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FEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1876.
From our rep>?rts this morning the probabilities
art that the weather early to-day trill be irarmer,
folloicil by cooler winds from the northwest
Notice to Country Newsdealers.?For
Cmrtpt ami regular delivery of the Herald
fast mcii irains oroers must be sent direct to
this office. Postage free.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
higher on an inactive market, investment
shares firm and railway bonds steady. Gold
declined from 112 3-4 to 11*2 5-8. Money on
call was supplied at 2 1-2 and 3 per cent.
Governor Tilde* has vetoed the Woodin
Charter bill. While the bill contained some
good features they were raado to cover cer
tain scandalous jobs, and the Governor, act
ing in concurrence with Comptroller Green's
advice, has done well to reject it.
The Enix Railwat has reduced its tariff !
of freights to the West, the reduction being '
over liity per oent This policy has been j
decided upon by Receivor Jewett, in conse- '
quenoe of the cutting of rates by the trunk
roads in favor of Boston, to the injury of i
New York.
Philanthropy.?One of the clauses of the
English bill for tho prevention of cruelty to
animals provides that no animals shall bo |
experimented upon for the purpose of ac
quiring manual dexterity in surgical opera- |
tions. All the juvenile sawbones of Eng- ,
land, therefore, if this bill passes, will have !
to acquire their m nnal dexterity on human
creatures. But bo long as tho dogs are sale
humanity can stand it.
A Novel Scene was enacted in the Su
preme Court, Circuit, h Id by Judge Dyk- ;
man, yesterday, in the progress of a suit for !
the recovery of the amount of a check pur- !
porting to havo been certified by a bank
teller, but the certification of which is
claim *d to have been a forgery. A photo- '
graphic artist, having darkened the court
room for tho purpose, produced on the wall j
an enormous picture of the certified check,
and on comparison of it with similar certifi- !
cations, acknowledged to be in the hand
writing of the teller, pronounced it to be
genuine. The evidence on tins point was,
however, conflicting, and the case, which ,
involves sixty-three thousand dollars, is not
yet concluded.
The Winslow Case.?Winslow has been
remanded "finally," as the London cable
despatch says, until June 15. It is sup
posed that the use of the words "a final :
remand" is intended to convey the fact that
on the day named the accused will cither be
released or delivered up to the United I
States officers. At the same time there is
tome reason to believe that the extradition
of the prisoner will be postponed until a
supplemental treaty can be negotiated em
bodying the principle that an extradited
person must be trial only for the offence for >
which he is delivered up to the country ?
claiming his extradition.
An Expression of Opinion prom Gen erai.
Dix, regarding the chances of prominent
candidates for the Presidency, will be re
ceived by his fellow citizens with all the j
consideration doe to his long ex)M-rience in
political life and thorough knowledge of the
#ntyect w he root he speaks. We publish in
to-day's Herald the views of the ex-Gover
nor on the present campaign, and find there
in that he does not regard the sueoess of
Mr. Tilden at the St. Louis Convention as
the settlement of the quarrels that divide
the democratic party, but as the firebrand
irill cause the discontented followers of
"Old Bill Allen" to bolt the nomination and
??t up a candidate of their own choice. A
similar result, he predicts, will arise oat of i
an Alien or soft money triumph, and the
grand fimk will be an election of the Pres
ident by the House of Representatives, 1*
oause of no choice being nude by the people.
I The Thunderbolt In the C?n*im-The
Retirement of Blntne.
The developments in reference to the rail
way legislation of a few yearn sinoe, and
Mr. Blaine's connection therewith, will be
read with profpund regret by the whole
country withont distinction of partv; for,
whatever wo may think in politics, we have
n pride in onr pnblic men. The fall of a
man as conspicuous as Mr. Maine is a mis
fortuno. When the character of our states
men is assailed it is an assault upon the
good name of the country. Unfriendly
critics may well ask, Why is it that the prog
ress of investigations has brought ruin upon
public men without regard to politics? What
assurance can friends of republican govern
ment have that there is safety in a system
which produces a Belknap and a Colfax, a
Pendleton and a Groesbeck? The attack upon
Mr. Blaine when it was first made was
treated by all fair-minded men as they
treated the attack upon Speaker Kerr. When
it was Raid that a man of the character and
the authority and the stainless life of Mr. Kerr
had lent himself to the degrading business
of selling his influence in Congress to one
of Appraiser Darling's political "bummers,"
and for a beggarly five hundred dollars, the
country resented the suggestion and gavo
Mr. Kerr the benefit of his years and his au
thority in the country. So with Mr. Blaine.
When it was said that at a time when the
country was running mad after railway legis
lation, as the only way to "revive the coun
try" and "bind the sections together," he
had used his position as Speaker of the
House to make money out of the corrupt
jobbers who swarmed about the lobbies of
Congress, the answer was that he was the
victim of political ambition. He deserved,
as Mr. Kerr did, the fullest confidence of the
country until the evidence came in an in
contestable shape that he was unworthy of
that confidence.
No one can doubt, after reading the evi
dence of that curious creature, Mulligan,
that Mr. Blaine is not worthy of the confi
dence of tho country and especially in a po
sition as elevated as the Presidency of the
United States. The nature of this evidence
hus been explained to our readers at length.
There is no difficulty in understanding the
exact position of Mr. Blaine. By his own
words and acts, by his written letters, which
by suppressing he admits to be improper,
he shows that his relations with a shameless
gang of jobbers and swindlers were incon
sistent with his duties as a severe guardian
of the people's interests. Wo may say
"shameless gang of jobbers and swindlers,"
because the history of our whole Pacific
legislotion is that of jobbery striv
ing to use the generosity of the
government to further private ends.
It was this legislation which enabled the
Union Pacific Railway to have a law passed
which virtually robs the government of a
hundred, or, as some saj% two hundred mill
ions df dollars. The men who hnd any
hand in this gigantic robbery?for robbery
it was?deserve no mercy from the American
people. A part of the nation's vengeance
was visited upon some of them in the resolu
tions expelling and censuring certain mem
bers and Senators, and in the moral con
demnation which has fallen upon others. It
is no wondor that the conntry should look
with suspicious eyes upon the acts of u man
as conspicuous as Mr. Blaine which show
his connection with any share of that Pacific
legislation. Mr. Blaine admits that in that
time of wild legislation and general cor
ruption he took a prominent part not only
in advancing tho interests of such railways
as the Union and Northern Pacific, but also
in the Bale of their stocks and bonds. He
admits that he made money in this mannerout
of what was fairly due him as "commissions."
He contends, naturally enough, or rather it
is the argument of his friends, that this is
his own affair, with which no Congress has
any business, and that because a gentleman
enters into public life he does not necessa
rily deprive himself of every means of liveli
hood. There would be force in this argu
ment bnt for the fact that the only value the
stocks and bonds which Mr. 131aine
"earned" cume troin the legislation of Con
gress; that for this legislation he was, more
than any other member, responsible; that
by this legislation, as we see by the dccrcc
of the Supreme Court,* the Treasury was
robbed. Mr. Blaine can give no explanation
of his relations with any one of these rail
ways consistent with his duties as an honor
able, self-respecting member of the House,
and, as our Washington correspondent puts
it, the developments remove him from any
consideration as a candidate for tho Presi
dency.
It were idle to dwell upon the regrets
with which we arrive at this conclusion.
There is no man in public life for whom we
have a kinder feeling and for whose con
coded intellectual force and patriotism we
havo a higher appreciation than Mr. Blaine.
But even if he can satisfy his critics that
there was no evil intent and no evil deed in
his railway speculations his career as a can
didate for the Presidency is at an end. The
men named for that high office, by democrats
as well as republicans, must be above sus
picion. The contest is too close and the
issues too vast for any prudent managers to
run horses hondicappod by records that need
explanation. No man can go from an inves
tigating committee into a convention and
expect to be its candidate for the Presidency.
If Mr. Blaine does not allow his ambition
to dim his judgment he will see this, lor
there is no shrewder leader in public life.
"What will he do with hit strength?'
The genius which has made him the leading
and, until this Mulligan development,
tho formidable republican candidate for
the Presidency makes him, even with this
cloud, a poworful figure in the Convt ntion.
What will he do with his power? It is an
open seorct that between Mr. Conkling and
himself, ever since the Frye debate in the
House, there has boon hostility, going to the
extent of suspending all personal relation^.
Mr. Blaine evidently feels that in nnv ad
ministration of which Mr. C'onkli; ; i the
head he would be simply thf> menu>< r irom
Maine, with a voice as to the Post Office at
Augusta and the Custom House at Portland.
He oould not go into the Cabinet even if'
these charges woro untrue, because a Presi
dent would be hardly expected to take a
personal enemy as a confidential adviser.
He would not, us a politician iailiug in his
aim for power, cure to advance any states
man from the East It happens?if wo may
repeat another open secret in current politi
cal history?that Mr. Blaine and Mr. Wash
burne have been for years on terms
of unusual intimacy. They messed
together in their Congress days. In any ad
ministration of which Mr. Washburne was
chief Mr. Blaine would be the trusted ad
viser. Then Mr. Washburne is a native of
Maine, and his family has large influence in
that State. Mr. Blaine must see that in the
developments of this preliminary canvass
the name of Washburne has grown Btronger
and stronger, with a silent, hidden, adher
ing strength. He has .many fine qualities
for the PresideLcy?qualities written all over
his record as a Congressman and Ambassa
dor. He lias been, fortunately, out of the
country during an administration which lias
brought so much ruin upon the fortunes of
many of the devoted friends of Grant. Con
sequently, apart from the question of fitness
and looking at it simply as one of availabil
ity, there aro qualities about Washburne as
a candidate which no other possesses.
"What will Blninc do with his strength ?"
Can he keep it together? Will it fall into
disentegration, and will his followers run
from one standard to another, caring neither
for his person nor his authority, looking on
their leader as another Abdul-Aziz, a de
throned sultan under guard in the seraglio
and waiting until his captors make up their
minds whether to banish or bowstring him ?
Will tho followers of Mr. Blaine as a candi
date follow him as an adviser ? In either
event the canvass assumes a new and impor
tant phase. Mr. Blaine, in tho canvass as
the ally of Washburne, or out of it as another
Colfax, gives it a new meaning. The
chances of Conkling assume a new strength.
He takes Blaine's place as the favorite of
the field. Now that the force of Blaine dis
solves no other candidate will have tho
strength of Conkling, and, what is more, it is
a growing strength. Instead of losing his
pace ho seems to grow in freshness
and vigor. Although ho has nearly
two weeks to run, and it is in a
season of storms and thunderbolts,
he shows no signs of distress. Some spec
tators think the fall of Blaino means the i
rise of Bristow. If Blaine falls because he i
trafficked in subsidy bonds Bristow, as an
officer of the leading railway now asking the
assistance of Congress, will hardly take his
place. Moro than all, from tho very neces
sity of tho case, considering what motives
govern Grant and the republican party, the
nominee at Cincinnati will not bo a man
whose election is sought by the enemies of
the republican party, and who did not hesi
tate to imperil the administration of which
ho was a member for his own ambition.
Whatever shapo the canvass may take it
seems now as if Washburne comes to the
front as the "dark liorso," supported by the
followers of Blaino and challenging the
leadership of Conkling. Wo must be
through with this thxinderbolt before wo
see its effects upon the political skies. As
they now look everything begins to clear in ;
the direction of Cincinnati, with Conkling J
ahead and Washbtirne closing upon him.
The Opening of Jerome Park.
The spring meeting at Jeromo Turk to
day is as murh of an event us the Derby
Day in England. We follow tho customs of
our cousins across the sea with so much ex
actness that the week whioh sets nil England
in a flutter about tho Derby records the
Jerome meeting. Jerome Park has become ,
a landmark in our social life. It fitly
commemorates the name of a g? nth Mian who
has done aR much for the turf in Aiii"Hoa .is
Palmerston and the House ?>l rby in
Great Britain. Our Park it inn h in ?re at
tractive than the Epsom l>nwns. in this,
that one is a park, the other a common. Nor
is there any drive in the world mfcre attrac
tive than thai from Fifty-ninth street to the
Grand Stand. Wo havo the noble av
enue as a stately portal?the avenue
which even the stupidity and criminality
of city rulers cannot ruin, and which is the
metropolitan avenuo of tho cosmopolitan
city. We have tho Central Park, which in
its spring finery of blossom and leafage is
as bcantitul as a picture, and if the sinister
prophet of thunder and rain does not in
terfere will be one of the sights of the world
to-day. We have the new city beyond grow
ing up as our Belgravia, or our Arch of
Triumph Quarter, and which, when the mil
liners, dentists and piano dea'ers havo won
their fight over the lower sections, will be a
splendid fauboury of New York. We have
the boulevards, through Westchester county,
with all tho decorations of lawn anil wood
land, on ono side the Palisades gray and
sombre, on the other the spreading waters of
the Sound. To crown all we have as tho
culmination of the drive the finest race
track in the world, whether considered as a
race ground or a festival scene. The various
attractions to sporting men in the horses
and the contests are duly set forth in our
news columns. But wo arc glad to feel that
the spring meeting opens with so many
auguries of succoss, auguries which, we
trust, will be abundantly realized.
Mo. Bullock in SxLr-DxjrExcE. ?We
print a communication from ex-Governor
Bullock, of Georgia, in response to an article
which appeared in the Hkrali> on the occa
sion of his arrest. That article was meant to
be just and considerate, and even Mr. Bul
lock takes no exception to its tone and
spirit. The strong circumstanco against
him, as we said, was his flight and protracted
absence from the State. Ilis explanation
partially mitigates the unfavorable pre
sumption founded on that circumstance.
Wo have no more disposition to prejudge
his ease now than at the time ot h;s arrest.
It is a question to be decided by the judicial
tribnnnls of Georgia. We await their action
and sincerely hope that Mr. Bullock's char
acter may be fully vindicated. We do not
think, however, that his case is helped by
inculpations of his predecessor and his suc
cessor in office.
The Revolt at Sr>ro Sino is an old Rtory
retold. Four desperadoes got away, seized
a locomotive on the Hudson ltiver Railroad,
and made good their escape. The sume
thing was done only a short time ago, and
the recurrence of such affiirs would imply a
fuult somewhere in the prison management.
England In Turkey
In European councils it is indispensably
necessary that Turkey should stand by some
other strength than her own. No Ottoman
"statesman" ever thinks for himself in his
consideration of what course it is proper to
take in the complications of European poli
tics. Ho performs a part. He goes through
the movements and pronounces the proper
sentences at the right time, but some one
else has contrived it all beforehand and is
ready to prompt him as occasion may require.
And as this is the case with cabinet min
isters and great officers individually as each
one depends upon an adviser or prompter,
stipple, cunning and sometimes capable?so
the nation collectively seems unable and in
disposed to proceed in any particular with
out the countenance, advice or support of a
foreign Power.
It has in various times depended on Eng
land, on France, on Austria and on Russia,
and the various periods of the history of the
nation in recent centuries may be classed as
each of these influences was respectively
dominant French and English influence
were, of course, dominant in the days of
the Crimean war, and in the years that
followed that war, until 1870. In that
year the scalos of the European balance
were greatly changed. With 1* ranee pros
trate an allianco of Western Powers for East
ern purposes seemed dead forever, and sup
port from that quarter hopeless ; while Ger
many was dominant and Russia was allied
with her. In this juncture the Emperor of
Russia repudiated the treaty of Paris, so iar
fts it related to his navy in the Black Sea.
Turkey, cut off from her lato friends, ac
cepted as kindly as she might the proffered
good will of Russia and mado sacrifice to it,
as the Indians who, having sacrifled vainly
to God, proceed to sacrifice to the Devil, for
all her fears were on that side. Hence the
hold required by Russian influence, which
has just been broken by the exclusion of the
Sultan and t&e advance of one amenable to
English influence.
Turkey is now very much like an English
province, for the degree in which a country
whose government is once under foreign
influence becomes subject to that influence
is progressive. At one period the foreign
influence is confined to suggestion and ad
vice, but as calamity comes and is not com
prehended by the governors, the influ
ence cf the Power that saves increases at
every recurrence of danger; and in the pres
ent crisis the Pow.ir to which tho Ministry
is forced to turn essentially governs the
country and determines its destiny. Thus
tho Emperor of Russia instructs his Ambas
sador to appeal for the life of the deposed
Sultan, but Queen Victoria lifts her hand
and Abdul-Aziz is saved. Fast steamers are
prepared to carry despatches out from Eng
land, for they cannot be trusted to tho ,
wires, and meantime Murad does not issue
his proclamation, because he does not know
what he must say, and he is not even girded
with the sabre, because the conditions must
first be properly declared. ?
Austria and Russia neutralized one an
other in the settlement of the trouble in
Turkey till England slipped in, "jumped
their olaims," and seized the country by a
sort of diplomatic protectorate. But her
position does not present a casus belli, and
tlicre is no fact in tho attitude of Turkey
that requires any hostile proceedings from
her neighbors which were not required bs
fore the change. It is to be supposed, how
ever, that the Powers will press on the new
Sultan all the requirements that it was de
emed to lay before tho other, but with what
vigor will not bo known till after the chan
cellors of the two Northern Emperors and
tho Austrian Ambassador at Berlin have met
at Ems.
It is probable that the crisis will arise on
a settlement of the relations of the Saltan
and tho quasi sovereign princes in the subject
and partially subject States. Bosnia, Herze
govina, Montenegro and Servia will refuse
allegiance, perhaps with the open support of
Russia; and their independence and the
independence of all the country north of
the Balkan, with or without war, will be the
result. In the many nice points to be nego
tiated and the many hostile interests to be
appeased it will be a wonderful fortune if
war is avoided.
Governor Tilden's Chanrti.
The recent event which is making bo
great a sensation at Washington and througl?
ont the country will be naturally and justly
interpreted by Governor Tilden's friends as
favorable to his nomination at St. Lonis.
Whether this new tnrn of affairs is also
favorable to his election depends on the re
publican selection of a candidate. Against
Mr. Washburnc he would have a very
slender chance indeed, for Mr. Washbume
haB the most enviable record of any public
mnn of either party as an unflinching foe of
political jobs. It is probable that Mr.
Washburne would carry Governor Tilden's
own Htnte on the reform issue.
There is a steady drift toward making
reform the cardinal question, and this issue
should help the democratic party. The fall
and disgrace of distinguished republican
statesmen and the accumulating proofs that
official life has become revoltingly cor
rupt during the long republican ascend
ancy is a good reason why there
should be a new deal. A party which
has abused its power deserves to go out,
and it is high time to turn over a new leaf.
With a candidate conspicuously identified
with reform on the democratic side and a
candidate who has taken no marked interest
in the subject on the republican side the
honest masses would rally around the
standard bearer of reform. The fact that
Mr. Tilden's motives are aspersed by his
personal and political enemies will have
little effect to long as no act of dishonesty
can be proved against him. The people
desire an opportunity to bear their emphatic
testimony against corruption in high places.
In supporting Mr. Tilden they would not so
muoh vouch for the purity of his motives as
attest their indignation against dishonesty in
public life. In the vigorous assault on the
Tammany Ring in this city there were
reasons enough for distrusting prominent
members of the Cominittoe of Seventy, but
an incensed community cared less for the
motives of that committee than for breaking
down and destroying a set of notorious
thieves. They apted as loyalists wouJd
h*i? acted daring the war if ftn
insult had been offered to the national flag.
Even if the bearer of the flag had been a per
son of doubtful loyalty it would have made
little difference -with citizens who thought it
their first duty (to stand by the Republic.
The people, in this political crisis, desire an
opportunity to express their indignant
reprobation of official scoundrels. They ask
for candidates whose record gives them a
title to be considered as representatives of
reform. They will not mind small flaws in
the character of candidates if they are right
on the main issue. Neither party can afford
to ignore this popular demand. If the re
publicans nominate Washburne and the
democrats Tilden reform will be safe which
ever wins. These mortifying exposures
multiply so fast that all other issues are
likely to be swallowed up in the paramount
question of public purity, and this strong
tendency is favorable to the hopes of reform
candidates on both sides.
The Stewart Will Contestants.
The presumption in the Stewart will case
appears to be that the will which has been
admitted to probate will resist the efforts
of the contestants to overthrow it This
is founded on the opinion that Mr.
Stewart and his shrewd legal adviser and
executor, Judge Hilton, would be most
unlikely to leavd anything undone which
would guarantee the fulfilment of the testa
tor's desires regarding the disposal of his
property after his deAth. Those, however,
who recall thecaseof Mr. Spenlow, in "David
Copperfteld,"the man who had been framing
?wills all his life for others and who failed
to make one for himself, will admit that
Buch neglect is common enough in all pro
fessions. There is undoubtedly a chance,
if it is only one in ten thousand, for those
who contest the legality of any document
which must conform to a number of pro
visions of law. There is much that may be
forgotten in the hurry of events, that may
be deferred from day to day, and finally left
undone at the time when all lost opportuni
ties are beyond recall. Two main objections
are raised against the probate of the will?
the first, if prevailing, merely throwing the
will back to the condition of an unproved
testament, while the second, if sustainable,
would destroy the will itself. We certainly
do not propose to discuss either of these
objections. There may have been no irreg
ularities in the proving of the will, and that
Judge Hilton "or some other person un
known" unduly influenced the astute and
far-reaching architect of the colossal fortune
in dispute seems a bold assertion, to say the
least. Now, however, one thing presents
itself, which shows what a burden great
wealth really is, particularly when employed
in the active pursuit of still greater wealth.
From a fond and lifelong contem
plation of the process of growth
in his fortune there is scaroely a
doubt that Mr. Stewart could not regard
without something of dismay any term to
the accumulation of his wealth. It had
grown from a single gorm that he had
planted in his youth, and each year a ring
was added to its circumference, and it tow
ered and towered until the forest of fortunes
around was dwarfed in the contrast. But
the life of a man is shorter than tho life of a
tree, and in spite of all the axe is laid at the
root of both. Mr. Stewart could not outlive
his fortune, but he evidently loathed the
thought of its being sawed up for planks and
shinglings to make snuggeries for a thousand
that only loved it for tl!e wood that was in it,
and not as a monumental growth to glad the
eyes in tho golden land of Plutus. There is
a vagueness in the wording of the will as to
tho ultimate form that his wealth was to
take; but none that we can discover as to
who was to control it. Its continuance in
the form he left it is understood to be in
deference to his last but unwritten desires.
With the private transactions that .secured
that form the public has nothing to do; but
the Baileys and Turneys and their lawyers
take exception to it all, and it will be ourious
to watch the fight Boon to bo in progress
between the parties that on ono side stand
by the stately tree and on the other go in
for shinglings.
Anti-Tammany to the Front.
The anti-Tammany democrats have is
sued an address to the people of New York,
in which they show very conclusively that the
Tammany organization is no better entitled
now to public confidence than it was last year,
when its candidates were beaten in the city
by a heavy majority. The one-man power is
exercised in a more despotic manner now
than it was then. Democrats who dare to
have aoy opinions of their own are
still ground down into the dust or driven
from the organization. The reduction of
the laborers' wages, which was the work of
a Tammany administration, has been fol
lowed by raids on the liquor dealers under |
the direction of a Tammany Mayor and j
Police Commissioner of his appointment i
The democrats of the city have no moro |
voice to-day in the policy or the management ?
of the party than they had when the dictator !
put forth Mayor Wickham ostentatiously as
"my candidate," or when he forbid the party
to nominate Judge Hackett as Recorder.
TTnder these circumstances the anti-Tam
many democracy remains in the field and
claims to be the real democratic party of the
city of New York, promising to make the
title good next November.
Centjwniai. Blunders at the Exhibi
tion.?Certain fnnlts of the Exhibition at
Philadelphia are described in our corre
spondence to-day, and they aro serious
enough to merit the attention of the direc- 1
tors. The difficulty of going from one part
of tho grounds to another is incident to
every large Exhibition of the kind and may
not bo easily overoome, but the very hot
weather yesterday seems to have proved
clearly that even the present methods of
convcyance within the grounds are insuffi
cient, and that a mistake was made in paving
the walks with a composition which the heat
is liable to melt These matters are of great
importance to the public. The true inter
ests of the Exhibition are not to be served by
buncombe speeches about its grandeur?for
every one knows it is grand?nor about
American liberty. The Exhibition is a prac
tical aflhtr, and the comfort and convenience
of visitors should be one of the first objects
of the management*
A Dead Heat for tk? Otki<
The "Oaks" is the ladies' day on Epsom.
Downs, and according to oar special cable
correspondence from London the race this
year was as well attended and as successful
a? an elegant show as in any former year.
The roughness of the Derby Day, which is
the great jubilee of all classes, from crown
princeB to cadgers, Irom dukes to dogs'
meat men, is softened and smoothed away
on the ladies' day, and the Downs, as our
correspondent states, become the scene of
an elegant flte. This year?for the second
time since the Oaks Stakes have been con
tended for?the race ended in a dead
lyait, Camelia and Enguerrande?both
French horses?coming in nose and
nose for the first place, and Merry
Duchess next. The former dead heat
for the Oaks was in the race of 1858, when
Governess and Gildermire made a tie, and
Tnnstall Maid, coming in next, won the third
place, which goes to Merry Duchess this year.
Governess and Gildermire afterward ran a
deciding heat for first and second places,
and Governess was the winner. This year
the French fillies divided the first and
second prizes, and there was no deciding
heat. Last year the race for the Saratoga
Cup hero resulted in a dead heat between
Springbok and Preakness, and in that case
also the stakes were divided.
Our special correspondence records a
long list of casualties among horses that at
one time raised great expectations as to their
performances in this favorite race. Ill for
tune seems to have been more than usually
busy among owners this year?a circum
stance that helps the regular bookmakers
considerably. As the bookmaker gives odds
against everything on the list the more
horses that are '?scratched" the greater are
his profits. On the whole this year it would
seem that the "regulars" must have done
well enough out of the Epsom meeting.
The Great Ran.
While the citizens of New York art
quietly pursuing their daily avocations,
retiring to rest at their regular hours
and rising betimes in the morning; while
the IIerai.d is gathering up the news from
all quarters of the globe and setting its
enormous machinery to work to lay it before
the people with the rising sun, the Great
Train, which is to show us how near we are in
point of time to the Pacific coast, ii speeding
on night and day, never pausing and never
tiring, on its way across the continent
to San Francisco. Our advicos to-day are
from Cheyenne, and we learn from them
that the lightning train is ahead of time;
that it is flying through the valley of
the Platte at the rate of fifty, and some
times even sixty miles an hour; that tlia
promised feat is sure to be accomplished,,
and that the voyagers confidently count on
taking their Sunday dinner in the Californian
city. Half way aoross the continent?six
teen hundred and fifty miles?in thirty-nine
hours is no child's play, even for the iron
horse. But we must not forget that the bcaf
part of the journey is passod, that the
worst part has yet to come. Nevertheless,
we wish the train good speed and its living
freight such a Sunday dinner as San Fran
cisco so well knows how to furnish.
Tins London Times has unearthed the
"Great Unknown," about whose nomination
for the Presidency all the States have been
so much exercised. The National Prohibi
tion Convention, we are told on that au
thority, has nominated Green, Clay and
Smith for President, and George T. Stewart
for Vice President of the United States.
The London Times does not favor us with a
prediction as to the ultimate fate' of the
candidates.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Judge Taft writes shorthand.
Carlyla's clay pipe* are made la Scotland.
Ole Bull will visit this country In tbe tall.
lien Hill Bays:?"The currency question la sub
ordinate. "
Toe Saturday Review criticise* Lowell for a sing intel
ligent English.
At Euuw, Ala., If a piece of embroidery 118 year#
old, owned by Mr. Cleveland.
GoUlove & Orth once deleatod Speaker Kerr for Con
gress In a democratic district
Congressman Picrce, of Boston, who Is so Ured of
Congress that be will not ran again, is a manufacturer.
Mulligan, who went for Blaine, Is a clear beaded
Yankee, and bo is treasurer of the (3 lobe Theatre, Bos
ton.
A Paterson, N. J-, witness recently sahl*?"Half the
machinery in this city Is not worth In the market tbo
price of scrap."
Tho Ice on the Chelsea rink, England, continues as
clear and dry as any ico was CTer seen on a clear
winter morning.
In the Oneida (socialistic) Community it Is said thai
the remedy for diphtheria is Ice and prayer. This is
blowing hot and cold.
Marat Halstead has a cream-colored goatee, and eat*
devilled crabs with a fork while he reads the Hjaalit
from his led hand.
In Statesville, N. C., Is a minister who has been in
business seven years. He lias married eighty-live cou
ples lor less thaa $60.
John Forsyth, editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Rrfidtr,
has becomo less prominent than be was as a candidal*
for United States Senator.
Danbury A'ev*"The rural piano Is frantically
writhing beneath the touch of the amatear, as Ike open
windows public!v proclaim.''
James Montgomery Bailey, "The Danbury Ann
Man," will lecture this falL Among Americas humor
ist* be is by all odds tbe best writer.
It is claimed on fair authority that John Morrlssey,
having Used Hie Kentucky democrats fbr Tilden, dl4
not care to go to M isaouri before the light.
Senator Edmunds is one of the leading lawyers o( the
Senate. He has been Ut politics lor a quarter of a cen
tury. He is dignified, and be wears a blue coat.
Tbe widow of (ioneral Stonewall Jackson is In Ala?
bnma, visiting her brother, the Rev. Mr. Morrison, ot
Selma, a l'renbyterlan. Her daugnter is with her.
Sixteen hundred young women or Cleveland are
pledged not to associato with yonng men of tippling
habits They leel lonely, and say that girls' company
Is no good.
Klklns. ibe good fellow who Is trying to get New
Mexico into the number of States, is an Ohio man,
thirty Ave years old; but he received his training in
Missouri.
The Hon. William A. Wheeler, who Is much talked of
as the "dark horse' .or. tbe republican side, Is within
two years ol sixty. M urnt Halstead Bays that be Is too
well known to be nnknown.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, Is forty years old. Ha
was born in Jefferson county, New York, but was an
Iowa lawyer and politician. Ho was one ol Sherman'*
cavalrymen, and became a carpet-bagger and "good
fellow."
Theory doesn't always accord with practise. An In
spection or the rolls or the New York Custom House
# shows that fifteen uppuintmeuts in that institution
have ueen made since die voar 1X8? at the instance ?f
George William Curtis, champion of tho civil service
sysiom. On the other hand, not a single appointment
has been procured, directly or Indirectly, during thia
time by Senator t'onkling, notwithstanding bis rccof*
^ nixed tm oJUto privileges in thia reaped*