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gg- i ^c gca^Tgss^saEsgTj:::^: »;;»^y>-T;ga3:yi*!;£Sag:^-^v^ 3I0SDAY ETENISG. AGGCST SO, 1880. T b i » P a p e r baw tlto I . a r e c s t - C t r c n l ^ tlo n a t o u r - E v e m n s P a p e r P u b l l s U c d in th e l/iiitc a S t a t e s . I t s i-a l a e a s a u Ads'crtlKiuti: Ilc t U u m is th c r c l o r o a p - lia r c n i . ^lioncral n ii t l e r ’s Speccit m id P o s it ion . General Benjamin P. Butler is a unique figure in our politics. In considering the speech made by him at Boston, on Saturday night, in favor of Hancock, it is proper to hear in mind that, whatever his eccentricities, he has all along cultivated the habit of speak ing out, so that men Lava never been iii any doubt as to where he stood. Before the war he was a thorough going believer in the right of the respootivo States to settlo the slavery question for themselves within the Union, and in pursuance of this conviction ho voted forty-eight times to make Jefferson Davis the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. When llifi people of the South appealed from the bal lot box to the sword, General Butler was one of the first to prove paramount attachment to the Union by offering his life in Us defense. IVlien the war closed he held that the negro ought to he immediately eufriUichised, and favored the imjjositiou of restrictions upon the cx-Confedoratos, which would have made the colored man master of the South for two or three generation.s. If there was a thorough ad vocate of extreme measures Butler svas the man. When Thaddeus Stevens, after referring to the lawyers, who were trying to show that the Constitution warranted the radical rocoustrno- tion proposed, as a hundred tliousand d—d fools, went on with the ultra work as extra CoustitiUional but necessary ho had Butler for his ablest coadjutor. His latter antagonism of both tha old parties on the financial question has been of a pieco with his earlier independence. Right or wrong ho has never bean afraid to stand alone and take the consequences of his action. What his mental characteristics are need not bo told to any person familiar with American politics. He has said more than his share of good things, and has come to be looked upon as the embodiment of what, in the absence of a better term, is called cheek. When he presented himself for Congress two years ago he said that ho did not figure ns a coy maiden waiting to bo wooed; ho chose rather to bo viewed ns a widow who knew what sho wanted and was willing to toll. This offhand and frank style of talk has done much to preserve his popularity, though it must be allowed that had there not been some better reason for the es teem in which many hold him, ho could hardly hnvo passed through so many political storms unhurt. While ho to-day emphasizes his de sire to benefit the colored men as the control ling uiotivo of his public action, it is but just to say that no ono will refuse to look upon this as an adequate explanation who knows Low early he espoused the catisa of the for eign born citizen against every species of Know Notliingism, and with what steadfast ness ho has adhered to their defense. Under a most cynical exterior, this extraordinary in dividual does carry an affection for struggling humanity, whatever the color of its skin. In treating his indorsement of Hancock, after having for f wenty years upheld Republicanism, the Democrats cannot without making them selves ridiculous indulge in any eulogies any more than Ilopublicaus can indulge in any abuse. That Butler is a power is not to be denied, and it is just as true that it is an open question wjKthcr his allies or his adversaries have most to bear at his hands. The reasons which he assigns for favoring Hancock will bo weighed for their own sakes and not for the sake of the advocate. The question is not what we think of the General, but what cogency there is in his reasoning. He begins by affirming the importance of having our .^.dministration changed from time to time, putting the p.at inquit^: “ If it “ be not safe to trust a President for “ three terms, how does it become safe “ to trust the same party for six suc- “ ccBsive terms?” and this, ho adds, is the more pertinent when we find the successive- administrations of that party repudiating and denouncing the acts of each other ? We shall leave our Republican contemporaries to au swer this question while we follow tha Gen eral who asks : n tlUH rpmejial frequeat ebaege of ofiteora ami party aitminiatratiou—dt-emeit under ali political syateina wbich bave cilhor in form or fact ri pened Into oonstitutioual government, eo nocos- iary for the purpose of preserving purity of ad- niinietratioD, and for reeiatlng the tendency of ett goverumoata toward the depolic use of power—id ever to be applied in tbis country, ouglit it not to be enforced now ? Tbe question will recur to the etector: tVbat vital mcaanre of polity mnat I give up; what great guarantee of the perpetuity of the tiovernmoot juust I wcaLen ; what danger to the safety of tbe republic do I invoke, to obtain this ebange of adminietration which is in itself of necessity a groat reform ? If tha answer than l-e : No one of these ia at issue in tbia canvass, is not the nece.seity for iMa reform of iteetf eudioJent to the citizen to determine bis vote 7 The possilile response to this leads to the burden of the OeneraVs speech. As he appre hends the reply, and as, in fact, it i.s made from every Republican stump, it resolves itself into ‘•his : First—The Democratic party is disloyal. Second—The Democratic party will not give the colored man his rights. Third—The country is prosperous, and the success of the Democrats might seriously dis turb business. In nioeting these objections the General fommuuic.ates the interesting statement that vs an evidence of good faith ho has resolved not to hold any Federal office nor to solicit any during the coming four years. This, he thinks, will meet any intimation that he is actuated by s.ilfish motives. As to the question of the disloyalty of the Dmnocracy, he first enumerates the oouspiciious Democratic leaders who leaped to the defense of the Union, and then ifflrma that “ if the Democratic,party had “ nmlerlaken to break up the Union, then as- “ suredly the Union would have been broken “ up. If, he asks, McClellnn, if Farra- “ gut, if Smith, if Thomas, if Grant, if Sleade, “ if Meagher, if Corcoran, if Burnside, if “ Sheridan, if Hancock and a long roll of “ other heroic names, which will come to every “ man’s thought that I might recite, had not “ stood by the Union, drawn their swords and “ marched to the rescue of the Government, “ do you believe it would have been saved by “ the present stay at home Senators and Rep- “ resontntivoB of Massachusetts, not one of “ whom did go to the war, even after Massa- \ chusetts Democrats showed them the w.ay, “ remaining at home in safety, so that their “ ranks, undiminished by disease or the bul- “ 1st, are able to fill all the prominent civil “ offices, both in the State and Federal gov- “ emments, with not a soldier, either Repub- “ iican or Democrat, among thorn.” In this relation he adds a touch by which we ate sure good natured Republicans will be as much amused as their Democratio neigh bors: I admit frocly th« fact that Ihcro were moreRopab- licaa tUaii Democratic olliciirs in tile voJtmtcer ariDietj of tbo t/nited good man aud true, who iroM from tho h»v.cr to tbe higher^jradcB of rauk by their beroiKm and devotion to Iheir <jounlry’8 cauBO. The rea.so;i for thin i» obvioua: quite all the Governors cf the Northern yutea were UopublicanB. They ap pointed al! the regimental officers, and, therefore, they appointed moBt largely their Republican frtenda. But the Democratic soldier, wbou he enlUtod patriotically, appointed himself a private. ; Seriously, there is no person of passable in formation who does not know that when the North and Wcst were called upon to deni with the question of secession, party distinctions were forgotten by tha great body of the people, and from the firesides of Republicans and Demo crats alike the soldiers went forth who de fended the flag. The claptrap of stump speak ers, or of demagogues who taka it for granted that their hearers know nothing of recent American history, can have no appreciable effect on this canvass. It ia an insult to a man to pretend in his presence that the Union would be in danger, if General Hancock were elected President. As Butler puts i t : “ Han- “ oock did it t/ien\ (that is, defended the Onion). In his letter of acceptance “ ho “ sat/s it now, and who shall dare doubt his “ pledged honor to the nation ?\ Turning to the question of protecting the negro. General Butler speaks with an air of gravity that forbids any doubt of his sincerity : It la claimed that it la uecoasary to ktap tha Ilapuhll- cau patty In power for the belter protection of the negro In the South. If that were true, 1 would pause and carefully before I ahoald do anything to hin- .he euccGse of the Beptiblican parly. Hut can the Administration with having abandoned the colored men in the South for the purpose of seizing tha Presidency by fraud. “ But (bo “ first act, a.s we have seen, of Mr. Hayes, \ acquiesced in by his party, was to abandon “ all possible claim of right of intorferonoo in “ the South in behalf of the negro—to remove “ the few troops that were there, if any were “ necessary, aud to take pains to turnover “ the governments of Louisiana and South “ Carolina to the Democratic party, destroying “ the governments elected by Republican “ rotes there, which, if they were not duly “ and legally elected, then Mr. Hayes himself “ was not duly and legally elected.” For n party in this po.sition to talk of pro- tecting the negro seems to him a mockery. Not only have Mr. Hayes and his associates done uotliiug for the colored men, but ‘ 'they “ put these States in the South in such a con- “ ditiou that nothing could be done for “ them.” Pursuing thi.s train of thought he says ; Am I. a frloud of tUo nojiro. bonnl to ficht anotlier campaign in bia bcliall, »a a Repwblicau, almply to «eo him abaiuloued and myself cbeated once more V Wbot guarantee have I that General Garflold will take a dif ferent view of this question from Oorcroor Hayes? They ara both from Ohio, and each baa been and 1a a supporter of the olber. Why are Itepuhlicona to bo deemed to have abaudoaed their political princlplo.s. aud gono over to tho enemica of the country, ho- oauso wo proDoso to vote for a Union gen eral for Prcdidont, while Mr. Hayes, who baa been the moral and olllcial head of (ho Kepiih- licAD party, bocoiu I only to Rrotiiiloiil Moolsey, of \alo, can with applaufic appoint a ConfoJerAtc ftoceral to a Cabinet onioe ? Hail to sco any dietinotiou between the two acts iu any aspect, save that wa are going to vote for a great general and Hayes appointed a litt'o one. N’ow, thou, it is because I am a friend of tho lio- gro, it is because I dosiro to stand for him.at U be cause I Jo.sJro to do all that lu me lies to aid him in tho tllillcult position in which ho U placed by tho nttaiu- meut, 80 unprepared, of bis citiienaUip, that I now propoBO to act with tha Democratic party. They at least can nrolect him, aud I helievo will so do. llelievlug, as I do. that with tho eloctioa of Opuoral tiaucock race collisione will ho at an end; knowing, a.s I do, that he has tho oxocutivc power, determination and BteadfaBtnesa iu right that uover .’ins falterad, t think I can trust him to seo that the promise of hl,B letter of acceptance that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendpjeute shall ho carried out In their letter and apint. ' 1 freely ooufosa to you that I desire to he in such relations of political kindness and conrtcey with the Deinocratie party that I may be permitted to point out in hshaif of tlio colored men wliat I deem would he for the best interost of alt aud what I doubt not will ho their wish to do iu hia behalf. Hut of one thing I am certain, that I cannot ho more poworlesB for good to the colored race under General Hancock—tho Demooralic parly holding tho Oovei'U- uieut—than I bavo boeu, and ovory other frieud of tho colored men has been, undor the odminlatratloa of Iliilhorford B. Hayes. We vonture to .affirm that the most ingen ious Ropuhllcau advocate will exporieuoo some difficulty in di.spo.sing of these interrogatories. Couoededly tho Republicans either lack tha disposition or tho ability to help the colored man, for they have had fifteen years to experiment iu aud they say ho is un protected to-day. As’ certainly the Demo crats can protect him it the country will but give them the opportunity. The real solution of the problem lies on the surface. It ia to cease menacing the South. Thereupon, the white men of that section will divide, and iu thoir division the negro will find abundant protection. This Butler sees and this anyone can sea who is not resolved to keep his eyes closed. Apropos of the pros perity of tho country, the General fails to seo iu what respect the country is indebted to tho Republican party, unless Johu Sherman is to bo credited with our large crops and tho famine in Europe. So far from the country being indebted to tha politicians, ha holds that tho product.s which have, as it were, wrought out our salvation, are tho.se like grain and cotton, which are not tho subjects of legislation, while those like the shipping in terest, which tbe politicians have in b.ind, lie pro.strate. Wo quote tho General’s words ; But, citizens of >Ta8gaclirjsett«». let V3 conisideraf- fa:r(? a Jittlo nearer Uoain, with >vl;icb we are bettor ac- quslntecl. Before tbe aUvout of the KopubUcau party into power, every rivor aud harbor ou our coast was Ci-’gap'od in fihlpbuildiu,^. It was a vast aud succcRsftil iurtvistry. Now. thoro is not a ibip baiug built in MadsacUusctU aud hardly a half score of BLuallor Under RopubUcan rule our comracrco has been swept from the sea. We have but a Piu\lo line of steam- shipH bearing our (lag ou tho Atlantic, n»d another on the Paulflc Ocean, to do al! our froightiiigr by steam. Re publican administration has given up our trade iwith South America. The Auiorloan flag is hardly aeon on the ocean. The port ol Bostoji baa not eutHoient foreign coimncrce to give a deront support to Us*suiaU pilot force. Roston is losing Ita importauce as a commercial city tecause of RupubUcan legia’.ation and admluislratlou. Its Btaud- ard inanranco company cau find scarcely more raarino risks than enough to pay ita oiuce rent. All those facts tho merchants of Boston who sit around me know. And yet It is proponed that they shall still permit Re publican administration to go ou under which this des truction of its interostR is being accompliFbod. This picture o f Massachusetts shipping aji- plies to tho whole country. It is mauifest that in this respect at least there is nothing to be lost by a change. Passing to the per.sonal character of the can didate, he subjects Mr. Garfield to some pun gent criticism touching Oakes Ames aud the hack pay operation. As to tho latter, ho says he favored tlie inore.ase of the pay to the end tliat men like Mr. Garfield who were dependent upon their Congres.sional sala ries for subsistonce might be raised above temptation. “The nominee at Chicago was “on the Committee on Appropriations, and “although tho bill for increase of salary was “reported by me as an ameudment to the Ap- “pr0]7riation bill, I uover had any reason to “fear his opposition to its pa.ssage through the “House. Hs might have been opposed to it— “I do not say that he was not—but his oppo- “sition made no such impression upon me “that I can remember.” This is the mild manner iu which Mr. Garfield’s doubling aud shuffling are described. Touching the Oakos Ames affair the orator is more severe. He defends Ames as an honest, pa triotic man; holds that in giving stock to Con gressmen, so that they would either abstain Ciom attacking his interests, or not be indif ferent, if they were attacked, he did right, aud assails Mr. Garfield, not for having taken the stock, hut for having denied that ha did take it : The case ia not v.-itlioiit parallel ia hiatory of men no*, able to withat-iml tbo preaanre of public opiniou. I'eif-r. when lie among tbe aarvantB and retainora of tlie hiqli priaata, denied bia .Miator tbree tlmos over, and ciir-ed and awore to it until the cock crowed Bltamo 0.1 bim, a'.ol theu Uc wetit out aud wept bitterly, lint tbiM I Mhonld uut bavo v o id for peter aa a President to eti'iiil nil ill a orial.r. I ahoul-.l have preferred ono of tho olher direiplea—even the doubting Thomas, who atood by hia Master after he was c-nivinced. IJiit the thing I uiJHt regret about this matter—partly because it has caused mo all this trouble—ia that tha nominee should have delayad Ilia defense—which ho issued in pamphlet fonn, ia which Mr. .Amos is accused of tmtruthfulnoas ia his tostimonj-until aflor Oakes Ames’ eyes woro closed in death .and tlio honest tonguo which would have repelled the slander was silent forever. The third point which ho ihakes against Mr. Garfield is that even if oloctsd he could not bo dopondod on to stand up to tho i.s3ues of tho campaign. tVhy tha uncertainty ? Well, there is this pertinent and for business men most weighty answ e r: “In tho House of “ Repressntittives ho made a declaration upon “ this question, taking precisely tho same “ position which 1 take to-day. These “ are his words: ‘Tho man who attempts “ to get up a political - excitement in “ this country on tho old sectional issues “ will find himself without a party and with- “ out support.’ But the advance leaders of “ his party, seeing tho necessity of a war cry, “ have mado tho Boctional issue that of the “ campaign, directly in contravention of thoir “ candidate’s words. If their nominees were “ convinced in his own mind—if ho uttered “ this dselaratvon as tha result of his delibe- “ rate judgment—if ho will give up that judg- “ ment now for tho sako of an election, what “ suriety have I that ho won’t return to i t “ after tho pressure is relieved from him and “ ha is elected ?” This is another conundrum which tho Republican newspapers ought to dispose of before assailing the General for going over to the Democrats. After outlining the services of General Hancock on tho battle field, and as au administrator, and having dwelt upon his spotless reputation and the admirable qiialities(of his letter to Sherman, General Butler concludes with the question to Massachusetts, which is the question be fore tho country ; “ Such is our leader. “ Men of Massachusetts you hnvo now the “ golden opportunity to iiut tho destinies of “ tho country under tho guidance of his firm “ hand, strong will, 1 mature judgment, loyal- “ ty to the Union for which he battled, and “ fidelity to ita Coustitution, which he has “ ever made the guide of his action.\ Putting aside the pride of party and the spirit of contention for its own sake, is there not enough set forth iu these excerpts to make thousands of other men who, like General Butler, have been supporting the Republican party, give their suffrage to General Hancock ? What may be gained by his electiou is ob vious. What is to bo gained by Garfield’s success cannot be stated, unless the pei'iietua- tion of ill feeling bo deemed a gain. T h e Iin p c n d l i ie ; t l a t t l o o f C n i id a i i.ar. To-day’s telegrain.s announce that General Roberts expects to fight Ayoob Khan at Gan- dahar to-morrow. The latter has withdrawn long I tier tl _ _ _ _ _ _ Eopublican Administratloa protect tbo bontborn col- j x , ored man iu all bis rlghU, and wi!l tbry do so? Slnoo | from CaudaUar about eight milcs, and has viJl tbry do the war closed, tor sixteen ye.Ar8 t’jo Ilciiiibllcan parly bavo bad abnoicto control ol tbe executive departmeut end, until tbo lust CongroBS, of tbe K-ginlalive depart ment of tbo Govermnout, aud niovt of tlio time by a two- tblrds luajoiity, Ha-t that parly qivaa jiroUction to tbe negro lu the eenBO In v.blch tbey put the iiecosBity for BO doing l>»foro tbo pooplo 7 Tbiiir vor.v campaign cry Is an admisBlon tlut they have not bo dono. If they cannot or will not do it in rlxtren yr,ar.«, bnvnnich longer sball v.v. trust tUom with the power in order that they may do It V In this ivhvUou ha charged the present )irohahly entrenched himself in a good posi- tioii. Tho force at his disposal is not known, but .it best. General Roberta will not have more than 12,000 efficient troops. It seems tliat his army has been remforeed by tho garrison at Khcliit-i-Ghilzai, wliich he left list Wednesday, turning it over to Uie Ai’-ieer’s officers in good faith. In view o f the serious allegations made by the Russian press and English correspondents in St. Petersburg, that the Ameer is disloyal and is giving secret assistanoo to Ayoob, this is a step of questionable wisdom. Should these aUogations prove true, then Roberts will have locked tho door on his own retreat. At all events, the situation is ono so tempting to Ab durrahman that it will strain tho loyalty aud good faitii of his followers not to make use of it to deal the British a crushing blow. General Phaj’to has been heard from at last. He is re ported to be near Oandahar, and a plan of attack, including his co-oporation at Tokbt-i- Pal, has been forwarded. But ho ia apparently in a bad way. His transportation facilities, owing to tho scarcity of provender and tho wholesale desertion of drivers, are now limit ed, and it is hardly believed that he can reach Taklit-i-Pal in time. However, these dis patches which come from Chaman, under date of yesterday, moke no mention of any severe losses experienced by General Roberts, and his troops may be hotter prepared fora serious encounter than is generally believed. The re sult of tho impending battle will be known be fore tho end of the week. A T y p i c a l D e m o c r a t Cione> AVhilo one of our two great political parties hopes to prolong its existence and to retain power, by keeping the present generation of voters qnaitoling over issues with the shaping of which they had nothing to do, and which were settled long before a majority of the voters who will decide the next Presidential election were entitled to the franchise at all, nature herself is daily demonstrating the im possibility of prolonging this unprofitable con tention. The men who were called upon to join issue in the great contest which tho existence of negro ^slavery iu this country presented have nearly all passed away. In the course of nature the men who found the great issue shaped for them when they came upon the stage of political activity—tho men who were then young and who were obliged to enter into a controversy which they did not make—are almost daily dropping out of tho ranks of the living, and are being gathered into the army of the great majority who have gone before. With;;i a few days, the death of a prominent represen tative of the last named class has been recorded. DeWitt 0. West, of Lexvis County, when a very young man ■was elected to the State Legis lature as a representative of one of tho two parties to tho controversy which turned upon tho best method of settling the abnormal ques tion presented by the existence of negro sla very iu this country. This was nearly thirty years ago, and when Mr. West died ho was, to all appearances, in the full vigor of mature manhood. The hold which tho principles of the Democratio party have upon the American people, as a whole, is well illustrated in tho life of DeWitt 0 . West. Almost with his ad vent into political life, the jiarty with which he identified himself went into a minority. For twenty ye.ar.s together, we presume, each succeeding electiou in Mr. West’s native coun ty found the Democrats in a hopeless minor ity. Mr. West was their accepted leader. He kept up the party organization, defended its principles, and never weakened iu the faith becau.se a majority of his neighbors disagreed with him. He believed in tho principles of his pnrlj', and he felt sure time would vindi cate them. For nearly twenty years the Dem ocratic iiarty has remained out of power. Only enduring jirinciples would account for this phenomenal instance of party vitality. Tho Republican party clings to power with the energy of despair, because it is controlled by the instinct that it cannot exist as aq oppo sition. No man believes that if ihe Repub lican party is defeated this year it will ever again contest a Presidential election with tho Democracy. This fact only demon strates that there is no public necessity for the existence of the Republican party at all. If all that the Republican spokesmen say of the South were true, the present relation of parties could not bo continued. Sooner or later a good understanding must be reached between tbe two sections, and tho singular anomaly is presented in our politics that, the moment this understanding is accepted, ono of our two existing parties will not have even an excuse for its oxistance. Tho Democratic party, if intrusted with power this year, will very soon be confronted with a vigor ous, and, in time, a successful opposition. But tha opposition will not come from tho present liepubiioan p.arty. The sectional question being settled with Hancock’s elec tion, upon tho very next question which comes to tho forefront of our polftics, the South will be divided. A redivision of parties iu the North will follow. If, for instanco, the ques tion of a readjustment of the tariff should bo doomed to be most important, Iowa will, most likely, be found acting, political ly, with Tennessee or Arkansas, rather than with Vermont or Rhode Island. That the Democratic party has sur vived, through good and through evil report, in oppositioafor twenty years is due largely to such men ns Do Witt O. West. As a business man, ho was so upright and so enterprising; 0 8 a neighbor ho was so helpful aud estima ble ; as a citizen be so commended himself in all relations of life, that tho vindictive as saults upon the party to which he saw fit to belong seemed to be even ridiculous in his proaenco. DeWitt 0 . West was an excellent typo of tho best product of American institu tions. He took all the intorast an iutelligout American should in political affairs, and he had all the reward ho sought in doing his duty as he understood it. The Democratic party of this State would have gladly honored him, by giving him any office within its gift. But ho sought nothing. Ho honored his party by upholding its iirinciples consistently, and by associating them with a public spirited career and a blameless and useful life. T r a g i c E u d ln a i o li a S t r e e t I l r a i v l * The circumstances attending tho murder of Mr. George C. Harward on Saturday night were peculiarly shocking, beeauso that a gentleman of good standing aud a lawyer, to whom the community naturally looks for au example in decorous obsorvanco of the law, should lose his life in a veffgar street brawl is inexpress ibly shocking. Tho whole history of tho case is shocking, because while Mr. Harward was far from being a vicious young man, tho tragedy of Saturday night was but tho abrupt climax of a career which, to say tho least, had beooma sadly irregular. Not many years ago Mr. Harward occupied a very honorable position among tho young lawyers of this city. Personally, he was a very popular man. Ho had all the social qualities which tho world ad mires, and was e'verywhere known, as a genial, pleasure loving, hearty companion, whose society was gladly sought and whose compan ionship was a sure cure for the “ blues. ” But, like many a man similarly gifted, these very qualities proved his ruin. Conviviality sapped hia energies, and his professional status suffered. While regarded as a very promising Lawyer, he acquired the fatal reputation as a “ rounder,” bsnt rather upon enjoying a \good time” with his friends than working up a practice such as loss gifted, but loss self iudulgent young men of his own age had acquired. The affair of Saturday night, singularly disreputable though it.wa.s, came in the expected train. Together with a com panion ho spent tlio evening at a variety thea tre, and afterward, undoubtedly whiled away an hour or two in the way common to young men, ia some saloon. Between 1 and 2 o’clock he started for home, aud when near the corner of Bond street aud Atlantic avenue, espied two young women. The fact that these women were alone in a public thoroughfare at that hour of the morning should have been suffi cient reason for two gentlemen to avoid them as highly improper oharaoters. Mr. Harward and his friend, however, appear to have mado tho acquaintance of tho young women, and all four proceeded up the street. While standing in a doorway on Atlantic avenue they were ap proached by four men, who, according to tho statement of Mr. Peter J. Larkin, Mr. Harward’s companion, had been fol lowing them. But few words were exchanged before a free fight occurred, during which Mr. Harward was stabbed in the heart and fell into tho gutter in his death throes. Mr. Larkin himself was stabbed in several places, but tho police coming up, made several arrests and will continue to follow up tho clues until all the participants are arrested. Meantime, Mr. Harward was placed iu an ambulance and ex pired shortly afterward. I The details of this shocking affray differ in ’ no particular way from many otlicr low brawls ' that tho police reporters constantly record. The only difference is tliat instead of ordinary rougb.s being killed and woundod, two of tho X>arty were, by their professional standing itt all events, gentlemen who should have known better than be engaged in such huBlness. Those midnight quarrels ore confined ordinar ily to low groggerioB which properly brought up and circumspaotly behaved people do not frequent. By descending to the level of tha average brawler, which the unfortunate Mr- Harward aud his companion did when they associated themselves with a pair of loose wo men after midnight, they placed themselves in the category of brawlers, and perhaps provoked the assault which ended so tragically. Society ’will look with less len ience upon the conduct of those wh<J. like Mr. Harward, absent themselvea from happy and comfortable homes, from loving wives and young children, to spend their nights in rev elry aud street adventures. We live iu tho Nineteenth Century and not in tha Thirteenth, when street brawls were common and assassi nation was a custom, and even foolish lads who deserve any standing at all in society are required to bo ia bod by midnight. There ore very few men whose business requires them to be in tho street later than twelve o'clock, wliila for the carouses and revels which take place after that hour there is not only no excuse, but in addition the fact that they are unlawful. Tho law requires the clos ing of aU saloons by 12 o’clock, and had Messrs. Harward and Larkin been forced to leave al that hour they could have taken a car and reached home in safety. . Toung men who prowl the streets at night and engage iu such adventures taka their lives into their own hands, even in the most peaceful and best pairolled of communities. Kacing: Proapccts. Ill no year since it became a recognized national sport has horse racing made such progress in popular favor as during tho pres ent season. People who a few years ago would have shuddered at tho suggestion of thoir attendance at a race may now be seen in numbers at any of the courses, apparently among the most appreciative of the specta tors. Sunday School teachers and dea cons not a few frequently put in an ap pearance, and it is a fact that at rave intervals clergymen have been seen dodg ing along the quarter stretch or viewing the prospect from the grand stand. With tho increased interest ia racing has come a wonderful growth in the betting propensities of tho patrons of the turf. In tho large as semblages which almost daily gather to view the sport at Saratoga, Long Branch, Shoeps- head Bay or Brighton, there are few persons who do not venture something ou tho contests, and in some instances fabuloits amounts are staked ou a single trial of speed. The ladies are giving by their presence additional zest to tho pleasures of a day on tho turf, adorning tho racing arena as they do every sphere wherein they move. While the management of our races is not entirely faultless, and while we may not have attained the height of perfection in breeding and training, tho sportsmen of this country can point proudly to tho rapid strides which have boon made within tho jiast few years, rejoice in tho grand performancos of American horses at home aud abroad and contemplate with the utmost satisfaction tho prospects for the future. Ou tho association tracks the reg ulations are so stringent, and the direction of the contests is characterized by so much care and iatelligenoe, that the tests of blood oud speed are made almost invariably on the merits of the horses. There is a growing dis position to punish, with extreme penalties, anything resembling the scoundrelism which, within a few years, confounded the judgment of betting men, dejileted tho pockets of the speculatively inclined and, for a time, threat ened to make tho American turf a means of perpetrating a Bcries of shameful stvindles. Happily, tho measures for the suppression of frauds in racing have been so vigorously ap plied that a man can now risk his money on any of the association tracks with the assur ance that he will not bo robbed outright. In the steady advance of the racing spirit our people have a deep interest, both from the contiguity of the best race courses in the conn, try to the city and the splendid performances of tha Brooklyn stable. The new course of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay is now complete in all its details. With out exaggeration, it is the most eligibly situated and best constructed race track in tho United States, and will compare fa vorably with any in Europe. Tho Au tumn meeting of the club is to open next Saturday, when it is expected the larg est and most brilliant company that ever gathered on an American track will witness the running. In the list of entries appear the names of the crack horses of the East and West, North and South, among them the cele- prated Lnko Blackburn, tho fastest horse of the year, owned by the Messrs. Dwyer of this city. It will bo surprising if some wonderful tests of speed are not had at the Bay on Satur day and we should not be astonished if in tha impending struggles, some of the flyers do not considerably reduce the record. Fatal Railroad Nc)];ll 8 ;Gnco> Au accident not unlike that which occurred to a gravel train on the Long Beach Railroad a few weeks ago is reported this morning from Lowell, Mass. In tho former case the guy rope of a derrick, hanging across the railroad track, swept a score or more of laborers off tbe flat cars of the train and on the track as though they had been bo many flies. Yesterday’s accident was far more serious, for five boys were instant ly killed. It seems that they had been at tending a picnic, and on returning, instead of of going into the cars like ordinary passengers, climbed upon tho outside and sat on tbe top. Before their journey ended the train passed under a covered bridge. Between the bridge and the roof of the car was a space of twenty- two inches. Apparently not expecting the bridge tho boys did not take tbs precaution of lying down flat, and as a consequence all five struck the bridge and were killed. One fell upon the platform of the car and died a few minutes later. Tho other four were picked up dead on the track some time later. It wiU probably be held that these boys came to their death through their own negligence and foolhardiness, which is true, but not tho whole truth. Without doubt the conductor and train hands were equally responsible for permitting passengers to travel on the roof of the car. It is claimed that tho boys had no money tc pay their fare, and therefore rode free. It is hardly possible that so large a party coaid hove made tboir way up there without being observed. The conductor had no business to let them ride free, and was equally derelict in permitting them to ride on the outside of the train. I I N S I L ^ G R T h e U S T e w A . g r i c u l t u r a l I D i - s p e n s a t i o n . A C U a r a c tertH tic A iu o r lG a it F a i n t e r * A few days ago tho nows was sent to this country o f the death of the well known marine paintor, William Frederick De Haas, whose works are greatly admired and who ranked very highamong American artists. To-day, the death of a more purely American landscape paintor, Mr. Sandford B. Gifford is reported. Like Mr. Do Haas, Mr. Gifford had been an invalid for some time prior to his death. His trouble was the bane of this country, malaria, and early this Summer he was sent by his physician to Lake Superior. He returned unimproved and took to his bed. Pneumonia followed upon his other disorder and he died yesterday at his residence in New York, at the compara tively early ago of 57. Hia work takes rank with that of any native painter, though he did not have tho advantage of European travel and opportunities until ho had already mado a mark in the artist world on this side of tho At lantic. His greatest success was in the produc tion of atmostpherio effects, which he probably understood and appreciated better than any liv ing American. Twilight was his favorite hour, aud the dry, clear, soft atmosphere of hie native State, Now York, was his especial study. It was his wonderful handling of this important element in his landscapes that gave them character and placed upon them a value which connoisseurs and his fellow artists, at all events, could appreciate. His sunsets were always studies, and though tho effects of his visits to Europe were seen in some of his later works, tho American subjects, especially tha scenes iu tho Adirondacks, on tho Hudson and amid the Shawangunk Mountains will be more generally prized for their sentiment and tho inimitable treatment of the atmospheric conditions. He was a pro lific painter and his work always commanded very high prices among tho best judges. His contributions to American art were among the most valuable that it has over received, and that too at a period when our painters are re- gardod by European sohools with constantly increasing respect. Xhe Art of Preserving Green Crops in a “Silo” — A 5eiv Device lu Fonnlni; Which Promises to hoof GreatTaluo. Something that tong Island Farmers Should Look Into. “Ensilage I\ 11018118 11? Doubtless, very many of the readera of tho EAOi<B,evoD those who are woU posted in matters pertaining to agricuJtura, will won der what the word means.* It Is somothiug new lu tho art of fanning, and yet is old, 'What is “silo*' and what is *'eiisllago” Is tho conun drum which is (ho proWuco of this article to expound. A silo l6 a clBtorn, collar or s*at, air a^d water tight ou the bottom and aides, built of conoroto or maeoury, open at the top, with porpoudlcular aides, and used for storing and preserving in their green siato the varlouu fodder crops, such as corn, eorgo, rye, oats, millet, Hungarian grass, eto. The fodder is cut and taken from tho held, run through a cutter, which chops (t tip fine, like out feed. It is then thrown into the silo, tramped down solidly and sealed up from tho air with a heavy and continuous ptossure. Xhe fodder thus preserved is called ensilago. Such, in substance, is the description given in the Introduction to tho **Book of Ensilage,'’ recently pub- llshod by John M, Bailey, proprietor of the Wiuoiug Farm, Billerica, Maas. Tho place Is a short distance from Boston, and Mr. Bailey is a well known stock breeder. Ho has tried the ensilage system, and In tho book alluded to gives the results of his experience. Mr. Bailey ia not^tUo only farmer who has practiced tho fiystom. Mr. 0. B.-Potter has tried tho thing for the past throe years in a somewhat dlReront style, aud recently read a paper before tbo Farmers* Club of tbe American Institute, In which bo gave tho results of his ozporlouce and illustrated tho methods with which he accoiupUshod the work. THE importance OF THE STSTEM is apparent at nnce. If a farmer cau cut green fodder aud presorvo it in its green state through tho IViutcr and feed it out to his stock, ho aC once achieves au immense advantage. Tako an aero of good grass laud. If tho farmer outs three tons of hay from that aero ho thinks ho la goUiug a good crop. From tbe same ground he can cut, say BOYonty-hve tons of green fodder corn and preserve It until Winter in Us groeu, that la to say. m its most natural etato. Two tons of eusllage, says Mr. BoUey, is worth one ton of good clover hay. He cau thou keep on that acre a larger quantity of stock, and the pro ducing power of his land is vastly increased, and his etock is kept In better condition. Tbo Question at once becomes one of great importance to tho dairyman or etock brooder. The complaint of late years has been that farmers could not make money. If they can double the producing power of their lond with a slight Increase of expense, then the cause of complaint la done away with, and a revolution Is at once wrought in agriculture. That Is what the advo cates of ensilage claim is effected by tbo system. Cau (ho desired end be accomplishod with safety and economy ? It la the purpose of Mr. Bailey’s book to auBWor iUla question in the afUrmativo. Tho Idea of tho silo is not by any means a new ono. It has been practiced by tho Mexicans to a certain de gree for many’years, and ao far as can be aacrtainod, tho idea scorns to have existed with thorn for a long lime. They have used underground cisterns or pita to preaervo green fodder, for many yeara, The earliest Latin wrltora speak of silos In tho ground, in which tho Romans used to preserve fruits, grain and forage in thoir green state. Mr. Bailey thinks the idea was carried to Mexico at tho time of the Spanish invasion, by some iutelllgont priest or monk, interested In agriculture. In Franco, of late years, a certain M, Auguste Qof- fart has iwen cxperimcutlng with the ensilage system, and has dually brought it to a high degree of perfec tion. Ho compiled tho results of his experiments in a book, which was translated into Euglish. M. Goffart la a diatluguIaUed member of tho Central .Agricultural Society of France, and a Chovallor of tho Legion of Honor. Ho spent years in exporimcnliug before final aud absolute success crowned bia ofTorta. Mr. J. B. Brown, of No. 65 Bcekman street, tranalated M, Gof- fart’fl book, “ Tho Ensilage of Maixo,\ and It was through Mr. Brown’s Buggentlou that Jlr. Bailey made hia [exporimonta at \the IViimlng Farm. He claims that hia venture was absolutely Biicceesful in every re spect, and it ia the result of those e-tperimocis which be gives in his book. His venture was made last year. In hia volume Mr. Bailey first discusses the losses which result from curing forage by desslcation, or dry ing, Ho Btaics in hia opening chapter that tbe great obstacle to raising stock has been tbe high coat of all kinds of fodder for Winter feeding. Thishaa been es pecially the case In New England and tho Middle States. The lowest cost at which a cow can bo kept in those States Is about $80 per year, and oltoner it coats nearly $95 for the keep of ono cow one year., Now to ineot the coat of that keep the cow must give between 2,700 or 2,800 quarts of milk, about 5,500 pounds, which must be sold at a fraction under three cents a quart to meet that cost. Now, not ono herd of cows in fifty will aver age 5,000 pounds of milk per head pet annum, and tho price of milx at 'wholesale of late years has boon loss than three centa per quart. Oftoner, the farmers in the milk business within one hundred miles of New York could not got over two cents per quart. It will bo seen that tho margin of profit is too much on tho wrong side of tho ledger. How can the farnior make more milk from the samo quantity of land! U R . BAIliEY’S SILOS. Mr. Bailey raaolvcd to:^ry tho experiment thorough ly, and a year ago, on (ha 17ih of July, 1670, he broke ground and excavated in a side bill adjoining hia barn a cellar U feet long and 7 feet,deep at ono end. The wall was 12 feet high, a portion being above ground. The walls were built of concrete, 15 tuchoa thick, formed of one barrel of cement to three of plastering sand and four of gravel. Tbe wall was mado by plac ing plonk against Joist, arranged on each side of the line of the wall, and then filling the concrete In between them. Small stone was bedded in the concrete, and When completed the wall was air and water tight. Tbe Bpaco excavated was divided by a partition wall of tho same material, making two siloa. The cost of tbe structures was about $500, and their capacity about 800,000 pounds. They may be built of stone pointed with cement, or of brick. The walls must be smooth on the Inside, however, to allow tho mass of fodder to Bdttle freely. On tho top a light shed was erected. Mr. Bailey has seven acres of corn fodder, which ba cut abont the 22nd of Boptember. Ho thinks this was a little late, and It would be better if the crop had been cut earlier, say about tho 1st, when the stalk contaiDa tbe most nutriment. It was hauled at once to tho silo, whore It was cut with a power cutter to lengthsof about one-tenth of an inch. It was thrown into the Bilo, which had a concrete bottom, and tramplod down compactly. He filled the silo at tbe rate of aoout two feet per day,whlch be considers fast enough, as U allows the mass to settle firmly. Tho sovoa acres of corn filled one b U o a little more than half full. Upon tbo top was spread one foot of rye straw, uncut. Upon thle was laid down a flooring of quarter inch spruco plank, and upon this a foot in depth of bonlders, making a weight of about twenty-five tons ooutimially pressing tho mass down. Of cotirae, the greater the pressure the greater tbe exclusion of air, and tho better will bo tho preser vation of the ensilage, Mr. Bailey estlmatos tbe coat of cutting the fodder and putting it Into tho ailoa at about 75 cents per ton. He ositmated tbe quantity in the silo at 125 tons. The crop of corn did not do very well, and waa very light in Bomo places and heavier in others. On good land w’ell manured, with proper cultivation, It would not be at all difficult to raise from forty to seventy-five tons of green corn fodder to tho acre. OPENINO THE fltriOB. On tbe 3d of December last the silo was opened in the presence of a largo number of gentlemen Interested in agricultural matters. The stone and spruce planking were removed for about three feet at ono end of the mass. The top and edge of fho onsilsge near the door at the end, whore Jl was taken out for two or throe inches was eomewhat musty, and In spots almost rot ten, but directly under this tho fodder obtuc out cool, soft, moist and wholesome looking. It waa somewhat acid, and there was an odor of alcohol. There was no nopleasant taste save tbo acidity, and no unpiea«ant smell. Borne of tbe ensilage was at once given to tho twenty or thirty head of stock on the farm, and very soon they acquired a great fondness for it> The hogs and sUeop took to It at onco, and tho neat cattle followed in a few hours. The experiment was declared to be a complete succoBB, and Mr. Bailey thinks that with tUo experience ho has gained, the prosorvaiion of tha eosllago this year wiU be even more perfect, la ibs French silos of M. Goffart, ihe food comes out sweet and fresh. In Mr. Bailey's silos, the exposure to the air of the mass where it was out out day by day, did not seem to InJureltin tbo slightest degree. Hia stock were fed ths onslUge during last Winter, and thrived on it as though they were out at grass. They, of course, received also tbo usual ra tion of grain. Mr. Bailey suggests an improvement which bo purposes to try this year, and that is to mix the ground feed with tho ensilage when it is packed in tbe silos. In this way a denser mass may bo formed. A little salt may be thrown in to help make the thing palatable. It would be Impossible in tho limits of tbis article to give all the luformatlon which Mr. Bailey gives In bis ‘’Book of EDBllago,” The sUos cau be built of varying capacity, and tho cost Uo estimates at about $1.25 per tou capacity. A silo 30 feet long, 13 foot wide and 13 feet deep, would not cost, beside tho labor, over $50, and would hold about 87X tons of enallago. enough to winter twelve or fifteen cows, and could bo raised with the greatest case on at least two and one-half acres of ground. Rye, clover and other groon crops are equally woU adapted for ensilage. MB. O. B. POITER'S BILOS. 3rr. O. B. Potter constructs hU silos In a somewhat more expensive style. They are built of brick, arched over at the top and filled through largo openings, or necks. He covers the top with straw, and^then instead of planks and stono uses about a foot of earth. He thinks it a good Idea to mix the fodder, putting in corn, clover, rye, etp., claiming that a more compact mass is thus leoured. This Is whai- he says about filling his sUos: *rhe green fodder is drawn from tho field as fast as out, and may bo out In any weather except during rain. After running through the cutting machine it is posited and trod Into the pit flwniy until the pit is full. The doorway at the oud of tho pit having already been closed by placing boards across It upon, the lusme as ths filling progreiwd, is now sealed tightly by placing otner boards properly fastened across it u ^ n the ouU side of the Jambs and filling space ^tween the Jambs with well compacted earth; so that no air can pass Into the pit through this doorway. The outer covers are then placed temporarily upon the nocks ox the-pit above, and covered over with earth to the level of the grouud above, A second and, If the outtlng force bo large enough, a third pU may then be filled, sealed and covered like the first* A^ter the first pit has been closed about thirty-six hours be uueovered aud opened. The contents will m found very warm and thoroughly wilted, and upon being now trodden down will occupy lea® 9P®* !l clover, not more than one-fourth of the nit. The pit should tUeu be fiUod dgaiu, trodden firmly and cov ered again temporarily, as before. The second and third pits should then be opened and filled a second time In the same manner as the first one. Each pit should now bo opened and refilled as boforo at Intorvals of from twenty-four to thirty hours, tho contents at each time being trodden down as firmly and evenly as possible, and tbie should bs continued until settUng nearly or quite ceases and the pita are full. Salt shouU. bo sprinkled occasionally over the fodder while the nils are being filled. 'Tho nits being now fnll, and «oUii«g having nearly or quite oeastid, must bs Immoulatoiy and thorongWy sealed over the whole top surface of tho fodder by. a well compacted layer of olean earth not less than six Inches thick.' If the pits are arched over, they should be filled fnUeat along the centre line of tbe — *.-------'--o f the arch B fulness in ___ _ falling away, or opening cracks at tho sides in further settling. This coyeiing of earth should bo afterward ox- amioed at least twice at Intervals of a week or ten days, and any oraoks that appear be closed with fresh earth. A'covering of straw or bay not more than two Inches thick may be laid over the fodder before tho earth covering is applied, but this Is immaterial other than SB a matter or neatness. In feeding, the fodder should be cut down and fed from one end of tho pit iu sections of convenient width, the oartb being first removed from each eecUos. If , open pits are used a layer of bay or straw may be put over Uic pit when filled aud sealed, to protect tbe con- , tents from the troat Jo Winter, if necessary. I have not found any pressure or weight upon the fodder other than tbo earth covering required. If additional weight is desired, a heavier covering jof earth will ac complish this and make the sealing at the same time more perfect. , Mr. Potter’s system is more oxpenBlve than Mr. Mr. Bailey’s, which seems well adapted to the wants of email farmers, in that it'ls cheap aud easy of mauago- mont. The subjeot of ensilage has been discussed a great deal of late In the Cultivator and a good deal of information has been brought out. Of course, its thor ough utility romalns to be proved, but it would seem from tho data we already have there can be no ques tion about it. It la especially adapted to the dairy busiuees, and as such is of great importance to Long Island farmers, who could thus keep a largely Increased amount of stock on the same area of laud. Ensilage osa be fed Summer and Winter in the manner indi cated in Mr. Bailey’s book, aud in that way a quantity of manure could be mado which would render the farmer Indepondent of outBtdo supplies. Mr. Bailey’s volume numbers about 205 pages, of which two-(hirJa arc devoted to the subject of onsilago. The balance re lates to blooded stock. SERM O N S . CURRENT EVENTS. Tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are in session at Providence, 11. I., Tho pubUo schools of New York will open on September 0. llev. Dr. AVilliam Adams, who is ill at Orange, N. J., is falling rapidly. During the week ending Saturday, 7,08i immigrants arrived at Castle Garden. The season for trout catching expires to morrow. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe preached at the Uni tarian Church, NcAvport, U. I., yesterday. The Eleventh llegiment went into camp at New Dorp, Staten lalancl, Saturday afternoon, and will remain there until io-morrow afternoon. The excess of exports over imports in the last fiscal year was $171,754,247, a falling off of $0i,- 880,017 over those of 1870. The caisson at the Hudson River Tunnel waa fluisUed yesterday, and waa launched to-day. Twenty men are to begin work at ouco. Tho total number of visitors at the Metro politan Museum of Art, in Central Park, during last week was 28,730, Tho polica force of the City of Elizabeth numbers only nineteen members, the city being unable to pay a larger force. A reunion of colored NationalGuards of the United Stales began at St. Loula, Mo., aud will con tinue through Wednesday. Mr. Emerson is to go to Europe shortly to visit Mr. Carlisle and Cardinal Newman. Ue also de sires to meet Herbert Bpcuccr, The time of hid de parture is not named, A disgraceful prize fight took place yester day at Red Bank, N. J. Tho affair was unknown to tho police, and tho fight lasted until one of the men had hia arm broken in two places. A series of thunder storms prevailed along the fludtfoa yesterday afternoon and last night. The weather IS so cool in the Catskills that it ia likely city people will eoou be returning homo. Hon. Thomas Hughes, Member of Parlia ment is in Cincinnati, and expects to go shortly to tho colony in Tennessee whore he wlU remain several wooks. Mr. Washington McLean, who is ill at Long Branch, had a relapse yesterday morning, aud, for a time, grave fears were entortaiutid. Last night ho was much improved. George Soheibel, n painter, forty-six years of age, residing at No. 46 Delancoy street. New York, committed suicide Saturday night, by shooting hiiu- Eelf in the head with a pistol. Hard drink led to tho act. A contract has been concluded by Lieutenant Gorringa with parties to lay tho base of tha obelisk aud prepare the foundation upon tho silo selected by the Park Commission. Work was begun to-day. The con tract includes tbe levoUng off of the surfaco of tbo rock, Iho laying of tbe concrete to make a perfectly lovol surface and tho erection thereon of the pedestal that is to support the needle. During the prevalence of a violent thunder storm at Bradford, Foun., yesterday afternoon, light ning struck a 25,000 barrel iron tank at State Lino, con nected with tbo United lines, and is now burning. There are 80 tanka of tho same size In the valley, and it la feared that a groat loss will bo entailed before ths flames are quenched. A Bwiniming m utch for $1,000 a side is be ing arranged between Qeorgo Fcarn, the Kogtlsh swim mer, and Captain Paul Boytoot to taka place Soptem- bor C. Mr. Foarn swims in the natural way, while Captain Boynton uses a buoyant dress and a long pad dle, with blades at each end. Tbe oourso Is to bo ten miles for Fearn and twelve and a half miles for Boytou. Tha inspector of tho National Board of Health at Vicksburg (Miss.) Station yesterday reported five .cases of sicknoBs on a tug boat which left New Or leans last Tuesday. InstruotlODS wore telegraphed to the National Board of Health office at Memphis, to etop the steamer, before it effected a landing there. It is be lieved that the siokness la yellow fever. Now York morebants assert that the South ern trade, which has already set in, is the best for years, and the prosperity that began a year ago is un checked. Neglected Industrioa have been revived, and tho abundance of the crops In the West and South has made money plentiful, so that capitalists no longer fear to Invest in new entorprisoB, Tho cotton crop la tho largcBi ever raised, and a inrgo number of cotton fac tories are being erooted in the South. William Mendlebaum, sixteen years of ago, while swimming with a number of boys at the foot of Fifty-filth street. East River, New York, last evening, was wounded ou tho head by a log or rock, and when bi'ought ashore waa almost Ufoleas. He was an expert swimmer and dived from tbe wall of the bathing houao in the stream and sank immediately after cowing to the surface one time. His life is despaired of, his skuU being fractured. Mr. Cyrus'VV. Field has offered his resignation as a member of the Board of Directors of the Manhat tan Railway Company of New York. Tho stop was taken because of Mr. Field’s early departure for Europe, and not, as erroueoDsIy reported, for any dlsBatisfaction with the proceedings of the Board of Arbitration chosen to settle the difilcultlos betwoon the Now York and Metropolitan Railroad companies, regarding the basis of the union. Tho people of Jersey City are clamoring for a hospital. Tho appropriation made this year, $12,000, for the purpose of running one, has already been ex panded, and the PoUco Commissioners, in oonseqaenco of tUla state of affairs, have ordered the hospital to bo discoutimied, September 1. There are a number of patients in the hospital who will have to be removed to the almshouse. Tho people of the city are indignant at this state of affairs, and money may bo secured to run tho hospital until provision ia made for this pur pose. Ex-Governor Paul P. Hebert, of Loaiaiano, died la Now OrlooDs lost evening ot cancer. Uo was a graduate at West Feint in tbe class of 'iO, and after serring two years as a tesobar of engineering there, re signed from tbe army and beeame a planter. Uater he was State engineer of Alabama. Oorarnar Hebert served In ths Uoxtean war, and waa a Brigadier Qen- eral in the Confederate army. In 1852 ho was elected aorornor of Louisiana, and aincs the war has lived on bis plantation. He was seventy-eight years of age. Fire youths of Lowell, Mass., who had, •idler for want of money or for sport, contrived to clamber to the top of a pasaenger car of a train run ning between Andover and Lowell, Saturday afternoon, were swept oCt and killed. They wero killed at a bridge where the space between the top o! the cars and the woodwork le only twenty-two Inches. It Is supposed tho lads wero sitting np when struck and that tboir death was almost Instantaneons. Tho eldest was 17 years of age and the yonugest IS yeara. The people of Norton, Jewell, 'Washington, Smith and other coimtles in tha northern part of Kan sas, are suiTerlng for food. The lowest estimate places the number of people who are suffering at 25,000. Appeals are made by tho leading citizens of tbe section for help. Ths drought for two saasons has been extreme, and added to this calamity tho green worm traversed the country, kUIlng corn and potatoes. The Governor ot tho State has advised ail Who can get away to leave the desolated oountles, as the destitution Is BO general starvallon must follow for a great many, Sanford Robinson Gifford, one of the best known American painters, died yesterday morning at Ho. 1,271 Broadway, New Vork, after a three weeks’ ill- nee'a. Mr. Gifford was a native of Saratoga County, in thle State, and wae born la 1823, Ho early exhibited a taste for drawing, and hs came to New York to study drawing in 1812. Bis talent attracted others, and In 1857 he became an associate member of the National Academy. Three years later he waa made a member of the academy, and from that Ume he waa ono of the most populor artiste contributing to ths eihibltlons of that sooloty. Mr. Gifford wont to Europe in 1853, nhero be traveled extensively and atudied many yeara. Since bis return he has resided In New Vork, haring bis studio in tbe Tenth street building. His rank as a landscape paintor is eminent, and aU lovers of art ace acquainted with bis ohtef productions. He was a mod. est gentleman, and artlstto circles lose It bright orna ment in bis untimely death. Chief Ouray, of the Ute Indians, who died Saturday night, waa one of th« few romarkablo red men living. He waa ths most conspionous individual In hie tribe, and hia death will be a great loss, not only to hU tribe, but to the white people ol aolofado. He wae about afty-llvo years of age. He wae friendly toward the whites, and by bis personal efforts prevented many outbreaks. Many years ago, white hunting east of the Booky Mountains, his only child, a boy twelve years old, was captured by tha Sioux and is believed to be atlll living.. This sorrow shad owed his Ilfs, and be repeatedly appealed to the Gov ernment at Washington to seoure his son’s return. Oursy taught man y of hii tribe the habits of olvlllzatlon, and esiabUsheda farm on which he raised good crops and cattie, and had a comfortable and well famished home. The Governor of Colorado, in return for his services to tho wUltoB, presented him with a handsome carriage, aud he possessed himself ol a flue pair of horses. Many Indians envied him but did not possess the dip lomatic faculty to tho extent that he did, nor were able to govern thoir fellow men as well. Ho frequently went to Washington, and last year wae there, and waa mado a oomralsslonor, along ■with several white men, to negotiate tho sale of a largo portion of the Hte toaer- vatlon in Ooiorado. His death Is likely to prevent tho cousupimatlon ol that plan. I > i 8 C O u r s c s i n B r o o k l y n P u l p i t s I f c s t c v d a y . A Colored Bishop—Dr. Uc^wain, ol Iowa, Ecv. Dr, Ludlow aud Profe.ssor Iltwiiiff. Yesterday morning the Eight Rev. B. H. Cain, D. D., praached Iu th« Colored M. E. CUurch ou Brld /?0 street, near Myrtlo avoaua. Ho Is BUUop of the Ninth Episcopal District, cooBlstlag of tho Texas, WcBt Tosas, Northeast Texas and Indian conforoncos. He la an ez-Mcmbcr of Congress, having sorred two terms. ^Xha introductory servicea yesterday morning wero con ducted by tho Rov. Mr. Stauabury, pastor, who Intro duced tho Bishop in suitablo terms. Tbe Bishop, who is of medium size and apparently of pure African descent, preached an eloquent eermon which was lis tened to with tho greatest attention. His subject was tho Prodigal Son and bis Chorao God’s unbounded goodness manifested in his willingness to forvlvo and restore fallon man. The oxUlbltlous of God’s good ness, said the preacher, wero bo wonderful as to attraot the attention of every thinking poraon. There was no place, no scone, no conaitloti, no clrcumstauco which did not near marks of His love. His mercy filled, en- compaKsed oiid overtopped everything. To ehow (orlh tbiri was the chiof end of Hia purposes iu Providence, This designed stretched through all ages and tonebed every point. Tbis was the burden of Scripture. Sacred hi.<itory taught tlijs. Holy prophets wrote and spoke this. Sacred poets sang this. Tbe sou of God came bUber, bled and died aud rose and revived and ascend ed into glory to prove this. That GOD DELIGHTS TO SAVE MAN was the scope of all revelation. The laws instituted by him showed It. They were fuff ot provisions to deliver man from tranegressiou and ita results. They stood around him like tho host of tho Lord to keep him from doing that abomluablo thing which God hates because It^rings ruin on his creatures. The law was au ex pression of tbe will of tbe lawgiver, and God’s will was that man should bo saved from siu. The three parublos in tho chapter all wont to show tho anxiety of God that man should be delivered from Iho bonds of iuhptlty. W'hou a mau or a woman wtfs saved, God said. 'Ttojolco with mo; for I have found the soul which waa lost.” Hcavon wa.«5 a place of great ioy. There God was, and great hosts of redeemed and‘‘‘harpera harping with their harxiR,” and uot a siuglo stain of siu was there or a single pang of sorrow. Nevertheless, Jesus said, “There is joy in tho iiresenco of the angolH of God, over one sinner that repemetb.” God, and augels, aud tho redeemed had their Joy increased when ono poor wretched soul was rescued from sin. God is lovo, and he who represeutod Him au standlog out against humanity DREW A FALSE PICT0BB of Him. lie waa not ao repreconted in creation, lu Providence or lu gracQ. When Moses said, “I beseech thoo show mo thy glory.” God replied, ”I will make all my goodness to pass before thee.” The Bishop briefly commoutod on some of the loading points in the story of tha Prodigal Son, This youth was more than fairly dealt with, aud when ho had got hia ample aharo of his father's estate, ho wont off among slraogcrs. Ho thought it would be a fine thing to be away from tho rcHtralitts of home, where no pa- torna! voice could chldo or direct, and where ho would be rcllovedfromaU oversight. But tho safeguards of homo were wanting and sin soon got the better of the young man. tVhen he had spent all his fortuno, he began to be iu want. While the money lasted, frlendslai>tod,\vhen tho young mau needed f rieuda moat, tUoy left him in tho lurch. He wont and hired himsolf out to feed ewino, aud it was luto just such company that sin brought a mau. He was so hungry that ho would fain havo eaten the swine's food, and no mau gave unto him. Of course not. That waa always tho way. Sin sklnued a a man clean and left him empty aud hungry, without a real friend. Then the young man came to himself, awoke as from a dream. God had eouxetioioa TO STIR A MAN UP with some dreadful mlsfortuno, before Ho could get him to repent. This youth was so stirred up, and eaid, ** ilow many hired Bervauts of my father havo bread enough and to spare, aud I poriah with hun ger, I will arise and go to my father, aud will say unto him, * Father, I have sinned against heaven and before Thee.^ ” lie arose right away and wont, That was tho true plan. The next best thing to doing right was to admit that we wero wrong. ‘’The tathor saw him a great way off and foil on hlo neck and kissed him, and eaid: * Bring hither the best robe and put it upon him, put a ring on hU hand aud shoes on his feet, aud bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, aud let US eat aud bo merry; for this my sou waa dead aud is alive again, and was lost aud is found.’\ This was the best sort of love which God uhowod for sinners, aud proof of tbis ran along all the lines .of Iifo, Tbe bishop said (that it was nineteen yeara since he waa last iu that place of worship as pastor of the church, lie saw some old familiar faces there, hut how mauy wore missing. Nevorthelesa they were not lost. The love of Christ had sought and saved them and carried themtlu’ough deaths to glory. Might he aud ail of those that reuiRinod be ready to Join the church of tbe first born above wbeu tbe euiumons came. S e r m o n a t $t* J a iu o s f ’ C o i g c o u a l C l u trc l i V c u tcrday'* Rev. Dr. R. 0. Mcllwain, of Iowa, preached at St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church, on St. James place, near Lafayette avenue, yesterday morning. Tho congregation was small and tbe heat lulense. Toward the close of tho service a lady fainted and was removed to the greensward adjoining the church, where restor atives wore applied, and she regained consciousness, Dr. McIIwaln's subject was Asking a Name,” the text being Ooneiis xxxU.;29: \And Jacob asked him and said: Toll me, I pray theo, thy name. And he said: Wherefore is It that thou dost oak after my name ? ” The student of Holy Scripture,said tbe preacher, would at once recognize these words as legitimate to the his* tory of the famous Patriarch Jaoob. This was a pointed question really and It was answered yirtually by an other equally as pointed. People asked questionB at times merely out of curiosity. People asked again from a sincere desire to know. There were times In the life of every i>er«on ivhen he sought to know more of hlm- eelf and of his surroundings, and he asked himself: \What am 17 What is that that ia outside of me, sur rounding mo?” There was something about oxlstencs which all sought to know. Wo all asked **Whak la this 7 What ia Its name i What is tha name (if you please) of QXisteaae, of all being, ot a)] matter, nil spirit?” We all asked with curiosity and strove to know more. **Tell me what is the being which I call myself ? What is the hoing nbioh is in myself?” Not merely what was tho name of it, but what was the thing. What was Its na ture? It was in this latter search that Jacob doubtless asked bis question ** Toll mo thy name,” Pbilologista told us that words and their use indicated the character of a people, that you could read a nation from ita language after the nation and tho language were both dead. They told tiB, too, that there were throe marked periods in the history ot a people—ono, when they wero a simple, plain, bumble, sincere, truth ful and earnest people. The people possemd these characteristics, and their language shOA'od the same traits. Names meant truths. 'Words wero symbols of realities. People named (Heir cUlldreu from certain characteristics. Man was, as it woro, near to nature. He saw it as It was; ho read it aright. Ho called thlugs by thoir right names. Man was natural, then, before he was arlistlo. The artificial was a later growth. Somo cailud it a dovelopmeat; others, losa of power. It was certainly a change. For example: Adam gave animals names as a true naturalist. Could ona of our naturalists to-day equal him, surpass him? He was in accord with nature. He could read it and did read it aright, and being so he was in a higher state than men in later times. Hence, some claimed that tho earlier ages were more Boientlflc. Jacob meant supplanter. You never thought of tha MEANING OF THE NAME when you gave tho name to your child. Moses moant drawn from tho water; but you never, thought of that when you named your child Mosas. Later, there came, we wero told, a second period, when the religious idea became promioent. A deeper meaning began to appear. Names began to change and expressed a deeper moaning. Jacob became Isroal. Revealed truth waa engrafted upon natural observation. Later came a third period when names lost their meaning, when words wero hko the character of tbe people. John meant nothing. Johu, the veriest Jewish name in all the earth, might moan anything, and any man might bo called John. Any man might be called Judas and be eminently trustworthy. Jacob lived In some thing liko the first of these periods when ‘names had a real meaning, whan ho asked his question, therefore, it meant something. In bis religloua experience he was approaching to the second condition, Tho crisis had come in hie own life. Ho was not entirely content to l ead the book of Nature. He had been brought face to face with God. He came twenty years later to seek for a deeper meaning in life. He asked for the name lu its natural and religious sense. Twenty years before he was young. He had slaned against his brother. He felt ashamed of his guilt and he feared his Father’s vengeance. In his nightly vision he saw a ladder from heaven and the weaaongora ol God passing to and fro. He came face to face, oa it were, with Ood, and God assured him that the shining path was open, that the sinner might return, aud encouraged, he made a vow which was the turning point of hts life. That was tho bright, Joyous vision of youth I Everything that was bright and Joyous and hopeful pervaded or ought to pervade early piety. It waa the right kind of religion for the young ; tho deep experiences of later life wero unnatural then. No one had any right to expeot in the religion of the young tho same things that should bo and wore found in tho roligion of the old. Twenty years mado a difference Irr ihe life of every man. It waa tho twenty days’ripening that made the differenco la the growth of corn. It was In this oondUlon now that Jacob came to THB SECOND CRISIS and said, “Tell me, I pray thco, thy name,” It waa now you saw ihe struggle of the human soul to know him who was Invisible, tho ono whom tbo mind saw, the one whom tho conscience felt. Who is He ? Jacob was at that point of human exporience when he was sincere, truthful, honest, at least. He wanted the name, Haro, theo, you saw Jacob felt the mystery of life. He wanted to know why he lived, what ho lived for, what all this maze wo called human existence was for. He could not have asked this question In UU youth. It took (he ex periences of life to fit one for suoh a question. The meaning of life became deeper as life went on. In early Ufa a man might ask for length of days, for so) ration and a reasonable hope of future ezlstonoe; but ’When he came to feel the weight of years, when he had borne tho burden of life, toaied Us Joys, realized many bright visions and bad copod to feel that all these were failing and toon, like yesterday, to be things of the past—then Si was that he oomo to him self and went down into the depths of hia inmost being, and opening tbo highway of hia understanding, came forth with the question, **lVhat ia thy name, thou un- nameable of all existence ? What is that being who is always near, often felt, never soon 7 What ia bo 7 What Is that nature and what is the some 7 Is It some thing? Is it nothing 7 Is It tho all of every life?\ This Inquiring struggle was the lot of every earnest soul. ”Some living being is within me or outside of mo, or above, and that bidden mystery I mast call by some name, and that name I’ll know if I don’t know the being bimsolf.” Call It father, call it God, call U spirit, call it love, or call it the nameless mystery of all that ia bright and sweet and good and lovely, for all the names thou can’st Inventfdo not explain (what it is. If once it could be explained, then the mys tery would bo no more, and that belog would not bo what It Is, and God explained would be no longer Ood. The lofinlto would then bo finite, and would cease to bo. We know, continued the preacacr, xrhat Ood is to us, not whst Ho Is to Hlmaolf. Wo know only relsllonBhips, not abitrsotlons.' Thore- foro His asms baa not tho ssma meaning to suy two. £scb Bsks Jacob’s question, but each one gets tha answer bis life has iSttea him to receive. The context ohowa that Jacob asked two things—ho asked for a blessing and asked to know the name of Him who blessed him. He received the blessing, but was not told, tbe name, AN IMPORTANT TEOTH ts hereby revealed. The silence of Scripturo as rovela- tlon showed God Is not mado known to tha soul of man by name. Thera ara other things beside thooe spoken by voice. Words too often bide rstber than reveal trntb. Ood revealed Himself to Jeoob, not by name, but by a presence—by a personal experience. Jacob’s own consolontnoss felt the power of someone present: bis moral nature felt (he power of the Invisible. The God who la but an Intellectual abstraction Is but a lifeless thing. God Himself forever remslni tbe unnameablo. wo Hive name to what we knew or don’t know of Hun. Jacob knew he was responsible to a higher power and not to mas. In Obtlat ona Icaraa ihe fatherly relation, to love Him as a child loves Ita parents. In oonBrma- tlon ona oomsi to Isarn God a Itttla battar and knoiv Him as a mareltul, pitying, pardoning God. In the holy communion one learne to know Him as ever pres ent, ever comforting, ever atrongthening. Each act of personal obedience mekea Him more precious to the soul. One affect of Jacob's wrestling was a changa of name; ha became Israel now; be atrlvoa to rise highar and comes face to face with God, and seas hlmaolf at ha la in God’s eight, and becomes really truo.jtakoa a now name, now oharaoter. He wins a victory from his own weaknoaa. Jacob’s experience la every good man s ox- perlosoe. Coming nearer God wo want to know more of Him. Your prayar to know His namo la but tbo outburst of a longing to know more of Ono who cannot bo known, but If known, could n® mau soul what Ho Is. To love a Ood whom we conUl comprehond would be but tho love of man to man. To worship ono whom wa could doflno would bo only to wotahld a God self made. What Jacob sought you may all seek; that Is, to know Ood, f never know all about Him. What Jacob did you can alt do, that is, lo strive to riso to a bottor and a htghcr state. What Jacob oblainod you can all oblalu, that Is, God’s bleasiog. No man erer makes an effort to lisa Vitkout becoming a bottor mao. We may not reach DOW tbe point at irhich wo ain>/ but we do advance floiQ6frbat; we doget ahead Just In proportion to the efforU wa make. Tbe R ot * Hr* LudloiT at Wo«tinlnscer (lliurcli* Several of tho South Brooklyn churches wisely unite in holding eervlcoB, thus Bocurlug the preaoDCe ot at Joast one pastor on the ground during tho Bummer. Rev. Dr. Ludlow preached yesterday from the opening verses of John xJv, He referred to the tender and beautiful words of consolation which tho Redeemer uttered before Hit crucifixion as hinting at the ceaeutlal facta of the groat unknown beyond, while at the same time Ho graUlled no l(Uo curiosity. The purpose and value of this reticence of Christ and other practical points wore dwelt upon. The audience was a good ono aud the music, as usual, oxcoUent. fljigrtit In the Cloud* At St. Matthew’s ProfesBorThwiug preached yoelerday on “The Myetorlea and Merclca of Life”— Jobxxxvii; 21. We are under a cloud. Physical sci ence yields light enough to show tho darkness. His tory, Providence and revelation also ere fuff of Inex plicable entgmafl. But there Is light in the cloud. Men seo It not because of human limitatlona, but princl- clpally because they lack congeuiaUty aud Bympathy of temper. The eccret of the Lord ia with them that fear Hbn. Finally, “tho wind passeth and clcanseth ihcm,” The clouds dlsealve even hero oftentimes. The morn ing coinoth. Tbe duty of a loving, trustful aud cheer ful spirit waa urged as a legitimate outcome of auch a view of life. Dri Uamma la expected to take UU pulpit September 2(1. T U e Clinton Avenue Conffreifatlonal CUurclt* Rev. Charles Terry Collins has preached several Sunday mornings In the Cllutou avenue Church. His last dlscoursB was preached yesterday from the words “No mau Uveth to himself,” After referring to (ho primary meaning of tbe text as illustrating our relationship to Qod, enlarged upon man’s relation- eUip to humanity. As every atom of matter has ita vital connection with the material univereo, so no man, however obscure his position or limited his sphere, stands isolated or destitute of influence. Many prac tical truths wore urged iu an effective manner. A lady of the, oongregstiOD was so much gratified at the timely and useful hluta given, that she offers to print and dis tribute copies of tho discourse at her own expense. The discourse was unwritten, but Mr. OolUns, who re- tutna to Clevelaud, Ohio, to-day, has piomiaed to write It out. He is pastor of Plymouth Church, ia that city, aud Is a young mau ot promise. TUo Fort Ifauiilton Ifli^sion—IntereKt* ins: S«rrlcear Amoas’ tlio Soldiers Vea- terday* The last of the morniDg services for this season took place at Fort Hamilton, yesterday morning. The attendance was again most encouraging. Mr. Noble conducted iho meeting, aud after a abort service of song he read the Scriptures from Exodus xx. and Matthew xxil., after which be expressed tho groat plea sure it gave him to bo once more amongst them, and Bald that at about tha same hour on tho prerious Sab bath ho and Brother Stratton, who had been away In the country, bad not forgotten that meeting, but had gathered beneath tho branchos ol an apple tree and there had lifted up their hearts aud voloes to Qod for Ills blessing to rest uxion that day’s service at Fort Hamilton. From the very encouraging report which ho saw ia Monday’s edition of tho B rookz .7N E aols , and from private letters received, he felt euro that their prayers had been answered. Ho further hoped that the meetlugs at Fort Hamiltou would always prove inte- raating. In conversation with a clergyman on tbe sub ject that gentleman had remarked that those services would bo just as interostiug as they themselvea made them, and he believed it was so. After speaking of tho mission services that he and Mr. Stratton bad been engaged in in the country during thoir stay there, and the glorious results attending their labors, Mr. Noble gave notice that the eervlcce for tbe future at tho fort would be held at 7 o'clock every Sunday evening in the garrison, where ho hoped there would bo an increased attendance of soldiers and an Increased iuterest in tbe meetinga. On Sunday next he proposed addressing them upon some of the excuses men mad© when iiwUed to the Gospel feast. After ptaycr and soug, In the unavoidable abeouco of Dr. Slater, who was to have given the address, ahori Bpeeches, prayer aud testimonies were given by Messrs. A. A. Holt, DuBois, Smith, Langur, &c.; then followed an address from a stranger, who rejoiced at tho work, and said that he did not believo that a month or tw*o ago Bacred songs wore heard In the fort; but that morning he had listened to some of the eoldiera, who were sing ing “Waahod In the Blood of tho Lamb.” whilst prepar ing thoir dinner. The last and certainly uot the Ie.*»st testimony given waa that of one of tho Boldicra. After eingiug one or two Gospel melocJiea near the Roldiora’ quarters, tbo baud of Chnattan workers left tho fort with an Increased conviction that their “ work of faith and labor of love” was being made a blessing. SUNDAY ARRESTS IN XEIV LOTS. J'olm Quiuu nud J o h n H e n ry, while under the iafiaeocd ot liquor, lost their tempers and began to fight each other. This amusament waa Btoppod by Officer Kourtrlgbt, who took them m custody. They will bB tried before Justice Gortum this evening. John McCourt, while in New York Saturday evening, made the acquaintance of a bewitching damsel named Mary Earley, whom he induced to accompany him to his residence In New Lots. While McCourt slept tbe damsel arose, took posaesBion of MoCourt’s watoh and pocketbook, and started back to New Vork, Soon after McCourt awoke and diecovered hia misfortune. He notified the police, and the missing woman wag goon after taken in custody by Roundsman Reimals. Sho wlU be tried by Justice Gertum this afternoon, John L. Simmons, a commission merchant, residing at 441 Third avenue. New York, while riding on one of the Fulton avenue steam cars which connect with Cy press Hill* Cemetery, got into a fight with several pas- Bsngera, and made such a row that tbo conductor was oompoUed to atop the oar, Boundamaa CUBord was called. He attempted to take Bimmons In custody, when bis frlenda interfered, and for a whllo tho officer waa used pretty roughly, but ho held on to his prisoner and secured two of those who interfered with him. TUoy were Maurice Bernard, a pawn broker of 441 Third avenue, New York, and Henry Struehln, a hard ware dealer, of 884 Third avenue, New York. They wore taken before Justice Gertum this morning. They pleaded not guilty, and the ezauiinatloa waa adjourned. BROOKLYNITES OUT OF TOWN. L ong B banch .— J. Randall and wife, H. Sherwood, J. Reid, C. H. Kivers and family and J. T. UrU are at the United States Hotel; J. S. Allvno and wife, L. W. Slade, F. 0. Voorheea and J. C. Rogers are al the Ocean Hotel; Mre. Judd, Mrs. Kellogg aud A. Schroedcraro at tha Seabright Home; J. T. Kaiton and U. D. Polhemus are at tho West Eud Hotel. R ockville C e s t r e . —Walter Cooper, M. B. Ray mond, J. Martin Ransom aud ladies, Captain H. S. Jewett, H. M. Scott, W. G. Thomas, James Barolay, R. B. Talmadge, Wm. Brodhead, Chaa. B. St.George and I. V. Taylor are at La Rosa’s Hotel, where there waa a hop last evening. Music was furnished by Elohier’s band ; there was a fine display of flroworks. S aratooa .—Miss Addio Munn, of M.*»rcy avenno; the Mieses Roes, of Bedford avenue, and Mr. Robert F. Clark and wife are among the late arrivals here. W. Van Auden and wife, Rev. U. D. Gulick, W. C. Mo- Kennyand wife, W. McKenney and wife are at ths Grand Union Hotel; Miss J. WllMts, F. U. Davol and wife are at Oougross Hall; J, Watson, Jr., and wife are at ths United States Hotel; 8. C. Brown ia at the Ar lington Hotel; J. N. Baloh and wife are at the Adelphl Hotel; Mra. J. M. Oroxson, Mrs. 0. B. Ilolmea, Rev. T. L, Cuyler and 8. L. Woodhonao aro at tho Remedial Institute; Miss E. F. Eelssoc and Mrs. B. H. Kelassr ate at Mount Pleasant House, SHAkOif SFuiiioa,—Mr. aud Mra. F. Piatner and Mr. and Mrs, E. A. Kennedy are at tho Central; Miss Josie Edwards Is stopping with Waller Platnor, SAVED FROM A HOKBIBLE DEATH. Jflmes Hogan, an old man of 70, who ia stiff in the knees from rheumatism, half blind and deaf, who resides on Eldert avonuo^jiear Atlantic avenue, New Lots, waa saved from the horrible death of being crushed by a locomotive of tho Long Island Railroad, iu front of the Howard House, at East New York, on Saturday afternoon last, by Mr. Daniel Comstock, the active and efficient yard master in that town. It waa about half-past fivs. The locomottvo was dra w- ing a train made np of regular Island cars and oxcur- siozi cars and was bound east. It was coming quite rapidly into town. Just then Hogan stepped on the track and stooped to pick up a pioce of paper. Com stock saw that it was almost impossible to save him, but ho took the risk of losing bis own life to save that of the old man. He rushed to tho spot where Hogan was bending. down, and catching him by tho waist, jumped, clearing the track just lu time to save himself and tbo old man, although the latter wae hit on the feet by tbe driving wheel of tho engine and badly bruised. Bystanders who witnessed the affair were horrified, expectlug that both would bo killed. A QU££U FIND. George Fuller, wlio was a resident of this city, some time ago committed suicide in Luba’ Hotel, East New York, while temporarily deranged by business troubles. He had, for a short time, lived in a house on Eldert lane. After hia death his friends took posses- slou of his goods. Saturday, Charles H. Gregg, a new occupant of tho house, discovered In the garret ono hundred and fourteen scarf pins and some clothing, which bad belonged to tho deeoasod. He turned the articles over to tbe police, la whoso possession they now are. _______ _ The steamer, Marine City, running between BIsekinao and Detroit, MlcU., took fire yesterday after noon two miles off Alcona and burned to the water's edge. She had a large load of passengers, msny of whom wore lost. The fire wae discovered in tho hold, and before effeetlre measures could be taken tho flames became unmanagable. Bovecal tuge and boats ot the Life Saving Station hastened to tho aid of tha burning vesoel and rescued many passengers. The list of the saved had not been made out up to last night. The Marino City was a fine boat valued at $30,000 and made ■weekly trips between Detroit and Mackinac. BEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Monroe st. s s. 17,') ft w Tompkins ar. 12.0x100, hAI, Paul O Orening to Howard M Siuito ................... ®2,900 Woodbine st, a o s, 23'J ft n o Broadwar, aoxlUd, Klita Dempsey to Jane, wife John Densgbx,mort. S 1200. . . , . « . . , « . . . . . . O . 0 . Bkillman av, 8 6.200 it w Ewen st. 0^100, Polnck McKonna to John H and Jano A McKenna, mort T S j\ ij /s w I S S Monroe »t, o 500 ft w Throop av, lB.8xIOO,Charloa O Whitohouee, ex J T Whitehouse, to ..nno and M«siH.*«r;’e‘.tf25fi-.-w New York 0(><operat)TS Building Lot Association to JamQ8 B Biuatt, N Y....................................... AsslgnmBnt of cortiflcM w of 8.ile of e'evon plots for unpaid, taxes. M artha U D esmoad ic WiDiam B&mo pro'party, if W BumVindiVidual’ and VxGoutor Alary B u m s , to M a rtha M D e tm o n d ................... . • Aseignmunt of cortiticatos. Ao, one plot for unpaid taxes. .las W Bums, imlividual and executor Mary 8,500 1,250 8,000 4,500 nom 8,750 BonnerBonner to• OAlbnrine J Bonner '\ ( Vaiulorbilt p'atV.’A m-ra/maa- H Mur- Vckarbi.VV2”Dn.);h4Y. •: Thonip5(»a. Jersey Uity it Rt’sT 225’ ft o SoTOiUU «V. 5OX10O.L’, fuJllmvi to .Tolu. J Ueid. a o ...... . ........... Beosian, Voushkeepsie to Kaward Roich ............. Forty rlret at. a 3. 225 ft o bevoutlt t , . torooloBure. Titos S Mdoy to Jans F. Voorheea, •Hrtt, N J . 3,000 nom nom Bl 13.0X) l.CO? 650 THE BDSLNESS ISSUE IN THE CASVA53. The imorvlews with the Lead* IVlerchants of fVeW Iforlc^Coiiif- mentii of the S t a l e Preeir* fFrom the Buffalo Courier.} The B kooeltn E agle had taken an effective method of meeting tbe Republican slanders about thi South. It has sent a reporter around among iho great mtrcan|i)e houses of New York to make inquiries in rd> gard to the actual condition of things in that BecUon, at revealed iluough the buBlnosa transactions of the me* tropoliB. WBttTo tempted to* condense (he results ol this Journalist's inquirir. Into an article. It may be aald In a general way that the South la ao- tlve, proeperona and hopeful. The Southern merchant, are crowding the Now York marketi eager to buy and ready to pay for their purchase! in ca.h, while .eller. are willing to give them unllmitod credit. Tbe matropoll- tan mercuauCs do not healtate to aay that their agents, no matter what part of the country they come from or what political creed they profess, are welcome at tho South and free to expteis their oplnlone os they choose. They naturally regard stories of outrages -with distruai, sines the condition of Southern trails Indicates that Southern comtminiticR are at peace and only anxious in tho cultivation of the arts of peace. Some of the gon- tiemou interviewed declare, upon personal obberracioo, that the relatione betwoou the white and black races are cordial ami that the negroes aro gradually /ailing into lino with the white people, baring learned that their only hope of prodperitr lies in a prosperoiu commu nity. After reproducing tbo inbetanee of the Isterriewt which appeared in the E agle , tbe Courier says : No cotmnenta upon this evidence are necessary. The eloquence of plain facts may he left to work ita own way toward conviction. The sCatemonts of these mer chant prluccB will hardly faH to offset tbe wild political rumors set afloat by a desperate party to affect an election. After reproducing tbe testimony of the merchants of Now York who are most largely engaged in busiueea dealings with the Bouth, the Courier sums up as fol lows : And so of all tbe Others. These men know what they are taiklug about, and tboy have no interost iu distorUeg tbo facta. Shall the New York merchants be boiievoci, or shall ws give credeuoa to the ranting blatherskites who have never seen tbe South, and who make thoir living by waving tbo bloody shirt ? That ts the ques tion. If tUe NortU t« to Prosper a« it Sliould lUe South, fflust Prosper^ Too* Tho Union devotes several of Us columns to the reproduction of the Interviews which have appeared in the E agle . Editorially it comments upon them as follows : Readers of the Union have been kept fully advised, from time to time, of the improved condition of the Boutbern States, as tho resiUt of legislation controlled by a Democratic Houao of EcpreKontatlvea since 1874, aud of the pacific policy ol tbe Liayes administration controstod with that of Grant. Tbo aubjtict waa re curred to In these columns yesterday, on which occw- Sion wo promised a presentation of tbe views of leading business men of New York'on tbo condition of the South. This /ormidable oxpreasion of eentinients oc cupies several oolumns on our first page to-day, and will be perused with interest by business men generally throughout tbo country. Among these utterances wbl be found those of snch bouses as A. T. Stewart & Co., H, B. Claflln k Co., E. S. Jaffray t Co., F, B. & H. K. Thurber & Co, and Benedict, Hall & Co. There Is a universal agreement between these business men that the condition of (he South waa never b et^r than it la at present. The crops are excellent, particularly that of cotton, which will far exceed, as did that of laat year, anything in the previous history of tbe coun try. Southern merchants are buying liberally, but carefully, from the North, and their crodUt generally is good. Increased railway facilities have cUeapoDsd transportation and tho very best of feeling prevails toward the Northern people. There are few Southerners that have any interest at stake who do not prefer the maintenance of concord and amity to a con- Unwance of eectlonal strife. Hence, if for no other reason, their aympathlea would go with tho Democratic party. The RopubUoans are avowedly hostile to them, aud would keep them in a state of servile subjacifon. rather than permit them to rise to the full development of their almost immeasurable resonrcee. The Republi can masses ara deluded by the false utterances of tne lead ers and ofliee holders, who are engaged in a desperate effort to keep themeelrea in power and place. The Jntereeta of the country at large do not lie In keeping eiator States in a oondUion of object subjugation, and thereby dwarfing tbe energies of their people and curtailing thoir resources. The more than five million bales of cotton produced annually in the Southern States—to eay noiblag of their other prodneta—is no amaU item iu compntiog the wealth of our country. The people of (hs North cannot afford to drive those who are taking this vast wealth from the aoil into other markets to purchaaa the commodities they do not produce. ITe want that market for our manufactures, for the products of our luiuca and fur the Jobbing trade of foreign gooda. The South fcara nothing so much aa a retfirn to power of tbe ^stalwart” Republlcaua of the Grant stripe, of whom Garfield is a fair repreaentative, Iu this their iuteresta and those of the business men of tho North are, or should be, considered identical. If there are any who do not iinderdtand tbe secret of tbis community of ioteresU, let them read what the business men have to say upon the subject. These oonvlctions are not baaed upon pactU sau pleadings, nor are they colored by preJudlciL The N0)7 York merchants, who have deaUnga amounnng to hundreds of znilUons of dollars a year with all parte of the country, u large share of which trailo is in tho Scuth. have no other object than to ascertain tho exact condition ol nffoira. They keep shrewd egests in tbe South for .this purpose, their inatructlons beiug to make the most minute obaervationa and report the facta precisely aa they are. Their mission is different from that of RepubKcaa amlsaarie.a who are sent out to find material for campaign literature, and if the de sired matori^ cannot bo found it must bo iu von'e^ The testimony of these znerchanta la absolutely free from bias, and it speaks volumes of wise counsel to tho intelligent voter, _______________ Shall tho fficrctiancs or the Selfish Pol iticians be Believed f (From the Syraenso Courier.} “Thf; South” is still made an Lssue in our national politics. It U a forced issue—forced by the exigencies of tte Republican party. 7'bat party waa born of hatred to the South aud its iuatltutloas; that party thrived on the war engendered by secUonaUsm.and that party would die the moment sectional bate should cease to feed it. Keeping Uio Southoru question before the country is a necessity of its very existence. Deprive the Uepublicaa party of that issue, and what could It substitute ? It sppeale to the country to-day to continue it in power, bucauso, forsooth, the South is not yet fit to take its full share in the Government, The Republican party must be continued In power,'they eay, because the spirit of rebellion is etUl rife in tbe Southern States, and only awaits its opportunity to show itself in open opposition to tho Oovernmeat. Everyman who has seen much of Southern people, every man who has traveled much through the South, knows that ibik Is a II bosh, knows that the South is to-day as loyal to the Union as is the North or West, knows that life and property are aa well protected by the law. knows, in a word, that the South ihould no more be made an issue in politics than any other soctlon of out common coun try. When the war ended, fifteen years ago, the South abandoned forever Ita chimera of a separate confederacy, and in good faith resumed its old pUcs in the Union. Nothing uas since occurred to question the Bihcerity of Us surrender, while everything has con firmed It. And yet Republican nowspapers and stump orators, presuming on the ignorance of Northern peo ple, or on tboir prejudicea, continue to parade the South as a beast with hoofs and horns, which has ^ a - bubral dosigna on the peace of the country. By thua playing on the fears of the North, by thus Dalllng tbe bloody shirt at their masthead, they hope (o f ri^ten voters into the support of Mr. Garfield. Is the real oonditton of tbs South, becomes, then, an Interest ing question in this campaign. Fortunately we aro uot without testimony ou this point which cannot bo impeached. It comes not from politicians of this party or of that, who might be interested in givius It color one way or tbe other; but it comes from a oiaas mid way between tbe two parties, independent men of businoss, merchants and commercial men, who hare dealings with the South. Ths Now York merchants, either as principals or agents, are brought Into a i^Ia- tionehip with the South that enables them to testify uaderatandiugly of its condition. tVhat do these say of ths South and its present state of feeling r Do they confirm the etatomentof the bloody shirt orators 7 Let us SCO. The B rooklyn E aole took the pains to Interview tbe leadiug merchants of New York, who have ex tensive Southern trade. Among those interriewed wore the heads or repregentatives of A. T. Stewart A Co., H. B. 0/aflin k Co., T. B. k H. K. Thurber & Co., Dan, Wyman k Co., Tefft, Griswold & Co,, Denham, Buckley Si Co., Bates, Rosd & Cooley, B. S. Jaffray & Co., How ard Brothers & Reed and MlUs & Gibb. Those fhen without exception gave the Uo to every pretense that the Southern people exhibit any hostility to Northern men. They give tho lie to ihe not un familiar assertion that Northern men, unless they be Democrats, aro ostracized in BoutUorn com- mnnitiOB, and that the Southern people will not do business with Northern Bepubileaus, or for that matter with Republicans from soy aectton. There attention to busincse, contempt for issues that are dead beyond recall, lovo of honor and justice between man and man. They report a steadily growing goodwill between whites and blacks, but have heard nothing about bnlldoziijg, secession sentiment and the like, ex cept In the columns of partlBau papers. They are doing trade in every Southern city and town, and are trusting them to the extent of as many miillona aa they can in duce the South to accept credit. POLITICAL. T h i r t e e n t h W a rd CeuCrhl Mlancoch a n d EuftliHh Club. An onthusinstio meeting of this club waa held at their rooms, 211 South Ninth street, on Satur day avenlog, at which a large number of oar most prominent Democratio citizens were present and gave much encouragementaa to the success of the national ticket in the coming contest. Dr. Joseph Creamer was made Chairman, Isaac Simonson recording. After the enrollment of nearly 100 names, among which were John J, Runole, Gardiner S. Harding. E. W. Van Vran- ken, August Voege, J. F. Hoff, John B. Brahms, Jost Moller, Jr., Edward and Gustav Voege. Henry Melster- Heo, n . E. klooro, John Palmer, D. S. Bookataver, of the iron Aqe ; Johu W. Hesse, Cashier of tho German Exchange Bank; Cnrsten Allers, Adam Rauebe, W, H. Manning, John Holler, Stephen Kent and C. T. Hubba. Speeches were made by Messrs. Hessa, Voege, Van Vrankon and others. General Gibson and Colonel VV. N. Xiclball, ol the regular army, were ma«le honorary membors of tbo club, after which tho meeting adjourned to meet at the same place on Thursday evening next. Hancoclc lUeetinflr lu tUe l^ltfbtconth W a rd. There will be a ratification m eeting a n d ban ner raising at the Hancock and English headquarters In the Eighteenth Ward Magnolia Hal), on Magnolia street, between Central and Evergreen avenues, on Wed nesday evening. The epaakors expeoted are Hon. S. D. Morris,” Hon. John C. Jacobs, James Bidgway, Ex- Judge Troy, S. M. Ostrander, E. D. Benedict, Judge Seinler and others. This club represents the Seventh and Eighth districts only of the Ward, and James How ard la president, l^ODsr l a l a n a P o l i t i c a l IVotes* The Democrats of SoutUold will hold a moss modtiQg next Tuesday evening and raise a Hancock banner. Colonei Carroll, ot Brooklyn, who baa a Sum mer residence in Souihold, will be one of the speakers. Candidates for the Republican nominaUon for Assemblyman of Suffolk County, are looming np, Mr, Carpenter wants a renoinination, Ths otherappll- cants are £. R. Ackerly, of liunilngton, and Nelson Ot. Carman, of Babylon. Tlid Hancock and English Club in Bridg- hampton has tbe following officers: President, Super visor;!. M. Halsey; Vice Presidents, E C. Topping, Charles A. Pierson, Orlando Hand, D. L. Van Scoy, Doyle Sweeney, Stephen Haynes; Beoretary and Treas urer, Elisha Oa Hedges. A. Garfield club has been organized at North- port, The officers are: President, William Sammls; Vice Presidents, N. S. Ackerly, Jameft F. Hattt, E. G. Lewis, J. Matthias; Secretary, E, J. Matthias; Xreos- uer, Joseph Ackerly. The Republicans of Sayville have organized a caoipalga club. Tba offleata ax. aa (oUo'na: Dreat- dent, Walter L. Suydam; V ic Praalflaiit, Lewia Mead; Sacratary, Smith J. No.; Correepondlog Seo- reta^v, laraal B. Green; Tteaeurar, N. O. Green; ExeenUv. Committee, John Wood, Charlc Z. Glllsite, Henry Brown, Robert Munna, Mexuiiler Staggs, C. W. Walters, Jacob Smith, Eugene Bunt, Oharlc Lefframrae, Lewts Noe, Jeremiah 8. Terry, Beadder Sntoi/or,' Wajtor Boman. - r ^ __________ BMSmiSESS N O X I C E S . ______ NO NEED TO Gb TO NEW YORK. AT WHITE’S HAIR BTORB, NO. 283 FULTON KT.^ ^ „ Roman brauU, Purfection, Branca Scollops, Hara* toga WivvPS, Points, tVirxes. Ootiuette, etc., at lower PriOM tiiAUanywuoroobe. Forehead nsla, Ido* Uauduivne, tOo. C i p S u L A M A d d r e s s e d AND DELIVRRF.D & C O .. ai» MONfAOUB STREET. •1 S ' ^ j i J , i : iv ; l i i \ V ' I | ! l I ^ -II 1 J I -‘■'I •5 .'I I i | J J I' f