The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1876, Page 6

_ VOLUME XLI NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —-——_— Pare DAILY HERALD, published every day in bol et Three cents per copy (Sun- day exclu ed). ‘Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month tor any period less than six months, or five dollars for six | months, Sunday edition included, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hepa. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AOE 8 dh ES PHILADELPHIA OFF: 1CE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON RACE OF te NEW YORK sTR Subscriptions and advertisements will ‘be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. 10, 298 — | AMUSEME Oh “TO-NIGHT. N BABA, at SP. M. DEAD To ~~ WORLD ats * M. Sid. C. Franee. NION Two ORPHANS, ats BOOT! SARDANAPALUS, at 8 Booth. HEATRE. PARK SWEETHUBAKTS aud TOM BROOKLY. HENRY IV., at ae bs | GARDE RGHERI, at 2and8P. 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To that end we have secured wagons and newsboys to patrol every thoroughfare of this city to accommodate our readers. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may desire from the wagons at the usual wholesale price and also at 1,265 Brodway and No. 2 Ann street. From our reports this morning the probabilities gre that the weather to-day will be clearing, with fog, and warm. Wart Srre —The stock market was fairly active, and at the close prices were generally firm. Western shares show the greatest improvement. opened at 109 7-8, declined to 109 5-8, and ad- vanced to 110, which was the closing price. Government bonds were irregular, but rail- way bonds were strong. Money on call was supplied at 2 1-2 and 1 1-2 per cent. The price ‘of the Henap to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Ir Is IxTEnesTING to s see how the politi- | cians figure, and so we have taken the | trouble to obtain a little arithmetic from the party leaders on both sides in the Presiden- tial contest who have headquarters. As a matter of course their conclusions are widely apart, but the reader can compare their tables for himself, and then make up his mind as to which is nearer the truth. JERSEY Justice is ‘notably severe, but ih the case of the indicted prize fighters for murder in abetting the death of young Walker it is an injustice to the accused not to grant immunity to the spectators of the fight who could testify in their behalf. There is no reason or justice in holding the terrors of the law over persons whose brutal instincts lead them to look at a prize | fight, disgusting as the exhibition is, ‘The price O the Henaxp to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. A Drmapru. you Munpen ina seilway carriage in Belgium is reported by cable this morn- ing. The story is an unusual one. A police | officer was conveying a prisoner from Ostend to Brussels, and while on the journey the latter crushed the officer's skull with his manacles. Such an appalling crime would not be possible in the American railway cars, while murders and other offences are fre- quently committed in the closed carriages | on the European railways. Tne Untrep States Surremm Court ren- dered an important decision yesterday, af- fecting several New York life insurance offices, The Court decides that policies in which residents in the South have an inter- est, but in whieh payments have failed to be made, such failure being caused by a public war, they @r@ entitled to recover the equit- able valad of the policies. Mr, pangs and Mra Agnes | Gold | | The Prestdential Election and the National Credit. | An active discussion has been going on for | the last three or four days in the party press relating to the public credit—a discussion so mischievous that an independent journal mhy be justified in interposing as a modera- | tor. This discussion has grown out of a trivial circumstance. The Washington cor- respondent of a respectable evening paper | telegraphed that letters have been received | from London in which the opinion was ex- pressed that the success of the democratic party would arrest the new four and a half | per cent national loan. As the corre- spondent gave neither the text of the letters northe names of the writers his effusive despatch deserved no attention. Carlyle, in one of his bitter moods, described the English public as consisting of “thirty mill- people—mostly fools.” Without in- dorsing this ill-tempered sarcasm we may safely say that among the thirty millions of our British cousins there are at least thirty fools, and if any two of the thirty wrote such letters as are described by the Washington correspondent of the Evening Post his trath- fulness might be vindicated without making his despatch of any importance. ‘The letters in question-——conceding them to have been written and received—are of no consequence so long as the names of their authors remain concealed; for any free born Briton can write an absurd letter to any Yankee on any subject he pleases. If the writer is ion so long as his name is shrouded in mystery. ! The importance given to the statement of this Washington correspondent is ridiculous. Mr. Belmont has lifted him into factitious importance by deigning to reply to his loose assertions. Whether the letters in ques- tion have any real significance depends on the standing of their authors, and so long as their names are withheld it is all the | same whether the letters are apocryphal or the writers partisan idiots. Until their names are known their opinions cannot be weighed for a moment against the statements of Mr. Belmont. Until the letters and signatures are pro- | duced, so that the public may judge them, | they will be regarded as a desperate election- eering device; and of all electioneering de- vices none deserve severer scorn than one which trifles with the national credit. Web- ster once nobly said, in a speech in Con- gress more than gixty years ago:—“Even our party divisions, acrimonious as they are, cease at the water’s edge. They are lost in attachment to national character.” We sin- cerely wish we could speak as favorably of party contests in 1876 as Mr. Webster did in 1814. We wish we could say now, as he did then, that ‘‘perty divisions cease eat the water’s edge,” and that our people are so truly national that party differences “are lost in attachment to national character.’ There is areprehensible want of patriotism and pride of, country when one of onr political parties is willing to sacrifice the national credit to partisan ambition, We have no doubt that the opinions expressed by Mr. Belmont in his letter to the Hxgaup, so promptly seized upon by the whole republican press as an electioneering topic, are as sound as they are patriotic. Mr. Belmont said :—‘Every intelligent man in Europe knows that our country is rich and thatthe people will keep their promises, no matter what ephemeral | politicians may say. The bondholders are secure under a democratic or republican ad- ministration.” We entirely agree with Mr. Belmont when he goes on to say :—‘‘The at- | tempt, for the mere selfish or partisan prejudice of an hour, to obstruct the great and necessary process of refund- ing the national debt at a , lower rate of interest is shamefully unpatri- otic as well as silly.” Whoever the un- known English letter writers may be whose correspondence is alluded to by the Wash- ington correspondent of the Posi, it may be safely assumed that they know less of the | subjects than Mr. Belmont and the Roth- schilds. ‘The truth is that the great house of Rothschild is the main pillar of the Syndi- It is no exaggeration to say that that cate. house is the Syndicate ; retary Morrill could not have had the success of which he has so often boasted to Wash- | ington correspondents of the Hxnarp ; that if the Rothschilds should withdraw from the Syndicate the new foan would fall flat. This is notorious, and Secretary | Morrill would be the last man in the country to dispute it. Now, if the new loan were in jeopardy by the pros- | pect of Mr. Tilden’s election, the | Rothschilds would be the first to scent the | danger. They have been accustomed for more than half a lifetime to rely on the | judgment of their sagacious agent in New York as to the safety of American invest- | they have any apprehensigns founded on the possibility of Mr. Tilden’s election. When we consider that Messrs. Rothschilds and Belmont are really the Syndicate, and that they feel no alarm respecting the result | of the Presidential election, the Washing- ! ton despatch to the Post will seem small ! and ridiculous. If there were any real ground of alarm the Rothschilds, as the party chiefly interested, would be the first to | feel it. The prospects of the new loan de- | pend very little on our party contests, As | Mr. Belmont justly said in his letter, “The | safety and wisdom of investment in the | funded debt of the Unitcdystates do not de- | pend upon the Presidential elections, in the | opinion of European capitalists and bankers, any more than the soundness of the English eonsols depends on whetlfer the Ministry is tory or liberal.” The credit of our govern- ment in foreign countries rests upon our in- comparable resources and the well estab- lished character of our people for honor and integrity. We are not only one of the richest nations of the world, but the one which has thé smallest drains on its wealth, Separated by a wide ocean from Europe, and having no powerful neighbors on our frontiers, we are urler no necessity of main- -taining o great standing army, like the na- tions of continental Europe, whose military establishments engulf their resources, Our national credit is good because we are one of the richest of nations, one of Mr. Carlyle’s multitude of “fools” his opinion is of no con- | sequence, and whether he belongs to that category or some other no mortal can know that without it Sec- | | | ! ments ; and certain it is that neither he nor | ~ the chief source of expenditure in na- | tions which are compelled to maintain great | armies against powerful neighbors on their frontiers. Our national credit ought, there- fore, to be the best in the world, and next to that of Great Britain it is the best. As Mr. Belmont justly said in his letter, ‘The bonds of the United States are in London next to those of Great Britain herself, be- cause every intelligent man*in Europe knows that our country is rich and that the people will keep their promises.” The result of the Présidential election will have no effect on our national credit. There is not the slightest reason to believe that a democratic administration would repudiate the national obligations. The democratic House, which evinced so much zeal for retrenchment at the late session, did not show the slightest disposition to withhold appropriations for paying the in- terest on the public debt. Since the passage of the act of 1869 declaring hat the public debt is payable in coin no prominent democrat has disputed that, obligation. The versy has arisen are expressly made payable in coin. Nothing is left to inference, as in the case of the five-twenty bonds. A spe- cific stipulation to pay the new four and a half per cent bonds in coin will not be dis- regarded by any political party. It is ab- surd to think that a political party whose leaders are men like Mr. Tilden, Mr. Bel- mont, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Mr. Thurman, and Mr. Bayard, would repudiate an explicit and unequivocal contract of the government. The public credit will be as safe in the hands of one party as the other, and it is unpatriotic for either party to pre- tend the contrary, The price of the Heraup to-day ond henco- Sorth will be three cents. The Oriental Entanglement. that is threatened the different attitude to- ward one another of the parties to the nego- tiation is important. England no longer leads the diplomatic dance. Her ultimatum was declined by Turkey, and she cannot consistently with her own dignity make any new propositions ; but she does not, as she threatened she would, relinquish all interest in the Sultan’s fate. In fact, that threat was made without due consideration of the indis- soluble ties which bind together the Padi- shah and the Empress of India as the two great Mohammedan Powers. In this regard the English statesmen were less perspica- cious than those in Constantinople; for the latter, aware of the thoroughly selfish na- ture of British policy, did what they chose, conscious that England, though she might bluster, would accept their acts, inasmuch as the abandonment of the Saltan is a moral impossibility to the government that hopes to preserve its prestige in India, But England stands aside at least, and the initiative at Constantinople is with the Rus- sian Ambassador. Hitherto there has been in these negotiations a difficulty not unlike one that formerly troubled our relations with Spain. It has frequently been experienced by us that we could gather almost any season a plentiful crop of outrages in Cuba, but to get a remedy for the least of them we had to goto Spain. The power to murder our citi- zens or put an indignity upon our colors was at our doors; but the power to make reparation was on the other side the Atlantic. So between Russia and Turkey the capacity to excite the wrath and in- dignation of the Russ was at hand on the Danube, but a note could only reach the Sultan from the Czar or the Czar from the Sultan by way of London. It is a great promise of progress to have changed that, and in tte hands of General Ignatieff the settlement of points in dispute will go for- ward rapidly, with due regard at once to the will of the Northern Emperor and the possi- bilities of the Sultah’s position; for the Am- bassador has been at Constantinople many years and has the full confidence of his gov- ernment. It may be remembered that he also had the confidence in some degree of Abdul-Aziz, and that that prince was accused of atoo favorable opinion of the Russian purposes. Some suspicion that there was ground for the accusation may have induced England to look with favor upon the fanat- ical revolution of the softas, which led to that Sultan's assassination. It is an odd coincidence, if no more, that the return of the Russian Ambassador to Constantinople and the occurrence of a situation which compels the Sultan to accept the terms this Ambassador has to propose is distinguished by the discovery of new plots for the murder of distinguished persons by fanatical Mos- lems. The fact that the fighting is pursued with some vigor in the valley of the Morava and that it is not flattering in its results to the pride of the Slavs willadd zest to the de- termination of the Russian government to have immediately a six weeks’ armistice, or to have, through the acknowledged failure of the negotiations, the right to move its armies into Turkey. Within a day or two one or the other of these will be secured. From the prorogation of Parliament until Decesiber it is evidently believed in Eng- land (hat the pacific alternative will prevail. * The price of the Heraup to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. Park Bank Deravcation.—It was as- certained yesterday that the National Park Bank had been robbed of thirty-six thou- sand dojlars by a teller who had been eighteen years in the employ of the bank in different capacities of tfust. ‘The crime was committed by a man whose integrity was beyond question, and it is attributed to a sudden impulse immediately put into execu- tion. If this theory is correct it is extraor- dinary. Sudden impulse to commit the crime there certainly was, but the impulse must have spring from a desire to be rich, carefully nursed for years before it was put inté execution, Here was a man surrounded by money which nobody believed he would ever think of appropriating to himself, He knew the usos of it. His salary and posi- tion were snfficient to lead him to the thresh- old of luxury, but insufficient to enable him to enjoy the pleasures allowed only to the rich. He brooded over what he saw and what he desired till in an unguarded moment new ‘bonds about which this late contro- | In the new series of notes and memoranda | life forever. Yesterday he was an honest man, trusted and respected ; to-day he is a fugitive from justice, and ina few days he may be a felon. The price of the Henau to~iay and hence- forth will be The Next Cabinet. The President of the United States is an officer with great but limited powers. He is, necessarily, the head of a political party as well as the Chief Magistrate of the coun- try, and in both capacities his powers are limited—in the last by the constitution and in the first named by his obligations to the party which elects him. He stands com- mitted to the published and clearly asserted obligations in this regard were so clearly stated the other day by Senator Conkling that we cannot do better than repeat here his words:— Few men are base and presumptuous enough to ac- cept party or pablic trusts ina representative system, and then, on pretext of independence or superiority, to defeat the purpose and conviction of the constituency which delegated power to them, There have been sucb men, and party treason bas been applauded for a ; moment, but contempt and disgrace for all time waits | on the betrayer of every trust which rests in honor and the plain understanding of men. That. hb of the candidates for the Presidency will maintain and illus- trate the policy and spirtt of his party is as certain as good faith 1n man, This is so true that in practice it is always expected that a newly elected President will select his Cabinet entirely from the nrost prominent leaders of his party. Mr. Lin- coln chose his first Cabinet from among his rivals for the nomination; and, whilea Presi- dent is held entitled to make his selection such as to harmonize with his own pub- | lished and well known principles, he is still rightly required, as Mr. Conkling says, to keep within the party lines and to select the most conspicuous of his party's leaders, We say rightly required, because the ex- ample of General Grant, who called mainly | his own personal favorites to his Cabinet, had not such success as to lead any Prosi- | dent hereafter to follow it, or to make the public satisfied with it. Nor is this all. ‘The Senate exercises a power over the new President's choice of his Cabinet. It may refuse to confirm his nominations ; and it is very apt to scrutinize closely those of a President who represents the dominant party in the Senate. In fact, the republican Sen- ate will give Mr. Tilden far more liberty of choice than it would give Mr. Hayes, be- cause jealousies and rivalries in the Senate itself would make their influence felt in its consideration of his nominees. It is not probable, for instance, that Mr. George William Curtis would be confirmed to a Cabinet position by the present republican Senate; it is hardly probable that Mr. Evarts would get the favor or consent of the repub- licans in that body. But a Cabinet makes the policy of a Presi- dent. Its members are its constitutional advisers; and on their character and their political opinions and prejudices depends very largely the policy of an administration. It is important, then, to consider whom Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden would be likely to call into the next Cabinet. The range of choice is not so large but that the list open to either can be easily put down, and we give the pos- sible names in parallel columns below of the Cabinet material of both candidates:— HAYES CABINET, TILDEN CABINET, Blaine, Thurman, Morton, Bayard, Bristéw, C.F. A Chandler, Belmont, Conkling, Trumbull, Eva D. A. Wel Judge Hoar, Randolph, General Butler, Morrison, Logan, Hewitt, Morgan, Gaston, Sherman, Payne, Curtis, Governor Palmer, Jewell. Habbard (Connorttent). And to represent the And to represent the South:— South :— Spencer (Alabama), Gordon (Georgia), Kellogg (Louisiana), L. Q ©. Lamar. Chamberiain (S. Carolina). Of the gentlemen in this list from whom Mr. Hayes will, if elected, select a Cabi- net, it is pretty certain that Mr. Curtis would not be confirmed by the Sen- ate. Probably Judge Hoar and Mr. Evarts would be confirmed with difficulty, if at all. Messrs. Blaine, Morton, Conkling and Bris- tow, with one of the three Southern men on the list, would be the prominent members; for the other two places, Senator Logan, Secretary Chandler and Senator Sherman would be the most conspicuous candidates; or, if the personal hostility of Blaine to Conkling and Bristow and of Conkling to Blaine and Bristow would make them in- compatible or impossible members of one Cabinet, then there remaia for selection Messrs. Chandler, Logan, Sherman, Morgan and Jewell, with one of the first named. Of the gentlemen in the list from whom Mr. Tilden will, if elected, select 4 Cabinet it is needless to say that there would be no question of confirmation. A democratic President would not find a republican Sen- ate opposing his nominations, except in very extreme cases. Either Mr. Adams, Senator Bayard or Senator Thurman would make an excellent Secretary of State; the Treasury would be safe for sound currency in the. hands of either Mr. Belmont, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Hewitt; Governor Palmer, a brave and loyal soldier, would satisfy every- body at the head of the War Department, and from the rest of the list it would be easy to pick out the remainder of the Cabi- get, including one representative of the Southern States. The Tilden list shows further that it is easier for Mr. Tilden to pick out a Cabinet favorable to a reform of the civil service than for Mr. Hayes. Indeed, with two or three exceptions—and all those gentlemen whom the Senate would refuse to confirm— all the names on Mr. Hayes’ list are of men conspicuously opposed to this reform; and, friendly as Mr. Hayes doubtless is to it, unless he begins his administration by an outright quarrel with the Senate, through selecting a Cabinet which that body would not confirm, he must find his hands abso- lutely tied. Chandler, Morton, Blaine, Lo- gan, Conkling, Sherman—not a man on the list unless it be men sure to be rejected, but is known to be opposed to the reform which Mr. Hayes would no doubt like to make prominent, but which, without their united help he will be power- less to advance even one step. Mr. Tilden is more fortunate in his range of selection. Measrs. Adams, Bayard, Gordon, Trumbull | and others prominent in his list are pro- nounced friends of civil service reform, pgd he could without difficulty constitute. a Cabinet pledged to this measure. policy of the party which chooses him. His } \ ‘EW YORK _HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. ane) Saas cur situation Fare us. from | he yielded to temptation and blasted his | Our Croton Water Supply. Just now the question of quantity domi- nates that of quality when considering this important subject. We recently had occa- sion to complain that the impurities sus- pended and in solution in the Croton water were such as to give grave cause for alarm to the million of inhabitants in this city, but if possible a still greater danger threat- forthe common wants of the population. The quantity of Croton water available for this purpose is unhappily made to depend on the variable conditions of rainfall and evaporation over the Croton watershed. . In selecting this collecting area we fear that more regard was paid to its convenience ; than its water producing character, and in this seems to lie the whole root of the pres- ent trouble regarding the supply. . Topo- graphically considered the Croton water- shed region is admirably adapted for the collection of water in natural or artificial storage lakes, but in this respect | its merits cease. Geologically it does not | afford an adequate capacity for retaining the | rain shed for regular delivery into the lower levels, because its formations are barren of those absorbent qualities which are necessary to that end. The rainfall flows rapidly down the abrupt slopes of the hillsand quickly fills the existing recep- tacles, whence it as speedily flows as waste over the Croton dam. The country does not hold the water for any time during which a reserve supply from spring sources can be Telied on fora dry season ; therefore-we are | Wholly dependent on mere storage in lakes, and that only to a limited extent. Viewed from a meteorological standpoint the position of the Croton’watershed is still | more unfavorable for the purposes of secur- ing an adequate supply. It is located to the eastward and on the sheltered side of the Alleghany Mountain system which ex- tends northward into the Catskill range and which acts as a physical barrier to the movement of the rain areas that traverse tho continent from the west and northwest. We have so _ often explained in the Hzxatp the influence of this mountain wall on the movement of storm centres and the precipitation over the Middle States that it is unnecessary to re- peat here what is now generally known to our readers. The only great rivers having outlets on the eastern side of the Alleghanies penetrate that chain of mountains and de- rive their waters chiefly from the regions to the westward of the divide. Hence the regions eastward of that line receive only a small share in proportion to their areas of the rainfall of the year. Now, it is evident that in selecting the Croton watershed as the collecting area for the supply of New York the foregoing facts were either unknown or ignored, with a strong proba- bility in favor of the former, by the Commis- sioners and Engineers of the Croton Aque- duct Department. The supply at the time was sufficient for all purposes. Why not for all time? said the wiseacres who adopted it It is proposed to build o new aqueduct; but are we certain of having the aqua? Wedo not think so by any means, although a tem- porary relief may be obtained by such a work, supplemented by new storage lakes and the prevention of all water waste over the Croton dam. To insure an inexhaustible supply we must select a watershed far to the northward of the present one, and to secure it may be compelled to go toward Albany for the liquid as well as the legis- lation. The price of the Hernaup to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. The Return of Tweed. When Tweed, by some mysterious means not yet explained, fled from the Ludlow Street Jail, the old man believed himself free. But from what was he free? From a comfortable room, from an easy restriction, from the society of his friends and his fam- ily, and from the city which he loved, served, betrayed. He escaped in “the night, and imagined that flight meant liberty. But Tweed was not really free, for to such as he freedom is impossible. The poorest slave in the South before the war, who never built a county court house or engineered a river dock, might enjoy greater freedom than the man who once dictated politics to the metropolis of the American Republic, He fled like Cain, a perpetual fugitive, pursued by a remorseless foe. The brand of crime was on his forehead, and he could only obtain libertyto wander over the face of the world b§ the sacrifice of his friends, his family and his name. Instead of Tweed he had to be Secor. This is not freedom; to be always in disguise; to be like the Man in the Iron Mask; to surrender all of the past, without the hope of the future. The world is a prison, Hamlet said, ‘in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one of the worst.” So it was with William M. Tweed; he was in prison here in New York, in Santiago and in Vigo, and conscience and remorse were his jailers. Ho could not escape from the crime he had commit- ted—‘‘Where should Othello go?” In a short time Tweed will be returned to Now York. He will have hada holiday of nearly a year; yet we doubt that he regrets its termination. What pleasure can there be incontinual flight? He had better have the moral courage to accept the inevitable. He should surrender to New York the prop- erty of which he robbed it, and should trust toman for pity in his old age, and to Heaven for mercy in his repentance. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents. Civ Ssgrvick Brackmarivc.—We print elsewhere a definite and serious charge against Secretary Chandler in relation to extorting political assessments from clerks in the government offices, Our correspond- ent signs his name and address, and ho remarks rightly that being only a white man and a skilled officer of the government he was without defence against Secretary Chandler, though if he had been black and a Southern planter had so treated him he could have sued his employer for damages. The republican speakers and organs have dropped the demand for civil service reform. If they were in earnest would Mr, Chandler be managing their canvasr ? ens us in the failure of the supply needed | Sanna) The Sioux Trouble. Considerable light is thrown on the half hearted and dishonest policy so long pur sued in our dealings with Indian tribes by the interesting letter of Colonel Poland from Standing Rock. The story of that agency is but a repetition of what occurred in all the others—acts of dishonesty on the part of the whites, leading to acts of violence on the part of the red men. This whole system must be changed. Its result is seen in the re- lations existing between the government and the Indians of tho Siodx agencies, now on the verge of war. So dangerous is the posi- tion of affairs that unless unusual firmness is shown in carrying out the order of dis armament we shall be obliged next spring to fight the whole Sioux nation. Red Cloud’s band have refused to surrender their arma and ponies. Rather than do so they have elected to abandon their agency at a.time when they will find great difficulty in sup- porting themselves by the chase. Their action is, in fact, a defiance of the national government, and may render it necessary for the troops to use force to com, pel obedience. The present is a very propitious moment, as the Indians can- not move with their accustomed celer., ity, so that the troops can make them surrender or fight. There should be no time lost parleying with them, Generals Terry and Crook have ample means at their dis posal to enable them to reduce Red Clond’s band to submission, and they should do ii without unnecessary delay, even if it should involve a little fighting. The Custer mas- sacre has produced on the minds of the savages its natural effect, and if they are permitted to nurse their courage through the winter we may be prepared for an In- dian war on a grand scale. From the out break of the Sioux war ithas been suspected that the warriors at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail were in sympathy if not in active al- liance with the hostile bands under Sitting Bull, and their present attitude shows how — well founded was that suspicion. Men who knew the frontier well advised all along that the proper place to strike at Sitting Bull was through the agencies, and now that the government has at length adopted this same view we hope the generals com- manding in the field will be instructed to act with energy and decision. With the thorough enforcement of the general dis- armament of the tribes we shall enter upon a new era in Indian affairs. i The price of the Huraup to-day and hencee Forth will be three cents, The Newsdealers’ Folly. Some of the newsdealers in this city who are opposed to the reduction of the price of the Henitp to three cents carry their fac- tious opposition so far as to assault the newsboys who have undertaken the sale of the paper. {[n numerous instances yester day the boys were roughly handled by the dealers, and in every possible way they were impeded and discouraged in their work. These dealers must understand from the outset that such conduct on their part will not be tolerated. If protection is neces. sary the courts are open to the boys and will be invoked in their behalf. Besides this, if the resistance of the dealers becomes serious other and adequate means of supply- ing the paper to the public will be put a0 operation. In reducing the price of the paper the proprietor of the Hznaup con. sulted the interests of the public rather than the dealers, but a sufficient, margin of profit was left the middlemen for the work they performed in distributing it. With a paper of the immense circulation of the Hzraun - half a cent per copy is sufficient profit for the dealers. If wecan print the paper for two and a half cents to the trade there is no reason why the middlemen ‘should not sell it for three cents, and we are determined that the public shall be able to get it at that price. Ifthe dealers persist in their folly other persons will take their places, and that is all there is about it. The price of the Hxnaup to-day and hences ‘forth will be three cents. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Minnesota venison is the best. ’ Hartiord has organized a polo club. General Logan is stumping Missouri. The bark of tho sausago 18 heard ia the land. In the Jake about Chicago many ducks are shot, Mr. Hewitt now says:—‘‘Honi soi qui maly pense.* The Marquis de Mari, of Italy, is at the Brevoort House. The price of the Henatn today and henceforth wit be three cents. Mr. William 8. iit; of Cincinnati, is at the Everett House. The antamnts warm, deep brown—like the upper side of a buckwheat cake. ‘The Bank of Nevada (the Big Bonanza) has doubled its paid up capital stock to $10,000,000. Mr. Henry 8. Sanford, formerly United States Mine jater to Belgium, is at the Brevoort House. M. de Geofroy, French Minister to Japan, arrived ia the city yesterday, and is at the Brevoort House Professor Seoley says that Shakespeare at school studied more in Ovid than in any other classic author, General Early says that Henry Clay, it he were alive now, would be the leader of tho democratic y. Right Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxo, Protestant Epis- copal Bishop of Western Now York, ie at the Claren- don Hotel. Senators Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, and William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, are at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Isn't G. W. Curtis’ description of Disraeli’s splendid exile of the Upper Chamber much like the description of Chatham falling up stairs? Portland has a man so dreadfully mean that he won" Jet his wife, from whom he bas been separated, strew flowers on the grave of their little boy. The sensitive man who is not preity goes about accusing others of having it worse, as Tupper accused Whitman ot having rhetorical influenza, Thomas Jeflersow and Patrick Henry, the two carly statesmen who roused American sentiment, were am. ateurs of the violin, according to the Danbury News. Southern papers are asking whether Don Cameron isa fool. Anything elsc you may call him, gentle men, but don’t mako tho mistake of calling hims fool. President Grant has appointed Robert Ogden Tyler, of Hartford, to acadetship at West Point, in recogni tion of the distinguished rervices of his uncle, the late General Robort 0. Tylor. “Out of savages,” says Professor Tyndall, “anable te count up tothe number of their Ongers, and speaking alanguage containing only nouns and verbs, arise af length our Newtons and Shakespeares,’” In less than twenty-five years India has been cov: ered witb a network of railways, which now reaches upward of 6,300 miles, and a closer network ot tole graph wires extending to some 35,000 miles, Seventy-three years ago the English settled Van } Dieman’s Land, near Australia, with convicts, There were 4,000 Tasmanian natives ou tho island. The Inst of the race, who wero hunted to death by convict settlers, was ® Woman, who died this year, r Py