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PARISIAN VARIETIES, TRIPLE SHEET. “NEW YORK, THUR | DAY, AUGUST 24, 187 “From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with, possibly, rain. During the summer months the Henaup will cribers in the country at the rate of cents per week, free of postage. Watz Steerer, Yesrerpay.—Speculation was mainly confined tq the coal stocks, which declined considerably. Gold opened at 110 3-4, with most of the day’s sales at 110 7-8, at which figure it closed. Govern- ment bonds were firm. Railroad bonds were moderately active and a shade lower. Money on call loans was in abundant sup- ply at 1 a 2 per cent. Tar AcstraLiaN Rir.emen have all arrived in this city, and visited Creedmoor yes- terday. Tue Rorren Teiecrapn Porns through- put the city are to be removed immediately, we are told, and we trust there will be no delay. This, however, should not prevent the enforcement of a penalty for the neglect and carelessness which caused the death of Mrs. McGuire. Ractno rm Encuanp.—The second day of the York August Meeting has been distin- guished by an important race between ten starters for the Great Ebor Handicap Stakes. Our cable despatches give particulars of the event, which awakened considerable interest in racing circles. Two Brvres met in.the prize ring in Dela- ware yesterday, and in nineteen minutes they fought twenty-one rounds, the younger animal pounding the face of his older an- tagonist intoa jelly. Thereis a whipping post in Delaware, and it is a pity the two roughs were not subjected to its tender mercies. Cant Burx’s Apventure on the Sound is regarded by the captain of the boat and the police as a fabrication. This is possible, but the possibility is no reason why the police should frame a theory and then quit work altogether, simply because a police opinion is incontrovertible. Asornzrn Great Famvne is apprehended in England. The notes of a great iron making concern have been returned un- paid, and suspension is regarded as inev- itable. The disturbance of the financial balance in England has been as great as that experienced here, and of course the re- sults must be similar. Tre Breaxrxe Down of the coal combina- tion meets with favor everywhere, except among the dealers who have large stocks on band at ring prices. These will suffer, per- haps; but in the future they can regulate their purchases according to the laws of supply and demand, and they will not be at the mercy of a board of control. Tue Conriictinc Intenrsts oy AvsTRIA axp Honaany are constantly creating com- plications which tend to disturb the har- mony of the relations between the two Btates. The resignation of the Hungarian Minister of Commerce, because he was dis- satisfied with the terms of a compromise measure, shows how sensitive Hungarian statesmen can be concerning their country’s rights. Disraewt’s Panwiamentary Snoxs are ea- gerly sought for by the representatives of the liberal and conservative parties, and an exciting contest is likely to take place for the seat for Buckinghamshire. Such a pop- | ular personage as the Earl of Beaconsfield should be able to name his successor in the lower house, but it is probable that the new Peer will let the people decide on the merits of the rival candidates. Tue Financtan Crists ry Portvcan con- tinues to disturb the money markets, especi- ally that of England. Heavy drafts of coin from the Bank of England are necessary to relieve the stringency at Lisbon, but there isa hopeful feature in the case presented by the energy of the Lisbon bankers in striving to repair damages without outside aid. Already business is improving and bank notes are circulated without discount. Tax New Spanisnx Loax.—Spanish finances tontinue to be bolstered up by forced loans in Cubs. The latest result of the pressure of Spanish power in Havana is a contribution of nearly four and a half millions of dollars by the merchants and others to the royal soffers. They manage things in a peculiar way in Cuba. An invitation to subscribe to & government loan is equivalent to a com- mand which no one dares to disobey, and the loan itself is made payable at the end of all time. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. The Republican State Ticket. The Republican Convention has been skilfully piloted through a piece of difficult navigation without damage to ship or cargo. A row was expected, and there has been no row. Instead of a bitter and demoralizing squabble between the supporters and oppo- nents of Senator Conkling for the mastery of the Convention the formal proceedings have been marked by singular good feeling. A candidate for Governor has been nominated on the first ballot, and all factions and divi- sions cordially accept the result. ‘The wave has passed under the ship” without straining its timbers, and the democratic party of the State has no longer anything to hope from republican quarrels or dissen- sions. Whether the ticket be deemed strong or weak it is at least certain that it will thoroughly unite and _har- monize the party and be received with professions of satisfaction as unanimous ; {as those which greeted the nomination of Governor Hayes at Cincinnati. The distine- tion between Conkling men and anti-Conk- ling men has been practically obliterated, jor, at least, adjourned until after the elec- ‘tion, and the democratic party has no longer anything to hope from divisions and per- sonal animosities in the republican ranks. Observers whose judgment was not ‘wayed by a partisan bias have felt that it vas not safe to form any opinion as to the result of the Presidential contest until after the New York State conventions. The Presi- dential election will probably be decided by the vote of New York, and there were com- bustible elements in both parties here which might lead to a great row and ex- plosion. The republican party has escaped this danger, and it remains to be seen whether the democratic party will be equally fortunate in its State Convention next week. Whatever chances the republicans may have had for carrying the Empire State and elect- ing the next President, they have not impaired them by anything they have done at Saratoga. The easy triumph of Governor Morgan was assured from the moment that Mr. Cornell was persuaded to, withdraw from the contest, and this certainty weakened the effect of Mr. Curtis’ glowing tribute to the merits and claims of Mr. Evarts. Had Mr. Cornell remained in the field Mr. Curtis would have delivered his speech without a consciousness on his own part and perception on the part of his hearers that he was leading a forlorn hope; but he had engaged to perform the task be- fore the new contingency arose, and had to go through with it amid a fecling that he was paying a mere compliment which could lead to no practical result. But even with this wet blanket resting upon him he made a good speech, and the applause it elicited was a generous and sincere tribute to the character and ability of Mr. Evarts. But had it been known at the outset that Senator Conkling would not make a fight and that Mr. Cornell would withdraw Mr. Evarts would not have been pressed upon the Convention asa candidate. In recent years he has had but a cold and distant identification with the republican party, and it is a signal proof of personal respect that he received a larger number of votes than any other candidate except the one who carried off the prize. On the first ballot Governor Morgan received more than enough votes to nominate him, and Mr. Evarts stood next. Mr. Curtis thereupon immediately moved that Governor Morgan's nomination should be unanimons, and made an excellent point in pleading Mr. Evarts’ example at Chicago in 1860, when, although he had been a foremost advocate of Seward, he moved to make the nomination of Lincoln unanimous as soon as it had been secured. A citizen so eminent as Mr. Evarts loses nothing by a political defeat, his titles to public confidence resting on a more solid foundation than the caprices or expediencies of political parties. “The nomination of Governor Morgan is a strong one in itself, but the real strength of any republican nomination in this conjunc- ture lies in its fitness to secure party unity, and from this point of view, even if from no other, Mr. Morgan is a well selected leader of the State canyass. The Convention has met and adjourned without a quarrel, and this is a great deal, con- sidering the inflammable and mutually repulsive elements with which it had to deal. But Mr. Morgan is a strong candi- date aside from the fact that his nomination restores harmony in a distracted party, He is anable and experienced party tactician, and if he be not quite a match for Governor Tilden in this respect he may be relied on to give close attention to the details of the canvass. He is well known to the business men of this city and enjoys their confidence to as great a degree as Governor Tilden him- self. He has the prestige of a great war Governor, which will aid him considerably in a canvass in which his party is trying to make the old issue of loyalty prominent. He is among the hardest of hard money men, and nobody doubts his straightforward sincerity on this great ques- tion. He has in former yeat’ been honored with the highest positions in the gift of his party in this State, having been twice elected Governor and once United States Senator. He possesses great wealth, and no man in the State has been more liberal in making contributions for party objects. He will make an energetic canvass, and do more than any other nominee could have done to bring out a full republican vote. He is a much stronger candidate than Mr. Cor- nell or than Judge Robertson would have been, and will, perhaps, poll a larger vote than would have been given to Mr. Evarts. His nomination puts the democratic party on its good behavior, and makes it an im- perative necessity for the supporters of Mr. Tilden to reconcile their differences and put forth their strongest man. Atterthe triumphant nomination of Gover- nor Morgan there was a threatened break in the harmony of the Convention in the evening session by an attempt on the part of Mr. Cornell's friends to get him nomi- nated for Lieutenant Governor. This move- ment was extremely ill-judged, but it is a decisive proof that the nomination of Governor Morgan was not the result of a bargain between his supporters and the friends of Senator Conk- linge It refutes the rumor current in Saratoga yesterday afternoon that Mr. Morgan got his nomination by a promise not to stand in the way of Mr. Conkling’s re- election to the Senate. The rumor of such @ bargain was improbable on its face, for Mr. Conkling is not the kind of man that could descend to a dicker. Had there been such an understanding Mr. Cornell could not have permitted himself to be proposed to the Convention for the second place on the ticket as an immediate reward for his letter of withdrawal, It is evident that Senator Conkling has had nothing to do with the course of things at Saratoga, and he cannot be harmed in the estimation of the party by any of the humili- ations put upon Mr. Cornell, It was a great renunciation of dignity and self-respect for Mr. Cornell to permit his name to be pre- sented for the Lieutenant Governorship after his defeat for the first place; but it is diffi- cult to conceive that such a thing could have been done without his consent. He is a member of the Convention, and it would have become him, when his name was presented for the second place, to rise and declare that it was done by the partiality of his friends, without his consent or knowledge, and that he refused to be putin such an attitude. But he sat still and allowed three or four speeches to be made pressing him for the Lieutenant Governorship without putting a stop to the movement. This willingness to court a new humiliation shows that he is made of very different stuff from Senator Conkling, whose pride of character would have scorned to seek an inferior place after having been a prominent candidate for the first. Mr. Cornell got what he deserved in consenting to play such a réle. It gave Mr. Curtis an opportunity, which he was prempt to seize, to deal a deadly stab, and Mr. Woodin afterward rose and drove the dagger in to the hilt. There could be no more conclusive proof that Mr. Cornell acted without the advice of Senator Conkling than the perpetration of such a blunder. The nomination of Mr. Rogers for the second place is one of the best that could have been made, and the ticket as a whole will be a very hard one to beat. The Liberals at Saratoga. Every great show is in the centre of many small shows. At the Centennial Exhibition, for instance, all the avenues of approach swarm with the wonders of the world, each of which is to be seen for five cents in a sep- arate booth. Itis the same at the races, at shooting matches, at any and every point where there is to be a great concourse of people. The proprietor of the two-headed baby parades that lively infant in a neigh- boring tent, the bearded woman is just round the corner, the calf with seventeen tails is over the way, and the fat woman, the tattooed South Sea Islander and the largest snake ever seen contribute equally to the at- tractions of the occasion. It is in the spirit of these enterprising showmen that the lib- erals are on the scene at Saratoga. The great Convention is there, the re- publican party in its chosen representatives assembles at that point for its annual trade sale, and there will be a large gathering. Therefore General Cochrane and the other liberals—if any other liberals there are—have wisely chosen to go thither with their little show in the hope that some of the glory and splendor of prosperity may also fall on them. All that is quaint, strange, unaccountable, monstrous or inexcusable in a political way may be seen in their booth, and no donbt on reason- able terms. Visitors should not fail to drop in. We are sure that if the Genoral himself stands at the door of the tent, and with his fine resonant voice and impressive rhetoric announces his live lion stuffed with straw, the show will be a great success, There will be no deed even for Ethan Allen to play a hand organ behind the curtain. A Tempest in a Teapot, The Dominion has our profoundest sym- pathies in the new troubles which confed- eration has wrought. Ten years ago, when every Canadian was bursting with the grand idea of the scheme for confederation, we looked on in pity, for we well knew that pride and ambition would soon bring their sorrows. Already there has happened what the too expressive language of the streets calls a “kick.” British Columbia is excited. That part of the Queen's dominions where the sun sets only to rise upon the posses- sions of the Empress of India has made an unpleasant discovery. A great transconti- nental railway was to have been built on British soil from the lakes all the way to the Pacific, and this was the price which the British Columbians too fondly believed would be paid them for assent- ing to confederation. Unfortunately, Lord Dufferin has made them a visit, and when they asked how soon the great railway would be begun and com- pleted he frankly told them he did not be- lieve it would be built at all. It is no wonder this information was unsatis- factory, and now we are told it is feared unpleasant consequences will ensue. Pained as we are to hear this we are anxious to know what these unpleasant consequences are to be. Is British Columbia going to war with the Dominion of Canada, the Queen of Great Britain and the Empress of India? Is the confederation to be smashed? Is Canada to be taught that she cannot inveigle Colum- bians with impunity? We fear so, for we hear that a great popular demonstration is threatened at Victoria, and the Columbians, not often having an opportunity for speech- making, ought to be able to accomplish these things on the platform in a manner as masterly as that of old Petrus Stuyvesant, who gained great renown by making war by proclamation. in the Northwest may be estimated by the fact that during Tuesday night 2.90 inches of rain fell at Breckenridge, Minn. The indraught of air toward the storm centre | has affected the atmospheric currents as far south as Cairo, although the storm is now central in the region north of the lakes. Rains prevailed yesterday from Baltimore, Md., to Breckenridge, Minn., in considerable areas. Another disturbance with rain was central in the Lower Mississippi Valley last evening. During to-day the weather at New York will be warm and cloudy, with prob- able rain areas, The Indian Campaign. All who hope that the calamities of June may not go unavenged were pleased to hear that ourentire force was concentrated and in pursuit of the enemy. ‘They will be grieved, however, to learn from our de- spatches this morning that Crook has not behaved toward Terry with the chivalry which isdue from one séldier to another, | and will be led not to be too sanguine of the | punishment of the savages this season. It is absolutely necessary that the combined | forces should act in harmony, and that the commanders should treat each other with confidence and respect if their united action is to meet with any success. When the ex- pedition started it is plain nobody had any clear idea of the whereabouts of the Sioux. It was supposed that Sitting Bull was some- where between the Tongue and Powder rivers, south of the Yellowstone, but then it was equally probable the Indians were already over the river. This is possible, even if the trail recently followed by the troops was the last made by the Indians. and now it is conjectured that the trail is an old one, But, whether the In- | dians aro on the south or north side of the Yellowstone, they have the course of the conflict in their own hands, They can fight or not, as they please, and it seems unlikely that they will fight again unless the advantages are all on their side. Our correspondent asserts that a battle must oc- cur very soon if it is to occur atall. We fear the Indians cannot be in- duced to make a_ stand; but if our men are caught in a false position they will ‘find the enemy” only too soon, In view of the severe lessons of the season it is not probable that any misstep will be made in ouradvance; and this very care, the discretion which deprives the savage of the opportunity for an easy victory, will keep him away. Sitting Bull has made a campaign that cannot fail to affect the whole Indian mind in the greatest degree. He has defied us in arms fora whole summer, und in two collisions, in each of which we fondly believed we could close his career, he has terribly beaten us. If he closes active operations with the pzestige €esulting from such a record he will only have to hold up his hand in the spring to gather about him every Indian in the Black Hills. He is not the man to throw away such a future by sitting down in a corner and waiting for the troops tocome up and whip him. He is but a few days from the British frontier and can cross it when he will; or if his forces are scattered they are as effectively out of our reach as if they were over the frontier. The Silver Commission. Were it not for the great decline in the value of silver the attempts to restore the double standard in this country would not be fraught with any serious mischief, and the use of both metals might facilitate the resumption of specie payments. Gold and silver were alike a legal tender under our laws previous to the civil war, and it would bean immense gain to have our currency restored to the same basis on which it stood prior to the deluge of irredeemable paper. There were always objections to a double standard, but so long as ten silver dollars had pretty nearly the same value as a gold eagle a paper currency could not be very much debased while it was promptly redeemable in either. Of course the banks will always redeem in the cheaper metal if they have it; but slight variations between the two cannot cause disastrous fluctuations in the paper money of the country. We condemn the wild projects for demonetizing silver which were agitated in Congress during the latter part of the session ; but if our silver coins were readjusted to the value of gold we would not object to the restoration of both metals to their old function. We need to make a large accumulation of coin previous to re- sumption, and we could procure it with greater ease by using both metals as astand- ard, instead of gold alone. Itisa great mercy that this ignorant and reckless Congress post- poned action on the wild silver bills, but it didawise thing in providing, near the close of the session, fora commission to in- vestigate the subject. We insert the con- current resolution under which the commis- sion was appointed :— Resolved, By the House of Representatives (ibe Senate concurring), that a commission is hereby an- thorized and constituted, to consist of three Senators, to be appointed by the Serfate; three members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker; and experts, not exceeding three in number, to be selected by and associated with them, with au: thority todetermine the time and placo of meeting, and to take evidence; and whose duty it shali be to inquire— First—Into the change which bas taken place in the relative value of gold aud stiver; the causes thereof, whether permanent or otherwise; the effects thercot upon trade, commerce, finance and productive inter- ests of the country, and upon the standard value in this and foreiga countries. Second—Iinto the policy of the restoration of the double standard in this country, and, if restored, what the legal relation between the two coins, silver and gold, should be, Third—Into the policy of continuing legal tender notes concurrently with the inetallic standards and the effects thereot upon the labor, industries and wealth of the country ; and, Fourth—Lnto the best means for providing tor facili- tating the resumption of specie payments. And said commission is authorizea to employ a stenographer, and shail repori on or betore the 15th day of January, 1°77, with the evidence taken by then, and such recommendations for Jegisiation as they may deom proper. These inquiries are of large scope and deep interest, and if the three experts who are to form part of the commission should be competent and able men their work will be a valuable contribution to our monetary knowledge and serve as a useful guide to legislation on a very intricate and difficult subject. The Senate members of the com- mission are Senator Jones, who possesses great knowledge of such subjects, but is under a bias ; Senator Boutwell, who passes for a sound hard money man, and Senator Bogy, who has a large acquaintance with business, but is badly smitten with the silver lunacy. The House members of the commission are Randall L. Gibson, of | Louisiana, an inflexible advocate of hard money ; R. P. Bland, of Missouri, of “Bland Silver bill” notoriety ; and George Willard, of Michigan, a careful, scholarly man, who will bestow great pains and study on the subjects of investigation. But the | efficiency of the commission will de- | pend in oa great degree on the asso- ciate experts, who have not yet been appointed. We rejoice at this evidence that Congress has begun to discover its own igno- rance of this important range of subjects, on which loose legislation would be a great public calamity, | ganized conspiracy to reward a murderer. ‘| arise to oppose the nomination to a high ‘The Molly Magutres. The conviction of the Molly Maguires at Pottsville on Tuesday gives judicial sanc- tion to charges against this organization which, without such support, would be in- credible. The crime of which the jury found these men guilty is without parallel in crimi- nal history. It was not murder simply, nor a combination to commit murder, but an or- We believe it is no longer donbted that there is an organization known as the Molly Ma- guires among the miners in the Pennsylva- nia coal regions, and that this organi- zation sometimes appoints ‘committees to kill objectionable persons. The result | of this trial fixes a still graver crime than murder even upon the organization— graver even than the payment of a reward to a known murderer—and with the record | of conviction staring us in the face we can scarcely bring ourselves to believa in the | total depravity to which it points, It is hard to believe that even a society organized | to kill the enemies of its members and to reward the murderers could gravely appoint ® committee to determine which of two claimants to such reward was entitled to it ; | yet such was the crime of which these six | prisoners at Pottsville were convicted. That | there was such acommittee is established by the testimony of both its members, and the charge of the Court and the finding of the jury both prove that the téstimony was believed. The law-abiding people in the coal regions implicitly believe in all that was asserted on the trial, and rejoice in the conviction of the conspirators as the only way to secure themselves from the unseen dangers which menace them on every hand. They are, perhaps, too apt to accept as true anything that is asserted against the. terrible Mollies, and a danger which can scarcely be exag- gerated may lead to exaggerated punish- ments. One thing is certain, the story told by McParlan, the detective, has no parallel, and yet his exposures and the convictions which have followed them have not impelled either the Congress of the United States or the Legislature of Pennsylvania to inquire into the matter. Ifthe courts of Schuylkill county are justified in their convictions of the Molly Maguires there may be a torch at every man’s door and a knife at every man’s throat in the land, and yet we hear of these crimes and their punishment with o shrug of the shoulders and forget all about them before the day is half spent. The Tramp in a New Character. Hitherto the tramp has been mostly a local nuisance, an unsightly object on the country roads, an occasional danger to hen roosts, and sometimes, perhaps, an involuntary in- cendiary ; for if a bit of fire from his pipe has fallen into the hay it can hardly be said that he burned the barn on purpose. He has been an evil, no doubt ; but he has been regarded with forgiving thoughts, for who isn’t lazy after all, and who doesn’t like to ramble on the country roads in the pleasant weather and sleep under the edge of the haystack on hot nights? But the tramp threatens to become a scourge that may have to be stamped out in the most vigorous way. There are two or three cases tolerably well authenticated of trains thrown from the rail by their contrivance, and one company has organized a patrol to watch them. Innocent tramps should take care and themselves be- come a police on the vicious members of their fraternity, for if any serious accident is traced to this species of human creature there will be a new kind of crop found ona great many trees in the country. Fe ms to the Reseue. Already the Fenian camp: has assumed a@ certain importance in QMassachusetts. General Butler has declared for the Fenians in his récent speech. He was always in favor of those great patriots, and if he is elected to the next Congress hé will propose something terrible to the British lion—in the way of conundrums. But the Fenians themselves seem thus far to have taken little notice of Butler. They are, however, pay- ing their respects to his distinguished fellow citizen, Charles Francis Adams. The prop- osition to make this gentleman Governor of | the State has aroused the Fenian ire. They will not permit this if they can prevent it, and perhaps they can. It seems that when this gentleman was Minister of the United States to London he was conscious of the fact that he represented this government and was not the ruler of the British Empire, and he did not, therefore, | interfere with the duties of the local police. | But the Fenians and Adams differed as to the duties of a minister; and now these men | post of one of the most upright and capable men in the country because he did not take | up their quarrel in England. This is one of the curiosities of our polities ; and it would bea queer result if it should come about that Massachusetts ¢ nnot have a better Governor than the Fenians will permit. ——_. > Tar Tonco-Servian War.—The latest despatches from all neutral sources unite in confirming the reports of Servian successes in the defence of Alexinatz. Indeed, we conld not expect the struggle to have had any other result at this point, because the de- fence of Alexinatz’ means the defence of Servia, and consequently Prince Milan's army made a stubborn fight. That both sides recognized this fact is proved by the numbers engaged and _ the desperation of the fighting around the threatened town. General Tchernayeff, with his large force, was able to cover the place completely and guard all its approaches, and it was in the efforts of the united Turkish armies under Kerim Pacha and Eyoub Snaib to break throngh the Servian lines that they suffered this serious reverse. A great Turkish defeat that would degenerate into a rout would be disastrous to Turkey, becanse she has rnined the conntry over which her troops would be compelled to retreat. The Servian successes have so far encouraged the government at Belgrade that the war senti- ment is strong and the fight is likely to be maintained. Prince Milan, who latterly wavered botween peace and war, has now cast his fate with that of his army, and has Chesmey on McClellan. The first of European military critics re cently died, leaving among his dispassionate and profound essays a half-finished article on McClellan’s campaign on the Peninsula, Colonel Chesney had already written about Grant and Sherman, Farragut and Porter, If he could have finished his article about ; McClellan he would have added greatly to the critical history ofthe rebellion. Taking for his text the first two volumes of the “Comte de Paris,” Colonel Chesney, a saga- cious and wise student of strategy, would either have condemned or defended Mc- Clellan céncerning the campaign near York- town. He had no time to do either. The soldier of 1861, says he, was the grandson of that soldier who, three-quarters of a century before, fought on the same ground. ‘The American soldier, like the | American citizen, is strong ; but the general virtue, as well in military as in civil govern- ment, is weak. The design is fine, argues Chesney, but the execution is feeble. The American people were good enough, but the system was radically bad. Colonel Chesney pays the North a great compliment when he says that the soldiers who marched against Richmond during the rebellion’were of the same spirit and calibre as those who fought the British nearly a hundred years ago. We in America have long since, in a politi- cal way, learned to make a distinction that Colonel Chesney, p mere military critic, could not recognize. The critic does nof like that Governors of States should have supplied colonels for regiments, not- withstanding that it was in this way that Grant received his commission. He is opposed to the idea that a President should exercise so much authority as Lin- coln, Commander-in-Chief under the con- stitution, exercised to the defeat of the army and of McClellan. Colonel Chesney is a military man criticising a republican manner of warfare, and, from a military point of view, he is very conservative and just. He never loses sight of the fact that the masses of the army, as well as the Presi- dent, belonged toa republic. It is without any idea of partisanship that we chronicle Colonel Chesney’s idea that McClellan’s or- ganization of the army of the Potomac laid the foundations of all the successes that were at any time won on the Virginia peninsula. He does not excuse McClellan for slowness of movement or for caution in ascertaining the enemy's position, but he gives him great credit for strategic skill. McClellan, accord- ing to Chesney, made an army, and wasabout to use it against great genius, which, as s military heritage, belonged to the South, when political authority deposed him; just as Chesney himself, in the Edinburgh Review, follows McClellan, with much praise forcaue tion and strategy, to Malvern Hill, and dies, leaving no critic worthy to take his place. Tae Metnopist Ertscopan Cxurce in the United States is united at last, andin the future we trust that no sectional or worldly bickerings will disunite it. The Christians embraced in this denomination are too many and too important to allow themselves to be diverted by questions which in no way affect Christianity from the duties which ought to enlist their energies, They are to be con- gratulated upon the spirit which has brought about reconciliation and peace, and the good results of this union can scarcely be overese timated. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Simon Cameron, Jr., is in Chicago. Mayor Cobb, of Boston, is in the White Hills, Count R. de Choiseul, of Paris, is at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel ‘ * Senator James K. Kelly, of Oregon, is at the New York Hotel. Countess Herberstetn, of Austria, is at the Hotel Brunswick. Epicures are nervously waiting for the calm, nude oyster. Colonel Bob Ingersoll, of Illinois, is a guest of Sena» tor Blaine in Maine. ~ Ex-Secretary Bristow will soon visit G. W. Curtis a his country nome in Ashfivld, Mass. Associate Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Prudent and tasteful homebodies will soon begin to think of planting hyacinth bulbs for winter blooming in the parlor. Rev. Murray, in the Adirondacks, describes how he got into a shrunken shirt like a tin podier going through a toll gate. Hon. L. QC. Lamar, with the mustache that hangs upon him like the burden ofa great sorrow, has oc- casional fits of vertigo. M. Leon Drouillet, Secretary of the Committee o the French Society for Exploring the Isthmus of Da- rien, bas arrived in New York. Honest John Hill, of New Jersey, is again a candi- date for nomination to Congross, with General T. D. Hoxsey as a popular opponent, Seftor Don Manuel R. Garcia, Argentine Minister at Washington, arrived from Europe yesterday, and is at the Albemarioe Hotel. Secretary Chandler, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Postmoster General James N, Tyner arrived last evening at tBe Fifth Avenue Hotel, | Philip Sylvester, of St Louis, a suicide, was found | hanging with a toothpick in his mouth, This ise warning to young gentlemen who stand on hotel steps, The correspondents of many Western papers from the Centennial are praising the pianos of various in- lines how an “attempt is being made to damage th greatest makor.” A Meriden (Coan.) physician, a victim of drink, pub, lisbes a long letter in the local paper, in which he says he ts on the “confines of ruin” and tells hquor dealers that if they sell him any liquor om any pretext what. ever he will prosecute them. | Norristown Herald :—‘When wo see a man coming out of a beer saloon, with the protuberance on his face resembling an over ripe tomato, we are forcibly re- minded of the spirited words of the late Hon. Proctor Knott—viz., ‘Rum by ram the noses fade.’ ” In Cincinnati and St Louts statesmansbip ts de. mandiag that the price of lager beer shall be lower and that the bartender shall draw the beer so as to give a full glass. Tho Westerners are applying the logie of the man who told his landiord that he could seil more beer if he would sell less froth. An Alton (IIL) girl of sixteen left home for St. Louis | and remained at a hotel with her *bo."* Her mother, | in search of her, had given up all ideas of finding her, | and was going to the boat, when a policeman told her | thas the girl had been found. “Well,” said the old | woman, “I've paid a dollar for my fare and I'm not the old man after her." “HV. R.” speaks of Governor Houston, of Ale bama, As a protty fair sort of man, an old ‘ig, and now a democrat of the liberal sort. He isa short, fat man, with A bald head and big corporation, and looks Ike a tniddle class farmer. He was in Congress before | the war, and lives in North Alabama. The Civil Rights bill was the poweriul motive that took this class peil- Mell into the democratic party, “How do you like yourfnew minister, Madge?” asked one very stylishiy dressed young Jady of another, ing | Highland car the other day, “Oh, Ke is just aplendid,* | she replied with animation, “You ought to see him, Maud. Ie is so handsome, and he prays so beautifally, and reads the hymns in such a lovely way ; and besides, ordered hostilities to be continued. Maud, there was a dreadful gcandal about him in the | place where he preached betore he came here,” ferior manufacturers and telling in splurging head. ° going to lose it; find out where she stops and I'll send —~