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From imr rrjtorts this morning the probabilities
are that the utather to-day will be trarmer and
cloudy.
Durituj tht summer months the Herald reill
be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate
of hcenty-jive cents per week, free of postage.
Notice to Couktby Newsdealers.?For
Compt and regular delivery of the Hxbald
jast mail trains orders must be tent aired to
this office. Postage Iree.
The Hot Weather Yestebdax, with its
warm southerly breeze, sent oar citizens
out of doors, in search of the shady, the cool
and the refreshing. The throngs in Central
and Prospect parks evinced that it was well
known where these desiderata could be in
aocently had, but locomotion was at best a
burden. This leads us to ask how our
thirsty fellow citizens managed to get along
irithout their lager beer, or whether, indeed,
the Excise law was strong enough to make
them do without it ?
The Gangs or Ruffians, young and old,
whose outrages against the peace of the city
and the lives of law abiding citizens only
oorae to the surface when some unusually
(taring crime has been committed, should
receive more attention from the police than
they do at present. The case of the gang
which, after committing a series of depreda
tions in Union Square Park, wound up by
stabbing an unoStnding man in the eye,
probably with fatal effect, is one in point.
The most severe punishment should be
meted out to the offenders, whose cIahs is
the terror of the oity after nightfall. These
gangs are well known to the polioe, but they
are allowed to roam about the streets in a
?emi-intoxicated condition without the
smallest interference.
The Attitude of Servia makes it appear
that Russia is not to be balked in her deter
mination to bring the Christian knife to bear
upon the Mohammedan ulcer in Europe.
Her agents are still said to be busy at Bel
grade egging on the Servian war party,
and Prince Milan is said to find
himself between the alternatives of
revolution or war. In truth, nothing
Is worse for a poor Htate like Servia than the
itate of armed peace which she is at pres
snt enduring. Her first step across the
Turkish frontier will cost, no doubt, but we
scarcely think that she will be long left to
bear the burden of the fray. Another revo
lution at Constantinople is among the possi
bilities, and amid the demoralization of the
Moslems the Slavs will find their long
wished-for opportunity.
The Harvard and Yai,e University
Race.?The first eight-oared shell race in
America comes off between the University
crews of Harvard and Yale on the Connecti
cut, atSpringfield, on Friday afternoon next
We present to-day an account of the course
and the opportunities for viewing it, of the
crews at practice, their styles of rowing, the
difficulties of the coxswains' task, the dimen
sions of boats and other matters bearing
upon the coming struggle. Unless Yale is to
row a quicker stroke in the race than she has
yet shown it looks like a contest between the
alow and fast strokes, and, while over so
long a distance the former ought seemingly
to win. it is by no means certain to. Yale
keepe four of her old men, including Captain
Cook, while there is but one of last year's
crew in the Harvard boat The Connecticut
is higher than in 1873 and in order for a
fast race.
The Memobt or Hoche, the gallant soldier
of the first Repnblie, was celebrated on Sat
urday by a distinguished body of French re
publicans. No sounder or wiser words than
those of Oambetta on that occasion have
been uttered by any republican since the
famous 4th September, 1870, when the
Empire fell to pieces. The danger to
the Republic, Qambette feels, can no
longer come from without, and hence
As force of his warning to his
brethren not to be intoxicated with
vielory and mo raise up dangers to the Re
public from within. To l>ear and forbear, |
Vo march in the road of peace, to educate, are ,
the maim points of the republican pro
gramme as he framed it He keenly sees the
moral and material advantages to the coun
try by keeping the path of peace auiid the |
disturbances of Europe. It is lucky for
Franee that the leader of tin republicans is
i qiao of such hard common sense. j
The loath at St. Loali.
One of the noteworthy features of the
Presidential canvass is the moderate and
reasonable attitude of the Southern dem
ocrats. They hold assured control of a ma
jority of the electoral votes on ?which the
democratic party depends for success, and
are, aooordingly, in a position to dictate the
candidate if they chose to exert their power.
But they wisely abstain from any attempt to
force their preference on the Convention,
and express their readiness to surrender any
preferences which have beon indicated by
their State conventions if it shall appear
that some other candidate would have a
better prospect of success. Governor Tilden
having thus far deployed more Northern
strength than any of his rivals, a majority
of the Southern delegates are provisionally
for Tilden, but they are willing to transfer
their votes to any other candidate as soon as
they shall see that some other would com
mand a larger support in the Northern
States. This is so different from the dicta
torial spirit exhibited by the Southern dem
ocrats in former times that it deserves notice
and recognition. The old breed of "fire
eaters" has become extinct. There
are no longer any signs of the Southern
arrogance which was determined to rule or
ruin. The Southern democrats have ceased
to be Bourbons, "who learn nothing and
forget nothing," and give evidence of having
laid to heart the severe lessons of a disas
trous experience. The exhibition of politi
cal sense and sanity which the South is now
making at St. Louis is worthy of commend
ation.
In order to estimate this spirit of defer
ence and forbearanoe at its full value we
must advert to the fact that this is the first
Presidential election since the outbreak
of the civil war when the South has had
any real political power. In 1864 the
greater part of the Southern States con
sidered themselves as out of the Union, and
took no part in the Presidential election.
In 1868 and 1872 they were either excluded
because they had not accepted the recon
struction measures, or their States sup
ported the republican ticket by the negro
vote, carpet-bag inflienoe and federal co
ercion. But within the last three years the
democrats have recovered control of every
Southern State exoept South 'Carolina,
and the recent decision of the Su
preme Court, which virtually annuls the
Enforcement act, deprives the republican
party of its chief lever in Southern elections.
The democratic party has this year a more
secure hold on the South than it ever had in
any Presidential election previous to the
war, for even in 1860 the Bell-Everett ticket
received all the electoral votes of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia, and barely missed
those of Missouri, whereas the democratic
candidates in this eleetion, whoever they
may be, will receive all the electoral votes
of the South, except a pitiful seven from
South Carolina. And yet, although the
party is stronger in the South than it ever
was before in any Presidential election, and
although the party in the North is so weak
that it would be beaten two to
one, or three to one, without the
Southern electoral votes, the Southern
delegates bear themselves with the utmost
modesty and reserve at St. Louis and pro
fess entire willingness to relinquish their
own preferences in favor of any candidate
on whom a majority of the Northern dele
gates can agree. This is the first time in
our history when the Southern democrats,
with any approach to their present power in
their own section, nave shown a submissive
deference to the Northern wing of the
party. The republicans will of course say
that this is mere stratagem, and that the
South "stoops to conquer." But, conced
ing this to be so, it must still be admitted
that the South has learned some wisdom,
for she has never stooped before in a na
tional convention when backed by so muoh
real power at home.
This yielding and compliant disposition
on the part of the Southern delegates may
have a decisive influence at St. Louis in
certain contingencies that may arise. Such
of them as are counted for Tilden are not
thick-and-thin Tilden men ; such of them
as are counted for Hendricks are not first
and-last Hendricks men; they all stand
ready to yield their present choice in favor
of a new and rising candidate. They would j
go over m masst to Bayard, with warm ac
clamations. if Tilden should fail to get two
thirds and a majority of his supporters
should take up the popular Delaware
i Senator. They would go with equal facil
| ity, though with less enthusiasm, to
any other candidate whose Northern support
should designate him as the winning man.
This plastic condition of tho Southern dele
gations is the most unique feature of this
Convention. It is a potent, variable element,
which baffles calculation. Other delegations
Jiave favorites whom th?y mean to stand by ;
the Southern delegations have no favorites
I whom they are not ready to relinquish.
Their only stable preference is for the
strongest man, and they are watching to find
out who he is. If the early ballots convince
them it is Tilden they are for Tilden ; but
they acknowledge no allegiance that can bind
them to him for a moment after they find he
cannot get two-thirds, and his whole strength j
may at any time suddenly cave in by the de
sertion of hi* Southern supporters. But if
he develops unexpected strength in the
Northern delegations they will throw their
whole influence into the scale and make his
victory decisive and triumphant They are
prepared to act on the maxim, "To him that
hath shall be given, but from him that hath"
not shall be taken away even that which he
hath." The South do not mean to ride a
dead horse in this Presidential canvass.
They lean toward Tilden so long as he seems
strongest In the North *, but if his real sup
port falls short of the boasts of hi* friends
on the first two ballots they will put a
speedy end to his hopes and start on a fresh
search for the winning man. It is only Mr.
Tilden's Northern adherents that will prove
stanch and steadfast if his success in th*
Convention is not immediate, and when his
loosely attached Southern supporters have
dropped away his devoted Northern follow
ers will be of no avail. He must either suc
ceed early or fail utterly. If he is very
strong at first the Southern Hendricks men
and Hancock men will come to the rescue ;
but if the bragging estimate* of hi* friend*
are belied by the first and second ballots
the Southern Tilden men will waver and
break. The looseness of the Hon them alle
giance to persons gives Mr. Tilden no reason
to hope that any of the Southern delegations
will fight a persistent battle for him. What
they are in quest of is a man who will sub
stantially unite the Northern democrats arul
be accepted with the vigorous unaojj
which has greeted the nomination of Hayes
on the republican side. The South do not
want a candidate who would be exposed to a
democratic fire in the rear.
The present strength of the democratic
party in the Southern States is a signal
illustration of the futility of political plans
and calculations. From the moment that
the civil war approached its close it was the
chief study of the republican leaders to pre
vent the democratic party from regaining its
old ascendancy in the South and again con
trolling the politics of the country, with the
aid of a few allies in the Northern States.
This was the guiding idea of the reconstruc
tion measures, which gave the republican
party control of Southern politics for a short
period, but whioh, by a powerful reaction,
resulting from the abuses of the system,
have made the democratic party stronger in
the South than it ever was previous to the
war. Judged by tho result, that system of
measures is one of the most egregious mis
carriages in political history. The South
ern communities have been kept in a
state of turmoil and disturbance for ten
years to fasten on them a system by
which the democratic party was to be
kept out of power by the negro vote,
and the result is that the ? democrats
never had such complete control of the
Southern States as they possess in conse
quence of that stupendous experiment.
Even with the Enforcement law in full prac
tical vigor, sustained by federal bayonets
and backed by republican ascendancy in
every department of the national govern
ment, the democratic party regained its
control.of the South. The Enforcement law
has since been Bhivered like a piece of fragile
pottery by the Supreme Court, and the at
tempt of the Senate to cement the fragments
together is utterly idle against the demo
cratic majority of the House. There was
never a more conspicuous instance of politi
cal engineers being "hoist by their own
petard."
Cariosities of the Extradition Nego
tiation.
Two members of Parliament on Thursday
last gave notice of inquiries into the condi
tion of the relations between Great Britain
and this country on the subject of the ex
tradition of criminals. These inquiries will
be based on the papers entitled, "Corre
spondence Respecting Extradition," which
were laid before Parliament on the 8th of
June, and oopies of which were reoeived in
this country by the last steamer. A com
parison of this official publication with a
similar one submitted to Congress by the
State Department on the 10th of June reveals
some singular and disagreeable omissions in
the return made to Parliament, the reasons
for ?hich deserve inquiry in England.
In the first place, theso papers were pre
sented to Parliament on the 8th of June, and
are supposed to contain the entire correspon
dence. But an important despatoh of Sec
retary Fish is suppressed. This despatch is
dated May 22 ; it was received by Lord Derby
on the 6th of June, as is shown by a published
despatch from Mr. Hoffman to the State
Department of that date, and it was in con
sequence of the receipt of that despatch of
Mr. Fish that the British government asked
the remand of Winslow until the following
15th. Why was this important despatch
from the United States, received two days
before the papers were sent to Parliament,
omitted ?
But there are still other omissions in this
curious return to Parliament. The last
despatch it contains is one from Lord Derby
to 8ir Edward Thornton, dated May 29, or
seven days after Mr. Fish's despatch. In
this Lord Derby says:?"I have received
your telegram of the 27th inst.," Ac. But no
such telegram appears in this return? no
telegram of that date from Sir Edward
Thornton.
But a more serious matter remains. In
the same despatch of Lord Derby to Sir
Edward Thornton reference is made to "Your
despatch of the 1st inst."- - that is to sny, of
May 1, which is said to refer to remarks of
Secretary Fish in regard to the wording of
an act of*Parliament. But no such despatch
from Sir Edward Thornton is published.
Was there any such despatch of that
date? Referring to the papers submitted
to Congress we find a memorandum of a
conversation between Secretary Fish and Sir
Edward Thornton, dated May 27. It is sup
posable that Sir Edward may have sent a
telegram concerning some part of this con
versation to Lord Derby some days later, sq?
on the 1st of June. But in that case how
could Lord Derby refer to it on May 29,
unless, indeed, Lord Derby's despatch was
antedated, and was really written after he
had received a despatch of the 1st of June
from Sir Edward Thornton, or even after, on
the 6th of June, he had received a copy of
Secretary Fish's despatch of tho 22d
of May; for in that we find, to our surprise,
the very remark concerning the peculiar
wording of the British statute to which Lord
Derby replies? This matter is very awkward,
and we hope a rigid inquiry will be made
in England, both as to why Mr. Fish's de
spatch and Sir Edward Thornton's two
despatches were omitted in the retnrn to
Parliament, and how it comes that nnder the
ostensible date of May 20 Lord Derby replies
to an objection made by Mr. Fit*h in a de
spatch dated May 22, which was not deliv
ered until the 6th of June, and which he has
suppressed in his official publication of the
correspon d ence.
It la Some Time since we have been called
on to chronicle a railroad accident as disas
trous as that which occurred on the Barce
lona and Saragossa Railroad, in Spain, on
Saturday. Seventeen persons were killed
and thirty-seven injured. What has come
to be regarded as the accident season on the
English railroads begins about July and
reaches its highest average in August, when
the passenger traffic is swelled enormously
by the oheap special excursion trains that
run in all directions from the great me
tropolis.
The Democratic "Dark Hart*."
Governor Tilden continued to bs the lead
ing democratic candidate, and, thus far, he
seems to be gaining, rather than loving, by
the demonstration* made against him at St.
Louis by his New York enemies. It is
barely possible, although it does not now
look probable, that he will have a majority
on the first ballot; but even with a majority
he will cot b? so near a nomination as Mr.
Blaine was at Cincinnati. Unless he finally
succeeds in getting two-thirds of the votes
he might as well have none, and his strength
at the outset causes his rivals to fight against
him instead of fighting one another. None
of them has any chance until he is disposed
of, and if they make a partial concentration
on Hendricks it will be merely to give the
opposition to Tilden a greater appearance of
cohesive vigor. Tilden's leading opponent
is sure to be defeated if Tildon is, for his
friends can yield with a better
grace to anybody else than to his most
formidable competitor. Besides, Hendrioks
is the favorite candidate of John Kelly
and Tammany, and if Tilden is defeated his
friends will not allow the New York faction
who have gone to St. Louis to oppose him to
triumph. If they are not strong enough to
nominate Tilden they are at least strong
enough to prevent such a humiliation as the
success of the Tammany candidate. Gov
ernor Tilden's supportere may be unable to
control two-thirds of the delegates, but they
can certainly control more than one-third,
which will suffice for defeating anybody
favored by the anti-Tilden faction in New
York.
The prostration of Tilden will necessarily
carry with it the destruction of Hendricks,
from the some motives that would have im
pelled Blaine's friends at Cincinnati to resist
the nomination of Conkling with more vigor
than that of any other rival. If Tilden can
not pass the ordeal of the two-thirds rule an
attempt will be made to bring in some dark
horse that can unite and harmonize
the party. Senator Bayard would be
an excellent compromise candidate if
his location were not against him.
No democratic statesman is more
admired or enjoys greater personal popu
larity ; his principles are sound, his integ
rity is incorruptible, his sense of honor
high. The friends of Tilden oould cor
dially accept him as a second choice, the
South would stand by him with chivalric
devotion, and no rival could feel hurt or
humiliated by his success. His weakness
does not oonsist in what is thought of him
inside of the democratic party, but in what
would be said of him outsids of it He
would be unscrupulously assailed by the re
publicans as a Southerner and a representa
tive of the old Southern aristocracy, and it
is donbtfal whether any amount of enthusi
asm or effort by the democratic party could
elect him. Although no candidate could be
more popular with democrats, it is not likely
that the Convention will think it expedient
to give him the nomination if the two-thirds
rule should force Governor Tilden out of
the canvass. General Hancock is esteemed
and popular, and his admirable war reoord
would blunt the edge of republican assaults;
but the whole country, including the demo
cratic party, has had enough of military
Presidents, so General Hancock's chances
for looming up as the successful candidate
are very slender.
Senator Thnrman's possibilities as the
dark horse are perhaps worth as much as
anybody's, although he has, at present, but
little show of strength. Allen has no pros
pect of a single vote outside of the Ohio
delegation, and his strength in that delega
tion is perceptibly diminishing. If it is
transferred to Thurman, and Ohio Bhould
give him a united and hearty support, the
concentration on him might be wonderfully
rapid if Tilden should be withdrawn. There
is no other Western democrat whom the Til
den men could support with so much satis
faction if they cannot have their first choice.
He would get the electoral votes of every
State which any democratic candidate could
carry. He would make a better contest
against Hayes in Ohio than any other demo
crat, and if he did not recover the State he
would prevent the republican majority in
October from being so large as to
discourage the democratic party in
other States. If the nomination of Bayard
should be judged inexpedient on acoount of
his location, there is no other democrat
whom the friends of Tilden would be so
likely to support as Senator Thurman, if
events in the Convention should compel
them to make a second choice.
Fenton at the Coming Man.
The veteran leader of New York politics.
Governor Fenton, comes gracefully into line
for Hayes and Wheeler. This was to be ex
pected after the success of the Governor and
his friends in the nomination of Mr.
Wheeler. It is a sign of harmony to see Fen
ton back among his own boys. He never
seemed natural out in the democratic fold,
but looked like a poor relation or an unin
vited guest. As a democrat Fenton wonld
be one of the smallest fractions in the polit
ical arithmetic. As a republican he becomes
a power. We hear already that the friends
of Wheeler propose to rtin Fenton for Gov
ernor. It seems that Wheeler's nomination
was really the overthrow of Conkling, and
this overthrow it is proposed to complete
by returning Fentoi^to his former position
as a leader. Speaker Husted, Senator Rob
ertson, General Merritt and others are all
Raid to be busy in this new combination,
and in proof of this it is pointed out that
Robertson and Husted both voted for Blaine.
It is said also that Mr. Curtis, the Union
League reformers and others nre ready to
throw up their hat* for Fenton. Chauncey
M. Depew, Ben Field, of Albion ; Waldo
Hutchings, Register Jones, Lyman Tre
main, Judge Fithian and a number of
statesmen who have been hibernating for a
few winters, all begin to show renewed activ
ity. Fenton was not a reformer when he
was in the leadership, but he ?has been
quarantined so long thai he can come
back with a clean bill of health and
talk as wisely as any one else about "good
government."
It would make the next republican
State Convention lively to have Fenton
and Conkling once more fighting for
leadership. It is very certain that the men
who went to Ohio to defeat Mr. Conkling
mean, if they can, to drive him out of the
party. New York was in danger of a mutiny
an severe and humiliating an the mutiny of
Pennsylvania. It was avoided by tact. Bat
the element*) of discord exist and arti active.
At the Union League meeting the other
evening?a meeting held to indorse the re
publican nominations?not one word was
said about the canvass of Conkling, not a
word of sympathy or appreciation. This
shows how the clnb feels toward the first
orator of the party and one of the most gifted
men who ever sat in the Senate. So when
the State Convention meets look ont for
music. Five years ago the chiefs of the re
publican factions were known as Red Glond
and Spotted Tail. Red Cloud was defeated
at Cincinnati, and it would not surprise us
to see Spotted Tail on the warpath when the
Governorship is to be won.
Tike Sabbath Pnlplt*.
The heat yesterday tested the faith of
Christian New Yorkers sorely. Piety evi
dently has calorific limitations to judge by
the way a few extra degrees on the ther
mometer thinned out the churches. Huge
hot air furnaces have triumphed over the
cold of winter in the sacred edifices, but as
our church walls are not often built of the
solid masses of stone that keep the great
cathedrals of Europe cool under a blazing
sun the pious must perspire. The tempera
ture of our city churches yesterday must
have awakened a desire in many for
that breezy primeval worship which
we call the camp meeting. It is
natural that in a country of brick
and wooden churches the grateful shade
of the woods should be preferred in
summer time to the close precincts of the
meeting house. A good many of our divines
have preached their farewell city seriq'ons
for the season, and hereafter they will be
heard lrom in the watering place notes, and
now and again at a camp meeting or hotel
parlor service. Dr. Dix reminded his hearers
that "festina lente" applies to the ways of
Providence, whose apparent glowness our im
patience fatally misconstrues. Mr. Beecher
attempted the hazardous task of analyzing
the attributes of Ood as He was mentally
projected by the prophets of old?hazard
ous, because it involved a comparison of the
narrow ideal possible to human minds with
the undefinable Infinite. Dr. Hepworth
had to preface his sermon with an appeal for
money. He only wants thirty thousand dol?
lars to secure the edifice to the congregation,
and it is to be hoped the wealthy disciples
will rally around their pastor in his time of
tribulation. His sermon waa directed
toward advising his hearers to lay up
treasures in heaven, where, we may add
parenthetically, there are no "hard times"
or mortgage foreclosures. It would be a dis
grace to this wealthy congregation if they
should desert their hard-working pastor.
Th? Democratic Roll Call.
We complete this morning the long series
of interviews with the delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention which we have
been publishing daring the week, and sup
plement these remarkable contributions to
the political history of the day with a care
fully compiled statement of the personal
preferences of every delegate to Ht. Louis.
This summary will enable the reader to take
in at a glance the relative strength of the
rival candidates, and although we can
scarcely expect it to be absolutely accurate
it will be found very nearly to represent the
number of votes each candidate will receive
on the first ballot. It must be remembered
that it takes two delegates to a democratic
oonvention to make a full vote, and so these
figures represent twice the number of votes.
This invaluable table does even more than
indicate the relative strength of candi
dates?it shows where each of them is
strongest. For instance, as we run down the
list of States, we find that Tilden is
strongest in New England, the Gulf States,
the Northwest and the Pacific slope. Bay
ard's strength is in his own State and in
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina ; but i
in most of these there are grave doubts as to
his availability, which makes the votes
credited to him of a merely complimentary
character. The Southern delegates are not
pressing his nomination only because his
Southern sentiments and sympathies might
prove detrimental to the party. Ex
Governor Allen, of Ohio, has little or no
strength outside of his own State, and it is
not often that the "greenback" delegates ;
even are fonnd bold enough to express a pref
erence for him. Thurmnn has friends scat
tered all over the country, and Joel Parker
is frequently named as second or third choice.
The same thing is true of General Hancock,
but there is some opposition td naming a
military candidate. One or the other of
these last named may become tko favorite in
ease the antagonisms between the more pow
erful of the candidate^ are too strong tonllow
the nomination of one of them; but our
figures show Tilden far in the lead, and ref
erences to the second and third choice of 1
delegates will show that he has considerable
reserve strength. In any event, the table is '
full of interest, for it is the only complete '
approximation that has yet been made of the j
interesting question of strength at St. Louis,
and will be examined with eagerness by all
who are anticipating the action of the Con
vention.
The Citizens ok New Jersey were again
surprised yesterday morning by a supply of
Sunday Heralds that were borne by spank
ing teams into the heart of the old Revolu
tionary State. This is not so great a feat in
its way as running a train to San Francisco
in eighty-two hours; but it brought joy to a
wido circle of Herald readers; and that
these were near to New York is a strong rea
son why they should not be neglected, i
while points hundreds of miles away are
reached and filled with the latest intelli
gence.
Spain is Swirrixo the Aih after the manner
of a high mettled horse at the thought that ,
England is a1>out to ask impertinent ques- I
tions regarding what Spanish officials may
choose to think a liberal construction of the ,
"Toleration clause" of tho new constitution.
Mo question has been asked by England, but
the sensitive nostrils of the Spanish dons
have smelt something like a question. The
utterance of the Minister of Foreign Afiairs
on thia matter was merely a sop to the
Gtnueli party.
Tit* Sioux War.
The serloQB check experienced by General
Crook's column in its recent battle with the
warriors of Sitting Bull, and which wa?
fully described by our special correspondent,
has shaken public confidence in our ability
to conquer the Sioux as quickly as was anti
cipated at the outset of hostilities, especially
when it has been made known that General
Crook has ordered up five companies of in
fantry and the Fifth cavalry as reinforce
ments for his command. The activity of the
Sioux and the breadth of their field
of operations show how aerious is the
danger that menaces, for it is evident that
scouting parties of Sitting Bull's force are
scouring the country, even in the rear of
General Crook's position. A late despatch
informs us that the courier who was sent to
Fort Fetterman on June 10 with duplicates
of the HzRAiii) special despatches from the
field, published in last Saturday's issue, has
not yet reported at the fort, and fears are en
tertained that he has fallen into the hands
of the Sioux.
There is evident need of sending strong
reinforcements to the different columns ol
troops acting against the Sioux. In arrang
ing the plan of-campaign the military au
thorities seem to have underrated -the im
portance of the enemy. At least we judge
so from the disregard shown to the sound
principles of war which forbid the use of
converging columns in the face of an aetiv?
and resolute enemy unless there is good
reason to believe that each column is mor?
than a match for any force that can lx
brought against it. After the experience ot
General Crook's command it would be a little
rash to say that the smaller columns are not
in danger'of being beaten in detail. A large
number of troops is at present distributed
over points where their presence can easily b?
dispensed with, and it jrould be only prud
dent to place as many of them in the
field as would remove all doubt, as to
the issue of the present campaign
against the Sioux. Whatever opinions
may be hold as to the justness or expediency
of beginning this new Indian war, now that
we have it on our hands we must carry it on
vigorously and successfully for the sake of
the frontier settlements. We who are un
acquainted with the war-whoops of the sav
ages can afford to receive with philosophio
calm the news of the reverse sustained by
the troops on the Plains, confident that,
sooner or later, the power of the govern
ment must make itself felt; but, for the
dwellers on the frontiers, disaster to the
troops meana burning homesteads and
murdered families. Those who have fos
tered this war cannot escape from the re
sponsibility for any outrages that may be
committed by Indian bands except they send
every available man to the front, so as to se
cure an early termination to a war that
endangors the safety of an extensive and
poorly guarded frontier.
The Bacx'alaubeate Sermons delivered
yesterday contain much food for refleotion,
tendered by cultured experience to th?
young men nnd women wlio are exchanging
the seclusion of the college rehearsal for an
active and uncurtained participation in the
great drama of life. The farewell re
marks of President McOosh, of Prince
too, to the departing graduates wera
full of sound sense and Bolemn
warning, nnd might Be listened to
with profit by all our youth, collegiate and
otherwise. President Raymond, of Vassar
College, was equally eloquent in addressing
the lady students who have completed theii
studies; for his text, though trite, contained
all the precepts of the moral law. The othei
sermons we print to-day will be found full
of interest
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
A h nnd roil years ago Blaine *m the Great Unknown.
Clysees Grant, Jr., iooka like a sprace young min
later. *
Daniel Drew a blank and the flokle goddess went back
on him. .
Charles Franc* Adams' platform is one-eighth Bowie*
and liie rest Adams.
Private Dalzell is closing up his affairs ao as to wel
come Castelar to the Centennial.
A gentleman who has travelled say* that Bayard la
the democratic favorite ol the rami fireside.
There are now more democratic hotel keepers In Si.
Lonis than there have been for Qvo hundred years.
Congressman Chittenden opposes firecrackers for
the Centennial. His house sells dry goods.
Buyreuth, in Bavaria, is honored hv the genius of
two great men?Jean Paul and Richard Wagner.
No man In Congress attract* more visitors than doe*
Charles Sumner's old residence by the Arlington.
A Western paper thinks that Grant will bocome <
One orator by the time he is elected to the .Sehale.
Ben Butler always closes one eye before he gets off I
Joke. Re keeps the other open to see If It "takes."
In Pennsylvania the campugn cry is "Bread 01
blood. '* Next fall it will be more coal and less whiskey.
The Indians who have dono the most scalping ia
Dakota are going to Canada to organise a peace com
mission.
The boat in which Washington crossed the Delaware
is to be sent to the Centennial. The owner has Just ha4
it painted.
The Massachusetts brass factories are running night
and day to supply orders from the braas band mann
factories.
Mr. Darwin's forthcoming book is entitled "The Re
suits of Cross and Self-Fertilization In the Vegetable
Kingdom."
"It you wish to visit llio tomb of your country's
father just Jump Into my carriage," said a Washington
backdnver to Dotn Pedro.
The weather is getting so w irm around Dnlutb that
most of the whiskey has thawed out and the wheels o(
commerce revolve once more.
When the story of Wendell Phillips' life Is written It
will read like a romance. I.ovc at flist sight was tha
cornerstone of his domestic career.
Emerson dresses vory plainly, and If his umbrella
were left in the new Post Office on a rainy day no one
would touch it for a month.
An Arkansas Judge bet in lavor of the prisoner. The
Jury heard of't and the Judgo had to "dividb up" be
fore the proper verdict could be rendered.
An Kast India naturalist has discovered a new species
of Indiarulilter vino in tne Ceylon JiihijIoh. It ia of a
purple color, and climbs trees like a k tten.
The first thing a Black Hills father dons in the morn
ing after prayers is to nail his boy's hair on, and start
him for Coster Gulch school on the run.
Kvery Indian agent that the Hkiuld Investigated
and lound irregular last year has resigned and turnea
hia attention to the wellare of our American yonth.
Garibaldi nsed to make candles on Staten Island. U?
ought to send a box of them, with his sword, to tb?
Centennial Both luvc furnished light lor tbo world.
(Uil Hamilton, who lives in Blaine's family, does tha
talking at breakfast. After v isi the great stateamaa
rushes down to the Capiiol and shakes thlnga np Ihff
the reat of the day.
??e ttlnk that J. R. Osgood k Co. have made a art*
take in not giving the slightest note or hint In their re
publication ol Rawthorne'a "Fanshawe" of the period
of Ha original publication, or of its having been aa
anonymous and aappreaaed keek ef Its diatiaguiaaed
aether.