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Wn? Princeton is doing for the College
llcgatto has been earnestly examined by a
Herald correspondent, the result of whose
observations is givon elsewhere.
The Wooden Town fire visitation occnrred
yesterday at St. Johns, Canada. A tiro in a
lumber mill, a high wind, a town in ashes,
over a million dollars lost, threo hundred
families homeless, ib the terrible tale in
brief which is graphically related elsewhere.
One or the Greatest Pleasures of the
Exhibition must be the Art Department, and
it is to be hoped that we may soon be able to
announce to the lovers of the beautiful that
there is no more unpacking and hanging to
be done there. The Exhibition hnR boon
open now live weeks, and it is time every
thing should be in order.
Governor Hayks, until next November,
and perhaps for over four years thereafter,
must submit to the unpleasantness of being
public property, lie is still saying good
things of his defeated rivals and does not
j' t look like a man who realized the extent
to which ho has been hoisted into the public
gazo. They say it is his way.
The Herald's Si'mmer Enterprises for the
sako of its readers who fly before the hot
winds to cool and shady places by tho sea or
the Rpas or on the mountains have begun,
and Long Branch was delighted yesterday
morning to see the wislied-for Sunday paper
appear hours before its usual time, and joy
beamed on New Jersey as the Herald ex
press trains scattered the latest news at its
doors.
The University Bill before the French
Senate will probably be made a Cabinet ques
tion, nnd tho election of M. Buffet shows that
a measure taking power from the hands of tho
Church and handing it over to the State will
have difficulty in squeezing through that
body. Hence may arise a conflict between
the two legislative branches, in which the
Senato is likely to follow the example of tho
English House of Lords and bow in the end
to the power that holds tho strings of the
money bag.
A Temperance Crusade, somewhat r>n tho
bnsis of what wo would call hero "local op
tion," is likely to be one of the mild sum
mer excitements in England. Our London
correspondence describes a mass meeting in
Hyde Park in support of a Parliamentary
measure which will leave the question of tho
sale of liquor to be deoidod by a popular
vote in the respective districts. As it will
require n two-thirds innjority to prevent the
tale of liquor it will be as difficult todoprivo
the poor mail of his beer as to hit on the
right candidate in a democratic convention.
The Channel Tunnel scheme for uniting
England and Franco by a submarine via
dnct between Dover and Calais is rapidly
passing from tho phase of scientific discus
sion into that of practical realization. A
full description of this gre.it undertak
ing is published in to-dav's Herald. It
would be too soon to say that it will be
successful, because the systems of experi
mental soundings and borings have not yet
progressed tar enough to furnish reliable
data whereon to base an opinion. Up to the
present nothing has occurred to dampen the
enthusiasm of the projectors, and much has
been demonstrated which will be regarded
bh highly favorable to the ultimate success
of the project. The chief danger lies in the
posaible existence of faults in tho chalk for
mation that underlies the straits of Dover,
bnt as nouc of these have yet presented
themselves to the investigating engineers
there are strong reasons for believing that
they will not occur. The borings already in
progress on tho French side have been car
ried to a depth of two hundred feet through
the harder overlaying formation. These op
erations will test the porosity of tho chalk,
and an estimate can be made therefrom of
the amount of pumping power that will be
necessary to keep the excavations clear of
water.
Thr K?w York OrlfgatM to St. l.o?ii.
We surrender .1 large amount of space this
morning to tho publication of interviews j
liad by our correspondents with the seventy
delegates who will represent tho Now York
democrats in the National Convention. Some
of these gentlemen are already on their way
to St. Louis and the others are preparing to
leave. Tlioir expressions of opinion are of
interest just now, and will bo scanned with
considerable curiosity by politicians of both
parties. They show not only a large pre
ponderance in favorof Governor Tilden, but
such a resolute decision of purpose as ren
ders it certain that tho delegation will not
abandon him alter .a complimentary vote.
Forty-eight of the seventy believe him alto
gether the strongest candidate both for car
rying this State and for success in the coun
try, and will stand by him with unwaver
ing steadiness. Several who are not so
confident and determined are nevertheless
willing to accept him. But there is an
active minority of the delegates whose oppo
sition is vigorous and outspoken, and who
will make strenuous efforts to convince
membors of other delegations that Governor
Tilden is a weak and an unfit candidate. One
of these goes so far as to declare his opinion
that Tilden would ho beaten in New York
by fifty thousand majority. Another avows
his intention, if Tilden is nominated, to
stay quietly at home and take no part in tho
canvass. But this mutiny in the camp will
do Governor Tilden little harm. The guns
of the mutineers are loaded with blank car
tridges ; the noise made by their discharge
will be attended with no execution. They
can talk against Tilden at St. Louis, but
cannot vote against him. The unit rule by
which the Htuto Convention has bound them
is a powerful and perfect muzzle. Every
vote of the seventy will bo steadily recorded
as for Tilden throughout all tho ballotings,
or, at least, until his friends think it expedient
to withdraw him?a contingency which they
regard as utterly improbable. With this
complete ability to hold tho delegation and
cast all its votes for Tilden they have a
secure basis for a persistent battle. If they
lose it at last it will he by the operation of the
two-thirds rule, which nobody expects to see'
discarded.
The New York opponents of Governor
Tilden can accomplish nothing nt St. Louis
unless by infusing doubt and distrust into
the minds of delegates from other States.
They have considerable facilities for this
kind of work, becnuso some of Governor
Tilden's opponents in tho delegation are
among the ablest, astutest and boat known
members of the democratic party. Three ot
these?August Belmont, Augustus Scholl
and John Kelly?decline to give their senti
ments for publication, but they are all the
more formidable by their reserve, the most
demonstrative politicians being seldom the
most efficient. Mr. Belmont was for
a long period tho chairman of the
Democratic National Committee; Mr. Schell
holds that office now. Mr. Kelly is the most
stubborn and self-willed, if not the most
dexterous, democratic leader in this city.
All three have a wide personal acquaintance
with tho democratic politicians of other
States, and great experience in manipulating
and handling party conventions. They will
be reinforced by several delegates of well
known political activity, among them S. S.
Cox, Allen C. Beach and De Witt C. Little
john. The last will be an effective man on
the floor if there should be occasion for
speaking in opposition to any manoeuvre
in Tilden's interest He is a quick, keen,
practical parliamentarian, with, perhaps, a
hotter knowledge of the rules which govern
the proceedings of deliberative bodies than
nny other democrat in the State. But it will
be a great drawback to bis influence that he
is so recent a recruit from the republicans,
that ho hails from a district where the Canal
King is powerful, that his own associations
with its members have been long and inti
mate and that ho has declared in advance
that he will not take the stump for Tilden if
he is nominated. Mr. Cox will also be a
serviceable ally of Governor Tilden's op
ponents on the floor of the Convention by
his quickn ss of perception, readiness in
debate and knowledge of parliamentary
rules. But it looks as if Governor Tilden
will bo too strong for bis supporters to be
under any necessity of having recourse to
parliamentary sharp practice, and if so men
I like Mr. Littlojohn and Mr. Cox will have
I no chance to exercise tneir peculiar skill.
I on the other hand, Mr. Tilden will have
' no lack of able workers in the New York
; delegation. We have heard no opinion cx
j pressed as to who will be selected for its
chairman to represent it on the floor, but wo
take it for granted it will be Senator Ker
nan. Mr. Kernan has had a large experi
ence in democratic national conventions; he
I is one of the oldest and stanchest of Gover
nor Tilden's friends ; ho is a good speaker,
| and, above all, his character is so high
and pure that every word he says will bear
i the impress of sincerity and be listened to
| with respect. He will have a valuable co
i adjutor in Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt, of this city,
i whose uniform good nensc and character lor
i fairness and moderation have wpn lor him
an enviable reputation in Congress, and will
! secure great confidence in the Convention.
! Mr. lb nry C. Murphy and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Dorsheimcr will bo looked upon as
men of mark, and Mr. Man ton Marble,
although lie will make no figure on the
floor, will do as efficient work in counsel and
quiet persuasion as any member of the New
I York delegation. lie has an extensive
I acquaintance with the better sort of domo
i cratio leaders almost beyond that of any
other delegate ; he has the talents of a dip
lomatist and manners which will conciliate
the good will even of those whom he tails
to convince. If Governor Seymour should
go to tho Convention as an outside
adviser and hsrmonixer of differences
Mr. Tilden would be as strong as any candi
date could be made by friends from his own
State. Had Mr. Seymour consented to go
as a delegate the Convention would have in
sisted on making him its President?a
position in which he could be of little ser
vice to any candidate. But as a disinter
ested adviser of the party, seeking no honor
or recognition tor himself, he would smooth
asperities, harmonize differences and diffuse
about lxim a spirit of conciliation and a
moral atmosphere which would make it easy
for sincere democrats to sacrifice preferences
and hostilities for the common good.
have heard intimations that Governor Sey
mour has actually consented to go, and wo
trust that they may bo confirmed. lie could
not give a more decisive proof that nothing
could induce him to accept a nomination
himself, since tho etiquette of such occasions
requires candidates to stay away, and Gov
ernor Seymour is tho last man in tho country
who would expose himself to the imputation
or the suspicion of hanging about the skirts
of a Convention with a selfish object. But
he would do himself honor and deserve the
gratitude of the party as a promoter of con
cord an.d a counsellor of friends who stand
apurt and ought to be united.
Wo also hear intimations of attempts,
which may prove successful, to bring about
u better state of feeling in tho party in this
State in advance of the Convention. Mr.
Tilden's democratic opponents complain
that he has been too domineering and intol
erant in the politics of tbi>Stato, and it is
hinted that, without concoding the justice of
this complaint, ho is not unwilling to stand
aloof and make no attempt to influence the
next State Convention, leaving the selection
of candidates for Governor and other State j
offices to the free action of the party. If he j
satisfies the disaffected leaders that he will
have no candidates of his own, and will I
I
leave an open field for all aspirants for State
officers, it is quite possible that most of the
New York opposition to his nomination at
St. Louis may be withdrawn. It is under
stood that Mr. Tilden's favorite candidate
for the Governorship next fall has signified
his intention to rotiro from the cout :st If
a reconciliation should be consummated at
home, and the New York delegation to St.
Louis bo a unit in fooling, as it is instructed
to be in action, Governor. Tilden's prospects
for the nomination on an early ballot would |
be very bright indeed.
The Defunct Extradition Treaty.
We are sorry that our amiable contempo
rary, the Sun, is prevented by its prejudice
against Secretary Fish from doing him un
grudging justice in connection with the
Winslow case. It concedes tbat his inter
pretation of the treaty is correct, admits that
he had no legal authority to comply with the
British demand and engage that Winslow
should not bo tried in Massachusetts for any
other crime than forgery, but it belittles the
service be has rendered, and maintains that
he was wrong in contending in bis corre
spondence that it is no violation of justice or
fair dealing to try a surrendered fugitive for
a second crime, if he has committed more
than one. "The great principles of justice,"
says the Sun, "require that n man who is
surrendered for trial on one charge should
not, in consequence of such surrender, be
subjected to trial on other charges?a trial
to which he would not otherwise have been
liable."
This opinion of our contemporary docs
not Beem to have been maturely considered.
The States of this Union have had more ex
perience in the extradition of criminals than
the whole world besides, and we should bo
sorry to think that our American courts,
from the Articles of Confederation down to
the present time, have been making decisions
contrary to j ustice. Our States are foreign
to one another in matters of criminal juris
diction, and bcth in discussions between
their executives and in judicial decisions
by their courts, questions of ex
tradition have been treated on the princi
ples of international law or international
comity. If Pennsylvania surrenders to
New York on escaped felon, on a charge of
theft, and it is afterwnrd found that he had
also committed a burglary within the juris
diction of New York, no court in the Stnte
would hesitate to try him for both crimes.
All that our State courts have required on
this point is that the demand for surrender
be made in good faith for a real crime, and
not aR a false pretext to get possession of
the prisoner for another purpose. Even
civil suits are permitted agninst persons sur
rendered from another State on a criminal
charge if there was no bad faith. When
the late Justice Nelson was on the Bench as
a State judge a case came before him of
a person surrendered by Massachusetts
for obtaining goods by false pretences, and
afterward arrested on a civil suit. Tho
counsel of the prisoner moved for a dis
charge, but Judge Nelson dismissed tho mo
tion, with costs. We cannot see that intrinsic
justice is a different thing between nations
from what it is between our States.
We trust there will be a now extradition
treaty, and thnt it may rest on tho basis
which Secretary Fish has proposed?namely,
an enlargement of the number of extradita
ble offences, and a mutual stipulation that
no person shall be tried for any oflVnco not
included in the list. Political offences might
be expressly excluded, but this would not be
necessary between two countries so attached
to the right of asylum as the United States
and Great Britain. The protection to po
litical fugitives is nobly stated by Secretary
Fish:?"Tho inherent, inborn love of freedom,
both of thought and of action, is engraved
in tho hearts o: the people of this country so
deeply that no law can roach, ami no ad
ministration would daro to violate it." We
regret that a correspondence, of which this
is a specimen, is disparaged by onr neigh
bor as "a petty success" and "a mas
tery of technicalities."
IIexry Ward BixcKSR has had one of his
old-time political talks with a Herald re
porter, and ho is for Hayes and Wheeler.
Ho is sorry for Blaine, and thinks he would
have made an aggressive and not a defensive
canvass. He does not think Hayes will
make a brilliant canvass or wonld make a
brilliant President. Mr. Beeeliqj's objec
tion to the word "magnetism" as a personal
qnality is curions and suggestive. It
touches a common chord of dissatisfaction in
men like Blaine and himself, who wonld
rather attributo their success to brains
alone than to some brains and some magnet
ism. Tho general estimate of the world on
this point is more likely to be trne than
that which is a self-measurement.
Tope Pics IX. completed tho thirtieth
year of his pontificate yesterday. It is sur
prising to look baok over tho number of
mighty events which tliii reign has wit
nessed, and His Holiness seems as hale to
day as any time within the last five years.
A Contrast and a Warning.
Whether it be the management of a com
pary, corporation, railroad, newspaper or
government, its suocess mainly depends on
the head that directs and controls. There
can bo no more striking illustration of this
truism than the position which England
now holds in Europe during its present ad
ministration in contrast with the former one
under Mr. Gladstone.
Let us admit there are few men who enjoy
a more brilliant reputation. He is a scholar
of vast classical acquirements, a good writer,
a very able financier, an eloquent debater,
and in private life adorned with all the
graces of a Christian gentleman. And yet,
with all these qualities, we hesitate to con
cede to him the character of a statesman.
We consider Webstor, Clay jtnd Hamilton
Fish superior in trained and practical
knowledge of this somewhat peculiar and
exclusive science.
Peace, retrenchment and economy are
good .electioneering planks, but should
never be the entiro staple of a government
platform. These indispensable qualities
may, if adopted too exclusively, tend to
lower the dignity and prestige of a nation.
The administration of Mr. Gladstone, of
which John Bright was one of its ruling
spirits, almost nullified the politienl exist
ence of England and completely destroyed
its weight in the councils of Europe. It con
sisted of a "peace at any price policy," the
adoption of the maxima of the Manchester
school, and was signalized by failures, con
cessions and humiliations.
We will pass over the Geneva arbitration?
that was a matter not only of policy, but of
justice, yot it certainly was in contrast with
the conduct of Palmerston's somewhat high
handed manner of treating tho Alabama
claims?and will only allude to one or two
events not over creditable. Mr. Gladstone
nllowed Ilussia to tear up the Treaty of
Paris, which had cost so much blood and
treasure to conquer, without a protest, and
with the faintest possible dissent. He saw
with indifference Hanover, nu almost collat
eral fief of the British Crown, swallowed up
by Prussia with absolute calmness ; France,
her ancient ally, despoiled of two of her
most valuable and historical provinces, and
amerced in an enormous war penalty, a
sum of equal magnitude to our national
indebtedness, without even a lriendly
remonstrance; but consoled himself for
this abandonment and loss of national
prestige by the boast of having saved money
in the army and navy estimates, while his col
league, John Bright, thought that all short
comings could be condoned by giving to his
blushing country "a free breakfast table."
The reaction came, th? Ministry fell, by
the concurrent voice of all classes?radicals,
liberals and conservatives. Mr. Gladstone
was relegated to private life, to enjoy his
disqnisitions on Homer and his voluminous
diatribes against the Pope, tempered with
the healthy physical exercise of felling trees.
The other disjecta membra were mostly
sent to that political limbo of inoapables,
the House of Lords, while Bright still soothes
his exclusion from office by a cigar in the
smoking room of tho lleforin Club, where
his pugnacity in argument forms a contrast
to his Quaker garb and his public peaceful
professions. A worthy good man, withal, is
the Bight Honorable John Bright, and per
haps the first Quaker who ever had such a
handle to his name.
And when Gladstone resigned Benjamin
Disraeli reigned in his stead. Then came
the man, he the son of a naturalized
Jew, himself only baptized at twelve* years
of age, without the advantages of a public
school or university education, beginning
life as an attorney's clerk, crippled with
youthful debts, sneered at as an adventurer
and mere writer of novels ; a failure in the
House of Commons at the outset, when he
was obliged to resume his seat amid de
risive laughter. This man, who then said on
sitting down, "the time will come when you
shall hear me," has, by mere force of natu
ral ability, by energy, by real statesmanlike
qualities, become Prime Minister. Our val
uable letter by cable on tho lllh inst. tells us
that England holds the trumps in the politi
cal game now playing. Austria, Germany
and Russia pause when Disraeli objects.
Turkey crushed, shnken to her centre by
debt, misrule and fanaticism, looks round
with suppliant eyes to him as hor preserver.
When he opens his lips the great money
centres of tho world aro shnken. He says
pence, and, like that beautiful description in
Virgil of JBolus recalling to their caves tho
angry and blustering winds, nil is hushed.
Wo have drawn tho contrast. Let us deduce
from it a moral and a warning. Although
in our great and free country the people ex
ercise u controlling elective and dominant
voice, yet when once they have pronounced
it, when once their suffrages are given, they
lose nil direct control over the government
for four years. They should, therefore, re
flect that there is no single man who, for
weal or for woe, can influence so much the
destinies of our country as the President
of the t'liited States. He may disgrace us
; by a weak foreign policy ; he may interfere
' much with our progress by a shitting domes
i tic one; he may fill up Cabinet offices by
: weak, corrupt and incapable men ; he may
surround himself by venal and discreditable
: friends and favorites; he may become unjust
, and partial by nepotism ; he may lower our
< dignity by tho appointment of discreditable
foreign agents end ministers. Tho remedy
is now in our own hands. Let us choose an
| honest man for our Chief Magistrate, nnd let
! each individual citizen consider it his
\ bound, n and solemn duty to work for this
j grand object.
The Fbkkch Mikistbt have wisely decided
not to indulge tho childish pettishness of
resigning because of the election of M.
Buffet^ the conservative ex-Premier, to a life
Scnatorship. Tho Senators of tho Right
have explained that they did not voto for
him as a royalist but as a ( atholic and con
servative. Whatever importance is attached
to these fine distinctions it is tolerably cer
tain that the Ministry, naturally displeased
at the d< tiance which the election of M.
Buffet undoubtedly was, will make a clean
sweep of the government employes who arc
at all reactionary. This revenge will gratify
the republicans at any rate, for some of their
number will step into the shoes of the
doomed.
Cincinnati Rhetoric.
Tom Moore, who knew, in hie day, what
relation the outward appearance of things
festive bore to inward titillation, wrote, as
emblematio of profound melancholy:?
I feel lllce one who treads alone some banquet hall de
sorted;
Who'e lights are fled, whose garland's dead
This does not by any means reach the
depths of desolation, but it tits very well into
the groove of thought from which we pon
der over the vast emptiness through which
resounded some days ago the doughty say
ings of the batch of nominators at Cincin
nati. The cold corpse of a stump speech
that has died of ohillB is not more unat
tractive than the shrivelled glories of one
that has died in fever. Yet the Cin
cinnati speeches deserve attention,
for the country is like to hear them
banged and twanged and dinned
into its ears with damnable iteiation for
four months to come. To the mass of our
citizens they-are caviare just now, but the
budding campaign orators are clipping them
and swapping them and disguising them for
use in the near hereafter, when they will be
flung at the heads of devoted republicans
like hot shot For two days the Convention
talkod, but, with ono or two exceptions, it
was only rethreshing (ho old bleeding
nigger campaign straw over again.
We .have looked almost in vain for first
class stump material. Logan's eall for every
republican "to buckle on his armor and be
ready for the fray" is turae and trite lor a
bounding bnncombado like the iflinois
soldier and Senator. Even when he warmed
to his work, let the eagle scream nnd shook
the last reef out of the Star-Spangled Ban
ner, he reached uo higher pinuaele than that
from which to say, "Americans, the dagger
of destruction is to be drawn and plunged
into the very vitals of the men who stood
firm nmid the storms that relied against
libertyjnnd freedom in this land." This
is sad fustian, and we do not believe
a word of it. It is prairie English
for the democratic investigations. Gen
eral Hawley spoke too calmly for stump
purposes. Y'ou cannot run an exciting cam
paign on a speech based on an "if." There
is too much conundrum in it. The colored
brethren on the first day talked the old
fashioned slaveholder's pistol and shotgun,
and it is somewhat surprising to note that
Fred Douglass' Bpeech mainly revived the
long exploded "forty acres and a mule" idea
of early reconstruction times. That smart
trick of the Jews who borrowed the Egyptian
brooches and spoons when they were about
to make for the Bed Sea and freedom was an
unhappy reminiscence of the use to which
the Northern carpet bag was put at tho close
of the war. It will not be used in the cam
paign. We do not think General Hawley
improved on the clear phrase, "when in the
course of human events," by opening
the platform preamble with "when in the
economy of Providence." It is a rhe
torical wooden nutmeg. In the nominating
speeches there was, of coarse, a great deal of
stump ammunition thrown away, as it was a
fight of men, not measures. Colonel Inger
soll said some fine, sounding, hyperbolic
things about Blaine, bat as they were not
true of him they are in most respects less
applicable to Hayes. The latter has not
"torn from the throat of treason the tongue
of slander," and he can scarcely be called
"the grandest combination of heart, con
science and brains beneath the flag." Col
onel Ingersoll had evidently been drinking,
as he says, "from the fountain of enthu
siasm," which we thought was exclusively a
democratic drink. Less applicable to Hayes'
canvass will be the description of the repub
lican party by the colored brother, Mr.
Demosthenes Turner, of Georgia, who
pictured Blaine bending over it like the
good Samaritan as it lay "all over this land
thunderstruck, paralyzed, dead and bleed
ing." Neither can the Indiana delegate's
phrase in nominating Morton, "It don't
need legs to make a President," be applied
to the "Warhorse of Ohio," who is expected
to prance for the next sixteen weeks on at
least two lower limbs. Mr. Woodford's
nomination of Conkling was chiefly remark
able for its warning agninst "emotional
insanity," which no friend of campaign gush
would like to see heeded. Perhaps the
humblest, the truest, but not the most en
thusiastic encomium on any of tht candi
dates was that bestowed on Hurtranft?"Ho
knows enough to know that he don't know
everything." That might suit Hayes.
Tile Sioux Expedltiou.
The highly interesting letter which we
print elsowhere describing the march of
Genetal Terry's command from Fort Lincoln
westward to the Little Missouri lliver gives
good ground for thinking that if there is any
necessity for punishing the hostile Sioux
the comprehensive plan of threo different ?
bodies of troops operating from different
points was necossary. Sitting Bull, who had
been reported on the Littlo Missouri, is not
and lias not been there within six months.
So far, therefore, it has been a wild goose
chase, with the probability that Sitting Bull
himself had something to do with it. Gen
eral Crook, who is marching lor the saiiin
point from the south, has met plenty of In
dians, but not in masses, and we have no
news from General Gibbon, who was at last
accounts moving down the Yellowstone in
search of this same Hitting Bull, with his two
or three thousand warriors. If the In
dians are well informed they may suc
ceed in eluding all of the bodies of
troops sent out against tliem. The false
information on which General Terry's force
undertook its long march we liovo very
little doubt was concocted by the Indians
themselves; and though this may seem
strange to Eastern readers it is ono of the
oommon experiences of Indian campaigns,
and one which adds enormously to the cost
of Indian wars. There is a chance that the
hostile Indians may run agninst one of the
columns in attempting to avoid another,
but with a campaign ground of over fifty
thousand square miles there is room for a
good deal of hide and seek.
Dom Pedro, after going to church yester
day, looked over the torpedo station at New
port with evident interest, but his devotion
to the arts of peace was instanced in his
lack of desire to see a torpedo exploded.
His attention to ths American iroild of
literature was again shown in his visit to the
home of Mr. Bancroft Such emperors art
unfortunately rare.
Scfretsry Itrlstow's ton.
The reason assigned by Mr. Bristow for
liis retirement from the Cabinet is a decorous
disguise for the true one. His private affairs
would have permitted his longer absence if
his relations with General Grant had been
mutually pleasant and satisfactory. We sup
pose the truth to be that he made a volun
tary tender of his resignation because he
would otherwise have been asked for it He
has been barely tolerated in the Cabinet
sinco the St Louis trials, the President not
wishing to force him out, because his friends
would have cried him up as the great martyr
of reform and strengthened his chances for
the Cincinnati nomination. Mr. Bristow did
not resign earlier because his official position
was a shield against open attacks. The
friends of the President could not very well
nisiil him so long as he was kept in the
Cabinet. The reasons ceased on both sides
as soon as Governor Hayes was nominated
at Cincinnati, and Mr. Bristow thought
it expedient to get beforehand with
the President by at once offering the resig
nation, which would else have been ex
torted. This, as the whole country knows,
is the plain English of the matter; but we
approve of Mr. Bristow's reserve in making
no parade of his uncomfortable relations
with his official chief. He would have acted
with more manliness and spirit if he had
retired as soon as he knew that he no longer
possessed the confidence of the President.
We dare say President Grant will not write
him one of those remarkable letters of
regret, friendship and indorsement such as
he has been in the habit of giving to men who
were forced out of office for reasons very
different from zeal for reform?the letter to
Secretary Delano, for instance.
The speculations relating to Secretary
Bristow's successor point to Governor Mor
gan. Mr. Morgan is, perhaps, the fittest ap
pointment that could bo made to that im
portant office. Ho is a business man of the
highest standing, and has had a wide expe
rience in publio life. He is sound to the
core on the currency question, and his per
sonal respectability would strengthen the
administration. But we tear that his frank
ness and candor in his speech opening the
Cincinnati Convention may not have raised
hira in the favor of President Grant. His
advice to the Convention to put in its plat
form a demand for a one term amendment of
the constitution was an implied rebuke of
the President. Such a recommendation as
sumed that there is an occasion for it, and
was an implied admission that General
Grant had excited apprehensions by his
ambition for another nomination. It is
pretty safe to assume that Governor Morgan,
notwithstanding his high character and em
inent qualifications, will not be invited to a
seat in the Cabinet.
Shall the Centennial Exhibition Fail
or Triumph ?
Whether the Centennial Exhibition fails
or succeeds is a matter of grave importance
te the American people. They have to some
extent risked the national reputation upon
the event. They are accused of boasting
that the greatest Republic known in the
history of the world is the most successful
experiment in government, and the Exhi
bition is intended to be a demonstration of
the claim. Ifwefail;if Paris, London and
Vienna excel-us; if our International Exposi
tion proves to be a blunder, the rest of the
world will say of our Liberty, as the Queen
in "Hamlet" said of her double on the stage,
"The lady doth protest too much, methifcks."
Our boast is a very great one, and we ought
to make it good. Thus far it is doubtful il
we can succeed.
The opening day of the Exhibition was, oi
course, a triumph. The President of th<
United States, Congress, the foreign Minis,
tors, and many citizens were present, and
the entire attendance was more than
a hundred thousand people. Yet the cash
receipts were only about thirty-eight
thousand dollars. Since then they
have dwindled to a daily average of about
ten thousand dollars, while the daily
expenses greatly exceed that amount.
There are many faults in the Exhibition of
which the public has reason to complain. It
does not attract foreigners, and even our own
citizens have not given it the support that
was expeited. The hotels which raised
their prices because of the vast attendance
on the first day were soon obliged to reduce
them. When the hotel keepers reduce their
prices there must be something out of joint,
for hotels are like barometers, and generally
give the mean average of the finuncial con*
dition of the country.
It is conceded, with deep regrot, that sine*
the opening day the Exhibition has stcadilj
drifted into debt, and all that is thus fa]
anticipated to redeem it is the Fourth ol
July. Our old friend Yankee Doodle is t?
come to the rescue. There is no doubt,
in our opinion, that the attendance then
will be greater than that of the inauguration
of the Exhibition. The Fourth of July is a
national holiday, and not only all Philadel
phia, but thousands of peoplo from th?
neighboring States and cities will make
it a point to use the opportunity
patriotically by visiting the Exhibi
tion. Besides this, many societies will
meet in Philadelphia on, or about the
anniversary of American independence^
Among these are the volunteer reunions,
the International Typographical Congress,
the National Law Congress, the National
and State military encampments, the Grand
Army of the Republic, tho Congress of Au
thors, the National Convention of the Cath
olic Young Men's Association (as large a
body as the Young Men's Christian Asso>
ciation), the Salesmen and Commercial Trav*
ellers' Association, the Catholic Total Absti
nence Convention of America, the World'i
Homoeopathic Convention, tho Grand
Knights of Malta, and others which we need
not name. These visitors and the attraction
of the great anniversary itself will swell tin
attendance on that day enormously. Bui
one swallow does not make a summer, not
can two grand days of patriotism make ?
success of the Exhibition.
Failure or success depends more upon the
Commissioners who manage the Exposition
than UDon the public. They must atone