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NEW YORK. THUB8DAI, JUNE 28. 1876.
From our rej>or1s this morning the probabilities
are that the utather to-day will be partly cloudy
or clear.
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Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
more active and excited. Some of the fan
cies were higher. Gold opened and closed
st 112 3-8. Money loaned on call nt two per
cent. Government bonds were strong. Rail
way bonds and investment shares steady.
The Centennial Yacht Regattas will be
gin to-day with a race for first and second
class schooner* and sloops, twenty-two en
tries in all.
To Intending Democratic Candidates.?
Is there anything ominous in the fact that
Cincinnati stands between St. Lonis and
Washington ?
A Close Vote may be expected in the
French Senate on the University bill. Its
rejection would mark the beginning of a
fierce contest between the Senate and the
Chamber.
The King of Dahomey has withdrawn his
royal promise to pay the fine imposed by
England because the latter has withdrawn
her man-of-war, the only kind of tax collector
his black MajeBty can appreciate.
The Way to Elect Hayes and Wheeler.?
The Associated Tress sends nn this de
spatch:?"Negroes Hanged. New Orleans,
June '20.?The Picayune to-day reports the
hanging of five negroes at Mount Pleasant by
white Regulators."
The New Cabinet.?If Mr. Hayes' man
agers at Cincinnati effected his nomination
by arranging his Cabinet Mr. Blaine does not
seem to have been a party to the bargain. Is
he certain, therefore, to be Secretary of
State ? There are two reasons why he may
not be?first, Hayes may not be President;
second, Blaine hAS compromised nothing yet
but his own reputation.
The Wab Potentiality of China has
never been fully developed, and this is
tomething for the outer barbarians to thank
God on. It has always seemed ridiculous
that Powers like England, France and Hol
land could be able to make any impression
on an empire so mighty us China. Now,
however, that the Chinese are sending stu
dents to Berlin to learn the art of war and
to study the military system of Germany, it
will be perceived that tho spell of ages
leems about to be broken, and thut China is
preparing to play n new rf>le in the world.
Rctgebs College, New Brunswick, cele
brated its one hundredth and sixth com
mencement yesterday with more than cus
tomary enthusiasm and brilliancy of display.
This old seat of learning holds its rank well
alter educating the youth of the Revolution
ary days and their descendants who cele
brate this year the centennial of their
country's independence. The long list of
graduates and others who have won college
honors at Rutgers this year is a pleasing
?vidence of the vitality of the institution,
and reflects well deserved credit on the able
corps of professors that direct the studies.
The Hebald at the Centenniai One of
the attractions of the Centennial is the Bul
lock press in the Machinery Hall, which
prints copies of the Herald from stereotype
plates sent over in the early morning train.
This machine is one of the latest improved
double Bullock perfecting presses, which, at
stated times during the day, runs off our
regular edition. The printing of the Hebald
in this public manner is one of the sights of
the Centennial. The Bullock press is one of
ihe achievements of modern science
and has solved a problem of the most
important character. We have now in
our press room five double size <1
Bullock presses, each of which will
print twenty thousand copies an hour of a
tixteen paged Herald. We have two single
Bullocks in addition, giving us a capacity
for printing one hundred thousand complete
sopies of the Hebald an hour at average
?peed, and one hundred and fitteen thousand
sn hour at full speed. The Bullock inven
tion has been a revolution in the printing of
the daily newspaper, and visitors to the
Centennial should not fail to see it in opera
in the Machinery Hall.
The Republic** Platfbrm at Ctmel*
*utl.
When the Committee on Resolutions of
the St. Louis Convention meets next
Wednesday we advise its members to make
a close examination of the Cincinnati plat
form. That so called * 'declaration of prin
ciples" is as weak and frivolous a document
as has for many years been put forth by
either of the great parties, and the demo
crats will, if they are wise, to use a phrase
which is familiar in St Louis, "see it and
go one better."
The first of the Cincinnati resolutions is a
truism which it might nevertheless be wise
in the St Louis Convention to adopt with
out change; for it is a fact on which the dem
ocrats insist even more than the republicans,
that "the combined workings of the national
and State governments under their respect
ive constitutions" secure the rights of citi
zens and the common welfare. The second
resolution is mere buncombe and brag. The
third was adopted while the Convention was
squinting toward the Southern colored
delegates ; it was the Convention's milk and
water reply to the Rev. Henry High
land Carnet's plea that justice should
be done by the government to the
poor colored laborers who were robbed
of over three millions of their hard
earnings by the republican managers of the
Freedman's Bank, and the resolution seems
to have been written by one of those imag
inative politicians who have "soarings after
the infinite and divings for the unfathom
able," but who never pay cash. Instead of
this buncombe the St. Louis Convention
would do a just and also a shrewd act if it
should adopt a resolution declaring that the
Freedman's Bank swindlers ought to be
prosecuted and that the government under
whose encouragement and authority the
freedmen were asked to deposit their small
savings in this bank is justly and morally re
sponsible for the losses and ought to make
them good.
The fourth Cincinnati resolution relates
to the currency, and it carefully evades all
direct or practical committal of the party to
sound money. What is a "continuous and
steady progress to specie payment ?" Clearly
the republicans did not mean resumption in
1879; for when that honest gentleman,
Governor Davis, of Texas, offered a
plea for the Resumption act he was
contemptuously and summarily voted down
by the Convention. Nor can it be said that
the republican party has done anything
since General Grant came into power to set
tle the currency question. The volume of
currency is at this moment far greater, com
pared with the business of the country, than
it was when the party made the declaration
in favor of resumption, about which it has
ever since bragged, and the Resumption act
of last session?an excellent measure?has
fallen into oontempt and suspicion only be
cause the republican administration has
treated it as a nullity and paid not the
slightest attention to it In consequence of
this neglect of duty it may be now too late
to resume in 1879 ; but as the St. Louis
Convention will undoubtedly adopt a hard
money platform why should it not solemnly
pledge itself to thie country to bring it back
to specie payments, if not in 1879,
yet during* the four years which
are included in the next Presi
dential term ? That would be a practical
engagement, a promise for the fulfilment of
which the people could hold the party re
sponsible, and upon which business could
be based all over the country. Such a
specific and definite pledge would secure the
support of thousands of business men all
over the country. Nor has the democratic
party anything to risk in making it, for its
struggle will be, aside from the South, in
hard money States, and with so practical
and square an engagement on the currency
question the democratic party would proba
bly carry more Eastern States than it needs
in November.
The fifth Cincinnati resolution is an ex
tremely mild allusion to civil service reform.
It the St. Louis Convention should declare
I for permanence in the lower offices, depend
ing only on efficiency and good behavior, it
would place itself on ground where, before an
other four years are past, both parties will be
oompelled to stand; and if it should forbid
federal office-holders to interfere in politics
in the States where they hold place the dem
ocrats would commit themselves against
one of the most dangerous practices of
which the republicans have been guilty, in
the South mainly, but also in the North.
The sixth resolution is also buncombe.
Instead of that the democrats will probably
frame one demanding and promising econ
omy and retrenchment in government expen
ditures and lower taxes?a policy which the
republicans not only did not dare to assert at
Cincinnati, but which the republican Senate
is now resisting even at the risk of embarrass
ing the government. The seventh resolu
tion, relating to the grant of public funds to
sectarian institutions, ought to be adopted
verbatim at St Louis. So far as the action
of the federal government is concerned it
amounts to nothing, for the federal govern
ment has no occasion to make grants to sec
tarian schools or other enterprises. So far
as the policy within the States is concerned
[ it has the oonsent of all sensible men, Cath
olics as well as Protestants, and it aims to
i cut off gifts which are as often and in as
i great sums made to Protestant as to Catho
lic solicitors by State Legislatures.
If the democrats cannot frame a resolution
on the revenue more pointed and satisfactory
than No. 8 in the Cincinnati platform we
shall think little of them. A more in
genious strnddling of the political fence they
cannot contrive. The ninth and tenth ^so
lutions are good enough to copy. As for the
rest?eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen?they will probably find
their counterparts in the St. Louis platform.
Everybody understands that they menn
nothing, but are merely complimentary?or
| the reverse. But when the Cincinnati com
mittee, in its seventeenthly, at the close of
an inordinately long and meaningless series
of resolutions, and when the Convention was
already tired and had ceased to listen, in
sinuated a compliment to General Grant's
administration, tliey gave their rivals an op
portunity and excuse for a solemn indict
ment, which we trust they will know how to
use, and not abuse.
The democratic party has peculiar r^la
tions toward the country. It has not gained
the confidence of the people?therefore it
must apeak out more frankly, must promise
more definitely than its opponents need to.
But it has the good fortune that it seeks
its support in States where the frankest
speech and the most definite promise can
not hurt it; where, indeed, a clear and pre
cise committal on the currency, the revenue
and other really important questions will
help it to an important vote?independent,
liberal and lukewarm republicans?which it
can hope to gain only by such pledges and
by the nomination of statesmen of known
opinions and high character. If the St
Louis Convention is timid, if it tries to look
both ways, it will undoubtedly insure a re
publican victory. If it offers nothing better
than the republicans then the country will
take the republicans. But if it offers the
country statesmanship, definite pledges, a
well defined policy, instead of cant and bun
combe, then it may hope for the support of
the immense number of discontented voters
who are dissatisfied with the republican ad
ministration of affairs, do not see much
hope of improvement in another republican
success; but prefer to risk that if they do not
Bee a strong hope of improvement on the
democratic side.
Pcasi)rlvsnU and Ohio.
The position of Pennsylvania and Ohio in
the Convention at Cincinnati is worthy of
note. Ohio came into the Convention with
her candidate. She stood by him like a
stone wall. There was no surrender, no
concession, no second choice. Every bar
gain was thrown aside. It was the first place
or nothing. When each ballot was called
Ohio's "forty-four for Hayes" rang out like
a broadside from a line-of-battle ship, and
in seven broadsides every flag was lowered
but the flag of Ohio.
Well, Pennsylvania came into the Con
vention with fifty-eight votes and a crowd of
water department, gas works, State House
row heelers, in white hats. She, too, had a
candidate?a soldier, like Hayes, but with a
better record?a Governor, like Hayes, and
as popular in Pennsylvania as Hayes is
in Ohio. There was just as much reason for
the nomination of Hartranft as for that of
Hayes. But Pennsylvania, as soon as she
arrived, began to dicker and quarrel. Hart
ranft was thrown aside. The Iling poli
ticians of Philadelphia under General Bing
ham did not want to give him more than
one ballot. On the third ballot there was a
secession, a wrangle in the open Convention.
Pennsylvania's chairman was a partisan of
Blaine. The result of this quarrel was that
Pennsylvania had no voice in the Conven
tion. But for the firmness of a few friends
of Governor Hartranft he would have been
dropped on the second ballot.
The reason why Ohio gained so much and
why Pennsylvania lost everything, even the
respect of the other States, was because Ohio
was true to the State and the candidate.
If Ohio had her heartburnings they did not
appear to the Convention. There was no
washing of dirty linen. A faction in Penn
sylvania slaughtered the distinguished Gov
ernor of that State to gratify a political fend
with the Secretary of War. The "humilia
tion of Don Cameron" was a higher purpose
than the nomination of Hartranft, the
honor of the State, even the nomination of
Blaine. As it was, Hartranft was beaten,
Blaine was beaten, the State was shorn of
her influence, and Don Cameron was victor.
We might say something of New York also,
bnt the theme is not worth pursuing. But
when these two great States?Pennsylvania
and New York?again enter a political con
vention let them think of proud, patient,
decorous, self-respecting Ohio, and by follow
ing her high example they may win their
share of her high gains.
Th? gaecs's Cap.
There is a good deal of excitement in
yachting circles in reference to the Cen
tennial races, and more especially the
sailing for the Queen's Cup, in answer to the
challenge of the Countess of Dufferin. We
are glad to see so much interest in this noble
sport, and we trust the centennial season
will justify the best expectations of the
yachting public. As to the race for the
Queen's Cup, we of course trust that the
vessel selected to represent the United States
in the contest will win. At the same time
we are disposed to agree with the London
Fidd that the possession of this trophy is
like the proprietorship of a hornets' nest
The contest in which it was won was a trial
between nationalities and models. The
victory was that of the American over the
English model. It represented, therefore,
not merely skill in seamanship, in the direc
tion of a race, but skill in ship
building, as should be the case
in every international race. But no
such condition will exist with the Countess
of Dufferin. That vessel is an American
model, and her victory would be the victory
of a flag, nothing more. This whole busi
ness of the Queen's Cup and the deed under
which it is held are so much of an annoyance
that if it were not unpatriotic we could wish
that the cup might be carried away by the
English and never returned. If the club
should retain it they might return it to the
donors and say that they do not care to hold
it any longer under the conditions of the
present deed. If it is thought worth while
to encourage international races let the deed
be so amended that victory will mean some
thing. As it now stands it means nothing,
and the possession of the cup is an annoy
ance and not a triumph.
Wr. Panrr this morning another contribu
tion to the series of interviews with delegates
to the Ht. Louis Convention with which our
pages have been enriched for some days.
The States included in the present chapter
are Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and
Nevada, and the opinions of the delegates
from each of them will be read with interest
by all persons who care to study the opinions
and the preferences of the men who are to
make the democratic nomination for the
Presidency.
VicTfAixixo Nicsic seems to be the chief
aim of the Turkish troops in the revolted
provinces. A quantity of provisions has
been thrown into the town without opposi
tion from the insurgents. More food is to
follow, as the Nicsicians are reported very
hungry.
OaMral KtMMk
This excellent soldier and upright citizen
is among the minor candidates talked of for
the St. Lonis nomination, bnt the support
he receives can have no other effect than to
prevent a concentration of votes on the
stronger rivals before the delegates have
time, to survey the ground and compare
views. General Hanoook has no chance for
the nomination, not even as the dark hone.
The country has had enough of military
Presidents. The democratic party especially
has strong motives for taking the civil war
and all questipns connected with it out of
politics and abolishing the memory of that
family quarreL General Hanooek's candida
ture rests entirely on the part he acted as a
soldier, and his nomination would make the
war the pivot of the canvass. But the sooner
the war passes entirely out of politics into
history the better for the demo
cratic party and the better for the
country. No new evidence is needed
that the South accept the political
results of the war as irreversible, and it
would be neither delicate nor magnanimous
to keep flaunting in their faces the faot that
they were foroed into submission by military
power.
Even apart from the general disgust
with military Presidents, and apart from the
impolicy of keeping alive the memory of o
bloody conflict between citizens of the same
country, there is no fitness in nominating a
man for President on his war record so long
after the end of the oonteat Just after the
olose of a war it may be proper enough to
bestow civil honors on a general as a mark
of recognition and gratitude, but the war for
the Union is too long past for this feeling to
have much force even if general Hai&ock
were the fittest object of it. If we were in
expectation of a new war there might be
some advantage in electing a general to the
Presidency, and in suoh a contingency
there is no man in the army who could be
more safely trusted than General Hancock
to keep the military subordinate to
the civil authority and prevent the
arbitrary abuses and the dangers to lib
erty which are too apt to attend a state of
war. But we are happily exposed to no
such peril. What the country needs is a
wise, steady, sagacious civil administration,
such as we can only expect under a Presi
dent of statesmanlike abilities and large ex
perience. To put General Hanoock at the
head of the government would be as impru
dent as it would be to put Senator Bayard
in command of an army. General Hancock
might make an admirable Secretary of Var
under a democratic administration, but that
is as high a civil position as he has any title
to aspire to or as the country would oonsent
to have him occupy.
The President and the Convention.
The friends of Mr. Blaine now say that he
was compelled to fight the power of the
administration. This is utter cant. The
administration, so far as the President is
concerned, showed great delicacy about this
Convention. It allowed Bristow to run as a
reformer on a platform certifying that Grant's
administration was corrupt, and that he,
Bristow, a prominent member of it, was the
one man to purify the government Grant
even submitted to an indignity in this,
which Old Hickory would have re
sented without delaying longer than
was neoessary to pull on his boots.
Jewell was a candidate, and all the
postmasters were in his interest Judge
Taft supported Hayes, as was his duty,
coming from Ohio. Chandler and Robeson
were openly for Blaine. Fish was for Blaine
after himself. The only member of the
Cabinet who cared for Conkling was
Cameron, and he voted for Hart ran ft.
Bo far as the President is ooncerned he
Bnid nothing. It was supposed that he
preferred Conkling, and no doubt he did,
for the natural reason that he knew Conk
ling to be head and shoulders over every
other candidate and naturally preferred the
strongest man to succeed him. But Mr.
Morton has gone on the record to the effect
that he is satisfied with the President's im
partiality. We have yet to hear of a single
Blaine man who has been even reproved by
the administration. The President behaved
well in the whole business. The complaints
of the Blaine men are only a part of that sys
tem of frand and lnlse pretence which de
stroyed the canvass of the member from
Maine.
Coming Down.?General Eckert, the Presi
dent of the Atlantic and Pacifio Telegraph
Company, announces that there will be a
reduction in rates during the sessions of the
Democratic Convention at St Louis. This
shows wisdom, a proper appreciation of the
uses of the telegraph and fine business sense.
General Eckert's business capacity comes
more and more into relief every day in his
management of the opposition lines. Why
should not Mr. Orton, the President of the
Western Union, follow this example, or,
what would be much better, give a new one
by coming down to a lower figure than his
rival? Mr. Orton, in addition to his high
qualities as the manager of this vast Western
Union, is an eloquent and efficient leader in
politics. He knows, therefore, how popular
such a movement would be among the
people. Competition is the life of trade,
and we have no doubt that an honorable
competition between these two telegraph
lines would give new life to the telegraph
business and in time strengthen the re
sources and the revenues of both companies.
The Fatal Explosion in a Jersey City per
cussion cap factory, by which a number of
children as well as grown people.were killed
and wounded, shows the criminal folly of em
ploying such inexperienced hands, at such
a dangerous occupation. Fulminate of silver,
with which the caps were loaded, may be
justly regarded as one of the most highly
explosive substances known, and very small
quantities of it have been found sufficient to
produce most disastrous results when ex
ploded by accidental concussion. Famili
arity with the handling of this terrible ex
plosive may make regular workmen careless,
but it is a cruel thing to place young chil
dren in danger of their lives for the sake of
the little saving effected in the payroll.
The National Gam is now turned upon
Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Hayes and
his interesting family pursue the even tenor
of their lives. What one ofr the Governor's
intimates says of his political tact, his
oratory and his personal bearing generally
in the campaigns of the ballot is pub
lished elsewhere, and will pleasantly
supplement the stories of the Governor's
service in campaigns of (he bullet. Although
the ladies have no vote they have
much power, and they will doubtless be
gratified to learn what manner of lady of
the White House Mrs. Hayes would make
before direeting their lords and masters on
which side to vote. Hence the pretty pic
tures ol the Governor's wife will be welcome
to the fair sex.
Will Senator Bayard Be the Wln
?lag Horse 1
If the two-thirds rule should render the
nomination of Tilden impossible Senator
Bayard is the oandidate on whom Tilden's
supporters could most easily unite. He
represents the same views on publio ques
tions and is the spontaneous second choice
of probably nine-tenths of the Tilden men.
From the moment that he received any con
siderable support from the Northern dele
gations there would be an enthusiastic rally
to him by all the Southern delegates. He
would be the first choice of the
whole South if the democrats from that sec
tion could be assured that he would
receive Northern support enough to secure
his election. Personally he is the most
popular man in the democratic party, and if
it should be found that Tilden cannot be
nominated the transfer of the Tilden votes
to Bayard would make him the triumphant
candidate on the first ballot after Tilden
was withdrawn. There is no section of the
democratic party either in the East, the
West or the South that would not support
Bayard, if he were nominated, with the
same vigorous zeal and heartiness with
which all the republicans have rushed to
the support of Hayes. The only weak point
in Mr. Bayard's canvass is his locality ; if
he were a citizen of a Northern State no
oandidate could prevail against him.
The New Secretary of the Treasury.
Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, has been ap
pointed as Secretary of the Treasury in
place of Benjamin H. Bristow. Upon one
point we presume there will not be two opin
ions?the excellence of President Grant's
selection. Although Mr. Morrill's term in the
Senate will expire simultaneously with his
retirement from the Cabinet, yet it required
some self-sacrifice in the Senator to accept a
place under the administration in its last
days, especially as his chances of re-eleotion
are thereby impaired. His refusal of the
"War Office upon Belknap's downfall shows
that he was not seeking a place in the coun
cils of General Grant, and gives to his accept
ance of the Treasury Secretaryship at this
late day an appearance of yielding to the
stern demands of public duty. As chairman
of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Mr. Morrill must have acquired that thor
ough knowledge of the department he is
about to control which will enable him to
assume the place not entirely as a new and
inexperienced incumbent, and in no respect
is the country likely to regret Mr. Bristow's
retirement Frequent changes in the
Treasury are not desirable; and it must be
confessed that General Grant has seen more
secretaries in this department than is credit
able to his administration; bnt it is not
likely that Secretary Morrill will have a suc
cessor until Grant also is succeeded by
another Executive; and the change in the
present instance, to say the least of it, is one
which can do no harm.
The Irish Riflemen have now got through
the first step in the selection of their team
for the Centennial match. The ten highest
of those competing at Dundnlk will meet on
the 28th and 29th inst. at a range in
Wicklow, where certain other designated
shots will compete, with them for the honor
of representing Ireland in America next
September. By this means a very strong
team will be finally selected. The ten
scores represent 3,590 out of 4,500, or a per
centage of 79.77, while the first eight, or
shooting torce, of the team have 2,905 out
of 3,600 points, or a percentage of 80.694.
Both these percentage^ are somewhat behind j
those of our own team, but, taking into con- j
sideration the fact that the weather here
during the competitions was* almost perfect
and that such was not the case in Ireland, it
will be seen that our boys must work very
hard indeed to win. The men to be nomi
nated will, doubtless, add to the force of the
Irish team, Mr. John Rigby being a host in
himself.
The Herald in Brazil.?The safe arrival
in the United States of His Majesty Dom
j Pedro was, of course, duly transmitted by
cable to the Princess Regent at Rio, and
through the Court bfficials, doubtless, to the
papers ; but until the arrival of the He&ald
of the 16th of April by steamer from'New
York all details of the trip were wanting.
Our correspondent at Rio humorously de
scribes the anxipty of all classes to get a
peep at the wonderful paper, and how at
last, to satisfy the increasing demand, he
had to bulletin the coveted pages where
they could be read from morn till dewy eve.
The Brazilian papers all copied the Herald
account of the Emperor's voyage hither and
reception here, and have been pleased to say
many kind things of our enterprise. We are
gratified at this, bnt our best pleasure arises
from the belief that we have been enabled,
in chronicling the movements of His
Majesty, to bring two great American
peoples to take a lively interest in each
other.
Ik the Interests of Rapid Traksit evi
dence is being presented to provo that
equine nervousness should not be regarded
as a sufficient ground lor defeating the '
attainment of a great public object like
rapid transit. According to one witness the
indifference to steam locomotives displayed
by sober minded horses in Greenwich street
was perfectly astonishing. In other parts of
the city where the dummies rattle along over
the elevated railroad track the horses view the
passing trains with a smile of undisguised
contempt on their countenances. In the
loco of this evidence we cannot see why tho
subject of hippo-neurology should 1?? intro
duced into the discussions on rapid transit
by the street railroad philohippist*.
Nutar Tkinui<
It seems to have been eonoeded?perhaps
too hastily conceded?that this eminent and
able democratic statesman is an impossible
candidate for the Presidency since the fail*
ore of his own Ktate to indorae him. But
the snpporters of Allen ontroted the friends
of Thurman in the Ohio Convention by only
a slender majority, and the oertainty that
the vote for Allen will be merely compli
mentary raises a question as to where the
Ohio delegation will gojrhen Allen is aban
doned. If the other opponents of Til den
should unite upon Thurman and the vote
of Ohio would turn the scale there can be
no doubt that it would be given to Thurman
rather than to Tilden. It is Baid that
the name of Thurman will be presented
to the Convention by Virginia. With this
start on the first ballot he may gain strength
afterward, if Tilden should be so formidable
that no other candidate would seem to have
any chance against him. There can be no
reasonable question that if the candidate is
taken from the West Thurman would be
altogether the strongest man. The nomina
tion of Hendricks would be fatal; he could
not carry a single Eastern State, and, least
of all, New York, without which the election
of a democratic President is impossible.
Thurman is a statesman of solid abilities
and unassailable integrity, and his superior
experience in national affairs would make
him an abler President than Tilden. His
chances for carrying New York would be
very hopeful indeed, with a good Eastern
man on the tioket for the Vice Presidency.
Thurman and Packer would be a popular
ticket; Thurman and English would not be
quite so strong. But it would be better to take
the second name from New York rather than
from New Jersey or Connecticut, and there
are democrats in this State who would add
greatly to the strength and popularity of a
ticket headed by Thurman. If the second
candidate were taken from Western New
York Thurman and Church would make ?
ticket which would arouse all the enthusi
asm of the New York democracy. If the
nomination were given to the eastern part
of the State Thurman and Poller would be
a popular and probably a winning tioket.
Either Church or Potter would bring more
strength to the democratic side than Wheeler
can possibly bring to the republican side.
The Weather Change predicted in lasf
Friday's Herald for the end of this week is
about to be verified, and an area of low
barometer, which manifested itself at an
early hour on yesterday morning, is ap
proaching from the west, being now central
over the territory lying between the M:s
souri and Mississippi rivers. This area of
lew pressure was observable on the Pacifls
coast toward the end of last week, and we
duly announced its advent. The eastward
movement of the centre of disturbance will
be marked by the prevalence of southerly
winds, which will gradually veer to the
westward as the low barometer approaches
the meridian of New York. Beyond feeling
the influence of its passage in the shape of
increased cloudiness, a comparatively low
temperature and local rains, Any violent
changes of weather are, from present indi
cations, improbable in Southern New York
and the New England States.
The Plague in the East.?An English
physician declared that the disease now deso
lating Mesopotamia is the veritable plague.
Its ravages hAve decreased with arise of tem
perature, which is said to prove conclu
sively the nature of the malady. It will be
remembered that a physician writing from
Bagdad some time since stated that it was
not the plague, but a disease yielding to
treatment with quinine. Now is the time
for a medical hero. The disease, whatever
it is, should be closely studied for the benefit
of mankind.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Italy sends hats made of bamboo Rbavlngs to Franc*
A Paris magical composer now gets op "original"
street erica
lira Senator Logan and family bare returned to
Chicago to live.
Spotted Tall was in Cheyenne the other day Inquiring
about the price of hair.
The income ol the now Saltan la 1250,000 a month,
and yet be Is not coming to tho Centennial
Supposing Tom Scott did write tbe Caldwell despatch!
He is not a candidate for the Presidency.
M. Legouvo, President of the Paris Boxing Club, Is
the meekest man In that city.
Gourge Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" has sold to the ex
tent of 40.000 copies in England.
A girl's best chances of marriage are while she is be
tween twenty-one and twenty-two.
Ex Governor Noves, who is to Haves'what Rawlins
was to Gran', :s earnestly practical
When Ben Bntler asked tho "blessing" at a picnic
tbe other day the silence was profound.
The watering place darkey slaps at the Innocent flj
with his napkin and waits for specie payments.
Hayes is a Presbyterian, but, according to a Cleve
land paper, it did not prevent him from taking his
"back pay."
A good reason wby the pawnbrokers should profit
by tbe Centennial exhibition:?Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania have "put up" the Memorial Hall.
When the names ol tho new candidates ran a raes
over tbe wires from Cincinnati the country operators
said "So much for Proctor KnoU'a lightning."
An Arkansas professor say a that for $10,000 he wtl'
drive the Indiana opt of the Black Hills In two weeka
with balloons and sharpshooters. A Sioux once saw a
small balloon at a circus In SI Paul, and he fell beck
dead.
-A school of elcetrle whales has Just been discovered
in iho North Pacific, and when an Iron ship approaches
within ten miles the crew bsve to stand on glass to an.
cape the terrible shafts ot electricity that shoot ont in
alt directions.
Kx-Lieutenant Governor Woodford t? e very magnetic
young man, with a pale. Ingenuous face, a plentiful,
sandy mustache, an approaching held head and an lr
resistible manner of speaking that polishes up a com
mnnplaoe till It looks like a rolling pin decorated with
chain lightning.
Ox tbs Wat to St. Locts.?Mayor Wickbaro, Mr.
Marble and several of the leading friends of Governor
Tildes for the Presidency, leave for Si Louis to-day,
accompanied by Mr. Belmont. Mr. Belmont repre
sents tbe sentiment in New York in favor of 8enatoi
Bayard, a nentimcut which he would naturally acnepi
as an admirer of the chivalry am statesmanship of tfe
Delaware Senator. Tbe prosenca ol Mr. Belmont n
toe Tilden delegation suggests this inquiry, Wilt Mr.
Wickham succeed In converting Mr. Belmont to tht
Side ol Tilden or will Mr. Belmont bring over our elo
quent Mayor to the aide of Bayard r It would be inter
estiog to have a shorthand report of tbe debate* be
iween Mr. Belmont and tbe Mayor. We are glad to
note in this connection that the Mayor Is showing un
o?nal aptuessna a pollttcan. Ho is learning silence un
ci i sere t ion and will uot bo quarantined by nnv inter
viewer. This gift of reserve, added to the Mayor's glib
as an orator and rhotoruUn, will give him grin i owe
at St. Iioms. and it would not *upri??- us II he wer i w
turn out as able a general aa Don Cameron or A. It
Cornell, and rally the boys for as tremendous a fig it ||
favor of Tildoa as Don Cameron made against