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' ' ! } 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, podlished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. Letters and packages should be properly Fealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. (Ssh LS PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112S0UTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET REE PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements wjll be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ———— = VOLUN E XLI BO, 225 ANUSENENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. K ateP. M. TONY VARIETY, ats P.M PARISIAN VAw atsP. M. THRATRE. Sothern, Matinee at 2 FIFTH LORD DUNDREARY. P.M, WAL THR MIGHTY Do. TIVOL VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GILMO! GRAND CONCKRT, ats P. WITH SUPPLEMENT. “NEW YORK, SATURDAY. AUGUST 12, From our reports this morning the proba are that the weather to-day will be warmer and hazy or partly cloudy, possibly with a thuader storm toward evening. During the swnmer months the Henarp till be sent to subscribers in the country al ihe rate of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Wat Street Yes ket was quiet. Goid opened at 111 1-2, de- clined to 111 3-8, finally closing at the former figure. Government rail at 11-202 per cent. Tur Hovsz or Re ENTATIVES has agreed to adjourn on next Monday. We trust the Senate will concur. he stock mar- PRDAY, bonds were strong; Money on call loaned y bonds firm. “A Scaur ror Locax.—It looks as if the Bristow scalp was taken to please Logan, the great chief of the Ilinois tribe. Ponrrics 1x Concress.—The session of Congress has degenerated intoa series of campaign speeches. ‘They are dreary read- ing enough with the thermometer at seven hundred and fifty in the shade. Pank Comm Mantin finds a power- ful enemy in Comptroller Green, apd the charges which the Comptroller brings against the President of the Park Commis- tion ought tosecure the removal of the latter if they are sustained. If they are not true the same fate ought to await Mr. Green. We fear, however, that there is too much truth in these allegations, and this being the case we shall see how far Tammany and the Mayor are in favor of reform. Sxxator Monroy opened the campaign in Indiana at Indianapolis last night with o speech, in which he took occasion to rebuke the constant slandering of public men and public administration in this country. It wasamanly and a needed protest against the abuse of freedom of speech, and” we trust it will have some effect in diverting political parties from the crusades of slander in which they are so apt to indulge and bringing them back once more to the con- sideration of principles and measures. Tur Eastern Question is gradually shap- ing itself in the direction of peace. Servia has shown little courage or skill in battle, and one by one her strongholds are falling into the hands of the Turks. If this bad fortune continnes—the result, it is hinted, in our despatches this morning, of coward- ico—the Mussulman will soon be under the walls of Belgrade. Then intervention and war or mediation and peace are in- eviteble. Turkey, it seems, is prepared for this contingency, and, acting under the in- spiration of England, will offer terms which cannot well be rejected in face of the alter- bative of a general war. Tne Stiver Question continnes to trouble European statesmen, but it seems to be the opinion of Mr. Goschen, who is well quati- fied to judge of the subject, that the decline has reached its limit, except as it may be Wfected by the production of the American qaines. Mr. Goschen also opposes the intro- duction of a gold currency into India and points out the inconveniences Germany ex- | perienced.in making the change. All this only proves that these questions regulate | themselves and that legislation upon them is practically useless. The idea of the unit of value even is chimerical, and the only way to regard both gold and silver is as commodities worth only what they will fetch. Toe Yacur Racs.—Yesterday, favored with a spanking breeze and a clear, bright day, the Madeleine and the Countess of Duf- ferin sailed their long expected race for the Queen’s Cup, won by the celebrated yacht America in 1851. The interest which attached to this international contest was simply immense, as the gathering in the Bay yes- terday testifies. The race itself was admira- bly conducted throughout, the handling of both yachts being highly creditable to the | seamanship of their respective captains and crews; but, if a comparison must be made, the Madeleine had decidedly the ad- vantage in this respect. The victory, as will be seen by our fall report pub- lished elsewhere, rests with our own yacht, the Canadian, although a remark- ably fast boat, not being fast enough for the graceful Madeleine. The race to-day will probably settle the ownership of the Queen's Cup, so far as this contest for it is concerned, as it is notat all likely that the Madeleine will allow her rival to lead the way to tho stakeboat after yesterday's triumph, NEW YORK The South Wants Rest Instead of Medicine. ; Are not Senator Boutwell, Senator Morton and that class of republicans generally making a blunder in so persistently and conspicuously calling public attention to the lamentable condition of society in some of the Southern States? These gentlemen have been allowed to fix the policy on which reconstruction has been carried out in those States. Whatever has been done down there by republicans has been done not only with their consent but by their initiative. The policy is theirs ; the men who carried it into effect were and are their political allies and friends, whom they have supported; at their instance the President has used the federal forces to countenance and maintain both the policy and the men. And now,, after they have had their way entirely for nearly eight years, they burst out into com- plaints that matters are worse than ever down there, Is not this a blunder of the first class? Is it not an open confession that their policy was a mistaken one; that their friends whom they have so vigorously supported in carrying it out were not fit men; that, in short, they who now complain have experimented in the wrong direction? Suppose a physician who had been treat- ing a patient for seven long years should at the end publicly say that the poor fellow was worse than when he first came under his treatinent ; that he had not benefited in the least by the medicine, and that his case seemed to the doctor on the whole less hope- ful than when he began to administer his ? Probably the faculty would uffite in calling him a quack and his patient a ictim of wrong treatment. But in any case the doctor's confession would not redound edit. Sensible men would advise the sick man to try another physician ; to see if a different treatment would not at least alleviate his misery. And if, across the street, there should be found half a dozen men who had been ill of the same and who had measurably re- under a diametrically opposite method and medicine, only a very little common sense would lead the sick man’s friends to dismiss the quack and engage a more successful doctor. Consider these sick brethren of ours. Louisiana, ac- cording to Drs. Morton, Kellogg and Pack- ard, is in a very bad way indeed; Missis- sippi, atcording to Drs. Boutwell and Ames, is nigh unto death, and they can think of nothing to help but more and bigger doses all the time of the medicine they have been forcing down the throats of these patients for seven long years. But over in the ad- disease, covered | joining street we find Arkanens, once just as dangerously ill as Mississippi; but under Dr. Garland and a different system of treat- ment that patient has entirely recovered. ‘On the other side are Alabama and Georgia; both of these have changed doctors and both are nearly well. There is an occasional | twinge of the old pain, but they are on the high road to recovery. Ah! but they have not been cured by Dr. Boutwell's celebrated pills, and Dr. Morton's far-famed sticking plasters, and General Grant’s solution of lead. That is the real cause of all the outery. These doctors seem to care less nbout making the man well than they do that he shall remain under their treatment. And when the poor fellow per- sists in getting worse, no matter how much of their medicine they ram down his throat, then they get up and scold him. He is a wretch, a scoundrel, because he complains and is unhappy. And as to the fellows over the way, Dr. Boutwell and Dr. Morton hint gloomily that they are only pretending to be well; that it is all a painful fraud ; they are not Weill at all, but sick and will presently die. The object of a political policy is to make the people who are its subfects prosperous and contented. Such a policy is not like the moral law or the Ten Commandments— irrevocable and to be endured whether it makes men happy or not. A political policy is an expedient. It is one way to reach a result, and the condition of adopting and trying it is that if it does not succeed it shall be changed. Governor Ames and his party and methods have ruled Mississippi for several tedious years, and the State and both races living in it are less happy and less prosperous to-day than before. Evi- dently Ames and his policy are failures, and it would be wise to try some other way. But here comes Mr. Boutwell and demands that Ames and only Ames is com- petent to deal with Mississippi; that his policy—only more of it—is the only adequate remedy. Governor Cham- berlain, in like manner, has been trying to set things right in South Carolina. We do not doubt he means well; but what is thé result? After long and fair trial, ‘‘confound the State,” says Senator Morton, “it is no better than before. We must give them another twist of Chamberlain.” Kellogg and Packard and their noble compeers have been working at Louisiana since 1868, and because | they have not made the people contented and prosperous therefore they insist on be- ing still longer retained by federal interpo- sition as herrulers, Isit notali a great folly ahd absurdity? would be a laughable farce if it were not a very grave tragedy. Fortunately for the country the reign of political quackery in the South is near its | end. Whoever is elected President, whether Governor Tilden or Governor Hayes, the Sonthern policy of the next administration will be sensible and healing. Of Governor Tilden we need not speak; but there is nothing more certain than that if Governor Hayes becomes President he will leave the Southern States to exercise precisely the same local self-government as New York or Ohio; he will refuse to aid either party in any of those States by federal influence or force; he will forbid the federal officers whom he may appoint down there from taki>g part in the party polities of those States; he will leave the people to set- tle their local affairs, and we shall no longer see'the disgraceful spectacle of a United States marshal in Louisiana chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, ora Governor in Mississippi crying out for fed- eral troops and rejecting the proffered as- sistance of his own people to put down a riot or bring the rioters to punishment, or another Governor in South Carolina run- ning to Washington to consult with the In fact, all this outery | HERALD. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. federal authority in a case of riot, instead of remaining at his post and doing his sworn duty. In politics, more than in any other department of life, the true test of merit is success, When a policy after faithful trial does not accomplish its object it is proper to change it ; when a ruler like Chamber- lain or Packard after a fair opportunity does not create contentment and prosperity by his methods a reasonable modesty would lead him to retire and let other methods have a trial. Governor Hayes understands this, and it will be found, if he should be chosen President, that he is not the man to continue a policy which, by the constant confessions of Messrs. Boutwell and Morton and its other promoters, has failed utterly. He does not believe in the ‘bloody shirt,” and the politicians in the South who have so long misruled under the protection of the federal government may as well take notice of that fact. Mr. Stanley’s Last Letter. We print this morning the last of the series of letters which we recently received from Mr. Henry M. Stanley. Accompany- ing this letter we publish a map which shows at a glance the salient features of Mr. Stanley's explorations and discoveries, but itis more interesting even on account of what it fails to show than from what it shows. On every hand our brave and determined explorer meets with obstacles which for the time delay his work, but he has great hopes that he will yet be able to complete his explorations. If one course is not open to him it is his purpose to seek another, and complete success must crown his efforts at Jast. Already he has given us much valuable information. He has thor- oughly explored the Victori@} Niyanza, and we now have something like a correct map of that large body of water. The people liv- ing on its shores are almost as well krfown to the readers of the Henarp as the different tribes of the Sioux Indians, while King Mtesa is as much more famous than Sitting Bull was a few months ago as the African is the superior of the Indian. Mr. Stanley has traversed the divide between the Victoria and the Albert, and he hopes to do for the} latter a service similar to that which he has already done for the former. It will take time as well as courage and skill to complete this work, but the words of promise with which Mr. Stanley concludes his last letter are sufficient proof of his determination to persevere until his mission is finished. The Democracy and the Governorship. The republicans seem resolved upon the nomination of Mr. Cornell. Mr. Halstead writes to his newspaper that the Tilden people are voting for him at the republican primaries. This is too grotesque a state- ment to be believed. If Mr. Cornell is named it will be an honor to a gentleman who has always been true to his party, who has been at the head of its discipline and whose personal character and -fitness are conceded. So far as the party alone is con- cerned Mr. Cornell will answer every ecn- dition; but if the managers hope to win any votes outside of the party the man above all others to name is Mr. Evarts. It is no disparagement to Mr. Cornell, for whom we have the utmost respect, and whose abilities and services we concede, to say that wise counsels in the republican party would dic- tate the nomination of a national man, of a candidate whom the democrats would find it hard to beat. The policy which dictates the nomination of Mr. Evarts on the repub- lican side should compel the democrats to nominate Mr. Marble for Governor and Mr. Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Marble represents the best elements in the democratic party. He above all men is the friend of reform and hard money. To him we owe the St. Louis platform and to Mr. Dorsheimer we owe the salvation of that platform in the Convention. They are the men to lead the democracy in this great campaign. The River and Harbor Swindle. We can hardly read with’ patience the details of the River and Harbor Appropria- tion bill as passed by both houses. In a time of general poverty and business depres- sion, when the country needs economy, a “reform” House, in connection with the Senate, gives away five millions of dollars “for the improvement of rivers and har- bors.” It seems that every wildeat Con- gressman who had a ditch ora pond in his district demanded an appropriation to make it@canal ora harbor. So the wildcat Congressmen united their demands, ‘‘log- rolled” a bill, and, by the sheer pressure of a dumb majority, passed it. As the “reform” House passed this bill it was over seven mill- Now it has been reduced to five. It is safe to say that not half of this money will ever go into rivers and harbors. There are some works of public utility, like the opening of the channel at Hell Gate, which should be completed. The improvement of the Falls of St. Anthony, of the Des Moines Rapids, of the Great Kanawha River, of Charleston Harbor, of bar at Galveston Bay, are works that will commend themselves to the public judg- ment. But nine-tenths of the money should have been saved. It happens to be a Presi- dential year. Members desire political capital at home, and had better gain eapital than to win an appropriation from the Treas- ury. The whole business is a new abuse, has grown into magnitude within the past few years and should be checked, We hope the Wyesident will be brave enough to veto this bill. Tue Svrrenper to tar Ixptan Rixc.—The committee of conference have defeated the ions. resolution of the House transferring the | Indian tribes from the Interior to the War Department. We hardly expected the meas- ure to pass, for the Indian Ring is too strong to surrender its power, In Canada the Indians are kept at peace’ and the cost isa hundred times less than with us. Our plan shows the effect of the Indian policy as controlled by the Indian Department. Any change will be a change for the better, We think that the chiefs of the army are the persons to take charge of the Indians, They must fight them, and they know how to do them justice and secure them peace. Noth- ing this Congress has done disappoints us 50 much as the failure to reform this deplora- able.Indian business, which has cost us so much blood and treasure and imposes an indelible stain upon the country's honor. the | | Cincinnatus, Mr. Scott Lord’s Resolution. In spite of the huhbub and consternation which spread among the democratic mem- bers when Mr. Lord offered his resolution, he rendered an excellent service to his party by introducing it and securing a nearly unanimous vote in its favor. That he sprung it upon the House as a surprise is a proof of his sagacity. He acted as Senator Benton did in moving his famous expunging resolu- tion. Mr. Benton afterward said that he consulted none of his political associates be- cause he knew his measure was too bold for their concurrence, and he preferred to broach it without their knowledge rather than against their dissent. Mr. Lord has pursued a similar line of tactics with a more prompt success. What he proposed was not anew departure, but an emphatic indorse- ment of a policy which had already received the assent of the party in its national plat- -form and in the letters of acceptance of its candidates. The good of the party required this indorsement to be made, and Mr. Lord evinced courage as well as sagacity in offer- ing his resolution without consulting party associates. It was in the following lan- guage :— Resolved, by tho House of Representatives, That all attempts by force, fraud, terror, intimidation or otherwise to prevent the ree exercise of the right of suffrage in an State should meet with certain, condign and effectual punishment, and that in any case which has heretofore occurred, or that may hereafter occur, in which yiolence and murder have been or shall be committed by one race or cinss on another, the prompt punishment and execution in any court having jurisdiction of criminal or crim- inals is imperatively demanded, whether the crime be one punistavle by tine and imprisonment er one demanding the penalty of death. ‘This praiseworthy attempt to hold the democratic party to its avowed principles and force it to keep time to its own music will be attended with several good consequences, It will convince the Bour- bon element in the South that it cannot dominate the Northern section of the dem- ocratic party as it was accustomed to do previous to the civil war. It is a wholesome and salutary example which other democratic members will incline to follow. It refutes the standing republican charge that Northern democrats dare not say they haven soulof theirown without the per- mission of Southern masters. It brings aid and comfort to every democratic candidate for Congress who has to contest a dovbtful district in any Northern State, and increases the chances of a democratic majority in the next House. The principal reason why the country hesitates to trust the democratic party is a fear that the ‘political rights of the negroes would not be secure under a demo- cratic administration, and Mr. Scott Lord has done as much as it was possible for one democrat to do to quiet this apprehension. By his sudden and sagacious coup he has compelled the democracy to commit itself unequivocally to the maintenance of negro | rights and to emancipate itself from the con- trol of the Southern wing of the party. By this act, at once wise and bold, Mr. Lord has established a claim to esteem and confidence similar to that of Mr. Lamar in the South, This sagacious move must not be regarded as the isolated act of Mr. Lord. It has an added significance derived from the con- stituency which he represents. The Utica district is mofe zealously devoted to Mr. Til- den than any other in the United States. It is the home of his friend, Governor Sey- mour; the home of his friend, Senator Ker- nan; the seat of the democratic organ which was the earliest advocate*of Mr. Til- den’s nomination. Mr. Lord, no doubt, felt that he would have the full support of his district and of the eminent democrats who give tone to its political sentiment in offering his resolution. it is a blow well struck, which will materially aid the democratic canvass in this pivotal State, Sentinel at His Post—Civilization Safe. We are afraid that the people of this great city, with that. ingratitude which is the shame of republics, do not appreciate at his true worth the great man who is now Mayor of New York, and whose sands of official life are swiftly running out. The one virtue which is last to be rewarded is modesty, and this has always stood in the Mayor's way. If His Honor had been an obtrusive, ambi- tious man, he might now be candidate for the Vice Presidency, an office for which he was pressed by the ladies of Sorosis, the man- agers of the Foundling Asyium and other useful and representative bodies. But Wickham gave way to Uncle Sammy as the elder soldier, and now proposes to retire from public life to his Long Island farm. This avowed purpose adds a tender grace to the closing acts of his official career, and it is with deep emotion that we read such an announcement as the following:— Mayor Wickham, Police Commissioners Erhardt and Chilus and Seperintendent Walling met last night at The Polico Headquarters and had detectives at the meeting | of unemployed wor! nat the Cooper Institete re- to time the character of port to them from t gpeeches. This pi the authorities mig trouble should occur. Our readers are, perhaps, not aware that we have been on the brink of a social revo- Jution. The thermometer has been rushing up toeleven and twelve hundred in the shade, and men’s passions are naturally at a fever heat. The keen ear of Wickham, ever on the alert for the public weal, heard the first sound of danger. He was then in the soli- ionary measure was taken that ¢ Informed without delay if any | tary retirement of Huntington, proparing his farowell address, which he proposes to deliver to the American people with musical accom- paniment at Gilmore's Garden. Atonee, like O. Cromwell and the late lamented G. Washington, the Father of his Country, he threw aside all pleasure and | ag Onur readers only | really what it: is. came to his post of duty. partly know the dangers he encountered. There was the Long Island Railroad, the | horrible stenches at Hunter's Point, the Croton water, the adulteration of the beer and the thermometer thirteen or fourteen hundred in the shade. It was no holiday errand, as any doubting critic may deter- high noon. The eagle eye of the great magistrate saw the whole extent of the dan- ger. “This,” he said, ‘proposes to be a meeting of workingmen. It is moro.. It is the Commmne. It means to overturn society. We shall all be shot as hostages, and John Swinton, with an unscrupulous gang of honse burners, will take control of the city.” There was not a moment to be lost. The Police Commissioners were summoned and Wickham repaired to the Police Headquar- ters to await events. It is evident the rioters knew that Wickham was at his post, that his eye was upon them, for the meeting was very tame and dull, We learn from our report, which we suppressed out of respect for the modesty of the Mayor, that his man- ner during this trying time was heroic, and when the danger passed and he slowly paced his way home under the midnight stars and the shooting meteors it was with the proud thought that, but for his fore- sight, his genius and his courage, New York might be now a mass of Commune ruins. Dion Boucicault’s Duty to America. The remarkable resemblance of Shake- speore to Boucicault, intellectually and oth- erwise, does honor to both parties, and some people are at a loss tosay where most the honorslies, Anew example of this mental resemblance has been strangely overlooked. Shakespeare makes Hamlet exclaim, ‘The play’s the thinz wherein I'll catch the con- science of the King,” and it is to be observed that the conscience of the King is caught, and tht the ghost’s word, which was worth athousand pounds, was not as conyincing to Hamlet as the play. Now, from whom Shakespeare stole this idea we do nof know, but that he stole it from somebody there is no doubt, for there is nothing original in the drama, Solomon says there is nothing new under the sun, and Boucicault, who resem- bles Solomon almost as much. as he does Shakespeare, agrees with him. Mr. Boucicault’s ‘‘Mousetrap,” in which he caught the conscience of the British gov- ernment, is very like the plan of Hamlet to catch the King. But this does not prove that he consciously stole the idea from Shakespeare, but only that his mind, being like Shakespeare's, proceeded in the same woy. He used his fine drama of ‘The Shaughraun” to entrap Disraeli with as much skill as Hamlet used the mimic play to fright the King into confession. He wrote the Prime Minister a letter about this play, which Disraeli was afraid to answer. He compelled Disraeli to listen toSmyth. He forced him to accept a vote on the Fenian amnesty question, and he encouraged the Fenian prisoners to take heart and escape. These political victories were won by the success of ‘The Shaughraun” and show, as Hamlet remarks, how guilty premiers sit- ting at a play have, by the very cunning of Mr. Boucicault’s scenes, been struck so to the soul that they have presently released their malefactors. Now, why should not Boucicault repeat in America what he has done so well in England? There isa broader field for re- form. There are three candidates for the Presidency, and he might benefit the con- sciences of each. He might rewrite ‘“‘Sweet- hearts and Wives” and ‘Maids as They Were and Wives as They Are” for the in- struction of Uncle Sammy, who is said to be very ignorant on the subject. The only ring that Uncle Sammy ever wore is a Canal Ring, by which he was wedded to reform. For General Hayes he could adapt ‘Henry Y.,” and inspire him tothe ardor of a commander in the campaign instead of the inactivity of a modest candidate. For Grandfather Peter Cooper he might recreate Sir Peter Teazle, beginning with the soliloquy, ‘‘When an old man marries a young party,” and showing how his Lady Teazle will flirt with Joseph, and how tho Sir Benjamin Backbite and the Mrs. Candor and Lady Sneerwell of the in- flationists will play ‘The School for Scan- dal” in his canvass. For Sunset Cox he might write a new ‘Box and Cox,” and Mr. Proctor Knott might be presented with “The Jibbenainosay, or the New Nick of the Woods.” ‘Lurline” might be adapted to Babcock with the title of ‘“Sylph,” and ‘the “Octoroon” would supply Mr. Pinchback with an appropriate character. ‘‘Spartacus” would suit John Morrissey, and the romantic spiritual drama of ‘‘Dear Lady Mary” would present Messrs. Flint and Pierrepont in their favorite réles. But we need not multi- ply examples. We have furnished enough to show Mr. Boucicault that he must not be satisfied with his achievements abroad, but that he has ample room to use his dramatic genius as an agent of reform at home. “The German Vote"—Nationality in Politics. General Sigel, in the course of an inter- esting interview with one of our reporters, explaining the reasons for his support of Tilden, refers to the importance of the Ger- man vote in this country. There are six hundred thousand German voters in all, he thinks, and he believes a large majority of them will vote for Tilden. Considering that according to General Schurz a “large major- ity” will vote for Hayes, we may safely as- sume that neither of these gallant gentlemen know but very little about it. The German newspapers and German writers show more energy in the canvass than the Americans. This is natural and as it should be. There is no class more intelligent and impartial than the Germans. They adapt themselves with singular facility to our American life, and in political matters are especially inde- pendent. It is, therefore, rank imposture for so-called German leaders to go around from camp to camp peddling the ‘German vole.” One would think, to hear a hungry political German talk when he wants an office, that he carried the whole German vote in his pocket. Fonr years ago Carl Schurz ‘carried the whole German vote” over to Greeley—but it went largely for Grant. Now Carl ‘‘carries the German vote” back to Hayes, and no doubt a large part will go for Tilden. We can imagine nothing more offensive to an honest, self-respecting German than to see his nation used asa bid for office. This is These ‘German demo- cratic associations” and “German republican associations” are simply so many pretexts, | for obtaining power. They should be frowned upon by all honorable Germans. In poli- ties we are neither Irish nor German, neither Protestant nor Catholic, but American all the time and under all cireumstances. When mine by attempting to walk np Broadway at | a German accepts onr citizenship his nation- ality becomes a memory to him—a memory always to be cherished as sacred, but it should never be a poll 1 expedient. Tux Senate yesterday voted to restore the fast moil trains and the franking privilege. We trust the House will concur. It is a mis- taken economy to deprive the country of mails the usefulness of which has been so fully demonstrated. And as to the franking privilege, it must be contessed, after trial, that its abolishment was a petty reform which wrought much inconvenience to mem- bers of Congress and their constituents, Mr. Blajne Denounces Mr. Tilden. Mr. Blaine made his first appearance in public since leaving Washington the other day before a Maine republican convention, and made a speech denouncing Mr. Tilden and the democratic party. 5 It was once and is still, probably, Mr. Blaine’s landable ambition to be thought a statesman. We advise him to consider for a moment whether it is the part of a states- man to stir up strif@ suspicion and hatred in this country at present? We should like to reckon Mr. Blaine among American statesmen. He is a versatile, brilliant, en- ergetic, able man. A good many people be lieve him to be only a demagogue. We should like to thinks better of him; but if he goes on “denouncing” his political op- ponents, instead of arguing with them, we shall presently pave to give him up too, The true part of a statesman now is to cast oil upon our troubled political waters {| to show the people the way to a peaceful and good-natured settlement of our difficulties and to renewed prosperity. We advisé Mr. Blaine to try his hand at this, No public man in this country, no matter how brilliant or strong, . has ever got further than the United States Senate by “denouncing” people, and Mr. Blaine is now in the Senate. It is a good time for him to turn over a new leaf. The Weather. Between the Mississippi and the Allee ghany Mountains rain continues to pre- vail, and a decided rise in the Ohio and its tributaries is to be expected. The large area affected by this rainfall will also in- crease, by its drainage, the volume of the Mississippi waters below Cairo, but it is im- probable that the river will reach its danger level at any point. Cooler weather, with light rains, prevails on the lakes, where, however, brisk winds may be felt during to- day. In the Northwest a low barometer still induces strong winds from southerly and easterly points, but the weather in that re- gion yesterday afternoon was moderately warm and clear. The changes in atmos- pheric pressure between midnight ond noon, especially along tho Atlantic coast, are very considerable, but the high barometer which is now central over the North Atlantic States is moving steadily eastward, and we may expect warm south= erly winds with local thunder storms dure ing the next few days. The heat will, how- ever, be moderated somewhat by the cold wave from the Northwest, which will move over the lake region and the northern parta of the Middle and Eastern States. The in- fiuence of this cold area has already been felt as far east as Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, The wéather to-day at New York will be warmer and cloudy. A thunder storm mar pass over or near the city in the afternoon, What Does Mr. Boutwell Mean? In the report which Mr. Boutwell has pree sented to the Senate in regard to Mississippi affairs he gives as a remedy for disorders in the South the following recommendation from his committee :—‘‘States in anarchy or ~ wherein the affairs aro controlled by bodies of armed men should be denied representa- tion in Congress.” Another recommenda. tion is that “if these disorders increase, oz even continue, and if mild measures shall prove ineffectual,” the United States will be required to ‘remand the State to a Territoe rial condition.” Does this sweeping propo sition, for which there is no just cause, mean more than is seen on the face? May it not also mean that tho electoral votes of Mississippi and other States are to be thrown out in counting the Presidential bale lots on the pretext that the South ern States ‘are controlled by politi- cal organizations composed largely of armed men whose common purpose is to deprive the negroes of the free exercise of the right of suffrage and to establish and ~ maintain the supremacy of the white line democracy,” as the report says? If the ad- ministration leaders dream of such an intere ference they will be rudely awakened. But the Boutwell report seems to squint toward such arbitrary interference, and there ara Senators enough who would gladly perpoe trate this outrage if they dared. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bristow will go to Rye Beaeh. Southern ministers avoid politics, London is supplied with poor ice, Icelanders are removing to-Canada, Englishmen do not hke Indian meal, Chinamen raise vegetables in the Fiji Islands, Senator Charies W, Jones, of Florida, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Boston Corbett, who shot Wilkes Booth, is hattes in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, and Mar. quis Campo Florio, of Havana, are at the Windsor Hotel. Saturday Review:—“Tho peculiarities of Voltairo’s. criticism are mostly those of his ago, while those of Landor are all his own.” An Eton boy, sixteen years old, swam from Bray Lock to Windsor Bridge, five and a quarter miles, in an hour and twenty-five minates, An English critic says that in England the common sense of society has settled the questions which Amerie can economisis are still forced.to discuss. Perry Murpuy, of Sidney Plats, N. Y., wishes the address of some member of Company D, Sixty-sixth regiment New York Volunteers, of which Lieutenant Backhart was the only surviving officer, Saturday Reviww:—“The vest way, perhaps, of ace celorating the progress of public business woula be to devote an entire session to considering how the proge ress'of public business can be accelerated, "? New Orleans Republican:—"The editor of the Viekse burg /erald says, rather meekly, ‘Itis still hot enough to burn che ears off a brass monkey.’ Wiil somebody give him an umbrelia ?”” Tu Park place a large bootblack was stealing the blacking of a little fellow of the same trade when a cerical-tooking, mild old gentleman launched thebow of big boot at the big fellow with good cftect, A letter has been received at the Troasary contains ing $12, “to be put to the conscievee fund.” The writer signs himself “A Repentant,” and says:—"Now, instead of a miserable Fraud, as T once was, a man who culls Christ, Lord to the Glory of God the Father.” Atrayeller, speaking of Servian women, says that occasionally atace of pure Egyptian typo was to be noticed—a trace probably of tho infusion of gypsy blood, which is for from uncommon in Easter Europe, Ono woman I noticed leaning dreamily over agardes fence with a face cast in the very mould of the Sphinx, The Pall Mall Gazette, writing that the American Indians should be isolated and kept under the strong hand of government, says:—"fThe New Yorx Heratp 18a good index to the prevalent opinion of the mass of the American peopie, and on this subject it speaks the langtage of sound sense and foresight,” turday Review: —“A handsome face and a winning ner ave certainly of some value in the great cone | test for hearts, but not of supreme value; not of se much worth that they can make fine natured and noble minded women indifferent to a man’s treachery and, | baseness, to selfishness and jguobility all round,”

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