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HF.W YORK. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1876.
From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the wtaiher to-day will be cooler, clear
or partly cloudy.
Notice to Country Newsdealers.?For
prompt and regular delivery of the Herald
by fast mail trains orders must be senl direct to
this office. Postage free.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Firmness was
shown in several speculative stocks, but the
market was irregular. Investment shares,
government and railway bonds were steady.
Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8, selling
meanwhile at 112 3-4 Money was freely
supplied at 2 1-2 and 3 per cent.
Bristol, England, is having its tarn at a
heavy fire, but in the old city there is no
Bach material to feed the flames as was the
case in Chicago. Henco it is "under con
trol."
The Cuban Insurgent Torch is doing ter
rible damage, not merely to the plantations,
bat to the government supplies. When the
rebels barn food intended for the Spanish
?rmy it is a sign they are not hungry them
selves.
The Veto Message of Governor Tilden on
the bill to meet the deficiencies in the canal
Binking fand will be acceptable to the tax
payers because it states that a way has been
found through another bill to pay these
deficiencies without a tax.
The Pro and Con of the new Tariff bill
were discussed in the House of Representa
tives yesterday, Mr. Morrison, the demo
cratic leader of the House, evidently favor
ing a compromise between the English
lystem of a tux on a l'cw articles und the
complicated American *'protection" system.
The Reform Association, which a few days
ago met in New York, and which gave the
publio an address which we published, is
not a partisan instrument, as the public has
possibly presumed. On the contrary, it is
in organization of mechanics and working
aien, without distinction of party, and is not
controlled by any set of politicians. As an
independent and genuine movement of the
people it should have a decided political
effect in the present canvass.
To thx Sharp Crack or thi Rifle the
fir*t day of the spring meeting at Creedmoor
opened yesterday, and we may look upon
the serious work of preparing for our foreign
visitors as fairly commenced. The meeting
continues to-day and to-morrow, and a wide
interest in its results will be felt in the
world of manly sports. The young riflemen
are coming gradually to the front, although
it is to be noticed that the veterans hold
their foremost places still.
The Mustang Race against time, ending
In the triumph of the linrdy little horses and
their dashing rider, Francisco Pcralto, at
Fleetwood l'ark yesterday, fully justifies
jut formerly expressed beliet ixf the powers
of the animals and furnishes a line illustra
tion of human endurance. The result, more
over, strengthens our belief in the possible
accomplishment of the greater feat of riding
nearly double the distance made by Pcralto
yesterday, in which Parker tailed a week
ago and which, we believe, he will again
undertake.
District Attorney Phelps' opinion re
specting the present conflict of authority
between the police justices nnd the coroners
has the combined charm of sonnd law and
common sense. Mr. Phelps states the
matter tersely when ho says "the object to
be secured in cases of homioide is the de
tention of the party charged with the
crime,"but the struggle in the case in point
?ran who should be the first to let the accused
eat. An occasional lesson of this kind
might do the coroners good, but it would be
better to have coroners lets in need of
iMtrsetion.
Comkllng and H.jm A*at?s*
D*ck.
The fog has so far lifted that we are begin
ning to be able to take in "tha lay of the
land" in this political canvass. On the re
publican (ride Mr. Conkling rises into
clearer risibility as the leading candidate
to eyes trained to distinguish between a
! mountain and a bank of clouds when they
stand against the horizon. To the unprac
tised eye of ? stranger a line of clouds may
\ Bucm like a range of mountains as they lie
| in the distance, but a nearer approach de
| strovs the illusion and makes it apparent
i which is illusion and which reality. It is
only to a distant and superficial view that
Blaine seems stronger than Conkling, and
the nearer we get to the Cincinnati Conven
tion the more evident it will become that
there is no solidity in the boasted strength
of Mr. Blaine.
Unlehs Mr. Blaine enters the Convention
with a majority he will never get a majority
at all. The reason is that his rivals can
more easily make alliances with one another
than with him. If Morton failB his strength
will naturally go to Conkling?certainly not
to Blaine. When the Pennsylvania delegates
cease voting lor Hartranft they will be trans
ferred in a body to Conkling ; Blaine will not
receive a single vote from among them all.
When the Ohio delegates withdraw Hayes
they might go for Bristow if he had any
chance of success ; but it will be evident by
that time that he has none at all^and as
soon as Morton it out of the race they will
prefer Conkling, and, perhaps, go for him
without waiting to watch the prospects
of any other candidate. Governor Hayes
is altogether the best name for the
second place on the ticket, and when
his Iriends find that he cannot be nomi
nated for the first place they will pre
fer an alliance, not with Morton, who, being
himself a Western man, would exclude a
Western candidate for Vice President, nor
with Blaine, who cannot carry the indispen
sable State of New York, but with Conkling,
who will be supported by the two largest
States in the Union. Governor Hayes'
friends will perceive that when Ohio is
joined with these two there will be a solid
nucleus of the three largest States, having
I an aggregate of one hundred and seventy
two votes in the Convention. The Southern
States, as soon as Morton and Bristow are
out of the field, will bring to Conk
ling more than votes enough to make
a majority with those of tho three
great States of New York, Pennsylva
nia and Ohio. The faintest intimation
of President Grant's wish will turn over the
Southern delegations to Conkling as soon as
they are satisfied that Morton cannot be
nominated. Only two hundred and sixteen
of the Southern delegates are needed to make
a Conkling majority with three great States,
and when Morton is withdrawn Conkling
will have at least two hundred and fifty votes
from the South. Besides, he will have the
votes of the Pacific States and a part of
the Blaine delegation, when it becomes
evident, as it will at an early stage of the
I proceedings, that Blaine is an impossible
| candidate. This exhibit of figures and
probabilities shows that Blaine's only chance
lies in his getting a majority on the first
ballot, and the most sanguino of his friends,
unlets they arc the victims of a hallucination,
cannot'expect this. He needs all or nearly
all tho delegates yet to be chosen to increase
his present number to a majority. It would
be wild and chimerical to expect anything
of the kind. A very little arithmetic
suffices for showing how illusory are the
hopes and boastings founded upon the ac
tion of the conventions held on Wednesday.
Moreover, of the delegates counted for
Blaine the greater proportion will go to Cin
cinnati unpledged and will have a more
complete ' berty to vote for another candi
date than the Pennsylvania and Ohio dele
gates will have to abandon Hartranft and
Hayes.
The strongest ticket that can be nominated
at Cincinnati ia Conkling and Hayes, be
cause it would insure success in the two
pivotal Status of Ohio and New York.
With Governor Hayes running for the
Vice Presidency the Ohio election
in October would be a splendid tri
umph for the republicans, and that
preliminary victory would insure * similar
triumph in New York, where Conkling is
strong and Blaine weak. Certain it is that
without the vote of New York the republican
party cannot elect the President. It would
be political suicide to nominate Blaine, when
the vote of New York is indispensable. The
personal bitterness which has so long existed
between him and Conkling makes it impossi
ble for him to carry a State in which the
friends of Conkling are powerful. Blaine
will lead at Cincinnati on the first ballot, be
cause in the first ballot a large share of
Conkling's ultimate strength will be scat
tered in complimentary votes to other can
didates?particularly to Hartranft, Hayes
and Morton, all of whom will be withdrawn
at a subsequent stage of the pro
ceedings. But Blaine bas no reversionary
interest in any of the delegations
which will vote for other candidates
on the first ballot, and he cannot have a ma
jority on the first ballot unless all, or nearly
all, of the one hundred and seven delegates
yet to bo chosen shall be added to his pres
ent strength. But this is too violent a sup
position for any bane man to make.
A concentration of the anti-Blainc forces
upon Morton is impossible, partly on ac
count of hi* health, but chiefly bccause bis
inflation record would be an insupc rablo bur
to bis getting the electoral vote of New York,
without which no Presidential candidate of
either party can succced. The anti-Blaine
delegates will not unite upon Bristow be
cause Briatow'a supporters are sentimental
ists, and the Convention will be controlled
by politicians. Hayes is the strongest can
didate in the West, and a concentration on
him would be barely possible if his popular
ity could not be used to strengthen the ticket
in a better way. But he will do as much for
it holding the second place as the first, while
he has nothing like Conkling's chances for
carrying New York. As for Blaine, he has
many popular qualities, and the attompts
made by his political opponent* to blacken
| his reputation have reacted in bis favor and
| given him the illusory appearauco of.
j strength which will cause him to go to Cin
I oinnati like an ox crowned with garlands for
the sacrifice. He is, par bwBww, the news
paper candidate, no man having been so in
dustriously written up by the correspond
ents of the press at the national capital. But
this kind of factitious reputation is like that
j of the bepuffed and OYerpraised generals in
the late war, who captured the newspaper
correspondents by profuse courtesies. The
reputation of those newspaper generals did
not wear well, and Mr. Blaine has been in
jured in the Bame way by indiscreet puffery
and praise, particularly in the Western
papers. These laurels will wilt on hia brow
' before he reaches Cincinnati
The foregoing reasoning respecting the
course of proceedings at Cincinnati is
strengthened by recurring to the most potent
I factor in shaping the result President
; Grant has put his hand on the helm at the
j precise point of time when the ship most
I needed direction: The steadying effect is
! already apparent No intelligent politician
' undervalues the influence of a President in
; office upon the action of his own party, and
I this vast influence, which would have ena
bled General Grant to secure his own nomi
j nation, had it not been for the Babcock and
, Belknap mishaps, is sufficient to enable him
to turn the 6cale in favor of any good candi
date. He is too skilful a strategist to waste
; strength in taking positions wh ch must
ultimately fall of themselves. He has accord
ingly left Mr. Blaine to make all he can
out of his newspaper campaigning in
the West. Tho President has cdhtined
his attention to tho main key of the situa
tion. He sees that Morton cannot be nom
inated, sees that he can give Morton's
Southern strength to Conkling, and that in
addition Conkling needs only the three
great Stutes, two of which are already secure,
while the other can be brought into line by
giving Governor Hayes the second place on
the tickct This combination will succeed
against the deck.
Meanwhile the democratic outlook iB not
encouraging. Governor Hayes is mistaken
in supposing that the inflationists will not
bolt if Mr. Tilden should be nominated.
Dissatisfied democrats take to a bolt as
naturally as ducks to water. Mr. Tilden
himself was one of the leaders in the
Van Buren bolt of 1848, by which General
Cass was defeated. The great and fatal bolt
of 1860 is fresh in everybody's recollection.
But nothing has ever been accomplished by
a republican bolt. The attempted bolt un
der Fremont in 1864 collapsed in a few
weeks, and the liberal republican movement
four years ago did not weaken the regular
organization. Within a week after the nomi
nation of Conkling and Hayes the party will
be fully united upon them, whereas the
nomination of Governor Tilden at St Louis
would bo followed by a successful bolt of
the inflationists. The only way to prevent
such a schism is for Mr. Tilden to give his
influence and support to Senator Bayard, for
an Eastern bolt would follow the nomination
of a rag money candidate.
The Queen's Cup*
The New York Yacht Club have decided
to acoept the terms of the challenge made
by Commodore Gilford of the Royal Canadian
Yacht Club for the Queen's Cup race. The
club will name a yacht on the 1st of
July and sail her on the 10th, 12th
and 14th, with a proviso that if either of the
contesting yachts is in a disabled condition
on any of the days named for the races a
postponement shall be had for repaira. This
action is commendable, inasmuch as it re
moves every obstacle to the contest, and the
concession is made in a spirit showing true
love for sport
It is to be regretted, however, that Com
modore Gilford, having inquired of the
proper persons on what terms the
Queen's Cup could be sailed for, and
having been explicitly answered, did not
at once determine either to sail for
the cup on those terms or to drop the sub
ject rather than proceed to criticise and
cavil and propose new terms of his own.
No good reason can be given why Commo
dore Gilford should not take the same
chances that #ere taken by Mr. Ashbury.
That gentleman was certainly hard enough
to please, and the terms which, after thor
ough examination and discussion, repeated
to tedious extremity, were held to be just
and lair toward him cannot be unjnst or un
lair toward another. Indeed, to imitatf the
Ashbury method in this case is not in good
taste, for it implies either that the chal
lenger is better acquainted with the condi
tions of a fair race in these waters than the
clu~ committee is, or that he is of opinion
the terms are framed in an overreuching
spirit. Quibbling is not sportsmanlike. It
has been understood that Commodore Gif
ford is a keen yachtsman, and disappoint
ment in this regard would excite regret. It
seems a peculiar misfortune of this trophy
{ that it never comes before the public save as
the introduction to more or less correspond
ence rather worthy of attorneys than yachts
men. If this is to continue the cup will be
come a nuisance. If it is to become a source
of quibbling contention it would be a first
class advantage to lone it immediately, or
return it to the heirs of the donor, or get rid
ot it in sou.e other way. Its complete dis
appearance would excite the less regret, as
it no longer seems to producc test races that
can determine the relaiivo exccllcnce of
model?a truth sufficiently shown by the
fact that in tho raco now proposed, though
the challenger flics a foreign dag, she was
modelled here.
Tar. RsiOLt tioms or the Hoard or Al
dermen respecting the excise raid made by
the police last {Sunday are emphatic in their
disapproval thereof. The instruction to the
Law Committee and the Corporation Counsel
to report forthwith whether the Noah Clay
polo business of the police, the arbitrary
arrests and invasions of qniot premises, are
necessary to the proper enforcement of the
law, suggest* en easy answer. What the
Aldermen apparently desire to know l* how
littlo enforceuk nt can be officially applied;
but they do not pnt it in that blunt way.
The Stout or the Caswell Mrmrr, as
told in our letter from Queenstown, whither
the bloodstained vessel was brought by the
Knglish gunboat Goshawk, is a terrible one.
WitM the execution of the Lennie mutineers
and their crimes fresh in the publio mind this
tale of the deep will be read with interest*
The KxtaMtlttoa Treaty.
Secretary Fish's reply to Lord Derby's
lut note was, it it understood, sent by last i
Wednesday's steamer. It Is supposed to be :
a final argument, a restatement of the posi
I tion of the United States and a request that
either Winslow be surrendered at once on
the terms proposed by our government and |
in accordance with the treaty or that the i
i British government shall, without further
I discussion, refuse, and thereby violate and
[ abrogate the treaty.
i Secretary Fish is right if he has taken this
; attitude. There is no room for argument in j
| this matter. The English journals generally |
i acknowledge that their government is in the i
wrong. The London Spectator showed
I clearly in the last number received here that
| Lord Derby was really attempting the ab
surdity of making an act of Parliament
| override a treaty, which is an international
agreement. The Tunes and other journals
have taken similar ground, and it begins to
look as though public opinion in England
would presently be as unanimous as it is
here against the British assumptions.
A good deal of surprise has been expressed
here at the extremely illogical and untenable
1 ground assumed by the British government
in this extradition matter. But the English
have a sort of superstitious reverence for an
> act of Parliament. They have a saying that
| "Parliament can do anything except make a
| man a woman," and this extradition case is
j not the fir^t instance, by any means, when
a British Minister has based his action upon
the "opinion of the law oflicers of the
Crown" as to the meaning of an act of Por
liament, without taking the trouble himself
to examine it. Thus it may be remembered
by many of our readers among the legal pro
fession that in the fishery question, some
years ago, the British government took its
position upon an opinion of the "law officers
of the Crown," which opinion was based
upon an assumption that a certain provision
concerning headlands existed in the treaty
of October 20. 1818, when, in fact, it was
shown by the United States that no such
provision or clause was found in that treaty;
and, after interminable arguments, the Eng
lish had to give up the point Again, in the
case of the Alabama's escape, the British
Ministers of that day sought shelter behind
a plea that they waited, before acting, upon
the opinion of their law officers ; that this
opinion was delayed, and that pending its
reception by tho Foreign Office the Alabama
escaped ; the claim being then that without
this "opinion" the government could not
act.
And now, in this Winslow case, the Brit
ish Attorney General advises the Ministry
not only that an act of Parliament overrules
treaties, which is absurd and oontrary to all
public law and to the very nature of a
treaty, which is a mutual agreement between
two nations ; but he goes further and assorts
that a certain act of Parliament overrules a
treaty with the United States, when, in fact,
a clause in that very act makes express and
explicit reservation of the stipulations of the
treaty! And a British Minister, who ought
at least to have taken the trouble to read the
act of Parliament and the treaty before
writing his despatch, gravely acoepts this
"opinion" for his diplomatic guidance!
Of courae argument is impossible on such
grounds ; and we trust Secretary Fish has,
in the despatch now on its way to London,
demanded a specific answer?yes or no?to
our demand for the extradition of Winslow.
If Great Britain does not meun to observe
her treaty obligations we ought to know it;
if she does then there should be no
necessity for further argument, for the case
is too plain.
Dead Men's Shoes.
There seems to be in Wall street, in these
days, occasion to apply the proverb of those
who wait for dead men's shoes, though in a
somewhat different sense to the one that is
common. From the constant repetition of
exaggerated rumors in regard to the health of
Commodore Yanderbilt, from the earnest at
tention with which his health is watched and
the much that is made of every trifle in this
connection, the public is not for a moment
permitted to doubt that a large number of
active-financiers count with confidence upon
an advantage to themselves to flow lroin the
death of this potentate of the raiL They ex
pect to make their fortunes out of a variation
in the prico of Central and other shares,
which, it is assumed, must necessarily'fall in
value at the Commodore's death. It would
not surprise us to seo a great many of these
gentlemen burn their fingers when the event
they count upon comes, ^pd which it is to
be hoped may not come lor many a day. It
twas assumed ut one time?and at one time
there was ground for it, perhaps?that Mr.
Vanderbilt's death wouid be a calamity to the
intercuts sustained by his capacity and ex
perience; and the speculative world has not
changed its view of the loots, though we do
not doubt that the facts are chuuged alto
gether. if Commodore Yanderbilt should
die now that event would be ol far less conse
quence in its financial aspect thau is thought
by those who base upon it mere speculative
projects, lor the Commodore is> a wise man,
and the interests with which his name is in
volved wouid scarcely be taken by surprise.
The Central Railroad long since passed out
of that stago of its existence when any one
person was absolutely neeeshury to its great
prosperity, and reached tliut stage when it
continued in virtue of perfect organization
to move easily and regularly on the impulse
derived originally trom Vanderbilt's will and
talent. The Commodore would, and well
might, consider that his labor was only half
done if his great institution were still in
such a position that it could be seriously in
jured by even his own death.
The Chilian Exhibition. ?The managers
of our Centennial Exhibition might learn a
valuable lesson from the report of Mr.
Stephen Rogers, one of the United States
Commissioners to the Chilian Exposition,
which is addressed to Secretary Fish.
The South American Exhi^tion seems to
have failed principally because of its
gross mismanagement. The contracts made
with American contributors were broken
and disregarded entirely, and they suf
fered losses, which, it is intimated, may
result in claims against Chili for restitu
tion. The United States, however, made a
fine display at the fair, sad have
only to oomplain of the luiuatioe to whioh
Mr. Rogers refers and of the want of ataaa
power to display oar resources and inven
tions in machinery. The report advocates
?ery strongly the extension of our postal re
lations with Soath America and the devel
opment of our commerce by new steamship
lines. Mr. Bogers writes in a rather angry
tone, but we presume he haa had sufficient
provocation.
Th? Sew Editor of th* "Work.*
Our democratic contemporary, the World,
is exhibiting remarkable judgment and tact
in its mode of dealing with Governor Tilden.
It treats him with great fairness, recognizes
his political standing and public services,
and avoids every expression which could
wound bis self-respect or make it difficult
for him to act cordially with the supporters
of any other democratic candidate, if some
other candidate should be successful. Mr.
Hurlbert carries no passion or zealotry into
politics, but a great deal of cool calculation
and considerate good nature. This tone is
peculiarly appropriate in the organ of a
great political party, which should be a
harmonizer of differences and promoter of
unity. It is impossible for the three or
four millions of citizens who compose a
national party to think alike on all ques
tions. A catholic and tolerant spirit in
relation to minor cootroversies, and more
particularly a respectful personal treatment
of opponents within the party lines, is the
indispensable basis of successful manage
ment The wise, patriotic maxim, "In essen
tials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all
things charity," is as applicable to the inter
nal affairs of a political party as to those of
the Church. We are pleased to see that Mr.
Hurlbert has not this important lesson yet
to learn. Tfce dissensions in the democratic
party, both as to persons and principles, re
quire great delicacy of handling, especially
in a journal which finds it necessary to
make a new departure under critical circum
stances. In order to heal the divisions which
have arisen between the Eastern and Western
democracy it has become needful to thwart
some vehement personal aspirations, and
the new editor of the World is changing the
coarse of the ship with as much gentleness
as decision. Taste and brilliancy are what
we had abundant reasons to expect from Mr.
Hurlbert, but the political sagacity and con
siderate wisdom which he is exhibiting de
velop a new quality of his variously gifted
mind. If he shall proceed as he has begun
in the difficult and most delicate task which
lies before him he will furnish a shining
proof that intellectual brilliancy and elegant
tastes are not inconsistent with sound judg
ment and aptitude for affairs.
Secretary Briatow'a Proopects.
The only argument of much seeming
weight for nominating Mr. Bristow for the
Presidency is that he would draw away a
part of the reform vote from Governor Til
den, and, in that way, carry New York for
the republicans. But before the Cincinnati
Convention meets it will be apparent that
Governor Tilden cannot receive the demo-,
cratic nomination, and that Mr. Conkling
has better chances in New YoTk than any
other candidate. The suggestion that it
might be politic to run Mr. BriBtow for the
Vice Presidency on the Conkling ticket
is worth considering. It would doubt
less recommend the ticket to reformers;
but, as wo estimate tendencies, a re
publican victory in the October States
would be worth more to the republicans
than the whole reform vote. The elections
in Ohio and Indiana will not turn on reform,
but on the currency; it will be a contest
between hard money and rag money. Mr.
Bristow would not help the ticket in either
of those States, but Governor Hayes would
insure its success in both. "Well begun is
half done," says the adage; republican vic
tories in Ohio and Indiana in October would
virtually decide the Presidential election in
advance. Admitting that Mr. Bristow's
name would strengthen the ticket, we are
cqpfldent that it could not compare in value
and efficiency with that of Governor Hayes.
Our view of the canvass is summed up in
the phrase, "Conkling and Hayes against
the deck."
? Long Service Rewarded.
An English opinion of the lute Mr.
Stewart's career as a business man is
that it exhibited in him the possession
of ordinary qualities in an extraordi
nary degree. His bequests to his em
ployes exhibit, says the journal in question,
the same business-liko core and discrimina
tion that led to his amassing so con
siderable a fortune. These have now been
awarded, and the transaction may well
be described as extraordinary when it is
found that the number of employes
who have served the lirm for ten years and !
upward reaches three hundred. That this is
something a little *hort of four-and-a-half
per cent of the whole number of the late Mr.
Stewart's employes, said to be seven thou
sand all told, gives some idea of the extent
of the great dry goods merchant's business. ;
The settlement required a sum of three hun- |
dred thousand dollars, and it is pleasant to 1
notice that in many cases the records
of service were stretched by Mr. Hilton i
a little to bring the deserving within ;
the range of this handsome testimony
to long and faithful services. In view
of tho fnc't that few businesses in America
have enjoyed a greater reputation for stabil
ity for the past twenty years than Mr. Stew
art's it is significant of tho Restlessness and ;
ambition of our people that such a small ?
percentage, comparatively speaking, should ;
have clung to the great house during the 1
prescribed time.
Blackwixl's Island.?The chronic feeling
of insecurity in which the citizens of New
York live with regard to Dlackwell's Island
could not havo been better evidenced than
it was yesterday afternoon. A prisoner
attempted to escape, and, by a blunder, the
telegraph operator sent to tho Fifty-ninth
street station the code signal "prisoners c?- !
caping," instead of "prisoner escaping." 1
Tho immediato result was excitement at
Police Headquarters, and, us soon tut the re
port got to tho public ear, something very
like a thief panic prevailed in the city.
That such a report should receive such ready
credence from the police authorities of New
York is a telling comment upon the con
duct of one of owe mat?t rant?ive instita. i
tions. Prom mb ably managed penitentiary
no such report would for an instant be ered
???* to Ucnm.
.. man now lives who remember* the
tune when it required three daye to go from
New York to Philadelphia. ?* wo ?
the .Ug. coaoh days at tr.T,l_not ,Qch
?' Lionel Kane, .ho drlw.
to Pelhan. Bridge ? rapidly and pl^aaatlT
?"?",-?.<? ho?? occ i^17to
go.ng only ninety mil.* *?hi ^
?rw>klm and Adam. traTelled thi, old.
faahionod way, and d,ligh?a I0 doab|
?hen they .era not detained by .no.
atorma and Hood.. It ie not aaay for ns to
realize the gain in time which steam has a?,
complished. Instead of three days from
New York to Philadelphia we are carried
from city to city in less than three hours,
and now we are expected to cross the whole
continent in less than four days?that is, we
can go from New York to Sun Francisco in
less time than was needed not half a century
ago to travel from Philadelphia to New
York. Surely this speed almost realizes the
boast of Puck that he eould "put a girdle
roundabout the earth in forty minutes."
bo our friend Jules Verne, whose imagine*
tion of American railroads was so excitable
that he made trains on the Union Paoifio
line leap over chasms and unsafe bridges,
undertook to depict an extraordinary journey
of his hero across the continent in his novel
"Around the World in Eighty Days." Bui
liia imagination fell short of the reality
which Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer propose to
perform with their lightning train, which
eaves New lork for San Francisco on the
1st of June. The fertile fields of New York,
the plains of Oliio, the splendid Slates oI
Indiana and Illinois, the Mississippi (Fathei
of Waters), the immense distances of Mis
souri, Nebraska, Colorado; tho ridges of
the Itocky Mountains, Utah, Neva3a, Cali
fornia, all that vast extent of country into
which England could be put like
a mere county, out of which realms
as great as Rome could be taken,
like the rib from Adam, without the loss
being noted; deserts, rivers, empires?all
will be swept over by the iron steed in
eighty hours. There seems no limit to the
resources of machinery and the enterprise ol
man. The ocean formerly divided the con
tinents, but now it is the ocean that unites,
for countless steamships -hurry through the
waters, and the telegraph system beneath
the sea is less exposed to accidents than that
ubove the land. Thus the continent which
once separated the Pacific from the Atlantic
is almost annihilated as to time. From ocean
to ocean is but a trifling journey. Nothing
that the Centennial Exhibition will reveal
in the way of American progress can excel
this proof of our development, which will
be remarkable not merely ns a feat of daring
nnd energy, but as an illustration of what
resources in swift travel our railroads are
yet to display.
Tl?e Presidency la Boston.
Our Boston letter will be scanned with in
terest by all who study the drift of opinion
throughout th%country on the one paramount
topic of the times. In it will be found plenty
of thought, acute observation and happily
presented results of wide experience, for the
talkers are Governor Bice and General But
ler. Governor Bice's survey of the Pres
idential field will in several points be found
to echo the best opinions of the people every
where. General Butler deals with the topic
in his usual incisive way. In his vigorously
presented statement ot Mr. Tilden's case we
cannot agree with him, for we are not con
vinced that the Governor's nomination is so
inevitable as the General seems to believe it
neither are we persuaded thaf if the Govl
ernor shall be nominated it will be due to
the tact (his wealth) which is put forward o
the point that is to determine the whole case
in his favor. That view regards strictly the
bad side of our politics-contemplates the
mere machinery and the mean motives. It
is, therefore, incorrect and unjust, because
it only views a part of the subject. There
are other considerations that will come
properly before the democrats besides the
inquiry, What candidate can spend the most
money ? and we believe that that particular
consideration will be of less consequence
this year than it has been for a genemtion.
Violent Storms, accompanied by hail and
lightning, will probably occur during to
day and to-morrow in the Northwestern and
the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Valley
States. An area of high temperature ex
isted yesterday over Dakota, Minnesota and
tho uppor lake region, which gave an
almost tropical heat to these territories. At
Pembina, Dakota, the temperature vai six
degrees warmer thun at Wilmington, N. C.t
aud at Duluth and Charleston the tempera*
tnre was equal, although the difference of
latitude between the two cities is about
thirty degrees. A high barometrio pressure
prevails all over the United States east ol
the Missouri River. There are indications,
however, of the formation of areas of Ion
pressure in the Southwest and in the ex*
treiue northwestern part of British Colum
bia. An increase of cloudiness and tem?
peratnre, with probable rain, is predicted foi
New York State during to-day.
Enolano's Reasons for withholding hei
assent to the Berlin memorandum, drawn
up by the three imperial Chancellors, ar?
very ranch to the point, from the English
view of the situation. The weak spot is the
reference to the treaty of l8oti, which she
allowed to be torn np brforo her eyes, and
an appeal to that document at this late day
sounds like a voice from one of the Egyp
tian mummy tombs. England's belief that
the Powers are driving the Porle iuto a con
ner is founded on fact, but What is she going
to do about it? Turkish stocks are lowei
than ever on the London Exchange.
Thx Chabox Aoainkt Genxbal Schexcx.?
The Scotch vcrdict of "not proven" is all
that General Schenck can claim. Unques
tionably tho report of the Committee of Fop.
cign AJhiirs upon the Emma mine Mwindle
does not exonerate him. It is the duty of
the American government to take care of
American honor, and ex-Minister Schenck
owes much to the magnanimity of bit
countrymen. Yet the facts ascertained
by a long investigation compelled tta*
Committee ot the House of ReMwentatitMN