The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1876, Page 4

‘ss NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR > ssa tadbicang All business, news letters or telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New lorg Hrnarp, Letters and packages should be properly renled. Rejected communications will not be re- | murned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO, 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. 1 OF THE 46 FLEET -AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms ns in New York. W YORK T. AMUSEMENTS —'T0-NIGH 8 THEATRE, SP. Wan THE MIGHTY DOL GILMOR GRAND CONCERT, at & WOOD'S ML ECHOES, at 8 P.M. Matinee a KELLY & LBON’S MINS MSP. M. TONY PASTOK'S Tz VARIETY, at 5 P. M. atsP.M, * FIFTH A LORD DUNDREARY, at 8 ~ NEW YORK, From our reporis this morning the probabilities are thai the weather to-day will be cloudy and warm, clearing toward night, During the summer months the Henanp will be sent to subseribers in the country at the rate of dacenty-five cents per week, free of postage, ‘Tur Boreuar who attacked Mr, Hondlow at his home on Brooklyn Heights on last Friday night died of his injuries yesterday | morning. It is to be regretted that he re- scived these from falling off the roof of the extension and not at the hands of the citizen he attempted to murder. Tur Conan Insunrection is certainly far from losing its vigor. Hitherto the railroads have been comparatively unmolested, but the attack on the train near Sancti Espiritu Shows that other counsels are beginning to prevail among the brave and patient Mambi. [tis noticeable that wherever of late the patriots strike the blow achieves its object. Hew long can Spain stand this steady drain? | Carrey Ross.—-Once more the story of the poor little fellow stolen from German- town comes to the surface. So many prom- ising clews have ended in disappointment that the sympathizing public may not catch much glimmer of hope in the stories told elsewhere, but those most interested in the search cannot give it up while there is any uncertainty in the little Iad’s fate. Grant on THE Rampacr.—Grant's course in removing honest and worthy men without canse leads to this questio: Have good republicans, who do not believe in Babcock, Belknap, the third term and Boss Shepherd, any rights which a republican President is bound to respect?” If we had a republican Senate worthy of the name, whose members were not gorged with patronage, this ques- tion would be speedily answered. Justice to Rrxo.—The thrilling narmtive of Lientenant De Rudio, published yester- day, detailing his adventures during the fight on the Yellowstone makes clear one point—namely, the behavior of Major Reno, Some military critics, and notably General Rosser, of the Confederate army, censured Reno. It seems that he behaved like a gal- ‘ant, cautious commander, saving his men ind punishing his opponents. Major Reno eserves well of his country Yustrr ono fully bore out the predictions of the Hrnarp, The rainfall at Washington, D. C., was exceedingly heavy, measuring 4.19 inches for the twenty-four hours. At Baltimore, within the same time, there fell 3 inches; at Philadelphia 2.08 inches, and et New York, up to nine P. M., 2 inches, The rain area extended from Massachusetts to Florida, and lay principally east of the Alleghanies. In the Ohio Valley light rains prevailed, with a high temperature. In the Southwest an area of low barometer is developing, which is now central in the Indian Territory. This disturbance will probably result in a heavy storm, which will move during the next few days over the Mississippi Valley. The weather to-day will | be cloudy, but clearing somewhat toward evening. Tue Repunticays anp Mn. Ronrson.—The support which Mr. Robeson received from | leading members of the House was gratify. ing as an evidence of party faith in a party | leader. But this support will not satisfy the country. The evidence against the Sec- retary of the Navy should have the closest serntiny. There are points which no House debate can explain—such points as the rela- “tions between Robeson and the Cattells. We are anxious to see the Secretary vindi- cated, but he is far from so now. If the democrats are brave they will impeach him, As an honest and innocent man Mr. Robeson should welcome impeachment. He will go before a friendly tribunal—t court anxious to acquit him. Then all the charges will be sifted, and a vindication will be to his life- long honor. As he now stands his repnta- tion is stained and no debate will purify it. Wreckrna, that is, tho profession of recov. | ering valuables from wrecked vessels, has been a favorite piece of machinery for the | novelist, and endless romance has been wovon out of the lives of the wreckers of | _ England, Scotland and Ireland. To the | grim class who put decoy lights on iron- | bound coasts when a ship was in the offing | and murdered those whom the sea and the | rocks had spared the wreckers of Long Island do not belong. They conduct their | work within the margin of the law, and, taking their profits from year to year, prob- | ably earn their gains, Yet the business is | conducted with a certain mystery that gives it a fascination, Our correspondent’s graphic sketch of the operations of the wreckers of the ocean shore of Long Island and the reminiscences of wrecks of thirty ” $dd years ogo will be found very interesting. | we speak are still undecided. disgrace on it. | one does, he is not listened to. | the country in four ye Party Reform and the Independent Voters—What Is Needed in Eoth Organizations. Whether the republican party is the real party of reform is a question which now in- terests and puzzles a large number of voters, who do not quite know on which side of the political fence to get down. ‘These voters do not like the democratic party ; they do not believe that a democratic success would give the country very important reforms. ‘They are not much encouraged by the con- duct of the democratic Honse of Represent- atives, which has shown, in their opinion, no greater wisdom than its republican pred- ecessors, and a capacity for selfish legisla- tion, as in the River and Harbor bill ; for ig- norant legislation, as in some of the bills scaling salaries; and for wholesale and in- discriminate removals from office, as in the kicking out of their petty places of a number of crippled Union soldiers, which do not give much hope of prudent or decent con- duct if the whole administration of the government should fall into their hands. Nevertheless, the class of voters of whom They do not like the democrats; but they prefer to see these come into power rather than to risk another four years of such demoralizing mis- rule as has been tolerated by General Grant. They are waiting to see if there are real signs of reform in the republican party ; if there is a reasonable probability that the re- form clement in that party will rule it if it is once more put in power. So far, it-must be confessed, these watchers | 5 ¢, on the fence top have not much reason for encouragement. The letter of Governor Hayes satisfies them; but they remember | that General Grant wrote quite as sensibly and decidedly on civil service reform. Some of them believe that General Grant meant | just as honestly what he wrote as Governor Hayes, and that if he had not found himself under the control of the party leaders he would have acted up to his promises with more or less success. ‘fhe Hayes letter needs, therefore, to bo reinforced by other and general acts of the party, before it can give confidence to the doubting voters of whom we speak. Now, when they look about for evidence, what, up to this time, do they see? Alas! they have but lit- tle to console them. They see Mr. Zachariah Chandler made chairman of the Republican National Committee, and they do not think that means reform. ‘They see United States Marshal Packard republican eandidate for Governor in Louisiana, and that does not mean reform. They see Sheats, a tool of | Senator Spencer, made republican candidate for Governor in Alsbama—Sheats, a person so incompetent that he had to be turned out of his place in the Post Office Department in Washington because he was actually too ig- norant to master the .formal details of the place, so notoriously incapable that in 1874 the very negroes refused to vote for him for Con- gress because, as they said, he was ‘not fit.” They see Orth republican cundidate for Gov- ernor in Indiana, with charges against him in Washington which would subject him to | a criminal prosecution if it were not fora statute of limitations. They see Jewell dis- missed from the Cabinet and Babcock re- tained in his place as Commissioner of Pub- lic Grounds and Buildings. They see Com- missioner Pratt go out in cool disgrace, and the Senators who opposed him in- fluential favorites at the White House. That is to say, they see the old Ring, the old spirit—that which they hate and fear— | still apparently predominant in the republi- can party, and that not only at Washington, but in the State organizations; and they listen in vain for some party leader to pro- test against all this and to summon the party to “unload” its camp followers and turn out of the control the men who have brought Nobody speaks; or, if any What sound or reasonable ground for hope have men, therefore, who want reform, | who would like to vote the republican ticket, but who feel that it is better and safer in every way to risk four years of democratic rule rather than to allow the republican Senatorial Ring and its followers in the States to be strengthened and consolidated by four years more of power? The voters of whons we speak make up a considerable and important part of the republican party. They are not and will not be democrats, unless the democratic party should display a wisdom, prudence and decency of which they believe it so far gives no signs, They may not even in November vote the demo- cratic ticket. But unless there appear very soon some definite evidences in the repub- lican party that the reform spirit has the | lead and that the same men are not to con- trol the party under Hayes who have con- trolled it under Grant, these voters will stay at home. And if they stay at home, if they take no interest in the success of the ticket, the republican party will be defeated in November. Nor ought it to succeed under such circumstances. If its victory is to have for its fruits only the continuance of the present régime every interest in the country demands its defeat. It is better to take the democrats, with all their capacity for folly, than to take back for another term the men who have made General Grant's administra- tion odious and disreputable. The demo- eratie party cannot ruin or seriously injure It will be watched by the whole people if it comes into power, and ail its blunders and faults will be scored against it. If it should permit wrongs on the South, if it should attempt to trifle with the currency or any other ques- tion, it would find a republican House of Representatives at hand to check it in two years, and a wonld have an undoubted result which the class of yoters whose thoughts we are attempting to express wish for. It would break up the corrupt combination which now con- trols the republican party, which continues demoeratic snecess to assert its predominance, and which, un- | election, | would assume to control the President elect, | less it is overthrown before the and would contre! him as a sim nation controlled Pierce and Bachanan and | Grant, and prevent all reform. If the republican party is to be a party of reform this must be made manifest before the election. It will be too late afterward, and nothing which has happened since the Con- vention shows that the power of the men who have so long controlled is even shaken, ar combi. | much less broken, All the nominations, all the removals from office, all the reten- tions in office, show that the power is still in supreme control, and nota single influen- tial voice is lifted up to protest against this state of things. It is this policy especially, | as shown in the acquiescence of the repub- licans in the Senate and the House ia the removals of men from office as honorable and competent as Mr, Pratt and Mr. Jewell, in the protection of every vagabond influence in the party, that burdens the canvass of Hayes. ‘The republicans have many chances of winning the election. Their candidate meets the approval of men of all parties. The name of Wheeler wiil help the canvass in New York. he republican party has within it the elements of victory. Its organization has eighty thousand oflice-holders who fight for Hayes as for bread and butter. The con- servative influences which flocked away to Greeley four years since have returned. Nothing can defeat the republican ticket but republican incapacity to read the temper of the country. This is not to be a walk-over 4 to either side. If the democrats can satisfy the peoplo that the election of Mr. Tilden would not be the signal for revolution—that | all the results of the war will be accepted in good faith—they will win. If the republi- cans can show that their purpose is to profit by experience, to throw away the worser half of their discipline and tendencies and prove themselves worthy of continued authority, they may win on the conservative idea of bearing the ills we have rather than flying to others we know not of. A few days will show the drifts.gf the currents. a eee The Indians and the Government. have been duly admiriistered to the savage tribes now in arms against the government, and the boldness which our recent reverses have naturally given them has been de- stroyed by the punishment which awaits them, it will become the duty of the nation not only to devise the means of preventing a recurrence of the present deplorable events, | but to consider the causes which have led to them. To talk of extermination is puerile, for to accomplish it is impossible, even at the cost to the country of twenty-fold the valuable lives already squandered without result in the campaign against the Sioux. The present attitude of the Indian tribes is the natural outcome of the system in Washington under which Indian affairs have been administered, and of a thorough dis- trust by ‘“‘the wards of the nation” of the performance of our promises. This distrust is equalled by their intense resentment of the perpetual frauds practised upon them by subordinates and the apathy with which these frauds have been regarded by still higher authorities. The only lessons that civiliza- tion seems thus far to have taught the savage have been an intimate appreciation of whis- key, the use of arms of precision—which are now fatally turned on ourselves—a certain knowledge of military evolutions, and a violent hatred of the white man. This hatred must be turned into wholesome fear, which in its turn must be based upon respect ; and respect can only be forced upon the savage method of reasoning by superior power and honest performance of our promises and agreements. There is but one means of accomplishing this most desirable end, and that is by turn- ing over the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the authority and management of the War De- partment. The Department of the Interior has made a wicked and disgraceful failure in its administration of the bureau; but there are other cogent reasons for intrusting it to the War Department, to which it of right belongs. The main duty of the army in time of peace has been to maintain the police of the frontier, to preserve the rights of the Indians as well as our own, and to ad- ministerjustice—a difficult task—while injus- tice has been practised by the civil arm in every transaction. Again, the army posts are the most fitting places for the distribu- tion of Indian supplies, more especially as this could be effected without the cost to the government now incurred, through the com- missary and quartermaster’s bureaus at- tached to each post, and with the additional assurance that the distributions would be made with the honor belonging to military discipline and under the strict account- ability of the War Department. The high courage of our army is as certain as its discipline, but it is also undoubted that, as a rule, its officers are averse to In- dian wars. The pursuit of the savage enforces a life of isolation, hardship and pri- vation such as none of the most sanguinary wars of civilization have required in our time. The enterprise is always hazardous, yet no military glory awaits success, no laurels attend on victory. Thearmy understands the temper of the Indians and has more inti- mate knowledge of their character than can be possessed by any other branch of the gov- ernment, as is shown by the fact that the President has invarial selected military officers to servo on commissions to confer with the tribes. Let the Indian affairs, then, be turned over to their fitting administra. tors, and we may still hope to seea settlement of the terrible Indian question, There are circumstances in which the homely apothegra of the late President Lin- coln, “It is not wise to swap horses while crossing a stream,” fails in application, Civiz, Senvics.—While the friengs of Hayes are making 9 canvass upon the platform of civil service reform, the President shows his respect for that policy by removing from office every man who had any part in the punishment of the whiskey thieves, every friend of Bristow and Jewell. We have yet to hear the first protest from the republican Senators as to this course. Grant is doing yeoman’s service for ‘Tilden. The country may say that the party's real purpose is bet- ter seen in th acts of Grant than the prom. ises of Ha It looks now as if the second Washington was bent upon having a demo- successor. Mayon ws Pracr or Witaam HH, Wicxnam.”—This is the cold, formal way ia | which the official proclamation calls upon the people of New York to vote for a new | Mayor. There can never be a ‘Mayor in | place of William H. Wickham.” He stands alone as another Alexander. When he re- tires from public life we shall never see his } like again, When the stern lesson of repression shall | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1876. The Republican Cunvass for Governor. While sensible democrats are considering the propriety of nominating Manton Marble for Governor and William Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor the republicans are having their own troubles about their State ticket. Mr. Marble is named because of his service as the leading journalist of the democratic party, and more particularly be- cause he is the author of the splendid hard money platform adopted at St. Louis. Mr. Dorsheimer is named because of the very acceptable manner in which he has per- formed the duties of the office, because of his devotion to Mr. Tilden, and more es- pecially because he saved the platform in the Convention by his eloquent daring. The republicans are at sea. The question is not so much who shall be Governor, but how shall Conkling be destroyed? We cannot fail to see in the republican ranks a combined effort on the part of the enemies of Mr. Conkling to drive him out of the party, and if possible out of public life. The war at Cincinnati has been transferred to New York, and an anti-Conkling alli- ance is forming. At the head of it we have Governor Fenton, who has returned to active sympathy with the republicans. Then we havethe Union Leagne statesmen, whoattrib- ute to Conkling all the mistakes of Grant's administration, and more especially the mis- takes of leaving its members out of the | Cabinet. There is Mr. Curtis and his select following, who hold the Senator responsible for the failure of the civil service reform. Then we have the Westchester Junta, under Senator Robertson and Major General Husted, who bolted for Blaine in the Convention break-up. Then we have the old Morgan faction in’ New York, who think that Conk- | ling’s friends should have made Senator Morgan the candidate for Vice President. ‘There are also the friends of Mr. Wheeler, who are convinced that but for Conkling’s ambition their candidate would hold the first and not the second place on the re- publican ticket. So, altogether, there isa powerful alliance against Conkling, and the point of attack is A. B. Cornell. Mr. Conkling is a fighting man and would prefer war to peace any time. But his policy is peace, His strength at Cincinnati was confined to New York. It was his weakness that he was unknown out of New York. Heisnow burdened by the un- popularity of Grant—an unpopularity that will not last more than two or three years. It will be a source of strength then as it is a weakness now. Mr. Conkling has nothing togain by a contest in New York. The Gov- ernorship is nothing to him and little to Mr. Cornell as Mr. Conkling’s sincere and loyal friend. They are both young men and can wait. Let Mr. Conkling select some candidate whose name would be above passion—some man like Evarts—and pre- sent him to the Convention as a can- didate, Let him withdraw the name of every one of his friends from the canvass. Let him say to the Convention :—‘‘Name jar men—the best men you can find—Mr. Curtis, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, Mr. Fenton, General Merritt, Mr. Depew, anybody—put them on the ticket along with Evarts. There are no Conkling candi- dates in this canvass. All I want iwachance to work.” Then let him open the campaign in New York, and from here go to Indiana and elsewhere. Let the people outside of New York see him. Let him make his canvass national and throw the party feuds of New York behind him. The alliance will soon break up. The republican party in the country will have achance of knowing our distinguished Senator. His services will command the ad- miration even of his enemies. It never does a man any harm to rest his reputa- tion, and our Senator’s has had a hard battle. Mr. Conkling wants peace now more than ever. His best friend, his surest champion, is time. Time will show how true and brave he has been—time will show that he never for a moment forgot all that was due to the proud station of a New York Senator. Roscoe Conkling comes out of the canvass for the Presidential nomination much stronger than when he entered it, and | with a strength that must grow. He would make a grievous blunder to throw this all away in a New York controversy. Tne Custer Pension. The Senate Committee on Pensions reports an amendment to the bill passed by the House awarding a pension to the widow and the parents of General Custer. The House proposed to give the parents one hundred dollars a month. This was because they lost three sons and two sons-in-law in the action. It proposed also to give Mrs. Cus- ter fifty dollars a month. The Senate com- mittee now suggests that the pension to the parents shall simply be a pension to the mother, to cease when she dies, and that the pension to the widow shall be reduced from fifty dollars a month to thirty. The report awaits the decision of the Senate. We cannot doubt fora moment as to the course of the Senate. This business is so mean that it will bring a blush to the cheek | of every American, It is said that there are certain precedents in the awards of pensions which the Senate must follow. But such a theory should not be entertained. Congress has absolute power. Ifthere is any prece- dent that will justify au action as mean as what the Pension Committee propose the sooner it is abolished the better for the fair fame of that body. Tho fate of Custer is without a precedent. There is no precedent for his gallantry, his devotion, his self-de- nial; no precedent for the slaughter of one of the finest regiments in our service; no precedent for the heroism shown by the noble Seventh cavalry. Congress should, therefore, rise above the meanness of cutting down the pension of the parents and widow of a general like Custer toa smail, beggarly pittance a month. Ifthe Sepate is insensible to the higher considerations of a question like this—con- siderations which stir the soul of every one who appreciates valor and heroism—if it is the saving of money alone which prompts this report from the committee, Senate clip an edge off the corrupt River and Harbor bill, which proposes to squander seven millions on a gigantic scheme of job- bery. This is the economy which the coua- try expects and respects, But when it comes to carving pensions the country re- yolts, It generally happens that when re- let the | publics have the chance of doing a prompt, generous act there is sure to be some mean, narrow soul to finda motive or a ‘‘prece- dent” for a contrary course. We should have thought that the profound emotion caused by the achievements and the fate of Custer would have inspired an impulse of generosity. But we were mistaken. There are Senators as mean now as when they haggled over a pension to the widow of Lin- coln, We trust that the bill will be restored to what it was when it passed the House, and that our government will show that republics are not always as ungrateful as the world would have us believe. The Hamburg Massacre. The assassination and mutilation of unof- fending and helpless colored men at Ham- burg took place on the 8th of July. Here we are at the end of the month. What is Governor Chamberlain doing about it? Some, at least, of the authors of this brutal outrage are known. Has any one been arrested? We print elsewhere a very calm and temperate, but, we confess, to us a very irvitating account of the transaction, resting, it is said, upon evidence and signed by a number of persons, some ef them at least well known to be responsible. What is Governor Chamberlain doing in the face of these facts? We trust he is not going to let this affsir pass over. He must do his duty as Governor of the State, sworn to maintain | order and seo justice done. He cannot let the matter go; to do that is to lny himself liable to the suspicion that he and his advisers prefer to let it be used asa ‘tcam- paign outrage” and care nothing about justice. We urge the Governor to do his duty without further delay; or, if he will not, then he had better leave the State. It is not a good time just now for the ‘bloody shirt.” We in the North have come to understand that such lawlessness is too often brought on by the imbecility or the cold-blooded political calculations of republican rulers in the South. We now wait to see what the Governor will do. Let him act promptly; let him put upon the white people of the county the responsibility of helping him, or of refusing to help him, if they are insane enough to do that. If they obstruct him in his effort to vindicate the laws and punish murder, then we shall understand the matter; and then, indeed, it will assume a degree of political importance deserving of attention. Just now we havea right to hold the Governor responsible, and he cannot evade that with- out resigning. If he does what his oath and his duty demand, and if then he is resisted, orif the white people do not show proper alacrity in coming to his assistance, in that case we at the North will know whom to hold responsible. We do not mean to let this matter drop. It is a crucial event. Here can be brought to light the truth about such outrages, and we can learn whether they happen because the republican State government fails to do its duty in punishing crime, or whether the white people are to blame. Riot and mur- der were done in open daylight by men who were neither masked nor unknown. When does the Governor mean to move toward ar- resting those concerned in the riot? The Indian Wounded. General Grant should issue an order at once turning every Indian agency over to the military. This is necessary as awar measure. We hear of wounded Indians coming into various agencies, Indians were disabled in the late fights with Crook and Custer. Of course Sitting Bull will be too happy to have his wounded carried into an agency and nursed. The Indian warrior is always anxious about his dead and wounded. Even if Indians are friendly, like Red Cloud and Spotted Tail— they have been great chiefs in their day— their hearts are on the warpath, and they would never refuse succor to a wounded friend. Unless the agencies are closely watched they will become hospitals and bases of supply for the fighting Indians. When Sitting Bull plundered Custer'’s com- mand he obtained a good sum of money, as the troops had just been paid. With this money he could purchase arms and ammu- nition for a new campaign, and there is not arascally Indian trader on the Plains who would not be giad to sell him all he wanted. Now the way to prevent this is for the soldiers to take charge of every agency in the Sioux region and prevent Sitting Bull from using them to make war upon the whites. Senator Stewart on tion, We print a letter on the silver question from ex-Senator Stewart this morning, in which he reviews all the legislation we have had bearing upon this species of coin, and makes a strong plea in favor of the double | standard specie basis, It is to be noted that Mr. Stewart is largely interested in the sil- ver mines of Nevada and the Pacifie slope— a fact which will account for the earnestness and excuse the sophistry of his arguments. In answer to what he has to say in bebalf of the restoration of silver to its legal tender position and its equality with gold asa money standard it is only necessary to re- member a few of the plainer principles of political economy. One of these is that no legislation can fix the value of one kind of money in comparison with another kind. If a silver dollar is intrinsically worth only three-fourths as much as a gold dollar we | may make it a legal tender, but its pur- | chasing power will be only seventy-five | cents, We have seen this illustrated in every | phase of our greenback experience, and | hence it follows that Mr. Stewart is wrong in | asserting that the purchasing power of gold has been increased. Over-production and other causes have diminished the market | yalue of silver, and the mineral has become asimple commodity, like iron, copper, lead and zine. If we are sentimental people and | like the history of silver, whieh for many*| centuries held its place by the side of goid | as one of the two p ious metals, we might | deplore its demonotization as Mr. Stewart | does; but not owning any mines or mining stocks, and being in the habit of accepting | things as we find them, we cannot insist that | that which was but is not shall be again. | Silver has depreciated far below gold in its | the Silver Ques- | at Bangor, Me, recently. to accep 1 us a proper specie basis. This is the whole case, and neither legislation nor letters to the newspapers can make it other- wise. Complications and loss must necese sarily result from such a radical change in the exchange system of the world, but it is for the courts to see that contracts are en- forced,and not for legislatures to declare that a dollar in silver or paper shall be equal to a dollar in gold. “Crazy Horse’ Wants Peace. We hear that the Indian chief Crazy Horse wants peace and proposes to come in and be a “good Indian.” We believe Crazy Horse was a chief under Sitting Bull in the recent fight with Custer. The question whether we should have terms with a chief who took part in that massacre isaseriousone, It may be said that these are savages who acted according to their nature, and that it is too late, considering our whole course with the Indians, to think of revenge or retaliation. But if Sitting Bull can send within our lines every crippled detachment, if he can make up parties of wounded and infirm warriors and quarter them upon us as peaceful Istdians, it will be a constant recruiting of his army. It seems that all the young men are going out on the war- path, while all the old men, the squaws, the wounded and infirm are within the reserva- tions. There should be an end of this. We should treat with the Indians as one tribe, If Crazy Horse comes in and brings with him Sitting Bull and his band there will be no trouble. We can disarm them, enclose them within a reservation and set them to useful employment. We trust this war will not end until the Indian tribes are under the control of the government. When, therefore, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and other chiefs ask to “come in and make peace,” the authorities should see that ald the bands are included in the surrender. The Sermons Yesterday. The religious sentiments of a well ordered community are not affected by unfavor~ able weather, and notwithstanding the downpouring rain of yesterday the churches of New York were well filled with worshippers. During the summer season many of our most prominent preach- ers retire for rest and recreation after theiz labors to the quietude of the country or the seaside, where they renew their physical forces for the conflict with sin. The metro- politan pulpits aro, therefore, filled by zealous strangers to our city, who afford their hearers the novelty of listen- ing to the old stories of salva- tion clothed in nw language. Thus we find Dr. Robinson, of Troy, telling the congregation of the Church of the Cove- nant about the efficacy of prayer, and Father Connolly, of Green Island, at St. Stephen’s church, repeating the parable of the steward and his master. The Rev. Mr. Hepworth, still #t his post, told his hearers that Jesug was always present, and Mr. Rainsford, of England, spoke at the Church of the Holy Trinity of covenanting with God. At the Madison avenue Baptist church the Rev. George Dowling, of Syracuse, spoke touch- ingly of the loneliness of our Saviour at Gethsemane. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was explained by Mr. Chambers at the Murray Hill Presbyterian church. At the other city churches equally interesting subs jects were eloquently discussed. PERSONAL INTELLIGFNCE, Mrs, Balknap is at Rye Beach. Hon, August Belmont is at Saratoga, There are clambakes at New Bediord, Lake Chautauqua is becoming popular, General Patterson is the hero at Cape May. The Hon. John Bigelow ts in Washington. Javenile balls are fashionable at Cape May, Swordfish are caught at Biddeford Pool, Mo. Robert Konner is at the Delaware Water Gap. Chief Justice Waite is at Avon Springs, N, Y. Audubon's granddaughter swims at Watch Hill, Governor Rice, of Massachusotts, is at Saratoga. Franconia Notch in the White Mountains1s five milep long. Boss Tweed’s family are summering at Bethichem, N. H Wood fires are comfortable in the White Moum tains, Cardinal McCloskey will remain at Newport several weeks. Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, is at Long Branch, ; Bayard Taylor's daughter Lillian will go to Vassar noxt fall, Four hundrod Southerners are at the White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ‘The cottagers at Marblehead swing in hammocks and watch the dories go by. Tastoless, but beantifal, California plums and pears abonnd in the New York markets, Mme. Mantilla, wife of the Spanish Minister, wears black velvet and diamonds at Saratoga, Sir Hagh Allan has arrived in Quoboc, after a suo” ceasfnl salmon fishing excursion in New Brunswick, Andrew Johnson, son of the Inte President Johnson, and proprietor of the Greeneville (Tenn.) Intelligencer, js a candidate for the Legisiature to represent Green county. Dr. J. G. Holland and family, who bave been spend. ing some seven or eight weeks in the Titebfeld hills, in Connecticut, have just gone to tho seaside at Mount Dosert, Me. While you are in tho country ask the farm hand where there is a cool spring near some nice bushes, If there isa hollow stump near by you may hide your bottle in it, Secretary Gorham, of the Senate, says that Call. fornia will give Hayos an Wheeler 12,000 majority and that the Central Pacific Railroad shall not return to the republican party. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has suggested that the only way to prevent the shooting of negroes is to pass acolored game law restricting the killing to certain seasons of the year. Washington (Ga.) Garette-—*For tho past week tt has been so hot down on Litile River that the cattsh have been observed to craw! up out of the water, tay down beneath the shade trees and fan themselves with their tails. Brot Harte’s novel of “Gabriel Conroy” being finished shows that while that author is able to describe ipcidents ho 1s not able to carry ona plot. Mr. Harte, before beginning another volume, should study Wilkie Collins. 7 ‘The spectacle of aman with his fifth bride listening to the funeral sermon of is fourth wifo was witnessed No. 4 diol of a malignant disease, and there were no funeral services, He im mediately got another wife, and invited her to attene the funeral sermon of tho dear departed, The Danish King has been fortunate in his family, four of whom are destined to wonr crowns, His eldest son willinherit the Danish © daughter 1 destined to be England's Qu en; his other daughter, Princess Dagmar, ibe Eq vse of Russia, and his sou rules over Greece, where his grandson is Duke of Sparta, The Franktort Jcoman says:—“Our informant Is still of opinion that the rumor about the marriage of Gover. nor Tilden to the Kentucky Indy residing 1m Alabama will be very likely to prove trae, The lady referred te we now learn 45 Mrs, Todd, of Muatsyille, Alm, and these acquarnted wich ker affirm that no Jady in the land would preside at the White House with more intrinsic value, and go it is impossible longer | grace, atguity and success than would Mra, Tada. 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