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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

TIE WEATuER.-The Northwestern disturb
mcc has developed in energy and area and may
now be said to affect all the region west of the
Mississippi and the lakes and northward of
Texas The lowest pressure is still central in
Dakota, where it is attended by high marginal
winds. Heavy rains have prevailed in the Up
per Mississippi Valley and the upper lake dis
trict, and lighter southwark to the Ohio Valley
and along the lower lake shores. The precpta-
ton attending this storm is at present limited to
the Upper Mississippi and Lower Ohio valleys
III the Northeast "A branch Of the main dcprcs-
sion has detached itself and passed rapidly
mouth of the st. Lawrence, where it is develop
ing into distinct storm centre. The progress
Of the cyclone through the Caribbean Sea is slow,
but already marked decrease has taken place
in the pressure over the South Atlantic and East
crn Gulf States. with rains OH the Florida coast.
As set the winds in these districts, though from
the northeast and east, continue very moderate,
but will probably become frcshcr during to-day.
The area Of highest pressure remains over the
Middle Atlantic coast, but is slowly moving east
ward and sontliward under the influence OF the
disturbances in the Northwest and Northeast.
This movement affects the progress of the cy-
clonc considerably by rctarding its advance
westward. Tho temperature has risen in tho
Western and Is stationary in tho Eastern districts,
put falls behind the depression now advancing
from Dakota The weather in New York and
lis vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy or
Dartly cloudy, possibly with light rains
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27
Untim ely Iadisaat ion.

1t is difficult to understand why the Police
Justices should SO fercely resent the order
of the Police Commissioners by which the
precinct returns are directed to be sealed
and delivered directly to the presiding JUS
tice, instead of being, as heretofore, handed
over to the clerk Of the court The inten-
ton of the order is very plain and is not
concealed Prisoners charged with crime
are constantly induced to place their cases
in the hands of certain lawyers who make
the police courts their headquarters and
who generally manage to squeeze out Of the
unfortunates or their friends all the money
they can possibly raise for their defence. It
is suspected that the ill-gotten fees are
shared with those whose influence secures
the client The Police Commissioners
profess desire to stop this cruel exaction,
and as preliminary step, refuse to allow
the charges to be seen by any court official
until the justice is on the bench prepared
to hear the cases. The justices insist that
the order reflects on their clerks, implying
that they may be the mediums between the
prisoners and the class of lawyers called
'sshysters, by using their knowledge of the
names and charges to bring them together
1t is possible that the justices construe the
inwardness Of the Police Boards order cor
rectly. But, if so, instead of raving against
it, they should welcome it as a means of
proving the innocence of their clerks. In
deed the clerks should themselves be glad
of the opportunity to clear themselves of
such an imputation. By their present
course they seem little over-anxious to re-
tain the old system. Surely their dignity
cannot be hurt by the polite act of a police
sergeant in handing to them a sealed envel-
ope containing the precinct returns. Be-
sides, what great necessity or what public
good demands that police justice should
leave his court for two or three hours to be
run by al irresponsible clerk? The justices
are well paid by the city, and they are sup
posed to hold court themselves, and not by
deputies, in return for their liberal salaries.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

We print elsewhere briof letter from the
Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman
of the Ohio Republican Committee. Mr..
Sherman expresses an almost nervous
anxiety that Ohio shall be carried by the
republicans. As he has long been men,
Der and prominent leader of that party
his desire that it shall carry the election is
only natural. But it seems to us that the
reasons he gives for it have little weight
Briefly they are, that he thinks republican
victory in his own State necessary to the
success of the Southern policy and Of re-
sumption in finance.
Now, as to the Southern policy, we must
say that democratic victory in Ohio will
help it rather more than a republican sue
cess The republican platform gives but q
hating and perfunctory approval to that
policy, while the democrats have adopted it
with entire heartiness Moreover, that
policy is already successful it can never be
reversed, and the growls Of certain repub-
lican ''soreheads" about it are of no impor-
lance, except as they show that it is not on
republican successes that the President can
depend for support on that head.
AS to resumption, Mr.. Sherman ought to
know that he will not carry his measures in
Congress by a party vote /; he will depend
for support there on the votes of hard money
will find some of the most vigorous oppo-
nents Of resumption in his own party The
resumption plank in the Ohio republican
platform is certainly far more sensible than
that of their democratic opponents but the
result in Ohio will not influence vote in
the coming Congress on that question.
1t is to be wished that Secretary Sherman
could realize that he is part Of an admins
tration which must look for support from
the best men Of both parties. Mr.. Hayes is
in very peculiar sense the President Of the
whole country and not of a party, and the
ministration, the new questions, will not be
decided by strictly partisan votes. 1t is, in
our opinion, of not the least consequence to
the Presidents comfort or success that Ohio
should be carried by the republicans. We
should be sorry to think that it was, for we
Wlbu It'll well III I'LL WlSc uIcdSuTcS, huu ~
is at least, an even chance, according to
the belief of both parties, that Ohio will be
carried by the democrats If the President
should stake the success of his administra-
ton on the victory Of his party in this or
next falls elections, or if he should attempt to
so frame his policy as to please and advance
only his party, he would not merely make
the great mistake of his career, but he would,
as must be by this time evident to him,
have to change his course in many things.
His administration is safe only so long as
he carefully bears in mind that she serves
his party best who serves his country best
If he and his Cabinet could become perma-
nently and entirely oblivious of party, and
could see and appeal only to the country,
his success would be assured.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE to get jury honest or
fearless enough to do its whole duty in case
where policeman is involved. Ten days ago "a
poor old man declared before death that he was
brutaly dubbed by an officer, but an accommo-
dating jury found that he died from natural
causes. In the case of the unfortunate woman
Nellie Hayes another jury has returned an
equally absurd verdict. Previous to her death
she, too, declared that she had been brutally
beaten by the man who arrested her; but the
jury, while finding that she died from the
wounds thus inflicted, say her murderer is I'M
known to them. Coroners' inquests are getting
to be farce.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

see how he can hesitate in carry
ing out his proclaimed intention after
the defiance which has been flung in his
face by Mr. Conkling. II he again post
pones action, as he did in the case of Naval
Officer Cornell. and puts the matter off till
the regular session, it will be. regarded as an
evidence of timidity.
The platform adopted yesterday is very
pronounced against Mr.. Hayes civil SER
vice order, although pretending to favor
civil service by other methods. We single
out this part of the platform, because the
rest is of little account. The Southern
policy of the President cannot be brought
up in either house of Congress for any
action. What he has done in the South
is an accomplished fact. There is no
possibility of reversing it. That part
of the platform which relates to State
affairs is of no consequence for another rea-
son. By this open quarrel with the Presi-
dent the Convention has apparently thrown
away such slender chances as it had OF
carrying the State. and the promises OF
a party destined to defeat are not worth
in the platform is its animus of intense
hostility to the President. 1t proves that
Mr.. Conkling is strong enough to stir up
serious revolt against the administration in
the most important State of the Union.
There is great deal of opposition to the
civil service order in other States which
has been suppressed from motives of
party expediency in view of the
elections. The action of the New York
Convention will have no perceptible effect
on the mutinous element in other States,
but it is fatal to the success of the party
here and to Mr. Conkling's chances of n re-
election to the Senate. Even if the republi-
cans should carry the State next year the
supporters of the President will be able to
defeat q man who has so openly and eyre
giously affronted the republican administra-
ton. He seems to have gone to Rochester
course, but the arrival of Mr.. Curtis and
his proclaimed purpose to offer resolution
strongly indorsing the President threw Mr..
Conkling off his balance. His passionate
hatred of that gentleman hurried him into
what all cool observers must regard as great
mistake But he is 80 vigorously supported
by the Convention as to prove that it was
also mistake Of the President to under
value the great strength Of Mr.. Conkling in
his own State. The Senator has acted the
part of blind and infuriate Samson who
crushed himself beneath the edifce against
whose pillars he leaned his mighty shoulders.
Mr. Curtis resolution indorsing the Presi-
dent was defeated by vote of nearly three
to one, and the republican party of this
State lies in ruins which cannot be recon-
structed for this election.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27
The FAN Races At Jerome Park

Unless this weather is too beautiful to
last there will be brilliant assemblage at
Jerome Park next Saturday, when the fall
races will begin. The track has been put
in perfect order, and every arrangement
made for the comfort and convenience of
the public. The four-in-hand coaches have
returned from the watering places and will
enliven the scene, while the drive through
Central Park and the road will be gay with
hundreds of fast teams. The meeting
promises to be of unusual interest and
value. Beginning on the Goth inst. it
will close October 10, including seven days
of racing, with twenty-nine events The
arrangement of dates fortunately gives the
public the advantage of three Saturdays, the
other meetings being on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. The fall meeting at Jerome
Park has been always noted for the magnif-
cent array of horses entered for its principal
stakes, and this year is not an exception
to the rule, as there are already over a
hundred horses in readiness, with the
prospect that the number will be raised to
one hundred and fifty in few days. Most
Of the great stables Of the country are rep
resented, and among them may be men,
toned those Of the Messrs. Lorillard, Bel
mont, Astor. Mcdaniel, Clabaugh, Bowie,
Reed and Carr and company-all names
which are guarantees of fast time and excit-
ing contests. Thus the plans for the races
are as complete as human enter
prise can make them, and nothing
is likely to interfere with their success, I'M
less the weather should prove perverse.
There are rumors of cyclone approaching
from the Gulf and storm threatening from
the West, but we hope they are merely wind.
Let those steeds of the tempest race over the
ocean and the prairie, but leave to Jerome
Park the golden beauty OF its woods and
lawns and cloudless blue of the autumnal
skies.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27
The Rain or Epithets.

passage of arms" at Rochester yesterday
there was not merely n shower but a food
of epithets, kind Of equinoctial storm ;
demagogue, trickster, Pecksniff, men mil
liners, dHettant, carpet knights, hypocrites
wolves in Sleeps clothing, inordinate
vanity, disappointed ambition, blasted
hopes, and so on to the end of long
chapter or small volume being passed
around rs at country parties they pass ice
cream.
To-day considerable number of in
furiated patriots will be wiping the rotten
eggs from their faces, getting their clothes
brushed and looking around to see if any,
BODY dnres to laurb.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

The sculling race to-day between Court
ney and Riley on Owasco Lake, near
Auburn, amounting practically to return
match, promises to. be more closely con-
tested than their recent meeting on Sara
toga Lake. Riley is said to claim that
Plaisted directly interfered with and
washed him at Saratoga to such an extent
as to half fill the formers boat with water,
Courtney meanwhile rowing undisturbed.
Not ten miles from Courtney's home at
Union Springs, in region naturally very
proud OF the best sculler America ever pro-
duced, Riley has to-day an uphill fight,
and the manly way in which he goes at it does
him much credit. Nor has he any mean
antagonist in the third man who will
start the we'll known "Frenchy" Johnso n.
considered the fastest sculler in New Eng
land, and familiar with every move known
to the professional oarsman. Should john
son be able to press Courtney Mt all hard on
the outstretch he may even break the great
scullers pace, and SO help Riley to win the
race. In this battle Of the giants Johnson
himself perhaps may prove to be the best
man, of African blood though he be. In any
case the gentlemen of Auburn, in following
Saratoga lead, and offering generous purses,
open to the world, have done much for fast
rowing, and may congratulate themselves on
securing for the maiden contest on their
beautiful lake so illustrious a trio.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

THE PRoHIBITIOSIsTs now in session seem to
be satisfied with the progress they making
They are puzzled as to which party they shall
trust to carry ont their peculiar ideas, which
would seem to indicate growth in virtue on
the part of the democracy and painful decline
IN the rival establishment.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27
The shotgun Policy at Rochester.


The Honorable Mr.. Plat will probably go
down in history as ''the old lady who spoke
out in meeting" Who ever heard Of the
chairman, temporary or otherwise, Of q
political convention calling his own Secre-
tary of State demagogue and trickster, and
his own Postmaster General political Peck
sniff? This is too bad. And they say it
was all written down, too. What will
political harmony be worth if such things
are to be said out loud in political conven-
tons?
And then GENE Mr. Foster and insinu-
ated that Mr.. Plat was angry because he
was not made Postmaster General. Is it
possible Foster imagined he was adding to
the general harmony by these remarks
Could he not see that he was only making
Plat angrier all the time?
This introduction Of what may be called
the shotgun policy" in political conven-
tions is certainly not judicious. Let US
have peace; by which we mean, let members
of conventions confine themselves hereafter
to abusing the other side. It is all very
we'll for battle-scarred veterans like Mr..
Plat to go about shooting the deserters,
but when he blazes away at his own officers
he ought to understand that by the articles
of war that is rank mutiny. AS to Mr..
Foster, how does he know Mr.. Plat
wanted to be Postmaster General? His as
sertion is entirely unwarranted. On the
contrary, it has been supposed in the Gen.
trail part of the State that he wanted to be
Pension Agent See on what fimsy grounds
Mr.. Foster based an injurious insinuation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

THE EXPLANATION OF the Engineer Of the
Croton Department in regard to the scarcity
of the water borders OH the ridiculous. We
can, of course, understand that heavy fall in
the level Of the Croton basin would necessarily
create n short supply in the pipes, but that u
decline of five inches extending over nine
months should bring about such result is
nonsense. The explanation that the i,npurity
of the water is owing to fruit falling into the
streams is equally absurd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

If the chairman Of democratic conven-
ton should denounce Secretary Evarts as a
demagogue and trickster and Postmaster
General Key as political Pecksniff it would
be regarded by everybody as a scandalous
niece of b,utnlitv. and il the Convention.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active, and prices, as rule, were
higher. The coal stocks WERE however, an ex-
ception, as they declined considerably. Gold
fell from 1881 to 1O3ls. Government bonds
were firm and States and railroads higher.
Money on call lent at g. advanced to 7, fell
to 3la and closed at per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

after such speech, should make the
speaker it's permanent president, it would
be thought an indecency; but when a re-
publican speaker and republican conven-
ton do these things it is little different.
1t is family quarrel, and outsiders ought
to stuff cotton in their ears as matter OF
common decency.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27
TRIPLE SH e e Il
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1877.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-To
insure The proper classification Of advertisements
it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in
before eight o'clock erry ereni'sg.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS is back in Washing
ton Us lively ever enthusiastically in favor Of
the Southern policy, and prepared to die happy
il he can only see Herschel V. johnson on the
bench Of the Supreme Court.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

TWEED is IN DEMAND as witness. If he will
only tell the truth he may possibly save the city
as much as he has stolen from it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

MORTON, the great Philadelphia bogus stock
operator, was surprised at his arrest He proba-
bly, expected an ovation from his swindled stock
holders.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

From oar reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,ceather in Nee York and its rieinity
today sciH be rarm and cloudy partly cloudy,
possibly sciM rain.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

CANADA's INDIANS are quiet. The reports to
the contrary were set afoat by interested con-
tractors.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

In THE FUENTEs TRIAL the testimony is so
contradictory that an unprecedented public will
be apt to suspect something like perjury.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

TIE SITUATION IN FERNANDINA is improving
and the worst is believed to be over.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-27

THE REPORTED BANK PANIC in Montreal fortu
natey proves to be wholly untrue.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-16

RICHMOND STOCK EXCHANGE.
81. 'h.- ...' S.rrrn.y sprtT IL 1877.

SATURDAY., April II, 1S3f.
American Geid-1gs bid. n.,,, 7,n,,d 7s.
9 Tsnn naahs s0 g s e
He ca seeuriti,s-Ricbmond city SIS, 1I5 bid,
1Iek asked; Richmond city 6,s; 97R bid, w ask
Ell; Peterslurg city SIS. So eid pe.ersp ,a f
e's % lid: Norfolk city s's, 100 bid Norfolk city
ericksburg city SIS, 80 bid Manchester 6Es, 81 bid,
S. asked; Manchester bridge S. 107 asked.
Railroad Benas;-C Chesapeake and Ohio R11 Po',
Us gold. J. and r., 8 asked: Virginia Central Rail-
Central Cent Railroad third mortgage 6's. j. and j. IS
gage G's, j. and j., 80 bid; Southside Railroad first
mortgage preferred SIS, j. and j.: 80 bid; South,
side Railroad second Iorteage preferred S, ana
mortgage preferred SIS. j. and j. ~ bid. Az
asked; Petersburg Railroad second mortgags s's J.;
and j. rs bia Richmond ns sna 20 Sd AIaps
Mississippi and Ohio Railroad certificate, 73h bid.
rs asked; Richmond, FrederlekSburg and Potomac
Railroad mortgage S's, j. and j.. Ice bid: Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potorlac Railroad mort
gage rs. j. and d. 95 bid: Orange and Acxandria ORA
Railroad second mortgage IS and D., ~ BID. 71H
gage SIS, M and n, go asked; Richmond and Dan
vile railroad consolidated 6's, 81. and n. Toy bid,
70 asked; Piedmont Railroad FIRST mortgage U.s. a.
Railroad StockS.-Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Rniroad SIX cent ice nto
mac Railroad seven per cent. guaranteed, 100 par,
90 hid; Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad common,
l 90 par, 90 asked; Seahoard and Roanoke Kaliroah
guaranteed, 100 par, II asked. son
Bank Stocks.-National Bank Of Virginia, 1Oo
par, 90 asked; State Bank OF Virginia, leo par,
Insurance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Fire and Ma
rine. 25 iar, 80 bid. Virginia State, % par, 81
asked; Virginia Home. 100 par, 90 bid, 10l asked;
City, 100 par, 81 asked; Old Dominion. 100 par,
so asked; Granite Insurance Company, 100 par, 70
bod. fNn,,<, ND Eirn yrgu u
par, asked Richmond Fire Association, rs par:
1S asked; Piedmont and Arlington Life, 100 par,
100 bid.
: Nisceikaneo us-Old Dominion Steamship Com
panv, 100 par, Tx bid. 90; asked.