The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ——- + JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, i 7 pital THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one Aotlar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youk | Henap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ected communications will not be re ° PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE--AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI ANUSRMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND. KVENING, Di) WILD BILL, at SP.) GILMOR CONCERT, at 8 P.M. FIFTH AY MONEY, at 8 P.M. Char! BOOTH SARDANAPALUS, at 8 P. Booth. THEATRE. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes WALLA ATRE. , THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P.M. Mr, and Mra. Florence, ‘TA THEATRE, ML. fATRE. RAND OPERA HOUSE, a ENGLISH COMIC OPERA, Mra. Ontes, at NIBLO'S GARD BABA, at 8 P.M. UN) TWO MEN OF + TIVO VARIETY, at 8 P.M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, ats P.M. SAN FRANCI atS P.M. KELLY & LE atSP. M. FAGLE Th BURLESQUE, OLIO AND FA CUATRAU MA VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matineo at 2 P THIRD AVENL VARIETY, at SP. M. 3 o TARIETY AND Di COLUMBIA 01 FARTETY, at ® PLM TIOUSE, TH VARIETY, at 8 PL AME! ANNUAL FAIR. TRIPLE NEW YORK, WEDN EPTEMBER 20, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Wat Street Yrsterpay.—Speculation in stocks was feverish and prices at the close were lower. New York Central declined to 98. Gold closed at 110. Money was sup- plied at 11-2and 2 percent. Commercial paper is quoted unchanged. Government and railway bonds were moderately active and firm. Tramps anp INpiaNs are smarter than white men. They go on raids all summer and come into the almshouses and agencies in winter. Tur New Hampsurre Dexocnats indorsed Tilden and Hendricks at their Convention yesterday. Now, if they were able to do as much at the polls! Yacutixc.—The New York Yacht Club sailed its annual regatta yesterday, and the season was pleasantly ended. The schooner prizes were won by the Idler and Peerless, and the sloop prizes by Gracie and Madeap. New Yorsenrs who cannot go to the Cen- tennial Exhibition should not neglect their own American Institute fair. It is not as big as the Philadelphia marvel, but it contains much that is instructive ond novel. Tnorrixc.—The September meeting at Fleetwood had an excellent beginning yes- terday. Tho first race was won by Pat McCann, and the second, more evenly con- tested, was unfinisbed and postponed until to-day. A Porrtican Gate.—Thero was an equinoc- tial storm in the republican teapot last even. ing—if by such a name we may respectfully refer to the Republican Central Committee. There was quite a windy time, but no wrecks are reported. As Usvat tuz Reports of the Eastern question are conflicting. On the one hand peace is assured, and on the other Russia has given Prince Milan three million roubles and sent Cossacks into Servia. But a few weeks now will tell the whole story. Mn. Rosrysox’s Letren.—Mr. Robinson accepts the democratic nomination for Gov- ernor; but this will astonish nobody, for there was no danger that he would decline. His letter is just of the right length to be a good campaign document. He regrets that Seymour did not accept; alludes to his own knowledge of New York; paints in gloomy colors the effect of inflation on the country, and declares the republican party has done nothing for eleven years to remove that evil ; compliments Mr. Tilden; predicts that his election would do much to restore prosperity; denies that the republicans can reform; and, finally, discusses the canal question. It is not a ringing letter, but it is modest and conservative enough. Acnonatic Bany Fanwine Acaty.--It is not probable that we shall have any trouble with England on the account of Mr. Henry Leon, who hires out indentured children to cir- cuses, and who now demands that the Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children shall return him threo little acrobats taken from him by process of law. He claims that his rights and the children’s rights as British subjects have been violated, but the chil- dren's rights—as Lady Teazle said of Joseph Burface’s “honor’—might as well be left out of the debate. Their wrongs are the ques- tion, and we have no doubt that the Court will say with Mr, Gladstone—‘‘of all the ob- jects of policy, humanity, rationally under- stood and in due relation to justice, is the first and highest,” A Few Qaieting Words About the Hell Gate Explosion. The grand blast has been postponed by General Newton from Thursday to Sunday, partly, we suppose, to insure greater com- pleteness in the preparations, and chiefly | | because there is a smaller number of vessels moving upon the river on the stated day of rest, and because they can all be warned off | with less interruption and inconvenience to business on Sunday than at any other time. The expected explosion of so immense and stupendous a quantity of dynamite and other giant combustibles as are lodged in the galleries beneath the Hallett's Point Reef naturally creates some anxiety and trepida- tion among the people of the immediate vicinity, who fear a violent atmospheric con- cussion which may shatter their dwellings and beattended with danger to life. We think that such fears are unwarranted, although it may bea point of prudence for people to retire to a safe distance at the time of the explosion, Tho great sensation caused last autumn by the explosion of a large quantity of nitro-glycerine stored on Bergen Hill may partially account for the exaggerated appre- hensions felt by some ill-informed people of | the neighborhood in relation to Hell Gate. But the cases are entirely dissimilar, The tremendous force suddenly evolved by such explosives expends itself against the imme- diately surrounding obstacles, If the en- compassing obstacles are slight and frail nearly the whole force of the concussion is exerted upon the air, producing a violent at- mospheric disturbance, This was the case on Bergen Hill, where the nitro-glycerine was stored in a slight brick structure, with walls barely thick enough to exclude the weather. The liberated gases, having no other resistance to encounter, delivered their whole force into the surround- ing air, causing a mighty atmospheric shock, which was communicated to the buildings in the vicinity and causing ao jar which extended to great distances, But even in that case little real damago was done beyond breaking a large amount of window glass in the immediate neighborhood. The circumstances of the Hell Gate explosion will be widely different. Instead of having little besides the air to act against the liber- ated gases will expend the greater part of their force in destroying the cohesion and shattering the rocky structure of the reef. In accomplishing this mighty task they will have exhausted the main portion of their energy. If, instead of a submarine reef, this solid bed of rock were an immense ledge exposed to the air, the remnant of force not expended in breaking it to pieces might toss some of the fragments to consid- erable distances and put the surrounding atmosphere in violent commotion. But it must be considered that the explosion is to take place at high tide, when the reef will be covered by twelve or fourteen feet of water. The gases, after having exhausted the greater part of their energy in rending and shattering the immense bed of rock, will encounter the resistance of the superincumbent weight of water, which they will try to lift up bodily in their effort to get free. The resisting weight of such a depth of water is easily calculated and is really enormous, It is a well-known fact, stated in every elementary treatise on natural philosophy, that a col- umn of water thirty-two feet in height ex- erts o pressure of fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface at the bottom of the column. Water twelve feet deep exerts three-eighths of that amount of pressure, or five and five-eighth pounds to the square inch. There are 1,296 square inches in a square yard, and aneasy process of arithmetic will show that twelve feet of water presses with a weight of 7,290 pounds, or more than three and a half tons, on each square yard at the bottom. Tho enfeebled gases will expend nearly the whole residue of their force, after doing their main work, in a sudden effort to lift such a mass of water, and when they escape into the free air they will not retain energy enough to have much destructive effect. In their up- ward rush they will cause a violent and extensive commotion of the surrounding waters, making a spectacle well worth the observation of the curious ; but there is no reason for expecting much effect on the adjacent shores. We have been thus particular in stating the manner in which the giant force of the dynamite will expend and exhaust itself from a wish to allay groundless fears. We reprobate as heartless and cruel all practical jokes for alarming the too susceptible minds of ignorant people who merely know the tre- mendous energy imprisoned in vast quanti- ties’ of dynamite, but do not understand the manner in which that energy is expended and exhausted by acting against and overcoming mighty obstructions. Moreover, a reasonable confidence in Gen- eral Newton should have a reassuring effect. He has been engaged for several years in this important work, constantly drilling and blasting, week in and week out, and there is no instance on record where s0 much blast- ing has been done with so small a number of casualties, The slight loss of life during this long period seems almost miraculous; but it is really no miracle, butasignal proof of the caution, intelligence and consummate ability of this accomplished engineer. Until the recent accident in conveying some of tho dynamite to its place only two or three lives have been lost during the whole five years, and in those cases by the imprudence of workmen, who, on finding that their blasts did not go off within the calculated time, ventured in to see what was the matter. Gen- eral Newton's judgment is more to be trusted as to the effects of the explosion than that of any other man or of all other men together, and he gives the most confident assurances that it will be attended with no danger. The community should trust him as it would trust the judgment of askilful physician os to the safety of swal- lowing some article of the materia medica which untaught ignorance might suspect to be a poison. The apprehensions felt in regard to the coming great explosion are principally owing to a knowledge of the vast and unexampled amount of dynamite, &c., which is to be fired at one time. But it must not be for- gotten that although exploded at one time it will not be exploded as one mass, It is widely distributed in separate groups of cartridges throughout the extensive range of galleries which it has taken five years of incessant industry to excavate. There can be no greater danger from the simultaneous explosion of the whole j number than there would be in the explosion of them one by one at suc- cessive intervals, Had it been possible or economical to arrange for firing each group on separate days there would have been no thought of alarm, and yet the danger would, have been neither greater nor less than it will be by a simultaneous explosion. Each group of cartridges is expected to burst the immediately surrounding rock and to do no more. Anybody can sce that the explosion at the same instant of the two most distant groups at opposite extremities of the gallery could have no effect in intensifying each other, and the same reasoning will apply to any other two groups and to the whole. We, therefore, advise the people of the neighbor- hood to dismiss their disquieting apprehen- sions, merely taking such precautions on the appointed day as General Newton will, no doubt, furnish to the press for the guid- ance of the public. It would be so easy to get up a distressing panic on the contiguous shores by practising on the credulity of the ignorant that we havo thought it our duty to guard the community against o cruel and groundless fright. Huxley’s Discovery—The Miltonic Hy- pothesis. Between the so-called biblical theory of creation and the theory maintained by men of science; between the theory which con- templates the earth as fabricated in a few days by the voluntary act of an omnipotent power and that which regards it as the result of countless ages of change under the influ- ence of cosmical laws, there is a necessary difference and conflict, and the believer in one of these theories cannot believe in the other, This simple fact has caused that largo and earnest class of persons who are called religious people, as well as those who, if not religious, yet have the lingering faith of home influence in the Bible as the ‘Word of God,” to contemplate with distrust and aversion the beneficent and wonderful labors of the men of science of our day; and it has given an extensive moral support to the furious assault of bigotry on science itself. It has caused men of science to bo described with some show of reason as the enemies of religion rather than as the true pioneers of enlightenment, progress and human amelioration, From this difficult relation to one another the world of science and the world of religion are to be equally congratulated upon Mr. Huxley’s discovery of a safe issue by what may be called agreat compromise. Science will no longer hold the most respected of all books responsible for a childish theory of creation, and religion need not frown on science when it assails not her but only the poet John Mil- ton. Proceeding with scientific exactness Mr, Huxley endeavors to name the source of the commonly accepted idea of the origin ofthe world. He finds this to be the poem ‘Paradise Lost.” From the obscurities of the book of Genesis, and from the uncertainties as to its authorship, it is regarded as only a shadowy basis; but the theory is laid out fully and amplified with detail in Milton’s poem—and from the im- possibility of finding this detail elsewhere the poet is held for the whole fabric as the last responsible person to whom it can be traced. This discovery of a compromise, which changes altogether the object of scientific research, should be accepted with gratitude, and John. Milton never did any such service to the world hitherto as he is likely to do now. An Extradition Muddle. It isa pity to have even a seeming con- flict between the State and national author- ities in the administration of the law; but the extradition of criminals seems to be a fruitful source of these unpleasant spec- tacles. Our treaties with foreign nations for the surrender of criminals are obligations of such binding force upon the nation that the laws of Congress upon which their adminis- tration depends should leave no loophole for the escape of aculprit. For this reason the law seems unwise which provides that a per- son committed for extradition shall be held for two months only, and if not taken out of the country in, that period he may then be brought before a Stato court on a habeas cor- pus. To give authority in this way to a State judge is equivalent to an admission that the general government no longer has any concern in such a case. But we do not agree with Austria to surregder a certain criminal in case sho takes him within a specified time. We agree to surrender him abso- lutely; and though it is evident that there must be a limit to the time we will keep him for her this seems an unwise way to establish that limit. It is out of this fault in our law that the latest extradition conflict has grown; and the United States authorities seem to have acted in contempt of the order of a State court, for which that court had the authority ofa law of Congress, Doubtless the case will turn on a difference of view as to the date of the man’s commit- ment; and tho State court may bo shown to have acted precipitately on the motion of the prisoner's counsel; but such an error would be avoided if the reference were always to a United States court rather than to a State court. Arp ror Savannan.—The city of New York has always been among the first to respond to the call of other communities suffering from fire, famine, flood or pestilence, and it has promptly answered the cry of fever- stricken Savannah, Nearly three hundred new cases of yellow fever are reported in that city ina single day; one-third of the population is sick and the disease will not disappear until frost. Money is impera- tively needed to employ nurses, relicve des- titution and soften the horrors of the plague. We are glad that the Chamber of Commerce has begun with such energy the duty of col- lecting subscriptions, Upward of two thou- sand dollars were subscribed at the special meeting yesterday, anda committee of twen- ty-five gentlemen of influence was appointed to carry on the work. The summer residents of Newport have also made liberal subscrip- tion, and we print elsewhere alist of other contributions. Let every one give something. The yellow fever has not made for yearssuch 8 terrible appearance in the South, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. What Andrew H. Green Might Have Said. The speech of Comptroller Green in an- swer to a deputation of citizens who called upon him to tender the nomination for Mayor was an interesting performance, and gives us a better idea of Mr. Green's abilities as an orator. In this speech Mr. Green told his auditors of the possibilities of New York, of that greatness which was only in the budding, and of what the metropolis might become under good government. He alluded, as was natural, to his own difficul- ties in protecting the treasury from the on- slaught of thieves and jobbers, and inti- mated that in the event of the people desir- ing his services as Mayor he was at their disposal. Comptroller Green's course as the head of the financial. department of the city govern- ment has, as a general thing, met the approval of the people, because, as even his severest critics have conceded, he has been governed by an_ honest impulse, The misfortune of Comp- troller Green's administration, however, is that instead of building up the city ho has strangled it. New York is to-day in a much worse condition in every respect than it was under the rule of the Tammany thieves, The thieves had a policy, so far as develop- ing tho’ city was concerned, the benefits of which we enjoy to-day. That policy was to make New York the equal of Paris, and, al- though they used a high and commendable purpose as a pretext for robbing. the treas- ury, still the purpose was a good one and should have been carried out under honest | auspices, Mr. Green’s mistake as Comptroller is that, instead of building up, he has been content only with pulling down. Now, if Mr. Green were at tho head of a large business, a dry goods store or a steamboat, he would see the wisdom of infusing new life into his business, of repairing wear and tear and keeping up with the demands of the time. If he failed in this he would be in- competent ; yet, in managing the affairs of New York his only aim has been to put it back where it was ten years ago. It was wise enough to stop stealing; but that is only one element in any government, whether of business or a city. But New York is not a mean city, It does not grudge its money. It would give Mr. Green and men of his stamp fifty million dollars to-mor- row to build up the metropolis, What Mr. Green and his friends should do in New York is to thoroughly reorganize the city and to give us rapid transit, repave the streets, macadamize Fifth avenue, con- tinue the system of boulevards, decorate the parks, surround the city with wharves and piers, and make it worthy in every way of its imperial greatness. Mr. Walter, of the London Times, is reported as saying toa newspaper reporter that the streets in New York were the worst in the world—as bad as those in Constantinople. This is the criti- cism which every foreigner will make upon the city, and it is a criticism which in itself is the severest condemnation of Mr. Green and his policy. We have so much respect for Mr. Green, so much confidence in his ability and integrity, that we should like to see him champion a new movement for the rebuilding of New York. Whoever takes that step will be the ‘‘boss” of the intelli- gent taxpaying people of this city, and a much more powerful man in every way than any of the bosses who have disgraced us in the last fifty years. Louisiana Politics. If the conservatives act wisely in Louisiana they ought to carry that State by a handsome majority—by a vote so clear and largo that even an unscrupulous returning board can- not swindle them out of theirsuccess. They have nominated a good State ticket and an excellent Congressional delegation ; and on the other side the republicans are demoral- ized by the fact that the ablest and best leaders of their party are either in open op- position, or else have gone out of the State and are taking part in the canvass only in Northern States. Thero is in Louisiana o large number of respectable republicans, both Northern and Southern men, who call themselves ‘national republicans,” by which they mean that they will at this cleo tion vote for Hayes, but will oppose with all their might the State republican ticket. Some ot the most respectable and prominent merchants of New Orleans belong to this class, and there are besides many planters ofthe same mind. These men hold that the State ought to be relieved of the incubus of republican misrule; that what it needs— peace and good government—it will not get from men like Packard and Kellogg, who control the republican machine and the party in the State. While, therefore, they support Hayes and will vote the national republican ticket—unless Mr. Whecler should continue his foolish and untruthful denunciations of Louisinana—they give their votes and their large influence to the sup- port of the conservative State ticket. These men have recently been re-enforced by several leading and influential repub- lican politicians. Thus Mr. Jasper Black- burn, editor of s republican journal in Northern Louisiana, and hitherto & zealous State republican, has declared against the State ticket in very forcible language. Mr. Blackburn was even during the war a Union man, and has until very lately been in accord with Kellogg and Packard. He now says:— The principles of the national republican party, to rule the nation or a State, is one thing—is one of the question—while State rule in the hands of unprin- cipled adventurers and pluoderers, whether white or eoiored. under the hypocritical guise and filched namo of republicanism, 18 something quite different—as dif- ferent as the pure diamond is from the glittering fungus on the dunghill, Now, let the prosent repab- lican programme in this State succeed, and what will be the fraitin the my yng way of improvemont to the col- ored cloment—what will be the effect upon the negro question? It is periectly sickening to contemplate with the recent past experience before us as a fore- taste of what isto come. Asan old Union man and a Native citizen republican of the South we kly de- clare that we intend doing all wo can to save our na- tive land from the impending ruin and disgrace which must ¢ome from the continued demoralization of the nogro question. We will notany more support pre- tended republican tlekets, composed almost in foto of baggers and imported or otherwise vicious ‘s—allogether disgrace to civilization science of government, and e State of Louisiana a loyal ent to the manor born—an ¢éie- ‘un and direct a republican State governmont with pereoual respectability and safety to all citizens, bat which is eniformly and with a sys- t white carp try, savoring of idiotic delight, iguored uf ognized by the political landsharks speliators thrown upon us curse, like t ‘ogs and flies of Egypt, land io a darkness that can be felt and stifling as with a moral putrefacsion which “stinks to heaven.” Mr. Robert Ray is another republican, long prominent and influential in Louisiana politics, who now repudiates the State ticket. Being nominated for a judgeship by republicans in the Third district he writes: — Thave to inform you, and through you the parish executive committees of the parishes of Morehouse and Richland, thet I will not support the republican State ticket as at present constituted, nor the nominee of the party for Congress in this district. The make- up of tho State ticket is of such a character that, if elected, t would not bring what the people of this Stare so much need—peace and relorm. If this course, which I deem proper vo pursne, is sattefactory to the party that nominated me, I will permit my naine to bo Tun; if not, steps may be taken to vominate #ome one elec, 1 want it understood that | have not abandoned my lifelong political opinions, nor do I propose to apologize for any political courso [ have ever taken, Nor is this all. When Packard and Kel- logg carried the Louisiana Convention, a number.of the foremost republican speakers in the State, secing their hopes of reforming the party once more foiled and the old Ring in possession of the party, made up their minds to take no part in the State canvass. They have come North to advocate the elec- tion of Hayes, but do not conceal their de- sire and hope that the conservatives may carry Louisiana. Warmoth, George Sheri- dan, Pinchback, Judge Sloanaker and others of the same kind, are all taking part in the canvass in Northern States, but openly de- sire the defeat of the Packard State ticket as the only way to bring peace and order to the State and secure it decently honest gov- ernment. We earnestly hope that what they desire may be accomplished, Louisiana needs rest and peace, and cannot get it from the spoils- men who now control the republican party there. It is really a whig State; and if the so-called republicans who, under the rule of Packard, Kellogg, Ludeling and others, have misruled there, were defeated, the whig forces would rally and form an honest and respectable party in opposition to the demo- crats. At present and for years past whigs and democrats have been forced to act to- gether in opposition to republican misrule, and the republican leaders have defeated every attempt to bring into their party on honorable terms the whigs of the State. They do not want them, because these whigs would compel the party to honesty and would turn out the corruptionists who now control it. This is the open secret of Louisiana politics, and every good citizen in the North, whether he is democrat or republican, ought to hope for the defeat of the present republican party in Louisiana, A Remarkable Campaign Invention. About ten days ago several journals re- ported that Mr. Schurz, who has been ad- vocating the republican cause in some of the Western States, had been snubbed by the Republican National Committee ; that his engagements to speak had been cancelled by Secretary Chandler, the chairman of that Committee, and that this had been done be- cause Mr. Schurz's advocacy of civil service reform was thought offensive to and by the President. The most remarkable feature about this tale was that it appeared simul- taneously in both democratic and republi- can journals. Wo remarked at the time that it was improbable. Mr. Chandler, being questioned, positively denied that he had interfered with Mr. Schurz, and added that he was not engaged to speak by the National Committee. But coincidently with his denial our Washington correspondent repeated the story, and it appears that his authority for it was the National Republican, which is com- monly regarded as an organ of the anti-re- form wing of the republican party. So far as we have been able to ascertain the story originated and was set afloat in democratic and republican journals, by this republican organ, which at the same time contained several articles severely criticising Mr. Schurz and his Western speeches. Having thus got at the originators of the tale we proceeded to hunt down its various assertions, with this result:—First, Mr. Chandler denies having in any way inter- fered with Mr. Schurz; second, the Republi- can State Committee of Ohio deny, with equal positiveness, having any but the most cordial and friendly relations with Mr, Schurz; third, the President yesterday denied to a ‘correspondent of the Hzraup that Mr. Schurz had been warned, or in any way interfered with aot his instigation. ‘I never thought or heard of sucha thing until I saw it in the newspapers,” said the President. Finally, Mr. Schurz himself being questioned con- firmed all these denials. The story is, therefore, false, and it would not be worth further attention if it were not for its source. Why should o republican organ set afloat what was a studied insult to a prominent republican orator? Is it be- cause Mr. Schurz has offended one wing of the party by his earnest advocacy of civil service reform? This seems to be the reason, Those republican leaders who are trying to burke all reforms and to substitute the ‘bloody shirt” for them have long been restive under the demands of the reformers. ‘No doubt they would like to get Mr. Schurz out of the canvass, and they seem to have tried this way of lessening tho force of his arguments. But what is the use of that? Mr. Schurz is not the head of the republi- can party; Governor Hayes is, and he is as firm, as zealous, as thorough an advocate of this reform as Mr. Schurz himself. Why not try your hands at Governor Hayes, gen- tlemen? Why not try to get him off the ticket? : Tux Inpran Fancz.—The Great Spirit and the Great Father are great things with the Indians whenever they want to escape the consequences of their crimes. The proceedings at Standing Rock Agency, when Kill Eagle and Little Wound sur- rendered, becaus8 they could do noth- ing else or nothing better, illustrate the absurdities of our Indian policy. These chiefs, with their followers, had joined Sitting Bull, and no doubt fought with him, and now come in to the agency with a story about how they went to trade and were kept prisoners in the camp of tho Sioux. They were disarmed, of course, by General Carlin and put under guard, and that, wo suppose, will be the end of the matter till it is time for another war next summer. Tux Storm is over and we are now to hear the story of the wrecks. In our shipping intelligence and news columns will be found all that is yet known of the disasters on the const. The Rebecen Clyde was driven ashore and thirteen lives were lost, and other shocking calamities will be, we foar, reported, ene esas BESS" Politics in Ohio. The situation in Ohio is carefully and clearly set forth by our correspondent at Cincinnati, partly from his own observations and partly by the statements of leading men of both parties. Of course democrats and republicans are equally certain of vio» tory in October and November; but a com- parison of the grounds of their opinions will enlighten the reader. Colonel Sands be lieves the Greeley vote of 1872 will be prin- cipally cast for Hayes, and says that the democratic party in the State is so much divided on national questions that even if the republicans should lose Ohio in October they might carry it for Hayes in November. Mr. Eggleston thinks that Hayes will sweep the State, and assigns as one reason that the blunders of the democracy, North and South, will call out the fall republican reserve, Mr. Saylor considers that the democracy will have large accessions from the truants of last year, and that the school question and the finances will not injure their canvasa now. Colonel Woolley seems to think a magnificent chance is being spotled by the inefficiency of the Democratic National Com- mittee, which neglects Ohio and Indiana The Colonel wants army headquarters on the field of battle. All these conflicting views have their value, and there are a good many grains of wheat scattered in the political chaff. It is not what a politician prophe- sies that is of value, but the reasons he gives for his predictions. An Indian Policy. Now that the season for active operations is passed and the Indians in parties of from five to fifty are reporting themselves at the agencies with the robustious air of fellows who have passed the summer at watering places, it is to be hoped the government will have all its hotels in order, and be in all ways equal to the occasion, These In- dians will need a great deal of care. In the first place, they will all want new blankets, for such as they had have been worn out or destroyed, or lost on the Little Big Horn, or some of the other horns that are numer. ous in that country. No pains or expense should be spared in furnishing the wards of nation with blankets of the first quality; forif we palm off upon them the kind of sheets of shoddy that the government used to give tho soldiers for blankets, then the noble red man will suffer from the cold and may even die. It would be a reproach ta our civilization to have taught the Indian to relinquish his primitive habiliments, and then to freeze him to death with fraudulent blankets. The Indian diet should be cared for also; for although, as they return from the splendid summer they have had, they are no doubt in fine spirits and generally fine condition, we must remember that in the agency life that condition can only be main- tained by higher feeding than was necessary to produce it in the exhilarating life of the war parties. Plenty of good beef, therefore, and sugar and coffee and what other luxuries he takes kindly to must be secured to this child of nature. It is to be trusted that the whiskey supplied will be of good quality, for when in their merry-makings the Indians boast over the scalps of Custer’s men at their belts, if the whiskey should prove of the tan- gle-foot variety they might hurt one another, Finally, it is to expected that the adminis- tration will attend during the winter to the great duty of supplying every Indian as spring draws near with a new rifle and plenty of ammunition. Tue Wrarusn.—The cyclone was whirl- ing through the New England States dur- ing yesterday, but much of its force is now spent. It will probably pass off into the North Atlantic during to-day. In the Northwest a considerable area of low barometer is central over the region between the Missouri and the Mis- sissippi rivers and attended by high winds on its westerly side. In the Southwest there are decided indications of a disturbance approaching from the Gulf, the barometer having fallen, with heavy rains on* the Texas coast. Westerly to southerly winds will prevail to-day in New York, with partly cloudy and warmer weather. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Secretary Fish has returned to Washington. Rev, E. FE. Hale will lecture most in the West. The Hebrews havo enterod upon their year 5,637 A. M. Schuyler Coifax has many New England lecture ea- gagements. Artificial people talk best by gaslight; but they sleep at sunrise, A Brooklyn girl who visits Fulton Market takes her oysters on the half shell, Macaulay :—'‘A history in which every particutar im cident may be true may on the whole be false,” Mr. Southall believes “that a hewn stonc monument 1s an infallible evidence of tho use of a metal tool,”’ The wits of the Congressional scasion—Townsend, of Troy; Cox, of New York; Harrison, of llinots—are for- gotten. Mr. Caleb Cushing, United Statos Minister at Madrid, arrived in the city yesterday, and 1s at tho New York Hotel. What is more beautifal in this life than a saoburat girl of fourteen, in acalico dress, riding a rawboned horve to water? Senator Francis Kernan, of Utica, and William H, Barnum, of Connecticut, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Attornoy General left the national capital last evening for Ubio, where he will take part im the cam vass of that State, Tho paragrapher of the Raw-chester Democrat ts stuffing horso blankets in his ears for jear he may heas xplosiongt Hell Gate, Trenck, the Pandour, was loathsome of face, but he could bebead an ox with @ singlo sword blow, and theretoro sentimental women loved him. Tho credulous, confiding, friendly frankness of a man of genius is sometimes mistaken by common people for abject hemiliation and grovelling. General Logan evidently reads thia pago, for he aska, what wo asked sevoral weeks ago, whether the republican party 1s responsible for the hard times ia Germany? Lieutenant Cameron mentions an African tribe car. rying on an oxtensive iron trade, having foundries ity feet long by thirty feet wide, whore thoy frequently get 160 to 200 pounds of motal In smelting, but wo are not clear as to tho locality. Messrs. Squier and Davis toll us that in the tumall of tho Misswsipp! Valley we find side by sido in the eame mounds native copper from Lake Superior, mica from the Alieghanies, shells from tne Gulf and obsidian (per. haps porphyry) from Mexico, * Golonel Lane Fox, in his most valuable paper on “Barly Modes of Navigation,” “All tho various ftems ot evidence which I bi liected and endeays ored to elucidate by means of survivals, whether in relation to modes of navigation or other branches of industry, appear to mo to tend toward establishing a gradual development of culturo as we advance north. ward * * © from the primeval and now submerged cradle of the human family im. the southern hemi. sphere,” |