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ture oan protluo? no lia-Uer. Depot, S3 Jului ?t. _
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after trying ?core? of oilier remed???? without avsli.
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THE NEWS THIS MOB XING.
FoitEio*.?The fiervian Premier says that his
coantry cannot accept tbe hard terum the Porte
would __-po9??. ?__? Con-tautinople vraj illumi?
n?t??-!! on Thursday night in honor of the new Sul?
tan. - Gen. Tchemaycff favors continuing the
war agaiu-t Turkey.- Mantegazza, the Italian
Marquis, was Bcntcnced to eight yoaiaV penal servi?
tude for forgery. ______ The Emperor William re?
ceived a reply to his congratulatory letter from
President Grant.
Domiwtic.-?The Yale crew won the international
collegiate race at Philadelphia in 0 luiuuU-a 10*_
B-tconils. Courtney and Yate? won in the doublo
scull oonteat. ____-_: Ex-Gov. Seymour has not re
c?*ded from his declination of the Saratoga nomina?
tion. It is belie rod that he will not. There is talk
in Albany of a new convention to be held on Thurs?
day next. ? The public debt statement shows a
redoeUon of $3,119,309 29 for Aua-ust. _____ Of
fio.rs of the army engineer corpa have been detailed
to make the new Pacific Railroad survey.
Cmr and ScBCRBAN.?Much discussion was ex?
cited among politicians by the delay in receiving an
authentic answer from ex-Gov. ?eymour. Basas
Many of the prominent churches of the city will be
reopened to-morrow. ______ East River Park was
opened to the publie. ... A new Jewish Syna?
gogue was dedicated in Brooklyn. , Gold, 110 *-,
109 *?. 110. Gold value of the legal-ten ?1er dollar at
the close, 900-0 cents. Stocks unsettled and fever?
ish, closing weak!
The Weather.?Tiie Tribujte'b local weather ob
servatioiia indicate partly cloudy and rainy weather.
__=_=_ In this city yeeterday it was warm and hazy,
though clear overhead. Thermometer, 76?, 00?, 77?.
It will be _?*)0<1 news to the thrifty hop
-?Towors of thih State that there is scarcity in
Europe- affording promise of better prices for
this season's crop. In England, Germany, and
Belgium the deficiency is very great, being
fully one-half the aggregate product of these
countries last year.
Z The DemfM-rats it seems are expecting great
things of Ohio, and are chuckling in their
elt**e-?ss. Has tbe barrel of money, which Mr.
John O. Thompson says was not sent to the
State Headquarters, turned up next door f Or
has the venerable ?Got. Allen cousa?nted to
ring the changes on the barren ideality f
The Maine Democrats hare been supplied
-by their Allies in other States with the sinews
of war, but th? Republicans har? forced the
fighting, and aggressive tactics are certain to
win. But there should be no fighting within
the line?. Tbe breaches in the party rank? in
two of the Congressional districts are exceed
? iogly unftirtunate. It is not too late to settle
these family quarrels. Bolting is a most ex
.oellent practice sometimes, but in these in
?Uncee nothing is to be gained by local
wrangling. _
- The September breeze? will soon be blowing
the froth of ft?.) ion from sea-side and water
ing-plaoe. Americana have not learned to ap
'p-*e?fi_.U ?aright the finest month in their
?climate, bat pam their whole vacation in mid?
summer instead of spaiing a few weeks for
'October. Ow columns this morning afford
pleasant g?mpsee of Jtollday life at Martha's
Vineyard, Cfaautauqua Lake, and VVindacr, Vt
The country house of Mr. Evarts te the picture
"before which our readers will linger longest.
?
To bit letter printed elsewhere Mr. Troliope
points oat inciden ally a singular feature in
the parliamentary practice of Italy. The
'members, it appears, are required to vote
?rpenly on tbe separate ?lAuses of a bill, but
*?$ ?UPwed to decide -H?<-rt'Uy when the man*
I . ' . . ? ? I ? Il .
uro it to bo voted apon in it/ entirety. It
follows that bill? wliicb bave been adopted
piecemeal are rejected upon the final vote.
Italiana are gradually discovering that this
system ia good only for demagogues.
The same obliquity which leads Democrats
and repudiator* to arguo that a promise
to resume is a binderaiice to resumption will
doubtless enable tlieni to discount the success
of the four and a half per cent loan in the
London market, which is now iissured. Gov.
Tilden can doubtless prove to the satisfaction
of his Ohio constitue ?la *tbat the funding of
the debt at lower rales of interest is a step
backward?the shadow in exchange for the
substance of resumption?and that " there is
" no necromancy in the operations of gov
" ernment."
Our correspondence from the Exhibition
-round* to-day is mainly devoted to Fine Art.
Memorial Hall is the building to which four
out of five visitors first direct their steps, but
so confusing is the vast display within that at
the close of an hour three out of the four, after
wandering aimlessly through the corridors,
gladly find relief in the other departments of
the Exhibition. There are many pictures w??ll
worthy of patient study, but there are also
?lores of mediocrity which are merely worth
walking by. We furnish what thousands of
visitors will need during the next two months
?a guide to the Art Exhibition.
It is creditable to the Italian Government
that the fear of scandiil did not deter it from
prosecuting the Marquis of Lescate, who forged
both the King's and Prince Humbert's names
to bills amounting to upward of $100,000.
In his defense the Marquis acknowledged that
nil the bills were forgeries, but he absolutely
denied having been the author of them. He
?leelared that he was tho dupe of a person
whose name he refused to reveal. This ex?
planation appears to have received little con?
sideration, inasmuch as he was sentenced to
eight years' penal servitude. The t?j_ae is a
warning to Victor Emanuel to keep out of
debt and dispense with money-brokers. The
confidential position which the Marquis en?
joyed as the King's agent alone, enabled him
to deceive the bankers.
Regarding Servia, everything is still un?
settled. The army is being reorganiwtl, and
is profiting by the cessation of hostilities to
strengthen its defenses. Russian volunteers
are pouring in and encouraging the panic
stricken Servians, Gen. Tchernayeff, the Com
niaiidi'i -iu-('hief, is still for war, holding that
Servia will be saved from destruction by tho
Great Powers. This sentiment naturally ex?
cit?e disapproval abroad, and the Russo-Ser?
vian chief is warned that a nation cannot be
encouraged to make war for pastime. The
attitude of Montenegro is beset with perplex?
ity. It ia certain, however, that Prince
Nicholas has no desire to confront tho vic?
torious Turks singli'-handed. It is now evi?
dent that the war will continue until either
belligerent is exhaust?ed. Diplomacy seems to
be powerless.
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Great credit is fairly due to the citizens of
Ruffulo for * their lavish hospitality to the
scientific convention. Whilo prompted by no
selfish motive, such attentions are apt to bring
reward. There are many instances already on
record in this country where the visit of a
party of geologista or chemists has been the
first nu-ans of revealing to a community the
hidden treasures around it. We print to-day
the synopsis of a paper showing what has been
done in researches as to the origin of the great
lakes, by Prof. Newberrr, who is conducting
a very thorough survey of that region. A
familiar instance of the value of such lui ?ors
is the result of the old geological survey of
our own State; before it was made largo
sums of money were wasted at intervals by
experimenters in boring in dill? rent localities
for coal; the survey determined the absence
of that mineral and permanently stopped the
boring. Another paper of importance in our
Buffalo letter gives a scientific review of the
silver question. It will be seen that the math?
ematical argument against double standards
and silver legal tender is pregnant with
weighty facts. _
Tale lias won again. The Cambridge crew
threw up their oars half a mile from the finish,
and Columbia was beaten by several lengths.
Yale rowed and steered splendidly fnm first
to last. The time was 9 minutes 10s. sec?
onds?nearly a third of a minute behind her
record in the great race with the London
crew. Yale now has a chance to do a very
graceful thing. The Cambridge crew weie not
in condition for the race. The captain was
sick when he took his seat in the boat, but
with Anglo-Saxon pluck determined not to
back out, but to do his best. During the race
his strength gave way and he fell back faint?
ing in the boat. All Americans aro proud
of Capt, Cook. Through ill repute and good
repute, through success and failure, be has
clung to what he considered were the correct
principles of oarsmauship, and the victories
which he has won this Summer at Springfield
and Philadelphia have all been justly
earned. Now let Yale give the Cambridge
crew another chance. Let the four
make a generous offer to row again with their
English rivals on the Schuylkill. It will be a
noble act of international and intercollegiate
courtesy. Magnanimity will crown their tri?
umph. ___________________
THE MFANISO OP THE NOMINATION,
Circumstances may ?occur between this time
arad th? day of election to change the present
outlook entirely. The Dem?crata, may do some?
thing wise?which, by the way, is not prob?
able?or the Republicans may be guilty of
some stupendous folly, or be made responsible
for some fatal blunder of the Administration,
which ia not by any means unlikely. But
should no such change occur, the proceedings
of the Democratic Convention at Sara?
toga have definitely settled the result
of the November election in thia State
and in the nation. Mr. Tilden ia al?
ready defeated for the Presidency, and
the Democratic ticket in New-York, whether
it remains aa the Saratoga Convention made
it, or ia changed by the State Committee or
by a new convention, m consequence of Mr.
S^mo-ur'a persistence in declining, la m food
aa beaten before theJ?canvaa_ has fairly opened.
They greatly mistake who oonaider the work
of that ?Convention a? having consisted mainly
in the nomination of Mr. Sot moor. Its sig?
nificance ?did not lia in that act merely. In?
deed that part cf th? result waa of no special
consequence, except as it grew out of other
and more important things. The event of the
contention was the defeat of Mr. Clark
aon N. Potter and the an?-Tilden wing
of the party which supported him. Tho
?great fact in the situation is the success
of Gov. Tildcn's fricuda over John Kelly
ami the rout, and not the selection of Gor.
r?-;-;--.-?^
Seymour as an unwilling candidat? frrubbornly
peraisting lu his refusal to stand. The origi?
nal programme of Gov. Tilden to nominate
Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt was shrewd and wise.
There was every likelihood of its being car?
ried out, until it was discovered at so late a
day that he waa ineligible. Had he been eligi?
ble he would no doubt have been nominated,
and if nominated ho would have stood at least
a fair chauco of an election ; his election mak?
ing certain and secure the electoral vote
of the State for Mr. Tilden, the most
vital point in the contest. With Hewitt's
disappearance as a candidat?! ?came the ex?
periment with Dorsheimer by the Governor's
party, which it whs immediately seen would
fail if pushed. The whole current of the
convention was then setting toward Potter.
For two reasons Gov. Tilden did not want
Potter nominated. . One, because it would be a
triumph of tho John Kelly faction, and the
other bocntise the Governor was sagacious and
shrewd enough to s??e that Mr. Potter
was a weak candidate, that ho could
not Ik? elected, and that his nomina*
tion would put the National ticket
I in jeopardy. The Governor's friends under*
stood all this, and fully comprehended the
peril when they saw the convention crying
down Dorsheimer under the lead of Kelly and
lushing over in a mass to Potter. It was at
just this crisis that they made their grand
corip, and almost before tho convention itself
knew it carried Seymour's nomination by ac?
clamation. It was tin? only thing left them to
do, and they did it skillfully and well. For a
few moments it did actually look as though
the movement was a success in other ways
than merely in killing off Potter.
A little later the convention was in calmer
mood, and the affair began to wear a moro
serious aspect. It has been growing more and
more serious every hour since then, until at
the moment of this writing it seems prob?
able that Gov. Seymour will uot under any
circumstances consent to be a candidate, and
the occurrence which for a moment excited so
great enthusiasm as the harbinger of success
turns out to bo in fact a disaster. The
confession has been mado that in tho
opinion of the party managers there is
but one man in the State upon whom the
party can unite as a candidate for Governor.
So fixed were they in this belief that in spite
of his repeated refusals to allow his namo to
go before tho convention, and his invariable
answer to all solicitations that he would not
consent to bo a candidate, they took the
chances and nominated 1 im. That the con?
tingency which has siuoo happened in his re?
iterated dec?ination was considered in tho
convention was slrnvrn by the ?speech of Gen.
McQuade, who asked the convention point
blank it' it was the intention of the party to
vote for Gov. Seymour whether he accepted or
: not, and there was a general nfnrmativo
response. The men who engineered the busi
n ess did not prop-ose to admit any
possibility of final refusal on Gov. Seymour's
part, nor to let tho convention halt at any
such contingency so long as they could push
it forward to the vote by acclamation. They
knew that to wait to hear from tho candidate
was dangerous, and that unless they carried
him .?rough on tho top of the wave of enthu?
siasm Mr. Potter was sure to come in m the
second choice of a vi-ry largo majority.
That was the whole secret of this
remarkable performance. The necessities of
Mr. Tilden's friends demanded the nomina?
tion of Gov. Seymour, with or without his
consent, not because of his strength us a can?
didate, but .Mrcauso he was tho only instru?
ment at hand with which they could head off
the Potter ?movement and savo thcmselve?.
The failure to induce Gov. Seymour to itand
the nomination leaves the political intriguers
who performed this grand strategy in
tho position they were before the convention
assembled, with tho advantage of longer timo
for consultation upon m?*asure8 and prepara?
tion of a plan. They will have now to decido
whether to take the chances In another dele?
gate convention, or assumo the tlangeroua re?
sponsibility of selecting a candidate by the
State Committee. Whichever way they turn,
disaster stares them in the face.
GRAIN AND CORN.
Within a few weeks New-York has de?
cidedly lost in receipts of grain as compared
with other ports, Tho two weeks ending Ang.
19 and Aug. M are tho latest reported, and
in each the receipts at New-York were much
below the average for the mouth or the two
months preceding. All the other cities except
Portland gain in receipts of all grain, and
Baltimore, Boston, and Montreal gain in re?
ceipt-! of corn. Returns for two weeks
may be largely affected by temporary
cause?, but they are well worthy of
notice by those who wish fully to understand
the effects of tho sharp strife between trans?
porters. During the week ending Aug. 19
New-York received only 25 per cent of the
corn received at all the port?, while Philadel?
phia received 28 per cent, Baltimore 19 per
cent, and Boston 13 per cent. The quantities
and proportions of all grain and of corn re?
ceived at the six Atlantic porte during tho
week ending Aug. 26 are thus shown:
AH'iialn. I', rtt. Cora. Terr.
New-York.1,399.612 35.J ?(?7,i:iC at..
Philadeluhl*.... 7&'1,.50 19.7 ?432.HOO _. _
Baltimore. 6-.,7?10 15.7 333.-O0 17.1
Montreal. C-O.M. 15.(1 _-.\i??-) 11.'?
Bostoa .,. 500,3-0 12.6 876.?O0 U2
Portland. 45,700 . 12 10,400 .8
Total.8,977,3.5 100.0 1,951,.?* 100.0
It will be seen that the movement is quite
a large one ; indeed, it has not been exceeded
in more than three weeks since navigation
opened. But the proportionate receipts at
New-York ara decidedly less than" the ave/ng.
for the season. During the four weeks ending
Aug. 12 they were of all grain 44.8 per cent,
and of com 88 per cent. But Philadelphia,
while gaining in receipts of all grain as com?
pared with that period, loses in corn about
one-rifth. Baltimore gains from 12.6 per cent
of all grain to 15.7 per cent, and from 16 per
cent of corn to 17.1 per cent. Montreal gains
from 13 per cent to 1C.6 per cent of all
grain, aud from 5.2 per cent to 11.5 per cent
of corn. Boston gains from 9.5 per cent to
12.6 per cent of all grain, and from 11.7 per
cent to 14.2 per cent of corn.
It ia Quite possible that the considerable
change unfavorable to New-York, which has
now continued ?since about the 1st ?of August,
is due chiefly to the localities from which
crops are most largely forwarded at this season.
When the wheat, oats, and corn coma from
the regions near or beyond the lakes, and
north of the great central railway routes, the
shipper often has an advantage in transporting
to Chicago, Milwaukee, or Toledo, and thence
by water, and of such grain New
York has usually secured the larger pro?
portion. But when the locality from
which shipment? are made is below or near
the great ?central railway routes, it is often
more costly to ship by water than by rail, and,
moving by rail, tho grain ia moro Largely
? . ? ?
affected in its destination by the facilities and
charges at the different cities. It is obvious
that New-York has not outgrown the necessity
of making improv?>ments, if it means to retain
a large proportion of the grain traffic.
SOME THTNOS THAT ARE PLAIN.
Up to a late hour last night, the question
whether Gov. Seymour is or is not the Demo?
cratic candidate, was one of those things which
no fellow could And out. Several other things,
however, were plainly visible to the naked eye.
Thus :
(1) The Democrats have noliody else to run.
They couldn't take Hewitt, wouldn't take
Dorsheimer, were afraid to risk Potter, ami
couldn't get Church. If Seymour refus???, their
poverty-stricken lack of a fit candidate is
ludicrously advertised. (2) They have aban?
doned all idea of considerable Liberal Republi?
can or Independent support. John Kelly
blurted out the truth. They kicked Mr. Dors?
heimer down Rtairs as he was trying to climb
up, snubbed the little band of Liberals who at?
tempted to start a bolt from the late Liberal
Convention, and served notice en all who
chose to stand such treatment and stay, that
th?:y must come squarely up to the mark of
Bourlion Democracy, accept the old war issues,
and take the scapegoat of '63 as the Moses
for '76. (3) The idea of carrying this
State on the cry of Reform is abandoned.
Dorsheimer surrendered honest money in the
platform, and Tibien surrendered it in his
letter. The convention would take nobody
identified with the IMorm movement in this
State, and insisted on having a leader
identified with the record of the Democratic
party during the war. They force the
fighting, therefore, on that record. (4) Gov.
Tilden has lost his grip. When they found
that they couldn't get newitt his following
became demoralized. They tried tot Dors?
heimer, and the convention insulted their
candidate. The Governor tried then to put
Dorsheimer under the wing of Seymour, and
now Seymour is refusing to protect him. If
they should badger Seymour into ruining,
the i" '>!']<? woidd resent being asked to
elect him merely that he might resign
and turn over the Governorship to Dorsheimer.
If he should persist in his refusal, the party
would resent any effort to put Dorsheimer in
his place as tho candidate. In any cam. Til
den is defeated in his first, second, and third
choice, and his prestige as an invincible
manipulator is destroyed.
TUR DESTRUCTION OF FORRATS.
We are again Buffering from what threatens
to _o**?)iii?i an annual visitation. With a tem?
perature of only 83? during the noonday
hours, tho air is as ?le.nl and oppressive as
during the extreme heats of July ; the streets
and shorts seem to smolder under a vail of
?lull blue l);i7*, ; tho sky ,.*. partially obscure?],
but gives birth to no rain-bringing cloud, and
an unaccountable Lossitmle and depression are
felt by all who are sensitive to atmosph?-rio
influences. From the west and north-west,
over the intervening hills aad lowland.?, the
smokes of burning forests drift down upon un,
stifling a portion ?if the ozone which remains
to us after the Summer drouth, and rendering
our atmosph?re impure antl suffocating. The
extent to which such conflagrations spread
their influence is not generally appr?ci?t?-?!.
Sometimes a large for?-st-?ro in Southern
New-Jersey will for days ob.vure the air of
all Pennsylvania east of the Alleghenies. The
smoke of the great Chicago firs of 1871
reaehed the Atlantic coast in aliout 60 hour?,
still carrying with it tho strong biik-II of
burned grain and goods. The burning of
w?*ods in Canada is felt on tho shores of
Chesapeake Bay.
This periodic recurrence of forest-11 res is
mado possible by the prolonged spells ?>f dry
weather which havo followed the wanton de?
struction of so much of our native woodland.
It matt-m littlo practically, therefore, whether
the former are accidental or the work of in
ceudianes : the original cause remains the
same. The shrinkage of rivers and streams
has he-come universally apparent ; and equally
so is the increase of great flooils and inunda?
tions, whereby Nature violently restores the
?equilibrium. The pmportion of forest to cul?
tivated land, which is necessary in order to
preserve the normal rainfall, is now tolerably
well settled ; and tho fact that, in many parts
of the country, that proportion bas already
been violated, has long 1? ? n evident? While
wo have an annual season of drouth, wo are
sure to have an annual burning of forests.
No system of guards or corps of organized
flre-flghters will be so effectual to prevent tho
latter as the simple prevention of the former.
In Euro**-, the Governments have long ago rec?
ognized the subject as one of common interest
to the whole population, and have taken the
forests under their protection. To this com?
plexion we shall also probably be forced to
come at last
The power of forests to attract the precipi?
tation of moisture, we may add. is modifie?.?
and to a much greater extent than is gener?
ally supposed?by the character of the trees.
The experiments which have been ma?le in
France show that the rainfall is mnoh more
aliimilaiit, and the springs and stream-, much
larger, in regions where the forests are of de?
ciduous trees, than where they are evergreen.
Some observers even assert that a spring will
dry up if a giove of coniferous trees 1m- planted
arouml it. We notice, in this country, that
the pine will flourish in a very dry, sandy soil ;
but we have cot eonsidered whether the pine
may not be partly respomible for the ?lryness.
In Virginia, and part* of tho other older
States, the native forests of oak, hickory, and
other deciduous tr?*?a are succeeded by a spon?
taneous growth of pine. If the latter be not
actually drout'i-cT?*-ating, it is certainly far
more inflammable, and the prevention of a
change in th e'^aracter of our forests may lie
no uniniportarr ?tep. We can only, at present
suggest the Mb '-et to our readers. Iti vast
importance, and the imminent necessity of
some form of a? 'ion, need, no discussion.
SUMMER CHDRCH-QOIXO.
To-morrow marks the return of many of ourcity
pastors. Many more church-? than isual were
closed In this city last month, and the attendance
upon those which remained open was greatly
reduced in nuniW. One cause of this waa the
prolonged heats, and another undoubtedly was,
so far as certain sect? are concerned, the open?
ing of the large camp meetings and semi-relig?
ious Summer cities. No matter, however, how
fashionable or well-to-do a eongregit?t-m, or
how well able to take an August holiday,
some of its members were left at home, and
Just as 'certainly they grumbled at the
closed church doors and the "idling pas
" tor." They are usually the people who are
only happy with a grievance, and on whom
argument is wasted. No use to urge upon them
the fact that a man whose brain and
soul are to furnish ment.il and spiritual food
for the congregation throughout the year
need) to refresh and strengthen both m?ore
than any of his hearers ; and that it is right
and assuredly expedient to choose the some
time for the holiday oi both ptistor and peo?
ple. Our grumblers are not to be appeased.
The rihrewd Scotch clerk whose sole intel?
ectual effort is to pick flaws in the minister's
discourse, and the tired housekeeper whose
weekly recreation it is to look at the bats and
gowns in the neighl ?ring pews and comparo
them with her own, .ire likely to grumble
ino.it loudly at their deprivation of spiritual
food.
But, after all, may there not have been n benefit
in even these closed churches, it we chose to
look for itt Far be it from us to hint that
there are too many churches or too much
church-going; provided churches and public
praise are only casual expressions of deep in?
dividual piety, and do ti.t take the place of
it. Our grumbling reader must judge for him?
self whether his religion has been a mat
ter of pew-holding and pew-filling, of contri?
butions to church funds, a loud singing of
hymns and a joining in responses, or a d-iily
patient abnegation of self and devotion of life
to the service of a lowly Master and his fel?
low-men. If it is the latter, the temporary ab?
sence from a certain church could make no
difference in his habitual posture toward his
Maker or hi" neighbor. If it be the former, he
lias hud a chance to try if there be not some
better kind of religion than that which
has hitherto sufficed. In either cose it
will have done him good to prac?
tico new methods of worship. He might
havo tried to make a sermon for him?
self out of the tramp he tnrned from the door ?
the Magdalen who brushed against his sleeve ;
to find out the moral lesson in the life of his
wife ; he might have taken himself to piece? for
his own improvement ; taken stock of his fault?
and his virtues ; looked back at the whole current
of events since he was a? little animal at his fa?
ther's table, and seen how ho has been made
the saint or scoundrel that he is;?found the
overruling Power and the hidden meaning in
the whole story. No other history could be so
dramatic or tragic for him, or could lie laden
with so profound a significance. lie would
have found a preacher within if he called on
it loudly enough to waken it, who could point
this sermon with an eloquence and force be?
yond that of any mortal man.
Or if he tired of himself as a subject
he migtit have found missionary work
under his own roof. It has been all
very well to give bank notes to foreign
uiissions, but what of his brother who
has served him as clerk or stood behind his
chair at dinner these yeare back T What has
he done to make life? load easier for them, to
convince them with hearty good will that this
is a good world, with a good God overhead,
and that there is a better one beyond to which
If we go at all we must go hand in hand in
company t It was when Klijah was alone that
tho still small voice came to him ; mighty vis?
ions came to Daniel upon his bed ; the shepherd
first sang among the hills with none but his
flock ?and God to hear the hymns which have
served humanity for all ages. Let us be sat?
isfied now and then to be done with wor?
shiping crowds, and shut ourselves in with
our own souls aud the two dreud Pm-wnces
which contend for us from birth until death.
Welcome to oar oountry com?tinsI Within the last
few ?lays they have added an mm?'? u.Hf.jm? ?i variety
to the motley throngs of Broadway and our pubUo
aguarea. Whether going to or returning from Phila?
delphia ; whether ?ai*rnalizini. this Centennial year
by a long-delayed holiday trip ; or attracted to oar
rity by tho fame, of h??r splendors and her virtues,
we cannot decide r but never before, at this season,
were sc many visitors from tho country seeii among
us. They patiently walk the hot pavements, with
or without their timbrdLvaud satchels, gazing with
a In-arty and honest interest on many shows which
long ago lost their advertising value for our cit?
izens. It is pleasant to see our commonplace?? re?
freshes, to our own eyes, as they become now und
curious to those of others ; to find our architecture
grander than we had supposed, our extent and
activity so much greater. But these rural nctgh
Imrs nono the leas understand how to eompnre aud
criticise : they observe keenly while they enjoy.
They will not fail to notice the evidences of poverty
beside those ot luxury, the mixta re of steady labor
and vagabondage, of brilliance and dirt, of in 1er
and revolt, courtesy and impudence, which go to
moke up the life of a great city. Nevertheless, they
oro welcome! The slightest intercourse between
any two claas?>s of our population is far better than
mutual ignorance.
There Is nothing like presumption in the conduit
of Mr. John Kelly. When he gives certificat?i ni
character to Adams and Potter, when he snubs
Dorshcimer and the Liberals, when he turns his
back disdainfully upon eminent courtiers, lie is only
exercising those autocratic powers which are cheer?
fully chu ? ilisl to him. lie is no pretender who is
sniug for recognition, but an actual aud absolute
" boss," whoie right there is none to dispute. He is
rr-oelved with riotous enthusiasm in the Democratic
Convent!? n of the foremost State of the Republic.
In that convention he defeats Chas. ??yConor and is
placed at the head of the National ticket If he
ehoo-es to be sulky, all Democrats turn pole and
talk in whispers, aud when he sheds a smile they
fairly bask in it. Now there ?in- ? o.ir.-'? ??l?, i. .1 gen?
tlemen in the Republican party?machine men of
the baser sort?who often enough defeat the highest
purpose.?, of the wisest und the beat, but after all
Mr. Kelly's kind are not the men who are cheered
and feared in New-York Republican Conventions.
The " Democratic masses are instinct with a demand
for reform," for Oov. Tilden says so, but the fastid?
ious voter will reflect before he joins himself to
masses which are " bo*??-?!.''
Friends of Gen. Sykes of the regular army think
that the brief editorial reference in The I'kiih ni: to
the letter which he addressed to this journal con?
cerning the statement? made by Gen. Birney and
Gen. Hi'Wird as to his action during the battle of
?Oetsy.burK, may gire rise to misconception. The
subatance of what Gen. ?irney said and Gen. How?
ard repeated was that G??n. Sykes was more
?live tu the comfort of his men than to
his duty as n soldier?basing their com?
plaint upon an alleged reply from him
that he " would be np in time, that his men were
then making coffee, and were tired." Gen. Sykes
emphatically denies having said anything of the
sort, and conclusively shows from a recapitulation
of his action throughout the battle, that Gen. How?
ard did him great injustice in carelessly repeating
the hosrsay remark out of which tho story grew.
Miss Martineau came very near making a strange
bequest in the interest of science. Her wilt con?
tained one remarkable provision?that her skull and
brain should be given to Henry George Atkinson,
" for the purposes oi seientitie, observation." A sub?
sequent codicil, however, revoked this direction, ?toe
alteration being mad? not in consequence of any
ehonge in opinion, but because of " a change of cir?
cumstance* in my individual en-*?." It gives one a
lively idea of the cold blooded devotion of scientists
to their favorite pursuit?, to think of Henry George
Atkinson calmly cutting np the brain of Harriet
Martineau. _
Wo have received from Mr. H. T. Duell of -Omaha,
Nob., a half-pint flask, containing a few hundred
dead grass hopper??a specimen of tha billions of
the same unpleasant " Nebraska Fruit," as
Mr. Duell pleasantly culls then in an inscription on
the outside of thonaok. A a ...at.t_?r of ?uocm?t
,-"*?' lit '
history, he adds ; '* T_ese cusses ruined myflowtH?"'
garden yesterday." Wears sorry for Ml. DasU and'
his flowers ; and, if it will be any satisfaction to him,
we are ready to admit that a arare disagrees?-1.
collectioa we have never seen oatside ot an
entomologist', cabinet. Upon hasty inspection, they
seemed to be sufficiently dead, but we still earefnlly
kept in th? cork. There might be a pair of Living
ones inside, able, with thoir well-known ft-a-undit y,
to oveirun all New-York and dovour its every gree*
thin*. Mr. Duell and all ?Nobn_.ki_.ns have enr sin*
cerest sympathy.
PERSONAL.
The Princess of Servia, daughter ot a Wal
lactilan merchant, tuu lnh<*rit?-d great woaltli from an
tutele.
King Alfonso has invited the Prince Imperial
to visit him dating th?* Autumn at Orenada, and the
Prlnoe has a?y;??pted for himself and his mother.
Victor Hugo mercilessly says: '-Shonid I
never write another word, 12 volume? of my unpub
llabe-1 work* eottld still be Uwned fr?ta Um press."
Prince Frederick Charles has _^*cer>ied tho
l**?*cs1den--y of tbe ?3-*T-n*an 8?*?t*tl?*_ of the Exhibition ot
1878, nu- the PrliH? of Wulea that of the Kngllsh SmUott.
The Crown Prinoe and Prin?**eas of Prussia
and Marshal MaeMaboo have beea exchanging, at Auder
matt, visita which are deac-rlbed by aiixlixu oorrespoB.'
ente as Ion?,- and cordial.
Prof. J. L. Diman's admirable oration on
"The Alienation of tbe Educated Claim /ro?a Po-Uiss,*
dolivered before tbe Pbl Beta Kappa Booletv of Harvard
last Jim??, bas lxv*n published In a neat pamphlet by Mr.
B. t). linier of Provide nee.
After the fall of the curtain upon the last
act of the " Dusk at the Gods," Wagner made this little
speech In response to the applaose: "Now you know
* hat ?tan be ?tone. Do you wish for an artt That d?v
IM-nd* on yoiira<-lvee. Have a firm resolution ?aid an art
will follow I"
Mr. Paul I.iptay, the Centennial Exhibition
correspondent of six of tbe leading n_w?pai>era of
Hungary, la doing an excellent work in acquainting the
people of hi? country wltb the beat features of tbe fair
that are distinctively American. Our art, educational
systems, art Industries, Journall-m, inventions, labor
?living machinery, ete., have found In him au lnu-lllgaiit
observer aii'l faithful reporter. He is also giving hi?
coiintrymcn a gllmr-so at American literature through a
series of htograpbical ?-ketches of eminent authors, ac
coinparled by portraits and translations of selecti-j-ns
from their works, now appearing In a bandsoma Illus?
trated weekly published at Buda, Pesth. The ami
.-irtii-li- 1m devoted to William ?Cullen liryant. end the sec?
ond to Bayard Taylor. Mr. Llptay remains In Phlla
delpbla until October, and then returns to Hungary,
Kufus Chonte is the subject of an article full
of reminiscences tn The Albany Law Journal. Ilia
writer ?.escribes bltn as six feet in bight, wltb a powerful
chest and shoulders, and gaunt frame. His bands and
feet were large, and be walked with a rolling gate. Hi?
face, of a bilious, coffee-colored complexion, wats deeply
corrugated with wrinkles and hollows, and bis eres,
large, deep-set, and wonderfully expressive. His hair
was til.uk, i-urly, ami luxuriant. He was generally at?
tired In ill Biting, slouching garment?. He shrieked,
raved, swung his fists, and ?Ustoitcd his body Into un?
natural contortions, and poured forth his argumenta
with startling force and velocity ; but with the arrauge
rnenl, detail, and wide command of Ianpiage of a born
orator, utterly forgetful of himself in the abandon ot the
moment, his whole soul being thrown Into the cause ho
had undertaken to presen t.
Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 1.?-President and
Mrs. (iraut arrived In this city from Long Branch this
morning. They are tbe guests of Mr. A, C. Corbla.
Quebec, Sept. 1.?Col. Rhodes of Quebee baa
been ???il-iiiit?-?l one of the Judges in the Agricultural
l><M?-rtiii?j_t of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel?
phia.
POLITICAL NOTES.
From this lime <>** it is a stern chase for the
Democracy. The campaign has bate?me " aggressive,"
but not in tbe way Mr. Tillen expected.
c? I. Lester Bradnei Faulkner is a rising
Democratic statesman?perhaps he rose once too often la
tue Saratoga Con veut ion.
Now that the issues in New-York hare been
decided, there will be no more complaints of dullness la
the eau va as. The old Republican enthusiasm is already
lu the air, and tbe D?-m??--*-.tM can truthfully exclaha
with Ben Hill : " They've got ua again !"
The Democratic e?litorial mill is now (-rind?
ing out articles and paragraphs showtug that Gov
H :i y es bas no record, and Is a man of very lndiffercn
mental capacity. A score or more of newspapers oou
tain the same contributions each day. The average
rural Democratic editor is having a mighty easy tit?*,
of It.
Nothiug has so profoundly disgusted the Dem?
ocrats during tee present campaign as tbe "ti_el**_s"
work tbe Republicans insist upon ?loins in Vermont and
Maine. They think it strrply idiotic. Try to be patient?
brethren. There will be lots of things lu this campal*-a
tbttt will make you unhappy, and you waut to sars
strength to uxx-t tb.ni.
Imagination is working wonders now for the
Democrats. See what it enabled tbe editor of Th* Lout*,
tilt* Courier-Journal to do : " Hayos and Grant perfecUy
understand one another. The invitation to Long Breach
was offered to be declined. It was thought the faro?
would help tii? canvas?. Meanwhile, letters pass freely.
T.ie President has it in writing th.it, If Have? i_ elect?*-,
li?? la be restored to command of the army."
The Hon. H?nry VV. Hilliard has yielded to
numerous r?-??u?-.-?t-? and has consented to be an independ?
ent candidate for Com-rees in the Columbus District of
Georgia. In his letter concerning his decision, he says :
" My political opinions, early formed, and freely ex*
pressed in C*ongr?ss and b?-fore the people, have under?
gone no change. As to later events, It is proper to say
that I was decidedly opposed to seceesion, and exerted
whatever influente 1 poasc-sed against tbe measures that
brought on the war ; but when that came, I stood with
my people. Slm-e tho restoration of peace, I hi?ve con?
tributed what I could to uphold the constitutional right?
of the South, and at tbe same ttm? to effect ? good
understanding between the people of the different sec?
tions of the I'n:.m. I have always Insisted that
then need be no s.iciifj. col bou or, or principle. In re
Horiiig tranquillity to the country."
It is all well enough for the Democrats to
protest ait-inst reviving " old war issues." but they
should bo careful lost they stir them up themselves.
Sin ti a paragraph as the following from Thehlobile Register
revive? suspicions which the most msguanlmous Repub?
licans find It bard work to keep down : " Tbe grave
question to be settled at uiueh oost is : What la to be
done to get rid of tbe negro m a voter f Sooner or
lstor, with more or leas dispatch, be will be disfraa
chlsed and thrust out of politics. White men of all par?
ties anil of every grade of religious or moral conviction
may ua weU come quickly to the consideration how he
iret the negro out ot politics with the It-ast confusion aud
cost. He must go, aud there is no ptoflt In standing long
upon tb<- order of his going. The question of tuSrma*
belongs to the atsie? respectively. When the organic*?!
Deaioorasy of 1K7. goes luto otHce, each Stato shall be
allowed to settle this and other social and domeatle
Issues for itself aud In Its own way, without any inter
ferenee from the General ?loveniment. Th? n we sa?
begin the work of resetting our ?battered politlotU and
our ?'-?moralised social institutions upon eorreet found*
tious." _
THE STATE CANFAS8.
Now that both parties have approved the
Constitutional Amendments, we want to see both partie?
take measures to adopt them.
Mr. Seymour would do well to adhere to his
resolution. To hit ve been beaten three times for th?
position for Uovernor Is enough.
Lieut.-Gov. Dorshetmer-s shoulders are broad
enough to bear the -?eight of tbe Tilden campstgn. Why
not let him run alon? I?Why, indeed, excepting that th?
Democrat? want nobody who waa not identified with
their party during lu sttitulo of quast-oppositlon to the
war for tue t'mou. Of course Qov. Doi-sbeinier won't do.
" Give us a Democrat," they cry.
The Exprett, after urging that Mr. Seymour
has no light to decline the nomination, throws out the??
wo. ds of mingled hop? and warning : " Thank God th?
success of tho Democratic party in this State does no?
d?.. ?>nd upon a singt? wlU or a single man. A great d_t
appolntment haa befallen us, aud that la all ; but only
cowardly and weak men yield to disnitopintmeuts. The
party Is not dead, nor collapsed, nor ?_meat**>d, nor really
weakened, b_eaus? on? nun prefers to follow rathe?
than to lead. Only let no second mlatak? be oommltted.
Let Mr. D??rabelmer*s came stand where it la, and th?
ablest available roan In the ?tat? cousent to take the firs?
plu? e. With the name of Judge <"hurch, or Potter, w?
should feel that wo had a standard--***-**-- worthy of tb*
times, and there at*? other and able men capable of lead
lug ua from our regreU and dlsappolntiue-BU to a com?
plete victory."
Judge Countryman's name waa presented to
the Republican Convention m a candidate for Judge of
the Court of Appeals entirely without hit knowied.e,
and not by hi? county delegation. The Oeopertttmm Re?
publican aays : " It Is but Justice to Judge Countryman
to say that his name was presented to the convent ion
without his knowledge or consent, and without nonsuit ac?
tion with the delegation frwm Otoego. The nomination
was made by s delegate from Hog?, ?ad seconded by
Judge Hale of Essex. With no Intimation that hie asm?
w<*iU4 I*? preswV??-. em) wiUi_ul WM_H_HP -wreoelved