The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1876, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR, PARTE OEE THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- | day excluded), ‘len dollars per year, or at tate of one dollar per month tor any period tess than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of stage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henav. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. r Rejected communications will not be re- tured. OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH 4 | ‘E OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-—NO. FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVE DE L'OPERA. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms in New York. NO. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, SQUARE THEATRE, UNION TWO,ORPHANS, ut 8 BE ATRE. SARDANAPALUs, ats . bangs and Mrs. Agnes ooth. AR RE. SWEETHEARYS and TOM COBB, at8 P.M. BROOKIXN THEATRE, HENRY IY. ‘ BARNUM'S CIRCL rirTM A LIFE, at 8P.M. Ch s THOMAS’ REHEARSA. 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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1876, NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. | Owing to thd action of a portion of the carriers and | newsmen, who ure determined that the public shall not have the Hrrarp at three cents per copy if they can prevent it, we have made arrangements to place the Hexavp in the hands of all our readers atthe reduced price. To that end we have secured wagons and | tewsboys to patrol every thoroughtare of this city to | recommodate our readers. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they way desire from tne wagons at the usual wholesale price and also at 1,265 Brodway ard No. 2 Ann street, 4 NOTICE TO NEWSMEN. All those who will prominoutly display on their Btands a notice to the public to the effect that they aro selling the HenaLp at three cents per copy will Meet with no opposition by boys or otbers sent from this office, From onr reports this morning the probabilitics are that the weather to-day will be cool and e'ear or partly cloudy, with westerly to southwesterly winds. Way Strreer Yestenpay.—Atter reaching the highest prices in the recent advance movement stocks suddenly declined and the market closed weak. Money on call was supplied at 3 1-2 and 3 percent. Gold was comparatively steady at 109 3-4 a 109 7-8, Government bonds were generally steady and railway bonds a shade easier. The price of the Henaxp to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Governor Hayes arrived in Philadelphia yesterday to visit the Exhibition, and ex- | pressed his wish to be received as the Gov- ernor of Ohio, and not as a candidate for the Presidency. This was sensible, and demo- | crats as well as republicans will be glad to | meet him on the neutral Centennial ground. A Very Dr. NE occurred yester- day at the trial of the murderer of little Maggie Bauer, which is vividly described in our reports. The prisoner confessed his crimg, and the mother of the victim flew at his throat and might have killed him but for the interference of the officers. But his escape from this method of suffocation is not likely to prevent his ultimate choking by the law. The price of the Henraup to-day and hence- | forth wiil be three vents. Tee Haxpe Murver Trt Enxprp.-—Once | more a brutal murderer has escaped the punishment which under a sterner inter- | pretation of the law he would have met. | Michael McGinn, who killed Hayde last month and was indicted for murder in the first degree, was yesterday convicted of murder in thesecond. The sentence, im- | prisonment for life, was as severe as the verdict of the jury permitted. But the con- wiction of one of the roughs who infest this sity seems to benefit society very little. It is like destroying a few mosquitoes; the others remain and continue their bloody practices, To punish crime is not enough; it must be prevented by the removal of its causes; otherwise the work of the courts will be like the attempt to decapitate the hydra, whose heads when cut off always grew out egain. | became a candidate. | (what is perhaps a better guarantee of sin- | believe him sincere in his present declara- | | acecrd with his whole record as a public | | his Presidency by a great alleviation of the | struction of the private property of rebel | people are precluded from making such | portion (and justice requires us to say 0 | their character to suppose that the ex-rebels j in no | position to grant them favors. Mr. Tilden’s | sham. Even where the alleged loyalty is | States who were, or pretended to be, or who, YEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, VUTOBER 26, 1876, tional Credit. Mr. Tilden is as explicit on the question of paying Southern war claims as anybody could desire. His declarations are so strong | and emphatic as to leave but two methods | of assailing them—namely, either first to | impugn his sincerity; or, secondly, to dispute his ability to make his declarations good if he should be elected. It cannot very well be disputed that the electioneering profes- sions of candidates are more or less open to suspicions of insincerity. It is the habit of oftice-seekers to say whatever they think will | promote their election, It is always proper to compare such statements with the record of the person who makes them before he | Mr. Tilden’s letter is consistent enough with his character and antecedents, He expressed similar views in his first annnal Message as Governor, and verity) opposition to Southern war claims tallies with his peculiar and distinctive réle as a public officer. It was derisively said of some one “his talk is of bullocks.” Mr. Til- den’s talk is of taxation. It has been his constant topic, both in office and out of | oftice, for the last ten years. He aspires to be champion tax reducer. He knows that he could not play that réle in the federal government if the national Treasury were to be saddled with a great mass of Southern claims, It is, therefore, not very difficult to tions. ‘Truc, they are the eclectioneering declarations of a candidate, but they are in man, He could not entertain a different purpose from that which he avers without closing the door to his ambition to illustrate public burdens. We think it fair to credit him with sincerity; but the question still remains whether his party, or the Southern | wing of it, would not foil and control him. We proceed to consider this question, It must be borne in mind that the consti- | tution lays its broad interdict on any pay- | ment for the loss of slaves, for the war expenses of the insurgents, or for the de- owners in the course of our military | operations. A law granting indem- nity for such losses would be void on its face, and every officer of the Treasury would disregard it, because he would be liable to a personal prosecution | for misappropriation of the public fands. No claim for the destruction of Southern property has been presented or will be pre- sented, except on the pretence of loyal own- ership. The great body of the Southern claims by the fact that they supported the | rebellion. Itis contrary to all we know of are going to be zealots for the payment of losses incurred during the struggle by South- ern citizens who did not act with them. It | is absurd to think that the mass of the Southern people desire a premium to be paid by the federal government for what they regarded at the time as treason to their cause. As their own. losses can never be reimbursed they will be hurry to support the claimg of the Southern loyalists. Why should the ex-Confederates desire a discrimination to be made in favor of a small class whom they denounced as false to their section during the war? They have no motive for wishing anything of the sort. The Treasury would be more secure against such claims under a | democratic than under a republican admin- istration, because there would be less sym- pathy with Southern loyalists and less dis- | letter will not weaken him with the Squthern democrats. ‘They will indorse every word of it. Being debarred by the constitution from | setting up any claims of their own they do not wish the loyalists, whom they despised as traitors, to fare better than themselves. We have no doubt that Mr. Tilden reflects the sentiments of his Southern supporters and sincerely’expresses his own in the con- tempt he pours upon Southern war claims. Even when the persons making them were loyal he thinks they ought to be rejected, and he broadly hints that such loyalty is in many cases an afterthought and a swindling not a false pretence, put on for the purpose | of cheating the government, Mr. Tilden says that the claims are ‘‘stale” and have mostly passed into the hands of speculators and lob- byists. The following passage of the letter is not only sound in law and true in fact, but states a view which will be readily ac- cepted by all Southern democrats who so actively participated in the rebellion that denial would be vain, or who scorn to pre- | tend a loyalty they did not feel as a means of defrauding the Treasury. Mr. ‘Tilden says, with irresistible cogency:—‘‘The danger to the national Treasury is not from elaims of persons who aided the rebellion, but from claims of persons residing in the Southern States or having property in those for the sake of aiding claims, now pretend to have been loyal to the government of the Union. Such claims, even of loyal persons, where they are from acts caused from the operations of war, have been disowned by ! the public law of civilized nations, con- | demned by the adjudications of the Supreme Court of the United States, and only find any status by force of specific legislation of Con- gress. ‘These claims have become stale and | ere often tainted with fraud. They are nearly always owned in whole or in part by claim agents, by speculators or lobbyists, who have no equity against the taxpayers or the public.” The claims of actual rebels cannot, and, if Mr. Tilden is President, fhe claims of South- erp loyalists will not, be paid. He declares his purpose to veto such bills if they should come before him. It is a wild supposition that the avowed and active Confederates, who can recover nothing themselves, will | object. Since it would require an amend- ment of the constitution, ratified by three- fourths of the whole number of States, to enable Congress to compensate any rebel for | losses, they will be the last people in the | country to favor the claims of Southern loyalists. Even the republicans should admit this, or else stop declaiming about the survival of the rebel spirit in the South. We ore glad that Mr. Lilden has been i ! | Southern War Claims and the Na- | persuaded to declare his views and pur- poses on this subject. It concerns the public credit, at home and abroad, that it be known that this possible President ‘‘sets his face like a flint” against Southern war | claims of every sort and description. Al- though he isa candidate for office, and his letter is an electioneering manifesto, there is not only no reason for distrusting his sincerity, but strong reasons for believing that he expresses his real purpose. He isa candidate with a hobby, and the hobby on which he is mourted has its head turned in | quite another direction than an enormous increase of the public burdens. Mr. Til- den’s great hobby is a reduction oi taxes. He would stultify himself if he gave any quarter to a gigantic scheme for taxing the people to pay Southern claims. Claims by the Southern rebels are quite out of the question, because the constitution forbids their payment; claims by Southern loyalists or pretended loyalists will be remorselessly vetoed without hesitation or embarrassment, because the ex-rebels, as a body, do not want a set of people whom | they regarded as sneaks rewarded for treach- ery to their section when it was struggling for independence and protection to its prop- erty. Atone period of the war there was a popular song in the South beginning with these lines :— m a good old rebel, That’s just what | om. We imagine that none of the singers of that song had any love for the Southern | loyalists then or wishes to see a premium | paid them now. Mr. Tilden has strength- ened himself in the South as well as the North by setting his face against war indem nities which none of the ‘good old rebels” could share. ‘The country may be quite easy as to an increase of the public burdens | trom this source. This bugaboo being dis- posed of it is difficult to find any ground of apprehension respecting the public credit. It is for Mr. Tilden’s interest as the cham- pion tax reducer that the refunding of the five-twenty bonds should go on to a success- ful completion. The conversion of six per cent bonds into four and one-half per cent or four per cent bonds is the most obvious way of making a great saving, and Mr. Til- den would have every motive of pride and reputation to protect the public credit. Should he be elected President his only | path to renown is through the finances, and he has probably sagacity enough to see and | seize the opportunity. The price of the Henaxp to-day, and hence- ‘forth will be three cents. 7 The Herald at Three Cen! In spite of the misguided oppasition of small though noisy portion) of the news- dealers the circulation of the Henaup has | received a great impetus by the reduction of price. The gain has already, been eleven thousand, and seems likely to exceed twenty thousand before the close df the week. Some of the newsdealers are recalcitrant, but a majority of them accept the situation. They will recover a great part of their loss by increased sales. There is no news stand but will find the sale of the Henatp the most profitable part of its business, as it has always been heretofore. A reporter gives a lively account of the visits ‘he made yester- day to numerous shops on several avenues at which newspapers are sold and of the colloquies he had with the per- sons in charge. The greater part of them ‘are selling the Hxnraup at the new price, but some are not yet reconciled. Some are asking four cents of transient purchas- ers, and one establishment charges three anda half cents to its regular customers. The public will, of course, insist on having the paper at the reduced ptice, and within a few days all the dealers will consent to fur- nish it at that price, or rivals will take away their business. Arrangements have been made with the out of town railroads by which passengers get the paper at one cent reduction from the former price. In the city cars and the streets the greater part of the newsboys ask‘only three cents. Mr. Brentano, the best known and most popular dealer in papers and periodicals in the city, charges only three cents, and arrangements are nearly completed for giving readers in the neighboring cities and towns the full | benefit of the reduction. The experiment | isalready a great success and threatened opposition futile. The price of the Heraxp to-day and hence- Sorth will be three cents. Reatstration Fravps.—Supervisor Daven- port is busily engaged in the labor of verify- ing the registration lists in the several dis- tricts of the city, so as to detect and punish any frauds that may have been per- petrated. largeness of the registration is a mere polit- ical Roorback, since our registry is not likely | to reach within twenty thonsand of the iull vote to which the city is entitled according ! to the population. Unfortunately, very many of our most substantial citizens neg- lect the duty of an American citizen and fail to register or vote. But the names of persons who are not legal voters may, never- theless, be placed on the registry, and the serutiny of the lists should be thorough. Every good citizen, whether democrat or republican, will approve the strictest meas- ures that can be adopted to preserve the purity of the ballot box and to seoure an honest election. ‘The law under which the supervisors of election act gives those officers ample power to prevent frauds, and | it should be diligently and impartially en- forced. The price of the Heraup to-day and hence forth will be three cents. Lire Insurance Faruone.—The failure of the Continental Life Insurance Company had the usual effect of such events upon the business community. But there is no cause for alarm. It is a large company, and, though the payments were heavy, the assets were supposed tobe more than six million dollars, The receiver has not yet inves- tigated its affairs, but thinks the failure resulted from the shrinkage in real estate and the litigation in which the company has recently been the defendant. The receipts and assets appear to have been so large that the policy holders should recover a consid- erable portion of the money they invested, The outcry in relation to the | Governor Chamberla Apology. The Governor of South Carolina has tel- | egraphed from Columbia a long defensive letter, printed yesterday in the Tribune, fill- ing nearly four columns of that paper, | This is an unusual step to be taken by the | Governor of a State. We are not disposed | to criticise it, for we think that men in official stations act wisely when they recog- | nize their amenability to public opinion and | are willing to set forth the grounds of their | conduct in the public press. Had Governor Chamberlain telegraphed his defence to the Henatp we should have printed it, despite its great length, and have given it a wider circulation. We are always willing that both sides shall have a fair hearing in every important controversy, and the Gov- ernor of South Carolina fell into a mistake if he inferred that our criticisms of. his con- duct would have shut him out of our col- umns if he had sought this channel of pub- licity. Journals which conscientiously seek to give their readers the truth do not shrink from publishing views adverse to their own | when they come from official and responsi- | ble sources. We will not stop to examine Governor | Chamberlain's lame excuse tor not calling together the South Carolina Legislature in this crisis. It really makes but little differ- ence whether an application for federal sup- port comes from the Executive or the | Legislature of a State, since it is the duty of the President to judge for himself whether the request should be complied with. If there is any blame in this case it attaches rather to the President than to the from either a Legislature or a Governor un- less convinced that the state of facts will warrant it, we do not see that Governor Chamberlain is exposed to blame except by the people of his own State. The people of other States can hold nobody responsible except the a sufficient reason. No matter from whom the application came, it was the duty of President Grant to procure authentic infor- mation of the facts before interposing. For our part, if there has been hasty or illegal ‘action, we hold nobody responsible but the President. ‘The statute which Gov- ernor Chamberlain quotes without seeming to appreciate its real force authorizes the President to give military aid ‘in case of insurrection in any State against the gov- ernment thereof.” It does not appear, even ! from the Governor's own recital, that there ernment” of South Carolina, but only vio- lence practised on some of its citizens. It | suppress this violence, and it is not until it is turned against the State government itself | in its attempts at suppression that the | President has any legal right to interfere. The price of the Heraup to-day and hence- Disposing of Red Cloud, Had the American government entered earlier upon the policy of disarmament which General Crook put in practice in the case of Red Cloud's band, the country would | have been saved the expenditure of much | blood and treasure. This policy has been time and again urged on the authorities at | Washington by the military officers having | experience of frontier life, but for some un- known reason was until lately received with ; coldness and indifference. it has becn tried it has succeeded admirably. It is only a few years since the wild Apaches and Arapahoe tribes were the terror of the Southern frontier, but since their disarma- ment by General Miles they have been as peaceful as lambs, and are even said to be making steady progress toward civilization. With this example to guide us, as well as the dictates of common sense, there ought | to be no pause in the good work. When- ever Indians are under the protection of the | United States they should be compelled tosur- | renderabsolutely their arms until tomahawks | become as scarce among the Indian tribes as | spades and shovels are to-day. We do not | atall approve of the proposition made by | Spotted Tail of sending a portion of his | young men with Crook. The army ought to | be able to do its own scouting, and the last | summer's campaign showed clearly that very little reliance could be placed on Indian scouts. Let Spotted Tail’s young men give up their arms and put on the gurb of peace or be treated like their brothers. The rule of disarmament should be strictly carried out, as otherwise abuses will probably creep } | i | ‘ | whole Sioux nation armed to the teeth again, | and we shall have the same trouble to disarm | The army ought to be able to do its | | them. own work, and we hope General Crook will | try to teach the Indians that the white man can make war on Indians without the aid of | Indian allies. The moral effect could not ! fail to be good. The price of the Henaxn to-day and hence- Sorth will Le three cents. Tux Weatuer.—The rain area which over- | | Mountains during the past week has now moved away toward the northeastern regions of Canada and Nova Scotia, and clear, cool weather prevails south of the lakes and | westward as faras Dakota. Yesterday snow | Pa., but this wes due to the fact that the rim of the rain area extended to these points and came in contact with the cold atmos- phere which pressed eastward and north- ward toward the centre of disturbance. Cloudy and calm weather prevails at San of another area of low barometer are ap- parent in the Northwest. The weather at | New York to-day will be clear or partly cloudy and cool, with westerly or south- westerly winds. The price of the Hexaup to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Tue Port Greson Conrircr.—The riot in Mississippi was not serious in its results, as nobody was killed, but it indicates a dan- have been received as to its origin, and, of course, the blacks are accused on tke one flict was one of authority between the United Governor of South Carolina. The President | | is not bound to comply with an application | If the President has been hasty | President if troops have been sent without | has been any insurrection ‘against the gov- | was the duty of the State government to | Yet wherever | | in, and after a few years we shall find the | lay the United States east of the Rocky | | fell at Marquette, Mich., and sleet at Erie, | Francisco, and indications of the approach | —TRIPL« SHEET. | States Marshal and the Sheriff, and is likely to be exaggerated for political capital. The fact that a company of United States troops Stationed at Port Gibson did not interfere in | the quarrel leads us to hope that the eivil | authorities will have power to prevent ad- | ditional trouble, The price of the Henauy to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. The Newsdealers and the Herald. | These enterprising and useful contribu- tors to the diffusion of public intelligence are getting over their spasmodic opposition and taking counsel of ‘that sober second thought which is always”——as we felt sure that they would, That part of them who have not yet become reconciled to the new situation held a meeting last night for | consultation. It was an orderly meeting and all its proceedings were marked by tem- perance and moderation. They appointed a committee to wait on the proprietor of the | Henavp and ask for better terms, This is a | fair and courteous proceeding, to which we | can take no exception, but frankness re- | quires us to inform the committee in ad- vance that we shall be unable to accede to their request. We regret this all the more | because we appreciate the good temper and courtesy with which their meeting was con- | ducted. In fixing our terms with the newsdealers we foresaw what they could not foresee at first—that the reduction of price would lead to a large increase of circulation, and when three Heraups are sold where only two were sold before the profits of the dealers will be very nearly the same. We commend to their attention the sensible course of Mr. Brentano, with whom one of our reporters | had an interview yesterday, which we pub- lish. ‘Lo borrow a phrase from the medical | profession, Mr. Brentano is ‘‘the dean of the faculty” of newsdealers in this city. Be- | ginning with selling the Heraxp at one cent a copy he. has risen to a large and profitable business in one of the finest quarters of the | city, and his sagacity and distinguished suc- | cess entitle his judgment to the respect | of his fellow dealers. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- | forth will be three cents. The Coming of Tweed. From the amount of discomfort to which William M, Tweed submitted himself in his | wanderings after breaking jail, it seems clear to the casual observer that he preferred any fate before him to that he left behind. The picture of the fat old criminal sitting, like Robinson Crusoe, on a lonely rock overlook- ing the Caribbean Sea, with a rug round | his shoulders and holding an umbrella over his head all night, is a good study for aspir- ing politiciuns of easy virtue about election | time. There he sat, afraid to wink those peering eyes of his, afraid to wag that long and doleful nose, and asking himself, if the ; Cuban rebels came from landward or the Spanish soldiers from seaward, ‘‘What he was going to do about it?” Yet it is safe to say he never wished himself back in Ludlow Street Jair or the Tombs, where Woodward | waits to welcome him. He probably found comfort in the thought that his troubles, like | the night clouds, would soon ‘blow over.” The most sanguinary Cuban patriots could not bleed him more than his lawyers, and the most ferocious Spaniard could not im- prison him any more than the city whose | Court House he had so nearly built. He was doomed to another trial. Sisyphus, in the old fable, had to rolla stone up hill in Hades always to see it roll down again. From chairmaker to foreman of ‘Big Six” he was going up the hill. From small politi- cian to the Boss of New York he kept going and was very near the top, when, with a crash, he found himself in the Penitentiary. There he sat, a freeman, on soil uncursed by any hateful extradition treaty; but the fates first wade him asuspect and next a pris- oner at Santiago de Cuba. So after his toil up the rocks of liberty he found | himself at the foot again. The Hunt | was up and the Secor found the usual prison awaiting him. The ‘old man” was resigned. Said he to a Heracp man, “I | find adversity easier to bear than pros- | perity.” Then they put to sea with him, | The best berths in the man-of-war were | given him, and, like the boomerang, he | comes back to the place he started from. | “Will he squeal? Will he give us away?” is asked by many a faded politician whose | dark doings have gone undiscovered hereto- fore. Who knows? Most people think his teeth have lost their edge; that as he never | bit back he will not try it now. , Still it is | sate to say that among his old thieving society of friends there is many aj quaker. The Franklin is a slow ship, but | she cannot be slow enough for “‘Twid” and | his old associates who ‘have not, like Sweeny and Connolly, Fields and Genet, taken a change of air. The price of the Henaup to-day and henee- forth will be three cents. | | | ' j | | $$ | | The Crisis in Europe, Turkey's acceptance of Russia’s proposi- tion with regard to thé armistice is reported and denied with equal energy ; but the de- nial is from a source not entitled to great | credit. It is probable that the Sultan has | accepted in a form satisfactory to Russia, . This seems likely to disappoint and chagrin | many who had counted upon the war. The | Russian army, it is said, is so excited that it | | will cause trouble if not called upon to | march into the Ottoman Empire. This is | | another manifestation of the old Russian | spirit. In the army the hereditary policy of | the nation has the support of many ofticers of the higher grades, scions of old families, which never liked negotiation with the Moslems, Should peace be obtained by negotiation | these men will consider that the Emperor's dilatory policy has deprived them of a great | opportunity, and they may go to any length | in making their resentment felt. Hungary will become tranquil more readily than tire | Russian army will quiet down; for in the event of war the Hungarians could possi- bly put Austria in the lists as a defender of | | Turkey. This, it is well understood in | | Vienna, would constitute the occasion tor | in support of Russian policy. Austria can | | endure some Hungarian bluster better than | side and the whites on the other. The con- | the appearance of Prussian troops on the | feelings between them, frontier, . | munication hitherto employed. | from a political standpoint A Newly Discovered Route to China. By a specia! despatch to the Heratp, pub- lished elsewhere, the commercia! and scien- tifie world is informed about one of the most important and interesting geograph- ical discoveries of the century. What was | hitherto regarded as an impassable route from the West to the East, because of frozen seas and inhospitable lands, has been demonstrated by the brave Swede, Professor Vordenskiold, to be one of the most feasible for commerée. Fol- lowing in a small steamer the line of the Gulf Stream as it penetrates the Arctic regions via Nova Zembla, the explorer reached the mouth of the Yenisei River, in Northern Siberia. Thence he ascended the course of the river, penetrating to the centre of the Asiatic continent and almost as far as the frontiers of China. The Yenisei River has its sources in Outer Mongolia and south of the Altai Mountains, which separate the Chinese territories from Russian Siberia. It flows through Lake Baikal or the Holy Sea, in Thibet, and crosses the Siberian region to the Arctic Ocean, Its head waters are distant from the sources of the Amoor River, which empties into the Gulf of Tartary and the Japan Sea, only about one hundred and fifty miles, Indeed it is much less” if we measure the distance from source to source. Practically, therefore, a direct route has been discovered between China and Europe, which is at all times navigable for light draught steamers, and many thousands of miles shorter than any now followed. The advantages to commerce that will arise from this discovery by Professor Vor- denskiold are so great that we must look for- ward toa complete change in the currents of the China and Japan trades. Russia, through whose territory the new routechiefly lies will reap enormous benefits therefrom, and will speedily commence to realize them, At present much of the tea trade be tween Russia and China passes overland along the caravan routes, but now rapid transit by fast steamers will take the place of the slow and uncertain means of com- Viewed it will be difficult to estimate the importance of this new route. A Russo-Chinese al- liance may turn the seale of empire in Asia and end in the final expulsion of tae British from India. Without doubt the new line will be that of an interconti- nental telegraph line froni the Chinese capital to St.. Petersburg, and thus, by means of steam and electricity, the Russian domain may embrace the entire Asiatic continent, The recent loss of the whaling fleet in the ice fields north of Behring Strait lends importance to the extension of geographical knowledge of the Arctic seas. The warm currents around the mouth of the Yenisei probably mark the most important witesag | grounds in that region, and reduce the dane gers of navigation as well. The price of the Henan to-day cud hences Forth will be three cents. Tae Rerverican Country Convestrox.— This body met last evening, but transacted no business beyond organizing, appointing a Committee on Nominations and adjourning until next Monday. The postponement in- dicates that the several parties opposed to the regular democratic nominations have not yet been able to reach a satisfactory un- derstanding or agree on a ticket which they will all consent to support. The republi- cans do not despair of guining the co-opera- tion of other organizations, or they would have made their nominations yesterday. The intervening time will be spent in busy negotiations. The only noteworthy feature of the Convention was the reading of a letter from the venerable Thurlow Weed, resign ing his place as a delegate on account of physical feebleness and admonishing the Convention to do its work wisely. Mr. Weed concedes that the result of the national con- test may depend on the vote of this city, which, though not a new opinion, will be strengthened by his indorsement. The price of the Heraxp to-day and hencee Forth will be three cents. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Conkling has cardinal ha:r. Hon. Hugh McCulloch is in Washington, In Wail street betting 1s 100 to 80 ov Hayes. General Barlow is speaking in Massachusetts. Hoo. J. M. Francis, of the Troy Times, is in Washe ington. The price of the Hurat to-day and henceforth will ba three cents. * Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is af the New York Hotel, Mr. Rublec, American Minister to Switzeriand, is a& the Sturtevant House. Attorney Geaeral Williams and wife will heroaiter ve contented tu live in Oregon. When the Irish clergy were most political they were most independent and most national. . Attorney General Alphonso Taft ana Secretary ! zachariah Chandler aro ut the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Macnamara, an, English writer on bygiene, mene tions Staten Island as the quarantine ground of New Oricans, sirJohn Rae Reid, of England, arrived trom Livers pool in the steamship Scythia yesterday, and 1s at the Brevoort House, ‘The Commercial List of Philadelphia says:—‘Philae delphia has Jong been a great city—henceforth the world knows it is great.” Brooklyn Argus:—‘Some newspaper critics are ob- jecting to the shortness of Mr. Tupper’s legs. He bega to assure them, iu ail seriousness, that be docsn’s | write poetry with his lega, “M, A, C..—Blotting pads, and not ‘clothing pade,’* am the types made it, should be studied to acquire the Turkish language. Turkish 1 a slow language, and should be studied without any bustle, Hawthorne expressed a pecullarity of his own style of work when be said that a romancist was always verging on the edge of absurdity, and bis great skill was seen in going close to it aud vot tumbling over The sun of yesterday says: who sceins to us altogether in the wrong :— Why is it that the Sun does not have anything to say about the war Low § ing O0 between tho newsdealers and James Gordon Bennett, of tho Hsratp, who be- grudges the poor newsdealers, who work night and day, summer and winter, rain of shine, more than one-baii of one cent profit on the sale of his paper? Why don’t you shed sumo light on the subject; give the newsdealers some of your sound advieo; let the ublic know of the war going on and of the injustice ing done Y We can’t see that Mr, Bennett is guilty of any in- justice. Ho makes and sells the Hrrauv, and has @ perfect right to sell it at just such a rate as he chousey, Every other workman or manufactu: asa right to ask his own price lor whatever he prodaces, and why t Mr, Bennett? If the newsdealers don’t like the gerous situation. Two contradictory stories | the development of the North German Power | terms on which he offers the Hrraup they can de- cline to purchase, and there the matter ought to end, so far as their relations with Mr, Bonnett are con cerned. There is no need of any war or any unkind This is @ free country, and business is business,’* "