The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, hued Su irclurh a THE DAILY HERALD, published 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 Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF SIXTH STH . LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FI t STREET. PARIS OFFICE 9 ) DE L'OPERA. CE—NO.112 SOUTH Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on as in New York. the same terms | AMUS TO-NIGHT, | OLYMPIC TIBATRE, VARIETY, at 8P. i. | PARISIAN VARIETIES, atSP. M. PTH THR ATRE A FIF AVENUE LORD DUNDREARY, at SF WALLA THE MIGHTY DOLLAK, at sr. TIVOLE VHEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GILMORE GRAND CONCERT, at 5 Pappenbeim. JARDEN, MO Mr. Levy and Madamo THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 PN. BOOTIES k SARDANAPALUS, at SP. M. Booth. IQUE, THEATRE, Mr. Bangs and Mrs, Agnes | woob's LADY GODIVA, ats P.M. rE BURLESQUE, COM KELLY & LEO! MINSTRELS, | atsP. M. i “NEW YORK, MONDAY. AUGUST 21, 187% From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear and cool. | months the Herawp twill n the country at the rate of | kr, free of postage. mesg | Lieut HEIMER opened | the campaign in this State at Hornellsville | on Saturday night, making a speech which democrats will like and republicans will | ridicule. Tho principal purpose of his | effort was to uphold “the honored name of Samuel J. Tilden,” and the pathetic manner in which the Lieutenant Governor utters the phrase is the best proof of his devotion, During the summe oe sent to subscribe dwenty-five cents per v Preparations vor tHE Funerat of the late Speaker Kerr are in progress, and his re- mains will be sent to New Albany, Ind., for interment early in this week. It is un- fortunate that a proper escort cannot be pro- vided by the House over which he was chosen to preside, but we cannot doubt that there will be a distinguished attendance of his Congressional a es at the burial. Tur Escapep Frntans are well received by their friends and sympathizers in this | city, and all day yesterday they were over- run with visitors. The story of their escape | is an interesting and exciting one, and it is told at length in the Henanp this morning | by Mr. John J. Breslin, who planned and executed the rescue. It will be read with in- terest everywhere, even apart from its politi- | eal significance. Bap ror tae Senvians.—The Turks have executed a bold strategic movement on Alex- inatz, recently the headquarters of Prince Milan’s army, which will probably result in the capture of that town. General Tcher- nayeff's forces have been covering Banja—in fact awaiting a Turkish attack at that point; | Turks, by a rapid retrograde and ing movement, have completely neutral- ized the strength of the Servian general. The bashi-bazouks are at their favorite work of burning the captured villages, while the Servian soldiers are rapidly advancing to the rear. Crook axp Terry have joined their forces, but Sitting Bull and his warriors cannot be found. The wily savage will, if possible, avoid a battle unless he is com- pelled either to fight orto starve, Our de- spatches this morning, giving us the informa- tion of the meeting of the two commands, also inform us of the retreat of the savages and the signs of their starving condition, | We can only hope that Sitting Bull's eseape | will be prevented and that the two com- manders will be able to avenge the massacre | of Custer and his men and teach the Sioux | the lesson which is so much needed by | them. Tre Artitvpr or Greece toward the Porte has hitherto been one of strict neu- trality, but the sound of war has aroused the peoples that suffered through centuries from Turkish tyranny and the Greeks are growing restive under the restraint of their government. Crete, another dependency of the Porte, has demanded reforms, and the Sultan being slow to respond she has en- | listed the sympathies of the Greeks in her | cause. We therefore learn that the flame of insurrection has again broken out in Crete, | while Greece assumes an almost hostile atti- | tude toward her Turkish neighbor and de- mands what the Sultan will not grant. The Turks will soon be surrounded by armed enemies. Tar Weaturn.—Rains prevailed yesterday | on the Atlantic northward of Cape Hatteras during the passage ofthe area of low barometer northeastward toward Nova | Scotia, At New York the rainfall was slight, and oceurred in the early morning. Following close behind the low area one of high pressure now traverses the upper lake region and Canada, whence. we received the strong currents of cool air that swept over the city yesterday afternoon and last night, lowering the temperature toa pleasant degree vompared with that experienced last week. {n the Northwest another depression has manifested itself, with rains and fog on its southerly rim. We have, therefore, in the belt of latitude between the fortieth and fifty-filth parallels two areas of low bar- | ometer with an intermediate area of high pres- sure, These are rather unusual conditions, | and, considering the rapidity of the move- | ments of these areas, we may look for a | shange to cloudiness and rain on Wednes- | day next. During to-day and Tuesday the weatner will be clear and cool. coast ; means that the hostilities between Servia | terests of peace. | the Turkish conduct of the war that it be- | demoralized army fight any better. | the rest; who apply the handy torch to | the conflict will force the great States of | Sultan, and that the Power which fights the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1876. The Future of tne struggle in Servia. | effort to hold out. England’s position is at | The war in Servia has reached a point at | which it changes its character in the most | best difficult, The government is between the commercial classes which require the important particular. It was an advance of | support of English against Russian interests the Servians to the invasion of Turkish ter- | ritory. If it is further continued it will be | an advance of the Turks to the invasion of Servia. This is an important change in | any war; but it is a change of the gravest nature in a war between a Christian State in the enjoyment of an advanced degree of civ- ilization and a Moslem State that hurls against its enemy the savages produced in the most barbarous parts of its territory. It and Turkey, which were lately only as fierce as must necessarily be the acts of any war, are now suddenly to be aggravated by the occurrence on Servian territory of a repeti- tion of all those atrocities which have cently been practised in Bulgaria, and which recall to mind the horrible recitals of what occurred in the same districts some hun- dreds of years since. It was thought that this critical period in the conflict was one likely to lead to the mediation of the great Powers. Indeed, the astute diplomatists were of opinion that the neigh- y waited for the demon- | stration of the apacity of the Servian force to keep the war trom the frontier of that country for an interference in the in- But the declaration re- ceived by cable that the war is to go on dis- courages that hope. It is an odd piece of the irony of events that with the news of the discouragement of that hope comes the dec- laration on the part of the Sultan’s govern- ment of the Turkish view of the war, in which the position, purposes and intentions of the Ministry at Constantinople are pre- ; sented in a light so widely at variance with comes a very farcical document. Prince Milan's determination, upon con- ference with his military advisers, to “‘con- tinue the war to the last extremity,” will not change the character of the operations nor modify the common result ofthe collision of his forces with those of the Turkish com- manders, ‘Tho resolution to continue the attempt to arrest the march of the victors with a beaten army is not often of great con- sequence in war. It may imply an excess of desperate courage on the part of him who announces this resolution ; but the desperate courage of the Prince does not make a There is no good reason to suppose that the Servian soldiery is in better condition now than it was early in the summer, for the world knows well the value of the statement that an army has been ‘‘completely reorganized” on its line of retreat: Prince Milan's re- solve to continue the war may imply on his part either a faith that he will be able to re- sist effectually if hostilities take the form of a guerilla conflict, or a hope that a mere continuance of the war will effect such changes in the aspect of politics that the Power disposed to come to his rescue may do so without putting itselfin such an attitude of distinct hostility to England as may imperil the peace of Europe. These are the only rational interpretations of his attitude ; for, if he is still of opinion that he can, unaided, oppose the Turks with success in regular operations, this must be taken as a new evidence of his incapacity. As to the like- lihood that any favorable change in the course of events will result from the opera- tions assuming the quasi savage character of a guerilla warfare, we apprehend that this will prove a delusion. No warfare can be too or too barbarous to be agreeable to the forces that the Porte sends into Servia. That sort of warfare dis- tresses and annoys, and may ultimately de- feat armies organized on military principle and operating under the restraints that are a necessary part of discipline. But the men who have made a desert of Bulgaria are not that sort of soldiery. Moreover, they have no communications to cut, no supplies to be captured, no assailable side to the sudden descent and assault of a concealed foe. They live on the country, and the only way to deprive them of supplies would be to act on the tactics of the Moscow campaign and burn up all before them. For this the Ser- vians are evidently not ready. In fact, if the Servians turn their troops into guerillas it will be found that the bashi-bazouks are the best guerillas of the two. Guerilla war- fare could never last six months, even in the Basque Provinces of Spain, if the invading force were at liberty to act as the Turkish irregulars acted in Bulgaria. They who kill all they see—men, women or children; who take what forage they want and bum made savage | every house, do not leave the country in a condition to support even guerillas. But this is what the Turks have done in one revolted province this summer; and the rosewater of diplomacy will not prevent them daing it in another. As to the hope that a mere continuance of Europe into new attitudes toward one another, it is not without a reasonable ba Inssia’s attitude has been explicitly made known. She is well disposed toward the Servian people, but will not take any step | hazardous to the peace of Europe, and, therefore, will not relinquish her inactivity while it is possible that her doing so would lead to the extension of hostilities beyond their present limits. The reason for the assumption that any movement on her part | would involve war is that England is re- ‘garded as actually arrayed in support of the Porte would, if it once ent through the flimsy forces of Moslemista, find itself in front of a line with the standatd of England. The demonstration with the British fleet is in Europe actually called an intervention, and Russia acts upon the assumption that | it is one. These facts cannot be out their influence England, public opinion is already very gr: OX cited on the relations of that cour the | contlict—so much excited that it would not be an extreme view to contemplate the re- tirement of Mr. Disraeli into a peerage and the other ministerial changes as so many preparations for a grave and inevitable modi- fication of the attitude of Great Britain with- in where in the East and that strong Christian senti- ment which revolts at the supremacy of Moslemism in Christian countries. England, therefore, supports material Turkey as a fact useful to her, and endeavors to suppress religious Turkey as a fact offensive and re- pugnant to her. But every victory that is gained in this war by the Moslem strength- ens greatly that element of offensive Mos- | lemism in Turkey which renders it more and more difficult for England to sustain the Porte. The necessary progress of a revival of Islam fury directly produced by Islam victories must secure the retirement of the British Ministry from even a moral support of the Sultan ; but ere this result is brought about Servia may be treated as Bulgaria has | been. The President and the Appropria- tions—How to Break Down the In- dian Ring. The President has written nothing since he came into power that will gratify the country so much as his recent Message. As we pointed out in the Henaxy, from time to time, during the sessions, the two houses log-rolled an Appropriation bill for rivers and harbors which was not needed. This ap- propriation mounted up to seven millions in the House. The Senate reduced the sum to five millions, ere was a fierce battle over it in both houses. The principle upon which the bill was passed was a pernicious | one. Each member had his pet scheme for dredging some creek or river at the expense of the government. “Constituents” de- | manded it. Five or six years ago the bill was passed at an aggregate of two millions. Every year it in- | creased, It was in vain for honest and } prudent members to fight the measure— the pressure of ‘‘constituents” was enough. The President now steps in and says that he signs the bill for the good it contains, but that he will take care that no public money | goes out to “improve” worthless ditches and pools, The President plants himself upon j} the ground taken by the Hrerarp in oppos- ing this bill, and if he carries cut his pur- pose, as no one doubts, the country will save three or four millions of dollars. There is about one million provided for in the bill ; that is for the public welfare. All the rest is sheer waste. ‘Che country will honor the President for using his prerogative to pre- vent it. There is another thing the President can do that would meet the approbation of the country, In signing the Indian Appropria- tions bill let him put an end to the Indian agencies as now managed in the Sioux coun- try. An attempt was made to transfer the Indians from the Interior to the War De- partment. The House voted for this trans- | fer. The ring was too strong in the Senate, and the measure was defeated. Now let the President say that, as the Sioux and other tribes are in a state of war, the whole man- agement of the agencies and reservations in the Sioux country will be intrusted to the military authorities. This is necessary as a war measure. It will prevent Sitting Bull from using the agencies for bases of supplies, hospitals for his wounded, and as recruiting stations, It will be a blow at that rascally Indian Department, to which we are in- debted for our wars, and give the control of the Indians to soldiers like Sherman and Sheridan, who are brave, humane and ex- | perienced. Our experience with the Indian Department, as it is now managed, is full of } disaster. There can be no change that will not be an improvement, and the whole matter rests with the President. What Is a Challenge? An officer of the United States Navy has recently published his opinion of a member of Congress, and the Washington despatches speak of the subject in a tone which implies that people at the national capital seem to regard the case us one of which the naval authorities must necessarily take notice. They call the officer's opinion, as published, a challenge to the member, which appears to be a very loose use of words. One must go very far indeed into etymology to properly apply the word challenge to the expression of an opinion, however offensive the opinion may be, and when one has gene so far he { will find that he is using the word challenge in a very different sense from that attached to it as an invitation to come out and be shot. Itis only in this latter sense, how- ever, that the naval authorities have supervision of the conduct of a naval officer as to challenges. By the laws of the United States any officer who “sends or ae- cepts a challenge to fight a duel” exposes him- self to such a penalty as a court martial may inflict, and it was because of this rule that the officer referred to refrained from challenging the Congressman, but acted on a presumed right of every man to express his opinion on | a case in which he has an interest. He per- haps hoped that he might induce the mem- ber to chailenge him, but the department n scarcely act on a “perhaps.” it is pos- sible that the missive in question might be called a provocation to a duei, and as such, on a strained interpretation of the law, the Navy Department might notice it. It is to be observed, however, that the point as to whether or no a given declaration is a proy- ocation to a duel is one that itself depends in a great degree on the temper of the ma whom it is proposed to provoke, Tue Porrrrs yesterday were mostly filled | by visiting ministers, and reports of their sermons will be found in our columns this morning. pastors preached to their congregations, Among these were the Rev. Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, and the B Dr. Anderson, of the First Baptist church. At St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic church a panegyric upon the saint was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Brann; but apart from this special service most of the sermons were devoted to doctrine and duty. Ovr Newrort Letrer this morning gives much interesting gossip relating to the famous watering place and its visitors and villagers, Every year Newport is becoming toward Turkey. The more this change be- comes likely the more the solution of the | difficulty resolves itself into a question of time and justifies the Servians in a desperate a still more fashionable resort, and it is acquiring the first place in the promotion of athletic sports, as well as in social enteriain- ments, In a few instances the regular | The Next Governor of New York. Since the amendments of the State consti- tution, which took effect in January, 1875, | the Governorship of New York has become | one of the great prizes of politics. It has always been an office of high dignity, al- though one of slender emolument. But in spite of the meagre salary the importance of the station has rendered our most eminent citizens willing to accept it, the honor of governing this great, populous and wealthy State, the seat of an imperial commerce and agreat centre of intelligence and political influence, having been sufficient to tempt ambition, although involving a pecuniary sacrifice, The State has reason to be proud of its long list of illustrious Governors, com- prising many of the most eminent names in national as weil as State politics. Not to go back more than forty years, our guberna- torial chair has been filled within that period by such statesmen as Marcy, Seward, Wright, Fish, Seymour, Dix, Tilden, and others of almost equal note. Governor Tilden is the first to receive an adequate salary, but when he accepted the nomination there was no certainty that he would be better compensated than his pred- ecessors. The constitutional amendments were adopted at the same election by which | he was brought to the head of the State gov- ernment, and he has the benefit only of the increased salary, but not of the lengthened tenure, For the first time in our political history a Governor is now to be elected for a term of three years, and it is known before- hand that the salary will be ten thousand instead of four thousand dollars. Besides the salary the Legislature makes an annual appropriation of four thousand dollars for the rent of the Governor's house, making his actual compensation fourteen thousand dollars a year. This is a more desirable office than any other in the United States, with the single exception of the Presideney. The Vice President and the Secretary of State are paid only ten thousand and the Chief Justice ten thousand five hundred, with no lewance for house rent. The Governor- | ship of New York has become so important that it will be eagerly sought, but we have no reason to expect a higher grade of incum- bents than have filled it heretofore. Important as the prize has become it is not likely to be awarded this year to mere merit. Both parties are likely to select their candidates with a view to heal divisions and cement harmony in their own ranks; but if the republicans should nominate Mr. Eyarts, who has always stood aloof from the quarrels of factions and is, therefore, a good compro- mise candidate, they would .also, in the event of his election, give us 2 Governor who deserves to rank with the ablest of the great men who have filled the office in former times. On the democratic side no name has been mentioned of such high dis- | tinction as that of Mr. Evarts; but it hap- pens on that side, too, that the ¢ ndidate who could be accepted by both favtions without any sacrifice of pride would make a worthy and accomplished Governor. Mr. Clarkson N. Potter is one of the most respected citi- zens of the State, and he stands almost equally high in the esteem of democrats and republicans. He was constantly re-elected to Congress so long as he would consent to serve, and no member of that body won a more enviable reputation for integrity, tair- ness, candor and patriotism. He belongs to the school of liberal or progressive demo- , and takes larger and more enlightened views of public questions than a majority of the leaders of his own party. His intel- lectual culture and social accomplishments would grace any office, and he would be personally as well as politically one of the most popular chief magistrates the State has ever had. Mr. Dorsheimer is likely to be his leading competitor .in the Democratic Convention, but Mr. Dors- heimer’s strength lies almost entirely in the preference of Governor Tilden. As between him and Mr. Potter there could be no doubt of the result if the question were left to the free action of the Convention. It is impossible to harmonize the party on Mr. Dorsheimer, and therefore inexpedient to nominate him for Governor, The whole party is willing to manifest its confidence in him by a renomination for his present office, and with that so recent a re- cruit ought to be contented. Potter for Governor and Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor is the wisest ticket the democrats can nominate, both for re-establishing har- mony in the party and for attracting outside support. The Impure Croton Water. The impurity of the Croton water is simply horrible, and demands the prompt attention of the city authorities. The evils which have created this alarming condition of our water supply have been steadily in- creasing under the eyes of the city govern- ment for many years, and yet no intelligent effort hes been made to abate them, Addi- tional lands have been secured for new reser- voirs, dams and weirs have been constructed with considerable elaboration and at enor- mous cost, but the system in its extension over the Croton watershed represents only a cumulative evil rendered irreparable by the magnificence of the scale on which it is de- veloped. It would appear that the plan of lessening the danyers from the reservoir filth by diluting it is the leading feature of our Croton system, and each new reservoir is in its turn intended to supply the necessary volume of pure water for this purpose. But no sooner is it completed and filled than it becomes a rival in nastiness of its neighbor next be- low, and the necessity soon arises for an- other eXtension of the scheme of purification. | But this progress system of reservoir | building must havea limit, and when we | exhaust our sites and all the supply lakes become cesspools, what then is to be done? Clearly we must begin the costly undertak- ing of eutting off the flow of the surface drainage into the reservoirs or of purchasing up and demolishing every dwelling, form- | house, factory and slaughter house within 'the area of the Craton watershed. The lakes must be fenced, to prevent the | hogs from wallowing in the water intended for drinking purposes in the city of New York. Theve ave new reservoirs in contem- plation, we understand, but we fear that nothing will be done to preserve them from pollution. Settlements will spring up re al- | around them, and they will in time become the receptacles of the general sewage. It is not too late to secure even some of the pres- ent lakes from this condition; but is there intelligence, energy and honesty enough in our city government officials to do it? Let Us Keep Cool. _ Of the forty-four millions of American people probably less than’ halfa million, counting men, women and children, are in- terested, in what may bo called a direct per- sonal or pecuniary sense, in the result of the November elections. The number is not greater if we count the ins, who want to stay in, the outs, who want to get in—in short, the people of all kinds of whom it may be said that “the hay at the end of the pole” makes them pull. The rest of us have a less direct, but. still an equally important, interest in the result. What we want is good government; and we are to be congratulated that both political parties and their leaders promise us this— | not vaguely, as is too frequently done, but specifically. Both candidates promise us distinctly a sound currency, a reform of the civil service, reform and peace in the South- ern States and economy in the public expen- ditures. Both candidates are men of char- acter, determination and settled convic- tions. Neither will ruin the country if he is chosen, in spite of what bigoted or self-interested partisans may declaim on the stump, and neither will do it all the good their over-zealous friends assert. | Either will have a difficult task te withstand | the demands of seme of his supporters, } for ina matter of a reform of the civil ser- | vice Governor Tilden will have as great diffi- culties to contend with as Governor Hayes, perhaps even greater, though it is not useful to underestimate the opposition which Mr. Hayes will have to meet from his political allies if it shall be his fortune, as President, to begin this great and needed reform. Why, if this is true, if both candidates promise equally well, and if both are men of character, likely to perform what they pledge, should the people allow themselves to become excited about the election? We know no good reason, and the fact is notori- ous that they are not excited. A certain number of stump orators in the Senate and | elsewhere have already begun to beat their gongs, but they get very little attention. Mr. Boutwell has demonstrated that the country will be ruined if the democratic party should succeed, and Mr. Eaton has proved that it will go to the demnition bow-wows if the republican party should succeed. In either case, if we might believe these orators and others of their kind, our liberties would not be worth a week’s pur- chase, and those of us who like free institu- tions and constitutional government might as well emigrate in a body to Lake Tangan- yika or the Island of New Guinea. But, in point of fact, nobody is scared. Nobody be- lieves that either party will bring us either ruin or a political millennium. ‘The people of the United States, excluding, besides In- dians untaxed, the office-holders and the office-seckers, see a great amount of folly and possible mischief in both parties. They seo, too, that both have chosen for their leaders, under the pressure of the public demand for reform, honest and capable men, who have solemnly pledged themselves to certain nec- essary reforms. They are aware that which- ever of these leaders shall be chosen will have a difficult task to perform, and will find his opponents largely in his own party. But they have reason to! believe also that in either case, with the support of right-minded people of both parties, the new President will be able to lead the country toward the reforms it needs, Why, then, should anybody be ex- cited? Let us be devoutly thankful that in this centennial of the Republic the can- didates before the people are both men to whom the great interests of the nation may be safely intrusted, and that we are not in that calamitous condition when a nation stands, to use a sailor's phrase, ‘between the devil and the deep sea,” and is threat- ened with ruin if it votes wrongly. What, then, is the average citizen to do? We advise him to keep cool; to read his Henatp, where he will find a great variety | of information, daily, and to make up his mind to vote for the best men, when all the tickets are made up. He will have to vote for a Congressman, for Governor, in many of the States, and fcr some minor officers. Let the average citizen select the best men, re- gardless of party. ; thus he will best serve the country and himself. Do not vote foran un- fit man because he belongs to your party, but split your ticket, use your judgment, and, beyond this, watch the canvass. The con- duct, the words of party leaders between now and.the election will, of course, be care. fully guarded, yet they will let out the truth in spite of themselves. Between now } and November thero remains abundant opportunity for the average and impartial | citizen to determine to which of the two | parties it is best to contide the government for the next four years. If he reads many | political speeches he will change his mind ! very often. When, for instance, he reads | Senator Bontwell's diatribe on Mississippi he will be moved to vote the democratic | ticket. When he reads Senator Eaton's speech he will determine to support the re- publicans, Every violent or foolish or par- tisan speech which he hears or reads will impel him to the other side, and the average citizen will probably remain until the last days before the election undecided, and will | sum up like a conscientious juryman at the | last, and give his verdict for that side which | has done the least lying, 5 Tammany Make Room for Your Anti, Dennis Quinn, Owen Murphy, Bernard | Reilly, Thomas O'Callahan, Mike Murphy, Deunis Burns, Jimmy Hayes, Michnel Healy, Dennis MeMahon and some other nobie and illustrious statesmen are appointed a com- mittee of conference to settle the terms on which the Tammany and anti-Tammany | democrats shall respectively bury the hatchet-that is to say, put up the shillelah, In what these men may do the public has very little interest, except in so far as the proposed course threatens to close up a quarrel that was salutary and advantageous to the city. Democratic quarrels are always a public benefit, and the latest opposition of | seems | especially a iaction of the democrats to Tammany Hall was altogether a gain to good government ; for the factions, never strong enough to do what they will, co-operate with the citi- zens in the endeavor to free us from Tam- many domination, and sometimes succeed, This was done in a yet well remembered slaughter of the Tammany nominees, and might be repeatedly done in similar cireum- stances. In making terms with Tammany, therefore, the anti-Tammany faction simply surrenders itself up asa party, It sells out for the usual mess of pottage. It trades on the rich prospect of the city offices. It was of consequence in city politics only as the anti-Tammany party. It had no other sig- nificance and no other value than a nucleus of opposition to Boss Kelly's will; but it could not be kept together without the spoils, and the only difficulty in the present negotiation is to determine the price. Thurlow Weed in Reply to Messrs Stephens, Toombs and Clingman. We print this morning another letter from Mr. Thurlow Weed in corroboration of the statements in his interesting chapter of un- written history which led to the contro- versy now for some time going on in our columns between him and other dite tinguished actors in our political history. The conflicting assertions of the parties to this controversy do not seem tous to involve any question of veracity, the discrepancies not being greater than might naturally be expected from the infirmities of human memory respecting events which occurred more than a quarter of acentury ago. Mr. Weed has established the substantial cor- rectness of his original narrative, but it very clear that he was mis- taken on some points of detail, and in relation to the presence of Mr. Clingman at the White House on the occasion when President Taylor gave way to a paroxysm of indignant excitement. Mr. Weed himself has been led to distrust the accuracy of his memory on that point since reading Mr. Clingman’s letter, which he ine genuonsly describes as “fank, full and qan- did,” and as ‘contributing much and value able information relating to the exciting questions before Congress during the session of 1850.” It seems to us that Mr. Clingman _ had no connection with, and probable that | he had no knowledge of, the remarkable ine terview at the White House; but Mr. Weed’s recital is unshaken in any other important particular. There was such a stormy s¢e2no at the Prosidential mansion as Mr. Weed was the first to bring to the public knowl- edge; Stephens and Toombs were the two Southern whigs who roused the tempest, and General Taylor denounced their threats of disunion with unmeasured vehemence.. The letter of Mr. Hamlin, which Mr. Weed embodies in his present communication, not only corroborates his own statements, but is so minute in its ree lation of circumstances as to carry strong internal evidence of accurate recollection, Mr. Hamlin’s letter to Mr. Weed settles the main point in dispute and conveys a vivid picture of what took place on that occasion, Mr. Clingman is clearly in error in stating that Mr. Toombs had no interview with Gen- eral 'laylor until the latter was on his death- bed, for Toombs himself states, in the letter which Clingman had not seen, that he and Stephens had repeated conversations with the President, sometimes separately and sometimes together, and that ‘‘some of them were earnest and decided on both sides.” The letter of Mr. Clingman, those of Mr. Weed and that of Mr. Hamlin are valuable and interesting contributions to'the history of one of the most memorable and danger ous periods in our polities. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Boston sends salt to Chicago. Profegsor Seelye is now a bitter republican. ‘A colored woman is postmistross at Terry, Missy This summer bas been @ season of monster fircs ia London. Many of the Parisian toilets have several booquets— always one at the throat and one at the pocket, President Vorter and Professor Whitney, of Yale Col- lege, are.spending soine timo at the Lake Placid House, in the Ad:rondacks. It is stated that the Antonina Palaco at Malta has been taken from November next for the residonce of tho Dachess of Edinburgh. Mr. Phillips, of the Springfleld (111.) Journal, has been nominated for Congress by the republicans of his district, Mr. Phillips 18 a strong man. We have never regarded Minister Pierrepont as aw extreme man. Recent developments stow conclusively that he ‘Miss Emily Schomb -rg, the Phila. delphia about to be marricd, It is said that she has been asked in marriage one hundrod tlmos,”? ‘The Spanish government has appointed a commission to inquire into the physical conditions and possibile tes of the Philippime Isiands. A prefossor of botany is to accompany the expedition. . Richmond (Va) Anquiver:—“Yesterday Adolphus Tinsley, from Hanever county, brought to this city 174 watermelons, of his own raising, vone of which weighed less than thirty pounds, the averags being forty pounds, and some weigned as much as forty-nine pounds.” The tishop of Gloucester and Cardinal Manning wore present recently at @ mecting of the Mode! Housoa Association for improving the dwellings of the poor im London, The Bishop was compelled by other engage ments to leave, and he asked the Cardinal to take his place in the chair, London Fun:—"Granny—Playing the truant agin’, yer young wagabon; I'll warm yer up when I gets yor tome! Why ain't yer at school hko yor good brother Tom?? Jack—‘Bain’t no truantatall Me and Tom divides it now; I carries the books to school and he does the larnin’ there !? "" ‘ If a leet of about 2,000 ships, cach freighted with 1,400 tons of mad, were to sail down the river every hour of every day and night for four months contina ously, thoy would only transport to the sea a inass 0} solid matter equal to that borne down by the Ganges is the four months of the flood season, Four Australian fortune tellérs are in Paris, en rouw for Engiaod. These are four old men, with long whits beards aud red cloaks, They cure illness and help peo. plo to be revenged upon enemies, known or unknown, One of their chief remedies, in extreme cases of tllness, is to plange the patient into a bath of leeches, An English traveller om the Continent says;—"L write these pages in the depth of the Black Forest, where a village inn bas beew turned into the hotel of a | Kir, and Lam charged extra for a pat of butter with my morning colfee. In a belvedere, perched on the woody height opposite my window, the names Washington Conk, of Chicago, and Ulysses Bagg,-of Cincinnati, are ent deep intu the wood; and I think of them when I pay for my butter.” : Our brilliant and graphic account of Custer’s great Tndian battle on the Little Big Horn, toughton the 26th of June and printed in the Hera of July 8, has now become thoaccepted true account of the battle. It haw been copied everywhere by the rural press in this coun. try, and has also been widely republished in Europe Tho credit of proparing this report is due to Colonel G A. Lounsberry, editor of the Bismarck Tribune, whe gathered his taterial from many sources and tele graphed it through to the HkRALD on the night of the 6th of Jaly, but too late for ase next da: It first coa. veyed to the public the full pariiculara of tho great battle,