The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1876, Page 4

* 4 NEW YORK HERALD ——_—— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR loseelieiiaieiiier tapes 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 Hzxarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREE’ LONDON OF OF THE NEW YORK ET STREET. HERALD—NO. PARIS OFFICE—AV UE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Ws VOLUNE XLI AMUSEME. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, ate P.M. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE, VARIETY, at 5 P. M. PARIS! MS P.M, Matines ai nOWE ¥ HUSH A BY BABY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. LORD DUNDREARY, at Sothern, GIL GRAND CONCERT, at woo ECHOES, at8 P.M. } ITH W YORK, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and doudy, possibly with light rain. * During the summer months the Henanp will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. zs .—Stocks were somewhat active, with prices irregular and feverish. Gold opened and closed at 111 7-8, selling meanwhile at 112. Money on call was supplied at 2and 11-2 per cent. Gov- ernment and railway bonds were generally steady. Governor, Governor, it is thirty-six days since you were nominated, and still no let- ter. Hayes wrote his in twenty-three days. Frexcn Dvxts are not apt to be very bloody of late, and the encounter between the two Deputies who lately exchanged shots without bloodletting will perhaps add its quota to the ridiculo which is slowly killing off this barbaric resort for the settlement of flimsy personal guarrels. Tur Times says, with justice, that the valne of a letter of acceptance depends upon “its heartiness and spontaneity.” The people begin to think that Uncle Sammy is constructing an elaborate dynamite machine that will run foracertain number of days and then blow up the whole republican party. Tur Gannack War continues to excite the officials of New York and Brookiyn, but Judge Westbrook’s injunction has had the effect of creating an armistice, until the question at issue is fully examined. If our law tinkers at Albany were more capable of framing statutes in plain language all this trouble would be avoided. Severna, Orricers have been relieved from duty as instructors at West Point and will join their respective commands. Others of course have been detailed to take their places. The officers released from special duty will now have a good chance to apply their abundant knowledge of tho military science to the solution of the Sioux problem. Juper Brack is too experienced and able man to make the mistake about Hoar pre- senting a library to the President. It only compelled Judge Hoar to come ont and deny it. When a man of high capacity like Judge Black prepares a speech fora high court of impeachment like the Senate he should take his facts from some other source than the partisan press. Ovr Apvicr To Biurorp W11503, after read- ing the Plaisted evidence, is that he should abandon politics and President-making and resume agricultural pursuits. Tho United States does not regard the President as ao thief, and the more his enemies try to prove him to be so the more the people like him. It would not surprise us to see the President go out of office as popular as when he was first elected. Twenty thousand committees of investigation, each with a special Bluford Wilson swearing to all he knows, will not blot out the memory of Appomattox Court House and the famous apple tree. Tax Srmpatuy or Russia for the Servian cause is shown by the gift of large sums of money to the Belgrade government. The latest despatches also announce that Aus- tria is strengthening her garrisons on the Danube and that Russian troops are being sent to points near the Turkish frontier. The formal resignation of the Suitan Mourad is also announced; so that we must regard the situation in the Hast as threatening in the extreme. In the face of these reports it is not surprising that Turkey should put forth her greatest efforts to crush the Ser- vians and regards with jealous vigilance the conduct of the Slavonic peoples still under her sway. Bra Borpry Execurep Srnates or Orxrna- rows the Turks have possessed themselves of the Timok Valley, the ridges overlooking which form the natural fortress of Servia on the northeast. To make this advance of use to the Turks requires, however, the prompt use of large bodies of troops—larger bodies than they seem able to command at pres- ent. The advance, however, proves Servia to be thrown entirely on the defensive, and with little chance just now of being able to bring into play that branch of military sci- | ence known as the offensive-defensive. This is a sad change from the confident advance | of Tchernayeff a month ago, who started out onan easy march for Adrianople via Sofia. We are likely to seo better fighting on the Servian side now that the Servians are on their own soil, unless the great Powers can stop the war altogether. Events, however, are hardly ripe enough for that, The President on the Southern Ques- ton. The letter addressed to Governor Cham- berlain, of South Carolina, by the President of the United States, will be read with sur- prise throughout the civilized world. There is a fervor about it which is not common to the President. In this letter he denounces the Hamburg massacre as ‘cruel, blood- thirsty, wanton, unprovoked.” ‘This is the opinion of the vountry; but when he pro- ceeds to apply the same epithets to the other | Southern States, and “notably in Mississippi and Louisiana,” the country will shrink from accepting what, if untrue, is a grave libel upon many Commonwealths of the Union. There is no mistaking the ear- nestness of the President. ‘‘Mississippi,” he says in so many words, ‘‘is governed to- day by officials chosen through fraud and violence such as would scarcely be accred- ited to savages, much less to a Christian and civilized people.” Surely these are ter- rible words to be addressed by the President to the people of a whole State ; but General Grant goes on to say that there are States where people claim the “right to kill negroes and republicans without the fear of punish- ment and without loss of caste or reputa- tion.” Unless there is an end of this there will be “revolution, bloody revolution, where suffering must fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty.” Tho President ex- presses the hope that federal aid will not be needed in South Carolina; but, if necessary, he adds with unmistakable emphasis, ‘I will give every aid for which I can find law or constitutional power.” ‘The President’s letter reads more like an inflammatory political appeal than the calm, well considered words of the head of a great government. The Hamburg affair was o cruel proceeding, but the President wrongs the Southern people when he says that it is only a repetition of what has been seen in the Southern States within the past few years. There have been riots and outbreaks and murders, but the people of the South— the honest, conservative people—are no more to blame for them than the people of the North are to blame for the Native Ameri- can riots thirty years ago or the draft riots during the war. The President should remember that society in - the South since the war has been governed by exceptional influences. There was a race suddenly transformed from slavery into independent citizenship. There was a proud, valiant people, who had staked everything on war, who had been beaten to the dust and all their hopes destroyed. Not only were they defeated, but industries were ruined, commerce was destroyed, and com- munities once memorable for’ wealth, splen- dorand all the accomplishments of refined and intelligent society were uprooted. In addition to this, as ifto add humiliation to defeat, the republicans sent among them as rulers adventurers, jailbirds, outcasts. We had a Blodgett in Georgia, a War- moth in Louisiana, Whipper and a Whittemore in South Carolina. These ruffans, bearing in many cases the commissions of the federal government, were enabled, by their influence over the negroes, to take possession of Common- wealth after Commonwealth and to plunder them. For much of this the President and his party are responsible, and he should not be surprised if the people of the South turned upon their oppressors and cast them out. This is the side of the story which the President does not tell. Butthe country has laid it to heart, and we saw one of the effects of it in the tidal wave which overwhelmed the republicans two years ago and brought the democrats into power. The country ex- pected from the President the pacification of the South, and his own letter is the severest condemnation upon the South for failing to do this, But at the same time there is enough truth in what prompts the President's letter to give the country food for thought. The time has come for the people to settle this question. Johnson failed by attempting to give the rebels power over the negroes. Grant has failed by attempting to give the negroes and Northern adventurers power over the South- erners. The way to end this business is far honest men of all races, black and white, whether native or alien, to come together and form a party of good government. We know the elements for such a party exist in the South. It is not to be found in the democratic party alone or in the re- publican alone, but in both. Such a man as Lamar shows us the way. Let Mr. Lamar and his friends, the old Confederates, who are to-day the best citizens in the South, unite upon a policy of peace. Let them welcome the immigrant, grant the negro political equality, labor only for good gov- ernment, and not to revive dead issues, and in a few years there will be peace in the South and a prosperity of which its people have never dreamed. The President says truly:—‘‘There has never been a desire on the part of the North to humiliate the South.” On the contrary there is nothing the North could do for the South that would not be done in a cheerful, fraternal spirit. But what is needed now is wisdom. So long as the Southern white people pursue a policy of ostracism and war so long they throw the negroes and carpet-baggers back upon the republican party as their allies, What the South wants is a union of all honest men, black and white, for good government. Whoever accomplishes that happy result will be among the benefactors of the Republic. This is something worth striving for, whether we elect the candidates of our choice ornot. ‘There is much in the way of its ac- complishment. On one side we see the fuglemen of a party who would convert the South into a vast military camp; who would support the acts of every scoundrelly carpet- bagger who could control a dozen negro votes; who would, in their campaign bombast, ‘‘fight the war over again” sooner than a single State should be lost to the party. General Grant's letter, we are sorry to say, smacks some- thing of this, On the other side we see the young Southern “hotheads,” with their shotguns, and the older Bourbons, with their rebel yell speeches; the former too shortsighted to see beyond their counties where a negro magistrate may have power for the moment ; the latter, because they aro once more in Congress, too purblind to believe they are not living in the old time when the South ruled the Union. Sitting Bull Butler and the Hamburg Sioux belong to the former and Ben Hill to the latter. If the entire country was divided upon these lines wo might well. tremble for the future. Bunt between the “bloody shirters” and the ‘white liners” there stands the great mass of the people of both parties silently determined to have none of either, but demanding the fullest measure of justice and the reign of law for white and black. Since the bloody affair at Hamburg the enemies of Governor Chamberlain have alleged that he has done nothing to show that he is anxious to make the murders of the negroes anything but a campaign cry. He should, if necessary, have marched the South Carolina militia to Hamburg. He is now strengthened in such a course from Washington by a document that might have been written by a zealot like Morton, but which bears the signature of the President of the United States, We cannot think that the republican party is so far fallen that itis unable to elect a man like Governor Hayes without such appeals to the strongest passions, nor that the democracy believe they cannot hold the South without out- rages like that at Hamburg. It is no longer the day for ringing blasts upon the war trumpet; let Governor Chamberlain accept the verdict of the coroner's jury, try the vir- tues of the court crier, and come before the country when that fails, and not before. Bofore the March. Onur little army in the field split up into two columns will, with all the reinforce- ments now despatched, number but little over three thousand effective soldiers. It is to be presumed that the Fifth cavalry are now with Crook, and that Terry, having re- ceived his quota to replace the men lost in Custer’s battle, has begun moving south. We shall not be able to gain positive in- formation of these facts for a day or two, but it is probable that a forward movement by both commanders is the next news we shall hear, unless Merritt has been attacked. on his way or, what is more likely, Crook attacked in his camp. Our correspondent with Crook, writing on the 23d ult., does not give an encouraging report of the manner in which that General fills up the time of enforced waiting for the cavalry. Wedo not complain that he has not divulged his future plan of operations. if he only has a good one, and if he whips the Sioux the next time he strikes them, the complaint of his subordinates that he did not consult them will not be listened to. If it is a part of this plan to neglect all scout- ing operations and ordinary precautions be- fore he marches upon the Sioux and they are his, we may marvel at his success, but we shall hail it all the same. The Sioux, we know, take advantage of every opportunity that their mobility as troops and their know]l- edge of the ground furnish, They watch his camp carefully from without, and proba- bly have some friends within it. They are said to be preparing fortresses in the fast- nesses of the mountains in case they are beaten in the next fight, which it seems to be the general impression they will offer. Their camp has been located by surmise upon the Rosebud, about midway between the camps of the two government columns ; but it is more probable that the main body of hostiles lies in the mountains near the Big Horn, or between it and the Little Horn. Thus matters appear to stand at present. On every hand it is admitted that there are not troops enough to make a victory over the Sioux the end of the campaign. “Szctionan Anrmosrrizs.”"—The Ports- mouth (Va.) Enlerprise is sadly exercised in spirit over the course of the Hxnatp in re- gard to the Hamburg massacre, and accuses this journal of keeping alive sectional ani- mosities by telling the truth touching that lamentable affair. Its ire is especially ex- cited because we suggested to Sitting Bull Butler that he should surrender himself to the authorities of South Carolina and de- mand a trial. A trial is a thing the Enterprise is positively certain Governor Chamberlain will never grant him ; but the action taken upon the conclusion of the inquest seemm to contradict the assurances of that astute newspaper. Butler is to have a trial, whether he wants it or not. Butas tothe charge against the Heratp of keeping alive sectional animosities, the best reply we can make is a “poem” printed on the back of the column which contains the diatribe upon this jour- nal. The following apostrophe to General Mahone's battle flags is a fair sample of the production :— O glorious flags! No victory could stain ‘our tattered folds with one unworthy deed! ° {inte lags! No country shall again ly nobler symbols in its hour of need! nor could defeat degrade; day, Mahone’s Brigade! Success stained n Spotless they ‘loa Groner Witu1am Curtis writes an elo~ quent article in favor of ‘“harony.” This is the way to carry New York for the repub- lican ticket. To insure “harmony” it is only necessary for Mr. Conkling, Mr. Cor- nell and their friends to withdraw from the canvass for the Governorship, and, in fact, from all political control and desire for pre- ferment. There is no reason why they should not vote and pay assessments, and Mr. Conkling may make a speech if he is careful not to praise Grant. There must be no praise for Grant until after the election. But it is essential to harmony that Mr. Conk- ling and his friends should take a back seat. As they happen to be nine-tenths of the party it is to be hoped they will consider this advice, It comes from a gentleman who showed by his course at Cincinnati how much he valued harmony. Tue Emicration Commusstonrns object to be removed from their picturesque quarters at the Battery. They propose to restore the unsightly structure which marrs the ap- pearance of the city from the Bay and de- stroys the park as a pleasure ground. We hope the Common Council will not be persuaded by the eloquent appeals of the Commissioners to permit a perpetuation of what has become a nuisance. We may as well have a quarantine depot at once within the city limits as an establishinent which nearly approaches it in character, Let the emigrants land at Bay Ridge or Staten Island. There are many available sites at both places for such a purpose, The South and the Canvass. Some of our Southern contemporaries misconstrue the position of the Hzraup on the Southern question. Now and then a judicious and far-seeing paper, like the Richmond Enquirer, the Savannah News, the Charleston News and Courier or the Mobile Register considers these views in a proper spirit, and even if not agreeing with the Henarp sees the value of driving section- alism out of politics. If any Southern newspaper should speak to the Southern people from a national point of view it is the Louisville Courier-Journal. Its editor is a distinguished and patriotic man who knows the Northern people well. He knows that there is no bitterness in thé North to- ward the South; that uncompromising republicans rejoice in the prosperity and happiness of the old Confederates. It is, therefore, with surprise that we see the Courier-Journal follow after the baying pack of wild newspapers who believe that the election of Tilden is necessary to ‘‘save the South from radical oppression.” There is no such thing as radical oppression. The republicans as a party stand with the demo- crats. They have never ceased to hold out to the South the hand of magnanimity and friendship. There is nothing that Tilden as President could do that Hayes could not and would not do. But the Southern men insist upon regarding the republicans as enemies, as men pining after their goods and chattels, as laboring to build up 4 governing class of adventurers and negroes to rule over and plunder them. There has been a good deal of this; but who is to blame? The Southerners pro- voked a policy of repression, and that policy has been enforced. They have striven steadily to bring the Union back to what it was before the war. The republicans have defeated this in legislation as they did in arms, It has been a losing game. It is un- just to say that the republicans did not wish to act with the old Confederates. The truth is, when an old Confederate acted with the republicans he was at once hunted out of society. Take the case of the celebrated General Longstreet. He was good enough to command a great army under Lee, but as soon as he professed his desire to act with the republicans he wasoutlawed. The same may be said of Colonel Mosby, who was good enough to command cavalry guerillas for Lee, but who, as soon as he supports the republicans, becomes infamous. We in the North have only a faint idea of the political antipathies of the Southern people. They have always worked to the detriment of the best interests of the South. They have kept the republican party in ex- istence as a war party. If the Southern question could only be eliminated from our politics we would have a new arrangement of parties. Questions of finance, free trade, centralization, the constitutional relations of the States to the general government, questions of reform, civil service and gen- eral improvement could then become matters for discussion and for popu- lar suffrage. But now our politics rest under the war, clouds, and black, angry passions are seen all through the South like volcanic eruptions. We read the democratic newspapers and we are told that the South will be a unit for Tilden. We read the republican newspapers and the answer comes back like a defiance, that the North will bea unit for Hayes. Here we have sectionalism once more—the same di- vision in politics that threw us into a war. Yet all this time the issue is a false one. There are no sectional questions but what spring from the caprices of demagogues and the anger of a people who walk as men who have been blind and cannot see. While we should be well enough pleased to see Mr. Tilden President the result would be deplorable if it came from ihe votes of asection. There can be no reform that will compensate for this arraying of the North against the South. What we hope to see in the South is some man who will, like Thiers, lead his people away from danger- ous traditions, or, like Disraeli, compel them for their own good to accept the inevitable. M. Thiers, a life long monarchist, became a republican for the good of France. Mr. Dis- raeli, the tory leader, passed a liberal reform bill for the good of England. Is there no Southern statesman who will do for the South a similar service? Ov Grrrep Fartenp, Governor Dorsheimer, proposes that the ‘cure-everything-for-a- dollar” pill is what the country needs. In conversing with a reporter of the Phila delphia Times he says :—‘‘As to Congress’ treatment of the subject, my judgment is that the whole business of finance should be let alone until after we get into power, when we can enforce the carrying out of a sym- metrical system. The truth is some of those gentlemen down there are more in- terested in getting back to Congress than in carrying the country.” This is all very well, but the country before voting would like to know what the Governor means by a “symmetrical system.” We shall expect a clear statement of this from the Governor in his letter. It is this vague, misty talk about ‘symmetrical systems” that bothers plain people. Governor Dorsheimer is a young man in politics. He will learn, when he is as old as Governor Tilden, that there is nothing that does a statesman so much good as to trust the people—to trust them absolutely. The democrats have noth- ing to conceal, nothing to shroud. They have a clear, open campaign, and it will be the fault of the leaders if the fight is lost. The country wants a change, but it does not want to leap over Niagara. A Orazy Canvass.—We have never seen so crazy a canvass! Everything seems to go crooked. Hayes pulls one way and Grant pulls another. Hayes shouts civil service reform, and Grant sends the best men in the government down the plank because they happen to be Jewell men or Bristow men. The Senate shouts ‘‘Hurrah for Grant !—the second Jackson,” who turns good men out, and ‘Hurrah for Hayes !—the second Jeffer- son,” who will put them all back again. The democrats are pulling one way in Indiana and another way in New York. In the West the ticket is Hendricks and Tilden, in the East it is Tilden and Hendricks. Tilden comes out with his gong and shouts ‘‘Re- form, reform, reform! Step up, hurry up; a few more bottles to spare—the great NEW YORK HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1876:--WITH SUPPLEMENT. reform mixture that will cure everything for adollar!” Zach Chandler comes with his gong and shouts ‘Beware of the Pope and Jefferson Davis! Step up, hurry up, and buy the loyal strengthening plaster marked Hayes and Wheeler, which will save the con- stitution from the Jesuits and the rebels!” And quiet, sober people go their way, and wonder if there ever was such a crazy, noisy, foolish canvass, and wish November were come, with peace for four more years—no matter who is elected ! “The Straight-out Policy.” We are surprised to see a political authority as sagacious as the World sup- porting the straight-out policy in States like South Carolina. In South Carolina there is one wing of the democratic party under the command of the Rhetts, who favor a straight-out nomination for Governor. They propose to fight on the color line—to have nothing to do with negroes, scalawags or carpet-baggers. There is another faction, under the lead of the News and Courier, which argues in favor of an alliance between the moderate conserva- tive men of both parties to rescue the State from the domination of scoundrels like Moses and Whipper. The Rhett party cares only for democratic as- cendancy—for the return to power of the men who brought so much misery upon Carolina by secession. The other party would have good government, peace and the best relations with white and black men who will strive for good government. It was this policy which carried Virginia. There has been no trouble in that State since, If it is loyally carried out now it will help to give the State to Tilden. If not, all the conservative republicans who would like to aid in the work of good government will be thrown back upon the party organization and the State will go for Hayes, The way to build up a party is not to kick your allies from the Convention ; and this is what the “straight-out” people propose to do. The World should use its great and deserved influence to teach the South Carolina people wisdom, An Unfortunate Letter. The New York Times prints the following letter, purporting to be from the pen of Mr. Hendricks :— Inptaxaroris, Ind., July 24, 1876, My Dear Sir—A repeul of the resumption clause in almost any form will elect the State ticket and carry the Indianapolis district, Ifto obtain a report from the committee it be necessary to give the assurance that it shall pass without amendment, that assurance should be given, urlees the condition or qualification of the repeal be really objectionable. The form of re- peal 1s uot now very important, for the people under- stand the difficulty of obtaining an uncond:tional sur- render. 1118 not objectionable to retain a per cent of gold in the Treasury. Canoot you and others who are in favor of repeal unite in giving the committee the as- surance of passing a billas reported, if that be noces- sary to carry areport? The repeal is the important Proposition ; the form is not so important. Truly, T. A. HENDRICKS, We are disposed to regard this letter asa forgery. But it isincredible that a journal as respectable as the Times should print a forgery. If it is true it shows that Mr. Hen- dricks a week ago was laboring to induce Congress to repeal the Resumption act. This act is one of the guarantees of our national credit. Itisasolemn promise on the part of Congress that we shall on a certain day redeem our obligations. The repeal is de- sired to please the rag-money madmen in the West, whose schemes against the nation’s credit were thwarted for the time by General Grant’s veto of the Inflation bill, This letter shows that at the very time when Mr. Tilden and the honest democrats were asking votes on the ground that they would sustain the national credit Mr. Hendricks, his col- league on the ticket, was endeavoring to wound the national credit. We think Gover- nor Tilden has a right to complain of Mr. Hendricks, and we trust that the letter will be disavowed. Its publication, if genuine, is most unfortunate, and would justify the Democratic National Committee in asking Mr. Hendricks to retire from the ticket in favor of some man like Mr. Thurman. It would be a great advantage to Mr. Tilden if he were to do so. Tus First Acoresstve Movement of the Servians, under the command of Tcher- nayeff, for the purpose of isolating thé Turkish forces at Nisch by severing their communications with Sofia and Constanti- nople resulted ina miserable failure. The conception of the movement was a good one, but its execution shows how much the Servian leaders have to learn of the art of war before they can hope to conquer their ancient enemy. As our correspondent properly suggests, in the course of his letter from the Servian headquarters which we publish to-day, a small force of American cavalry would have ac- complished everything that the Servians attempted with many battalions and two batteries, They would have struck at their objective point promptly and vigorous- ly instead of turning aside to besiege the Turks in an intrenched position. The raw levies of Servia could not be induced to face artillery, and the delay and alarm created by a bombardment of the Turks at Ak-Pal- anka was fatal to the success of the raid. The quarrels indulged in by the Servian generals are unworthy of their great cause and serve to show their utter incapacity. Did they but evince half the skill exhibited by the hardy Montenegrins they would now be ‘driving the Turks through the passes of the Balkans instead of being compelled to de- fend their own territory. Tue Wearner.—The southwestern dis- turbance announced in the Heratp is now progressing over the Lower Mississippi Val- ley, with indications of a more decided northeasterly movement during to-day. The indraught of air from the regions of the valley and South Central States shows that the approaching storm has attained already considerable area and energy. From the far Northwest another depression is also moving in a general southeasterly direction, giving promise of unpleasant weather for the end of this r the beginning of next week. We apprehend that violent tornadoes will be generated by the movement of these storm centres, with their rapid thermal changes, in and about the Lower Missouri Valley, and possibly in the States east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio. In New York the decided weather change will probably take place to-morrow, but light rains of short duration may herald its approach toward night, At present the barometer is high, with strong easterly winds, but the area of high pressure is rapidly moving into the Atlantic off the New England coast. The Great Philadelphia Regattas. The entries for the approaching races at Philadelphia, professional and amateur, show that, both in numbers and quality, the meeting will be one, without precedent in boating annals; one also unlikely to be equalled for many years tocome. England at last, after years of urging, sends some of her best amateurs, the four of the world-re nowned London Rowing Club, with Captain Gulston at its head, having, as our de spatches this morning show, sailed yester day, the Cambridge four being already here and the’ Dublin graduate four to sail this week. The professional programme, while not nearly equalling the amateur in the number of contestants, promises excep- tionally fine work, from the fact that three out of the four crews already entered for it are perhaps the fastest fours in the world. The mere mention of the fact that the Ward, Biglin and Coulter fours from this country, the Paris crew from St. John, and the famous Higgins and his four from the Thames are all to be on hand, with a pros pect of the giant Trickett, the champion sculler of the world, is enough to make an oarsman’s teeth water for the sport to come, In addition to this, that among the amateurs we are to have Gulston, Close, Labatt and Pentland, from abroad, and the great Court- ney, Riley, Keator, Curtis and a score more scullers at home is sufficient to show what & magnificent treat there is in store for all lovers of good rowing on the favored Schuyl- kill before the month is out. Commodore Ferguson and his committee deserve great credit for having done their work so well. Tue ‘Verzran” Businzss.—If there is one feature in this crazy canvass which is more revolting than ancther it is the attempt ta elect Hayes and Wheeler by raising clubs of “Boys in Blue” and ‘‘Veterans.” There ia something sacred about the name of soldier. As txe war fades into history the fame of those who fought on either side will increase even as the years goon. Thetrue soldier will cherish the memories of the war, its valor, its privations, its triumphs, and never des grade them to party uses. These “Boys in Blue” and ‘‘Veterans” organizations are not intended to preserve the higher memories of the war, to renew in peace the associations of the camp and the battle line, but to ap- peal to the darkest passions of that strife, to array section against section, to awaken the old spirit of resentment and hatred. No true soldier will demean himself by joining these organizations. The war is over, and we dishonor it by dragging its memories into politics. Ir Now Appzars from the evidence of Plaisted that Bluford Wilson’s real game all the time was to make Bristow President. It was an honorable ambition; for in this country statesmen may go into the Presi« dency business as they would into book canvassing. But Bluford is young in poli- tics or he would never have thought that the way to nominate Bristow was to send all hig rivals to jail, and to make the country be« lieve that everybody and everything were going to the bad. Bluford is’no doubt a good man, but ardent, credulous and apt to think that ho can see the world by looking into a mirror. Sour Sza Istanpers have ately taken q deep repugnance to being kidnapped by the crews of English ships who visit their Poly« nesian homes in the interest of the ‘native labor market.” ‘The fate ofa captured South Sea Islander is literally that of a slave, and that the crews of some of the vessela engaged in this business have been mur dered by the members of this South Sea Abo« lition Society is not to be wondered at, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Kate Claxton is in Cleveland. There are 1,000 visitors at Mount Desert, Me, For wit flavored with cast iron commend a Canadg paper. Senator Simon B. Conover, of Florida, ts at the Fift® Avenue Hotel. Ex-Senator William M. Gwin, of California, is at the New York Hotel. Trenor W. Park is bringing his artillery to bear om the democrats of Vermont. Mr. R. Von Pestel, Minister for the Netherlands at Washington, is at the Hoffman House. Had Senator Ferry any right to a seat as a Senator “on the platform” with Vice President Ferry? When Tilden was a boy it used to take him two hours to dig bait and only ten minutes to catch a mesg of fish. Rev. M. D, Conway, writing to the Cincinnati Com. mercial, fears that Rev. Newman Hail, in London, is @ humbug. Secretary Chandler arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning from Maine, and left for Washington last evening. George Eliot:—‘'The emptiness of ail things, from pol- itics to pastimes, is never so striking to us as when we fail in them."’ A mosquito tackled Dio Lewis in the California hilla after Dio’s oatmeal dinner, and said it would rather tag a sawdust doll, Professor Charlier is doing woll; his injuries are slight. He only requires complete rest for a couple of weeks to recover. Mr. Mantilla, Spanish Minister, and wife have an rived at Newport and are the guests of Mr. Roya Phelps, of New York. The Senate having recorded its verdict Belknap may now run for office, Heis making up hia mind as te which office be will run for. Professor Elie Chariier’s injuries, from being thrown out of his carriage in Vermont, aro confined to a breaking of his collar bone. L. E. Chittenden, who used to put bis perpendicular penmanship on the greenback, is speaking in Vermont, He haiis from New York. In the White Mountains the guests have tableaux, th¢ most popular of wht 3 “Moses in the Bulrushes,* Moses being impersonated by a lovely little girl, We hope Jesse Pomeroy’s fate will not bo any longor rendered doubtiul to his mind. Delay hurts his feel. ings, of which be, as @ mutilator, has about as many as a Sioux squaw. The Baltimore Sun having accused Senator Bayard with saying toa witness in the Mississippi investigne tion that he would not believe him under oath, Mr, Redpath writes to the Times that Mr. Bayard was not present—ut all. é Ex-Secretary Bristow was entertained at dinner by the Saturday Club, at Parker's. James Russell Lowell presided, and among tho distinguished gentlemen pres. ent were Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Hon. E. R. Hoar, Hon, J. M. Forbes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton, Francis Parkman and J, 8. Dwight’ Mr, Bristow went to Concord with Judge Hoar, A gevtleman of North Adams, Mass, has received from Rev. John S.C. Abbott, the historian, who is now lying dangerously ill in Fairhaven, Conn,, two cards, one of which bears the words, “John & © » daily expecting the arrival of the ‘Chariot of ‘to take him to his heavenly home July 14, 1876"’; while the imseription on the other card reads, “Pencilléd on a sick and dying bed of great bappiness,”?