The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. 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 Heraxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE SIXTH STR LONDON 0 5 HERALD—NO. 46 FL PARIS OFFICE—AVEN Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. a TOLUME X11 s ° b> 3 | gq MINSTRELS, ase P.M THIRD 4 =f THEATRE, VARIETY, a1 6 PM. 2P. UNIO. TWO MEN OF FaNL ATRE COMIQ Matinee at 2 VARIETY, at 8 i’. M. BOOTHS THE BARDANAPALUS, as & P.M. Booth. ATRE, Mr. Bange and Mra Acres woob THE IOB WITCH, 1 & PARISIAN VARIETIES, arsP.m. BURLES! dneo at 2 K ater. M. CHA VARIETY, at & P.M. BROO! KISSES, at & P. M. LYMPIC THE. VARIETY AND bE AMA at ay M. MORE'S GARDEN, GI CONCERT, at 8 PX. MBIA OPE OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, at FIFTH AVENL DAVID GARRICK, ot 5. M. TRIPLE NEW YORK, THEATRE, Sothern, SHE " WEDNES DAY, SEPTE: Brom our reports this morning the probaly are that the weather to-day will be ily warmer, partly cloudy, with wind shifting to northerly and During the s summer months the Heraup twill Ue sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cenis per week, Warn srr Y. STERDAY.—Speculation was moderately active on a much steadier market, with prices firmer at the close. Gold was in some demand and advanced to 109 3-4 from the epening price of 109 1-2. It closed at 1095-8. Government bonds were strong anda little higher. Railroad bonds gener- ally were lower. Money was in abundant supply at 1a 11-22 per cent. Qvren Isanztxa is going back to France. The stability of Ler son’s throne is weakened by her presence, and Spain cannot fail to re- joice at her departure. ‘ent is making a foolish blunder in suppressing all outward indications of the existence of Protestant so- cieties in Spain. These are likely to do harm only in their suppre: Tre Stoxs or Revivixe Trape.—It will be seen from the reports which we print this morning that our merchants are hopeful for the future. 80 long that these gleams of hope will give great comfort everywher Tur Practice at Crrrpmoor for the inter- national rifle match continues with varying fortunes. The contest possesses an interest and it will not abate until it is known which of the teams is to carry off the honors of the occasion. Bnooxsryy’s Yrurow Frven Casz has been settled in the approved Brooklyn fashion. Everybody has been exonerated and every- body is gratified at the result. Hereafter it would be well for physicians to call yel- low fever simply yellow fever, and then there will be no controversy over the mean- ing of the death certificate. Tae Execrion Reruns from Vermont are, meagre, but as far as they have been re- ceived they indicate large republican gains. There is a heavy vote on both sides, but from present indications the preponderance of gain is largely with the republicans. This election is only important as showing the | causes which arose mainly, if not entirely, | ont of the lack of skill which we hate tol- tendencies of the Presidential campaign. Coamussionen Fownxs, Board of City Works, was suspended from pffice yesterday by Mayor Schroeder, it is staid, for failing to complete the Hempstead storage reservoir. Municipal matters in Brooklyn are always so mysterious that it is not surprising the reasons for this action have not been disclosed, but it is likely that litical considerations affect the affair on th sides. Governor Trupxy’s Appress to the Confer- ence of Charities at Saratoga yesterday was one of those philosophical efforts with which he sometimes surprises the community. It is amusing, perhaps, to hear a Presidential pandidate trenching upon the domains of biology in the very heat of the canvass; but Governor Tilden does well in forgetting for a time the requirements of the campaign by suggesting the enforcement of scientific methods in the treatment of pauperism, in- sanity and crime. Tue Massacnvuserts Repvrricans renomi- nated Governor Rice yesterday without much opposition. ‘The Convention was har- monious and the proceedings possessed ttle interest apart from the speech of Mr. well, the Chairman. Mr. Boutwell's re- uenve the republicans are giving to the ern question in this canvass. The old je between the sections is being fought over again. The real point in Mr. Bout- woll’s speech, however, is the admission that the result of the Presidential election de- pends upon the vote of New York, and this Dusiness has been depressed } | the withdrawal of 1 i | of the Brooklyn | a clear indication of the promi- | confession makes the blunder of the Demo- cratic Convention at Saratoga all the more heinous, The Hard Times—Causes and Remedies. Mr. David A. Wells, as President of the American Social Science Association, deliv- ered last evening at Saratoga # notable address on the causes of the great prostra- tion of industry and commerce ail over the world and the remedies which s considera- tion of these causes suggests. Mr. Wells’ studies as a statistician and economist ena- ; ble him to present some extremely interest- ing facts; andas the subjectis one which interests everybody, from the wealthiest capitalist to the humblest day laborer or sewing woman, we print elsewhere some parts of his address, and propose here to give asummary of his conclusions and our | own. Briefly, Mr. Wells tells us industry lan- guishes and commerce is checked because the world is poor. It is poor because it has, since 1860, wasted enormously in many ways; mainly in the extraordinary destrue tion of materials which are wealth by our war, the Austro-Prussian and the Franco- German wars; by the constantly increasing costliness of the armaments maintained in Europe; by the large and growing percent~ age of able-bodied men diverted, even in years of peace, in European countries from productive pursuits to soldiery, which only consumes and wastes. He demonstrates that, do what we will, mankind do not, as a whole, get much beyond hand to mouth ee ene to the researches of tho ab! ‘sta ians even England, the rich- | est country in modern times, has not accu- mulated a surplus greater than the equiva- lent of about five years’ subsistence. Our own workmen are the most ingenious in the world; we stand far ahead of other nations in the use of labor-saving tools and ma- chinery; our soilis more p¥ductive than that of any of our sister nations; yet we do not, there is reason to believe, get more than five years ‘ahead of the world” ns a people, with all our industry and production, It has taken us two hundred and fifty years, Mr. Wells remarks, to accumulate for our- selves as a nation subsistence, or the mears of it, in advance, to the amount of about six hundred dollars per head of our people. Thatis to say, even the richest na- tion in the world would starve if it should absolutely cease to labor for five or at most six years, and live upon the surplus ithad accumulated in previous centuries; { and the great armies, the costly armaments and the destructive wars of the period since 1869, it is easy to see, have made “the world actually poorer, have narrowed the resources of the principal Christian nations and brought the wolf nearer the national doors, Now, in modern times what seriously | affects one nation affects all in various de- grees. If Germany is poor, if France prac- tises a more rigid economy, if England is embarrassed or Austria crippled, we, far off as we are, must feel tho effect of their re- trenchments. They buy less of what we produce or they pay less for what they buy. Now, it has been ascertained that in Massa- chusetts, one of the richest States of the Union, the possible snnual average saving of the factory population in common times is only a trifle over twenty dollars per head. There is no great margin here for loss of any kind. But, besides wars and standing armies and costly navies, there are losses by fire, as those at Boston and Chicago ; there are losses of income and realized surplus by worthless investments, as in railroads which pay no interest on their bonds, and which thus deprive a multitude of bondholders of their receipts and lessen their expenditures. All these causes contribute to make us and the world in general poorer and cause hard times. It seems to us, however, that Mr. has given somewhat undue importance to these causes of impoverishment—at least as regards this country—and that he might have y | given greater importance to another cause of which no rifle match ever before possessed, | the hard times—namely, the wasteful and unskilful manner in which the business of government has been conducted among us since 1860, by which our city and State debts and taxes have been enormously in- creased and many important industries have been crippled. Our own waste in the war was very great; but serious as was productive laborers to the field and to the employments connected with the war, those who remained at home | contrived by the help of new labor-saving machines to maintain production near its old level, and when the armies were dis- banded the soldiers of both sides began work with the improved machinery, and the pro- ductive power of the country was immensely increased. Thus we could have very rapidly made good the losses of the war but for erated in the different branches of the gov- ernment, This has catised in the first place great wastefulness. Mr. Wells reports that in 1875 the aggregate State debts had run up to three hundred and twenty-eight millions, on half of which no interest was paid; that the aggregate indebtedness of cities had run up to eight hundred millions, and yet our cities areas a ruie uncomfortable, unsafe and dear places of residence. He remarks that | this waste seems to go on, as the New York city dobt, whioh stood in 1871 at eighty-two millions, had risen in July 1876 to one hun- dred and sixteen millions. But what is of much greater importance, lack of skill in the government has caused the gravest derangements of all our indus- tries by failing to adapt the laws affecting industry to the new order of things. For instance, the government has blunderingly imposed upon the people a currency not only depreciated, but of constantly changing value, and thus embarrassed all our deal- ings, both home and with foreign countries. Mr. Wells remarks that “the cowardly re- fusal of both the recent Nationaf Conventions to deal with this question will cost the coun- try at the very least one thousand millions,” and we believe this is not an exaggeration. But that is twenty-five dollars a head for every man, woman and child in the land, or more than the average annual savings of laboring man. Again, the govern- ment has by its laws restricting com- mercial exchanges disabled us still ther from selling our surplus manufac- tures in foreign markets, where alone they can be sold. How great is the share which | this economic blunder has hadin producing and maintaining the general prostration and Wolls | fur- | decarexinded of industry in the United States isshown by the help of some very | interesting figures given by Mr. Wells. The tendency of all our laws affecting industry, since 1860, has been to draw population from agriculture to manufactures. We believe Mr. Wells is the first to point out how great has been this change. He shows that if we apply the rates of increase in our chief agri- | cultural products between 1850 and 1860, to the period between 1860 and 1870, and then ; by census, we shall find that we produce } actually less corn by twenty-six per cent, less tobacco by twenty-seven per cent, less pork by thirty-two per cent, less butter by | twenty-nine per cent, less cotton by seventy- | four per cent, according to Mr. Wells, than we should have produced had we gone on at the previous rate of in- crease, During 1850-1860 improved land increased forty-four per cent; in 1860-1870 only sixteen per cent, and we had in 1870 actually nine hundred thousand fewer neat cattle, eight millions fewer swine and nine hundred thousand fewer working oxen than in 1860, with a falling off also in the number of horses and mules. That is to say, a large part of our agricultural population had been drawn off by the force and tendency of laws to other employments, to manufactures largely. The result is shown in the increase of in the period of 1860-1870—with an increase | of population of only twenty-three per cent. Not only did more people go to manufactur- ing, but their capacity to produce in this direction was largely increased by new and ingenious labor-saving machinery. Thus in 1860 nine thousand persons in Cincinnati engaged in manufacturing produced an aver- age value of one thousand tive hundred dol- lars per head, but double the number in | 1870, with the help of better machinery, hundred dollars per head. Three men can now produce as many stoves as six in 1860. In dressing yarn one man and a boy now do the work which eight men did in 1860, Similar results have been obtained in agreat many branches of manufacture, Unskilfal legislation, the result of ignorance and carelessness in our | rulers, has first impelled more men to mann- facturing industries ; our native inventive skill has at the same time greatly increased the productive power of these hands, and ; then our laws have disabled us from selling j the largely in sed surplus product abroad, where alone, of ‘course, asurplus can be sold. We should say, therefore, that this coun- try, differently from others, suffers now mainly from a plethora of products ; that we aro too rich, rather than poor ; and that if wo could have a sound currency and sufticiently | liberal revenue laws, and thus revive our foreign trade, and sell our surplus products, | our taxes, our war losses and our losses from fires and bad investments would not seri- ously trouble v us. * The 5 Hell Gate Disaster. We had hoped that this great undertaking, which has been prosecuted with so much energy and skill, would be brought to a suc- cessful completion without any of those ter- rible sacrifices of human life which not un- frequently attend the carrying out of such stupendons works. The great reef at Hal- lett’s Point, which forms such a dangerous obstruction to the navigation of the East River, has been successfully chambered after the expenditure of extraordinary labor and at large expense. Everything about the work indicated that the reef would be com- pletely destroyed in a few days and form no zaore a barrier to commerce. But unfortu- nately this bright prospect has been clouded by an accident which has unhappily resulted in the loss of several lives. Pending an investigation into the cause of ihe catas- trophe we call this dreadful occurrence an | accident, but we do soin aspirit of bare jus- tice to all the responsible parties, and not from any conviction that an accident in the strict sense of the word has occurred. There are too many reasons to believe that it was the result of a gross disregard of the caution which should never be relaxed when such a dangerous explosive as nitro-glycerine is in use. From the particulars gleaned by our reporter in the course of his inquiries yes- terday we are forced to believe that many instances of criminal carelessness have oc- curred in the conveyance of nitro-glycerine from the magazine to the Hell Gate works, which but for the interposition of a merciful Providence might have caused a ! fearful loss of life. When such reckless in- difference to probable consequences has been dispiayed by those engaged in the handling and conveyance of a deadly explosive can we be surprised that it should recoil on themselves in a terrible manner? The un- | fortunate victims of the disaster that are dead are past all reach of censure. Their scarcely less miserable fellow sufferers who have sur- | vived are evidently not to blame, and even if they are the penalty they have paid cancels the debt they owed to justice, It is to those in authority, who have not suffered from the explosion, and who are legally responsible for the acts of their subordinates, that we | turn for an explanation as to its cause. | All selfish considerations of fear and ble should be set aside in the evidence which the Coroner is about to receive. We must know the manner in which this deadly | lem boats ; if it was not the custom to send point through the streets of New York ina common cart; if the boatin which it was sometimes sent up the East River was not | often tied up while loaded toa dock in the lower part of the city, subject to shocks and “concussions caused by the waves from pass- ing steamers; what experiments were in | progress at the time of the explosion; were the men engaged in handling the nitro-glycerine experts at that work and aware of the nature of the composition and | of the facility with which it could be ex- ploded by a slight concussion. All these | questions must be answered before the pub- | lic will be satisfied. We want candor on the part of the witnesses and intelligence and zeal on that of the Coroner and his jury. With both these elements secured we can compare the result with the actual product | manufactured products—fifty-two per cent | produced a value of two thousand three | | a desire to conceal the identity of the oulpa- | | compound has been conveyed from the mag- | ! azine; whether it was commonly brought | | to Astoria on the frequently crowded Har- | | quantities of nitro-glycerine from point to i pe at the facts that ee and explain this terrible affair. If the investigation can in any degree impress the necessity of caution or those who use nitro-glycerine, while we must regret the sad deaths at Hell Gate we will feel that the possibility of such an oc- currence in the future will be decreased. The War in Servia,. There is one point tolerably clear in the many brought into notice by the war, and this one is that the Servian authorities are, of all known authorities, the most persistent and pertinacious in the denial of every un- pleasant fact. Indeed, if the Servian sol- diery could hold their fortified ground with half the tenacity with which the government sticks to the falsehoods it pute forth as war news Abdul Kerim would never got to Bel- grado, Despite all the stout denials of de- feat, however, and the shamelessly false dec- larations of the government as to the coarse of events at the seat of war, it is certainly known that the Servian defence of its own frontier has been as ineffective as was the Servian war of invasion, and that the com- bined forces of the two field marshals, Ali Sahib Pacha and Ahmed Eyoub Pacha, are now in a position from which their cavalry can reach Belgrade in two days or less if pushed, and from which their infantry can reach the neigh- borhood of the same capital in a week of easy marches. This is a terrible plight for Servia, and the more terrible because | there seems to be no likelihood that the Ser- vian army isin a condition to oppose the Turkish advance. If the Servian commander had so little intelligence, and his army so little adhesion that they could not dispute a passage where, though outnumbered, they had more than equivalent advantages in po- sition and in the support of lines deemed impregnable, how shall the same dull-witted ! commander and the same army, cut up and shaken by its latest defeat, hope to oppose the march of the victors without such sup- port as they hadat Alexinatz. They seem un- likely indeed to do more than run before the invader as a loose rabble and announce his arrival at Belgrade. It seems to be assumed in Belgrade that the presence of Tcher- nayeff and his army at Deligrad is of some consequence to the Turks, but we do not believe they will waste any thought on that place. They will turn their faces toward Paratjin, and when the Servian commander discovers whither they are marching he will be found on the run out of Deligrad; and he may make this discovery a couple of days too late. Only a great blunder on the part of the Moslems can now hurt their campaign, and it is not even certain that they may not blunder with impunity in the presence of such an enemy. Thus ends in collapse a war which, when the Servians began it, it was believed throughout Europe that they could carry to a conclusion glorious for their arms. All anticipations formed in regard to the probable result of the struggle have been disappointed, and this simply because England assumed an attitude that it was not believed in any court in Europe she would assume, and which, indeed, she would not have assumed if her conduct had not been guided by a spiritof haphazard temerity which imagined brilliant consequences and refused to recog- nize solid reasons. By the conduct of Eng- land and by some yet unexplained hitch in the relations of Germany to Russia the two Powers were left to fight out their quarrel, and a good urmy well commanded has con- stantly whipped a poor one not commanded at all. England’s warning to the Turks, that she will abandon them to their enemies if they are obstinate on the subject of peace, may have a salutary influence if they can be induoed to believe that it is not given with a view to diplomatic effect in other countries. The next step must be an armistice or a general European war. Russia is too farcom- mitted to Servian support to allow Belgrade to fallinto the hands of the Turks. .Eng- -land, on the other hand, is too thoroughly the friend of Turkey by traditional policy, rather than her own real interests, to allow the Sultan to be overcome by the Czar. Fortu- nately neither of, them have any object in going to war with each other at. this time, and together they are able to command and preserve the peace of Europe. Turkey can- not fail to listen to English and Servia to Russian counsels. These Powers can com- pel an armistice and establish a peace, and allthe signs are that they will doso. If Russia had been really anxious for war Servia would not to-day be in the plight in which she is. However friendly tho English Min- istry may be toward the Turks, the Bulga- Englishmen with the Slavio Christians have created a sentiment which must over- come any State policy. Tho press and the people both favor moderate counsels, and the support $f Turkey, except in the most mod- | erate demands, will be anything else than agreeable. These reasons make us think that an armistice is probable and that peace will follow. A Sleepy Campaign. Everybody is complaining of the apathy of the politicians and the general dulness of } the campaign. In Indiana and Ohio, we are told, the Republican National Committee is scarcely turning its hand over to secure a party victory that would settle the Presiden- tial contest in advance. The democrats are accused of supinene.s inthis State, whose electoral vote is admittedly necessary to that side, at least ifthe democracy is to succeed in the nation. Their State ticket is wander- head and with an ill-balanced and weak | body, although we are within two months of the Presidential election. There are no log | cabin and hard cider meetings, no Wide Awake or Little Giant processions—nothing, in fact, to indicate that two great parties aro patronage and tempting pickings of the { national government for the next four years. Probably the principal cause of this appar- ent indifference is the lack of magnetism in thing about Hayes. and very few people say anything about Tilden. date is what is called a man, The republicans might have warmed toward Blaine, and the democrats toward Seymour or Bayard. As it is tho parties | yote for figureheads, put up to represent rian atrocities and the natural sympathies of ; {ing about, an unnatural object, without a | engaged in a struggle for the enormous | the candidates. Very few people know any- ‘ Neither candi- | popular i leaders whose names fire the hearts of their followers. And the reason for the heaviness of the campaign may be found in the fact that politicians have learned the value of concentrating their efforts on practical work at the polls, and are disinclined to waste them on blue fire displays. Money that used to be expended on torchlights and fire- works is now shrewdly put where it will do the most good. When we hear that Tilden \ is willing to spend a fortune in organization, | and that the republican millionnaires, Mor- gan and Rogers, are prepared to carry the State at any cost, we may calculate that, however liberal the aspirants for office may be, they will none of them cast their money recklessly into the streets, The work done by the candidates and the committees does not, nowadays, show itself, as Zach Chan- dler says, unti! after the ballots are counted. The Weather—An Approaching Storm. Yesterday the area of high pressure now central over the lakes advanced a short dis- tance to the eastward, and, as aconsequence, we experienced clear, cool weather, with partiai cloudiness at intervals during the day and brisk winds from the northwest- ward. It was noticeable that the light clouds became speedily absorbed by the dense dry atmosphere, and toward evening, when the temperature fell, they disappeared altogether. Southwest of and closely follow- ing the area of high pressure is a decided | depression, which is central in the Lower Missouri Valley, and in which the barometer has fallen below 29.60 inches. The ourva- tures of the isobars of this area show that its line of advance will be southward of the Inke region, and that it will reach the Alleghany Mountains near Pittsburg and so bring us. a storm of considerable severity. Its arrival at New York may be looked for by Thursday or Friday next, but many causes combine to render its prog- ress eastward somewhat uncertain. The wind will shift from northwest to north and northeast in the meantime and finally to the eastward, with a rising temperature, as the storm draws near us. Rains have occurred at all points in front of the low area from Fort Sully in Dakota to St. Louis, Mo., and extending eastward as far as Grand Haven, Mich. Brisk easterly winds have also prevailed along this front, especially in its northern portion. In the Gulf of Mexico the indications of a disturb- ance continue to present themselves, and we may regard the existence of a storm cen- tre moving westward through the Caribbean Sea as certain. In the extremo northeast the area of low barometer still remains on the Nova Scotia coast, but will soon move into the ocean before the pressure of the high barometric area that foliows it. The weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer, with slightly increasing cloudiness and northwesterly to northerly winds. Justice for the Innocents. We are promised from Washington a speedy and fuli disclosure of a wicked con- spiracy on the part of Secretary Bristow and his friends against the reputation of Presi- dent Grant and his administration, the enormity of which will, it is thought, excite the astonishment and lignation of the country. The revelations, we are assured, will be substantiated by the voluntary state- ment of one of the principal officials in charge of the secret service arm of the gov- ernment, leaving no room to doubt their truthfulness. We must admit a lack of con- fidence in the testimony of these secret ser- vice gentlemen, who have evinced a surpris- ing facility during the late investigations in giving evidence tosuit the side to which their interests have for the moment attached them. Nevertheless if this ‘insidious and astonishing” conspiracy actually existed it is proper that it should be exposed, and the exposure cannot be too promptly made, It may not be gratifying to tho self-esteem of the republicans who attached themselves so warmly to the cause of Mr. Bristow to learn that they were imposed upon by a pretended reformer, whose alleged exposures of frauds were only the fruits of a wicked conspiracy. But it must be remembered that some men who were prosecuted under Mr. Bristow's administration are undergo- ing the pains and indignities of imprison- ment for their share in defrauding the rev- enne, and that others who held honorable positions about the President's household are in disgrace in consequence of their sup- posed complicity in such offences, Of course McDonald, Joyce, Avery and the rest were tried in a court of justice and con- | victed on what we must suppose was sufii- cient evidence. At the same time this con- spiracy may have extended far enough to procure suborned testimony, or to conceal explanatory and extenuating facts, for con- spirators are very unscrupulons, and justice to all who have been prosecuted or persecuted through Mr. Bristow’s instrumentality de- mands that the facts should be made public without any delay. Tur Grnzva Cross.—The report that a member of the Red Cross Society had been killed by the Turkish soldiers and the arm | on which he wore his badge cut off will scarcely surprise those who remember that the Turks have no reason to regard this emblem with peculiar favor. Between the armies of civilized nations these Red Oross men have gone with impunity, indifferent in the dischargo of their ambulance duty | unather they fell into the handeot ony sige} molons are as full of, pits as a St. Loais newspaper is of or the other, from a confidence that their emblem and their function commended them alike tothe good will of every side. But all that implied the Christianity of the armies. Now they fall into the hands of a foe who sees in the cross not a sign of good will and charitable duty, but the chosen emblem of ail that he is taught to hate. It might be well for members of the society to put on theirarms a smell copy of the | British standard as the only thing in the | world the Tu ks are likely to respect. A Mangep Fauiurxe Orr in the number of immigrants arriving at this port is apparent. In the first six months of 1875 the number reached 56,414, while for the corresponding months of this yoar it has been only 44,039. Local causes have to some extent effected everywhere has also had an important in- fiuence, | of philosoph; apa ee NG 7) Speen ee SN: PREC eh ae US TES their organizations, and not for admired | The Democratic Situstion in New York. The democratic party of the State is not yet out of its scrape; it has only gained @ ~ breathing spell. Ithas, indeed, escaped the absolute and irretrievable rain which would have befallen it had it persisted in its mad purpose of running Seymour in the interest of Dorsheimer and superadding a new trick of its own to the fraud perpetrated at Sara- toga. To have condoned that stupid fraud, to have indorsed it and made it its own by adoption, to have given it a deeper color of impudence by becoming an accomplice after exposure, and utilizing it as a decoy to get aman elected Governor who was not even nominated for the office, would have been a swindle so idiotic and shameless as to affront and disgust the whole body of decent citi- zens, The sure and swift destruc- tion which would have followed has been averted; but since the expe rience of the last week nobody can tell what new fraud or folly the same leaders may commit, The party will not feel easy until the Convention shall have again met and adjourned. If the Convention, when it reassembles, is left to follow its own di+ vergent impulses, it will flounder like a drove of cattle in a morass, sinking deeper by its struggles to get out. It is not an able Con- vention, but an exceedingly weak one. It needs external guidance and control, and if that task is undertaken by the same leaders who blundered so egregiously before the party may get into a worse muddle than that from which it has just been extricated. In the week which is to intervene there is plenty of time for coaching, but there is also plenty of time for intrigue. It may happen that the delegates may be ‘‘seen” by the wrong persons, or by too many persons, and split into three or four new cliques pledged to as many different candidates. If the kitchen cabinet assumes to coach the dele: gates will the old party leaders submit? With out a fixed up plan and a slated candidate the Convention will bea scene of tumultuous imbecility and may break up in a row; but who will take charge of it and organize it into obedience and unity? If everybody should make way for the Albany machine, whatever favorite is thrown into the hopper will come out a candidate, as grain and gravel may alike be ground into meal. We imagine that the machine will not be seri- ously opposed, as it seems the only source of unity. There really seems nothing to be done now but to let Governor Tilden have his own way, and for the reassembled Con- vention to submit to bea mere registering body, unless the party is willing to incur the danger of a formidable wrangle and ex. plosion, If it was nota Tilden Convention before it will be a Tilden Convention now. It will bow to Mr. Tilden’s will, nominate Mr. Tilden’s candi- date, accept Mr. Tilden’s plans and put upon him the whole responsibility of defeat, if defeat is to come. The prospect ia not so brilliant or flattering that any candi- date should covet the nomination, and as “too many cooks spoil the broth” the party will probably swallow whatever the kitchen cabinet prepares for it. If the Convention avoids a quarrel, washes no dirty linen, quietly accepts the machine candidate, whoever he may be, and adjourns within: half an hour after it is called toon der, the late damaging fiasco may not prove quite fatal. It is lucky for Mr. Tilden that it can do little injuryoutside of the Stata Next to New York the pivot of the Presiden- tial canvass is Indiana, and the New York fiasco can have no effect in Indiana, because in that State the republicans had to change their candidate for Governor. It is fortunate for Mr. Tilden that Indiana happens to be the State where a like thing occurred on the republican side, for if the democrats should lose Indiana in October they will have but little chance of carrying New York or saving anything from the general wreck. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Wild ducks in Massachusetts. Minneh: visited by fishermen, Hoboken’s taliest girl la stx fees two, Conkiing called Shepherd a great man, Tho Farwells, of Chicago, are at Denver, Col. General Butler, as a speech pit tea faiure this oar. igds Aiaicdl Parrott, of the United States navy, le in Toronto. “originality,” says Professor Harris, ‘isthe treason Secretary Chandler arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Americans consume ten times as much champagne as the French. The English bathing dress for Indies is very light and reaches the knee. Senator William W, Eaton, of Connecticut, is at the New York Hotel. Count L, Neadorf and Count E. Sforza, of Austria, are at the Hotel Brunswick. French Canadians are the most ignorant people whe immigrate to New England. ‘The crab with forty-seven legs and arms tn the aqua. rium has been named Talmage. Laura 8. Webb, author of “Custer’s Immortality,” is at the West End, Long Branch. George Eliot shows that singing and acting are the results of transmitted experience. “In France,"’ said Voltaire, “the sun repairs the mischief done by the tnbabitanta.”’ Hon. Alexander H. Stepliens will deliver an address at Thomson, Ga., on the 6th of September, Springtield farmers plunge milk cans into hot water, go that the milk tastes warm and new. Humpty Dumpty Fox bas sot been at Long Branch, | put reaches Brooklyn, from the asylum, to-day. The Southern Home, General D. H. Hili’s paper, says thut negro preachers are, as a rule, Heentious. When anybody tells Murat Halstead that he once wrote poetry he blushes like « Fulton Market lobst The Missonrt fruit crop is not good and the water. fiolen jokes. intwo { presents a series of layers like en onton, and In the centro is often a for- eign audstance, United States Senator Paddock, of Nobraska, was serenaded at Glenns Falls last night by his old friends and neighbors, Count de Rochechouart, Count d'Iméeourt and Cap- tain Lebon, of Paris, arrived in the city yesterday and are at the Brevoort House, A Rutland (Vt) man bas just had a piece of window glass two tuches square taken from his leg. 1t paned th eashatd, est passonger traing om the roads feading into New York and try to firt with anso tod girls who come to town a: two men, carbon:zed, have been discovered at Pompell, Yot the Jersey are (ull of ive charcoal men. Bake your under and side crusts, withdut 4iling, si email oysters, rolled cracker, a ite ‘le of onion and the oyster julce until they this result, but the business depression | gain the consistency of thin starch, Pour the jelly into the crust, with a plenty of fine, raw, salt oysters, Put on your baked top crast and bake quickly on a hot Bro, Lav with oysterand milk saecey