The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx Hunap. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI ——— AMUSEMENTS _ TO- MORROW, ‘esata Re ODS M. BELPHFGOR, THE SIOUNTEBANE, ws 8 P. M. Matinee et 2P.M. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, ater. M. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. ayer “VARIETIES, ats P.M. FIFTH AV PIQUE, at 8, M WALLAG TH MIGHTY HOB a S z & Zz “0 2 ° Zz 4 Be Be «So T. RIPLE| ‘SHEET. From our reports this morning the probabilities are (hat the weather to-day will be slightly cooler. Noricz to Country Nrwsprarers.— For prompt and reqular delivery of the Hurarp by Just mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. During the summer months the Hxeranp will he sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of | twenty-sive cents per week, free of postage. Wau Srrvet Yesrerpay. Wichigan Cen- tral was the objective point of speculation | and suffered the largest decline. Other | stocks were weak. The general market was | dull. Gold opened at 111 3-8 and closed at | 111 1-2. Money was supplied on call at 2 and 21-2 per cent. Government and rail- way bonds were generally firm. ae Tue Inish Home Ruxers have secured another representative in the English Par- liament. Beyond embodying in a vague way the dissaffection of Ireland to England we tannot see that the cry of Home Rule is achieving anything of note for that unfortu- nate country. Fortunatrrz ofr interstate extradition treaties are not rendered invalid by over- scrupulous statesmen, and criminals who steal in Missouri and are arrested in New York must return to the place whence they came ig order that the law may deal with them. Julius Rothschild has found all this | out now that he is waiting to ‘‘Go West” in charge of a St. Louis policeman. Tur Szcoxp Season of the racing at Long Branch closed yesterday at Monmouth Park | with a fine attendance, fine racing and a fine day. We publish in to-day's Hrnaup a full | account of the racing that closed the meet- ing, as well as of the scenes that contributed to make yesterday's sport the most enjoyable of the season. Tue Famvnres of a large shipbuilding house and of a cotton spinner are the latest indications from England of the depression In trade there. ‘Two important collieries in South Wales are said to have stopped work. The three important interests—shipbuild- ing, cotton and coal--are thus represented in the day's financial disasters. Tae Pouce are hunting down the young thieves that infest the water front of New York and plunder vessels lying at the wharves. It is from this class that the | graduates for distinction as river pirates and burglars come. It is well, theretore, to make the junior’ offenders aware of the penalties attending their crimes, so that they | may not grow up to earn heavier punish- ments. Tur Cusrer Pensions.—With a prompti- | tude worthy of the canse the House of, Rep- fesentatives unanimously passed resolu- tions awarding pensions to the widow, father and mother of the brave Gen- eral Custer. We are glad to note that amid all the bickerings and unpleasant- ness of legislation at this period enough public spirit and patriotism existed to push the matter through without delay. Now let the brave boys who fell with Custer receive the attention of the House, Bis dat qui cito aaj. ————______. ‘Tue Exrtoston of the English warship | fhunderer's boiler was very tatal in its re- | sults. Thirty deaths have occurred and many | more are expected to follow. Itseems strange | indeed that a brand new boiler should , thus explode, but as the great ship was | running oa trial trip on a measured mile the boiler may have been tested beyond its | strength. The English Navy has been par- | Nicularly unfortunate of late years. Among the complete losses were those of the turret- ship Captain and the iron-clad Vanguard. The Iron Duke barely escaped foundering, and now the boilers of the Thunderer scatter death among the crew. Tax Erontixe Srrvians are gradually hav- ug the toils drawn around them, making their success almost an impossibility. Even | a victory by Tchernayeff would, it is feared, only prolong the struggle without changing its ultimate result. The Montenegrins have been unable to effect anything of consequence, and Servia has her last man at the front, while Tur- key is sending on fresh levies every day. The Porte, it is believed in some quarters, will shortly end the difficulty by extending an amnesty to the insurgents in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the Servians must first be driven within their borders and kept there. Russia and Austria have apparentiy agreed detinitely upon a course pf non-intervention, because they are so far left without a plausible excuse for taking the field, | | to reform, a happy and united people. j these rejoicings must be moderated when | timid to do for the party he had the cour- | whether this pledge was due to political | shrewdness or to manly frankness, or to | eral Hayes has struck the heart of the peo- | hibited by his own words from ever being a | elected. | pledge already made has placed him in ad- | has made many cloquent speeches, full of | NEW YORK HERALD, | The One macad Platform—Will Tiiden Stand by Hayes? | This is a reform canvass, and, of course, everybody is for reform. We have yet to tind the man who is opposed to it. The Presi- dent is for reform and has always said so. Mr. Bristow, Mr. Jewell and Mr. Pratt.are for reform. The illustrious fugitive, Will- iam M. Tweed, always professed that he was a reformer ; Mr. John Morrissey wanted to reform Tammany, and Mr. John Kelly would like to reform Mr. Morrissey. Gen- | eral Butler is notorionsly for reform, and thus is in perfect accord with Charles Francis | Adams and George William Curtis. When | we turn to our Western statesmen we find | even Sitting Bull earnestly for reform, which | he proposes to effect by removing General | Terry, General Crook, General Gibbon and other offensive officers of our army from | their present positions. We rejoice in this | general enthusiasm for what is so much needed, and honor these great and good citizens for the almost reckless energy with which they advocate this abstract principle. It shows that at the beginning of our second: century we are, in respect But wo ask what reform means; and, unfor- tunately, these gentlemen seem to hold very different opinions of its nature. Just now the President appears to think that tho meaning of reform is revenge. Mr, Tweed thought he was a reformer when he captured six or seven millions of dollars from the city,and Mr. John Kelly went for reform when he opposed Mr. Tilden at St. Louis, and is equally strong for reform now that he supports him. Sitting Bull has ideas of Indian reform very different from those of General Sheridan. So we are compelled | to demand of all these eminent gentlemen something more than a merely abstract devo- tion to virtue. We wish to know what they mean by this vague word “reform,” and how they propose to get it. This is a question which the people earnestly and especially address to their Presidential candidates. General Hayes, in his letter of acceptance of the republican nomination, has not dealt | solely with abstractions, but has on some | | points clearly defined his intentions. It is | to his honor that he has positively and in | irrevocable terms declared that if he is | elected President nothing can induce him to | be a candidate again. There was nothing in the republican plattorm that required him to give this unexpected pledge to the coun- try. The Cincinnati Convention had shown itself afraid to touch the question of re-elec- tion, and was unwilling to pass a one term resolution, which would have been rightly construed as a condemnation of Grant. Unfettered as he was by any advice from the republican party, General Haye3 might have plausibly declined to step off its platform to ground which it was too cautious to occupy, and thus have kept his chances for a second term of office open for the future. But he saw that there is something outside of plat- forms, and what the Convention was too age to do for himself. We do not know both, but we do know that in giving it Gen- ple. Without it his letter, with all its merits, would have been an ordinary docn- ment, merely reaffirming principles which nobody would dare to deny. But the one term pledge gives the whole letter backbone, and necessarily strengthens every other declaration that is made. The faith of the people in the sincerity of General Hayes’ | desire to enforce general reform is increased | by the allegiance he has sworn to this spe- cific reform. It is more than a profession that he has thus made—it amounts to the dignity of an act, for no matter what might happen should he be successful he is pro- candidate for that office again. If Mr. Hayes is elected he will, no doubt, repeat this pledge in his inaugural address, as General Harri- son did after making a similar one at the outset of his canvass. Harrison, in that in- augural, after expressing his regret that at- tempts to amend the constitution as to re- eligibility had not succeeded, went on to say :—‘‘As, however, one mode of correction is in the power of every President, and con- sequently in mine, it would be useless and perhaps invidious to enumerate the evils of which, in the opinion of many of our fellow citizens, this error of the sages who framed our constitution may have been the source, and the bitter fruits which we are still to gather from it if it continues to disfigure our system.” “I give my aid to the desired object by renewing the pledge heretofore given, that, under no circum- stances, will I consent to serve a second term.” We expect to see a similar passage in General Hayes’ inaugural if he should be elected, because the possession of power sometimes makes a great difference, as it did in Jackson's case, who broke a virtual pledge of asimilar tenor, Clay explicitly made the same pledge as a candidate in 1844, and there can be no doubt that he would have repeated it in his inaugural had he been Buchanan imitated Harrison in | this respect, and we are confident that Hayes | will resemble them in this particular if he should be in a position to make an inaugu- ral address on the 4th of next March. The vance of the repnblican party, and so far as this fundamental reform is concerned he is its leader. What one Presidential candidate means by reform we know by his own clear and em phatic words, but we are not so sure of the purpose of the other. Governor Tilden glittering generalities, brilliant rhetoric and enthusiastic promises to redeem the national government from its present state of degra- | dation. He said, in his recent speech at Albany, that he would enter the Presidency | with the feelings of a soldier going into bat- tle. But, “under which king? Bezonian, speak, or die!’ It is nothing strange to the people to be told that Governor Tilden is ready to fight for the cause he champions, for he has proved his fighting qualities in his contests with the Canal Ring and Tam- many Hall. But in this great political struggle, of which the whole country is the | field of battle, the people wish to know the plan of his campaign. They do not wish to | j tering generalities intrust the Presidency to a candidate who merely announces himself for reform, but who does not explain the measures by which he proposes it shall be established. It isa very essential thing to know whether Gov- ernor Tilden, if he is elected, will harness reform to the democratic party coach, to drag it successinlly through eight years of power for himself as President, or whether he means to make reform a blessing to the entire Union. He has said nothing of the one term principle, and what makes this silence the more significant is the fact that the democratic party has said nothing. It pledged itself four years ago to that principle when it nominated Greeley, and wanted all the weapons within its reach to fight Grant. But ever since it swept the country in the State elections of 1874 we have heard not a word about limiting the tenure of office upon the principles which Jefferson proclaimed and Jackson affirmed again. The St. Louis Convention was dumb on this matter, and yet it had no just reason for its silence. It is in Mr. Tilden’s power to compensate for this neglect of the democ- racy, as General Hayes atoned for the error ofthe republicans. If he fails to say asa Presidential candidate that he will follow the advice of Jefferson and Jackson, the founders of his party, and that he will profit by the example of Grant, the people will in- evitably suspect that he is even now looking to a second term to be secured by his influ- ence in the first. The temptation is very great. out of power that if they should elect Mr. Tilden it would be hard for them to give up the immense partisan advantages of having a President ready and able to use all the resources of the administration to per- petuate his own power. But if Mr. Tilden | is really a reformer, he will say to this dazzling and treacherous vision of a second term, ‘‘Get thee behind me, Satan.” He will place himself where Hayes stands—above his party, on heights of statesmanship which conventions are too timid to ascend, where the pure aiy of patriotism would be too fine for the selfish politician 1o breathe. Why should not Governor Tilden pledge himself to a single term? The one term principle is not the property of General Hayes, but is almost as old as the Republic, and Mr. Tilden could not be accused of imitating his rival in a bid for popular votes. If General Hayes should be converted at a fashionable seaside camp meeting, and the next day Governor Tilden should also expe- rience a change of heart, it would be absurd to accuse the latter of stealing the re- ligious thunder of the former. Yet one charge would be no more unjust than the other. The Hznatp years ago, when Gen- eral Grant's third term ambition first as- sumed definite shape, declared the principle upon which General Hayes now stands, and made what was previously an abstraction of secure government a practical issue in our politics. Caesar was a ghost to Jefferson, but tous he was a man. The idea of Crsarism was strange then to the short-sighted politi- cians; they ridiculed the very term—the third term—till Grant’s military policy and proud personal rule became ‘the swelling prologue to the imperial theme,” and no one not entirely blind could doubt the aim of his ambition. The Herraup, by opposing this dangerous ambition, revealed the prin- ciples of true government in a democracy | and the safeguaris with which a republic | should be hedged. It undeniably created the specific platform upon which General Hayes has placed himself; for although it is _ true, as we have already said, that he was not bound by any precedent, nor by any in- structions of his party, he was bound by the power of that public opinion which the Hzraup had aided to form. Therefore Mr. Tilden, in pledging himself not to accept a second term, would not follow General Hayes, for there can be no real pre- cedence in the matter of an established truth. Let him come up to the one term platform bravely, then, knowing that his right to stand on it is as good as that of Mr. Hayes. It is strong and broad enough to hold not only the two Presidential candi- dates but oll the people of the United States. If Governor Tilden will make this pledge to the country his glit- will become plain acts, and we shall know what he means by reform. For the one term prin- ciple in the Presidency is the basis of all other reforms, for it strikes down the motive for executive ambition, which is the root of nearly all our evils. Victor Hugo tells us that the devilfish cannot bo slain by cutting off its far reaching and powerful arms, but that when its head is amputated they fall around it, paralyzed and dead. From Custer’s Home. When aman, be he soldier or civilian, priest or layman, leaves a memory which all who knew him cherish with affection and pride, the world is not far wrong in accepting the sum of this regard as its basis for judging that individual as o man. Judged by this standard the memory of Custer stands high indeed. The old army officers who knew him have testified to him asa soldier; the friends of his manhood have spoken feelingly of his bright and kindly nature ; his aged tather tells us, between the floods of his grief, what a brave, good boy he was ;and now an old trooper, who rode behind him for three years of hard fighting, tells us story after story of the dead hero, each bringing out some endearing or enno-~ bling trait. We all knew Custer for a grand and daring fighter, a superb commander, the beau ideal of chivalry, and the news of his death shot through us like an arrow; but as thestory of the dead war- rior's career comes more fully before us he takes on gentle attributes that make our grief seem more like that for a brother we loved than for a soldier weadmired, The old trooper’s story, elsewhere told, will be read with a kindling interest and may win a trib- nte of tears before the last line is scanned. | Since the day that the death of General Custer was announced the desire to know all that could be known of his brave career has been universal, Story after story has come torth, but the golden haired cavalry- man's name grows brighter and fairer. The touching letter from the old home where the “brave, good boys” used to gather from time to time, is an important addition to the | story of his life, The democrats have been so long | Crook Heard From. The country will experience a general sense of relief at the news which our corre- spondent sends from General Crook's camp at Cloud Peak, Wyoming. derful story of bravery and devotion to tell, but the greatest news—the importance of which the writer is apparently unconscious of—is contained in the fact that he has no story of disaster to Crook's command to relate. After the series of misfortunes which our arms have ex- perienced in this Indian war, and the dan- ger which, almost unknown to themselves or their commander, was threatening the relation of further disaster and the sed array of further lives offered up ineffectually in this unfortunate war. The great news is that, so far, Crook’s command is safe. The story which our correspondent actu- ally relates is indeed thrilling. with the account of a daring ride by three privates of the Seventh infantry from Terry's camp on the Yellowstone to Crook’s camp one hundred mileg south in a straight line. The names of these gallant fellows doserve to be mentioned and their deed honored, for they are the first links that have joined the It opens scout cannot be magnified by details. These three, James Bell, William Evans two days through a country filled with and they deserve well of their country. They had mournful news to bring. They regiment and the wounding of 60 more. We can picture how gloom succeeded joy in the camp when this heartrending story was told. It is well, however, that Crook knows what has befallen the other column, and that he has heard enough to make him move with caution against his swarming enemy, even when his reinforcements shall have ar- rived. The experiences of the ouuae party sent out on the 6th inst. to reconnoitre the enemy, @ proceeding which, Had it been adopted before the fight on the Rosebud might have saved our arms a disgrace, make up the most exciting portion of our correspondent’s admirable despatch. The return of this scouting party worn out and stripped of everything but their arms, their clothes and their lives, informed Gen- eral Crook of tho immense force of the enemy. but do not seem likely to attack it in force, confining their operations to burning the grass, trying steal cattle and cautious skirmishing. The re- | inforcements of five companies of infantry to were hourly expected, and the pack trains shortly after. So farso well, but now for the future. General Terry's despatch to General Crook asked the latter to co-operate with him in a forward movement, but it does not seem that General Crook will accede to this, although Terry appears willing to re- linquish the main command to Crook. Gen- eral Crook, it appears, contemplates a for- ward movement with twenty days’ rations, but in what direction we are left in doubt. Now, ask, is it not time that this campaign was conducted under a proper organization? Here are two bodies of troops, each inferior to the enemy, apparently about to repeat the blunder of the start. They only obtain communication with each other after being two months in the field, and even now there seems to lurk a disposition to continue striking at the Indians without concert. This is a very gloomy outlook indeed. We call upon General Sheridan to sect this matter right, to give each of the commanders sufficient men to give each a chance of coping with the enemy successfully if either should meet them single-handed. It is time that the responsibility for future movements should go higher than either Terry or Crook, and no one is better able to take this responsibility than the Lieutenant General. There is too much at stake to the future of this 80 far disastrous campaign subject to the whim of a commander like General Crook, who goes hunting while the Sioux are burn- ing the grass in front of his camp, or sub- ject tothe complacence of Goneral Terry, who appears, however, to realize the weakness of his present position and the danger of moving unsupported. Will the Lieuten- ant General give both these officers their orders? Will he take the field himself? leave Lorn Denny's Sreecu on the Eastern ques- tion did a great deal of good to the English stock markets, and the ‘‘shorts” are running to cover, Tue Rowers or Rockaway, being de- termined on acquiring fame during a season whey, pleasure is made the business of life, organized a very successful regatta, at which some rowing that would not disgrace more pretentious meetings was displayed. Tae “Warcu Game” is ‘played out” so far as Samuel Schwartz, with a dozen aliases, and Samuel Goldman, with several other names, are concerned. They are old offend- ers, but are now safe in the hands of the police, who will, it is to be hoped, limit the sphere of these swindlers’ industry to a State | prison workshop He has a won- | forces of General Crook, tke country has need | to thank Providence that it is spared the | operating columns and the danger of their | and Benjamin Steward, rode three nights and | thousands of the triumphant red devils, | had to tell of the death of the gallant Custer | with 368 privates and 14 officers of his | They are now threatening the camp, | S SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. eee The Custer Monument. By the time a National Custer Monument Association is properly organized the Henatp hopes to haye a handsome sum to hand over. Tho flow of small subscriptions, accompanied by brief but pointed eulogies of the dead commander, continues, proving how deep is the grief for his loss and how wide the desire to see his memory fitly honored. They see in him o soldier who came out of the civil war full of honors won by head and hand. With his name was as- sociated all that charms in the name of lion- hearted valor. He was the ideal of the beau sabreur to the popular eye, and when pence haply left ‘old Custer,” as Phil Sheridan endearingly called him, no more squadrons of rebels to charge, no more guns to take, the well known figure was followed in its dashing flights over the Western plains with no ordinary interest. Now and again the old daring came out, for when ‘deeds of high emprise” were called for Custer was the man sought, and never was he known to falter or fail. At Inst he fell. Ina charge, the flash of whose sabres, the fire of whose carbines and the forms of whose troopers shall never grow dim, he fell. He charged at the head of his ; column; he fell where the last few | were dearly selling their lives. In o savage valley and at savage hands he fell. Had he fallen in the midst of a plain where a million spectators saw him go down he and his troopers could not have died more bravely, nor could the desire to honor his memory and theirs be more sudden and | spontaneous, The fund already in our hands reaches the sum of $2,800 91, of which $146 75 were received yesterday. The poor and the humble are doing their share. Let us now see that the rich and the well-to-do are ready to make the figures march up- ward in proportion to their means. ‘To | honor this brave man’s memory is a duty to | ourselves. Such devotion as his honors us | classes prove worthy of the heritage; let every one do his or her share, the rich as | well as the poor. Piano Frauds and the Exhibition, The letter from our Philadelphia corre- spondent, giving publicity to charges affect- | ing the regularity of some of the awards at the Centennial Exhibition, and especially to alleged irregularities touching the pianoforte exhibits, which we print this morning, will give pain to all who are interested either in the honor of the country or the impartiality of the judgments of the juries, The piano, | like the sewing machine trade, has become an important branch of industry within the last few years, and no part of the furniture of house permits such opportunity for fraud in the manufacture and exorbitant profits to the manufacturersas these neces- sary appliances of modern domestic life. For a long time there have been ugly charges of frauds in the piano trade, and even reputa- ble dealers and manufacturers were accused of making and selling inferior instraments with the names or imitations of the names of other dealers attached to them. Within | a fortnight the Decker Brothers of this city werg compelled to bring a suit against another firm for imitating their firm name, and the Steinways, Chickerings and other makers have suffered in the same way. So general had these abuses become that it was almost impossible to tella bogus from a gen- uine piano, and great hopes were felt that the awards of the judges at the Centennial Exhibition would so clearly fix the makers of meritorious instruments that the others would be driven from the trade. Ifeven a tithe of the charges which our correspondent relates is true this hope also is to end in disappointment. The allegations against Schiedmayer and Kupka are so specific that any award made by them would be useless unless it is shown that the charges are with- out foundation. If Mr. Schiedmayer makes a piano in imitation of the Steinways, or has any business relations with that house, it is manifestly unjust that he should sit in judg- ment upon the merits of the instruments of other makers; but we are loath to believe that Mr. George F. Bristow, who is included in the charges against the judges, would do any wrong himself ina matter of this kind or consent to it in others. It is not proper at this time to express any opinion in regard toa controversy of so much bitterness and so much importance, but simple justice requires that before the awards are finally adjudi- cated the whole subject shall be carefully canvassed and tho truth or falsity of the charges clearly established. It may be that the whole controversy arises out of the jeal- ousies of rival manufacturers; but whatever may be the state of the case it must be fully understood. The judges cannot afford to rest under these imputations—imputations almost certain to come from the disappointed manufacturers in any event—and the suc- cessful makers will not find it to their inter- est to rest content with their awards unless the charges are disproved or shown to be i in- capable of proof. Promoting Nu nees. It is wonderful how indifferent our Board of Health, and al! of our honorable boards for everything, are to the health, comfort and convenience of the people. Wherever we look there is a commissioner failing to do his duty or doing it to the detriment of the city. Most of our officials seem to think it is their mission to create or promote nuisances. Our streets are neglected until the slight rain— falls of the last few days area stench in everybody's nostrils. Castle Garden was fortunately eliminated from the Battery Park, and now the Commissioners of Emi- gration are bént upon rebuilding the un- sightly structure, in order that a terrible | nuisance may be maintained at the very portals of the metropolis. Tompkins square is in a worse condition than Tweed left it, and the nuisance may continue for months ; at least long enough to exclude the people from this breathing spot during the whole of the present season. The fat rendering establishments, slaughter bouses and petroleum works on the East a large part of the city and rendering the | unendurable, Wherever we turn a nui- | sance of some kind confronts us and an | apathetic public endures what an apatietic i Board permits, In no other city would the | dino with him to-morro more than we can honor his name. Let all, River are endangering the healthfuiness of | public institutions on the islands almost | | morning. in the afternoon ne took a drive ; lventenant Governor C. C, Van Zandt, who was one of | bis most ear mans have dor Park Commissioners dare to trifle with the public as our. Park Department has been trifling with the people of the east side in regard to Tompkins square. No other city would endure either the stench or the ex- posure of such offensive establishments on the East River as are described in the Henarp this morning. But New York en- dures wrongs of every kind and seems grate- ful that Commissioner This or Commis- sioner That, in addition to allowing present evils to remain, does not devise fresh nui- sances to vex a suffering population. Still something might be done, though we fear it will not until a pestilence teaches the duty which persuasion and argument fail to en- force, or until the people rise up in their wrath and our inefficient officials are made *| to know the lesson they are so slow to learn. Who Slew Custer? Who killed Custer? Answer, the Indian Bureau. See here. Lieutenant John Car land, of Company B, Sixth infantry, serving with General Gibbon, writes from the scene of Custer’s last battle:—‘‘These Sioux were all from some agency, as we found camp equipments that had never been used; also blankets that were new and branded U. S. Indian Department.” That tells sufficiently who killed Custer. But if it did not the mourning among the women, children and old men at the reser vations after Custer’s battle tells the same ghastly story. The, celebrated peace policy of General Grant, which feeds, clothes and arms the Indians and takes care of their non- combatant force while the men are killing our troops—that is what killed Custer and his gallant men. That nest of thieves, the Indian Bureau, with its thieving agents and its favorites as Indian traders, and its mock humanity and pretence of piety—that is what killed Custer. In order that some favorite of the President or some other person in high place may make money; in order that the thieving crew, encouraged by the Indian Bureau, may go on swindling, “Custer and his poor fellows must die. And in the House of Representatives 8. S. Cox and Professor Seelye plead, in the name of humanity, that the swindling and the killing shall not be stopped. And in the Senate the fear of losing a little patronage defeats the wise project for, turning the Indians over ta the War Department. What does the coun< try think of it? The popular indignation felt at the supply of arms of the most approved patterns to Indians to be used in murders and massa- cres of our citizens and our troops is at~ tested by the numerous letters we are re- ceiving on this subject. We print intelli- gent specimens in another part of to-day'’s Haratp. The Meteor of Jaly 9. From all parts of the country embraced | within an area of say five thousand square miles, and having New York as its centre, accounts reach us of the appearance, at nine o'clock P. M. on Sunday, July 9, of a meteor of extraordinary size and brilliancy, which seemed to the observers to follow a general direction from south to north. This re- markable prenomenon was rendered still more interesting by the fact that, at a certain stage of its flight through the heavens, it exploded like a monster rocket, and scat- tered fragments of its fiery mass in diverging directions from its line of flight. But these pieces were of different colors, and pro- duced, by their brilliant lights, due to me- tallic combustion, the impression on per- sons not familiar with the movements of meteorites that a grand Centennial dis- play of fireworks was taking place some- where in their neighborhood. The collec. tion of clearly written and intelligible ac- counts which we publish regarding this remarkable meteor will assist in locating its true course through the heavens, because, when we receive similar information from westerly points, the angles of elevation sup- plied from different places, as well as the apparent directions of the meteoric course, can be reduced to an angle and a line that will very nearly indicate the true elevation and path of the volume or mass of combusti- ble gas or matter. The explosion which oc- curred during the apparently slow move- ment of the fiery centre seen on Sunday night proves it to have been a true meteoric mass or aerolite. These wandering bodies of matter revolve in space around the earth, and as they travel with prodigious velocity they take fire by friction with the sir the moment they enter our atmospheric en- velope, and burn with extraordinary brill- iancy while passing through it toward the earth, frequently bursting before reaching terra firma, as did that of July 9. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Boston wants a park. William Allen Batler is at Saratoga, Rear Admiral Alden is at Saratoga, Governor Bedle is at Long Branch, Oregon rivers. The streets of Paris Marahall 0. Rovorts and family are at Saratoga The fight about vivisection violently continues tm England. Yankton, D. T., wishes to furnish a regiment for the Indian war. Mrs. Robinson will publish the biography and essays of ‘Warington."” Miss Sarah Jewett is on her way to the New England mountains. Ex-Governor Salomon, of Wisconsin, is on his way to California. Ex-Postmaster General Jewell left Washington yes. terday for Hartford. Sir William Thomson, of Glasgow, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Lisbon is celebrated for its gloves; and Portuguese genticmen wear theu in pertection. Count Litta, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Washington, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Georgia has a rosin factory, which shows that the South is getting fond of fiddies and lager. Mrv Ford, of the International Fisheries Commission, is at the Clarendon Hotel, on his way to Washington. The Chinese government bas caused professor Tyn- dall’s work om “Sound”? to be transiated and publisned, “Parisian styles give as nothing but slippers to wear with evening dreases,”’ while lots of tellows sit 1a their stocking feet and talk politics, The Ezaminer suggests that if the conversation lage ver one should Say, “It is strange that the Gere little in music, * Colonel Baker has been writiag for the Londo World some remarkable articles on the armies of Km rope, and more especially vn the British army. Ex-Seeretary of the Treasary B. H. Bristow and Wile arrived at the Ocoam House, Newport, yesterday ex pporters at Cincinnati. he js to attend church b Mr. ae Zandt today, and will