The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1876, Page 4

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SSA SE WITH SUPPLEMENT. “NEW YORK. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 1876, ” From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and fair or partly cloudy. During the summer months the Tunaup toill be sent fo subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Watt Srrest Yxstenpay.—Stocks were lower and feverish, the principal decline being in Rock Island, Delaware and Lacka- wanna and New Jersey Central. Gold opened at 112 1-8 and closed at111 7-8. Money was supplied on call at 2 per cent. Govern- ment bonds were strong and first class rail- ‘way mortgages firm. Anapama has been carried by the demo- srats by increased majorities in every part of the State—a result that was conceded at the outset. Tax Tump Triv of the Henatp Saratoga train was made on Sunday, and in another column we print an interesting account of the journey. Our Pants Letrer this morning gives some interesting gossip of the position of parties in France and the relations of the Republic to the rest of Europe. This is interesting mainly because it is evidence of the quiet into which the French people have settled and of the hopes it holds out for peace and prosperity under republican rule. Tae Custer Prxston.—It will be o dis- grace to the Senate if the Custer Pension bill is not passed. Why can not Morton, Conkling, Thurman and Bayard let poor Sambo alone for five minutes and pass it ? Let it pass as it came from the House, and not as it was amended by the twopenny statesmen of the Committee on Pensions, Tux Workrnemen held meetings last night in different parts of the city, at which it was resolved that it is the duty of municipalities and legislatures to set everybody up in busi- ness who is willing to ‘Go West and buy land,” and to supply all who prefer to stay | where they are with ‘days’ work” at every- body else's expense. ‘Tur Sexare was occupied yesterday in listening to stump speeches bearing on the political campaign. None of them were re- markable either for novelty or force, and even Mr. Edmunds indulged in puerilities, while Mr. Eaton closed the debate with a lecture to Senator Morton that would have been vindictive had it not been laughable. Tue Bursinc or Gorevsovatz is only in keeping with the policy of the Turks, Wherever they have been able to overcome their enemies they have completed their vic- tory by firing towns and villages and killing non-combatants. In the end ‘S-~* barbari- ties must compel interventior “nd then will follow the real war, of which the present struggle is only the prelude. Excrrt mm Cuna a war tax upon foreigners doing business in the country would be right, but in the “Ever Faithful Isle” nobody except good Spaniards is allowed any in- terest in public affairs, and so it is proper that good Spaniards only should pay for the luxury of insurrection. The German resi- dents have already been exempted from the payment of the tax, the English soon will be .and in the end it will be imposed only upon the Americans. Aw Ixcrpent occurred on the homeward trip of the Fifth brigade, Second division, from Creedmoor yesterday, which reflects great discredit on tho National Guard. A private of the Fourteenth regiment fired his piece out of the window of the car, regard- less of the breach of discipline and the con- sequences which might have ensued; and another private, who was sitting opposite the offender, refused to say whether he saw the shot fired. Both men were arrested, and if thero is any such thing as military law in this State we hope they will be made to feel the penalties of its violation. Coroxs, Srevsixs now smilingly pre- sents a letter to Comptroller Green on the envelope wrangle with the Park Com- missioners. It is a very petty course which the obscure but no doubt worthy gentlemen who compose the Board of Public Parks have chosen to-adopt, and the ferocious reply to Mr. Green, which we print this morning, will scarcely raise the quarrel to the dignity which should characterize the management of so important a department, A wrangle with the Comptroller over so small a point as sending his communications to the Board, through one of its members is un- worthy of officials who hold their places on account of the confidence which our distin- guished Mayor reposes in their wisdom, The Trae Way with the South. There are reasons to hope that we are at last coming to the true way with the South. There has been going on there since 1865 an | experiment the like of which no civilized nation ever made in the world. What was meant by conferring the suffrage upon four millions of persons just emancipated, with- out education, without property, without training in the exercise of citizenship, with- out a correct moral sense and with no sense of public responsibility at all—what this | meant Mr. Lamar, in his singularly able and philosophical speech on Wednesday, brought vividly before the senses of his hearers and readers. To help him he had the foremost friend of the negroes in all the land, Sena- tor Morton himself ; for we must confess that the language of Mr. Morton, cited by Mr. Lamar, describes in even more vivid detail than that of the Mississippian the perils, | the evil results and the inconveniences of | this gift of citizenship to the freedmen. The | two speeches—Mr. Lamar’s and Mr. Mor- ton's—deserve the careful attention of all thoughtful citizens, not os arguments for withdrawing this gift from the Southern blacks—that is out of the question—but in order that the Northern voters may realize the true nature of the Southern troubles, in order that they may see that the questions there involving the whole of society in tur- moil are not to be settled by a military order, a few companies of cavalry or a Force bill. Mr. Lamar spoke truly; time was needed, and in some of those States time is still needed. And besides time they need vig- orous, courageous local governments, ready to assert the laws, to punish evildoers and to hold society together in peace until time shall solve the still remaining difficulties. One of the phrases oftenest used about the Southern States is that they ‘«must be- come like the North.” “We want to make Louisiana like the North,” saida very prom- inent republican of that State the other day. “We want to make Mississippi like de Norf,” said a colored Sheriff of that State not long ago to a Northern traveller, who replied to him, gravely, “You are Sheriff of this county, my friend ; you cannot write a sen- tence correctly; you can barely read ; you own less than five hundred dollars’ worth of property in the world ; yet you are Sheriff of a great county, and you want to have your State like the North. Believe me when I tell you that there is not a State nor county in all the North where ten men could be found to nominate you for Sheriff, or, in fact, for any office whatever. I do not speak it to offend you, but to inform you. If you ived anywhere in the North, even in Massa- chusetts or the Western Reserve of Ohio, no soul would ever for a moment think of nom- inating you even for constable, much less Sheriff. You would be a patient and con- tented day laborer or farmer, and your wild- est dreams would not lead you to think of office.” Is not this true? And if so, when we ‘echo the Southern republican’s or the Southern negro's cry that the South shall be “like the North,” ought we not to think what that means? Louisiana has a negro Lieutenant Governor; Mississippi had one until he was impeached for bribery, Almost every South- ern State has colored State officers, colored sheriffs, colored tax collectors, colored judges, colored school officers. In this are they not unlike, very unlike, ‘the North?” Frederick Douglass is a cultivated man, an eloquent speaker, a fcrcible writer, a man of property, a good citizen. What party in New York has ever thought of nominating him for Lieutenant Governor? We, too, would like to see the South “like the North,” and like the best part of the North. We should like to see, for instance, the rude, unlettered colored men of the South warned and guided by the republican | leaders to give up their greed for public of fice, and taught to select their governors, their sheriffs, their legislators, their judges and county supervisors from among the educated and property-owning white resi- dents. We should like to see them calling upon these, and not upon the far off and to a@ great extent powerless federal govern- ment, for justice and protection against the lawless part of the community. We should like to see society in the South reorganized with@he brains at the top, and that is what the republican rule down there with its constant cry for federal interference | and its fatal habit of teaching the ignorant negro that office is one of his rights, no matter how he abuses it, and that the federal power is his only protector, has continually obstructed. Among the documents sent in by the President with his recent Southern Message are some letters from thé United States District Attorney of Northern Missis- sippi. He relates that the Grand Jury which had just been discharged consisted of eleven republicans and seven democrats ; that be- fore this body was brought evidence of in- timidation at an election ; that he—a native Mississippian—in vain pressed upon them the necessity of indicting the guilty parties; that they absolutely refusod to do so, and he | encloses their report to the Judge. Now, having just refused to find indictments on which the guilty might have been brought to justice, what do these republican Grand Jurymen do? They unite in a wild general indictment of the whole State as revolu- tionary and fall of violence, and demand the | immediate interference of tho federal force! What is the use of that? Senator Boutwell cannot be accused of lukewarmness toward the Southern blacks nor of an amiable weakness toward the Southern whites, as his partisan report on the Mississippi Governorship abundantly proves. When recently in Mississippi what he there saw led him, as he was leaving the State, to call around him a number of the leading colored men and to advise them to select this fall for all tho offices, State and local, not negroes, not | even Northern men, but prominent, influen- | | tial, intelligent men of the old white resi- | dents, the natives of the State, and to vote for these, That advice was sound and states- manlike ; but it will not be taken. Even if | the mass of the colored men were willing the vagabond carpet-bag element would not let | them. That class lives upon office; it | “divides with the niggers;” it has taught | the black that his voting strength entitles | him to ashare of public plunder, and it lives upon his fears and his greed for spoils. Northern man run for office in the South?” and the question is thought to demonstrate “Southern intolerance.” But suppose Massachusetts had a majority of citizens, but lately slaves, ignorant, without prop- erty, with little moral sense and less value for that which we call character and reputa- tion. Suppose a Lonisianian should there- upon remove to Massachusetts and at once control this ignorant and debased majority for his own political ambition ; suppose he should do this by appealing now to their fears of re-enslavement, now to their cupid- ity; should unscrupulously arouse their unworthiést ambitions; teach them that lack | of character and capacity need not keep them from taking the most important offices ; should divide the plunder of the State with them ; and when he had attracted to himself and to them also the suspicion, fear and hatred of tho old citizens, should then ap- peal to the omnipotent and dreaded federal power for support and get it, what would be the condition of public opinion in Massa- chnsetts? Would not society be shaken to the core? Would not respectable and other- wise virtuous citizens be embittered to the point where they would shut their eyes to violence? We do not excuse violence. Nothing ex- cuses murder or lawlessness. But these crimes which happen in the South, and of which, just now, the President and the repub- lican organs and politicians give suci hor- rifying accounts, are not without cause. They are the results ofa long course of abuse begun and continued by unscrupulous and selfish Northern adventurers, who have, with the help of the federal government, preyed upon Southern society, and who have not even had the courage and energy to pun- ish these crimes of which their conduct has been the main cause. Let non-interference have a trial. Let us see what will happen if these adventurers can no longer call upon the federal power to maintain them. That is the only cure. Reno and Caster. ‘The details of General Custer’s last battle have been repeated in somany-forms, and have come from so many sources, that it is only natural they should give pain to the officers of the Seventh cavalry who were with Reno while the gallant Custer was meeting his fate on the other side of the Rosebud. So little is really known of Cus- ter's purposes in his death struggle with the savages that the endeavor to do him justice is only too apt to lead to injustice to the sur- viving officers of the regiment, and among these Major Reno has, perhaps, the most reascu to complain. The charge which has often been made against Keno is that of fail- ing to join Custer in his battle with Sitting Bull, so as to prevent the wholesale slaugh- ter which took place. This charge was pub- lished by General Rosser, who added to it the belief that Custer had arranged a place of junction with Reno before the battle. A warm response from Reno is the conse- quence. We print his answer to Rosser this morning, together with a narrative of the encounter of his command with the Indians and his relations with Custer and knowledge of Custer's movements at the time of the bat- tle. Colonel Benteen also favors the Hrnaip with an interview, in which he tells part of the same history and sustains and corrob- orates Reno. The importance of these state- ments cannot be overestimated, and we are almost glad that Reno was goaded into mak- ing them, else we might have missed a valu- able part of this history. No official report could have been sufficiently complete to tell the story, while the attitude in which Reno was placed by these accusations has drawn from him the very things the public wanted to know. It is now clear that Reno had no knowledge of Custer’s movements on the day of the fatal battle and that he was guilty of no fault in failing to succor his gallant companion in arms. His dwn apparent suc- cesses in driving the savages, it seems clear enough, were only a feint to entrap Custer, and the story of the battle, as it was told by the appearance of the fatal field, is proof how well it succeeded. The only wonder is that Reno escaped the fate which was re- served for Custer or that he or any of his command should be left to give us a hint of the cause of Custer’s disasters. The story which Reno and Benteen relate is a thrilling one in every aspect, and their statements are a fit supplement to the accounts which pre- ceded them. Tue Braye AwrnpMeNt.—We are glad that Congress seems disposed. to pass the Blaine amendment to the constitution. This measure is so called becatse it is in sub- stance what Mr. Blaine proposed in a letter to an Ohio friend as the true way of settling the Church and school question. Blaine’s idea in proposing the amendment was to throw a firebrand into the Ohio canvass and win votes for the Presidency from the Prot- estants. His idea was that the democrats would heedlessly rush their heads against it, | like a bull charging a locomotive, because it came from a republican. The Henanp ad- vised the democrats to take Blaine at his word and pass his amendment, and in so doing accomplish two results. The first would be to disarm an adroit partisan of a dangerous weapon; the other would be to remove the question of religion forever from our poli- tics. The House has passed the amend- ment, and we trust to see it pass the Senate, There will be no trouble in its receiving the indorsement of the requisite number of States, The passage of the Blaine amend- ment will be an important triumph for civil and religious freedom. , Manrsrx anv Dorsuermen.—The canvass for Marble and Dorsheimer swims along famously. Thus for no rivals have ap- peared. Uncle Sammy will hold his hands off; but those who know the old man’s heart say that it will be light and happy if he can go into the canvass with such lieutenants as Marble and Dorsheimer. To one of these gentlemen we owe the splendid hard money platform. ‘To the other we owe the fact that it was not smoth- ered by Ewing and the soft money men in the Convention. Another point is that Mar- ble and Dorsheimer are handsome men— Marble of the antique Grecian type ; Dors- heimer of the modern Saxon. Their nomi- “nations would give the canvass an artistic value, which is not alight thing, especially | It is oftem ssked, “Why should not »| ina canvass, The Reduction of the Army. The proposal to reduce the army comes with bad grace at the time when we are straining every nerve to fight Sitting Bull. There is more cant written and spoken about the army and navy than any other depart- ments of the government. There is a tradi- tion in all free governments, and more es- pecially those of English origin, that a standing army isincompatible with freedom. For this reason Parliament virtually creates the English army every year by passing the Mutiny act. . Thus the army is kept under absolute control, We do not censure this sentiment. But there is such a thing as carrying it too far. It would be a blunder to have military establishments like those of Germany and France. Happily, at least since the civil war, we have not needed them. Nor do we need an army like that of England. The English may be called upon at any time to take part in a European war, to defend Belgium, prevent the Russians from occupying Constantinople, or aid France as an ally. England has her Indian Empire to hold and colonies all over the world, so that a large army is necessary. Our drmy, as it is, is the smallest in the world, considering our population—not larger than one of the divisions of the French and German armies. Therefore, when we compare the cust of it with the expense thrown upon the European Powers we see how fortunate we are. We should adopt the policy of England—namely, to keep an army large enough for our uses. We need soldiers to garrison our forts, to protect the hundreds of millions of public property that would otherwise run to waste, to defend our Texas frontiers against Mexican bandits and our Western frontiers against the Indians. We should have a large staff, especially in the ordnance and engineer departments, so that in the event of war we could have trained officers for our volunteers. We lost more money in the last war by waiting until the armies were organized than would have supported a proper staff for twenty years. So far as is possible the government should encourage the teaching of military knowledge in col- leges, and the formation of militia com- panies, and to do so it should furnish trained men from the staff to act as teachers and militia officers. As to the South, while we do not believe as a general thing in large bodies of troops occupying the Southern States, still, so long as there is a possibility of another McEnery movement in Louisiana and another Hamburg massacre in South Carolina, it is well to have a’ regiment or two in reserve. As it now stands, outside of Texas there are not more than three thou- sand troops in the Southern States. This is a small body indeed—not enough to point an argument one way or another. The whole army question should be left to the generals commanding. One of the reasons of the Custer massacre was that we did not send troops enough. This was man- ifest throughout the whole of Sherman's tes- timony, although he did not say so. Even now to strengthen Crook and Terry we have to weaken the usefulness of the army in many quarters. Until this Indian question is settled it is folly to think of reducing the army. ‘The wisest plan would be to tum the whole Indian nations over to the army, and to give Sherman and Sheridan as many men as are needed to bring them all in. Now, when our brave boys are toiling through a wilderness to meet a foe who out- numbers him and to defend our frontiers, it isthe height of meanness to talk about re- ducing the army. A Disputed Chapter of History. We print elsewhere an important letter from the Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, in re- sponse to Thurlow Weed. The question at issue between these distinguished gentlg- men is as to thetruth of astory told by Mr. Weed to the founder of the Nzrw Yorx Henatp in reference to General Taylor and the compromise measures of his administration. Mr. Weed contends that Mr. Stephens, Mr. Toombs and other leaders of the old whig party sought to compel Taylor to veto the bill admitting the free State of California into the Union. It will be remembered that Mr. Stephens denied this story when Mr. Weed first printed it. But our venerable townsman was not satisfied with the denial and asked for more evidence. Mr. Stephens gives him evidence enough this morning, especially a letter from Mr. Toombs which confirms his story in all of its details. It is not our business to interfere in a controversy between opponents as skil- ful as Mr. Weed ond Mr. Stephens, The letters which have grown out of this subject are valuable contributions to a most interesting period of our history. The letter of Mr. Stephens is a model of good taste gnd clear, concise statement. We are glad to note this, because it leads us to hope that the distinguished Georgian is regaining his wonted strength of mind and body, that he will soon return to the House and be spared many years to adorn ascene which he has made memorable by many a conflict and many a triumph, Governor Tipen’s Answer to the com- plaint of the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company throws much light upon the combinations and speculations of our railway magnates. It would be unfair to Mr. Tilden to judge him from the charges contained in the complaint, and we are also constrained to say that a full understanding of the case is not to be obtained from the answer which we print this morning. The explanation of his connection with these transactions and an exposition of their pur. poses and aims must be made with more directness than is possible in a formal legal. document. We have no suspicion that Mr. Tilden's course in this matter was in any way dishonorable, and we believe the suit is bronght only for its effect upon the canvass, but at the same time it is due to the people of the United States that he shall explain the case in language which everybody can | understand, and the sooner it is done the better. ‘Tur Boys 1x Buve.—The partisan repub- lican papers tell us of the Boys in Blue Con- vention which is to be held very soon in In- dianapolis. ‘This is to bea political conven- tion, composed of republicans who claim to have been in the army and adopt the old army names and phrases for political ends. and have military divisions, with captains and colonels, and so on. At the head of the movement is our venerable and illustrious fellow citizen, General Dix. We can well believe, however, that General Dix does nothing more than give his name to such a movement. He has too much to do down in his summer house on the Hampton beaches, shooting snipe and preparing to shoot ducks when the season comes, to take a foolish errand to Indianapolis, with a torch, asa Boy in Blue. We wish that the Governor would throw his great influence against this or any similar organization for political ends. It prostitutes the sacred name of sol- dier. It drags the army down to the level of partisan politics. It is an imposture. There are thousands of Boys in Blue who will vote for Uncle Sammy Tilden, and any republican convention that proposes to represent them is necessarily a fraud. Judge Black and the President, The papers throughout the country are censuring dudge Black for his speech on the Belknap case. In this speech the Judge said that the offence of Belknap in taking bribes was in doing what Grant did in taking presents. He pointed out that among those who had given presents to the President was Judge Hoar, who gave him a costly library. Judge Hoar at once denied the story, and as he is a man of as much standing as Judge Black he is entitled to belief. ‘The attacks on the President for accepting presents have been so persistent that people believe that he has made the White House a kind of pawn office. The speech of Judge Black, made before the Senate as a court, confirms that impression. And yet where isthe evidence that the President has re- ceived any valuable present since he entered the White House? At the close of the war he received a house in Galena, a house in Philadelphia and another house in Washington, together with a hundred thou- sand dollars in money from the citizens of New York. There were certain swords, and 80 on, thrown in by fairs and associations, but we are putting the case from our best recollection. These houses and this money were given, as we have said, at the close of the war. The people hailed Grant and his fellow soldiers as men who deserved well of the country. Our public-spirited citizens vied with each other in honoring them. General Grant was not the only officer who was favored. General McClellan was given a house in this city by friends who believed in him and desired to remember his services. General Sherman was given a hundred thou- sand dollars, and we think some present was made to Farragut. A house was offered to Thomas, but he declined it. We think General Meade was the recipient of some favors of this kind from his fellow citizens in Philadelphia, while one of the most mu- nificent gifts ever bestowed upon a public man was the present to General Sherman by the.Khedive in the shape of o diamond neck- lace to his daughter. “Was it right for General Grant to ac- cept these presents?” we are constantly asked. The question should be, ‘Was it right for Grant, Sherman, Farragut, McClel- lon and others who had served their country in its hour of peril to accept presents?” It is said that some of the gentlemen who sub- scribed to the Grant Presentation Fund— Borie, Fish and A. T. Stewart among them— were given important offices. ‘The inference is that these offices were the reward for their subscriptions. Let us suppose General McClellan had been elected President. Could he have selected a Cabinet without naming some of the eminent citizene who subscribed to his house? And would the charge made against Grant have been true as to him? Or let us suppose General Sherman were to be chosen President. Would he be ex- pected to strike out the name of every gen- tleman who subscribed to his fund from the list of those he deemed worthy of honor? The Indian News. All the news we have from the Indian frontier points to a speedy movement on the part of our troops. Gen- eral Terry informed our correspondent, according to his most graphic and interest- ing despatch, published yesterday, that he hoped to be able to move on the 10th of August. One of the results of this move- ment will be to bring Terry and Crook within co-operating distances. When the move- ment begins we shall have about five thou- sand men in the field under the command ot some of the best officers in thearmy. One of the despatches we printed yesterday was to the effect that Sitting Bull was concentrat- ing fora fight. We hope this may prove true, especially if he does not concentrate too soon. If we can only unite our forces and fight the Indians in one pitched battle we have no fear for the result. But Sitting Bull knows much more about our forces than we do about his, and he will fight us in his own way and not in ours. If he becomes over-confident from the defeat of Custer, orif ho thinks he can whip our forces, he will fight’ If not, he will divide his bands, send them in all direc- tions, and, after the weather becomes colder, go north himself and send the rest in to make peace, “‘shake hands,” bny ammuni- ; tion and guns and live at the expense of Uncle Sam until next spring. If Terry can only have a fair, square fight with Sitting Bull there is a hope that his power will be broken as was the power of Tecumseh at Tippe- canoe. Tyranny tn 4 Smarty Way. —We are a law- abiding, Christian people, and the spirit of our laws is in favor of a due respect for the Christian Sabbath. As a general thing the Sabbath is observed in New York. Even if it is not a day cf worship it is a day of rest. Experience shows the value of the Sabbath from this secular point of view. At the same time the Sabbath can only be held sacred by public opinion. The attempt to enforce it by statute is tyrannical, More than all, it will never succeed. No law ean make peo- ple Christians, and when the Sabbath de- pends upon law for its protection it rests upon a slender foundation, The raid upon Gilmore's Garden is a case in point. Here we have the police arresting thirty people for selling beer, and yet there were a hundred places all over New York where beer was sold without molestation. To apply one law to Gilmore and another law to tho corner s | They are to carry torches, woar uniforms, | grocery is tyranny. fo long as there is no | | 3,000,000 are slaves, \ \ See nee UE UE disturbance of the peace, so long as people listen to the music and behave themselves, why deny them a glass of beer? The whole proceeding savors of the blue laws of Com necticut, and should not be tolerated. Chamberiain. The Governor of South Carolina would stand better before the country if it could be shown that before writing his able and passionate letter to the President he had used all his civil powers as Governor to ar- rest and punish the leaders of the Hamburg massacre. According to his own statement, citizens were shot dewn in cold blood for no offence in the world. A coroner's jury has confirmed his statements and has named the men who are supposed to have committed these murders. Why have they not been ar- rested? General Butler, the leader of the riot, has said over his signature in the pub- lic prints that he is anxious to be arrested and have the whole matter investigated. With the evidence of the coroner's jury ag his warrant Governor Chamberlain should go down to Hamburg and see that every ac- cused criminal was in prison. If ony have fled to Georgia he should demand them from the Governor of that State. When he finds he cannot en- force the laws it will be time for him to call on the President. But where is the evidence that he has tried to enforce them? The country is disposed to think well of the Governor for his war on men like Moses and Whipper. But when it sees murders unavenged, when it sees a Gover- nor of a State, whose duty it is to enforce the law, hurrying to Washington and writ- ing inflammatory letters to the President, the inference will be drawn that the Ham- burg massacre is only a political massacre after all, and that beyond using it as am- munition for the canvass the Governor will do nothing about it. Waar Suerman Wanrep.—We now learn that General Sheridan applied to the govern. ment last year to be put in charge of the Standing Rock, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. This request was not granted be- cause, as we suppose, Belknap and his cro= nies were having too good a thing out of trade ing stores to allow an honest soldier to in terfere. If Sheridan’s request had been granted there would have been no sending ‘out of guns and ammunition to Sitting Bull, Nor would they be used as they are now—ag hospitals for the wounded and as bases of supplies for the Sioux chief. Sheridan knew perfectly well that. in the event of trouble with the Sioux these agencies would be used against the government. Events have justi- fied his fears. We now know that the arma which have killed our brave soldiers were sold to the Sioux by American agencies. We now know that Belknap, Delano and the In. dian Riag scoundrels have been making money by organizing an Indian wor. The time has come to turn out the whole crowd and give absolute control of the Indians to Sherman and Sheridan. Jzwsit is the magnanimous man of the hour. Notwithstanding the kicking Grant gave him he was present at the: Republican National Committee the other day and “ready for work.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Fow children go to Saratoga Springs. Free lunches have gone out of fashion, Boys tlow peddle ice cream through cars, Talmage is a good horseman, being all legs 9nd armat Ole Bull defends himself and wife irom newspaper gorsip. The Augusta (Ga) Constitutionalist now publisbet “Pi notes.” The annual yacht regatta of Lake Winnebago wil come off August 10, Sir Randal Roberts and family, of England, are a tho Grand Central Hotel. Lewis A. Carpenter, of New York, has boen appointes Indian agent among tho Crows. English paper:—‘tA Londoner, living anywhere, 4 tho natural enemy of a stranger.” Mr. John W. Foster, United States Minister to Mex ico, is at the Fifth Avenue Hovel, Dr. Loring is strong for the nomination for Congres in the Newburyport district of Massachusetts. Murat Halstead thinks it to be Tilden’s interest to help Conkling and secure the nomination of Cornell. Mr. Bristow makos his first appearance on the stump in Vermont, at Burliagton, on the 30th, and at Rutland soon after. In hot weather hang a wet horse rug or blanket over the door or window facing the wind and the room will become cool Mr. I. Lowthian Bell, M. P., and Mr. Joha Lancaster, Centennial Judges fer Great Britain, are at the Buck- ingham Hotel. 9 Mr. Gladstone dislikes Mr. Pierrepont for the um gainty remarks that tho American Minister made about the ex-Premier. Movdy has builtand occupied a $10,000 house a Northéeld, Mass., and now, unlike his Master, he hat where to lay his head. Mr. Gladstone has expiained in a private note the difference between Theism and Christianity as lying im “the conception of sin.”? The dirty Sioux Indian never speaks poetically of fire water or of smoking the peacetul pipa He aska for rum and tobacco like a loafer. . Mrs. Jano Grey Swissheim writes a wild, dramatic letter to show that a canny Scotchman, betng an ia- dulgent husband anda payer of milliner’s bills for a stylish French wife, became the dynamite fiend. Athenaum:—"These aro the days ot method. If we are to appreciate a thing our admiration, be it such ag it may, must run in certain approved channels; if we criticise we must follow certain vory detinite canons.” London Fan:—“Edith—'I say, Regy, how ts ‘it that one of our cows is brown and the other white? Reginald—‘Why, you silly, any ona knows that. It's the white cow that gives the milk and the brown cow the coffee!’ ” When you lose tho bobber of your line do not try to splash it into shore with the end of your fishing polo; simply take the cork out of your flask, cut a slit ia the side of the cork, slide it upon the line, bait your hook and tako another—fish, The great metaphysician, Glordano Bruno, who was burned alive for heresy in 1600, is to have a monument erected to his memory by @ combination of students of the principal Earopean universities, those of the University of Rome taking tho lead in the eubserip- tion, Mr, B. P. Shiltaber has been confined to his bed for some time by an attack of rhoumatism, but is now able to sit up. He has recently completed a drama which has been purchased by Mr. Wyzeman Marshall, | and will be read by him before lyceums tho coming season. Mr. Gladatone ever made an epigram in his life, and is one of the few public mea who have left us withowt phrases, At the children's tlowor show in tne Duke of Westminster's gardens last week Mr. stone talked about flowers in a saa, priggish way, Ho said that flowers “preached”? to us. n Dr. Yakshich, of Beigrado, a great authority on the subject, estimates the population of European Turkey, exclusive of the principalities, at 8,000,000, of whom Add to these Jatter 1,500,000 Servians and Montenegring and we have 4,500,000 Slaves among a population at 950,000. The number of Mohammedans is estimated by the samo authority at 3,880,000, and although these are inferior in mums ber to the Christians they possess all the advamtages to be derived from holding the reins of gowes,