The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, 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.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE N®W YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLE STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVE 2 DE L'OPERA Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XII... ' 7 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. SERATRE: 6PM BROOKL. ‘Miss DARGON in DEBORA ROW UNCLE TOM’S CABI wo JULIA KENT, at 8 P. GILMO! CONCERT, at 8 P.M. BOOTIDS THEATRE, BARDANAPALUS, ot 8’. M. Mr. Bangs and Mra. Agnes jooth. WALL. THE MIGHTY DOL, Florence. GERM. TUGEND LIEBE, at 8 OLYM Tl VARIRTY AND DRAMA, ab & P.M, COLUMBIA OF VARIETY, at 87’, M. THEAT! VARIETY, at 8P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. PARISIAN VARIKTIES, atsP. M. SAN .FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ats P.M. ‘S MINSTRELS, RA THEATRE. BURLESQUE, OLIO FAKCE, at 8 P.M. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIETY, at 8. M, PA :ATRE, CLOUDS, at SP. M. OCK’S THIRD AVENUB THEATRE, SP. M, HITCL VARIETY ‘ RA HOUSE. irs. Oates, at 8 P.M. GRA ENGLISH COMIC OPE. AMER! ANNUAL FAIR. BABA, at 8 P.M. QUADRUPLE From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and cloudy with high winds and rain. Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—Stocks were ir- regular and at the close the feeling was fever- ish. Government and railway bonds were generally steady. Money on call was sup- plied at1 and 11-2 per cent. The bank statement shows a gain in the legal reserve. Gold was steady at 1101-8. Tue Posts Commisston held a very inter- esting session yesterday, the views of Mr. George Jones. of the Times, on fast mail trains being the feature of the meeting, Tne Conviction or Lex, implicated in the Mountain Meadows massacre in 1857, is almost certain. It is alleged that the Mor- mons have determined to convict Lee for the good of the Church; but if there is no doubt of his guilt we see no objection to his con- viction for that reason. Art Freetwoop Park yesterday there was an interesting trotting match, besides other sport. Rarus, the winning horse in the match, added to a splendid record by the defeat of his antagonist, and the match it- self must add to the favor with which trot- ting has always been regarded in this coun- try. An Eprrortan Anticte from the London Times, which we reprint this morning, shows in a remarkable degree the change of senti- ment in Europe which is the result of the American Revolution. Englishmen now recognize the independence which the colo- nies achieved as a blessing to England as well as America, and frankly acknowledge that the ideas which brought about that struggle have become the governing prin- ciple in all free States. Tue Crry Campaian has not yet begun in earnest, but there are many candidates in the field, the nominations being the only matter now under consideration, In another column we give the political gossip of tho hour, with the names of the candidates who will be put in nomination. Augustus Schell is likely to be the Tammany candidate for Mayor and Colonel W. RB. Roberts for County Clerk. The names suggested for the other positions are not so certain, and the action to be taken by the republicans and inde- pendent democrats is still a problem. ‘Tur Barrie or Hantem Prarxs was cele- brated yesterday with a great deal of enthu- siasm, the oration being delivered by Mr. John Jay. We can scarcely appreciate at this day the importance to the patriot army and to the cause of liberty of this victory on Manhattan Island one hundred years ago. [fnot the turning point of the Revolution the battle at least determined that the Revolution should go on. A victory at the moment, however insignificant in itself, was a neces- sity to the cause, and, following so soon after the defeat on Brooklyn Heights, it infused a new spirit into the army and gave the coun- try courage to go on with the unequal strug- gle the colonies were waging against the mother country. Rirtzs axp Kirtemen monopolize at- tention just now to the exclusion of even the grave questions of politics. People have entered so fally into the spirit of the in- ternational matches that they find it difficult to return to tho consideration of matters of everyday life and give vent to their en- thusiasm over the victory of the American team in such a manner as to evidence their full appreciation of the national triumph. We present to-day a brief descrip- tive summary of the many difficulties that attend the attainment of success in such a eontest as that at Creedmoor. We also" chronicle the festivities enjoyed by the foreign teams during their tour of inspec- tion of our public institutions under the hospitable care of the City Fathers, Turkey's Peace Propositions. In the whirligig of time it suddenly ap- pears to be Turkey’s turn to go to the wall. But a little while ago the Sultan could have secured a peace with Servia, if not on his own terms, at least on terms that would have recognized the substantial facts of his tri- umph, and the Osmanli would have pre- sented himself to the eyes of astonished Enrope in the unaccustomed character of 4 victor in defence of the peace of his frontiers. either would his victory have been belit- tled by the consideration that it was only gained over one of his own tributaries strut- ting in the character of a belligerent sovereign, for he engaged in a war that it was sought to prevent by a pactof the three great Em- perors who are his neighbors, and no human creature could say at what hour tho stand- ard of one of those Emperors would be ar- rayed against him. Yet, with some modera- tion, and if there- had been a pinch of humanity in his composition, and with only the successes he has gained, he might have come out of that perilous venture with fly- ing colors and re-established n some de- gree in the respect of mankind for his exhi- bition of vitality. But his position is so evidently less favorable now that his fino prospects appear to have faded like a picture in the clouds, when the ‘looming bastions fringed with fire” become suddeply dull wastes of vapor drifting before the wind. Humanity protests against his excesses ; Russia is contemplated os necessary rem- edy against him; England is disposed to leave him floundering in the slough into which she encourged him to enter; his financial dishonesty rises in judgment against him, and his success in the field, that substantial triumph over the enemy on which he based his arrogant refusal to treat, to have either an armistice or a peace, is not yet safely his, and even threatens to slip phantom-like from his grasp. Six points are laid down as constituting the terms on which the Sultan will make peace. Servia’s sovereign must renounce the half-gained independence that he hoped to fully realize in this war, and must accept his throne as the vassal of the Sultan, and, asa guarantee that his recognition of the Sultan’s supremacy over him shall not bea mere formality to be forgotten the moment he leaves the Moslem capital, he must re- duce his armaments soas to make any re- newal of a struggle on his part utterly hope- less, and must accept Turkish garrisons as a further warrant for his good con- duct. Servia must pay the expenses of the war, and finally she must construct a railway, of course to fac- ilitate the invasion of her territory by Turkish troops in case she should prove refractory or in case it should please the an- thorities at Constantinople to imagine that she looked at some time as if she meant to be refractory. It is declared by the London Times, which evidently is better acquainted with British opinion than the Ministry is, that the only one of these conditions which is ‘‘safe’—that is, we suppose, acceptable— is the one in regard to the railways for our cousin in the midst of his fervor of human- ity has always one eyé open for commercial chances and can see the advantages of a new line of rail anywhere. But if England, which certainly has substantial reasons for taking the view of Turkey's relations to her neighbors that is most favorable to Turkey— if England, thus predisposed, rejects these propositions with a sneer over her ally’s new found zeal for railways, it may be imagined how they will be rezarded in other capitals. They would simply hand Servia over, bound hand and foot. They would go behind the Treaty of Paris, which so far remoyed Servia from dependence on Turkish suzerainty as to place her directly under the protection of the signatory Pow- ers. It will hardly be assented by the par- ties to that instrument that the con- tempt with which the northern Colossus treated it at a critical moment may be repeated at his convenience by the Sultan. In Russia these terms will not only be rejected, but regarded as an insolence, and ifthe Russian government were only as much under the influence of the national sentiment as is every other gov- ernment in Europe their presentation toa Russian ambassador might be treated as a casus belli, Before even a conqueror proposes terms to his adversary so extreme as these laid down as the conditions of peace with Servia, he must be confident that he stands on firm ground; but the Sultan's position is not such as to justify an arrogant demeanor on his part. His successes in the field, which are the assumed basis of his extreme de- mands, have not yet reached o point at which they may be regarded as beyond the reach of fortune, and in view of the latest news there is an eminent probability that they never will reach sucha point. Indeed, a Turkish retreat and the failure of the cam- paign is now so far likely that the principal concern of the commander of the Moslem forces is certainly not immediately to sweep the Servians from his path, but to maintain against many difficulties the position he has already reached in his operations against them. Within even the short pe- riod in which an_ armistice has been urged upon the Ottoman govern- ment by the ambassadors at Constan- tinople there has been the most extreme change in the military aspects of the case, From their invasion of Turkish territory the Servians wero driven with an ease which deceived the Turks in regard t6 the value of the Servians as soldiers ; but the fact could be explained on grounds,apart from such a consideration. They wero scattered ; there was no plan—no commander of any capa- city, no immediate purpose, and they were assailed with vigor and skill, But as they were driven back they were concentrated, the worthless commanders were sifted out, they came nearer to their supplies, and the active sympathy with their case called under their colors some thousands of enthusiastic volunteers who were also trained soldiers. And as the case of the Servians thus im- proved that of the Turks was changed in the contrary sense by the easy successes which led to vainglorious confidence, and by in- dulgence in the excesses of license and rapine, which never fails to enfeeble any | army. With this changing tendency the forces reached Alexinatz, and there the Ser- vians found the additional support of fortifi- cations which have already proved their great value. In the hard battle fought at that point September 2, though the Servions were driven from their positions in the open valley, they proved themselves a formidable obstacle in the enemy's way for the first time in the whole series of operations ; and now, fifteen days after that battle, the Turks are still at that point, and if they derived any advantage from their victory itis not apparent. The invasion, therefore, is for the moment arrested at that point; the Servians have fought the enemy success- fully in an attempt to pass the Morava ; they are now better able to fighta great battle than they were et Alexinatz; they have gained confidence and spirit ; they are well supplied, and the enemy can only supply his army with wagons hauling stores from a distance of many miles, Meantime the autumn rains have begun, In that moun- tain region, as in every mountain region on that latitude, winter comes early, With the roads made deep and difficult by the rain supplies will give out in the Turkish army, and the troops, exposed to the storm and hunger, will fall away from their colors, for they have destroyed the villages and aro without shelter. Ifa storm passes away operations can scarcely be resumed ero another comes, for the thousands of rivulets in the mountains will send down their little torrents to convert the valley of the Morava into a wide morass, Thus the Turkish army on the main theatre of war is at a standstill, and the fact in its future that is more likely than any other to occur is that it will be compelled to retreat to Nisch, which is over the Servian frontier, With such a retirement the oper- ations of the year will end, not altogether in a blaze of glory for the Servians, but very gloomily for the Turks. In such a position what is there that should encourage the Ottoman Ministry to demand terms which are practically a defiance to the moderation of the great Powers and to the common sense of Europe—terms which pretend to dictate not simply to Servia that is not yet conquered, but even to Russia, to Prussia, to Austria and the other Powers which have guaranteed the position of the Servian State? The proposed terms have an even more definite reference than this to Russia and Austria—they provide against an invasion of Turkey by these Powers; for the railroad with the Servian fortresses either destréyed or in Turkish possession means that any ad- vance by way of Belgrade, the great military line, shall be met by the Turks on Servian soil. The madness of Turkey's propositions is interpreted in England to mean that Turkey wishes to save her own dignity by having terms dictated to her by a force that she cannot resist—that is, the collective de- mand of the great Powers. Their true sig- nificance, however, is that the fanatical and irrational elements are at this moment su- preme at Constantinople. Opening of the Amusement Season. The dramatic and musical season of 1876-7 is fairly begun, and the stars that shine upon its prospects are auspicious. If it is not to be great, and that we have yet to know, it will be good. New York has an endless round of pleasure in her theatres, nearly all of which are open. There are a great many strangers in the city—grangers, German barons, Irish nobles, British lords, Western sovereigns and other anthro- pophagi, and they are only embarrassed by too much dramatic richness. The amuse- ment seeker is like the unfortunate man, in- vited to two banquets on the same day, who From this to that to turn away is loath, And sighs to think he cannot dine at both. Shall it be Wallack's, where the “Mighty Dollar” and the Florences have made merri- ment so long; or, ‘‘Sardanapalus,” in which Italian baliet, Assyrian bulls and scenery, and the genius of Lord Byron are sostrangely blended in one great spectacle ; or the Fifth Avenue Theatre, where ‘“‘Money” with Mr. Coghlan is so soon to be succeeded by “Life,” with Amy Fawsitt, Bonfanti and Sohlke ; or the Union Square Theatre with its California play and its Heathen Chinee; or the bright lights, falling waters, tropical flowers, foaming beer and delicious music of Gilmore's Garden; or the rosy ‘‘clouds” that are soon to glow over the sunrise at the Park; orthe many variety theatres, where all the clog dancers, vocalists, dancers, jugglers, acrobats and actors are the champions of the world; or the jolly minstrels in black faces, with thoir conundrums and comic and senti- mental airs—which of all of these, and more, ought we to choose for an evening’s pleas- ure? So Bassanio stood before the three caskets of Portia, but the visitor, unlike him, cannot easily choose wrong. But it is not only the wealth of the drama that puzzles the choice. We hear already “music arise with its voluptuous swell.” The Strakosch opera, with Belocca and Pal- mieri, will hardly fail to repeat in this city its successes in Philadelphia; Theodore Thomas has announced twelve symphony concerts; the Philharmonic Society will be conducted by Mr. Damrosch ; at the Grand Opera House there is Mrs, Oates with comic English or American opera, we do not know which, and next week, at the Lyceum, the real French opéra bouffe, with Aimée in her gayest réles. All this world of entertainment we now have or shall have soon, and there is still more tocome. The audience is seated, with beauty in the boxes and pleasure in the tiers ; the leader of the orchestra waves his wand ; there is a roll of drums, a call of trumpets, and up goes the green curtain that reveals the fairy land of the stage, Mr. Tweep is already on his winding homeward way. He is out of quarantine and will be sent from Corunna to Cuba in the Spanish mail steamer which sails on the 2ist inst. William Hunt will be also re- turned as a prisoner, though what is the charge against him we do not know. Ho may be arrested as an accessory to Tweed’s escape. But one thing is certain, the Span- ish government is not stgnding upon cere- mony in this case, but intends to make sure that Tweed shall be safely placed in the cus- tody of the United States authorities. As Mr. Cushing said, it would have been mere child’s play to have had Tweed captured un- less it had been made certain that his escape would be prevented. So the famous ques- tion, “What are you going to do about it?” has had another and decisive answer, Crook's Battle with the Indians. The news from General Crook’s command this morning is the most interesting and cheering intelligence we have had from the Indian country since the beginning of the war against the Sioux. The soldiers have not only seen the enemy, but attacked and defeated him. We Have a very graphic account of the series of engagements, in which the troops gained the first and only honors of the campaign, from a correspond- ent of the Hxraup, who took part in the several actions of which he tells the story. These engagements, how- ever, can scarcely be dignified with the name of a battle. An Indian village wa’ discovered by Colonel Mills, who was in Crook's advance in the return march, and some fighting ensued, resulting in the cap- ture of the village, with all its contents, besides a large number of ponies. Unfor- tunately, the force was too small effectively to punish the braves themselves, and the most that could beaccomplished was to hold the enemy in check until Crook’s arrival. When the main body of the column reached the scene of action the Indians were no longer disposed to fight, and only kept up a feint, which could not be turned into a general engagement. The skirmishing, how- ever, had some points of great interest, es- pecially the episode at the mouth of the ravine, which our correspondent depicts in glowing language. Here a number of squaws and o few bucks were captured, and Crook may now be able to obtain some genuine in- formation in regard to the bands he has been trying to find all summer without success. Beyond these captures and the prestige of a victory over a part of the savages who so successfully assailed Custer last Juno the battle has little significance. It is such a victory as should have been gained at the beginning, instead of the end, of the campaign. June, instead of September, was the time for encounters of the kind we record this morning. If even so small a part of the enemy had been met and defeated early in the season it would have been pos- sible to follow up the advantage to some purpose. Now Sitting Bull is out of Crook's reach, and a fruitless campaign ends with some brilliant work, which has no other compensation than the cheap glory of the tale itself. We cannot see that these actions have in any way changed, the situation, unless they should have the effect of making the hostilo Indians all the more anxious to return to the agencies to be fed through the winter and fitted out with a fresh supply of arms and ammunition for another campaign. It is possible that Colonel Miles would not have discovered the village he so successfully as- sailed at all but for this desire to return and be fed. The first chief to throw up his hands was anxious to stop fighting and be forgiven, as the Indians always are when protestations of a desire for peace serve their purposes better than actual war. The wily and treacherous savage ex- pects to find a’ peace commission waiting to welcome and bless him whenever he can fight no longer. Indeed, he is now outrun- ning Terry and Crook in his efforts to reach Bishop Whipple and the other Commis- sioners, who persist in regarding Cooper's gentlemanly and impossible savages as typi- cal of Indian character. After the punish- ment Crook has given them they will be likely sc. completely to outrun him that they will have drawn their winter rations at the agencies before he again overtakes them. This is the immediate danger of a fruitless and unsuccessful campaign, and it must be guarded against most scrupulously and vigorously. The captured bucks must be utilized at least to the extent of ascer- taining the tribal relations of the braves who were on the warpath. Hitherto everything has been assumption in regard to the savage enemy. Sitting Bull’s name has been a general term for a foo of whom we could not speak with certainty. Now we must know the faithless Indians in order to -deal with them where we can deal with them best-—at the agencies. The treacherous Sioux must not be allowed to creep back to tho reservations with impunity. Punishment must await his coming, as it will certainly follow his exclusion from the protection of tho Great Father. If General Crook has achieved this much even the country will thank him for his victory and forgive the inaction of the summer; but without this his recent battle might as well not have been fought at all. Topmost Thoughts of the Meligious Press. The arrest of Tweed in Spain and his de- livery to the United States authorities causes great joy to the Observer, which journal says he will receive a warm welcome in this city, not only from his old companions in crime, who are too remotely implicated to be brought to justice, but from those who wish to see the law put in force and the arch robt ber of the city receiving his deserts, if there is any possible way of administering them. Here, says the Christian at Work, we are within two months of the Presidential elec- tion, and comparatively no venom of politi- eal assault. Hayes and Tilden are both moral and Christian men, and the warm friends of churches. Neither of the candi- dates wwears or drinks or gambles, The fact is that in the possession of either of these men the people feel our national des- tiny will be safe. The Christian at Work and the Christian Union both have a hopeful financial outlook for the future. They think the worst is past and that the morning is breaking. Commenting on Mr. Tilden's in- come and the charges of a’ contemporary against him, the Union says the charge is no longer of the shadowy sort, but is definite and precise, and unless Mr. Tilden, or some one for him, denies it in a way to com- pel the proof, or explain it, if jt is explica- ble, those who have hoped, as the Christian Union has hoped, to see in this Presidential campaign a contest between the best men of two great parties, will have to submit to a eruel disappointment; and the public will not wait patiently for Mr. Tilden’s explana- tion as long as they waited for his letter of acceptance, The Freeman's Journal, under the pressure of charges that the Catholic Church is iden- tified, body and soul, with the democratic party, seems to be veering a little, If Cath- olios, as Catholics, had interests to be sub- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. j Served apart from the good of the country they might, says the Journal, reap more benefits frem the triumph of the republican party than from that of the democrats, But it claims that the interests of Catholics are identical with those of the rest of their fellow citizens, and what robs the general public robs Oatholics, And because the lat- ter are in favor of reform and economy and honesty in public offices therefore they favor the democratic party. Exactly. ‘There are times,” says the Tablet, ‘‘when party affilia- tions and influences must succumb and when considerations of the general welfare must overshadow the mere question of party ascendancy. In great public emergencies all minor issues should be set aside, and every man who loves his country and de- sires to promote its best interests be ready and willing to forego his political predilec- tions for the public good.” Hence it, too, is not actuated by party considerations nor in- fluenced by party favoritism, but it favors Governor Tilden because he has reduced the exponses of the State government and has promised to do the same for the national government if elected to the chief magis- tracy. South Carolina. The republicans have again nominated Governor Chamberlain in South Carolina, A few months ago it looked as if the Gov- ernor, whose course had been offensive to the ring men in the party, would be nofhi- nated by the conservative republicans,. and elected by the aid of the democrats. The Heparp was anxious for this result, espe- cially as Governor Chamberlain had shown in the management of South Carolina affairs the desire to give the people an honest gov- ernment. This effort was sustained by the News and Courier, the leading paper in South Carolina, and there was some hope that the good sense of the people of that chivalrous State would accept Chamberlain, as the democrats of Virginia accepted Walker, and, by uniting with the conservative repub- licans, overthrow the carpet-bag negro element and give the State a good government. But the policy which forced South Carolina into secession, ao policy of intolerance and hatred, succeeded. Governor Chamberlain, with a record which no democrat in South Carolina can question, so far as honesty in administering the gov- ernment is concerned, goes into the canvass at the head of the republican ticket. Gen- eral Wade Hampton, an honorable and dis- tinguished man, but who represents the re- bellion, leads the democratic ticket. There will be a large vote polled, an angry canvass, the repetition, perhaps, of the Hamburg massacre, and the defeat of Mr. Hampton. This indicates the manner in which the démocrats have managed their campaign. Three months ago South Carolina could have been carried for Tilden, but the Bourbons insist on throwing away their chance, and it now looks inevitable for Hayes. Palpit Topics To-Day. Some of our city pastors having, like Mr. Hepworth, sown the Gospel seed by the way- side during the vacation, come home now to tell what they have done and where they have sown or gleaned, and how greatly they appreciate God's love to the world and to themselves. Mr. Alger, too, having resumed his work, will report what lessons he has learned during the vacation; and Mr. Clarke, who has been seeing and doing many things during the summer, will give an account of what he has seen and done. Mr. Lloyd, who has had an opportunity to study the value of men and sheep, will give the elements of value in each td-day, and will show the weakness and credulity of scepticism. The pastors at this season gen- erally begin their operations with the young people, and hence. Mr. Hatfield will tell young men how to succeed in life, and Mr. Kennard will contrast the period of youth and stormy age. Disobedience, the parent of all sin, and suicide, which so often fol- lows it, and which has been so preva- lent lately, will receive due considera- tion from Mr. Rowell and Mr. Kerr. Patience in affliction and resoluteness in re- ligion are two very important elements in their respective relations, and they will re- ceive emphasis to-day from Dr. Rylance; and as at some time in every man’s life a crisis of some sort occurs Dr. Armitage will indicate what it is and when it comes. If the Gospel has s dark side Mr. McCarthy is as likely to discover it as any one, and he will expose it to-day, while Mr. Leavell will enforce the duty of professing Christ, and Mr. Herr will declare what the doom of the sluggard shall be. Balaam’s wish that ho might die the death of the righteous was a very commendable one, but he never real- ized its fulfilment. Hence his career is a good illustration of the vital difference be- tween wishing to die as the righteous do and living as they live, and Dr. Rambaut will emphasize this difference to-day. Mr. Moment will take the part of ambassador and urge men to be reconciled to God, and Mr. Knapp will make it plain that salvation can be found only in Christ. Mr. Jutten will tell us what are the elements of Chris- tian manhood, and why it is so difficult, if not impossible, to be attained, and Mr. Chivers will tell us what are the necessary conditions of heavenly bliss, and: Mr, Ed- wards will contrast science and enlightened religion (whatever that may mean), and Mr, Snow will give us the beginning and theend of all things. a — Prevaratioxs at Hern Gate.—It is very satisfactory to know that much of the dangerous work of loading the great sub- marine mine at Hallett’s Point has been completed without accident, and that tho | completion of the charging will soon be attained. It speaks well for the management of this perilous undertaking by General Newton and his assistants, and will increase the confidence of the public in the final success of the operations. The sad accident that recently occurred on these works has evidently had a good effect on all connected with it by reviving a respect for the powers of the terrible explosives which familiarity with their use had well nigh con- verted into contempt. The arrangement of the charges and the electric wires necessary | to explode them simultaneously is very coin- plete, and is fully explained oni another page of this morning's Henatp. The un- necessary alarm felt by the owners and occupants of buildings in the districts adjacent to Hallett’s Point is gradually giving way to confidence in the assurances of General Newton that the shock of the explosion will be entirely local and that no danger whatever need be antioi- pated. The Navy and the President. A correspondent requests us to thank General Grant for revoking the order of Seo- rotary Robeson placing on furlough and sub- jecting to s degradation three hundred off cers of the navy. This we are very glad te do, Nothing affords us more pleasure than to commend General Grant when he merits the esteem of the country. The order of Secretary Robeson embraced Admiral Pore ter, whose pay is fixed by law, and cannot be altered except by act of Congress. In endeavoring to degrade Admiral Porter, however, Mr. Robeson failed. That distin. guished officer, understanding his rights, reported his case tothe President and ap- pealed from the Secretary of the Navy's de cision. The President at once saw the impro« priety of the Secretary's action ond imme- diately gave an order to caticel the illegal act. This order was carried out by the Sec- retary in an unbecoming manner, implying “that the Admiral applied to be exempted from the operation of an order which other mnemployed officers were subjected to.” The fact is the Secretary has no authority to change the Adiniral’s pay, nor should ho have made any change in’ hisduty, except by order of the President. We agree with our correspondent that all honor shoul be paid to President Grant for his action in this matter, especially as it shows that one of his old comrades during the war, who was a faithful officer of the Republic, is not tobe punished by a Secretary who stands disgraced before the country and whose ree maining in office is one of the burdens of the republican party in this campaign. Tue Wearnen.—A period of stormy weather is at hand, during which we may look for severe gales with very heavy rains. In the Northwest an area of very low barometer is central in Dakota and is develop- ing rapidly into a very decided storm, which will affect the vicinity of New York by to- morrow evening or Tuesday morning. High winds prevail on the eastern quadrant of this area, increasing at some points to a rege ular gale. The cyclone in the Gulf and South Atlantic is making considerable progress, the edge having already reached Norfolk, Va., and will probably be felt as far to the northward as the Long Island coast before it fairly begins its transatlantic movement. The centre is now off the eastern coast of North Carolina. Rains prevail along the Middle and South Atlantic seaboard, chiefly in the vicinity of Cape Hat- teras. Vessels bound for European porte will probably experience very stormy weather on the Atlantic during the coming week, with strong head gales until over- taken by the storm centres, when the wind will shift to strong westerly. The weathes in New York tc-day will be cloudy and cool, probably with strong northeasterly to caste erly winds and rain. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Thurlow Weed wears a two-tinod coat, Tennyson likes to be alone with his pipe. Senator Newton Booth talks hke Tupper. ‘Autumn flowers are glowing along Broadway. Absinthe is getting to be a tipple in Providence, R. L Bob Ingersoll speaks the same picce on every plate form. General Longstreet wants to be State Engineer of Loutsiana. Buflalo Bill arrived at his home in Rochester, N. Y., yesterday. Secretary Gorham, of the United States Senate, hag gone to Nevada. bs Meanwhile Sam Bowles smiles like a pumpkin lam tern in a lilac bush, Garfield says privatoly that Obio will go republican by a groat majority. Attorney General Taft was inthe city yesterday on bis way to ong Branch, When Hell Gate heard of Robinson’s nomination it echoed, ‘‘I’ll be blastod.” A Dubuque (Iowa) woman sold her ten-year-old daughter to a concert den. ‘The New York Commercial says that trampa do not love yellow jackets. No; but they love slap-jackets, Tom Kelly says that but for the gleam of pistols Allen would at any moment have knocked Goss out of time. Punch:—“Sportsman—Thai Jemmy!’ Keeper—‘ay, si your treens!’”” The Atheneum thinks that ‘Dantel Deronda’’ hag the most unsatisiactory and the least interesting en@ ing of George Eliot's books. Congressman Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, has pure chased the residence formerly occupied on rental by ex-Seerefary Belknap, the price being $30,000. Lady Thornton, wife of the British Minister, her twa daughters, Hon. Mayor Finch and Right Hon. T, French, of the British Legation, are at Niagara Falls, The Augasta Constitutionalist thinks that if the North had not liberated the slave it could stil have bees selling machinery to the slave owners. Now see what you have lost, The Washington Republican says that when you see @ Southern paper display the American flag at the head of its columns you may be sure to find the re publican ticket immediately under it, Offenbach is contributing to the Paris Figaro lettere whieh purport to tell what he saw in America; but they are so full of utter trash and twaddle that they resem» dle an opéra bougfe without music. Professor Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, says that a scientist is less credulous than any other maa, unless it be a lawyer. We think it may be proved that a lawyer ts very credulous for his own side and usually has great faith in religion, Ben Hili ina recent speech says that the boys who were killed on both sides during the late war were worth al! the African races that ever lived, and he be lieves that the State government forms, in Its integrity, a part of the federal government General Wade Hampton, democratic candidate toy Governor of South Carolina, 18 of medium heignt and size, with @ large head and Burnside whiskers, and looks like a Now York dry goods merchant. Heise poor speaker, He was leatenant general of Confed- erate cavalry. Atianta Pimes:—‘'An old colored proacher in thie city was lecturing a youth of bis fold about the sin of dancing, when the latter protested that the Bible plainly said, “there isa time to dance.’ ‘Yos, dar 8 time to dance,’ said the dark divine, ‘and it’s whens boy gite a whippin’ for gwine to a ball,’ ” General Phelps, democratic candidate tor Governor of Missourt, confesses that ho did one hot night take the hand of ajady who was lying im the cabin of @ steamboat and ask her to take ‘a walk on deck. He adds that an officer only accused him of Insulting « jady. How could the oficer have accused him if the lady had not compluined of the insult ? Ata session Just held, the Judge asked an Irish po liceman, named O'Connell, *Wheu atd you last see your sister?’ The policeman replied, “The last time ! saw her, my lord, was about eight months ago, when she called at ny house, and { was out.’ Here the court broke into 4 rowr of !aughter. The Judge:— “Then you did net heron that occasion?” Tho Irishman answered, “No, my lord, 1 wasn’t there,” at which everybody roared again, a tough old fellow, grand bird to send te a)