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KSW YORK. Y1UDAT. HUGOS! II. I?(i"
Fr<>m our reports this morning theprobalrilities
ire thai the weather io-uaij will he warmer ami
partly cloudy, possibly with a thunder storm.
Thirimj the summer months the Herald will
le sad to subscribers in the country at the rate of
tvcnty-five cents per week, free of plottage.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Gold opened
?nd closed lit 111 3-4. The stock market
was dull but firm. The carrying rates for
money wero 1 and 2 1-2 per cent Government
and railroad bonds were steady.
Tan Racing at Saratoga yesterday was
mide delightful by chnrming weather, a
fashionable gathering, a fast truck and exciting
sport.
Tub Working men's Demonstration yesterday
was a comp rative failure, but there was
a spirited conversation with the Mayor regarding
their deinnnds, and tho case was
fully argued in all its aspects.
Paris wants direct cable communication
with New York, and wo trust sufficient
capital will be found for the purpose. If
only a; a precaution against accident a new
dir. ct cable is desirable.
In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sherman occupied
most of tho day in combating the
flnnucial views of Governor Tildeu. Tho
stump, it seems to us, would have been a
fitter place for the S< nator's etfort than the
bexiatc Chamber.
The Disci ssion of Extradition has been
postponed till the next session of Parliament,
owing to Mr. Disraeli's reluctance to
have the blnnder of his administration further
exposed at this time. The Ministry, in
the end, will have only a choice of humiliations?either
to send us Wiuslow, Gray and
the rest ami beg our pardon or to submit to
defeat in Parliament.
A Cotton Conference was hold in London
yesterday, at which resolutions were
adopted looking to more systematic and
trustworthy methods of conducting the
trade. The questions discussed and vhe
resolutions adopted affect the interests of
two hemispheres, and the conference is
likely to lead to greater results than are to
be expected from an informal meeting of the
kind.
The Rotten Telegraph Pole which fell
at the corner of Suffolk and Grand streets a
few days ago, killing a woman who wbh
passing at the time, seems to have been
without an owner. 'J here are many other
rotten telegraph poles in the city, and we
should like to see the question of their
ownership tested. Either the Board of
Police or the Board of Health must remove
thein wherever thoy are found regardless of
their ownership. In the meantime we hope
the owners of the polo which killed Mrs.
McGuiro may be discovered, and that a suit
for damages will follow.
A Disgrace to Odr Cmuiz ation.?The
Rochester Dmocrat reports that tho scalp
and war eostnnio of Yellow Hand, a Cheyenne
chief, have arrived in that city
and are on exhibition at a prominent
cigar store in Rochester, "where they
hare attracted the attention of a large
number of people." There are "the
scalp of tho noble Cheyenno, headdress,
shield, blanket, Bowio knife, whip and
bridle." This was sent to Rochester by one
of our fighting people who killud Yellow
Band and scalped him. Tho public display
of this Indian's scalp is a disgrace to civilisation.
Wo have to fight the Indian, unfortnnately,
but let us do so an Christians
and not as savages.
Skboeant McGivkn's Mcrdkrer was yesterday
sentenced to the State Prison for
life, upon a plea of murder in the secoud
degree. While it is plain that this course
was the best to be pursued under the circumstances
the reasons assigned for it by
the prisoner's counsel and acceded to by the
Assistant District Attorney and the Recorder
will seem strango to people who still believe
in the old definition of murder. It is evident.
from the doctrine of "premeditated
kiiung laid down in this case, that murder
is no longer murder in the majority of cases
under the laws of this State, King's net,
which followed the recognition of the necessity
of killing Sergeant McGiven in order
to effect his escape, was uol premeditated
killing the law ought to be made to define
whether seconds, minntes or hours are
necessary for the "premeditation" which
constitutes murder in the first ilegree. Our
law of homicide hns been so refined that it
is becoming impossible to convict ot the
higher grade of the off> nee, and this case is
only another illustration of the allegation
that "hanging is played out in kiew York."
NEW TOR]
The Situation In Karope.
It is difficult to understand the news from
tho seat of war on the Danube. The despatches
all read as if they had been written
by partisans or stockjobbers. Turkish i
!*?**? onvno *w\nlilAn 1*1 tllfl !
,.?o ?.?ru .uo |
money markets of Franco and England as i
Erie was wont to hold in the money markets
|
j at home. Ono cannot resist the impression
) when rending news from llelgrade that the
i writer was not insensible to the effect it
J would have on Lombard street. One day
we hear that the Servians have all their own
way; that Russia is behind them; that the
Grand Duke Vladimir, or Home other grand
duke, is in their ranks; that Kanffman, the
conqueror of Khiva, has joined them; that
there is an intense Slavic ieeling throughout
Russia that will not be controlled, but insists
upon swaying the Czar against his will
into war. This budget is allowed to have
its proper effect, when the scene changes.
The Servians are in despair. Prince Milan
wants to make peace. The Turks are carrying
everything before them. The insurrection
is in collapse. In fact, there never was
nny insurrection?only the ambition of the
young prince to become king of a new kingdom
to bo created out of the principalities.
As for the Turks, they are burning and destroying
everything, and all that diplomacy
1, i . _ * -i it. j _r i.j
can no is to inieriere Between 1110 iiuiciimjh
insurgents and the triumphant sovereign
Power. Even this morning wo hoar, on the
one hand, that M. ltistics, the Servian
Premier, is preparing a note, in which he
will assert that the atrocities of the Turks
may pave the way either to mediation or
war to the death, nnd on the other that he
rejects all offers of mediation.
If we Iook upon this war on the Danube
as simply the contest between the Prince of
Kervia and the Saltan it will have little interest
to us. We are cosmopolitan in our
sympathies nnd^our curiosity and take
a profound interest in the affairs of our
friends over the sea. The German and
the French war was as much to us
as our own campaigns on the Potomac, and
oven when Don Carlos was making his forlorn
nnd unavailing light in the Navarre
mountains we made a study of the lying
despatches, which were as much models of
mendacity as those from Belgrade, in the hope
of discerning the truth. But it is hard to feel
an interest in Servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina
and that bolt of strange nationalities which
acknowledge the sovereignty of the Porte,
but are really the dividing line between
Islam and the Cross. We might be disposed
to look at the contest with religious eyes
and to pray for the success of the Cross over
the Crescent, even as our fathers prayed for
the success of isobieski. But we learn from
llomo that all Christian sympathies should
go out to Turkey ; that the Cross under
which the Servians light is not the true one ;
that it is a Greek, not a Latin Cross; and that
the true taitli has had too much courtesy
and protection from the Turks to justify the
faithful in aiding to destroy their Empire.
Between the Greek Christians and the
Turks the Holy fc?ee would prefer the latter.
This is a puzzling circumstance to Americans
who strive to understand tho Eastern
question, and who, remembering the cen|
furies of strife between Christian and pagan
for the possession of the Holy Sepulchre
j and the glory of the true faith, expect from
1 Home the same support which cheered Godfrey
and llichard the Lion Hearted. But
the policy of the Greek Christians toward
the Catholics has been harsh, while that of
the Turks has been tolerant, and naturally
enough the Holy 8ee would prefer the
triumph of the heretic who tolerates and
i protects the true faith to tho schismatic
j who views it with enmity.
The attitude of the Holy See toward the
j insurrection will have a deep moral inllu;
i-nee upon tho world. It takes tho conflict
} out of the range of religious wars, and this
i is a matter for congratulation. The two
j other Powers who have a deep interest in it
are Russia and England. We can understand
the policy of Russia when we look at
tho policy and the progress of that Empire
sinco tho time of Peter tho Great. The policy
has been consistent, conservative, unpausing;
the progress has been steady and onward,
i There may liuve been defeats and repulses,
j but the mighty Empire has always ail vnneed?
to the west, until she envelops Finland
and Conrland and commands the Baltic ; to
the east, until she controls Khiva and menaces
Persia and British India. We find her
trying to pierco China and tako an island
from Japan. Itussia has always advnnced,
and the aim of her policy is now what it
was when Peter laid the foundations of
modern Itussia ; when Catherine united
with Frederic to partition Poland ; when
Alexander offered to divide the sovereignty
of tho world with Napoleon on the rnft of
j Tilsit; when Nicholas sent his armies into
tho Crimen. She means to win Constantinople
and to become n southern as well as a
northern Power. Napoleon recognized tho
possibility of this when he snid at St. Helena
that in fifty years Europe would be republican
or Cossack. During these fifty years no
Power has advanced so much as Itussia. W'c
regard Germany as a mighty Power, and tho
German Empire as n new force in tho govern|
mont of the universe. But Germany is the
aggregation of other Powers, the binding
of the rods around the lictor's
i axe; tho utilization of forces that had
been in abeyance. More than nil, Germany
will have to fight for the integrity
of her new Empire with the Power which she
thought she had crushed six years ago, but
which shows every day new and surprising
sources of strength. So long as Germany
| and France stand with unsheathed swords it
woul 1 bo idle to call the German Empire
anything but an experiment Itussia, on the i
| other band, has grown. She was defeated
| in the Crimea, 'flint defeat she turned !
' into n victory by nt oneo reorganizing i
j her government system, by strengthening
the resources of the Empire nnd winning
the support of the people by the eiunn- '
cipntion of her sorts. She held Austria in
check until Prussia lmd defeated Napoleon,
i and at once organized her armies on the
Prussian plan. She saw England the misI
tress ot the seas, and she began to build a
navy which woul 1 challenge that supremacy
a navy which now contains sonic of
i the lines! uon-cluds in the world, and in the
j
, construction of which sh has spent eighty
I millions of dollars in seventeen years. She
K. HERALD- FRIDAY. A1
is rapidly becoming the first military and
one of the first naval Powers in the world.
This marshalling of men, this building ol
ships, this steady, patient advance?what
does it mean? The destruction of the Turkish
Empire, the expulsion of the Turk from
Europe, the occupation of Constantinople.
All this time what does England say':
So far ns she has spoken she has opposed
Russia. Even as discreet a Minister as Mr.
Disraeli avowed that one of the reasons why
he wished to make the Queen nn empress was
that in India he might oppose the imperial
pretentions of the Czar by those of his own
sovereign. When Austria, Russia and tiermany
proposed certain reforms to the Sublime
Porte England declined to accedu, thus
showing the world that sho would prefei
Hiinruiiy in xuritey 10 reiorm nictated uy
Russia. Tlmt refusal has produced a coolness
between the two countries, and more
especially since the declaration of Lord
Derby that, while England could not prevent
the Turk from committing suicide, she
would not stand by and see him murdered.
This declaration was accompanied by the
movement of the English llect to Resika
Hay, which was an intimation to the Turks
that if Russia crowded them there was aid
at hand. It was a movement of this kind, n
littlo more than twenty years ago, which
presaged the Crimean war. If the policy of
England means anything it is that, rather
than permit any interference in Turkey or
in Servia that looks like the advance of Russia
toward Constantinople, she will go to
war. Such an act on her part would lead to
a general war in Europe.
We havo no fear of such a contest now,
although peace depends upon the will of
the Russian Emperor. It is a mistake to
suppose that England is not ready and willing
to fight. She is both ready aud willing,
and is in no sense afraid of the Northern
Colossus, oven if ho has Germany as an ally.
England has resolved to maintain her Indian
Empire, and on that point she will fight the
Russians as pertinaciously as she fought Napoleon.
It would be foolish to speculate
upon the results of such a war. In the first
plnco there is no war, and in the second
place war is not, so far as human eyes can
soo, at all imminent. This Servian insurrection
will bo allowed to burn itself out. It
was thought when it began that Servia was
simply the head of the lance, and thnt at
tho proper time ltnssin would bo as the
body of the lance; but thus far no such
fact appears. Itnssia may be feeling Turkey.
This insurrection may be what military
men would call a reconnoissnnce in
force. One effect lias been to show the utter
helplessness and prostration of the Turkish
Empire. In tho fall of Abdul-Aziz and
the miserable career of his successor the
world sees a spectacle of debauchery,
misgovernment, crime and imbecility
which history does not parallel. England,
which has given hundreds of
millions to sustain Turkey, now linds that
not only is her debt repudiated, but that
the money has gone to build iron-clads
and palaces, to buy concubines and
wild beasts to satisfy the appetite of a degraded
voluptuary. These developments
have made n profound impression upon England,
where we see a party growing stronger
every day opposed to any terms with the
Turks. The failure of the Khedive
strengthens this feeling, and far-seeing men
advise as the only way to protect India that
England should take Egypt. The purchase
of the Suez Canal was n step in that direction,
and it would not surprise us to learn at any
time that England, under some pretence like
the protection of her Turkish bondholders,
had made a treaty with the Ottoman by
which Egypt became a port of the English
Empire. From this view of the case the insurrection
in Servia is worthy of careful
study. It may burn out of its own
accord, like an isolated flame, or it may
spread until all Etiropo is wrapped in the
blaze of a desolating war.
Mr. Stanley'" I.etter*.
IV e continue this morning tho publication
of Mr. Henry M. .Stanley's valuable letters
from Central Africa detailing his adventures
and discoveries in that strange country. In
tho first of these letters Mr. Stanley tells us
of his visit to tho Albert Niyanza and the
difficulties which prevented his explorations.
He ulso confirms the story which Mukamba,
King of Uzige. told Livingstone of a race of
white people living in the mountains of Central
Africa. Some of these people accompanied
Mr. Stanley in his expedition to the
Albert Niyanza. It is a surprising story, but in
no way unlikely. Tho Aztecs were a different
race trom tne American Indian and were as
much a white people as their Spanish successors.
Africa was much easier of penetration
by Caucasians than Mexico or South
America, and it would have been oven more
remarkable had no evidences been found of
the existence of the race in Africa. This
discovery has a peculiar interest, but the
chief value of Mr. Stanley's letters is in the
proof they afford of the success of his explorations.
Ho has already undergone many
dangers and overcoino many difficulties, but
his determination and foresight have always
served him in time of need, and wo may look
forward with confidence to the completion
of his work.
Mn. Mabblx'h Splendid Ukcohd.?On one
point Mr. Marble would, as candidate for
Governor, add strength to the democratic
ticket?namely, his views on money. He
has expressed himself with his accustomed
clearness and ability on this point :?"The
existing law promises specio resumption for
January, 1H7'J. If tlio (Congressional) caucus
decides to recommend the repe&l of this
promise there is no tongue no persuasive as
to induce the people to believe the demo
cratic party sincere in its demand for resnraption.
Wr must adhere to the day, and
do better than the republicans in showing
the means, or run the risk of being believed
no better litted than the republicans to repair
the country's financial system." This
is much stronger ground than that of Tihlen
in his letter of acceptance, or even in the St.
Louis platform. We have no doubt Mr.
Marble would have couched the plattorm in
these words, but there were compromises
necessary to conciliate tue West. No compromises
are necessary to conciliate Neu
York. Mr. Marble would go into the can
vass with nil the prestige of an unassailable
I posit.ou on the money question.
[TGUST 11. 1876?WITH SU
[ j The Indian (InertIon.
I Every now nnd then we have a Huepicions
F despatch from Washington about the Indian
t question. The Indian King manages its
press department with ability and never
i loses an occasion of arousing onr feelings.
The latest despatch informs us that "great
' dissatisfaction is felt that Congress has
given neithe* the Secretary of the Interior
nor the Commissioner of Indian Affairs authority
to adjudicate matters with the Indii
ans before the next session of Congress in
[ case the hostiles should become subdued
i and willing to agree on terms of peace. No
appropriations have been made to enable
the department to meet the expenses which
i might be incurred in taking tho necessary
> steps to this end." Furthermore, suvs the
despatch:?"The Indian Department officials
are desirous that Sitting Bull and his foli
lowers shall be well whipped before they
shall be allowed to propose any terms for
their future peacoful management and coni
trol. Commissioner Smith has taken broad
and practical views of tho settlement of the
i Indian question, and is giving his attention
to a careful study of all its complications,
and he is determined that the power of tho
national government shall bo felt by the Indian
as well as the white people of the
country. His peace policy is more in accord
with tho War Department than has obtained
in the views or line of action adopted
l.v Ilia "
The meaning of this despatch is that the
chiefs of the Indian King are afraid that Congress,
in response to an outraged public
opinion, will take away all the power over
the Indians from the Interior Department
and give it to the army. Our readers can
only form a faint idea of the power of this
King and the influence of its members over
Congress. Thus the House passed an act
transferring the Indians to the War Department.
A juster measure was never passed.
But it was defeated in the Senate, and rather
than consent to it the Senate was willing to
defeat one of the most important appropriation
bills of the session. This talk about the
Indian Department making peaco with the
hostile Indians, or doing anything toward a
humane solution of the question, is folly.
We owe all the wars on the Plains nnd in
the Yellowstone region to the corruption and
incapacity of the Indian Department. While
the English authorities in Canada have kept
peace with their Indian tribes we have kept
ours in a state of continual irritation and
war. We have robbed them. We have violated
treaties. Wo have starved them. Fortunes
have been made out of rotten tobacco,
chicory coffee and mildewed cloth. At one
agency?Standing liock?the incapacity and
villany of the agents of the Indian Depart
xuent assumed such a shape that the Indians
were compelled to eat their ponies and dogs.
The brother of the President was one of the
agentH in this nefarious business. Wherever
the department has had anything to do with
these Indians it has robbed and betrayed
its charge that its agents might
amass fortunes. In other words, the whole
business of the Indian Department has been
to cheat the Indians, madden them with
rum, supply them with arms and ammunition,
drive them out on the warpath and
then send for the army to fight them. As
i soon us the army had secured a peace they
resumed their nefarious practices.
We are glad to hear that Commissioner
Smith is taking "broad and practical views
of the settlement of the Indian question."
We know nothing about Smith, and have no
doubt he is a Christian statesman; but the
country wants none. of his "views," and it
looks upon the department over which he
presides as a sink of iniquity. We trust
Congress will not give Smith or his department
a dollar. We are tired of that Indian
Ring. The true peace commissioners
are Sherman and Sheridan. The idea of a
commissioner who never saw an Indiun,
most probably, except on the stage or in the
parlors of a hotel, a mere civilian, Bitting in
Washington and dividing contracts and
patronage between quarrelsome Congressmen
and their friends, knowing anything
about the practical working of the Indian
question is a farce. The army should take
charge of the Indian. There is no man so
tender and considerate as the soldier. There
arc no two men more capable of handling the
Indians than Sherman and Sheridan. They
know when to use humanity and when kindness.
They are men of honor, character and
high intelligence. Let us intrust the
whole question to them. We think the
House should remain in session for six
months rather than permit the Indians to
remain under the control of the Indian
Ring. Let us have an end of this corrupt
Indian Department and allow the Indians to
pass under the control of the army.
The August Meteors.
Nature works on Buch a grand scale that
we look forward with the liveliest interest to
any extraordinary exhibition of her power
predicted by science. Whether it bo the
progress of the great cyclone from the equatorial
seas, the violent eruption of the giant
volcanoes, of which the forewarning coiucs
in earthquake shocks, or the periodic display
of meteors in August and November
which scientific observation has
taught us to expect, we watch for the phenomenon
with increasing interest until we
i experience its terrors or enjoy its beauties.
The meteorites, vulgarly termed shooting
shirs, which become visible at this season
i and later in the year, have been the subjects
of historic record from the earliest
i times; the Chineso claim to have re
corded their appearance many centuries
before the Christian era. However,
i although often observed, the meteors coni
tinued to inspire awo in the minds of all
peoples, civilized as well as savage, until quito
recently, when an attempt was made to solve
i the mystery of their source and nature. As>
tronomical observations have accurately de[
tcrmined the earth's orbit in relation to the
centre and other members of the solar sysi
tern. This course once established, it foli
lowed, as a matter of course, that meteorologists
would carefully note what might bo
termed the local effects produced through
i the different stages of our planet's progress,
i As regards the appearance of meteors,
by a careful comparison of the
times of these displays with the dates
noted of the earliest observations, scicniists
i discovered an unaltcrablo relationship ox|
isting between tho events, and the periodicity
J'fLBMENT.
of appearance was established. This enables
ns to predict, with almost a certainty
of verification, the appearance of meteors in
August and November of each year. In the
present month we have been nightly expecting
them, and already we have been
rewarded by the sight of a few possessing
remarkable brilliancy. It is asserted, and
with considerable weight of scientific argument,
that at certain Btages of its orbit the
earth encounters the fragments of former
stellar bodies, whiclj from some cause unknown
have been destroyed by a great explosion
of the planetary mass or by collision
with other stars. These fragments are sup
posed to hang in Rpnco, but yet under the
influence of the counterposing attractions of
the sun and the planets, und therefore, follow
tho orbit of their original combined
mass. As the planes of the orbits of the
sturs of our Bolar system do not coincide,
that of the earth must intersect the path of
this nebulous collection at this season, and
the fragments in space come within the influence
of terrestrial attraction. Friction with
our atmosphere while falling toward the
earth undoubtedly creates the heat that produces
the brilliant effects we notice, and thus
for a limited period during two months tho
midnight sky is illuminated by the fiery
movements of these visitors from another
world.
Sports at Newport. ?
After a successful tour in Great Britain
the celebrated lacrosse team of Canadian
gentlemen and Iroquois Indians are again
on this side of the Atlantic and have ac?
: ?l..1 io?
vrptcu ail illYlUUlUU VU CJLU1U1V bite V/iiAKkVAicn*
national game of lacrosse at Newport. The
days for playing are Wednesday and Saturday,
and the grounds of the Polo Club have
been selected for the exhibitions. From
their first appearance in Ireland in May last,
through Scotland and in England, these Canadian
amateurs and attending Iroquois met
with cordial receptions, and so much was the
game everywhere appreciated that thousands
turned out to witness every performance.
When thoso experts, who have mastered
every detail of the sport, made their appearance
at Hurlingham Park, the representatives
of the fashionable world of London
were present. To the vast majority of the
spectators that greeted the team at their
public reunions the game was a great
novelty, but the Hurlingham and subsequent
performances so favorably impressed
many with the sport they have since established
lacrosse clubs, and in all likelihood
matches will soon be played by the
new organizations. Following closely the
gratifying exhibitions about London the
palefaces and reduien, upon invitation,
played a private match before the Prince
and Princess of Wales, and, lastly, they up
peered before the Queen and Court, who
were highly pleased, and the general opinion
of the company was strongly appreciative
of the merits of lacrosse.
The game is ancient among the Indians.
Under the care of the white man, however,
it has been transformed from a rough
pastime into a skilful and scientific accomplishment,
and those who saw it ten years
ago would hardly recognize it now. At each
end of the ground on which the game is
played stands n goal about six feet high.
Each of the players has for his weapon of
action a "crosse," which is over four feet
long, very light, and made of tough ash or
hickory. It is curved like a^rozier, and
from the peint of the curve or cro^kto about
half way of the handle there is spread out a
network of catgut or thongs of moose skin.
On this piece of netting the ball is caught
in a variety of ways and borne or thrown by
the player in the direction of the goal.
While a player is making cfif with the ball
the members of the opposite team get in his
course and do their utmost to knock the boll
off his crosse; hence many exciting and stubborn
contests. One standing rule is that
the netting must be perfectly flat and not
bagged when the ball is on it. This increases
the difficulty of carrying the ball at a racing
pace. The ball is of sponge indiarubber
and weighs about four ounces. No player
except the goal keeper can touch the ball
with the hand, and tho players cannot catch
hold of one another, strike or trip, but they
are permitted to "shoulder" when endeavoring
in a scrimmage to get the ball. One
delightful feature of the game is its extreme
simplicity. There is no room for perplexity
as to the state ot' the match. Whether you
arrive early or late you can at once become
interested in the sport. No telegraph has to
be watched and no score sedulously kept.
To enjoy the game you have only to watoh
the players as they pass under your eye.
The Canadian team is composed of well
formed men, lithe of limb and swift of foot,
and are an excellent match for their opponents.
Some of the Indians are extraordinarily
clever and marvellously slippery, and
when on their mettle givo their pale-faced
brethern all they can do to escape defeat.
There aVo good reasons for believing that the
exhibitions of lacrosse at Newport will prove
as attractive as they did at Hnrlingham Park.
Tllf Weather.
An extended rain area accompanies the
advance of the storm centre from the
Northwest. The Mississippi, Lower Missouri
and Ohio valleys share in this general
precipitation, and it is probable that
by to-morrow the western and northern portions
of the Middle States will feel its
presence. In the far West, and particularly
in the region of the liig Horn Mountains and
the Upper lellowstono ltiver, violent alternations
of temperature have occnrred dnring
yesterday, the mercury falling in the morning
at Cheyenne to 34 degree*, and at Bismarck
and North Platte to 48 and 49 degrees
respectively, and rising again as rapidly
toward evening. This sodden change will
act with very dangerous effect on the troops
operating against the Sioux, inducing
pneumonia, pleurisy and other inflammatory
diseases in weak constitutions. It must he
remembered that these poor fellows have left
their camp on a fifteen days' hunt after the
Indians, and are therefore exposed iu the
open country to this sudden inclemency of
the weather. It is to be hoped that the
commanding officers will tako measures to
protect their men and horses against the
assaults of an enemy even more dangerous
than Sitting Bull. The weather in New
York to-day will be partly cloudy and
warmer, and we may bo visited by another
thunder storm similar to that of last Monday.
tiaacral Batter's ftnsseisl Remedies* 1
General Butler's let!or consenting ones ?
more to become a candidate for Congress it
one of the most adroit performances of hit
life. He it all things to all men if thereby
he may secure more rotes. On tho tariff
question, for instance, it is amnsing to see
how he makes himself the champion of the
special interests of his district without committing
himself either to protection or free
trade. "A judicious adjustment of tho details
of this legislation," he says, speaking
of a prospective revision of the tariff by tho
next Congress, "is very important to the industrial
interests of your district, which I
hope I may be able to represent with effect;
certainly, with every interest of my own intertwined
with your own, I shall be impelled
by every motive to carry out your wishes in
that regard." In view of such a comprehensive
appeal to their selfishness the people ol
General Butler's district will not be slow
understand that the kind of revision of the
tariff which he will favor will be a revision
exactly suited to thein and to him. We congratulate
them upon the fact that his interests
and theirs are "intertwined." But his
manipulation of the greenback question is I
even worthier of ^is reputation for adroit*
nesB. Everybody supposed he was an inflationist,
and now it turns out that he
is among the most enthusiastic of
contractionists. Specie resumption, he
thinks, cannot be enforced by law,
and so we presume does everybody
else, but he is ready to pass laws which will
bring about specie resumption. His panacea
seems to be a reduction of the rate of interest
on the public debt and tlio convertibility
of greenbacks and the national bank
currency into government bonds at a lower
rate of interest than is now paid. There is
much good sense and good policy in this,
but its fallacy consists in the deduction he |
would have us draw from his reasoning. The
conclusion ho wishes the voters in his district
to reach is that this simple process
would make the paper dollar equal in value
to a dollar in gold. General Butler forgets,
however, that the greenback is already convertible
as he would make it convertible and
that it will now buy a better bond at a
higher rate of interest than the one he
would afford. It is a different kind of convertibility
that is needed?convertibility
into gold?and he muBt be aware that th?
problem of funding the nntional debt at
lower rate of interest is a different question
altogether. General Butler's remedies art
fallacious, and we are afraid we shall be compelled
to look elsewhere for the doctriDei
which are to save the people from bankruptcy
and ruin.
BIr. lilatiiie'* Speech.
Senator Blaine opens the canvass in his
own State with unnecessary virulence,
thereby doing himself more harm than the
political enemy whom he would injure. His
speech at the district convention at Augusta
on Wednesday was not only in bad taste,
but it was singularly inappropriate, coming
from one who has jnst gone through the fiery
ordeal to which he was subjected. Doubtless
31 r. limine would nave us believo that the
charges against him had their foundation in
political malice and were intendod only foi
political effect, but, forgetful of the charity
he asks, he fails to accord it in turn. His in*
sinuation that Governor Tilden will use of
his abundant private means to carry the Maine
elections in September will not be believed
by any, and it is not possible that Mr.
Blaine himself believes it. Why ho should
so ' forget the attitude in which he stands
ber ie country as to utter such a foolish
slander is not easily explained upon any
hypothesis than that his illness has I
deprived him of much of that ncuteness and
common sense to which he owed much of his
prominence. It cannot bo that Mr. Blaine
is trying to scathe others because he is himself
not unscathed, or that he attacks Governor
Tilden's integrity because his own
would have been attacked had he been Governor
Tilden's antagonist^ the Presidential
battle. But whatever view we may take of
his motives his speech is equally unworthy.
Sympathy fob Db. liurus Waggoner Flint
is now in order. His divorced wife asks the
Supreme Court to compel him to pay her
alimony out of gains as a spiritual medium
at the Rame time that she exposes his evil
practices and brings his "business" into
disrepute. In the meantime poor Flint cannot
make a living for himself out of the
dupes for whom-he has been in the habit ot
answering letters by a spiritual hand.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sigol bu Again retreated.
William Callen Bryant In at Cnmmington, Mm*.
Chief Jaattco Walie is at the White sulphur Springs
Va. I
Mrs. Partington ShllUbcr la recovering from rhca .
matlsin.
Sir William Hackett, of England, Is at the Clarendon
Hotel.
There le much gambling daring tbe bard times Is
Cblcaxa
Tbunder storms are moRt frequent over polluted
rivers or lako*.
Governor Thoma? A. Hendricks left this city for Phil
adcipma iui ntn nt
Mmo. la Mar<|UiM do Montholon arrived In New York
from Paris yesterday.
runrk't cartoon on vivisection ought to kill all opp*
sittoii to the experiments of science.
The Turkish government favors the Roman Calholii
to the detriment of the Greek Serbian.
Mr. Krnrts is of opinion that the earliest namo of out
Minister lo England was Mutison Kdwards Pterrepont
Tho freedom enjoyed in Vienna is no criterion of libs
crty throughout tho Austro-Hungarian dominioor.
It a ladv goon to Saratoga she will not wear a hat;
aba will hide her pretty head| under a rashionable par.
aaol
O'Donovan Rossa Is lecturing in Xcw England in or.
dcr to obtsiu skirmishing lunds for keeping up I
guerilla warfare with England.
It is time tho cabling of news regarding M. Onrnof,
whoever M. Durnof may be, was stopped. Tho only
provocation for it seems to be to efTirJ an opportunity
ol contradicting whnt has boon asserted the day beforr
end introducing this gentleman to ihe American public,
'Daniel Peronda," ]>er English advices, turns ouk t?
be the son of a Jewess formerly a pre it singer, now, bj
her second husband, a princess. Grandcourt wai
i knocked overboard, and Gwendolen refused to throe
Iiiu) a ro|>o. lie was drew ned. Hie loves fteronda nnd
Deronda loves Mlrsh. T'In- Athrn.tui pronounces tin
plot a failure.
The Atlanta (Oa.) Timet:?'' Kit Carson, Jr., who Is
nt present in tills city, proposes to leave soon lor the
West to ongage In tho Indian campaign. lie Hunks
Sandwich Island Frank, and not Sitting Hull, is tin
planner of the redskiu campaign. The ludlsu positioi
is a splendid one lo stand a campiign ol almost Hidednito
length against heavy odds, and with hut nne-iourth
ol the regular army opposed to them, as at present
they can repeat the history of the lar* n0 a larga,
scale "