The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1876, Page 6

i | | NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. poiblh tla laa JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, bahia THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heraxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. FFICE—NO,112 SOUTH LONDON OF OF THE HERALD—NO. 46 F T PARIS OFFICE—AV Subscriptions and advertis received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS = TO-NIGHT. Lee eC ee BOWERY THEATRE. TULLAMORE, at 8 P.M. Colonel llenderson. FLASH OF LIGHTNING. » 3 GI MOn CONCERT, at 8PM. 2UM M. Matinee at2 P.M. ARDEN, S ROOT THEATRE. fARDANAPALUS, at 8PM. Mr. Bangs and Mra. Agnes VARK THEATRE, SLOUDS. at #9. M. FIFTH Charles f. Covhlan, AVENUE THEATRE, LIFE, at 8 P. N. UNCLE Tom's BABA, at 8PM. UNION § THE TWO OKPHAN ACADE NORMA. Mme. 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Tue Juve ho have been enjoying their summer vacation to-day resume their judi- cial labors. There is plenty of work ready for them. Axorner or Thos bold burglaries which show how the thieves are sometimes more ingenious than the police is reported to- day. Twenty thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry were stolen, and as yet there is no clew to the robbers. New Jznsey Pourrics.—In all the Novem- ber States the disposition seems to be to wait for the elections in Ohio and Indiana before making a lively canvass at home. This is the condition of New Jersey, where the campaign has thus far been rather dull. Both parties affect to be certain of success, bnt it is likely that one is as frightened as the other. Jgrome Park Racrs.—The postponement of the opening day of the fall meeting of the American Jockey Club until to-day will, we are assured on competent authority, re- sult in fine sport. The weather will probably de such as to call outa large attendance, and the five events on the card will well repay the throng. As the first race begins at half- past one those who intend enjoying the lovely drive through Central Park must time their starting accordingly. Homx Aaarn.—The coming back of tho ex- Boss to the scenes of his early struggles in politics, his triumphs and his disgrace, is an event which awakens the highest interest among the friends and foes of the great thief. The cpinions expressed by ‘those who -know” in our article published to-day are + worthy of perusal, for they reflect the senti- ments of the general run of local politicians, the men who ride out every storm in which the heavier craft founder and sink. Axpvur Hamp Il.—We print a very inter- esting letter from our correspondent in Constantinople, descriptive of the ceremony pf investing the new Sultan with the sword of his ancestor, Othman. ‘Ihe scene was one of truly Oriental splendor, worthy of the important event. The new ruler of the Osmanlis is a man with a strong will ond a fair edu- cation, but in other respects he is simply a Turk. How he will govern the party that has already kicked out his predecessors and murdered one of them remains to be seen; but there are strong indications that the more popular he is among his own people the greater are his chances of being the last of the Sultans of European Turkey. _ Excuse Horron at mm butcheries is described in an article print- ed elsewhere in to-day’s Hxnarp as being the very reverse of sincere, Britannia makes tremendous outcry over butcheries which are believed to have been induced by a feeling of confidence that, no matter what was done to the rebel - Slavs by their Ottoman rulers, England would sustain the exercise of legitimate authority. Now, however, when the sensi- bilities of Christendom aro shocked by the etails of massacre and destruction furnished ia Mr. Schuyler’s official report, Englishmen . bold indignation meetings over the bleached bones and ruined villages of the Bulgarians, “a and generously resolve to ‘stop this thing” when very few remain to be murdered and the ravaged country is desolate. Bowcartan* The Custer Massacre—Must the Re- sponsibility Rest on the Living or the Dead? Our special correspondent, writing from Bismarck on his return from General Terry's expedition, felt it his duty to make public serious charges, which had been privately circulated in camp, against an officer who had been prominent in the Little Big Horn fight. With or without reason, a large share ot the responsibility of the Custer disaster was laid on the head of Major Reno by actors in the fight, both on account of his hurried retreat to the bluffs and his inaction after his junction with Captain Benteen. Our correspondent felt it was his duty, under the circumstances, to take the responsibility of putting before the country the serious charges of indifference and _ inefficiency which have been whispered about the camp by the soldiers who accompanied the gallant Custer in his onslaught on the Indian vil- lage. In doing this our correspondent did only his duty. He no doubt wrote these grave charges with as much_ regret as we felt in publishing them. There could have been no private spleen to vent, no personal interest to subserve, but only the fulfilment of a duty toward the public, who look to the Heraxp for an impartial account of what is transpiring in the most remote corners of the world. The rumors and charges may be unfounded: they may be absolutely untrue, as we sin- cerely hope they may prove to be. Our correspondent does not vouch for the cor- rectness of these statements; for none of the events came under his own observation. But we cannot doubt for a moment that the rumors were in circulation substantially as he reported them to the Henaxp; and, find- ing them whispered from one to another with no one having the courage to rise up and speak so that the country should hear what the soldiers and officers were say- ing, he took the responsibility of put- ting plainly into print the charges that were persistently made against the con- duct of some of the prominent actors in the Little Big Horn tragedy. Nothing is more painful than the laying of accusations against army officers engaged in difficult and dangerous duty. They have a great deal to contend against, and when it can be shown that their misfortunes have resulted from mistakes of judgment they are entitled to be treated with all charity. But, unfortu- nately, in the present case there is an ele- ment of doubt as to whether certain officers did do their duty in such a way as the coun- try and their comrades had a right'to ex- pect. We do not make this accusation, but it is freely made by brother soldiers speaking among themselves in confidence, and we only call attention to the serious nature of these camp rumors in order .to allow those inter- ested either to prove the truth or the falsity of statements that affect the honor and:com- promise the soldierly reputations of some holding high rank in the army. No sol- dier, no matter how brilliant his past record may have been, can afford to allow state- ments reflecting on his efficieney and cour- age to pass unchallenged, and we sincerely hope to see a demand for investigation into this Custer massacre put forth by tho officers themselves. This will be the best reply to any unworthy slanders that may have been ut- tered through jealousy or from a desire of re- venge. The country would like to know all the truth about the Custer massacre, and no officer who did his duty need have any fear to come before an investigating commit- tee to answer for his conduct. Much that our correspondent writes confirms in an au- thoritative way the suspicion entertained vaguely by the public that Custer had not been fairly dealt with, and strengthens the idea that the blundering of subordinates had as much to do in bringing about the massacre in the Little Big Horn Valley as had the rashrfess of General Custer, if not more. No officer of the United States army can afford to remain silent under accusations of such gravity. They must be answered, and, if possible, shown to be baseless fabrica- tions. It will give real pleasure to the Henrarp if the officers interested in telling the whole truth about the Custer fight can show satisfactorily that none of the living are responsible for the untimely death of theie comrades on the 25th of June. ‘There exists in the public mind a deep seated suspicion that some one blundered, and the vague rumors that were current in General Terry's camp show that the soldiers were not satisfied with the conduct of all who went into the fight under the gallant Custer. The officers of the army cannot afford to have this subject discussed in the col- umns of the Herap and talked about in the public places and by the firesides of, the country without trying to disprove these rumors if they can be disproved. We shall be delighted to do the fullest justice to the accused parties. We go further, and wish that they may be able to prove clearly that they are wholly free from responsibility for the blood shed so uselessly in the Little Big Horn. Soldiers in indian wars cannot be judged by the same standard we apply when dealing with a civilized foe; the con- ditions are wholly distinct. Indian fighting resembles more thé warfare of the Middle Ages, when victory was decided by personal prowess rather than by the application of scientific rules of war. Many circumstances may yet be unknown which would ex- plain actions that we are now pre- pared to criticise severely; but if any such circumstances exist they should be at once brought to light. At the present moment the country is too much occupied with the work of selecting a new king to undertake an inquiry into the causes which led to the Custer massacre; but as soon as the elections are over an investigation must be had. Then the whole Indian question will come up for settlement, and if the people want to avoid these expensive Indian wars we must remove both the Quaker and the Yankee elements from our policy—that is, we must cease to pet and cheat the Indian, for the future a juster and more rational policy than the one we are now forced to abandon. If not we must prepare ourselves for periodical outbursts of ven- geance on the part of a savage race, which, though it feels its impotence to arrest the march of the white man, is resolved to fight to the last for existence. Only bv the adov- and adopt’ tion of a policy of justice can we disarm the hostility of the Indian. The present is a propitious moment for the change. Unfortunately the politicians wish to un- dertake the settlement of our difficultiés with the red man. We have two candi- dates for the Presidency, both of whom declare themselves in favor of reform and anxious to settle this Indian question. Both have their panaceas, and we fear that the ingredients in both are alike. So far as Tilden or Hayes is concerned the Indian question will goon as usual, and continue to be settled until it has been finally put an end to by the disappearance of the Indians. But the politicians may console themselves with the reflection that the Indian question will not have much weight in the coming election, the only danger to republican suc- cess arising from the German vote. Hunting a Star by Daylight. When attention was directed to General Newton's great work people were talking rock; when Old Probabilities or one of his boys foretells a storm people talk clouds; but when the sages that pass their lives between the little ends of telescopes and the table of logarithms are nervous and agitated people talk stars. Such are the shiftings of wonder- land. The féte days of science have taken the place of the feasts of the saints. Dy- namite, not faith, moves mountains in this modern world of ours. Things are tested, weighed, measured and explored minutely nowadays that were dreaded or wondered at or passed by unnoted in the ages gone by. The reefs, the clouds and the stars tell a story that they never told before. We search beyond appearances into the deeper nature of things until every day has its dis- covery. The Chaldean shepherds who counted the stars would surely think tho world was mad if they saw the astronomers of to-day looking for a planet by daylight— a mere planetule that ‘never, but in unap- proached light, dwelt from eternity.” It may not be of so much importance to New York as the Assembly nominations in the Fourth ward, but the name of Vulcan, the old god of hammer and anvil, will be heard on many an unscientific lip for days to come in Gotham. Meanwhile keen eyes will watch from morning until night for o small black spot expected to cross the face of the sun. An old astronomer who weighs worlds in his scientific scales | found one morning that some strange body ‘ was pulling Uranus out of his course. “There must be some sly old star at work,” said he, “but if we watch for him close we'll find him.” So all the astronomers lay like scientific policemen watching for this loose character of the skies, and one bright night they found him and photographed him for the rogue’s album of the heavens. It was Neptune. ‘hen Leverrier turned his telescope on Mercury. He found that he, too, was a little unsteady and straying from the right path, and imme- diately suspected that there was a little regue leading him astray who dodged around the chariot of the sun whenever this old heavenly patrolman pointed his glass that way. One day a French physician who thought more of the Mercury of the sky than the-mercury in his physic jars, saw small round spot The Political Canvass in 1 jana. The letter of our correspondent in Indi- ana will convey a lively impression of the energy. spirit, scenic claptrap and stump oratory of the Indiana canvass, as well as of the closeness of the contest and the extreme uncertainty of the result. The party lead- ers on each side express entire confidence, and perhaps more confidence than they really feel. In every election there is a body of citizens who hang loosely on the skirts of political parties and prefer to vote with the victorious side if they can satisfy themselves which it is to be. Hence the simulated confidence and swaggering boastfulness which are conspicuous features of every warmly contested election. While such pro- fessions are always deemed politic in point of strategy they have also an element of sincerity. At first view might seem odd that capable politicians who have traversed a State making speeches and keeping in constant intercourse with tho people should reach diametrically opposite conclusions as to the drift of popular senti- ment; but it is really no paradox, only a natural consequence of the different sur- roundings of the itinerent orators. Wher- ever a republican speaker goes he finds him- self ina heated republican atmosphere and is fed with favorable and exaggerated ac- counts of the strength of his party, and all the democratic speakers have a similar ex- perience. Both sides are more or less im- posed upon by the party zeal and sanguine hopefulness of the men who crowd about them in the localities they visit. Add to this the easy credulity of human nature in be- lieving what it wishes, and we can under- stand why both parties in Indiana are confi- dent of success, Our correspondent, who has taken pains to get aclear idea of the situation, thinks that the drift of sentiment in the rural districts is favorable to the democrats and in the towns to the republi- cans. Considering that Indiana is in the main an agricultural State this esti- mate would seem to foreshadow a demo- cratic success; but it may turn out that large republican majorities in the cities will more than counterbalance small democratic majorities in the counties. Our correspond- ent also thinks that at the final pinch the greenback party will largely desert their own ticket and that the deserters would be more likely to join the democratic ranks. But this is mere speculation, and even if the greenback party should dissolve we see no reason why the republicans should not get the greater share of it. The majority of the soft money democrats in Indiana are ,feting with the regular party, and if the soft money republicans should get the im- pression that the greenback ticket is a mere lure for weakening the republicans they would be likely to go back to their old asso- ciations. Throughout the canvass the repub- lican leaders have dreaded this third party as tending to weaken them more than their opponents. There has been no day when the republicans of Indiane would not have re- joiced to see the greenback party disbanded, and if they can now convince its republican members that their democratic associates } mean to desert they will have a fair chance moving across the sun's face. ‘Leverrier’s gamin of the sky is caught at last,” said the scientists. ‘It was only a pill on the old doctor's glass—a myth and not the smith,” said the cynics, To-day or to-mor- row or the day after the truth will be tested. If found the calendar of science will mark a Vulcan day, for, star though he be, he can never have a Vulcan night. There's the rub, or rather the rubber. What Does Mr. Adams Meant In his letter to the democratic meeting at Cooper Institute on Friday evening Mr. Charles Francis Adams wrote:—‘‘The great effort of the republicans seems to be to operate on the popular passions excited dur- ing the late civil war. “Instead of repeating the honorable call of President Grant, ‘Let us have peace!’ the cry is for raising what may prove another war.” It is decidedly unpleasant to hear of ‘another war” from so moderate and cautious o statesman as Mr, Adams. Yet it must be confessed that the apprehension which he only hints has taken hold of many other minds besides his. It is adisagreeable fact that the anti-reform re- publican leaders have acted in this canvass with an unscrupulous and reckless vehe- mence which gives to many sober-minded republicans the fear that they mean to retain power at all hazards. People do not forget that the ‘Union-shrickers” of 1860 and the years preceding very largely turned out mutineers against the Union when they were defeated at the polls; and the democratic canvass of 1860 resembles in many of its worst features the republican canvass of 1876. Ifthe re- publicans want to succeed in November they will do well to drop the ‘bloody shirt,” to give up military interference in the South- ern States and to begin, without the least dolay, in talking of reform and trying to in- spire the people with faith that the reform wing of the party is going to control the next administration, if that should be re- publican. If the Northern people once get it into their heads that the Mortons, Logans, Sargents, Spencers, Kelloggs, Packards and Chamberlains are to control the republican party they will give so sweeping a majority for the democrats as will leave the republi- cans in a hopeless minority for a quarter of a century. Senator Gonpox on tHE Sovrs.—South Carolina is supposed to be the most donbt- ful State in the South, and is claimed by both parties. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, who has been speaking through the State with General Hampton, has favored the Heraup with his views of the political situation, and they will be found very shrewd and inter- esting. The Senator says that thousands of the intelligent and educated negroes will vote for Wade Hampton and for Tilden; that the mismanagement of the government will cause many who have been republicans to oppose Chamberlain, and believes that nothing can prevent a democratic victory but. muilit interference. The army he thinks has no wish to meddle with politics; but the danger is that the troops under the order of United States marshals, who do- pend for their offices upon the election of Haves. may be used for partisan purposes. of recovering all they expected to lose, Mr. Blaine is making a great impression in Indiana and is breathing new life and hope into the republican side. Until he visited the State the chances seemed to preponder- ate in favor of the democrats, and perhaps they do st‘'l; but the scales hang so nearly even that it will require but little to turn them either way. The Weather. Local weather observations for the month of September give the following results, which will prove interesting to the readers of the Henatp:—The highest barometric press- ure was recorded on September 16 at 30.322 inches, and the lowest on the 26th at 29.655 inches, the mean for the month being 29.992 inches. The highest temperature—86 de- grees—was experienced on September 1 and the lowest—45 degrees—on the 28th, the mean temperature for September being 63.5 degrees. The velocity of the wind attained its highest on the 17th, when it was fifty miles per hour dur- ing the great Sunday storm, which was caused by the northward movement of tho cyclone. Onthe same day the rainfall was 2.63 inches, and the atmospheric humidity highest, being equal to 90.7 percent. Dur- ing the month the weather was fair ten days, clear three days, cloudy seven- teen days, and rain fell on the 2d, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 30th. A com- parison of mean temperatures for September for the past six years shows as follows:— 1871, 61.8 degrees; 1872, 65.8 degrees; 1873, 65.4 degrees; 1874, 67.2 degrees; 1875, 63.8 degrees, and 1876, 63.5 degrees, A similar comparison of rainfall shows that for 1871, 213 inches; 1872, 3.44 inches; 1873, 2.51 inches; 1874, 7.16 inches; 1875, 2.51 inches, and 1876, 5.24 inches. The prevailing wind during the month was northeast. The foregoing figures are taken from the official records of the Signal Service, and demonstrate in the comparisons given the variations of rainfall which were so frequently discussed during the recent scarcity of Croton water. The early morning cold area in the Northwest is steadily developing southward and éast- ward; but the area of high pressure has moved southward into ‘Texas, caus- ing o general fall of temperature over the Southern and Mississippi Valley States, which will, it is to be hoped, effectually stop the ravages of the yellow fever on the South Atlantic cgast. Yester- day morping the temperature at the follow- ing points was:—Norfolk, Va., 50 degrees; Montgomery,.Ala., 46 degrees; Savannah, Ga., 50 degrees; Shreveport, La., 43 degrees, while during the day the temperature at these points roseonly to 58, 55, 64 and 65 degrees respectively, which must prove ex- tremely” beneficial from a sanitary point of view. Rains prevailed during the day along the lower lake region, Northern New York and on the New England const. Ag qrea of low barometer is now central north of the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and will probably move eastward, without affecting our vicinity, except so far as to produce cloudiness. A high temperature and brisk winds accompany tho depression, The NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, I876—TRIPLE SHEET. ' and clear or partly cloudy, possibly with very light rain at intervals. The Weed-Stephens Controversy. We presume that Mr, Weed’s letter which we print to-day closes the controversy be- tween him and Mr. Stephens, which has been kept up in our columns for several months. These veterans were in the last generation distinguished leaders of the same political party, Mr. Weed being the most accomplished tactician of the old whig party in the North and Mr. Stephens ranking as one of the ablest reasoners and orators of the same party in the South. Their paths di- verged when the slavery question became the predominant issue, and the present con- troversy between them relates to a period when both were still whigs. In 1850 ao difference arose between President Taylor, the official head of the whig party, and Henry Clay, who had long been its most ad- mired popular leader. By what seemed an odd alliance General Taylor's policy was supported by Mr. Seward, Mr. Weed natur- ally siding with the New York statesman, while Mr. Stephens, with nearly all the Southern whigs then in Congress, followed the banner of Mr. Clay. The death of President Taylor prevented that conflict from being pushed to extremities and post- poned the civil war for ten years. The con- troversy between Messrs. Weed and Stephens relates to astormy scene at the White House previous to General Taylor's death, in which he gave way to a torrent of wrath, after an interview with two Southern leaders, of whom Mr. Stephens was one. Mr. Weed having given in the Hzraup a detailed account of what took place on that occasion Mr. Stephens followed with an emphatic denial thut anything of the kind had ever occurred. Mr. Weed’s recollections have been corroborated by a circumstantial letter from ex-Vice President Hamlin, who visited the White House on the same day and hour when Mr. Stephens and his companions were with the President. Mr. Stephens replied, not with rebutting testimony, but by an argument intended to show the improbability of the President having used such language as Mr. Weed and Mr. Hamlin attributed to him. Mr. Weed now rejoins by bringing a new witness in support of his first statement. This witness is General Alfred Pleasonton, who served under Gen- eral Taylor in the Mexican war, enjoyed his confidence and friendship, and had a conversation with him a few days after the alleged interview, in which the President threatened to hang the Southern traitors. General Pleasunton’s testimony strengthens that of Mr. Weed and Mr. Hamlin, and it seems extremely unlikely that three gentle- men should be mistaken in their positive recollections of the same event. It is a curious chapter of unwritten history which Mr. Weed has supplied. What Shall Be Done with Constanti- noplet It is asign of the times that in Germany and England political speculation is busy over schemes for the disposition of Constan- tinople and Turkey in Europe which start from the assumption that the present filthy occupant is to be put out. Some progress of opinion is implied in the fact that the people who framo projects as to the future of States view the Ottoman régime in Europe as drawing toward its close. In London the speculation takes into the case the re- lations of the English and Russian royal families by the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh. It is proposed to found a Byzantine dynasty, on the throne of which the Czar’s daughter would sit side by side with the Queen’s son. It has been a sort of policy in Europe, though not a very suc- cessful one, to set up thrones here and there in odd corners and put German princes on them as they tried to put Maximilian on a throne on this side of the Atlantic, On the other side of the water these experi- ments do not end so badly as that one did ; but the results are at best a kind of hot- house thrones, very different in vigor from the kind grown in the open air of national conflicts, Butin the candidates proposed for this throne England and Russia would have an almost equal interest, and they arg the parties that must be pleased before all others. In Munich, where the interest in the fate of Constantinople is artistic and philosophical, they propose a govern- ment by commission, under the joint protectorate of the European governors. It is not certain whether there is any ground left for these speculations—whether they are notall too late Some time ago a Paris paper published a purported treaty between Germany and Russia which touched the point, and decided that in a certain con- tingency the powers of those two ‘govern- ments should occupy the country, invite the Sultan to go to Asia, and then determine be- tween themselves the further facts. This treaty was denied and the paper was fined for publishing it. But the denial may after all only have been diplomatic. If Prussia and Russia have really gone so far in their plans farther suggestions from the public are un- necessary, Beac eld’s Bosh. ‘ Members of agricultural associations in England occasionally emjoy the rare privi- lege of hearing from the lips of Prime Min- isters the secrets which are carefully pro- tected from the curiosity of the common people. Hence in order to know what is going on among the rulers of Eu- rope it is necessary in England to become an enthusiastic admirer of short horns and big turnips. The Royal Bucks Agricultural Association has dined, the ora- cle of the British government has spoken, and the world now knows at last what has been the tenor of English policy on the Eastern question. A full account of the proceedings will be found on another page of to-day’s Henarp., After hitting Mr. Gladstone asharp blow for his Bulgarian sympathies the Eng- lish Premier proceeds to tell what great things his government has done for the cause of hu- manity in Turkey—how, while the bashi- bazouks were murdering and outraging their helpless victims, Lord Derby was negotiating all the time, and, although the {pct of the ruthless slaughter of the peasants in Bulgaria remains uncontroverted, continues negotiating yet. The secret socicties of Europe, it appears. are responsible for all weather in New York to-day will be cool | the tronble, and were it not for theit mischievous influence the Sultan’s military tas gatherers and cutthroats generally might still be peaceably employed in the destruc- tion of the Christians of Herzegovina and Bosnia. Lord Beaconsfield’s words were listened to and loudly cheered by the bucolic assemblage, and each one returned to his home satisfied that the country in general is pretty safe, but that the county of Bucks is entirely out of danger. Terry's Sioux Campaign. Now that the Sioux campaign on the Yel- lowstone has been closed for the season and the troops sent to their posts we may sum up and see what has been accomplished by the operations during the past summer. What- ever may be said or thought about it by others, that portion of our Indian war intrusted to General Terry, so far as he was concerned, seems to have been conducted to the entire satisfaction of those engaged in it, who, after all, are perhaps the best judges of what should have been done. General Sheridan has hastened to express his approbation of General ‘Terry’s management, and when we remember what an eminent authority the Lieutenant General is on Indian fighting we feel like accepting his opinion as final. Certainly no man in the nation is more capable of judging what ought to be accomplished in an Indian came paign, and we have never yet known General Sheridan to bestow praise where it was not deserved or withhold a reproof when it was merited. * We publish to-day a long and interesting account of General Crook's latter campaign, which is aptly described as a kind of Mos. cow retreat. We will return another day te the consideration of General Crook’s relation to the events of the campaign which has just closed, There is probably much about the Custer massacre that has not yet been made publio and that in time willcomeout. The plan was well laid for enclosing and destroying the Sioux onthe Little Big Horn, and that it mis- carried in execution was not the fault of the Commanding General. Perhaps the first cause of failure was due to a want of concert of action between General Crook's and Gens eral Terry’s forces. ‘There are good reasons for doubting whether Colonel Reno managed his part of the fight of the 25th of June to the best advantage. Our correspondents say that when Reno began to fall back with his three companies of cavalry there were not over one hundred Indians in his immediate front, and but one cavalryman had been wounded. Yet a retreat that degenerated into a rout was made at this stage of the battle. It has also been stated that the Indians withdrew in full view of Reno, and could be seen going in the direction Custer had taken, and that Reno permitted them ta concentrate on Custer, and did not attempt te go to his relief for over an hour, and then only sent one out of seven companies under his command. Heavy firing was heard in the direction of Custer, and yet Reno only sent, one company to his relief and kept the six back. Perhaps these things can be explained. by military men, and there are men living who were present in the battle who know all about it, and we should like to have them throw a little more light on the subject. Custer has been charged with being rash and with having un- necessarily sacrificed the lives of his offi- cers and men, and it is due to the memory of Custer as well as the friends of the dend soldiers that all the facts about the battle of the Little Big Horn should now be made known, Custer could have waited until Terry, with Gibbon’s column, could have co-operated, but in all probability the Indians would have taken alarm and es- caped. We cannot see that Onster's plan of fighting the battle was faulty, and there is great doubt as to whether the failure to capture the Sioux village was not due to the incapacity of sub- ordinates rather than any rashness on the part of the dead General. Notwithstanding their success in the battle of the 25th of June, and the destruction of Custer and his men, the Indians gained no permanent advantage, and their victory was en- tirely barren, as General Terry came up next day with Gibbon’s column and gave the warriors their choice of either fighting the battle over again on the same ground or of beatinga retreat. The Sioux went to war with great expectations, vowing that before it was over they would drive the miners out of the Black Hills, push back the border settle. ments and kill hundreds of white men, women and children. The first campaign ends in their being broken into small bands, flying in all directions, utterly demoralized, while more men are going daily to the Black Hills and our frontier set- tlements are steadily advancing. So far as the killing of Indians was con- cerned the campaign just closed was un- doubtedly a failure, but that the Indians are completely beaten and demoralized and rendered wretched by the operations there is nota doubt. The object sought to be ate tained by the campaign—viz., the breaking of the Sioux power, the safety of our miners and the securing of our frontier settle. ments—has been accomplished ; and why, after all, should we seek to destroy these poor wretches? Our troops are welcome home to their families and winter quarters, and the country, whether it does or not, ought to feel grateful tothem for their ser- viees. General Terry seems to have man. aged his campaign excellently well and to have won golden‘opinions from his officers, soldiers, and, indeed, every one who was with him, and we are glad of it, for General Terry is not only a modest gentleman but an accomplished and able soldier. A Heap Tax ow Inmronaxts may be 9 mode of collecting funds for the protection of those who seek our shores which has some objectionable features. A more scientific mode, perhaps, would be to charge the steamship companies pro rala for the amount of aid extended to the passengers they have carried during a specified time; but the difficulty of collect ing revenue under such an arrangement ig obvious, particularly as the steamships are mostly owned by aliens and sail under fom eign flags. We think that the wholesale opposition of the companies to the bill introduced during the last ses« sion of Congress ia short-sighted. Tt ta 4 jy oes