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

. ' : . unemployed. 4. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 1876. NEW YORK HERALD The Proposed Silver Commission, Petes te. ces BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR oe ss eli THE DAILY HERALD, pndiished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one Nollar per nonth, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hrnarp. Letters and packages should be properly fealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STRE le LONDON OF E 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 same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL TONY Pastor VARIETY, ats P. M. P atSP. M. Matines 5 Y THEATRE. M. UR THEATRE. PM. Sothern. WALLACK'S THUBATRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P.M GULMORI?R GARDEN, GRAND CONCERT, at 5 P.M vy. wo ECHOES, at8 P.M. 2} atsP.M. “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and fair. During the summer months the Herarp will Ue sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of incenty-fivercenis per week, free of postage, Warn Sriver Yrstenpay.—The — stock market was excited and generally lower, a sharp decline occurring in Rock Island. Gold opened at 1117-8 and closed at 112. Government bonds were firm and railway bonds a shade easier. Money on call loaned at 2 per cent. Governor, Governor, it is thirty-seven days since you were nominated, and still no letter. Hayes wrote his letter in twenty- three days. ‘Tur Lorp Maron's Bangusgrt to the English Ministry was made conspicuous by those who were not rather than those who were present. Two Jamatca Justices are on trial for mis- appropriation of fines. Such petty offend- ers must be punished, even if the Belknaps and Babcocks escape. IMPEACHMENT as a remedy for crimes like those of Belknap is a failure. Here isa Senate which cannot even convict a criminal who confessed his guilt. We should give special power to the Supreme Court to try impeachments and remove the whole busi- ness from the Senate. A Murrsy on an Americex ship is reported, two of the crew being remanded for trial on this charge at Dublin. Something must be wrong in the management of our vessels or charges of this kind would not be so fre- quent. The fault, perhaps, is in the officers rather than the men. Mesictran Boarps axp Conmmissrons are not constituted to find employment for the In dull times cities must re- trench as well 2s individuals; and if we undertake to provide labor by the erection of unnecessary public works it will be found that, while a few mouths may be filled, the wellbeing of the community must buffer. Tax Extrapition Denats in the House of Lords yesterday called out an apt reply to Lord Cairns from Lord Selborne. Lord Cairns claimed that Lord Derby's view of the extradition question was that of all writers on international law; but Lord Selborne showed that Mr. Fish’s position was sus- tained by all except two—Lord Cairns and Lord Derby. A Tetrcnarn Pore at the corner of Grand and Snffolk streets fell yesterday, killing a woman who was p: An examination revealed the fact that the pole was old and rotten and had been unsafe for a long time. Such negligence on the part of the company is without It is bad enough that the city is filled with these unsightly things even when they are safe, but when they en- danger human life they become unendurable. sing. use. Gesrnat Suenman’s Testrwony before the Military Committee of the Senate yesterday was plain, pointed and practical. His ppinion that either Crook or Terry can over- some the Sioux will afford much relief to the country on account of the high source from which the assurance comes, and we trust his snggestions in regard to filling the infantry companies and increasing the tavalry arm of the service will be heeded. Tae Reason ror run Deray.—Murat Halstead telegraphs to his paper in Cincin- natian explanation of the reasons for the delay in publishing the letter of Tilden. He says that on Tuesday he saw Mr. Dors- beimer; that Mr. that proof sheets of the letter would be given to the Associated Press on Wednes- | “Tf,” continues Mr. Halstead, “any day. further delay occurs it will be because the | difference of opinion between the candi dates in the interpretation of the platform sannot be rhetorically reconciled.” Tur Conprtiox or Tunxey, as it is por- trayed in the special despatch tothe Henan this morning, is most deplorable. The out- rages of the Turkish volunteers have pro- voked threats of foreign intervention, while the internal affsirs of the Empire are more | than ever unsettied. Abdul Abmed will not accept the’throne unless it is shown that the Sultan's malady is incurable, and, on the other hand, his suggestion of a regency has not yet been acceded to. Thus it will be seon the Empire 1s threatened with oyer- a without and within. This con- q thiugs cannot last long, and it will cot be surpr « if the great Powers before long determine upon and dictate the terms of peace. Dorsheimer told him | | j serious before the country or indeed the | | is enough to say that the highest author: | in monetary science disagree upon it; that | liefs, and so eminent a writer as Mr. Stan- | continue to be governed by this law of trade | on both sides, and if it can be shown that | seventy-five cents’ worth of silver is worth a | world’s way to an improvement or what It isa very proper thing for Congress to create a commission to sit during the recess, and, with the help of experts, investigate the whole question of which the condition of the silver market forms a part. While we have opposed the propositions of Mr. Bland and Mr. Kelley, brought in at the close of a long session and attempted to be passed without discussion, to make silver once more a legal tender—to reinstate it, that is to say, in the position it held in this country until 1873--we are far from believing that the question thus brought up has not two sides to it. With the unconcealed motives of the chief advocates of the Bland bill we have no sympathy at all. ‘They, for the most part, wanted to make silver a legal tender for all amounts and purposes, because it has fallen heavily in price. They looked at the meas- ure either as one further depreciating and confusing our currency, or as enabling us to swindle our creditors, or as the means for a huge gold speculation. No man to whom the honor of the country is dear could favor & measure thus designed, and those mem- bers of Congress who have defeated this plot deserve the thanks of the country. | But it would be a mistake to assert, be- cause these measures were wrong in their motives, in the manner and time of their in- | troduction and in their form, that therefore the silver question needs no further exami nation or discussion. On the contrary, it is a very grave public question—one of the most civilized world; one on which men of ac- knowledged high standing in science differ | diametrically and in which oar interest is so great that we ought to spare no trouble to get at the right ground upon it. ‘The question of a single or double stand- ard is not the simple question which many | persons thoughtlessly consider it. We do not mean to enter into its discussion; here it es | while one school, at the head of which | stands Mr, Chevalier, declares for a single | standard, another, under the lead of an equally eminent publicist, Mr. Wolowski, and with an array of followers as eminent as those of Mr. Chevalier, assert the superior werits of a double standard. Both sides give meritorious reasons for their be- ley Jevons does not venture to decide be- tween them. Nor are the causes of the recent surprising fall in the value of silver any more clear. The English commission, whose re- port has just been issued, does not pretend to have solved the problem. It mentions a number of causes, among them the rapid and sudden increase in the production of American mines. But one of the most re- markable of its facts is the statement that, while silver has been falling in Europe, its export’ from this country has actually de- creased—from which one should conclude thatthe increased production in America has had very little influence upon the fall. The demonetization of silver by Germany, Den- mark and Sweden and a great and unlooked- for change in the course of the East India trade, seem to be the main moving causes to the present fall in silver. Tho fall would, we suspect, have been slow and slight had not the increased production of silver here, and the fact that we had demonetized it in 1873, concurred to create what often happens with other products—a panic or a falling market. It is possible it will recover somewhat from its present state of depreciation, but it is not likely that it will ever reach its old place by the side of gold. For thé present, at least, silver is not among tha precious metals, but we see no particular reason to be- moan that fact. Iron is nota precious metal, but itis very useful for all that. The same thing is true of copper, tin and zine, but none of these are so ornamental as silver. The cheaper silver becomes the more gen- eral will be its use, and we confess to a preference for it in the shape of a teapot to that ofa legal tender dollar. The effects of a sudden fall in the value of such an article are apt to be permanent, because it reveals what was unsuspected before. We see in the depreciation and fluctuations of silver a proof that it is a mere commodity affected by the law of supply and demand. This has never happened to gold, and until now it never happened to silver. Should silver its use as a money standard will be out of the question, and until we know whether the depreciation is to be permanent the only safe course will be to let well enough alone, In the interval we may argue the qnestion dollar in gold we shall be among the first to rejoice in a double standard. 7 The chief labor of a government commis- sion will be to furnish a conclusion upon this question of a single or double standard. England, Germany, some of the smaller | the splendid hard money plattorm of the St. States of Northern Enrope, Italy, and wo be- lieve Austria, have adopted the single stan- France, Belgium and Holland re dard. ain the double standard. Which ought we to do? | It is at least a question which demands very serious consideration, That England prefers | | a single standard is no reason at all for our following suit. Eminent English writers admit that E land has, under her single | standard, benetited by the fact that France | retained the double. Germany chooses to follow Englond ; but neither is that an argu- | ment for us. jects silver. We will not now consider the | effect mpon our silver mines, because no | single industry has the right to Bar the | it may think such. far wider very long period ag and silver as mone) change. All values have been estimated on this basis, and may be ito be so estimated to-day. That isto say, in all parts of tho world where men have ceased to barter all | products and property beara general price fixed in relation to the amount of both gold and silver used by the world as currency. Now it is a fair question, one which must be fairly answered, whether we are t The qnestion has a The world has for a eed to use both gold | the medium of ex- scope, bound, by medium of exch Suppose the whole world re- | | clergyman should be welcomed into the Til- | den fold is an evidence of wisdom. men pray. by comparison with which all prices have | for a very long period arranged themselves. There may be sound and sufficient reasons for doing this, but they must be conclusively shown before we are bound to act, A single standard may be the most con- venient ; but if silver has not absolutely and permanently lost its place by the side of gold its convenience may be too dearly bonght by the greater and graver incon- venience of a general derangement of prices, which may follow upon the act of abolishing the use of what ‘has trom time immemorial formed a large and important part of the world’s measure of prices. If it has per- manently lost its place we cannot legislate it back to its old position, and we shall have to submit to whatever inconveniences may follow. When a government commission is able, by exhaustive research and examination of the whole question, to settle this point, the rest will be comparatively easy. We fling out these suggestions to show the ‘great importance of the proposed commission and the necessity fora cool survey of the silver question before we act upon it; for what we do the rest of the world will soon fcllow us in. The Custer Pension. The bill granting a pension to the widow of General Custer and his aged parents is still before the Senate. This bill gave Mrs. Custer fifty dollars’a month and the parents | | ahundred dollars a month. A ‘‘Confeder- ate” House passed this bill, but a republican | Senate proposes to cut down the pension to | the widow to thirty dollars a month and to | limit that to the parents to the life of the | mother. Probably no more humiliating | proposition ever went before the Senate. The parents of Custer lost three sons, a} son-in-law and a grand nephew in this | action. A blow so terrible has rarely fallen | upon a household. It was natural that the | House should think of this in awarding its | pensions, and we do not envy the feelings | which prompted Senator Ingalls and the | Committee on Pensions to cut it down, We are now afraid that the bill, small as it is, | will not pass. The Senate is near the end of the session. As is always the case at the | end ofa session there are a hundred jobs | ready to rush through. The jobbers block | the way to all useful legislation. A small matter like the Custer pension is apt to be | lost. Who cares for the widow and the child- | less; who cares for the mourning widow, father and mother, when Indian rings and railway rings are to be served? Unless two or three resolute Senators, like Morton, Bayard and Conkling, take hold of this bill and push it throngh it will fail. We trust that the leaders of the Senate, without re- | gard to party, will take up the Custer bill, restore the House provisions and pass it. | The whole thing can be done in the morning hour. Let us show the world that a Repub- lic can do a handsome thing. The sum voted by the House is small enough. Do not let | the Senate cut it down, | The Democratic Canvass. There is a movement in certain demo- cratic circles to nominate Andrew H. Green, the present Comptroller, for Governor. It is said that Mr. Tilden, who was formerly in business with Mr. Green, is anxious to have him on the ticket. We do not know how true this is, but if Mr. Tilden means to ele- vate gentlemen to high places because they have been business partners or bosom friends he will be in os bad a plight as Grant, with his brothers-in-law and cousins, We have a high esteem for Mr. Green and would like to see him succeed Mr. Wick- ham as Mayor. His place is in the govern- ment of the city. It isimportant for us to have the city well governed. We are more interested in that than in the State or the nation. To take a man like Andrew H. Green, who knows the city well, who has been standing at the doors of the treasury fighting the thieves for years, and transplant him to Albany or to Washington is to make a serious blunder. It is much better to keep Mr. Green where he is, where he has been so useful for many years, where he may be so useful in the future, and not | waste him in Albany. On the other hand, there is none of our statesmen more familiar with State and national affairs than Mr. Marble, the former editor of the World. His whole life has been a training for high functions, and he is the democrat par ercel- lence who should be nominated for Governor. Mr. Marble would arouse the enthusiasm of the masses of the party. Every democrat would feel that he was honoring a leader worthy of honor. To Mr. Marble we owe Louis Convention. To Mr. Dorsheimer we owe the fact that the Convention saved the platform. These are the men to place at the head of the democratic ticket. Let the friends of Green support him for Mayor, and give us Marblé for Governor and Dorsheimer for his colleague. Mr. Kxort’s Sprecu on the Blaine investi- gation yesterday loses much of its interest from the fact that Blaine was not present to reply to it. Whatever we may think of the testimony developed by the investigation, or whe er may be the report of the com. mittee, Mr. Knott's conrse is not free from criticism. It was undignified to insinuate that in his illness Blaine might be playing a part, especially as Mr. Knott himself was completely exonerated in regard to his ac- tion in withholding the Caldwell despatch, ‘The blunder was so transparent that the re- port in Mr. Knott's favor was recommitted, and the rebuke so pointed that in his agony he cries, ‘One by one the roses fade.” A Sten or Day.—The Fepress eails atten- tion to the fact that the Rev. Dr. Dunfy, of Richmond, a colored man, and Rev. Garland H. White, of North Carolina, have united for the purpose for Tilden and reform. We are glad of this. The support of Tilden by an intelligent and conscientious colored man in the Southern es isa sure sign of the coming of better political times, The fact that a colored We hail everything that looks like the wiping out of the eolor line in polities as the coming of | that good time in polities for which all good Wer Ant Proasep to learn that Tilden and of stumping the Sonthern States | | about eighty thousand of them | cratic authorities, | Hendricks ore in accord on the Chinese question. It is well they agree on somo- thing. would go into office on March 4, 1877. | would have a vast amount of ‘‘reform” to do | temperature | from easterly points. Burdens for the New President. The friends of Mr. Tilden no doubt desire his election to the Presidency, but they should not burden his administration with promises and expectations that cannot be realized. When the elder Walpole was thrown out of power by a coalition it was expected that virtue would rovive, that the crops would improve, and that, as Macaulay wittily expresses it, the young Duke of Marlborough would be reduced toone bottle of brandy a day. When Dix was beaten for the Governorship the democratic fishermen downin Suffolk turned out in great numbers on the Hampton benches, convinced that the fishing would at once grow better. One of Tilden's warmest supporters advocates his election because it will ‘revive commerce and industry.” B. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., who has returned to South Carolina journalism, in an able article sees in the canvass ‘‘a fu- ture of weal or of woe for us and our chil- dren.” Parke Godwin, a most distinguished writer, noted for precision and calmness in thought, says:—‘‘If Mr. Tilden were Presi- dent in less than three months we should see our finances on their best feet, taxation reduced a half,” and so on. If Mr. Tilden is elected we desire him to have a successful administration. But how can any President, even if he isa reformer, justify all of these expectations? People will not work any more then than they do now. The causes which affect shipbuilding and the decline in commerce will not pass away, nor will it be in Mr. Tilden's power to remove them. Mr, Rhett w'll find quite as many negroes in South Carolina, and their rights protected by constitutional amend- ments which President Tilden could not remove. South Carolina would need then what it does now-—a good deal of the shovel and the bhoe—hard, steady digging, and work. Mr. Godwin | is so high an authority that we hate even to appear to differ with him, but we cannot | see how any President can settle the cur- rency question and reduce taxation one-half “in three months.” The new President He at once. This the country expects. AR the thieves would have to be arrested, tried and punished, and as there are now in office, according to respected demo- this would take some time. The Governor knowa how long it took to arrest, punish and condemn Tweed and recover the money he had stolen, and he can, therefore, give Mr. Godwin an intel- ligent idea of how much time will be re- quired to give the country a due measure of reform with the myriad of Tweeds. But let us suppose that inorder to oblige Mr. God- win, whose honor as a prophet he would have dear to heart, the new President took hold of the currency question. Could he in three months put our finances “on their best feet” and reduce taxation one-half? This would be a great achieve- ment, one that would electrify the world; and if Mr. Godwin is sound in his prophecy Tilden will go in with every electoral vote. Therefore Mr. Godwin, as the true friend of the Governor, should demonstrate | how the taxes and the currency are to be relieved. There is vagne idea—or it may | be a prejudice—that the finances can only be arranged by Congress, that all expendi- tures are decided by bills of appropriation, | and that the question of specie payments is with Congress. Where, then, is the power of the President? We are not denying that such a power exists, for Mr. Godwin has discovered it. But he wrongs his friend and the cause to keep the discovery a secret. As to the South, we think we can assure Mr. Rhett that the Governor will see that due justice is done to that region in the way of appointments—provided the Senate con- firms them! The Senate is now republican, and will probably remain so, even if Tilden is elected. Consequently, in the dis- tribution of patronage there will be two parties to be consulted. The fact is we have a peculiar govern- ment—a government not suited to fervid reformers. This government embraces something more than the President, If Uncle Sammy reached the White House he would find a beaten path | before him. He would find a Senate, a House, © Supreme Court. He would find that he would have to do as his party pleased, and Mr. Fitzhugh, the ex-Door- keeper of the House, would be a valuable | counsellor as to what that party would ex- | pect. He would find all the statesmen who | now cry ‘Reform !” ready waiting for their | offices. He would there learn that when a patriot cries, ‘The country must be re- formed !” he means that the country should employ him ata large salary. He would have Morrissey and his gang, Kelly | and his gang, McLaughlin with the Brooklyn gang, ‘and an endless army of heelers waiting to be “recognized.” And if he did not behave well to the newspapers and the boys on the Row the thunder would open and he would be reminded of “the | sturdy virtues and the homely ways of the great soldier-statesman, Grant,” and be told that he was what we dare not prophesy. At the end of a year he would sigh for Gramercy Park and his swmmer vacation. At the | end of four years he would even satisfy | Mr. Godwin that the laws of finance and taxation are not to be made or unmade by a President, that the revival of commerce and industry will come trom causes independent of mere administrations, and that he left the country about as he found it—not so bad a country after all, if a man pays his debts, behaves himself, fears the Lord and obeys His commandments. Tur Weatner.—The approach of stormy weather is indicated by the gradual rise of and increasing cloudiness, and the surface currents of air still dowing There is now a possi- bility that the areas of low barometer, which | we have already described as moving from the northwest and the sonthwest, may unite in the Mississippi Valley and move eastward as one toward our coast. This, however, will entirely depend on the relative energies of the storms, the more violent making greater progress. At present the northwest- ern disturbance extends along the Missouri Valley, between Bismarck and Omaha, while the southwestern area of low barometer con- tinnes over the Miasiasinni Valley fram Ken. | be no serious obstacle in the way of making | sary to carry a report? | Washington to inquire, and as they could | We then directed our Saratoga correspond- | ernor Tilden was trying to rally the honest kukto Memphis, and westward. The gen- eral direction of the storm or storms will be from St. Louis through the territory between Pittsburg and Lake Erie, and thence to the northern New England const. Rain fell yesterday on the New Jersey and the Gulf coasts, in the Cumberland Valley and at Duluth, f A New Emigrant Depot. ‘The destruction of Castle Garden occurred at atime when a change in the location of the emigrant landing depot can be effected without difficulty. The only drawback to the Battery being, after Central Park, the most delightful and healthful place of resort ig the city was the existence. of the depot. The State authorities, as is known, have practically ceased to have the control and care of aliens immediately after disembark- ing from foreign ports in New York. Sooner or later that duty must be assumed by the general government. Castle Garden would, therefore, inany event have to be abandoned and surrendered to the city, from which it is rented by the Commissioners of Emigra- tion, and the United States will be at no loss to finda suitable place for a landing depot fully as convenient and advantageous. It is not many years since the Herarp advocated a transfer from the Battery to Bedloe's Island. Since then the recom- mendation has met with much favor. It is understood that the general government has also contemplated the establishment of a landing depot at that point, and as it would in nowise interfere with its value for harbor defence in case of necessity there seems to the change, Ifthe change is made the emi- grants will be completely removed from all contact with the runners and agents, who are always on the watch to plunder them, and thus emigrants would be rendered en- tirely secure from all outside imposition until such time as they left for their destina- tions. The situation is healthy, there is abundant space for necessary accommoda- tions and exercise, and the island is easy of communication with all the railroad depots and steamboat landings. A large saving in rent would be made, and in a general sense, while the emigrants would in every way be better cared for, the expenses of carrying on the management and control of this highly important department of the public service would be greatly reduced. At all events, as the United States has hereatter to assume the responsibility of guarding the interests of emigrants immediately after arriving, it would seem only reasonable that as far as possible the work be carried out on ground such as Bedloe’s Island, owned and exclu- sively under the control of the federal gov- |, ernment. No objection could be urged except on the part of those who would be deprived of opportunities for plundering, in one shape or another, the inexperienced and easily deceived strangers who pass from Castle Garden into the city. It will be seen that in respect to emi grants the transfer from Castle Garden would be productive of substantial benefit. While this would rosult on the one hand the city would be a great gainer on the other in having restored a beautiful park, which has been warmly praised by every distin- guished stranger who has visited New York, and it is not at all improbable that the Bat- tery would onee more become a favorite re- sort for thousands who now hesitate to take advantage of the fresh and invigorating breezes that sweep over the Bay. The grounds are very handsomely laid ont. Trees, shrubbery and flowers abound, and the long rows of benches, commanding a view of the expanse of water dotted with islands and shipping, are certainly attrac- tions of arare kind. Castle Garden is not held under lease, and it is to be hoped that the city authorities, taking acorrect stand onthe question, will decline to permit.a continuance of the landing depot for any period longer than is absolutely necessary. Bedloe’s Iskand is no doubt available. Bat- tery Park, without emigrant runners and others of that class, would be welcomed by thousands of New York citizens, The Unfortunate Letter. We printed yesterday the following letter from the New York 7Zimes, and reprint it to- day that our readers may study it care- fally:— Ixpraxarorts, Ind., July 24, 1876, My Dean Sm—A repeal of the ‘resumption clause in almost any form will elect the State ticket and carry the Indianapolis district. Ii to obtain « report trom the commitieo it be necessary to give the assurance that it shall pass without amendment, that assurance should be given, unless the condition or qualification | of the repeal be really objectionable. The form of re- peal 8 not now Yery tmporiant, ior the people under- tand the difficulty of obtaining am unconditional eur- ‘ender. It is not objectionable to retain a per cent of gold in the Treasury. Canbot you and others who aro in favor of repeal unite in givihg the committee the agsurance of pussing a dill as reported, 1f that be neces. The repeal is the important proposition; the form is not so important, Truiy, T. A. HENDRICKS. Our impression was that the letter was a forgery. We directed our correspondents in | not find the person to whom it was ad- dressed they reported that it was a forgery. ent to make the inquiry as to its genuine- ness. Mr. Hendricks, who is manly and prompt in his opinions, as will be seen in our despatch from Saratoga, avows that the letter is zenuine. We now learn that at a time when Goy- people of the country upon the platform of reform and honest money Governor Hen- dricks was striving to break down the Re- sumption act. ‘This act is the solemn pledge of Congress to pay its obligations at a cer- tain time. To repeal that act is to intimate that we are in the habit of making promises only to break them. The repeal would of- fend the honest sentiment of the nation, but it would gratify some soft money lunatics in Indiana and heip to elect Congressmen like Landers and Voorhees to the House. It shows that Governor Hen- dricks is not loyal to his ticket; that he means to press his views, whether Tilden likes them or not; that he went into this | canvass as a candidate for the Presidency; that he means to be so in fact if not in name. We do not see how Governor Hendricks His course has been mutinons to the last de- gree. Governor Tilden should compel his Thurman. He should then take command of can remain on the ticket. He is not wanted. | withdrawal and ‘give us a candidate like | his canvass, The Republicans and the Governor- ship. What is the use of talking about Judge Robertson, or Mr. Cornell, or even Mr, Mor- gan, as the republican candidate for Govere nor? Why trot out horses who cannot make a first’ rate run, and who if they do will, after all, mean nothing? New York is the centre of the political line. Whichever party carries it carries the Presidency. The republicans cannot afford to run any risks; they need to put their best foot, or their best man, foremost. We have already suggested tothem the name of Mr. Evarts; but the reply in some quarters is that Mr. Conkling will not be pleased at the nomination of Mr. Evarts. Very well; then nominate Mr. Conkling, That is the way to settle that difficulty. Let it be understood that these two, Conkling and Evarts, are the candidates before the Convention ; let the friends of each make a hearty struggle in the Convention ; but let the minor, the subsidiary, the meaningless candidates stand aside. That is the true way to settle this matter, and then which- ever of the two gets the nomination, it will not be said, at least, that a second rate map was put into a first rate place. For, let it not be forgotten that the Gove ernorship of New York this time is a first rate place. Whoever gets it is in the direct line for the next Presidency. The Governor to be chosen this fall will hold office for three years; he will leave office, that is to say, on the eve of the next Presidential nom: inations. If he is a really great man no one * will have so conspicuous a chance for the nomination as he. Hence it is a place, on that as well as other accounts, worthy of the highest ambition. Mr. Conkling could not and probably would not refuse it, Mr, Evarts would not. As for New York, either of them would make her a great Governor. It isa good time to set aside mediocrities and bring forward great men, and there is no place in the country where they are more needed than in New York. Conkling o7 Evarts, which shall it be? True Statesmanship. The speech of Mr. Lamar deserves to ba remembered in the history of pacification, Mr, Lamar has shown, ever since his acces sion to public life, a high degree of states- manship. He came from the South and from the Confederate army. He represented the extreme sentiment of devotion to the South, But, like most of the Southern men who fought for the lost cause, he has la- bored since the surrender @ secure peace, In his recent speech Mr. Lamar doea not spare the administration for its shortcomings in the South. While he exaggerates this on the one.side, and on the other the desire of the old Southern men for the Union, he at the same time aims to lead his people into the high grounds of fraternity and peace. That is a great deal. If Mr. Lamar’s counsels are followed the re- sult will be a reconciliation of the sections, the elimination of the color line from poli tics, the disbanding of the republican and democratic parties as at present constituted, and the formation of new parties. The re publican party will dissolve as soon as there are no more war issues in politics. That will come when the Southern people show the spirit of Lamar. Youre Arroxso can afford to wait until next year for his new wife, but she may suffer. Whena young lady has a chance to become Queen of Spain she is only too apt to find that delays are dangerous, Next yeas young Alfonso may not be King. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dorshoimer sits with the driver. Sultan Murad Halstead is at Saratoga. Sixty thousand Englishmen aro ready for war, The acorn crop 18 heavy in the Kentucky hills. Florida watermelons are being converted into syrup, Visitors at Saratoga like to rise as early as five o'clock. Mr. James Mace says that Mr. Thomas Allon area good hegg. ‘The Saratoga season will prove a financial and matri- monial failure. Goethe:—“Unlimited activity of whatever kind must at Jast end in bankruptcy.” Kilpatrick says he made over 300 speeches for Gree ley. Hayes should buy him off. Count Manzoni, of Italy, arrived at the Hotel Bruns wick yesterday from Philadelphia. There will be plenty of amatcar actors next fall, i* wo may judge by the verdancy of vegetable gardens, “Old man-afraid-of-bis-letter” is Sioux for Tilden, according to the Dayton Journal. 5 Bad boys who go down to the rivers are now tying swimmers’ shirt sleeves into knots. A Shelvy (Ky.) man sent his watermelons to market jnanhearss, Watermeioncholy sight it must have been. According to Hon. G. F. Hoar, his brother, the Judge, did not give General Grant any books at any time in his life, Tho prohibitionists of Massachusetts threaten to de- feat the re-election of Governor Rice it We runs against ex-Governor Gaston. It is vest to dig two or three can fulls of balt to sat- isfy yourself, though you return with only three yel- low perch and two shiners. I you look up wisely at a weather vano and say nothing people will wonder what that massive mind of yours is cogitating about the weather, A great many men are spending monoy to be elected to a Congress in which they will be of no account Only two or three men count for much in Congress, A set of false teeth was found on the beach at Capo May, and i: is remembered that « lady left su with her veil down, and called home by sickness in family. Representative Swann, chairman ot the Committee on Foroign Affairs, was called away {rom Washington very suddenly yesterday to Newport, R. 1., on account of illness in his family. Norwich Budleten:—"Tho bottle of brandy found in the coruer stone of the college building at New Haven last week was put there {itty years ago, so it is known that they had theologieal students there at that time,” The Montana Territory Representative in Congress is Martin Maginnis, who, since 1865, has beon con- nected as an editor with the Capital, Helena, For all anybody knows Maginnis may bes very good sort of fellow, * Prange the ripe raw tomato into hot water, so as to taake the skin come off easily; put the plump skinned fruit on ice; do not cut it until the sauco is on, and you will not wonder why, years ago, the tomato was called the “ove apple.”? Savannah News:—“A Chicopee man hada cat whieh he cared no longer to possess. He took the animal into the garden, struck it nine times on the head with a hammer, and, as it still moved, he boxed its ears with pade, and then buried it, Next morning that cat walked serenely into break/ast, willing to forget the past,’? “Country.”"—Two tablespoonfuls ot brandy and two of St. Croix ram are pnt into a naif pint of milk, with enough sugar, say two-thirds of a tablospoontul, to sweeten; a half goblet of cracked ice is put in; the whole ts sbaken between the goblet and the celery glass, into which the top of the goblet is plunged, and when at last the mixture is poured into the goblet so that ithas a wig on, a little scraped nutmog is dashed om the tov. and you havea miik punch. Newt