The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | determined to resign from the Presidential PROPRIETOR pa tubo oda 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 Nzw Yous | Hxnax, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112SOUTH | SIXTH STREET. | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET PARIS OFFICE—AVENUL D. “LOP ERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the seme terms | AMUSEMENTS _T0-NIGHT. HUSH A BY pater P. THEATRE PARISIAN VARIETIES, eP. mM, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, PIQUE, ot 8 P.M. | WALL ATRE, PAR MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P.M GILMORE’S” GARDEN, GRAND Carennel at MUSEUM. CHRIS AND LENA. wes PM KELLY & 1 _Matines at 2 oe ars P.M. ais TONY PASTOL VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at . | y YORK, ~ From our reports this morning the Grate are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and warm, with a probable s' During the summer months the Hyeraxp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postae, Warn Srnzer Yssrenay.—Tho stock mar- ket was active, but weak and feverish. decline was general. Gold opened at1117-8 and closed at 111 3-4. were strong and railway bonds a shade lower. Money on call was loaned at 11-2 and 2 per cent. Tur Sanatoca 1 Races yesterday bore out the promise of the first day, and the events were especially pleasant to the seekers after | eiples to which he is pledged. | accept Government bonds | | Congr | in this campaign. excitement who retrained irom putting their | money on the favorit: AxoTHER Ramnoap Accrpent in England is reported. Disasters on land and sea are becoming so common with our English cousins that they ought soon to cease taunt- ing us with any little aflair of the kind which may happen here. Taz Lovistana Democrats have nom- inated T. Nicholls for Governor and L, A. Wiltz for Lieutenant Governor. The can- vass in that State will now begin in earnest, and while we hope that Packard will be beaten we trust it will be upon a fair vote | and without intimidati victory and defeat | continue to characterize the war news from the Servian frontier. Unquestionably the insurgent forces have met with somo re- verses, but the Turks apply the multiplica- tion table to their victories with too much facility. Prwagnzss was third in the race for the Goodwood Cup yesterday, the old horse being beaten by two colts who had never before won anything of any importance. It is a pity the venerable republican racer failed to outrun his aristocratic competitors ; but Preakness had nothing to be ashamed of in the unsuccessful e: Tae Canapian Counts are in no hurry to accept Lord Derby's position on extradition and are anxious to surrender fugitives from justice to the United States as in the past. Naturally enough Canada does not care to be an asylum for American rogues, and in this feeling she will have the sympathy of all Americans except the rogues. We Paist an [ntERview with ex-Licuten- ant Governor Beach on the Presidency. Mr, Beach strongly opposed Tilden at St. Louis, but is strongly for him now. His position as presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the passage of the Tweed charter gave Mr. Beach unusual opportunities to know the inside history of that remarkable epi- sode, and what he has to say about it in con- nection with Mr. Tilden will be found inter- Orrosrtiox to Pusric IsrrovemEnts,— During the last few years it has become customary to hamper great public works by the aid of the courts. to prevent rmpid transit by means of legal proceedings, and now judicial authority is invoked to forbid the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The consequence of a battle in the courts over every legislative and Congressional grant will be to transfer the worst elements of the Washington and Albany lobbies to the halls of justice, and bo taint even the administration of the law. Tur Ocean Race for the Bennett Chal- lenge Cup began yesterday under favorable auspices, and we may expect the return of the fleet to-night or in the morning. The race is one in which more interest is felt than | in any preceding event of the season, tho | participation of the Canadian yacht Count- ess of Dufferin and General Butler's yacht America adding pleasant features to the oc- casion. At the latest accounts the America held the second place in the race, and, after his exploits as o soldier and statesman, people will be anxious to learn to what ad- vantage General Butler shows as a sailor. Tue Garpacz Wan reflects little credit | upon any of the parties concerned in it, | Which of them was most to blame it is difi- | cult to decide. The question at ‘issue was | one to be submitted qnietly to the courts, and the presence of either the New York or the Brooklyn police was unwarrantable and inexcusable. Shore Inspector Ferguson was wrong in courting a counter demonstration, and the New York Police Commissioners be- haved like schoolboys trying to get up a row on the slightest provocation. The proper course for the Shore Inspector to have pur- sued was to obtain warrants for the arrest’ of the men on the scows, in order to test the question, and to demand the aid of the Po- lice Department of this city in arresting its own servants, It has been sought | | the democratic caucus of the House. The Issue Eetween Tilden and Heme dricks—Which of the Two Will Re- sign? There is a rumor that Governor Tilden has | Sokeh if the House of Representatives votes in favor of the repeal of the Resumption act. Startling as this rumor is it is not a bit more | startling than the fact that the repeal is pro- | | posed in’ the House asa political measure, If the democratic party goes mad over the | financial question it will not be singular if Mr. Tilden leaves that famous asylum for lunatics and chooses to be asane citizen rather than a crazy candidate. ‘Lhe democratic party has shown for fifteen years symptoms of insan The loss of | power seemed to have affected its brain, and | it added blunder to blunder, till now “time's greatest offspring is the last.” It put @ war candidate on a peace platiorm in 1864 d took its old enemy, Horace Greeley, as its candidate in 1872. Now it chooses as its candidate one of the most earnest hard money men in the country, and after nom- inating him with maniacal joy proceeds to oppose with idiotic delight the very prin- Our Wash- ington correspondent has given the public a comprehensive and faithful account of the now being made in the House to pass | a bill repealing the act which declares that specie payments shall bo resumed in 1879. Mr. Hendricks, it is said on good authority, has, by direct messages to members of Con- g xpressed his wish for the repeal, and the plot is managed with surprising energy. Of course the passago of a bill by the House for the repeal of the Resumption act would be nugatory in regard to legislative change, for it could never become a law. ‘Lhe Senate would reject it; and if the Senate could possibly it the President would veto it. As a measure intended to affect the finan- policy of the government the re- pealing bill is, therefore, without the slightest value, If it should be passed the House would only be in the | position of the viper that gnawed the file. »w, as the repeal cannot be forced through ss, and us the pledge made for re- sumption in 1879 must stand, it follows that the bill is solely intended for political effect What effect is that which isintended? ‘The friends of the bill claim that it is meant to help the party in Indiana, but everybody sees that its result would be to cut the ground from under Mr. Tilden’s feet. Governor ‘filden's financial position and cial | principles were well known to the demo- cratic party long before it nominated him for the Presidency, and it cannot, therefore, - accuse him of having deceived it. It took him at St. Louis asa hard money man and decidedly preferred him to Mr. Hendricks, The compact between the candidate and the party was thoroughly understood at the time, and the platform and the nomina- tion both meant that Governor 'ilden’s financial policy was to rule in the national canvass. If, then, a democratic House | of Representatives passes a fruitless bill for the repeal of the promise of resumption it will be an official insult of the democratic party to the democratic candidate for the Presidency. Under such an affront what | else could Governor Tilden do but resign? Honor would forbid the humiliation. ‘The democratic party cannot reasonably demand that its candidate shall repudiate his record, though it had the impertinence to ask this of McClellan and the vanity to expect it of Mr. Greeley. * Governor Tilden would be bound by prudence as well as pride to refuse to obey this ex post facto order of the House issued after the Convention has dissolved, If he should surrender to the inflation party in the House—and if repeal passes any- thing less than his resignation from the ticket would be surrender—he would be the worst whipped man on record. He would destroy himself without even helping the party. We believe, therefore, after this brief survey of the issue between Governor Tilden and the democratic inflation party in Con- gress, that this rumor is substantially true, If he has nét yet said he will resign he has probably determined to resign in case he is forced to choose between political subjuga- tion and personal honor. ‘The position of Mr. Hendricks in this mat- ter is peculiar. Lord Dundreary says that the | reason the dog wags his tail is because the tail is not strong enough to wag the dog; but this is not the case with the democratic Presidential ticket. Mr. Hendricks wags Tilden in a manner dreadful to behold, | Nobody expected this to happen when Mr. Hendricks was chosen at St. Louis, for it was universally believed the compromise would | be respected by all the parties concerned. Then came the Saratoga interview, where the high contracting powers were thought to have concluded a permanent peace. But Mr. Hendricks suddenly rebels. The infla- tion ti whieh was lowered in the St. Louis ention, he raises again in Con- gress, and seems resolved that Mr. Tilden on | shall either bend to his will or be broken. So the captain and the first mate are quar- relling on the quarterdeck while the dem- ocratic ship is drifting on therocks, It will be wrecked before it is hardly out of port unless the captain puts the first mate in irons, calls on the whole’ crew to make sail, and, taking | the heim, steers straight for the Fortunate Islands. ‘The complication is made greater by the fact that neither Tilden nor Hen- dricks has dared to write his letter of accept- ance. Hach seems afraid of the other, and they aro at present fighting the question in the Banking and Currency Committee, with the prospect of a great and final battle in So far Mr. Tilden has repelled the attack, butif the matter comes to a crisis it is likely that one of the candidates will have to take bis name off the tic Every public man is | not like Mr. Carl Schurz, who can go from one side to another without exciting surprise | or alarm, for Mr. Schurz belongs to the liberal republicans, and the liberal republi- cans are like Kentucky in the beginning of the war—a neutral ground from which both armies were recruited. We have said what we think Mr, Tilden will do if he should be beaten on the floor of the Honse, and we may add that if Mr. Hendricks chooses to play forthe repeal of the Resumption act, and loses, we can hardly see how he can re- main upon a hard money ticket. The effect of these quarrels and delays | democrats. | Dorsheimer. _ NEW YORK ‘HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY’ 28, 1876, upon the democratic party must be very dangerous. Here are its two leaders wrest- ling in committee rooms and caucuses, having a private prize fight, from which the party is excluded, while it waits and longs fora leader. In the meanwhile Hayes and Wheeler are in the field with their letters of acceptance, their banners flying and their campaign boldly begun. We advise Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks to settle their differ- ences at once if they wish to have the slightest chance of winning; for if they allow their fight to go so far that one of them must retire from the ticket the demo- | cratic party is doomed. In the event of such a calamity the democratic party might properly imitate those eccentric old men who buy their own coffins and arrange for their own funerals, It should dig its grave, erect its tombstone, inscribe upon it the date of its death—November, 1876—and should pass the interval in mourning over its sad fate and repenting its wasted career. The Plans for the © The following letter from an architect of this city is one of many evidences we have received of the interest taken in the Custer monument:— To te Epitor oF THe Hzratp:— I beg leave to offer my services gratis for the Custor monument. AS a subordinate, at that time, I designed the Gettysburg, the Lincoln and other monuments, | and have designed not a few since I have been in busi" ness for myself. Respectiully, GEORGE KELLER. We are glad to see this spirit of liberality, which, no doubt, many American artists will emulate. Of course the offer of Mr. Keller must be-submitted to the proper committee, which will, no doubt, in accordance with the usual practice, invite artists to compete forthe honor of designing the monument. The Custer Monument Association, which will have the final charge of the matter, will want the best design it can get, provided that its cost does not deplete too much ex Monument. the fund raised for its erection. An expensive plan, which would leave lit- tle money for the marble and the actual work of sculpture and building, even if Michael Angelo could furnish it, would be out of the question. On the con- trary, a poor design, costing nothing, ought not to be accepted because its author was patriotically generous. The best available design is what the subscribers to the fund wish the association to adopt. A distin- guished American sculptor has offered to furnish a plan for ten thousand dollars, and we trust his offer will not be considered. ‘The Custer monument is not a government job, but a tribute of the people to one of their bravest soldiers and all his comrades who perished, with him in a noble cause. They wish to make it worthy of the illus- trious dead and of the country. The less the design costs the more money will remain to make the monument magnificent. Mr. Keller has set his profession an honorable example and shown the true way to build a noble memorial of the heroism of Custerand his troops. ‘Any American artist should be proud to supply the best plan in his power, and should be ashamed to seek a personal profit at the expense of an act of national gratitude. Wo are glad to learn that Mr. Belmont has consented to act as treasurer of the fund, and his eminent position as an authority in art and the liberality and judg- ment he has shown make him the best per- son to whom the plans for the monument should be sent. The Canv: in New York. The proposition to nominate Mr. Marble for the Governorship grows in popularity. It is believed that all idea of a fancy nomi- nation has been abandoned by the democrats, Among the things which even as wise a statesman as Mr. Tilden has learned is, that unless he is too strong to require any arti- ficial aid, he is weak indeed. So far from being weak it is seen that Mr. Tilden is one of the strongest men the democrats could nominate—the attacks of his enemies re- bound from him like shot from the sides of an iron-clad. Mr. Seymour's course in refer- ence to the Governorship has made his nom- ination unadvisable. No New Yorker who respects his State would consent to force the chief office in this Commonwealth upon a gentleman who publicly advertises that the nomination would bea penance. More than all, the Governor, when he enters upon the work of reforming the country, wishes natu- rally to leave reform in the State in good hands. Mr. Seymour has been Governor for two terms, and while his administration was fair and respectable, it was in no way brill- iant, and was not famous asareform admin- istration. Consequently the Governorship should pass into new and vigorous hands— into the hands of a man who will feel that he is part of a dynasty of reform. In this dynasty the natural successor of Mr. Tilden is Mr. Marble. Mr. Marble has for fifteen years been the leading democratic journalist of the country. Tohim moro per- haps than any other man Mr. Tilden owes his nomination. This in itself is a strong recommendation; but in all the qualities essential fora Governor Mr. Marble would answer the highest standard. The battle at St. Lonis was for hard money and reform, ‘The champion of this idea was Mr. Tilden. The men who fought for it were Marble and We can measure the extent of their victory and their strife when we see what Kelly and others did for Hendricks, and imagine where the canvass would now be were Mr. Hendricks at the head of the ticket, From that calamity the party was saved by or. Marble and Dorsheit ‘To Marble we owe the splendid, carefully written hard money platform. To Dorsheimer we owe the brill- iant, plucky fight in the Convention which saved that platform. The victory at St. Louis points to Marble and Dorsheimer as the proper ticket to be nominated by the Marble for Governor, Dors- heimer for Lieutenant Governor. Such a ticket would fitly cap the work of reform and hard money, and it would give Mr. 'Til- den a better assurance of carrying the Em- pire State than any other names that could bo mentioned. ‘Tur Custer Moxument Funp is still grow- ing, but further contributions are necessary to make the work commensurate with the valor it is intended to commemorate. If all of our readers who intend contributing to this object will do so at onee they will greatly aid a worthy object. The Daty of Yacht Owners. The construction of a vessel should be adapted to the character of the waters and the climate in which it is intended she shall eruise. In all his own works man should imitate nature, who clothes the animals of polar regions with fur and those of the trop- ics witha thin hair, and in a thousand ways makes the principle of adaptation plain to the observer. As a rule, the methods of shipbuilding are determined by these laws. The English yachts, which sail on thestormy Irish Sea and English Channel and on the treacherous Mediterranean, are built to encounter the storms of any sea. In New York Bay and on the Sound our yachts are made for speed and the comfort of the pas- sengers; for our waters are smooth and pleasant, and in Heavy weather safe harbors are easily reached. Therefore we do not expect a yacht like the Mohawk, built like o floating palace, with every luxurious inven- tion that can be found on land, to be as strong and hardy as a vessel intended to cross the Atlantic. She was made for plea- sure and not for “roughing it” in mid-ocean. But such an immense yacht as the Mo- hawk, carrying such an expanse of canvas, should have been fully prepared for any emergency that could occur in the waters surrounding New York. Even here we can- not always count upon an eight-knot breeze only, and that the Mohawk was knocked over in the Bay by a squall that did not cap- size the smallest boat in the vicinity proves that there must have been not merely bad seamanship, but something wrong in | the manner in which she was fitted out. ‘The facts show that the furniture in | the main cabin was not properly fastened and that when the vessel capsized sofas and tables imprisoned the victims behind a bar- ricade from which escape was impossible. But in addition to this error the ballast of the Mohawk broke free, and, as it was lead, was hurled about the hold like the loose car- ronade which Victor Hugo describes in one of his recent stories, The squall that first struck the Mohawk had not the force to cause this chaos in her hold it she had been in good order. Yet it spite of her condition she partially righted, but when the second squall came it found the furniture and bal- last shifted to the lee side and she was thus easily thrown upon her beam ends without any chance of recovery.* Mr. Garner unquestionably believed that his ballast was perfectly secure, and so the owners of many yachts now cruising in our waters believe their ballast to be. But if he was mistaken it is probable that they are, and two-thirds of our yachts, it is likely, are in a simila: condition to that of the Mo- hawk. It is not enough that ballast should be confined in place by beams, but it should be wedged in, so as to be utterly immov- able. Nor should the word of the sailing master be taken as sufficient proof that the vessel is seaworthy in this respect. A yacht owner should examine for himself, and this , duty the loss of the Mohawk now makes im- perative. Every yacht should be carefully studied, the flooring taken up and the bal- last examined and thoroughly wedged in. We do not give this advice in the spirit of alarm, but in that of caution. The pastimes of the water are as safe as those of the land, and it would be a pity if the beautiful amuse- ment of yachting, which has’ made such as- tonishing progress in America, should suffer even a temporary loss of popularity becauso of the distrust and fears o The Coming August Meteors. The time for the annual display of the “August meteors” is fast approaching, and it behooves those who delight to gaze at these celestial fireworks to prepare for their appearance, These visitors from the inter- planetary regions commence to enter the earth’s atmosphere about the 6th of August, and from that time until the 13th are visible in varying numbers. The period of maxi- mum display occurs generally on the night of the 10th of August. They do not comein such countless multitudes as the November meteors, but their appearance may be relied on with certainty. The August meteors very rarely miss their appointment on the night of the 10th of August in each succeed- ing year, and may be seen of all degrees of brilliancy from the globe of light, outshin- ing Venus or Jupiter, and moving across the firmament in stately grandeur, while emit- ting a fiery train, to the hardly perceptible thread of silver light of the smallest shoot- ‘ing star. Their advent will doubtless be watched for by astronomers with interest. It is only of late years that the periodical return of the August meteors, as of those of the November and other meteoric streams, has been recognized. Many instances of meteoric displays in early times are on rec- ord; they were, however, considered as uncon- nected or accidental occurrences, and their periodical nature was never suspected. No attempt was made to generalize the observa- tions by comparing one with another, or otherwise. Tho savans of those days had the two and two at hand, but conld not, or at any rate did not, put them together to make four. It was not until 1933 that the period of the November meteors was suspected, after that grand display which has never since been surpassed in magnificence and fiery splendor. Tho establishment of that period led Quetelet, of Brussels, to anticipate the return of asimilar meteoric shower on the night of the 10th of Angust, 1837, from the records of similar phenomena, collected by himself in various chronicles and annuals. That prediction was verified, and since then the spectacle of the August meteors has be- come a part of the regular summer recrea- tion of astronomers and others interested. At the maximum they generally average about onea minute. It is well known that they all come from a fixed point of the heavens, which point is in the constellation Perseus, and partaking of the diurnal move- ment of the celestial sphere shows conclu- sively that these meteors are of extraterres- trial origin. In other words, they are hurled upon the earth from the boundless depths of space. ‘Though of insignificant size, so small in fact that all, or nearly all, whieh encoun. ter the earth are vaporized completely in the upper regions of the atmosphere, they pursue their lonely flight, like the earth itself, around a distant centre, with incon- coivable velocities, They are stars in re- ality, too minute to be seen by mortal eye ], until ignited in our air, The consequences of this unearthly bombardment might often be disastrous in the extreme were it not for the atmosphere, that protecting shield which envelops Mother Earth, and renders most of these shooting starsas harmless as peas shot against the iron turret of a monitor. Centenmial Awards and Their Value. It is to be feared that the Centennial Ex- hibition, apart from its superb display, will be of little importance, especially as regards the relative position of manufactures and manufacturers. It is true there is a great deal of anxiety as to the awards of the juries and the jury groups, but in the end these are likely to be worthless. The reason of this is that the musical instruments, the agricultural and other implements and the machinery in general on exhibition are no certain test of the worth and durability of the work of the exhibitors. Manufacturers whose aim it isto make goods to” sell, irre- spective of their intrinsic vgluo and regard- less of the interests of their customers, may easily make goods for exhibition infinitely better than the general run of products of their establishments. This, we are per- suaded, has, been done in numberless in- stances and in every branch of manufac- tures. Itis easy to see how unfair to the honest maker who exhibits the quality of goods which he sells is an award based upon an article made for exhibition and not for sale. This is especially true of articles the quality of which cannot be ascertained by fixed scale or weight but where great reliance must be placed upon the ear, the taste or the judgment of the judges. Another difficulty is to ascertain the durability of the goods ex- hibited. In ninety-nine cases out of a hun- dred neither the durability of the article nor the relative value of the goods made for the market from the manufactory of the ex- hibitor will be indicated, and without these any medal or diploma obtained by the ex- hibit will be valueless. To be of any real service to the community the awards should be ao guide to the representative makers of representative articles; but we fear, from all that we are able to learn upon the subject, that they will fall far short of this, and even if honestly made will indicate only the worth of the articles exhibited. Stop This Nonsense. Is it not almost time for the Eastern and Western democrats who have so long stood at what a Western man called ‘the prevari- cation of the roads” to separate and steer each his independent course? The Eastern men believe in hard money and general hon- esty. The Western men believe in rag money, plenty of it, and an era of legalized swindling. The Eastern men at St. Louis won the head of the ticket, the Western men the tail; and ever since the Convention ad- journed the Western men have been trying toseeif they could not manage so that the tail should wag the head. The struggle was amusing at first, but it is getting to be a little monotonous. The tail, with preposterous assurance, sends letters and despatches and private emissaries to Washington, and frightens the weaker kind of Congressional old ladies half out of their wits ; the head meantime remains stubbornly silent. Suppose Mr. Tilden should put out his letter? Let him speak out. We all know what he believes ; he need not hesi- tate, and it is now his turn. Mr. Hendricks has labored and intrigued and contrived and manipulated until really he begins to pro- duce an impression that the tail has more life in it than the head. Let Mr. Tilden speak out and scatter these gibbering ghosts which infect the Congressional lob- bies and bother Congressmen who have no opinions of their own, and who are apt to catch their political faith like babies catch the measles—from the first infected person they meet. Let Mr. Tilden speak out. He is tho head of his party; he can rule and compel it; or if he cannot then it is better we should all go over to Mr. Hayes. For none of us pretend to have much faith in the so-called “great democratic party.” We all see, be- cause we are not purblind, that the demo- cratic party is a very mixed affair, and that it contains a considerable element of folly and ‘‘pure cussedness.” But many of us have had faith that Mr. Tilden was strong enough, determined enough, big enough, to head the party in the right direction and to control and put down its mischievous ele- ments. But we need just now to have our faith encouraged. We want to see the gen- eral at the head of his troops. Here is what looks like a mutiny, and where is the cap- tain? We do not doubt Mr. Tilden’s ability, but—we confess it with reluctance—we be- gin to doubt his courage. Come on, Mr. Tilden, When the battle rages we do not like to see the general take refuge on a gun- boat, Mryor Dancers in New Yors.—The sud- don death of two passéngers on the Ply- mouth Rock excursion beat by stepping off the vessel at Twenty-third street, on Wednesday evening, is an event which should call down the severest censure upon the authorities who have charge of our wharves and docks, as well as upon the managers of the Plymouth Rock. ‘The eyi- dence is that the boat came in toward mid- night. The night was dark. ‘here were no distinguishing lights on the vessel or the dock. The two passengers walked into the water and were drowned. We trust he Coroner's jury will m: a search- ing inquiry into ail the circumstance, and award the blame where it belongs. If the city is to blame then let the verdict deter- mine. If the managers of the Plymouth Rock are to blame that vessel shonld no longer have public patronage or support. A Hirt to Governor Caammennan.—The Chicago Times, the leading democratic news- paper in the Northwest, in discussing the | Hamburg massacre, comments upon the prop- osition to ‘silence or unioad” Sitting Bull Butler and the South Carolina Sioux. “The only way,” says the Times, “to satisfactorily silence the Hamburg assassins is to hang them by the neck until they are dead.” This is a heroic remedy, but the public opinion of the North—withont distinction of party, and with the exception of Sunset Cox—is in favor of such treatment. When Southern men discover that the murder of a .negro means hanging by the neck until dead the killing of negroes will become very unpopu- lar. Ourcomplaint of Governor Chambers lain is that, instead of going down into the Hamburg district and arresting Sitting Bull Butler and his band of Sioux and trying them, he went to Washington and conferred with the War Office. His duty is to take the advice of the Chicago Times and make negro killing a erime by punishing negro killers as criminals. Tae Cuance or Wearnern which we ane nounced yesterday is coming on us rapidly, and during to-day a storm of considerable violence will probably pass over the vicinity of New York. Rain areas now extend from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the precipitation in the former region is particu- larly heavy. The influence which: we an- ticipated would be exercised by the Alle- ghany Mountains on the movement of the low barometric area, causing a deflection of its eastward course toward the St. Lawrence Valley, has produced that result, and yes- terday afternoon the isobars indicating the variations of pressure trended northeast and southwest along the mountain chain referred to. This shows that while the low baromee ter moved steadily eastward on the northern end the portion of the area of high pressure south of the Alleghanies was held by the elevated ridges of that range of mountaing and continues to pour its air currents into the depression formed to the northward, With the coming rains the temperature will rise, and we will have a repetition for a short time of very warm weather. We may also expect high winds along the coast, par- ticularly that of New England. Buvyorp Wirson’s Testimony before the House committee to investigate the St. Louis whiskey trials is exceedingly painful in more aspects than one. General Babcock is still further exposed, and it is discreditable, in view even of tho single instance of bad conduct and falsification adduced by Wilson, that he should be allowed ‘to retain his rank inthearmy. But there is scarcely any ex- cuse for retailing the story attributed to General Horace Porter of the origin of the *Sylph” despatch, or at least so much of itas refers to the President, Mr. Wilson himself declares that he disbelieves it, and itis not creditable to him that he should relate a story which has no real connection with the whiskey cases, and the only effect of which will be to subject General Grant to unneces« sary and unfavorable criticism. ‘Tae Free Barus are becoming as popular with the women as with the men, and on ‘ladies’ day” are filled with graceful swim. mers who illustrate the ‘poetry of motion” in the water. We have made many urgent appeals to our city authorities to increase the number of these health-giving establish- ments for the benefit of our hundreds of thdusands of toilers who cannot afford to go to Long Branch or Rockaway for a bath.. Must the summer pass before this great public need is supplied? Hurry up the contractors, Mr. Commissioner of Public Works, and let the people enjoy what the people must pay for anyhow. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, De Cordova is in Montreal. Captain Eads is in Washington, Rose Eytinge 18 1p San Francisco. Mr. Blaine is improving at Rye Beach. Frank Moulton will soon go to Narragansett, Governor Crawford, of Kansas, is at Cape May. Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, is in Washington, The Arcadian has been reduced in price to five cent® Representative Tarbox has gose home to Lawrenct for rest. Mrs, Swisshelm outstared a merchant at a restaurant at Leipzig. Hon. Henry L. Pierce has given $1,000 to the Old South sund. am Postmaster General Tyner has returned from Deer Park, Maryland. Hendrick Hudson and his men are rolling kegs ef cool lager in the Catskills. A nice carriage road bas been constructed from Cora. wall to West Point, Jofferson Davis is staying In London at present ig the Langham Hotel. Captain Kidd used to land at the bar where now is South Pier, Narragansett. i Ex-Governor Andrew G. Cartin, of Pennsylvania, ig at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Sprague’s villa on Narragansett Hoights {s surrounded with white roses. An Englishman writes that Cape May has the finest bathing beach he has over visited, Lester Waliack and Theodore Thomas do not occupy their Long Branch cottages this year. Rev. Dr. W. M, Taylor, of New York, is a guest of John B, Gough, at Woreester, Mass. AGerman physician says that only those who pen ‘spire easily are subject to rheumatism. Bethlehem, N. H., tn the White Mountains, is the highest village east of the Rocky Mountains. ; Dr, Eneas Cavalier, Doctor in the University of Pisa, tudying the institutions of Canada, Don Eduardo Vigil, secretary of the Chilian Lega tion at Washington, Is at the Clarendon Hotel. itis complained that visitors to the Treasury Depart ment frequently ogte the ladies and smoke at them, Dio Lewis has organized a party of ten, whitch is now travelling by private conveyance through California. Congressman Hoar has returned to Washington, though only partially recovered from his late tliness, The Queen is expected to reside at Osborne till about the middle ot August and will then proceed to Balmo- ral. There aro at Clapham, a suburb of London, some palm trees, formerly protected by glass, growing in the | open air. Julian Hawthorne fs engaged upon a work containing a series of sketches descriptive of London and subur- ban lite, An English critio would rather that the thorough- bred horse sbould die out than that betting should continue, ‘The Stockholin (Sweden) A/tondladet and the Dagens Nyheter have each a circulation of 8,000 daily, They are the leading papers of the nation. Cotone! Tom Scott will erecta cottage at Sea Girt, the new watering place speculation belonging to him and ex-Governor Parker, below Long Branch. Danbury News: —“By setting them oceasionally in hot water flowers may be preserved for some timo, Flowers are a good deal like love in this respect.” A Chinese newspaper published at Shanghai, under foreign auspices, bas @ circulation of 6,000 daily, and ts sold at ten cash, or something less than a cent, Eraminer:—“Mr, William Black goes on a visit to America about the middle cf August. To save Mr, Black the trouble of answering letters on the sunject we may mention that his visit is one of pure curiosity,” Next winter, when your country aunt expects you to take her to Wallack’s and you look at her unfashion able bonnet nnd freckled nose, do not forget how she kept hor thin face red for you ovor her kitchen stove this hot summer, The Court Journat says of Custer:—He was well known to many in this country, by whom be wag greatly liked and respected on account of the total abe Sence from his temperament and speech of that irre: strainable brag which characteriggs so. many of a countrymen.’? Charles R. Bishop and “Hon, Lady Bishop,” of Home olula, Hawaiian Islands, are at the Revore House, Boss ton, having returned from a year's European tour. Mr, Bishop is of the firm of Bishop & Co., bankers, of Hon. olmlu, and was Minister of Finance "ander King Wille jam. Lady Hishop is a princess, and was offered the throne of the isiandsby King Kamehameha LV, upon his deathbed, but declined,