The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1876, Page 4

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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY ~ Noricz to County N 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 Heraup till de sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of lcenty-five cents per week, free of postage. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be very warm and partly cloudy. Warn Srarer Yzsrerpa were sluggish and prices irregular, without im- portant change. Gold opened at 111 3-4 and closed at 111 7-8. Money continues | abundant, and is supplied on call at2 1-2 | and 2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were quiet but firm. Business Fartures 1n Enauanp are be- | coming more numerous every day. This in- dicates a condition of financial unsoundness that may well alarm the people of that “tight little island.” Trpen Waits ror Concress.—It is said that Mr. Tilden is waiting for Congress to adjourn before he writes his letter of accept- ance. A reform candidate for the Presi- dency should wait for no one. Tuar Antsrocratic Rapicaz, Sir Charles Dilke, M. P., is not coming to the Centen- nial after all. ‘Phis shows a lack of stead- fastness to principle, for if he believes in the people as the source of authority he skould embrace the opportunity of showing eis less advanced fellow legislators what tne peopte have accomplished here during a single century. Tren anp Hayes.—It is said that the reason Governor Tilden does not write his letter of acceptance is that he is too busy with his duties as Governor of New York. Well, Hayes is Governor of Ohio, and he found time to write a letter which helps his canvass. Uncle Sammy must not let the sountry think that Hayes is a livelier Execu- tive than himself. Tre Excno Sarerp.—England has this year recaptured the celebrated Elcho Shield, which was won last year by the Irish team. The shooting at Wimbledon yesterday will most interest our rifle shooting readers by its possible bearing upon the Centennial contest in September at Creedmoor. Of the three competing teams a large proportion of the members of two of them—the Scotch and the Irish—will shoot upon the teams of their respective countries here. Tne Weatner will continue warm and cloudy, with occasional local thunder storms passing to the northwest of this city, which will probably give usa sprinkling of rain now and then. Copious rainfalls have occurred in the Upper Missouri and Missis- sippi valleys and over the lake region, which will be felt in New York State to-morrow and Sunday. On Tuesday the temperature will fall somewhat, and cool weather, with westerly winds, will prevail for some days, Tux Eoyrtian Goyrnnaent sets itself above the law which it has itself created, and refuses to permit the execution of a judgment rendered against it by one of its own courts. The result proves that the Judge considers that his functions as a dis- penser of justice have ceased, and he there- fore closes his court. The nature of the case which has led to this deadlock between government and court is not yet fully known, but it illustrates very clearly the difficulties that surround litigation where an absolute | vuler is the defendant. Tue Previous Rumors of the death of Bitting Bull in the attack upon General Custer are in a measure confirmed this morning, but we still regard it as exceed- ingly doubtful that he is dead. It is not easy to identify a dead savage by means of descrip- tions and comparisons, and it seems too much to expect this Sioux warrior to have | met tho fate of Custerand his companions. | Btill, it may be true, and if it is the mere | fact will do much to destroy the prestige of | the fatal battle from which such evil coase- | quences were feared. Eant Densy acknowledges the receipt of | f& communication from the United States | government relative to the Extradition Treaty. He desires a further delay to the expression of parliamentary opinion regard- ing this matter, and the opposition oblige him so far as to postpone a motion on the subject. Now, while it existed, the treaty suited us very well, and the first objection raised to its operation was by the English | Minister. We hope, therefore, that in the desire to recement the diplomatic relations between the two countries, our govern- ment will make no concessions not consist- ent with our national rights and dignity. The suggestion of any modification in the terms of the old treaty must come from Eng- land, to be accepted or rejected by us, asour | interests demand, i The Canvass for the Presidency—Its Hopes, Opportunities and Illusions. It requires unusual courage and endurance to calmly discuss the canvass for the Presi- dency with the thermometer above the nineties. But the canvass continues in spite of the weather, and we are bound to follow its varying phases from day to day. So far as New York is concerned we shall hardly know what shape it will take until after the meeting of the State conventions. It may be taken for granted that the democrats will do whatever Mr, Tilden deems wisest in ar- ranging the State ticket. Mr. Tilden will not repeat the experiment of the last Conven- tion, where he made upa ticket of friends and favorites, ignoring the claims of old and in- fluential democrats, He wilf seek out the veterans, the representatives of unfriendly interests, and, if possible, give Mr. Seymour the head of the ticket. There never was a better chance for anti-Tilden democrats to come to the front. We shall have a ticket that will poll every democratic vote in the State. The republicans are embar- rassed. The war upon Mr. Conkling is waged with the ferocity shown toward him at Cin- cinnati, and his enemies seem willing to im- | peril the canvass of Hayes to injure the most eloquent and one of the most gifted leaders in the party. If Mr. Conkling rejects the counsel of passion, if he subdues his anger and his pride, he will withdraw every per- sonal element from the canvass, compel his | opponents to name some unexceptionable | ticket and go into the fight for Hayes as he did into the fight for Grant foar years ago. In such a contest as Mr. Conkling’s friends are forcing upon him he has all to lose and nothing to gain. He must not destroy him- self in New York, but make himself strong before the country with a strength that will be felt four years from now. Tilden’s delay in writing his letter of ac- ceptance, the contradictory rumors about Hendricks, the insubordination of the West- ern democrats and the course of Tilden organs on civil service reform, have given the democratic canvass an uneasy aspect. ‘The letter of Hayes has had a marked effect in uniting all the discordant factions of the re- publican party, and asa political move it is a masterpiece. The declaration for one term and against Cesarism, which ends the war begun by the Hzraup four years ago, pro- duces profound satisfaction. The people, knowing the skill and power of Tilden, are impatient to hear what he has tosay. This impatience is increased by the eccentric con- duct of Mr. Hendricks. That gentleman does not show toward Mr. Tilden the loyal enthusiasm that a party expects from the second candidate on the ticket. His journey to Saratoga to make terms upon various | points has made an unpleasant impression, and gives the partisan republicans the chance of saying that some kind of a juggle is intended—that it is to be Seymour and Blair over again—Tilden’ pulling one way and Hendricks the other, just as Seymour and Blair pulled their canvass to pieces between them before it was half over. The fact also that one of the ablest of Mr. Tilden’s news- paper supporters, the one which has earnestly championed him as a candidate before the Convention and the country, has openly de- nounced the civil service reform as a ‘‘step toward aristocracy,” has produced a painful impression, an impression that can only be dispelled by a prompt publication of a letter of acceptance taking as strong ground in favor of civil service reform as Hayes’. The republicans have their special burdens tocarry. They have the burden of sixteen years of power, of Belknap’s impeachment, and the proposed impeachment of Robeson, of the Whiskey Rings and the Washington Rings, of Grant and his new feat of Cwxsar- ism in turning out of his Cabinet conspicu- ous republicans like Jewell. They have the Southern States against them as a unit. They have to fight in a season of unusual depression in business—a falling off in all kinds of trade. They came into power when everything was going up ; now every- thing is going down. The country yearns for a change, for new faces, new ideas, new men, These are strong influences to fight, even when we consider that there isa regular army of eighty thousand office-holders ready for the | contest. The democrats press the plausible issue of reform, and confine themselves to that alone. The republicans answer it by saying that in winning reform on Tilden’s plan the country runs the risk of repudia- tion in the West and revolution in the South. They point to Allen and his finan- cial views, and Hamburg Butler and his riot, Both of these positions have fallacies. It is a fallacy to suppose that under our system of government any President can go-into Washington like Hercules into the Augean stables. We ure not electing an autocrat, but a President, an Executive limited by law. This President will have a Senate probably against him, a House with a large and able republican minority if not a ma- jority. | make (erms with the men his followers now | denounce os corrupt. The friends of Tilden must not xpect too much. If they elect | him on idea that all corruption will stop, th weather will improve, that real cs vill advance and wages stay | where they are; that he will, as on@ of his supporters says, ‘restore prosperity to in- dustry and commerce,” his administration will fail. It is unfair to the Governor to send him into the Presidency laden with hopes and expectations that no mere ‘man, were he a Napoleon, could satisfy. The republicans cherish a fallacy when | they argue that the election of Hayes will prevent repudiation in the West and revolu- tionin the South. It is not the President's work to settle the finances. If Congress should pass an inflation measure Tilden would veto it as promptly as Hayes. More- over, there areas many inflationists in one party as in the other, as Judge Kelley and General Lutler can testify. no standing. As to revolution in the South, the fact that all the outrages of which the Northern people complain have happened under Grant deprives the party of its claim to be the protector of the negro. namely, that it isin the power of one party or the other to help the South. Ever since the close of the war the Southerners have been depending upon the democratic vartv | ing our dead soldiers. For the very safety of his adminis- | | tration the President (Tilden) will have to | So that on the | repudiation issue the republican party has | This | Southern question involves another fallacy | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1874 —-—-.-—_——_ to “pnt down the carpet-baggers,” the scala- wags and the State governments. In doing so they have thrown the republicans upon the offensive, and the answer has been measure after measure of repression, These measures are now the immutable law of the land, and Mr. Tilden cannot change them. If the Southern men had taken the republicans at their word at the close of the war; if they had accepted offers of conciliation; if they had not adopted a policy of ostracism and terrorism, these laws would not now exist. So far as the South is concerned Tilden and Hayes stand upon similar ground; and if the Southern leaders were wise they would so actin the present canvass that the tri- umph of republican or democrat would be their triumph. There is no disposition on the part of republicans to deal with the old South in any but the kindest and most fra- ternal spirit. There is no power on the part of the democrats to do any more for the South than the republicans would do. Til- den will take the same ground in his letter as Hayes, in order to give himself the chance of an election. Any other ground would lose him every Northern State. It is a fallacy to suppose that this canvass is a struggle for anything but power. ‘‘Re- form,” “revolution,” ‘repudiation”—these cries are mere words. We may win civil service and the one term; but this will come, whoever goes in. Hayes has taken grounds in their favor and Tilden will be forced to take grounds. There are no principles at stake—none of those issues that sink deep into the hearts of men. It will be a noisy, insincere, claptrap, defamatory canvass, which we regret. It will, probably, be the last time—more especially if the Southern people are wise—that the republicans and democrats will hold their present lines. New parties must form; new questions must enter our politics—questions affecting the prosperity and the advance- ment of the country. To sum up the situ- ation in one sentence, this is a canvass for roast beef. On one side are the gorged re- publicans, on the other the starving demo- crats. So far as the outside world is con- cerned it will make little difference whether the slices are cut for the next four years by Tilden or Hayes. Honors to Custer and His Men. The proposed monument to Custer and the brave men who died with him on the Yellowstone must not be misunderstood. It is nota trophy of the Indian war. It has nothing to do with the Indian question. It is not a personal tribute*to Custer. It is not to be a military monument, like that to Frederick the Great at Berlin orto Napoleon in the Place Vendéme. It is a monument to bravery, devotion and duty. It will cele- brate alike the valor of Custer who led the charge; of the faithful cor- respondent who died at his side; of the humble private who rode in his retinue. It will commemorate the fact that in this decaying age, when, as the politicians tell us, we are all going to the bad, we have officers and men who, in obe- dience to the call of the country, do not hes- itate to pay to it the highest measure of devotion. The question is not, were we right or wrong with the Indians—was our campaign good or bad—but can we afford to overlook an achievement which for yalor, self-denial and self-sacrifice will be remem- bered with the charge of the Light Brigade, We do not celebrate any war with Indians. There is nothing in these wars to call for mementoes. We only celebrate what was done by American soldiers in the field. In that memento all can join. It isa pleasant fact about this Custer subscription that all classes vie with each other in honor- Most of the subscrip- tions are in small amounts—from the peo- ple. This is gratifying. Ten or twelve wealthy citizens could club together and build a monument to Custer or any one else— @ monument that would be a credit to the city. But this is not what we want. It is our desire that the people should build this; that it should be the expression of the gratitude and admiration of the humblest. |The City Children and the Free Baths. While New Yotk lies “broiling under a noonday sun” day after day, with a ther- mometer rising to the hundred, it is to be hoped that those fortunate citizens whose means enable them to escape from the city’s heat to the cool sea and mountain breezes will give some thought to the poor children who are compelled to remain shut up in the metropolitan oven. Subscriptions irom our summer absentees as well as from others schemes devised for the health and comfort of the children of the poor during the “heated term.” The bay and river excur- sions, the ‘open air fund,” the picnic asso- ciations, should one and all be well supplied with money, for the charity that gives health and happiness to suffering childhood must commend itself to every Christian heart. ‘The city should do its part toward a needed relief by hurrying up the new free | baths, for which, we believe, an ap- propriation has been made, and which | ought to be now in use if they are to be of | any benefit to our citizens this summer. If the city authorities intend to get these baths ready for use when the ice is in the river the mo’ invested in them will yield no return until next year. There seems to be some- thing wrong in the management of the free baths under the present administration, and the delayin launching the new baths shows either incapacity or carelessness in the Pub- lic Works Department. Complaint is made that in the female baths the swimming les- sons are neglected and the attendance is not such as it should be. This should be rem- edied. The new baths should be opened withont delay, and the attendance and man- | agement should be such as to afford full safety to the bathers. Commissioner Camp- | bell should look after these matters himself, and not leave them in the hands of incom- petent subordinates. Is Titpen Wartixa ror Henpnicxs ?—Is Governor Tilden waiting for another visit from Hendricks before he writes his letter of acceptance? Or perhaps he has written it and sent it on to Hendricks for approval. We wonder if Hayes sent his letter to Wheeler ior his avuroval. should flow in liberally to promote at the | accommodation to the public and insure | The Mohawk Disaster. When death by a sudden and awful stroke removes a man as widely known and beloved as ex-Vice Commodore Garner, of the New York Yacht CJub, his dirge is intoned by a thousand lips trembling with pity for his mournful fate.. At one moment, in the ruddy prime of life, full of hope and heart, seated in a charming and brilliant circle, with the wife of his bosom by his side, the bright waves lapping their low laughter without, and the sirens of fortune singing none but gay tunes to his soul; at the next instant,* a shock as from a thunderbolt in his ears, a crash, a quaking and an overturning, an inrush of boiling, angry waters, the bright circle broken forever, a strug- gle, a despair, and husband = and wife, wife's brother and one fair young form sway blind and dead to and fro amid the imprisoned waters— drowned. In our compassion for the dead we almost forget to rejoice over those links of the circle of life in the Mohawk’s cabin snatched by strong will and miraculous circumstance from the opened jaws of death, Some, we are glad to say, were saved; but our pitying thoughts go swiftly back to the terrible picture of lives of love and beauty and- promise quenched utterly in the swaying charnel house beneath the cruel waves. We can but bow our heads and whisper to our hearts what the Word has taught us of how inscru- tably the mystery of life is solved in an instant; how the stoutest bark that man in knowledge, joy and pride can build, is but as paper when the immu- table hour has come for the ‘whitening wind” to strike and the waves of death to engulf. Beautifal and firm to sea and wind as ever boat that sped across the waters seemed the Mohawk to all eyes through her year of life till yesterday. Yet launched in the rain and wind one day of Maya year ago, a gust of wind and a shimmer of rain came out of the blue carrying death to the fair hand that dashed the baptizing wine upon her bows, death to the man who stood in pleasure by that lady’s side. Sad enough in- deed the coincidence to bring to mind the perfidious bark, Built ? th’ eclipse and rigged with curses dark that Milton in melodious mourning sung of. When the first tidings of disaster reached us they seemed incredible. But a few short miles away a stately yacht to founderin a squall, while scarce a breath of air stirred through the sun-scorched city! It could not be true. But it was. It was too true. Almost within sight of the city what had happened once before had happened again, A yacht with life and mirth and worth aboard. had gone down. For awhile it seemed to stand as a solitary story of a wild freak of thé wind, but it was, after all, not the first catastrophe of the same kind in the same waters and the same fair summer time. And this breathes the moral of it all. With the strangest, sharpest cry of sud- den death there come’ a mourning wail, its counterpart, from the past, with awful warning of the same deep ery of agony to come again. It comes out of the shadow that hangs unseen above us all, as the wind bolt came to the living on the Mohawk yes- terday. Hendricks and the Canvass. Some discreet friend of Mr. Hendricks— John Kelly, for instance—should tell him that he is not running for President, but Vice President. We know that Brother Hen- dricks feels sore on this point, and that he disdained the nomination, and that he sent us a corruscating Demosthenes, named Hanna, to howl in Tilden's Gramercy Park mansion, with the thermometer about seven hundred and fifty in the shade, and the ice all melting about the champagne in the dining room, and everybody hungry, about the sacrifice Hendricks made in going upon the ticket. Every day or two we see something in the papers about Hen- dricks. ‘He will accept” or ‘‘he will not accept.” ‘He has made up his mind” and “he has not made up his mind.” He wants to know what Tilden will say about finance. He is anxious about Congress and the Resump- tion act. He hurries to Saratoga and has an interview with Uncle Sammy—the thermome- ter eight hundred in the shade—and Dor- sheimer on guard to keep off the reporters. One story about this interview is that Uncle Sammy and Hendricks had it hot and heavy—pillows, chairs, champagne glasses and miscellaneous articles of furniture flying around—and that but for Dorsheimer the furniture would have been smashed. Then comes another story that the interview was lovely; that each candidate melted under the gtacious candor of the other; that they agreed upon all points; and that all Dorsheimer had to do was to see that the ice was cracked fine and keep his weather eye on the reporters. Now we have a third story from Hendricks himself, which con- firms neither of these, but says that, while Tilden and himself ‘‘differed on some imma- terial points, on the real issnes of the cam- paign” they were united. In addition to this we have a story of an embassy from Hendricks to Congress asking that body to repeal the Resumption act. The attitude of Hendricks and his friends in this campaign is unfortunate. If Hendricks wishes to run for the Vice Presi- dency let him fall into place behind his leader and keep time. The Democratic Con- vention, by singular unanimity, chose 'Til- den to lead this campaign and not Hendricks. They chose Tilden because of his loyalty, his ability, his record a reformer and his soundness on the money question. They did not choose Hendricks becanse, as the Hrnaup expressed it at the time, his nomination would have been construed by conservative men to mean repudiation in the North and revolution in the South. They put Hendricks on the ticket for har- mony, not because they wanted him, and there are many democrats now who feel that it may prove as grave a blunder as the nomi- nation of General Blair with Seymour eight years ago. General Blair, it will be remem- bered, had a policy of his own, like Hen- dricks, and took to writing letters as to what we should all do to restore the Union, and he was whipped and Seymour with him. The democrats feel now that Blair's nomi- nation was a grave blunder. Hendricks } Seews to be foliowing in the wake of Biair. as If he things the place to which he has been nominated too small let him decline it. If the democrats cannot win without Hendricks they cannot win with him. As itis his un- certain, menacing, dissatisfied, officious at- titude hurts the Tilden canvass. If he really means torun for Vice President let him take his place behind his leader, listen to the music and keep time until November. The Westher—The Board of Health. The sanitary condition of the city is at- tracting universal attention. The general aspect of the upper portion of the island is expressed in the Commercial Advertiser of last evening, which says:—‘‘A sail up the East or North River is made sickening at cer- tain points by the vile stenches that come from rendering establishments and oil re- fineries. Thus an excursion skort enough not to weary an invalid dare not be under- taken. Passengers who pass Thirty-ninth street on the North River complain of the horrible odors wafted toward them, while the oil refineries at Hunter’s Point make the passengers on the East River miserable. Citizens have complained until they are tired. In no other city in the world would such things be permittted fora day.” This is only a sample of the complaints that come to us from all quarters. It is out of respect for the feelings of our readers that we decline to print them. It is not pleasant, with the thermometer at 96, to have the morning paper decorated with narratives of nuisances, of stenches and malaria. Yet the subject, disagreeable as it is, is one of the most important character. It shows that we are living in the worst governed city in the world. There is no better test of this than the death rate. Paris is twice as large as New York. It is in a humid climate, on a plain, in the low edge of the European Continent. In Paris the death rate is 22.4, London is nearly four times as large as New York. It is a city densely populated with every form of misery and want, and its death rate is 17.6. In New York the death rate for the week ending July 8 was 47.65. In other words, nearly three times as many people die in New York asin London. Nor can this be attributed to the general unhealth- iness of the country. If we go East—to Bos- ton—we find the rate 24.63, showing that New England is as healthy as France. If we go West we find the rate in St. Louis 26.92, which shows that the generally malarious valley of the Mississippi is much healthier than New York. If we go South we find that Charleston, in a low country also, and near the rice and cotton lands, which are famous for malaria, has only a rate of 26.55. If we cross the riverto Brooklyn we note that the rate is eight per cent less than in New York, while over in torrid Philadel- phia, which everybody abuses, it is seven per cent less. The practical fact is that ina time of general health, with no pestilence and the country free from any special forms of disease, New York is the most unhealthy city in the world. More than all, and this is the alarming fact that comes home to every household, this mortality is largely among the children. In twenty-five days, in New York city, over two thousand chil- dren under five years have been buried, and the report says:—‘‘The direct cause of their death was cholera infantum, caused by the extreme heat and want of proper diet and fresh air.” Here, then, is the sad, ghastly, heart-rend- ing fact that two thousand children have died within the last twenty-five days. Most of these lives, under a good government, might have been saved to their parents. Let us suppose that the authorities were to suppress the nuisances like those of which the Com- mercial Advertiser complains. These soap factories and refineries could be made to do their business without inconvenience to the public, Here would be a great improvement. But the owners have ‘political influ- ence,” and the people are denied their rights. Let us suppose we had rapid transit. Then, instead of packing our honest, virtuous, deserving poor into unhealthy tenement houses, they might live in Westchester, each laborer in his own humble, tasteful, pretty home, with air, space, sunshine. But the owners of railways and proprietors of tenement houses have ‘‘influence,” and so rapid transit is postponed from year to year, and whenever we have a warm spell the children must die by thousands in order that the owners of Sixth Avenue and. Third Avenue Railway stocks may have large dividends. Our whole government is rotten to the core, and we see the result now in the death of hun- dreds of children whose lives might be spared. There is not a little one whose soul passes away in these dirty, dingy tenement houses who is not a martyr. Our immediate duty is to relieveas much as possible the sufferings of the poor, and if possible to arrest this pesti- lence. We can all do something, and let us do it. The poorer sections of this great city are filled with Rachels who mourn for their childyen and will not be comforted. Strengthening Plasters in Politics. The democrats propose to nominate Horatio Seymour for Governor. Some republicans wish to offset this by nominating William M. Evarts, Neither of these gentlemen de- sires the office. Mr. Seymour has just de- clined to be a candidate for the Presidency, and the friends of: Mr. Evarts think he would demean himself to ran for a State of- fice. Seymour and Evarts are wanted as strengthening plasters. The more the poli- ticians study the State the more doubtfal it appears. Neither party will have a walk over. Consequently the strongest names are wanted for the State ticket. Mr. Tilden made up a slate at the last convention of fa- vorites and cronies, but this year he evinces a desire to have the old statesmen and war horses to the front. Hence Seymour is named, The republicans have treated Mr, Evarts with « shabbiness that cannot be ex- cused. He has never received the least recognition from Grant except to be retained in the Alabama case, But now the republi- cans want to bring out the last voter, and above all that class of men who admire the splendor of the name of Evarts, the stain- less purity of his life and his high acquire- ments. With Seymour as a strengthening plaster for the democratic ticket, and Evarts asa strengthening plaster for the republi- cans. we should have @ warm canvass, i mip eee Si RSLS Stee Ne A Petition to Congress. It is really time for Congress to adjourn. The thermometer in Washington is away up, about nine hundred and fifty in the shade, and we notice alarming symptoms in the behavior of our own little Sunset Cox and Townsend and some of our sable statesmen from the Carolinas. The only man who seems to keep his head cool is Blue Jean Williams, which, we are told, is the result of copious libations of iced lemonade. The second Washington feels the heat keenly, as Mr. Jewell and other wandering statesmen will testify, and we would not blame him if he were to throw down his staff and turn the whole concern over to Ferry. Ferry is a statesman who appears the better the higher the thermometer. But the second Washing. ton has his cottage at Long Branch all ready, newly painted and the shrubbery getting on, with George W. Childs, ex-Collector Murphy, Mr. Hoey and other serene and soothing influences awaiting his coming, and Congress will not adjourn. Moreover, what good does Con- gress do remaining in session? We can fancy Mr. Fish asking the question, sure rounded by dusty portfolios and letters upon extradition from Lord Derby, and thinking of his Hudson River home, opposite West Point, where he can have the Heraup for breakfast all the days in the week, Sun- days included. The two members of the administration to be envied are Jewell and Bristow. The ex-Postmaster General ean sit under his spreading oaks and not care a postage stamp whether the fast mail trains run or*not. The ex- Secretary of the Treasury can stroll along the Newport cliffs and see the polo games three times a week, with no grim Ulysses to frown upon him. Ifthe weather continues we shall soon have no government, and members of the Cabinet will begin to defy the President in order that they may be dis- missed into cooler havens. Let Congress adjourn and save the Republic ! Toe Reat Trovstx.—One ot the troublea in the democratic canvass is that the party has two candidates for the Presidency. The ticket is all head and no: tail, When two ride the same horse one must ride behind— and Hendricks insists upon riding ahead, Tue Lrerats yor Haves anp WHEELER.— Colonel Ethan Allen, chairman of the National Liberal Republican Convention, writes an address announcing that the liberals will support Hayes and Wheeler. Colonel Allen’s communication comes to us at a time when the thermometer is eight hundred in the shade, and is cool and re freshing when we remember that the Colone] himself and our venerable John Cechrane are the only remaining liberals. We con. gratulate Hayes and Wheeler upon thei votes. They may need them, and no good politician despises the day of small things, Ler Trpen Waive His Lerrer.—If Tile den has made up his mind what to say to the country on the question of the Presidency let him say it. There are few men in pab- lic life more ready with the pen. He could write a letter in an hour. Waar Is Nexpep.—if Hendricks could only get it into his head that he is a candi- date for the Vice Presidency, and not for the Presidency, it would harmonize the democratic canvass. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pinchbaek’s back pay is $17,000. Stokes ovjected to having his beard cut off. ‘The American colony 1n Paris is very small. Just as the ear is bent the woman’s inclined, ‘The woollen manufacture is increasing in this coun. try. Bishop Bourget, of Providence, is not expected te live. D. 0, Mills, President of the Bank of California, has returned home. Erastus Corning and Chief Justice Church retuse to work for Tilden. A little salt put into a glass of soda water will make it keep a month. It don’t take a St Louis man long to makea milu punch bald-headed. A Leipsic girl may not go to the theatre with a beau, but she may go alone. Some democrats are nover satisfed until they get hit in the head with a brick. Indiana towns want English sparrows, which will ex. terminate all the nati ve birds, Some Pennsylvania capitalists will erect an iron- front hotel at Jacksonville a Danbury News:—‘‘It is better to do right than to do wrong—if you Nave the time.”” Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is stopping at the Thousaad Island House, Alexandria Bay. The Rochester Democrat says that the Chinaman is more chinned against than chioning. Sioux squaws do not wear striped stockings, Three streaks of green paint are cooler and cheaper. The weather is sodamp at Coney Island that they have begun to put cork soles into their clam chowder, Seiior Don G. Videla Dorna, Argentine Chargé d’Af- faires at Washington, is sojourning at the Aldbemarie Hotel, Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is strong for election to the United States Senate in place of ex-3ec retary Boutwoll. A Chinaman was found to be tho only man in an Atlanta car who was polite enough to get up and give his seat to a lady. . Hon, Power Henry Le Poer French, Secretary of the British Legation, arrived from Washington yestorday at the Clarendon Hotel. sefior Don Adolfo Ybafiez, Chiliam Minister at Wash- ington, arrived in the city iast evening from Saratoga and te at the St, James Hotel. “The Supreme Court of California recently examined thirteen students who applied for admission to the Bar, ‘and refused to admit any of them, Danbury News:—‘‘As an evidence of the bard times in New York i the fact that an ordinary peach coats filty cents) Less than ayear ago this fruit was solling for fifty conts a basket.” Hon, William M. Evarts’ horses and equipage havo arrived at Windsor, Vt., from New York, His coun- try residence has been occupied by the larger part of his family for some time. Norwich Bulletin :—“Fos man,” siys Mr. Talmage, “marriage is the only estate that is right’ And if he marries a society woman he is lucky at the ond of the year if he finds any estate that js left, William E, Gladstone, John Bright, W. E. Baxter and the other English free traders who have been elected members of the Boston Free Trado Ciub send lettors of thanks and encouragement to the club, Senator Sharon, who is in San Francisco, denies that he is going toresign. He says that Ralston’s death. mixed up his affairs, but that another year wil! straighten bim out, and that then he will attend te his Senatorial duties. A correspondent writes asking whether thore ‘is no some way of making metal ¢ and thus compro mise Tilden and Hendricks.” Cortainly. Quicksiive: is good, and while Tilden loves his at zero Hendricks ought to be pleased with ninety-nine in tho shade, At the wedding of Sir. Chandler Robbins and Mim Frelinghaysen, early in the fall, Miss Baith Fish, daughter of the Secretary of State; Miss Thornton, daughter of Sir Edward Thornton, and Miss Cadwatla. der, will be among the bridesmaids, The wedding wilt take place at Senator Frelinghaysen’s home, at New. ask, N. 4. y!