The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1876, Page 8

8 a eT te at TL ere ree ek NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1876.—QUADKUFLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hanap. 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 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. BOOTH’S THEATRE SARDANAPALUS, at 8 P.M. Mr. Bangs and Mra. Agnes WALLACK'S THEATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8/7. M. Mr. and Mra Flor ence. GRAND OPBRA HOUSE. GIROFLE AND GIROFLA, at 5 P.M. irs Oates, NIBLO’S GARDEN. BABA, at 8 P.M UNION SOUAR TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR, at 8 BROOK) UNCLE TOM’S ota ats TBRATRR, z ee * M. Mrs. Howard, BATRE. 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Kuz Eacux, who has recently re- turned from the camp of the hostile Sioux, tells a cock and a bull story of how he and his braves remained in their lodges during the fight with poor Custer. Very likely ! Ir Twaep i is of a moralizing turn of mind he may ponder during his voyage on the Franklin over some of the sayings of Poor Richard. He will be able to compare their homely philosophy with the wicked expres- sions of his quondam companion, Slippery Dick. Exectioxs rm Octozsrr.—The town elec- tions in Connecticut are held this year on the 2d of October. Two days later Georgia holds an election for Governor, Legislature and county officers. Georgia is a strongly democratic State. On the 10th of October Dhio, Indiana, West Virginia and Colorado hold elections. Yetiow Fever Ix Gronara. —The terrible state of affairs at Brunswick, Ga, as re- vealed in our despatches, needs the instant attention of the charitable among us. The bare statement that there are six hundred cases of this loathsome disease in a town of twenty-five hundred inhabitants puts the ease in a light that no amount of fine writing sould convey. Porstinc tHE Ricur Wax.- —We observe that Mr. George F. Hoar has made a cam- paign speech for civil service reform in Mas- sachusetts. All right. We wait to hear from other speakers, democrats and republi- cans, on the same subject. Let us have the real issues of the canvass brought before the people. Beating gongs and abusing the other side is a poor business. Senator Bayard and Mr. Hoar are setting a good example. Jurrrzn Puivuvivs will evidently settle the work of stopping the war in Servia, even if i the other great Powers should fail to induce the Turks to prolong thearmistice. Forthe moment it looks as though peaceful influ- ences were in the ascendant, foubtful temper of the opposing forces there is little to be relicd upon as a guide ¢o the future. England, heartily ashamed of her Turkish ally, will not be gingerly in giving the Porte advice, and Russia may find herself without an excuse for egging on the Servians to battle when the weather will no longer admit of the movements of troops. Greenpackers aT Atpany.—Mr. Peter Cooper's party holds its State Convention at Albany next week, and intends, it is said, to nominate a State ticket as well as Presi- dential electors. There is nothing like courage. show Wall street how to make money still more abundant. Meantime we notice that the Indiana republican papers are beseech- ing their readers not to vote the greenback ticket, and asserting that Mr. Cooper's party is only a kind of tail to the Tilden kite. This isteo bad. We call Mr. Hewitt’s at- tention to this latest republican invention, Sevator Bayarp’s Srrzcu.—Senator Bay- ard had a deserved welcome at Cooper Insti- tute on Friday evening. He is one of the most thoughtful statesmen on the demo- cratic side, and his speech was, what was to | be expected of him, a caim survey of the polit- ical situation, full of suggestions ot needed reforms and of warning to the people of the evil tendencies of misgovernment in its various shapes. He spoke with warning voice of the dangers of centralization and of the necessity for strict obedience to law, both in the citizens and theirrulers. It is refreshing, in this canvass of abuse, to hear the voice of a statesman. but in the; We hope for a platform which will | 4 | isa man better than a sheep? Wherefore, it | of government money, and the officer in | gineering that is unique in the history of The Explosion at Hallett’s Point. The Hallett’s Point mine is to be fired at ; high tide this afternoon ; and we retain the confidence we have hitherto expressed that there is not the slighest occasion for any ap- | prehension of effects beyond those the engi- neers count upon in the removal of a great obstruction from our harbor. Indeed, we believe that but little, if any, alarm is felt by the people; for, though there was a few days ago some excitement produced by in- judicious publications, the tone of perfect confidence of those who know most as to what will happen has reassured the many. An in- genious correspondent, however, assails the confidence that is founded upon the assur ance of experts, He tells us that scientifio men sometimes make mistakes. This is true, and there is, therefore, the possibility that the scene at Hallett’s Point may be more volcanic than the engineers anticipate, and that the vibration transmitted through the ledge of which the stone to be blown up is a part may shake some houses. Bnt our correspondent’s instances have not shaken our faith in the men of science. He tells us that a man of science demonstrated that a steamer could never cross the ocean, and that ‘practical philoso- phers and cultured Congresmen” laughed at the notion of the transmission of messages by the electric wire. He does not seem to notice that in both those cases the true science was on the other side of the ques- ! tion. It was science which held that steamers could cross, and science which | completed the telegraph in defiance of the opposition and discouragement of practical men ; and it is science which now reassures the public as to the mine, while the practical men shake their heads and donbt the en- gineer as they did formerly the great in- ventors. It is to be regretted that the date of the explosion has given rise to an assault upon the conscientious engineer who deems it his duty to explode the mine when it is ready, and has not been able to contro) the time. It would have been a strange fact if the ap- pointment of the explosion for to-day had been permitted to pass by without an outcry on the part of professional Sabbatarians. This occasion for some men to declare their piety from the housetops was too good to be lost. General Newton is himself a devout man—a fact that is of a private nature, cer- tainly, and one that he would be the last man to thrust into public notice or to plead in regard to any course that he deemed it his duty to pursue; yet it is a fact, not without some interest in this connec- tion, as it may induce sincere people to believe that the decision taken has not arisen from any merely wanton defiance of public respect fora sacred day. It may be assumed that every sincerely pious man has as much respect for Sunday as is entertained by those who make themselves its especial champions, and who plead for its observ- | ance in the Pharasaical spirit which pictures the American people as a great deal better than other people because they keep their window blinds more resolutely shut on that day than is the custom with some other nations. But the respect of such a man for the day is of a different sort ; fora sincere piety, if we may venture an opinion on such asubject, does not, mainly concern itself with formalities, or with days and dates and seasons, or it does not on their account set aside the deeper obligations of essential Christian conduct. There is an aspect of this case from which thoughtful men may see, if they will, that there are obligations compared with which those that are due as to the observance in an especial manner of a particular day are of little moment. Danger to life—danger that the authorities may have reasen to | complain that the commander has neglected his duty ; danger, finally, that some acci- dent may defeat the well conducted labor of seven years and cause the great undertaking toend in partial failure—all these are in- volved in delay, and these are evidently the | elements to which General Newton referred | in his declaration that he was compelled to explode the mine to-day rather than on some other day by ‘sheer necessity.” There is authority which the Sabbatarians cannot gainsay, that, as the element of danger to human life is in the case, the simple likeli- hood of the destruction of one human life will justify any act done on Sunday that may save that life. ‘And Jesus said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out? How much, then, is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.” | He has had but little chance to obseve the heedlessness of the multitude of men under the impulse of curiosity who does not know that from the time the mine is in a state of readiness until the moment it is fired a principal anxiety and difficulty of all in | charge will be to keep the space of danger | free from the intrusion of ignorant, indiffer- ent or reckless perséns. And if that period is to be extended twenty-four hours an un- timely explosion through any accident might kill, not only one, but many, and the officer who had permitted the delay would be mor- ally responsible for the lives thereby lost. But there are reasons which are neces- sarily of more consequence than that dan- | ger, as they are regarded from the point of | view of the man intrusted with the direction | of this great labor. Years of caretul, patient, intelligent labor and study are at their point ofculmination in that mine. There is the result of the expenditure of a million dollars | charge is to take cure that the money shall not have been spent in vain. Moreover, there is, almost oscillating in the balance, an experiment in heroic en- the science. If aman has built a magnificent ship he may contemplate its fate with parental tenderness. His soul may glory in the invention he has contrived, the statue he has carved and the picture he has painted; and we suppose that an engineer may have the same pride in his acnieve- ments, ani may be wrought up in the same way if he sees his final success in the least degree imperilled. General Newton stormed | one of the passes in South Mountain on the | way to Antietam; he stormed Marye'’s | Heights behind Fredericksburg ; he stormed Rocky Faced Ridge in the Southwest; he fought at Antictam, at Gettysburg, at Dallas, at Kenesaw Mountain, at Peach Tree Creek and at many other places; but we doubt if he has ever felt so deep a pride in any of those achievements as he has grown to feel in the promised success of the great labor now in hand, or so dis- turbing an anxiety that it should be safely done with at this supreme moment. For from the time the charges were prepared and the mine flooded till the hour when the tide shall be at the proper point not an instant is without peril. Here are the charges prepared that are to be exploded by electricity, and the batteries are ready. Suppose a thunder storm comes up? Who can say at this season when one may not come? Can any man guarantee the mine in that case? And theworst result might not be that some houses at Astoria were shaken about the ears of their occupants, or that a few boats were destroyed in the river, but that the eccentric fluid should not do the work regularly and thoroughly. Electrical acci- dents are but one source of danger; and several other sources of derangement and possible disturbance, and dangers even more imminent, could readily be pointed out. But within a few hours we believe and trust that objectors and critics and all others will have occasion to congratulate General Newton upon the happy termination of an unprecedented achievement in engineering science, Making Indian Treaties. Now that the troops have failed to find, not to speak of whipping, the hostile Sioux, with the exception of the band scattered, rather than severely punished, by Colonel Miles, of Crook’s command, we must turn to the work of the Peace Commission. The various chiefs who signed the treaty at the Red Cloud Agency the other day, relinquish- ing the right of the tribe to the Black Hills, have done so because there was nothing left for them but to submit or to go on the war- path with the winter closing in upon them. So they have agreed to go to the Missouri River or to the Indian Torritory in case their young men who have gone to spy out the country report the latter as desirable. The movement of these Indians to the Missouri River would not, we feel assured, be productive of any good. Like most of the moves in our Indian policy, it is only the merest makeshift, and certain, if carried out, to be the forerunner of broils and costly wars. It is exceedingly painful to note, from the speeches of the chiefs, how little they have been taught their true position by the agents of our government who have come in contact with them. Extravagant demands and childish requests are mingled with pathetic remonstrances against what they see is the inevitable. Young-Man- Afraid-of-His-Horses does not want to leave the land where he was born; it will take him a long time to learn to labor. He expects the Great Father to support him for one hundred years. Little Wound, who signed away his patrimony, asked for bacon until next spring. Their whole thought is to object to leave and to get as much tobacco and sugar as possible for the moment. There is about all this something hide- ously farcical. We do not believe that there was good faith on either side. Cajolery and feasting on the part of the Commissioners and an _ exhibition of that Indian mixture of blarney and childish artfulness on the part of the redskins have had another treaty for their offspring, which the whites will only respect as long as it suits them and the Indians as long as they must. But one of the Indians— American Horse-—who signed gave utterance toa thought that seems as if he understood what he was doing. Fire Thunder, who wrapped his head in a blanket and ‘went it | blind” on signing the paper, was the only one whose act confessed the sham of the whole affair, while Crow-With-a-Good-Voice, who refused to sign at all, expressed the true sentiment of the Sioux. There should be no treaties with Indians. If the Indian will not toil as his white brother does he must go over the edge. The hostile bands with Sitting Bull are the admiration of every Indian who draws measly pork and rotten flour from the agencies. Such treaty as the scalping knife makes is what every Sioux believes in for the summer, and anything to get government beef in the winter. We all know this cannot last. There should be no compromise made or weakness shown by the government. Let the Sioux we have be sent to the Indian Territory, and the Sioux | we have not when we can catch them. There, some really humane and intelligent | plan could be put in practice for their ad- vancement, if they can be made to advance atall. At any rate it can be attempted with less danger to the settlers and less expense to the country. The Strike im the Rice Fields. There is a new strike among the negroes employed on the rice plantations in South Carolina, The strikers have, it is reported, | attacked the people who are willing to work, and the latter at once cry out for federal United States court. Where is Governor | Chamberlain? The poor negroes, too long taught to look only to the federal power for | j help in all their troubles, know no better ; they do not know what local government means. How should they, when they have seen the Governor of the State himself rush- ing to Washington to report a riot raster of doing his sworn duty? General Wade Hampton spoke to the | purpose the other day when he said, “Whatever Imay be able todo for you if you place me in the chair of Governor, if I cannot suppress a riot, if I cannot go to the people of Carolina, white and black, and say to them these are the laws and you must up- hold and enforce them, if I cannot appeal to Carolina’s sons to support me in the laws that lam sworn to maintain, then cast me out with scorn from the office that I dis- honor.” That is sound to the core. It is the great- est crime of those who have misruled in the Southern States, like Kellogg in Louisiana and Chamberlain in South Carolina, that they have not enforced the laws, and have thus encouraged lawlessness, and, at the same time, misled the ignorant blacks who trusted them, The Religious Press on Huxley. Professor Huxley comes in for a share of comment from the religious press for his lectures here and his address at the Johns Hopkins University on the 12th inst. The Jewish Times is rather gleeful over the Professor's grand dash at ‘the Miltonic theory” of creation. It is Christianity, it says, which has turned the account of the creation of the world, as presented in the Genesis, into a dogma, and used it as a brake with which to stem the wheel of scientific progress. The Jews themselves maintained the liberty of investigation long before the time that Christians had to fight with the ecclesiastical authorities, in order to be allowed to test the truth of theories by the crucible of scientific experiments, The Jews never claimed for their Bible the prerogetive of a book of science. They debated with the greatest freedom in their schools, fifteen or more centuries ago, the question whether the world was created out of nothing or whether there was a substance from all eternity from which the Creator fashioned the world of matter. in the path of the naturalist and wero never afraid of the discoveries of science as of a new destructive spirit that would endanger their religions system. Nor did the Jews ever base their religion upon the credibility of miracles or upon the literal acceptance of the Bible word. The Hvangelist thinks Pro- fessor Huxley's substitution of the Miltonio for the biblical theory of creation was nothing more than a clever evasion, and he might have as well said at the beginning that his lectures were to be an attack, if not upon Moses and the Bible, at least upon the commonly received interpretation of the Sacred Word, and as such the editor accepts it and assures the Professor that religious men are not fearful of the progress of scientific truth, but, on the contrary, welcome any advance of human knowledge. But, like the Professor himself, so the editor of the Evangelist calls for ‘‘proof” of the theory of evolution before he accepts it and throws away his old faith in a creation and a Creator. The Catholic Review takes Profes- sor Huxley to task for his address at the Johns Hopkins University, where he said that elementary instruction should disci- pline all sides of the mind and should leave no important faculty uncultivated, and yet he omitted altogether the moral faculties and had not a word to say in behalf of re- ligious education. His ‘‘elementary in- struction,” too, as defined by himself, singularly enough ‘‘embraces all the kinds of real knowledge and mental ac- tivity possible to man,” but omits that knowledge which the Christian world believes to be the highest—the knowledge of God. What more conspicuous example can we find of the evils of his own system, says the Review, than its oracle, whose brilliant mind is darkened only to the light from heaven, between which and his soul is drawn a curtain of despair? A Balti- more correspondent of the Observer calls at- tention to the tone of materialism running through the Professor's address at this Uni- yersity, in which God was not mentioned once, but in which he spoke with peculiar satisfaction of the circumstance that the in- stitution was to be subjected to the influence of no “theological or political sectarianism.” The exercises closed as they opened, with- out a word of prayer or a recognition of God, though the most prominent clergymen of the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches were there upon the platform, and yet that courtesy was withheld which is observed by the legislatures of the different States and even at partisan political conventions. The Catholic Standard makes this university ad- dress a text from which to show its readers the imperative necessity they are under to provide for the education of Catholic chil- dren where religion shall not be ignored, as it systematically is, by the non-Catholic systems. That the trustees intend to give an’ irreligious character to the Johns Hopkins University is shown, says the Standard, by their choice of Professor Huxley, a pronounced disbe- liever in revealed religion, a soorner and enemy of Christianity under every form, true or erroneous, a notorious atheist, to deliver the opening address. This address our contemporary characterizes as paganism beyond and below that to which the old Greoks and Romans sank in the last stages of their career; for, false and low as their ideas of God and religion were, they still did recognize the existence of s divine power and the fact that man was under obli- gations to obey and reverence the divine will, The Christian Union, without perti- nent remarks, refers to and quotes from Professor Huxley's address at Baltimore, For the rest our religious exchanges are divided on variety of subjects of more or less interest to their respective readers, Pulpit Topics To-Day. Professor Hux!ey cut short his visit to the United States and sailed for home yesterday without having made much of a sensation here. Very few ministers in this city or | Brooklyn will increase his notoriety by any troops to protect them and appeal to aj reference to him or his theories. Dr. Ry- lance, however, will counteract the Profes- sor's theory by showing that God's image is in man and that toleration and liberality in religious belief are not necessarily inconsis- tent with the Scriptures. Paul's challenge to the atheists and sceptics of his day will be repeated by Dr. Hepworth to those of this day and city, and he will demonstrate that | Jesus is the only king, That great apostle’s twofold basis of, persuasion of faith in Christ will bo made a basis by which Dr. Armitage will persuade others to-day to be- lieve; and Paul’s glad assurance in his faith, whether in youth or stormy age, will be brought into prominence by Mr. Kennard, and the responsibility of knowing Christ as the world's conqueror will be pointed out by Mr. Leavell. Thomas, the honest doubter, will do his part for Mr. Lightbourn, and the failure of the Church and the ministry to win men to Christ, because through lack of faith both fail to launch ont into deep water, will receive correction and condemnation at the lips of Dr. Knapp, while Mr. Sweetser will efforce the necessity of perseverance in religious life, and Dr. Deems will show the importance of hating evil and loving the good and the true. Mr. The Jews never placed an obstacle | | | Mountains, that Christianity is what it is represented to ' be, will to-day demonstrate that faith is con- sistent with reason, Of course it is. And Mr. Giles will tell us how to take the first steps in spiritual life by accepting the Bible as a revelation of divine truth, the thought and will of God, and not merely the produc- tion of Moses, or David, or John, or Paul. The Bible must not be measured by the rules of books of human composition, for it isa divine book, wriften in a divine style, and every way worthy of its divine author. Mr. McCarthy will investigate the first chapter of Genesis in the light of geology, Mr. Moment will discuss different kinds of work and workers, and Mr. Rowell will show the folly of building our hopes for im- mortality upon a basis not of Christ. Mr. Kerr will continue his comments on the prevailing habit of profanity among us, and Mr. Nye will encourage hjs people to hold fast to the Universalist faith and church. Mr. Edwards will compare religious science with scientific religion, and Mr. Snow will make it as plain as daylight that the three unclean spirits prophesied about in the Apocalypse are Mormonism, Jesuitism and Spiritualism, and thus the pulpit will sup- plement itself in the services of to-day. The Coming Age of Virtue. The safe burglary trial is occupying the time of the courts at Washington. That ex- emplary individual, Mr. Nettleship, has given his testimony, and after proving him- self to be a convenient rascal, whose aid ina villanous transaction any enterprising indi- vidual might feel himself at liberty to bid for, has recorded his belief that Babcock knew as much about the conspiracy as Adam, Whitley has been on the stand and has told as much as he chose to tell, and has explained why he concealed the truth on former examinations. Mr. Columbus Alex- ander has made a vigorons effort to unburden himself under oath, but has been cut short by the learned Judge, who has informed him that he cannot be permitted to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to the jury unless the same may happen to be dragged out of him by the questions of the counsel in the case. The result of such a remarkable trial will, no doubt, be a disagreement of the jury. But why should the trial be continued? Why should so mush trouble be taken and so much ex- pense be incurred to arrive at such a result? Why, indeed, should we bother ourselves any more with investigations into the past rascalities of any public officials or the mis- doings of any government department? Why should those unfortunate members of the Whiskey Ring who happened to be con- victed when Babcock was acquitted be kept any longer under the guardianship of prison authorities? Why should Belknap be ban- ished or Robeson be threatened with sus- pension? We are told that in case of Gover- nor Hayes’ election the republican party will become purified and reformed, while we know that under Tilden’s rule, if the demo- crats should succeed in November, every public office-holder will be a fitting aspirant for the saintly calendar. We are to have a reign of virtue and piety in Washington for the next four years, whatever may be the result of the Presidential election, and it can therefore be of little consequence now whether we succeed or fail in britiging to justice those who have here- tofore been sinners. With Hayes at the head of the government Belknap will be- come the perfection of chivalric honor, Robeson will scorn to allow a dollar of the public money to slip into the pockets of middlemen and their friends, Babcock and Porter will join the Church and forswear jobs, Chandler will enlist in the crusade started by Moody and Sankey, and Boss Shepherd will go into a monastery. We aro told in the good book that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just men who need no repentance. Washington is not ex- actly heaven, yet wo may well consent to abandon our prosecution of sinners and to hold a jubilee over their conversion when the next national administration shall be in- augurated. Tue Wearner.—A rain area of considera- ble size has been central for some days in the lower lake region, the Middle Atlantic States and the Ohio Valley, but is now moving toward the South Atlantic coast. High temperature prevails from Key West to Norfolk, with indications of the movement of storm centre to the southeastward of the first named point, proba- bly another cyclone passing over the West Indies southward of Cuba. In the northwest another depression with high tem- perature is manifesting itself and is likely to prove of considerable area. This disturb- ance will probably follow in the track of the one now passing off the coast and will bring more rain by the middle of the coming week. Low pressure generally prevails over the entire country east of the Rocky promising copious rains and fall freshets in the Westren rivers, The weather is extremely unfavorable for the checking of the yellow tever epidemic, and extraordinary precautions are necessary even in New York to prevent a visit from that dreadful scourge. | To-day the weather will bo warmer and cloudy, with, probably, light rain, followed by clearing weather toward night or on to-morrow morning. Tux Osmpaicn In THE Covrts.—If there isnothing more than political claptrap in the talk of prosecuting Governor Tilden for an alleged false return of his income the sooner that fact is definitely known the better. No honest republican could desire to see the courts of the United States made the vehicle for the sewage of the canvass. If there is any cause of action against Governor Tilden let a suit be entered at once ; but if there is nbdt let the District Attorney find some more straightforward way of stating the fact than suggestive | shrugs and nods, Doy'r Laven.—Some of the democratic journals want to see General Butler and Judge Hoar on the stump together. It would be laughable sight, something like seeing Senator Thurman and Mr. Pendleton on the same stump discussing currency, or like seeing Governor Tilden and Mr. Hen- dricks on the same ticket. If the campaign | committees on both sides had only a sense | of humor what a rollicking canvass this | | Lloyd, who is trying to convince sceptics | might easily be made! ——_—$—$<$<—$————— et The Gypsy Land. Tho gypsies are the most mysterious of all races. Their origin is supposed to be Egyptian, and they themselves believe it, but it is only matter of conjecture. In all Jands and in all ages they preserve their characteristics and their nomadic habits. They never assimilate with the people with whom they mingle, though they are necessarily influenced by associa- tions. The Hungarian gypsies differ from the English, but the fundamental resem< blance is strong. It is seldom that a settled gypsy can be found. Like Cain they wander over the face of the earth, and even when they are civilized on the sur- face they preserve an inner wildness. They are moved by a spirit of restlessness that hurries them from place to place, as if pursued by a fear or in pursuit of a hope. Those who have read George Barrow’s ‘Bible in Spain” will remember the marvellous stories of the character and habits of the Spanish gypsies, their beauty, their bravery, their cunning and their pride. Just such beings as these he describes, modified by American society, are the gypsies now encamped at Hunter's Point. They cannot live in houses, nor anywhere but beneath the open sky. The tent is their home, and of the wagon that carries them in the day they make their bed at night. Certainly the account we print to-day shows that this strange people still retain their primitive character, and are nomads and fortune tellera to the end. This picturesque camp, with its chief, who trades in horses; its queen, swarthy, meréenary, beautiful, who tella fortunes for money; its children playing in the tent among the trees, is a piece of the Orient set down in the Occident. It is the oldest vagabondage in the world contrasted with the youngest civilization. Indians as Soldiers. We suggested to Congress and the War Department some time ago the propriety of regularly enlisting the friendly Indians who are not yet engaged in agriculture or other useful occupations, and using them as sole diers to fight such hostile bands as those under Sitting Bull. It seems that a Captain McDonald, of California, has offered to raise a regiment of Indians, drill them thor« oughly and furnish them within threa months to the government. His offer wag “declined with thanks” by the War De« partment. Why? For service on the Plains we could not have better troops than the Indians, thoroughly drilled and disci- plined, would make; and while thus serving the government they wotld be earning @ support for their families and getting civ. ilized in the most effective way in which savages can ba made to take on the habitd and customs of civilization. To enlist three or four regiments of Indians would be the cheapest and most effective way of dealing with the Indian question. It would, to be sure, be a fatal blow at the Indian Ring; and that is probably the reason why Captain McDonald's offer was declined. A Hixt to Oxz or Governor Trupen’s Youne Men. —The Boston papers report that Mr. Dorsheimer, in his speech in Faneuil Hall, said, ‘‘Mr. Hayes or Captain Hayes os Corporal Hayes—he held some rank of which the country is not fully informed during the lato war.” Governor Tilden ought to keep his young men in order. We recommend him to forward to Mr. Dorsheimer a copy of the opening campaign speech of Mr. Hube bard, democratic candidate for Governor in Connecticut, in which he demanded on¢ more reform in addition to the long catn logue contained in the democratic platform— namely, a reform in manners. Mr. Dorse heimer ought to remember that Mr. Delano once spoke of Professor Marsh os “a Mr, Marsh,” and has been wishing ever since he hadn't. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Baron Bletehréder, of Germany, is at the Windsos Hotel. ‘The pit and galleries at Hell Gate wiil burst inte roars of applause to-day. Secretary Morrill returned from the North to Wash= _ ington yesterday morning, and has resumed his official daties. There is a great deal of dissatisfactionin General — Garflield’s district with him on account of his opposi- tion to-the ol4 American silver dollar, The Prince of Montenuoyo and the Prince of Leiche tenstein, of Austria, have returned to the city from Philadelphia, and are at the Brevoort House. In tho upper Susquebanna River there are moro thag 18,000,000 logs, and the inbabitants are waiting for some bigh water or some politician to go out and roll them. Major General James B, Stoedman, of Toledo, Ohio, is spoken of for Secretary of War under Tilden. The Chicago Tribune says that ho is an indorser of South- ern claims. Phitadetphia Times "A good and pure variety en. fertainment and a bailet which a lady may admire are possibilities, but not in Philadelphia without the inter. vention of the police.’ In the Scottish Highlands the Prince of Wales, in order to become popular, wears the Highland costume, which, a fa Mark Twain, is a modification of the dresg worn in the Garden of Eden, “Tats evening I called on two queens,” said an American in Paris to another, a new comer. “Aw, pleasant interview?” “Not very. The other fellow had three kings you know !"” Awnier in Figaro, in describing Félicien David’ (the St. Simonite) appearance, states that his cyeg were ‘so profoundly biack that all the stars of the fire mament could drop into them.” Sir Edward Thornton was among toe first to re. spond, by a liberal subscription, to the call made by « committee of citizens ot Washington for the relief of ‘he Savannah yellow fever sullerers, The planet Saturn hasaremarkablo protrusion on ite western limb, indicating a profound disturbance, Is is Deediess to say thi is directly over Troy, a where 1 democratic precession was the other night, ‘The European bronze workers are supposed to have come from the East, to have beon a people of Teranian race, whose present representatives aro the Basques, and perhaps the Magyars, and who can probably be traced also in the smnali dark peoples of Wales and ireland. The Princess Salm Saim, the devoted companion of the unfortunate Princess Chariotie of Beigiam during her stay in Mexico and untii the tragic death of her busband, the ) 1S About to be mar- ried to Mr. Charles Henenge, The ceremony will take place atthe English charch, Startgards, The Richmond Dispatch, in a welt written article on social ostracisin, which every one knows is practised for political opinion tm the South, says that ta the North republicans would socially ostracise democrats “$f they cou! Mr. Dispatch, this i sheer non. sense; there is neither wish, aor thought of chance. The Denver (Co) News denies the assertion that “the Hon, Lafayette Head (she republican eandidate for Lieutenant ernor in his own family 86 loog that he wants to enact tho rcie for the entire State.” Notwithstanding the denial it looks as though the Hon, Lafayette had been (oe caudie merabor of his own household,