The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1876, Page 6

ee RAE RG 2a ng nee See TS EO LS NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD The Necessities of New York—The Me- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herar. re ol and packages shculd be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. AUSH A BY BQRERY, FURATRE. . FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, LORD DUNDREARY, M. Sothern. WALLACK’S THEATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 4 ¥. M. GILMORE’S GARDEN. GRAND CONCERT, at 8P.M. Mr. Levy. THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. " WoOD's MUSEUM. ECHOES, st 8 P.M. Matinee «t2 P. M. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, eeP. M. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. VARIRTY, at 8 P.M. PARISTAN VARIETIES, atS?.M. Matineo at2 P.M. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. . AUGUST 6, 18 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy. During the summer months the Hznaup will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Watt Srreer Yxesterpax.—Speculation was less active and the market irregular. The coal stocks closed higher. Gold was steady at 112. Money loaned on call at 2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were generally firm. Ir tae Besumrtion Acr is inoperative there is no reason why Congress should waste time over its repeal. The question is not so much whether we can resume in 1879 as whether we are going to make an honest effort to that end. If we begin our prepara- tions by making even the time indefinite the inflationists are already victorious, for then there can be no resumption. Tux Smiven Question is disturbing the finances of India as well as agitating the political economists of Europe and America. In view of the disturbances which result | from it the depreciation of silver is a dis- agreeable fact, but no legislation can give it s value it does not possess, and the incon- venience must be endured just as the rise or fall in the price of any other commodity is endured. Tue Presivext’s Mwstaxes.—The repub- lican party has thousands of men who have Stainless names. Why, then, should the President insist upon nominating men for office who have spotted reputations? It offends the public morality, invites criticism upon himself and does the party no good. It is not his business to vindicate foolish people who will get into trouble, but to ap- point men to office whose names will strengthen the government. A Cuance ror Mr. Detaxo.—We are in- formed that Sitting Bull is short of ammuni- tion. In the recent fight he used bows and arrows toward the end. Here is a chance for Mr. Delano. We owe the fact that the In- dians were weil armed and supplied to that provident statesman. He should not aban- don Sitting Bull in this time of his need. We have no doubt Delano could take a cargo of powder into the Sioux country by the way of Canada. Sitting Bull is anxious to hear from him. Doasrery Cocurans axD THE Paxsipent.— Dogbetry Cochrane when he examined ex- Attorney General Williams, would not allow him to repeat a statement made to him by the President. Dogberry Cochrane wanted Grant to come in and swear himself. Yet when Bluford Wilson repeated coluimns of what he said to the President and the Presi- dent to him, Dogberry Cochrane had no ob- sjeotion whatever. We are afraid that Dog- berry Cochrane is either a hopeless partisan or that he has very little sense. Ovn Uxempiorep Workixomen number not fewer than forty thousand, and it is only natural there should be mutterings of dis- | content and portents of a terrible future. What is the worst feature of this problem is the fact that the suffering and agitation come at a time when retrenchment is absolutely necessary. While municipal bankruptcy would result from inaugurating public works merely to fill so many mouths it ought to be known that the Department of Public Works employs barely five hundred men, while the salaried officials annually take about eleven millions of dollars out of the city treasury. Tae Weatuen.—Yesterday a remarkably developed rain area extended over the coun- try from Yankton, Dakota, to Rochester, N. Y., and from Marquette, Mich., to New Orleans, La. The section of greatest rain- fall occured in the eastern portion of this great area, and marked the advance of the south- western atmospheric depression which we announced as existing west of the Missis- sippi several days ago. In the Northwest the disturbance still continues central over the Missouri Valley, but the severe gales predicted for this region by the Heratp have already been experienced. Yesterday morning the wind at Bis- marck, Dakota, attained a velocity of forty-seven miles, and at Breckinridge, Minn., of thirty miles an hour. The tem- peratare throughout the country has been high, but is falling in the Northwest. On the Pacific coast, with a falling barometer, the temperature continues low. The aver- age pressure at New York is slowly decreas- ing, but more or less rapid oscillations occur between midnight and noon, which are due to the variations of temperature. To-day the weather promises to be warm and tropolis of the Future. The all-engrossing interest of the election forthe Presidency must not close our eyes to the importance of local questions. We are to elect a President of the United States in the autumn, and a Governor of the State. These are high offices, the highest in the gift of the people. But we have an office of great importance in the Mayoralty. It makes little difference comparatively to the people of New York who is President of the United States. We should like to see Uncle Sammy in the White House for reasons of home pride, and the fact that an eminent citizen is a candidate for this high office will give him many New York votes. But apart from home sentiment we should have more interest in the coming Mayor than in the coming President. The Mayoralty will be used simply to aid the Presidential fight. Our politicians, in spite of what Hayes and ‘Tilden say about one term and civil service reform, look at the whole business as a rush for spoils, and whoever will add ten votes to the canvass of one candidate or the other will be selected. The democrats will give us another Wickham and the republicans another Havemeyer, unless both are controlled by a rigid public opinion. For this reason public opinion should consider earnestly this whole question of municipal government, and especially the wants of New York. It is idle to dwell upon the folly and mis- government of the past, If New York had been governed for the past twenty-five years by a dynasty of Spanish brigands it could not, be worse off than it is now. We have had good Mayors during that time—not many of them, however—but the whole tendency of our government has been bad. One reason is that there has never grown up in New York that proper feeling of municipal pride which is the glory and the safeguard of great cities. We hear our friends in the South talk about carpet-baggers, and the Irish journals never cease to complain of the evils of absenteeism. But the evils of carpet-baggism and absen- teeism are felt here to a much greater degree than in South Carolina or Tipperary. The business classes, the professional classes, the merchants, those who sway mighty en- terprises, to whom the city is indebted for its wealth and power, are outside of its gov- ernment, They look upon New York as a hotel ora mining camp. They remain here as long as they can earn money. Their work done, their money earned and invested, they have no fur- ther wish for New York. One has his home in Maine, another in Pennsylvania and a third in some sunny land beyond the sea, and the animating thought through a busy career is the dream that they will spend their days in the loved homestead. The pride which the Englishman has in London, or the Frenchman in Paris, or even the Philadelphian in Philadelphia, is rarely seen in New York. The citizens are indif- ferent to the city. They have the same feeling about it that the traveller has about his hotel. So long as it does not burn down and the waiters are tolerably civil he can stand its discomforts until he reaches home. As a consequence, therefore, the large intelligent interest of the people in public affairs, which underlies all true democracy, is never seen here. New York falls into the hands of a lot of bog-trotters from Ireland, or cheese-munchers from the Rhine, men of the lowest order of integrity and intelligence, who make politics a business and elect themselves into the direction of the great city, with what results twenty-five years of its past history too well show. And yet if the same large, ambitious, world-embracing intelligence which has marked so many business achievements in New York could be applied to the govern- ment of the city what a metropolis it might become! New York has been rich in men of genius in all the walks of life. There is scarcely a department of human effort which does not show what can be done by human will. There is no city in the country where # better government could be found if only the right men could be given power. Imagine aboard of aldermen composed of men like Vanderbilt, Astor, Stewart, Cooper, Evarts, O'Conor, Belmont, or a hundred others, men of large brains and wide experience, who know what todo with money and who are equal to the wants of a metropolis. We could have the most economical as well as the most efficient government. Let us sup- pose that the business principles and the consummate genias, the courage to spend and the wisdom to save, which governed the founder of the Astor estate, or Stewart in building up his colossal fortune, or Van- | derbilt in managing his vast railway sys- tem, had been felt in the government of New York, what a city we might have! It is to the discredit of our city that it is otherwise. But if we were to seriously propose to gentlemen like those we have mentioned that they should be- come Aldermen or Mayor it would be treated almost as an insult. And yet the true citi- zen should have no higher pride than to rule his city. It should be the most exalted office. It should represent the considera- tion he has among neighbors and friends, The Presidency or the Governorship or a seat in the Senate may result from political combinations. Men are selected to these stations not alone for what they are but for what they are supposed to represent. But when a man is chosen to rule over his own city it means, or should mean, that those who know him deem him to be most worthy. If this feeling of municipal pride could only obtain in New York what a blessing it would be forthe metropolis of the future ! It is almost a dream to expect it, but why should it bea dream? If the people will only take it in hand the result will be assured. The people must make up their minds to the fact that the old mansion is overrun with vermin. Tam- many, anti-Tammany, republican, anti-re- publican—all so many political rats, who swarm around the pantry and the bin. They must be driven out. We must elect new men, men who have no party ties, but with honesty and brains. If such men can be found—if we can have a Mayor and Al- dermen and Comptroller composed of the best mon in the city, then wo must keep , and the advance of the rain area | them in office and give them absolute power. ; cat : We need a large, generous policy, or New | Dufferin, may bring some refreshing showers. York will lose its precedence. We should spend at least fifty millions of dollars in the next ten years in the work of metropolitan improvement. What is more, the people will gladly give it, if it is not to be stolen by a Tweed or wasted by a Wickham. Every one feels that the time has come for New York to awake out of the sloth in which she has lain since the fall of Tweed. If the right men will take office all the money wanted could be found. They would have a vast work. Here is rapid transit, which is held back by some juggling lawyers and judges, and which should be driven to completion. Here are our wharves and piers, which should be as fine as those of Birkenhead. Here is the Brooklyn Bridge and five or six more, if need be, which are required to connect the two great cities, which in time must be one. Here is the Hudson River tunnel, needed to bring to our wharves and markets the mill- ions of packages of goods that are now tumbled on the Jersey shore. There is the opening of Hell Gate, giving us a new door to the ocean, and the connecting of the Hud- son and the Harlem witha ship canal, which should follow it to make the work complete. These are the great works, the works of uni- versal necessity, which are needed in New York, and,which we should regard as build- ing the framework of the metropolis of the fature, All of this will require a great deal of money, but not a dollar would be foolishly spent that was honestly applied. Then we have other things, not so utilitarian, per- haps, but no less necessary to the comfort and greatness of the metropolis. The boule- vard system, so well begun, should be ex- tended. New York should rejoice in her boulevards sweeping off in all directions—to the ocean, to Fort Hamilton, to the Sound, toward the Palisades—even as Paris rejoices in the boulevards which unite her with Neuilly, Vincennes and St. Germain. We lose no money that is thus expended. In laying out the boulevards we should think of the future and arrange little parks for our grandchildren. We have Central Park and Prospect Park and a few straggling squares, but we should have as many more. Let us suppose that Central Park were divided up into four parts and scattered over the island, it would be better for the city. What an advantage it would be to Brooklyn if ‘the Heights, as far back as Henry street, had been made a park What a beautiful park could be made by taking the ridge from High Bridge as far as Kingsbridge, fronting on the Hudson! Or suppose the Battery had extended as far as Trinity. We refer to this to show what opportunities our fathers lost in lay- ing out New York, and how we, so far as we have the power to continue their work, should profit by their example and avoid their mistakes. The rebuilding of this metropolis, of making New York what it should be—the metropolis of the Western Hemisphere—is much more important than the election of a President of the United States. It will never be done until the people are aroused to the necessity of doing it—until every citizen and taxpayer sees the folly, and, we may say, the crime of keeping in power the dynasty of thieves, idiots and vagabonds who have preyed upon it, and kept it down and stifled its enterprise and its ambition. The Resumption Act. After all the bill to repeal the date of the Resumption act is a poor measure of finance. Ifthe reason assigned for the introduction of the bill by Mr. Cox is the controlling ar- gument in favor of its passage it is a very feeble peg upon which a democratic House expects to hang its financial policy. Gover- nor Tilden, in his letter of acceptance, made the discovery that the repeal of the section fixing the time for resumption would not affect the hard money principles of which he was the mouthpiece, because the republicans had made no preparations to resume. There could not be a weaker sophistry. If the Re- sumption act is inoperative that will be the end of it; but we contend that it has not been shown that it will be inoperative. The condition of the country may be vastly improved in 1879, even with Hayes as President. With Tilden as the Execu- tive we have the high authority of Mr. Parke Godwin for saying that the finances will be reformed in three months from the 4th of March, 1877. In either event it isnot impossible that resumption will be practicable, and if it should prove otherwise it is mere child's play to make or endeavor to make the financial problems of the campaign hinge upon an unimportant date in an act of Congress, especially when the reason assigned for this action is the allegation that the date is unimportant. It is an elastic policy, which may reconcile the hard and soft money men in the democratic party ; but it means nothing unless resump- tion is possible in 1879, in which case it will bea victory for the inflationists. Nobody knows this better than Mr. Cox, who re- ported the measure; but he is a statesman as elastic as this new found policy of the party. In no event can this repeal do geod, and it may do harm. If resumption is im- possible in 1879 it is impossible whether the time fixed for it is repealed or not, while there can be no resumption even if the country is prepared for it if such triumphs for the inflationists are to control our national legislation. Tur Crazy Canvass.—One of the grotesque features of this crazy canvass is the fact that the democrats in Indiana have n candidate for Governor who wears blue jeans to make himself popular and likes to be called Jimmy Williams. His full political title is Blue Jeans Jimmy Williams. Yet people who have the advantages of free school education are expected to vote for such a candidate. As Lord Dundreary would say, “This is the craziest canvass a fellow ever did see—one of those canvasses no fcllow can find out.” « Tue Caxapun Ixprans.—It seems to be authenticated that Sitting Bull has among his allies numbers of Indians from Canada, This question for Mr. Fish. Are we to allow the British authorities to protect sav- ages who cross the frontier to murder our people? Is Canada to be made a base of supplies for a hostile army? This point should be brought to the attention of Lord Red Cloud Takes the Field. We Are informed that Roscoe Conkling, the Red Cloud of the republican braves, proposes to go to Saratoga as a delegate to the Convention. This is important news. It means that Red Cloud does not mean to hang around the agency, watching the squaws sew moccasins and smoking the long hours away. On the contrary, he will put on his fighting feathers and his war paint, sharpen his tomahawk and scalping knife, see that he has a good supply of ammuni- tion, decorate himself in all the splendor becoming a great chief and go out in person on the warpath. This announcement will be heard with various emotions by the other chiefs of the republican tribes. They had all arranged for a grand war dance at Saratoga, where they could shout over their victories and count their scalps. These sealps were to be those of the Red Cloud tribe, not one of whom would be spared. There was to be the sgalp of Still Waters Cornell, Red Cloud’s beloved brave; of Morn in the Clouds Tom Murphy, of Lone Wolf Bliss, of the Gray Badger Hare, of the Grizzly Bear Arthur, of Big Kettle Sharpe, of Thunder and Lightning Spencer. All of these braves were to be scalped because of their devotion to Red Cloud. The braves who were to do it were numerous and power- ful. At the head were the venerable Silver Wolf Weed, who went on the warpath be- fore the time of Tecumseh ; that sagacious chief, Spotted Tail Fenton, whose blow is noi-eless and true. With them were Gray Engle Morgan and Bald Eagle Husted, Whispering Wind Robertson and Morning Dawn Curtis, Mocking Bird Choate and\ Roaring Bull Waldo Hutchins and a tribe of braves in the interest of that famous chief, Silver Tongue Evarts, From all we can learn this was to have been the most famous war dance ever known. There were a great lot of squaw-men from the Union League tribe, under the lead of Blazing Sun Schultz, who were going up to be present on this special feast. But now Red Cloud takes the field, and all is changed. For, after all, it is Red Cloud who controls these tribes, and once his plume rides to the front where is the brave that will not follow him? Whenever the braves have gone on the warpath in these later years Red Cloud has been at their head. When, four years ago, Silver Wolf sat in his lodge and smoked his calumet ; when Spotted Tail was over with the Tammy Indians and Gray Eagle was silent, whose voice could be heard, whose form could be seen in the storms of the fight but that of Red Cloud? So when he comes to the front all the war memories of the braves are aroused. If waris wanted here is the most famous warrior of them all, who will fight a hundred thousand Roaring Bulls and Spot- ted Tails before the tomahawk shall touch the scalp of Morn in the Clouds or Grizzly Bear. We can well imagine the anxious talks this news will provoke. Red Cloud takes the field from an impulse of martial honor natu- ral toa great chief. Butit is not his time to fight. He has scalps enough. He should be a wary, magnanimous chief. Lethim say to the allied braves :—‘‘I came here to pro- tect my children. I take them withme. I propose to go into grounds and war upon the common enemy. I have no honors to win in taking your scalp, Silver Wolf, as I respect old age, or yours, Spotted Tail, which isa new one—succeeding the oneI took four years ago—or yours, Bald Engle and Whispering Wind. And as for your scalp, Morning Dawn, much as it would rejoice me to see its auburn, perfamed tresses adorning this belt, I will wait for another season. I go with my braves to the land of Tecumseh. Take you for leaders, in the other war, against Cunning Sammy and the Tammy tribes, the Silver Tongue and the Murmur- ing Brook. Then we can have a pipe of peace ; and when we meet in the month of frost and fogs; when the moon is pale and the leaves have fallen, we may have so many Sammy scalps that we shall have no desire to take those of each other.” IfRed Cloud is a wise Indian this is the talk he will deliver at the Saratoga council fires: But if his enemies insist on war they will have it to their hearts’ content, Religious Press Topics. Among the topics most worthy of com- ment by some of our religious contempora- ries is the latest news from Mr. Stanley. The Observer declares concerning his suc- cessful intrepidity in fathoming the mys- teries of the African continent that it appeals to the sympathies of mankind far more than the comparatively fruitless feats of Arctic exploration. The Observer sees in African discoveries the working of a Provi- dence that opens door after door to the light of Christian truth and human progress. The Illustrated Christian Weekly gives a brief résumé of the latest news from Stanley and adds that he has bravely met and sur- mounted fearful perils and dangers and showed the skill as well as the courage of a hero. If life and health are spared till he accomplishes his mission the Weekly thinks there is little doubt that many of the long hidden secrets that have stubbornly defied African explorers and geographers will be unveiled, owing to his scientific skill and faithful perseverance, sustained by the un- paralleled liberality and enterprise of his spirited newspaper patrons. The Pacific Churchman, which comes from a point nearer to the Indian war than any of our religious exchanges, and which doubt- less reflects the opinions of the Christian people on tho Pacific const, suggests as a remedy for this evil that we lay the founda- tion for permanent peace on our borders in an impartial administration of justice. The present war, it says, is the result of allowing selfish and godless men to violate the natu- ral rights of a weak and despised people But now that the war is upon us the govern- ment must be sustained and the Indians sub- dued. The Northwestern Christian Advocate, commenting on Chicago correspondents’ sug- gestions to despatch the Indians by contract for an aggregate sum of money, or to permit five Stages nearest the scene of war to raise a regiment of cavalry each, who besides the usual pay should have all the property they could take from the Indians, says that men who can write | that way are brutes. It adds that Ameri- can citizens who have fallen so faras to en- list to fight Indians for *‘prize money” or on such terms would need to be themselves ex- terminated presently after they had finished the Indians, lest they should turn Indians and patriotically go unduly ahead to despoil the unsavage whites in the West. The fact is the Indians do not put faith in white men, and for the simple reason that the lat- ter have cheated the former to the point where even a dog would desert or rend his master. The man who believes that sixty per cent of responsibility for our present troubles rests upon the Indians is ignorant of or ignores correct history. 4 The Christian Intelligencer eulogizes the “righteous law,” lately passed by Congress, forbidding the use of the mails to lottery venders, gift concert managers and other enterprises and schemes designed to defraud the public. But those chaps will circumvent the law, nevertheless, and rustics will be taken in just as they have been. Still Congress has done justly to prohibit, as far as it can, this species of swindle, which has greatly in- creased of late. The Church Journal rejoices in the downfall of the ‘Molly Maguires” of the coal regions, who in twenty years have murdered not less than one hundred men, and it has been found impossible to con- demn one of the murderers to death. But now the gang has been broken up and eight of them see the gallows in the near future, while as many more are following after, and the lesson which their bloody organiza- tion teaches the Journal is that there aro growing up inour midst people as ignorant of the Gospel as the savages of Africa or the South Sea Islands, and we are doing very little toward enlighteningthem. If ourland is to remain for another hundred years a Christian land the Church of Christ must make more zealous efforts than she has yet made to carry the Gospel to the people. The Catholic Review lays the stripes, figur- +atively, of course, on the backs of the Euro- pean correspondents of the secular press of this city who seem to act on the prin- ciple of attacking the Catholic Church where and whenever they like, and consequently fill the columns of their journals with false- hoods concerning the leaders of that Church. The Review cites some recent instances, but acquits the proprietors of intentionally aim- ing to do wrong to the Catholic Church. The Tablet, in a two column editorial, ‘‘lays out” the Baptist real estate speculation at Tom’s River, N. J., and thinks it no wonder that paganism is spreading in this country when such schemes as that and Sea Cliff, &c., can be carried on in the name of religion. The Wagner Festival. We publish to-day a very interesting let- ter from our correspondent at Baireuth, Bavaria, where the great music drama of the most remarkable composer of the age, Rich- ard Wagner, will be performed in a few days. The work is the culminating point of the master's artistic career, the result of years of labor and the chief representative of the new school of music which he has called into existence. Of all the romantic legends with which the Rhine abounds there is not one more familiar to the Ger- man mind than the ‘‘lied” of the ring of the Nibelungen. The hero, Siegfried, is one of the representative champions of ro- mance, whose deeds form the theme of the bard and the poet. Wagner has remodelled the history of the Nibelungen ring and has introduced into it the most striking Natures of Scandinavian mythology. Previous to going to Baireuth our correspondent paid a visit to the historic city of Worms, once the scene of chivalric exploits and later the battle ground of a great religious war. Sieg- fried and Luther, Burgundian nobles and the leaders of the Reformation, had their home in Worms, and Wagner could not have selected his heroes and heroines from a city franght with more interest. As a musical event the approaching festival will be the most important one of the present cen- tury. It will solve a problem which all the musical minds of the world have been long discussing and will mark an epoch in the history of the divine art. The Emperor of Germany will honor the festival with his presence. Tax Common SENsk or THE SItvEn Ques- tTrox.—Unless silver represents what the world accepts as the specie value of money—unless it comes up to the highest standard—the at- tempt to pay it out as the representative of such a value is a fraud. Thus we might make a contract to deliver a cask of wine in acertain number of years. -When we came to select a cask and found that ten or twenty per cent of the wine had evap- orated our duty would be to supply the deficiency. It would be no argument to say that wine is apt to evaporate. The answer would be that a cask of wine was sold, and the cask should be delivered. Soif by the laws of nature in supplying silver the quan- tity increases and the value falls we are bound to protect the value. Another point is that silver is much better as a commodity than asa standard of value. The cheaper silver becomes the more benefit it will be to civilization. We need it for a hundred pur- poses. Money serves only one purpose, We should not sacrifice other uses to pro- tect that use. Commox Gnrounp.—The fact that Hayes and Tilden meet on common ground oh questions as important as the finances, one term, civil servico and the protection of’ all classes in.the South is the one thing about which all patriotic men should rejoice. That is the true manifestation of the spirit of reform. No matter which party wins, we know that right ideas have triumphed. The only question is, Which party and which man can best be trusted to carry out these ideas? Upon that the success will turn. Tilden fights to win the country's confi- dence, Hayes to retain it. We cannot yet see which side will win. Let Us Stanp By Resumrtiox.—We gain nothing by passing the bill to repeal the Re- sumption act. We have made o promise; let us try and keep it. Even if Tilden is chosen President he will have two years in which to comply with the terms of this act. As Mr. Godwin assures us that Tilden as President would settle the finances in three months why repeal the act? Ifwe find we cannot resume then we can talk about re- peal, But we have made no effort. Ten years ago Mr. Chase said, “The way w re- sume was to resume,” and he was in favor of | paying out specie at once. With such an example is it any wonder we should talk of resumption in 1879? The repeal of the act is a concession to the wild inflationists of the West. If we make that they will want more. It will be a step down, and we can- not afford to take it. Let every honest man set himself against the repeal of: this act until we see, at least, whether we can carry out its provisions or not. The Indians Coming In. Among the chiefs who fought Custer were Crazy Horse, Rain-in-the-Face, and a son of Red Cloud, the great chiefof the Sioux. Two ofthese have come in, and others are disposed to com in, General Sheridan announces that they will only be received as prisoners, which is proper. We infer from what Sher- man said the other day that severe measures will be taken with them. The feeling about the massacre of Custer is so intense that there will be a strong effort to execute every Indian who was in the Rosebud fight. We question the wisdom of this. We executed Captain Jack and the Modocs who murdered Canby. But this murder was under a flag of truce, and the murderers were partly civilized, who knew what they were doing. The killing of Custer and his men was in open battle, a battle which we challenged. It was according to the rules of Indian warfare, and, horrible as it was, we aro bound to regard it as warfare. To hang Sitting Bull or Rain-in-the-Face for the killing of Custer would be the wanton exercise of power, and could do no good. What we want to do is to seize and hold these Indians and try to elevate them. Let there be no blood shed except what is neces- sary to do this, and, above all things, lef there be no revenge or retaliation. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Great praise is due to the faithful few of our city pastors who still cling to their pul- pits and minister to their congregations right along in this sultry season. If they takea vacation # is brief and between Sabbaths. Some of them we know are deferring their rest time until those who are now absent re- turn to the city. Among the faithful few who to-day will hold forth the lamp of life eternal is Dr. Deems,* who will show his strangers how the angel of the Lord en- campeth around them that fear Him and pro- tecteth them. Another of the faithful is Mr. Lightbourn, who will repeat Solomon's address to the young. Now is the time to make special efforts to save the youth, when dissipation invites on every hand. Another is Mr. Davis, ‘who to-day will pre- sent Christ as our High Priest and show what rank the Christian takes in the orders of kinghood ; and Dr. Garnett, too, feeling the necessity for extra efforts in behalf of the young, will make an earnest appeal to young Americans this afternoon, Life in Christ differs very greatly from life out of Christ, and it will be Mr. McCarthy's pleasure to point out the difference, and also to tell us some things concerning the min- istry of spirits. According to Mr. Snow the signs of the times indicate that the second coming of the Saviour with clouds and great glory is near at hand. He will therefore try to-day to prepare the minds of his little flock tor that important event. We notice, however, that a great many persons who be- lieve in the second advent of Christ at hand are none the less anxious to speculate in camp meeting lots and religious real estate, They are as sharp at a bargain as those who do not believe this truth and do not care when or how the Lord comes again. Consistency of preaching and practice is a rarity in this day. — A “Tue Germans ror DorsHEmen.”—A news- paper, in the German tongue, nominates Mr. Dorsheimer for Governor. The telegraph thereupon tells us ‘the Germans are for Dorsheimer.” This is demagogism. Mr, Dorsheimer is an American and too good a man to run for an office upon the nativity of his ancestors. We are tired of the political German and the political Irishman. Weare all Americans in this country, and whens candidate asks our suffrage upon any other ground, so far as nationality is concerned, washould regard him asa quack. We are for Dorsheimer as Lieutenant Governor as an American. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Czar plays whist at Ems. JIndge Gunning 8. Bedford 1s at Saratoga, San Bowles taps the Saratoga Springs mildly, T. B, Peterson enjoys the yellow covers at Saratoga, It costs $50 to insult a lady on the streets of St Louts. Is your candidate's name printed on your white necktie? Ladies wear navy blue flannel for afternoon dresses at Ocean Grove. Mr. Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, is at the Brevoort House. Governor Hendricks is expected at White Sulphay Springs in a few days. Governor Tilden speaks with perfect assuranco of his ability to carry New York State. George W. Julian, once a prominent anti-slavery agi- tator, will stump Indiana for Tilden. A Chinaman has gone to the California Penitentiary ander the euphonious name of “You Lie.” Tho Sau Antonio (Texas) Herald says that the leisure time of policemen might be spent in catching files. Mr. William A. Parrington, Secretary of the United States Legation at Rio Janeiro, is at the Astor House. Rev. W. H. H. Murray registered at the Van Ness Hous Burlington on Tuesday. Ho was on bis wav to the Adirondacks. In the Jordan River, Upper Michigan, trout abound in such numbers that a party of four persons, after six days’ fishing, caught 2,000. Mr. Hendricks thinks that the big thing tn political architecture 1s not so much being on she fence as not having any spikes on top of it. Boston Transcript:—"They have a man in St, Louis who bas mado an enormous fortune in paints and dye staffs, They call him # ver-millionnaire,” General Frank T. Nichols, the democratic candidate for Governor of Louisiana, 's a nephew of James Rod- man Drako, the poet who wrote the ‘Culprit Fay," Experienced observers believe that at least 1.000 men, disappointed im obtaining gold in the Black Hilla will leave for Eastern Montana on a prospecting tour. Mr. James Ashbury, the weil known English yachts. man and ber of Parliament, arrived trom Liver pool in th amsbip Germanic yesterday and js at the Brevoort House, Norwich Bulletin: —‘A hundred years ago when you called on ® girl the kissed you good-by. Now if you suggest anything of the sort her father calls yeu inte the library and asks you what you are worth. Are we nation ?”” ‘The story comes that during a magnificent thunder storm in Dutchess county hundreds of wild geese wore Killed on a pond where they had settled. If this is true there will be fewor paragraph writers than there wore before,