The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 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 York Hexarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 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 L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the some terms asin New York. VOLUME X11. 5 BCHOES, ats P. we KELLY & LEO. ateP.M. i; THEATRE. Sothern, LACK'S THEATRE, WAT HE MIGHTY Nout AR, at 8 aa our ur reports this morning 1 the probabi p gre that the weather to-day will be cool and fair. During the summer months the Henarp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of | twenty-five cents per week, free of postage, Wait Srnret Yestrrps tocks wero lower and the market feverish. Gold opened and closed at 1117-8, with intermediate | sales at 111 3-4. Money loaned on call at 2 | percent. Government and railway bonds were generally firm. The public debt state- | ment for July shows a_ reduction of $1,138,000. Wanker [s tus Letrrr?—Governor, Gov- ernor, it is thirty-five days since you were nominated, and still no letter! Hayes wrote his in twenty-three days. Mr. Motxoney, of Coventry, England, has failed for over half a million of dollars. He was a ribbon man, which fact, however, will not detract from the sympathy which will be extended to him in England. We Pvstisn on another page an interest- ing account of the Cambridge four who are to take part in the coming international rowing match at Philadelphia. Their style of rowing and the details of their practice may be profitably studied by our own oars- men. : Bustvess 1x Encianp is exceptionally dull and the prospects are exceedingly gloomy. What with the suspension of well known busi- nes3 houses and the vast distress among the t working classes, caused by the want of em- ploynient, the outlook for the coming winter presents a serious problem for English statesmen to solve. Tur Mavetrre is being rapidly prepared for her contest with the Countess of Dufferin, and everything that can contribute to her success in the race is receiving close atten- tion from her owner. The Canadian yacht must'be well handled and have more than her share of good luck if she beats the swift sailing Madeleine over the billowy course. JonGress for the settlement | of the Eastern question is quoted as among the probabilities of the near future. Con- sidering the ephemeral effects of former dip- lomatic efforts in this direction we cannot attach any importance to this new attempt to remedy by the pen an evil that has had its origin in the merciless use of the sword. Tue Rosstaxs Duxy the truth of the re- ported revolt of the Circassians. It would be exceedingly inconvenient just at present | for Russia to become involved in a war for | the suppression of a rebellion among the mouniain fastnesses of the Caucasus, where Bchamyl miintained for many years such a | desperate resistance against the power of | the Czar. Ware Wr Arr CensvntnG THE Ponce on account of the prevalence of crime in New York and the number of well known crim- | inals that are permitted to walk the streets in broad daylight under the eyes of the | detectives we must remember the difficnl- | ties that beset the ofiicers in securing any fruit from their arrest of suspects. Yester-' | day two well known pickpockets, who were arrested for acting suspiciously on board a crowded steamer, marched triumphantly out of court because of the failure of the provi- sions of the Habitual Criminal act to empower the authorities to hold them in custody. Tae Weatnen for the next two days will | be fair, with northeasterly and easterly winds. About Friday next the approaching | disturbances from the West will begin to manifest themselves by increasing Moudi- ness and probable rains. The area of low barometer in the Southwest is slowly mov- ing toward the Mississippi Valley, and ap- pears to bo of more than ordinary extent. Storms will probably oceur over the Gulf | States within the week, as the atmospheric conditions in those regions favor their de. velopment. Last evening rain was falling in the Missouri Valley, with a steadily de- eroasing pressure. Saerrrrr Coxnrr’s Diemma.—The return to the execution on Tweed's property placed in the hands of the Sheriff has not yet been made, although the legal term for action in the matter has expired. As will be seen by our article published elsewhere the Sheriff is in avery difficult position on account of his personal liability for the amounts of the judgments which grows out of Tweed's escape from his custody. The prospects are very unpromising of a speedy termination of the Tweed property suits, because in order to save himself the Sheriff will do all in “| power to secure delay, believing, no doubt, ‘that “time makes all things even.” ; and their countrymen. | pute. NEW YORK HERALD. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT Belknap’s Acquittal. The acquittal of General Belknap by the Senate yesterday will prove a great disap- pointment, although it will occasion no sur- prise. Sucha result as the High Court of Impeachment has reached was anticipated long ago, and the effects of the verdict are not likely to be felt in the canvass further than they have been felt already. The ac- quittal of this man will prove a gain only to himself, while in some respects it will be hurtful to good government and pure ad- ministration. Belknap was a self-confessed bribe taker. He was tried and acquitted only upon a technicality. If twenty- two Senators had not had a_ greater regard for their own opinion upon a question of jurisdiction which few of them are capable of understanding than for the principles of justice tho decision would have been the reverse of what it is. Of the other three who voted “not guilty,” the reasons of Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, as a matter of course are past finding out, while Mr. Conover, of Florida, and Mr. Wright, of Iowa, believe the charges were not sustained by the evidence. Such being their belief their action is justified to their consciences As to those who voted for acquittal because they believed the Senate had no jurisdiction, they simply strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. It is easy fora man to set up his opinion against the world, but when he makes it an excuse fora wrong act on his own part he must expect some of the odium which at- taches not only to wrong doing but to de- fending a wrong. The vote to acquit Bel- Knap yesterday was a voto to leta guilty man escape, snd, construe it as we may, we can make nothing else out of it. As to General Belknap himself, it makes little real difference whether he was con- victed or acquitted. In either case he was irretrievably ruined and disgraced. His position is one that alternately excites sym- pathy and provokes ridicule. He was a | bluff, hearty, good-natured fellow, who, as men go, had more in him of good than of evil. In the position in life for which he was fitted by his abilities and acquirements he would have been respected till the end of his days. In an evil hour, however, he went to Washington to secure his retention j in a petty office which President Johnson had given him, and General Grant unfortu- nately looked upon him as a proper person to fill a place in his offi- cial family. When Rawlins died Bel- knap was appointed in his stead. Bringing to the office neither great abilities nor much experience in military affairs the new Secretary undertook to’ rule the depart- ment with an autocratic sway even greater than that which had been shown by his chief in the field. Politically he was am- bitious, but his social pride outran even his political ambition. He soon quarrelled with the General of the Army and s0 lost his hold upon the sympathies of the country. His social needs almost immediately began to outrun his meagre means. He married wives who were disposed to shine in society, but, like the foolish virgins, they were with- out oil in their lamps. Then came the temp- tation, and he fell. He ought to have known that a man who is base enough to given bribe will also tell of it again, but he ignored the danger and trusted the tempter. The end came soon enough. One morning he awoke to find himself dishonored and cast out from among men by the revelations of the friend upon whom he had relied and who shared in the guilt and the profits of their transactions. In tho language of an old and homely saying, he went up like a rocket and came down like the stick. In a moment his bright, almost brilliant, record as a brave and honorable man was blotted out. His misdeeds were self-evident and self- confessed. <A fall so great was in it- self o sufficient punishment, perhaps; but when the Senate determined to try him a verdict of guilty was necessary as the official condemnation of his crimes. Acquittal can- not give him back the good name he has lost nor the esteem in which he was held, and these were the only things for which it was worth his while to contend. It follows from all this that the verdict which the Senate put upon record yesterday was unworthy of Senators and of the coun- try. Inflexibility of purpose in the per- formance of a public duty yielded to emo- tions of tenderness for a personal and polit- ical friend. A technicality of the lawyers swayed ‘the action of the court. Never was a judgment so manifestly wrong, both when considered from the sides of reason and of mee, and in scanning the vote of Belknap's judges we have no patience with them or their verdict. If there had been conse | any question of the right of the Senate to convict we could look with more kindness upon the fact of acquittal, but the right was determined when the Senate decided it had jurisdiction of the offences. The vote shows that both the right and the duty were sustained by such men as Bayard, of Delaware; Cameron, of Pennsyl- vania; Dawes, of Massachusetts; Edmunds, of Vermont; Kernan, of New York; McDon- ! ald, of Indiana; Sherman and Thurman, of Ohio; Stevenson, of Kentucky, and Wad- leigh, of New Hampshire. Even Morton, Oglesby and Booth, who believed the Senate should have no jurisdiction of the case, refused to stultify their consciences on the question of guilt. Opposed to this view ofa very plain case were a few men of re- Anthony, of Rhode Island; Conkling, of Now York; Frelinghuysen, of New Jer- sey, and Hamlin, of Maine; but most of them were the unknown quantities who came into | the Senate as the result of reconstruction, | the creation of new States or on the top wave of reform, What shall we think of Bruce, of Mississippi; Cameron, of Wiscon- sin; Dorsey, of Arkansas; Jones, of Nevada, or Patterson, of South Carolina, teaching law and duty to any of the thirty-five Senators who voted for conviction? This weak result is the consequence of placing weak men in high places. The only excuse to be urged in favor of the strong men in the negative list is the stubbornness of their opinions; but it would have been better for them in every way if, like Booth, Morton and Oglesby, they had yielded their own convictions to the judgment of the Senate. ‘The questions of jurisdiction and conviction were not identical and it should have been left to the Logans, Christiancys and Pattér- sons to discover that they were. A more painful exhibition of partisanship and imbe- cility was never before seen in the votes of the Senate, and the record which Senators made for themselves yesterday will be held up as a warning long after Belknap and his deeds are forgotten. The whole point of the Belknap trial was, as we have before indicated, the solemn con- demnation of the Belknap crimes, Without such a conclusion the scene was a farce played in a theatre where farces are out of place. In deciding the question of jurisdic- tion the question of law was decided. All that remained to be determined were tho questions of fact—the guilt or innocence of the accused. Upon this we believe there are not two opinions—scarcely two as to whether the offences were proved. Only two of the Senators who declared by their votes that General Belknap was not guilty had the courage to say that they believed his guilt had not been established. The others shelter them- Selves behind a technicality and vote away the conscience of the country. We cannot find language strong enough to condemn such a betrayal of a public trust and a pub- lic duty, and while Belknap may rejoice in his escape and other plunderers guiltier than he may exult with him, the great body of the people will look upon these proceed- ings with regret and shame, and an indelible reproach will attach to the national honor and the good name of the United States. The Carolinas. The republicans mean to turn Tilden’s Southern flank in the Carolinas. ‘The calcu- lation of the democrats is that Tilden will carry the whole South and that the real fight must be made here and in the West. It looked as if the republicans would concede this some time ago, but they have changed their policy. They mean to fight their battle in all of the Southern States with the exception of Georgia and Texas. In South Carolina the contest is alocal one. Governor Chamberlain is a Northern man, elected Governor by the republicans. Whatever his political record in the past, since his eleva- tion to his present office he has made a fierce war upon the corrupt elements in his own party. The effect of this has been to draw to his support a good section of the whites and democrats, headed by the News and Courier, of Charleston, the leading -paper in the State. The News and Courier proposes that the democrats ‘shall make no nomination, but support Chamberlain, whose war against corruption in his own party may cost him the regular nomination. Recently a new party has taken the field under the com- mand of the Rhetts, who denounce Cham- berlain and insist upon ‘a straight-out” nomination. They Will have no relations with Chamberlain, who, whatever he may have done as Governor to help the State, is “a carpet-bagger.” This* contest will be fought out in the Democratic State Conven- tion, which meets August 15. Upon the decision of the Convention the vote of South Carolina for the Presidency will largely rest. If the ‘‘straight-out” faction succeeds Chamberlain's strength will be thrown back to the republicans and Hayes will carry the State. If the News and Courier policy is adopted the State may go for Tilden. The News and Courier policy is the wisest. In North Carolina the republicans are making an earnest canvass. There is an old whig element in this State which during the war was restless. North Carolina is perhaps the only Southern State where the color line does not exist in politics. There is less intolerance and proscription there than elsewhere. The republicans have nomi- nated for Governor Judge Settle, a member of one of the oldest families, who served in the Confederate army and is now on the Supreme Bench, The value of such a nomi- nation is seen in the vigorous campaign which has been opened. Already the re- publicans make inroads upon their op- ponents. Hon. Lot W. Humphrey, of Golds- boro, a member of the Democratic State Central Executive Committee, and recently State Senator, has formally pronounced for Hayes. Judge Settle has taken the stump and is assisted by the two sons of the late Stephen A. Douglas, who are supporting the republicans. The issue is doubtful. The democrats, however, will have to make a hard fight to win. As our readers may have observed, we take a peculiar interest in this Southern canvass, We are quite content to have Tilden elected, but we do not want to see his election come from a sectional vote. We want to see these Southern States show wisdom, and not passion. We trust to have an end of the color business in politics. A President elected by a united South and enough Northern votes to make a majority would have an overburdened administration. It would be Andrew Johnson over again, with the re- publicans again in power four years from now, more intolerant and exacting than ever, If we once can eliminate “race” issues, “war” issues, “color” issues from the South, there will be an end of the republican and democratic parties. New divisions will take place. Questions of moment to the people will be discussed as was the case thirty years ago, and we shall then know a peace which will be peace indeed. North Carolina moves in that direction in the nomination of Judge Settle. South Carolina will follow if the ‘‘straight-ont” faction is beaten ‘and the State Convention acts with wisdom. The question in the South is peace and reconciliation, and we honor the men who, in spite of detraction and calumny, are brave enough to lead their people into the only path which leads to peace, Tue Briautox Rack, Merrie in England has opened, yesterday being the first day. American horses have not prospered on the | English turf, for we have again to record the defeat of Mr. Sanford’s Mate for the Brighton Stakes, although he finished second, thereby taking fifty sovereigns of | the stakes. Preakness is entered for the Brighton Cup, to be run for to-day, and turf- men consider his chances pretty good, al- though he carries four pounds more weight than he did at Goodwood. The warm weather prevailing in England onght to tem- porarily remove any climatic obstacles to the success of the American horses, if such diffi- culties can in any way affect their speed. A Hiwr ro Mixistan Punnzrost—filenco is golden, The Hamburg Verdict. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the Hamburg massacre charges General M. C. Butler and the other persons engaged in that disgraceful and barbarous affair with murder, and they areto be arrested and tried for the offence, Governor Chamberlain at last seems to be moving vigorously in this matter, and, not only are writs in the hands of the Sheriff upon which to make the ar- rest, but requisitions upon the Governor of Georgia for the citizens of that State who were engaged in the Hamburg affair are also ready. We trust there will be no trouble in executing the warrants, and it would be best if all the accused at once surrendered them- selves for trial. As regards the trials them- selves, they must be ably and impartially conducted. No guilty man must be allowed to escape. This affair, apparently, was as unwarranted and unprovoked as it was barbarous. If one-half that is said in regard to it is true it more than bears out the terrible declaration in General Grant's letter to Governor Chamberlain, in which he avers the utter recklessness and impunity with which negroes are murdbred in some of the Southern States. In the face of such a grave declaration coming from such a source it will not do to dismiss the subject with a sneer about the ‘bloody shirt.” All the world will accept the Presi- | dent’s words as true unless the contrary is clearly shown, and we fear there is only too much truth in what he says. Southern out- rages are something more than ‘campaign lies” invented before elections. The Ham- burg affair was too terrible in all its aspects | to be considered asa mere political scare- crow. Its fiendishness is too well estab- lished to fade before the breath of denial or ridicule. It is equally undeniable that similar outrages have been com- mitted in nearly every Southern Stato, and are liable to be committed at any time. The trouble has been in finding the proper mode for their repression. Evidently the true course has been discovered at last. The courts are the places in which it is to be sought and found. Hereafter every offence must result in the trial of the offender,” and conviction must wait upon guilt. Many of the wrongs of the white men in the South will disappear when they are themselves compelled to do right. The punishznent of the Hamburg offenders will do more good than a democratic victory in every Southern State or a federal force in every city, town and village of the South, and we trust the vigorous spirit which Goy- ernor Chamberlain is now showing and with which the President sympathizes so heartily will not be allowed to die out until the guilt or innocence of every one of the ‘accused is established. “Honor” in the South. The Hamburg affair has led to bad blood in Charleston. A General Gary became oftended with Captain F. W. Dawson, of the News and Courier, for certain comments upon his political action. The General addressed a letter to the press intimating that he might find it necessary to meet the Captain, and hoping when the necessity came his antago- nist would not raise the white flag. To this the Captain answered that the General should keep good his threat or stand accused asa “‘braggart and a slanderer.” The Gen- eral at once made a formal challenge, which we reprint asan example in letter writing for our own warlike youths:— Epaxrieny Covet Hovss, 8 C., July 25, 1876, ", W. Dawsox, Editor Charleston News and Sin—Y our card published in the Charleston Journal of Commerce of July 24, inst, must suggest to every “man of- honor” my course of conduct toward you. In resp to it I request that you will name, at an carly day, some place outalde the limits of the State of South Carolina-where I may address a farther com- munication to you touching the affair between us, Your obedient servant, M. W. GARY. To this invitation the Captain answered that it was a well-known fact that he could ‘not conscientiously fight a duel. ‘‘Neyer- theless,""he continues, ‘do I hold myself personally responsible for every word I have written, and especially for my opinions and language regarding you. I shall not, now or hereafter, go out of my way to meet you ; but I can always be found by those who seek me. You have intimated that there is a likeli- hood that I shall, at your coming, raise tho ‘white flag.’ I have, in the plainest words Icould command, bidden you put this to the test.” Ifthe General felt that a fight was neces- sary for the vindication of his honor he would naturally arm himself with various weapons and seek out the Captain. But up to this date we have no information that he has made the experiment. The course of Captain Dawson seems to us to have been wise and judicious. The business of duel- ling is not American. It belongs toa bar- barous age. We are glad to see prominent gentlemen in South Carolina take grounds against it. Tue Dereat or THe Turks by the Mon- tenegrins at Urbiza is acknowledged at Con- stantinople, and the shattered remnants of the Ottoman force have retired to Trebigne, being evidently unable to escape in the di- rection of Novi Bazar. The position of Mukhtar Pacha is an exceedingly dangerous ono, and he is liable to be starved into sur- render without fighting unless he crosses the Montenegrin frontier and, by carrying the war into his enemy's territory, forces the Montenegrins to withdraw from the advantageous positions they have won for the defence of their immediate homes. It is probable, however, that tho latter will hold the Pacha in Trebigne until he surren- ders. The Montenegrins’ advance toward Seutari has been checked, according to the latest despatches, and the Turkish columns operating against the Servians have met with some important successes. Thus defeat in one quarter is counterbalanced by victory in others. We may, however, consider Herze- govina and Bosnia as temporarily lost to Turkey, to be recovered by that Power only by a crushing victory over the united armies of Servia. Transrer tHE Inprans.—Wo trust there will be no difficulty about passing the bill for the transfer of the Indians from the In- terior to the War Department. The villa- nies which have marked the whole ad- ministration of Indian affairs compel a change. Our history is stained with record upon record of cruelty and perfidy. This has grown ont of the management of the Indian department. In tho army the In- diana will find their nratentora, not tradera and thieving-agents selected for political reasons, but honorable men, in office for life, liable to court martial if they offend. We are informed that there is some doubt about the Senate passing the bill transferr- ing the Indians to the War Department. This is because there is a rich and powerful ring, whose members have grown rich by the robbery of the Indians, and who see in the passage of the proposed bill an end of their plunder. If honest counsels prevail the bill will pass. Let us try the army for @ while, anyhow. The President's Message. The Message of the President on the ap- propriation question is not in the best spirit Thero is a harshness about it which shows an unbecoming temper on the part of the President in dealing with a co-ordinate branch of the government. No doubt the President is vexed with the House for tho manner in which it has cnt down appropria- tious. We have not approved all the acts of the House, but we cannot help admiring the persistence with which Mr. Randall and his friends have labored in the interests of economy. The country demanded a large measure of reform. In a time when every private citi- zen was retrenching it was natural that the government should retresch. ‘The only way to do so was to cut down right and left, even at the risk of weakening some branches of the government. The President, with justice, points ont where these reductions injure the public business, and to that extent he will have the public support. We agree with him that there should be no reduction in the appropriations for the reyenuo cutters. Upon the efficiency of this modest and efficient branch of the service depends the collection of the revenues. It is amistake to cripple the Signal Service. This is a new feature. By the Signal Service we are gradually learning to know the moods of the air, the clouds and the planets so wel as tobe able to prophesy the weather for a day or two ahead. This is not, as may be supposed, the gratification of a vain curi- osity. Tho sailor who goes out to sea, the farmer who has mown his hay crop, the maiden who has been dreaming of a picnic— all classes are interested in the weather. If we can bring this Signal Servico to such ao degree of perfection as to have even a rela- tive knowledge of the weather for forty-eight hours in advance it will be a great blessing. For Congress, therefore, to cripple this ser- vice by reducing the number of stations or limiting the employés is a blunder. We have spent a good deal of money upon the public buildings, our navy yards and the District of Columbia, and we can afford to rest a while. While not agreeing with the President as to restoring these appropria- tions, we do agree with him that it is a mis- take to cut down the judiciary. Our judges in the national service are badly paid. We give our judges in New York much more than is paid to those who sit on the Supreme bench. There is no economy in having beggars in the administration of justice. The President says that the appropriations are only sixty-five per cent of what is neces- sary for the ‘ordinary demands” of the ser- vice. We think sixty-five per cent is enough. Congress and the President together could reduce thesum even more if they were to act in harmony. That five millions for river and harbor improvements csuld be cut down toa million. The whole diplomatic service might be reduced. We could send two good Ministers to Europe—one for the Continent, the other for England—who could do all the work performed by our various legations. All we really want isa first class man in London and another in Geneva, whose busi- ness it should be to take up serious ques- tions like extradition, and go from court to court when needed. The rest of the diplo- matic work could be performed by consular agents, This would be a large saving. As to the army, we need a large staff and a small body of troops. In the event of war the staff will organize the new levies. We do notneed a great navy. A first class torpedo service is required for defence, and this should not be in any way stinted. Altogether we think the President's Mes- sage a fair criticism upon the work of Con- gress. At the same time the work has been well done. There is a middle ground be- tween the two positions, which is the cor- rect one, and if the President and the House will come to an understanding it will be for the interests of the Treasury and no detri- ment to the public service, Tne West Stim Morinous.—Mr. Tilden should really take command of his canvass, The democrats in States like Illinois have not heard that he is running on a hard money platform. There has been a conven- tion in Illinois which, according to the Chi- cago Times, the leading democratic news- paper of the Northwest, has nominated a man for Governor who ‘“‘believes in the commun- ism of rag money,” and the ticket is de- nounced as a “‘leprous league of spoilsism and debauchery.” We had cccasion to com- miserate Hayes upon the way the machine men took charge of his national committee and gave him Chandler for chairman. But Tilden is in as bad a plight. Altogether it would not surprise us tosee this canvass turn out to be the craziest campaign ever known. Tue Pank Commisstonens are a jolly set of fellows, but they will have no nonsense from Comptroller Green. They are just now in conflict with that unmanageable functionary in regard to the envelopes in which his com- munications to the department are sent. It isaterrible thing in the eyes of President Martin and his associates that Green should dare to send messages to the Board ad- dressed to Henry G. Stebbins instead of the department. There is no wonder the Com- missioners ore ina passion over such ‘bad taste,” especially at a time when they are so busy with the polities and the ‘‘backing” of the laborers in the Park that they have little opportunity for anything beside, A Hint ro raz Governor. —A Saratoga cor- respondent intimates that Governor Tilden in his letter will take ground in favor of reducing the annual appropriations for rivers and harbors. This will bea severe reflection upon the democratic House, which has just passed » river and harbor bill reeking with iobbery and corraption Fo Extraditica. The longer we delay extradition the worse it will bo for the two countries, Lord Derby has made the announcement that negotiations are now on foot for a new treaty, and if they threaten to become pro- tracted he will endeavor to establish a pro visional arrangement “which will prevent rascals from benefiting by a falling out be tween honest men.” There is evidently strong feeling, as the abolition of extradi- tion between two countries as closely related as America and England only makes them harbors of refuge for each other's vagabonds. The trouble between the two countries is one that should never hate.occurred. The English made a mistake in supposing that the Americans cared to violate the right of asylum. That is as dear to us as to Eng. land, and we should protect it with as much resolution. There is also a trouble as to the jurisdiction of States, In Massachusetts, for instance, if Winslow had been returned h& could have been tried for any offence, no matter what the government might say. “A new treaty will have to consider that point, We think the whole question shonld now be made the subject of an exhaustive inquiry. It is due to both nations that there should be the utmost harmony in all matters affect. ing the international relations of the two countries. Tue Derusrican StrucGue in THE StaTz.— The political gossip at Long Branch sup- plies us with some readable speculations as to the probabilities of the approaching Republican State Convention for the nomi- nation of State officers and the construction- of the State organization for the coming year. There is no doubt that the rival face tions in the State are anxious to show their power in the Convention in the hope of thereby making capital with the Hayes ade ministratioh should the republican Presi- dent be elected. But, in view of the dee liberate pledge of the republican candidate, that, in the cause of civil service reform, ha will not permit any capable and faithfal public officer or employé to be removed, but will rather use all his influence to secure such a one a life tenure of office, it is quese tionable whether the fruits of success in the struggle will be as valuable as the poli-~ ticians appear to imagine. Tuy Qvarrets Between Punic Boarps, suchas those of the Commissioners of Police and Health, would be ludicrous if they did not seriously injure the administration of the city government, The idea of pyblic ser vants trying to kick each other out of publi¢ buildings devoted to the purposes for whick these individuals are employed suggests that after all it might be well to dismiss these quarrelsome gentlemen and appoint persons in their places who could agree to discharge their duties to the public without believing that they were its masters. Jzssz Pomeroy, the boy fiend of Boston, still drags on a miserable existence in jail, although ho has been sentenged to death fos his many horrible crimes. It would bea mercy to the murderer and in the interests of justice if the sentence wero carried out without further delay. Ir Mr. Prerrepont, our urbane and gifted Minister to England, will read the addresa of Carlyle to the college students in Scot- land he will be struck with the lamentation over the fact that two of the finest nations in the world, the English and American, are “quite going out in wind and tongue.” A Cuance ror Henpricks.—We are in. formed that Mr. Hendricks has ‘“‘surrene dered” to Tilden, and will come out asa hard money man. To be sincere in this con- version Hendricks ought to take back his speeches in Ohio in favor of Allen. A Frew Monz Carrunzs by the police like that of the notorious female pickpocket and receiver of stolen goods, announced in to- day’s Heraxp, will go far to restore the cons fidence of the public in the ability of our de. tective force. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ann Eliza Young is at Hartford, Brigham’s son John is in Washington. Mills and Brignoli are at Atlantic City. Massachusetts people camp out, ¢ /a Sitting Bull. Wendell Phillips will have a now lecture next season, Hon. Zach Chandler ana family are at Ellsworth, Ma, Hon. Moses Kimball, of Boston, will winter on the Nile. Governor Tilden 1s @ procrastinator, timia? Senator Conkling’s curl will stand the crimping fron again. Dr. Chapin has mado many lecture engagements for next winter. Mrs. Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, ts at Bangor, Mo The Rev. Dr. Cheever lives among the bean patches of the Palisades. Genoraldrant carries a twenty-five cent ewitch and a $4 bottle of wine. Westerners catch white bass at the watering place of Grana Haven, Mich. Governor Willlam Pitt Kellogg, of Louletana, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral John J. Almy, United States Navy, is at the Westminster Motel, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, has gone to the Whito Sulphur Springs, Va. Baron do Sant’ Anna, Portuguese Minister at Wash- ington, is at the Hotel Brunswick, Fancy what a head line the editor of tho Chicage Times will have on bis tombstone! American goods, cheap and stylish, are finding roady gale in Canada and the provinces, The Danbary News man bas made a large number a engagemeats for his forthcoming lecture. No intoxicating liquors are sold at Mount Desert, ant there is not a policeman on the island, Road Black's description of salmon fishing in “Thy Princoss of Thule’? and then go to New Branswick, The Sioux squaws mutilate wounded whites, ané carry their own wounded to the agencies for nursing A French writer says that Burgundy fs the gentlo Is he alse | man of wines. Soda water, the bext morning, t& bis giss-ter, A New Haven scientist sbows that bees have memo- ries’ They have a way of sitting down sudaenty and leaving their memories bebind thom. Disracli’s new povel will treat of Imperialism in England, the grandeur of which ho says is beginning, His motto will be “Lo hore and Lothair,”” A tramp, who graduated at Oxford and who once lived in California and haa £100,000, was tumbled out of a box car near Pittsburg a fow days ago, Sunday morning, at ten o'clotk, while the eburch be lls were ringing, several broad-jowelled gamins wore stoning the sparrow houses in the City Hall Park, The aristocratic Nahant Bostonians aro angry bee canse a Hebrew clothing merchant enjoys thirty acres of land at thoir esteemed watering place by tue sound jug soa, This is tho season of the year to get off the old joke about the city girl who gooPap to the cowyard fence, and, drawing the maslin dress up and about, says coyly, “Ob, cousin Jobn! which is the cow that gives the bas tarmile 2)