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Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks closed
Irni on smaller transactions than usual.
Gold opened at 111 3-4, and was strong ,
thereafter at 111 7-8. Money on call continued
easy at 2 1-2 and 2 percent GovernDicnt
and railway bonds were steady.
Pom Pedro, the Kmperor of Brazil, has
irrived at Queenstown, and, if he is true to
b Is instincts, he is already examining into
the social and political condition of Ireland.
X IIF. OAliATOUA XIACCS Will DCglll 116X1
Tuesday, and much good sport is anticipated.
These races have a charm of their
awn, and Saratoga may be called the American
Ascot.
Know Maitjs Again'.?Wo congratulate our
reform Houso of Itepresentatives upon the ]
suppression of tho fast mails to the West, j
Now let us put an end to railways and tele- ,
graphs. The work of reform should go j
bravely on.
The Condition of the English and Scotch <
operatives in tho mills is growing worse, and i
the reduction of wages is likely to become <
general. This will be followed by strikes !
and great suffering, and in the end the
workmen will be worsted. The business '
depression is so severe it is to be feared that 1
only starving labor will revive it. i
A Suggestion.?Tho Cincinnati Emjuirtr
proposes that when Tilden sends in his (
letter of acceptance he resign his oBice as
(Governor. The matter is of little moment '
? Wo are satisfied with Uncle Sammy where 1
he is now. Uno reason why ho should re- *
sign, however, io that it would make Dor- '
nbeiraer Governor, and enable us to have his 1
portrait painted nt the expense of the State. '
The Turks are too late in claiming a vie- \
lory over the Servian priest Doutchitch. j
1'lie Servians were a day ahead in scoring np
that triumph. As it is impossible for people
at a long distance from the scone to know
which sido to l?elicve where both claim the
victory some general rule of judgment becomes
necessary. Hereafter let the triumph
be accorded to the side which is first to
claim it.
Atrocities in Bci/jarta.?There is no
longer any doubt that the Turkish atrocities
in Bulgaria are of the most fiendish character.
and the Hf.kai.o correspondent at Constantinople
telegraphs this morning a confirmation
of the recent reports of these outrages,
Some ot the Baslii Ba/oaks, it is said,
have been arrested for participating in thesis
atrocities. Now wo shall see whether the
Turkish government is really in earnest in
its promise of bringing these zealots to punithineut.
Thk Latest Advices from General Terry's
command represent him as waiting for
reinforcements and show the difficulty of
communicating with General Crook. The
report of Sitting Bull's death is not
credited by Colonel Hughes, who brings this
news from Terry's headquarters. Apparently
the Indian campaign is at a standstill,
mid it ia to be feared that the Mar will last
many months unless the army is strengthened
sufficiently to make the advance
effective.
Sib Edward Wiij.tam Watkin is a British }
Ftc.tcsmnn of a peculiar stamp, and it seems
he is anxious that Great Britain shall offer (
her friendly offices for tlio termination of ,
the war with tlio Sioix. Wat kin apparently ,
frnipathizes with the Indians in this strug- (
gle, und we are quite willing that he shall
undertake a mission to Sitting Bnll as soon j
as he is ready to risit that gentle savage. It (
is possible, however, that Watkin and Sit- (
ting Hull have real estate interests in the ^
tamo neighborhood.
As Ankounckd in tub Hkkai.d the begin- i
ning of the coming week will bring cooler <
weather. The barometric nr< as have reas- I
turned their alternations in onr latitude, and i
re may. therefore, look forward to the re- i
aiainderof the summer for genial warmth, 1
tempered occasionally by cooling winds i
h'oiu the westward. However, in the Southern
and Southwestern States, the isotherms 1
in liente marked differences of temperature 1
between points near to each other, and ?
;hcse, with the peculiar distribution of pres- <
roros in those regions, cause us to antici- 1
Mtc loe,nl storms and even tornadoes in the ! !
Lower Missouri Valley and west of ihe AUe- ?
jfbuny rnnge. The regions referred to may , *
escape these storms but the pres? nt meteor- i (
tdogieal conditions there are favorable for 1
their development. 1 ]
1
Ram Troubles In the Koath-Drmotratlc
Flippancy, Sophistry and Inroaslstrnry.
We suspect that the democratic press will
speak in quite a different tone on affairs like
the Hamburg butchery after the publication
of Mr. Tilden's letter of acceptance. The
party needs to be educated, and we shall be
disappointed if its Presidential candidate
does not teach it to exercise more sobriety
c>f judgment on questions connected with
the South.
The foolish levity and flippancy with
which democratic journals are asking why
the recent bloodshed in Newark is not made
a topic of federal politics as well as the
affair at Hamburg, illustrates the shallowness
and heartlessness which small politicians
bring to the consideration of great
subjects. It is true enough that disturbances
of the peace and occasional bloody
riots take place in the Northern States, and
that it would be absurd and ridiculous
for the federal government to take
uny notice of them. They occasion
no anxiety because they are always on so
small a scale thut the State governments
can cosily suppress them. Even the minors'
riots in Pennsylvania ore confined to a comparatively
insignificant portion of the population
of that State, but if fully one-half of
its people were laborers in the coal mines,
with a proportionally numerous body of
sympathizers throughout the North, we
could not ignore the magnitude of the danger.
Now, there are several of the Southern
Suites in which the white and the black population
are nearly equal, and a local riot anywhere
in the South, growing out of antagonism
of race, might suddenly spread over
wide areas. The passions both of the negroes
and the whites are in an inflammable
condition, and any chance excitement mny
spread like wildfire. The negroes would, of
course, get the worst of it in any conflict of
arms, but if they were roused and maddened
to apply the torch of the incendiary to hundreds
of thousands of Southern dwellings
and outhouses, the smoke of
conflagration and wail of desolation
which would ascend from so many plantations
would put the whole land in mourning.
A riot in tho South differs from a riot
in the North by its infinitely greater
tendency to spread and beconio universal.
It is like the difference between an occasional
(ire in an ordinary town and the oversetting
of a lamp in a cow stable in a city like
Chicago, which had been converted into a
vast mass of tinder by protracted dry winds
from the prairies. A mining riot in Pennsylvania
is limited by the number of miners;
the old anti-rent riots in New York were
limited by the number of tenants who held
leases under the patroons, but a race conflict
in the South is liable to extend throughout
%U the region where the two races exist in
pretty nearly equal numbers. It is preposterous
to make comparisons between
occasional riots in the North and race troubles
in the South. A conflagration cannot
i a l
r\iruu uci wuu mo iuti iuih xx * vao iu xu tiic
Southern States the combustible material is
ipread over the whole section, and it would
be a national misfortune if any event should
happen calculated to lash the excitable negro
mind into a frenzy.
We do not expect to make any impression
in the minds of flippant democratic editors,
but we are confident that Governor Tilden
perceives the gravity of the race problem in
tho South. Wo wish to recall his attention
to the former attitude of the democratic
party in respect to emancipation, and to the
main argument urged by enlightened democratic
statesmen of the last generation
igainst the abolition of slavery. We cannot
believe, and we do not believe, that those
great statesmen were fools. But either they
were idiots or the flippant democratic editors
if our time are idiots. It was constantly |
maintained by the most sagacious and most
philosophical democratic statesmen of the j
last generation that the abolition of slavery i
would lead to a disastrous conflict of races
in the Southern States, resulting in
the extermination of the blacks or
the whitos. Not only great democratic
statesmen liko Calhoun, bnt
great whig statesmen like Clay promulgated
this opinion. Owing to a fortunate
combination of circumstances their predictions
have not as yet been realized; but the
tendencies which so deeply impressed them
ire none the less real. Those tendencies
ire likely to become operative after tho
election of a democratic President unless
special precautions are taken. Tho negroes
ire ignorant and credulous, and the republican
stump speakers in this canvass wilh
it tempt to convince them that if Mr. Tilden
is elected they will lose all their rights. If
they are made to believe this there will be a J
spirit of universal mutiny among the i
Southern blacks if the democratic party i
fleets the next President, and tho tremendous
and desolating race conflicts which
former democratic statesmen so constantly
predicted as the certain consequence of
emancipation may then be fulfilled, unless
liovernor Tilden is wise enough to reassure
the negroes by declaring his purpose to
maintain their rights.
There was hardly a democratic statesman
?{ any note or mark in the last generation
a lio did not prediet an exterminating war of
races in the South as the probable conscience
of emancipation. The fact thAt such
i consequence has been accidentally averted
for ten or eleven years does not prove that
they were wrong in their estimate of tendencies
; it only demonstrates the repressive
power of the federal government, which has
kept these tendencies in abeyance, lint if
it shall l?e the policy of a democratic Prcsilent
to leave the two races in the Sonth to
follow their own impulses without restraint
nobody can tell what may happen. The
rcry worst will happen unless all the great
ights of the democratic party in the last
kge were utterly mistaken.
Not wishing to encumber our columns
with endless citations we will only give
brief extracts from Mr. Calhoun as samples
jf what was said by him and a multitude of I
others:?"To destroy the existing relations
between the free und senile races in the
South." ?aid Mr. Calhoun, "would lend to
consequences unparalleled in history. They
nnnot l?e separated, and cannot live together
in pence or harmony, or to
Iheir mutual advantage, except in their
present relations. Under any othor wretch
S1W YORK HERALD, SAT
edness and misery and desolation would overspread
the South." (Works, vi., 309.)
Speaking of emancipation in the British
West India Islands he said:?"Very different
would be the result of abolition in the
United States. To form a correct conception
of what would be the result we must
look, not to Jamaica, but to St Domingo
for example. The change would be followed
by unforgiving hate between the two races
and end in a bloody and deadly struggle between
them for superiority. One or the .
other would have to be subjugated, extirpated
or expelled ; and desolation wonld |
overspread their territories, as in St. Do- j
mingo, from which it would take centuries j
to recover." (Works, v., 389.) We could
multiply such quotations to any extent from
the works of Mr. Calhoun and the speeches
and declarations of other democratic statesmen
The tendencies which tliev (lenieteil
in glowing colors have thns far been held in I
check by federal authority; but if all outside
checkH should be withdrawn on the election of J
a democratic President can anybody be cer- j
tain that those confident democratic predictions
would not be fulfilled? If there
was even the faintest ground of probability
for such predictions to rest upon the foolish
flippancy of the democratic editors, who j
liken the race troubles in the South to occasional
disturbances of the peace in the '
North, is sufficiently apparent. Unless j
every democratic statesman who enjoyed the j
confidence of the party when it was in ;
power was a silly dreamer, frightened by J
the chimeras of his own imagination, there :
is a very broad distinction between the con- j
dition of the South since emancipation and j
that of any Northern community. We be- 1
lieve, or at least hope, that Governor Tilden j
will recognize this distinction and that he
will speak out in such forcible language as j
will prevent republican demagogues from
nlurming the negroes and sowing in their j
minds the seeds of rebellion if he should
be elected.
The Kiver and Harbor Bill.
The weather is too warm for the country
to give much attention to the controversy
between the Senate and the House in the ;
matter of economy. There have been angry ;
debates, sectional strifes, committees of conference
and no result. We have followed
these debates pretty closely, and the conclusion
at which we have arrived is that the
whole difficulty lies in the campaign. The
democrats aro striving to make capital on j
their side and the republicans on their side. |
There has been an ostentatious pretence of !
economy in the army and navy bills and j
in the diplomatic service. Small items have i s
been cut down with a parade of economy.
Hut when the River and Harbor Appropria- 1
tion bill came to tlio Senate from the House i
tncro was a new revelation, l ms Dili is one s
of the gigantic jobs of legislation. Every
Congressman has his district, and in every
district there is a creek or stream or inlet or
puddle of some kind. As every citizen
thinks his own puddle the greatest in the
country he expects his representative to
have it dredged or widen ed at the public j
expense. So, when the bill is made up,
Jones, who wants Poodle Creek deepened |
and Smith, who would like Towser Bend j
straightened, and Robinson, who thinks I
Spaniel Bay should connect with the ocean, !
agree to support each other's plans. By this j
process of log-rolling a bill is made up in !
which every member is interested, and which j
has items like this :?
for deepening the channel of Poodle Creek j
whore It enters Big Dog Bay $40,000 {
For removing obstructions at Towser Bend 00.000 j
For opening the inlet to Spaniel Bay 80,000
Thin is the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill, whiah appropriates in round numbers
$7,000,000, and which Senator Thurman 1 r
characterized in debate as a "monstrous !
bill." Every year this bill has increased, j
In 18G9 we gave $2,000,000 ; in 1870, a
$8.745,900; in 1871, $4,408,000 ; in 1872, H
$5,002,000; in 1878, $0,287,900; in 1874,
$5,248,000, and in 1875, $0,002,000. The f
reform House brings the aggregate up to y
$7,000,0(10. j y
Tho House, which passed this bill and ' *
sent it to the Sennte. lius been working for
economy. This bill shows the falsity of c
that pretence. If there is one expense wo v
could cut down now it is the improvement R
of our rivers and harbors. We could wait a B
year or two until we had a little more money ; ^
until taxes were lower ; until Uncle Sammy ^
became President and "revived industry
and commerce." But this "reform" House, p
which has been economizing so valiantly, is
as extravagant as its predecessors when there 1
is a little capital to be made at home.
The practical way of attcuding to these 1(
river and harbor improvements is for Con- t
gTess to waive ull control over them. Members,
as a general thing, know nothing about
such matters. They are not engineers, and
are imposed upon. Their constituents ex- h
poet impossibilities. Under the pressure of
constituents they pile up millions which
are wasted. Now, the true way is to submit 0
the whole question of improvements to tho
Coast Surveyor the Engineer Corps of the
army. Let Congress appropriate so much 0
money each year, and let tho Secretary of
War or the Treasury have its expenditure.
A board of skilled officers could indicate (1
which rivers and harbors needed improve- j(
lucnt. which were necessary to the public
welfare. Tho present plan is mischievous,
as may be seen in the fact that a House com- , j
mittod to reform, and desiring reform for !
party reasons, is under so severe a pressure j ^
from home that it votes seven million dol- !
! v
lnrs ot the public nioucy to improvement!* j ^
of questionable value. | ,j
In thk Interest of Harmony. ?Now that i v
i .]
the republicans are casting about for a Stuto
ticket that will harmonize the party let us 11
make this suggestion: - N
For Governor, h
Roscos Conkmno, of Onkipa. a
Kor l.ieiitrn.nil Governor,
Ruins* K. K k.st<u?, of Chaitacuva. ! f(
There are many arguments in favor of this
ticket. It would enable Mr. Conkling to go s
before the people and show the country his u
real strength. It would give us his personal S
supi>ort in the canvass. It would bring Mr. tl
Fcnton back into active relations with the w
party. It would unite both wings of the ! c
party. If the republicans lost the State Mr. h
Conkling would still be Senator. If they ; e
carried the State then f ail Schurz or George n
William Curtis could be chosen to take his d
place, thus crowning the ediheo of hurmoiiy
and reconciliation. "Let u* have peace." t
TTRDAY, JULY 22, 1876.
The Disaster lit th? Harbor.
Few events have produced bo profound
and painful an impression upon our people
bb the sinking of the Mohawk in the Narrows
on Thursday afternoon. The suddenness
of the misfortune; the danger which
came so swiftly upon absolute security; the
helplessness of those on the yacht in the
presence of a hundred opportunities of aid;
the criminal negligence of thd sailing master,
even after he had been warned of his
peril by other seamen; the fact that Mr.
[inrner was one of our most honored citizens,
in tho flush of youth, the master of
fast enterprises, the owner of a great fortune;
the chivalrous thought that he died in
the effort to suve his wife, and that together
they passed into eternity; tho fact that nil
this took place in broad day on a sunny
iummer afternoon, within hailing distance
)f tho club, in the centre of the scene of
liany a fete, all combine to render the sinkng
of the Mohawk and the doath of her
jwncr one oi tne most tragic events 01 oar
lay.
The details we print this morning only
make clear our story of yesterday. Mr. j
Earner and his guests wore preparing for a j
cruise down the Buy, in one of the largest ,
yachts in the fleet. The vessel was appar- |
?ntly as safe as a Canard steamer. Sud- j
lenly u cloud came over the horizon. The J
lay was warm -one of the most oppressive
lays wo have had for the past tew weeks. |
Every landsman, not to speak of a trained 1
seaman, knows that in these midsummer J
lay3, with the air overburdened with elec- j
trieal conditions, nothing is more probable
than a sudden thunderstorm. Therefore
the careful seaman always looks to the
liorizon, no matter how clear the skies j
ibovo him. There were none of these pre- j
cautions on the Mohawk. The cloud came, at !
irst no larger than a man's hand, but black,
iwift, menacing. The other yachts, lying in
:ho anchorage near the Mohawk, prepared I
or it. The Mohawk's sailing master kept all j
lis sails set, underrating the storm, ami j
uoaning to ride through it, and have a j
;panking sail down to the Hook. His fool- 1
lardiness was noticed by other seamen, j
ind a message was sent from the
Countess of Dufferin, the Canadian yacht, :
lowly arrived in our harbor to sail for the
American cup, warning him of the storm
ind of the danger it threatened. There is
vidence to the effect that upon the receipt
>f this warning the wretched ofticer gave an
>rder to take in some of the sail. Before it
:ould be executed the squall struck the
i-acht and she went down before its fury and
tank.
All of this shows a criminal want of discipline
and judgment. The same was shown
n the rescue of the passengers. There
teems no reason why Mr. and Mrs. Garner,
diss Hunter and the others should not have
>ecn saved. What Colonel Crosby, Mr.
ilont nt and Mr. Howland succeeded in
loing with some of the guests might have
>een done to all if the crew und the yacht
ifficers had shown proper nerve and discipline.
All that the sailing master did was
a cO.ti.I nrwl Afr IiaIa oil I
bat the crew did was to look after themselves.
well disciplined crew could certainly
nave found a way into the cabin, and aided
tlr. Montant, Mr. Howland and Colonel
Crosby in saving the lives of all. No such
ffort seems to have been made except by
>ne of the quartermasters, and it is to his
orethought in cutting out one of the side- i
ights that Colonel Crosby probably owes his
ife. What might not hnve been the result
lad the rest of the crew been as cool as
his one man in timoof danger? The lesson
o be deduced from this is that, in order to
uake yachting what it should be, there
oust bo the same care and the same diaiplino
in the selection and management of
, crew as in the navy. In fact, the standard
hould be the highest in the maritime serice.
The yachtsman does not go out to sea
or merchandise or to win laurels in war,
?ut makes it his pleasure and his home. His
acht very often sacrifices safety to speed
nd show. Owners, as a general thing, are
bsorbod in other duties, know nothing ef
lavigution, and are compelled to depend
ipon their sailing masters and seamen. The
inking oi tue MooawK, unuer tue cireum- |
tunces, is about the last thing that would |
iave been apprehended. The fact that it j
lid take place, and the manner in which it ;
aippencd, should give all who own yachts i
ause for serious reflection. Just
nd severe censure will be visited
ipon the sailing master nnd the
eumcn on the yacht. We do not for a mo- j
sent palliate this. But when a disaster like |
his occurs there is evil in the system, us I
rell as criminal negligence in one or two
a en. It would be well tor every yacht
wner to look into the circumstances of this
ad event and ask if such a calamity is posible
to him.
The sympathy of the community will go j
nt to the high-minded and generous gentle- j
mn and the true, devoted wife who w?nt I
own on the Mohawk. It is hard to think
f lives so full of promise and opportunity
oming to an end so sudden, so unexpected,
o terrible. But lite is marked with these
vidences of God's inscrutable will, and the
i\ssons they teach are lessons which should
orne home to every heart.
bite Health and a Public Duty.
The weather was in a relenting mood yes- I
erday. We are told by cable that a storm j
rill come upon us to-day. Other prophets
id us look out for cool weather by Tuesday.
iii'rr is uu uouuiuij ui mi.-s iiuu t->ni u we
'ere to have a pause in tho lit ited term \
lit re is no assnranco that what wo sco now
lay not be soon iu August and September,
f hen wo look at the warm weather as a visi- (
ition of Providence, as something that may |
ever come again, we show heedlessness and'!
illy. Our duty is to prepare for this torrid |
eftson as a part of our year's lite. We
honld take lessons from our friends in tho
farmer climates in Morocco, Brazil and I
pain. We should so arrange our city that
lierc would be little suffering in snmiut r and
rinttr. By neglecting proper sanitary pre- :
autions we make New York the most uuealthy
city in tho world. And the appalling '
videnco of this is the fact that within a j
iionth over two thousand children have ;
lied.
If this had happened in Taugiers or Bomray
or Madrid how we should have lifted
oar voices against barbarism and ignorance!
But it happens in civilized New York, whose
rulers have made it the most unhealthy city ,
in the world. This is the root of the{whole ,
matter?that we are ruled by knaves and ,
fools. New York could be made as healthy t
as Paris or London. It has better natural ad- <]
vantages. It is surrounded with water. The c
soil is easily drained. The sea is at our doors. | (|
A Moorish alcalde could take New York and ^
make it a delightful city in summer. But v
our rulers are corrupt or idiotic. We have j
Tweeds who plunder or Wickhams who do r
not know enough to steal, and neglect every- 0
thing. Kings control the city. To please j
one ring rapid transit is postponed; to j
please another soap factories are permitted E
to pollute the atmosphere ; to please a ! r
third the Harlem flats and other nuisances B
are allowed to generate malaria ; to please r
a fourth we give up one of our downtown | j
parks to a railway and propose to throw in y
the Batter)-; to please othcrH we allow our j
streets to be paved with wood and tar. which j ?.
rot slowlv awav. We have sewers which ! i
f ? ?tr 1
generate diphtheria ; we have sidewalks y
burdened with death. All of this could be j
remedied by a pood government. j
As we have said, there is not one of the r
gentle, suffering, innocent souls of the two r
thousand children who have died within a
month from the want of fresh air who is not j.
a martyr to the system which sways this (
city. Surely the time has come for us to ^
put an end to it, to take hold of the great ^
city us though it were a mansion or a busi- ^
ness and so manage it that all the blessings j
of civilization would fall alike upon the rich ^
and the poor. If ever there was a lime when
the people of New York should look to their
lives and homes, the lives and happiness of ^
their children, it is now, when the children
Q
of the poor are dying by thousands, and
when, if there were good government, the
largest part of these lives would be spared. t
Carpet-Baggers. S
There is no word which has done the Southc
cm States more harm than the word carpetbagger.
Its meaning in the South is clear j ^
enough. It is intended to apply to 1
adventurers from the North who went
a
South after the war for tho purpose of (
plundering the inhabitants and returning ^
home with their plunder. It is regarded in
the North as a term of reproach, and has
had the effect of deterring from the Southern
States thousands of honest Northern men
who would have been glad to go South, on
account of the climate and the natural richness
of the soil. The Maine citizen may go j
to Colorado and California and be welcome. ^
It is no reproach to him that ho was bom in ^
the East and votes the republican ticket.
Let him go to Georgia or Carolina, and carry
with him his principles, and his fate is social,
personal, political ostracism. He can
assort no independence of judgment without
incurring the worst forms of reproach. Something
of this may be dne to the soreness occasioned
by the war. But while this was "\
natural it should not last always. Tho word t
carpet-bagger may serve the purpose of a s
flippant politician like Mr. Cox, bnt it should x
have no place in our literature. If we eo v
into tho matter deeply we shall find that we }
are all carpet-baggers, with the exception of j j
Sitting Bull and his people. ! I
The Indian H"*stlon. ' '
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Colonel Sturgis, Colonel of the Seventh j ^
cavalry, the regiment of which the lamented
Custer was lieutenant colonel, has been in- J
terviewed again by a reporter of tho St. i j
Louis Gh)l>e-Deinocrat. The Colonel proves i
to bo a flowing spring of information for re- *
porters, as there have been several inter- Jj
views with him since the Yellowstone disaster.
As to the opinions which Colonel Star- ^
gis chooses to entertain of the valor, the
courage or the military traits of Caster we *
have nothing to say. The Colonel requires
tho kindest treatment from the country,
for the massacre took from him his only son. j
Even if we were disposed to resent the j
harshness of his judgment of Custer wo j
should feel restrained by the fact that upon. 0
him rests the shadow of a deep and lasting e
grief. There is one point in this interview, j
however, which merits attention. The j c
Colonel, according to the reporter, "espe- i c
cially deprecated the manner in which such j p
papers as the New York Herald sought to j (
make a demigod out of Custer and to erect j a
a monument to Custer only, and not to his I f,
soldiers." We are ufraid the Colonel has not r
read the Herald, and if he is no surer of his
facts in commenting upon the Indian question
than in discussing the Herald ho is an
unsafe critic.
We have said over and over again that we
do not propose to build merely a monument
to Custer. In fact, we do not propose to
build a monument at all. As a newspaper 1
we receive such subscriptions as the people ''
choose to send. At the proper time we slinl'
turn the money over to some of the nssocia- .
tions who have the work in hand, and at the p:
head of one we have no less a soldier than
Sheridan. Moreover, whenever we have had *'
occasion to discuss the matter, we have said j..
that the purpose of this monument is to j
honor Custer and his men?not one more i ir
than the other, but to honor all. The idea
is to commemorate an achievement of valor
and self-denial, the performance of a solemn,
higli duty. The men who did this are
worthy of lasting fame. It will be a me. ?
meuto to the young Sturgis, who died like a
hero in his hist campaign, us well as to the 01
commander who there crowned a brilliant te
and noble life.
Bklknap ? "Guilt" and "Jurisdiction."? tl
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* v?i?w urn nun iu n utunr. xuu | y(
evidence of the Secretary's gnilt is nnmis- ' v<
takable. Mr. Belknap's attorneys make 110
defence except the technical ouo that the 01
Senate lias no jurisdiction, and therefore
cannot pass judgment. We tear, from the Ci
question submitted to the managers by Mr. a
Conkling, that .there is a disposition on the 1
part of some Senators to acquit the Secre- pi
tary on the ground that there is no jurisdic- 6,
tion. Mr. t'onkling seems to labor under i n
this impression, and it is a marvel that so j
able and clear-sighted a man should fall into i 11
the blunder. The question of jurisdiction
is one thing, that of guilt or innocence another.
The Senate has settled the first, and d
in such a manner that it will become a pre- j
cedent in all impeachment cases?a princi- | J1
pie in impeachment law. Bat one issue remains?that
of guilt or innocence?and upon ; p
this alone each Henator will pass. j rr
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The loath and th? Canraih
One of the arguments addressed to th?
t-hite men in the South to win their
'oteB for Tilden is that his election
rill be the dawn of a new era to
he Southern people. In what way ean
filden help the South ? His record is that
if a Union man. He supported the war. He
.ccepts all the amendments to the constitu*
ion; all the measures of reconstruction. He
rould not pay the Confederate debt. If
'resident all he could do would be to reuove
the federal officers and appoint new
mes; and even in this he would have to meet
he approval of a Senate which will be repubican,
most likely, whether he is elected or
iot. In the hope of winning this barren
eoognition the Southern men array them*
elves against the republicans, and give
enewed reasons for the continuance in
>ower of the republican party. And
>ct the republican**, especially in the
etter of Hayes, offer to meet the
iouthern men on equal ground, and
et bygones be bygones, and have no future
jut the whole Union, one and indivisible,
f the Southern men would take the repubicans
at their word there would be an end
>f sectionalism, and very soon an end of th?
epoblican party. New issues would arise
n which the war, race, reconstruction would
lave no place?issues like those which
livided the federalists and republicans in
he past. This would give the South a
untage ground it has never yet possessed.
iVe are surprised that Soutborn men like
jinnar, Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee do not
ee this. A really great Southern statesman
!Ould do as much for the South now as
rhiers did for France when he threw aside
he monarchical traditions of a life and aoeptcd
the Republic.
The Ciihtkr Monument Fund continues
o increase, but it is noteworthy how much
ympathy and encouragement come from
he dramatic profession. In addition to the
;euerous contributions from well known
Ttists ethers have come forward to assist
>y means of benefits. The first of these to
announce a definite time for the performiiicc
is Mr. W. J. Florence, now playing the
Mighty Dollar" ut "Wallack's, who offers to
levote the receipts of Friday evening of
text week to the purpose. The Hon. Bardrell
Slote knows the importance of the
amy in prbtccting the^ railroad interests of
rhich he was accustomed to speak so elopiently
while in Congress, and he does himelf
credit in this response to an appeal in
tehalf of a brave man and a brave deed.
iVe trust he will be able to add a large sum
o the subscriptions already received, but it
s not proper that the public should be conent
with such efforts at securing the necesary
amount. Let everybody contribute, so
hat the testimonial may partake as much of
, popular character aa possible.
Thh Press and Subrcrxftions.?Soma
Vestern journals deprecate the practice ol
he New York newspapers taking up subcriptions
for objects of public interest or
itilitv. They misunderstand one of the
ligher functions of the metropolitan press.
L newspaper is a public institution. Th?
>eople know it. They have confidence in it.
t is in constant relations with the public,
f a citizen wants to'give money to a charity
ir to some object of general interest he can
lo it more readily by sending it to his news>aper
than in any other way. He knows
hat it will be received, that it will be pub?
icly acknowledged, that it will find its
>roper uses and that other well intentioned
>eople may be moved to follow his example,
[ hus the newspaper becomes the agency foi
iseful and good work, and performs one ol
he offices which the increasing power of the
>ress forces upon journalists more and more
very day.
The New York Post Office having been
nvestigated the Committee on Publio
biddings yesterday made a report to ths
louse practically censuring the completion
>f the structure after the appropriation was
xhuustcd, but not indicating any fraud in
he work. It strikes us that this is cheap
xposure. We can see no good reason fox
ompluining that the building was not ex
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lUbeil IV uauili^c aau uiaoj mncij unvauoo
'ongress was slow in voting the necessary
ppropriations. If there had been waste or
raud there might have been cause for com*
hunt.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Tho Bangor lumber business is idle.
l.ord Napier will command at Gibraltar.
Mayor Hanks, of Albany, baa gone to Firo Island.
Jutnos Hussoll l.owcll would like to go to Congress.
Kilpuirick is speaking in Orange county, New York.
A prolcssorabip of Chinoso will be eatabHabad at Ox.
ink
William M. Evarta la on his way to Vermont for. the
laaon.
Mrs. Tyner uaed to be a clerk in the Treasury Do.
irtmenL
Donald G. Mitchell la visiting for a day or so In PhlU
lelphia.
Ex-Cougreasmsn James F. Wilson, of Iowa, la In San
ran cisto.
Mr. Illaine walks in ins garden and will aoon taae a
Ip to SL John, N. D.
General HeDjamin K. Butler, of Massachusetts, la at
10 Filth Avenue Hotel.
Delirium tremens are now called tight flta, because
ley are bard lo got ou.
K* Congressman Creamer, who haa bean very 111, la
inrali'scent at Woat Point.
A tlower grows Irom tiia suow in the Caliornial
outturns, 7.000 (eel above tbo sea. It la purple.
Governor Dingley, of Maioe, has invited Mr. Blatna
> spend itie summer with him ou Squirrel Island.
Mrs. Minister Wnshburne will go to Switzerland foi
ip summer, while Mr. Washhurne will go to Carlsbad,
fount W. Ton Arntm. or Herlln, arriTod from Europe
sterday In the steamship Nccltar, and la at iba brasoft
House.
The Columbus Enfirtr says that be I ore the North
inttcs so much luss abunt tho Hamburg riot It should
ok at the Now ark massacre u( too other day!
The Marquis of Kildare, of Ireland, returned to this
ty irom rhilatlclphin yeaterday, and is at tho Fifth
venue Hotel. The Marquis is the eldest son of the
uke of i^uister, who is ono or the largest landed
roprietors in Ireland.
Judy:?lmlu"lriou* f) Soafaring I "arty?What! Alu'l
at noliitn' to ?loT Why, bare I've hoen a-noendiu'
lis blessed net over muco last November, and you're
iillln' about as If there warn't such a thing aa work la
10 world!
J mi ^? British VVorkmau?Well, ant how, "I'nioa"
leans strength, don't It*
I'arty with Vast Workhouse Experience?Well, I
unno; I've tried Itolten sad I Inn' it just the reversal
Punch:?Stern Hostess (who Is giving private tbcaw
cats)- You are very late, Mr. KHz stnythe. They've ' !
rgttn long ago!
I.augmd l'er?on of Importance (who abominates that
nrltralar lorm of entertainment)?What! You don't
icsd to say they're st ii stiUi