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KF.W YORK, FRIDAY, JUKE fl, 1870.
Prom our reports this morning the probabilities
art that the rceather to-day Kill be vkrrmer
ind partly cloudy.
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prompt and regular delivery of the Hebald
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free of postage.
Wall Street Ybsteedat.?The stock
mprket was dull, with comparatively small
changes. Gold advanced to 112 7-8 and
elosed at 112 3-4. Money loaned at 2 1-2
and 3 per cent. Government bonds were
strong and in brisk demand. Railway
bonds steady.
There is Scarcely am Argument that can
be used in favor of the nomination of Bris
tow that might not be used in favor of Grant
for a third term.
Ten Cents On the Dollar is the epitaph
on the once much spread out and now quite
flattened out firm of Sprague, Hoyt & Co.
This epitaph heads the long list of creditors
which is published elsewhere.
"Ant One to Beat Rosoob Coneldto!"?
This is the cry of the reformers; and it is a
cry unworthy of any party.
The Jerome Park Backs were well at
tended yesterday despite the rival attraction
of the yacht club regatta, and four fine races
on a good track rewarded those who pre
ferred the sports on terra firma to those of
the unsteady ocean.
Mr. Blaise has constituted himself a com
mittee for the investigation of the Con
federate Honse, and will soon make a report.
Cieciwwatt at dead of night begins to hear
strange sounds?harsher and more discord
ant than the shrill squeak and gurgle of its
familiar dying pig. The delegates, shonters
and strikers of republicanism are npon her.
The chief sonnd is said to be Conkblaining
morbristontow, which may be pronounced
Woshburne for all wo know yet.
"A Cokfiderate House.This is what
Blaino calls the present House of Represen
tatives Bnt it is no explanation ,of the letter
reminding Caldwell, the railway jobber, that
ho had decided a point of order in his favor,
and that the favor should be considered.
The Oi.n South Church, Boston, passed
onder the hammer yesterday for thirteen
Hundred dollars, and within sixty days is to
pass under the purchaser's demolishing
pickaxes. Boston was perhaps ashamed of
the inscription on the tower, which might
shock the eyes of some of our visitors from
abroad. Now for Faneuil Hall!
Evertbodt Who Admires the pluck of
Blaine?and he hns certainly shown courage
and resource?must regret that he did not
avail himself of these qualities when the rail
way jobbers caino about him. He might
havo been next President of the United
States.
Ir THE West wins tho prize for nayes or
the Great Unknown it would bo a capital
thing for George William Curtis to demand
in the name of New York the nomination of
John Jay or William M. Evarts as a centen
nial candidate for the Vice Presidency. In
the veins of these gentlemen runs the best
Revolutionary blood.
The SrEECH or Mr. Tarrox in the Honse
of Representatives on tho Blaine matter wo
think fairly puts the ease as far as partisan
notivos wero concerned in tho starting of
the inquiry which has been so unpleasant
ft r tho ex-Speaker and Presidential as
pirant. Devoid of the heat and fury
which Mr. Blaine manages to inject
into all his personal explanations, it
was sufficiently tinged with irony and sar
casm to be effective over his antagonist's at
tack as the deliberate thrust of a cold, wcll
temper?d blade would be against the whirl
of a painted poker in the hands of a clown.
It places the assailants ot Mr. Blaine's honor
in the written work of his own hands, and
evidence of tfcos? for years his political allies
??4 bmm frisnds.
Tb? Vole* of Blew for* tl ????????*??
Within the ensuing clay or two all the
New York delegates will be en route for ( in
cinnati. They go to tho scene of action fu
of hope nnd courage, with the disposition
ami ability for energetic effort* and with
strong confidence in tho success of t eir
candidate. They are inspired by a credit
able feeling of Slate pride, by warm personal
admiration of the man of their choice, by
perfect trust, founded on many trials, in bis
brilliant qualities as a leader ; by an un
faltering belief in his ability to carry the
Empire State against any competitor whom
the democratic party may put into the field
against him. It is conceded by all compe
tent judges that New York will be tho main
battle ground of tho campaign, and that
neither party can elect the President if it
loses this State. In tho estimation of Mr.
Conkling's friends his strength as a candi
date lies in the expectation that ho can carry
New York, while it is certain that Blaine
cannot, that Morton cannot, that Bnstow
cannot, aud that Washburne or Hayes would
be weaker than the man who is the conceded
leader of the republican party of the State.
If it were the appointed task of tho C m
cinnati Convention to nominate a candidate
who would please the greatest number of
republicans Senator Conkling might npt bo
the strongest man in the party. If the He
publican National Convention wore an elec
toral college, and not a mero nominating
body, its action would bo as free as that of
the Union League Club in electing its presi
dent or that of a collego of cardinals in
electing a Pope. Democrats have no voice
in choosing a president** the Union League
Club; Protestants have no voice in the elec
tion of a Pope; but the Cincinnati Conven
tion, instead of choosing a President, will
merely propose a candidate. The demo
cratic party will have something to say
on the question of his election. If the
Convention at Cincinnati had a commis
Bion to cloct the next President and
were under no necessity of looking
to any other indorsement than that of the
republican party in the several States it
would bo safe for it to act as the Sacred Col
lege does in the election of a Pope, which
pays no regard to Protestant feeling. But
tho problem at Cincinnati is not to find the
candidate who would please tho largest num
ber of republicans, but a candidate who can
be elected. There are fifteen States which
can be securely relied on to give majorities
for the republican ticket, whether their
preferences are indorsed at Cincinnati or
not. There are fifteen other States which
the republicans Cannot carry in any event
It would be political idiocy to nominate with
reference either to the fifteen States which
tho republican party can have no hope of
carrying or with reference to the other fif
teen whose support of any fair ticket admits
of no doubt The election ? will be decided
by the few doubtful States. The ticket on
both sides, if wisely selected, will
be made up with a view to its chances
of success in tbose States on which
the election is to hinge, and espe
cially New York, which is the grand pivot
of this campaign. The party which wins
New York will win the election; the party
which loses New York will be bankrupt for
the ensuing four years. If anything relating
to the canvass is certain this is ccrtain.
Every prominent politician on both sides
admits that the canvass hinges just here, no
estimate of chances made up and paraded by
either party leaving out a claim to New
York, or including votes enough to elect the
I President without those of this State.
The great strength of Senator Conkling
I lies in this undeniable fact, that his party
can "have no rational hope of success without
New York, and that Mr. Conkling is stronger
in New York than any other republican in
the United States. He stands higher in New
York than any other republican, for various
reasons, all of which have some weight. In
the first place, his abilities are superior to
those of any other republican since th<j
death of Mr. Seward and tho alienation of
Mr. Adams, and it is natural that^ the party
in his own State should bo proud of
his intellectual prc-eminence. In the second
place, he has been for several years the
recognized leader of the NeW York repnbli
| cans, and they have found him a safe man to
follow. Every republican who has competed
I with him for tho leadership of the party in
' this State has been rejected by tho people
! and remanded to private lifo, including the
three ex-Governors and ex-Senators Messrs.
Fenton, Dix and Morgan. No republican in
| the State approaches Senator Conkling in
i political influence, and no republican outside
of the State has anything like his hold on the
confidence and admiration of the party in
New York. Now, considering that the great
| problem in this Presidential canvass is to
' find the candidate who has the best chances
; lor carrying New York, considering that fail
i ure in New York involves the defeat of the
party that loses it, the question for the Cin
cinnati Convention is narrowed to a single
point?namely, what candidate has the best
chances for getting tho electoral votes
I of New York? On this point the
most competent judges are the New York
republicans, who understand the State
better than any outsiders. They would be
fools to press the nomination of Mr. Conk
ling if they did not feel assured of his great
: strength at home. Tho voice of New York
; ought to have great weight at Cincinnati, for
. the New York delegates are the best judges
i of the relative strength of candidates in their
1 own State.
If Mr. Conkling should be the successful
' candidate it is easy to anticipate what tho
republican press ond orators will sny of him
in every part of tho Union. It will then bo
maintained by all republicans that ho is the
first orator and ono of tho foremost states
men in public life ; that ho has been the
truest and steadiest advocate of a sound
J currency ; that he has practised no derna
| gogie arts and mounted no hobbies to draw
! separate attention to himself; that he lias
j never sought factitious popularity outside of
' party lines ; that he has never been impli
j coted in any job or questionable trnnsnc
1 tion ; that ho represents tho whole repub
| lican party and not any faction or clique ;
that his knowledge of public affairs is
superior to that of any other American
statesman, and that his sense of party
loyalty and respect for party discipline
have withstood the disintegrating influences
which carried Sumner, Greeley, Trumbull,
Schurz, Bunks, Fenton and ?o many other
republican leaders into opposition. It is
owing to the steadfast fidelity of men like
Conkling that the party has not been dis
organized nnd disbanded. To him more
than to any other leader it is indebted for
its continued existence as a united political
phalanx, and for its ability to go into another
Presidential election with prospects of suc
cess. The maintenance of the organization
amid so many defections necessitated a firm
support of the administration. If the Presi
dent had not had unflinching supporters
like Mr. Conkling the republican party to
day would be a broken, scattered and de
moralized political army, despised by its
friends and not formidable to its foes.
The only rallying point for hold
ing the party together was the admin
istration of President Grant, and Mr.
Conkling has dono more than any other in
dividual in preventing a general stampede
when no many other leaders deserted. It
was not for Grant's sake, but for the party's
sake, thut Mr. Conkling has been eo stanch a
champion of unity and discipline ; and the
soundness of his judgment is vindicated by
the fact that, in spite of so many desertions
by trusted loaders, and in spite of the fall of
so many republican officials, the party pre
serves its organization and its vitality, and has
more than ?n even chance of electing the
next President. If Mr. Conkling had played
a r/ifc like that of Mr. Curtis and so many
others the republican party would by this
time be so weak as to make it of no conse
quenco who is nominated by its National
Convention. The preservation of the party
is owing to men of whom Mr. Conkling is
the most conspicuous type ; nor can it expect
success in the election without the power
ful aid of the administration with which Mr.
Conkling was too wise to break.
It is, of course, possible that Mr. Conkling
may be defeated at Cincinnati ; but certain
it is that the republican party can succeed
only by pursuing a policy like that of which
he is so eminent a representative. Even if
the Convention should reject the man it will
have to adopt his system. Instead of dis
rupting the party by a break with the Presi
dent it will have to act in harmony with
him or forfeit its chances of success. It can
not nominate Bristow without destroying
the party, because Bristow stands just where
Sumner, Schurz, Greeley and their abettors
stood when they were on the point of de
serting. Warned by thoir fate Bristow dares
not go outside the party; but, excepting
his lack of courage, he belongs to their class.
He is a mere Fouche in politics, and it would
be as preposterous to nominate him for the
Presidency as it would have been for the
French people to have made Fouche the suc
cessor of the Emperor Napoleon. If Senator
Conkling should not be nominated some
republican like Mr. Washburne or Governor
Hayes, some republican who has acted with
the party and has made no open or covert
war on the administration, must be taken,
unlesB the Convention courts defeat.
Bristow Would Make a better reform can
didate for the Presidency if he were to resign
his portfolio as Secretary of the Treasury.
How can he reform an administration of
which he is a prominent member ?
Repeal of the Resumption Act.
One of our Washington correspondents
draws attention to the strenuous attempt
about to be made in Congress for the repeal
of the law fixing January 1, 1879, as the date
for the resumption of specie payments. Our
correspondent thinks it will reoeive the sup
port of soft money republicans as well as
soft money democrats. This movement is
of no importance and deserves no respect.
Even if it passes the House it cannot pass
the Senate, find is therefore of no importance.
When Congress adjournB the law will stand
precisely as it does at present. The attempt
to carry a repeal throf gh the Ilonse is a
trick of demagognes, with a view to force the
question into the Presidential canvass. It
can have no effect at Cincinnati, because the
republican party is too shrewd not to take
advantage of the democratic split on the
currency. The fact that Senator Morton
went to Ohio last fall and spoke on the
hard money Bide should be accepted as
conclusive evidence that the Cincinnati
Convention will be a unit on the currency
question. Wild theorists, like Pig Iron
Kelley, havo lost all influence in the repub
lican party since the discovery that the re
sumption question can be used as a wedge
to split the democratic party.
The expediency of repealing the Resump
tion act is a question for the next Congress.
The act is idle without new legislation pro
viding means for carrying it into effect.
There is no pressing need for immediate
action, for the present laws are bringing a
gradual contraction of the currency, and
legislation tor accelerating or arresting this
contraction had better come a year or two
hence then at present. If it is found in
1877 or 1878 that resumption in 1870 would
cnuso too great a shock to business the period
can then be extended. The sound opinion
of the country cares little for the particular
date provided there is a steady progress
toward resumption, and it is wise to post
pone legislation on the subject until the
country gets beyond the heat and turmoil of
a Presidential election. The repeal of the
Resumption act now is not possible, becunse
the Senate will not consent to it, and the
passage of such a bill by the House, with a
mere view to political effrct, would boa con
temptible trick, deserving the pcorn of honest
men.
?
Jj? Tin: Event of the nomination of Wash
burne for President Edwin D. Morgan
would be a capital man for Vice President.
The Little Twkeds ano Sweenys of
Westchester have found their Tilden in a
new Board of Trustees, who promptly car
ried the wrongs of the town through the
courts; but, alas! for fcew York, the likeness
ends th re to our municipal robbery. While
the little Westchester ring has been com
pelled to disgorge the plunder, Uncle
Samuel has not collected much on his
$f>,000,000 verdict against the ex-Boss. It
must be allowed that our city thieves were
??no conntrynun," and thoir plunder was
more deftly conveyed than sny Westchester
tyro could hopo to accomplish. Still the
Westchester men understood the general
principle.
Kwmry ttmm Ilia Own InTMt>|?t?r.
Mr. Blaine bus "interviewed" the commit
tee that had him on the table for political
dissection somewhat in the style in which a
chnracter in one of the Irish romances did
the surgeons. On the night of the battle
the surgeons with instruments in hand were
gathered about the board on which the
wounded Irishman was stretched, and were
in consultation whether they should l>egin
by amputating his leg or trepanning hi*
skull, and further, whether, these operations
done, they would not find their labors lost,
when the subject got up and cleared
the room with the aid of a handy "bit of a
shtick."
Parliamentary dexterity and dash were
important elements in Mr. Blaine's first
demonstration. He rushed in nmong the
startled, bewildered and stampeded dem
ocrats like the two German uhlans
who used to capture all the French
towns. He captnred tho whole investigating
apparatus and proceeded to investigate him
self?to rule out evidence and admit evi
dence?to plead for the prosecution, to reply
for the defence, and, finally, to report for
the committee. He acted on a good plan
for politicians in tight places; for no man
can be sure of being investigated to his
satisfaction unless he does it himself. But
his dash and dexterity in tho House were
legitimate displays of his power as a sort of
parliamentary gladiator. Years of training
in that sphero have given him a capacity for
that sort of battle in which few men are his
equals, and it was not strange therefore to see
' him trample down his opponents.
But the battle in the committee was quite
another affair. There the committeemen
were on their own ground?yet they per
mitted him to bully them from one end of
the chapter to the other and seem scarcely
to have dared say their souls were their own.
No one can rise from reading any report of
that scene without a sentiment of thorough
contempt for the committee. But a senti
ment of contempt for the committee does
not imply a sentiment of admiration for
Blaine, but rather a ridiculous perception of
the attitudinizing of the candidate fighting
to defend his weak places And "snorting
through the long grass like a bob-tailed bull
in fly time."
But he is not snorting without a definite
purpose. His present purpose is to draw
public attention away from those terrible let
ters. He has managed to start abroad the
impression that the letters are of no conso
qnence, and his organs give the cue
that his reading them has sAved him.
It involves a sad reflection on political
morality to see it believed by any one on
such an array of letters a man can "recover
his position" with his party. But this is per
haps one of tho consequences of comparison.
These letters produced against any man be
lieved to be pure would destroy him. Almost
any one of them would destroy Horatio
Seymour. Could letters like these be
fastened on Charles Francis Adams the
office-holders would hoot all over the
land, with triumphant irony, "This is
your pure man!" For those men are be
lieved to be above jobber}', and these are
a jobber's letters. But it has been rec
ognized that Blaine is not pure. Dribbles
of corruption have soiled his name for
months. Then came his seizure of Mulli
gan's papers. That act was so extreme that
it was assumed the evidence against him
was terrible. Now the evidence is produced.
It is not so terribly plain as it was thought
it would be ; and so his friends hurrah and
deem that he is justified. It falls a little
short of the worst that was deemed possible,
and it is, therefore, held there is nothing
in it.
But though the Blaine organs belittle
these letters Blaine deems it well to not let
the public have them too long for tranquil
reflection, and so he keeps up the diversion.
His antics before the committee have no
other purpose. His howling over the Cald
well despatch, to endeavor to make that ap
pear the great important point in tho case,
is the result of a simple consideration that,
for cffect on the public mind, it is better to
appear as a martyr than as a hunted and
discovered jobber.
It Would Bb Well for Boss Kelly to pick
out slim men like Augustus Scliell for his dele
gation to 8t. Louis to oppose Tildcn. If he
should blunder upon a stout mnn the rural
delegates would think it was Tweed.
The New York Yacht Club Regatta.
Since the yachting authorities got the
sinister old weather prophet at Washington
under control we havo been blessed with
better racing days for June regattas than
formerly fell to our lot. We cannot say
exactly how the job was done, nor can we
tell how long the yaohtsmen will hold the
wily old disappointer in custody, but oh no
other supposition than that they have him
"closed under hatches," as Burns says of His
Satanic Majesty, can we account for yester
day's good luck. First of all there was a
little duck of a breeze to make a pretty
start; then outside the Narrows there was
just enough to make the yachtsmen shake
out every snowy inch of sail aboard till the
handsome cratt fairly waltzed along the
waters, like summer queens dancing ecstat
ically to the god of day. Now and
again a wicked puff of wind wonld come
and bring down some of the lighter drapery
of these royal ladies by the run, and after
they had tripped out past the Iiook Old
Neptune put such rollers under their flying
feet and the wind sung such a hurly in their
cars that the faintest hearts and frailer forms
among them were fain to . turn and show
their surf-white heels to the0indecorous
powers of wind and waves. Then it became
n race in earnest, and the band of fearless,
hardy sisters, gathering their skirts about
them, went madly for the turning point
and home again, dashed with the spray,
which they did not take r>nn grano but
by the bucketful. It was truly delight
ful sport, and tho Comet, as she came duall
ing bark through the Nnrrows, leav
ing her lighter or more lumbering
sisters behind, was u picture that the
silver-footed Thetis would have risen from
the sen to applaud if she happened to be in
the Bay yesterday. Tho Idler belied her
nnme in her hurry back to Mtatcn Island;
the Arrow shot past Fort Wadsworth as
from a bended bow ; tho rollicking little
, Madcap camo laughing home as fleetly as if
?he vm in real earnest, and the Wanderer
and Rambler, forgetting tbat they were, as
far aR titles go, oceanic tramps, travelled to
the stakeboat as if they were determined
bereifter to earn their living by the wet of
their bows. In short, it was a fine day's
Rport, and will pnt onr yachtsmen in merry
pin for the Centennial and other racing of
the anspicionsly opened season.
Bbistow Is a Yiu Goon Man. and has
made an honest Secretary of the Treasury.
His mnle case was a feather in his cap. It
enablod him to swear that he was an honest
man.
The Csbtbu Is Stw Bn|lssd.
Wo contribute this morning another Beries
of interviews to the lists already presented,
three of the New England States?Connecti
cut, Vermont and New Hampshire?being
selected for this day's chapter of political
opinion in regard to y?e Cincinnati nomina
tion. The valuo of this contribution is in
the proof it affords ? that Mr. Blaine cannot
hold his own even in his own section. Con
necticut is opposed to him, Vermont is very
weak in his support and New Hampshire is
wavering. Many of his best friends?friends
like Judge Poland, who has received .fre
quent favors at his hands?are beginning to
think that his nomination would be inex
pedient and to look elsewhere for a candi
date to fill the requirements of the republi
can nominee. New England recognizes the
necessity of carrying New York and, accord
ing to the sentiments of some of the dele
gates whose opinions we print, there is a
disposition to support Mr. Wheeler rather
than Senator Conkling. If New York is to
be carried by tho republicans Mr. Conkling
is the only man in this State who can carry
it, and the only candidate outside of it who*
has any chance to win here is Hayes or
Washburne. From this time forward this
fact will impress itself more and more upon
the delegates to Cincinnati, and as Blaine's
strength diminishes the support of such of
the candidates as may possibly carry the
Empire State must increase.
It will be observed as a curious feature of
these interviews that each State has a candi
date who is regarded by the delegation as
worthy of either the first or second place on
the tickct. New York presents Senator
Conkling. In Pennsylvania there is some
thing very like enthusiasm for Governor
Hartranft. New Jersey whispers the name
of Frelinghuysen. Connecticut has a
Jewell of her own. Vermont would like to
put Judge Poland on the ticket for Vice
President, and New Hampshire talks about
Senator Cragin for the same place. None of
these except Conkling is in reality a candi
date at all, and a great deal of time is wasted
in talking about them, but, they are con
venient names behind which delegates can
conceal their opinions while they are search
ing after the "Great Unknown."
Fouche was Nzoessabt under Napoleon.
But no one cares about Fouche in a republic.
This is one reason why Bristow, as the de
tectives' candidate for the Presidency, does
not grow in strength.
The Selection ot the Rifle Teaat.
Oat of the eight marksmen added to the
first sixteen by the joint committee two
strong shots have succeeded in placing
themselves among the first twelve in the
competition that closed on Tuesday. This
resnlt fnlly vindicates the course of the com
mittee and justifies the Heualo's opinion
that these two gentlemen, Mr. Farwell and
Mr. Weber, were worthy of an extended
chance. Among the gentlemen who are to
shoot finally next week for places on the
team and reserve we do not think, if the
present scores are to stand, and the new
ones to be added, that there will be mnch
change of place, except Mr. Fnlton exhibits
his skill in its wonted force. This he has
failed in up to the present. Each of the
marksmen has fired two hundred shots, and
General Dakin still heads the list with
835 out of 1,000 points. The totals of the
first eight are C,419 out of 8,000 points, or
80.2375 per cent?a very remarkable figure
indeed. To show how close the shooting
was we may nay that, taking the first twelve
scores, the percentage is only reduced to
70.15. With such high shooting done at the
j disadvantage of every man firing on his own
account we think that even if they composed
the team they would be a hard lot to beat.
The first competition of the Irish riflemen
for places on their team, which is reported
in full elsewhere, docs not furnish us with
any figures on which a fair comparison of
their probable force with ours can be made.
It is only a single day's shooting of forty-five
shots per man, and the atmospheric condi
tions are said to have been unfavorable.
The eight highest, who made 1,410 points
out of a possible 1,800, however, have a
percentage of 78.3 to show, which is wry
good shooting. We incline to the be
lief that when our own twelve are
selected next week the best interests
will be conserved by deferring the di
vision into team and reserve until some
time Inter on, leaving tho less fortunate in
these opening matches a chance to better
themselves. We are glad to observe that tho
representative of the Western marksmen
gallantly holds his own.
Ir THE Westers Democrats, who are some
what credulous, could only know that Tweed
was out of Tammany, the opposition of the
Dark Lantern Know Nothing Lodge to Uncle
Samuel would be more effective.
Not Yet.?A week or two of breathing
time for the Great Powers is probably in
order upon the Eastern question, unless the
principalities grow tired of being held back
by a Power that reslly wishes to see them at
war with Turkey. The conflicting reports
which have reached hero respecting the
attitude of Servia show that it would require
but little precipitancy to turn the scale lrom
warliko peace to actual war. The insur
gents in the revolted provincos having gone
so far and held their ground so fairly prom
ably count but little on the offers of tho
Porte, and this continuous irritant on the
principalities may draw the evil humors to
the surface before the great diplomatic doc
tors can remove them l>y internal treatment.
We do not ^ive any weight to tho report
that Count Andrassy hesitates to attend the
meeting of the llussian and German Chan
collors at Ems. Austria, whatever side sho
is driven to take finallv. cannot refWbe to aid
any movement of the Northern empires
which is made in the name of peace, no
matter how hollow she may believe the
pacific professions to be.
Advice TO GENTLEMEN SEEKING EmTLOT"
mint.?Organize a reform clab in the repub
lican party or go ont to St. Lonis in Boss
Kelly's snti-Tilden curbstone delegation.
Wages good, work easy.
Th? Eacap? ? t the Ftslaai,
The escape of the Fenian prisoners from
West Australia adds a strange chnpter to the
long-sustained quarrel between England and
Ireland. Within the last ten years Ireland's
feeling of antagonism against her uonqueror
has been illustrated in many ways, from re
bellion in Ireland to invasions of Canada,
from secret conspiracy to open organizations,
home rule demonstrations and what not
This carefully prepared plan to rescue a
number of sentenced prisoners, insignificant,
perhaps, in themselves, shows they were
estimated by their brethren for their sacri
fices us much as for their personal value, and
the demonstration of this alone will, doubt
less, stimulate the anti-English sentiment
among the mass of Irishmen opposed to
English rule. Hence, if the fugitives make
good their escape?and once on the high seas
on board an American ship there seems littla
danger of their return to prison?we may look
to see the event swell to the importance of a
victory over England, and inflame Irish
opinion here as well as in Ireland to a de
gree which those who look on the transaction
with foreign eyes may not comprehend at
first. The affair will bring little credit to
Mr. Disraeli, who so recently refused to re.
mit the penalties on these men. Had it been
announced that they were to be purdoned
it would have saved appearances, although
it could not have prevented the rescue, which
must have taken place some weeks before the
amnesty debate. In one respect this stimu
lation of national aspirations in Ireland will
be unfortunate for England?namely, that
she finds herself on tho edge of what may
prove a gigantic war, when the bare neces
sity of keeping a large garrison in Ireland
and a large naval force in Irish waters will
weaken her for offensive purposes con
siderably.
The Impression that Tammany is opposed
to Tilden helps tho canvass of the New York
statesman throughout the West. Our West
ern friends have an impression that Tweed
is still in command of Tammany, and view
with apprehension the intrigues of the Dark
Lantern Know Nothing Lodge for power.
Boys ano Knives are hard to keep apart,
but it is usually with the view of having a
tool rather than a weapon that the boy so longs
for the blade. Tho case of the boy Moore,
who stabbed and killed another boy in a
trifling quarrel, shows how tho cowardly re
sort to the knifo by old ruffians has its
demoralizing effect on the young. Youth is
imitative, and the passions are often
stronger in boyhood than grown people are
apt to imagine. Hence, in a city where
policemen use their clubs on tho slightest
provocation, and rowdy answers rowdy with
'he knife or pistol, brutality is certain to be
enoonraged in the adolescent. The com
paratively harmless resort to fisticuffs seems
to have gone out of fashion aliko for young
and old. Let us hope that pending the
millennium, when goodness shall bo uni
versal, manliness in quarrel may take its
old place in our affections.
It Looks Like an Intrigue for Bristow to
run for the Presidency in opposition to the
wishes of an administration in which he is a
subordinate.
The Exhibition looms into shape grad
ually, and its magnificent attractions are be
ing more steadily realized by onr citizens.
This desirable state of affairs can be helped
still further if the directors will only take
the remainder of their task to heart. Erery
body is going, but there is a holding back
which means that people want their money's
worth otitside and inside the grounds at
Fairmonnt Park. That assured PhiladeU
phia may count on the rush.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Ab Sin; ah la Blaine.
ller SnndR of life hare run nut.
How would "Mulligan and Marsh" dot
Mr. Churl?* Do Young, of ihe San Francisco Chronicle,
la In New York.
A Milwankoe man named Kindling would commit
guicldo with a hatchet.
l.ord John ltnssell Insist* upon baring tbo Turks ox
pelled irom Turkey.
The King and Queen of Greeco will remain nt Copetfc
hagen up to the lftth ol Jul}*.
"Snpollo Samniy" Is what the enemy now calls th*
reformer of the great unwashed.
Montgomery Queen, theelrcus man, is going into tb<
business of ostrich tanning in California.
It is said that Judgo Hoar and G. K. Hoar, of Mass*
ehusetts, aro both in favor of Blaine alter Brlstow.
The Chicago Times must not bo Jealous. Doesn't il
always make a good deal ol Imstle over a fast train T
Mrs. Swlshelm says that the tobacco that I ho Ger
mans smoke )? only paper steeped in a tobacco solu
tion.
Colonel Vest Is rising ns a Rnbermtori.il candidate In
Missouri, and his opponents are trying to pull him
down.
Dom Pe iro this week will be in Boston, a town which
is known In history mainly because It puts molassef
Into Its baked beans.
Do yoti remember how Harriet Prescott In one of he?
spllt-crimson stories spoke of carrying great armlula
of rhododendrons?
A great number of domestic servants are sailing for
the Old Country, and now there is a chance for a bouse
wife to have "her evening out.'*
Nothing m> greatly disappoints a man of affairs as to
crawl down through a whisper of gassy foam and won
der why ho ordered a glass of soda.
What Is the uso of making strawberry shortcake out
ol two crusts when you bare to take a microscope M
see ho# closo the crusts are together t
It Is singular that Orange county people should bring
their own pure wlnskoy to town ami then make ns? of
our hospitals when they get stinsiruck.
Two gentlemen talking on the Krle Rallwsv about the
study of Kronen. Said one, "I like the conjugation*
best." Said tbo other, "I like the pronouns." Said
Not 1, '?Them is nice."
A correspondent, who is sure how Bristow treats
other people'* whiskey, wants to know how he treats
hia own. Without the least hesitation wo may saj
tlmi be treat* It straight.
Mr. J. M. Bailey sav.,:?''Neither political party i*
?trong enough to nominate a good man if the othel
nominates one who la popular. You can put that is
your pipe when you nre out of tobacco."
It is claimed that if the majority ruio lie adopted at
8U i-ouis Tilden will be voted lor by the Virginia dele
pat ton, but that, ir the two-tlurdi ru!o bo adopted, that
delegation will during several ballots vote tor Hancock.
Mr. Daniel A Caldwell, ol Lynn, Massi, brother of
the man who sent iho cablegram which I'roctor Knott
suppressed, sa.vs that ins brother is In England; thai
Jos tab has not been Is Italy, and that the Congress*
tonal committee does not wsat to *-?* fcMm