The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1876, Page 4

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GARDEN. y YORK, MONDAY, JULY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and warmer. Notick to Country NrwspEaers.—For prompt and regular delivery of the Hernan by | Jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. During the summer months the Heraxp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of treenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Tue Pourican Stream. —Jean Ingelow, in one of her poems, describes two friends standing on opposite banks of a small | stream over which either one could step. As they walked along the banks it widened more and more till neither could under- stand the other's voice, and finally, when the river poured its broad waters into the ocean, they were forever divided. By the head waters of sucha stream in republican polities Grant and Hayes are now separated. They are walking upon opposite shores, and unless one of them crosses soon they will find themselves long before November with an impassable flood rolling between. Tne Heratp ox Loxe@ Isuaxp,—An ar- rangement by which the Sunday Hanatp was laid upon the breakfast tables of the Long | Islanders as far as Patchogue and over to Fire Island was put into operation yesterday with the greatest success. The machinery was a special train, a special steamer, some fast wagons and a number of swift news- boys. Itis the purpose of the Hrraup to follow its summering readers and sce that they do not miss their looked-for paper, even when, as on Sundays, the ordinary wail facilities are unavailable. This has led to special Sunday expeditions to Long Branch, through New Jersey, and now tothe pleasant nooks of Long Island. The people wish for the Henatp ‘every day, and we are determined that they shali not wish in vain. Tre Turco-Serviay Wan already furnishes its quota of horrors committed by the Turks, We read of Christian women and children being placed in the Turkish trenches that they might receive the fire of the advancing Servians. Villages in Bulgaria have been burned, the men murdered and the children cut to pieces. Such revolting atrocities are painful to read of from Europe in the nine- teenth century. They are sure to be- get equally savage retaliation wherever the Servians get the upper hand. plorable that a people capable of such bar- barism should be kept in power by the con- federated selfishness of some of the great | Powers. We shall doubtless hear apologies for these inhuman acts from the lips of men who would be ashamed to hurt a stray kit- ten, but who, under the exigencies of ‘pol- \cy,” can find excuse for massacre and rapine m their most repulsive forms. Orricrr Green, of the Twenty-first pre- cinct, who arrested the escaped convict, James Fay, on Saturday last, deserves more than a passing encomfum on _ his gallantry. In the face of a gang of rowdies, who at- tempted to rescue the prisoner, Officer Green held on to hisman. Having put the gang to flight and after a desperate resistance on the part of Fay he succeeded im handcuffing the latter and taking him to the station house. This is the sort of man we want on the police force—a man unwilling to treat a prisoner with unnecessary brutality, but as brave as alion and as pertinacious as a bulldog in | doing his duty, a man whose grip upon a lawbreaker means in all cases an arrest. We hope the Police Commissioners will fitly re- ward Officer Green and so make his action a pattern for the police. To reward an oftiter who performs a specially meritorious deed is quite as important as noting and punish- ing the backsliding of delinquents, Tre Fast Maus.—After several months of trial, in which the advantage of the fast mail service to the country has been amply demonstrated, we learn with pardonable in- dignation that, owing to the economy of Congress, the trains are to be discontinued after Friday next. The coun- try does not want economy of this kind, The Frenchman who reduced his horse to a straw a day, and only failed to make the animal live wholly on air because the stubborn beast took it into his head to die, seems to be the model of some of our legislators. Here is a great advance in the mode of transmitting the mails, benefiting every class of business, aboutto be abolished, not because the money that would be spent on it would prove an unprofitable investment to the country, but because a party wants to go before the people next November as the champion of economy. It behooves the business men of the country to enter a iond and persistent protest against this Bourbon economy, which has nothing but the merest demagogery behind it. It is de- | twopenny | im Time—Prepare for Worst. The St. Paul Press prints an admirable article on the Indian question aptly en- titled “Cautionary Signals." The Press shows that it is natural that appre- | hensions as to Indian outrages should exist all along the frontier, notwithstanding Warning the | It recalls the “bloodthirsty insanity which zed on the Sioux of the Upper Minnesota | Valley in 1862, when, without any cause or | provocation, they made a Golgotha of our frontier settlements.” Although the Da- kota Indians have shown no unfriendliness | as yet, still there is no knowing what influ- | ence the suceess of Sitting Bull over Custer | may have upon the Indian mind. We hear | from Minnesota that there isa panic in the border counties. One journal reports ‘‘set- tlers from Murray and the adjoining coun- ties flocking into Worthington from fear of 9 | Indians.” A despatch has been received in Washington from Bismarck to the effect that Indians have menaced that town. This news | lacks confirmation by our own correspond- | ents, and so many despatches from Washing- ton about Indian affairs are in the interest of | the Indian Ring that we receive all such in- | formation coming in that direction with re- But two results have followed the Custer massacre. The first is the conviction in the minds of the Indians that the time has | come for them to rise and drive the white men from the soil. The other, that we have underrated the strength of the Indians and overrated our power to deal with them. There has really been no peace in the Northwest since 1862. It was then that Sitting Bull, commanding a band of Sioux, made war upon our frontier settlements. For fourteen years this chief, at the head of | the most powerful and intelligent tribe of Indians on the continent, has been at enmity with the whites. They have given their lives | to robbery, murder and pillage. Whenever they could find an emigrant party, or a for- lorn steamboat insufficiently guarded, or a railway surveying party on the Northern Pacific, they have fallen upon them. When- serve. We read of wars in the East and Bashi-Bazouk | massacres in Turkey, but there is no war so terrible and merciless as war with the Indians. There is no quarter withthem. The men and children they always killin battle orby slow torture. The women they reserve for a fate | compared with which death woul@é be a blessing. Fourteen years of this strife have made Sitting Bull a kind of Sioux Napoleon. The fact that he has conquered and killed Other tribes, and especially the young men, | willjoin him. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and a few chiefs, who have been East and know of the strength of the whites, may attempt to | arrest this enthusiasm, but it is not in human nature, in Sioux human nature at all events, that they should succeed. When an Indian youth sets out in life and seeks suc- cess in love or authority he sees that he can only have consideration accord- ing to the number of scalps he captures, Murder, therefore, is his first duty, and war his supreme pleasure because of the op- portunity of murder. There is not an In- dian lodge in all this, vast region of the Yel- lowstone where the story of Custer’s fall and Sitting Bull's victory will not awaken the Indian mind to an enthusiasm like that in France after Marengo. It would not sur- prise us if it extended into Canada. The force which a few years ago was little more than a few desperadoes will become a rising of the nations. Nor can it be said that we have failed in our efforts to avoid this result by peaceful methods. In 1867 we made a treaty with the Sioux, but Sitting Bull re- fused to respect it and continued his work | of pillage and murder. The plain fact is that we have before us the whole Indian problem and that we must confront in mar- tial array the most powerful Indian tribes on the continent. All the evidence shows that we have failed, all ofus, tocomprehend this Indian question. | General Sheridan was of the opinion that the Seventh cavalry was a match for the whole Indian nations. General Sherman | thought that Custer could only be destroyed | by throwing himself away. General ‘Lerry, | who first regarded the massacre as Custer’s fault, which he had expiated with his life, now wauts to give the whole business np to Crook and take orders from a subordinate, Crcok, famous as he is, has already had one repulse, and takes it so coolly that we hear of him in hunting parties. In fact, our mili- tary authorities have regarded this whole business as a kind of picnic. Our soldiers have come to regard Indian hunting as they would buffalo hunting. We question if there was one soul in that daring band which gayly followed Custer on that last march who did not feel that the regiment was in about as much danger from heaven's ,; thunderbolts as from the Sioux. And yet | the danger came, as swift asa thunderbolt, and as terrible. Even now our rulers do not understand it. We read in Sheridan's | despatches his confidence that a couple of | thousand men can whip all the Sioux. And | yet every despatch from the Plains shows that we have a powerful, brave and in some respects a disciplined foe. Wherever our | soldiers, either as scouts, reconnoitring par- | ties, or as military bodies have met the In- | dians, they have been outnumbered, and generally ten to one. Of course we make , allowance for exaggeration, for the effect of | defeat upon the imagination; but the whole | tide of evidence sweeps in one direction— namely, that we are in presence of a foe we | have anderrated and despised; 9 foe power- | ful enough to whip any army we have sent against him, and enterprising enough to alarm the whole trontier of the Northwest. | Our duty is to take hold of this question and end it. The country expects that Gen- eral Sheridan should go to the Indian coun- | try in person and take with him the whole | available force of the army. Let Congress | transter the whole Indian question to Sher- mun, Sheridan and Hancock, and we shall have peace. Let us abolish the Indian De- partment, and if we find a trader selling guns or ammunition to these savages let us shoot him. A drumhead court martial over some of our Indian traders would be a bless- | Then let ns take all the troops we | have inthe Northern and Southern States and give them to Sheridan. Here we have post after post in, the great cities whera | the assurances of military commanders. | ever they captured prisoners it was death. | the great white chief Custer adds to his fame. | NiuW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1876. officers doze and drone the hours away; where life consists of dress parade and mounting guard. We do not want these soldiers, and they are needed on the Plains. The order sending the troops from Fort Hamilton is a wise one, and is the first evi- dence we have seen that our authorities rise to the dignity of the situation. Let all the Northern forts be stripped in the same manner. There is no danger of the forts running away or of any one taking | them. Let the Southern States be remanded to local militia, and with this force under the command of a soldier like Sheridan let us go in and settle this Indian question for- ever. The averment that it will cost money is an insult to our common sense and pa- triotism. ‘Io be sure it will cost money; but how much better to pay five or even fifty millions and end the business than to have these Indian wars from year to year, drain- ing the Treasury, retarding our progress, generating corruption and dishonoring our civilization ? With Sheridan in command, and a good large army under him, let us then enter honestly upon the Indian business. We do not counsel a policy of extermination or un- kindness or passion ; we do not counsel re- venge; nor should we forget that we are dealing merciless and bloody as they have been, it is their nature, as ours is justice, humanity and mercy. But weshould be firm. This war should not end until every Indian in this Republic is under the military control of the United States. We must have no more reservations, no more treaties, no more presents of guns or powder. We must take direct military control. There are fewer Indians in our country than there are in- habitants in Brooklyn, and if Brooklyn can | live in the space of a few square miles we can easily carve out a section of a few thou- sand square miles and there convey all the tribes. The laws which govern us should govern them. All the poetry and senti- ment should cease. If the tribe insisted upon scalping another two or three executions would settle it. The bravest young warrior would think twice about | going on the warpath against other warriors if he knew that the possession of a scalp would insure a verdict of murder and his execu- tion, The simplest way is the best in the | long run, although it may be expensive and troublesome now. The Indian, no doubt, | has been wronged. No doubt the crimes against him will always blacken our history. But we do not propose to wrong him now. We only say that he must come under our laws or fall before our laws. We have con- doned Indian independence long enough. We have wreathed cruelty, butchery, inhu- manity, assassination with flowers of senti- ment too long. The poor, simple, trusting, ingenuous, honest Indian who werships the Great Spirit and yearns for the happy hunt- ing grounds is adream, and in his place we have a savage, pitiless, brave, unpausing monster, whose joy is massacre and whose present life is a libel upon Christianity and civilization. Now, when the country mourns the inhuman destruction of Custer and his command; now, when we see the whole Indian strength rising against us and giving every hour its new tale of murder and crime; now, when our settlements are abandoned by panic-stricken settlers—now is the time to end this question, and forever. The way to do it is to give Lieutenant Genergl Sheridan the whole army—twenty, thirty, fifty thousand men—and bid him go out and make war and not return until he has secured a peace which can never be broken, The Quarrels of the Republican Leaders, The republican party is not a happy fam- ily. Discord has begun the canvass. The President is one of the most discontented of its leaders, for he has found another un- grateful man, and this is no less a person- age than the republican candidate for the Presidency. When General Hayes was nom- inated Grant telegraphed his congratula- tions, and in return Gencral Hayes, in his letter of acceptance, not only refuses to ge- turn the politeness, but actually declares himself for one term only. We hear that Grant and his friends consider this an insult to the President and an uncalled for rebuke of his third term aspirations. Grant also found Bristow treacherous, Jewell indiffer- ent and Pratt honest, and has said, in apol- ogy for their removal, that he intended to have friends, not enemies, near him. Then the politicians are indignant at General Hayes’ views on civil service reform. These ideas of reform they look upon, as Judge Quinn looked upon the growth of the German element in this country, with “alar-r-um.” But the trouble does not end with the ad- ministration. It has entered into New York politi Mr. Conkling, it is said, is very mnch grieved by the result in Cincinnati, and, like Grant, is disposed to consider the letter of General Hayes as intended to help his opponents in the State canvass. Unless the State Convention should nominate Mr, Cornell for Governor it is surmised that the distinguished Senator will not take an active interest in the battle, but will remain, like Achilles, in his tent, and let the Greeks cap- ture democratic Troy, if they can, without him, This dissatisfaction on the part of Mr. Conkling is believed to be increased by the defeat of Mr. Cornell for the Chairmanship of the National Committee and the choice of Zach Chandler. There seems to be mutiny all around the republican camp. If this is the way the campaign begins how will itend? Quarrels like these do not generally grow smaller, and the break-up of the Cabinet just at this time and the division of the party in New York State may have a very serious effect upon the November elec- tion. The great danger to the party is that out of these and other differences may grow a breach between the administration and the republican ticket. Such a breach would strengthen Hayes with the people, but would weaken him with the office-holders, and it will need all the coachmanship the republican leaders possess to make the good | steed “Reform” and the fast nag ‘‘Adminis- | tration” trot well together in harness in tho Presidential race. ‘ons, —What the Governor | of Sonth Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina is well known and generally Tur Two with savages, not Christians, and that cruel, | the Indians by force and put them under | to the Governor of New York is this:—‘‘Til- den, let us have but one term, no matter who wins;” and we hope that invitation will be accepted just as cheerfully as if it had been the other. | How the South Should Punish Out- rages. If the white people of South Carolina are wise they will not rest until the scoundrels who shot down and, it isnow.said, mutilated unarmed prisoners at Hamburg the other day are caught, tried and hanged. It is perfectly true that there are bullies and brutes in every community, and that riots have occurred in Northern as well as South- ern States. But it is perfectly true, too, that such brutalities as disgrace South Carolina and Georgia in this Hamburg affair are pun- ished in the North; that they arouse in the most vigorous manner ‘the public spirit of the decent people, and that the community here, in such cases, demands and insists upon prompt and stern justice. We wait to see if the respectable white people of South Caro- lina will do their plain duty in this matter, Mr. Rainey, a colored Congressman from South Carolina, a respectable and honest as well as able man, made a spirited ap- peal in the House of Representatives upon this outrage on Saturday. He was listened to with respect and at- tention ; and his words ought to bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of the decent white people in the State he represents. Mr. Rainey is of opinion that the only remedy or preventive of such brutalities as that at Hamburg is the constant presence of United States troops. We do not agree with him ; but we solemnly warn the South Caro- lina whites that if they allow such things to go unpunished, if they sit down and fold their hands and say, ‘‘Good enough for the niggers,” if they make themselves the allies of the lawless part of their race, and encour- age by their silence and inaction such sav- age violence, then the time is not very far off when it will be they and not the blacks who will call for United States troops; and when those troops will be urgently called to protect them from the negroes. Nor will any right-minded man anywhere feel very sorry for ther: when that day comes, as it certainly will if they do not show some sense of the hor- ror and detestation in which people who go to church and pretend to be Christians and civilized people ought to hold such acts. They are sowing the wind, and they are morally certain to reap the whirlwind. The Heraxp, as is well known to its read- ers, has not upheld the so-called carpet-bag. rule in the Southern States ; ithas urged that the interference of the federal government with troops in those States is unwise, and it believes that the people of each of those States, of different races, ought to be left face to face with each other to settle their own affairs. We believe so still, and we shall continue to believe so, even if the ne- groes in South Carolina, goaded to despera- tion by injustiée and outrage, shall begin to assert their manhood and shoot back. That is what they ought to do and what inevit- ably they will do. The Southern whites gen- erally despise the negroes, because they are in the main a quiet, docile, harmless race. “Twenty of us can drive off two hundred niggers any time,” is | common saying among Southern roughs, and it is a lament- able fact. Andsothe decent white men of the South are but too apt to leave the negro to the white roughs, just as General Butler, who we suppose calls himself a ‘‘gentle- man,” is reported to have left his prisoners in the hands of the mob he had headed and went home. We warn the Southern whites that such an occurrence as that at Hamburg is dangerous to them, not because of thé riot, but because they, the decent part of the population, have not public spirit, humanity and Christian feeling enough to stand up for the outraged law and to demand and insist on the prompt and relentless punishment of the mur- derers and of the bullies, miscalled “gentlemen,” who were concerned in bringing on the trouble. What do we see in South Carolina? A cruel and brutal outrage ‘perpetrated, worthy of the Sioux; one of the foremost and ablest Southern democratic journals, the Charles- ton News and Courier, speaking out manfully about it, and yet the white community of the neighborhood sitting tamely by, un- moved by a sense of justice or a feeling of humanity to hunt down or arrest the white brutes who were guilty of these crimes. We do not wonder that Mr. Rainey thinks fed- éral troops should be sent down there. We are not surprised at the report that Gover- nor Chamberlain means to ask for troops. Yet we trust he will not. What he ought to do, as Governor of the State, is to occupy Hamburg and its neighborhood with the militia of the State; and employ them—if the public sentiment of the neighborhood is inert—to hunt down and capture those who were concerned in these murders, and all whoaided and encouraged them. He would do the State a great service if he had the nerve to do this. He would show the roughs and the ‘‘gentlemen," too, that justice is sure and swift, and that it is not safe to “kill niggers.” There is one State in the South so quiet and peaceable now that we never hear of it. Yet only two or three years ago it wasa ‘hell upon earth,” in which violence and lawless- ness ruled everywhere, and the “nigger” was shot for amusement. We mean Arkansas. But one day Governor Powell Clayton armed and drilled some regiments of militia and sent them into the lawless dis- tricts to shoot down the roughs, They did it, according to all accounts, with a stern, unflinching purpose anda good aim; and they created peace and a desire for peace so strong that it lasts yet. We commend the example to Governor Chamberiain. It is his duty to see that justice is done to the Hamburg murderers. It does not belong to the federal power. Let him do his duty, sternly and relentlessly, and he will save South Carolina and arouse a public spirit which, to the disgrace of the State, seems to have gone to slee, ‘Tne Cuvrcres Yestenpay, in spite of the grateful fall in temperature, did not attract by any means the usual number of worship- pers. In one case it took the remnants of three congregations to fill one church re- | approved, What the Governor of Qhio waid | apectabls, Wa hear of azetber in which a —— pastor addressed only thirty of the faithful. Slimness was in fact the characteristic of the church attendance yesterday. Of course al- lowance must be made for the number of Christians who are away summering. Most of our noted pastors have also shaken the city dust off their feet, so thatthe stranger visiting New York on his Centennial tour must not gauge our piety by our pews dur- ing the dogdays.. To those of our Christians who stayed at home instead of attending divine service the sermons reported else- where will come asa reminder that the Heratp is not remiss in this respect, no matter whet the temperature. In the ad- dresses of Dr. Dix, Dr. Hepworth, Mr. Blinn, Mr. Sweetser, Dr. Armitageand Mr. Bellows, they will find food for solemn thought, and in that of Mr. Fulton they will find a warm tribute to the Christian soldier who fell doing his duty amid the savages but a few days ago. “Bring Me Some Ice Water!” During the hot weather, and particularly when the thermometer stands among the nineties, demands for ice water and iced beverages of all kinds are heard on every side. They are grateful to the dry palate ; they suggest coolness to the perspiring mor- tal, and, indeed, they trequently make him cold to the extent of a sudden chill. The effect of a large draught of ice water upon a system suffering from extreme heat is to produce a paralysis of the st6mach, of varied intensity and duration, accompanied by a rush of blood to the head and extremities generally. Several cases have resulted fa- tally during the present heated term trace- able to the immoderate use of ice water. Where these extreme restfits have been avoided, considerable oppression about the head and disorder in the digestive organs have been experienced, and the heat, the work or food partaken of, blamed— everything, in fact, but the real foe, ice water. Under the influence of excep- tionally high temperatures everybody must drink more than in cool weather, because the healthy fountains of perspiration must besupplied. The rapid exhaustion of fluid through perspiration is the chief cause of the raging thirst which many experience; but why slake it with stomach-paralyzing and byain-congesting ice water? Nature, which has given us aclimate of extremes, places ice within our reach through the en- tire summer, and it can be put to a thousand beneficial uses; but as a means of reducing drinking water to 9 temperature of thirty- five degrees when the thermometer oscillates between ninety and a hundred it should not be thought of. There is no particular objec- tion to the water we drink being cool. When the system is overheated a tepid drink would be most beneficial, although not so grateful to the palate. Even in the absence of excessive bodily heat the glass of ice water gulped down at breakfast, lunch, dinner and between times, lays the founda- tion of dyspepsia among American men, just asice cream does among American school- girls. Water of the temperature of the spring or the running brook is, except in rare cases, wholesome enough; but the jump downward of twenty to thirty degrees, which is made when ice water is swallowed, is too great for ordinary systems. Plumping a huge chunk of ice into the water jug is an easy way of cooling the water—fatally easy, in fact, and therein lies the difficulty. ‘lhe expedient of placing a jug of water in the ice chest for an hour before meals is quite as easy, but it requires a little forethought, which Betty cannot be always relied on to exercise. It is simple enough, and we advise our readers to try it. The water will not be too cold, and it will, in nine cases out of ten; be purer, In warm climates, like India and Brazil, where ice is all but unobtainable, they cool their drinking water by putting it in jars of porous clay and hanging them in shady places. As the water soaks slowly through evaporation on the surface takes place, and the water in the jars becomes de- liciously cool. What we desire to impress upon our read- ers is the hygienic difference between cool water and ice water. Cold tea, but not iced tea, is particularly good, producing gentle perspiration without exhaustion. Cool, but not iced lemonade, moderately taken, is also good. Iced fresh milk in quantities is par- ticularly dangerous ; but cool buttermilk or sour milk, not iced, will prove refreshing and easy of digestion. Alcoholic drinks, because of their heating and brain-congesting effects, no matter how much iced, are very perilous during this hot weather, and even fermented drinks, except with meals, should be taken sparingly. A glass of claret in a tumbler of cold water would be good with dinner. Above all, let the fatal order, «Bring me some ice water,” be seldom heard, Tue Dancer anv tar Remepy.—A“con- temporary, discussing the timely theme of the weather, refers to the fact that the Thirty-fourth street ferry is overcrowded with funerals, aud that these are the victims of deaths from sunstroke. We do not doubt that many deaths may be attributed to this cause, but at the same time a more fer- tile cause of disease is found in the shame- ful manner in which we manage our city. Our sanitary arrangements are disgraceful. Our authorities forget that they owe to the people health and comfort. Every day we have complaints of negligence, wantonness and crime. If our authorities could be in- dicted for manslaughter in permitting the spread of diphtheria and typhus fever the people would applaud the jury that found the verdict. This is the real cause of the number of funerals that cross the Thirty- fourth street ferry, and until the evil is abated the mortality will increase. Tne Inptan Campatcy.—We present on another page a carefully drawn map, show- ing all the actions in the field between the government forces and the hostile In- dians down to the Intest advices. The lines of march to, and alas! the lines of retreat from, the battle fields on the Rosebud and Little Big Horn are collated from maps furnished by our correspondents with the operating columns. The line of the bold ride of the three privates from the Yellowstone to Crook's camp and the line of the perilous reconnoissance made by Lieu- tenant Sibley and his brave followers are also correctly indicated, The Custer Monument. As we note the various cadences of regret and clear tones of admiration that come to us from the subscribers to the Custer monu- ment we are touched by the depth of the feeling which the loss of the gallant soldiers has awakened. We record elsewhere an ad- vance of one hundred and thirty dollars and forty-six cents in the subscription for yesterday, bringing the total for a few days’ work to nearly three thousand dollars. Among the larger subscriptions there is one of one hundred dollars from the Vokes fam- ily, and this brings before us once more in striking light the great generosity of the profession to which these artists belong. In addition to the handsome sums handed iz by Mr. Lawrence Barrett, the Vokes and othe: members of the theatrical profession, we observe that these artists offer theis further services in benefit performances, Their generosity should not be lost upon the members of other profes- sions whose profits are less precarious, and who should not leave the work of rais- ing a monument to Custer to a few large hearted gentlemen like Judge Hilton, a band of kind-hearted actors like Mr. Barrett and the Vokes, and the thousands of poor ad- mirers who, with their quarters and ten-cent stamps, send a whole mint of the kindliest sentiments and the wish that their subscrip- tions were a hundred times greater. We ask all to do their share. The multitude of small subscriptions re- joice us exceedingly. They show that the lesson of the death of the cavalry- men in the valley of the Little Big Horn has sunk into the hearts of the people, and that they wish to see some enduring monument of the deed and the cause for which it was performed rise to teach our children that peerless valor and death in the path of duty are ever worthy of all honor. The death of Custer was the climax oj a story of bravery and devotion extending over fifteen years, and with incidents enough to furnish an army with a reputation for all the manly vir- tues. Scattered over the land are thousands of the gallant soldiers who fought by Cus- ter’s side or under his orders. They should make themselves the rallying points for sub- scriptions to this great national monument. Let their action in this cause be as swift and brilliant as Custer’s in the field. Let all help according to their means. Tue WeaTHer yesterday was not so fiery as on the days preceding, and a gentle breeze fanned the faces of those who strolled forth to enjoy the respite from excessively high temperature. The pleasant places by the seaside within easy reach of New York were visited by thousands. A sense of relief made itself apparent everywhere. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Whittier is a bachelor. Mark Twain is going to Newport. A Florida tramp Qddier drives bis rounds in a buggy If you want to civilizo an Indian give him a plug hat. A Liverpool gorilla oats strawberrics ‘in a gentioman- hike fasbion.”” * Now is tho time to drink water snakes out of springs. It relieves the springs. In Anuerson, Ky, isa mother whoso five beautifni babes were al! born in one day. A Florida maa raised 300 bushels of cucumbers, and, sending them to New York early, made $4,500. Iced tea is made of infusion of tea with lomons, sugar and ice, and many people like a little stick in it, Inman English scandal suit it appears that the first step a girl took was to elope with her drawing master. Lord Kildare, of Ireland, arrived in this city yes. terday from Canada and is atthe Fifth Avenuo Hotel A Rutland (Vt) girl went into a druggist’s and, potnt- ing at the trusses, said, “How do you sell shawl straps?” Causeway Giant, the fossil human figure re cently discovered, is twelve fect long and weighs over two tons. Goldsmith’s ‘‘Deserted Village,” isa modest little town of whitewashed cottagos surtounded by hawthorn and apple trees. Springtield Republican:—‘‘According to modern cuss toms people buy ice cream in paper boxes and paper collars in tin pails.” Senator McCreery, of Kentucky, has been called home, from his seat in the Senate, m consequence of sickness In nis family, Saturday Review:—*‘'The happiest life of a woman is perhaps attained when s! dopts the opinions of a reasonably intelligent husband and conscientiously thinks they are her own.” Atasale of ancient manuscripts 1a I@adon, a series of scroll work, a marvel of eumptuous artistic decora- tion, relating to the evangelists, and written in the ninth century, was sold for £780, Fi Don Carlos was expected to arrive in this city to-day from Philadelphia, but a dospatch receivea yesterday announced that be had altered his plans and will not visit New York lor some tine. The St. Louts Globe- Democrat tolls of a little girl who was paralyzed and insane, but who, alter wearing a relic from the Convont of the Sacred Heart, fully re- covered strength and intelligonce, In Ireland only 63,758 persons out of 5,409,435 own any land atali, and of these, only 32,614 have more than an acre, the remainder owning among them all only 9,065 acres, chiefly house property. ixth book t# oat, and it shows Gwen- dolen’s admiration for Danio! Deronda growing, 6o that her husband, seeing her lovolike indiscretion, 4 them alone and decides to take her away on a yachting excursion. The Charleston (3. ©.) News says:—“It is our deliberate opinion that General Wade Hampton, if nominated for Governor, will, more tully than any other democrat who has been named, bring out the whole voto of the State in November.” Count and Countess Hogos, Austrian Legation; Sir Wilham and Lady Thomson, Glasgow, Scotland; Gen- eral E. F. Brown and General Ingalls, United States Army; Chief Justice Waite, Washington, and Judge Bond, Baltimorg, are at the Revere House, Boston. Willan Black, the novelist, who is about to visit this country, ts a Scotchman by birth, but is engaged as a London journalist. 1+ has been said that, his young wife dying, he turned to novel writing for re ef and achieved greater success than he hoped for. The Atheneum says that oar American Julian Haw. thorne is a literary artist of some power, but that he 1s. too much of an egotist te be wcritic, “the essence of all criticism being to divest one’s seit of the ‘l’.and merge it completely in the “thou That paper thinks he may become merely a caricaturist, The Philadelphia correspondent of the San Franciseo Chronicle says:—*'The actress Lotta and Beecher met on the grounds to-day and were introduced to each other by Commissioner Donaldson, of Idato. Beeche: said, ‘I?m glad to see you, ma’am,’ in a fatherly way, and Lotta said, ‘Thank you, sir,’ in hor most demure manner,’ Edward Mohr, celebrated for bis travels on the Zambesi, is about to be sent by the Berlin Geographi- cal Society from the Wes: Coast of Africa on ew Voyage of discovery into the interior. Ie will proceed from Lisbon to San Paolo de Loanda, whence, by means of a steamer, bo will go as far up the Koanza at itis navigable, and then push forward to Malanga. About Samuel, J. Tilden, there is a great deal of quotation, a8 tor Instance, (he Loulevilie Courier-Jour- nal :—“'And Samnel grew, and the Lord was with him and did let none of bis work fail to the ground —L Samuel, ti,, 14" To whien the St. Louis @lobe- Demo erat rephe: ‘Nevertheless, the people refased te obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay, Sam- Woh, Vig 19,77