The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1876, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SET7EMBER 9, 1876. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, et DAILY HERALD, published every the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one site per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or-telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should:be properly sealed. Rejected communications-will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE eh YORK HERALD—NO. < FLEE’ PARIS OFFICE— THE day in Subscriptions ay advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms faa in New York. UB TiN ATER, ‘HIRD “VARIETY, at eee. At il P.M. Matinee a8 1:30, BE. UNION TWO MEN OF SAND THEATRE COM VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matineo at 2 poortl’s THEATRE. t8 7. M. Mutineo«t 130. Mr. Bangs BARDANA and Mrs. Agnes Be ‘S MUSEUM. Matinee at 2 P.M. VARIRTIES, woot TNE ICE WITCH, at 8 P.M. PAR atS P.M. Matinee EAGLE THEATRI BURL COMEDY, HINSTRELSY, er. 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Railroad bonds were strong and generally active. Money on call was in abundant supply at 1 a1 1-2 per cent. Tux Lerrexs of Governor Morgan and Mr. Rogers in respect to their nominations by the repubticans of this State are printed. They accept. Nobody-thought they would decline, Governor Srymovn, in the interview with which he has favored us, gives his views of the canvass very clearly, He accuses tho republicans of trying to lead the minds of the people away from the real issues of the day. What the real issues are is the ques- tion. Governor Seymour thinks they con- cern reform. Mr. Morton thinks they are in the South, and Mr. Schurz that they are financial. But the Governor's ideas will be read with interest. A Vinprcation or tHE Taw.—Charles Eighmey paid the penalty attached to the crime of murder at Canandaigua yesterday, being “hanged by the neck” until he was dead, according to the precise wording of the sentence. A startling incident con- 1 with the execution was the solemn nment by the doomed criminal of the f witness against him as being an insti- tor of the crime, An effort was mado nie time since to secure a commutation of «i to grant the request, and so the doomed man had to di z ow we have an ! n jury solemnly declaring that the explosion of a quantity of nitro-glycerine, on board the government scow at Hell Gate, was an accident, although the evidence went to prove that the catastrophe was due to the reckless handling of that terribly sensitive compound. Mr. Warren, tho manufacturer, is so confident in the harmlessness of that eccentric compo- sition that he carries some of it about with him in his valise. Let the reckless slingers of baggage take heed of this and handle every valise with great can- tion and tenderness, ‘for they know not the day nor the hour.” Out of regard fora travelling pubiic we would respectfully sug- gest to Mr. Warren that when he leaves the bosom of his family and takes his valise along he should be properly labelled on the back and breast, ‘‘Nitro-glycerine.” ACCIDENT. "— Tne Weatrrn.—The rainfall of yesterday was produced by a small area of low barome eter which detached itself from the main one, which still rests to the westward of the Al- leghanies. ‘Tho separation was evidently caused by the movement ofan srea of high pressure southeastward from Dakota which acted like a wedge on the low area, entting off its eastern end and driving it rapidly toward the northeast. Thus two rain areas have been created which carry with them their local precipitation. In the West the rains continue and are causing the Mississippi to rise steadily. Tho river at 6. Louis is now nineteen feet one inch above low water, being a rise of twenty-three inches in twenty-four hours. At Keokuk, Iowa, the rise has been proportionately great. The rainfall of 2.75 inches up to mid- night of Thursday, at Keokuk, was above the general average of the surrounding ter- ritory, but shows conclusively that the volume of water that fell in the Western States has been very great. Owing to the influence of the high pressure now moving over the lakes the weather to-day in New York will be cooler and partly cloudy or clear. 1 nee at 2 Ry. Miss Minnie Tarkey and Kurope. For several days the curtain has been drawn between the world and the scene of operations in the Morava Valley, and there is no authentic intelligence of what has occurred since the loss of the battle at Alexinatz This is nota case in which the old saw that no news is good news will apply. On the contrary, the absence of reports rather implies that all the means of communication are in the hands of the Turks, or that in the general demoralization and discouragement the defeated force has gone to pieces and no longer has such an existence as an army that its operations can be made the subject of any statement. It is in the attempt to prevent such an infer- ence that we are supplied with a despatch filled with the wonderful imagination that the Servian army was not at Alexinatz in the recent battle. The report that the main body of the army was withdrawn from that position previous to the battle, in order to oppose the march of the Turks by another line on Krusevatz, and that, therefore, the decisive battle is yet to be fought, will scarcely impose upon the general intelli- gence sufficiently to revive any hope in the capacity of Servia to cope with her invaders, The real position is that the Servien army, discouraged and broken, is a fugitive mass thaticannot be rallied, and the Ottoman sol- diety have the country and tho people at their mercy. Enough is known as to what their mercy is; but there is reason to believe that they are inspired with amore desperate ferocity against the Ser- vians than was vented on the wretched peo- ple of Bulgaria. The report that wounded Russian volunteers who have fallen into their hands have been burned alive is not incredible, since it is authentically estab- lished that many men in Bulgaria were by these same soldiers subjected to that horri- ble torture. Against a Russian it can be well understood that a more malignant senti- ment is felt than toward any other man of a civilized country, and it will even ag- gravate their vindictive spirit toward Servia that she has the sympathy of the Russian government and people. Europe, therefore, has to contemplate face to face the fact that there are one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers sweeping down the Morava Valley—soldiers of a kind that have not been seen in any European coun- try since the first conquest of this same dis- trict by barbarians of the same race. It was probably very unwise for Servia to go to war, but it seems incredible that the civil- ized nations of Europe can stand still and see the extirpation of a people inflicted as a penalty for the error of their government. Yet this is what is to come if they do not in- terfere. All that was done in Bulgaria will, be but little to what will be perpetrated in a State that has hitherto made itself practi- cally independent and is a Chris- tian country. It will try the nerves of some governments to see practised in Bel- grade, a European city—a city in hourly communication by telegraph with London and Paris—those atrocities‘;which, reported from the out-of-the-way villages of a Turk- ish province, have thrilled the world with horror. It will, above all, come home to the British people that their government is before the, world morally responsible for this infliction upon a civilized people of all the horrors of barbaric invasion and con- quest. England is essentially a party to this war. The appearance of her floot in Turkish waters—ordered there specifically as it was—constituted an intervention and freed the Turk from that fear of his north- ern neighbor that would restrain him in any other circumstances, The jealousy of Russia—the readiness to put England in any position to thwarta Russian policy or to prevent the growth of Russian influ- ence—was the weakness of the Ministry that so far outran all discretion as to put England in the position of the supporter ot acts that it was believed the progress of civ- ilization, even in the making of war, had rendered forever impossible. Doubtless the Ministry will feel the weight of public wrath; but the nation cannot purge its record by a change of Ministry, and Eng- land's relation to this crime against civiliza- tion will remain a permanent stain upon her history. But what is to be done in tho emergency ? Devastation and the indiscriminate butch- ery of men, women and children menace a Christian country of a million and a half of people, every part of which country will be overrun in a few days by a soldiery more savage than the hordes of Sioux who have fought with Sitting Bull. Diplomatists appeal to the Moslem to pause in his bloody career, that the friendly nations may suggest a basis of pacification; but he nonchalantly responds that an armistice would be ‘opposed to his interests,” and urges forward his soldiery lest the sweet morsels of murder and massacre should yet be snatched from him. In this position all eyes turn toward Russia, England warns the Porte that she cannot sustain it against a refusal to grant proper terms, even though this refusal should induce the movement of Russian armies. In Berlin it is conceded thatthe Turks must bo forcibly restrained, and that Russia is the proper Power to deal with them ; and in Vienna, where the present emergency has been for months foreseen, it is only claimed that Austria and Russia must act together. It would be late in the season to initiate a war on the general issue between Russia and Turkey, which, in fact, would be a war for the expulsion of the Turks from Europe. Russia has repeatedly declared that she is averse to'such a war, and there is no reason to doubt her sincerity, because it is plain that the public opinion of Europe is even more potent, if less speedy, than Russian troops could be in the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. But it is scarcely a question of such a war in this case. Itis a question of a rapid movement to arrest the career of a butchering horde of savages. The Moslems, their heads turned by success, reject the proposition for an armistice, confident that the slow process of peace negotiations will afford them time to make a solitude in Servia ; and the need is that a swift, strong arm shall come to the rescue of the gowering, threatened people to protect them immediately from the savage enemy. Russia and Austria are in the posi- tion to make such 9 movement, and it can- not be doubted that it will bo mada unless | the Ottoman government, by an immediate | change of attitude, shall remove the occa- sion, There is no doubt that the Christian religion is a substantial bond of sympathy between the people of Christian nations, and even the people of England are deeply under the influence of this sentiment, though it has been ignored in the govern- ment policy. This relation of the people to acommon faith would sustain Russia as a protector and avenger on this occasion with the moral support of Christendom. It ir, however, hardly an occasion even to call for the sympathy of a common religious senti- ment. It is civilization itself that is assailed. But when humanity, civilization and Chris- tianity are in the scale on one side and the wild fanaticism of Asia on the other England herself will rejoice to see Russia punish the allies of England’s government, ‘Blood is thicker than water.” Removed from the struggle by so great a distance our sympathies as 9 people would count for little in the struggle; but if the operation should extend from a mere ocou- pation of Servia into a general war, as it would be likely to, our relation to it would assume a very practical and commercial character. It would suddenly stimulate many great industries almost as much as our own war did, with this important differ- ence—that the commodities supplied by our merchants would be paid tor in gold and not in paper. In this particular a great war in Europe would restore to our advantage that balanco in the distribution of specie which was lost in our war. Arms, ammunition, military supplies of every kind would sud- denly be in demand. Flour especially would be called for, because industry would be interrupted in a great degree in the great grain districts of Eastern Europe, and our ships would swarm into the service of the belligerent Powers. War for the final sottle- ment of the fate of Eastern Europe cannot be deprecated by us from any point of view, and, commercially considered, such a war would be our great opportunity ; and as the many problems involved in the relations of Turkey, Russian and Austria can probably never be settled without a great war, we may, without inhumanity, reflect that the settlement, if it is to come now, could never have comeata more propitious moment for us. The Capture of Tweed. Where is Tweed ? is a question answered at last. He is in one of those castles in Spain which are more substantial than thosawe have dreamed of. Our special cable de- spatches are. to the effect that William M. Tweed and his cousin, William Hunt, were arrested in the port of Vigo, aboard a Spanish vessel, and placed in the fortress at that town. He had assumed the name of Secor, but Tweed was not secure so long as he was followed bya hunt. The news of his arrest will create much excite- ment in this city, where he was so long known as a leading official and distinguished criminal. Sheriff Conner will rejoice, we suppose; the lawyers will be in ecstasy, we know, and the Warden of Ludlow Street Jail will at once prepare to get ready his old rooms. But all these hopes and fears may be disap- pointed. We learn that Tweed has been arrested, but are not told for what he has been arrested. It may be that he has been seeking a contract to build a new Court House in Vigo, or has been speculating with some Spanish Fields and Ingersolls. But, whatever his offence in the eyes of the authorities of Vigo may be, it is not certain that it is his carcer in New York. The United States have no extra- dition treaty with Spain, We could not de- mand him as a matter of right and could only get him by an act of comity. The question, therefore, is whether he was im- prisoned by the Spanish authorities as a no- torious fugitive from America, with the in- tention of giving him up as a criminal with- out tho right of shelter, or whether he has been playing some of his old tricks with the grandees, as, for instance, making offers to restore the Alhambra or put a Mansard roof on the Escurial, or proposing to ‘grade, pave, curb, gutter and flag” the Plaza Isabella, in Madrid. In any case we have some slight hopes that Tweed may return to his native land and his recent residence after his long travels, which began at New York in December last and have just ended in Vigo. Perhaps the hand of Gov- ernor Tilden is in this affair, and if so he has gained a victory which will raise the hopes of the democratic party. Specific Gravity. Once more the milkman is in revolt, and as the Health Board has made war upon the milkman and his pump tho offended dealer assails the Health Board and its lac- tometer. Andin this tho milkman is alto- gether in tho right and the Health Board is absurdly and ridiculously in the wrong. In this dispute Mr. Chandler simply takes the position that the quality of an article offered forsale is to be determined by its weight. If an outraged public should declare that the so-called beets supplied by a grocer are turnips stained red on the surface, or that his carrots are dyed parsnips, Mr. Chandler would investigate with a scales. He would not cut open an offending parsnip or turnip and look at it. He would simply determine that so many beets weighed a pound by an absolute rule, and then weigh the articles in dispute and settle the case scientifically. To deter- mine the quality of milk by its specific gravity is not less ridiculous; for the oily parts of the fluid are light, which is evi- denced by the fact that they rise to the sur- face, and their absence is not to be determined by the specific gravity test. Neither, how- ever, 1s analysis necessary. Tho presence of the proper quantity of cream may be determined by the cream gauge on speci- mens of milk kept long enough for the cream to rise, With this test and the lactometer together the examination of the fluid may be reasonably satisfactory. Tux St. Hyacintas Free.—A man named Blanchette has accused his elder brother of having caused the destruction of the village, of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, the other day. His object in setting fire to his own house was to obtain the money for which it was insured. The story is circumstantially re- lated by the younger Blanchette, and seems consistent in iteale The Democratic Puzzle. Since the absolute declination of Mr. Sey- mour and the issue of the call for reassem- bling the Saratoga Convention the demo- cratic leaders in this State are quite at sea, They are without chart, compass or sailing directions; there is no hand on the helm, and the vessel drifts. To be sure, the prob- lem of selecting a new candidate for Gov- ernorto replace Mr. Seymour would be a difficult one, even under the wisest guid- ance, It was a perception of the difficulty, discord and distraction which would attend the substitution of another candidate that made the party so reluctant to accept the situation and release Mr. Seymour. The original blunder of nominating him against his wishes and protests might easily have been avoided, and it was little short of a direct insult to his character and sincerity to force him into a position from which he recoiled. It was an added blunder, involv- ing an outrage on truth and decency, to con- ceal his refusal after this affront. But the Convention was not to blame for the deception practised upon it by a knot of reckless schemers, who entrapped it into ad- journing without making a new nomination. But having adjourned in consequenco of the absolute falsehood put forth in Mr. Faulk- ner’s speech the importunity with which Mr. Seymour was afterward beset was not surprising. No wonder that the democratic leaders, Governor Tilden and all, dreaded the dangers which confronted the party if the Convention should have to be recon- vened. The excitement, turmoil, tumult, recriminations and damaging parade of po- litical dirty linen, which all the waters of Saratoga would not suffice for washing into whiteness, may well have given the party pause and havo raised the question whether it was not better ‘‘to suffer the ills wo have than fly to others that we know notof.” But the necessity for reconvening the Convention became imperative, and the grand puzzle which occupies all democratic minds is how to complete the ticket without a demoral- izing row. If the effectof reassembling the Conven- tion is merely to restore the status quo and put that body back into the situation which would have existed at the close of Mr. Faulkner's speech had he stated the truth that Governor Seymour declined, instead of the falsehood that he had accepted—if, we say, the effect of reassembling the Conven- tion is simply to restore the status quo, the party will be ruined by an unmanageable division of sentiment. It is indispensable that the work of the Convention be ‘‘slated” in advance; indispensable that some pro- gramme be agreed on which can be carried through without debate or friction. Unless this be done the Convention will be a scene of wild uproar and ‘confusion worse con- founded.” Butas yet there is no consent, no unity, no plan, no head; and the evil of a headless ticket is not likely to be reme- died bya convention which is a headless monster. Unless it can be tamed into dis- cipline by intelligent direction and guid- ance it will flounder like a decapitated levi- athan in the mud. But from what source is the needed con- cert tocome? It will not come from Gov- ernor Tilden. Like a burnt child that dreads the fire he professes an intention to keep hands off and leave the Convention to accowplish its own work. None of the demo- cratic leaders believe this profession to be quite sincere, It is not doubted that he will keep hands off if a plan is matured for nom- inating ono of his friends. Among candi- dates of known devotion to him he will not indicateany preference. But nobody doubts that he means to defeat, and will succeed in defeating, any candidate who has not warmly supported his administration. The real state of the situation is that the anti- Tilden, non-Tilden and half-Tilden lead- ers will have no difficulty in nominat- ing any candidate they may agree upon, provided their choice falls on a Tilden man. So far as he is concerned they have carte blanche to make a free selection from among his friends; but he has the ability, and, what is more, the will, to defeat any candi- date whose nomination could be construed as a slight upon his supremacy. Those leaders who are democrats first and Tilden men afterward can easily restore harmony and secure a nnanimous nomination by agree- ing upon some Tilden man before the Con- vontion meets. This limitation upon their, choive narrows tho field; but within that field the anti-Tilden element can nominate any candidate it may agree upon in season to bring its delegates into line before the Convention assembles. The puzzle is to find that friend of Tilden who is most agree- able or least objectionable to the other wing of the party ; but on no other basis can the Convention be harmonized or the party saved from destruction. Political Murders and Rumors. Those innocent lambs, the followers of Kellogg and Packard in Louisiana, have begun their semi-annual ery of outrage and murder, and we learn once more that a white republican’s life is not safe in that State. But the State is in the hands of the republicans. - Why do they not enforce the laws and repress disorders? What is the use of Governor Kellogg and of the two or threo» thousand republican office-holders under him, if they do not execute the laws and protect and defend the constitution of the State as they have sworn to do? Gover- nor Kellogg has greater power, under the constitution and laws of Louisiana, than any other Governor in the country; in fact, he has the powers of a dictator. He may appoint in any parish in the State an extra constabulary force, with power to arrest gummarily. He may even march the police of New Orleans to any parish in the State to put down disorders. Apparently he now, as on former occasions, prefers to let them go on unchecked and unpunished in order to give Marshal Packard an excuse to call for troops. But we warn the republican leaders in the country that “calling for troops” is not popular this year. ff they allow Packard to elect himself by the help of United States soldiers they will risk several Northern States by the operation, for there are tens of thousands of republicans in the Nortl who will not vote for Hayes if they see troops used inthe South, It is very well known ne | federal Silevtibeie' in the local affairs of the Southern States, He believes, with tho best and wisest men of his party, that it is nec- essary and safe to leave the people in those States to manage their local affairs precisely asthe people of New York, Massachusetts and Ohio do theirs. On the other hand, we advise the Southern democrats to be very vigilant and energetio in repressing and punishing murders and outrages just now. If they are apathetic, if they are seen to be careless in such matters, they will alarm and disgust Northern voters, and will do more than any thing else can do to defeat Mr. Tilden. Here is the case of Dr. Dinkgrave, who has just been assassinated ina northern Louisiana parish; it was an atrocious and cold blooded murder. But wedo not honar that the white people, the democrats of the parish or neighborhood, have shown the least feeling about it or taken any measures to arrest the murderer. Their apathy in such acase is not only a crime, it is a grave political blunder; for it creates a storm of feeling in the North which turns against Mr. Tilden and the democratic party. The Country Is Sound. The essential soundness of our industries and commerce, depressed though they are, is shown by the very slight effect upon tho general markets of the surprising break in coal stocks. Here is a great and as was sup- posed a wealthy combination of railroad corporations, which suddenly fails and is found to have overtraded and mismanaged its concerns very seriously. Under ordinary circumstances such a discovery would havo produced a panic in the market and would have been followed by numerous other fail- ures. The only effect now is to give us all cheaper coal. Of course the holders of the securities which have so rapidly fallen in value suffer; but there is no sympathetic train of disasters; the wreck is isolated; it does not injure the general public, but on the contrary benefits it by cheapening fuel. The social science philosophers at Sara- toga are right when they assert that the country is really rich and not poor ; that the disease is not marasmus, as some of the political Jeremiahs pretend, but plethora, a tendency to apoplexy, and that if we could only get Congress to let us have sound money and a better chance to exchange our surplus products abroad we should at once begin a new and bright period of prosperity. There is a growing belief among the most careful and best informed of our merchants and manufacturers that affairs have touched | bottom ; that, though we may continue to hear of business failures, the commerce and industry of the country are now on a sound footing, amd that while there will continue to be complaints of hard times, because a great many fortunes have changed hands and left their former possessors poor and desponding, it is a fact that business in many branches revives and that money begins to be made again. The revival will be slow, very slow, indeed, because bad laws act as acheck on healthful enterprise ; but there is good and sound reason to believe that with us at any rate, even if not with some of the European nations, the worst is over, and the hard times will gradually give way. Teams at Creedmoor. Lesterday three of the competing teams— namely, the Scotch, Irish and Canadian— had a fall practice at Creedmoor, the Amer- icans and Australians being represented by only a few of their men. For tho first time in connection with the approaching contest we have an opportunity of comparing the work of the Canadians at Creedmoor with that of the other teams, and this comparison is o very favorable one for our friends from across the St. Lawrence. Yesterday the Scotch team made the highest average that has yet been made by any team in practice for the international match— namely, 0.8638. The great score made by the Americans, equal to an average of 0.8988, was that of the eight highest scores out of thirteen or fourteen marksmen ; but several of these were not members of the selected team. The actual average of the American team on that occasion was 0.8572, which is below that of the Scotch. The Trish team made yesterday an average of 0.8616 and the Canadian team 0.8505. In justice to the latter it must be stated that one of their membors did not fire at the 800 yards range ; but in order to arrive at a com- parison we allow him a score of 66 points out of a possible 75, which he made at the 900 yards range. It will bo seen from the foregoing records that we must look to our laurels very sharply if we desire to retain them, and that wherever victory rests it will only be after a magnificent struggle by all the teams. Massacnvusetts Porrtics.—Unless tho re- publicans manage very wisely the nomina- tion of Mr. Adams by the democrats may be found to have placed Massachusetts among the doubtful States, But they will not have it all their own way. General Butler will bo nominated in the Lowell district, and though the democrats could probably beat him with some such man as Mr. Sweetser, whom the anti-Butler republicans would support, the prospect at present is that Mr. Tarbox, the present Representative, will refuse to get ont of the way and General Butler will easily defeat him. If the republicans should nom- inate Mr. Loring, in the Essex district, it is probable that Mr. Thompson, who gained everybody's good opinion in the last session of Congress, and who isan able and inde- pendent man, will beat him. It is said that Roland G. Usher, now United States Mar- shal, will be nominated in General Banks’ district, and the democrats will nominate against him Richard Frothingham, the his- torian, of Boston, an able man, who can probably carry the district. Some of the other districts are equally mixed, and there is likely to be a great deal of ticket seratch- ing this fall in Massachusetts. The repub- licans profess to believe that they will carry the State for Hayes in any event, though they may not clect their Governor. Lrxz Tuart or Janxpyce AGAINsT JanNpycE in Dickens’ “Bleak House” the case of Gil- man against Gilman has occupied the law- yers for seventeen years, and there is a pros- pect that it will enduro still longer. Family quarrels are the hardest to settle, and it not | hat Governor Hayes does not favor furthers | nofreguently happens that the only logacy a man can leave to his heirs is a lawstiit from which every one connected with it suffers except the opposing men of law. ‘The Horrors of the Custer Massacre The country had hoped that the massacre of Custer’s command was complete, that not a man had been taken prisoner by the Sioux. Tho happiest fate that the mother# and wives and sisters of those brave soldiers could have wished for them was instant death on the battle field, for, when wo red the story of the scene which Gibbon beheld when he rode along the Rosebud Valley and saw the mutilated bodies, 1t was plain that death was the only mercy they could have, But this was denied to someof them, Ifthe account given by Mr. Ridgely, a trapper, who was held prisoner by tho Indians, be true, and we see no reason to doubt it, six unfortunate men survived their companions, ‘They wero burned alive in the Indian camp, and their torture was prolonged with devilish skill. Ridgely could not give the names of these sufferers, and it is perhaps better that they should remain unknown. Ridgely's description of the battle corre. sponds with the facts already ascortained, and confirms the belief that Custer was com- pletely entrapped by a foe which had watched his every motion. Ho was over. powered by sperior forces in o situation from which he could not escape. The massacre did not last more than fifty-five minutes, and it is probable that the Indian losses were much smaller in this fight than in that which followed with Reno, Rene had the good fortune to secure a fortified position, but Custer was caught at the bottom of a ravine. What will those philanthropists like Mr. Wendell Phillips say when they read of these terrible tortures? They have justified the massacre of Custer on the principles of retaliation. Mr. Phillips has said that wo made war on the Indians, and had to take the consequences of war. But there are seve eral kinds of war. There is the war which ° the Turks make against Servis, where poisoned bullets aro used, and the Indian war, in which victory is celebrated by burning at tho stake. We do not think that the rules which apply to what is called war among civilized nations should fetter us with such enemies as the Sioux. They are savages and should be treated as such by the government; yet they *have been supplied with arms and ammunition, and fed all win- ter that they may fight us all summer. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs issued orders forbidding the sale of guns to the Indians, and, no doubt, would be glad to escape responsibility for the fact that they areas well armed as our own trvops ; but it is clear that his orders wore not obeyed, and it is doubtful if they were energetically enforced. We shall be much surprised if the shocking story told by Ridgely does not arouse a spirit of just. wrath which will sweep all the red tape and comuption and imbecility of the government and all the false philanthropical theories of Mr. Phillips and his class into the sea, and it would be well ifgthe Sioux could follow them, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCES olone! Fred Grant ts in Chicago, Queen Victoria was coldly received in Scottand, Count Czapski, of Berlin, ts at the Astor Rouse, Hon. W. P. Kellogg, of Loutsiana, is in Chicaga, Appleton Brown ts sketohing on the Massachus€(® coast, Mr. Bowles announces that he will vote for Hayes and for Adams. Mr. Georgo H. Pendleton, of Cincinnati, is at the New York Hotel, Attorney General Taft has gone to Obio, where he wili make one or two speeches, Postmaster General Tyner arrived in Washington yesterday morning from Indiana. Figaro speaks politely of women as specimens of the sex to which we owe our mothers, Mr. Tilden does not like Dewitt C. West, who will probably be nominated by the democrats at Saratoga, General Sherman will to-day join Secretary of War Caineron at Harrisburg, preparatory to thoir Western tour. A correspondent wishes to know the ago and pecue har habits of Congressman Wattorson. Ho is still in his canteons. Dr, W. Bergé, the popular organist of St Francie Xavier church, Sixteenth street, bas returned from the White Mountains to resume his position at the great keyboard. Beshoar, the democratic candidate for ileutenant Governor of Colorado, denios that he stole fifteen hun- dred head of sheep. Beshoar, you are right, and thea go a head. Dr. Charles S. Mills has been nominated for Con- gross by the ropublicans in the Richmond district of Virginia, but will undoubtedly be beaten by ex-Gov- ernor Walker. Tilinows has 929,949 horses, nearly 2,000,000 cattlo, 1,500,000 hogs, 17,575 pianos, 21,608 molodeons, 158,728 sowing machi nd diamonds valued at $50,000, Carl Woltsoin, with his “velvet touch,” is responsible for the great number of pianos, Dallas (Toxas) Herald :—Largo quantitios of buffalo hides are stored in the old compress building, They form ap important clement in the hide trade of Dallas, The number of buflaloes killod this year on our fron- tier is estimated at fully 30,000, Washington Star :—A landlord of this city who rents houses to three employés of the Treasury Department was notified by them on Saturday that they could not pay their last month’s rent, becauso $28 had been stopped from the pay of each for campaign purposes, Ex-Congressman J. Ambler Smith retused to run for Congress in Virginia because he had malarial fever. He says:—‘Governor Walker is to-day the strongest Northern maa in our State, and if we would dofeat him none but our ablest and best mon must be brought out,” ‘A fun-loving Concord girl is crying hor eyes out over serious joke. She and a young man went through the marriage ceremony “fur fun” at the Hedding eamp meeting tho other day, and she now finds that the young man who performed the ceremony 1s a justice of tho peace, A South Carolina man was bitten by a moccasin snake, and being carried to the nearest drug storo was cured with three pints of apple whiskey. Now thero are several South Carolina fellows who meander in moceasin distriets, hoping that they may soon on+ counter three pints. Congressman Luttrel!, of California, having beon ine terviewed, says that tho Southern Congressmen who are about to visit the Pactiie coast will do so for no po- litical purpose, but says that thero isa view of having & Southern Pacific Railroad which may divert trade from New York to the Gulf of Mexico. In Paris thore are nearly 25,000 cafés, or publia houses, to say nothing of 189 music halls and 238 pub- He ball rooms, where “retresh ment” of various degrees of alcoholic power may bo obtamed at exorbitant prices, Taking the population of Paris in round num. ders at 2,000,090, there is one treo fountain to every 40,000 persons and ono drinking shop to every eighty. The following menn, printed for the dinner which Governor Tilden purposes to give to leading thembers of his party ou the evening of November 2, is suggested —"Clams, a la Salt River; soup, crow; fish, crawtsh saace; roast, canvass-back, @ la Jim Crow; rice crowquets, Crow-ton ice, rag-a-muflins, crowkidneys, fricaseed crows’ livers, frogs’ lege, @/a crouk; crows’ fect jolly; dessert, crouquet pudding, Tildon and Hendricks Pears, peppermint candy, Iaaian ice, 4 /a Crows; cakes, ‘the lost kaws;’ kawfee,””