sheridan should now snffer two defeats in one campaign— the repulse of Crook and the massacre of Custer—will put him on his mettle. For the first time in many years the country is brought into the presence of the Indian question. We have had no serious Indian wars fora long time. Ifwe had they would have made little impression upon a genera- tion which has known the war of the rebel- lion and the stupendous campaigns in Europe. The Modoc war was a small affair, with Indians who were partly civilized, and it assumed national importance from the as- sassination of a great commander. The war in the Northwest is of a different character. We are in the presence of a controversy with the most important of the Indian tribes—the last of the great tribes who once ruled this continent. It has long been known by those expe- rienced in Indian affairs that the Sioux tribes were the bravest and the most powerful Indians on the continent. ‘They are a hardier and more intelligent race than their fellows who live in the lower latitudes, They control a rich, wide territory. In dealing with some of their chiefs, like Red Cloud, | we found them possessing a high order of intelligence. It is strange that an officer as gifted and experienced as Sheridan should underrate this foe. Clearly from thus un- derrating him has come our disasters. If Sheridan or Sherman had dealt with our friends of the Confederacy as they do with Sitting Bull they would never have triumphed. The cardinal mistake of this business is in the underrating of Indian power. That was seen in the defeat of Crook—one of our most famous Indian fighters—and later in the massacre of Custer and his command. It is clear that our commanders, all of them, have misun- derstood this Indian business. The fact that Sheridan should be sending reintorcements with so much energy proves that he, too, has reached the same conclusion. A careful reading of our letters from the Indian country, of all the reports we have had from the commanders, shows that we have been treading on delicate ground in the whole business. We have never since we entered this Yellowstone region been in a position to do anything with the Indians, The only value we can see in the orders of Sheridan is that it puts Terry out of the danger of a surprise and destruction. But it gives us | no assurance of a victorious advance and the triumphant end of the war. We should take up this Indian question and solveit. As a matter of economy we lose more money in these small, teasing, widely spread, irritating Indian wars than would pay fora dozen thorough campaigns. We have an Indian Bureau, a military organiza- tion and a half dozen Indian rings about Washington, all of which costs us far more than any campaign. The true way is to take the whole business in hand and end it in a campaign. We have paid out many millions in various ways since the Indian question took shape. Now let us have one grand, con- summate campaign. Let Sheridan go to the front and take command. Let us have a policy of our own, a new policy. Let us treat the Indian either as an enemy or as a friend—either as a savage or a haman being. age. Let us either exterminate or capture him. We now do neither. We have | no policy, and the result is that | every summer we have massacres, outbreaks, | Indian wars. Now we propose to have one | Indian war and one Indian peace. After | this war, as we would wage it, there would be peace. Let us declare that the Indian and the white man have the same rights. Let us do away with this moonshine about the Indians having rights as the owners of the soil which justify us in giving over thousands of square miles as reservations in which they may hunt. We have not more than three hundred thousand Indians within the | borders of the Republic. This is less than the population of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is | content to live on a few square miles— there to in peace, Yet three | hundred thousand Indians demand more | space than the German Empire. We have encouraged these exactions because we have dealt with the Indian in a sentimental way; because we have had plenty of land and could spare it; becauso we really did not care about the question and allowed it to go by default; because there has always been a gang of swindlers who lived on Indian wars and favored every policy that looked like war. Now that the whole heart of the nation is live j grounds of religion. turned toward the Indian country, and the question assumes the magnitude it possessed | in Osceola and Tecumseh times; now, when the nation mourns the murdered Custer and | his destroyed command; now is the time to | take up this Indian problem and settle it. | Let General Sheridan go to the front, and | let us give him troops enough to ex- or capture the Sioux. Let | an end to these Indian immunities. These wide, rich dominions | should be open to civilization. The Black Hills, the Yellowstone, the waters of the Republican, the Platte valley—all should be as free to emigration and settlement as Min- nesota or Arkansas, We do not counsel any passionate policy of vengeance. Heaven | knows how much we have wronged these | Indians and how much we have provoked them, But all that is past. The one thing | now to do is to take up this question and | us pat — | settte it. Let us have peace in the Territo- ries and possession there. If the Indian will not submit to civilization let us cage him as we would a tiger or a wolf. The country will sustain any policy that ends the Indian business, and if it could be announced that Sheridan, with fifty or a hundred thou- sand men, was about to enter the Indian country the announcement would rejoice the people. A Lesson for the Time. The story which we print this morning of the reading of the Declaration of Independ- ence to the American army in this city one hundred years ago is not alone interesting as an epitome of history appropriate to this anniversary, but it is replete with one of the highest lessons which history teiches. At that day every American by birth was not an American in feeling, and sectional jealousies were as bitter and sectional bickerings as loud as they have been at any time since. The gay Pennsylvanian contemned the psalm singing New Englander and Smallwood’s maccaroni battalion scoffed at the homespun garb of the Yankee ploughboys. In this ety, too, wealth and fashion and beauty in- clined toward royalty, and loyalty to the crown was even more common than loyalty to freedom. The publication of the Dec- laration of Independence, instead of inspir- ing the people with the spirit of nationality, decided many of the wavering in favor of the royal cause, and sent many recruits to the King. What mattered the enthusiasm of the few hot-headed lads who destroyed the King’s statue in the Bowling Green, when the fiat of independence called hundreds of ‘cow boys” into existence and gave them the proud DeLancey as their chief? . The immediate effect of the Declaration of Inde- pendence was hurtful, and in the hurt it | wrought to the cause of which it was the exponent is a lesson we can learn with profit. The mistake of this age is to under- value itself, its integrity, its worth and its patriotism, while it overvalues the past. We have no disposition to underestimate either the achievements or the patriot- ism of the Revolutionary epoch, but if the divided sentiments of the people, the treason in many American households, the feverish and anxious watching for the enemy to bid him welcome, the frequent betrayals of trust and duty and country, the intem- perate bickerings in camp and council, the thousand and one weaknesses which marked this day one hundred years ago, have any meaning, any lesson for us, it is that we have not lost ground since the time of our Revolutionary fathers, have not grown worse, or less patriotic, than they, and that liberty is as safe in our hands as it was in thgirs. The Life of a Savage. In another part of the Heraup an uncouth drawing of two Indians on horseback, one armed with a gun, the other witha lance, and the effigy of a white man before the horse, will awaken the curiosity of our read- ers until they have read the accompanying explanation. It is the story of the killing of a soldier by Sitting Bull. The book from which this is taken contains fifty-five simi- lar drawings, each recounting some deed of Ddloodshed, cruelty, thet or inhumanity. These make up the life of the model savage whom our philanthropists love to feed, the child of nature whom the Indian Ring is never weary of praising and swindling. It adds a pang to the bitterness of the death of the gallant Custer and his heroic command that they fellat the hands of such a savage, in whom everything that is cruel and vicious is a matter of ostentation and pride. The picture tells the story of the Irreconcilables of the frontier in its few rude touches. Contact with civilization can only come to them atthe mouth of the musket. However they may come to the agencies to be fed, to get blankets, their hearts are only thrilled with joy at tales of blood. From the lancing of a Crow squaw to the scalping of a soldier, whatever is cruel becomes brave in their eyes. No record is made of the kindly or the good; it is only the base or the brutal that they think worthy of telling. Such are the wild, unformed, beings, great only in rascality, whom we are called upon to reduce in their mountain fast- nesses, or it may be to exterminate, There is nothing Arcadian in their savagery. What they have learned of civil- ization is better how to kill. There is no room here for discussing whether the rough- shod march of our civilization has not made arace of simple savages a race of savage demons; but we do know that in number- less instances they have opposed a stolid scorn to efforts at their advancement, and, rejecting the ways of civilization, turned again and again to the wild, rather than, as General Sherman said the other day at West Point, ‘‘earn their bread by the sweat of their brow.” Generar Haw.ey AND THE Suypay QuEs- tion. —It is now settled that the Centennial Exhibition is not to be opened on Sundays, and that many thousands of people are to be thus deprived of profiting by the splendid display. The Commissioners and General Joseph Hawley especially are responsible for this mistake. General Hawley rested his opposition to opening the Exhibition upon He believed “in the old-fashioned way of stopping on Saturday night and waiting till Monday morning, and this had been established by all our laws and the usages of the people. He would hold to the traditional observance of the Sabbath, regarding the matter as one of over- whelming importance to the character of the people.” We should like to ask General Hawley if he has not sanctioned the visits of Dom Pedro and Prince Oscar and their com- panions to the Exhibition on Sund by what principle of right or re | grants privileges to foreign monarchs that he refuses to American citizens? Sea Curr Camp Merrina opened last evening with a large delegation of our New York clergy in charge. Devotion will be pos- sible when the devotee is fanned by the cooling breezes and inspired with thoughts of heaven by the beauties of his surroundings on earth, sea have | | What It Costs to Gevern New York. In 1875 the total amount raised in this city from its 1,000,000 of inhabitants from taxes and other sources, for all purposes, was $36,367,744 75, or $36 36 per capita. The expenses forthe municipal govern- ment of London, with a population of not less than 4,000,000, for the official year end- ing in 1873, amounted to £7,038,844, which, at the rate of fourteen per cent premium, is $40,121,410 80 in our currency, or $10 03 per capita. The Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments have recently made a state- ment to the Board of Aldermen, sitting as a Board of Supervisors, of the valuation of taxable property in this city and county for 1876—he total for real and personal property being $1,111,054,343, as against $1,100,943, 699 in 1875, showing an increase of $10,110,644, the major part of which in- crease—namely, $8,784,620—falls on real estate, to wit:— Total real estate valuations for 1876. Total real estate valuations for 1875. Increase from 1875 to 1876........... eee The greatest increase in any one ward— $3,114,500—has been established in the Nineteenth ward, which is bounded north by Eighty-sixth street, east by East River, south by Fortieth street, west by Sixth ave- nue. In point of fact there is not one inch of ground in this or any other uptown ward but what has declined steadily in value during the last three years, and yet the valu- ations are substantially the same as they were in 1873, with the exception of where they have been increased. In 1873 the rate of tax was two and a half per cent, $2 50 on $100. In 1874 it was $2 80 on $100; in 1875 it was $2 94 on $100. The rate for the pres ont year is not yet fixed. Meantime the amount of taxes imposed by the Board of Supervisors has increased from $28,228,490 57 in 1873 to $36,367,744 75 in 1875, an increase of $8,784,620 in two years ; and yet that eminent statesman, William M. Tweed, had exhausted his public usefulness prior to 1873. Only the very rich have been able to bear up under the crushing burdens so wantonly imposed upon vacant real es- tate in this city. Thousands of industrious poor who had invested the savings of years in the purchase of an uptown lot, on which they paid, say one-half cash, leaving the balance on mortgage, have been utterly | ruined by assessments and taxation practi- cally amounting, as far as their interests were concerned, to confiscation. And we make this statement without taking into consideration the great decline in uptown real values. Even the man who owns land free and clear on the line of public improvements done by days’ work very often finds that assessments and taxes consume the whole value of his property if he is obliged to force it off at present market rates. Any one who keeps pace with the melancholy record of foreclosure sales which for two years have been daily taking place at the Exchange has ample evidence of the truth of what we advance. Few of our mechanics, traders or working men, those who pay the taxes by the labor of their hands and the sweat of their brows, are aware of the im- mense sums yearly consumed inthe payment of the salaries of our city officials. At the beginning of the present year, ° say February 1, the records of the Finance Department showed the total number of city employés to be 8,685, receiving an aggregate of salaries for the year 1876 of $10,281,966, and this, too, exclusive of mechanics and laborers employed by the city. Let the workingman ponder on these figures. Many of the offices to which goodly sala- ries are attached are merely sinecures, created by the ordinances of the Common Council, the Board of Supervisors, or be- stowed by certain officials on personal favor- ites as a reward for political services of a personal nature. The great political and property interests of the city of New York are in the hands of agents, who seek to en- rich themselves from the treasury they are set to protect. They quarter themselves, their relatives and their friends upon the taxpayers and workingmen, who are thus forced to support in comparative idleness a horde of officials and their political retain- ers. For years these people have been feed- ing at the public crib. This system is fast eating away the commerce, life, activity, vitality and prosperity of New York; it has a most pernicious and demoralizing effect upon the public service, and has dono as much toward bringing about that utter pros- tration in every branch of trade in eyery industrial interest in this city, of which we hear on all sides such universal complaint, as the financial crisis of 18 January 1, 1869, the city debt was $36,293,929 50. By the recefit semi-annual statement of the Comptroller we find the city debt on the 30th of June, 1876, as represented in stocks and bonds, amounts to a total of $161,165,299 58; deduct sinking fund, $29,138,938 18 ; balance, $132,026,361 40. Stocks and bonds have been issued by the city during the past six months of the present year—1876—for the fol- lowing purposes and to the following extent:-—- For public works, street openings and improvements and Croten water works $1,314,000 00 Docks and slips. 235,000 00 City parks depart 70,000 00 Museums of Art and N 000 00 Third District Court Hou 45,000 00 New York and Brooklyn Bridge. 500,000 00 Redemption of short bonds for claims and judgments 255,000 00 Oid claims and judgmen’ 186,000 00 Fourth Aue inpro 2 bonds 77,000 00 Redempti Tevenue bonds 153,718 19 Currentexpenses, revenue bonds, + 16,458,000 00 Total... tones + ++$19,409,368 19 Whe i interest on this | immense and con- stantly increasing indebtedness represents a first mortgage of about fourteen per cent on every piece cf real estate in the city, and, what is much more keenly felt by the hum- bler classes, an annnal tribute on the wages, labor and industry of the whole population. Can the borrowing capacity of the city be much longer maintained under such a mani- fest drift toward bankruptcy? Who shall say that the moment may not come when the people will, by a general movement, com- bine together to throw off this intolerable burden, and leave the creditors of the city to such remedies as they can find? To the voters of New York must we look for a remedy for a state of things which is impov- some cight or nine thousand office-holders and city employés. The few laboring men whoare able, through political influence, to get employment on the public works, parks and docks, do not, on an average, number more than 4,500, all told—about one-half the number of salaried city officials. They count as nothing against the aggregate interests of the laboring classes of acity of a million of inhabitants. It is time that the professional politicians, their followers, dependents and retainers, who live upon the people's money, should under- stand that they must step down and out. The laboring man, the mechanic, taxpayer | and merchant should have, in reality as well as theory, something to say concerning the selection of their rulers, The number of city employés could, with great advantage to the public service, be re- duced one-third, and the pay of those who remain should be cut down at least fifteen per cent, While all salaries have been gradu- ally declining during the last three years why should city officials constitute a privileged class exempt from the general rule? Where any reduction has taken place in the salaries of city employés it has not been in unison with the decline established in banks, insurance offices, railway companies, counting houses, &c., throughout the city. Municipal gov- ernment, as carried on in this metropolis, is a luxury which the people can no longer afford. The Results of the with the Sioux. The loss of life in the two battles with the Sioux, great as it has been, is not by any means the greatest we may have to count. The effect upon the Indians themselves is far more dangerous; not only on the Sioux nation elated with their victories, but on all the tribes in the vicinity of the field of operations. Already we are told that the Indians at the Berthold Agency are becom- ing restive. We have seen the Crows leave Ceneral Crook because the fight with their hereditary enemies was not a victory. When they learn, as they soon will, of the destruction of Custer, the defeat of Reno and the retreat of Terry and Gibbon to the Yellowstone, even they may doubt whether success may not lie in a war on the pale faces rather than upon their red enemies. The Crows are just as savage as the Sioux; the Mandans and Gros Ventres have very bad records, and if they are led to believe that the power of the white man is on the wane the frontier settlements are likely to suffer in a degree we can only fancy now by multiplying by hun- dreds the stories of rapine, tor- ture and murder which have come to us from time to time from the sparsely settled lands of the Far West. An alarming point in connection with the recent battles is the reported appearance of several white desperadoes directing the attacks of the Sioux. Outlaws and criminals of the worst stamp, which even the border towns, with their large numbers of desperate characters, have been too hot to hold, they are just in the position to do most damage, not merely from their superior knowledge of the tactics of the soldiers, but from the effect their crying down of the strength of the whites would have on Indians wavering between reserva- tion beef and blankets and ‘the prospect of ascalping party on a large scale. They can tell the young ‘‘bucks” that Red Cloud and Spotted Tail and the chiefs who have been East and touched the strength of. civilization are liars bribed with a few pres- ents. It will be some time before another advance can be made, but when our troops do move the conditions of a sweeping vic- tory should be assured. Therefore, we say that merely ‘‘enough” troops should not be the motto of the future. Battles Pulpit Topic, The centennial anniversary having passed the pastors have come down to little things, such as walking with Christ, about which Mr. Rowell will have some thoughts to offer; and the finishing of salvation, or the immor- tality of character, on which Mr. Light- bourn will base his remarks; and the danger of superficial religion or mere formality, instead of the divine inspiration and faith of the Bible, which Mr. McCarthy will pre- sent. The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. The bitter waters of life will be sweetened by leaves plucked from God’s sweetening tree to-day by Mr. Lloyd, and the greatness of God's mercy will be mani- fested in the operation. Songs of deliver- ance will be sung this morning by Mrs. Hannaford, and the higher ministries of life will be set forth by Mr. Pullman, while the redeemed and sealed ones will be called up by Dr. Armitage for the encouragenient of the faith of their brethren in the flesh. The fall of Jericho, as the emblem of the overthrow of the enemies of righteousness, will receive consideration from Mr. Tyng. Old Saul’s visit to the witch at Endor has served many a good purpose during the cen- turies since the visit was made, as it served a bad one then ; but to-day Mr. Hepworth will draw useful lessons from it, and per- haps illustrate by it the vast difference that exists between God's ways and our ways. The proposition of Mr. Leavell, that death is preferable to birth, is true, if at all, only ina limited sense, and only of one class of the living or the dead. For thousands, if not millions of our race, it is much preferable to bear the ills they have than fly to others that they know not of. The most precious thing on earth is lite, and unless there be a compensation therefor in the un- seen world, life here, including birth, its beginning, is preferable to death, its ending here. But life and death may equally show the goodness and severity of God. The claims of Jesus as the Jews’ Messiah will be presented by Mr. Harris, and the triumph of faith, from glory to glory, by Mr. Davis. Mr. Johns will call on the goldsmiths and apothecaries and their sons to rise up and build the walls of the Lord’s house and to put on the breastplate of faith and love, and fora helmet the hope of salvation, and to keep sober and watchful while they work for God. Bishop Snow has made a rémarka- ble discovery, which he will make public to- day’ It is a prophetic message by Isaiah concerning America. We hope it is a good one for the century on which we have en- erishing the whole community to enrich | tered. — A Natiensl Monument to the Brave Custers. We appeal to such of our countrymen’as appreciate valor and admire heroic deeds to assist in some mark of public recognition of the sacrifice of their lives by the brave Custer family in the late massacre. To be sure, no mark of honor or recognition can benefit the dead; and yet sentiments of jus- tice, gratitude, admiration and affection make it a duty as well as a melancholy pleasure to pay tributes to departed worth and to proportion such tributes to the esteem in which the dead are held. The illustrious Englishmen whose ashes repose in Westminster Abbey may be insensible ta such a consecration, but the effect on those who pay the honor is salutary, and the in- spiring influence on minds in pursuit ot honorable fame is incalculable. Pub- lic tributes of admiration are the strongest incentive to men who have the capacity to render great services to their country, and if it be important te this Republic that we have a succession of such men as the Custers it is worth while to be generous to their memory. Nevertheless, we do not rest our present appeal on any such calculation of advantage. We address ourselves ‘to the best impulses of warm human hearts that have been appalled by this hideous massacre, kindled by the hero- ism of General Custer, and touched by the affecting and pathetic spectacle of a family lying in close proximity on a field of slaugh- ter where they offered up their lives in the service of their country. No man needs ta assign reasons for indulging generous and ennobling emotions. The admiration of valor is akin to valor itself, and the senti- ment of admiration is better satisfied when it has the sympathy of kindred minds that share it. This communion of generous feel- ing is best expressed by joint efforts to bear testimony to the worth of those who have lived and died nobly, and the more widely the feeling is shared the deeper the satisfac- tion of those who indulge it and give it out- ward expression. Among the methods of testifying admira- tion and gratitude to men who have ren- dered faithful and resplendent services to their country the most appropriate is a put- lic monument. The Heratp, therefore, rec- ommends that a national monument be erected to commemorate the heroism of General Custer and his kinsmen who fell with him. By employing the word ‘na- tional” we do not mean to imply that it should be done by the government. Every contribution should be the free offering of a generous and admiring citizen, and the mon- ument should be national only in the sense that the fands for its erection be sup- plied by patriotic people in all parts of the country. Let each give in proportion to his convenience, a ‘multitude of small subscriptions be- ing better than a few large ones; the chief value of the testimonial consisting in the number who participate. As a@ means of setting the movement on foot and attesting our deep interest and sincerity the Hzraxp will give one thousand dollars; and, for the present, until some other ar- rangement can be made, it will receive and report contributions. We prefer that an as- sociation be formed with a responsible treasurer, and if this appeal is responded to the Hznaxp will report contributions from day to day as they are received, and pay the amount, including its own subscription, over to the treasurer of the Monumenv.Ass@ ciation as soon as one is appointed, The Turkish War. The Servians have sustained another check from the Turks, this time on the southwest, toward Montenegro; the other, which was more of a defeat, taking place on the northeast or Bulgarian side. On the latter side the campaign is more defen- sive in character than in Bosnia, where the Servians must advance or fail, Mahemet Ali, with twelve thousand Turks, has stopped the advance of the Ser- vian general, Zachs, with a force of fifteen thousand, and driven him to his intrenchments. It was plainly the idea of the Servians to seize the high road at Sienitza to stop the supplies, and, holding the coun- try from Servia to Montenegro, cut the Turkish forces in two. The importance of the action at Sienitza can only be judged by tho ability of the Turks to follow it up or the Servians to recover their ground, The entire Servian plan of campaign has not been developed yet, but unless they can post a strong force in Novi Bazaar, which is the neck, as it were, connecting Bosnia and Herzegovina with the rest of Turkey in Europe, they cannot expect to choke the | Moslem they have attempted to throttle, From Belina, near the Servian line, to the Montenegrin’ frontier is about fifty miles in a direct line, and on that line we may ex- pect tlie most stubborn battles to be fought, The fights so far have been struggles for: position. Tur Most Darixc Rartroap Rossery on Recorp was perpetrated on Friday night, a little after ten o'clock, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a short distance east of Otterville, Mo. From the full account of the ontrage, published in to-day's Heraup, it appears that the whole affair was deliber- ately planned and successfully executed by about a dozen masked ruffians, who obstructed the track in a cutting, stopped the train by a signal light, and after robbing the express company’s safes of about sixteen thousand dollars in thoney and valuables decamped with their prize. No resistance was offered by either the train officials or the passengers, who were completely overawed by the pis. tols of the band of masked robbers. An active pursuit after the gang has been in. stituted from several points, and there are some hopes of their capture, but, we fear, not without loss of life to the pursuing par. ties, The affair is somewhat similar to the recent robbery of a mail coach, filled with well armed passengers, in Texas, when the only one who escaped loss wag a plucky little woman who defied the rob. bers. This outrage is possible of repetition on any of our roads, even those of the settled States, unless a severe lesson is administerea now to all concerned in this latest robbery, We hope that the facility with which the thieves got possession of the safe keys and the money will suggest to the express come w 44