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NEW YOItK, TH I'll SPAY, MAY 11, 1878.
From our rejtorls (his morning the probabilities
are that the trtather to-day tcili be slightly warmer
nnd clear.
Notice to Country Newsdealers.?For
prompt and regular delivery of the Herald
by fast mail trains orders must be sent dived to
this office, Postage Jree.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Speculation
was active bat resulted in lower prices, and
? sharp break in New Jersey Central and
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. Gold
declined from 112 1-2 to 112 1-4. Money
was loaned on call at 3 and 4 1-2 per cent.
Foreign exchange, government and railway
bonds were steady.
What Will the two hundred thousand
people t^o attended the Centennial Exhibi
tion yesterday do with themselves on Sun
day ?
How the Kentucky Republicans regard
the canvass for tho Presidency is happily
told elsewhere in a series of interviews with
prominent corn-cracker politicians.
What Jacques Offenbach has to say of
things in general and the decline in French
literature and French drama in particular ;
will be read with some amusement on both
?ides of the Atlantic. "Jl;/ a des gens "
The Imprisoned Fenians will undoubtedly
run a better chance of liberation from the
petition which has so far received the signa
ture of one hundred and eight members of
the British Parliament than from any pre
vious effort in the same direction.
President Grant's Address at the Cen
tennial Exhibition yesterday was sensible
enough, but commonplace. It was without
inspiration, and did not contain one sen
tence that deserves to be remembered.
Imagine what Lincoln would have made of
the opportunity ! His speech at Gettysburg
Is written in golden letters in American his
tory, and will endure as long as tho re
public.
The Amnesty Question in Prance has evi
dently some troublesome possibilities iu it
yet. With unrepentant and unforgiving j
penmen liko llochel'ort on one side, and con
servative fears on the other, and tho great !
tide of public opinion anxious to hide the
past by an Act of Oblivion in the name of the
lair future of France it would require more
delicate handling than in the exigencies and
opportunities of party warfare it is likely to
receive.
Among the Old People.?The renders of
-no Herald, when they have road through
the account of yesterday's great doings at
Philadelphia, can in a measure span tho cm- i
lury that has almost passed since the Declar- 1
ktion of Independence was signed there by !
{lancing at the two interesting stories of tho j
Delaware lody of niuety-nino years and the j
Irish citizen of Baltimore of ninety-two
irears, as told in another column. The spray
?f elm which Mrs. Denny received from the
hands of Cmsar Kodney, and which now
towers as a stately tree one bundled feet i
high, is wonderfully apt in its symbolism of
the then and the now.
A "Commom" That In Not a Common in any i
common sense of the word is the condition ?
in which our costly Central Park finds itself
owing to the Chinese restrictions placed ,
upon the citizens, young or old, who
attempt to enjoy themselves in it
"Keep * off beds of flowers," "Keep
?1T old gentlemen's corns," "Keep off
the tails of old maids' Spitz dogs'' would ;
be sensible admonitions ; but "Keep off the
p-ass" is to the child as absurd and trying
i warning as "Keep off the gate" would bo
id a hilarious farmer's son in the rural
regions. Let the children play on the graft*,
0 ye Commissioners, or plait up your pig
tails and take the next steamer for the banks
of the Yang-t? kiang.
drlplits.
Tho scenes presented yesterday in the
streets of Philadelphia and at the Centen
nial grounds are reported in oar news col
umns with a picturesque fulness of detail
which will meet and satisfy the lively curi
osity of the public in relation to an event
which appeals so strongly to national pride
nnd to the love of scenic effect.
The weather, in spite of tho threat
ening aspect* of the morning, had all
the brightness and blandness of a lovely
spring day. The virgin foliage which is be
ginning to cover the trees of Fairmount
l'ark has just reached that stage when its
beauty is most refreshing to the eye, and a
resplendent sun, shining on groves and
river and on the gliitering architecture of
tho buildings, supplied a setting for tho
moving picturo of military and civic parade
which heightened its beauty and impressive
ness. In all that was addressed to tho
eye tho opening was a magnificent
bucccss, and it is chiefly through tao
i eye that such occasions produce their effect
There may have been less of a certain kind
of pomp than attended similar inaugural
ceremonies in the Old World, where the
presence and trappings of royalty were
among tho attractions ; but tho ono crownod
head which graced this occasion is the one
which we had the most reason to desire, be
cause he is the sovereign of the most impor
tant nation on the Western Continent next
to our own, and because, with his royal
rank, ho deports himself with the sim
plicity of a republican gentleman, who shuns
I instead of exacting the ceremonious etiquette
i which is alien to our institutions. This wel
come is the more cordial by the fact that he
is not only an American ruler, but that he
shares with us in tho noblest achievement of
i the century so fitly alluded to in thoso lines
of Whittier's Centennial hymn relating to
the fruits of the stvong assertion of human
?quality in the Declaration of Indepond
| ence:?
Who? echo ts tho glad retrain
Of rended l>olt nnd falling chain.
Not only that part of yesterday's proceed
ings whfeh was merely scenic and addressed
to the eye was a great success, but also the
music, which, next to the pageant, was the
most popular and inspiring feature of the
occasion. The music, which is described to
I have been admirably executed, was heard
1 and enjoyed by the whole of the
vast and thronging multitudes; but tho
addresses could have been audible
only to one or two thousand people
in close proximity to the spot where I
they were delivered. They added nothing I
to the pleasuro of the greater part of the
visitors, and until they are pernsed in the
published reports very few can know
whether they were good or bad. They can
hardly be regarded as contributions to the
pleasuro of the day and of the people pres
ent, but only to the pleasure of readers
on the next day when they peruse
them in the newspapers. In atf the
enjoyable essentials of such a day
the opening ceremonies were a brilliant
success-in the bright, lovely weather, the
vastnoss of tho assemblage, the good order
of the arrangements, the military display,
the gay profusion of waving flags, the
beauty of the buildings, whose decorations
appeared to full advantage, and in tho pres
ence of notable persons.
Of the intellectual features of the occasion
it is not possible to speak with the same
confident and unqualified praise. Mr.
Whittier's noble hymn was the most credit
able of these contributions. It has no faults
of taste, no tawdriness, no mock emotion,
and its tone of sentiment is in
perfect keeping with the anniver
sary. In addition to these negativo
but important merits it is baptized in tho
?very spirit of patriotism, and rises in some
of its lines and some whole stanzas into a
high strain of poetry. The allusion to the
Argonauts is peculiarly striking and happy,
as is also the thanks 'for beauty made the
bride of use." Even the lines that seem
bare of poetical ornament have a fervid and
condensed moral energy, admirably appro
priate in a hymn written for so affecting an
occasion, as, for example, this manly invo
cation :?
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
Tlio ansterc virtues alron* to fave.
The honor proof to place or jrold,
The manhood ucvcr bought nor sold.
The? in h whole code of national morals
condensed into these energetic lines, which
deserve to be deeply engraven in all hearts.
The last two lines of the hymn are equally I
admirable by the lofty disdain of that flattery j
which is the besetting sin of jioets on such j
occasions, and by the hint that our national j
character has great room for improvement, j
The whole hymn is suffused with a spirit ?
which is more valuable than mero poetrj', i
and is so chastely poetical and truly appro
priate that it is not likely to be forgotten.
President Grant's address was well con
ceived, but it has some bad faults of execu
tion. It is to be regretted that he did not j
submit it to some friend of moro literary cul
tivation than himself for revision previous to
its delivery. In tone and spirit it is excel
lent It is entirely free from the foolish j
bumptiousness in which our patriotic orators
arc wont to indulge. There is none of the
overstrained eulogy of our achievements
so common with fluent phrase makers,
who mount on stilts ns soon as they begin to
speak upon topics connected with our na
tional history, and who seem to think that
fustian is the proper language of patriotism.
President Grant's ballast of strong sense
protects him against spread-eagle nonsense,
and he speaks of what this nation has dono
with becoming modesty and discrimination.
He admits the superiority of somo other na
tions in the arts of civilization. "Whilst
proud of what we have done," he says, "we
regret that we have not done more.
Our achievements haTO been great
enough, however, to mako it easy for
our people to acknowledge superior
merit wherever found." These remarks
evince round judgment and an excellont sense
of decorum. That part of the address in
which he accounts for such defccts as may
l?e discovered in our culture, by the neces
sity we have been under of subduing the
wilderness and providing for material wants,
is rational and appropriate, lint when he
proceeds to state what may be learned from
the Eiposition he talks loosely and incon
I sideratoly. He saya "we have done vhat
thin Exhibition will show in the direction of
rivalling older und more advanced no
tions in law, mcdicine and theology; ,
in science, litem tare and the fine arts."
Everything bat the fine arts should be ;
stricken from this list How "this Exhibi- j
bition will show" what we have done in law,
theology or literature passes comprehension.
Even if all the works of American authors |
were to be put on exhibition in the !
Centennial buildings nobody would go |
there to study and compare them.
We can exhibit the physical produc
tions of the country, the machinery
we have invented, the fabrics we hove
made, articles of dress, furniture and con
venience, the good pictures and Btatues of
our artists; but our jurists, theologians,
physicians nndjnen of letters must find ap
preciation through other channels and not
through an exhibition of the productions of
art and industry. It was not to be expected
that President Grant would compose an ad
dress displaying the same exactness of
knowledge which was possessed by the ac
complished Prince Albert, but he might
have avoided serious mistakes by taking the
counsel of some judicious friend.
The opening yesterday,, notwithstanding
some slight blemishes and drawbacks, must
be regarded as a gratifying success, and
there is every reason to expect thfl) the Ex
hibition itself will be worthy of so splendid
an inauguration.
The Murders mt Salonica.
Exactly how tho train of events started
which ended in the murder of tho French
and German contuils at Salonica we are not
likely to learn. United States consuls are,
unfortunately, not always models of dis
cretion. They are often disposed to pre
sume extremely on the importance
of their position and to "take the re
sponsibility" of proceeding in wholly
unauthorized ways. This is rnther more apt
to be the case when they are not natives of
this country and ure only constructively
citizens,\ but are, on the contrary, natives of
the place in which they act as our consuls.
If Bomo man of small wit who has lived to
middle age a mere nobody in a quiet place
of Europe or Asia acquires the right to put
the Stars and Stripes officially over his house
ho is very apt to regard it as a warrant that
fully justifies him in the attempt to sit on
the heads of the rest of the popula
tion. Nearly all tho vagaries of our consuls
that have brought them into collision with
tho people amidst whom thoy live have
originated in such mistaken endeavors, and
it may prove that the statement of the Otto
man government is true, and that the people
were provoked beyond the possibility of re
straint by an unjustifiable consular inter
ference, in which case they ? only did what
would have been dono by a mob in any coun
try. Indeed, if the statement of the case that I
is friendliest to the Consul is true?that ho
rescued a Christian girl from Moslem cap
tors?he was then engaged in performing the
duties of the Salonica police force, and was
hardly within the limit of consular rights.
But if this officer were a thousand times
wrong the acts that followed are not tho
less grave and compromising to the Ottoman
Power. Tho consuls who wero killod wero
not involved in tho primary error, if there
was one, and they represent Powers that
cannot afford to let a caso like this pass
without an example that will protect in
some degree the lives of future consuls.
Turkey will, of course, give tho fullest satis
faction for the outrage, both by extreme
punishment of the rioters and by indemnifi
cation to the families of tho murderod per
sons, in the hope to prevent the use of this
fact as a compliflbon of those difficulties in
her administrate^ that have already made
her a subject of consideration with tho great
Powers. But the endeavor will bo vain.
However Austria, or any other Power, may
try to belittle this incident in the attempt to
sustain the Sultan in any conference or
diplomatic negotiations, this now evidence
that the local authorities in an important
Turkish city aro unablo to control tho fan
atical impulses of tho people cannot and will
not be loft out of consideration in reflection
upon the methods for ameliorating tho con
dition of the Christians who may at any
moment become the victims of such fanati
cism.
A Starring Communicant.
A card published in yesterday's Heiiai.i>
related a dubious story about an "educated
lady" who applied to Dr. Dix, rector of
Trinity church, foV relief during the past
winter. The lady gave him, tho card slates,
"references to some merchants in high stand
ing down town," and, although said to bo
starving, did not call again on the Doctor for
"a week or two." Finally we lrurn that this
lady got up a dramatic reading, for which
Dr. Dix is accused (!) of taking, and, we
presume, paying for, two tickets. To all this
is tagged on an attack upon Trinity church
and it? rector, whose native goodness of
heart is sufficient answer in this community
to any such injurious accusations as neglect
ing the worthy poor. We take pains in call
ing attention to this silly card because a deal
pf sham and cant lies at the bottom of it and
kindred communications. 'Why the "mer
chants in high standing" should turn over
their starving lriend to Dr. Dix is a question
not to bo answered by a shrug of tli? shoul
ders. No one would lay a straw in tho way
of their assisting her, but it saves soiao
trouble and a little money and gives thorn a
chance for cheap indignation to send her at
intervals to a revered pantor and then visit
their own sins of omission on his shoulders.
Thk Scotch Rifi-emki* have already
marked out the arrangements for the selec
tion of the competing team that will come to
America to shoot in the Centennial match.
A goodly sum ha* already been subscribed
to cover tho expenses, and Colonel MocDon
ald, who has been chosen captain, will un
doubtedly head a formidable body of sharp
shooters. We bespeak a hearty welcome lor
the gallant Scots.
Thk Bf.rokn Tv.vnkl Explosion inquiry
[ yesterdov, whilo ranking it almost certain
1 that the rendrock catastrophe was produced
by design and by some one familiar with the
process of ignitiou, also establishes that had
it not been for tho criminal carelessness of
tho contractor the diabolical design could
t never have moceeded as il did.
Can the Prrildfnt Akregat* Ik* Ex- |
tradition Treaty 1
There is a passage in Secretary Fish's j
otherwise ndmimble despatch which assumes i
that the President alone, without the pre
vious authorization of Congress, will annul
tho Extradition Treaty if Winslow is not
surrendered. This is untenable ground.
It will he the President's duty as soon as
Winslow is set at large to communicate the
facts to Congress and make such recom
mendations as he may think suitable ; but
his further action must await the will of
Congress. Reason, sound precedents, judi
cial decisions and the opinions of writers of
authority alike require this course. Treaties
are declared by the constitution to be the
supreme law of tho land, and the President
is not empowered to ffct aside any law. It
has accordingly happened that when this
government has desired to abrogate treaties,
either for infraction by the other contracting
Power or in pursuance of a provision in the
treaty itself for terminating it by notice, the
will of the government has been first declared
by Congress and then executed by the Presi
dent in p.ursuance of its instructions. Our
earliest treaty with France was abrogated in
1798 by an act of Congress whoso preamble
recited violations by France, and whoso en
acting clause anuulied the treaty in conse
quence of the infractions. When President
Polk, in 1846, desired to give notice to Great
Britain of our wish to terminate tho treaty
for the joint occupation of Oregon ho asked
Congress to confer on him the requisite author
ity. When tho Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
was tenninatod by giving tho stipulated
year's notice the saipe method was pursued,
Congress passing a joint resolution instruct
ing the President to give the notice. There
is only one exception to this method of
procedure, and the history of that exception
confirms and gives emphasis to tho rule. In
1864 the people of Canada behaved so badly
that Mr. Seward, by direction of President
Lincoln, gave notice to the British govern
ment of our intention to terminate
tho ,treaty limiting the number of war
vessels on the lakes. But Congress at
its very next session passed a joint
resolution validating tho notice, declaring
that it "is hereby adopted and ratified as if
the same had been authorized by Congress."
That act made it very clear that Congress
alone could enable the President to give a
valid notice of tho termination of a treaty.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs,
of which Mr. Sumner was then chairman,
declared through him that "in their opinion
a treaty may be regarded to a certain
extent as a part of the law of the land, to be
repealed or set aside only as other laws are
repealed or set aside?that is, by aot of Con
gress." In support of this view Mr. Sumner
quoted Story's "Commentaries" and a judg
ment of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Secretary Fish has managed this ex
tradition controversy so admirably that we
should be sorry to witness a departure from
sound precedents in the final stage of the
business.
Stock Operations.
A well known stock broker and eminent
wit wqp once beard to remark that all wor
shippers in tho Broad street temple wear
"blinders." They see a little way before
them, bnt can never avoid the dangers or
seize the advantages on either side. The
history of the Stock Exchange for tho past
two years and its aspect to-day are striking
evidences of this clever traism. Its votaries
blindly follow the operations of a few artfnl
leaders, who, taking advantage of the chance
condition of the market, move up what they
are pleased to term "values" a few points,
and tho faithful remnant of the once large
army of speculators rush in "where angels
fear to tread," believing that the turn has
come at last, only to find that, like the la
boring vessel on a dangerous coast, they aro
led on to destruction by a false light?a lan
tern hung to a hobbled donkey.
The fact is that the day of stook specula
tion has passed. Watered stocks, scrip div
idends and "corners" have done their work,
tho crop has failed and the grasshoppers
have disappeared. The present generation
have had enough of it, and the
glorious old times that ended so dis
astrously in 1873 are not likely to be
repeated in our day, or until a new genera
tion has matured?a generation ignorant of,
or willing to ignore, tho lessons that wo havo
learned and for which so tremendons a price
was paid. " Flyers " are out of fashion, and
one no longer hears the slang of the street
in tho months of tho gentler sex who havo
"asuro point in Wostevn Union," nor are
club members ravaged and laid low by puts
and calls on a safe thing at a dollar a share.
Everybody who has anything is anxiously
waiting for an opportunity to get out, and
tho dcisiro to get in grows small by degrees
and beautifully, less ; in short, it will l>e a
long time before the unfrequented resorts of
past speculation can again, like the crocodile
in "Little Alice,"
Wolcoms little Ashes in
WllU gently smiling Jaws
That speculation will again revive in this
essentially commercial community is cer
tain ; that it will be long delayed is improb
able, but it is equally probable that it will
seek new issues and new roads to fortune.
Tho old ones have been ruined by misman
agement, greed, and, in many instances, by
something worse. Meanwhile tho daily
papers continue their money articles as
baromoters of public opinion, some doing
a "8ignal Service," and financially follow
ing in the footsteps of " Old Probabilities."
Tli? Drift of Political Discussion.
Political discussion, as represented in an
other eolumn from the press of tho eountry,
shows that while tho South does not wish to
furnish the candidate for either piace on the
democratic ticket it looks for a strong and
available rather than for a great man. It
wants some one to win with. It likes
Bayard, it has enthusiasm for Hancock ; but
it demands the nomination ofTilden, on the
ground thut ho will carry enough Northern
States to elect him. The California Demo
cratic Convention occurs on the 24th of this
month, and its Southern element will prob
ably suggest Tildefi, with ex-JSt-nator Latham,
f.f California, for the second plaoe. The
latter gentleman really represents tho old
democratic rfgimc. Kentucky is very busy
in polities, and Bristow is far ahead of any
man in the affections of that State. All over
the West there is a disposition among demo
cratic editor* to regard Mr. Seymour as a
man who will accept the candidacy if it is
forced upon him. This idea is echoed by many
democratic newspapers of Now York State.
In Ohio the county conventions are favoring
old Mr. Allen before Senator Tlmnnnn. Tbo
light for the 8onatorship from Connecticut is
very bitter, and both English and Barnum
threaten a bolt for a compromise candidate.
Barnnm is the stronger man, but it appears
improbable that either will bn chosen. Since
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens have favored
Mr. Eaton, ot Connecticut, as the demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency the af
fairs of that State have risen in importance.
The American Challenge to the Eng
liih University Oarsmen.
By our special cable from London to-day
we learn that both the Oxford and Cambridge
university boat clubs have declined the
challenge of the Association of American
Colleges to row a three-mile straightaway
race on Lake Saratoga. Every inducement
was thrown out by Mr. Bees, the representa
tive of the American university oarsmen, to
our English cousins to come and row this
race, but in vain. The declination of the
Saratoga challenge does not necessarily pre
vent a meeting between our college crews
and the English university crews, however,
lis Cambridge, Oxford and Dublin, we are
told, will be here to row in the Centennial
regatta on the Schuylkill. No doubt the
bost men that can be had will compose the
English crews, and the Irish crew already in
training is known to be a good one. Nyw
that it is ascertained positively that the
British universities oarsmen will not row at
Saratoga Lake, and have declined the chal
lenge of the American universities, but will
row on the Schuylkill at the Centennial
regatta against all comers, let the American
students who are so desirous of rowing pre
pare to meet them there, aud from their
university sixes select the best fours they can
pick out to try conclusions with the oar on
the waters of the Schuylkill.
The Hebrew Murderer.
The burial of Pesach Nisim Rubenstoin
yesterday closes the last chapter in a weird
story of crime. From the day of his arrest,
four months ago, it was instinctively be
lieved that justice had laid its hand on the
man who had committed the hideous murder
in the cornfield. Every circumstance that
has come to light in connection with the
death of Sara Alexander has but deepened
that belief, and the verdict of the jury upon
the evidence was but the reflection
of what everybody thought. It was a mur
der in which the cowardice was oven more
marked than the brutality. The wretch who
howled and moaned and uttered long He
brew prayers in his cell came of an ancient
and a long persecuted race. Clinging to an
old, old creed through ages, when scorn was
the most lenient treatment they received,
small wonder that fanaticism and supersti
tion should grow among the trampled Jews
of Europe to strange proportions and make
them insincere and tricky in their dealings
with those who had always' treated them as
objects of divine and human WTath. To
inystio dreams and obedience to stern dog
mas among themselves they joined a devious
shiftiness to the Gentile world. Of
a, mental organization clearly resultant
from these sad conditions of his
race was the murderer who died so
wretchedly in his cell on Tuesday. The girl
Alexander, his cousin, was with child and
his wife was coming from Europe to him.
He had offended against the Hebraic and the
statute law. Intensely sensitive to the first,
we know that by a compact with another Jew
he proceeded to buy his way out of his sins
past and to come in a manner rudely sug
gestive of the time when the sins of Isrnel
were laid by the High Priest upon a goat
sent to perish in the wilderness, and which
evidently survives among his class in the
Talmudic writings. To the law of the land
he felt no such compunctions, so ho took the
girl to the cornfield one December Sunday
afternoon and stabbed and hacked her till
she died. Ho returned to his home, and, if
we may be permitted to trace the course of hi?
thoughts, his mind hung shuddering over the
woltering form that lay outstretched as he
left it; trying to figure to himself how
it could be hidden away ; how perhaps it
could be buried with Jewish rites, so that
there might be less upon his soul ; how the
gory show might bo ended, so that he could
forget it All the next day wore on and the |
body had not been discovered. He must
have began to congratulate himself on the
one hand, while his religious fears became
intensified on the other. Between his
worldly cunning and his superstition at
night he laid the trap into which he was fo
be"caught so fast that he should be taken
out of it only as he was on Tuesday ? a corpse.
Ho told his father next morning ho had
dreamed his victim lay dead in a cornfield
eight miles from Now York, and the |
father, in his blind belief, repeated the
story to ears without illusions. Of the '
subsequent bearing of the wretched
creature in his prison cell, his prayings, his
lamentations, his curses, his wild oath in
court and his fastings that finally broke ,
down his miserable frame, we can only speak !
ft* the same mixture of short-sighted cun
ning and religious mania that led him from .
his first crime to his second and finally to
his death. He escaped the gallows, bat in
the sight of tho vermin-covered, emaciated
corpse over whose face a sorrowing father '
drew the prison blanket there was evidence
enough that human and divino law had been
avenged. It was so miserable a death that
the rope ho deserved can scarcely bo said to
have been cheated. In many years no such
crimes as lluben stein's have been more sig
nally punished.
Tns Mat Aknivebsaries.?Although the
Centennial rather monopolizes that atten
tion that tho public is disposed to givo
to celebrations there is at least tho
usual formal activity on tho part of
those organizations that believe tho world
is to bo bettered, if not saved, by a yearly
meeting of philanthropists of various stripes
in this city. As tho war abolished slavery
tho organisation that agitated that great
theme has indefinitely postponed itself and
is heard of no more. Hut other themes re
main. Temperance is the grand hobby rid
den by several ?rgaaiMrtiooa; tract societies.
| Bible societies and missionary societies col
I lect their dim<*i with the usual assiduity,
j if the heathen continues to rego not
withstanding, at all events some very pleas
ant and no donbt talented gentlemen enjoy
fine salaries aa presidents and secretaries
oman s suffrage is the most congenial topic
that seems to be left for the attitudinizing of
the anniversary season; bnt the champion*
of the sisters do not roar witfa the rigor of
! anti-slavery crusade.
ft! it ale th? Centennial.
The musical programme at the opening of
the Centennial Exhibition was worthy of the
occasion. The grand orchestra, which Theo
dore Thomas led, the chorus of eight hun
dred voices, the magnificent march in which
Wagner paid the homage of his genius to
American liberty, the cantata of Mr^
Sidney Lanier, to which music was supplied
by Mr. Dudley Buck, were all not inharmo
nious with the grand event But we beg to
point out that the poets were not quite a*
successful as the musicians. Mr. Lanier it
an intelligent poet and his verses have
ideas and melody. But ho seems to hav?
made the common mistake of supposing
that verso should be itself musical to be
sung. Verse written for muBic should be
simple, clear, direct and brief in its state
ments. For you caunot follow a complex
thought when the words aro warbled by ?
soprano or delivered with profound delib
eration by a basso. Every great poet who
has written successfully for musio has mads
his songs direct and simple. For instance,
take the national air of England; it is a
series of statements, which are understood
at once. Take the best bongs of Burns and
Moore, written in octo-syllabic verse.
Barns tells ns that his love is lika
a red, red rose, and Moore reminda
us of the harp that once through
laras halls the soul of music shed. To
hear these lyrics sung is as easy as to hear
them read. But when we compare Mr.
Lanier s cantata with these masterpieces we
see how far he has departed from the true
method. He has written a beautiful poem,
but it is obscure to the eye and must be un
intelligible to the ear. The first stanza haa
ten verses in one sentence. The argument
of the poem is not easily to be compre
hended, and the language is harsh. We
cannot imagine any vocalist singing thia
verse, for example:?"In thy large signala
all men's hearts, Man's Heart behold."
\\ hen we read suoh poetry, avowedly written
j for music, we are reminded of what Poe said
of one of his contemporary poets:?"Mr.
Channing calls this a song, and we should
very much like to hear him Bing it."
Gbant's Punishment of Ccsteb is rous
ing public opinion in a manner that cannot
fail permanently to injure the President. It
would seem that his treatment of the gallant
Indian fighter at the White House, ot which
we quote an account from the Chicago Times,
should have satisfied Grant's private anger.
General Custer did not seek to testify at
Washington. In his letter to Clymer ho re
quested that questions for him to answer
should be sent to him by mail. This re
quest being refused he was compelled to
obey a Congressional summons. The Pres
ident's friends have endeavored to explain
his action on the ground of military necea*
sity ; but his personal insult to General Cus
ter shows that he was in a mood to seek re
venge. If it was the duty of General Custei
to call upon the President; and if he mI'M. a<
he did, merely as a matter of military etfc
quette, why could the President not receivi
him accordingly ? The President was angry,
and there is no excuse for him. General
Ingalls remonstrated with him for treating
General Custer so rudely in the White
House, but he sullenly refused to say a word
in reply. The truth remains that General
Grant is a personal enemy of General Custer,
that he privately insulted him and *hfit ha
publioly disgraced him
Dom Pedro's rapid journey to the Weat ia
graphically sketched in another part of the
Hkbai,d, and the interest which attachee to
His Majesty's visit will repay a perusal of
incidents in the.trip which haa only reached
the publio in outline.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Anna Dickinson la thirty^three.
Saturday Hewa.?Englishman dlatika Victor Haga
Tlic*o cool, fresh spring showera make the milk tuU
better.
Pendleton's family baa retnraad from Florida to
Ob In.
Senator Morton enjoys better health now than ha
has lor several year*
A Calilornla lieu la trying to go to the Centennial by
laying foar eggs a day.
Dr. Ayer has gone South for health. Why not tab
some of his own medicines?
Mural Halstead says that Morton will not iota
Northern role outside of indlaoa.
Boston TravrJUr:?"Yesterdny the thermometaa
stood at live (taper collars in the shade."
If a negro carries a rssor arouuu with him la he carry.
Inn a concealed weapon f
Mr. Moses Grianeil, according to gossip, la soon ta
marry Mise Reed, slater of Mrs. Paraa Slovens.
General Hardeo's old grove or orange trees, on India*
River, Florida, prodaced 2,000,000 oranges last summer.
Ttie Chicago Tribune savs that during the reoral
floods the Mississippi towns had large floating popnla>
lions.
Hon. W. II. Barnum, one of the candidates for Son
stor Irom Connecticut, la a wealthy iron miner and
railroad mtfn.
Grant violated a rule of rhetoric In combining twt
figures of speech when la bis Centennial address h?
said, "Ac., Ac."
John Morris*oy, It la understood, haa agreed that N
Charles Francis Adams will find the candidate he will
put "a head on htm."
The Topeka (Kan.) Commonwra/IA Insists that the
republican caadldate must "stand right oct In tha
sun." Ji be doea he'll get Unned.
Senator Coakllng la said to faror the idea that tba
Senate has no Jurisdiction in the lleiknsp case; Sen
ator Thormau Inclines to the same view, whllo Senator
Edmonds believes the Senate may go on with the trial
A pmas father entered a Virginia City ssloon with s
borsowbtp one night last week sod found bis son play
ing euchra lie tanned the young man's Jacket and
sent him borne, and then sat down and flnlsnod tbt
game himself.
Newspapers sit waking op to tbo Idea that this coun
try Is deplorably without candidates lor ibe Vim
Presidency. U is worthy ot remark tbat both In ttis
time of General Harrison snd In that el General Tay
lor Daniel Wobster lost chances ol being President bj
not being mndo Vice President on the ttckots will
tboso soldiers.
The Hon. Ellla H. Roberts, in a thoughtful arilcia
averts tbat aggressive moral sentiment snd cr.tlcists
la this country are lound within the republican part?,
precluding the formation of a new organisation. Hal
audi men as Roberta, Schura, Adams, Bowles, Meatya,
Pbelpa aad 11 ale toad are crlttea and morallata without
. the (hot er tha tecalty of ocgaalaatlaa.