The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1876, Page 4

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NEW YORK, SATURDAY. AUGUST 19, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and warmer, with, probably, rain, ver months the Hrerann till 8 in the couniry at the rate of week, free of postage, be sent to subseri iwenty-five cents p Wart rr YesTrrpay.—Speculation was moderaicly active and stocks were lower. The principal decline was in Michi- gan Central, Jersey Central and Delaware and Lackawanna. Gold opened at 111 and dropped 110 7-8, closing at 110 Money on call loanedat 1 211-202 percent. Government and railway bonds were firm and in fair request. Foreign exchange quict. 40 3-4, Internation or Rairremeyt is the latest phrase, and the National Rifle Association is to give a banquet in honor of it on the 15th of September. Tur KrixG ov Dano of European frat Frenchmen as he ey has ashrewd idea rnity. He holds four ages to prevent English- men from attacking his subjects, and of course the British fleet is powerless because of France. Our CorrssponpEent at New Lebanon as- serts that the people thereabouts know little of the early life of our Uncle Samuel, and that there is danger Mr. Tilden will lose his own county. He will not be past consola- tion, however, if he carries the State and the country. Srraxen Kern Sur equalled by his fortitude. of his recove: INGS are only There is no hope and, according to the opin- ion of his physician, all that it is possible to do for him now is in some degree to alleviate his pain until the end comes. Prestpent MacManon is adopting the American idea in regard to his Cabinet, and desires his ministers to be free from parlia- mentary complications. This is reported as the motive for the recent change in tho French War Department. Tur Sxwarp Statve is to be put upon its pedestal in Madison square to-day and will be unveiled ina few weeks. Without pre- judging the artistic value of Mr. Rogers’ work we can only hope that this statue will be more creditable to the art tastes of the sity than most of those which preceded it. Tur Cauirornta Potro Prayers gave the second exhibition of their skill at Saratoga yesterday, and a more interested and excited audience never witnessed a game of any kind in this country. As the sport becomes better known the interest in it increases, und we may expect that, ina few years, it will be firmly established in every part of the country. Tue Necro Munrprner hanged in South Carolina yesterday could not have been con- victed of the crime for which he suffered in a New York court. He struck another ne- gro a fatal blow on tho head during a quar- rel, which in this State would not have been “premeditated killing.” South Carolina is fortunate in not having reached the highest attainments in the legal refinement of mur- der. Servian Sccerssrs are the rule in the Eastern war news this morning. | | Prince | Milan is confident and the Turks are not | only suffering reverses, but part of the Turk- ish army is threatened with starvation. this sounds very well for Servia, but we can- not forget th. lay the boot other leg and may by if Bervia can obtain proper guarantees from yeste gain to-morrow. All | on the | Turkey by the aid of the great Powers their | acceptance would be the happiest consum- mation. Waaener.—Our special despatch from Baireuth describing the concluding fest ties of the great season of Wag drama tells us of a fitting termination to the composer's unique enterprise. At the festive board Wagner received a tribute of admiration from an assemblage that was: composed of kings and princes, r's music Power and wealth did homage to genius, and | every admirer of the composer of the now The Canvass for the Presidency—Cur- rents and Countercurrents. The letters of the various candidates have been before the country long enough for the people to study and understand them. The uncertainty of politics, the chaotic condi- tion into which parties have fallen, and the painful fact that elections aye a struggle for power, and not for principle, are seen in the desire of the people to know the opinions of the candidates, rather than to be content, as was the case in former years, with the declarations of the conventions. Hayes and Tilden are now in the attitude of expert swordsmen parrying a thrust and watching for the mistakes of the opponent. In a campaign as close as this any mistake, however trivial, may decide the canvass. There will be none of those ‘land slides” or “tidal waves” of which we heard so much recently. of Tilden would ring through the land like a clarion, that the ery of reform would sweep it like a prairie fire, has not been realized. The republicans have marched into line with solid columns and assuring footsteps. They have made no mistakes since their campaign opened. They nominated their most available candidate. They have healed up their differences. All, or nearly all, of the independents who swerved off in the Greeley mutiny have returned. Cox in Ohio, Carl Schurz, Governor Fenton—all are in line with the old party. Adams in Massa- chusetts and Governor Curtin in Pennsyl- vania have gone oyerto Tilden, Mz, Adams has been practically a democrat since he returned from England, and his relations with Tilden in 1848, when he was a tree-soil candidate for the Vice Presidency, made his npport of the New York statesman natural. There is no room for Curtin in any party controlled by the Camerons, and the Gover- nor’ sion becomes a necessity. So far as discipline, tactics, harmony, can affect a canvass, the republicans, as we have said, have made no mistakes. The leaders are forming their lines with the assurance of victory. cael And yet there is no feeling so strong in the minds of the people, without distinction of party, as the desire for change. Even good republicans feel that four years of demoeratic rule would purify their organ- ization. This party with so proud and hon- ored a history, whose achievements underlie the grandeur and the happiness of the Republic; this party to whom we owe the Union, and the fact that within that Union no slave clanks his chiips to make its boasted freedom a mockery, has become so corrupt that any idea of reform within itself seems hopeless. It took rise in the aspiration tor freedom; it has fallen into a mere intrigue for power. All its courage and conscience have van- ished. The party which compelled Lincoln to emancipate the slaves, which drove John- son to the verge of impeachment, has cow- ered for eight years at the feet of Grant. The party which followed the strenu- ous and faithful leadership of Sum- ner, Chase, Greeley and Phillips, now accepts a Belknap anda Robeson, a Spencer anda Blaine. The party of principle and faith has become the party of expedients and spoils. The canker of long continued power, the abuses that arise from an un- checked military domination, the subordi- nation of the whole civil system to the be- hests of a party, the unchallenged su- premacy of the President over gentlemen in the highest stations, the compact for patronage between the President and the Senate which has degraded our high legisla- tive assembly into a mere convenience of the Executive—al! have so affected the re- publican party that for its own sake, as well as for the sake of the country, it should be defeated. So far, therefore, as the Henanp has any interest in this campaign it is that the success of the democracy will be to the best interests of the country. When we study the democratic canvass we find it a series of blunders. The republi- cans, with all of their burdens—-the burden of corruption and misused power, with the honest sentiment of the country against them, are fighting to win. The democrats, with their many opportunities, with their professions and hopes of reform, with the honest sentiment of the country in their favor, are fighting to lose. Not long since it was said that the only man who was doing Tilden any service was Grant, and the only ones who seemed anxious to elect Hayes were Tilden and Hendricks. Grant, how- ever, has been diverted from his perverse ways, and, as he shows in his order to Sher- man, means to support Hayes with all the power of his administration. could feel that the democrats were under the same discipline, In the South all is going badly—Alabama majorities, Hamburg massacres, and the virtual condoning of these massacres by public opinion, all make an uneasy impression on the North. The action of the Democratic Convention in Sonth Carolina is another blunder. The irreconcilable element of the party throws away the State in order to nominate Wade Hampton. ored man, every Northern, every Southern man, like Mosby not agree with them, and invokes a canvass and hatred. le: negr Ce ot bitterness one of the sto the St. Louis Con- vention was ¢ 9 shows how utterly the democrats have foiled to appreciate the wis- dom of conceding to all clas: The hope that the name. We wish we | ses political | | It declares war upon every col- | y and Longstreet, who does | The fact that not | | equality. These are gr blunders, | and they dispirit the canvass. They enable the republicans to summon up the only influence h which they can hope to win—the war spirit of 1861. This is | famous Trilogy must feel gratified at his tri- | ninph. While satisficd with the goneral re- | suit, Wagner dreams of future victories, and | sails to his assistance the sympathetic devo- tion of his followers in all lands. While we smile at the enthusiasm of the Wagnerites we can readily understand its significance, the spell that is never invoked in vain, and | every stump resounds with invocations to | ct the results of the war “rally and pro’ for the Union.” Wise counsels, cour- | age and moderation on the part of the democratic leaders would have avoided this issue, would have thrown the war completely out of the canvass, would have broken the backbone of the re- | publican party. As it now stands breezes which seem to waft the banners of Hayes to victory come from the South. Still graver blunders have been made in the letters of acceptance. The letter of Hayes is short, manly, ringing. There is not asentence wh humblest mind. There is not an issue the | When we have read it we understand it. On the other hand, the letter of Tilden reads like a chapter from some German work on metaphysics, and will have about as much effect on the canvass. It is able, learned, wise, but, so far as the masses are concerned, above the clouds. We can think of nothing more absurd than a plain farmer, anxious to vote intelligently, and trying to fathom the meaning of Governor Tilden’s elaborate and mysterious essay and compilation. We un- derstand that the rank and file of a party will be apt to vote one way or the other without regard to letters and platforms. But there isan element of thinking people to whom a canvass is an education, and who study their vote as they would a problem in agriculture or theology. This element has been thrown away toa large degree by the tendency of Governor Tilden’s mind to preach and amplify and shroud a clear meaning with clouds of mysterious phrases. This mistake has not been made by Hayes, and most certainly not by Hendricks. Worse than all, Tilden’s letter, when we come to analyze it, contains a surrender. Of the two men—Tilden and Hendricks— the latter makes the hetter figure. He went into the canvass flying his greenback flag, and he still flies it. ‘Tilden went in carry- ing his gold-embroidered specie flag, but he furls it. No amount of explanation can do away with the fact that Tilden surrenders his convictions in behalf of hard money to conciliate the in- flationists in the West. He demands the repeal of the Resumption act for no other reason, because it is the only possible reason. The question at once arises, If we have a candidate who surrenders and vacil- lates, what shall we have if he is President? It is conceded that Mr. Tilden is a much abler man than Hayes, and Mr. Hewitt says he is one of the ablest men now living. We do not doubt it. Mr. Buchanan was much abler than Fremont or Fillmore, who ran against him, was one of the most gifted men who ever entered the Pres- idency, as accomplished as Mr. Tilden, and with more political experienc» Yet when the storm came he was the bent and swaying reed, going with every current. There is no episode in our history so sad and pitiful as this amiable, learned and patriotic old man in presence of the South- ern secession movement. One day he would “reinforce Sumter,” the next he would “Jet the wayward sisters go in peace.” One day, under the menaces of Davis and Sli- dell, he would support the South; the next day the firmness of Stanton and Cass would turn him toward the North. The result was that an administra- tion which opened with the glory and the freshness of spring, which was under the direction of the wisest and the ablest of our statesmen, went down in ignominy and contempt. Does Mr. Tilden, if he is elected, mean to follow the example of Buchanan? This is the question that will be asked again and again by men who re- member how Buchanan trimmed on seces- sion, and who see how Tilden trims on the national credit. Whether Tilden can win in spite of his party is a sore problem. That party beat Douglas and Seymour and McClellan, and there are fools enough within its ranks to beat Tilden. Our Governor made a mistake at the outset, when he did not follow the Heratp'’s advice and take command of his canvass. He has made too many concessions. As the campaign now stands Hayes, with all the burdens of acor- rupt party and a dishonest administration, develops his battle without a blunder and fights towin. Tilden, with the heart of the country yearning for reform, with all the ad- vantages in his favor, makes blunder after blunder in his battle and fights to lose. Still it is the last hour in the battle that is the deciding hour, and it is a long time be- fore November. Anonyms, It is a singular story of social jealousy and intrigue which is related in o letter from | Washington this morning. Although there were hints of this thing before it was never publicly known that a series of anonymous letters written to members of the Cabinet and even to Mrs. Grant, and attributed to Mrs. Williams, wife of the Attorney General, had been made the subject of an investiga- tion, and that Mr. Williams’ forced retire- ment from the Cabinet was due entirely to the result of this inquiry. The facts we now print come asa revelation not so much of the official and personal corruption which underlies public life at Washington as of the social ambitions and jealousies which form so strong an element in Washington society. In reviewing these revelations we would not speak unkindly of or deal harshly with the woman to whose hand these anonyma were traced. At the bottom there was truth, probably, in most of the charges, and a vast outlook of conjecture is opened up by the mere suggestion of a cause for a course so remarkable in a woman so distinguished. There is still o mystery behind it all, the unravelling of which would probably begin withethose pests of journalism, the female correspondents. These women of the press have been trying to teach the ‘official la- dies” at Washington that they ought to be something more than good wives and moth- ers. In a city of boarding houses and Treasury clerks they have been trying to set up laws of social precedence, and within a few years there have been “tirst ladies” and ‘second ladies,” ‘diplomatic ladies” and “Cabinet lad in Washington society. The puffery has been disgusting, and many events in General Grant's administration have shown the results of the puffery and rivalry to have been disastrous. Mrs. Bel- knap and Mrs. Williams might have been rivals in the ballroom and at receptions without much harm, but both aspired to lead and each tried to crush the other. In these rivalries Mrs. Williams was detected, or sus- pected to the point of certainty, in acts of which no man,much less a woman, should be guilty, and in consequence the Attorney General lost his place in the Cabinet. In her efforts to shine in a place where mod- | esty was her best recommendation Mrs. Bel- h is not plain to the | kne Jed her husband into a persistent and systematic acceptance of bribes, and his downfall is her shame also. In all this so- cial rivalry and tomfoolery—these efforts to be first ladies in society aud to get puffs in which he does not accept in a simple way. | the newspapers—there can be only shame NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 1876. at last, and tho narrative we print to-day shows how terrible is the disgrace which is sure to follow. The Croton Cesspool System. Is it possible that the engineers of the Croton aqueduct cannot devise a remedy for the fearful evils that surround us, arising from an impure supply of water to this city ? Have we reached the limit of engineering skill in this respect, and is the condition of the Croton water to grow from bad to worse? These are questions which every intelligent citizen of New York is asking just now, in view of the formidable dangers to the public health which the horrible condition of the Croton water creates. The Hznaxp has re- peatedly called attention to the fact that we draw our water supply not from the pure mountain and woodland streams that ripple and flow from the natural springs of the Croton watershed into broad storage lakes of wholesome water, but from vast cess- pools called reservoirs, charged with the filth of extensive settlements along their banks, The statements of facts published in the Hexrarp regarding this deplorable condition of things remain uncontroverted. The slaughter houses, piggeries, washhouses and the domestic drains of large villages and farms, from Mount Carmel to the Croton dam, continue to pour their volumes of filth into the reservoirs, making our drinking water a saturated solution of animal and vegetable refuse, and yet we are told that these dis- gusting impurities are merely ‘fibrous mat- ter,” ‘the algw in the streams,” “nostoe,” anything and everything, in fact, but what they really are. We hasten to assure these inventors of ‘‘fishy” theories and algiic “‘bosh” that the people of New York refuse to be deceived by such utter nonsense, The community is too intelligent to swallow what the officials are pleased to consider sci- entific opinions as correctives of the Croton filth ; the latter dose being bad enough. If the reading of Engineer Campbell's views on filtration or Professor Chandler’s ideas on the purity of the Park reservoirs could pro- duce the mechanical effect of an emetic after a draught of Croton perhaps we might overlook their absurdity and come to regard them as counter-irritants. Unfortunately the fact remains that the water used by our great population is absolutely unfit for any purposes except those of street sprinkling, fire extinguishing, sewer flushing and irri- gation where itcan be applied. The mill- ions expended on the water system of New York should have secured a guarantee of pure water. Perhaps in the world there has not been expended such vast sums for the water supply of a single city, and yet we are coolly informed that there is no deteri- oration in the water, no cause of alarm, no cause of complaint, in fact, in the present condition of the sup-* ply. Unfortunately, indeed, the cesspool system has been carried so far as to place New York at the mercy of her officials. We are helpless because we must have water anyhow. Weare reduced to the necessity of appealing to the servants of the public for relief from a terrible evil which finds its way equally into the finest Fifth avenue mansion and the poorest east side tenement. If the city authorities cannot banish the causes of the present water poisoning from the Croton watershed let them at least arrest the refuse and drainage before it pollutes the water by constructing sewers around the lakes. The cost of sucha work will be large, but the benefit to the public will be incalculable. The water should also pass from lake to lake over a series of cascades, which would promote the oxidization of the suspended impurities. As the Croton watershed is fast becoming the site ofa city the sooner city regulations regarding drainage and general cleanliness are enforced the better. Let us have “fibrous matter,” ‘“algw,” ‘“nostoc,” ‘bac- teriw” or anything but saturated solution of village sewage. The Disposition of Pauper Children: If it was a great crime in Mosher, Douglass and their allies to abduct and hold Charley Ross, to the distraction of his parents, it is difficult to see that it was or is commend- able in certain so-called charitable organiza- tions to send away and withhold from their mother the four children of Mrs, Ann Hope, unless we boldly adopt the theory that a mother who is poor bas no feelings that an incorporated charitable society is bound to respect, or the other theory that a parent’s control over infant children, though good against all the rest of the world, loses its validity when asserted against the Home for Destitute Children or the Children’s Aid Society. It seems that societies of this na- ture, supported by the contributions of public benevolence, have authority to take the children of the poorand to acquire in | them if not withdrawn in a certain time such @ property as a pawnbroker acquires in ‘‘un- redeemed pledges,” and under cover of this right may separate parent and children as effectually as did Mosher and his fellow kid- nappers ; and this isa condition that must certainly deprive these organizations of the power to be of such service to the poor as they allege they can be when they appeal to the benevolent, for the fear of the condition will keep awny more than the greatly needed aid will attract. Waat Dors Lorp Carnys Mzan?—In tho extradition debate in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns, replying to Earl Granville, is reported in the English papers to have said:—“The next authority the noble Earl refers to is Mr. Mullens, who is described by Mr. Fish as the Solicitor General for England. (A laugh.) ‘Lhat, of course, is a mistake; bat at all events Mr. Mullens is a most respectable solicitor,” &e. The remarkable point about the statement of Lord Cairns is that Mr. Fish made no such reference to Mr. Muilens as is asserted. We have taken the trouble to look through his despatches, end we do not find that he any- where describes Mr. Mullens as ‘Solicitor General of England.” Mr. Fish does name him, and in these words:—‘‘Mr. Mullens, an eminent member of the Bar, who was coun- sel in the Lawrence case,” &c. Is it not a bit of sharp practice when the Lord Chan- cellor of England, to strengthen his position, which he evidently felt to be weak (to use a phrase of the late Mr. Sumner) “makes a statement which has no foundation in fact?” The Four Letters of Acceptance. We present below a brief abstract of some of the points in the letters of the four candi- dates on the Presidential tickets. Although they agree on many subjects as to what is the desired end they differ as to the means of obtaining it. That Tilden and Hayes are agreed upon the importance of having but one term in the Presidential office is matter for sincere congratulation. On reflection it will be seen that Governor Tilden’s declara- tion that no general reform can be had without a constitutional disqualifica- tio of a President for re-election .i8 quite as emphatic as an assurance that he will not be a candidate again as is the promise which Governor Hayes has made for himself. Governor Hayes makes ihe personal pledge, but does not affirm the necessity of putting in the principle in the shapo of a constitutional amendment. Governor Tilden insists upon the principle, but does not make the promise. But both are equally bound by the logic o their positions. . MAYES. ‘TILDEN. Artacns the Jackeonian Insists on reform in na theory that “to the victors tional expenses and affairs, belong the spoils,” and ar by means of economy and gues tor civil nervice reform improved legislation, and against allowing mem- bers of Congress to control appointments. Dechanes bis inflexible Purpose, ifelected, not to be a candidate for election to a second term, States that no roform can be complete and perinanent until the President is consti- tutionally disqualified for re- election. Arrinys that the payment — Anuurs in favor of resump- of the public debt, including tion, and cl that the the legal tender n - government is “the sole do- stitutes a plodge and moral linquent." Thinks that re- obligation of the govermmens sumption can be had by which must be kept. Op- gradual and safo processes, poses the ropeal of the Re- but fixes no date. In effect sumption act. pooh-poohs the Resumption act asasham, asnare and a delusion. Witt no; fail to exercise the powers of the Executive to protect all citizons, what- ever their former condition, in every political and per- Dxsinxs to forever wipe out the distinction betwoon North and South tn our com- mon country, and will pro- tect the interests of all equally. sonal right. WHRELER. HENDRICKS. Proctams that in bis Says that he isin favor of judgment the pledye-of ( gress, of January 14, 13: for the redemption of tho notes of the United States in coin, isthe plighted faith of the nation, and that it is tho duty of Congress to secure its fulfilment by appropri- ato legislation. - A return to specie payments, but believes the Resumption act of 1875 is an obstacle, and assorts that it mast be Topented, and that to that ac- tion the democratic party is pledged. Resumption must be effected by destroying the promise to resume and adopt- ing a new system, A comparison of the letters will show that the two republican candidates are agreed on everything, a3 they were before the nom- inations, and that their platforms are solid and without difference. Mr. Wheeler is as strong for the resumption of specie payments as Governor Hayes, and both are firm in opposing the repeal of the act of Con- gress of 1875. But this harmony does not exist between the democratic can- didates. Their opinions on finance are mixed up, and Governor Tilden has made a confused statement of his theories, All the other three letters are direct and plain, and any one can understand what the writers believe. But Mr. Tilden, while he professes to desire resumption as soon as possible, and says that it can be obtained easily and by gradual and safe plans, has re- treated as far as he dared. Until after Mr. Hendricks was put upon the ticket with him Mr. Tilden never said the Resumption act was a sham, ao snare and a delusion. When he says so now he sacrifices his hard money record to a political temp- tation. Mr. Hendricks, on the other hand, is perfectly true to his record. The result is that Tilden on _ the questions of finance agrees neither with himself, with Hendricks nor with any one we know of, and we doubt if he will agree with the people. The platform on which Mr. Tilden stands is the result of a compro- mise, but it is a compromise in which he has conceded all and Mr. Hendricks has con- ceded nothing. So France ‘‘compromised” with Germany in the late war by giving her Alsace and Lorraine and several milliards beside and receiving in return—naught. Another War of Races. There is scarcely any indispensable com- modity of news so plentiful in these days as “wars of races;” but they are rather com- moner in the Southern States than else- where. It is a fact that will catch the eye of the judicious that the roll of persons accused of vulgar and common crimes is smaller as the list swells of the heroes and victims of a warof races. Soon after vaccination had come into general use, and the smallpox had be- come satisfactorily infrequent, it was no- ticed that there was an increase in the mortality from some other diseases, as typhoid fever, scarlet fever and mea- sles, This, strange to say, puzzled the doctors for a while; but at last one brilliant fellow hit upon the fancy that, as the small- pox was nearly excluded from the list of fatal diseases, those whom it had formerly attacked must necessarily survive to become, in time, victims of some other malady. There seems to be some relation of this sort in the old and the new classifications of dis- orders in the Southern States. There are few horse thieves, no highwaymen; there is no arson and scarcely any murder; but there is a chronic war of races, and all the old murdering and horse stealing genius seems to be concealed somewhere in that classi- ficatiot We might congratulate the South upon th did not appear that the new name of war of races renders it very difficult to hang a mur- derer without political consequences. What Sitting Bull Wants. Onr despatches from General Terry's ex- hope that the war with the Sioux is near its end, It is now as important to prevent the escape of the Indians ‘is to fight them; but we may hope that betore long Sitting Bull and his braves will be brought to bay and taught the lesson they so much need to learn, But tho most remarkable part of the morn- ing’s news is the message which Sitting Bull has sent through Medicine Cloud to Major Mitchell at Fort Peck. The wily savage sees the fate to which he is doomed and secks to avert it. He did not begin the war ; he does not want to fight the whites, while they insist upon fighting him, and if he can have everything he wants he will make peace. This is his peace policy, and its similarity to that of another wily brave will be readily noted. ‘‘All we want is to be let j alone,” said Mr. Jefferson Davis. ‘I and oss of its common criminals, if, it | pedition this morning give us ground for | | the other chiots want the Black Hills aban. doned and we will make pence,” says Sit- ting Bull. In this the warrior is too adroit, When we wanted pence he went to war. Now he wants peace, but he wants it on his own terms and upon conditions which will enable him to repeat the impudence of the famous Billy Bowlegs of the time of the Florida wars. On his visit to the North after that struggle Bowlegs always hailed with delight the sight of the portraits of the generals he had overcome, and expressed his satisfaction by the exclamation, “Ah! I lick him.” Evidently Sitting Bull desires to do something of the same kind, but in the meantime to get everything he wants, and, if possible, without fighting for it, The Conference of the Committees, ° It is odd to see how some things dwindle as they are put to the test of experi- ence. Tammany and anti-Tammany saw the necessity of burying the hatchet, in view of the importance of the approaching Presi- dential struggle, and at first nothing seemed easier. There was a little diplomacy, and then broad, bold, formal action. Both sides determined upom a conference and ench agreed to a conference committee, The committees were appointed; but, alas! for the vanity of human expec- tations, forty-seven New York demo- crats, evenly divided in aim and interest, proved too many to accomplish anything. Then a sub-committee of six was appointed to do the thinking for the other forty- one; but experience again proved that a dozen New York democrats, evenly divided in aim and interest, are too many to ac- complish anything. The six anti-Tam- manyites' wanted an equal division of the spoils down to the minutest crumb which could be gathered anywhere from the White House to the City Hall, and the six Tammanyites were willing enough to accept the White House part of the proposition, but could not seo the path of duty so plainly in the other locality. This is not much to be wondered at when it is considered that Tammany Hall has been filling our municipal offices so long that the reverse of last year was as unex- pected as it was terrible.» Tammany knows that the surrender of halt the loaves and fishes is only a prelude to the surrender of all, and so the sub-committees of six were still further reduced to committees of twooneach side, If these four democrats cannot agree all hope of peace will be at an end and there will be war, in which our Uncle Samuel must suffer, because the local offices in New York are a more important matter in the eyes of our politicians than the ‘election of a President of the United States. .PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, London bas forty fishing clubs, The President will go to Long Branch on Saturday. Count Stroganoff, of Russta, is at the Hoffman House, Baron de Senarcheus, of Switzerland, is at the Gilsey House. South Hadley, Mass., has a cacumber four feet threo inches long Faulkner is stamping West Virginia for the place of United States Senator, Don Carlos and suite left Newport last night via Fall River line for this city. Jamaica women, according to the latest news, aro wearing humming birds. The bad workmanship of England is attributed tothe influence of trade unionism. Wu Ying Ding, a Chinese Mandarin, is among the late arrivals at the Everett House, Speaking of a Brooklyn politician some one recently said he is one who loafs aud fishes, The South has had plenty of rain, which shows that the North is out of favor at headquartors, George Eliot:—‘‘Marriage is promotion, but promo. tions have sometimes to be taken with bitter herbs.’ Over three thousand people have sent to this oflice a pun on the name of Tilden. Every pun is ‘‘til-den,”” It in now said that Thackeray withdrew from the staff of Punch rather than consent to assaults upon Napoleon 111. Mr. Carl Schurz, of Missouri, and Mr. Andrew G, Curtin, of Pennsylvania, yesterday arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. A Now England skate company is filling orders for nickel-plated club skates to go to Germany, and they expe.t a busy season. ‘ An Eastbampton (Mass.) man has a bunch of fifteen tomatoes, weighing about seven pounds, whfch grow on a stalk less than a foot long. Rochester Democrat:—‘‘A dog im Portland is said to be worth $3,000, and his owner wants to sell him so much that it makes him sick.’” Mra, Sturgis, mother of Lieutenant Sturgis, who was killed in the Custer slaughter, has become insane from grief. He was her only son. Secretary Chandler left Washington last evening for Now York, on business connected with the National Republican Campaign Committee. Whero the Englishman of the humble classes hag three or four varistics of food, the Frenchman, the Italian and the German have twenty. An insane stenographer in New Haven imagines that he is ona mission to General B. F. Butler to discuas matters for the good of the Freemasons. Daniel Webster's pleasure yacht, tho Lapwing, is still owned at Marshfield by an old man named Doherty, who uses her for fishing and mossing. Hon. William A. Wheeler, the repablican candidate for Vice President, arrived yesterday at the Summit House, Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The Boston authorities sent back to Africa on Mon. day three Arabs, recently sent to this country and branded in the foreheads as criinioals by the Cayonne officials. The easy terms on which body and soul may be kept together on the shores of the Adriatic are extraordk nary, and help to keep up the mixture of pride, Jagk noss and bon naturel which make the Venetian charag- ter. It may be loteresting to know that the original “Us. cle Tom” of Mrs, Stowe’s novel is at present in Eng- land ona visit, He Baptist minister, the Rev. Jo- siah Henson, and is now advanced in years, bat stil? hale and hearty. A Paterson (N. J.) clergyman, starting on his vaca. tion, remarked to his people that he would like to make ita week longer, and that {f anybody wanted him te come back to officiate at a funeral he should expect that his expenses wonld be pard. | London Fun:—“Aged Retainer (to Gardener) —v's a bad job about young master being a-took so sudden like with appleplexy!’ Gardoner—Well, well, it bain't to be wondered at; I never could keep him out of the orchard, he were sach a boy for frait!'’’ Experiments in London prove that dry heat, whon it can be applied, is probably the most efficient of all dis infectants, and that the old plan of stopping up erovices and fumigating with salphor and charcoal is more off. cacious than any other proceeding with more modern disinfectants, The sonior class of St, Michael's Collezo, at Santa F6, New Mexico, graduated Joly 29, tho chorus music on that occasion being “Silver Threads Among the Gold,’ and that gem, in which so many artists hay tailed, ‘Johnny Schmoker.’” Tho loci editor says:—In fact it is but seldom that we Lave seen students who seamed to make such strenuous efforts to excel in everything they have undertaken.” Pall Mail Gazette:—“‘An educated population 1s one whose nervous susceptipilities, from the nature of t case, havo been called into piay in early childhood, It Will have more or Jess of the virtues and detects of tho nervous and emotional temperament and it will sharo | In that instinctive dislike of pai inflicted on others which 18 one of the forces of modern socicty. It may Jose in horoism, but it will gain in sensibility,” 4y