The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1876, Page 4

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JULY 95, 1 e ~ From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and | slightly warmer. During the summer months the Hznanp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per weel, free of postage. Wau Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was irregular and heavy, with a tendency +o lower prices. Gold opened and closed at 111 3-4, with intermediate sales at 111 5-8. Money on call continues easy at 2 and 1 1-2 per cent. Government and railway bonds and investment shares were generally steady. Foreign exchange quict. Henprtcks seems to be still in doubt as to whether he is the candidate for the Presi- dency or the Vice Presidency. Tue Emprnor or Brazm, after a short stay in London, has left for the Belgian capital, whence His Majesty will probably | proceed to some of the German spas. Geronraian Poxrtics.--Our correspondent at Atlanta gives an interesting sketch of the tampaign preparations in Georgia. The re- publicans are engaged in an earnest canvass and will make lively times in this demo- cratic State. Emncrant Rosrens.—If there is any class of swindlers whom it is desirable the law should reach and clutch it is those who prey upon emigrants. The decision of Judge Daniels in the case of Loomis and Lewis will, therefore, give satisfaction to the com- munity. West Vincrsia is claimed for the demo- sratic candidates in November ; but we have no doubt the republicans cherish a hope of winning its five votes for Hayes, particu- larly if the division over local issues should give thom the little State in October. Our letter from White Sulphur Springs tells the story of hopes and fears. Vexezuria is determined on a silver coinage of her own, and an order has been issued prohibiting the introduction of for- eign silver under pain of confiscation. This is a strange way of encouraging commerce. If it gives the Venezuelans a circulating medium whose intrinsic and face values are the same it will do good by simplifying ex- thange among the people; but how foreign buyers are to be forced into providing them- selves with Venezuelan coin before making purchases is not so clear. Tirpen's Letrer.—It is now believed that the letter of Governor Tilden accepting the nomination for the Presidency will be ready | about the Ist of October. There are good reasons for this delay. The Governor must give the subject mature reflection. He de- sires to wait and see how the greenback men behave in the West. He would like to wait and have Congress adjourn. It is important that he should know how Maine votes, and in fact all about the canvass. ‘The issues are 0 grave that the Governor may not finish it | antil November. Tae Monvmest to Custrer.—Hon. August Belmont has accepted the office of treasurer for the Custer monument fund. Mr. Bel- mont subscribes one hundred dollars. The method of applying this tund and the other funds that have been subscribed in various parts of the country to do hqnor to the valor of General Custer and his brave soldiers is still a matter of discussion. There is ample time, however, to arrange that when enough money has been subscribed to build ® monument worthy of the deed. Let this monument proclaim to the world that in this age American manhood is not dead; that we cherish virtue and courage; that we have with us men gifted with heroic souls. Let it be a monument to every one of the gallant, devoted band, of Custer and his men, Tue Sexvian Wan still continues to pre- sent a number of minor engagements and no important results. While the Servians have not been able to advance further in Bulgaria the Turks prove, so far, powerless to drive them completely back, The Mos- lems, however, have reinforcements on the way, and they may soon offer battle to Tchernayeff in such a way that he cannot decline it, What is true of the campaign | on the northeast is equally so of the operations on the southwest. The Servians have, as it were, but one foot on Turkish | territory. Having failed to seize the strong | points in the pashalik of Novi Bazaar with a rush, and having been stopped by Osman | Pacha on the road to Sophia, they are re- duced to the bitter experience of seeing their | forces decimated without advantage, while | the losses sustained by the Turks are easily repaired. A war of exhaustion is a slow one, and that is the character of the present struggle. In time the weaker must go to the wall, and Servia is being gradually de- slated of men and money. | | intellectual capacity. | of his editorship of the World, before he had | committee, | ministrative es | skill as aw NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Manton Marble for Governor, The suggestion has been made in other quarters than the Henaxp that the best can- didate the democratic party of this State can nominate as the successor of Governor Tilden is Mr. Manton Marble, late edi- tor of the World. We have already in- dorsed the suggestion. As Mr. Marble is not quite as well known in the interior of the State as he is in this city, and as we have had good opportunities for watch- ing his career and observing his character, it may not, perhaps, be out of place to give the democrats of the rural districts the impres- sions respecting him which have long been fixed in the best social and political circles of this metropolis. Mr. Marble is still a young man, just turned of forty, we believe, although gray hairs and a slight tendency to baldness would seem to indicate a riper age. Sorrow as well as thought has made its mark, for the heavy hand of domestic affliction has been laid upon him, and it has seldom been so true that ‘‘death loves a shining mark” as in the bereavements which have fallen on this gifted and accomplished man. But severe intellectual labor alone might ac- count for the early autumn, no man of our time having piled a greater weight of liberal studies upon the exacting duties of a labori- ous profession. Mr. Marble has one of the best equipped and most variously informed minds in the country; and yet no man is farther removed from the character of a recluse or a mere scholar. His social talents are even more marked than his In the earliest years yet made his mark as a man of rare intellec- tual endowments, he captivated New York society by the singular urbanity of his man- ners and his unstudied capacity to please, ‘A man born to be loved,” as Burke called Fox, is not neces- sarily qualified for public life but Mr. Marble has been the delight of society only in his hours of relaxation, the whole vigor of his mind havjng been given to serious studies and manly occupations. He has made himself intimately acquainted with the whole literature of political econ- omy; he has continued to pursue the philo- sophical studies which were the chief attraction of his youth; he has been a wide reader of the most solid authors in the higher walks of juris- prudence, and has a large acquaintance with history and with elegant literature. If he had any fadit as the editor of a newspaper it was in pitching his journal in too high a key for the mass of unscholarly readers and addressing an audience too select to be very large. But this defect as a journalist “leaned to virtue’s side” in qualifying him for the part of a statesman. The peculiar fitness of his nomination to succeed Mr. Tilden as the Governor of New York lies in the fact that he has contributed more than any other individual to Governor Tilden’s success. During the many years of their intimate association he has influenced Mr. Tilden more than he was influenced by him, Mr. Marble’s strong convictions and un- yielding tenacity on questions of principle having operated asa wholesome corrective to his friend's extraordinary skill as a politi- cal manipulator. It is creditable to Mr. Til- den that he appreciated the strong and firm grasp of ‘principles which was a matter of conscience with his friend; but it was Mr. Marble’s mind rather than Mr. ‘Tilden’s that found expression in the bold and masterly democratic platforms of the last three democratic State Conventions, which were all of Mr. Marble’s composition, and which did so much to put Mr. Tilden before the country as a stanch advocate of sound political ideas, Each of those State platforms would have been atame and trimming manifesto onthe ordinary common place pattern if Mr. Marble’s devotion to principle and energy of conviction had not asserted their claims to recognition. Some of the credit is due to Governor Seymour, who happened to be a member of the Committee on Resolu- tions whe the most incisive of these plat- forms was offered, and whose quick percep- tion of its extraordinary merit and emphatic indorsement secured its adoption by the Mr. Marble is also the authcr of the platform of the National Convention at St. Louis, which has elicited so much warm praise from the most distin- guished men in the democratic party in every part of the country. As a piece of composition it is more skilful than any of the New York platforms from the same source, the task of draw- ing upa veritable hard money declaration in sucha form that the party would accept it having been so much more difficult. Who can have a better claim to the confidence of the democratic party than the man who has so long furnished it with ideas, and who has been so successful in formulating sound principles for its acceptance as to com- mand the approval and praise of all the best minds of the party? With the single exception of Governor Tilden, what democrat in the United States has rendered such valuable and universally ap- proved services to the party as our towns- man and late editorial confrére? We know full well that he is too modest to found any claim on such services, but we put itasa fair question to the democracy of the State whether they can be justified in ignoring merit of a high order because itis not self- asserting? Mr. Seymour does not want the Gorernor- ship again. He has had it often and dis- charged its duties with great honor and ap- plause from his own party. But next to him there is no democrat in the State who, | on the score of merit and services, so richly deserves this mark of confidence as Mr. Marble. What has Mr. Dorsheimer done, what has Mr. Beach done, what has Mr. | Anybody done for the democratic party which can be weighed fora the signal and invaluable late editor of the World? 1oment against services of the His great merits cannot be denied by any intelligent democrat; but still the question may be asked whether he would m ful ond popular Governor. Execntive or ad- ity is so different from a use. sonert 1 deserves fair rand a re question is answer. We ha and a suffi bad nities ve d opportr for th ient motive, dozen | years or more, to take note of Mr. Marble as a man of executive talent. If we are biased by our profession the bias would be more likely to operate against him than in his favor, for rival journalists are not apt to be indulgent judges of each other's merits, But we suppose that nobody who knows anything of the management of a metropolitan journal can doubt that it re- quires greater executive skill, and more alertness and readiness of mind to conduct @ great journal than to administer the gov- ernment of a State. Mr. Marble was not merely a writer in his newspaper ; he main- tained a constant supervision of all his de- partments, financial as well as political and and literary; and a man who, besides study- ing public questions and writing largely himself, takes care of the details of all the departments of a metropolitan newspa- per must excel in administrative ability. As to the social duties of thé Governorship it is saie to say that no man in our long line of illustrious New York Governors has ever discharged them with more grace, dignity and urbanity than Mr. Marble would if he should be the choice of the electors of the State. He would make one of the most admirable Governors of our time, and we should be proud to see a citi- | zen who has acquired his chief distinction as & journalist occupy that honorable position. The Garner Funer: nd the Mohawk Disaster. The faneral rites over the remains of the late Commodore Garner and his wife and Frost Thorn, Mrs. Garner's brother, were performed yesterday in the presence of an immense multitude of people, gathered together to testify their respect to the mem- ory ofa mansingularly beloved in life and sincerely mourned in death. If Commodore Garner had met his death peacefully, as it is | the wish of most men to die, there would have been mourning and grief over his de- mise, buthis burial would have lacked the elements of one which only agreat calamity caninspire. In reviewing such an event, so solemn in itself and so heartrending in all the details which it suggests, it is es- pecially painful that we must turn from the contemplation of the bier and the grave to consider the causes which led to the disastet whereby thesg accomplished men and this gentle woman lost their lives. We wish we could join with the coroner's jury in acquitting Captain Rowland of all blame. We wish we could cven go so far as to say the absence of any criminal negligence on his part is so clear as to make no further investigation necessary. This | would be a pleasure, for then the terrible j disaster we all lament would be the act of God, to which man must submit with pa- tience. Unfortunately this consolation is denied us. There are many reasons why the acquittal and discharge of the sailing master of the Mohawk are unsatisfactory, and the principal of these is the fact that the investigation was not sufiiciently thorough. Captain Rowland ought to explain why he was aware of the approaching squall, and if he was unaware of it why he did dissuade Commodore Garner from getting under way until it had passed. Especially ought he to explain why he was not ready for the emergency which overtook him, and why such orders as he gave at the time were not obeyed on the instant. That the condition of the crew was censurable is plain enough, but the public desires to know who was responsible for its | condition. On none of these points was the evidence sufficiently explicit. We have hints concerning them from Quartermaster Palm and others and from Captain Row- land himself, but no satisfactory explana- tion concerning any one of them. Then, again, the position of the centreboard at the time of the disaster is ano.her subject for inquiry. It may have played an .im- portant part in the disaster, and it is due to the yachting interest and the public that all the facts in relation to it should be known. ‘These considerations induce us to hope that all investigation is not yet at an end. Some more responsible and intelligent body than a coroner's jury must undertake the inquiry which this disaster demands. The whole subject is as important as if a great steam- ship had been sunk in the harbor by the dereliction of the captain, the insubordina- tion of the crew, or faults in her construction and management. The green grass must not be allowed to grow upon the fresh grave of the dead Commodore before the respon- sibility for his death and the death of his companions is clearly established, The Indian War. The report that the Lieutenant General, the gallant “Little Phil,” is about to take command of the operations against the hos- tile Indians in person has not been verified beyond the General's own statement that he isin daily communication with Terry and has given Crook and Terry orders to co-op. erate. We confess toa good deal of regret that General Sheridan will not direct the campaign from a nearer point than Chicago. General Crook seems to have determined on moving against the Indians as soon as the Fifth cavalry arrive, and has sent word to Terry where to find him, This would imply a more sensibly planned advance than the last, and may result in that ‘decisive blow” which General Crook has promised to strike. It is our best desire that it may be so. With the forces now in the field once united we would feel assured that no overwhelming disaster like the Custer massacre could overtake our arms; but we can hardly be so sure that that per- fect defeat of the hostile Indians which is so imperatively necessary for the future of our frontier can be achieved. We still call on the government to send forward more troops. Underrating the Indians and ex- pecting miracles from our soldiers is not the to end this war satisfactorily or prevent | other wars hereafter. Earn Graxv remarks upen the ex-4 tradition deadlock between England and the United States are very creditable to his com- d hence at variance with the | n by the present British the question. We hope the prove trne that a new treaty yotiation, We do not antry an Alsatia for British ro; and we desire to punish American scoundrels, mon sense, a position net on may is in process’ of n vant to x » this + avowed intention isto continue and to in- | | the face of a population which has sunk all | | can succeed in New York without the aid of | revenue, because it seemed to be incredible. The Duty of Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina. It is to the people of the Union, those who listen to such men as Mr. Bayard and Mr. Lamar, that we address ourselves, We have no arguments for the Jefferson Davises of the South or for the Mortons of the North; for these are sectional people, the disorganizers of the country, whose extreme views render them blind to the mo t obvious facts, how- ever plainly we might state them. Men of this stamp and calibre believe what they wish to believe, what it is for their personal interest or political advantage to believe, and we do not, therefore, propose to under- take the thankless task of pointing out to them the distinction between the true and the false. : Every act of rowdyism and bibodshed in the South is, under the present condition of our politics, considered as a fresh argument for the continuance of republican rule. It has, therefore, become essential to the welfare of the whole country that public opinion should fix the responsibility for these out- rages where it properly belongs. Take, for instance, the facts of the Clinton riot. Ata political gathering or mob, composed of twenty-five or thirty white men and two thousand colored men, a quarrel, in which whiskey had its influence, took place between two of these individuals. This led to an affray in which three whites and five blacks were killed. Both races soon armed, and on the day following six colored men, supposed to have killed the three whites, were shot. The Governor of the State was a republican, as was every State official ; the county was wholly in re- publican hands, and so also with the local courts and juries. United States troops were within twelve miles. What earthly reason can be given for the fact that not a single arrest was made? Who but the offi- cers of the law could order and execute ar- rests? They cannot pretend that they were | without the power to enforce obedience. And yet the guilty were allowed to go free | and the innocent population continues to | suffer the cons:quences. Who, then, is to be blamed? Who shall be held responsible? | The community which is the victim of mis- | government, or the party in power, which | has forcibly deprived these communities of | the right and the opportunity to govern themselves, gnd of which the interest and | tensify this condition of affairs in the South- ern States? The affair at Hamburg, 8. C., is of the same nature, and we remark the same dis- position cn the part of those whose duty it is to maintain order to prefer that the laws should be broken, the offenders go unpun- ished and the community intrusted to their care should suffer rather than an opportu- nity to make political capital for the Presi- dential canvass should be lost. Governor Chamberlain has heretofore had the honesty to publicly testify to the support he has had and is always able to obtain from the law- abiding people of his State, who, though opposed to him in polities, recognize that it i is of vital importance to their welfare that their own laws should be maintained. He | has repeatedly borne witness to this fact, | and has for this reason succeeded hitherto in his administration. Is it, then, because the weapons of the republican leaders are failing them in the Presidential canvass that a republican Governor of one of our South- ern States does not choose to exercise his‘ authority? Is it for partisan ends that, in political differences between it and its own State administration and has joined with the Executive in the establishment of order, this | executive offiser writes an open letter toa member of his party in the Senate, publicly ignoring the fact that it is within his power to execute the laws? The punishment of criminals and offenders aga nst the peace is demanded by the people of his State, and he should not go to Washington for aid. The Republican State Campaign. The New York republicans owe it to their Presidential candidates to settle their local quarrels and to unite on a strong State ticket. At present the leaders seem bent on prosecuting their own intrigues at the risk of the harmony of the party. Mr. Roscoe Conkling and his supporters were beaten at Cincinnati, and yielded with a better grace than might have been anticipated to the tri- umph of Mr. Wheeler, whose friends had taken the leal in destroying the Senator's chances for a nomination. The Wheeler | party were indirectly aided by, or rather worked in conjunction with, Reuben E. Fenton, Governor Morgan, George W. Cur- tis and their several followers in their cru- sade against Mr. Conkling. The question now is whether the war is to be carried on after the Cincinnati capi.ulation, and whether Mr. Conkling and his friends are to be repelled in the State Convention as they were in the National Convention, There are propositions to nominate Edwin D. Morgan for Governor and Reuben E.’ Fenton for Lieutenant Governor; or Fenton for Gover." nor and Mr. Robertson, of Westchester, for the second place ; or Robertson for Gover- norand Theodore N. Pomeroy for Lieuten- ant Governor; or George W. Curtis for Gov- ernor; but all of these are out and out anti- Conkling tickets, filled with the names of the brilliant Senator's assassins, It is evi- dent that if the party is to be united in the State no such nominations should be made, especially as those who urge them are undis- guised and unscrupulous in their assaults on republicans who are supposed to be favored as candidates by Mr. Conkling and his friends, Mr. Wheeler should not allow his party to risk success in New York by a policy of proscription against a large and important section of the organization. He should insist upon the nomination of State candidates not identified with any, faction; for while an ‘“anti-Custom House” ery is always popular with politicians who happen to be unprovided with public offices no man in his senses will argue that the republicans sill Senator Conkling and his friends. Tue Waiskey Fravps.—We have not credited the story that the President meant to pardon the persons convicted and im- prisoned in the West for frauds on the | General Grant, for oe President who went into office resolved to have no policy but the will of the people, has shown as much of disposition to have his own way as Andrew Johnson. He is now in that humor with Hayes and the whole republican party that he may do anything. The pardon of Avery, Joyce, Macdonald and their confederates would beacrime. It would justify all that has been said to the detriment of Grant in this whiskey business. It would vindicate Bristow, Bluford Wilson, Yaryan and the rest, who aré now supposed to have been in an intrigue against the President. It would certify to the country that high social and political rank was enough to condone crime. More than all, it would be certain to destroy the canvass for Hayes and Wheeler. The idea is so monstrous in whatever way we view it that we regard the story as false. Where Are Tilde: Friends? The World prints the list of speakers who have been invited to the ratification meeting to be held at Tammany Hall this evening. There are thirty-six names, and among them are men of eloquence and patriotism. But the list is remarkable for the names which do not appear. When Hayes was nominated for the Presi- dency his rivals in the Convention with one accord hastened tocongratulate him. When the first mass meeting was held in Washing- ton they were present—many of them— to support him. But if we except Mr. Bayard not one of the democratic candidates has made any sign of sympathy for Mr. Tilden. Governor Allen, of Ohio, announced that he was going out of politics, We look over the ‘list of speakers,” and we do not see Thurman or General Hancock, or Parker or Allen, or even Judge Church or Governor Seymour. We have two or three men like Proc- tor Knott, General Gordon and Senator Ker- nan, whose counsels will always be heard by the democracy. We have Luke Cozzens, Den- nis Quinn, General Spinola and others whose gis purely local. Either Tammany has mismanaged her opening demonstration or this conspicuous absence of names is dis- heartening to fervid democrats. Plainly, the time has come for Mr. Tilden to take com- mand of his canvass. Can England Whip Us on Our Own Waters? The race and fame won last week by Cor- nell are insignificant beside what is in store for her within the next few weeks, and yet she hesitates to clutch the greater prize. Last evening there left this city for Philadel- phia four tall, wiry young Englishmen, among them the president of the greatest boat club in the world, with the avowed pur- pose of adding a third to the two defeats al- ready suffered by our countrymen at the hands of English gentlemen oarsmen. They intend rowing at Philadelphia any American students who dare face them, and so tar the only crew sure to go is that of Columbia. While it is but right that our city should be first to volunteer, and new proof of Colum- bia’s pluck is thus ready, if any is needed, it will be a source of keen and lasting regret should we be beaten at our own door, especially when we have material which can win. It is rumored that Yale is preparing, and if so she will probably send the fastest student four in America. While Captain Ostrom and his men of Cor- nell will doubtless be slow to admit the latter statement, they have not yet disproved it, and now their chance has come, Let the men who for the past few days have, with bunting and speech and bonfire, been lauding her to the skies, now see to it that she takes a step which may at one bound make the reputa- tion of young Cornell international, as last year six spruce oars in less than seventeen minutes made it natioual. They have a month—ample time—to get ready. Fearon can, if need be, build them a four- oar before Saturday night. Ostrom and Jarvis, Lewis and Waterman can drive her as can few men on this continent, and from the way they talked last week some of them are not unwilling to be atit. Let not an hour be lost, but let every Cornell man now work and do his best, and before the month is out the renowned light blue of Cambridge—of Cambridge who only this spring taught Oxford how to row—may find above it on its own flagstaff the other two colors which fill our nativnal ensign, the white and red of Cornell. The Proposed Impeachment of Roveson, The democrats must not makea blunder in the proposal to impeach Secretary hobeson. The evidence against him is of the gravest character. It appears that as Secretary of the Navy he permjtted friends like the Cat- tells to amass large sums of money at the expense of the government. To suppose that he did not know of their transactions is to suppose him to be a fool, which no one fora moment will do. The inference has been drawn that Mr. Robeson shared in this spoiling of the Treasury. We should rejoice in his vindication, because the shame of an officer so high in the nation’s service is the nation’s shame, and because the Secretary has been the victim of what has seemed to us to be a bitterand unpausing persecution. It is his interest, if he is innocent, to have a prompt inquiry, not before a House commit- tee, but by the Senate. If heis guilty it is the interest of the republican party to have him tried and convicted. But there must be no halfway position on the part of the democrats. They must censure or impeach Robeson or acquit him. To leave him in a neutral position, suspended between heaven and earth, neither convicted nor acquitted, but used as aA campaign weapon, would do the party and the country harm. It would draw around him the support of the republicans, who would view it as a political persecution. Im- peachment is one of the gravest duties of a free government. It isa solemn process of law. Itshould never be debased to mere political ends. If Mr. Robeson has commit- ted crimes in his office all good men desire his impeachment. If he has been aceused | unjustly then all g od men desire his vin- dication. If the democrats adopt a middle course they will wrong not alone their party but the public morality. As Maz@ens Now Loox out in Indiana it is much more important to have the letter of Hendricks than that of Tilden, All the in- terest of the canvass settles about the In- diana nominee. -- —— How Rowland Got His Oliver. We do not at all wonder that Saturday last was fine, cool and balmy. Old Probs and all the young Probs were interested in having itso. An Englishman named Row- land, who does a little genteel weather bust ness, prognosticating when his countrymen may expect a hole or two in the British fog, ventured to predict a thunderstorm in New York for last Saturday. He sent it by cable— the prediction, but not the thunder. Never did announcement create a similar flurry among meteorologists. Here was a daring Englishman. We consulted all the home authorities as to whether Rowland could be right. One meteorologist in particular, whose skull is an aneroid barometer, who has a quicksilver thermometer for hot weather inside one forearm and a spirit thermometer for cold weather in the other, whose entire frame is studded over with the dials, glass bulbs and brass knobs of anemometers, electrometers and hygr: me eters, we questioned, inviting him to take | a walk on the Battery and discuss the sub- ject. He could not walk on the Battery, as the sun was hot and his peculiar scient fic construction demanded he should be kept in the shade. He would talk, however. A strange clicking was heard inside his mouth; he opened a little brass trap-door in his cheek and allowed a telegraph tape to run out covered with the records of the ve rious instruments he was composed of, “Storm on Saturday? Well, you'll see,” he began. ‘Why, my dear Hexaup, I'll guaran- tee that before Saturday comes you will not have a square yard of available storm within a hundred miles of New York." Several electric sparks flashed from eye to eye, and he chuckled with a harsh sound like an unoiled weathercock swinging in a noreaster. “Suppose,” we said, ‘‘this Rowe land sends a thunderstorm over the Ate lantic.” ‘‘Suppose,” replied the mystic meteorologist, “the sun was to rise in the west; suppose you asked water to run up hill. All nonsense; no storm ever came that way. He might send one round by Asia and the Pacific Ocean; but, Lord, when you consider the little place he has to make his storms in, you'll see ‘that they wouldn't be more than a mere puff by the time they reached San Francisco, and the Sierras, anyhow, would take the wind out of them. No, sir. Leave him to us. We'll settle him and his thunderstorm. First of all, we'll get off our present stock of thunder and lightning; then -we'll bring on a little northerly and easterly wind; cloud up a little here and there; rain now and then; have the air cool and the earth fresh; get our barometric pressures more level all over, and then let any insulated Englishman that has a mind send on his thunder.” We left the old tyrant observing himself all over, and chuck ling at his telegraph tape. He was right. The weather began to cool off, to grow breezy, to cloud up, to have an occasional shower, Saturday came, and no thunderstorm. The truth dawned upon us. Rowland’s threat had frightened the Prob family into putting an end to the hot spell; for, as the mystic be ing above alluded to subsequently remarked, “With nice, unhealthy, boiling weather o1 hand thunder is liable to run loose at any mo: ment. Any fool knows that. Isuppose thé! fellow Rowland or Towland, or whatever hi name, heard how we were roasting you, ané thought he might hit on a thunderstorn any time, but the old man’s not to be takes in on those terms.” Tue BetsyaP Imreacnment.—We may soon hope to arrive at the end of this mis- erable trial, the summing up having fairly commenced. Yesterday Manager Jenks, for the prosecution, and Judge Black, for the defence, made speeches. Mr. Jenks summed up.the offence tersely in stating that this Secretary of War took money to influence his official action; that it did influence his action, and he was therefore guilty. With such plain caso before him it is not to be won. dered that Judge Black in reply was weak although he was witty. His reference to the presents received by President Grant was a strange resort to help his client, and will hardly be received by republicans with favor. Instead of suggesting that Belknap’s bribes were harmless presents Judge Blach makes a strong case to show that Grant’ presents were in effect bribes. If the poin{ of his argument is that ‘everybody did it* he makes but more emphatic the necessity of stamping with the seal of condemnation the system which, he argues, began with presents in Grant and ended with bribes im Belknap. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Collector Arthur is at Newport. Maggio Mitchell 1s at Long Braneb. “Bishop Gil Haven is going to Liberia, A tew real ruralizers are in the Adirondacks. Slinkiness in white dresses is not fasnionable. You may walk two or three blocks at Saratoga, Mrs. Ogden Doromas is at Cozzens’, West Point. Child and Drexel drive the road at Long Branch, £x-Governor Hoffman is dignified on Lake George, Thick hose are taking the place of bathing slippers, Mount Kearsarge is 4,000 fect above the level of the *" niece of General Robert E. Lee isabelle at Cape May. or George Prescott, of England, is at the Gilsey House. At Helena, Montana, strawberries are $150 9 + gallon. Waukesha Lake is the favorite resort of Wisconsin people. Lake George claims quiet fishermen and English tourists. x.Mayor Opdyke is stroking his thin mustache at Saratoga. Saratoga girls’ white muslin dresses are heavily full and puffed, General Joseph R, Hawley will spend two weeks af Cape May. George H. Pendleton has leased bis Newport cottage and will remain in Ohio, District Attorney Phelps 1s hilariously tottering around in the Adirondacks. The French bathing costume, which is vulgar, hay beon tabooed at Long Branch. Mr. F. C. Ford, of the Internationa! Fisheries Com: mission, is at the Clarendon Hotel, Mr. Cornelius A Logan, United States Minister to Chili, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Niagara Falls prices have fallen because on account of former prices the Falls have been avoided this year, Cara/nal MeCioskey and Bishop Lechas, of Nashville, Tenn., will soon be the guest of Bishop Hendricken at Providence, Twenty-five thousand watermelons arrived in Nor- folk, Va, in ove day, and trade in all other goods be- came stagnant, ‘ The Chinese in the Sandwich Isiands number 4,000, and they have introduced leprosy, which threatens t¢ exterminate the Kanakaa,