The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD a BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic lespatches must be addressed New York Mzrarp. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STRE PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the seme terms as in New York. SE LE ERE NO. 212 TO-MORROW, FIFTH AVENUE THRATRE, LORD DUNDREARY, at 5. M, WALLACK'S THEATRE. F THE MIGHTY DOLLAK, at SP. M GARDEN, M * GTM GRAND CONCERT, at 51°. | woops M ECHOES, at 8 P.M. Matine KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, etsP.M. TONY PASTOR'S VARIETY, at 8 M Matin HUS@A BY BABY, ars P. M PARISIAN eatsP.m. TRIPLE SHEET. ~NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 39, 1876, ‘From our reports this morning the probabilities gre that the weather to-day will be cloudy and warm, with probable heavy rains. During the summer months the Heraxp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per weel, free of postage. Warn Srneer Yr —Stocks were only moderately active and the undertone was feverish. Low prices were made with- out much recovery. Gold advanced from 111} to 1124. Money on call was supplied at two per cent. Governments and railway | bonds were a shade lower. DAY. Tur Sotprars ror CustEer.—No fact is more gratifying in this subscription for the monu- | ment for Custer and his men than the zeal which the soldiers of the army show in sub- scribing. Theso men know how to honor true valor. In Havana the belief is gaining ground | that before whipping the Cuban insurgents they must first whip the Spanish army con- | tractors. Spain has been burning her can- dle at both ends so long in the Antilles that the reform comes a little late. Mr. Saxronp does not desire to bring his string of horses home to America without scoring a victory in their favor. His propo- sal to run Preakness against New Holland, the Goodwood Cup winner, is plucky, and we wish him what he desires in€he event. McGrvey’s Munperer should be speedily tried. Our dangerous classes need a salutary lesson, and this recent slaughter of a police officer while in the discharge of his duty fur- nishes an excellent opportunity of proving to the banditti of New York that punishment | follows quickly on the footsteps of crime. Tae Law's Detay.—The defendant in the | Moulton-Beecher suit succeeded yesterday in obtaining a further delay of twenty days from Judge Westbrook, of the New York Su- preme Court. The public may well exclaim in connection with this interminable quar- rel, ‘‘How long, O Lord! how long?” Mrstatcre Yacutinc continues to main- tain its popularity among our juvenile navi- gators of the park ponds. Yesterday the sport was again enjoyed at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by a large number of visitors, who apparently take as deep an interest in the evolutions of the miniature fleets as if each craft was a three hundred ton schooner sail- ing for the America’s Cup. Montexrero, which had, according to recent telegrams, sustained a severe defeat atthe hands of the Turks, has, as we see from a special cable despatch to the Henratn, turned the tables by laying an ambush for | the victorious Moslems, routing them and capturing Osman Pacha. This Osman can scarcely be the one spoken of as recently | leading the Turkish forces on the northeast | of Servia ; but he is evidently a man of note. Srrvia.—The news from Servia indicates | that unless the Russians interfere there will be a collapse of the insurrection against Turkey. We have always felt that Servia was the head of the lance that was to pierce | Turkey, and that in the end Russia would be the body of the lance. It may prove to be so now. But if Russia permits Servia to | be defeated the lance head will be snapped off and the shaft will be a useless instru- | ment Cxanity Macuixrs do not always work | smoothly, and there is a difficulty in making them stop at the line where charity ends | and the abuse of that virtue begins. When children are sheltered and protected from want by institutions like the Children’s Aid Society the directors should not consider that they possess the right of disposal of the children's persons and of sending them to the West among strangers without the knowledge of their parents. Tux Meaxest Act or «4 Mean Senate. — The Senate Committee on Pensions has amended the bill granting a pension to the | wife of General Custer so as to reduce the sum from fifty dollars o month to thirty. Ingalls, of Kansas, reported this great moas- ure. One of our contemporaries suggests that Congress should throw out the pension altogether and give the widow of the great | tribe in the hope of exterminating the hated | ,| lantic coast States, but to-day we are likely General@ sewing machine. This proceeding is so mean as to be unworthy of a legislative body. Here is one of the noblest achieve- ments in the history of the army, an achievement that will ‘live in history with the charge of the Light Brigade. A Senate which squanders seven millions of dollars on a River and Harbor bill filled with job- bery and corruption proposes to cut down the fifty dollars a month voted by the House to thirty dollars. There is not an American ‘ NEW YORK AERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET, The Indian Question—Do We Under- mate Our Foes? The despatch ‘we published yesterday announcing another attack on the command of General Crook and the killing of three hundred officers and soldiers is not con- firmed. General Sheridan pronounces it false and sensational. It may be dismisse2 as one of those wild stories which are sure to find circulation in such atime. The fact that it should be accepted upon so slender an authority as an unknown scout shows how sensitive the public mind has become on the Indian question, After the massacre of Custer and his command anything is possi- ble, and the people are in a mood to believe anything. More than all, the news from the Indian country, for some time past, has not been reassuring. We should infer from the tone of General Sheridan’s interview with a Chicago reporter that this distinguished afficer is not altogether satisfied with the position of affairs in the Indian country. Two or three things are apparent. We made a mistake in not knowing how many Indians we were expected to fight in the Territories. We had no information whatever in refer- ence to the position or the purposes of the Sioux. Our officers went gayly out to the Yellowstone country as to a summer picnic. The imaginations of men were excited by the stories of the beauties of the Yellowstone as seen in other expeditions—the spouting gey- sers throwing up many-colored clays, the wonderful flora in the valleys, the gold in the Black Hills. As soon as spring came and the grass peeped out our soldiers were as eager for an expedition into the Yellow- stone as the young Indian bucks for the warpath. And as the history of our Indian wars, especially since the time of Tecumseh and Osceola, had been little more than a superior force crushing out an inferior force, no one had ever dreamed of anything but a triumphant march, the killing of a few Indians and a glorious time after buffalo and antelope. The attack on Sitting Bull was the awaken- ing from adream, We then saw our blunder, and we paid for it in the massacre of one of the finest generals in the army and the de- struction of one of our best cavalry regi- ments, The manner in which the news of | this massacre was received by Sherman and Sheridan, the tone of the reports of Terry, the repulse of Crook, one of the most expe- rienced Indian fighters, all showed that the military authorities had underestimated the | savages. ‘The news fiom the frontier con- | firms this opinion. One body of troops after another have gone to the front, but nothing is done. We hear of a general movement among all the Indian tribes. The young Indians are leaving the agencies and hurrying to the warpath. Other agencies have been turned into hos- pitals for the nursing of the wounded in the last campaign. This enables Sitting Bull to movemore rapidly, Then, the Indians areas well armed as our infantry and better armed than our cavalry. Our paternal government has given them rifles of an approved pattern, ammunition, army blankets, tomahawks and sealping knives. They have better horses than our troops and are much better cavalry- men. They fight us on their own ground and in theirway. There are nosuch cavalry as Indians. An Indian may be said to be a part of his animal. To the Indian the wide open wilderness, with its prairies, forests, streams, ravines, is an open book. Every twig or pebble has ameaning and a purpose. We have a few scouts who know the condi- tions of Indian life and warfare, but every Indian isa scout. The Indian fights witha | wilderness behind him, which is his home, but in which our troops could not live. He | has over the frontier the English dominions, where he can retreat and live in perfect im- munnity. Wecould not pursue Sitting Bull | across the frontier, and England could not give him up. The Indian war must be accepted by us as the war of the Indian race against the white race. We have never had—at least since the time of Tecumseh and Tippecanoe—so many Indians arrayed against us as at the present time. The head of the Sioux seems to have followed the policy of his great predecessor, Tecumseh, who labored to unite the red men against the whites and make a confederation which compelled us to send one of the most capable soldiers in our young army against him—General Harrison. In that campaign Harrison won the fame which made him President of the United States. With the death of Tecumseh and the destruction of his power came to an end every serious diffi- culty with the Indians in the valley of the Mississippi. We shall have to pursue the same policy with the present federation. It would not surprise us to learn, when the truth is known, that all the Indians in Montana and Dakota are now under the command of Sitting Bull. We hear from British America that | an effort has been made to induce the Black- feet and other tribes under the British | Crown to cross the frontier and make war upon the whites. The despatch says that these overtures have been declined ; that the British Indians are at peace and prefer so to remain. We have little doubt that the young men of the Canadian tribes are as anxious for the warpath as their Sioux friends, and that while it may be true that the tribes aro nominally at their agencies and behaving themselves as many of the young men as can be spared are in arms against us. It must be remembered that an | Indian at peace is an uneasy creature ; that war is his calling; that if he desires consid- | eration among his fellows ; that if he craves power as a leader or hopes for success in | love, he must show his prowess by the num- | ber of sealps he captures. Tho killing of Custer will give Sitting Bull as much fame } as Tecumseh ever enjoyed, and his rade standard will attract the Indians from every | paleface. tion from this point of view we shall make | no mistake. Our only danger is in under. estimating the number of the Indians or underrating their skill and power. We have a foe who has beaten us in every encounter, We send regular soldiers, infantry and cay- alry, recruited within a few months from the great cities, composed of the odds and ends of society, to fight a @ace where every man | A Terrorism To Be So long as we deal with the Indian ques- | we should select frontiersmen, We want men who have been on the Plains, who know the Indian character, and who would go into the waras men fighting for their homes. Nor do we wish a war of ex- termination. No humane man thinks of this for a moment. We should be quite willing to have Wendell Phillips himself de- termine our peace policy toward these tribes. First, and above all things, we must put an end to these fighting parties who wander over our Territories killing men, women and children. That is a question of self-preser- vation, of civilization. That can only be done by a large military force, under skilful command. Once that we have shown Sitting Bull and his allies that they cannot roam at will with the tomahawk and scalping knife to fall on unprotected settlements, and we can gather the remnants of those tribes and give them a reservation. Let us put them under the control of the army. Let us end the sentiment about tribal governments and treaties. So long as we deal with the Indians as tribes and allow them to roam over vast spaces so long we shall have a war with every spring crop of grass. So we must bring them within the jurisdiction of the government. The laws that govern white men must govern them. We must end these tribal wars, just as England ended widow burning and child killing in India. Let us recognize their savage state so far as to do what we can for their education and to enable them to live like civilized men. That is our duty, and the government can- not discharge it with too much loyalty. The whole question has become one of bar- barism against civilization. Our first duty is to defend ourselves by an aggressive and vigorous war. Our next duty is to bring every Indian under the beneficent influence of the laws. Let us prosecute the war so that we may have a lasting peace. Put a Stop To. Burglar and assassin would seem to have become interchangeable terms. The terrible affair on Brooklyn Heights, in the home of Mr. Hondlow, shows that the burglar of the period is prepared, upon interruption of his nefarious business, to resort to murder to cover his escape. The burglars have apparently agreed among themselves the course to be pursued in certain situations, and the public should be aware of it and frame theirs. From several indications that have come to light it appears that the crim- inals of New York believe the time has come for them to take the upper hand of society and carry on their avocations with a bold- ness and profit heretofore unknown. The murder of Mr. Noe, the stabbing of Sergeant McGiven and the attack upon Mr. Hondlow all point in one direction. Once convince the general run of the people that they will be mur- dered if they interfere with the sneak thief, the pickpocket or the burglar, and the thieves can reap a harvest which would leave Greece or Sicily safe places for portable property compared with New York or Brook- lyn. This is the state of affairs, broadly stated, which the criminal classes desire to bring about. Dolan was caught and hanged; King, who stabbed MecGiven, is in jail and should be hatiged; Kellow, who attacked Mr. Hondlow so savagely, may providentially die of his injuries, but if he recovers and Mr. Hondlow should die, he should be hanged, Burglars count this way:—‘If I kill him, I'll escape; if I wound him and am caught, it won’t make much difference in my ‘time.’” He has before his eyes the es- cape of the murderers of Rogers, Nathan, Panormo and a dozen others. He knows for a fact that the escape of a burglar who has wounded or killed a man frightens so- ciety more than the fate of Dolan frightens the thieves, because Dolan’s case was one in fifty. He strikes at his victim, therefore, for his own good and that of his class at once. How is this to be met? We have no hesi- tation in aaying that the neglect of the police to meddle with the thieves, so long as they can avoid doing s0, is a principal cause of this audacity of ourcriminals. The burglars | are allowed to “put up” their jobs without interference. Bands of pickpockets patrol the streets day and night, jump on the cars and jostle citizens on the sidewalks without molestation. Most significant of all, there is a personal acquaintance between the police and the thieves which is very demor- alizing. They walk on Broadway and recog- nize each other under a sort of pleasant truce. Wo never hear of these well known thieves being arrested on sus- picion. The facilities for the disposal of plunder are very great—a facility which an active police force could put an‘end w. The remedy, so far as the police are con- cerned, is in increased activity, the arrest of suspicions loiterers at unseemly hours—in a word, active prevention as well as active pursuit. Our citizens should deal with bur- glars as with any other dangerous animal on their premises. No man in his senses would attempt to capture a wolf unarmed. It is best to givean alarm at once, to arm one’s self before pursuing them, to use no lights, if single handed, in seeking them, and to strike upon the first symptom of resistance. That j crime should lift its sloping forehead so | boldly in our midst is a stain upon our | progress, & reproach to our manhood and a | disgrace to the police. If we have to revive | the lash crime in all its walks must lower its head. Hravy Rarys have fallen in the Gulf of Mexico and at Punta Rosa, Fla., the rain- fall during twenty-four hours has reached the extraordinary measurement of 4.61 inches. The rain areas of yesterday morn- ing united toward noon, and at forty-seven minutes past four P. M., Washington time, formed one great area, which extended from | the lakes to the Gulf. The obstruction offered | by the Alleghany range held back the rain storm yesterday from New York and the At- to get our share of the, rainfall that has drenched the interior, New York city is peculiarly situated with regard to the movements of areas of low barometer, | being sheltered by the northerly end of the | great mountain chain which forms a monster | natural wall from Northern Alabama to the | Catskills, When a high barometer prevails north of the St. Lawrence the tendency is to force the storm areas southward to our in the land who will not feel degraded if | is a soldier who does not know fear and to | latitude, and we then experience their ip- this proposal is accepted by the Sonate, whom war isa passion. In fighting Indians | fluence while passing to tho northeastward, General M. C. Butier’s Challenge to Governor Chambertain. The letter addressed to us by General Butler has already been printed in the Henatp. We again refer to the passage which especially merits attention:— And I now challenge him to begin his legal investi- gation. He knows iny residence, and knows that tho presence of United States soldiers is not necessary for my.arrest or that of any other white man who was at Hamburg; aud before that investigation closes, tt I do not show that the negroes were the aj rs and the whites not to blame; that the emissaries of His Exeel- lency were the instigators of the riot, ant his ap- pontees could have prevented and did not prevent it that the company calied militia was not militia, but a band ot rioters and bighwaymen, sponsible for the riot—it I do not show all thi show besides a condition of affairs at Hamburg, a radical goveroment pretending to be civilized, which would almost disgrace the purheus of a Coomassie settlement, I will undertake to answer personally for +e death of every man, white and black, who fell in that riot. Governor Chamberlain can rely upon the prestige of a reputed successful administra- tion, he can count upon the sympathy of the republican party and the support of President Grant, and he can control the courts and juries in the State which he is governing. It is in the face of all these dis- advantages, and of the sudden popular prej- udice and indignation which has been ex- cited against himself, that Mr. Butler demands atrial. The circumstances attend- ing this demand, and the manner in which itis made, deserve the thoughtful consider- ation of every man who desires that justice be done to black and to white. We cannot be too often reminded of the injustice of hasty conclusions in regard to events which may be erroneously reported to us in the North; but it is especially dur- ing the Presidential canvass that opinions as to disorders in the republican States of the South, such as Louisiana and South Caro- lina, should be well considered and based upon established facts. We will not, there- fore, express any judgment as to the position of Governor Chamberlain; yet the tone of the Southern press and the attitude of the population of South Carolina have demon- strated the fact that his letter to Senator Robertson and his visit to the White House were unnecessary. There was no obstacle to his remaining at the post of duty, and his application for federal interference at this particular time can only be explained by a reference to the Presidental contest or to the combinations of ambitious politicians, Pulpit Topics To-Day. In these trying times, when money is scarce and employment scarcer, when one- half the people are out of town and the other half ought to be, with an exciting political campaign before us, it is not surprising that men should want the Lord to open their eyes and to be with them. Mr. Hepworth brings to his people these glad tidings to- day. But many a man must follow his Lord from the Jordan baptism to and through the wilderness temptation ere he is fitted for high duties and grave responsibilities, and thither Mr. Johns will conduct his congre- tion. The sermon that gave some one trouble, whether the Bleecker street Univer- salist church or others we cannot say, but when Mr. McCarthy repreaches it to-day we shall probably know. ‘Faint yet pursuing” cannot be applied to our Indian warriors, though it may and doubtless will be applied by Dr. Deems to the Christian warfare in which we are all more or less actively engaged, and often faint and weary have to push our way against «fearful odds; bat we have Mr. Snow’s promise of an approaching victory of the Church of Christ over the nations and her refuge in His name as in a strong tower. When such a calamity befalls us as that of the sinking of the yacht Mohawk and the conse- quent loss of life a very common expression of sympathy charges it to the account of God’s inscrutable providence instead of to man’s criminal carelessness. Mr. Pull- man will to-day show wherein the laws of nature are in harmony or in disagreement with Divine goodness, and will probably apply the principles involved to the disaster inthe Bay. It is characteristic of young men that they take the world as it comes, free and easy and with light and gay hearts. Solomon tells them to rejoice in their youth and let their hearts cheer them ; but they } must not forget that a judgment time is coming. Mr. Lightbourn will repeat the wise man’s cantion and counsel to-day, and impress its plain and practical lessons upon his audience. New York's Nuisances. Why the air we breathe should be allowed to be poisoned by the representatives of ig- norance, greed and jobbery is a question that indignation alone will not answer. Horrible fever nests abound where the hot sun pours down his rays among crowded tenements, making the filth and refuse that the ignorant throw before their doors or in back yards fester and swelter until pesti- lence is bred. Greedy contractors and combine jobbing officials to make a place like Harlem flats the miasmatic terror of three hundred thousand people who live within reach of its sicken- ing odors. Slaughter houses, soap houses, pork curing houses and other offensive in- dustries stand like sentries of sickness along the water flanks of the city to poison the air before it can reach us. Hunter's Point, with its fertilizing factories and kerosene works, fills the centre of the city with charnel house odors when the wind blows from the east. Every one complains of these nuisances, but there does not seem enough public spirit to resent and suppress them. A number of the in- dustries we have named can be carried on without rendering their neighborhood fetid and unhealthy. Our citizens should demand a law compelling such businesses to be innocunonsly and inodorously conducst- ed, or else removed altogether. No other city in the world of like population or im- portance would submit to this continual poisoning of the atmosphere. We should have a clean city, free from filth and stenches. That we have not is the fault of the people at large, who do not teach igno- rance, who permit abuses to grow, and sus- tain greedy and corrupt or stupid and care- less rulers. Mn. Rotuixs’ Casr.--We print elsewhere a communication from Mr. G. M. Rollins, giv- ing a history of his arrest in Paris and transfer to Brussels on a charge of which he has since established his innocence to the satisfaction of the Belgian authorities. His special com- plaint in this matter is a graye ono and de- serves’serions inquiry. While imprisoned | i at Brussels he was left utterly without ap- peal to the United States government, owing to there being no Minister from this coun- fry in the Belgian capital until the arrival of Mr. Merrill. There was not even a Chargé @'Affaires or Secretary of Legation to take ep his case. It will be remembered that a Hxnatp correspondent who visited Brussels in reference to Mr. Rollins’ case could only find an old woman—the concierge at the Le- gation. While the country pays for a diplo- matic service abroad surely no room should be left’ for the occurrence of such protracted wrong to an American citizen. Mr. Rollins also complains that although honorably discharged the Belgian authori- ties refuse the return of his private papers seized during his imprisonment, Flies. Beelzebub, Prince of the Powers of the Air, is well known to be the King of Flies, and that explains the devilish disposi- tion of those insects. The prophet Daniel, who was ‘a great man, called Beelzebub “Bel,” for short, and thus showed a proper contempt for the miserable fiend. Daniel, we know, could get along with the lions in their den, but the flies evidently bothered him ; and if a prophet could feel their tor- ments it is not singular that such sinners as ourselves should suffer. Flies are certainly. next to mosquitoes, the principal evils of summer. A census of the flies has not yet been taken, owing to the expense to the govern- mentand to the disgraceful deficiency of our system of arithmetic. It is thought, however, that there are in New York city alone up- ward of 5,000,000, 000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 full grown flies, exelusive of ancient chief- tains, pappooses and squaws. This is an underestimate, but a few billions more or less make no practical difference, It is enough that there are too many. The vitality of a fly is wonderful. Benjamin Franklin says that if you put a fly ina bottle of wine, cork him up and keep him fora hundred years, and then open the bottle he will come out insensibly drunk ; but that, putin the sun, he will revive and make a direct line for your ear. We have not yet tried this experiment, but know that Franklin must be right. The fly is the most faithful of all creatures. Dogs desert their masters and horses try to run away, but the fly always returns tous. Leaving your nos- trils or the left corner of your eye, a fly will appear to forget your existence; but his fidelity is greatly abused. He will soar around the room, buzz on the window pane, fight with his rivals and coquet with his female acquaintances; but when you expect it least the same fly will suddenly return to the same spot. This is especially the case in the early morning, when you wish to sleep. Then is the favorite time of the fly to show his agility and to compel the slum- berer to rival the quickness of his move- ments. Hyenas and tigers can be tamed, parrots can be educated to watch over in- fants and cats to suckle mice; .but the fly is faithful to the instincts of his race. One of the best of the dramatists of Queen Elizabeth’s era, wish- ing to give an idea of a perfectly wild nature, conld only say that it was as ‘“un- tamable as flies." What could be more ex- pressive? Educated fleas are common, but an educated fly is an unknown creature. They donot need education, for they know too much already. They have eyes and in- tellect enough to make a trysting place of the point of your nose, a bridal chamber of your ear and a battle ground of your whole head. Flies are particularly fond of heads which are hairless, but we have yet to learn of a bald-headed man who did not regard a fly with rage. There are many kinds of flies—the green fly, the blue-tailed fly, the gilded fly, the butterfly, the dragon fly, the swamp fly, the horse fly and the Spanish fly ; but the worst of all flies ‘is the common fly. That is the fly which is the pest of allnations. We may say of it as Hamlet said of death, ‘Ay, madam, it is common,” and with the same deep regret. This was the kind of fly which Uncle Toby caught and put ont of the win- dow, saying, ‘‘Go, poor creature; there is room enough in the world for both you and me.” But Uncle Toby was wrong. There is not any room in the world fora fly anda man at once. The philanthropy of Sterne is notoriously false and sentimental, and this was one of the lines which on his deathbed he would have wished to blot. The Ro- mans expréssed the miseries of fly time in the words ‘tempus fugit ;” and, with greater experience than they, the “shoo fly” to us is the noblest fly of all. of the Canal corps, and Brigadier General Hendricks, of the Greenback militia, have displayed heroism and courtesy not sur- passd by that of the commander of the Old Guard, who advanced toward the enemy, and, saluting with his sword, said, ‘‘Gentle- men, please fire first.” General Hayes and Colondl Wheeler (of what regiment we are not informed) accepted the challenge, and have blazed away with the one term how- itzer, the civil service reform battery and the great gun which is called the Southern Pacificator. The enemy gallantly received the fire, but have prudently concealed the number of their wounded. Now it is Gen- eral Tilden’s turn to bring his columbiad of purity to bear on the foe, and to blaze away with the democratic Krupp gun of reform upon the earthworks of republican corrup- tion. Too much courtesy to the enemy in a campaign might lose the battle. We reluc- tantly take the liberty of reminding General | Sammy that— '# nothing so becomes a man | ines and humuslity 5 But whon the biast of war blows in our ears ‘Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiflen the sinews, summon up blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-tavor’d rage; Then lend the oye atorrible 4 et; Let it pry through the portage of che head Like the brass cannon— or, in other words, General Sammy, “Go for ‘em !” Turkey's Trovs.es do not seem likely to end suddenly. A vigorons adiainistrator and an out-and-out Moslem as Ahmed is | represented to be may, from his very strength, hasten the conclusion which has been so long looked forward to—the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The difference is that, with an able Sultan, Tur- key would die game. De Rudio’s Long Waten. From a war like that with the Indians of the Northwest instances of personal daring and startling adventure are sure to come out in greater proportion than in a war between civilized nations conducted on a grand scale and according to laws that recognize a limit to slaughter. In the latter case individuality becomes lost in the immense masses that com- bat in extended lines of battle. It is diffi- cult for any one below a corps commander to achieve worldwide distinction or for any one below a brigade commander to gain national renown. There have been excep- tions, of course, but they do not shake the rule. The letter from Lieutenant De Rudio, which we print elsewhere, describing the adventures of himself, Private O'Neil and Gerard, the interpreter, when cut off from Reno’s command in its enforced re- treat across the Little Big Horn, is thrilling throughout, and fit to stand beside the letter of Mr. Finerty, describing Lieutenant Sib- ley's perilous scout and the courage and re- sources of brave Frank Grouard. To have experienced, as the actors in both these ad- ventures did, the feeling of desperation which the near presence of death alone can bring, gives their stories a wonderful inter- est. By their light we are enabled to seo more closely the savage and pitiless nature of the foes who personified death to them, That picture of the four squaws scalping the dying soldier within a few fect of where De Rudio lay is in itself a revelation of sav- agery which the wholesale massacre of Cus- ter’s troops fails to give us, Against a supe- rior force of such barbarians we have pitted little more than a handful of our troops, and it is not wonderful that every hour of wait- ing for news is filled with anxiety. The Political Prize Fight. Said Barney Aarons to Billy Edwards the other day, ‘‘Billy,” said he, ‘the champion poogilist of Ohio has von the fust blood.” “Right enough, Barney, my boy,” replied Villiam, “‘and the light veight, Veeler, has von the fust knockdown.” ‘But vait,” said the more experienced Barney, “till the Guvner recovershis vind. Heig'’olding back ‘is left duke.” ‘But votof ’Endricks,” said Billy; ‘tis he a goin’ to throw the ’ole fight? Is hea goin’ back on his own backers ?" ‘’Endricks,” replied Barney, ‘‘is a playin’ a vaiting game. Veeler and ho vill have a smart set-to after the ‘eavy veights are through.” ‘‘Vell,” Villiam answered, “but if the New York cock of the valk and the Hindiana game bird vant to fight vy in thunder don’t they begin? They are takin’ all the punishment and givin’ none‘at all. ’Ere’s ‘Ayes ‘as Guv’nor against the ropes, and ‘as givin him one for his nob, and Veeler ‘as ’Endricks in his own corner. That’s not the vay I licked Collier, nor the vay you licked me.” ‘Nor is it the vay you vipped me,” said Barney. ‘‘Vot I vants is to see Guv'nor counter on ‘Ayes, and may the best man vin. ‘Ere’s your ’ealth.” They drank, and, shaking their heads gravely, agreed that unless the Guv’nor and Endricka put up their daddles soon the hodds would” beagainst them. Let the two great democratia poogilists profit by the moral of this disie— terested dialogue. Tax Ocean Yacut Race.—Wind and wave coalesced to give the lovers of yachting.a splendid struggle in the race for the Ben- nett Challenge Cup. It was just the kind of race to give an edge to the desire for deep sea yachting which has become so blunted under the influence of land-hugging cruises, The Idler's victory was a handsome one, and her run magnificent. The Wanderer also made a fine race, and the stanch old America, in spite of her mishap, did admirably. We should be sorry indeed to judge the Canadian yacht, Countess of Dufferin, by her performance in this race, and hope that her gallant commander will take the lessons of his defeat to heart and make her show in better form in her coming race with the Madeleine for the ‘‘America’s Cup.” Justice TEMPERED with Mercy was ren- dered yesterday by Judge Donohue in the case of a young German named Eysel, who was charged with shooting a rough namag@ Clark. According to the account of the affair published elsewhere the prisoner acted under the impulse of anger at the out. rageous conduct of Clark and his companiona in violently assaulting Eysel’s father and mother. While we deprecate the use of the pistol except in self-defence, where life is threatened, we admire the merciful act of Judge Donohue in this case because the characters of the aggressors justified the ac- cused man in fearing fatal violence at their hands. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Red, mixed with gray, is fashionable, Garden parties are the rage in England. Mrs. Secretary Bigelow is at Long Branch, Olive green 1s worn with bronze for dark colors, For very warm weather you may wear pink and straw. One mean cow can seta whole herd at kicking and hooking. Harriet Beecher Stowe is at the Pequot House, New London. Commodore Garrison and ox-Mayor Opdyke are at Saratoga. All shades of rose are in favor in Paris, and they are driving out the blues. General W. H. F. Lee, son of the late General Robert F. Lee, 19 a farmer in Fairfax county, Virginia, and he drives a pair of mules. There are 250,000 Indians, who have had set apart for them about 150,000,000 acres of land. Hon. James Bain, Lord Provost ot Glasgow, sailed by the Anchor line steamer Anchoria yesteraay. ‘The Atheneum described the Turk as an infidel who believes in God and finds his enemies in the Chris- tians. For an accompaniment of black there ts nothing prettier than cither cardinal, or, more prudish, apple i green, Lord Lovett, ‘of England, who accompanied the Prince of Wales to India, and the Count and Countess Von Arnim, of Berlin, are i Montreal. A Christan lady found fault with a statue by Miss Lewis because it was unclothed, and Miss Lewis re- plied:— im, Your mind is nastier than my statue,” Mrs. Hannab Chappel, of No, 103 East Fourth street, reached her ninotieth birthday yesterday, and was vise ited by alarge number of her descendanta She has | resided in that house tor forty-four years. Mr, James H. Hart, Chief Commissioner from China to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, left by the steamer Britannic yesterday morning for Ke rope. Mr. Hart will return to this country im Septem ber next to remain until the close of the Exhibition, “One of the many Alfonsos of Spain is said to hare asked a learned traveller which cities in his dominions contained those elements that would onable a man to Pass his life most agreeably, and receivod for reply, Majorca, Seville and Vaiencia, placing Majorca drat.”