The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1876, Page 4

_ their development £ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1876. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR PaFutind irk THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hamar, eee and packages should be properly sealed Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STRE LONDON OF OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-NO. FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFIC AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the some terms asin New York. you Mh XL i KO. bo AMUSEMENTS THs APTERNOON AND EVENING. lala THEATRE. THE MIGHTY Douea ats P.M. GILMORE’S GARDEN, GRAND CONCERT, at 5 1. MOSE, at 8 aa P.M. PASTOR'S THBATRE, TONY CARTETY, at 8 P.M. PARIS atSP.M, Matinee at2 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. VIQUE, at 8 P.M, Matinee at 2 P. NEW YORK, a RIETIES, SATL RDAY. JULY From our reports this morning the are that the weather to-day will be grit clear and cooler. Naricr to Country NewspgaLers.—For prompt and requiar delivery of the Herarp by yest mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free summer months the Hxnanp will ribers in the country at the rate of postage. During the Le sent to bcendy-five c Wann Srrerr Yesterpay.—Stocks closed fim on smaller transactions than usual. Gold opened at 1113-4, and was strong Uhereafter at 1117-8. Money on call con- tinued easy at 21-2and2 percent. Govern- ment and railway bonds _were steady. Dom Pepno, the ‘Emperor of Brazil, has arrived at Queenstown, and, if he is true to bis instincts, he is already examining into the social and political condition of Ireland. ‘Tur Saratoca Racxs will begin next Tuesday, and much good sport is antici- pated. These races have a charm of their own, and Saratoga may be called the Ameri- can Ascot. Stow Marrs Acatw.—We congratulate our reform House of Representatives upon the suppression of the fast mails to the West. Now let us put an end to railways and tele- graphs. The work of reform should go bravely on. Tux Convition of the English and Scotch operatives in the mills is growing worse, and the reduction of wages is likely to become general. ‘This will be followed by strikes and great suffering, and in the end the workmen will be worsted. The business depression is so severe it is to be feared that only starving labor will revive it. A Svacrstion.—The Cincinnati Enquirer proposes that when Tilden sends in his letter of acceptance he resign his office as Governor. The matter is of little moment. We are satisfied with Uncle Sammy where he is now. One reason why he should re- sign, however, is that it would make Dor- sheimer Governor, and enable us to have his portrait painted at the expense of the State, Tup Tonks are too late in claiming a vic- tory over the Servian priest Doutchitch. The Servians were a day ahead in scoring up that triumph. As it is impossible for people ata long distance from the scene to know which side to believe where both claim the victory some general rule of judgment be- comes necessary. Hereafter let the triumph be aceorded to the side which is first to claim it. Arrocrtres 1x Burcarta.—There is no longer any doubt that the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria are of the most fiendish charac- ter, and the HeraLp correspondent at Con- stantinople telegraphs this morning a con- firmation of the recent reports of these out- rages. Some of the Bashi Bazouks, it is said, have been arrested for participating in these atrocities. Now we shall see whether the Turkish government is really in earnest in its promise of bringing these zealots to pun- ishment. thas Tue Latest Apvices from General Terry's command represent him as waiting for reinforcements and show the difficulty of communicating with General Crook. The report of Sitting Bull's death is not gredited by Colonel Hughes, who brings this news from Terry's headquarters. Appar- ently the Indian campaign is at a standstill, md it is to be feared that the war will last many months unless the army is strength- ened sufficiently to make the advance cflective. Sm Epwarp Wriusam Watkin is a British statesman of a peculiar stamp, and it seems he is anxious that Great Britain shall offer ber friendly offices for the termination of the war with the Sioux. Watkin apparently tympathizes with the Indians in this strug- gle, and we are quite willing that he shall undertake a mission to Sitting Bull as soon as he is ready to visit that gentle savage. It is possible, however, that Watkin and Sit- ting Bull have real estate interests in the same neighborhood. As Anxouncep IN THE Heravp the begin- ning of the coming week will bring cooler weather. The barometric areas have reas- sumed their alternations in onr latitude, and we may, therefore, look forward to the re- mainder of the summer for genial warmth, | tenipered occasionally by cooling winds | from the westward. However, in the South- era and Southwestern States, the isotherms | indieate marked differences of temperature between points near to each other, and these, with the peculiar distribution of pres- mores in those regions, cause us to antici- pate local storms and even tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley and west of the Alle- ghany range. The regions referred to may escape these storms, but the present meteor- ological conditions there are favorable for Race Troubles in the South—Demo- tratic Flippamcy, Sophistry and In- comsistency. We suspect that the democratic press will speak in quite a different tone on affairs like the Hamburg butchery after the publication of Mr. Tilden’s letter of acceptance. The party needs to be educated, and we shall be disappointed if its Presidential candidate does not teach it to exercise more sobriety of judgment on questions connected with the South. The foolish levity and flippancy with which democratic journals are asking why the recent bloodshed in Newark is not made a topic of federal politics as well as the affair at Hamburg, illustrates the shallow- ness and heartlessness which small politi- cians bring to the consideration of great subjects. It is true enough that disturb- ances of the peace and occasional bloody riots take place in the Northern States, and that it would be absurd and ridiculous for the federal government to take any notice of them. They occasion no anxiety because they are always on so smallascale that the State governments can easily suppress them. Even the miners’ riots in Pennsylvania are confined to a com- paratively insignificant portion of the pop- ulation of that State, but if fully one-half of its people were laborers in the coal mines, with a proportionally numerous body of sympathizers throughout the North, we could not ignore the magnitude of the dan- ger. Now, there are several of the Southern States in which the white and the black pop- ulation are nearly equal, and a local riotany- where in the South, growing out of antag- onism of race, might suddenly spread over wide areas. The passions both of the ne- groes and the whites are in an inflammable condition, and any chance excitement may spread like wildfire. The negroes would, of course, get the worst of itin any conflict of arms, but if they were roused and maddened | to apply the torch of the incendiary to hun- dreds of thousands of Southern dwell- ings and outhouses, the smoke of conflagration and wail of desolation which would ascend from so many planta- tions would put the whole land in mourn- ing. Ariotin the South differs from a riot in the North by its infinitely greater tendency to spread and become universal. It is like the difference between an occasional fire in an ordinary town and the oversetting of a lamp in a cow stable in a city like Chicago, which had been converted into a vast mass of tinder by protracted dry winds from the prairies. A mining riot in Penn- sylvania is limited by the number of miners; the old anti-rent riots in New York were limited by the number of tenants who held leases under the patroons, but a race conflict in the South is liable to extend throughout all the region where the two races exist in pretty nearly equal numbers. It is pre- posterous to make comparisons between occasional riots in the North and race troubles in the South. A conflagration cannot extend beyond the fuel that feeds it. In the Southern States the combustible material is spread over the whole section, and it would be a national misfortune if any event should happen calculated to lash the excitable negro mind into a frenzy. We do not expect to make any impression on the minds of flippaat democratic editors, but we are confident that Governor Tilden perceives the gravity of the race problem in the South. We wish to recall his attention to the former attitude of the democratic party in respect to emancipation, and to the main argument urged by enlightened demo- cratic statesmen of the last generation against the abolition of slavery. We cannot believe, and we do not believe, that those great statesmen were fools. But either they were idiots or the flippant democratic editors of our time are idiots. It was constantly maintained by the most sagacious and most philosophical democratic statesmen of the last generation that the abolition of slavery would lead toa disastrous conflict of races in the Southern States, resulting in the extermination of the blacks or the whites. Not only great demo- cratic statesmen liko Calhoun, but great whig statesmen like Clay promul- gated this opinion. Owing to a fortunate combination of circumstances their predic- tions have not as yet been realized; but the tendencies which so deeply impressed them are none the less real. Those tendencies are likely to become operative after the election of a democratic President unless special precautions are taken. The negroes are ignorant and credulous, and the re- publican stump speakers in this canvass wilk attempt to convince them that if Mr. Tilden is elected they will lose all their rights, If they are made to believe this there will bea spirit of universal mutiny among the Southern blacks if the democratic party elects the next President, and the tre- mendous and desolating race conflicts which former democratic statesmen so constantly predicted as the certain consequence of emancipation may then be fulfilled, unless Governor Tilden is wise enough to reassure the negroes by declaring his purpose to maintain their rights. There was hardly a democratic statesman of any note or mark in the last generation who did not predict an exterminating war of races in the South as the probable conse- quence of emancipation. The fact that such a consequence has been accidentally averted for ten or eleven years does not prove that they were wrong in their estimate of tenden- cies; it only demonstrates the repressive power of the federal government, which has kept these tendencies in abeyance. But if it shall be the policy of a democratic Presi- dent to leave the two races in the South to follow their own impulses without restraint nobody can tell what may happen. The very worst will happen unless all the great lights of the democratic party in the last age were utterly mistaken. Not wishing to encumber our columns with endless citations we will only give brief extracts from Mr. Calhoun as samples of what was said by him and a multitude of others:—‘‘To destroy the existing relations between the free and servile races in the South,” said Mr. Calhoun, ‘‘would lead to consequences unparalleled in history. They | cannot be separated, and cannot live to- | gether in their mutual peace or harmony, or to advantage, except in their | present relations, Under any othor wretch- |, there was a new revelation. + $5,602,000 ; in 1873, edness and misery and desolation would over- spread the South.” (Works, vi., 309.) Speaking of emancipation in the British West India Islands he said:—‘Very differ- ent would be the result of abolition in the United States. To form a correct concep- tion of what would be the result we must look, not to Jamaica, but to St. Domingo for example. The change would be followed by unforgiving hate between the two races and end in a bloody and deadly struggle be- tween them for superiority. One or the | other would have to be subjugated, extir- | pated or expelled; and desolation would overspread their territories, as in St. Do- mingo, from which it would take centuries to recover.” (Works, v., 389.) We could multiply such quotations to any extent from the works of Mr. Calhoun and the speeches and declarations of other democratic states- men, The tendencies which they depicted in glowing colors have thus far been held in check by federal authority; but if all outside checks should be withdrawn on the election of a democratic President can anybody be cer- tain that those confident democratic pre- dictions would not be fulfilled? If there was even the faintest ground of probability for such predictions to rest upon the foolish flippancy of the democratic editors, who liken the race troubles in the South to occa- | sional disturbances of the peace in the North, is sufficiently apparent. Unless every democratic statesman who enjoyed the confidence of the party when it was in power was a silly dreamer, frightened by the chimeras of his own imagination, there is a very broad distinction between the con- dition of the South since emancipation and that of any Northern community. We be- lieve, or at least hope, that Governor Tilden will rezognize this distinction and that he will speak out in such forcible language as | will prevent republican demagogues from | alarming the negroes and sowing in their | minds the seeds of rebellion if he should be elected. The Kiver and Harbor Bill. The weather is too warm for the country to give much attention to the controversy between the Senate and the House in the matter of economy. There have been angry debates, sectional strifes, committees of con- ference and no result. We have followed these debates pretty closely, and the con- clusion at which we have arrived is that the whole difficulty lies in the campaign. The democrats are striving to make capital on their side and the republicahs on their side. There has been an ostentatious pretence of economy in the army and navy bills and in the diplomatic service. Small items have been cut down with a parade of economy. But when the River and Harbor Appropria- tion bill came to the Senate from the House This bill is one of the gigantic jobs of legislation. Every Congressman has his district, and in every district there is a creek or stream or inlet or puddle of some kind. As every citizen thinks his own puddle the greatest in the country he expects his representative to have it dredged or widened at the public expense, So, when the bill is made up, | Jones, who wants Poodle Creek deepened, and Smith, who would like Towser Bend straightened, and Robinson, who thinks Spaniel Bay should connect with the ocean, agree to support each other's plans. By this process of log-rolling a bill is made up in which every member is interested, and which has items like this :— For deepening the channel of Poodle Creek where it enters Big Dog Bay . $40, For removing obstructions at Towser Rent. For opening the inlet to Spantel Bay... This isthe River and Harbor | Appropria- tion bill, which appropriates in round num- bers $7,000,000, and which Senator Thurman characterized in debate as a ‘monstrous bill.” Every year this bill has increased. In 1869 we gave $2,000,000; in 1870, $3,745,900 ; in 1871, $4,408,000; in 1872, $6,287,900; in 1874, $5,248,000, and in 1875, $6,662,000. The reform House brings the aggregate up to $7,000,000. The House, which passed this bill and sent it to the Senate, has been working for economy. This bill shows the falsity of that pretence. If there is one expense we could cut down now it is the improvement of our rivers and harbors. We could wait a year or two until we had a little more money ; ‘until taxes were lower ; until Uncle Sammy became President and “revived industry and commerce.” But this ‘reform’ House, which has been economizing so valiantly, is as extravagant as its predecessors when there is a little capital to be made at home. | The practical way of attending to these | riverand harbor improvements is for Con- | gress to waive all control over them. Mem- bers, as a general thing, know nothing about such matters. They are not engineers, and are imposed upon. Their constituents ex- pect impossibilities. Under the pressure of constituents they pile up millions which are wasted. Now, the true way 1s to submit | the whole question of improvements to the Coast Surveyor the Engineer Corps of the | army. Let Congress appropriate so much | money each year, and let the Secretary of | War or the Treasury have its expenditure. A board of skilled officers could indicate | which rivers and harbors needed improve- ment, which were necessary to the public welfare. The present plan is mischievous, as may be seen in the fact that a House com- mitted to reform, and desiring reform for party reasons, is under so severe a pressure from home that it votes seven million dol- lars of the public money to improvements of questionable value. { In THE IntEREST or Hanmony.—Now that the republicans are casting about fora State | ticket that will harmonize the party let us make this suggestion: For Governor, Roscoe CoxxuxG, of Oxerpa. For Lieutenant Governor, Ravages KE. Festox, of Cuacravera, There are many arguments in favor of this ticket. It would enable Mr. Conkling to go before the people and show the country his real strength. It would give us his personal support in the canvass. [t would bring Mr. Fenton back into active relations with the party. It wonld unite both wings of the | party. If the republicans lost the State Mr. | Conkling would still be Senator. If they carried the State then Carl Schurz or George William Curtis could be chosen to take his place, thus crowning the edifice of harmony and reconciliation, ‘Let us have peace.” The Disaster in the Harbor. Few events have produced so profound and painful an impression upon our people as the sinking of the Mohawk in the Nar- rows on Thursday afternoon. The sudden- ness of the misfortune; the danger which came so swiftly upon absolute security; the helplessness of those on the yacht in the" presence of a hundred opportunities of aid; the criminal negligence of thé sailing mas- ter, even after he had been warned of his | peril by other seamen; the fact that Mr. Garner was one of our most honored citi- zens, inthe flush of youth, the master of vast enterprises, the owner of a great for- tune; the chivalrous thought that he died in the effort to save his wife, and that together they passed into eternity; the fact that all this took place in broad day ona sunny summer afternoon, within hailing distance of the club, in the centre of the scene of many a féte, all combine to render the sink- ing of the Mohawk and the death of her owner one of the most tragic events of our day. The details we print this morning only make clear our story of yesterday. Mr. Garner and his guests were preparing for a | cruise down the Bay, in one of the largest yachts in the fleet. The vessel was appar- ently as safe as a Cunard steamer. Sud- denly a cloud came over the horizon. The day was warm--one of the most oppressive days we havo had for the past tew weeks. Every landsman, not to speak of a trained seaman, knows that in these midsummer days, with the air overburdened with elec- trical conditions, nothing is more probable than a sudden thunderstorm, Therefore the careful seaman always looks to the horizon, no matter how clear the skies above him. There were none of these pre- cautions on the Mohawk. The cloud came, at first no larger than a man’s hand, but black, swift, menacing. The other yachts, lying in | the anchorage near the Mohawk, prepared | for it. The Mohawk’s sailing master kept all his sails set, underrating the storm, and meaning to ride through it, and have a spanking sail down to the Hook. His fool- hardiness was noticed by other seamen, and a message was sent from Countess of Dufferin, the Canadian yacht, newly arrived in our harbor to sail for the American cup, warning him of the storm and of the danger it threatened. There is evidence tothe effect that upon the receipt of this warning the wretched officer gave an order to take in some of the sail. Before it could be executed the squall struck the | yacht and she went down before its fury and sank. All of this shows a criminal want of disci- pline and judgment. The same was shown in the rescue of the passengers. There seems no reason why Mr. and Mrs. Garner, Miss Hunter and the others should not have been saved. What Colonel Crosby, Mr. Mont-nt and Mr. Howland succeeded in doing with some of the guests might have been done to all if the crew and the yacht officers had shown proper nerve and disci- pline. All that the sailing master did was to stand onthe deck and cry for help; all that the crew did was to look after themselves, A well disciplined crew could certainly have found a way into the cabin, and aided Mr. Montant, Mr. Howland and Colonel Crosby in saving the lives of all. No such effort seems to have been made except by one of the quartermasters, and it is to his forethought in cutting out one of the side- lights that Colonel Crosby probably owes his life. What might not have been the result had the rest of the crew been as cool as | this one man in timeof danger? The lesson to be deduced from this is that, in order to make yachting what it should be, there must be the same care and the same dis- cipline in the selection and management of acrew as inthe navy. In fact, the standard should be the highest in the maritime ser- vice. The yachtsman does not go out to sea for merchandise or to win laurels in war, but makes it his pleasure and his home. His yacht very often sacrifices safety to speed and show. Owners, asa general thing, are absorbed in other duties, know nothing ef navigation, and are compelled to depend upon their sailing masters and seamen. The sinking of the Mohawk, under the circum- stances, is about the last thing that would have been apprehended. The fact that it did take place, and the manner in which it happened, should give all who own yachts the | cause for serious teflection. Just | and severe censure will be visited upon the sailing master and the seamen on the yacht. We do not for a mo- ment palliate this. But when a disaster like this occurs there is evil in the system, as well as criminal negligence in one or two men. It would be well for every yacht owner to look into the circumstances of this sad event and ask if such a calamity is pos- sible to him. The sympathy of the community will go ont to the high-minded and generous gentle- man and the true, devoted wife who wént down on the Mohawk. Itis hard to think of lives so full of promise and opportunity coming to an end so sudden, so unexpected, so terrible. But lite is marked with these evidences of God's inscrutable will, and the lessons they teach are lessons which should come home to every heart. Public Health and a Public Duty. The weather was in a relenting mood yes- terday. We are told by cable that a storm will come upon us to-day. Other prophets bid us look out for cool weather by Tuesday. ‘There is no certainty of this, and even if we were to have a pause in the heated term there is no assurance that what we see now | may not be seen in August and September. When we look at the warm weather as a visi- tation of Providence, as something that may never come again, we show heedlessness and folly. Our duty is to prepare for this torrid season as a part of our year's life. We should take lessons from our friends in the | warmer climates—in Morocco, Brazil and Spain. We should so arrange our city that there would be little suffering in summer and winter. By neglecting proper sanitary pre- cautions we make New York the most un- | healthy city in the world. And the appalling evidence of this is the fact that within a | month over two thousand children have died. If this had happened in Tangiers or Bom- bay or Madrid how we should have lifted j the blunder. our voices against barbarism and ignorance! But it happens in civilized New York, whose rulers have made it the most unhealthy city in the world. This is the root of the{whole matter—that we are ruled by knaves and fools. New York could be made as healthy as Paris or London. It has better natural ad- vantages. It is surrounded with water. The soil is easily drained. The sea isat ourdoors. A Moorish alealde could take New York and make it a delightful city in summer. But our rulers are corrupt or idiotic. We have Tweeds who plunder or Wickhams who do not know enough to steal, and neglect every- thing. Rings control the city. ‘To please one ring rapid transit is postponed; to please another soap factories are permitted to pollute the atmosphere; to please a third the Harlem flats and otker nuisances are allowed to generate malaria; to please a fourth we give up one of our downtown parks to a railway and propose to throw in the Battery; to please others we allow our streets to be paved with wood and tar, which rot slowly away. We have sewers which generate diphtheria; we have sidewalks burdened with death. All of this could be remedied by a good government. As we have said, there is not one of the gentle, suffering, innocent souls of the two thousand children who have died within a month from the want of fresh air who is not a martyr to the system which sways this city. Surely the time has come for us to put an end to it, to take hold of the great city as though it were a mansion or a busi- ness and so manage it that all the blessings of civilization would fall alike upon the rich and the poor. Ifeverthere was a time when the people of New York should look to their lives and homes, the lives and happiness of their children, it is now, when the children ofthe poor are dying by thousands, and when, if there were good government, the largest part of these lives would be spared. Carpet-Baggers. There is no word which has done the South- ern States more harm than the word carpet- bagger. Its meaning in the South is clear enough. It is intended to apply to adventurers from the North who went South after the war for the purpose of plundering the inhabitants and returning home with their plunder. It is regarded in the North as a term of reproach, and has had the effect of deterring from the Southern States thousands of honest Northern men who would have been glad to go South, on account of the climate and the natural rich- ness of the soil. The Maine citizen may go to Colorado and California and be welcome. Itis no reproach to him that he was born in the East and votes the republican ticket. Let him goto Georgia or Carolina, and carry with him his principles, and his fate is so- cial, personal, political ostracism. He can assert no independence of judgment without incurring the worst forms of reproach. Some- thing of this may be due to the soreness oc- casioned by the war. But while this was natural it should not last always. The word carpet-bagger may serve the purpose of a flippant politician like Mr. Cox, but it should have no place in our literature. If we go into the matter deeply we shall find that we are all carpet-baggers, with the exception of Sitting Bull and his people. The Indian Question. Colonel Sturgis, Colonel of the Seventh | cavalry, the regiment of which the lamented Custer was lieutenant colonel, has been in- terviewed again by a reporter of the St, Louis Globe-Democrat. The Colonel proves to be a flowing spring of information for re- porters, as there have been several inter- views with him since the Yellowstone disas- ter. As to the opinions which Colonel Stur- gis’ chooses to entertain of the valor, the courage or the military traits of Custer we have nothing to say. The Colonel requires the kindest treatment from the country, for the massacre took from him his only son. Even if we were disposed to resent the harshness of his judgment of Custer we should feel restrained by the fact that upon, him rests the shadow of a deep and lasting grief. There is one point in this interview, however, which merits attention. The Colonel, according to the reporter, ‘‘espe- cially deprecated the manner in which such | papers as the New York Heraup sought to make a demigod out of Custer and to erect. a monument to Custer only, and not to his soldiers.” We are afraid the Colonel has not read the Hrratp, and if he is no surer of his facts in commenting upon The Indian ques- tion than in discussing the Hzrarp he is an unsafe critic. We have said over and-over aguin that we do not propose to build merely a monument to Custer. In fact, we do not propose to build a monument at all. we receive such subscriptions as the people choose to send. At the proper time we shal! turn the money over to some of the associa- | tions who have the work in hand, and at the head of one we have no less a soldier than | Sheridan. Moreover, whenever we have had occasion to discuss the matter, we have said that the purpose of this monument is to honor Custer and his men—not one more than the other, but to honor all. is to commemorate an achievement of valor and self-denial, the performance of a solemn, high duty. ‘The men who did this are worthy of lasting fame. It will be a me. mento to the young Sturgis, who died like a hero in his first campaign, as well as to the commander who there crowned a brilliant and noble life. Berxnar—‘ AND “JURISDICTION.” — The Belknap case hurries toa close. The | evidence of the Secretary's guilt is unmis- takable. Mr. Belknap’s attorneys make no defence except the technical one that the Senate has no jurisdiction, and therefore cannot pass judgment. We fear, from the question subinitted to the managers by Mr. Conkling, that,there is a disposition on the part of some Senators to acquit the Secre- tary on the ground that there is no jurisdic- tion. Mr. Conkling seems to labor under this impression, and it is a marvel that so able and clear-sighted a man should fall into The question of jurisdiction is one thing, that of guilt or innocence an- other. The Senate has settled the first, and in such o manner that it will become @ pre- cedent in all impeachment cases—a_ princi- ple in impeachment law. But one issue re- mains—that of guilt or innoceace—and upon this alone each Senator will pass. As a newspaper | The idea | —————_- rrr | . The South and the Canvass. One of the arguments addressed to the white men in the South to win their votes for Tilden is that his election will be the dawn of a new era to the Southern people. In what way can Tilden help the South? His record is that ofa Union man. He supported the war. He accepts all the amendments to the constitu- tion; all the measures of reconstruction. He would not pay the Confederate debt. If President all he could do would be to re- move the federal officers and appoint new ones; and even in this he would have to meet the approval of a Senate which will be repub- lican, most likely, whether he is elected or not. In the hope of winning this barren recognition the Southern men array them. selves against the republicans, and give renewed reasons for the continuance in power of the republican party. And yet the republicans, especially in the letter of Hayes, offer to meet the Southern men on equal ground, and let bygones be bygones, and have no future but the whole Union, one and indivisible. If the Southern men would take the repub- licans at their word there would be an end of sectionalism, and’very soon an end of the repablican party. New issues would arise in which the war, race, reconstruction would have no place—issues like those which divided the federalists and republicans in the past. This would give the South a vantage ground it has never yet possessed. We are surprised that Southern men like Lamar, Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee do not see this. A really great Southern statesman could do as much for the South now as Thiers did for France when he threw aside the monarchical traditions of a life and ac cepted the Republic. Tae Owstern Monument Fvuxp continues to increase, but it is noteworthy how much sympathy and encouragement come from the dramatic profession. In addition to the generous contributions from well known artists cthers have come forward to assist by means of benefits. The first of these to announce a definite time for the perform. ance is Mr. W. J. Florence, now playing the “Mighty Dollar” at Wallack’s, who offers to devote the receipts of Friday evening of next week to the purpose. The Hon. Bard- well Slote knows the importance of the army in protecting the, railroad interests of which he was accustomed to speak so elo- quently while in Congress, and he does him- self credit in this response to an appeal in behalf of a brave man and a brave deed. We trust he will be able to add a large sum to the subscriptions already received, but it is not proper that the public should be con- tent with such efforts at securing the neces- sary amount. Let everybody contribute, so that the testimonial may partake as much of a popular character as possible. Tas Press anp Svsscnirtions.—Some Western journals deprecate the practice of the New York newspapers taking up sub- scriptions for objects of public interest or utility. They misunderstand one of the higher functions of the metropolitan press, A newspaper is a public institution. The people know it. They have confidence in it, | It is in constant relations with the public. If a citizen wants to*give money to a charity or to some object of general interest he can do it more readily by sending it to his news- paper than in any other way. He knows that it will be received, that it will be pub- licly acknowledged, that it will find its proper uses and that other well intentioned people may be moved to follow his example. Thus the newspaper becomes the agency for useful and good work, and performs one of the offices which the increasing power of the press forces upon journalists more and more every day. Tae New Yorr Posr Orricz having been investigated the Committee on Public Buildings yesterday made a report to the House practically censuring the completion of the structure after the appropriation waa exhausted, but not indicating any fraud in the work. It strikes us that this is cheap exposure. Wecan see no good reason for complaining that the building was not ex- posed to damage and delay merely because Congress was slow in voting the necessary appropriations. If there had been waste or fraud there might have been cause for com. plaint. Gas - PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Bangor lumber business is idle, Lord Napier will command at Gibraltar. Mayor Banks, of Albany, bas gone to Fire Island. James Russell Lowell would like to go to Congress, Kilpatrick 1s speaking in Orange county, New York, ‘A professorship of Chinese will be established at Ox- ford, Wilham M, Evarts is on his way to Vermont for. the ‘Beason. Mrs. Tyner used to beaclerk in the Treasury De- partment. Donold G. Mitchell is visiting for a day or so im Phil- adelphia. Ex-Congressmen James F, Wilson, of Iowa, is in San Francisco. Mr. e walks in his garden and will soon taxea trip to St John, N. B. Generai Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Delirium tremens are now called tight fits, because they are hard to get on. Ex Congressman Creamer, who has been very ill, is convalescent at West Point, A flower grows from the suow in the Calfornial mountains, 7,000 feet above the soa, It is purple. Governor Dingley, of Maine, has invited Mr. Blaine to spend the summer with him on Squirrel Istand. Mra Minister Washburne will go to Switzeriand for the summer, while Mr, Washburne will go to Carlsbad, Count W. von Arnim, of Berlin, arrived from Europe yesterday in the steamship Neckar, and is at the Bre. yoort House. ‘The Columbus Enquirer says that before the North makes so much tuss about the Hamburg riot it should jook at the Newark museacre of tne other day! ‘The Marquis of Kildare, of Ireiand, returned to this city trom Philadelphia yesterday, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Marquis is tho eldest son of the buke of teinster, who is one of the largest landed proprietors in Ireland. Judy:—Industrious () Seafaring Varty—What! ain't got nothin’ todo? Why, hore I've beon a-mendin' this blessed net ever since last November, and you're a-idlin’ about as if there warn't such a thing as work im the world! Judy:—British Workman—Well, anyhow, “Union” means strength, don’t it* Party with Vast Workhouse Experience—Well, I dunno; I've tried itoften and I fun’ it just the reverse! Pun Stern Hostess (who ts giving private theay ricals)—You ure very lute, Mr. Fitz Smythe, They've begun long ago! Langutd Person of Importance (who abominates that particular form of entertainment)—What! You don’t mean to say they're at ib wtilld