The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 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 Yous Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE N. HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET ‘RK . PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. THEA TIVOLI B, 3 ata P.M. VARIETY, AT 8 P. M THEA VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOOT: BARDANAPALUS. at 5 Booth. Matinee at 1:3 Wood's MUSEUM. LADY GODIVA, at 5 P, M. Matineo at 2 P.M. LE THEATRE. » MINSTRELSY, at 8 P.M. TRE. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8P.M. Matinee at 2. M. GILMORE'S GARDEN, CONCERT, at 8 P.M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, WEP.M. Matineo at 2? M. FIFTH A UE THEATRE, poe DUNDREARY, at SP. M. Sothern, “Matinee at 2 ALLA! W. THEATRE THE MIGHTY DOLL. 8PM Matinee at 2 P.M, BOWERY FLOWERS OF THE WES’ SAN FRA atSP.M. Matinee at 2 NEW YORK, SATURDAY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and cloudy, with, possibly. rains. ueust" During the summer months the Hznaup will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-yive cents per week, free of postage. Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—Speculation was still active, but the coal stocks, which have been the chief feature of the market, recovered some strength and closed steady. Gold opened at 111, and, with intermediate sales at 110 7-8, closed at 111. Government bonds quiet and a fraction lower. Railroad bonds generally steady. Tur Tracxpy on the American bark Cas- well, in which the captain was murdered, eame toa close yesterday by the execution of a mutinous murderer at Cork. Foorrpaps abound in great numbers on Long Island adjacent to this city, and many outrages are committed by them. Nothing more dangerous could exist than this species of highwaymen, and the sternest measures for their repression must be adopted. A Burnep Srxamsuir.—-The steamship C. F. Funch, plying between New York and Antwerp, was destroyed by fire near the mouth of the Scheldt on Thursday. Fortun- ately no lives were lost, although the vessel and cargo were completely annihilated. Spain is seldom in a state of political quiescence. Young Alfonso, having tempo- rarily disposed of the Carlists, finds himself once more in hot water. A conspiracy at Pampeluna is the latest rumor of political aneasiness in the land of the Cid. Tae Exnition Gamrs of the California polo players at Newport yesterday had all the interest of the previous day. The first polo match was decided in two minutes, As the game becomes better known it is re- ceived with an enthusiasm never before be- stowed upon any athletic. sport so soon after its introduction. A Corossar Worx.—Soundings preliminary to the grand undertaking of connecting England and France by a submarine tunnel are nearly completed. The engineers are satisfied about the feasibility of the enter- prise. It will rank in importance, when completed, with the Pacific Railroad, the Mont Cenis Tunnel and the Suez Canal, Aw InterestinG Scenz was the crossing of the East River yesterday by Mr. E. F. Far- rington, Superintendent of Construction of the Fast River Bridge, on the wires recently suspended between the two towers, This crossing of a single person is auspicious of the multitudes who will pass to and fro be. tween the sister cities when the great work is completed. Tae War ts tHe East.—Fearing, perhaps, lest the contending forces around Alexinatz may eventually reach the undesirable condi- tion of the far-famed Kilkenny cats, Prince Milan, on the part of Servia, wants an armis- tice and peace on ante bellum terms. He therefore secks the friendly offices of the diplomatic representatives of the great Powers, and another phase in this vexed question may be developed in a few days, A Sraxtsn Bevxnar.-—It must be very hu- miliating to the pride of theaverage Spanish grandee to hear that the present Captain General of the Ever Faithful Isle has been | trying his hand in a line of business similar to that which the late Secretary of War in Washington found so profitable. Serious charges have been made against the Viceroy, and what with insurgents, vomito, bank- ruptcy and corruption, Cuba is not a coun- try for the hidalgos to boast of. Tax Wratugr.—Yosterday was one of the warmest days of the present summer, and, following quickly on the recent cool spell, found the citizens of New York quite unpre- pared for the visit. The causes of the hot weather have been fully explained in the Henaup, when its approach was predicted, and therefore do not need repetition. The great area of high pressure which now ex- tends over the West will bring us cool | weather again, which will last for a longer period than the last brief but velreshing | term. To-day we will have brisk anfl cool southwesterly to westerly winds, with par- tial cloudiness and possibly somo rain, The Tilden Canvass Thus Far. The canvass on the democratic side has been, up to this time, so flat and tame as to raise ominous misgivings in the minds of democrats. It would be ridiculous to sup- pose that the party in power can be dis- lodged without strenuous and aggressive efforts. They hold the citadel, and without more energy on tho part ‘of the assailants they will continue to hold it. The demo- cratic party has been acting on the defensive ever since the opening of the campaign. A party out of power can accomplish nothing so long as it can be kept in a defensive atti- tude, Unless there is a change very soon the democratic party may as well make up its mind to ‘thang its harp on the willows and sit down by the waters of Babylon and weep.” Some democrats are trying to solace them- selves for the want of life in their campaign with the idea that a languid canvass is favor- able to the party, because a full republican vote is not likely to be called out when the public mind is in a state of apathy. ‘This reasoning holds good only in what are called the “‘off years.” A Presidential year always brings large republican vote to the polls, even in the States where republican ascen- ‘ dancy is soassured that two-fifths of the voters might stay at home without putting the electoral ticket in jeopardy. The attempt of democrats to console themselves for the flat- ness of the Tilden canvass by reasoning which holds good only in an off year in- volves a fatal admission. It concedes that the republicans are a majority, and that they only need to muster their full strength to insure a victory. This is not an election which can be carried by what Mr. Tilden used to call ‘‘n still hunt,” inasmuch as the great body of the republicans never fail to vote in a Presidential year. Every conspicuous thing which the dem- ocratic party has done since the St. Louis nominations has been an act of defence. Scott Lord’s well known resolution, which President Grant so neatly turned to republi- can account, was intended to repel an accu- sation. Mr. Hewitt's widely published speech in reply to Mr. Kasson, printed with so much laudation by the democratic press, was an effort to repel attacks on the charac- ter of the democratic nominee. Mr. Tilden has been put on the defensive in the courts in relation to certain railroad transactions; put on the defensive before public opinion in connection with his course during the war; put on the defensive by his truckling to Hendricks on the great question of re- sumption; and even the statistics in his letter of acceptance have been suc- cessfully assailed. Thus far it has been a canvass in which the democratic party has had blows to take but no telling blows to give. The republican candidate has not been thus called on to meet a constant succession of charges. It is impossible to damage him in public estimation by assail- ing President Grant. Hayes is in no way responsible for the blunders of the present administration—not more responsible for them than General Dix is ; less responsible for them than Secretary Fish is; and yet nobody thinks that Dix or Fish can be suc- cessfully stabbed through the sides of Grant. Hayes did not appoint Belknap ; Hayes did not protect Babcock ; Hayes does not owna summer cottage at Long Branch, has not spent his time in junketing about the coun- try, has accepted no presents, smokes no big black cigars and has no immoderate fondness for “pups.” Hayes is not hurt by these staple charges against Grant, but tho charges against Tilden, whether true or false, are levelled at himself. They have thus far kept his organs and spokesmen on the defensive, to the great detriment of his canvass. he most vigorous and efficient of all Mr. Tilden’s supporters in the press is trying to “extract sunbeams from cucumbers” by a parallel between the Presidential election of 1840 and that of the present year. This is a cool cucumber, indeed ; a very small vial Will suffice for holding the extracted sun- shine. The Sun's parallel holds good in but a single point. It is quite true that the country is suffering from financial de- pression now as it suffered in 1840, and also trne that the financial stagnation now, like the financial stagnation then, is largely owing to derangement in the currency, But in all other respects the present sitna- tion isa contrast to that which existed in 1840, We do not merely refer to the con- trast in the state of public feeling, which was as hot and blazing in 1840 as it is apathetic now, but to the different attitude of the popular mind on the question of remedies. The whig party of 1840, like the democratic party of 1876, was a party seeking power by exposures of the existing admin- istration and by appeals to a widespread sense of suffering. But in that canvass the whigs had a definite and intelligible remedy to propose, and were thoroughly united in recommending it, whereas the democrats at present offer no tangible remedy which the party agrees in indorsing. A United States bank was then thought by the whigs to be a sovereign panacea for existing disorders in the currency, but nobody can tel what remedy the democratic party proposes to administer in the present conjuncture. It is ridiculous to expect that the country will have any confi- dence in a doctor who tells the patient that he is alarmingly sick but writes out no pre- scription that can be sent to the apothe- eary. The whigs in 1540 prescribed a remedy in which they had undoubting con- | fidence ; the democrats in 1876 are unable to write ont a specific formula. Doctor Hendricks does not agree with Doctor Tilden, and while the latter consents to throw resumption in 1579 to the dogs he has noth- ing precise to substitute in its place. The democratic doctors disagree ; but the whig doctors in 1840 knew exactly what medicine they wanted to administer, and they there- | fore gained the contidence of the patient, We do not dispute at all that the pro- longed business stagnation under which the country so Severely suffers creates universal dissatisfaction, which would naturally wreak itself on the party in power. It took this direction in the elections of 1874, and led to the great revulsion which, in the political | i jargon ef the day, was called “the tidal wave.” But in the following year the infla- tion disease broke out like a hideous erup- tion among the Western democrats, and the the | tide which beat against the republican party was set back, and has since flowed in tho opposite direction. This is the main reason why the parallel does not hold between 1840 and 1876. The whig party then pro- posed a specific remedy; the democratic now merely rejects the republican prescrip- tion. The patient is left to languish while the democratic doctors quarrel among them- selves, make imbecile concessions to each other, and fail to formulate a remedy which anybody can understand. It is this broad difference in the matter of remedies which precludes the supporters of Mr. Tilden trom expecting a repetition of the great Har- rison campaign, There is no sort of resemblance between the present flat and apathetic canvass and the tremendous popular furore which set the whole country agog in the days of ‘Tippe- canoe and ‘Tyler too.” As early as April in that remarkable year the streets of all our principal towns were paraded at night by torchlight processions, preceded by bands of music and bearing miniature log cabins and mimic barrels of hard cider on the shoulders of whig enthusiasts. The excite- ment grow with the progress of the canvass, and when, in September, “Maine went hell bent For Governor Kent,” there seemed good grounds for the apostrophe to the democratic candidate in another campaign song:— “Van, Van, *You are a usod-up maa.” It is, of course, ridiculous to compare that spirited campaign of stormy enthusiasm with the present. Where are the Tilden campaign song:? Where are the emblems and devices which in 1840 gave broad touches of the grotesque by sober daylight, but made the nights picturesque, though hideous? There was never such a campaign before or since, and Mr. Tilden’s friends only emphasize the sleepy tameness of the present by suggesting such a contrast. The Battery Thirty-nine Years Ago. “Bellini’s celebrated opera of ‘Norma,’” so we are informed by the Heraup of August 21, 1847, “sung by Tedesco last evening, brought to the Castle Garden about two thousand and three hundred people.” We are glad to learn that Tedesco, who was indisposed on account of a fall in the street, sang admirably the grand aria of ‘Casta Diva,” and that the whole performance was in the most perfect style. These were the days when the Battery was a fashionable place of resort, but of late the only music heard there was the sweet German accent, the rich brogue of the Irish and the Wagner-like tones of the Mennonites of Russia, We can- not expect to restore Italian opera to the Battery, yet if Castle Garden is to be rebuilt it ought not to be a -depot for emigrants. The resolution which Recorder Hackett offered yesterday in the Sinking Fund Com- mission isan important step in this direction. It directs the Commission to eject the Emi- gration Commissioners from the Garden, and advises that the Park Commissioners be restored to the control of the site, so as to preserve it for purposes of public enjoy- ment. Of course this resolution made an excitement, but no reform can be executed in New York without opposition. The Bat- tery should be a grand park for the citizens of New York, and who knows but that in a little time, with proper care, it will be almost as popular for a promenade in the summer evenings as it was famous thirty- nine years ago, when Tedesco and Severi and Raineri sang to the orchestral undertone of our splendid bay? Carlos and Kasmire. It is not to be wondered at thet Don Carlos should object to. be followed through the streets of New York by a number of spies, and especially by a person of the name of Bifly. But in trying to deal with Biflly and his companions, who emerge from a neighbor- ing lager beer saloon whenever His Majesty without a throne comes out of his hotel, our distinguished visitor ran counter to a metro- politan magistrate of portentous mien and unimpeachable grandeur. In avoiding Scylln he was dashed upon Charybdis—in getting out of the way of Biflly he fell flat before Kase mire. In his misfortunes ho has our ten- derest sympathies. Bifly was bad enough, but his throneless majesty has been tanght once for all that in enduring the spy he can- not escape with impunity trom the Judge. When Mr. Carlos, remembering that he was a king, was pursued snd perseented Mr. Kasmire, forgetting that he is a judge, kindly waited on the upthroned monarch of the Andalusian hills and offered to arrest any American sovereign whom the crownless king wanted locked np. In the meantime, however, Carlos changed his mind, aided by a light which shines for all, even for a king without a court, and sent a messenger to Kasmire to tell him so. Kasmire felt, and rightfully felt, that the American judiciary was being insulted in his person, and he at once determined to vin- dicate the Bench by rebuking the levity of this Spanish Bourbon. He acted with de- cision and directness, and sent a message to His Majesty the throneless that there was no escape from Bifty except by coming to Kasmire, Carlos came, but when he got a sight of the Judge he prudently determined to endure the spy. Ovr Porrce Justiers exert a singular au- thority in cases where insanity is charged, as was illustrated by Justice Dufiy yester- day. A gentleman was arrested by a police- man because he was eccentric ; and although he lucidly argued before the magistrate that his eccentricities were his own aflnir, he is now in the Tombs waiting for the city phy- sician to decide whether he is crazy. If Jadge Duffy's action is good as a legal pre- cedent all of our police justices may find themselves locked up some afternoon by the only sane judge among them. Mvrprnrers are generally magnanimous as wellas penitent on the scafivld, and James Murphy, who was executed at Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, was not an exception to the rule. He confessed his crime, forgave his enemies | and died in the hope of a blessed immor- There is some consolation in know- aguilty man has been punished, butit is not possible to read the details of the execution which we publish this morn- ing without feeling the barbarism exempli- fied in this mode of punishment Alexinatz—Proposals of Peace. They have fought for some days in front of Alexinatz, and the latest indications of the fortunes of the battle are that the Mos- lems had driven in the Servien outposts to such a degree that they were able to throw shells into the town and that an attempt to assume the offensive on the part of General Tchernayeff resulted in his return to his lines with the loss of athonsand men, In- stead of any more definite statement of the results of the collision we hear from Bel- grade only that Prince Milan bas suddenly changed his mind in regard to the war and is now 1eady to make peace. Two or three days ago he was as fierce as the ‘‘bouillant Achille’ of Offenbach in his resolution to continue the conflict until he had annihilated the Moslem butchers. Then, encouraged by the despatches of General Tchernayeff, he turned a cold shoulder to propositions of mediation in which all the Powers were pre- pared to unite. It is to be hoped that his sudden change of heart is not due to a more precise knowledge of the results of the fighting at Alexinatz than has yet reached the outside world. It is a coincidence of note, however, that the Turks protest against an armistice, even with a view to make peace; a circumstance which has its value as an indication, for it is always a victori- ous force that hates to hear of an armistice. It is a fact to rejoice over, however, that the Servians have in their present position pre- sented themselves as a real obstacle in the path of their enemy. They have fought him there with some obstinacy, though outnumbered, and if they feel now that they are near tho end of their capacity to resist, it is fortunate that the opportunity is at hand to end the war. Thero will, of course, be some difli- culty over the terms. Prince Milan, it is re- ported, proposes as a basis of negotiation the return of the two Powers to the positions they held toward one another before the war, which is the proposition of one who at least does not admit defeat. But the Tarks will demur, for they are not 2 peoplo slow to perceive the political significance of vic- tory. It may need all the authority of the Sultan’s friends and supporters in London to induce the acceptance of peace on this basis. No one need be surprised if the Sub- lime Porte proves obstreperous in this par- ticular, for the victories of the war have re- vived the soul of Islam, and that soul will make itself felt. An unpopular peace will involve another ‘popular revolution” in Constantinople and a new Sultan, and there will be a call for another pair of scissors in a royal palace. Travelling by the Sound Steamers, The story of the man found swimming at night far out in the Sound hed at least one point in favor of its credibility, which was the simple fact of the man’s presence in the water at that place and that time. Not even the police have hinted, we believe, that the man never was in the water, and that the boatmen who brought him to the shore were his confederates in some new sort of swindle, the nature and proposed victims of which are not apparent. It is a little odd that the police have not dono this, for they seldom lose an opportunity to discredit any occur- rence likely to furnish occasion for increased activity on their part. It is admitted, therefore, that a man was picked up at night by asmall vessel so far from land that he might be said to be swim- ming in the open sea. It is not credible that he swam thither from the land, or dropped himself overboard from another boat merely to hoax a few simple Sound boatmen, be- cause there is no sane human creature who does not in some degree preserve a relation of proportion between his acts and their proposed consequences. No way is appar- ent by which a swindle of that nature could be made to produce money; and from the mere impossibility of explaining the fact on grounds which assume that the story told is false we are driven to believe that, al- though there may be variations in it, it is not altogether devoid of truth. The story told by a correspondent, who signs himself ‘Another Victim,” comes di- rectly to the support of the story told by Burk, and here the capture of one of the rogues and his incarceration for seven years are circumstances that evena policeman may accept as removing the recital from the region of dreams and visions to that of daily realities. Yet, but for a timely dis- covery, this passenger might also have gone overboard as Burk did. No traveller by the Sound steamers can doubt that itis possible to commit robberies and murders of this nature every night, and the doubts of the police only indicate their want of acquaintance with the many possi- bilities of the situation. The crime is pos- siblo. Is there any question that there are rogues in our midst bad enough to commit it? The more profitable way to regard the case is for the public to remember it as indi- j cating a danger of such journeys, while, if the boat owners and the police co-operate, it cannot be impossiblo to trap the scoundrels and so break up their game. The Sham Economy of the Navy De- partment. Secretary Robeson having delivered him- self of his General Order No, 216, which will furlongh nearly four hundred officers on the active list, including such men as Admirals Porter, Rowan and Le Roy, Commodores Guest, Bryson and Fairfax, has gone off, it is reported, to Rye Beach, to enjoy himself for the remainder of the summer. It is worse than idle to endeavor to lay the blame of this iniquity upon Congress, as the Secretary in his order speciously seeks to do, Con- gress never meant that the moraily lame, halt and blind of the navy should be pre- ferred to posts of duty, and in some cases to positions of power and influence within even the sacred wails of the Navy Department itself, while the healthy, strong and vigorous should be laid aside as if in disgrace, It Secre- tary Robeson had any real desire to comply with the wishes of ‘the representatives of the people” he would at onee commence intelligently to reduce the expenses of the service toa peace basis, as far as lay in his power, by abolishing the numerous useless offices and sinecures in the Navy Depart- ment and the numerous navy yards and other places now held by the favorites, dovendenta or volitical friends of the aov- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1876.. | ernment, Hoe would further put out of commission such utterly worthless and expensive playthings as the ‘Tallapoosa, Despatch, Michigan and Powhatan at home and the great wooden steam hulk Franklin abroad; cease appointments to the Naval Academy and to the grades of assistant sur- geon, assistant paymaster, assistant en- gineer, assistant constructor, chaplain, civil engineer and second liettenant of marines until Congress meets; recommend a gradual reduction of the number of navy officers to the wants of the service—say to a fleet of thirty cruising vessels. He would also practically close all but three of the navy yards, stop recruiting for some months and inaugurate a system which would ultimately weed the active and retired lists of their worthless incapables. Finally, if he were compelled after all to furlough officers, he would commence by furloughing the least meritorious of the two thousand men on the list, and not strike at many of the ablest and best officers in the service because they had the manhood and candor to declare the con- dition of the service ns it exists, and not as he would like to make it appear to the country. Gencral McClellan’s Campaign Letter. We print an electioneering letter by Gen- eral McClellan, sent us from the rooms of the National Democratic Committee in this city. It is offered to the press for publica- tion at a period long subsequent to its date, as if it took Mr. Tilden’s committee some time to make up their minds that .such an indorsement would help his canvass, Of course this letter is not the spontaneous production of General McClellan, any more than his famous and fatal political letter from Harrison's Landing was in 1862. That imprudent production caused his retirement from the army, and although it answered its purpose of making him a democratic candi- date for the Presidency that empty mark of party favor was no compensation for military obscuration during the last three years of the war. General McClellan's indiscreet and superserviceable friends have been the worst enemies of his fame. They benefit neither him nor the democratic party by inducing him to write a cam- paign letter in support of Tilden, and ex- posing him anew to the captious criticism of the republican press. His letter tends to recall the canvass of 1864, when McClellan was pitted against President Lincoln ona disgraceful peace platform with Pendleton, of more recent rag money notoriety, as the second name on the ticket. This dragging of General McClellan out of a past which his best friends should wish forgotten plays into the hands of the republicans and assists them in their attempt to revive old issues. General McClellan's good sense would have kept him aloof from party politics. He has, of course, yielded to the pressure of New York friends in writing this letter. We do not wonder at the hesitation and delay of Mr. Tilden’s committee in giving it to the press. They must feel that the Tilden canvass is in pressing need of help when they publish the indorsement of the peace candidate of 1864 and the associate of Pendleton as a campaign document. If the letter supplied fresh arguments for the election of Mr. Tilden the force of its reasoning might com- pensate for the reminiscences suggested by its source, but it only rehearses the stale arguments fora change of administration, and contains nothing which could weigh a straw in the canvass one way or the other, apart from the signature. When the demo- cratic candidate of 1864 gives a certificate of character to the democratic candidate of 1876 he exposes himself to a revival of malignant criticism without any benefit to ! the democratic canvass. But General Me- Clellan is a gentleman, and he has the candor to say in this electioneering missive, “TI have the highest respect for the personal character and intelligence of the republican candidate for the Presidency and believe him to be an upright gentleman.” Wo regret that any of the friends of General McClellan should have taken advantage of the wersonal obligations under which they have laid him to conscript him into the service of a political party. Promise and Performance, The republican party, through its repre- sentatives and duly accredited organs, is never weary of professing its undying and hearty devotion to the interests of “the Boys in Blue.” We have been treated to a vast amount of sentimental stuff in the columns an journals of the republican 1, tosuch an extent havo the ro- ground away at this tune that the mero epithet of ‘Boy in Bine” is nauseating to the soldier or snilor of the late civil war. In the coming Presidential campaign, how- ever, we are to bo treated to more of this nonsense, with the accompaniment of hats, capes, torches, badges, our late veteran Gov- ernor, ‘Centenniai” Dix, Drake De Kay, &e. The pubiic will learn exactly how to value these professions of regard for the men who took New Orieans and gained the control of the Mississippi River, maintained the blockade and isted in preserving the union of these States, by reading Secretary Robeson’s recent General Order 216, by virtae of which some hundreds of genuine and not bogus “Boys in Blue,” commencing with Admiral Porter, the hero of the Mississippi River and Fort Fisher; Vice Admiral Rowan, the hero of fifty fights, and ending with some poor warrant officer, are placed upon furlough and starvation pay, while the genial and rubicund Secretary goes off | on a pleasure trip in his naval steam yacht, the Despatch, no doubt laughing in his sleeve at the folly of Congress and the easy gullibility of the American public. If the republican party is desirous of falsi- fying all its professions let its organs pass over in silenco and without word of reproach this latest outrage of a high official in its camp. What more could the dreaded s0- called Confederate administration do to these men than Secretary Robeson has already done? Nay, would it not be better, perhaps, for these officers to trust the gen- erosity of the chivalrous and brave men whom they met and conquered in the late rebellion rather than the tender mercies and sham economies of the present jovial head of publican ‘ the Navy Department? Philadeiphia’s Extremity Saratoga’s Opportunity. Anumber of well meaning gentlemen in Philadelphia, almost totally unfamiliar with rowing on a large scale, have for a long time been arranging a grand regatta, worthy of the time and the nation. As the day draws near they find that while they have assembled almost as brilliant an array of rowing talent as the world can afford, the handling it so as to give to each contestant the first and great requisite—a perfectly fair race—is quite an undertaking. Just at this juncture a local organization clogs matters all the more by very abruptly, and appa- rently without just cause, disqualifying cere tain well known oarsmen, whose status be- fore has hardly been questioned. All who saw the racing this week agree that it was a piece of mismanagement throughout, and the prospect for the greater meeting next week is so uninviting that rumor says that it need not surprise any person if some of our best clubs pur pose packing up at once and returning home. The Neptune Club has already left, while the public has been left so in the dark as tothe programme that many who have purposely deferred visiting the Centennial until they could take in these contests ac tually do not know here two days before the first racing day what the order is to be or when the contests in which they may have an especial interest are to take place. If matters do not mend before the middle of next week Saratoga’s chance has come—one that will never come again while any of us are alive, Let her on the week commencing September 11—the very day, by the way, when the Wards, five years ago, on her mag nificent track rowed down England’s foro- most oarsmen end became champions of the world—let her that week have these four races—namely, ‘a single scull contest for ama- teurs and one for professionals, and a four cared race for each class likewise. Let hea transport, board and lodge the ten of each class who at Philadelphia prove the best at the sculls, the ten fastest amateur fours and the four famous professional fours. All these oarsmen will still be in fine condition, and Saratoga, with her steamers able to keep up, her ample boathouses, her commodious hotels, and her lake worthy of a centennial contest even for the championship of the whole world, would insure to every rower a race absolutely fair and to every spectator @ spectacle he would remember as long as he lives. Commassioxen CamPbett recognizes the scarcity of Croton in his appeal published this morning against waste. We commend his appeal to the people of New York, who will be all the more likely to heed it, as the water is scarcely fit to drink, and ought te be clarified even for the bath tub. Tux Pace Commisstoners are on the way to havea talk with the Sioux. As Sitting Bull and his warriors are at present very busy in keeping out of the way of Crook and Terry the Commissioners will have to make peace with the Indians who are not at war. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Edmunds is in Canada, Senator Anthony 18 at Saratoga, Edwin Booth ts at San Francisco, Garfield will speak in Maine September 2, Ben Butler sings, “Bye a baby, bunting.” Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, is m Richmond, Va, Judge Gedney, who thinks he “looks” 1ike Napoleon, is at Saratoga. Rear Admiral Reed Werden, United States Navy, is at the Everett House, Ex-Colonel Valentine Baker bas passed down the Danube to Constantinople. The Prince of Wales will visit the military manew vres at Berlin in the autumn, Raw-chester Democrat:—*'Sankey ts at Long Branch, Perhaps, on the whole, the democratic papers had better pitch into him.’? A modern comic song, like “Tommy, Make Room for Your Uncle,” will sell to the extent of a hundred thou- sand copies in London, Ex-Mimister Schenck is visiting Trenor W. Park, who expects to be Gevernor of Vermont. Both were in. terested in Emma mine, A Swede has invented a dress, composed of two sec Mons of canvas filled with water, which enables a maa 40 plunge for several minutes into flamos of fire. It is reported from various manufacturing seats in Scotiand that there is a turn for the better visible upon the average, aud prices are consequently harder, English journals cannot understand that American criticism of Englishmen, whether pleasant or bitter, does not refer to their clothes, but to their mannes of acting and speaking. Louisville Courier-Journal :—"Richard Grant White says there is no such thing as ‘in our midst.’ itis evident that Mr, White has never read after an enter- prising local reporter.”* Baron Klein Wisenberg, Baron Ringhoffor aud Baron Herring Frankenadorf, of Austria, returned to the city yesterday and are at the Hotel Brunswick. They will sail for Europe in one of to-day’s steamers Londow Fun:—Kider Girl—Why, child, you aro ag palo as yonder tily! Child (who thinks it’s about time she should be something more)—l'd rather be as pale as the flowes Uhan flat as its leaf, or deep as tho water—as you are! At the Ironton (Mo.) Democratic Convention on Mon- day, afer the band had played “Dixie,” a Union demo- crat said, indignantly, that there might as well be cheers for Joff Davis, which were immediately given, ; amid great enthusiasm. A speaker proclaimed that ne man who had fought on the side of the Union could be trusted as a democrat, An Admiralty notice published in the Gazette an- nounces that, in considerqtion of the special and value able services rendered by Lieutenant Cameron to the cause of scienco in his recent successful journoy of exploration in Africa, he has been promoted to the rank of commander in Hor Majesty's fleet, such pro- motion being special and ia excess of the authorized number. M. Renan writes:—‘‘You asked me, ‘Oatsido of nature and of man is there anything?’ ‘There is everything,’ Tauswer, ‘Nature is but an appearance; jomenon. There is the eternal basis of j thore is, according to tho fine Mus. sulman expression, one who endures; there is, accord. ing to the finer Jewish expression, oro whois. He is the Father from whose bosom everything precoeds, iuto whose bosom everything returns.’ ”” M, Renan says of Christ that, “in recognizing Hime self as Son of God, in authorizing men to call God thew Father, in overthrowing the superstitions of old creeds by His beautital theory of prayer and spiritual adorn. tion, in giving the example of a life entirely consecrated to the works of Ils Fathor, Ho has realized the highest consclousness of God that bas probably ovor existed 1m the mind of humanity. Tuas the truly religious mow of all ages will bo Ilis dise:plos, ” It is believed by many Kuropean philosophers that Servia conuot civilize itself, bus can be raised by Ger. man or Italian association, London Fun :—Mre, Seroggins—Well, etsey, and how be you this day? Mrs, Joncs—Dad, Marthn—very, very bad; I’ a-goia’, Martha— n’ to the other Jandl Mra, Scroggins—Well, Betsoy, if it’s trae, and yer must go, you'll seo my ‘Enery up there; tell im & keeps a mangle, and t* chitder is weil, and —, Mra, Jones (peovishly)—Nay, nay, Martha, yor can’t expect as I can go a-wanderia’ aboot the ciouds lookin’ for your ‘Knery wi’ my bad lexi rf