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FKW YORK. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 187?.
Prom our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day trill be warmer and
cloudy, with rain.
During the sttmmer months the Herald will
be sent to subscribers in the ccntntry at the rate
of twenty-five cents per week, free of postage.
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Wall Stbeet Yest bud ay.?Stocks were
feverish on a dull markot. Only 83,700
shares were sold. Monoy on call loaned at
2 1-2 per cent Gold opened and closed at
112 5-8. Government bonds wero strong and
railway bonds firm.
The Election of M. Buffet to the
French Senate by a majority of three shows
how finely balanced the parties are in that
body, and, above all, tho strength of the con
servatives, since the whole force of the
Ministry was brought to bear against the
ex-Premier.
The Yachting Seabon of the Royal
Thames Club has been inaugurated by a
series of matchcs which have afforded much
agreeable sport to English lovers of amuse
ments on the briny deep. A large number
of fa.st cutters took part, and a fine sailing
breeze with a clear sky added to the general
enjoyment of the yachtsmen.
Am Accommodating Criminal was Chris
tian Klotz, who killed a young girl in Mary
land for "devilment" and shortly after con
fessed the crime. On some of the neighbors
proceeding to hang him Bummarily some
others objected, and he was cut down, but
only to be invited to commit suicide by
dunging himself. He did bo with alacrity.
We cannot oompliment the cowardly wretches
who took this Pontius Pilate method of
keeping their hands clear of his blood.
The Stbeet Railroad War Against Uafid
Transit progresses in tho courts, and our
oitizeus are in some danger of being delayed
in their enjoyment of the long wished for
boon by the solicitude of the street car com
panies regarding equine nervousness. We
can assure the humanitarian officials that
an overcrowded cor is far more destructive
to the nerve forces of their horses than the
shock likely to be administered by the sight
of a passing rapid transit train.
Heligoland, the little island off the
mouths of the Elbe and Weser, over whioh
the English flag waves, is not, we aro in
formed, to pass under the flag of Germany.
This island is the subject of a periodic ru
mor of the same kind. A few years ago
there was a general rejoicing in diplomatic
circles over the report that Heligoland had
been so burrowed out by rabbits that it was
likely some stormy night to disappear in the
German Ocean ; but this has provod un
founded. There aro only five square miles
?f it
The Noircn a*d South, inspired by the
nemories awakened by the centennial year,
which should elevate all our citizens
ibove the pulsions and prejudices
'engendered by sectional strife, have
agreed to grasp hands "across the
bloody chasm" of the past, and our
gallant Old Guard have accepted the cordial
Invitation of the citizens of Charleston to
pay that famous city a friendly visit and
participate in the celebration of tho one
hundredth anniversary of a battle ngainst a |
common enemy in tho trying days of the
Bevol ution.
The Weather To-Dat will probably '
be warm and rainy along the Atlantio
eofiti the latter condition prevailing as
far south as Cape Hatteras, and will !
bo followed by cooler and clearer
weather by Monday next. There are indi
cations of the approach of another area
of low barometer on the Pacific coast,
which we expect to experience before
the end of the coming week. A high tcm- ;
perature prevailed from the Mississippi
to the Atlantio coast during yesterday, except
in the portion northward from Bandy Hook,
with winds from eastwardly points. Clear
weather prevails in the Southwestern and tho
Western Gulf States, with southerly and ,
easterly winds in the latter. |
Th? KtpakllctB Conrtnt!??-H?jrM
and Wbe*l?r.
The most important political Convention
since that which nominated Lincoln at
Chicago, in 18G0, adjonrned yesterday, after
nominating for the Presidency Rutherford
B. Hayes, of Ohio, and for the Vice Presi
dency William A. Wheeler, of New York.
It was a dramatic, picturesque, fighting Con
vention. All the pent-np animosities
of State politics had full play. Penn
sylvania fonght over the hereditary quarrels
of the house of Cameron. New York re
vived the strifes of her Montagues and
Capulcts. Illinois seemed to have no
higher purpose than to defeat the nomina
tion of the one republican, Mr. Washburne,
whose name would have been an assurance
of victory. Ohio and Maine seemed to be
the only States who stood by their colors
with unfaltering courage. Hayes won
the nomination for the Presidency, while
Blaine comes out of the fight as much
the leader of the republican party as Henry
Clay was the leader of the whigs in their
palmiest days.
Mr. Blaine made what we might call a
Henry Clay canvass. We cannot but admire
the gallantry and the resolution of his
friends. Never was a leader so bravely
supported. There was something like
chivalry in the way his friends nailed his
colors to tho mast and went down with
them floating in the breeze. What is to
us the attractiveness of Mr. Blaine's
canvass was really its weakness. It was
a series of cavalry oharges. Mr. Blaine
fought for the nomination as though he
were fighting for an election. He treated
his party brethren as though they were dem
ocrats. He had the Convention from the first.
His policy was plainly that of alliance and
conciliation. But the tactics he used in
fighting Ben Hill were applied to his rivals.
Mr. Tilden's name, for instance, would havo
had more courtesy than that of Mr. Conk
ling. Tho election of Mr. McPherson
as President was a useless blunder.
Some impartial man like Mr. Curtis, Mr.
Dana or Governor Chamberlain might have
been given this honor. But Mr. Blaine's
friends must go into the Pennsylvania dele
gation and elevate a man simply to humiliate
the Secretary of War. The throwing out
of Frederick Douglass was also a blunder.
Mr. Morton had scant courtesy, while Mr.
Dana was actually hissed for making
a reform speech. It was rule or
ruin with Blaine from the beginning, and
the result was that every element in the
Convention combined against him. In
stead of breaking the coalition, arraying one
against the other, capturing some and coax
ing others, Mr. Blaine's leaders managed in
two days to oombine every element in the
Convention against him. The cup pressed
his lips, only to be tossed away by the heed
lessness of his own friends.
While the great defeat, as a matter of gen
eralship alone, fell upon Blaine's lieuten
ants, the tactics of his opponents were mas
terly. Don Cameron comes out in this
Convention in bold relief as by all odds
its most skilful and daring leader. Mr.
Cameron seemed to be tho especial object of
the assaults of tho Blaine lines. He had ac
cepted the War Office and the Blaine forces
chose to regard it as an cffence,
as if he had not a right as a re
publican to accopt any honor the Presi
dent bestowed upon him. The delegation
mutinied. It was proclaimed to the world
that the administration, in the person of its
War Minister?and the Camerons espe
cially?wero to be humiliated on the floor of
the Convention, Every despatch from Cin
cinnati told the same legend. The end was
terrible to the hopes of Blaine. Don Cam
eron took command of the anti-Blaine forces
at once. In a minority always, he won every
point His mutinous Pennsylvania delegation
was held in subjection until the time came,
and then it was launched like a thunderbolt
at Blaine's trembling oolnmns. If Penn
sylvania could only have been wrested
from Don Cameron's leadership on the
second ballot Blaine would have won. This
was the expressed purpose of Blaine's
friends. Mr. McPherson, from his place in
the ohair, led the movement. But the
young War Secretary was the master of his
opponents. He held Pennsylvania while it
pleased him, and only loosed his hold
to defeat Blaine. This episode is the
most dramatie incident in the Con
vention?the ono brilliant achievement
in political generalship. As our despatches
show, the position of Cameron was not of
his own seeking, but a position forced upon
him. The Blaine forces offered him no al
ternative but humiliation. The result is
that Blaine's victory turned into a defeat,
leaving Cameron victor in the Convention.
New York was forced into the same position
by the treatment bestowed upon Mr. Conk
ling. Because of an unfortunate personal
difference the friends of Mr. Blaine re?
solved that Mr. Conkling should share
in the humiliation imposed upon the
Camerons. As one of our correspondents
said the other day, Mr. Conkling was treated
as though he were a democrat. He was
arraigned upon the floor of the Convention.
When Mr. Woodford presented his name he
had barely civil treatment. 'J he most elo
quent republican in the Senate did not re
ceive the courtesy from the friends of Blaine
that they would have shown Tilden. As a
consequence New York, which, under ordi
nary circumstances would have voted for an
Eastern in preference to a Western candi
date, in tho critical moment was thrown into
the anti-Blaine balance. The truth is that
Mr. Blaine's Mends so managed his cause
that only one path was open to self-respect
ing republicans. After a cavalry charge or
two they exhausted their strength. When
the steady lighting came tho columns
of Morton from Indiana, of Bristow
from Kentucky anil the contingents of
Cameron and Cornell combined. And yet
tho Convention was so peculiarly arrayed
that 'much of this could have been
avoided. Tho friends of Blaine went to
Cincinnati to rule or ruin, and they were
ruined. Beyond their chivalrous devotion
to their chief, which is worthy of all com.
mendation, their campaign was one of folly,
presumption and ignorance. They mot the
defeat which such campaigns are sure to
invoke.
So far as Mr. Blaine's defeat is concerned
we have only congratulations for the repub
lican party and the oountry. We have the
kindest feelings for Mr. Blaine. We recog
nize his rare and winning qualities. We
think in some respects he has had hard
usage. But his nomination at this time
would have been the downfall of his party.
He would have lost this State. He
would have given the demoorats a
walk-over. He may be as pure as
snow;be may be the victim of "a conspiracy
to assassinate character"?all of this we con
cede and trust it will prove true ; but his
record sinoe these railway troubles began
made him an impossible candidate. Even
this fact is conceded by the leading journals
of his own party. To have placed him in
nomination in spite of this record would
have invited sure defeat As it now stands
the ticket is a fair one. It is no such
a ticket as Washburne and Logan, Conk
ling and Hayes or Morton and Hartranft
would have been. It means nothing but
mediocrity. Governor Hayes is a good man.
He defeated Thurman and Allen in Ohio,
which shows how strong he is at home. His
personal character is stainless. His record,
if he has any, is calm, placid, uneventful.
He has been a quiet, sensible Congress
man, a modest general and a fair Gov
ernor. If elected he will bring these
qualities into the White House. There
are, we have no doubt, ten thousand repub
licans any one of whom would make as com
petent a President as nayes. Ho has no
such hold upon the country as Blaine or
Morton, Conkling or Washburne. He hap
pened to have fewer edges than any other
candidate, and the party took him. It may
bo a choice as wise as that of Lincoln
or as foolish as that of Tyler. Time
must determine this. Mr. Wheeler,
the candidate for the Vice Presidency,
stands well in this State. Hayes and
Wheeler will poll the party vote. They will
call out tho solid, hard working party men.
As a ticket Hayes and Wheeler represent
the average common sense, sober minded
classes. When wo see the work of St
Louis wo can then estimate at its true value
the work just achieved at Cincinnati.
At Jerome Park To-Day*
The last day of the American Jockey Club
meeting will be marked by a number of fine
races, seven in all, and will undoubtedly
attract the most brilliant concourse of spec
tators of the season. First of all will be
a mile dash by three-year-olds that have
not won anything at this meeting, which
will bring Woodland, Leamington 2d and
Ambush to the post. Then will come the
Centennial Stakes for all ages?a run of two
and three-quarter miles?which will send
such grand horses as Tom Ochiltree, Olitipa,
Acrobat and Viator prancing away at the
fall of the flag. By way of interlude will
follow a three-quarter mile consolation
dash, starting Australind, Waco, Cyril
and Pera in search of honors they
have missed during the meeting, and
which three of them are likely to miss a
little longer. Hero comes in a dainty race
in which club members will mount their
own hacks and try over three-quarters of a
mile whether Mr. Howland, Mr. Arnold, Mr.
Center, Mr. Peets, Mr. Scott Mr. Phelps or
Lord Mandeville can boat Mr. Purdy or any
of the others. Following this will be
the handicap sweepstakes of a mile
and an eighth, with Leander, Egypt
Freebooter, Huckleberry and T ues
A. in the running. Then, < ir
to the ladies, comes a grand steeplechase of
two miles and a half, with such fine fence
flyers as Trouble, Hermione, Resolute, Risk,
Ballet, Stanford, Colonel Nelligan and War
like t6 contest every inch up hill and down
dale. Closing the racing of this memorable
day will be a steeplechase match be
tween Mr. Lawrence on his horse
Resolute and Lord Mandeville on
the Gladiateur gelding?a race which will
awaken the liveliest interest. To crown the
day's sport the Polo Club will play a match
for the cup on their grounds in the park.
When we add to this splendid programme
the pleasures of the drive to Westchester and
back to town it will be seen that a similar
opportunity for enjoyment on the turf has
not presented itself for many a day.
thk arrangements FOB THE CENTENNIAL
Celebration are rapidly progressing in New
York, and we may look forward to the per
fection of a programme worthy of the Kit*,
pire City. A pleasing feature of tho affair is
that the efforts to secure a fitting celebration
of the nation's birthday are being made by
our public spirited citizens themselves, who
are determined to secure for the city a dis
play in keeping with her rank and impor
tance. A considerable sum has already been
subscribed by prominent merchants and
others, and an invitation is extended to the
general public to aid by their contributions
in this most desirable object. The occasion
is one in which all our peoplo can join in a
grand tribute of love to the great nation of
which we are members and of reverence for
the memories of those who have made this
cause of rejoicing possible.
The Stewabt Charities.? From a goodly
| list, published elsewhere, the public is in
formed of the bestowal of the very large Bum
; of seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars
on various public institutions, mostly chari
table, in this city, by Mrs. Cornelia M. Stew
art, in obedience to the expressed wishes of
i her late husband, tho great merchant.
Already the faithful employes, whom Mr.
Stewart desired to reward, have been handed
their munificent bequests. Nor is this all,
for Jrwlgo Hilton states that tho good lady is
still engaged in examining the claims of
other institutions with a view to making do
; nations to those of a deserving character.
These are noble uses for the overflow of a
' rich treosury, nnd the blessings of the needy
will be earned not only by tho thoughtful*
; noss but by the promptness that has marked
the carrying out of Mr. Stewart's generous
wishes by his widow.
An Interesting Account is published in
to-day's Herald of the grand polo match
betweeen a team of the Calcutta Polo Club
' and tho team of Munnipoories, played in
[ presenco of the Prince of Wales during his
visit to the East Indian capital. The pic
turesque costumes of the players, together
with the exciting nature of the game, made
it one of the most pleasurable incidents of
th? Prince's visit
Senator ? Conkllng.
The Hkbaxd has no reason for regret or
mortification in consequence of its having
| so steadily set forth the claims and qualifica
tions of the eminent New York Senator. He
is a citizen of our own State, and we trust
it is a pardonable State pride whioh desired
the recognition of the ablest Now York re
publican when he is also the ablest and
broadest republican statesman in pub
lic life. Senator Morton and Mr. Blaine
may be his equals in native vigor
of intellect, but in culture and ac
quired accomplishments they do not ap
proach him. He is also their superior in a
quality whioh ranks higher than mental
force or culture?a high and proud sense
of character which scorns to stoop to the
arts of a demagogue. He has done nothing
in this exciting canvass to forfeit the esteem
of his countrymen, founded on his high
tone as a man of honor and principle. He
has made no exhibition of himself for
stage effect He has attempted no in
trigues to promote his nomination. He has
not descended to that busy electioneering
activity which has mado the lives of his
principal rivals so feverish for the last few
months and is so inconsistent with dignity
of character. He has borne himself through
out with the decorous reserve and freedom
from the electioneering fussiness which is so
common among our public men. The State
of Now York may feol a just pride not only
in his distinguished talents and high
character, but in the manner in
which he has borne himself during
the period when he has been mode
by his friends a prominent candidate
for the Presidency. Ho has done nothing
during this trying ordeal which tho most
fastidious of his admirers would wish dif
ferent He has been defeated, to bo suro,
but in this respect none of his prominent
rivals has any advantage over him. It is
safe to say that Senator Conkling's political
future is attended with brighter tokens of
promise than that of any of tho rivals who
have shared his fate at Cincinnati. He is
still young and, four years hence, he bids
fair to be the recognized and peer
less leader of the great political party
of which he is already the best equipped
mind and the brightest ornament The
Heraijs has satisfied its sense of State pride
and its sense of fitness in the disinterested
tributes it has paid to this distinguished son
of New York, and it expects to see him rise
constantly higher in the confidence of his
party and of the countiy. We look to him
as one of the few public men by whom the
politics of the country are to be elevated,
and the one, above all others, who can best
afford by the strength of his talents
to emancipate himself from narrow
partisan views and wisely guide the
opinions of his countrymen. Had he been
nominated for the Presidency he would have
been compolled to be a mere representative
of party; but he is now free to fulfil the
higher mission imposed on him by his great
abilities, and to be the trusted adviser of the
nation. He is strong enough to check and
moderate the unreflecting impulses of his
own party and to bring a spirit of wisdom
and considerateness into the counsels of the
government, whether he is destined to
act with or against the party in power.
It is a great thing to have in
public life men whose judgment on publio
questions their political opponents are
compelled to respect. We trust that the
action of the Cincinnati Convention yester
day will make Mr. Conkling less of a parti
son than he has been heretofore, and lead
him to assert his true rank as a national
statesman ; for he is the only man in pablio
life whose abilities qualify him for bo dis
tinguished a part He is head and
shoulders above the average type of men
who succeed in gaining official positions, and
if he will hereafter wear his party fealty
with a little more moderation he has the
best chance of any American statesman of
being looked upon as a "pillar of state,"
against which the country will lean in every
grave emergency.
The vigor with which Mr. Conkling's
friends have supported him for the Presi
dency has had a salutary effect. It is the
one thing which has prevented the ruinous
nomination of Mr. Blaine. H'd Conkling
been out of the field there can bo no doubt
that Blaine would have been the success
ful candidate. It is something to have
defeated so ruinous a nomination.
Conkling's chances for the nomination
would have been excellent if the data on
which his trieuds reasoned had proved to
be correct They expected the solid and
zealous support of the Pennsylvania delega
tion, and if this expectation had not been
disappointed Mr. Conkling would have been
the nominee of the Convention. His friends
also counted on the vigorous support of
President Grant who in fact stood aloof as
an inert spectator of the contest although
he had a passive preference for Conkling.
A strong support lrorn Pennsylvania
j and a strong support from President
Grant were the two most important
factors relied on by Senator Conk
ling's friends in their efforts for his nomi
nation, and if their reasonable expectations
on these heads had not been disappointed
he would have been the nominee. The
Herau> has all along had a clear and con
sistent sense of the insecurity of these ele
I ments, and as often as it has set forth the
! claims of Mr. Conkling it expressed its dis
j trust by intimations that the dark horso
' might win, and a declaration of its belief
that tho contest lay between Conkling and
! the Great Unknown. The event hns vindi
' cated our judgment and foresight and
| proved the correctness of our opinion that
I Conkling could not be beaten by any of his
prominent rivals, but only by the dark
horso.
The Haki.em Reoatta.?Tho fourth annual
regatta of the Harlem Iliver boat clubs will
take place this afternoon over the Harlem
course, and will prove to be one of the most
; exciting rowing events which hai taken
; place in or about New York for years. Tho
; contests embraco single sculling, pair oared
rowing, four-oared shell and six-oared gig
; racing. All the prominent clubs?Athletic,
Atalanta, Columbia College, Nassau, Nau
tilus, Dauntless and New York Rowing?
have made entries, and the number of oars
men interested wul be olose on fifty. In
the four-oared nee the Columbia College
crew and a crew made up principally of the
famous Wesley an crow of the Atalanta Clnb
will meet in the same race, together with
the Athletio four which recently won so
handsome a victory on the Passaic. All the
races promise to be very close, and the oars
men engaged are among the foremost ama
teurs in the country.
The AiMMinstlra* In T?rk?y.
The methods of change, not to speak of
reform, are apt to be violent in a country
ruled as Turkey is. Mourad V., scarcely
seated on the throne from which his prede
cessor, Abdul-Aziz, had been hurled in a
night to die a dog's death a few dayB later,
will not find much to reassure him in the
story of the murders carried to him Thurs
day night. Foremost among those who
led the softas and the Mohammedan mob
when they called upon the late Sultan
to lay down his authority as Caliph and
Sultan were Hussein Avni Pacha, Rochid
Pacha and Kaiserli Pacha. Turning a deaf
ear to his entreaties, his frantic offers of
long-hoarded coin, they saw Abdul-Aziz
disappear from power with an odd mourning
train of fifty-three boatloads of wives,
eunuchs and slaves. Then they went and
took their future sovereign out of a
cellar, where his uncle Abdul had kept
him cool for a few months. Then came
the murder of the dethroned Sultan, which
these quick-handed pachas glibly told the
world was a suicide. There were, however,
a good many reasons why Abdul could be
relied on to be quieter in his grave than out
of it, and these trusty Ministers of Mourad,
the ex-cellarer, wanted, above all, peace and
quiet in the governing circle. Hence nobody
outside of Turkey believed that the spirit
less, worn-out debauchee had out the veins
of his arms ; but, what was more to the point,
nobody cared. Everything looked smooth
for Young Turkey. Midhat Pacha, the
Grand Vizier, gathered his co-mates of the
late revolution about him and proceeded,
under the sheltering wing of the wizard
Disraeli, with the huge task of fighting, fix
ing and conciliating which still remained to
be accomplished. Now, it required a revo
lution to put them in their position of un
disputed power; but a revolver sufficed to
settle two of the Ministers?Hussein Avni
"and Ilachid?as effectually as the scissors that
nicked the life thread of Abdul-Aziz, while
wounding a third Minister and scattering
lead among ministerial satellites in a terrible
way.
The revolver was held by a Turkish officer,
a Circassian named Hassan, who had been
released on Thursday from prison, where he
had been lying charged with refusing to go
to Bagdad, whithor he had been ordered.
There is a good deal unexplained in the late
career of this officer. We can imagine
that a dashing soldier would prefer a
command in the revolted provinces, where
he might win his way by potting
at the rayahs to smoking life away
in plague-smitten Bagdad. That he was
not sent to fight and was ordered to Bagdad
suggests that this fiery officer had in some
way fallen under the suspicions of the
powers that be. Smarting under his real or
fancied wrongs was he not just the man in
whose ear Conspiracy might whisper? We
have heard no political motives assigned for
his act, but that may be the very reason for
suspecting them. It will recall in America the
crimo of Booth, happening like it close on
the heels of a great change in the fortunes of
a party. If, as seems likely, ho was attached
to tho late Sultan, the assassination will
wear a different appearance from that of the
drunken soldier revenging his petty wrongs.
In the escape of Midhat Pacha from the
bullets of Hassan the government of Mourad
has escaped a great peril. Hussein Avni,
great as was his influence, had neither the
brains nor the $ representative character of
Midhat The uncomfortable event will not,
as far as at present visible, have muoh
political effect outside Turkey, though it
opens up avenues for office in the ranks of
the Moslems. Yet it will be asked, "Was
the hand of Russia in this as England's was
in the undoing of Abdul-Aziz ?"
Mb. Bbistow's Restoration, when the Re
publican National Convention has declared
the choice of the party for the Presidency
during the next four years, will not
have the significance which would have
been attached to it a' few days
ago. His retention of the office up
to the last moment shows that he had
resolved, if fighting for the nomination, to
do so within party lines. His quittance of
the field now will mainly be interesting in
discovering whom the President will
take to fill his place, whether the
Secretary of the Treasury is to be a friend or
a neutral in the campaign now opened.
The selection will mark in some sense the
degree of interest taken by the incumbent of
the White House in the struggle that will
end in November.
? Th* Execution ofLowebt, the South Caro
lina mnrderer, is a fitting vindication of the
law in the case of an atrocious criminal
whose hands were stained by the slaughter
of many victims, and who, besides, was
guilty of other crimes almost equally hein
ous. Another ruffian named Bill Leo was
also hanged at Oquawka, 111., for the mur
! dor of an unfortunate girl named Jessie
| McCarthy under circumstances of revolting
atrocity. The advocates of mercy to mur
j dcrers must admit that a grave public danger
would be created if scoundrels like Lowery
and Leo wero permitted to believe that
"hanging is played out." The lesson of the
death penalty must be persistently admin
istered until such villains learn to respect
the law and the rights of their fellow men.
A Ma?racbe bt Sioux Indians of fifteen
settlors in the Platte Valley is reported as
| the latest development of the war on the
| Plains. This butchery only goes to prove
| how relentless is the hatred borne by the
i savages against the whites, and also shows
1 that, however intractable they may be, an
unwiso policy has been pursued by the
Indian Burma in its dealings with the red
man. The Canadian Indians give no trouble
to the British settlors, because they lrnve
learned to rely on the good faith of the
latter, and are not subject to the alternations
of cheating and slaughter which seem to be
the foundation of the relations existing
between the whites and Indiana on th?
Western frontier.
Tfe* Power mt tk* W?it
The triumph of the West in the OincinMll
Convention yesterday shows conclusively,
if any farther proof than had been already
nHorded was needed to show it, that now, as
in old Bishop Berkeley's day,
Westward the star of empire takes Its way.
The Bast has not had a President sin<M
I860, and it is not likely that the East is to
have one now. The Western republicans,
at least, had no serious thought of
conceding the Cincinnati nomination
to Mr. Blaine or to any of the East
ern candidates. It remains to bs aoen
whether the Western democrats will bs mors
forgetful of their section; but whsthsr they
are or not the fact remains that ths West is
determined to rule this nation. West
ern ideas and Western interests arc
to be paramount in our polities.
There may be an allianoe with ths
South if the South will do the bidding
of the West, but, in any event, or un
der any conditions, the West is determined
to rule. It has the power and mean*
to Exercise it. We saw this in ths
election and re-election of both Lin
coln and Grant We saw it in ths
fact that Colfax and Indiana were given a
place on the ticket with Grant and Illi
nois. We see it in the nomination oi
Hayes over the worth of Conkling and ths
enthusiasm for Blaine. We shall see it
in the future as we have seen it in
the past. The President is not to come from
the East for many years if the West can help
it; and the West means to help it. While
we are busy with commerce and manu
factures, with the development of ooal and
iron, and heedless of partisan, and especially
sectional, politics, the West is making
politics a business, and combining to have
its own way in everything. Apparently
there is no help for it, and we shall
be compelled to let matters go as
they are going, at least until we aoquirs
Western tactics and learn to combine against
Western combinations. Now we are out
manoeuvred and outvoted, and at almost
any time the majority of votes is likely to
be against us.
We may look upon all this with a sort of
equanimity, for, after all, the West is in
itself a great empire?an important part ot
the nation. We must, however, demand
justice <tven against an adverse will
and overweening power. The West
cannot afford to be unjust to ths
East The Western "statesmen" may
have the offloes if they want them, but
we must have protection against Western
fallacies in political economy and orude no
tions of business honor and publio
faith. Our commerce and manufactures
must not be stricken down because
another section of the oountry is jeal
ous of our prosperity and inimical
because the money centre is at New Tork
instead of at Cincinnati or Chieago or St
Louis. The West cannot get along without
the East exoept in the distribution of patron
age and the designation of office-holders. For
these things we care comparatively little, and
we have no jealousies because power and
empire have gone to the West but we wan#
this new Caesar to take only the things thai
are Cmsar's. Politics may remain ths study
and pursuit of the West if there are no
unwarrantable interferences with the pur
suits of the East Ohio may have
its Hayes in the Presidential chair ad
Illinois has had its Lincoln and its
Grant if the West can elect, as it nominated
him; or it may have its Thurman if it
can nominate and elect him, but we must
not be told that printed pieces of paper are
dollars and that Western Presidents are to
be ohosen to show the power of the West
through obnoxious and hurtful legislation
and the enforcement of obnoxious and hurt*
ful laws.
The South Amebican Republics are mak
ing efforts to develop their resources by the
expansion of their present means of trans
portation. The Darien Canal project ia
gaining in popularity nnder the influence of
the local authorities, seconded by foreign
capitalists. In Peru the enterprise of Mr.
Meigs promises to produce great results in
be extension of the railroad system of
the Republic, and hopes are entertained
that sufficient capital -will be subscribed to
complete such an undertaking. A direot
negotiation between the President and the
European bondholders is expected to result
in the more satisfactory condition of the
affairs of Peru. The fatal fire caused at the
city of Cuzco by the reckless discharge of a
rocket in a fireworks factory has resulted in
considerable damage, and furnishes another
lesson on the dangers of dealing carelessly
with explosives.
The Extradition Trhatt with England,
which died a violent death at the hands of -
Earl Derby in the release of Winslow on
Thursday, seems to tronble the English
papers as a ghost that will not down. The
London Timet, commenting on the action o(
the British government, concedes that "argu
ments have been advanced on our side
which we cftnnot but hold to be quite un
tenable." Mr. Fish's course is said to
have been disputatious rather than practi
cal. This is only another form of the
Sandard's remarkable phrase that we were
; "technically right but substantially wrong."
The plain English of all this is that Great
Britain, right or wrong, wants a change in
j the treaty, and, to carry her point, takes the
course most inconvenient to herself and
America. In the meantime England and
j America are likely for some time to be ferry
; landings for the criminals of America and
J England.
i Mil Ike Cox, a notorious desperado, ?1
i Tort Hudson, hns had his name added to the
! necrology of 1876. Ilaving enrly in life im
| bibed a desiro for shooting and stabbing
every one against whom ho entertained any
1 disliko his fellow citizens at length became
tired of Cox's manner of settling his private
quarrels end whot him down like a dog a
fate which he ric;hly deserved.
This Srwnm Machine Coiworants are ex
| citing public indignation by their cruel op
pressions of the poor sewing women. The
! system of contract sales is productive ol
; great svil, especially when abused in the
| manner that has been recently described in
j the Hikaij), A rich corporation that thuq