The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1876, Page 4

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 York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL... AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, Ss EAGI BURLESQUE, COMEDY, KELLY & 1 3° MINSTRELS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8PM. GILMORE’S GARDEN, CONCERT, at 8 I’. M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, atSP.M. FIFTH AV! DAVID GARRICK, at 8 WALLA! THEATRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs, Flor- ance. BOWERY THEATRE, AMERICANS’ GOLD, P.M. Mr. G. G Boniface, BAN FRAN D MINSTRELS, 8PM, TIVOLI THEATRE. VARIETY, ATS8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M, THIRD VARIETY, at 8 P.M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, TWO MEN OF SANDY AR, at 8 P.M, THBATRE COMIQUB, VARIETY, ag 8 P.M. BOOTH BARDANAPALUS. at 8 P Booth, AVENUE THEATRE, THEATRE. M. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Acnes MUSEUM. Matines at2 P. M. THEATRE. wo AIKEN COMBINATI TERRACE GARDE MARTHA, at 8 P.M. WITH SUPPLEMENT. “NEW YORK. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1870, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly cooler amd hazy or partly cloudy. During the summer months the Huraup will Le sent ‘o subseribers in the country at the rate of taenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Watt Str Yrsterpay.— continued moderately active. dealings the market was steady. Stocks closed firmer at advanced prices. Gold opened at 109 7-8, declined to 109 3-4 and advanced to 110, at which figure it closed. Money on call was in abundant supply and loaned at 1 a 1 1-2 92 per cent. Speculation In the earlier Tur Oxp Apacer, ‘no news is good news,” consoled‘the brave democracy in the Con- vention while they waited for Governor Sey- mour’s response in the anxious morning hours of yesterday. Tue Reckiess Drivixe on Long Island on Wednesday evening, by which a large num- ber of persons was injured, some of them perhaps fatally, is an offence which ought to be sternly punished. Tuenz Was a Dovstinc Punpy in the Saratoga Convention yesterday who wanted to know if anybody had authority that Mr. Seymour would accept tho nomination, “We don't want any,” was the response to Mr. Purdy’s temerity. ‘Tne Trrarmrnt experienced by Captain Van Dusen’s policemen at the hands of Theodore Allen was disgraceful in itself, but it was not undeserved. An order for policemen to bivouac in any house, evena gambling house, is such an outrageous usur- pation of power that it admits of neither excuse nor palliation. The stupidity of the thing is only equalled by its disregard of private rights. Tr Is Incoxcervante that a Democratic State Convention should nominate the wrong man, and yet such was the deliberate work of the Saratoga Convention yesterday, The incapacity of the leaders in this State only becomes apparent with the revelation of their stupendous folly in forcing their honors upon a man who could not consent to wear them, and who had told his party 80 time and time again. Two Vicrovs Brutes, known to pugilistic feme as “Jimmy” Weeden and “Billy” Walker, both of the City of Brotherly Love, met in the prize ring yesterday and pounded each other until “Billy” Walker died. We raise no objection whatever to ruffians like these killing each other, but as the law has declared such a mode of slaying murder wo sincerely hope that Pennsylvania law will send “Jimmy” after “Billy” by the best line that can be procured for the purpose. Favixser Was tHe Man who did the mis- chief. am at liberty to assure you,” said he, addressing the Convention, “that Gov- ernor Seymour feels constrained to obey the wishes of the people,” and thereupon fol- lowed great and prolonged applause. After a long career of practical joking Faulkner crowned his exploits when he perpetrated this huge sell. Fonrrst Fr sylvania are swept by fierce conflagrations which devour every combustible objegt that lies in their path. Farms, with their fields of growing grain, fences, barns, dwellings, all are being swept away by the waves of fire, and nothing remains but the blackened surface of the earth to mark the area of this feartul destruction. But the most irrep- arable joss is in the valuable timber that is being consumed in this general con- flagration. A prolonged season of drought is considered to be the chief cause of the forest fires spreading so much and so rap- idly. Butas this devastated district is in the centre of a region seldom visited by sum- mer rains, and which has up to the present been spared from such fires, we would suggest an inquiry into their origin in the present instance as a precautionary measure. Tne Crry Dexecation returned home last night proud and happy over Mr. Seymour's nomination. Most of them went to bed in this irame of mind, rejecting the ramors of | Seymour's declination as the fables of the enemy. Their breakfast coffee will be terri- bly muddy this morning —The mountains in Penn- | NEW YORK HER The Stupendous Democratic Fiasco at Saratoga. There was never a more astounding veri- fication of the old Roman proverb, that whom the gods wish to destroy they first de- prive of their reason, than has been exhib- ited by the demented Democratic State Convention which has just been in session at Saratoga. The enormous and inconceiv- able stupidity of that body, the amazing de- ception which it has felt at liberty to practise on the democratic party and on the general public, is so entirely without example or parallel that we are at a loss for language to characterize it as it deserves. How utterly vain and futile, in this age of quick tele- graphic communication, are attempts to mislead or hoodwink the public! The Dem- ocratic State Convention adjourned at o little past noon yesterday in a state of effusive jubilation over a nomina tion for the Governorship which seemed to brighten the democratic prospects and to promise a splendid success. | of his acceptance of the nomination. But a few short hours envelop those fan- cied prospects in thick gloom and turn the jubilation into a topic of indignant derision by demoerats and sportive and exultant de- rision by rejoicing republicans. We are in the presence of the most grotesque political situation ever exhibited in this country, a sit- uation fitted to excite the scornful laughter of republicans and the anger and shamo of democrats. The State Convention at Sara- toga has been egregiously practised upon and deceived, Its jubilant and effervescing joy over the acceptance of Mr. Seymour will cause the party to hide its head in mortifica- tion when it discovers the miserable and disgraceful trick which has been put upon its credulity. Mr. Seymour's trumpeted acceptance of the democratic nomination was an impudent and unscrupulous fraud, perpetrated in defiance of his known wishes. We have authentic evidence that Mr. Seymour, instead of accepting the nomina- tion which the Convention attempted to force upon him, declines it absolutely. What language is strong enough to stigma- tize the false report of the committee sent to wait upon him and inform him of his nomination? This deceitful and unscrupu- lous committee told the Convention fhat ho had accepted, when in fact he had authorized no such report. In whose interest and by whose suggestion did they perpetrate so brazen and barefaced a deception? By whose instigation were they daring enough or reckless enough to make a false report to the Convention that Mr. Seymour had accepted, and cause the Convention to adjourn without making an- other nomination? This false committee thereby put it in the power of the Demo- cratic Central Committee to fill the vacant place in the ticket, and as a majority of that nomination of Mr. Seymour and the de- ceptive representation that he had accepted when, in fact, he has absolutely declined, puts the democratic party of the State in the most humiliating plight. The democratic party enters the canvass without a candidate for Governor, and it is exposed to the danger of all sorts of stum- bling and blundering in substituting a nom- inee for Governor in the place of the ono who has declined. The democratic party of the State is at sea, without helm or rudder, and nobody can tell whither it may drift. Abdul Hamid, Sultan, vice Khan, Dismissed. The Turks deserve much praise for the business-like facility with which they dis- charge their incompetent rulers. Indeed, in this regard they must be credited with taking the lead in Europe and showing an excellent example to their Christian neigh- bors. The late Sultan Abdul-Aziz was dis- missed for being drunk and disorderly, and his successor, shrewdly guessing that he might prove a troublesome customer even as a deposed Sultan, took steps to have him quietly entombed with his ancestors in the crypt of animperial mosque. Butno soover did Mourad Khan, as he is officially styled, take his seat on the throne than he settled down to the enjoyment of a prolonged debauch, which soon reduced him to the common level of those mortals who think they have snakes and other unpleas- ant things in their boots. The Sultan of Turkey, Commander of the Faithful, &c., got the delirium tremens, and the “faithful” have accordingly diacharged him from their employ. The new Sultan, Abdul Hamid, is now taken on a month’s trial. If he proves to the satisfaction of his people that he is more hard-headed than his predecessors and possesses a bloodthirstiness of churacter suited tothe present condition of public opinion in Turkey he may retain his place. But if, on the other hand, he gets intoxicated, then keeps so and gets the D. T., we predict for His Majesty a very short official term. Mourad Dufaure and Disraeli. It is noted in Paris and London as a coin- cidence that on the same day the Prime Min- ister in both England and France was pro- moted from the popular chamber of the national Parliament to the so-called upper. house. There are differences of opinion everywhere as to the propriety of calling such a movement promotion, and as to the fitness of the designation upper house in so far as it implies superiority; but we use the commonly accepted terms. That M. Dufaure was returned to the French Senate by election on the same date on which Mr. 'Disracli was made Eorl of Beaconsfield by the consent of his fellow Ministers and the grace of Her Majesty is one of those acci- committee are the creatures of Governor Tilden the practical effect of their deceit and abuse of trust is to enable him to nomi- nate the candidate for Governor. Was Mr, Tilden a secret abettor of this enormous fraud? If his skirts are clear who en- couraged the committee to make a false re- port? The nomination of the weakest can- didate in the whole list of aspirants could not have damaged the democratic canvass so much as this deliberate deception practised on the Convention, In consequence of this stupendous fraud the democratic party of New York enters the canvass with a headless ticket, tho nomination for Governor depend- ing on the action of the State Committee, who are understood to be mere tools of Gov- ernor Tilden. Was he a party to this dis- creditable trick? Who, if not Governor Tilden, could have influenced the com- mittee appointed to wait on Mr. Seymour and inform him of his nomination to make a false report of his acceptance? Wherever the blame may rest this inexcus- able deception isa terribly damaging blow to the democratic canvass. Let Mr. Faulk- ner, who made the false report, step to the front and explain. By whose suggestion or instigation and from what motives did he come back from Utica and tell the Convention that Mr. Seymour had accepted the nomination when ho had in fact peremptorily refused it? The com- mittee were evidently puppets, and it con- cerns the democratic party to know who pulled the wires. The evidence that Mr. Seymour does not accept the nomination is conclusive. As soon as it was reported from Saratoga that he had accepted we instructed a correspond- ent to find him and procure an interview. The interview, which was promptly re- ported, disclosed the astounding fact that Mr. Seymour had been misrepresented and that the report made to the Convention was a brazen fiction, A Utica journal of yes- terday printed the following telegram:— To THe PRESIDENT ov THE Democratic CoxvENTION:— I learn with surprise and regret that I have been nominated as a candidate for the office of Governor. Wohilo iam grateful for this mark of regard on the part of the Convention, Iam compeiled by obstacles which Teannot overcome to decline the proflered honor, I shall do allin my power to promote the success of the democratic ticket, but I cannot be a candidate, HORATIO SEYMOUR. The despatch of our correspondent, who hastened from Saratoga to Deerfield and in- terviewod Mr. Seymour, settles the question He consents to do nothing of the kind. He expresses his surprise that Mr. Faulk- ner could have so misrepresented him in his report. It is perfectly clear, it is absolutely certain, that Mr. Seymour refuses to be a candidate, and the deception which was yesterday practised on the Saratoga Convention is one of the most remarkable things in our politics. Mr. Sey- mour utterly and absolutely refuses to be the democratic candidate for Governor, and he throws back upon Mr, Tilden’s Democratic State Committee the re- sponsibility of selecting the person who shall stand in that capacity. The demo- cratic party of this State will feel that it has been disgracefally hambugged. The refusal of Mr. Seymour to accept the nomination and the deception practised on the State Convention puts the party in a position | from which it cannot easily be extricated, The Saratoga Convention must be re- garded a farce. The candidate it nominated refuses to stand, and the | democratic party has become a laughing stock in the eyes of the community. The as nomination of Mr. Dorsheimer, or Mr. Pot- | ter, or Mr. Marble as its candidate for Gov- dents of dates that may figure with effect in the almanacs of the future, but it is idle to endeavor on the strength of this accident to draw any parallel between the acts of the electors of a French department and the act of the British sovereign, or to strain constitutional theories for an analogy between the British House of Lords, which is a mere relic of feudalism, and the French Senate, which is a body as definitely rep- resentative as the French Chamber of. Deputies, but representative of administra- tive districts and not of simple constitu- encies. M. Dufaure’s opponent was a legit- imist, and his return was in fact a triumph of the republican party of a department rather than the reward of an old servant of the country. Moreover, it is a misfortune, because it removes a capable man from the real scene of political activity, which is the Chamber of Deputies. Mr. Disraeli’s eleva- tion to the peerage is simply a retreat, an honorable and safe cover from that storm which it is foreseen is to come when the country thoroughly understands the whole story of the government's relation to Turkey and of the Bulgarian massacres, It was thought better that the Premier should go out by way of the House of Lords, in his old age, than on an angry adverse vote. The Great Rain Storm at Springfield, Ohio. While we must make due allowance for the excitement of the Ohioans over their big rain storm, and deduct a liberal dis- count from their estimation of its mag- nitude on that account, there can be no doubt that Springfield, Ohio, and its vicinity received a thorough drench- ing on Wednesday. In the Herarp of that day attention was called to the prob- ‘ability of a tornado in the West, because the conditions were very favorable for an atmos- pheric explosion of some kind. he charac- ter of the storm could not be easily deter- mined, owing to the absence of any informa- tion as to the conditions prevailing westward of the Mississippi except at a few scattered points. It came, however, in the destructive form described in our special despatch, and, judging by its effects, must have satisfied the most exacting patriot who is keenly alive to the necessity of keeping the eyes of the Union on Ohio. In the absence of fur- ther particulars, and basing our opinion on the condition of the atmosphere in the Mis- sissippi Valley a few hours previous to the bursting of the storm in Ohio, its track was northeasterly, passing over Texas, the Indian Territory and Southern Missouri. It is probable that the storm originated in the Gulf of Mexico, and was pursuing its course at a considerable elevation when the peculiar condition of the atmosphere in Ohio caused it to descend and discharge itself in the manner described in the despatch. Cuna.—We do not suppose for a moment that any sensible person attaches the slight- est credence to any i>formation regarding the condition of Cuba coming from the lips of an avowed adherent of the Spanish gov- ernment. Therefore the opinions of General Don Sabas Marin on this subject cannot be regarded as convincing. The statement of Consul Young, which we publish on another page, is that of a man who is thoroughly conversant with the condition of the Span- iards and the natives in the Island of Cuba, and who, being a neutral observer of the progress of the war, cannot fail to recognize which side is winning. Tux Extuvstastic Dececates who did not want any authority for Horatio Seymour's acceptance will be the loudest this morning ernor would have been resvectable. but the in claiming that they were decgived, Wasted Enthusiasm. The picturesque correspondent who deals in the emotions of deliberative assem- blages had his opportunity at Saratoga yesterday.. It was an occasion where fervor and enthusiasm reigned su- preme. Horatio Seymour's name never failed to fire the hearts of the New York democracy, and now he was once more the chosen leader of his old time followers. He had been forced from his retirement much against his will, but once in the can- vass there was joy in the camp. It was true Mr. Seymour kad not said, ‘‘Men and breth- ren, I accept your nomination and will lead you to victory;” but then acceptance was scurcely deemed necessary, for when poor Purdy asked this simple question he was told to ‘sit down,” and when he demanded authority he was informed that authority was not wanted. The General Committee of Tammany Hall could not have been more stupid or more unanimous in insisting that what it wanted was all right. But Purdy was in earnest, and so the Chairman of the Convention was compelled to decide that his prudent inquiries were out of order. Purdy was persistent, but he was cried down and was compelled to hear his manly efforts laughed to scorn as “boys’ play.” ‘It is time to stop this boys’ play,” said Mr. Graves, of Steuben; but Mr. McQuade, of Oneida, who is Mr. Sey- mour’s neighbor, undertook the réle of the beaten Purdy and implored the Convention to stop and consider. ‘‘We would like to know,” he said, ‘if this Convention intends to run Seymour, whether he accepts or not?” and he received his answer, ‘Yes, yes!” from every part of the hall. The struggle was to nominate Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor, whatever Seymour might do, and it was only after this was accomplished that the Convention had any real assurance that Seymour would accept. That assurance is in itself the most remarkable episode in the whole history of party conventions. Our despatches this morning show conclu- sively that it was made under a misappre- |hension or that it was part of a conspiracy. Before the Convention Mr. Faulkner was unequivocal in the declaration that Mr. Sey- mour had accepted the nomination. ‘I am at liberty to assure you,” he said to the Con- vention, ‘‘that under the extraordinary cir- cumstances attending the nomination Gov- ernor Seymour feels constrained to obey the wishes of the people who have so often-honored him.” This silenced every questioner, and the Convention finished its work in peace and dispersed. Unfortunately the delegates had scarcely begun their homeward journey when it was discovered that the whole thing was a mistake, that Goverpor Seymour had not accepted the nomination and would not accept it, and that the Convention had been made a victim to its own folly and heed- lessness, The enthusiasm of the morning had been wasted and the hopes of the party wero blasted. Such a day’s work has never been known in the political history of the State; but this folly is only another ad- dition to the long list of lost democratic opportunities. The Prayer for Rain. Professor Tyndall does not believe in the power of prayer to alter the material laws of the universe, and very probably he is right. We do not indorse him, for the rea- son that our knowledge of the universe is limited. But when Romeo prayed that the sun might not rise and separate him from his beloved Juliet the sun rose all the same and divided the lovers forever. What a million of men pray for another million of men pray against. One man wants rain, but another wants sunshine. How can local interests affect the wisdom of Heaven? Is it possible that Providence hesitates between its clients and says to James, whose arid potato field is withering for want of water, “Dear James, it will rain to-night,” and to Smith, whose hay is not yet stacked, ‘Dear Smith, your hay will all be soaked.” No; these are effects of prayer which are not logical in the mind, and so far the challenge of Professor Tyndall, to have one hospital prayed for and the other prescribed for, must be held to be likely to result to the ad- vantage of bis theory. Prayer, however, while it cannot influ- ence material laws may affect those unknown spiritual laws which have so much to do with our mysterious nature. Who has not prayed for some desired end? A dying child, a dying wife, relief, perhaps, from some trouble. There is a story of a poor woman who prayed fora loaf of bread, and her prayer was indirectly answered by a drunken party of men, who, in sport, threw a loaf down her chimney. No one can solve these mysteries, for there are men of this world and men of the next world. When the entire Christendom of humanity kneels every Sunday in church and implores Heaven for especial blessings is that cere- mony a farce? If it is a useless supplication then one-half of our religion is a mockery. People say that every wish is a prayer, but that statement is a mistake. A wish is only the desire for a result ; a prayer is a request for a reply. We want rain badly now. Tho earth is dead with drought, and the crops will suf- fer from the lack of water. Shall we pray that the heavens may be opened and the me- chanical laws of the universe be suspended for our particular benefit? Certainly we have the right to demand, but it is doubtful if we possess the reason to expect compli- ance. In our churches on Sunday prayers for rain will be probably offered, and if the rain comes the eloquence of the clergyman will be held in high estimation by his con- gregation, and if it fails then Providence must take the responsibility. Our own humble opinion is, that if we look for rain in this unhappy drought we had better study the weather reports, which at least indicate probabilities. When we kneel in reverence to that inscrutable Power, which is above us all, let our supplications be for spiritual biessings more than for earthly gains, Tue Bravenwyexs’ Victony.—The great international four-oared amateur race in which the best crews of the United States, England and Ireland were pitted against each other and which resulted in a hard won vietory for the American crew is an achieve- ment of which we may well feel proud. So close was the race and so stubbornly con- tested was the whole struegle from start to uD FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. finish that vanquished as well as victor may be congratulated on their efforts. A more game or more plucky race—a race won by seconds and inches—was never rowed on English or American waters. From start to finish it was a race all the way. At no time during its progress was there any marked difference between two of the crews, and even the third had a good position at the close. There was no let up from the word “Go,” and this makes the victory the greater for the Beaverwycks. It would have been much more satisfactory, however, to all had the struggle been made over the three mile straightaway course of Saratoga Lake instead of the heat racing on the Schuylkill, and if it had been there is no reason to doubt but the same skill, strength and pluck which brought American colors to the front at Philadelphia would have achieved a similar victory over the same waters on which in years gone by the Ward brothers beat the famed oarsmen of old England. A “Remorseless” Nomination. Mr. Thurlow Weed, in conversation with a reporter of the Heraup yesterday, charac- terized the action of the Democratic Conven- tion at Saratoga in nominating Horatio Sey- mour against his will as *‘remorseless.” If Mr. Weed had been impelled to use so strong an adjective when speaking of the nomination under the belief that Mr. Sey- mour had accepted it, what term would he have found to characterize the proceed- ings of the Convention in view of the fact that the Sage of Oneida still refused it? From Mr. Weed's stand- point there was cruelty in forcing upon Mr. Seymour a nomination which he had fre- quently and distinctly averred he did not want and could not accept. The place could bring no new honors toan old and faithful public servant who desired rest be- cause his deelining years and failing health admonished him that he could not again un- dertake the labors of the past. Even if his nomination was desirable as a party expedient above any course which the Convention could adopt, it was unwise to insist upon it against his inclinations, An unwilling candidate is almost as dangerous as an unworthy one, and in Mr. Seymour's case it has been shown that the height of folly is the forcible cap- ture of unwilling wisdom. Any one of the gentlemen named as candidates for Gov- ernor would have made a better canvass if the Convention had acted with intelligence and discretion than he will make now, handi- capped as he will be by this stupendous folly. There was an hour of rejoicing and enthusiasm, and now will follow days and weeks of gloom and despair. Mr. Weed calls Mr. Seymour’s nomination “remorse- less.” In view of all the facts it must be re- garded asa blunder so stupendous that it can only,be described as a crime. Cheap Coal and Calamity. It is a fact that would never have been guessed at by the unassisted mind of ordi- nary man-that the great coal combination was an expression of the benevolence of the men who made it. This wonderful truth is, however, made plein in the various pub- lished interviews of reporters with the coal magnates—mine owners, heavy dealers, railway men and speculators. These gen- tlemen shake their heads sadly over the dangers that menace the public because coal is cheap. They have no difficulty, how- ever, in showing that the low price of coal at the sale on Tuesday will result in bring- ing about precisely the same condition that the combination always endeavored to secure. That is to say, the combination endeavored to prevent over-production, and the price being lower than the mines can deliver coal at, with a profit, will also pre- vent production. If the two cases come out so nearly even the unprejudiced might be puzzled to find any reason for a preference. Why make a combination if it only pro- duces the same result produced by a sale which greatly gratifies an enormous public, orwhy weep over a sale which produces precisely the same result that was aimed at by the combination whose rupture you deplore? It isat this point we find the benevolence. The combination is tho benevolent institution that keeps the price at a certain definite line of exorbitancy. Sometimes coal might be ten dollars a ton and sometimes two, and the combination kindly keeps it always at seven—losing three dollars when it goes up and pocketing tive dollais when it goes down—always on its own account. As it would go up for three months in a year and down for nine, this benevolence has its pleasant side to those who practise it, and virtue is its own reward. Itis the admis- sion, therefore, that the combination has for its great purpose to prevent the fall of the price of coal by preventing production, or, in theslang of the speculators, preventing ‘‘over- production.” in Great Britain the yearly yield of coal is just three times the yearly yield of coal in the United Statés, though the coal fields of the United States are more than thirty times as great as those of Great Britain. Here is at once a sufficient reason why the average price in England is about half what it is with us. There is about the same demand in both conntries, but in England the supply is equal to it—in the United States it is unequal, and the price is consequently kept high, and’ those who cannot pay it are stinted or frozen. It is an infamous admission that in a so-called enlightened age a ring of great capitalists is formed to prevent the production of a com- modity that is necessary to life, and thereby to enrich themselves by the misery thoy cause. These gentlemen, who are weepii crocodile tears over this calamity of che: coal, pretend that the production will be stopped if the price is cheaper than they care to havo it; but if production is thus prevented naturally in the course of trade how was it that it became necessary for them to organize their great conspiracy to prevent production ? Tar Wratnen.—The threatening aspect of the sky for the last two days is a sure indica- tion of the proximity of an area of low ba- rometer. The hazy, humid atmosphere, with its high temperature, indicates that New | York is now situated on the neutral line between the areas of high and low pressure, the former to the south of us and the latter to the north. During to-day we shall experi- $e [ence the cooler westerly winds that rusk along this line before they take a northerly direction along the eastern margin of the area of low pressure. These winds will have the effect of condensing the moisture in the airand converting it into rain in the more northerly portions of the State, but it is possible that we may receive some of the welcome rainfall during its drift eastward. The short term of hot weather will in » day or so give place to a lower temperature, which will probably usher in the Indian suminer, Threatening weather in the Southern States and the Gulf of Mexico now prevails, and rains have generally fallen from the lakes te the South Atlantic coast Astorm is probable over Florida during to- day, which will also pass over the Bahama Islands. Heavy rains will fall in the Lower Missouri Valley, where high winds may also prevail. The weather in New York will be hazy or partly cloudy and slightly cooler. Rallway Robberies. Another of the apparently innumerable means of plundering railway companies has just been exposed by the present efficient management of the Erie Railway. It appears that a ring was formed in this corporation between the persons intrusted with the duty of selling the old iron and other waste and the persons whose duty it was to buy sup- plies. It was estimated that at one time tho Erie Railwey Company owned a quantity of old iron that could be«sbld in the market for a@ million dollars~a fact which will indicate that the sale of this waste material is nota small affair, and that it tay cover very large frauds, But it seems that in every sale of this old stuff the dishonest servants of the company shipped in with the rubbish good new material of various sorts, and that as alleged, this sequestrated material was re purchased for tht company by its own agents, It would be a queer catalogue if any person should put together in one list the devices resorted to for the mere theft of railway property or money ; and in the presence of such a list people might naturally wonder yather that any railroad survived than, ag they now do, that so few are solvent, From the original draft of a charter to the disap- pearance of the whole concern in the office of some crafty lawyer the history of a rail- way seems to be one, constant story of ‘ine genious knavery and theft. “Wr Don’t Want Any,” was the response Mr. Purdy recerved from the Convention when he asked if there was any authority for the assumption that Governor Seymous had accepted the nomination. Republicans will now begin to say that this was a truly characteristic reply—the democracy never did care for authority. Waxt Strerr Gawmiers,—The idiots who are deceived by bogus drafts, or the no- torious ‘‘saw dust” game, or by “three card monte men,” or by the illusive bottom of roulette (which the gambler controls with his foot), or the game-of rouge et noir, or that of keno or faro, or any of the plainly gambling sports, in which the professional player has ninety-nine per cent of the advantage—these idiotic players, who readily accept all these terrible odds, are nothing compared with the madmen of ness of themselves and all who depend upon their success. What do such people mean as they crawl between heaven and earth? + Itis the old story of fraud on the one side and of faith on the other. Tse Favrxner Famuy has the reputation in Livingston county of being a family of practical jokers. Was Mr. Lester C. Faulk- ner’s announcement in the Democratic Con- vention yesterday that Horatio Seymour had agreed to accept the nomination for Governor a practical joke? If it was it may have been fun for Faulkner, but it was death to the democratic frauds. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Engénte ts at Zuricn, Only four months of leap year remain, Dr. Storrs will preach in Boston on Sanday, Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, is at Point Shirley, In London the rage is for a red parasol and short curls, : Randolph Rodgers, the sculptor, will make his home in Washington. Four tuba players in Gilmoro’s orchostra weigh 1,000 pounds, Tubad. In Park row is an open window where bees may be seen making honey. Acritic says that literature no longer revels, but ig sober in a sober time Farmers are getting ready for State fairs and begin- ning to talk “‘hoss.*? A Milwaukee girl’s ears will wear out four pairs of brass earrings in a year. in the north of England 50,000 men of the coal and iron trades are out of work, ‘Mr. Krassey says that the English seaman employed in sailing ships has not deteriorated, The Rochester Pe:;ocrat is angry because horsofiesh isso dear, Try tripe for a few mornings. “Lacon:"—"In the grand theatre of human Iife « box ticket carries us through the house,” The manner in which English lawyers bully wit nesses 1 cross-examinations is being criticised. Couneillor A. P. de Carvalho Borges, Brazilian Min ister at Washington, is at the St. James’ Hotel, Heath, the fioriculturist, says that Devonshire is the garden of England because it is clothed with forns, Admiral Sir Cooper Key and seven officers of Hor Majesty’s ship Bellerophon, havo arrived at Montreal, Pools in the River Lea will ata certain depth hold a man suspended so that he can neither rise nor sink, The hundredth anniversary of tho founding of the Roman Catholic parisn at St. Louis was celebrated op Sunday last, Hon, Dan Voorhces, of Indiana, now thinks that he would Just as soon have enough hard money as plenty of greenback. Mr. 8 L. M. Barlow ts assessed on property valued (tax estimate) at $66,600 m Oakland city, opposite to San Francisco, ‘A French eritic says that Amoricans will become a race of dyspeptics if they continue to aine daring hours of business. Gernfin and French sehoolmnsters have not the | same right to flog boys that English and Americas teachers are accorded, A woman writes that the Boston young man oP woman who drives a straw hat phaeton at a watering place is a witless snob, A Pole has been sentenced to three months’ impris. onment for following a French officer in Paris and singing the “German Rhine.” A bas Wagner! OM Fortress Mowroe a yacht was hailed by another with, “How aro all on board?” and the reply eame sweetly over the bine waters, “All well and still drink ing. Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, who is sixty, writes from | Leipsic that the German is temperate, bat that he is bad in the treatment of women, especially of strange on Punch:—“voratdine—You shan't ; Youshall bo my sister!’ Aunt Amnio— am your papa’s sister, and sol mast be your ai Geraldine (aiter a pause)—'Then was papa my uncle Defore ha was marrind 6119 Wall street who risk on bonds they never - knew and stock they do not own the happis * »