The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1876, Page 6

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Gold opened at 110 1-8 and roge to 1101-4, Money on call was easy at the close at 1 1-2 and 2 per cent Government and railway bonds steady. A Pensonar Canvass.—Charles Francis Adams attacks Blaine personally and all the republicans generally, while ox-Governor Seymour deals sternly with Mr. Boutwell. It looks as if we were to have some warm fight- ing coon. Tus Amentcan Horses are still unforta- nate in England. Mate was eleventh in the Newmarket races yesterday, but the condi- tions under which he ‘ran are not stated. ‘The odds were heavier against Newport, who won, than against Mate. Stanprya Rock Acexcy has recently be- come known to fame, and the account of the Indian war and the principal warriors given by Colonel Burke, the late agent, is interest- ing, and accompanied with an explanation of his own part in the issue of supplies, Manzrep Women as Txacners,—Tho com- mittee appointed by the Board of Education to consider the effect of the employment of married women as teachers met yesterday. Commissioner Fuller seems to be fighting en imaginary evil, and that will probably be the opinion of the Board. The theories Mr, Fuller advanced were not supported by facts, and he did not attempt to prove his case. ‘for Gyrsy Quvuaxtn tells us that she elected Grant the last time by her magic gpelis, but that when Mrs. Grant asked her to let Lim have a third term she said, “No ; {can't allow it. It isn't right, and besides, he isn't a dt man for the place.” She pre- dicts very successfully after the event ; but now, if she will reveal the history and mys- | tery of Tweed's surrender, before the govern- ment does, she can have all the politicians in New York crossing her palm with silver, Tusa Wratnen.—The depression noticed in the Hrnatp as moving eastward over the lakes from Dakota is now central in Upper Canada, the isobare of lowest pressure ex- tending southward of the St, Lawrence, Rains prevailed Waring yesterday along the lower lakes and the northern por- tion of the Middle States, and as far to the southward as Louisville, Ky. ing the rain area developed to the north- westward as far as Duluth and St. Paul, and into Canada, with brisk westerly winds and low temperature. The partial cloudiness at New York was due to the influence of the cool upper currents on the moisture in the atmosphere as the area of low pres- sure to the northward approached our me- ridian. In the Northwest the temperature has fallen to thirty-two degrees, or freezing point, while the barometric record ran up to 30.30 inches, Cold weather prevails to the westward of this city, and will probably reach us to-night. During the early part of to-day the temporature will fall somewhat, with cloudiness and. vossibly, light rain, HERALD, every Saturday, at Five | An extra copy Will be sent to every club | Toward even- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 30, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEE’ The Kna of tne Truce More War. The expiration of the truce in Servia is not followed by peace, as it was hoped it might be, but by a resumption of hostilities. The cannonading heard at Nisch in the di- rection of Alexinatz is probably either an at- tack on the Turkish lines in front of that place or a reconnoissance in force. On the previous day General Tchernayeff was re- quested to come to Helgrade, but declined on the ground that he was preparing to at- tack the Turkish iines. It is not likely that if he had the intention thus attributed to him he would send word ofit so publicly that the correspondents would get it, and it seems more probable, therefore, that he is endeavoring to ascertain as a preliminary to a forward movement just what force the en- emy has in front of him at the presont mo- ment. There have, of course, been great changes in the respective positions of the troops in thetwo weeks past, and it is possible that the Turkish positions in front of Alex- inatz are feebly held. There has been bad weather; it is reported that the plague has been in the Ottoman camp, and that the Moslems were badly supplied, With the Servians, on the contrary, there have been great accessions and there is a consequent revival of spirits, and a vigorous forward movement may give a very different aspect tothe war—a possibility upon which the Servian commander evidently counts and one that has made him restive under the re- straints of the truce. Anevident attempt is made by the English correspondents to throw upon the Servians the whole burden of responsibility for the resumption of hostilities, But this is not just. They have persistently demanded an armistice which would practically end oper- ations for the present year, and they do not seem to have changed their position in that respect, What they Have now declined is to continue a mere suspension of hostili- ties, which is, it appears, rather a nominal than real discontinuance of active oper- ations—a truce regarded with little or no respect by the Turks, who are reported as having passed the Drina since the suspen- sion of hostilities and as having constructed two bridges across the Morava, ‘hese are not acts that a truce can cover, The Ser- vians may be impatient, which results from a natural impulse to take advantage of changes in the situation favorable to them ; but they have only refused to continue a truce that was the temporary convenience of the Turks, when the Turks stolidly refuse to consent to such a definite arrest of oper- ations as will givo the whole winter to the peacemakers. In this new stage of the war it assumes a different character from that it possessed at the date of the suspension of hostilities, It is a war on new conditions, with new parties and different purposes, and with very dif- ferent possibilities as to its result. With the countenance of England, and with an English fleet in Turkish waters, the Ottoman government fought to suppress insurrection in its provinces up to the time of the truce, and the provinces were unable to resist her while Russia looked on in apparent apathy. Now. Russia is a party to the war, and the appearances are that in a few wecks the Turks will be in retreat before a Russian army under Servian colors. Now the war is not for the suppression of an insurrec- tion ; it is not even on the part of the Slavs merely for the amelioration of their condi- tion under Turkish rule. It is for indepen- dence, and therefore for the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire. Unless the courts of Europe shall force a peace upon the Porte before the thousands of Russians that are thronging to the Servian colors shall have time to force the Turkish troops out of all the territory inhabited by Slavic people these territorics will be lost to the Empire of which they are nowa part. Ilitherto the most that the governments of Europe have ventured in the cause of these oppressed people has been to advise changes in the administration of the government, Every government in Europe knows now that such projected changes are of no value; that the reforms are never carried out by the Turks, and that the oppressions are every year worse, and if the Turks are once driven out no peace making Congress can possibly restore the Slavic provinces to their possession. Perhaps a consciousness of this fact was an element in the impatience of the Servians to have one more chanco at the enemy be- fore the winter, in order that they who have to make peace should find the situation one that would justify the exclusion of the Turks from countries north of the Balkan, But though che time is up and the fight- ing has begun again the diplomatists, who were, at the last accounts, earnestly endeavor- ing to reconcile tho differences of the various propositions for peace, will probably con- tinue their labors. It will be remembered that the Porte laid down the terms upon which it would consent to make peace, and that these were so extravagant that in St. Petersburg and in Berlin they were pro- nounced iropertinent. Then the Porte re- quested the Powers to suggest modifications or propose terms on their own part. This they did, and the Porte has hitherto not ac- cepted these terms, It promises an answer on Sunday, and it is reported that it is ready to accept the terms in substance, but desires to have them put in a form that will save its dignity. This means, perhaps, that the Porte wishes to have the terms putin such an ambiguous: way that while it yields all that the Powers demand the treaty, when read in Constantinople, may conyey to the Softas tho impression that Islam is triumphant and that the Sultan's enemies kiss the earth before him, The im- plication is that without such a concession in form the Sultan dare not sign tho treaty; dare not abandon the apparent victories of Abdul Kerim; dare not accept the impera- tive terms laid down by the infidel govern- ments, It is all very well for the London Times to argue that ‘it is madness for Tur- key to reject the advice tendered her”—that is, advice to make'peace as proposed; but the Sultan knows what is behind him. He re- members the recent history of his country much more vividly, perhaps, than it is re- membered in London, He does not forget the two Sultans who have immediately pre. ceded him and he regards with proper re- spect that power behind tho throne which will look upon all things as venial compered in Servia— with neglect of the will of Islam. The one sin of a sultan now is to offend the fanatical element: his one virtue is to fight the infi- dels, however desperate the conflict; and the Sultan may prefer to lose several provinces and all his armies in what is regarded in Islam as a holy war rather than to lose his own life by an unholy peace. It may be seen how desyerate is the Sultan's strait in this particular when the influence of England at Constantinople seems to be entirely without effect in inducing the Porte to assent to the terms proposed. England sees menaced now that integrity of Turkish territory which she has done so much to maintain, and menaced solely through the conse- quences that must follow the Sultan's re- fusal to make peace, Yet she cannot induce him to accept the terms, England is morally powerful at Constantinople when she sup- ports the Turks in what they wish to do, In opposition to their impulses she has no weight whatever, ‘That Russia threatens an invasion of Turk- ish territory if the terms laid down are not accepted may very well be a premature re- port. Russia would scarcely act except by concert with the other Powers, It is not clear what the Powers may decide to do in the event of the rejection of the propositions they have been asked to prepare, but nations such as are involved in this case are not apt to permit other nations to trifle with them. War, therefore, or rather an occupation of Turkish territory by Russian and .Austrian troops may follow and be the real means of “saving the Sultan's dignity.” The Sultan would never recover the territory occu- pied. The event would be welcome to the world as shelving for a time the agitations of the Eastern question, and* especially wel- come to us as producers of wheat and other army supplies. , At Jerome Park To-Day. There is every indication that the meeting which opens at Jerome Park to-day will be the most successful in the annals of tho Jockey Club, If old Boreas comes with a bracing breeze to make the checks of beauty wear a brighter glow an extra wrap or two may not be out of place around shapely shoulders in a carriage drive ; but this adds alltho more zest to the trip out and home. There are five events on the card to-day, and allof them will be interesting. Tho three-quarter mile dash, with maiden allow- ances, always makes a pretty race. Soon over, it treats the eyo toa fiash of brilliant color, just stirs the blood and awakes the interest enough to put every one in good humor for the solid running in the race to follow. This is the Jeromo Stakes, over two miles, for three-year- olds, which always brings a fine field of horses to the post. Following this comes the Nursery Stakes for two-year- olds, a form in which the silken-coated young beautics are wisely not asked to test their powers beyond a mile. It is a race that has always the added piquancy.of fore- casting the great horses of future years. The Manhattan Handioap, over one mile and a quarter, will bring a number of staunch horses before the staster’s flag, and as the performances of most of the animals are known to all the patrons of this exciting sport the race will be watched keenly until the numbers go up at the judges’ stand. Tho Selling Race, which closes the day, will give room for much speculation, Over a course a mile and an eighth the apimals can show their speed. The races commence promptly at half-past one o'clock, so those who take the road or the rail must.be out well before noon, We wish the meeting every success, A Campaign Falsehood Exposed. We spoke severely the other day of ex- Governor Vance, of North Carolina, in the belief that he had really uttered some brutal words which were imputed to him in local newspapers; and we were led to trust these reports by some passages in Judge Settle’s reply to Mr. Vance, which seemed to refer to the language imputed to Mr. Vance. A despatch which we print elsewhere this morning shows, on the testimony of Judge Settle, Mr. Vance’s opponent, that Mr, Vance did not use the language imputed to him; but that he quoted it from one ofthe “bloody shirt” speeches of Mr. Ingersoll, a republican speaker who is doing a good deal to make sensible men yoto the demo- cratic ticket all over the country, Mr, Vanco and Mr. Settle are ‘‘stumping” North Carolina together ; they aro rival candidates for the Governorship ; Judge Settle heard and replied to Mr. Vance’s speech, and he atonce, on being asked if the report was correct, said it was not. That is sufficient and the best evidence. Mr. Vanco did not say what was imputed to him, and of course our remarks had no cause, and fall to the ground, Mr. Cooper in Ohio, A Heraxp correspondent has been investi- gating the nature and extent of the green- back movement in Ohio, and his interesting report is printed elsewhere, Both parties in Ohio and Indiana are made anxious by the strength of Mr. Cooper and his party, No- body seems to be quite certain which party will lose the most through the gfeenback movement. In one place our correspondent found the “‘inconvertible currency” party weak, because the democratic candidate be- lieved as much and as openly in ‘more greenbacks” as the Cooper candidate, and the greenback men naturally concentrated on the democrat, But the Cooper-Cary party appears to draw to itself soft money men from both sides, and the only reason for believing that the republi- cans will suffer ‘the greatest losses is that they are popularly believed to be the most sincerely devoted to hard money, and Mr. Hendricks’ known senti- ments keep the soft money demoerats faith- ful to their ticket, Both parties incline in Ohio and Indiana to conciliate the greenback people, and it remains to be seen how the Congressional delegations from those States will siand on the currency question, This is a matter of a good deal of importance, be- cause, unless the next House of Representa- tives has a lerger body of sound currency men than this, we shall be as far off from hard money and iu as great danger of further financial” troubles in 1877 os we were last winter, “ Responsibility of Directors. When Punch, some years ago, proposed that a railroad director should be made to ride on the engine of every train he sug- gested a plan which certain stockholders of railroads here now somewhat tardily incline to use for their protection. A number of stockholders of the Michigan Southern and Lake Shore roads have taken steps to bring suit against their directors, claiming dam- ages for mismanagement of the property, and a stockholder of the New Jersey Central Railroad has appealed to the Chancery Court of New Jersey with the same purpose, demanding an injunction to restrain the managers of the road from issuing bonds for a new loan, and requiring also an account- ing to thestockholders. Why not? The directors of corporations have long been almost as irresponsible as the Grand Turk or the King of Dahomey. They have exercised greater powers, with less responsibility, than any other citi- zens in a free country. This has arisen out of the fact that the success of corporate enterprises is felt to de- pend very greatly upon the ability of a few managers and upon their unrestricted power to act for the good of the shareholders. But there have been in recent years too many in- stances where directors have acted not in the interest of those who held the shares or bonds of the enterprise, but have made their own advantage the chief study at the ex- pense of those who were, with them, inter- ested in the enterprise, but who had no power to interfere, Thus in Western mining enterprises the ‘freezing out” process has become notorious, by which directors com- pel shareholders to sellout at a loss by levy- ing needless and, arbitrary assessments. Thus, too, savings banks’ directors have shamelessly mismanaged and squan- dered the money of poor depositors, taking advantage of the carelessness of bank superintendents and governors, and on discovery have gone off scot-free. Thus again railroad directors are accused of using the property of which they have charge for their individual speculations without regard to the interests of the bond and share holders who own the road. If the directors of a savings bank invest the money of depositors in worthless securities ought they not to be personally responsible for the loss, unless they can show that they hon- estly used their best judgment? If they are found to have invested in State bonds and other securities of doubtful and speculative value, when they might have bought federal or New York State or city bonds, ought they to be let off on a plea of ignorance? Should not their private fortunes be seizable to make good the money they have, through ignorance or for their own profit, flung away? So again, if railroad directors mis- use their great power to make bargains, as directors, with themselves as individuals ; if a board makes the road it controls pay tribute to another company in which only the directors are interested ; if they entor upon rash and ill-advised schemes or spvculations or extensions or enterprises of any kind, the result of which is to injure the property of their shareholders, shall they not be held individually liable, im their private fortunes and in their persons, for such acts? There is hardly any kind of property in the world which has become 80 precarious as railrond shares, Not many years ago prudent business men thought such shares sechre investments for their wives and childfen ; nowadays no man, who is not “in the ring” himself or by an intimate friend, can sleep easily if he holds such ‘‘securities,” as they are still called, It isa regular and almost a legitimate business for a ‘‘combina- tion” to get control of the majority of the stock of # corporation, and thereupon to elect a board of directors, who proceed at once to make ducks and drakes of the prop- erty, leaving the innocent minority share- holder to pocket the losses they ruthlessly inflict, The modern railroad corporation, especially in this country, has become the football of speculative directors, It is high time to see whether those who assume con- trol of corporate enterprises cannot be held responsible for fairly good management in the interest of all the shareholders, and whether the wealthy director, who has be- come rich by manipulating the property in- trusted to him, shall not be held responsi- ble by the poor shareholder, at whose cost he has played the game, The Fugitive of the Skies. Vulcan is still a myth. Astronomers are divided upon the question whether he exists or not. M. Leverrier, the famous French astronomer, has informed the Henarp cor- respondent in Paris that on the 2d or 3d of October the planet will move over the disk of the sun, but Professor Parkhurst, who writes to us to-day, seems to doubt that it will be seen, or, indeed, if it ever has been seon, Vulcan plays hide and seek in the solar system and dodges among the planets. He conceals himself in light, like hypocrisy im a church. Often the delighted astronomer has thought he had Vulcan safe under his thumb, but, lifting it, he had vanished likea flea. A mosquito is not more difficult to catch than this elusive star. He resembles a policeman on a dark, rainy night--never where he is wanted, but always where he is not. He is the little joker of some Celestial thimble- rigger: now you see him, and now you don't, Those who have played three-card monte at Coney Island—and it is to be re- gretted that the popularity of that beautiful game is restricted by its expensiveness— have seen a practical demonstration of the astronomer’s chase for Vulcan, ‘Here, gene tlemen,” says M. Leverrier, with a telescope at each eye, because he is so short-sighted, “this ‘ere card with the corner turned up is the king of spades, Sce, I shuffles ‘em, and now turn it up.” But it is not the king of spades, ‘Bet you it is a belt of asteroids,” says Professor Parkhurst, gazing through smoked glass spectacles. The card is turned over, and behold! it is blank, There is not a sign of a spade nor a fragment of asteroid. So that par. ticular part of the heavens where Vulean should be on Monday night may prove to be like Mr. Boutwell’s “hole in the sky” in which he flung Andrew Johnson. Vulcan may be as invisible to the astron- omers as Hamlet's father’s ghost was to the Queen, “Do you see nothing there?” ‘Nothing at all; yet all that is I sec.” Planets as wellasa white man, it app2ars, can be mighty onsartin, and this particular one is the worst of the lot, not even excepting the earth, Vulcan is the William M. Tweed of the solar universe, and there is no assur- ance that we shall ever catch him till we have an extradition treaty with the sun. Centennial Awards. The fable of the old man amd the boy who took the ass to market is likely to find a new moral in the effect of the awards of medals and diplomas to exhibitors by the Centennial Commission, It is, of course, impossible to satisfy everybody in a compe- tition for honor, and the managers of the Exhibition no doubt knew that they could not succeed in the attempt, But they adopted the republican theory of doing the greatest good to the greatest number, and carried it out as the prudent school- master does who gives all of his pupils the highest average on examina- tion day. The Commissioners gave to thousands of exhibitors medals of equal value, and diplomas of undiscriminated praise. But even this artful way of dodg- ing the disagreeable duty of making an ab- solute choice between rivals for glory inevit- ably fails to give complete satisfaction, Those who believe their goods are the best are not contented to have inferior goods placed upon the same level as their own. Where all honors are alike no honors at all are justas valuable. The Centennial Com- missioners have undertaken to carry tho ass to the fair, and if he kicks and struggles, and the market people laugh they must not complain, We do not wish to say that any other plan would bave been more satisfac- tory, but it must bo good naturedly con- ceded that their attempt to refute the proverb that ‘‘when two men ride the same horse one of them must ride behind” is not successful. We think that testimonials of any kind are, as a rule; worth less to an ex- hibitor than the impression his goods make upon the public. But this is not the opin- ion of the merchant, to whom diplomas and medals are valuable as pegs on which to hang newspaper advertisements, The effect of the plan is that already the jour- nals contain glowing announcements that Jones, Smith, White, Brown, Green, Black and Blue, have each obtained the very high- est prize for pianos, and that Cobb, Robb, Hobb and Nobb, have each sooured the first medal and the most complimentary diploma for sewing machines. Each has the supreme honor, as every museum possesses the club that killed Captain Cook. The result will be that in manufacture and invention wo shall see the “Original Jacobs” of Chatham street repeated on an im- mense scale. First there was the “Original Jacobs,” then the ‘Original Original Ja- cobs,” and then the ‘Original Original Original Jacobs,” and so-on to tho crack of doom. But itis possible that they may be all right in their claims as well as wrong, The holders of these awards for the highest degree of excellence are like horses which have made equal time ina race; for, sup- posin’ that four horses have each made a mile is. vo minutes; and fourteen seconds, and that that is the fastest time on record, the “best time” may be claimed for each horso without fear of refutation, On this princi- ple all bets as to the best time aré invariably decided. But exhibitors aro not inclined to look upon the subject in this mild way. Each wishes to be ‘‘the only Original Jacobs,” and out of this peaceful Exhibition will come war. The pot will call the kettle black, rival boilers will explode with pas- sion, pianos will thunder in discord and the sewing machines will tear their shirts in rage. So much for the levelling up method of Centennial awards, which once more em- phasizes the moral of Hsop that those who try to please all will probably please none, “Red Hot.” Out in Ohio and Indiana the political can- vass isacknowledged, even by the local jour- nals, to be ‘‘red hot.” They have mass meetings twice a day nowadays all over In- diana, and each party boldly accuses the other of violating pretty much all the Ten Commandments, It may come to our turn in the East by and by, and it will be well for the politicians of both sides here to re- serve their strongest language until they reach the crisis of the canvass, say during the last week of Ootoben Thero are only a certain number of strong words in Webster's Dictionary, and it is too early here in the East to begin to draw on the limited supply as yet. A domooratic journal reports Mr. A. 8. Hewitt as describing some of Mr. Blaine’s Western speeches as ‘‘very cool and deliberate lying.” This seems to us un- timely language. It may be expected by and by from both sides, Mor the present we recommend to Mr. Howitt Senator Sum- ner’s ingenious paraphrase. When Mr. Sum- ner wanted to suggest that another honor. able gentleman had ‘‘lied” he used to re- mark that ho had ‘wade a statement which had no foundation in fact.” It amounts to the same thing, but it saves the proprieties, and they are worth something just now, Mr. Adams on the Campaiga. The democrats had ao very large and very enthusiastic meeting last night at the Cooper Institute, and addresses were made by E. K. Apgar, R. H. Marr, of Louisiana, and others, The event of the evening, however, was the bold, un- compromising, denunciatory letter of Mr. Charles Francis Adams. It is a brief but a powerful armignment of the Yepublican party, and places Mr. Adams in full acoord with the most deter- mined opponents of the administration, He declares that this is a struggle between tho people and the managers ; that the repub- lican party is corrupt almost everywhere and that a radical ohange is demanded. As proof of this Mr. Adams refers to the large vote given for Mr. Blaine, “deeply compromised by investigations,” in the Cincinnati Convention, and that given for Mr. Bristow, who ‘‘really did honor to himself by fearless and effective exposures of corruption in high places.” Finally, he accuses the republican leaders of being ready to have another war rather than let the Southern States vote as they choose. This letter and Governor Seymour's speech st Ution last night will make the campaign lively., . vigorous Governer Hayes. We print & communication from a ree spected correspondent who seems to bee warm admirer of Mr. Hayes. We must ox- press our entire dissent from the eulogy of this correspondent. So far as we are able to judge from his record Mr. Hayes is a man some parts of whose conduct may be ap- proved, while no part of it can be admired, We look upon him as a mediocre, well-inten- tioned gentleman, who has been lifted by the accidents of politics to a position to which he had no title founded on personal qualifications. He has none of the elements of a great and commanding character: neither the breadth of intellect, the force of will nor the ascendancy over other men with which nature stamps a nian born for leadership. He is immeasurably inferior to Morton, Blaine, Conkling and half a dozen other republicans that might be named in the qualities which fit m man for influonce over other minds and make him felt asa potent force in politics. We believe Mr. Hayes to be honest, but not more honest than hundreds of thousandg of citizens who are plain tillers of the soil or who gain their livelihood by mechanical skill. He is not eminent as a lawyer, was not emi- nent as asoldier, he made no figure in Congress as legislator, and there are probably few counties in Ohio which could not furnish as usefnl a Governor. We have nothing to say against the services rendered in public sta- tions by well-meaning mediocrity, but wo are unable to see thata small man is ren- dered great or admirable by a nomination for the Presidency. Our correspondent maintains that Mr. Hayes, if elected, will freé himself from party trammels and exercise a noble inde- pendence, guided only by justice. We wish we could believe so; but we are unable to find anything in Mr. Hayes’ career to warrant so pleasing an expectation. During the three years he was in Congress he was as obedient to party behests as the mob of ordinary members. That was the period of enormous land grabs for railroads, and the record proves that Mr. Hayes voted for them all, It would bea poor compliment to his sagacity to say that he acted in ignore ance; but not even this lame excuse can be pleaded, for Mr. Elihu B. Washburne, oux Minister to France, was then in the House and distinguished himself by a bold and opposition to those wasteful, swindling grants of the publio lands, Un- fortunately for the claim of independence which is set up for Mr. Hayes he never voted on such occasions with Mr. Wash« burne, but always with the majority of his party. Our correspondent seeks materials of eulogy in Mr. Hayes’ action as Governor of Ohio, but he fails to adduce a single in. stance in which Governor Hayes has acted in opposition to his party. Our correspondent asserts that on the Southern question the managers of the republican canvass ‘‘andaciously misrep- resent their candidate” We are told, with great emphasis, that Governor Hayeg deprecates the waving of the ‘bloody shirt,” and ‘‘does not believe in a new stirring up of suspicion, hatred and strife.” Conceding that these are the real sentiments of Mr. Hayes they only prove what a cipher , he is in the politics of his own party. The republican stump speakers and party or- gans, one and all, are waging the campaign on the Southern issuo, which, we are ag- sured, Governor Hayes so strongly disap- proves. Such contemptuous disregard of the wishes of their. candidate proves that they consider him a weak man—a mere figurehead in their canvass, It shows that he has no moral or political influence among his own supporters, If he has none now how can he be expected to exert any after his election? Among the able men of hig party he cannot find the materials of a Cabinet which will indorse his own views; for all the able men of the party, including even George William Curtis, are indus» triously waving the bloody shirt and trying to make the campaign turn on that issue. Oan Mr. Hayes administer the government without a Cabinet? Is hestrong enough ta override all the able men of his party? If the republicans elect. the President they will also elect the next House, and Congresa will pass a new Enforcenient law to take the place of that which has been annulled by the Supreme Court. Does anybody believe that Mr. Hayes would veto such a bill? Would a man of his moderate talents and peace-loving disposition venture to play the part of Andrew Johnson and court Andrew Johnson’s fate? Our correspondent may believe it, but wo do not. Our dissent from tho panegyrists of Mr. Hayes must not be understood ag an in« dorsement of Mr. Tilden. If am admirer of the democratic candidate should send us a eulogy which we consented to publish it would be accompanied with an equally free expression of our estimate of his charac- ter. Weare unable to see that the nomina- tion of a man for the Presidency ‘‘ndds one eubit to his stature” or cntitles him to a higher estimate than ho enjoyed before. Pygmies, though perched on Alps, are pygmies still, ‘And pyramids sre pyrainids in valoa* PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tweed used to be an office Secor. U. S Grant, J Frod Douglass Ex Governor Seymour Je visiting a good deal Peter Cooper will not eat even bard-boiled eggs. Lord lichester, of England, arrived at the Brevooft House yestorday from I’hiladelphia, A handsome drawing room salt may be of light dead-leaf brown, with greonish tinge It tw said that Alfred de Musset, the French poet, always wore a white glove. De Masset? English papers complain thatthe English crews wore ill treated to their ract this country, A telegram fror™Secretary Chandier announces thal bo will r to Washington this morning. Landor was brave enough to spoll It “b-t-g b-t,"" and Tennyson inaists that his printers shall produce “p-bo-w.”? Patti, who has been bathing at Dioppe; recently cob lected the offertory at one of the churches, and re. coived $200 in her plate. Admiral David D. Porter, United Statos Navy, ar- rived in the city, with his family, {rom Newport yos- terday, and is at the Hoffman House, General Wiiliamson, Commissioner of the Goneral Land Office, bas rotarned to Washington from his summer trip and Sesumed bis daties at that office yesterday. U. J, Baxter, Chiet Clerk, has been Acting Commissioner during bis absence U. & Grant, Jr. arrived in Washington Inst evening and Is preparing to receive Mr. and Mra. Sartoris whe will be im Washington to-day, The President is mat) ing « short sojourn among his friends in Washingtow, "e., aod will eterna te the National Canttal sart west