The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR rat et a: Sada eli THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hunaxp. 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 NO. 46 FL ! STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the seme terms as in New York. TONY PA VARIETY, atS P.M. Mat PARISIAN VAKIETIES, otsP.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, PIQUE, at 8. M. WALLA THE MIGHTY DOLLA “From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy and warmer. Noticz to Country Nrwspsaenrs.— For prompt and regular delivery of the Heraup by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. During the summer months the Hzrary will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. The stock mar- Gold Want Srre ‘ERDAY.— ket was sluggish and barely firm. opened and closed at 111 1-2, with sales in | the interim at il Government and railway bonds were firm. Money loaned on call at 2 1-2 and 2 per cent. Tue Hamsvurc Massacre.—We hope Gov- ernor Tilden will not fail to speak of this brutality in his letter of acceptance. The people wait for him. Tue Excutsy Paruramentany Devzecation to visit the Centennial Exposition will in- elude many names well known in this coun- try and is drawn from all shades of political belief’ They will be heartily welcomed. Ler Governor Tinpen Speax.— What does the Governor think of this Hamburg bru- tality? Some of his organs think it does not matter much--only a tew niggers shot. Let the Governor speak oui. DisaGrEEasLE News.—-We do not like to hear of the commander of an expedition in the Indian country on a hunting expedition atatime when our whole frontier is in a panic. General Crook has higher duties than the pleasures of the chase. Sraniey’'s WHEREapovts is the subject of an article which we print to-day from the tolumns of the Cincinnati Liguirer. As the article truly suggests, all students of history and geography are interested in the gallant explorer’s success. Tus Wax to Enp tHE War.—Let Lieu- tenant General Sheridan go to the front with the whole army. Let him stay in the Indian country until he has killed or captured every Indian. Then we shall have a lasting peace. The country demands this, and nothing else will satisfy the country. Ir Is Gratiryinc to Leann that our sup- ply of Croton water is equal to all emergen- ties created by the hot summerseason. Still, the upper part of New York city suffers from an inadequate supply of water, and measures should be taken without delay to remedy this great fault in our water supply system. Tur Price or Si.ver, which agitates us a little who have so small an amount in circu- lation, threatens the gravest disaster in Brit- ish India, where the silver rupee is the basis of exchange. The rupee, nominally worth 46.6 cents, gold, is now quoted at 33.8 cents. The effect of such a fall in value, and almost a sudden fall, too, can be imagined. A Sap Misrortuxe.—Colonel Sturges, the Colonel of the Seventh cavalry, will have the condolences of the country upon the death of his soh in the Yellowstone massacre and the too apparent fact that his grief has af- fected his reason. This is the only charita- ble construction we can place upon the ex- traordinary declarations of the Colonel to the reporters of the St. Louis journals, Govurworn Cramseniain’s Account of the Hamburg massacre is given elsewhere, and it places that affair in probably its true light, 60 far as the facts are concerned. The Gov. ernor’s campaign rhetoric is another thing. Let him hunt up the criminals concerned in the killing and hang them. If, as he says, the whites of South Carolina reprobate the outrage, let the Governor test their indigna- tion by punishing the offenders, A Hist To Sunser Cox.—No really great man will stand up in Congress and abuse his country to carry a party point. That son was the most blessed who walked backward to his father’s prostrate form and threw the mantle overit. If you sre a democrat, Sun- set, remember that you are an American. Do not ‘make speeches for enemies of repub- licanism to quote in derision of our country. Crvm, Service. —The Tilden organs which deride civil service do the Governor harm. The best sentiment of the country is op- posed to them. We mean to have a civil service free from the spoilsmen of parties, and unless Uncle Sammy comes ont clear on that point he may as well retire from the eanvass and go down to Long Island and join Centennial Dix in his great duck hunt- , ing opmpaign. The Hamburg massacre gives Governor Tilden a text from which, if he knows how he may in his letter of acceptance preach an important lesson to the Southern whites and draw aconclusion which will gain him many votes in the North. The people of the Northern States are very tired of the carpet-bag misgovernment of Southern States and the continual calls for federal in- terference which it involves. They would very much like to see those States manage their own local affairs, as Northern States do, and would be delighted with any peace- able and just settlement of the Southern difficulties. Indeed, they would gladly turn over those States to their inhabitants and get rid of the “Southern question” entirely, precisely as our democratic friends urge should be done, But just when everybody is ready to agree to this comes some affair like the Coushatta assassination, the Clinton riot in Mississippi and now this brutal Ham- burg killing, to make not only every republi- can in the North, but every democrat who loves justice and fair play, grit his teeth in all these cases Southern democrats shoot the blacks and Southern democratic public opinion is silent or utters but » mild and half-hearted rebuke; and the Northern voter, reading of unarmed and defenceless negro ‘lated after death, under a republican régime blacks, wonders what savagery may not be committed in the South if the federal ad- ministration were in democratic hands. This question, What would be the atti- tude of a democratic administration toward the brutal and lawless class in the Southern States? is an important and indeed a vital one in this canvass. So far the Northern democratic leaders have not dealt squarely with it. They loudly declaim about carpet- bag misgovernment; they fiercely talk about local self-government---that is to say, they utter noisy truisms, but they do not talk to the point, and we here suggest to Governor Tilden that he has in this Hamburg brutality an excellent opportunity to meet and answer a question which is inthe mind of every humane and Christian voter who thinks of supporting Governor Tilden on all other grounds, but hesitates on this. Suppose Mr. Tilden in the White House and another Hamburg massacre, what would he do? What would be his attitude? What his action? That there will be more or less---and prob- ably more than less—of rioting and murder in the wilder parts of the South after the election of the democratic ticket is a matter undoubted by many Southern democrats. ‘The Southern rough is an illiterate whiskey- drinking brute, but one remove above one of Sitting Bull's Sioux. He is not amenable tothe decent public opinion of the region he infests, because that is cowed and does not at the best amount to what we call public opinion here. He fancies himself a ‘‘gentleman,” and there is nobody in his neighborhood to dispute his opinion; and his political theory is that if only the democratic party can get into power at Washington he may go around in- sulting and tyrannizing over and stealing from ‘‘the niggers” as much as he pleases, and shooting them if they complain. He is already beyond the control of the decent and law-abiding body of white citizens, and, with his political notions, if Governor Til- den were elected he would run amuck. What does the Governor mean to do about this creature if he should be elected Pres- ident? Will he regard him as a democratic camp follower, whose eccentricities must be overlooked for the sake of the party, and who “may not be so much in the wrong, after all—there is something to be said on both sides?” or will he regard him as simply a savage, whom he will cause to be hunted down and shot on the very first opportunity, and with no more hesitation than he would have about shoot- ing a rattlesnake? This is a question which we put to Governor Tilden, in the interest not only of the negroes, but of the decent and respectable white people in the South, and more yet in the interest of the demo- cratic party, which cannot succeed if its leader does not now reply to this question without the least evasion. It will not avail to say that misgovernment has infuriated the Southern people, because that is not true. The main body of the Southern whites are inclined to peace. They own property ; they cultivate crops; they have families, ond all their interests are | for peace, which means prosperity. | They are soured by misgovernment, but they are not murderers nor brutes. The class which gets up riots and shoots and mutilates negroes forms but a small part of the Southern community. It is ; simply a lawless, whiskey-drinking, gam- bling class of ruffians, who live by violence and who terrorize over the whites as well as the blacks, though they have prudence enough to rob and shoot mainly the latter. Suppose another Hamburg riot after Gov- ernor Tilden becomes will he do about it? Will he think it none of his business? That will not do. It will be his business. We do not mean to say that we should urge him’ to send federal troops to the place, but it would be his duty, we conceive, to commianicate with the Governor, to urge him publicly to do his duty, and do it sternly and swiftly, and to openly and de- cidedly, and in every way possible to the federal power, make known his condem- nation of such acts and his determination to strain his authority and power to the utmost to secure the punishment of outrages. Now, what we conceive would thus be his duty, | that we suggest to him he wold do well to | declare beforehand in his letter of accept- ance. Let him tell the country that if he is elected he will put a stop to such brutalities; that the republican federal authorities have dealt too mildly and supinely with these savages; that the election of a democratic | President shall cause a more rigid, swift and stern enforcement of the laws in the South | than we have seen under the present admin- istration; and that he means to be a vigilant protector of the blacks and of all peaceable citizens and a stern and relentless pursuer Lot the lawless brutes who are attacking so- and resolve in his heart that it is | “not yet time for the democrats to | come in.” For there is no doubt that prisoners shot down in cold blood or muti- | which does distinctly sympathize with the | President, what | ciety in the South when they abuse, cheat and murder the blacks. We hope the Governor will remember that in this matter he cannot speak too bluntly. His party has not come up to the just indig- nation of the public on this question. It has encouraged, or at least not discouraged, such brutalities as that at Hamburg. Even now the party organs here in the North are pal- liating and explaining away and insisting that, after all, ‘the niggers” were to- blame. This kind of talk, mixed with empty appeals for “local self-government,” deceives no- body; it is rank folly ; for ‘local self-govern- ment” does not mean the freedom to murder prisoners, nor even, as we in New York know very well, the liberty to insolently in- terrupt a procession. These democratic organs are driving nails into Governor Til- den’s coffin which he will have hard work to pull out. We wait to hear from the Goy- ernor. Let him tell the people what he thinks about the Hamburg butchery. The wish of the country to hear from Goy- ernor Tilden on this subject does not abate the force of its demand that he be explicit and outspoken on other important topics. He must not shirk the one-term question, nor, least of all, the civil service question, on both of which Mr. Hayes’ letter of accept- ance is clear, emphatic and satisfactory. It will require no political courage for Mr. Til- den to speak out on the one-term question, whereas it was a high act of political courage on the part of Mr. Hayes, considering that President Grant, whom he virtually rebuked, has so much power to help or harm his can- vass. But if Mr. Tilden ‘‘goes one better” on civil service reform it will be a signal act of courage, since his party would be pretty sure to mutiny against such a decla- ration. ‘‘These are times that try men's souls,” said a noted pamphleteer in the darkest days of the American Revolution. Mr. Tilden may feel the force of this jJan- guage with a new application. He has reached a stage of the canvass which will “try his soul” and show whether he is capa- ble of rising to the full height of a great occasion, We trust that his long delay is not a symptom of political timidity in the face of questions which he cannot safely evade. His is peculiarly a battle which can be won only by courage. The Custer Monument. The contributions to the Custer monument fund have now reached the sum of $2,994 01, an important part of this being in small amounts. This iswhat we prefer. A monu- ment to Custer, to be of the significance that ought to attach to it, should be built with small contributions from many sources. Congress could not make the work so national in character by an appropriation for the purpose as would a large amount con tributed in small sums by every citizen o the Republic. Few of our people are so poor that they cannot contribute a mite to the perpetuation of the memory of this noble soldier and his companions, and none are so rich that they should fail to do honor to a noble deed nobly performed. ‘The only obstacle to such an enterprise is the inertia—a failure to contrib- ute small sums in the expectation that other persons will contribute large ones. Small contributions are wanted because it is every man’s mite which ought to reara mon- ument to the brave man whose death we all mourn, In our news despatches this morn- ing there is additional evidence of the bad treatment Custer received at the hands of his superiors, but General Terry’s compli- ment to his usefulness is not so grand a testimonial to his worth as the unselfishness of his conduct under the most trying con- ditions. We cannot do too much to honor the memory of such a man, and every Amer- ican ought to do his share in marking the depth of the popular grief over his sacrifice. Stoughton’s Response to Belmont. Mr. Stoughton writes from Saratoga a let- ter in answer to that of Mr. Belmont which we printed a few days since. Mr. Stoughton makes it clear enough that he did not intend to misrepresent Mr. Bel- mont; he merely read from the ‘roy Times language relating to Governor Tilden which that paper had ascribed to Mr. Belmont. Mr. Stoughton offers as an apology or exten- uation for the hasty credence he gave to the statement of the Troy paper the well known fact that previous to the St. Louis Conven- tion Mr. Belmont did not disguise his op- position to the nomination of Governor Til- den, But there was no authentic evidence that Mr. Belmont questioned Governor Til- den’s integrity, and it was so improbable that he should have done so that there was force and pertinence in Mr. Belmont’'s suggestion that Mr. Stoughton might easily have ascer- tained by writing him a note whether such language had ever been used. Mr, Bel- mont’s denial would have been conclusive on that point before Mr. Stoughton’s speech, as it is since, and it would have been better to have avoided a misunderstanding. Hearsay | is not evidence, and so eminent a lawyer as Mr. Stoughton should have seen the impor- tance of verifying loose newspaper statements before giving them currency in a public speech, especially when they affected the character of persons who stand as high in this community as himself. Ler Us Protect Coney Istaxp.—We honor the faithful officer who has taken hold of the garbage dumpers and compelled them to leave Coney Island alone. This beach is one of the blessings of New York. Those of us whp can leave the city have Saratoga, | Newport, Long Branch. Coney Island is the poor man’s retreat. It is within easy access of the great cities of New York and Brooklyn. We read of, thousands going there every day. The beach is one of the finest as it is one of the safest on our coast. When we hear of all the pleasure and advan- tage of this coast being destroyed by garbage | dumpers we cannot speak too strongly of the outrage. ‘The utmost pains should be taken to protect these seaside resorts, espe- cially when they are 80 easy of access to the poor. A Paternat, Government.—When Sitting Bull obtained from the agencies his latest supply of improved rifles, ammunition and blankets, he is said to have turned to Rain- in-the-Face and said:—‘Brother Sealper, let us thank the Great Spirit that we have to fight against a paternal government !” NEW YOKK HERALD TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Send More Troops to the Front. The battle of the Rosebud has taught General Crook prudence, the disaster on the Little Big Horn has para- lyzed General ‘Terry, and both are convinced that they cannot move until they are reinforced, Crook’s boast that he is able to whip the hostile Indians with his present force to the contrary notwithstand- ing. We miss from the latest utterances of the General and Lieutenant General the same serene confidence in the ability of the troops now in the field to overcome their savage foes. The fact that over two hundred men have been ordered West from the forts in the Narrows shows that the necessity of sending all available forces to the front is making itself felt at the Army Headquarters, but the movement is not so general as it might and should be. Who or what stands in the way? This isa question apart from politics. The Hzratp does not desire to stand before the country as a prophet of evil, and shares to the full the confidence of Generals Sherman and Sheridan in the daring spirit of our handful of boys in blue. It is, however, but the merest justice to our soldieys that they should not be sent forward in such limited numbers as to invite disaster. More troops are needed. A corporal’s guard to hoist the flag is all that is needed in the Eastern forts and at the Southern stations. When the re- inforcements now on their way to Crook and Terry have joined these officers the total of their forces will fall short of four thousand men, and there are probably five thousand hostile Indian braves between them, flushed with victories, brave and cunning, with a perfect knowledge of the advantages of the country and with skill touse them. Each of these commanders should have at least five thousand men, be- cause as the campaign is at present con- ducted, with the commands one hundred miles apart, more than two thousand men cannot at one time be brought against the enemy. Why not, then, send, three thousand men to Crook and three thou- sand to Terry? Why not move ten thouand men in all into the Big Horn country, so as to give Crook and Terry five thousand each to whip the ‘‘hostiles” and leave three or four thousand to stop the run- aways. General Crook talks of ending the campaign ‘with one crushing blow.” He thinks he can do this with the Fifth cavalry, in addition to his present forces. We hope if he again risks a general engagement he may justify the trust his superiors so perti- naciously confide in him. But we hold it is the merest justice to the gallant soldiers and the rich country they fight for that Crook should not be permitted to invite a second defeat. The remedy is simple. Send all the troops in the East and South, where they are not needed, to the ground where they are, Reform Tammany. It sometimes happens that the amenities are forgotten in Tammany Hall, and then one of those old-fashioned rows occurs which proves that the Wigwam has still its place among us. During the last three or four years we have heard so much about reform Tammany that we began to fear that re- form in Tammany was no longer necessary. This would be a calamity indeed ; for few of us are anxious for the millennium which such a condition would clearly indicate. Our fears are put to flight, however, for in looking over the proceedings of the General Committee the other night we find such ex- pressions as these, which may offend polite ears, but which show that the old spirit is still alive in Tammany Hall :— “You went tor Van Buren and against Cass, sir ; d—n you.” “Yes, I did? you lio, sir.’? ‘ou are a d—nd liar; you did,”? lie, d—n you.” “You are an old lunatic.”” “Tuomey, just knovk him down for me, d—n him.” There is a vigor in this which almost makes us forgive the profanity. ‘You lie, sir,” is an expression in which no gentleman indulges unless he becomes ‘‘an old luna- tic;’ but from a Tammany politician it sounds better than ‘‘My dear boy,” and the kind of deary, dreary talk indulged in at the Manhattan Club. There is a flavor to it which cannot be mistaken, and Colonel Rob- erts must have been aware of it when he perpetrated that neat little Irish bull of his on Thursday night. It would, indeed, re- quire ‘‘the noblest Roman who ever wielded ® tomahawk” to fully appreciate this kind of thing, and nobody knows better than he what kind of a Roman John Kelly is, with his little hatchet. Custer was not braver than this noble Roman in war paint, and no fitter time for its expression could have been found than the time when the chief was calmly looking on at the war dance of his divided braves. That was the moment Roberts chose for pronouncing his grand eulogy on Kelly—the moment when reform Tammany was showing that reform had not eliminated any of its old spirit or its well known handiness in a fight—and we cannot adequately express our satisfaction at the grand manner in which the noble Roman patted his rebellious subject on the back when the strife was over, saying, “Bless you, my children.” 'Y Gnast and Hares.—Tho Tribune reports that Grant is not in the best of humor with Hayes, and that he thinks the letter of Hayes was in bad taste. We are inclined to agree with the President. Considering that Grant will be a shining name in our history when Hayes is forgotten ina heap of mouldering Presidents, the republican candidate might have made an allusion to him asa second Washington, or something of that kind. But of course Hayes had his troubles, Carl Schurz among them, ready to leap over into Tammany if Grant was complimented. Hayes, however, if elected, can make it all right in his inaugural address. Then he will not care about Carl Schurz. Grant should not give way to his temper. He owes too much to the republican party to war upon its ticket. Is Tuts Crviurzation?—We read in the daily narratives of our Indian wars of Indian allies coming in from the ficht with scalps at their belt and dancing the war dances. When an enemy is scalped he is killed. Are we to understand that in fighting the Sioux we allow our Indian allies to scalp and kill the prisoners? This is Sioux war- cruci, merciless foe, we are Christian men all the same, and should make war in Chris- tian fashion. As for these Indian allies, they are really not needed. But if they become our allies we should not allow them to mur- der prisoners, Give the South All the Money It Needs. We trust that the proper desire for economy now shown by Congress will not interfere with the appropriations for the South. We are in favor of giving the South all the money its people need. Let us give money to im- prove navigation, open harbors, build pub- lic buildings. Let us do what we can to stimulate special Southern industries—cot- ton, tobacco, rice and sugar. Let us, if it is in the power of Congress, make that rich and beautiful land to‘blossom with new life. In dealing with the South let us always remem- ber the hard conditions of the war—the money we took when we freed the slaves, when we compelled a repudiation of her debts, when we seized cotton, when we rav- aged the Valley of the Shenandoah and marched through Georgia. And while these were all war measures—which we should do again under the same necessity—let us re- member what a burden it was to the con- quered, and how it crushed them to the earth. Whenever, then, we can give the South money in appropriation bills, in shaping revenue or financial legislation, let us doso. We should be quite content if for the next five years three-fourths of the money voted by Congress were to go into the Southern States alone. Whatever we do for economy let us give the South all the money she wants. ‘ An ArncumMent For Raprp Transrr,— When we hear of thousands of our poor people compelled to live about the Five Points and on the East side in narrow streets and ten- ement houses, when we hear how they hud- dle on the sidewalks and cellar doors and sleep under the stars, we think how differ- ent it might be had we rapid transit. Then would these hard working, honest, virtuous people find homes in Westchester or beyond Brooklyn. Then we might introduce that beneficent Philadelphia custom of building small houses, which would rent for ten dollars or fifteen dollars a month, where every one could have his own home and all the conveniences of modern life. In this respect Philadelphia surpasses any city in the world, and wins the proud name of the City of Homes. New York might earn the same title if rapid transit enabled our poor ones to go from the Battery to Yonkers or to New Rochelle in a half honr. There is the next step to be taken in metropolitan civilization. It never came home go earnestly to us as now in this. terrible time when we lose as many lives daily from heat and dis- comfort as if we had the plague. Tue War 1x Tuner possesses almost its entire importance in the danger that it may at any time involve the great Powers in the struggle, The effort Roumania is said to be making to have that part of the Treaty of Paris abrogated which prevents her from putting armed vessels on the Danube is ex- tremely suggestive. It is well known that Prince Charles is under German influence, and as any attack upon the Treaty of Paris will meet with the sympathy of Russia it looks as though the Turco-Servian war will be taken advantage of in ways that will tempt England sorely to break the peace, Without departing from the an- nounced policy of non-intervention a great many things may be done which will strain English forbearance to the utmost; and it is becoming plain that she will be called upon to place a war limit in other directions than an invasion of Turkish ter- ritory by the Russians, or allow a great many things that she fought for twenty-two years ago to go by default. The war news is confined to comparatively unimportant en- gagements. Tae Weatner 1x Encianp, according to the latest telegrams, has been excessively warm during the last four days. The tem- perature rose to ninety-six degrees in the shade, and many cases of sunstroke have occurred in London. This remarkable heat in a country usually gifted with a temperate summer climate is to us easily understand- able after our own experiences during the past three weeks. The atmospheric condi- tions which are collectively termed ‘the weather” move northeastward, and are ex- perienced on each part of the earth’s sur- face lying in the weather track successively, from west to east. The present heat wave will pass over the British Islands to Norway and Northern Russia, carrying warmth into the Polar regions north of the Asiatic conti- nent. Icebergs will be detached from the frozen masses in the Asiatic Polar seas, and will be found drifting southward through Behring Strait during the coming few weeks, Jewstn Wricomep Homr.—The recep- tion given to Governor Jewell by his friends in Connecticut shows the esteem in which he is held by his people. It shows, too, the feeling as to Grant’s tyrannical course in driving him out of the Cabinet. If the Presi- dent had discovered on the part of Jewell any evidence of treachery he should have made it known, and his Minister would have gone home in a night sleeping car, and not in the daytime, with bands of music, As it now stands Jewell wins. It is a mistake to doubt the people. This blunder Grant frequently makes, and never so much as in his recent removals. Tar Eartuquake at Viexna, Austria, indi- cates that a great subterranean disturbance is affecting the foundations of the European continent. Lately Corinth, in Greece, was severely shaken by earthquake shocks, and now we find the phenomenon repeating itself nearer the interior of the continent. We shall not be surprised if old Vesuvius and Etna treat us to a volcanic duet within a short time, for the great caldron of molten matter beneath the earth's crust is develop- ing a high pressure, which the above named safety valves will soon indicate. Waat Dors Governor Trpexn Tank ?— The country is waiting for Mr. Tilden’s let- ter of acceptance, get to say what he thinks about negro kill- fare; but although wo are fighting with al ers, With Sheridam Nine Hundred Miles Away. The Sioux have been underrated as war- riors and underestimated in numbers. Every fresh piece of intelligence brings proof of this. Our special despatch from Bismarck puts their forces down as ten thousand, and though they may not have that many warriors it is, as our correspond- ent points out, nearly all fighting force. Its mobility is ten times as great as our army's, Viewing these facts, the lightness of our forces in the field and the insuffi- ciency of the reinforcements at present on their way, the country will read with a feel- ing of strange regret the Lieutenant Gen. eral’s despatch from Chicago, in which, after telling General Sherman that he would suggest to Crook to unite with Terry and attack those Indians, he adds, “but I am so far away”’—Sheridan nine hundred miles away. Sheridan of the Val ley ‘nine hundred miles away” will strik the country with longing that be was not 6 far. Let the gallant Little Phil, who knows what Indian fighting means better than any man in the army, get nearer tothe fray. Let him take the command in person with ten or twenty thousand men and end this war forever. That is his way when he sets about it. The operations want a head to make them successful. We do not desire to be regaled with boasts, defeats and stories of hunting expeditions from the camps while Custer is unavenged and the Sioux unsub dued. They must be whipped on a largt scale. The crisis requires a great soldier, cool, quick and many-sided. It needs a force of ten or twenty. thousand men. Sheridan is the soldier. Let him select his men. The Senate Awaking. The movement to induce the Presiden to decline the resignation of Mr. Pratt as Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that the republicans in Washington are awaking to the danger to the canvass from Grant's obstinate course, They see, as the Henatp pointed out, that no matter what party papers might say as ta Grant and Hayes not being in sympathy, and Hayes not being responsible for the acts -of Grant, that so long as the leaders of the party do not protest the country must hold them all responsible. This responsibility falls especially on the Senate. That body shares exceutive power with the President, It has only to say to him ‘‘check,” and he could not make another move in the game of Cmsarism. Suppose, for instance, when Jewell was driven out republicans like Conkling and Morton had gone to Grant and said:—‘‘ Mr. President, Mr. Jewell isa repub- lican. He has been Governor of Connecticut, and was its choice for the Presidency. He supports Hayes, as we alldo, He has hia rights in the party, as we all have. Before we consent to his degradation we must know the reason. If that reason is a good one, if Mr. Jewell has proved dishonest, if he has betrayed you or the party, then this reason must go to the country for your vine dication and ours. Such a man should not be permitted in the party. But if no such then we cannot be a party to it. Every party has a joint responsibility, you as Presi- dent, we as Senators. The moment we sur- render our independence that moment the party goes into a syncope.” If the President had been so addressed there would have been an end of this new phase of Cesarism. We presume from what we hear of the efforts to save Pratt that the Senators are awaking. They would be madmen to allow Grant to throw away a fair, promising canvass, as he now threatens to do. Unless the Senators coax the President or coerce him into a position of harmony We hope he will not for- | with the party and of respect for the funda- mental principles of republican government Hayes and Wheeler will be defeated as badly as Scott and Graham or Greeley and Brown, Inpuan Axires.—Is it wise in the prosecu-« tion of an Indian war to depend too much upon our Indian allies? The allies of Crook were only partly true, and experienced In- dian fighters concur in saying that if Custez had not been deceived he would never have been massacred. Blood, even Indian blood, is thicker than water, and we trust our gen. erals will not fight another battle upon Indian information. Tux Sovran Carona Stovux.—What doea Governor Tilden think of the South Caro. lina Sioux? The country wants to know, Let him speak out. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, There are ‘‘barn”’ parties at Newport. * The Sound boats are nigatly crowded. Russian journalists predict a war with Austria, Deaths from malaria increase year by yoar in New York city. In 1759 George Washington, in sending to London for some goods, put upon the memorandum, "9 pounds of sugar candy." The Court Journal does not scruple to say that a Duchess “gave a dance.” In'this country the term is considered 4 little lew. A Florentine writer says of the fashionable world that “vox plaits’ are in vogue, though grass plats seem to be more consoling. Brett Harte begins ‘Gabriel Conroy” with, “Snow. sno w, everywhere.” Dickens begins “Bieak House’ with, “Fog, fog, evorywhere.”” An old Tennessee slave who 1s now an agent for an English house in Liberia writes that he could not be snduced to return to America, Miss Lottie Barr, a pretty, wealthy and cultivated young lady in Missouri, has married a very black, ugly, one-eyed negro who works out by the day. An English criiic says that a Frenchman’s politeness 180 doubt in part fulfiument of well apprehended rules; but most of it springs directly from a respectiul inter. est in strangers, a survival perhaps of that sentiment of reverence for an unfamiliar human presence which ‘was @ striking characteristic of antiquity, and which appears to have most completely disappeared among modern English speaking nations, ‘Mr, Gladstone has not beon in the House lately, but he is far from idle, Hois correcting the shcets of his article for the Contemporary on the courses of religious thought, he ia writing on Lord Macaulay for the Quare terly, and he is writing for the New Quarterly a review of Dr. Norman Macieod’s life. Thus, at the samo time, he extends his favors to the Broad Church Liberal, the Low Chareh Tory, and tho High Anglican reviews, The venerable Israel Washburu, cousiderably over ninety years of age, and the father of Congresemen, Governors, Senators and other eminent men of ont country, is now lying ina feeble state of health at his home in Livermore, Me., in consequence of a igh shock of paralysis experienced a month ago, He may live to see the return of his eldest son, Israel, Jr., ané Sianey, the noxt of age, both of whom are now on theit passage from Europe His other sons, with the excep tion of Ehibu (American Minister tu Paris)—viz., Cad wallader, Charles and William—have all been home te 4 visit their ther since jis illness, but have returned reason exists, if this ais whim, or a freak,. ‘yl