The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR eC Tat a a ase Nes 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 Yous HeEnatp. Letters and packages should be properly led. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE LOPE Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNWN AND RVENIN seer me, PARISTAN"Waiarin emunaerie” AVENUB THEATER, WALLACK'S THBATRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, a8 P.M. KELLY & 1 ats P. M & TONY PASTOR’ VARIETY, at5 P.M. Matin HUSH A BY B. ~NEW YORK, ‘From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and fair. sULY During the summer months the Henan will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Warn Srnezr Yestrnpay.—The stock mar- ketwas active and speculation attended by considerable excitement. The coal stocks were lively and higher. Gold was steady at 111 7-8. . Money continues easy on call at 2 percent. In government and railway bonds there is no material change. ‘Tue Rirtemen from New South Wales have reached San Francisco. The first to arrive, there would be a poetic justice in the good fortune to carry home with them the honors of the International match. A Coxuxprus.—If G—y—m—r T—ld—n (we purposely conceal the name of the gen- dleman) is unable to manage his pony how, | can he be expected to manage the govern- ment? What will he run into if he should be elected Pr—s—d—nt? Youne Kiya Arronso is to have a wife, and his mother is on her way to Spain to ar- range for the marriage. It is to be hoped the old lady will reside quietly in her son’s dominions, and this end will be best attained if all parties treat her with indifference, Governor TipeN the other day went out for a horseback ride and ran into a buggy and smashed it badly. This isa judgment onhim. If he had been at home writing his letter of acceptance the calamity would not have occurred and he would have saved the expense of mending the broken wagon. Tae Cupan Iysuncents © made an- other successful raid, this time upon Santa Clara. After a struggle of eight years the rebellion is as it was in the beginning, while Bpain has suffered immensely from an ex- hausting war. The end may be distant, but independence is inevitable. Russa is not likely to stand quietly by and see Bosnia divided between Austria, Servia and Montenegro. Such evil fortune has attended the arms of the Servians and Montenegrins that some action by the great Powers may become inevitable, and the feel- ing among the Russian people may precipi- tate a European war at any moment. In His Nover of ‘Vanity Fair’ Thack- eray said of his heroine, Becky Sharp, that “jt was only from her French being bo good that you could know she was nota born woman of fashion.” So it is only from the simplicity of Uncle Sammy in not writ- ing his letter of acceptance at the right time that we know he is not a real politi- cian. Tue Tunzish Rumors this morning are ominous. According to one of these Abdul Ahmet is regent of the Empire, and another story reports the Sultan as dangerously ill. This intelligence seems to indicate a fate for the present Sultan not unlike that which befell his uncle; but how long his brother, who is his junior by two years lacking a day, will be permitted to reign in his stead is a problem. Tae Boarp or Atpenmen seldom performs an act which does not require an opinion from the legal adviser of the Corporation. Mr. James J. Slevin was yesterday elected to fill the vacancy in the Board occasioned by the death of Patrick Lysaght, and now an opinion seems necessary to establish the legality of the election. The City Fathers would do themselves honor if they first ascertained the legality of any proposed action. Tne Frencu Yacut Svunrriss, now at Phil- edelphia, is the first of that nationality that bas ever visited the Delaware. Baron Sel- lire, the owner of this handsome craft, is a worthy representative of Young France, and is determined that the flag of that country shall float among the brightest and oldest - standards that grace our national Centennial festivities. We welcome the French yacht and her gallant owner to our waters, and trust that before leaving us the Surprise will try her speed with some of our famous clip- pers. Tre Torxisn Government has accepted the friendly offices of Austria in rescuing the garrison and war material at Klek, which are now cut off from the Turkish army in Bosnia by the Montenegrin forces. The pol- icy of Austria is evidently opposed to afford- ing the Montenegrins any opportunity of reaping a substantial victory and capturing warlike stotes from the Turks, because such psuccess would probably induce the victors to aspire to an annexation of Herzegovinan territory and thus create the nuclous of a fatare Slavonic State south of the ‘military frontier.” The Democratic Canvass—The Imme- diate Duty of Mr. Tilden. Unless Governor Tilden takes command of his canvass at once and with vigor it will be swept into a tempest of ridicule as disas- trous as that which overcame the canvass of Greeley and Brown, It is almost too soon to anticipate results, but the democratic canvass is menaced on many sides. There is a good deal of champagne drinking at the Manhattan Club “in honor of Uncle Sammy,” and Dorsheimer is reported ina beaming mood, ‘full of victory,” and Mor- rissey is betting right and left on the reform success, and they oung men in the Governor's retinue are serene and hopeful. Far be it from us to disturb these romantic illusions of friendship; but the clouds that rise over the horizon bode no good to Tilden, The attidude of Hendricks belittles the canvass. He insists upon directing a campaign in which he is but a subordinate. He accepted his nomination for the Vice Presidency in a | manner which was almost an insult to the party, and according to the Evening Post he sent a special embassy to Washington, com- posed of the State Treasurer and the State Auditor of Indiana. This embassy was to “urge upon the democratic leaders the necessity of promptly acting upon the ques- tion of repealing the Resumption act.” It threatened that unless the Resumption act was repealed the ‘‘inflation element” in Indiana would put a State ticket in the field “that would poll from sixty to eighty thou- sand votes.” The Western democratic papers, and more especially the Cincinnati Enquirer, do not treat the nomination of Tilden as serious. The delay in writing a letter of acceptance has injured the Gov- It has given rise to a hundred im- pressions, more especially as we learn that Mr. Hendricks has arrived in Saratoga on a second “mission.” In Iowa a leading dem- ocratic politician has declared for Hayes in a telling speech. In Ohio the Cincinnati Commercial, which supported Greeley and whose editor was expected to support Tilden, comes out for Hayes in a three column leader. In the South there is an uneasy movement, and good observers think North Carolina will swing away from the demo- cratic allegiance. Ever since the nomina- | tion of Hayes the republicans have been closing up their ranks, healing differences, perfecting their discipline. Every wing of the party has been strengthened, assigned its place, and this powerful and victorious organization goes into battle with steady column, Even the rivals of Tilden before the Con- vention treat him with coldness. Mr. Bay- ard is the only one who has shown him allegiance. On the other hand the rivals of | Hayes hastened to fall in line and aid him. The meeting at Tammany Hall the other evening was distinguished by the absence of the leading men in the national democratic organization. Its presiding officer has never been a democrat and does not now belong to the party. The speakers were good, fair men, but where were Parker, Allen, Thur- man, Seymour, Hancock and the great names of the party? Governor Allen, we believe, has ‘‘retired from politics;” and yet the wisdom of Mr. Tilden’s nomination is unquestioned. The democrats have not had a better candidate since Andrew Jack- son’s day. Compare the two men, Tilden and Hayes, and no one doubts the intel- lectual superiority of our Governor. He is aman of high attainments. He has been for forty years in active politics. He shows his business abilities by amassing a princely fortune. All his life he has been concerned in the management of great interests; so that the Presidency would not be a burden which he could not bear. He knows the country well. He isa citizen of whom all our people, without distinction of party, may well be proud. His work against Tweed, however much his enemies may be- little it, was well'done. It was timely, tell- ing and successful. Noone doubts that if elected Mr. Tilden .would be a fair, safo, conservative and vigorous President. His platform commends itself to the better sense of the country. It is the platform of re- form—enforcement of the law and justice to all classes. The more the nomination is studied the more the party will see that it was wise. And yet so fair and so promising a candi- date already suffers from a canvass that shows signs of defeat. No sooner is Tilden nominated than his Southern friends must arrange a massacre in South Carolina which arouses at once the old war feeling of the North—a massacre so atrocious as to call ernor, Lamar. Republicans and conservative men ask, If this is what we see in the green tree what shall we see in the dry? Then, instead of giving Tilden o safe, sensible colleague for Vice President—such a man as Wheeler, who would at once fall into place and do yeoman’s service, the Convention gives him a pretentious, inflated, mischievous politician, whose whole course is so injuri- ous to the canvass as to lead tothe inquiry whether he really desires the election of Til- den or Hayes. We venture the assertion that Governor Tilden is weaker to-day by a hundred thousand votes than when he was nominated, and solely because of Mr. Hen- dricks. The behavior of Hendricks has aroused the suspicions of the country. The people fear it is to be Seymour and Blair over again; that there is to be a juggle in the financial platform; that Hendricks is fight- ing for terms; that he will insist upon di- viding power in the new administration, and not sink into the insignificance of the Vice Presidency. Mr. Hendricks comes on the ticket as a master, as a ‘“‘power” that must be recognized. And when we look at the power he represents we see that it embodies the worst features of Bourbonism—repudia- tion in the West and revolution in the South. We see a party which, since the surrender of Lee, has been striving to undo the results of the war. It is the party of inflation, of unlimited greenbacks, whose record recalls to every soldier all that was meant by the expressive word ‘‘copperheadism” during the war. We in the East, who are libe- ral in all political matters and care noth- ing for the passions of politics, may underrate this sentiment; but in the West, more especially in the Northwest, it is mak- ing itself felt every hour, and to the damage of Tilden, Then, as if to crown all, at a | time when the policy of Tilden’s friends was down the denunciation of Southern men like’! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1876. | *o win that respectable republican clement which dreads Grantism, the ablest and most earnest friend of Tilden in the press must pronounce against all civil service reform. This came, too, at the time when Hayes had electrified the country by his letter in favor of that reform. The effect of this was to throw the whole conservative element of the republican party at once into the Hayes ranks, Civil service reform, like. the one term, is a cardinal point in the canvass. It is a reform dear to the best sentiment of the country—to all thoughtful, honest men, who see in the maxim that to the victor belongs the spoils one of the evils of our government, While these things are disheartening to good democrats they are by no means fatal to the Tilden canvass. But unless they are checked, unless the Governor takes com- mand of his armies in person, unless he ar- rests this process of demoralization, his canvass will fall into curcless rnin. The “Governor has now to show the possession of those heroic qualities which are the admira- tion of his friends, and by the exercise of which Mr. Godwin informs us he will in three months reform the finances of the whole country. Let him say to Mr, Hen- dricks that he must either go off the ticket or run for the Vice Presidency. Let him say to the rag money mutineers in Indiana and elsewhere that unless they mean to keep discipline they will be drummed out of the army. Let him say to Sitting Bull Butler and the Hamburg Sioux that he will hang negro killers as promptly as he hanged Dolan. Let him then write a manly, ringing letter, arraigning the administration for its crimes and the republican party for its fail- ures, promising civil service reform in its hold office for one term, and will favor an amendment to the constitution limiting the Presidency to one term, promising protec- tion to white and black men in the South, insisting upon the fullest security for the public credit. Let there be no equivoca- tion, no avoiding delicate issues, no misty, yague phrases, that mean all things to all men. Then, with the platform thus made clear, with the ticket harmonized and strengthened, with a good State ticket in New York—like Marble for Governer and Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor—the canvass may begin with renewed hope. The way to do thisis for the Governor to take com- mand and see that throughout the party but one will is known—the will of the chosen chief. He cannot lose an hour in doing this. We repeat that with another month of such management in the democratic party as we have had since the adjournment of the Con- vention the canvass of Tilden will be over- whelmed with a tempest of ridicule as dis- astrous as that which destroyed the canvass of Greeley and Brown. A Canadian View of Extradition. The authorities in Canada do not like the abolition of the Extradition ‘'reaty. Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, has proposed to our government that, pending the new treaty, the United States and his government will exchange criminals. We presume this suggestion comes with the as- sent of the Queen. It may be that Lord Derby referred to this the other day when he said it was proposed to make a provis- ional arrangement with the United States until a new treaty could be signed. The President could not assent; he had referred the wholo matter to Congress, and, more- over, having a question with the mother country, he could not very well enter into negotiations witha colony. ‘The practical point is that the abrogation of this treaty is felt in Canada more than elsewhere. Canada now becomes not merely the asylum for the Tweeds and Sweenys, but for crimi- nals of a higher grade. No Governor Gen- eral can look on such a condition of affairs without alarm. The connection between Canada and the United States is too close for Canadian affairs to be managed by the imperial government. Extraditions, tarifis, reciprocity—all these questions belong to the home government, and not to England. The time must come when the relations be- tween the United States and Canada will be upon a different footing than those between our country and England. This extradition question shows the importance of having these relations adjusted as soon as possible. A Plea for a Scout. The war with the Sioux revives a species of adventure and escape—as in the case of General Custer and his men’s dashing bra- very and death—of which we have had few instances since the early New England mas- sacres and the French and Indian wars. History is enriched with new instances of undaunted heroism in this the latest, and probably the last, of the great Indian wars, and among these no adventure is so remark- able as Licutenant Sibley’s escape from the savages, of which we have already printed a graphic narrative, and to which we now add the story of Mr J. F. Finerty, of the Chicago Times, who was one of the party. Almost every sentence of Mr. Finerty’s narrative recounts a miracle. A race of forty-five miles through the Big Horn Mountains, on foot and with- out food, after a battle which lasted several hours, isa feat which few men have been able to perform, and in this instance it is likely the attempt would have proved futile but for the skill and foresight of one of the scouts, Frank Grouard. ‘Io this man Lieu- tenant Sibley and his party owe their lives and the country a debt of gratitude it is not easy torepay. On other occasions we have heard of Grouard performing acts of valor and skill deserving the highest recognition, but his conduct in this adventure surpasses all his previous achievements. In brilliant foresight, determined courage and able gen- eralship it is unequalled in the history of Indian warfare. The escape from the battle field to the hills was in itself a piece of won- derful stratogy, and for the rest of the jour- ney Xenophon showed no calmer courage or greater foresight in the conduct of the re- treat of the Ten Thousand than was dis- played by this scout in leading his compan- ions back to camp. Danger lurked every- where, and it had to be provided against as if there was an Indian behind every tree and a band of warriors in every ravine. In all this Grouard succeeded, Such abilities as his ought to be rewarded, and we trust this achievement will bring him the recognition | and reward he so eminently merits. highest sense, declaring that he will only | Reported Disaster to Crook’s Com: mand, We think we may well doubt the story of disaster to Crook’s command which comes to us this morning by roundabout ways and from uncertain sources. At the same time it may be true. Ever since the defeat of Custer and the annihilation of his com- mand there have been forebodings of disaster to Crook. The Indians were known to be swarming in great numbers in the neighbor- hood of his camp. They were elated with victory and confident in their strength. The fact that there was little or no demon- stration against Crook was in itself ominous. It was believed, besides, that Crook’s com- mand was too small to cope successfully with the Sioux by whom he was surrounded, and fears were entertained that the meagre reinforcements which have been sent to him will not be able to reach him. It is not yet known whether Merritt, with the Fifth cavalry. has been able to join him. This, it must be confessed, is a dark outlook, and against the probabilities which can be based upon it there is only the doubt which be- longs to a story coming as this one comes. Lame Deer may proveamyth. His story is in itself too circumstantial to be trustworthy, when it is considered how short was the time after the battle which ‘he allowed himself to get to the point where Mr. Fray heard his tale, and from whence it was brought to Sidney. We told about the disaster its that it easy to believe there was a disaster at all. are 80 much and consequences is not At the same time the story proves the neces- sity of strengthening Crook as speedily as possible. What we doubt to-day may be true to-morrow. We must not only guard against disaster by making it impossible, but do it so speedily that none of the conse- quences mentioned in Lame Deer's tale may We should not wait for Crook to ask for further reinforcements, but, know- ing as we do that he needs them, send them to him without any further delay. accrue, The President and Frauds. The Herarp has always contended that the attempt to connect the President with the frauds upon whiskey would react upon those who inspired it. The President's record, as it comes to light point by point, shows that he was as earnest in his desires to have the frauds prevented and the per- petrators punished as Bristow. Common sense would ‘have proved this; for if the President had wished to protect the thieves he could have done so. The evidence of Bluford Wilson is an exoneration of the President. The country should rejoice at this. The fame of the President should always be dear to the people, more especially when the President is a man like Grant, one of the most conspicuous figures in our his- tory, whose name will be among the glories of our country when Tilden and Hendricks, Hayes and Wheeler, Bristow, Jewell, Blu- ford Wilson and all the rest ave forgotten. No one has censured more severely than the Henraxp the blunders of the administration. No one regrets more than the Herarp that the administration should have fuiled to meet the wishes of its friends. But we should deem it a calamity, which every true American would feel, if the victor of Appo- mattox should prove to be a venal, corrupt man. We have no such fear, and the vindi- cation of Wilson’s evidence is precisely what we expected from Wilson when he was put under the solemnity of an oath. the Whiskey The Wrong Kind of Economy. Much of the economy which has charac- terized the House of, Representatives is detrimental rather than beneficial to the country. The refusal of a sufficient appro- priation to the Weather Bureau is an instance of this unwise economy. Not only has the force been cut down, but the number of stations is to be diminished. Even points as important as Newport and New Haven are to be deprived of an observing station, and the publication of the weather maps is to be discontinued. These maps are invaluable to commerce, and their dis- continuance will be a public calamity. Instead of diminishing the service of the bureau it ought to be in- creased, and Congress is only penny wise in the adoption of this niggardly plan of economy. So far the Weather Bureau has proved of great importance, and the value of ts services tothe people and to trade has been more generally recognized and has been more thorough and complete than in any other country. ‘‘Old Probabilities” has not only proved himself an acceptable weather prophet, but his services and _ scientific standing have reflected great credit on the country. We regret to see the bureau ham- pered by insufficient appropriations, and we trust before it adjourns Congress will recog- nize the necessity of affording it sufficient resources to make it effective. Tue Wearnen Yrsterpay in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains was marked by numerous rain areas, which ex- tended from the Gulf to the St. Lawrence Valley, with small areas in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys. At forty-seven minutes past four o'clock P. M., actual time, when the observations were taken by the Signal Service Department simultaneously over the entire country the largest rain area extended from Nashville, Tenn., to Oswego, and embraced Wilmington, N. C., Louis- ville, Ky., and Baltimore, Md. The heaviest rainfall occurred at Nashville, where, at the time of the observation, 1.47 inches had fallen. Light rain fell at Duluth and at Omaha, in the Northwest and West, at New Orleans and Mobile, and at Key West on the Gulf coast, at Savannah on the South Atlantic coast, and from Burlington, Vt., to Quebec, Canada, in the northeast. The area of greatest heat extended from Fort Sully, D. T., to Indianola, Texas, and em- braced all the Southwestern States, the temperature at Corsicana, Texas, being 102 degrees, In New York the rain began to fall at nine o'clock P. M., and will be likely tocontinue during to-day. The rivers of the Middle and Eastern States will be swol- len by this heavy rain, the coming of which was duly announced in the Hxnraup on Wednesday last. Mayor Wickham’s Farewell Address. The Star, which is the official organ of His Honor the Mayor, announces that he will “never again become a candidate for any kind of office.” ‘This resolve,” says the Star, ‘‘is said to be the result of the Heraup's castigations, John Kelly's rebukes, and the advice of private family friends who fear the effects of apy more brain work for His Honor.” The Star is mistaken in supposing that the Henatp has ever castigated the Mayor. On the contrary, we have always cherished the genius and the fame of His Honor as among our precious possessions. The Star ‘will, no doubt, remember that a year ago we led the movement in favor of the Mayor going to London to represent our metropolitan greatness before the assembled mayors of the Continent. We take it that the mentioning of the Herarp is a mis- print, and that some other journal is in- tended. : The retirement of the Mayor from all pub- lic life is a sad event. We had hoped that the St. Louis Convention would have nomi- nated Mr. Wickham for the Vice Presidency. Mr. Tilden’s ambition interfered with this, and Mr. Wickham, although he knew that in doing so he was closing the door on his own career, supported Mr. Tilden. If Mr. Wickham had been nominated there would be no such difficulty as we see now in the democratic councils. He would have fallen in line as loyally as Wheeler. Instead of dictating terms and striving to manage the whole canvass Mr. Wickham would have taken off his coat and stumped the country from Key West to Alaska, Beginning in the warm tropics, where the palm tree lifts its branches and the wholesome cocoanut rolls in the sward and the nutritious turtle awaits the Great Day of Soup, the Mayor would have gone on, on, on, from State to State, into Canada, through the Sioux country, traversing the forests of British Columbia, until he came within the shadow of the pole. Such a candidate, with his rare per- sonal charms, would have rallied the men and women—especially the women—of the country. But with the failure of the Con- vention to recognize his claims the proud heart broke, even as the heart of Daniel Webster broke after the Southern States abandoned him. Those who have seen the Mayor since his return from St. Louis have seen a look like that of Pitt after Austerlitz. Wickham has had the ‘‘Austerlitz look” for nearly six weeks. The Star errs when it says that this is the result of brain work. Men like Wickham never suffer from brain work, ‘They have brains capable of grasping hemispheres. It is the proud heart that snaps and brings with it the poor mortal frame. His Honor, before retiring from public life, proposes to issue an address to his fel- low countrymen—a farewell address after the manner of George Washington. Colonel Burton N. Harrison will assist him, as Washington was assisted by Hamilton. In this work the Mayor will leave his fellow countrymen a legacy of politi- cal wisdom and research, Unlike Wash- ington, he will deliver it in public. He is convinced that the effect of a public delivery will be greater than printing. We agreo with the Mayor. He should hire Gilmore’s Hippodrome for one evening and surround the occasion with appropriate ceremonies and decorations, The stage could be draped in black, with no ornament but a bust of Washington. written for the occasion, so that when the Mayor came to the effective parts the band could accompany him. As the Mayor has fine vocal powers he could sing a few songs of a patriotic and plaintive character. To be sure Washington did not introduce any songs into his address, but Washington could not sing, and we think the Mayor should be permitted to take farewell of the people in his own way. At the end Gil- more, whose genius for immense effects is known all the world over, will play ‘The Mayor's Farewell” with cannon shot accom. paniments, so that all over the city and far out at sea where the ships are cruising it will be known that New York’s centennial Mayor retires from the scene of so much glory and so many trials. Tar Purmovta Rock.—Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer address us letter explaining that the drowning of the man and woman who had been passengers on the Plymouth Rock, at the Twenty-second street pier, was in no sense to be attributed tothem. The impres- sion conveyed by the news was that the managers of the Plymouth Rock had, by a system of bad lighting, led to the disaster. Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer explain that the ac- cident occurred three hundred feet from the steamer, by walking off the pier. The blame, therefore, is upon the authorities of the city, who do not properly light the piers, and in no way upon the enterprising gentlemen who, as they modestly say in their letter, do ‘‘valuable service toward the good health of the metropolis.” At the same time Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer, when they arrive at the end of a dark pier at midnight, might illuminate the pier by a calcium light until their passen- gers have passed in safety to the highways and streets of the city. é Tue Gansace Wan took no new phase yesterday. The men who were arrested by the Shore Inspector were admitted to bail, and no fresh offence was committed or at- tempted by the scows of the Street Cleaning Bureau. We trust there will be no dump- ing in the Bay until the whole question is legally and equitably adjusted, and the spectacle of the police of the two cities in armed and_ hostile array must not be presented again. Up to the time of the garbage war the people of this city were in almost blissful ignorance of the fact that Messrs. Wheeler and Nichols are Commissioners of Police ; but these gen- tlemen would earn a better and more honest fame if they set Superintendent Walling and his men to catching thieves and other offen- ders instead of carrying them out of the county to do battle with an official in the possible performance of his duty. Gilmore could have musio- A Word to Cornell. The wavering of Cornell at a time when she can almost with ease extend her reputa- tion and her influence to a degree she could before have hardly dreamed of is surprising. While her graduates stand ready to do their part, and at their meeting in this city yesterday passed resolutions * urging their famous crew to meet the foreign enemy, it is said that Captain Ostrom, though hampered by no engagement from which ho cannot promptly free himself, is reluctant to proceed. Yale and Columbis are already to the front, and will give the Cambridge men a hard race, while in the comiug four weeks Har vard, too, may enter. For Cornell now to hesitate, when many believe she can row down any student four, if not any amateur four in the country, would tend to shake what renown she has already won. Captain Ostrom should remember that in a question between loyalty not only to his alma mater but to his country on the one hand, and his own prie vate inclinations or convenience, on the other, the latter should .certainly give way, He should also remember that in last week's race Harvard's bow was a good deal nearer Cornell's stern at the finish line than it was to Yale's stern two weeks earlier, and that it now lies largely with him to disprove the very gen- eralimpression that, had Yale also rowedjlast week at Saratoga, Cornell would have fin- ished second instead of first—new position though it be for her. Wanted—A Peace Policy. We hope the Indian Bureau is doing its duty tothe ‘wards of the nation.” West- ern despatches relate that the Sioux women and children on the reservations are mourn- ing over their relatives killed in the great battle with Custer. Should not the Indian Bureau hasten to send out mourning suits for these bereaved ‘‘wards?” Other de- spatches tell us that wounded Sioux are brought quietly into the different reserva- tions to be fed and nursed. Tho Indian Bureau ought, by all means, to send out a force of doctors, nurses and hospital stores for these ‘‘wards.” Yet other despatches relate that the Sioux are short of ammuni- tion and paying as high as a pony for thirty rounds, It seems a pity to let the ‘wards” become the victims of extortioners im this way. Tho Indian Bureau supplied these Sioux with blankets and camp equipage; it fed them until they were fat, and it contin- ues to feed their women, children and old men, while the reservations are a shelter for the wounded savages, where they get food and care, Is it fair to stop short just there ? Why not issue a new supply of cartridges? It is all the Sioux now need, thanks to the Indian Bureau. Soberly, this Indian business is ‘getting to bea little monotonous,” as a Californian remarked about an unduly prolonged earth- quake. With one department of the federal government feeding, clothing and cherishing these Indians while they are fighting an- other department, we are paying the cost of ‘both sides of the war, and that is too much in these hard times. If the Sioux want to fight, why not let them take care of their women and old men and their wounded? Why not shut up the reservations? Why not give our soldiers at least a fair chance? As it is the Indian Bureau is simply opening afire in the rear of Terry, Crook and the brave boys under their command. We do not want tosee the Indians wronged; but then, on the other hand, we think a United States cavalryman as good as an Indian and as proper an object of humanity. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ladies row on Lake Mahopac. Limburger cheeso speaks for itself, There is little flirting at Cape May this year, Mount Desert is not as gay as in former years, Brighton is only forty-seven miles from London. ‘The West devotes its aftermath to camp meetings, French and German rivers flow too swiftly for shell. boat racing. Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, furnishes salmon and pike im its eddies, Maggie Minot, of Iowa, weighs thirty-one pounds and 1s twenty-three years old. ‘The Safurday Review sees nothing for the American Indian but ultimate extermination, Mr, Hendricks is expected at Put-in Bay, Obio, where the visitors live on potcheese and fresh voges tables. An exchange asks us to give a map of Tilden’s letter; but wedo not know exactly where to putin his Big and Little Horns, Jay Cooke’s island of Gibraltar, in Lake Erie, ie wanted by the State Medical Society ot Indiana, which is trying to bay tt Senators Bogy and Thurman take “grass” before breakfast at Old Point Comfort. ‘‘Grass’’ is statesman- ship for smash or julep, ice machines in New Orleans, aqua-ammonia pro- cess, mako 200 tons of ico per day, and this amount can be doubled if necessary. Atlanta ((a.) Constitution: —“Atlanta young men ask for ‘crooked’ no more, They lay down their fiftees cents and demand ‘a Sitting Bull.’ ”” Saturday Review:—‘Slow nnd indolent minds find it easicr to follow diffuse expositions of almost any branch of study than to concentrate their attention og general measures,” General Butler, with a party of avout twenty friends, is to make another attempt to ascend the Merrimacls from Haverhill to Lawrenes. Norristown Herald :. country subscriber informs ‘us that while operating a reaping machine the other day one of his cows got in front of itand he soon had beef d la mowed ” This isthe time of year when the sunburned farmer stands afield, leaning on his fork and watching the ys, “Smith’s people is stuck agin.” Flowers ure used in profusion on ball dresses, and some of the court modistes have made some very ele- gant toilets, ornamented with fruit, blackberries and cherries being the favorites at present. A very great quuntity of beautiful lace is worn on ball and dinner dresses. fon. Stewart I. Woodtord and Abram Wakeman re- turned yesterday from Washington, whither they went for a conference with Senator Conkling on the subject of the most available republican nominee for Governor, It ss said that the conference resulted in an agreement that the interests of the party would be most profitably subserved by the nomination of Edwin D. Morgan. As you sit in acool, shady nook you sometimes seo a chipmunk squirrel. stender as your finger, glido along a stone wall, and with bis russet tail erect and his little head cocked one side, stand still while listen- ing through the hot silence of the country air. Then he glides back between two stones, and is glad that he is not running for Congross, In some country houses there isa little cupboard high up in the wall near the ceiling. In that little cup. board the gentle farmer usually keeps his razor, bis shaving mug, bis church certifiente, and a tin teapot which, somehow, always contains cold toa, The fare mer reaches up, takes the teapot by the back of the neck, drinks out of the spout, wipes the tea of his lips, takes up his candle tor bed, and leaves a dolicious he equipped carriage-folk riding down the road; and |