The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR cneenees rae THE DAILY HERALD, published every dey 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 Gespatches must be addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly realed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA O SIXTH STREET, (CE—NO. 112SOUTH 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. YOLUNE XLi- AMUSEMED TONY PASTOR'S THEATSS. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. PARISIA TS aesr.M. FIFTH AVENUE 1 PIQUE, at SP. M. ie WALLACK'S THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 GILMORE SGA DAY, JULY this morntng the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be very warm aad partly cloudy, with thunder storms at night. Noticz to Cov Nxwspgatens.—-For prompt and requar delivery of ,the Hunan by Jast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. During the summer months the Henanp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cenis per week, free of postage. Wass Srreer Yestenpar.—The ket was feverish and prices generally lower. Gold opened and closed at 111 5-8, withsales | meanwhile at 111 1-2. supplied at 2 per cent. railway bonds were steady. unchanged, Sterling bills CuamwBrriicn’s Lutrer on the Hamburg massacre is cold, passionless, able and evi- dently true. It will arouse the country. A Turgtsn Functionary of high position &s extraordinary commissioner to suppress excesses in Bulgaria sounds very well, but sammary punishment of a few zealots can- not give peace to the discontented province or reform or save the Ottoman Empire. Lamar is a statesman. He strikes the Hamburg question on the head and takes ground that will commend him to the con- servative heart of North and South. Now let Tilden do the same in his letter of accept- ance. Tae Custzsr Moxument.—The contribn- | tions to the Custer Monument continue to | come in in small sums, but in the aggre- gate they will in the end reach a large amount. Itis the small contributors whom ‘we desire to encourage, and we trust every American will feel it his duty to contribute his mite to this noble work. ‘Tax News yrom tux East this morning has no special significance. We have a re- port of army movements on the part of the Turks, which always seem to be in progress and nothing more, and the usual Turkish rumor of a victory over the Servians. These things and things like these are all that it is possible to extract out of the Eastern ques- tion at present. How Very ,Smawr set Cox appears at the side of Lamar in his treatment of the Southern question! Sunset talks like a demagogue and a doughface, Lamar like a statesman. When Tilden comes to write his letter of acceptance, which we hope will be before the election, let him imitate the ex- ample of Lamar and despise that of Cox. Ir Is Sap THE Cnryesr are anxious to discontinue the exportation of coolies, but that Spain is determined to secure as many laborers of this class as possible for Cuba, In such acase our sympathies are with the Chinese. The coolies in Cuba are among the most abject slaves ever held in bondage, and the mere fact that the system is allowed is a disgrace to modern ci ion. Tue Oxp Sovrn Cuvrcn in Boston has been purchased by a number of prominent Boston ladies, and if they cannot buy the land they will take down the building and erect it elsewhere. But what are the mate- rials worth without the old site and the | sight of the old handicraft? The church is worth preserving for its associations, but | without these the bricks and worthless. mortar are ‘Tre Fresuman Racr, which was to have taken place at Saratoga yesterday, was post- poned on account of the roughness of the water, but if the weather is favorable all the | matches will be pulled to-day. These post- ponements detract very much from the in- terest in the intercoliegiate regattas, and not only mar tho pleasure of the occasion when they occur, but work infinite harm to the fature of college boating. Tue Busrness Drrresston in England not only continues, but is becoming more and more alarming. Additional failures are re- ported and others are said to be impending. In tho iron trade especially the outlook is | gloomy. These things go to prove that in England, as in this country, there have been pverproduction and overtrading. tions of currency and finance outside of Yhese causes will not explain a depression is unusnal as it is severe. Tur: Pauoroaists are 4 he yrs, and ali day yesterday they sat patiently istening to essays on ‘‘A Supposed Mnta- | tion of C and U,” ‘The System of the San- terit Verb,” and other equally inspiring shemes for this hot weather. When the Visilological Association adjourns we sup- pose it will be necessary to build a monu- ment composed of verbs of different sizes auc shapes and similar material to commem- orate the heroism of the martyrs, —The stock mar- | Money on call was | Government and | All ques. | dy lot of mar- | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1876, —— The Canvass and the Sonth—what | | | | the Confederates Should Do. The Richmond Whig contains an excel- lent article, which we print this morning, on the recent trouble in South Carolina. The Whig isa zealous supporter of Tilden and Hendricks and treats the question from a democratic point of view. ‘This Ham- burg trouble,” says the Whig, ‘and many other things of recent occurrence at different points of the South admonish us that if we would not suffer a fatal loss of votes at the North we must by some means silence or unload the men who are committing these acts and making this bad record for which the conservative party of the South is held responsible.” The Whig points out that while the people of the Sonth are peaceful, kind and disposed to be friendly with the there are bad men, ‘ignorant and wicked, generally desperate in fortune and wholly worthless in character,” who commit these outrages, ‘‘and the misfortune is that public opinion is not outspoken enongh to discourage these bad men from such acts.” This is the proper temper in which to treat questions of this na- ture, and coming from a journal like the Whig contrasts strongly with some of our cowardly doughfaced Northern journals, which insist that nothing is true from the South but the stories of negro outrages. It is the position of Southern states- | men like Lamar, as will be seen in the debate in tho House yesterday. If | the advice of the Whig were taken by the Southern people it would be better for the country, and for the Southern communities, white and black, Every riot like that in Hamburg is an argument in favor of Hayes and Wheeler. We have never ceased to point out this to our friends in the South and to lament it. We are glad to welcome the alliance of a journal as judicious and able | as the Whig and of a statesman as bold and | wise as Lamar. If its advice is taken the Sonthern question will pass out of our poli- ties, and we shall have no more of sectional- | | negro, ism. relates to national politics, is in an unfor- tunate position, The calculations of the | democratic leaders are that the Southern States will vote as a unit for Tilden. They, therefore, throw the South to the one side, make no canvass there and give themselves to New York, New Jersey and Indiana. Yet when we come to analyze the reasons upon | which this expectation rests we discover their fallacy. The Southern white leaders say :—‘‘We support Tilden because his suc- | cess means our success. Demoeritic tri- umph means a restoration of our rights, the expulsion of the carpet-bagger, the overthrow of the scalawag, the subjugation of the negro.” | This is the popular cry throughout the | South, and yet in what respect does the rec- ord of Governor Tilden, or the declarations of the St. Louis platform, justify any such hope? Governor Tilden’s friends in the | North are making his canvass upon the ground that he wasa good Union man dur- | ing the war; that he believes in the Union now; that he would see that justice was as- sured jto all elasses in the South, white or black, Union: or Confederate. This is the platform of Tilden, and, more than all, it is | the platform of Hayes. On the Southern question both candidates are agreed. Why, then, should it be an issue in the canvass? Or, if it is an issue, what are the old Confede erates to gain by supporting Mr. Tilden? We ask this question without any feeling of partisanship, or because we care a feather about one candidate or the other, but to destroy one of the fallacies of the canvass. We look upon it as a grave misfortune—as a a calamity, in fact—that States like Texas, Kentucky, Georgia and other great Southern Commonwealths, should have taken this atti- tude of irreconcilable sectional hostility to the republican party, There never was a case of such total political blindess. If there | is anything in the republican platform, any- thing in the words of Governor Hayes, the Confederates of the South have as much to expect from Hayes as from Tilden. But it will be said if Tilden is elected great things will be done for the South. Carpet-baggers will be put out of office, seala- wags will be punished, and so on, and so on. How are all these things to be done? Pres- ident Tilden could not lay his finger upon a single carpet-bagger so long as he respected the laws, and he would probably say to the South, ‘Instead of asking me to expel a few carpet-baggers, advertise for a million more to come in and help to beautify and enrich your lands. Send for them to the North, | the West, to Europe.” As to turning ont all the office-holders and appointing new | ones, that is a question that will have to be | passed upon by the Senate, which is republi- can now, and will probably remain so, even if Tilden should be chosen President. Conse- | quently the Southern people, so far as the enjoyment of power is concerned, will stand toward Tilden very mnch as they stood toward Johnson. ‘They will be asking bread from one who canonly give them stones. The expectations aronsed by the election of | a democratic President would only excite that element which the Whig calls ‘ignorant and wicked, generally desperate in fortune and wholly worthless in eharacter,” to the | perpetration of massacres like those of New Orleans, Colfax and Hamburg. | This may be a startling view to some of | our Southern friends who look to Tilden’s | sntecess as the dawn of a new day. The more | it is considered the more sound it will ap- | pear. Tho Southern people have really no interest in this election of a sectional char- | acter. If they trust the democrsts they will | be deceived, for we may as well tell them | that it is not in Tilden’s power, even if he had the wish, to gratify many of the expec. | tations formed of him. We do not think he | has the wish. The true policy of the South- | ern people is to abandon any dependence | upon administrations. It was a grave mis- | take when tho war ented that leaders like Beauregard, Tee and the rest did not take | the republican party at its word and accept | its offers of aid and magnanimity. If this had been done—it such aman as Leo had said, ‘‘Republicans, you have beaten us; you have the government ; you are in power ; you speak fair and well; we are with you for | reconstruction and peace’—there would | have been no negro suffrage ; not one of that | oppressive series of reconstruction measures, By this time there would be no republican | | This whole Southern question, so far as it | | | great parties, | criminal who strikes to death the offic party. New ideas—free trade, finance, cen- tralization, the adjustment of the new condi- tions to the old system—would have led to new party divisions, in which neither color nor race nor war records would have had a part. But, on the contrary, the Southern leaders carried the war spirit into politics. ‘They alarmed the North. They gave demo- gogues like Morton and Thaddens Stevens the opportunity of saying, ‘The Confeder- ates wish to obtain by politics what they failed to obtain by the war.” So the alarmed North began to pass war measures and amendments to the constitution, every | one of which threw the Southern people into a worse plight, and which to-day are the immutable laws of the land. They are immutable, and it is not in Til- den's power to change them. Nay, more ; if he were to intimate a desireto change them he would be whipped in every Northern State. What, then, is the true policy of the Southern leaders? Plainly, to conciliate both parties. Let them take the republicans at their word. Let them accept the issues of the war as irrevocable, and say to the two “We want peace and recon- struction. We want help. We need a re- vival of commerce and of agriculture. You tookfrom us thousands of millions in the war; give us aid to build ourcities, open our channels, improve our harbors; help us to plant cotton and sugar and rice and tobacco, Take our industries and re- sources under your care, just as you care for the iron of Pennsylvania, the silver of Nevada, the gold of California. We accept the negro in his new relation and recognize his political equality. We accept the carpet-bagger, and wish we hada million more to pay taxes and work and become like all of us, who at one time or the other were carpet-baggers ourselves, As to the war | issues, they have given us trouble always. If you choose at some future day, when pas- sions are stilled and we are on a better foot- ing with each other, to have a national con- vention of peace and reconstruction to con- sider these issues from a national point of view, we are ready. But we understand that this must come from you as a people, and aot from one party or the other.” If our Southern friends would only look at the canvass from this point of view it would be a blessing to them and the country. Their cause is national. They have no grievances that any party can redress, Their policy is to conciliate both parties, to show kindness to the negro, courtesy to the emi- grant and consideration to all opinions. They should especially decline to be carried around by political pedlers to be sold as old clothes. ‘They have as much to gain by the success of one party as the other, and if they are wise with the wisdom that once ruled these Commonwealths they will so act | that no matter which party wins they will share in the victory. A Friondly Suggestion to the Demo- cratic Candidate. If Mr. Tilden, in his letter of acceptance, would ‘‘set down his foot, and set it down firmly,” against conflicts of race and murderous assaults on the negroes, he would do a great service” to the coun- try and gain thousands of votes in every Northern State. We do not offer this suggestion under any exaggerated impres- sion of the power of the President to interfere in the internal affairs of the States. Neither Mr. Tilden nor any other citizen is fit to be President if he is incapable of mak- ing that great office the basis of an efficient inoral influence notinferior to the physical force of the government. ‘‘To establish jus- tice and insure domestic tranquillity” are among the declared objects of the constitu- tion, anda President must be deplorably unequal to the eminent position he holds if he has no other resource than enacted laws with bayonets and gunpowder behind them for carrying out the spirit of the constitution. Let Gov- ernor Tilden show his faith in ideas, for ideas rule the world when they proceed from a source which can compel attention. Justice has a natural authority over the minds and consciences of communities, and when a man is exalted to a station from which he can speak with “all the weight of the chosen representative qf o nation he has little need of physical force in maintaining | justice, provided he is strong in intellect, character and public confidence. Mr. Tilden could put an end to these disgraceful butch- eries in the South by a simple declaration of his deep sense of their injustice and folly. We hope he will not shrink from tho rile once assumed by Disraeli and ‘educate his party.” When he is elected he will be be- sieged by hosts of applicants for office from all parts of the South, and if it were once | understood that he would appoint nobody who is not an active promoter of justice and | concord between the two races ‘the shotgun policy” would be very shortlived after his election. With this potent means of influ- ence and the higher influence which attends moral ascendancy in a position so exalted as the Presidency there is no necessity nor excuse for quibbling about constitutional power to interfere in the States. Let us hope at last for one more President who has faith in justice, the force of ideas and the power and majesty of public opinion. Tue Lortyry Msn are finding a powerfal enemy in the Dost Office Dopartment, and letters addressed to them are now retained by order of the Postmaster General and the money returned to the senders. Formerly it was only the bogus lotteries which suf- fered, but now the “sqna: ones are put in the same category with the swindling con- cerns. It will be well it a vicious system can be destroyed through the department, and at least the mails should not be the | means of taking money out of the pockets of simpletons who hope ‘to draw a prize” where prizes are never drawn. Tur Munprr or Senceant McGtven by a thief yesterday, is an offence which calls for speedy trialand punishment, An ing to arrest him san offender peculiarly | dangerons to society, and the sooner he is | out of the way of doing harm to anybody the | better. Ir Trp is a statesman he will follow the example of Lamar, and in his letter of ac- ceptance denounce barbarities like those of Hamburg. | the sad history of the Indians. | any way of atonement we should accept it. The Indian Question—Wendell Phil- lips to General Sherman. We print elsewhere an eloquent letter, ad- dressed to General Sherman by Wendell Phillips. There is nothing that o man of the character and genius of Mr. Phillips can write that will not meet the consideration of the people. Mr. Phillips is one of those men who are to America what John Bright is to Englani. He took up a righteous cause in its infancy, he fought for it in good and bad report with sedf-denial, with pa- tience, with enduring valor, to the end, and he now lives in the enjoyment of the honor which the world always pays to its prophets and leaders. The enthusiasm which Mr. Phillips showed for the negro he now shows for the Indian, and his letter to General Sherman is a vehement arraignment of the | Commander of the Army for saying, as the reporters charge that he has said, that the only way to settle the Indian question is to exterminate the Indians. Mr. Phillips has our sympathy in all that he says of the Indians and the wrongs the Indian has suffered at the hands of the white man, But we are confident that he does General Sherman an injustice when he at- tributes to that distinguished officer a desire for the extermination of the Indians. There this most extreme notion and think the only good Indian is a dead one. This is the opinion held by humane Christian commnu- | nities, and it isa painful fact that a genera- tion of contact between the white and the red communities should produce this feel- ing. But the atrocities committed by these character. We can readily understand how the resident of Denver or Cheyenne who has seen friend or kinsman butchered by an Arapahoe, not only butchered, but with every form of cruelty and outrage, will have a different view of the Indian from that of Mr. Phillips. To him the Indian isa terrible fact, afact which comes home to the country when it takes the shape of a massacre like that of Custer and his men. Mr. Phillips objects to the word ‘‘massacre,” and says we do not use the word when we speak of Gettysburg and Sedan. But in Gettysburg and Sedan prisoners were not slain, the wounded were not tortured, all was accord- ing to the hnmane laws of war which have prevailed in our later years. This is the rule we apply to the Indians—we capture them when we can, but they never capture us except to kill. . We shall not enter with Mr. Phillips into If there was But our duty now is to end this Indian busi- ness. We donot mean to kill the Indians or to impose any privation upon them. Even if we were to capture Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face or any of the chiefs who | warred upon Custer, we should advise no | policy of vengeance or _ retaliation. What they did was from their rude, savage notion of warfare, and should be so considered. More than all, they are savages and we are Christians, and we are bound to respect the difference. But we should insist ‘upon their coming under our authority. We should no longer tolerate tribal feuds and tribal wars. We should regard murder as murder, and the possession of a scalp circumstantial evidence that murder had been done. We should feed, clothe, protect the Indian, and strive to educate him, but compel him to accept our authority. There should be no more treaties, no more | concessions _ to sentiment. If more white people than there aro Indians on the whole continent can live in Brooklyn, then the Indians could live in a State as large as Massachusetts. We should select some quarter fitted for them, large enough to enable them to pursue the avoca- tions of civilized life, and there they should remain under the military arm of the goy- ernment. . In order that this may be done we are in favor of a campaign against the Indians of a most comprehensive character. We would have General Sheridan take an army large enongh to do the work and bid him go into the field and not come home until it was done. We would not have him kill a single Indian but what was necessary in ac- tual warfare. And we are convinced that a soldier as brave and illustrious as Sheridan would not shed adrop of useless blood. This is the only way to settle the Indian question. It will prevent those perfidies on the part of traders and irresponsible agents ofwhich Mr. Phillips complains. It will prevent those atrocities toward settlers which every year shock the country. It will give peace to the red man and the white and enable usto goon inthe work of develop- | ing and extending our civilization. The Alleged Plano Frauds. We print a letter this morning from Mr. George F. Bristow, the composer and one of the judges of award at the Centennial Ex- | position, defending himself against imputa- | tions affecting his official conduct, and one also from the Steinways, denying that Mr. | Schiedmayer has any business relations with their house. All thisis well enough as far | as it goes, but it seems to us it does not go far enough. Since the pinno has become an article of necessity rather than of Inxury three things ought to be assured—namely, that the price at which the instrument is sold is not exorbitant; that the instrument is well and honestly made; and that the name of the maker shall be an unerring guide to the genuineness of the manufacture. An honest award at Philadelphia would do | much to put the piano trade ona sound basis and drive the dishonest dealers out of | the business, and an honest award is what is wanted. | awarded the first place, and no award should | be made except upon grounds of merit, which everybody can understand. This, we fear, has not been done, or, if it has, it was under circuinstances not satisfactory to some of the m reputable manufacturers, Wining and wirepulling have been too freely | | employed by some of those expecting awards with the persons able to give them, and al- | tions which needs explanation, Mr. Bris- | tow's letter was not necessary to make us believe in his integrity, and the letter of the | Steinways clearly establishes that Schied- | mayer is not their private European agent; | but these things aro only minor features in area few people on the frontiers who hold: | passing ovet the heads, of horses renders savages are unspeakable in their variety and | The bost piano ought to be | together there is an air about these transac- | amatter of great public importance. In re- gard to these alleged frauds we are nobody's champion and nobody's accuser, but we mean to print all the facts and, if possible, secure to the people honest awards, not in regard to pianos only, but in, everything else, What We Need Is Rifle If the recent events of the Indian war convey any lesson which may be regarded as profitable to our army it is that which shows how utterly inadequate is the training of our soldiers for active service on the fron- tier. Ourengineercorpsand artillery organ- ization may be regarded with just pride by the nation asthe most efficient that can be presented by any army, but the argument may be used in their regurd that for frontier warfare against the Indians pontoon trains and artillery are practically useless. A bat- tery of Gatling guns has been attached to the column under Terry, but we have had no information that it was ever em- ployed. We would much prefer to see the columns equipped with the terror- inspiring rocket batteries, which have been employed with so much effect by the British in their Crimean, Indian and Abyssinian campaigns. Not only does the rocket carry with it an explosive projectile which scat- ters death among the enemy, but it exercises a demoralizing influence on bodies of mounted men. The horrid scream- ing noise made by the fiery messenger when them unmanageable, and it is impossible to get them to face its terrors again when once experienced. During theCrmean campaign the British commander found these missiles more effective against cavalry than shot and shell. When unsuccessful in their attacks upon our troops the Indians retreat with great rapidity beyond the reach of their pur- suers, who are generally mounted on heavier, though stronger limbed horses. If at this juncture a severe rocket fire could be de livered in advance of the retiring enemy the retreat would be checked, if not altogether prevented, and our cavalry could overtake the fugitive Indians. Onur cavalry force is necessarily the only | one that can successfully cope with such | an active and well mounted enemy as the Western savage. But for the reasons already suggested the mounted troops rarely over- take the flying braves. For offensive pur- poses, therefore, the men must use their short range carbines instead of their sabres and revolvers, and we know what little ex- ecution is effected by such miserable weap- onsin the hands of recruits, or even of old troopers. It is necessary to dismount in order to fire with anything like precision, and inthe meantime the enemy gets out of the way. For frontier wars we must there- fore train our cavalry as riflemen, and the utmost pains should be expended in attain- ing this important end. With breech-load- ing, long range magazine rifles in the hands of our cavalry it seems impossible that any Indian force could withstand the attack of even asmall body of mounted marksmen, Unfortunately, however, such an arm as we suggest is not served to the troops and the mef are not trained to use with efféct even‘ the weapons they have. We therefore suffer the disgrace of seeing one of our bravest regi- ments cut to pieces by a horde of wild In- dians, each one of whom is an experienced and well armed rifleman. In the same way our infantry regiments are rendered entirely useless for want of proper training in the school of the rifle. The German infantry at Gravelotte annihilated the.| French cuirassiers without changing their formation from that ofasimpleline. The de- ficiency in the mobility of foot soldiers can be more than made up for by the accuracy and range of their fire. If Crook's infantry com- panies were composed of well trained marks- men the Indians could not have sustained their fire for ten minutes. If Custer's troop- ers had been mounted riflemen, instead of being even the most experienced sabreurs, the massacre would not have stained our military annals. All this drilling and parading should be confined to the regimental depots for recruits. Of the main force each man should burn at least five hundred cartridges per annum, and receive extra pay for efficient marksmanship. The need of more troops to strengthen the operating col- umns under Crook and Terry is extremely urgent at this stage of the campaign and be- fore the Sioux can score another victory over our demoralized soldiers. A large force of regular troops is doing duty in the North and South, guarding forts that no one threatens and posts in the interior that could be as well occupied by local militia. With the exception of the points along the line of the Rio Grande and the scattered forts in the Southern Indian Territory the troops should be withdrawn from every station east of the Mississippi and south of the Arkansas River. The place for these men isin the Yellowstone Valley, where they should be directed in strong and mobile columns against the hostile Sioux until that tribeand its allies are subdued or exterminated. Let Sheridan take command in person and send these merciless savages ‘‘whirling up the valley” wherever he meets them. Let us have none but riflemen in our cavalry and infantry regiments. With such we can face | any enemy, be he civilized or Savage. * Evectionrentne = Eccenrnicrrms. — The democrats have a singular way of conduct- ing a political campaign. As soon as o | Presidential contest commences they start out on Kn Klux expeditions, and indulge in | the sport of shooting the colored people | of the South. Ofcourse their object must be to impress upon the country a sense of | the democratic hatred ot the black race, and to afford a guarantee that if in power they would institute the new national sport of negro hunting, At all other periods they treat the freedmen well, endeavor to advance their interests and to improve them morally and intellectually, and strive to reconcile them- selves and their former slaves to the new order of things. The colored people of the | Sonth, singularly enongh, trust them and begin to vote with their old masters. The fact that these terrible democratic outrages always commence about election time and continue during a campaign is, however, undeniable, since all the republican news- | papers are full of them, and it may be | | looked upon as one of the most curious of the many eccentricities of politics. The Democratic Canvass. There are uneasy rumors about the demo- cratic canvass. It is ssid that Hendricks’ visit to Saratoga was to see that Tilden was right in his letter on the finances. Lieu- tenant Governor Dorsheimer, to be sure, de- nies this rumor; but Dorsheimer is not apt to boil over with information to the inter- viewer. The Western States do not rally to the cry of ‘‘reform” in as lively » manner as was expected. The Cincinnati Eyguirer, the Chicago Times and other democratic news- papers, are scarcely serious in their treat- ment of it, and, although Tilden offers to go into the battle like a soldier, with a ‘‘feeling of consecration,” his Western allies do not seem anxious togowith him. It may be the weather, but certainly the democratic canvass is ina baked and cracked condition and needs rain. There seems to be an impression, also, that while “reform” is a good cry it is not enough for a whole canvass. The Western democrats begin to feel like the character in Mark Twain's comedy when Colonel Sellers asks him to warm himself before the stove with the imaginary fire and enjoy a meal of rawturnips. They want more than one candle in the stove and one turnip for dinner. They are inclined to regard a ‘‘reform” platform, ‘pure and simple, as they do the widely ad- vertised medicines which ‘‘cure everything for n dollar.” The fact that one of the ablest and boldest of Tilden’s advocates scorns civil | service as o reform creates an uneasi- ness in the minds of conservative men who would like to support Tilden if he would redeem the promises of his friends. In addition to this we have the dispute in Tammany, which will make more and more trouble. Tilden’s rivals at St. Louis, with the exception of Bayard, have not shown the true democratic spirit. Allen is silent, Thurman is silent, Parker is silent, and it is said that Seymour has refused the nomina- tion for Governor, which would do more than anything else to help Tilden in this State. And now in despair they propose to throw him into the canvass in spite of himself. It may be the weather—-and we are dis- posed to concede a great deal to that—but the democratic canvass is not in a promising way. The only influence that really shows any energy for the Governor is President Grant, and even Grant, atter a week's brill- iant electioneering for Tilden, has been carried off into the mountains to rest. Til- den cannot depend upon Grant to elect him, and he should at once take command of his canvass in person. Let him bring Hendricks to his true position or throw him off the ticket. Let him command peace and unity in New York, and tell some of the milk-nosed babes who are screaming in his interest to be still. Then let him write a ringing, glorious letter about half 4 column long—not message, but a letter, taking manly ground on all mooted questions. Let him take Lamar’s ground on the Southern massacres. Let him emphasize every good point made by Hayes, and add other points which Hayes omits. Then let him summon every man who means to support him to the front. Let him make the canvass at once, and know who are for and who are against him. He cannot win by walking around the walls of the enemy's citadel, blowing a ram's horn and crying ‘‘Reform.” We must have a different campaign from that of Jeri cho, and if the Governor means to fight to- win he has not a day to lose. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Going to the Centennil after “‘hayin’.”” South Australia contalifs 6,000,000 sheep. Michigan plants a million troes this year. Men now fan themsolves more than women do, Mississippi rivers are being stocked with shad. Tho bottom of the Pacific 1s composed of red clay. Martha Washington wore No. 5’s, Baptists increase in Western Virginia, A snow storm in the sierra Nevada Mountains July 7, Don’t bathe just after a mea). Sunflowers and calamus neutralize the effects of marshes in chilis and fever districts, Georgo Eliot says that ‘what we see exclusively we are apt to sce with some mistake of proportions.’? Salt Lazo papers say that 10,000 miners have left Utah this season to assist in the San Juan excitement Two San Francisco butchers own 700,000 acres of land and employ 1,000 men. Both these capitalists aro Germans. The most brilliant combination ever known at Alex- andra Palace, London, was effected on July 4—Patti and fireworks, Associate Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, yesterday arrived atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel Baron Kiibeck, of Austria, returned to this city yes. terday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He will sail for Europe to-day in tho sieamship Scythia, Colorado produces $15,000 in silver for every twenty. four hours, $10,000 in gold, and $1,000 in other min. erals, or $26,000 daily, equul to $9,490,900 yearly. Ba muiattoes in tho South distinguish themsolves from their darkor brethren by killing their men with white-handled razors. An old Kentucky lady of eighty-fve can thread a needle, which is more thaa some men of thirty can do—the next morning. An Indiana lady sent fornia, telling him that ina fow days he had it, too. ‘The difference between a man and a brute is that you can teach a deaf, dumb aod blind mule to talk by signs te only one person at a time, 1n 1807, while Lewis and Clark were crossing the 8, a number of Indians followed them im order to restore somo articles that iter to her brother in Call- family had smallpox, and they had lost. The most remarkablo phenomenon of the storms in the Arctic seas is their irregalarity, vessels on different sides of alargo floe having different winds, all blowing hard, whiio inside there is calm, A Welsh war song, very popular at Eisteddfodds, be gine in this _ a wibiant yn y nen, rhawd y duran gerih, Four singers who attempted it in London are now up der medical treatment for lockjaw. Tt is satd that the Dake of Bediord, for the credit a the House of Russell, has offered to buy up all the copies of the late Lord Amberley’s unfortunate book, andto compensate the publishers liberally for auy future profits which may be derived from it. Lucy Hooper says that the worst use an American heiress can put her money to isto buy a foreign titled husband. Dukes are quoted at $1,000,000; a low mid. dling marquis fetches $500,000; while a count, who can’t tether a monkey or look up at third story windows, is not worth more than $250,000, An English paper contains an advertisement of @ circus as tollows:—"Tho largest travelling collection of animals—tame and wild—ever collected together is now on exhibition in the grounds and building of the Crysta) Palace. 1t consists of equestrians, acrobats, clowns, musicians, 132 horses, 18 pontes, 9 elephants, 7 lions, 6 camels, besides monkeys, dogs, mules and other animais,’? . Tho well known French earthenware manufacturor, Emilie Coilinot, has just discovered a new mode of decoration for private dwellings and publie buildings Instead of applying tho decorated faienco to the wall he proposes enamelling the stone itsel! by putting up alight scaffolding aud using the blowpipe instead of the oven. Tho advantages of the scheme are ‘Prine. pally cheapness and durability. .