The New York Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK Hi] HERALD BROADWAY AY AND ANN ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON . BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ate THE DAILY | H cay 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 Yong Hear. Letters and packages shculd be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO, 112SOUTH SIXTH STREE LONDON OFFI HEKALD—NO. 46 FLEET § PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms pe in New York. ) OF THE NEW YORK VOLUMF XI...» oLyMPic VARIETY, ot 8P. N. BOOT! SARDANAPALUS, at 5 I’ Booth. Wood's MUSEUM. M, Matinee at 2 P.M. INSTRELS, SITTING BUL} ; THRATRE rn. Sot! VARIETY, step a GIL GRAND CONCELI, Pappenbeim. ‘TRE COMIQUE. WITH ase TS NEW YORK, AUGUST Vs, TUESDAY, 1876. are that the weather to-day wiil be warmer and cloudy, with, possibly, fog and rain. During the summer months the Henanp will be sent to subseribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per weck, free of postage. Waitt Srreet Yesrerpay.—Stocks were firm on moderate transactions. Gold opened at 111 1-2 and closed at 111 3-8. Money on call was supplied at 1 and 2 per cent. Foreign exchange was dnll. Government and railway bonds were steady. Tue News rrom Tne East this morning is more hopeful for the Servians, and not only does Prince Milan express satisfaction with his army, but he also declares his pur- pose to continue the war to the last extrem- | ity. This is all well enough, but better fighting in the future will be necessary to | inake his words good. JupGE Nenso upholding the action of the Children’s Aid Society in send- ing children to the West without the knowl- edge or consent of parents incapable of car- ing for them may be good law, and so far as the children are concerned good poliey, but a charity which violates the maternal instinct is not one upon which the highest civilization can look with favor. ReLiciovs WARS AND VIOLENCE are becom- {ng too common in every part of the world. A Chinese mob attacked a French mission during the service and killed the priest and many of the worshippers. The populace in China flas not yet learned religious tolera- | y»read this morning of a re- | tion, but we ligious revolution in Central Ame much fighting in consequence of re differences. Tue Haxp anp Waist of the right arm of the statue of Liberty which France is about to erect in New York Harbor arrived yester- day. This, with the part on exhibition at the Centennial, makes the arm complete. A description of the statue, as it will appear when completed, is printed in another col- umn. This tribute from republican France to republican America is not only singu- larly appropriate in itself, but itis especially fitting as a memorial of the contest in which both countries took part a century ago. ’ ming almost as epigrammatic in his political messages to Congress as he was in his war bulletins. Ina Message to the House erday he told th nat | body that if it had bee national. The Message is unusual in its character, but its political point is too keen | to be overlooked. are about | to become as © been the changes in Gen- A few weeks ago it tion, it seems, frequent as eral Grant's Cabinet. was announced that Lord Abercorn was | about to retire from the Lord Lieutenancy of | Ireland, and now we will not long ship of India, and itis even asserted that Lord Beaconsfield will yield up the premiership to Lord Derby. his life so persistently refused to be anybody but Disraeli that the surprise occasioned by his acceptance of a peerage can only be fitly supplemented by radical administration changes or an earthg are told Lord Lytton soon Tux Werarnen.—Yesterd rains and fog prevailed in the Lower Missouri Valley and on the Atlantic seaboard, and cloudiness, with light rain, on the Gulf coast. The winds have been exceedingly varied all over the United States, within remarkably small areas. In the Northwest a high pressure, with cocl but sloudy weather, prevailed last evening, and small rain areas in Dakota and Northern Nebraska. Eastward of the Mississippi the temperature increased, with rain areas on the lower lakes and the Atlantic coast be- tween Montauk Point and Cape May. The mornings for the next two or three days at New York will be foggy, and there will be only a slight fall in temperature, while light | raitis will continue to fall along the coast in our immediate vicinity until the end of the week, By Saturday next the weather will | in the mean- become cooler and clearer. time this city may be visited by thunder storms that will approach the coast through the Ohio Valley, RALD, published every | | its selection of the main issue, for there is | the political balance. From our reports this morning the probabilities | compulsory to spend | the money appropriated in the River and | Harbor bill he would have vetoed it As it | is, he will take care that none of it is spent | on useless works or on works not clearly | \ ‘tain the Governor General- | Disraeli has all | the directions changing | The Greater Issues of the Presiden- tal Canvass. These, as we take it, are two in number, and two only--namely, the Southern ques- tion and the reform question. One of these two questions is the selected battle ground of the republican party, the other of the | democratic party. If the republican leaders could have their way they would make the canvass turnon the protection of negro rights inthe South, and accordingly this | topic is persistently put in the foreground in their campaign speeches and newspaper organs. On the other hand, the 2emocratic leaders are industriously trying to make the reform question the predominant issue, and to dwarf all others in comparison. Each of the two parties evinces political sagacity in little reason to doubt that on the Southern question alone the republicans, nor that on the reform question alone the democrats wonld elect the next President. All other issues are subordinate to these two, and can only serve as unimportant makeweights in The currency question is not an excep- tion, important as that question is. Very | few votes will be gained or lost by currency discussions in this canvass, ‘because the country will be equally safe against the in- flation heresy whether the election shall re- sult in the success of Hayes or of Tilden, The financial policy of the government de- and it is already certain let the Presidential election go as it there will bea large majority of hard The re- publican members, with few exceptions, will be unalterably committed to hard money views, and a majority of the democratic members will stand in the same eategory. This is an inevitable result of the egregious blunder of the Ohio democrats in their State vass last year, They ‘builded wiser n they knew.” Their memorable attempt to carry the State on a rag money issue had | the unintended effect of uniting the whole republican party in favor of sound monetary In the spring of 1874 the publican party was as badly infected with the soft money heresy as the democratic | party. Morton, Logan and Ferry were then strenuous champions of inflation. The in- flation bill, passed by a republican Con- gress, was defeated only by the courageous veto of President Grant—an Executive pill | which the republican inflationists found it | extremely hard to swallow. The Ohio demo- | crats, last year, were foolish enough to cater for the votes of the republican inflationists, | and thereby unwittingly rendered a signal service to the hard money cause by making it a political necessity for the republican party to take the opposite ground. Party | spirit did what argument had failed to ac- ecomplish; and even Senator Morton, the yery coryphceus of the republican inflation- | ists, went to Ohio and made _ vigorous speeches against Allen and The effect of that Ohio canvass was to make the republican party a unit in favor of hard money. ‘The democratic party has been forced to take substantially the same ground; and the Ohio inflationists, instead of bolting, have acquiesced. The republi- can doubts of their sincerity will strengthen the hard money sentiment of the country. The attempts of the republican orators to fasten the charge of inflation on the demo- | cratic party will consolidate the republican | conversion from the Morton-Logan views of 1874, and the democratic attempts to parry | and refute the charge will take the life out of the inflationists of that party. The con- sequence will be that almost every repub- lican and a majority of the democrats elected to the next Congress will be pronounced ad- vocates of hard money. Whether Hayes is elected or Tilden is elected we are certain to have a vigorous hard money Congress as | the successor of the present, and certain in either case to have a President who will favor and not obstruct sound legislation on this great subject. The business interests of the country will be equally safe in either event, and neither party has any political capital to make by agitating the currency question. The country may repose in the certainty that the next Congress will have a views. re- g money. large majority of hard money members, and that neither Hayes as President nor Tilden as President will have any | temptation to thwart that majority. The currency qnestion, important as it is, will therefore have little effect on the canvass, and the other minor questions still less. | The democrats may gain a few votes in Cal- ifornia by the strong declaration in their | platform against the Chinamen, but else- where the question has no interest. The re- | pnblicans will derive little aid from the | school question, becauso their opponents have shown no disposition to contest their views, We are therefore justified in assuming that this Presidential contest will turn mainly on the two questions which we have singled out as paramount — namely the Southern question and the reform question, the former being the favorite issue of the re- | publicans, and the latter of the democrats. if the stion of negro rights could be made the sole issue, the republicans would carry the day; if the reform question, the democrats would have the better chance. | Each party is man@uvring to make its fa- | | vorite topic the main battle ground, but the | election will be really decided by the con- | joint effect of these two major issues. On the Southern question, or the question | of protection to negro rights, the republicans have a great and manifest advantage in spite of the democratic profession that their party { fully accepts the political results of the war. | The country does not doubt the entire sin- cerity of the republican party on this point, but it does distrust the sincerity of the democrats. The republican party has | steadily maintained and defended the rights of the negroes at such a tremendous cost to settled constitutional principles that there is no room for doubting that they are vigor- ously in earnest; there reason to suspect that the democratic party | merely ‘stoops to conquer,” and that, once in power, it would disregard its electioneer- ing professions. The African race is in- | debted to the republican party for its civil qu whoreas is some | and political rights, conferred against strennons democratic opposition; and the authors of a policy can be more securely relied on for its mainte- | record of the r | evidence that the President | when wrong. ! with | musician. | intense NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 18 nance than opponents who fought it at every stage and yielded only when they were overpowered. The wretched misrule which has resulted from the reconstruction policy of the republicans shows at what a tremendous cost they are willing to maintain negro rights, and the sincerity and efficiency of their protection to colored citizens is so entirely beyond doubt that the North can have no hesitation in trusting them rather than the democratic party for guarding the political results of the war. If, therefore, the republican party could succeed in its attempt to make the Southern question the predominant issue in this Presidential can- vass there is no reason to doubt that it would carry the election. The democratic party would have at least an equal advantage if it could make the elec- tion turn on the great question of administra- tivereform. ‘The republicans are as protuse in professions on this issue 2s the democrats are on the‘ results of the war and negro equality. But their sincerity is equally open to question. If the good faith of the democrats is exposed to suspicion on the ne- gro question in consequence of their past record, that of the republicans is equally sus- | picious on the reform question on the same ground. The monstrous abuses which de- mand reform have grown up and flourished under republican rule. It is not safe to trust a party to remedy evils which, having | the power, it did not prevent, The past blican party is as bad on the reform question as that of the democratic party is on the negro question. ‘There is just as much reason founded on its history for diserediti its reform professions as there is for discrediting the democratic professions respecting the rights and equality of the negro race. The repub- lican party has been in power for sixteen Had it been trne the country the reform question could not have become one of paramount urgency. Its professions on this head are exposed, like the democratic professions respecting negro rights, to the suspicion of being a years, hollow during its long tenure of power there would be no urgent need of reform, The real question on which this Presi- dential election is to turn is whether official honesty and administrative reform be more important than the protection of negro rights in the South, If the country regards the negro question as paramount it will elect Hayes; if it regards the reform question as paramount it will elect Tilden, The President. In another column we present an interest- ing interview with President Grant, which will speak for itself. When so great a man is in question why cannot we be fair to him? All sorts of accusations have been made against him. If he took the money and houses given to him by a grateful people for services that will never be forgotten while America has a history he did what Marlborough did when the Queen gave him rank, money and estates; what Schomberg and Bentinck did when William IIL gave them wealth and dignities; what the elder Pitt did when the Duchess of Marlborough made him one of her legatees; what Wellington did when the nation gave him a palace; what all the mar- shals of Napoleon and all the generals of Frederick did; what his comrades, Sherman and McClellan, were not ashamed to do. If the taking of presents under these circum- | stances is to be censured let the censure fall upon others as well as upon Grant. Judge Black threw out the impression that the President has taken presents since he entered the White House, and to such an extent as to be as guilty of bribery as Bel- knap. He cited the case of Hoar and the library which Hoar denied. He cited Ed- wards Pierrepont paying $20,000. But that was an election contribution paid to the cam- paign fund in New York. We have seen no has taken honors or money or valuable presents since he became President, and if any one has such evidence it isa duty to the public to make it known. General Grant will soon retire from public life. No journal has sup- ported him more earnestly than the Hynanp when right or censured him more severely He does many things we can- not approve. But his name will be one of the great names in our history. It will live Washington, Jackson and Lincoln. That cannot be taken from him. Why grade a name that will be an example to our children? The Wagner Festival. de- The second performance at the festal the- | atre At Baireuth last evening proved to bea more pronounced success than its predeces- sor. “Rheingold,” being merely an intro- duction to the great musical drama of Wag- ner, it could not be expected to possess the | same degree of interest as any one of the trinity of operas that compose the ‘‘Ring of the Nibelungen.” Oar special cabie despatch from Baireuth gives an account of the per- formance of ‘Die Walkiire” last night that will be read with intense interest by every The selections from the score of the work which we publish to-day will also furnish an excellent key to the proper un- derstanding of the peculiar nature of the music. Wagner's followers, with their dramatic zeal, may be now pre- pared to shake countless laurels on his head and to fight the more earnestly for the new life in art. The realization of his life's desire will be completed in two more even- ings, and, whatever the ultimate effect of his theories on music and the drama may be in the world of art, the four performances this | week at Baireath will serve as an imperish- able monument to his genius and self- reliance, Tue Despatcn from our correspondent on the banks of the Rosebud which we print this morning will be especially welcome be- | cause of the information it affords of the strength and condition of General Terry's command, Ata time when a battle with the savages may be expected at any moment, when the rumors of battle which reach us through other sources may be confirmed in spite of our doubts, anything pertaining to the strength of the column is of the highest importance, to | | pretence for electioneering effect. | | The reform professions of the republican | party belie its record. Had it done its duty The Maine Election—Mr. Blaine om the Stump. The republican State canvass in Maine was opened last evening by « public meet- ing in Portland, of which the chief fea- ture was a speech by Mr. Blaine. The re- publican party will congratulate Senator Blaine on the recovery of his health and his ability to take an active part in the cam- paign. He has strong personal as well as political motives for exerting himself to the utinost and securing a brilliant success for | his party in the approaching State election, He naturally desires to prove that the con- fidence of his immediate fellow citizens in his character has not been impaired by re- cent events and accusations. He owes his transient elevation to the Senate to an exec- utive appointment, and depends on the Legislature about to be chosen for a per- manent position in that body. If the re- publican majority in Maine should be large in the September election Mr. Blaine will go to Indiana and Ohio and speak in those States, clothed with a prestige of “victory which will enhance his influence. ‘Lhe Maine election will furnish the first | authentic indication of the drift of popular sentiment since the Presidential nomina- | tions. Elections in the Southern States throw no light on the canvass, because it has j long been electoral votes will be almost en to the democratic candi- Presidential election will be Yorthern votes, and the result in | show whether the republican | to hold, its own and make | gains, st September Governor Connor | was elec: ied in Maine by a majority of only | ,782. The republican party must do agreat | deal better this year, or the Maine election will not help it in the October States. But a sweeping victory in Maine would probably | be followedeby success in Indiana, and if | the democrats should lose both Indiana aad | Ohio they would have but a slender chance | of carrying New York. . The republicans are | reasonably sure of Ohio in any event, and a brilliant triumph in Maine would go far toward giving them Indiana, where the majority of Governor Hendricks was | only 1,337 in 1872. To be sure the demo- | erats had a plurality of 17,252 in 1874, but it was only a plurality and not a majority. There was an independent ticket in 1874 which received 16,233 votes, so that the demo- cratic party had an absolute majority of only 1,019, although it was the year of the great | “tidal wave.” The tidal wave has since re- ceded, and a great victory in Maine, with Mr. Blaine on the stump in Indiana afterward, would probably turn the scale in fuvor of the republicans in so evenly balanced a State. That Maine will bo carried by the republi- {cans in September is beyond doubt, and they may fairly expect to increase their majority of last year, which was less thon one-third of the average republican majority in Maine for the last twenty years. In so full a vote as will be called out next month they will covnt on advantages by the appear- ance at the polls of the stay-at-home vote of last year. If this expectation should be dis- appointed a democrati¢ victory in Indiana will nullify the effect of a republican suc- cess in Ohio and enable Mr. Tilden to carry New York and insure his election. Southern dates, decided by | Maine will Old Citizens, No inquiry can be more interesting to man than that which seeks to ascertain the primal condition of him on the earth, the methods of his life and the early steps of his emer- gence from that barbarism which made him of kin with the dragons of the prime. Much light has been shed on these impor- tant subjects of late years. Sir Charles Lyell | and Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Evans and Mr. Geikie, in England, Boucher de Perthes Rigollot and Dr. Schmerling. in France, together with great numbers of scientific investigators in Germany, and nota few in our own country, haye borne a share in this useful and interesting work; and now Mr. | Charles Rau, of the Smithsonian Institution, accumulates, in a brief series of short and compact essays, the results of the lgtest dis- | coveries in this line of investigation, giving the ontlines of the theories founded upon ! them; and his work, originally published in successive numbers of Jiarper's Magazine, is now given to the public by that firm ina handsome volume which deserves the wide attention it will doubtless receive. Chronology is, comparatively speaking, a modern science, and while the visible testi- monies of the primeval man accumulated by the diligence of modern discovery are most abundant they do not help us to any | precise dates of the time in which he lived. Antiquity is new beside the bones of him dug out of Aquitanian caves or Jutland de- all the events of which human makes mention—Aryan migrations, Father Noah, dispersals of the ges of Troy and Argonautic ex- poditions—seem in comparison ocenrrences trom which the gloss of newness is unworn and which belong to the old age and de- | crepitude instead of the lusty and vigorous youth of the world. his rade art rietures outlined on slabs of his coevals the mam- urns and the moun- tain ibex, of himself, likewise naked and uneshamed, brandishing his hunting club, the earliest images which record the dawning history of Egypt--Moabite and Rosetta ston Hanfath ond Behistun in- scriptions, Ninevehite bulls and sphinxes, capitals and bases of Persepolitan and Helio- politan columns, sculptures of Caria and Cyprus and Greece, and the thronging | Cyclades, seem artifices of a near and recent | @ay. Most of them, it is trne, exhibit tech- | nical improvements upon his artistie meth- ods; but, measured by a liberal standard of | interpretation, it cannot be said that any of | them surpass in historic interest his rude and original achievements, These were his | abstract and brief chronicle of himself and his time; jing at ! reind eer’s bone, of of moth, the the overarching heavens and at the menacing darkness and ob- jlivion of time, that he and j deeds of him be not forgotten, These inscriptions, only small fragments or syllables of which remain, were his Iliad, his Mahabharata, his Niebelungen Lied—ut- terances outof the deep longing heart of him which the world could not let die. She a foregone conclusion that the | Beside the tokens of | his poem, his wild ode clamor- | the | —WITH SUPPLEMENT. hid them in her secret places, where they slept under glacial shocks and oversweep- ings, under the drums and tramplings of all conquests, since drums and conquests were, till in the fulness of time she renders them back tous unworn and legible, with their inwoven burden of mystery and mean- ing. ‘They tell us somewhat, while they darkly withhold much which we would fain know, but of which we can -only vaguely conjecture, With all their testimony, au- thentic and irrefragable as it is, we cannot fix his time in any known eponym or epcch. He was before time was broken into these transitory divisions, while yet a thousand years were as one day. We only know that he was; that he was girt about with “strange and dusky aspects” of beasts monstrous and gigantic, which abide rot in the earth in any known posterity ; that he made to himself weapons of flint and of bone and ornaments of stone and of shell; that he dwelt in caves, dragging thither his prey, leaving its cracked and marrow sucked bones scattered about his lair, mingling his own with them at last, making sepulchre and man- soleum of his subterrene hall of au- dience and dining room; that he knew the use and tho abuse of fire, roasting with it his quarry end burying in its embers his possible grandsire; that he exhibited pro- gressive skill in the arts of fashioning his rude arms and utensils; that he was inclined to be social, and gathered in num- bers around his huge roasting fire, as his modern exemplars gather at barbecue or clambake ; that he decorated himself before he dressed himself, and tattooed himself before he washed himself, postponing the comfort of attire to the rapture of ornament, the sober joy of cleanliness to the more poignant thrill of hypodermic decoration; and that, with all the savage qualities of the wild beasts on which he preyed and bat- tened, there dwelt within him a spark of that divine light which, after unrecorded periods of time, was to quicken and kindle in politer forms of ferocity his posterity, grown into sages and statesmen and warriors and bards. All these, as all others, spring primarily from the loins of the Antochthon, who is of no land or geographical division, but is common to the whole earth and is ever the first born of the newly born conti- nents, Mr. Charles Reu tells us an exceed- ingly interesting tale of him—in fact all that is at present known—and as his work is written in a plain and popular style, eth- nological or paleontological, free from bump- tiousness and not overvexed with theories, it will, doubtless, even in these exciting times, find a goodly number of readers. It would be pleasant if we had wider space and ampler time in which to traverse the interesting ground which his work ranges over, of our attention to enable us to do more than wave a passing salutation of hail and farewell to his primeval brother of the caves and of the old drift, and to commend the excellent work of Mr. Rau to those whose leisure is more abundant than our own. Morton’s Malediction. The apostle of the vermilion undergar- ment has spoken at Indianapolis with more of the tone of o demagogue than usual. Morton is transported with rage. He insists that the morals of public officials under Grant are no worse than they were under Jackson, which is a bad showing for Jack- son’s officials. He is worked up to a high pitch of indignation by the fact that Con- gress refuses to permit the administration to run the government honestly and econom- ically. Mr. Morton says that a President must have a party and must stand by that party, and he believes that the election of Tilden would mean the third Bull Run. Tilden, he says, would give the Sonth whatever it demands. It is within Mr. - Morton’s -belief that while the demo- cratic platform recognizes federal power the personnel of the democratic party in Congress is of such a character as to warrant the supposition that it is wholly secessionist and Confederate, Tilden, in his estimation, would be the President of the Confederate States, with the prize fighter Morrissey for his principal friend. Of Hendricks Mr. Morton has no other idea than that he is respectable in small things, because he has succeeded in dodging large ones ; and that he isa DBu- chanan democrat, or, what is tantamount, a political coward. If Morton's Indianapolis speech were true Hendricks would appear as aman who had great incentives and oppor- 4 tunities, but who chose to be as wicked as the shadow of a slaveholder pol ian. If Hendricks were elected Vice President, with the chance and the hope of succeeding Til- den, the débris of the rebellion, including the captains of the Ku Kinx Klans, would, according to Mr. Morton, 1ule the American i Union under the second President of the Confederate States. Gilmore's Beer. The farce at Gilmore's Garden on Panday evening, when the police were watching the barroom while beer was distributed from the galleries, shows the folly of our police authorities in their way of enforcing the laws. If it is wrong to sell beer in Gil- more’s Garden it is wrong to sell it anywhere in the city. city. The raid upon the Hippodrome looks | like a persecution, and should come to an end. It really brings the law into contempt. All these attempts to enforce Sunday laws ! or sumptuary enactments are opposed to the spirit of the age. People will respect the Lord's Day from religious motives, and not because the common councils so or- dain it. If o law is necessary to protect the Sabbath the sanctity of that holy day rests upon a slender foundation. All that we expect from the police is that order shall be preserved on Sunday as on other days— that there shail be no crimes or breaches of the peace. ‘There the functions of the police should stop. The idea that lemonade and soda should be sold and beer should be contraband is absurd. If it is wrong to sell one it is wrong to sell the other, It is just possible that Mr. Gilmore, who has a genius for advertising, means to advertise his garden, This idea has occurred to us, and we cannot help thinking that the police could be in a better business. But the modern man claimstoo much | And yet it is sold all over the | The Indian Question. The hopelessness of any action from Con- gress on the Indian question throws the whole responsibility on the President. The Indian Ring is too strong for an assembly of easy virtue like our present Senate. The Tiouse was willing to pass an act transferring the Indians to the army, but the Senate would not coneur. That would be the end of the ring, the end of a department which has kept the Indians in a state of constant war, which has cost ys five hundred mill- ions of dollars and brought dishonor upon our national fame. Since Congress will not act, why should not the President? Hoe has power to direct the disbursements of all moneys. He is now in military oceupation of the Indian country. He can drive out every Indian agent in twenty- four hours. An order to General Sheridan, saying that the pence of the country de mands that the Indians should be under stringent military rule, will end the ring, We think it his duty to do so. These In- dian reservations and agencies as at present managed are simply bases of supplies for Sitting Bull, hospitals for his wounded, stations for recruits. When he wants arma he sends to a reservation, The money he took from Custer’s command is probably by this time in the pockets of an Indian trades who receivéd it for ammunition, When Sitting Bull has wounded or infirm old men or women as impediments he sends them to Red Cloud or Spotted Tail for protection. Our Indian policy has heen to arm the Indians so as to mase sacre our settlers, and then arm the troops to massacre the Indians. The traders supply each side, and the war is. profit to them. When Sitting Bull wants recruits he sends to the reservations. The young men steal away at the first whisper of war. The old chiefs cannot control them. They seek the war as the tiger secks blood. They ex- pect to have a good summer's fighting, and when over to come back to the zeservation and be good Indians and shake hands and wait for the grass to come. The way to end this is for Grant to order Sheridan to sup- ‘press every reservation as now organized ae a base of supplies for the enemy. It is his duty as commander of the army to do 50, and Sheridan is the man to do it. The Assessment of Clerks. The fact that the clerks in the departments are asked to pay certain sums to the republi-+ can committee for campaign purposes begins to excite the democrats in Washington. We hear there is to be a committee of investigation and all manner of inquiries and penalties, There is a good deal of cant about this ine quiry. Parties must be run like any other business, Printing, advertising, music, fireworks, halls, light, all cost money, and some one must pay it. It does not follow that because money is spent on elec tions it is used to bribe voters. This country is too large and American voters too independent for much to be done in the bribery line. If it can be shown that clerks and others are threatened with removal if they do not subscribe, or permitted to annoy the government as a reward for subscribing, tigation. Otherwise investigation will be waste of time. When Mr. Tilden was chain man of the democratic committee he did not hesitate to take five thousand dollarg from Mr. Tweed for the uses of the party. | Mr. Tweed held office and paid to strengthen his party. No one ever questioned the in« tegrity or even the propriety of Mr. Tilden’s accepting the assessment from Tweed. The Washington clerks will not pay enough te kill anybody. It is not their way. Mr. Raxpaut’s Sreecu reviewing the work of the House touching appropriations is the most elaborate campaign document so fax launched upon the tides of the canvass. In this effort he makes the most of his endeav- ors to reduce expenditures, and tries to show how zealously his committee and his party in Congress labored to promote the best in- terests of the country. A speech of this kind at the close of a session of Congress ia as unusnal almost as General Grant’s Message to the Honse yesterday ; but it will be read with interest by men of all parties, and must be regarded as an official summing up of the | facts upon which the democracy propose te | eonvince the people of their fitness to com | trol the government during the next fout | years. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Near Admiral Reed Werden, United States Navy, © at the Everett House. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The French government does not relish the prom poleon, A London justice, having no cases on the calenday to hear one morning, was presented with a pair of white gloves. Speaking of this lite of preparation for, heaven Rob ert Browning recently said:—*Things rarely go smoot at rehearsal,’’ Councillor A, P. de Carvalho Gorges, Brazilian Min ister at Washington, and Baron Blane, Italiana Ministey are at the Albemarle Rotel, Emerson :—‘it bas been observed that the idioms of greatest eloquence and power.” A newly married couple were hugging and kissing ta afiith story window of the Astor House the other day, utterly oblivioas of the fact that 200 people tn the street were Jaughing at them. “When ignoraace is bliss,” &c. ‘The so-called “cheapness and nastiness” of latter day | Gorman manuiactures are ascribed by a Prussiag writer tothe fact that a superabandance of capital | Sought unskilfal workmen, In Berlin ince the vory hard times have set in con- habits among the upper and middle classes havo rovived, publie resorts are visited more freqaently and the skating rink hay becn introduced, Court Journal:--"Mr, Wood B. Smith proposes to have bis name changed by logislative enactment inte Wood B. Beaumont.” He woulda’t be Smith aod ht would be Beaumont, Goodby Smith. “Amie’—Squaws seldom have long strang out namet like the big warriors, and we caunot give you any | poctical complications for parlor theatricals, Dr. Hob and, of Seribner’s, would be able to give you a fow; he is an old Indian fighver. dndge Gildersioeve’s polltica! pe oa bas been the spbject of cousidorable popular ¢é.cussion arising from ajocular newspaper note, The truth ts that his polith cal alin is true to the democratic bull's eyo, His im dorsement by the republicans was a sincere tribute o popular confidence on account of his bevag so honest 4 democrat that ne rose above the chicanery of Tammany Hail The repablicans, it must be remembered, in dorsed him aiter he had been nominsied by the anth | Tammany democrats; and it Was their act, not bis One of tho best things that ¢an be said of Govern Tilden is that Judge Gildersleeve has mado at least ¢ une shot for Lim, we can see hew it would be matter for inves * inence given by Qucen Victoria to Prince Louis Na all languages approach each other in passages of the €