The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD | “t ce na BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_———-—+—- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, YPROVRIETOR Casillas 2 gaat THE DAILY HERALD, prldlished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, tree of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York | Herarp, Letters and pzckages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- surned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. PARIS OFF Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the reme terms ns in New York. TO-NIGHT, PARISIAN VARIETIES, MSP. M. Matince at 2). M FIFTH AVENUE IMEATRE, PIQUE, at SP. WALLACK EATRE, THR MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 87. M. GARDEN. GI GRAND CONCERT BEA OF ICE, «t 4 MINSTRELS, KELLY & LEON atsP.M. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. asPeM VARIETY NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be very warm and partly clouay. Notice to Cov prompt and reqular delivery of the Henaxp by | fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. During the summer months the Haran will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of tecenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Wain Srreerer Yesrenpay.—The stock market was heavy and drooped until near | the close, when a feeble rally occurred in | some of the most speculative securities. Gold advanced from 111 1-2 to 111 3-4, Government bonds were strong. Railroad bonds and investment shares firm. Money | was loaned on call at 2 1-2 and 2 per cent. The condition of the London market is sim- | ilar to our own, showing a plethora of capi- tal, dulness in speculation and strength of government and all first class securities. Caprarn Sroruart is a lucky man in the jury that tried him for attempting to scuttle | his bark, the Skerryvore. Their verdict at- tests a conscientiousness about circum- stantial evidence which lays the Captain under a debt of gratitude for the remainder of his days. Sea Cartarxs who beat ships’ boys accord- ing to the good old rope'’s-end recipe should reel the court proceedings yesterday, wherein the boy William Green recovers one hundred dollars damages from Captain Baldden for bad treatment on the voyage from Rio. A law court is the proper place to settle with such old-fashioned mariners. Curious TypoGrarxican Ernors.—The Evening Express of yesterday, in an article on Kellyism, says :—‘‘The fact that a Tam- many leader exists at all implies the right, if not the duty, of friendly advice; but Kelly will take none, either from friends or tnemies, and so he goes his own way an does his own work, and runs the Tammany machine attimes as a mad bull would run into a herd of buffaloes.” By some curious typographical blunders a “Cabinet Minister” and “Grant” got mixed up with ‘‘Tammany” and ‘Kelly ;” but the meaning of the Express was plain enough, nevertheless. Ont Hvunprep Yxrans Aco To-Day General Howe, of the British army, sent an officer to Washington, at General Knox's residence in New York, for the purpose of conferring about the title of the American commander, which the British had failed to recognize in their lette) addressing him simply as George Washington, Esq. At this interview proposals were made from Lord Howe and General Howe for an accommodation of dif- | ficulties between the King and the colonies. | Washington replied that the power to accede | was not with him, but with Congress. At Newport the Declaration was read before the Rhode Island brigade, and thirteen cannon, representing the States in number, were fired from Fort Liberty. Wisiepon is just now in the full tide of | its rifle excitement, and through the smoke at the firing points we catch occasional glimpses of some of the marksmen who are to contend with our own team in September. Yesterday the first halfof a match between Australian, Cenadian, English and Scotch fives was shot, bringing the Seotch and Eng- lish well ahead of the others. The distances yesterday were two hundred, five hundred and six hundred yards, and the highest score out of a possible five hundred and twenty-five points was four hundred and | two, or eighteen points below the centre average, which for skilled marksmen we would not count as high. On Saturday, when the long ranges are fired over, we shall have something to compare our team’s shoot- ing with. ‘Tre Weatnen during the coming five days will be very warm, owing to the relative positions of the areas of high and low barom- tter. The former now extends over the | Southern and Middle States and the lakes, with an average midnight temperature in the first of theso sections of eighty-two de- grees, and in the more northerly and east- wly regions of seventy-cight degrees. ‘The jowest barometer is now central west of the | Upper Mississippi, with a very high mid- aight temperature, ranging from seventy-six to eighty-threo degrees. Yesterday clear weather prevailed over the greater part of | the United States cast of the Rocky Moun- | tains, except on the Middle Atlantic coast, { and will be likely tocontinue, except during | short thander storms, until the high barom- ‘ter moves into the Atlantic Ocean. High «inds and local storms will prevail in the West with the advance of the atmospheric | depression, and by Saturday or Sunday we | uuay expect in the State of New York al} weaves of disturbances such as swept over the Atlantic States on Tuesday and Wednes- deg of last week, | | | | be able to satisfy. | ends well,” and if Mr, Tilden’s letter, when | politic | prodigious pecuniary sacrifices to which they | icy of reform can gain a fair hearing only on NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, © What Will Governor Tilden Say? Mr. Tilden’s long delay would seem to in- dicate that he attaches unusual importance to his letter of acceptance, and is preparing it with a deliberation and care which im- plies that it will have a powerful electioneer- ing effect. We doubt if this is wise, for he | may excite greater expectation than he will But ‘‘all is well that it at last appears, shall be remarkable for boldness, sagacity and a firm grasp of the al situation, the delay will be of little consequence, We ars entitled to expect something better than a tame and servile assent t> the St. Louis platform, since if | that were all there would be no need of pro- | tracted deliberation. The country has justly come to regard platforms with con- tempt and to care a great deal more for the individual views and purposes of the candi- We sincerely hope that Mr. Tilden | may be able to satisfy the reasonable ex- | pectations of the country. Among the topics on which the people de- sire an explicit declaration of his views the first place is due to the relation between the two races in the Southern States. We do not suppose that Mr, Tilden will give it the first place. He was nominated as the repre- sentative, par excellence, of administr form, and he will, of course, put this ques- tion into the foreground. The country will be content if he expresses himself with vigor | on the race question in any part of his let- ter. Itisan old jest that a lady puts the thing she has most at heart in a post- script, and we do not care where Mr. Tilden’ expresses his views on the race question, | provid@l they are strong and pertinent. The reform question, important os it is, is only | an appeal to the pockets of taxpayers ; but | the people of this country care little for their | pockets when their feelings are aroused on a | question which comes home to their moral sensibilities, as was signally proved by the dates, consented in the prosecution of the civil Questions of economy and taxation | can be made paramount only in seasons of tranquillity. Mr. Tilden’s admirable pol- war. the presumption that the Southern question has been definitely settled ; but the people of the North will refuse to regard the South- ern question as settled so long as the negroes are butchered in cold blood. The logical result of the war is to make them citizens of equal standing with the whites, and so long as this result is in doubt the republican party will stand on a strong vantage ground in every national canvass. If there is any point on which the public sentiment of the country is fixed and final it isin the unal- terable determination that distinctions of race shall be abolished and that colored cit- izens and white citizens shall stand on a perfectly equal footing. The country would incura new debt of a thousand millions rather than see this principle infringed. The pecuniary reform and relief from taxa- tion, of which Mr. Tilden is the champion, have no chance of success so long as | the people of the North are not satisfied that a change of admin- istration would not put the equal rights of the negroes in jeopardy. Itis for the interest of Mr. Tilden to remove this exciting question out of the canvass, which he can easily do by a few pregnant sentences | in his letter of acceptance. The sole hope of the republican party lies in alarming Northern sentiment for the safety and fair treatment of the negroes, and a strong declaration by Mr. Tilden in favor of equal rights would take the wind out of the repub- lican sails. Will he have the courage, the sagacity, the justice to make such a declara- tion? Questions of reform, of economy, of taxation can gain buta feeble hearing so long as the country doubts whether a change of administration would not give free license to the Southern whites to persecute, oppress and slaughter the Southern negroes, It is the evident interest of Mr. Tilden to remove all doubts on this point by a bold declara- tion that he will regard the rights of all citizens as equally sacred. We are aware that it will be asked what the President of the United States has to do with the preservation of internal order and the protection of life in the separate States. It might be sufficient to remind the objectors that precisely the same question was asked in relation to slavery in the States, and on grounds that, seemed equally strong. All the world knows how slender this fancied barrier proved against the aroused popular feeling of the North, and we warn the demo- cratic party that it will prove equally inef- fective if the Southern negroes continue to be slaughtered at the caprice of their white fellow citizens. If Mr. Tilden promises them protection, and makes the promise in language which attests his vigorous sincer- ity, he will spike the republican guns and may expect a triumphant election on the reform issue of which he is so eminent a champion. But he may be perfectly assured that the Northern people will not abandon | the negroes to the tender mercies of their | persecutors withont assurances of proieciion | from a democratic President. \ ! | \ | | { We perfectly understand the cheap logic | which will be employed to convince Mr. Tilden that he has nothing to do with this question. But we trust that he has too much | elevation of sentiment and breadth of view to heed such narrow sophistry. He is a pro- fessed disciple of Jefferson and knows that the first division of party in this country turned on the French Revolution, Jefferson being the representative of sympathy with France. What had we to do with a change of government in France? A great deal less, certainly, than with justice and tranquillity in our own State, and yet Jefferson first be- came a party leader on questions connected with the French Revolntion, The democratic party of that early day claimed tho right to | give its sympathy and moral support to a | foreign nation struggling for liberty and “the rights of man,” and it would be strange indeed if it could not give its moral support to ‘the rights of man” in the States of our own Republic. The American people have never failed to give moral ‘‘aid and comfort” to foreign peoples struggling against oppres- sion, although our government shadow of a legal right to intervene in the domestic questions of other nations. Our whole people and our leading public men gook an active interest in Greck indepen- | has no + to | troops to spare. ! dence half a century ago; they were warm advocates of the South American revolt against Spain, although, in a legal point of view, it was simply a question between Spain and her colonies ; we were champions of Hungary against Austria, and paid public honors to Kossuth; we sympathized with | oppressed Ireland and paid court to the Fenians ; we have given the whole weight of our moral support to Cuba. On what | grounds is this constant championship of right against oppression to be justified? As- suredly not on the ground that we had any legal pretence for intervening in favor of | foreign subjects struggling against the injus- tice of their governments, but solely on the right of a free people to give their active sympathy and moral influence to the down- trodden victims of misrule. free when such victims are American citi- zens? Mr. Webster made a noble re- ply small cavillers on questions of strict legal right and _ authority to employ armed force in his elo- quent speech on Greek independence. to “Sir,” said he, ‘this reasoning mistakes the | age. The time has been, indeed, when fleets and armies and subsidies were the principal reliances, even in the best cause. But, happily for mankind, a great change has taken place in this respect. Moral ; causes come into consideration in propor- tion as the progress of knowledge is ad- vanced, and the public opinion of the civil- | ized world is rapidly gaining an ascendancy over mere brutal force.” If Governor Tilden is a statesman abreast of the progress of the age he cannot undervalue the prodigions | | power of public opinion, and it ought to be his ambition and his prido to wield this | superior force in the interest of right and justice and domestic tranquillity. ‘Lhe merely legal authority of the President | could be wielded by any fifth rate country lawyer whom accident might invest with the office; buta really great statesman would value the position chiefly as a means of en- abling him to govern by his influence over public opiaion. We would gladly rank Mr. Tilden in this higher class, and if he really | belongs to it he will not think his duties and influence circumscribed by his purely legal functions. We had intended to touch on other topics appropriate for Mr. Tilden's letter of accept- ance, but this seems so paramount and we have given it so much space that we must postpone the others. If he is defeated it will be by republican appeals for negro rights, but if he will give a satisfactory guarantee that the rights of all citizens will be maintained nothing can prevent his election. The Interuniversity Boat Races Again victory on Saratoga Lake perches on the banners of the Empire State. Cornell's clean sweep of the honors this year after her victory last year will make the boys who shout for Ithaca proud indeed. Harvard, taking second place in the six-oared race, did very well, and Columbia's gallant struggle wil: keep up her repute for another day on the same waters. While we congratulate the winners and the Empire State on nourishing such sturdy oarsmen we must pause fora moment to notice the falling off in popular enthusiasm regarding the University races. First, the race on the Connecticut weakened the interest. The Yale and Harvard struggle did not attract very much attention. The public looked on it asa sort of priggish attempt to make the rivalry be- tween Yale and Harvard an American Ox- ford and Cambridge affair, and as neither had come to the front in the broader strug- gles with the other colleges it was treated no worse than it deserved. There could be no objection to Yale racing Harvard any- where she liked, but there was too much presumption in beaten Yale thinking that by taking herself out of the association all eyes would follow her. Then there has been so much centennialism in the air, and pomps and shows of all kinds about, that events like the interuniversity struggles must put up with their share of the enthusiasm. In deed the coming races at Saratoga and Phila- delphia cut in upon the interest in the row- ing yesterday to a great extent. We note these points with care, because aquatic sports are assured of their future in America, and for the benefit of the faint- hearted, who are prompt to look on the momentary lessening of public enthu- siasm as a sign of the decay of rowing. Next year, which isan ‘off’ one in politics, will have no international exposition, no centen- nial skyrockets going up witha flash, a whiz and a burst of colored stars to set the crowd cheering till a cheer becomes almost as hateful to the ears as hearing Aristides called “the Just” was to the old Athenian. Next year the regular Olympian days may claim a larger share of enthusiasm and get it. The Tureo-Servian War. The London Times, after uttering a deep growl over the confusing telegraphic vic- tories which have distiyguished the fight on the Servian border, thinks that Servia wili soon be obliged to fight within her boundary line. We had already drawn the saime conclusions from the conflict- ing stories which have come to us by cable. The truth about the battles so far has been that while the Servians have been checked the Turks have not gained any overwhelming advantage, and until they are able to bring their superior strength bear on the main body under Tchernayeff we shall hear more contradic- tory stories. A great battle like Sadowa or Sedan cannot be twisted from its signifi- j cance by the most ingenious telegrapher, y grap and it is almost as hard to veil the meaning of a fight like Gravelotte. Great victories and great defeats tell their own story. The march of Prince Nicholas on Mostar is a curious business, as the Turks are said to have practically abandoned that town. If | they have concluded that it cannot be held it is to be presumed they believe they can return and take it when they have time and The further the Montene- grins go in that direction the less trouble will they give Turkey in her attack on Servis. Guase ann His Panty. - Suppose Grant should take it into his head to resign and | | that nobody outside of the States in which leave the country in the hands of Ferry and the republican inflationists, Where then would be the can for Hayos and Wheeler? Are we any less | 1 Pity the Poor Chiidren!—The Geath Rate. The saddest feature of these warm days is the increase of mortality among the chil- dren. The Board of Health direct the ap- pointment of fifty additional physicians, to go into tenement hoses and endeavor to arrest the progress of children’s diseases. This is wise and prompt. But here is an- other question. Do we govern a city well where every summer of unusual warmth we are threatened with an epidemic among the children? The death rate in this city now is higher than that of any other city in the world. For the week ending July 8 it was 47.65 in 1,000; over the river, in Brooklyn, it is | 39.15 ; in Philadelphia, with its torrid repu- tation, only 40.17; in Washington, where this summer is exceptionally unhealthy, 41.27. If we go to Boston we find it 24.63. If we go West to St. Louis it is 26.92 ; while South, in Charleston, it is only 26.55. This shows that the country is generally healthy outside of New York. Ifwe analyze this mortality we find that, out of 1,228 deaths during the week ending July 15, 1876, 862 were of children under five years of age. Of this number 596 were from summer com- plaints. The majority of these deaths oc- curred in houses containing four families or more—in tenement houses. We are confident that our authorities will do all they can to arrest this terrible ca- lamity, but we make a mistake if we attribute it to natural causes. Our tenement system isa disgrace. We have thrown New York to- gether in a hasty fashion, without duly con- sidering the functions of a great city. The water supply is good, and but for that the mortality would be much greater. But in what other respect do we answer the wants of a great city? We have one large park in New York and another in Brooklyn. But to the tenement house class these parks are as | far off as Pike's Peak. The few minor parks have been either given up or neglected. St. John’s square has become a freight depot. | The City Hall Park is occupied with public buildings. The Battery is an emigrant depot, and now it is proposed to make it a railway depot. New York can only grow in one direction. We have grown so rapidly that only citizens of means and leisure can afford to live in the suburbs. It takes from one to two hours for a suburban resident to reach his place of business, and the fare is something. Now it is impossible for the thousands of laboring men who have to begin work at seven, and whose wages do not range higher than two dollars a day, to live in the suburbs. Consequently this large class, this worthy, virtuous, deserving and most hon- ored class, are thrown with their wives and little ones into the lower end of the island. In the winter they are assailed with diph- theria and mualarious fevers. In the summer death comes in another form, as it is coming now to hundreds of families. The sad thought is that if we had a good government all of this might be saved. We could reduce our death rate to that of Lon- don, which is 17.6; or to Paris, which is 22.4, New York should be healthier than either Paris or London. We have water all about ns, The island is easily drained. The life preserving sea is at our doors. We have suburbs that the world cannot rival for va- riety and beauty of scenery. If we had rapid transit there is no reason why the vaJleys of Westchester, the regions beyond Brooklyn, should not be the homes of a hundred thou- sand of our laboring poor; there is no reason why our poor workingmen should not make homes for themselves, like those we see in Philadelphia, where the tenant can have all the modern conveniences—air, water and space—and live in his own house, for much less rent than a floor in the cheapest and dirt- iest tenement house. This sad, distressing business is an argument for rapid transit and for good government. New York is the most unhealthy city in the world because it is the worst governed city in the world. This city should be managed like a great estate or a vast mansion, with a due regard to the in- terests of all, remembering that the interest of one is thatof all. But weare in the hands of a mob, or rather of a succession of mobs, who not only take our money, but, as is now seen, take the lives of our children. We trust that this increasing death rate will arouse our people to an appreciation of the misfortunes imposed upon them by their rulers, and the necessity for a change, no matter the expense or the responsibility. A Kind Word to Democratic Remon- stra: We print on another page letters criticis- ing our course in relation to the Hamburg butchery, and expressing the strong but courteous dissent of the writers from our ad- vice to Governor Tilden. It is the practice of the Hzratp to give a fair hearing to both sides in every important controversy, and it is willing in this case to let our readers see the strongest arguments that can be presented against its own views. On this particular question we are more fortunate than our dis- satisfied correspondents. They are repre- sented in Congress by the scapegrace flip- pancy and heartless buffoonery of Mr. Cox ; but we have a strong ally in the noble elo- quence, courageous sincerity, statesmanlike wisdom and broad humanity of Mr. Lamar, a democrat who is doing more than any other individual to make his party respect- able and respected. We should be proud of our country if there were more men of the type of Lamar in public life. It is not merely his ability and eloquence that excite our admiration, although we do not undervalue his brilliant intellectual gifts; but what especially commands our esteem and homage is his moral elevation, He is one of the few men capable of rising above the murky atmosphere of low partisan poli- tics, one of the very few who habitually make us feel the value of enlightened con- science in public affairs. We should do in- justice to our own feelings if we failed to pay him this tribute and to assure him that the best public sentiment of the Northern States regards him as a sincere patriot and a wise statesman. Those who are so forward to tell us and are so anxious to tell the public through our columns that affairs like the Hamburg butchery are of purely local concern, and they happen have any duty in regard to them, have profited but little by the tremendous history of the last twenty JULY 20. 1876. ———_—_— years. Twenty years ago it was said that the federal government had nothing to do with slavery ; that it was a purely domestic institution, subject only to State regulation. This may have been a sound view in point of constitutional law, but by the folly of the South the slavery agitation continued to go on until a public sentiment was created which swept down all barriers. If the Southern leaders and their democratic allies in the North had possessed any foresight they would have put an end to the agita- tion, not by vainly pleading the constitu- tional bar, but by uniting to prevent the pretensions and aggressions which stirred Northern indignation to its profoundest depths. It is in the power of the democratic leaders to put an end to these hideons race conflicts in the South by the mere exertion of moral influence and moral authority, and if they are so blind or misguided as to neg- lect this plain duty their experience may prove as unfortunate asin the case of slavery, when they constantly used the same argu- ment—that it is ‘none of our business.” Unless these outrages are stopped the people of the North will make it their business, and it will be found impossible to maintain con- stitutional barriers when they are perverted to defend outrages on freedom, justice and humanity. It is in the interest of local self- government that the Hrraxnp gives this friendly warning. Mr. Wheeler's The judicious and manly letter of the re- publican candidate for’ Vice President, printed elsewhere, is noteworthy for the prominence it gives to the necessity of pro- tecting all classes of citizens in the South. The emphasis given to this question by Mr. Wheeler befits his position in the canvass, inasmuch as the principal reason for his nomination was the distinguished part he bore in the pacification of Louisiana. It was “the Wheeler compromise” that put an end to the troubles of that State in the spring of 1875. His conduct in effecting that settle- ment was so fair and considerate and yet so firm as to raise him in public estimation, and the tranquillity ; which has reigned in Louisiana since the adoption of his compromise is a trophy which any statesman might be proud to wear. His apposite quotation from his declaration of sentiments at the time is in refreshing contrast to the bloody shirt harangues of Senator Morton and other republican leaders. Mr, Wheeler seems inspired by a deep sense of justice ; and, as it is the nature of justice to be impartial, he deals as fairly with the South as with those whose rights are imperilled by the brutal conduct of a portion of the Southern people. He makes due allowance for the ignorance and misjudged impulsiveness of communi- ties destitute of onr Northern facilities for popular education, and deprecates harsh judgments which make no allowance for the peculiar difficulties and dangers which beset Southern society. But he Leiter of Acceptance. taining the right of all American citizens to equal and full protection. ‘This will be accomplished,” Mr. Wheeler justly says, “only when the American citizen, without regard to color, shall wear this panoply of citizenship as fully and as securely in the canebrakes of Louisiana as on the banks of the St. Lawrence.” There is nothing in Mr. Wheeler's views on this important subject which the democratic party might not ac- cept and ought not to indorse. We should rejoice to see a new and a broader ‘‘Wheeler compromise” than that which was adopted in Louisiana last year—a compromise which would bury the bloody shirt and Bourbonism in the same grave and take the Southern ques- tion out of party politics. The deplorable race conflicts in the South would soon end if all republican leaders would be as moderate and considerate as Mr. Wheeler and all the democratic leaders would be as just, wise and high toned as Mr. Lamar. Tue Sreampoat Insrzctors should cer- tainly attend to their business. The fear- fully overcrowded state of the excursion steamers, on Sundays particularly, sends a thrill of horror through those who know enough to figure to themselves the whole- sale slaughter that would inevitably follow any catastrophe on board. At this period ofthe yearan excursion down the Bay is among the most desirable ways of passing a day outside the broiling city, but why hold out every inducement tq misfortune and make a day of pleasure be passed at the gate to the grave of five or six hundred persons? These steamers generally carry double the number of passengers allowed by law. A sudden squall, an outbreak of fire or even the alarm of fire, not to speak of other dangers, might produce a panic that the overcrowding would make tenfold more dangerous. While we have provisions of law covering the point of overcrowding and officers paid to see them enforced, cases of absolute cramming of excursion steamers are reported to us daily. We have before called upon the inspectors to stop it. If ‘they cannot choose more honestly between public safety and the greed of the steamboat men others must be found who wiil. The scene described elsewhere on the Plymouth Rock and the breaking down of the ma- chinery of the Americus yesterday, com- pelling her to be towed into port by the Neversink, show that we do not overrate the dangers. Tur Custer Moxvmant.—With Lieuten- ant General Sheridan as President of thé Custer National Monument Association, with the hotels and restaurant owners and the clubs taking the matter in hand, the sub- scriptions continue to march famously. The idea taking possession of our citizens, who admire the gallant dead, is the right one. It is that the man or woman, boy or girl, who has anything to spare in the good cause, should send it at once rather than wait until they have more. This will keep the sub- scriptions rolling, and, as “repeating” is not forbidden, those who have sent before can do soagain. A great many of our citizens, we are told, are out of town who would con- tribute. Very well. Who will be the first to start subscriptions in the summer cities and resorts? People are rather more gen- toga, at Newport and Delaware Water Gap, at the White Mountains and the Catskills, Send round the lists after dinner. Am Oacis in the Canvass. Uncle Sammy Tilden and Centennial Diz are old political rivals and personal friends. We felt certain that when the news of the great campaign against the ducks which Centennial Dix is making on the Hampton beaches, down on Long Island, came to the ears of Uncle Sammy it would arouse his feelings as a sportsman. It is no surprise to us to learn that Tilden will shortly visit East Hampton as the guest of Mr. Gardner. East Hampton is an old, quaint, unique town near the sea, with a fine avenue of spreading trees. Talmage preaches to the surging seas to keep himself in tone, Thera are no taverns, no billiard saloons, and Rus- kin will be rejoiced to know there is no rail- way within six or seven miles. There are windmills, and an evening coach like De- lancey Kane’s, whose driver blows a horn, and which carries the government mail and the New York Heratp. We do not knowa more soothing place for s Presidential can- didate. As Centennial Dix is only a few miles off—in West Hampton—Uncle Sammy can meet him, and they can have 4 fine time among the ducks. We should like ta see these fine old sportsmen at theis best. And if Peter Cooper could be tempted to go down and take a hand the result would be memorable in the annals of sport. Uncle Sammy is a firm shot, with steady nerves and good eyes, ind, as Tweed and others might testify, sure to bring his game inthe long run. But it will be hard for Uncle Sammy and Grandfather Peter to beat the score of Centennial Dix. Moreover, as a reason for Uncle Sammy's trip on the Hampton beaches, and in East Hampton especially, the thermometer is never, nob “even in these days, more than five hundred in the shade. Bristow, Grant and the Frauds. Is it not just possible that one reason why Bristow does not go before the committee of Congress and tell all he knows is that he knows nothing worth telling? Grant's record in the whiskey business will come out straight. His enemies have had the newspapers for a year, and have used them, but have failed ta throw a stain upon the President. Grant is not a candidate for the Presidency, nor for any other place that we are aware of, unless it may be John A. Logan's as Senator from Illinois. He wants to get through, go to Europe, and have a good time. If the weather continues it would not surprise us to hear that he had turned the whole ma- chine over to Ferry and gone abroad. With the thermometer at one hundred and sixty degrees or thereabouts, and both houses in session, and republicans crying out against the man they have made President for twa terms, and Hayes not saying a word about the second Washington ; with Belknap im- peached and Robeson hovering on the verge of impeachment—what may not a wornout President do? The prospect of ten months of Ferry, with his views on finance, should make us a little more tolerant to Grant, who is, nevertheless, immovably firm in main-) .i1) live in the splendor of history long after his accusers have been forgotten. “Fars Pray” to Grant.—Colonel Me- Clure, of the Philadelphia Times, is anxious that Hayes should have a ‘‘fair chance,” and to that end he thinks the republicans should repudiate the administration. We do not see how this would help Hayes, Suppose Grant were to repudiate the republican party by resigning, would he not leave Hayes in a sorry plight? He would turn the government over to Ferry and the Pograms, the inflationists of the West. There 1s a good deal of cant in this wanting to be rid of Grant. We are willing to have him fo1 eleven terms in preference to such an ad- ministration as would come in with Ferry, And, after all, Grant will be a memorable and honored figure in our history, long after Til- den and Hayes, Wheeler and Hendricks, and all the statesmen who are abusing him are forgotten. Now that the weather is so warm, and especially in Philadelphia, let independ ent journalists like McClure take large views of things. M. Joes Simon's reply to Bishop Dupan- loup on the University bill in the French Senate puts the case of popular government against church usurpation in a nutshell, Attacking such measures as the one the present University bill seeks to repeal is not attacking religion, but opposing the en. croachments of the Church on the civil power. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bon Hill wants to run for Congress again Sitting Bull should remomber other hearts that ache Mr. Morrissey would make a good Secretary of War Baron Canpe, of Germany, is at the Fifth avenw Hotel. Count Von Dohna, of Germany, isat the Grand Cen. tral Hotel. * The belle at Mount Washington is a wealthy orphan from Dover, N. H. M. Martell, of Cognac, France, is at St. Louis, and is on his way to Canada, They are shipping ice from Boston to Washington, D.C, and gotting $2 50 per ton. Secretary Chandler arrived in the city yesterday from Washington, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. T. de Corcelle, Secretary of the French Legation s ‘Washington, is sojourning at the Union Square Hotel A Ninto ward baby is so healthy from drinking pare gorte that they have to feed it cucumbers to make home pleasant There is a report in San Francisco that Frank Pixley has purchased the San Francisco Post from Senator Jones, its latest owner. Philadelphia mead and Canada root beer have not driven out our native soda water. They taste too mack like kissing a girl with a mouthful of chewing gam. Rochester Democrat:—Heury Watterson poetically says that ico is “water gone to sicep.” It has every opportunity for going to sicop while Henry Wattersos is around. Count Manzoni, of Italy; Count Sforza and Count Noudorf, of Vienna, and Count Czapski, of Berlin, arrived from Europe yesterday and aro atthe Hotel Brunswick. A locomotive without furnace has commenced rune ning in Paris on ono of the tramways, It bas a reser. voir of superheated water, which furnishes a constant supply of steam for moving the vehicle. On anuther line of tramway an ordinary steam locomotive 1s at work. It is like a smail omnibus in shape and sizo, containing a boiler, The furnace 1s out of sight and fed with coke and charcoal, The draught of the furnace ig kept up by a supply of compressed air, Thirteen unhappy Bangor fellows arc mourning the loss of rings, necklaces, watches, &c., which they have given from time to time to a beautiful, bine-eyed and modest French girl who bas suddenly made off tor parts unknown, Each individual heart, blissfully crous than usual at Long Branch and Sara- | ignorant of the other dozen, was broken at the news; but it afterward appeared that the delicate thing was one of fifty young women who left France jor the Com tennial, determining tc make green America loot the bus.