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HEW YORK, MONDAY. AUGUST 2K lMILFrom our reports this morning the probabilities

arc thut the weather to-ilaij irill he clear ami cool.

During the summer months the Herald trilloe sent to snhscrihcrs in thr country nt the rote ofUrmty-fivc rent* per irrdr. tree of'postage.Li kittenant Governor Dobsheimer opened

the campaign in this State nt Hornellsvilleon Saturday night, making a speech whichdemocrats will like and republicans willridicule. Tho principal purpose of hiseffort was to uphold "the honored name ofSamuel J. Tilden," and tho pathetic mannerin which the Lieutenant Governor utters thophrase is tho host proof of his devotion.

Pbepabatioxs fob the Fttneral of the lateSpeaker Kerr are in progress, and his remainswill be scut to New Albany, Ind.,for interment early in this week. It is unfortunatothat a proper escort cannot be providedby the House over which he was

chosen to preside, but wo cannot doubt thatthere will bo a distinguished attendance ofhis Congressional associates at tho burial.

The Escated Fenians nro well receivedby tbeir friends and sympathizers in thiscitjg and all day yesterday they were over-

run with visitors. The story of their escapeis an interesting and exciting one, and it istold at length in the Herald this morningby Mr. John J. Breslin, who planned andexecuted the rescue. It will bo read with interesteverywhere, even apart from its politicalsignificance.Bad ron the Servians..The Turks have

executed a bold strategic movement on Alexinatz,recently the headquarters of PrinceMilan's army, which will probably result inthe captnre of that town. General TcliernayefTsforces have been covering Banja.infact awaiting a Turkish attack at that point;but the Turks, by a rapid retrograde andthinking movement, have completely neutralizedthe strength of the Servian general.The baslii-bazouks are at tlicir favoritework of burning the captured villages, whilethe Servian soldiers arc rapidly advancingto the rear.

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forces, but Sitting Bull nnd liis warriorscannot be found. The wily savage will, ifpossible, avoid a b it tie unless ho is com-

polled cither to tight or to starve. Our despatchesthis morning, giving us the informationof the meeting of the two commands,also inform us of the retreat of the savagesnnd the signs of their starving condition,We can only hope that Sitting Bull's escapewill be prevented and that the two com-mandors will be able to avenge the massacreof Custer and liis men and teach the Siouxthe lesson which is so much needed bythem.

The Attitude ov Gkeece toward thePorto lias hitherto boon one of strict neutrality,but the sound of war has amusedthe peoples that suffered through centuriesfrom Turkish tyranny and the Greeks are

growing restive under the restraint of theirgovernment. Crete, another dependencyof the Porte, has demanded reforms, and theSultan being slow to respond she has enlistedthe sympathies of the Greeks in hercause. We therefore learn that the llame ofinsurrection has again broken out in Crete,while Gre» ei assumes an almost hostile atti-tude toward her Turkish neighbor and demandswhat the Sultan will not grant. TheTurks will soon be surrounded by armedenemies.

The WiiTwr.- ltains prevailed yesterdayon the Atlantic coast northward of Conn

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Hattcrns during the passage of the area oflow baroni< t« r northeastward toward NovaScotia. At New York the rainfall was slight,and occurred in the early morning. Followingclose behind the low area one of high pressurenow traverses the tipper lake region andCanada, whence we received the strongcurrents of cool air that swept over thecity yesterday aftemo ui and last night,lowering the temperature to a pleasant degreecompared with that experienced Inst week.In the Northwest another depression hasmanifested itself, with rains anil log on itssoutherly rim. We have, tin rofor»\ in thebelt of latitude between the fortieth andfifty-tilth parallels two areas of low Kircmeterwith an intermediate area of high pressure,These are rather unusual conditions,*nd, considering the rapidity of the movementsof these art as, we may look for a

change to rloudiiit ss and rain on Wednesdaynext. During to-day and Ttnsday theweaJner will be clear and cool.

iVThe Future of the Struggle in Servlu.

'1 he wnr in Servia lias reached a point atwhich it changes its character in the mostimportant particular. It was an advance ofthe Servians to the invasion of Turkish territory.If it is further continued it will hoan advance of the Turks to the invasion ofServia. This is an important change inany war; but it is a change of the grnvestnature in a wur between a Christian State inthe enjoyment of an advanced degree of civilizationand a Moslem State that hurlsagainst its enemy the savages produced inthe most barbarous parts of its territory. Itmeans that the hostilities between Serviaand Turkey, which were lately only as fierceas must necessarily be the ucts of any war,!ir»> nnvv an /I A on 1 if frt V A nrrcrvavafnrl liw tlui

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occurrence on Servian territory of a repetitionol' all thoKo atrocities which have recentlybeen practised in Bulgaria, and whichrecall to mind the horrible recitalH of whatoccurred in the same districts some hundredsof yenis sine '. It was thought thatthis critical period in the conflict was

one likely to lead to tho mediation ofthe great Powers. Indeed, tho astutediplomatists were of opinion that the neiglils»rsof Sorvia only waited for tho demonstrationof the incapacity of the Servianforce to keep the war from the frontier ofthat country for an interference in the interestsof peace. But tho declaration receivedby cable that the war is to go on discouragesthat hope. It is an odd piece ofthe irony of events that with the news of thediscouragement of that hope comes tho declarationon the part of the Sultan's governTllPTit.nf fltn Trirlriali vinw nf tit a wnr in

which the position, purposes and intentionsof tho Ministry at Constantinople are presentedin a light so widely at variance withthe Turkish conduct of the war that it becomesa very farcical document.Prince Milan's determination, upon conferencewith his military advisers, to "continuethe war to the last extremity," will not

change tho character of tho operations nor

modify tho common result of tho collision ofhis forces with those of the Turkish commanders.Tho resolution to continue theattempt to arrest tho march of tho victorswith a beaten army is not olten of great consequencein war. It may imply an excess ofdesperate conrago on the part of him whoannounces this resolution ; but the desperatecourage of tho Prince does not make a

demoralized army fight any better. There isno good reason to suppose that the Serviansoldiery is in better condition now than itwas early in tho slimmer, for the worldknows well the value of tho statement thatan army has been "completely reorganized"on its lino of retreat. Prince Milan's re-

solve to continue the war may imply on Inspart either a faith that ho will be able to resisteffectually if hostilities take the form ofa guerilla conflict, or a hope that, a mere

continuance of the war will effect suchchanges in the aspect of politics that thePower disposed to come to his rescue may doso without putting itselfin such an attitude ofdistinct hostility to England as may imperilthe peace of Europe. These are the onlyrational interpretations of his attitude ; tor,if he is still of opinion that he can, unaided,oppose the Turks with success in regularoperations, this must bo taken as a new

evidence of his incapacity. As to the likelihoodthat any favorable change in thecourse of events will result from the operationsassuming the quasi savage characterof a guerilla warfare, we apprehend that thiswill prove a delusion. No warfare can

be made too savage or too barbarousto be agreeable to the forces that the Portesends into Servio. That sort of warfare distressesand annoys, and may ultimately defeatarmies organized on military principleand operating under the restraints that are

a necessary part of discipline. Put the menwho nave made a tieseri 01 nuigaria are notthat sort. of soldiery. Moreover, they have no

communications to cut, no supplies to becaptured, no assailable side to the suddendescent and assault of a concealed foe.They live on the country, and the only wayto deprive them of supplies would be to acton the tactics of the Moscow campaign andburn up all before them. For this the Serviansare evidently not ready. In fact, ifthe Servians turn their troops into guerillasit will be louinl that the bashi-bazouks are

the best guerillas of the two. Guerilla warfarocould never last six months, even in theBasque Provinces of Spain, if the invadingforce were at liberty to act as the Turkishirregulars acted in Bulgaria. They who killall they see.men, women or children ;who take what forage they want and burnthe rest; who apply the handy torch toevery house, do not leave the countryin a condition to support even guerillas.But this is what the Turks have done inone revolted province this summer; and therosewater of diplomacy will not preventthem doing it in another.As to the hope that a mere continuance of

the conflict will force the great States ofEurope into new attitudes toward one

another, it is not without a reasonable basis.Bnssia's attitude has been explicitly madeknown. She is well disposed toward theS> rviiin people, but will not take any stophazardous to the peace of Europe, ami,therefore, will not relinquish her inactivitywhile it possible that her doing so wouldlead to the extension of hostilities beyondtheir present limits. The reason for theassumption that any mov< mont on her partwould involve war is that England is re-

gurded as actually arrayed in support of theSultan, and that the Power which lights thePorte would, if it once cut through theflimsy forces of Moslcmistn, find itself infront of a line with tlm standard of England,The demonstration with the llritish fleet isin Europe actually called an intervention,and Itnssia nets upon the assumption thatit is oue. These facts cannot bo withouttheir influence in England, wherepublic opinion is already very gr . t \eitedon the relations of that com theconflict -so much excited that it would notbe an extreme view to contemplnto the retirementof Mr. Disraeli into a peerage andthe other ministerial changes as so manypr< paratioiy* for a grave and inevitable modificationof the attitude of (»r at llritaintoward Turkey. The more this change becomeslikely the more the solution of thedifficulty resolves itself into a question oftime and justifies the Servians in a desperate

EVV YORK HERALD, MOleffort to hold out. England's position is athost difficult. The government is betweenthe commercial classes which require thesupport of English against ltussian interestsin the East and that strong Christian sentimentwhich revolts at the supremacy ofMoslemism in Christian countries. Englnnd,therefore, supports material Turkey as a factuseful to her, and endeavors to suppressreligious Turkey as a fact offensive and re-

pugnant to her. 15ut every victory that isgained in this war by the Moslem strength-ens crreatlv that element of offensive Mos-lemism in Turkey which renders it more andmore diiticnlt for England to sustain thePorte. The necessary progress of a revivalof Islam fury directly produced by Islamvictories must secure the retirement of theUritish Ministry from even a moral supportof the Sultan ; but ere this result is broughtabout Servia may be treated as Bulgaria hasbeen.

The President and the Appropriations.Movrto Break Down the IndianRing.The President has written nothing since

be came into power that wilt gratify thecountry so much as his recent Message. Aswo pointed out in the Heuaxu, from time to

time, during the sessions, the two houseslog-rolled an Appropriation bill for riversand harbors which was not needed. This appropriationmounted up to seven millionsin the House. The Senate reduced tho sumto live millions. There was a fierce battleover it in both houses. The principle uponwhich the bill was passed was a perniciousone. Each member had his pet scheme fordredging some creek or river at the expenseoi iuo government. constituents ae-

mantled it. Fivo or six years agothe hill Mas passed at an aggregateof two millions. Every year it in-creased. It was in vain for honest andprudent members to light the measure.the pressure of "constituents" was enough.The President now steps in and says that hosigns the bill for the good it contains, butthat ho m ill take care that no public moneygoes out to "improve" worthless ditches andpools. The President plants himself uponthe ground taken by the Herald in opposingthis bill, and if he carries out his purpose,as no one doubts, the country m-illsave three or four millions of dollars. Thereis about one million provided for in the billthat is for the public welfare. All the restis sheer Avaste. The country will honor thePresident for using his prerogative to preventit.There is another thing the President can

do that would meet the approbation of thecountry. In signing the Indian Appropriationsbill let him put an end to thy Indianagencies as now managed in the Sioux country.An attempt was made to transfer thoIndians from the Interior to the War Department.The House voted for this transfer.The ring was too strong in the Senate,ami the measure was defeated. Now lot thePresident say that, as the Sioux and othertribes are in a state of war, the whole managementof the agencies and reservations inthe Sioux country will bo intrusted to themilitary authorities. This is necessary as a

war measure. It will prevent Kitting Bullfrom using tho agencies for bases of supplies,hospitals for his wounded, and as recruitingstations. It will be a blow at that rascallyIndian Department, to which we are indebtedfor our wars, and give the control ofthe Indians to soldiers like Sherman andSheridan, who are brave, humane and ex-

perienoed. Our experience with the IndianDepartment, as it is now managed, is lull ofdisaster. There can be no change that willnot be an improvement, and the wholematter rests with the President.

What In n Challenge 1

An officer of tho United States Navy hasrecently published his opinion of a memberof Congress, and tho Washington despatchesspeak of the subject in n tone which impliesthat people at the national capital seem toregard the ease us one of which tho navalauthorities must necessarily take notice.They «rall tho officer's opinion, as published,a challenge to the member, which appears tobe a very loose use ot words. One must govery far indeed into etymology to properlyapply the word challenge to the expressionof an opinion, however offensive the opinionmay bo, and when one has gene so far hewill find that he is using the word challengein a very different sense from that attachedto it as an invitation to come out and hoshot. It is only in this latter sense, however,that tho naval authorities havesupervision ol tho conduct of a navalofficer as to challenges. By the laws of theUnited States any officer who "sends or ac-

oepts a challenge to fight a duel" exposes himselfto sucli a peimlty us u court martial mayintlict, and it was because of this rule that theofiieer referred lo retrained from challengingthe Congressman, but acted on a presumedright ol'every man to express his opinion on

a case in which ho has an interest. Ho perhapshoped that he might induce the memberto challenge him, but the departmentcan scarcely act on a "perhaps." it is possiblethat the missive in question might hecalled a provocation to a duel, and as such,on a strained interpretation of the law, theNavy Department might notice it. It is tol>e observed, however, that the point as towhether or no a given declaration is a provocationto a duel is one that itself dependsin a great degree on the temper of the manwhom it is proposed to provoke.

Thf. Pri.rits yesterday were mostly filledby visiting ministers, and reports of theirsermons will be found in our columns thismorning. In « few instances the regularpastors preached to their congregations,Among these were the Rev. Dr. Dooms, ofthe Church of the Strangers, and the llov.Dr. Anderson, of the First Baptist church.At St. Bernard's Komun Catholic church a

panegyric upon the saint was delivered by theRev. I>r. Brann; but apart from this specialservice most of the sermons were devoted todoctrine and duty.Oi'k Newport Letter this morning gives

much interesting gossip relating to thefamous watering place and its visitors andvillagers. F.very year Newport is becomingn still more fashionable resort, and it isacquiring the first place in the promotion ofathletic sports, as well as in social entertainments.

>TDAY, AUGUST 21, 1876.The Next Governor 1 New York.

Since the amendments of the State consti|tntion, which took effect in January, 1H75,the Governorship of New York has becomeone of the great prizes of politics. It hasalways been an office of high dignity, althoughone of slender emolument. But inspite of the meagre salary the importance ofthe station has rendered our most eminentcitizens willing to accept it, the honor ofgoverning this great, populous and wealthyState, the seat of an imperial commerce anda great centre of intelligence and politicalinfluence, having been sufficient to temptambition, although involving a pecuniarysacrilice. The State has reason to be proud

prising niuny of tlio most eminent names innational as well as State politics. Not to goback more than forty years, our gubernatorialchair has been tilled within thatperiod by such statesmen as Marcy,Seward, Wright, Fish, Seymour, Dix,Tilien, and others of almost equal note.Governor Tilden is the first to receive an

adequate salary, but when he accepted thenomination there was no certainty that hewould bo better compensated than his predecessors.The constitutional amendmentswere adopted at tbo same election by whichhe was brought to the head of the State government.and he has the benefit only of theincreased salary, but not of tho lengthenedtenure. For the first time in our politicalhistory a Governor is now to be elected for a

term of three years, and it is known beforehandthat the salary will bo ten thousandinstead of four thousand dollars, llesidesthe salary the Legislature makes an annualappropriation of four thousand dollars iprthe rent of the Governor's house, making hisactual compensation fourteen thousanddollars a year. This is a more desirableoffice than any other in the T'nitedStates, with the single exception ofthe Presidency. The Vice Presidentand the Secretary of State are paidonly ten thousand and tho Chiet Justiceton thousand five hundred, with no al-lowance for house rent. The Governorshipof Xew York has become so importantthat it will be eagerly sought, but we haveno reason to expect a higher grade of incumbentsthan have tilled it heretofore.Important as the priae has become it is

not likely to be awarded this year to mere

merit. 13otli parties are likely to select theircandidates with a view to heal divisions andcement harmony in their own ranks; but ifthe republicans should nominate Mr. Evarts,who has always stood aloof from the quarrelsfvf 11 ti<1 iu tltprofrtro n rrnst/l nnmnvn.

mise candidate, they would .also, in tlioevent of his election, give us a Governorwho deserves to rank with the ablest of thegreat men who have tilled the office intermor times. On the democratic side noname has been mentioned of such high distinctionas that ot Mr. Evurts; but it happenson that side, too, that the candidate whocould be accepted by both tactions withoutany sacrifice of pride would make a worthyand accomplished Governor. Mr. ClarksonN. Hotter is one of tho most respected citizensof the State, and ho stands almostequally high in tho esteem of democrats andrepublicans. Ho was constantly re-electedto Congress so long as he wo.uld consent toserve, und no member of that body won a

more enviable reputation for integrity, fairness,candor and patriotism. He belongs tothe school of liberal or progressive democrats,and takes larger and more enlightenedviews of public questions than a majority ofthe leaders of his own party. His intellectualculture and social accomplishmentswould grace any office, and he would bepersonally as well as politically one of thomost popular chief magistrates the Statehas ever had. Mr. Dorsheimer is likelyto be his leading competitor . in theDemocratic Convention, but Mr. Dorsh,eimcr'sstrength lies almost entirelyin the preference of Governor Tilden.As between him and Mr. Potter therecould bo no doubt of the result if thequestion were lett to the free action of theConvention. It is impossible to harmonizethe party on Mr. Dorsheimer, and thereforeinexpedient to nominate him for Governor.The whole party is willing to manifest itsconfidence in him by a renomiuation lor hispresent oftice, and with that so recent a recruitought to be contented. Potter forGovernor and Dorsheimer for LieutenantGovernor is the wisest ticket the democratscan nominate, both for re-establishing harmonyin the party and for attracting outsidesupport.

The Impure C roton Water.The impurity of the Croton water is

simply horrible, and demands the promptattention of the city authorities. The evilswhich have created this alarming conditionof our water supply have been steadily increasingunder the eyes of the city governmentfor many years, and yet no intelligentclfovt has been made to abate thorn. Additionallands have been secured for new reser-

voirs, dams and weirs have been constructedwith considerable elaboration and at tnorinouscost, but the system in its extensionover the Croton watershed represents only a

cumulative evil rendered irreparable by thenmgniiicence of the scale on which it is developed.It would appcnr that the plan oflessening the dangers lromthe reservoir tilthby diluting it is the leading feature of our

Croton system, and each new reservoiris in its turn intended to supplythe necessary volume of pure waterfor this purpose. Hut no sooner isit completed and filled than it becomesa rival m mistiness of its neighbor next below,ami tho necessity soon arises for anotherextension of the scheme of purification.Hut this progressive system of reservoirbuilding must have a limit, and when we

exhaust our sites and all tho supply lakesbecome cesspools, what then is to be done?Clearly we must begin tho costly undertakingof cutting oil tho flow of the surfacedrainage into the reservoirs or ol purchasingup and demolishing every dwelling, farmhouse,factory and slaughter house withinthe area of the (J ruton watershed.The hikes must bo fenced, to prevent tlioliogs from wallowing in the water intendedfor drinking purposes in the city of NewYork. There are new reservoirs in contemplation.we understand, but we fear thatnothing will be done to preserve them frompollution. Settlements will spring up

around them, and they will in timo becomethe receptacles of the general sewage. It isnot too late to Becure even some of the presentlakes from this condition; but is thereintelligence, energy nnd honesty enough inour city government officials to do it?

Let Ut Keep Coot.

Of the forty-four millions of Americanpeople probably less than half a million,counting men, women and children, are interested,in what may bo called a direct personalor pecuniary sense, in the result of theNovember elections. The number is notgreater if we count the ins, who want to stayin, the outs, who want to get in.in short,the people of all kinds of whom it may beKind tliat "tlie hay at the end of the polemakes them pull.The rest of us have a loss direct, but still

an equally important, interest in the result.What we want is good government; and we

are to be congratulated that both politicalparties and their loaders promise us this.not vaguely, as is too frequently done, butspecifically. Both candidates promise us

distinctly a sound currency, a reform of thocivil service, reform aud peace in the SouthernStates and economy in tho public expenditures.Both candidates are men of character,determination and settled convic-tions. Neither will ruin the countryif lie is chosen, in spito of whatbigoted or self-interested partisans maydeclaim on the stump, and neither will do itall the good their over-zealous friends assert.Either will have a difficult task t<* withstandtho demands of scmo of his supporters,for in a matter of a reform of the civil serviceGovernor Tilden will have as great difficultiesto contend with as Governor Hayes,perhaps oven greater, though it is not usefulto underestimate the opposition which Mr.Hayes will have to meet from his politicalallies if it shall bo his fortune, as President,to begin this great and needed reform.Why, if this is true, if both candidates

promise equally well, and if both are mrtiof character, likely to perform what theypledge, should the people allow themselvesto become excited about the election ? Weknow no good reason, and the fact is notori-ous that they are not excited. A certainnumber of stump orators in the Senate andelsewhere have already begun to beat theirgongs, but they get very little attention.Mr. Boutwell has demonstrated that thecountry will bo ruined if the democraticparty should succeed, and Mr. Eaton has ,

proved that, it will go to the deninition(

bow-wows if the republican party shouldsucceed. In either case, if we might believethese orators and others of their kind, our ,

liberties would not be worth a week's purchase,and those of us who like free institutionsand constitutional government mightas well emigrate in a body to Luke Tanganyikaor the Island of New Guinea. Hut, in jpoint of fact, nobody is scared. Nobody be-lieves that either part}' will bring us eitherruin or a political millennium. The people jof the United States, excluding, besides Indiansuntaxed, the office-holders and theoffice-seekers, see a great amount of folly andpossible mischief in both parties. They seo,too, that both have chosen for their leaders. ,

under the pressure of the public demand forreform, honest and capable men, who havesolemnly pledged themselves to certain nec-

essary reforms. They are aware that whicheverof these leaders shall bo chosen willhave a difficult task to perform, and

willfind his opponents largely in his -Iown party. But thoy have reason tobelieve also that in either case, withthe support of right-minded people ofboth narties. the new President will lie «Ji1n

to lead the country toward the reforms itneeds. Why, then, should anybody be excited?Let us be devoutly thankful that inthis centennial of the llepublic the candidatesbefore tho people are both mento whom tho great interests of the nationmay be safely intrusted, and that we are notin that calamitous condition when a nationstands, to use a sailor's phrase, "betweenthe devil and the deep sea," and is threat-cued with ruin if it votes wrongly.What, then, is the average citizen to do?

We advise him to keep cool ; to read hisHerald, where ho will find a great varietyof information, daily, and to m ike up hismind to vote for the best men, when all thotickets are made up. He will have to votefor a Congressman, for Governor, in many oftho States, and t< r some minor officers. Lettho average citizen select tho best men, re-

gardlessof party ; thus he will best serve thecountry and himself. Do not vote for an unfitman because ho belongs to your party, butsplit your ticket, use your judgment, and,beyond this, watch the canvass. The conduct,the words of party leaders betweennow and the election will, of course, be carefullyguarded, yet they will let out thetruth in spite of themselves. Uetween now

and November thero remains abundantopportunity for tho average and impartialcitizen to determine to which of the twoparties it is host to confide the governmentfor the next four years. If ho reads manypolitical speeches he will change his mindvery often. When, for instance, he readsSenator jmutwcll s diatribe on Mississippihe will be moved to vote tho democraticticket. Vi hen ho reads Senator Eaton'sspeech he will determine to support the re-

publicans. Every violent or foolish or par-tisan speech which he hears or reads willimpel liiiu to the other side, and the averagecitizen will probably remain until the lastdays before the election undecided, and willsum up like a conscientious juryman at thelast, and give his verdict for that side whichhas done the least lying.Tit in in it ii y Make Hoom fur Your Anti.

Dennis tjuinn, Owen Murphy, BernardReillv, Thomas O'Callalmn, Mike Murphy,Dennis Burns, Jimmy Hayes, Michael Healy,Dennis McMahon and some other noble and i

illustrious statesmen are appointed a com- |inittee of conference to settle the terms on

which tho Tammany and anti-Tammanydemocrats shall respectively bury thehatchet that is to say, put up the shillclah.In what these men may do the public hasvery littlo interest, except in so tar as thoproposed course threatens to close up a

quarrel that was salutary and advantageousto tho city. Democratic quarrels are alwaysa public benetit, and the latest opposition ofn taction of the democrats to Tammany tlallwas altogether a gain to good government;

*or *h(f o factions, never Htrong enough todo what they will, eo-operntc with tho citizensin tho endeavor to free us from Tammanydomination, and sometimes succeed.This was done in a yet well rememberedslaughter of the Tammany nominees, andmight be ropeatedly done in similar circumstances.In making terms with Tammany,therefore, the anti-Tammany faction simplysurrenders itself up as a party. It sells outfor tho usual mess of pottage. It trades on

tho rich prospect of tho city offices. It was fof consequence in city politics only as theanti-Tammany party. It had no other sig-nificunce and no other value than a nucleus

of opposition to lioss Kelly's will ; but itcould not bo kept together without the

spoils, and tho only ditliculty in the presentnegotiation is to determine the price.

Thin-low Weed 111 Itepljr to Meltrib

Stephen*, Toombj mill Cllngnmit.We print this morning another letter from

Mr. Thurlow Weed in corroboration of thostatements in his interesting chapter of unwrittenhistory which led to tho controversynow for some tiuio going on in ourcolumns between him and other distinguishedactors in our political history.The con dieting assertions of the parties to

this controversy do not seem to us to involve

any question of veracity, the discrepanciesnot being greater than might naturally be

expected from the infirmities of humanmemory respecting events which occurredmore tluin a ouarter of a ccnturv ago. Mr.Weed has established the substantial correctnessof his original narrative, but itseems very clear that he was mistakenon some points of detail, andespecially in relation to the presenceof Mr. Clingman at the White House on theoccasion whon President Taylor gave way toa paroxysm of indignant excitement. Mr.Weed himself has been led to distrust theaccuracy of his memory on that point sincereading Mr. CI ingman's letter, which ho ingenuouslydescribes as "fjauk, full and qandid,"and us "contributing much and valuableinformation relating to the excitingquestions before Congress during the sessionof 1850." It soenis to us that Mr. Clingmanbad 110 connection with, and probable thathe had no knowledge of, the remarkable interviewat the White House; but Mr. Weed'srecital is unshaken in any other importantparticular. There was such a stormy sc.no

it tho Presidential mansion as Mr. Weedmm nit; nrsi io unug 10 iuu jtuuiiv uuuwiadge;Stephens and Toombs were the twoSouthern whigs who roused the tempest,ind General Taylor denounced theirthroats of disunion with unmeasuredrehomenco. . Tlie letter of Mr. Hamlin,i,vhich Mr. Weed embodies in his present:ommunication, not only corroborates hisDwn statements, but is so minute in its relationof circumstances as to carry stronginternal evidence of accurate rocollection.Mr. Hamlin's letter to Mr. Weed settles themain point in dispute and conveys a vividpicture of what took place on that occasion.Mr. Clingman is clearly in error in statingthat Mr. Toombs had no interview with GeneralTaylor until the latter was on his deathbed,for Toombs himself states, in tho letter ^ivhich Glincrman had not seen, that he andStephens lmd repeated conversations withthe President, sometimes separately andsometimes together, and that "some of themivcro earnest and decided on both sides."JL'he letter of Mr. Clingman, those of Mr.Weed and that of Mr. Hamlin aro valnablemd interesting contributions to'tho history>f one of the most memorable and dangerousperiods in our politics.

PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.Boston sends salt to Chicago.Professor Scclvc Is now a bitter republican.A colored woman is posimislross at Terry, MIs^This summor has been a season ol monster Ores is

London.Many of the Parisian totlotsbnve several bouquets.

always one nt the throat and one at the pocket.President Porter and Professor Whitney, of Yale Cotego,nro spending some tlmo at the Lake Placid llouso,

n the Ad:rondacksIt is suuod that tho Anlonina Palaca at Malta liaa

>cen taken from November next lor the rcsido.ice ofLho Duchess of Kdmburgh.Mr. Phillip*, of lho Springfield (111.) Journal, has

jccu nominated for Congress by the republican] ol hllll'trict. Mr. Phillip* is a strong man.

Wo have never regarded Minister Pierrepont as ainireme man. Jtoceul development* show conclusivelv

tdnt he believes rather In a happy medm.n.Court Journal:."Miss Emily Srhomb Tg, the Phi la- ®

lelphin belle, la about to bo married. It U Raul thatshe has been asked in marriage one hundred tlmos."The Spanish government hat appointed a commission ^

!o Inquire Into the physical conditions and possibilitiesof the i'liiiippiuo 1-lsnd*. A professor of botanyia to ucconipaiiy the expedition.Richmond (Vn) Fnquirrr:."Yesterday Adolphua

rinsley, from Hanover eouuty, brought to this city lidwatermelons, o( Ills own raising, uone of winch weighedess than thirty pounds, the average being fortypounds, aud some weigned as much as forty-ninspounds."The Ilishop of Gloucester and Cardinal Manning wers

present recently at a meeting or the Model HousoaUnooiatlou for improving tho dwellings of the poor Inl.ondon. Tho Ilishop was compollcd by other engagencnisto lo ive, aud he askod the Cardiunl to tako hitplace in the chnlr.London Fun ."Granny.-Haying the truant agin',

rcr young-vngabon; I'll warm yer up when I gets j«»ome! Why ain't ycr at school liko yer good brotbsii'oini" Jack.'Uain't no truant at alL Me and Tondivides it now; I carries the books to school and hiJoes the lnrntn' there!' "

If n licet of about 2.0 K) ships, each freighted will1,400 tuna of mini, wero to sail down the river ovcijItour ot every day ami night lor four months continuausly, tlioy would only transport to the sea a mass o:solid matter e>|ital to thai borne down by the Ganges II;ho lour month.' of the flood season.Four Australian loriuno tellers are in Paris, en routs

lor Knglaud. These are four old men. with long whitshoards aud red cloaks. They euro Illness and help noo|iloto bo rorengol upon enemies, known or unknown.>ue of their chief remedies, in extreme cases of Illness,Is to plungo the patient into a bath ol leeches.

Alt Knglish traveller on the Continent savs:."Iwrite these pages in tl.o uepllt ol the liiack Forest,where n village inn has been turned into tho hotel ol a

Kiir, anil I am charged oxtra fur a pat of butler with mymorning codec. In a belvedere, perched ou the woodyheight opposite my window, the n tmea WashingtonL'ouk, ol Chicago, and Ulysses Bagg, ol Cincinnati, amcnt deep into tho wood; and I think of thein when 1pay lor my butter."Our brilliant and graphic account of Custer's grext

Indian battle on tho l.ittln Uig Horn, fought on the 2ithol June and printed in the Hkrald of July 8, has nowbecumo i!.oaccepted true account of the battle. It banbeen copied everywhere by tbe rural press in this country,and has also been widely republished in ICuropovThe credit of preparing this report is due to Coloucl 0.A. l.oui)sbcrry, editor of tho Bismarck Tribune, whogathered his material from many sources aud telegraphedit through to the Hkkai.d on t\o night of theGth ol July, hut loo late for use next day. It flrst conveyedto tho public the full particulars of tho greatbattle.