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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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VOLUME XT.l NO. 183
AMUSEMENTS TOMORROW.
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boot ii s r iTi: at be.
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WOOD'S MUSEUM.
DAVID GABRICK, nt S P. M.
THIRTY-KOURTU STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY, at K |?. M.
UNION SOI AUK THEATRE.
YOKES FAMILY, m 8 P. M
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PARTED, at 8 P. M. Ilrnriftt* Chanlrau.
CHATEAU LABIL.LE VARIETIES,
At 8 I*. M. Mutincu at 2 P. M.
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variety, at 8 P. M
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HEW YORK, SI NDAY. JUKE II. 187fi.
From crur reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day will be cooler
ind clear or partly cloudy.
During the summer months the Herald trill
I>e sent to subscribers for one dollar per month,
free of postage. ,
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prompt and regular delivery of the Herald
by fast maii trains or her8 must be sent direct to
this office. Postage tree.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock mar
ket closed feverish, although in some in
stances it was hfgher. New York Central
suffered the greatest decline. Oold opened
and dosed at 112 5-8, with sales meanwhile
nt 112 1-2. Money on call was freely sup
plied at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. The lmnk
statement shows a loss in the excess of re
serve of $374,fi7f>.
And Now poor little Denmark begins to
arm! .
The W bather iesterday was a trifle
warm in the city, but to the t ns of thou
sands who sought the scenes of sport
abounding; in the vicinity of New York the
pleasant breeze made everything delightful.
Matamobos will probably soon be the
scene of a struggle for its possession between
the federals and revolutionists to which the
little fuss that marked the entry of Porfirio
Diaz some little time since will not bear
comparison.
George Sand. Wo have an extraordinary
despatch from France purporting to give an
account of the deathbed of George Sand.
This despatch tells how she writhed and
shrieked. This will give the clergymen a
fine text. But why should those things be
sent by cable?
Wisconsin* Conclcdbs to vote for Blaine and
use all honorable methods to secure his nom
ination. It is a pity that some discreet friend
of Schuyler Coli'ax was not present when this
decision was given. Schuyler might have
received the indorsement of Wisconsin for
the second office. Blaine and Colfax would
make a good run in Wisconsin.
The Irish Ripi.embn', ns will be seen from
our special despatch, have been working
hard in the selection of their team, and ten
of the gentlemen who competed at Dundalk
have secured places for the final competition
in Wicklow later in tho month. To these
ten are to be added four, who will probably
in'clude John Kigby and Dr. Hamilton and
perhaps Mr. Milner, who, in tho lace of all
his misfortunes as a marksman, is a strong
shot. The Irishmen aro evidently striving
to win, and our own boys must watch their
laurels.
The Dat of Sport had a splendid event to
lead off uith in the five capital races at Je
rome Park. The resolute spirit manifested
by the American Jockey Club in keeping
all the objectionable fehturos that are so
liable to creep into horse racing off
their grounds as well as their track has done
much to savo tho American turf from becom
ing the prey of the blacklegs, ever likely to
enact their chicaneries to the destruction of
true sport. The club reaps its own reward
in the splendi.l animals it gathers on its
track and the fine company that comes to
Bee the fun.
PnpiT Torus To-dat.?This is tho an
nivcrsaiy of tho general acceptance of
the doctrine of the Trinity, commonly
called Trinity Sunday, and as such special
services commemorative of this idea will
be held in the Catholic and in many
of tho Episcopal churches. It is also the
day set apart by the Mi thodiat General Con
ference to bo devoted especially to tin
children. It is, therefore, familiarly called
among tlicin "Children's Day." It is ex
pected of pftttors that they will prvacll a
sermon to the children to-day, and that col
lections will be taken up at uch servie It r
n common fund from which poor chihlien of
both sexes are to be educated and trni" I ;
luissi narics and teacher*. This fun.I is
known as tli - Children'* Pun.I. I; t.vn
created a few years ago. but, wo believe, has
?ot been very largely increased since.
Th? Metropolis ai t% Hummer City.
When every one was talking about
the Centennial it seemed as if tho
metropolis would have to sit in the
shade and allow all the world to
go rushing by to Philadelphia. Well,
a good many people have gone to
Philadelphia and a good many are going to
< incinnati and St. Louis?and to many other
places, for that mattar; but the metropolis,
without u prodigious show, without a con
vention, without any especial attraction,
keeps on in its usual busy fashion. We
have a multitude of visitors coming
and going, arid the hotels seem to
have as much trouble to accommo
date their guests us at Cincinnati; but with
all this tide of trade and these abounding
indications of activity we see tho signs of the
sleepy summer season. Tho summer hotel
keepers throw out their enticing advertise
ments, and the generally sober advertising
columns of the Herald begin to huve a
pastoral flavor, with their descriptions
of sea and stream and Ashing brooks and
lresh butter and "all the comforts of a home."
In a tew days the fashionable preachers will
be off" to the mountains ; for the most elo
quent and saintly of men must have time
for repose. In a few days we shall have no
more of the comedians. The theatres are
trying to drag out the stock of sensa
tions to tho end of June. Sensible people,
who know how to enjoy their summers, are
looking over the passenger lists and securing
good berths near the middle of the steamers
and thinking of Baden Baden and the Boule
vards. Others are making ready for a sum
mer run on tho Plains after buffalo, while
others are mending their fishing tackle with
views upon tho Adirondacks, the lakes and
Labrador.
In a few days the great city will be a
sloepy town indeed. Our avenues will be
given over to the shopkeepers and servants
and the mansions will begin to show the
effect of dust and neglect and the ab
sence of tho master. J ust now we have a
lingering temptution in tho way of races and
summer gardens, and Mr. Oflenbach, alter a
brilliant season of music and beer, is about
to give us a week of opira ltouije, with the
sprightly and musical Aimoe. We suppose
some of us will remain in town long enough
to see a new chapter of life in Paris, but Mr.
Offenbach's wand will hardly bo attractive
enough for a season. Mr. Florence finds
that his caricature of Bardwell Slote is quite
in the fashion, and, as every one is thinking
of tho politicians, every one naturally de
sires to see how this consummate actor rep
resents one of the best ttfpes of a politician
on the stage. But the dreary fact remains
that we are at tho lag end of the busy sea
son, and the question now arises, What shall
we do lor the summer?
Does it over occur to our people that after
all New York is attractive as a summer city?
Why should we go to the Boulevards or
Begent street, except that Jhere is novelty
in the trip and instruction? Already
wo have complaints from Philadelphia
as to tho heut, and a day on the
Lansdowno terrace is said to rival
some of Stanley's African experiences. But
no one has any such complaint to make of
New \ork. We have a cool and bracing .June,
and, in fact, there ?ro very few days in tho
summer when we do not have cool and
bracing airs. Wo are surrounded by water.
Wo have the Palisades for splendor of
scenery, and within an hour's journey of
the Herald office a dozen different resorts.
Is there a city in the world which has as
many summer possibilities as New York?
Do we crave tho sea. In an hour wo may be
tumbling in its waters at Coney Island.
Do wo wish tho mountain air. We may
be on Orange Mountains in an hour. Do we
relish a more moderate amusement in tho
way of salt bathing than the seaside affords.
We have Long Island and tho hundred
places along the pieturosquo and beautiful
Sound. In an hour from the Herald
office the citizen may find a solitude
as wild and interesting as in the heart of
Spain. \\c have the Battery, which is as
fine as the walk at Hamburg, with its sea
breezes blowing in your lace, and which the
caprice of fashion has happily abandoned to
the poorer classes. Wo have tho Central
Park, which is always pleasant, even in tho
dead midsummer days.
Tho city itself is a pleasant place, or,
rather, would bo if our rulers were to do
with it what is done with Paris. Why should
we abandon Now York to the dust and thn
chambermaids for three long months?
Why should our churches close? Why
should we give over our best theatres to the
clowns and negro minstrels? Why should
we not utilize our squares and parks ? If
our rulers were wise they conld make New
^ork us attractive in the summer as Paris.
There is tho Buttery, for instance! Why
should we not have every evening, during
the hot months, at least, a band playing*?
The fact that the Battery is the poor
man s resort is the very reason why we
should make it attnietive. If some of our
citizens who delight in good deeds were to
improve the Battery in this respect we can
not think of a more delightful place in
which thousands of our citizens could pass
an evening. Then in the evening, when the
avenues and Broadway are clear, what better
evening drive tlian from Central Park to tho
Battery? Union sqoare might become an
other centre of attraction. We huve the
Hippodrome, the success of which shows
what our people crave for their summer
nights. But the Central Park might bo util
ized. Tho upper end of the Park, which
is now within the range of a growing and
interesting mibrrb, should be made as attrac
tive as the Champs Elyse.is in Paris. Why
should not Mr. Oilmorc or Mr. Thomas bo
allowed to take an upper corner in the Park
and arrange uu entertainment like those in
\ i' mi i an 1 Paris for tho summer nights, oiul
for the especial 1> in lit of the residents in
Harlem, Yorkvillc and the lower purt of West
, Chester count,. .New lork is moving to
ward Wentchoster with such prod, "ions
strides that we should t ik > p un? to make
these Upper faubourgs as ple.isant as pos*i
blv. It is. <>r course, too l ite t?? undo what
our quiet and hud llin^ ancestors di 1 m
Indian times with tneir Wall streets und
Maiden lat;i\?. But we ?;'d '. >n!!d the
new siv.rtit.ns o; ou? city :o; tho s<..;iiu.?r as
well as tho win'er.
j Tl:< re is no .. >n .why, with a proper ad
ministration of New York, we should not
have as many snmuier travellers as Paris.
The summer is the season when the Ameri
can delights to travel. He may go to Sara- ,
toga and Long Branch and other seaside and |
inland resorts, but he soon tires of the
monotony, the show, and, in time, the soli
tude of these summer resorts. If his home
is in the country and he is off sightsee
ing, he craves the majesty, the repose,
the ever-varying interest of the great
city. And if instead of shutting up our city
like a castellated town during a siege or a
plague?if instead of driving the traveller off j
by the presentation of bare and dusty walls !
we make our town bright and attractive?
there is no reason why New York should not
j be the summer resort of thousands of Ameri
cans who now go elsewhere. Wo have every
; natural advantage, and all we want is an in
telligent governing spirit. Let our churches
remain open ; let our theatres give us a good
series ot comedies and vaudevilles. If we do
not care for "Lohengrin";or "Trovatore," or
the majestic operas, there is our limpid and
coruscating Oftenbach, who will give us an
opera as light and merry as a country
dance. Let our public places be open, and
while on that subject let us add to the at
tractions ot our public places. The idea of
a public aquarium is a good one. And while
about this we should improve our iJoological
Garden. There is nothing that adds more to
the interest of a great city than a good zoo
logical garden, and ours is much inferior to
that in Philadelphia. We have a line library
in the Astor, and when Mr. Lenox opens his
new building we shall have another which
will attract every scholarly mind that visits
New York. Our Metropolitan Museum of Art
is doing well enough, but we have not begun
to do what we should. Wo have a few good
pictures, say half a dozen in all, but there
is no such ambition among our people to
found an art gallery as we see in Russia and
England.
If New York could be made the city that
it should be there would be less going
away during the summer. As it is the
older the citizen grows the less ho cares to
give up the comforts of home, the library,
the familiar room, the daily walk, the accus
tomed places, the bath and the morning
papers, to be shoved into a barn at the sea
side or to be whirled up a dozen pair of
stairs at the springs. A month of a run, at the
best, is all that he wants, but as it now is he
is driven out of New York, largely by fashion,
largely by the stupidity of the governing
powers, who think that the city is intended
for the scavenger and the policeman from
.Tune to September. Now that our Philadel
phia friends are showing what they can do
with a city during the summer let our own
people give some little attention to the wants '
and possibilities of New York. There is no
reason why wo should not have in time a
summer metropolis as attractive as Paris or
London ; a metropolis which will be the
wonder and the delight of travellers, not !
only from every part of America but even |
from the older world.
Oar Cable Letter*.
The letters which come to us this week by
cable from London and Paris give evidence
that the most prominent topic in Europe is
the Eastern question. The effect of Dis
raeli's palliative Hpeech of Fridafp night
seems to be felt in London, where war
rumors have been running riot during
the past week, but the undercurrent
of war preparations shows that the govern
ments themselves are not so sure of peace as
they would like people to infer. From Paris
wo get a piece of news which it will be in
teresting to test by events namely, that
Germany is secretly opposing Russia's
almost open schemes for her aggrandize
ment. All indications of what is beneath
the surface in European polities are valu
able, and that Bisn*<irck should say and |
mean different things is not new enough t^ be I
startling, but that ho is prepared to desert
Russia in the interest of England needs
confirmation. No wonder poor Austria is
vacillating. Her traditional policy would
take her to Russia, and if her old enemy,
Prussia, were only on that side, it would
make her course easy, and she could go to
war with "a light heart, "like M. Ollivier.
England, our Paris letter says, holds the
trump cards; but, as will be seen, it depends
on Germany whether sho will be allowed to
play them.
It may appear strango that amid all this
fine diplomatic play tho peace of Europe
rests in tho hands of tho handful of Slavs of
Servia. They may fire the train at any
moment, and it will then be a question of
who can take their powder kegs out of its
way. Russia can light the match at any
moment as a last resort to see who will stand
tire. With the Slavs and the Mussulmans
engaged, and Russia and England each en
1 couraging its friends, it would'be wonder
ful if these Powers did not soon come to
blows. Germany having nothing to tear
from Russia, but anxious to rival England
as a maritime Power, can control the course
of Austria and keep her out of the war or
put her in it on the side that suits her best.
England's victory consists in putting all tho
great Powers on their good behavior ; hence
we must look to Belgrade now for tho most
iinj>ortant news.
On lighter topics our letters; give us plenty
of gossipy material, from Buckstone's benefit
at Drury Lane to a sextuple seventh com
mandment play at the Theatre den Arts,
j Political movements in France seem to start
in some mysterious way from the grave.
The next political resurrection is to take
place over tho coffin of Louis Philippe,
; which with its contents is to be brought
from England to France. It is a strange
characteristic in so live a people as tho
French.
Tiik Conviction or Gxoaua P. Loi:n marks
j the tir-it real triumph of Governor Tildon in
his war on the Canal Ring in this State. The
?erdict of guilty against a man so powerful
in the ( uncils of hi^ party in Monroa
( Olinty will strike a whotrsotue terror into
the hearts of t ios ? v. ho. like him, have regu
larly plun i red the p> oph. This will cer
; xinly i mbitier the dt ta u-raiic contest within
tin State and make Governor Til Vn's ez<e
i.ii* :n e det'.Tniitted th.w ever on his de
t t : ' t it will help him at St. L< ui.. nnd
>: uugti1 ? n hi::i in the re ,ard of every hottest
in n, di-iuoofat and republican.
Conkling and Hayes*
There would be a geographical fairnew,
which both parties will probably observe, in
giving the two candidates on their respect
ive tickets to different sections of the conn
try. If the candidate for President is taken
from the East the candidate for Vice Pres
ident will be selected from the West, and vice
vrrsn. The strongest republican ticket that
can be made tip from candidates who will be
prominent in the earlier ballotings is Conk
ling and Hayes, including the two best men,
who would also be the best located. In this
Presidential canvass the two most important
States are New York and Ohio, the ticket
which carries both being certain of success.
There is no man in the republican party
who has so much prestige and influence in
New York as Senator Conkling, and no
man who stands so high with the
republicans of Ohio as Governor Hayes.
There is no reason of any force for tak
ing either candidate from a State whose
electoral votes cannot be influenced by the
personnel of the ticket. There could be no
advantage in locating any part of the ticket
in New England, for all the Now England
States, except Connecticut, are perfectly se
cure for the republicans, and no possible
candidate would enable them to carry Con
necticut. There is just as little local reason
for taking either candidate from Kentucky,
which is one of those impregnable demo
cratic strongholds on which no impression
can be made. The same argument does not
apply, or at least not with the same force, to
Indiana ; for although that State has been
for several years in democratic hands,
the republicans wonld have a very good
chance of recovering it with Senator Morton
as the leading candidate. But the resi
due of his strength lies chiefly in
the Sonthern States, v. here his popularity
with the colored citizens would not help the
ticket, every Southern State, except South
Carolina, being oertain to give its electoral
votes to the democratic candidates. Besides,
the nomination of Senator Morton would be
iatal on account of his b:id record on the
currency question, it being impo sible for the
leader of the inflationists in the last Congress
to get the electoral votes of New York.
For the purpose of acquiring local support
whore local support is most needed there is
no possible ticket that would have the
strength of Conkling and Hayes. Each of
these gentlemen is the strongest republican
in his own State, and, taken together, they
are the strongest hard money republicans
that can bo picked out of the whole list
of candidates. Senator Conkling has
the most enviable record on this ques
tion of any republican in the United
States, and Governor Hayes' leader
ship of the Ohio canvass last year, which
turned wholly on the currency question,
mado him a conspicuous representative of
hard money principles. This ticket would
be strong in Ohio just at the point of time
when success in Ohio would strengthen the
party in New York, and it would be strong in
New York at the final pinch of the battle.
Governor Hayes would be as useful in the
October election with the second place on
the ticket as with the first, and a great victory
then will be worth twenty thousand votes in
the following month in New York. But in
New York itself Senator Conkling is a much
stronger man, and is the only one of Ihe
candidates (unless Washlmrne should come
into the field) that could carry this State.
For obvious reasons Blaine would have
no chance in New York against Tilden ;
Morton could make no show here after his
notorious advocacy of inflation; Bristow
would be as weak in this State as Blaine,
bccause he can be nominated only by the
Blaine influence, and bccause the adminis
tration would not support the ticket Un
less Washburno should come in at last the
republicans can carry New York with no
other candidate than Conkling among the
names yet prominent. The influence of the
administration is potent, and all it can do
for any candidate it will zealously do for
Conkling. His supporters are the most
capable, energetic and dexterous politicians
in the State, and they would do an amount of
vigorous hard work for hitu M'hich no other
candidate could call forth. We are pleased
to find that there is a growing appreciation
of Mr. Conkling's great strength among the
assembling delegates at Cincinnati.
The Civil Service?The Evil and the
Remedy.
We agree with much that Mr. Eaton says
about the civil service in this country, and we
trust that the issue in the next canvass will
be fought upon that as far as possible. Hut
it is a mistake to blame the President for the
failure of civil service reform. The blame
rests almost entirely upon the members of
Congress. President Grant made a serious
and continued effort to embody civil service
reform in the administration of the govern
ment. He appointed a commission, and this
commission formed rules nnd they were car
j ried into operation. But from the very be
' ginning the project was fought by the mem
ben of Congress nnd the Senate. 'Ihey
wanted patronage and would not be content
i with nny diminution of their power.
Members talked about civil service
! and preached about it, but at the same time
! went to the departments nnd insisted upon
I the appointment of their friends, and would
1 hear of no "reform" which inter!end with
| that privilege. The President was powerless
i in the presence of a House and Senate that
I would not aid him. No President ean carry
on a government without the aid of the two
j branches of the Legislature; and the major
i ity in both houses said to the President that
he must either give them control of the pat
ronage, untrammelled by nny "reform," or
get along uh best he could. The result was
thai civil s( rviee <li? d ; but its friends
should do the President the justice to say
that hf lou^'lit for it to the end.
Tho democrats when they came into power
in the Hons. - had a fine chance to show their
! rcspect for civil service. There were a hun
dred oflicers, at least, in the House who had
been inoflVe lor years, nnd who were worthy,
I meritorious men. Their duties wore not po>
! litir.u, but legislative and elericsl. Well,
the democratic majority had no sooner ob
tained power than every officer, almost with
out exception, was reiaovd from office.
l>oorkt p r l.tzhugh has put on record the
pressur out npi>n hist by the members lor
insignificant places. 2to est nt of service,
no consideration of fitnesH was allowed for a
moment to interfere with the demand* of the
new members. Civil service was slaughtered
as ruthlessly by the democratic "reformers"
as it had been by the republicans.
But we trust this will not dampen the
ardor of our friends in behalf of civil
service reform. It is a noble work. But
the way to begin it is to elect members to
Congress who will assist the administration
in carrying it out. Civil service reform
slmnld be made an issue in the Congress
districts.
Tike Bottom Facta In Blaine's Case.
We can understand the enthusiasm with
which the correspondents support Mr.
Blaine. But this should not blind their
judgment to the real truth in reference to his
canvass for the Presidency. Mr. Blaine is not
in the field as a candidate. The reason for this
is that certain private letters read by himself
on the floor of the House of Representatives,
written at a time when he was the Speaker
of the House and responsible for tho leader
ship of a great party, show that he was in the
interest of a gang of railway jobbers who
took advantage of the generosity of the gov
ernment to form rings for the purpose of
dividing up among themselves nil
tho money, bonds and credit given
by the government to the endow
ment of Western roads. These letters
show furthermore that for this legis
lation, which a Supreme Court de
clares to have robbed the govern
ment of from one to two hundred millions
of dollars, Mr. Blaine is to a great extent re
sponsible. They show that while in the
chair he made rulings for the benefit of rail
way corporations who were trying to obtain
the government money, and that he called
the attention of a prominent railway jobber
like Caldwell to tho fact that "lie had made
them as a reason why he should have "fa
vois" in the distribution of the bonds and
stock.
If the enthusiastic young men who are
trumpeting the strength of Blaine will only
give their minds to these facts for a moment
they will see how foolish it is to expect a
man with this record, be he ever so brilliant
and able as a parliamentarian, to go before
tho country as a candidate for the Presi iencv.
Suppose Judge Waite had written a letter
calling the attention of Caldwell to one of
his decisions as a reason why he should
have bonds and stocks and "consideration,"
would that be considered a reason lor
nominating him for the Presidency ? Would
it not be a reason for his impeachment?
And is not the Speakership of the House as
important an office as the Supreme Bench ?
If Blaine, as Speaker, could use his office to
oblige a gang of railway jobbers, why might
he not do so as President, and esfteciully
after he had received the indorsement of the
republican party and the Electoral College?
If Mr. Blaine should bo nominated for
the Presidency he would be defeated by as
large a majority as was cast against Mr.
Greeley. Even if the St. Louis people were
to nominate Bill Allen for President and
Ben Hill for Vice President against him they
would carry the country. We can stand nn
inflationist and a sound, honest rebel, but
we cannot stand the chief of a gang of
scoundrels like this Pacific Railway crowd.
Tlie Two-Third* Rale.
An evening contemporary makes an argu
ment against the two-thirds rule and advises
the Democratic National Convention to re
scind it. This is futile advice, for the only
part of the action of Jhe St. Louis Conven
tion which can be foretold with certainty is
its readoption of the two-thirds rule. A rule
of such long standing, which has been for
thirty or forty years the common law of
democratic national conventions, will never
be abandoned except under the pressure of
a strong party sentiment widely expressed
through the party press. There has been no
such demand in the democratic press and
there will be none. Governor Tilden's sup
porters would be only too glad to have the
rule set aside, but they dare not ask it, bo
cause it would be interpreted by all his op
ponents as a flag of distress and as a confes
sion that they despair of nomination in ac
cordance with the settled usages of the party.
If they were perfectly sure of a majority
? at the outset it might be safe to make the
attempt; but until the lirst ballot is had
they can have no such assurance. The rules
for governing the proceedings will be
adopted as soon as the Convention organ
izes, and if Mr. Tililen's lriends should
muke a demonstration against the two-thirds
rule the vote on it Mould bo regarded as a
test of his strength, and they cannot atford
to put it to a test at so early a stage. It is
certain that all his opponents would vote to
maintain the rule, hut not certain that all
his supporters would vote against it. It will
j be safer for his friends to postpone any test
J until the first ballot, because the opposition
: to him will then be scattered among the con
j testing candidates and make no great im
; pref-sion, whereas a vote to sustain the rule
would exhibit a compact, and therefore an
imposing opposition. If it should prove to
, be n majority, as it doubtless would, it
! would weaken him through all the subse
quent proceedings. It is certain that the
| rule will be readopted without a contest, and
I that Mr. Tilden will have to take his chances
of getting two-thirds of the votes.
Thk Intkkf,st at present centred in the
j Winslow extradition case makes every case of
1 the kind of interest. In the case of the
' Nettels the defence avers that the evidence
; i< only sufficient to convict of fraud, not of
| lorpery. In the Winslow case there is no
' pretence that the evidence docs not cover a
i charge ot forgery, but turns on the
refusal of the United States government
to guarantee that he will be tried on that
offence and no other, the reituml being based
on two grounds- first, that the Ashburton
Treaty does not call tor such guarantee, and
second, that, iv he must be handed l?v? r to
the State of Ma?saehnsett* for trial, the
federal government could not control the
' case aftet it reached the courts of the Com
monwealth.
Thk Buooxlts Yacht 0tea had not quite
so good a racing day as their brethren of
the New York club, but the spectators were
i able to'enjoy the sport without the disad
vantages of wet jackets or mttl tit mtr. It is
well that the compensation balance exists
| for humanity.
English Opinions Upon America.
We note a tendency on the port of oertaife
of oar foreign correspondents to tell us, with
abundance of detail and warning, what the
English newspapers think of many things
in this coantry. The latest interesting theme
is the appointment of an American Minister
? to London. When Mr. Dana was selected
the English newspapers were enthusiastio
and bubbled over with satisfaction because
we had sent a gentleman to the Court of St.
James. These expressions of satisfaction
came back to us for our encouragement When
Mr. Dana was rejected by a vote composed
of u few republicans and the united demo,
emtio party we were told how the English
journals howled over the decadence of re?
publican institutions as shown in this indig.
nity to a great and good man. We gathered
the impression that many of these foreign
journalists thought that Mr. Dana wai
the only gentleman in America, an imprest
sion which might be pardoned to
journalists who took their impressions
of the country from a few leading
newspapers. Now, when we nominate Mr.
Pierrepont, we are told that the English
press is not quite satisfied, that it does not
think Mr. Pierrepont did what these editors
would have done had they been members of
Grant's Cabinet While he is not as desi?
ruble as Dona he is better than Schenck !
Does it ever occur to our friends across the
sea that it is none of their business what
manner of man we send to the English Court,
so that he suits our administration and is not
unacceptable to tho Queen's government?
We send our Ministers abroad to represent
our nation. What would the English news
papers say if the New York journals were to
discuss Sir Edward Thornton and other
English diplomatists with the freedom they
exhibit toward our representatives? We
should have a howl from the Saturday Review
and a lecture from tho dignified Londor
press upon the impertinonce of Americas
journalists.
More Troublo for Grant's Friends.
Now comes a rumor that Mr. Mullett, th?
favorite architect of the administration, is t?
be indicted for his complicity in some fraudi
in St. Louis. This is another of the especial
friends of Grant in trouble. What a strang?
fatality has fallen upon the friends of th*
President? Babcock, Belknap, Shepherd
and now Mullett; and yet no one thinks thai
the President had any hand in the transac
tions for which these persons have fallen
into trouble. Why is it, then, that no on?
of his friends could warn him of these asso.
ciations ? That Mullett business was on its
lace a fraud. Why should any one man, and
ho not an officer of the government with due
responsibility, be allowed to spend millions
upon millions of the government money
without any check whatever? Why should
Boss Shepherd be the favorite plumber and
Babcock have four or five offices rolled into
one? Why should ltobeson be allowed to
throw hundreds of thousands of dollars into
tho pockets of a Jersey crony like "Lije"
Cattoll? Yet these things have been done
for seven years, and the President has never
provented them. When the life of Grant
comes to be written those questions will be
among the most difficult to answer.
The South in the Canvass.?We print
this morning interviews with the delegates
to Cincinnati from the Southern States from
Delaware to Louisiana, and these bear lur
tlicr testimony to the growing strength of
Iloscoe Conkling and the diminishing sup
port of James G. Blaine. In Virginia
Blaine's most ardent friends arc falling
away from him, and the opposition he will
encounter at Cincinnati will still further
deplete the number of his supporters.
House Racino, yacht racing, boat racing,
foot racing, coaching, polo, base bail, cricket
and rifle shooting were among the sports
which the good people of New York poured
out their thousands to participate in or 'to
witness yesterday. This wonderful prog
ress in manly outdoor sports is among the
most encouraging signs of our centennial
epoch. It will strengthen the moral as well
as the mental muscles, and both need it.
The Vice Presidency.?In the rush for th?
Presidency we should not neglect the Vice
Presidency. This is a much more important
office than our hungry politicians will be apt
i to imagine in their rash for the highei
1 place. Three Vice Presidents have become
! Presidents by the death of the Chief Ezecu
! tive and three others by promotion. W?
should take as much pains to select a good
Vice President as a good President.
The Cobinthian Regatta of the Seawan
j haka Yacht Club was a spirited affair, tha
amateur sailors handling their craft in ft
! manner worthy of old salts.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
I
| Florida bu apples getting ripe.
Colonel Kred Grant's girl baby weigh* twelve pounds.
' Delegate Klkins, of New Mexico, declines to I* re
I nominated.
Boston Fo*t'The Vas-ar Nine call themselves
j nall-brifuims."
Tho Chic.tgo l'o$t ami Rati says that Conkling will
carry Cincinnati.
Iliu bmpress ol Brazil while travelling wears a
black dress anil bine veil.
Illiuoi* (olio** who do not like Maine arc hurrying
down to Cincinnati to favor Waahburne.
II you liu\en'l got a silk handkerchief with ao
amaziu? border sticking out of your pocket you won't
get hi >ro than half a plateful at a Irec lunch.
Xullig'l )i lh? tn-M-iuicr of tho (Jlobo Theatre la
1 ISogtnu, and all the Boston editors re praising hia. He
is gelling out a n?w lot of complimentary tickets.
It takes a bu'd headed man a good while to learn tha
art <>tfiling ? solitary Mi hand lock over to tha
right D o.d sldo without having it attract attcntiou.
At li,is?? nod, Mei, tbe other day, at dusk, while a
boy "an driving home a call, a bear made a raid. Tne
heilT run, and the boy, neglecting to let loose of th#
batter's tail, wn? saved.
Norwich llnlletin "Tho Womin't Journal asks,
I 'How Fhall we utilise the superfluous woman V it
seaman* if sbo might be Utah Used by forwarding her
! to Salt LakaClty." *
| Norwich JlulMin . ? "The man who is fortucala
enough to win a hoi with a lady usually gels it in si p.
I per*. The common device Is a blue Milk rhinoceros
, rooting up a yellow satin morass, and roost men ol
tine leeling preier to Irame them rather than to weal
them."
Norwich (C inn.) Bulletin:?"\ west side man who
saw a load of coal left at a house and arranged to go
over and borrow part of it alter the oiber man was in
bed got around that night and found that It had all
been put into Hie collar nnd carefully locked up before
n ik tit t?11. He remarked the next day that It was
shocking to think how little trtutlulnoai fiejls
seemed to h ive in human nature,"