The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1876, Page 4

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WW YORK, SATURDAY, F From our reports this morning the hilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and Tair or partly cloudy. During the summer months the Hyenarp will be sent to subscribers in ihe country at the rate of incenty-five cents i Watt Srreer Yestenpay he stock mar- ket was exci'ed and higher. Among invest- ment shares Illinois Central showed an im- portant decline. Gold opened and closed at 112, with intermediate sales at 111 7-8. Gov- ernment bonds were strong; railway bonds steady. Money on call loaned at 2 per cent. A Goop S1ax.—The retirement of Orth from the canvass in Indiana shows a quick- ening sense of the fact that this is a reform canvass on both sides, and that no tainted recerd will be accepted by the people. A Drsenre: Ir. Littlejohn abandons Tilden and comes over to the support of Hayes, Mr. Littlejohn is a conspicuous politician, and his desertion of the Tilden banner at this time cannot fail to have its influence upon the canvass in this State. News From Grexrrat Trrer has been re- ceived to the effect that he was about to move south along the line of the Rosebud to get close to Crook, who is expected to move north at the same time. It is feared that the Indians have broken up. Whether they have or not it will probably be necessary to pursue them into the mountains west of the Little Big Horn. Major Reno's official re- port of Custer’s battle will be found else- where, giving the operations in detail. Croton Watrr.—For some reason, the nature of which the Commissioner of Public Works should explain, the Croton water has become possessed of a very foul odor and a most unpleasant taste, as if impregnated with animal and vegetable matter. At this season the utmost precaution should be ob- served in preserving the water pure for pub- lic consumption. With bad water added to defective drainage and ventilation we cannot hope to escape epidemics. Do the reser- voirs need cleaning and can they be cleaned without interrupting the city water supply? Yesrenpay's WeatHEn Onservations show the further development of the storm area in the Northwest. The barometric record at Bismarck, D. T., yesterday evening was 29.37 inches, with a temperature of ninety- one degrees, and at North Platte, Neb., 29.47 inches, with a temperature of ninety-four degrees, showing the elongation of the storm area to be north and south. As we predicted on last Thursday strong winds are springing up at points around the storm centre and there are probabilities of the generation of tornadoes as the meteor advances eastward, To-day the weather will be warm and cloudy, possibly with light rains. Tux Mean Senarons.—A correspondent asks us to give him the names of the mem- bers of the Senate Committee on Pensions who have recommended the Senate to cut down the pension of Mrs, Custer from fifty dollars a month to thirty. We comply with his request :— Jousx J. Ixaauis, of Kansas, chairman, Wittias B. ALLixox, of lowa, M,C, Hamitos, of Toxas Newrow Boor, of California, B. K. Brvex, of Mississippi. J. E, Mebovaty, of Indiana . R. E. Wituens, of Virginw. As our readers will see, it is rather a mean committee. Its members nearly all voted for the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, which proposed to squander five millions | on local matters ; but when it comes to voting a pension to the widow of a gallant soldier, whose deeds wil! live as long as the charge of the Light Brigade, they are willing to do an essentially mean thing. Ware tur Turks ts Senvia are pushing their advance steadily their brethren in Herzegovina appear to be in sore plight since the victory of Prince Nikita at Urbiza. Mukhtar Pacha, who had previously shown good soldierly qualities in his fights with the insurgents, was so completely ambushed and thoroughly whipped there that the only safety for the remnant of his army is said to lie in a retreat into Austrian territory, where they will doubtless be promptly disarmed and interned. ‘Thirty Turkish battalions, or about twelve thousand men, are said to be marching to his relief through the narrow Pachalic of Novi Bazar, which separates Montenegro from Servia. ‘Uhey may arrive too late, or Nikita may leave a small force to keep the crippled Mukhtar quiet, and attack the Turkish reinforcements where he can choose his position. The great battle in Servia is still waited for. Although Tcher- naycff has been turned back and Osman Pacha has invaded Servia the change, im- portant as it is, has not been the result of a singlo battle of consequence, 5 step. The Letters of Acceptance. The letter of Governor Tilden, accepting” the nomination for the Presidency, and of Governor Hendricks, accepting the nomi- nation for the Vice Presidency, which we print this morning, are discreet and able documents. Governor Tilden explains that unavoidable engagements prevented his ac- knowledging at an earlier day the honor conferred upon him, He then proceeds to argue that the present depression in busi- ness arises from ‘‘govermental consump- tion;” that there has been a waste of capital since 1865, ‘‘which can only end in universal disaster.” In eleven years federal and local taxation has amounted to seven thousand five hundred millions of dol- lars, the evil effects of which have been “aggravated by most unscientific and ill adjusted methods of taxation.” He thinks a check should be put upon the tendency of Congress to extrava- gance by an amendment to the constitution separating into distinct bills the appropria- tions for the various departments of the pub- lic service and excluding all topics of inde- pendent legislation, Such an amendment would remove the duress which often com- pels a President to ‘‘assent to objectionable appropriations rather than stop the wheels of the government.” After presenting the necessity for reform in public expense the Governor takes up the question of the South, He shows that much of our business distress is to be found in the ‘systematic and insup- portable misgovernment” imposed upon the States of the South, He shows the effects of ignorant and dishonest administra tion in the issues of fraudulent bonds, and taxes which amount to confiscation. He believes in a reform that will be reconcilia- tion. He makes no allusion to the recent massacres, except to say with quiet signifi- cance that, if elected, he will use his powers to protect all ‘‘citizens, whatever their former condition, in every political and personal right.” The country will regret that Gov- ernor Tilden has no word of condemnation for the massacres of Hamburg, a regret which will be increased when it reads in the letter of Governor Hendricks an intimation that the strife between the races will only cease as soon as the ‘‘power for evil” is taken out of the hands of republicans ; as soon, in other words, as the democrats have political control, The assurance of protection, how- ever, will be accepted with pleasure. On the currency question Governor Til- den and Governor Hendricks are in accord. If anything the expressions of Governor Hendricks on this subject are stronger than those of his colleague, because they are more intelligible. He desires the repeal of the Resumption act as the retracing of a false Governor Tilden virtually takes the same ground, although at some length and with consummate ability he points out the blunders in our whole financial legislation since the close of the war. This part of Governor Tilden’s letter will bear careful study, and should be read over and over again by those who care to comprehend his scheme for a reform in our currency. First, the Governor would repeal the Resumption act because it means nothing. Then he would save enough money to redeem the legal tenders, and when we had that ‘central reservoir of coin” he would resume. He indicates no time when this resumption will take place, although he thinks the sooner the better. He has no faith in statutes fixing certain days for resumption, because they are not respected. This whole business, he pro- ceeds to say, ‘‘belongs to the domain of practical administrative statesmanship. The captain of a steamer about starting from New York to Liverpool does not assemble a council over his ocean chart and fix an angle by which to lash the rudder for the whole voyage. A human intelligence must be at the helm to discern the shifting forces of the waters and the winds.” This figure of rhetoric expresses the position of the two statesmen, and it may be thus expressed:— “Repeal resumption, save your money and allow the President to resume when he is ready.” The question whether on this point there has been a surrender to Tilden by Hendricks or to Hendricks by Tilden will be asked again and again. While con- ceding the great ability with which Mr. Tilden presents his case we still think the credit of the country would be stronger if the Resumption act was to be respected, and the new administration, with Mr. Tilden at the head, were to go to work and prepare to resume on the day fixed by law. The fact that such an act exists shows that asa gov- ernment we have made a solemn promise, and we should not recall it until we seo whether we can redeem it or not. If the Governor had said this his letter would have been more satisfactory. The clear and gratifying fact, however, is that Mr. Tilden, if elected, will, whether the Resumption act is repealed or not, use all the powers of the administration to secure resumption. He is for hard money and pay- ing the national debt. On the question of civil service reform the two letters are somewhat in accord. Mr, Hendricks would keep in office ‘‘some men of tried integrity and proved abil- ity.” He would allow no man in office who had used money for election purposes, Mr, Tilden thinks civil service would come from elevating the standards of appointment, then by o ‘conscientious fidelity” in re- moving incapable subordinates, then by abolishing unnecessary offices. When this is done there might be ‘a patient, careful organization of better civil service system.” There is nothing in either of the letters to” prevent either Tilden or Hendricks from removing all the present incumbents of fed- eral offices within thirty days after their entrance into office. Governor Tilden says, in substance, he will appoint the best men he can find, remove ‘‘ineapable” people, and then in time go about the “patient” organization of a better civil service. This portion of the letter is not as satisfactory as what Governor Hayes says on the same subject, simply be- cause it is indefinite. While Hayes makes a clear, frank pledge as to the one term idea, the Governor makes no promise, because, as he says, experience has ‘repeatedly ex- posed the futility of self-imposed restrictions by candidates or incumbents.” At the same time Governor Tilden accopts the idea of one term as a principle by suggesting the passage of an amendment to the constitu- tion limiting the Presidency to a single in- eumbency, and by admitting that the cligi- bility of a President to re-election has been fatal to all serious civil service reform. The country will accept the adherence of the Governor to the idea of one term with grati- fication. Altogether, the letters will satisfy the country and strengthen the democratic can- vass, The letter of Mr. Hendricks is some- what flippant in parts and with a stump speech tone about it. The letter of Mr. Til- den is in the best taste—a model of dignity and reserve, without a word that could of- fend. It is the letter of a shrewd, able, inde- pendent statesman, and will have weight with the country. The one thought that will gratify men of both parties is that in the essential principles of the can- vass Hayes and Tilden take high ground. They agree in protecting the national credit, in regulating financial reck- lessness and folly, in affording protection to all races and classes in the South, in pro- moting harmony between the sections, in the necessity for civil service and the wisdom of the one term principle as the basis of all true reform. ‘Tilden and Hayes are both honora- ble men who will carry out their pledges. The only question is, How far will party ne- cessities and party limitations affect them in the discharge of their high duties? If Gov- ernor ‘Tilden’s friends can inspire the coun- try with a belief in his power to carry out his pledges without any peril to the achievements of the war from the advent of a new party the desire for a change is so widespread that his canvass may be a winning one, If, on the other hand, it is feared that the end will be leaping Niagara, then not all the genius and skill of a letter of acceptance will overthrow the strongly seated power of republican. ism. Governor Chamberlain and the Ex- ecutive, In the correspondence and reports rela- tive to the Hamburg massacre submitted to Congress there is a letter from Mr. Cham- berlain, the Governor of South Carolina, to the President. In this letter the Governor recites the facts of the massacre, and says that it has resulted in ‘great and immediate alarm among the colored people and all re- publicans in that section of the State.” There is also ‘an intense solicitude for their lives and liberties” on the part of these peo- ple. He then asks:—‘‘Will the general gov- ernment take such precautions as may be suitable, in view of the feeling of alarm al- ready referred to, to restore confidence to the poor people of both races and political parties in this State, by such a distribution of the military forces now here as will ren- der the intervention of the general govern- ment prompt and effective, if it shall be- come necessary, in restoring peace and order?” There has been some discussion as to whether Governor Chamberlain did ask for troops for South Carolina. His enemies allege that he did make this request, while his friends have given out that he did not. We cannot read this letter in any other light than as a request for troops. As such the President regarded it, for in his response the President says :—“I will give every aid for which I can find law or constitutional power.” There have been for some time more troops in South Carolina than in any other Southern State except Texas, so that really Chamber- lain’s own capital may be said to be under the protection of the government. When General Sherman was questioned the other day about the troops in the South, and whether they could be sent to the Indian country, he answered that the President could not remove them even for that purpose nor permit their removal. We are sorry the President should find it necessary to have troops in the Soutli, and we are sorry to see the Governor of South Carolina in the position of asking for more. The country is sensitive on this question of federal military intervention in the affairs of a State. Governor Chamberlain should have exhausted his own remedies before seeking the President. The protection of the general government is well enough as a last resort. It should neither be lightly asked nor lightly given, Our Southern States have been go handled in the past few years that the Governors run at the first pretence to the President. It is a vicious habit, subversive of the independence ond pride of a State. The Governor of South Carolina should first exhaust the resources of his Commonwealth’ before he goes whining to Washington, Saerman on THE ARMY AND THE INDIAN Qustion.--General Sherman speaks on all subjects with so much freshness and point that when he discusses the Indian question and the power of the army to cope with the Hi his suggestions will be heard with erest. Weagree with the General that what we need in the Indian country is regu- lars, and not voluntcers—men who know the Indian ways. This policy of sending out detachments to be massacred has been abandoned. We should not end this war until we have all the Indians under govern- ment control. Here we give a tribe of In- dians, not more than twenty-five thousand in all, a reservation as large as the State of Ohio. This is absurd, and there should be an end of the policy which thus wastes our national domain and impedes progress and settlement by abandoning a vast territory to bands of roaming thieves and murderers, This is what the Indians have become where they are outside of the agencies and reserva- tions, and the time has come to bring them all in, Trat Watcn Protects tar Hoxrst Man is often the refuge of the thief. The part of our legal system which is designed to pro- tect the property of an honest citizen from the machinations of the unscrupulous or the powerful was taken advantage of by Tweed to get his plunder out of the way of an ad- verse verdict. In Cubs the Spaniards work a little differently with their official robbers. A court martial settles the question of guilt, the Captain General issues a decree and confiscation is carried out ina twinkling. This is semi-barbarous, but it smacks of effectiveness ; and when we hear of Sheriff Conner and of his story of not being able to find Tweed's property we are half inclined to wish for a court martial, Governor Seymour and the Canvass. Governor Seymour has written. a letter on the canvass. ‘Some years ago,” he says, “I advised you that I.had made up my mind never again to occupy an official position. I have adhered to that purpose against every temptation to vary from it.” Further he says that while he has no reason to suppose that Mr. Tilden would ask him in the event of his election to fill some honorable office at home or abroad, that in no case would he accept. At the same time, as long as his health will permit, Mr. Seymour will take an active interest in public affairs and exert himself for the success of the democratic party, believing that upon its success de- pends the best interests of the country. This decision on the part of the Governor will simplify the contest before the Demo- cratic State Convention. We are glad that he has taken this high ground. The condi- tions upon which it was proposed to nomi- nate Mr. Seymour for Governor were neither honorable to himeelf, his party, nor the State. It was suggested that he should run as a strengthening plaster for Tilden, which is what Tilden does not need, Some wild people, to whom politics is a juggle, seri- ously proposed to put him on the ticket anyhow, in spite of his declination. But Mr. Seymour saw very clearly that no proud Commonwealth like New York, an empire in itself, would force its chief executive posi- tion upon an unwilling candidate. Conse- quently he withdraws without any condi- tion whatever, and leaves open the problem of selectign. There is no difficulty in finding a good candidate for Governor on either side. The democrats have many men whose names would honor the ticket, who would repre- sent the party and who would poll a full vote. We have no idea that either party will win any recruits from the other unless there should be an especially good man on one side and a weak man on the other. So far as the active workingmen in the demo- cratio party express a wish they prefer Mr. Marble. In the republican party that wish goes out to Mr. Cornell. Tho objection to Mr. Cornell is that he represents the aims of Mr. Conkling, and that the nomination will be given to him at Saratoga because of his services at Cincinnati. But the opposition to his nomination is as strong as it was to Mr. Conkling, and in some quarters it assumes ao phase of personal bit- terness. Mr. Cornell is too good a man and stands too well in this State to be thus treated, and it may be that the war upon him will command his nomination. There is a small faction of republicans call- ing themselves ‘‘reformers” and soon who go about crying, ‘‘“Harmony!” ‘Harmony !” “Harmony !” and tomahawking Mr. Conk- ling’s friends wherever they can be found. Yet Mr. Conkling’s friends embrace nine- tenths of the party in this State. It is very hard for the nine-tenths to submit to the one-tenth ; but if Mr. Conkling is wise he will withdraw from the canvass. If Mr. Conkling will run for Governor, well and good ; but we do not apprehend that his ambition takes that direction. But he is a young man and can wait. The alliance against him will not last, as such alliances are always weak. He should go out into the States. His weakness at Cincinnati was that no one knew him outside of New York. If he withdraws from this canvass altogether, nominates Mr. Evarts and makes a cam- paigning tour in the West and the South, it will put him in the track as the leading candidate in 1880. With Manton Marble and William Dors- heimer on one side, with W. M. Evarts and A. D. White on the other, the two parties will have men at their head whose nomination would be an honor to both parties, and whose election, no matter who was successful, would be an honor to the State. The Ind War. Private letters received in this city from officers in the field leave no doubt that the prevailing anxiety in the minds of those high in command in the expedition of General Terry was that they were starting out without much hope of meeting with any considerable body of hostile Indians—a fear based upon knowledge born of the expe- rience of Indian fighters, that the savages are not apt to parade in force. With this feeling strongly weighing upon him we are able to understand the delight of the gallant and lamented Custer on first be- holding a large village of his wily enemies apparently surprised by his sudden ad- vance, and we are able to appreciate both the exclamation attributed to him and the violence of his immediate attack. The ex- perience of General Custer ‘taught him the facility with which large bodies of his savage foes are mobilized afd the wary in- stinct with which they are accustomed to disappear by rocky passes unknown to the civilized soldier, before any advance can be taken advantage of. ° We can hardly doubt that the disaster to our arms on the sad occasion of Custer’s last attack was in some measure caused bya total absence of experience in horsemanship orthe use of arms on the part of our troops, who were largely made up of recent recruits. It is well to understand that such recruits, who represent as good material for rank and file as is possessed by any country in the world, are not given the opportunities of ser- viceable drill that any other country would furnish. Our correspondent’s last letter from Crook's camp gives further point to this assertion, based upon wider observation, We are there informed that even the raw recruits were left without drills while the command was waiting for reinforcements. The captain of a company is .only allowed from six to eight rounds of fixed ammunition per man‘in each month for purposes of practice, unless addi- tional cartridges be obtained through his commanding officer, which demands tripli- cate returns to the ordnante office and other red tape proceedings. Any Creedmoor tyro can appreciate the advantage in marksman- ship obtained by the practice of eight rounds per month, Let us, then, take the recruit in the field. If his horsemanship be on a par with his rifle practice imagine him in action, with one hand grasping the pommel of his saddle, striving to retain his stirrupless and uncer- tain seat, while Sioux warriors in front dash toward him, yelling and waving their blan- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1876. kets, scaring borse and man, until the latter has his brains knocked out while looking round helplessly for succor. We have now an opportunity of drilling our troops and preparing them for the emergencies of the future; for it may be safely predicted that in the present cam- paign no large body of Indians will again be met by the forces sent against them, where the former have all the advantage, where wheels are impossible and the knowledze of the country belongs almost entirely to our foes. But there is one precaution which should at once be taken. If the report of Inspector Vandevere, published in our col- umns last month, be worthy of credence, the Indians on the Red Clond Agency, and those belonging to Spotted Tail’s band, amounting in all to about seven- teen thousand people, or nearly half of the Sioux Nation, are open to the induce- ments of the government to avoid the present powerful federation of savages, to relinquish their homes and to seek a new reservation—-indeed, are more than ready to accept the terms suggested by the agent. Prompt action on the part of Congress, agreeing to authorize the commission, which has already received the sanction of the Senate by a vote of 30 to 6, may effect this bloodless advantage ; and it is well to re- member that the political maxim, ‘Divide and govern,” goes back to the higher teach- ing of the New Testament, Matthew xii., 25— “Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” Amother Word to Cornell. It is reported that the Cambridge crew will not, after all, row in the “open amateur fours" at Philadelphia, but, leaving Eng- Jond's name there in the keeping of Gulston and his far-famed London rowing four, will concentrate every effort on the ‘‘intercolle- giate fours.” This is most shrewd and shows that our visitors well know what they are about when there is rowing to be done ; for we come to the score in this contest with but two crews, neither of which ever rowed in a four-oared race—those of Yale and Co- lumbia. If beaten it will simply not be true that we have done all we could. Yale's weakness is in this, that her only race this year was one where she so overmatched her rival that she was never driven, and it is im- possible to say how she would have done had she, as last year, had to meet crews who at the start led her, so that, while thero is great reason to think that she is excellent, it is not conclttsive. With Columbia it seems to be an off year, and she takes besides a very questionable step in introducing at the eleventh hour a man who, good as he was in the past, can hardly get himself into thorough condition in the time left him. With all this we would try to be content if it was really the best we could do; but the race a few days ago on Saratoga Lake showed clearly that it is not. Acrew that led that race from the first stroke to the finish, coming from an institution with un- questionably the most brilliant record in American university rowing, a record untar- nished by even the shadow of a spot, now, when a yet more distinguished foreign uni- versity comes a great distance to prove us inferior in this manly sport, practically declines to face the danger. And this with- out one solitary reason that will stand for a moment. Her captain says, ‘We have already spent as much time at boating as is advisable for any college amateurs to spend in one summer.” But he should remember that it is said that President White told him that he had done more for Cornell University than any other man since it was founded, and that if by now whipping the Cambridge crew he can make her fair name not only national but international three short weeks spent in doing it do not look to most people to be much time wasted, especially when they come at the end of three whole years spent in the same way, but in striving for a fame which, beside the present one, is but local and temporary. Again, he says it would take a month to have a four built to suit his crew. Har- lem River, and all oarsmen the coun- try round, must have laughed when they read that. When John Blakey built Harvard's six in 1874 in less than forty-eight hours, when Fearon ond Elliott and half a dozen others of our best builders itch to show that a four can be ready at even shorter notice when the coun- try’s reputation is at stake, when there are doubtless lying on Waters’ shelves at Troy enough of fast paper fours to almost float the whole Cornell navy, a better reason must be given than that if the public are expected to believe it. Third, he says that because six can row successfully four cannot necessarily. No, but they ‘are mighty likely to, especially under a coach like him, and it did not take much looking this year to see that one of his two new men slowed the boat after the first mile and helped to account for the poorer time than last year, while one of the remain- ing fivé does not look as good a man as any of the other four. Finally he says that as the College Rowing Association's challenge was declined by the foreign crews they cannot expect Cornell to row them merely out of courtesy. Neither is she asked to; but she is asked, when we are attacked at our own door by a brave and unquestionably dangerous foreign foe, to help show him that we cannot be so attacked with impunity; she is asked not to let him go home a victor when we had men here who could have made him tell .quite a difterent tale; she is asked to do what she can to show every Englishman that America has sons who can in any test of skill and stam- ina and pluck, meet any men who breathe and come out of the fight victorious, and that those sons stand ready whenever the occa- sion calls. It calls now, and it calls most loudly, for Captain Ostrom and the men he holds back. Let him clutch it, as does Yale, as does Columbia, and if he and his are beaten no man can say that Cornell was afraid. But if he does not, and no better reasons exist than he has given, every man can and every man will. Toe Present ann tHe Waiskry Tuieves.—We hear from Milwaukee that the President has pardoned Nunnemacher, one of the heads of the Wisconsin Whiskey Ring. Nunnemacher has made vast sums of money by defrauding the revenue, Now he is al- is always ungracious to criticise the exercise of the pardoning power. There may be rea- sons clear to the mind of the Executive which he could not make public. It isa sacred power and to be held in respeot. But in dealing with these whiskey thieves the President should be very careful. Ha should pardon none of them without giving the country his reasons. He should be es- pecially careful not to permit personal or political arguments to sway him. The coun- try believes the President intended to sup- press these frauds. He should not shake the faith of the country by pardoning conspicu- ous scoundrels like Nunnemacher, who are rich with the money stolen from the people. An Important Daciston.—Judge Johnson, of the Circuit Court of the United States, yesterday rendered a decision on .the ap- plication of Abraham R. Miller, for an in- junction restraining the cities of New York and Brooklyn from completing the bridge, In denying the injunction the Judge showed that as Congress hd anthorized the erection of the bridge according to certain plans and_ specifications the courts auld not interfere except when any of these conditions were violated. He fur ther suggested that if at any future time it was found that Congress was mistaken in granting authority for the building of the bridge and that the bridge itself proved a real impediment to navigation then Congres had the power to order the alteration in the plan or the removal altogether of the bridge to suit the requirements of the case. Considering that as the scienco of steam navigation becomes more perfect, and with the adoption of petroleum as a fuel and the improvement of steam boilers and ma chinery, high masted sailing vessels will give place to steamships for all purposes, the danger of the bridge proving a perma- nent obstruction to the navigation of the East River is not very alarming. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Chicago's Hooley is at Saratoga, The Louisiana orange crop is large. Babbitt is spending his soap at Saratoga. Genoral Hancock is going to the Saguenay. ‘A wild eagle was killed while flying over Boston, Hon, Erastas Brooks and daughter are at Saratoga, “‘Shakespeare”’ has at last beon translated into mod ern Greek, McKee has not sold out his interest in the St. Loult Globe- Democrat, Mr. Storey has fresh ice cream constantly by keeping his cows on ice. The country boy is poor indeed if he doesn’t own @ two-dollar shotgun. Admiral Leon Dejoie, of the Haytian Navy, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Nevada rivers run into the ground, like the man who always borrows $2. Secretary of State John Bigelow arrivod last evening at the Westminster Hotel, Professor Hayden hopes to complete the geological survey of Colorado this summer. Cardinal McCloskey goes to rido every aay at New Port, His bealth is much improved. Mr. Tennyson’s new edition of his poems, annotated by himself, will shortly appear in one volume. Dr. R. Ogden Doremus is at Lake Chautauqua, which ig fast growing in popularity in the near West, After the rains look out for really good green corn, the best way to cat which is like playing on a flute, Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D., editor of the New York. Evangelist, has left San Francisco for Virginia City. Mr. Henry Curwen has in press a book under tke fanciful title, ‘Within Bohemia; or, Love in London.’* Telegraph wires are fatter than they have been for several seasons, indicating that we shall have a severe winter. M. Rénan’s new book of “Dialogues and Philosophical Fragmonts”” inculeates the philosophy of despair with great vigor. A good many Western democrats put she big end of the telescope toward Hendricks and the little end tow- ard Tilden. Mrs, Leonowen’s new book of “Life and Travel in India” will be published by J, H. Coates & Oo., of Philadelphia, ‘The only way 4 farmer can get a little even with a city visitor isto borrow ins silk umbrella to woar while getting the cows. The review of “George Ticknor’s Life and Lettem™ in the July Quarterly was written by Mr. Hayward, the fine critic and essayist. The beautiful golden vested bee is sailing around ver milhon petunias and carmine nasturtiums, getting ug honey for buckwheat cakes, Chief Justice William B. Richards, of the Canadiar Supreme Court, arrived in the city yesterday from Ob tawa, and is at tho Westmoreland Hotel, A Third avenue woman fell down tho basement steps with a pail of water, and her husband thought he knew what was meant by ‘local areas of rain.” Political economy is the science of the age, and the Authors’ Publishing Company has in pross an olement- ary book on this subject by Dr. M. R. Loverson. Dr. Lawrence A. Washington, the grand nephew and nearest living relative of President Washington, is ex. pected at Mount Vernon soon. [His homo is in Texas, ‘The English are perpetually writing up the localities of London. Mr. W. R. Douthwaite has now produced “Gray’s Inn: Notes Illustrative of Its History and An- tiquities.” It is proved by asctentist that the little roots of a grapevine will gradually turn away from their original direction to entwine a bone. What is the use of keep- ing a dog? ; Ex-Postmaster Gonoral Jewell is staying for several days in Detroit. . He went yesterday on an excursion to Lake St. Clair with a party of friends in Mr. E. A, Brush’s steam yacht Lillie. Harriet Martineau left behind an autobiography, which has been in print, though not published, fos several years. 1t will appear shortly, with an appendix covering the latter years of hor life. Jerseymen ride out to Eagle Rock, near Montclair, This rock is on the side of the Orange Mountains, and from it the country lying between the mountains and the Atlantic may be viewed as if it wero a map. The second part of Lieutenant Cameron’s “Sketch of a Journcy Across Africa” is published in Good Words for July, and.describes his boat voyage around tho Tanganyika and his journey westward to the Lua- as Robert Buchanan, a poct, brought an action for bel against the London Ezaminer for its severe treat. mont of his character and poems. The Court, in sum. ming up, passed some very severo strictures on “The Fleshly School ot Poetry.” ‘The jury awarded Mr, Buchanan £150 damages. Representative Stecle, of Wyoming Territory, whore opinion !s much sought in regard to Indian affairs, te an old New York boy, thirty six years of age, who, after the war, wont West to practice law, and he tas democrat, He represents a rough, jolly, good natured people, who do not require much representing. In spite of British coldness and opposition the Na. tional Byron Memorial Fund has got up to £3,000, This is not much compared with the £200,000 which the Prince Albert memorial statue cost, but is deomed suiicient to attract artists from all parts of Europe and America, who are invited to compete, sending im their models by October. . An jilustrated crown octavo volume of some 60¢ pages, from the pen of William E. Robinson, late mem. ber of Congress trom Brooklyn, is announced for early publication, in which he claims that a vory docided majority of the original settlers of the United States wore from Ireland, and that tho immigrants from that country, as well beforo as since the Revolation, ex- ceeded in numbers those from all other countries; that the founders and earliest ornaments of the American press, pulpit, stage, army, navy, Bar, Bench, art, in. vention, discovery, literature, learning, commerce, schools, colleges and public works were Irish immi grants and their children, Ho has been for many years speaking and writing upon this subject, and has acca. mulated much information which will prove interest ing to American ethnologists and scholars, This beek lowed to cacape by paying a small fine, It | ougutso be very interesting,