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New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
SIC Nc OF PROGRESS.

Partisans OF the Administration nave Keen
perception of what they choose to consider signs
of progress About once week they stand on
tip-tocs and with the aid OF that powerful IN
strument, their imagination. survey the held oil
National politics. The exercise never fails to
encourage them. They find signs OF progress
in the mote that is in their own eyes as well as
in the beam that is in the Republican editors
eyes, and they proclaim anew an era oi poiitica
purity. of administrative reform, and oil
emancipation from partsanslIip.
Signs of progress Why, certainly. Any
body can see them with the naked eye rs plainly
rs the blind man in Scripture saw men as trees
walking There is the Consular service
which Secretary Evarts had reorganized on n
commercial basis, broken up and demoralizcd
through the dismissal of competent officials and
the appointment of place-hunters and advent
urcrs. There is the Diplomatic service, re-
cruitcd with rebel brigadiers and Northern
Copperheads, and Kelley P!enipotcntiary at
Large to the European Continent. There Is the
Treasury Department playing fast and loose
with the New Yorl, bankers on the silver ques-
ton. There is the Navy Department repudiat-
ing the naval contracts of the last Administra-
ton and driving great shipbuildcr into bank
ruptcy. There is the Postmaster General with
holding from the American steamship COM
panes the money which Congress voted to
them. and arraying himself against the business
interests OF the country There is Higgins en-
trcnched in Office, where Secretary Manning
VOWS that he cannot be moved. There Is
Thompsons man in the NewYork Custom
House. and a long series OF partisan appoint
ments made without reference 10 the require
ments of the Civil Service, but solely in lquida-
ton of political debts. There are hypocritical
professions of reform on the lips of the Prcsi-
dent and his Cabinet advisers, but everywhere
there is what Judge Draper styles par,isanship
"on the sneak 800 removals in Che railway
mail service, a general clearance of Republican
letter carriers, minor department clerks and
subordinate officials, aud the gradual con
version of the patronage OF the Government
into political spoils for camp-followers and ad-
veuturers.
Yes there are many signs OF progress. but 1t
is progress backward. The standards and
morals Of the Jacksonian period are being
gradually restored. There are profuse ex-
pressions of sympathy for Civil Service reform
and not a little cant about conducting the Gov
ernment on sound business principles. But the
real movement of Democratic politics is in the
direction of the craven surrender to disloyalty
which characterized Buchanans term, and also
tJward the imbecility and false protences OF the
Pierce Administration. There is n return all
along the line under cover of dishonest profes-
sions of reform to the crude principle of
political spoils.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10

are stopped at this time. than year ago.
Meanwhile the debts of railroad companies
have increased, and their contests with each
other have not yet been terminated by any
arrangements which can be expected to be
lasting. There is talk of restoring rates, but it
is not yet done. Better rates are obtained on
the lakes, and yet not high enough to give the
railroads larger traffic. During the last
week the movement in Western Union appeared
to indicate some understanding as to telegraph
ic matters, and il such an understanding has
been reached, it doubtless embraces arrange
ments as to railroad matters which will not be
helpful to the Pennsylvania or the Vanderbilt
interest. But it is still impossible, as it has
been for weeks, to judge what the Immediate
outcome of the pending negotiations Will be.
During the last week, New-York Central de-
clined trlfie, while Lake Shore and Michigan
Central remained unchanged. The advance Ill
Jersey Central and in Reading contrasted with
the decline in Delaware and Hudson and
Lackawanna, and appeared to indicate that
later phases of the controversy between the
coal companies were not altogether favorable
to the interests of the coal carrying roads. The
opinion is expressed with increasing frequency
that the success OF the Pennsylvania in getting
control of the Beech Greek road will not mean
increasing profits for the anthracite carrying
companies.
The bank reserves have begun to decline, rs
is natural mt this season, that the extent OF
the remarkable accumulation of money during
the summer can probably be defined. At the
highest point the surplus reached Sc ,72l,lOO,
August /, and WIS then $50, 100000 above
that Of the same week last year, which
in turn was larger by $s,000.000 than
that of the same week in any previous year.
The reserve reached its maximum,
S1G1 ,541, 300, July 1s. and was then about
$57,0O0,000 above that of the same week last
year, and S63, 100000 above that of any other
year at the same date. Ii is to be remembered
that the banks still report rs specie the GER
tiiicatcs which they hold, promising to deliver
certain quantity of fractional silver. though by
the terms of their understanding they are cx-
pectcd not to put that part OF the sur
plus silver into circulation, at least
until after Congress meets. 1t would be
interesting to know whether the banks bave
been promised that these certificates shall be
redeemed in legal tenders, SO that they will not
be obliged to take the fractional currency at
all. If this il the fact, the banks owe it to their
stockholders and to the public to make this
explanation known. But meanwhile the
accumulation of unemployed money is still so
large rs to show that no definite revival has
begun in commercial or industrial quarters
Speculation is little more active and more
hopeful. but the volume of business has not
pcrccptibly enlarged.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
REPLYING TO SYDNEY ROSENFELD.

MR. ABRAHAMs TELLS His GRIEVANCES Es-REPAIA-
TIoN AND APOLOGIES DUE.
To the Editor Of fhe Trf6une.
SIR: | would like TO make few corrections
Ia connection with your reference to Mr. Sydney
Rosenield and myself. published IL to-days issue.
Mr.. Rosenfcd never received letter Of apology from
me. On the contrary. Icxpresscd my opinion Of him
and to him Ia rather f0rciblc terms. Mr. Roscnled
drafted copy OF letter. extoling his virtues, and
saying that he had paid my fine. aud requested Inc to
make copy Of the for each paper. did So but at
tho request OF my friends withdrew the same, aud
doubtless the letter he showed your reporter was his
own original copy. He did promise to pay fine when
he could see his friends. but have suffered enough
already through my desire to believe in him aud his
PROMISES and desire something moro substantial from
his hands promises. wall say. however that
think Mr. Rosenfeld sinned against than SHINING
and that am position to sympathize with man
who suffers nprisoument do not tank that he meant
to get trOabe, but that he did has Desn fuy ex
rInpllncd do nOt visa forth that AN In any
way bitter him. for sucn is not tho case, but dc
want it understood that pledges snd PROMISES from
man with temperament rs crrato aad nshty as ms
yen thou IA they tue quality OF being sinociel arc
r,ot u - depended upon unless they are backed ia
Substantial Aud responsible manner. nave aus at
suffered financially - the extent of about $iOO-and
vtnerwlsc Incarceration IN Ludlow ctreet
Ja as reminder OF my oonIdeaee In hnl-and tank
sou..be that reparattop anu apo
oges be D,adc should be the reeipieat ihs.e
tne donor EDWARD J. ABgAtAAs
Ne,r-l 0,J., Aug. 8, 1885.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FonrIGN-The price Of Panama Canal SHIFTS
fel, the mast week. - There were 4'3oZ new
cases of cholera in Spain on Saturday anu i'oo'
aoo,hs NV the d,sease. conference Is 10
take place on Tuesday at varzin between fiince
bismarck and Count Kalnoky. the Prime minister
of Austria. - NJ Ferry. late Prime Minister Vi
FRANCE. met with an unfrlcndly reception ut Lyons
while making an election tour. - mohu'
meut 70 Blanqui was unveiled in Paris yesterday.
DoMEsrlc.-" Bob" Toombs related anecdo'cs oi
Grant. - Eliza Vaughn died im AlpharetIa'
Ca. age one hundred aud fourteen. = Inc
President spent a quiet day in Albany.
Eight guests lost their lives in hotei-hre a' Lac
Vegas. n NJ. Judge Noah Davis euiosHeo
General Grant at Albion n. Y.
CRY AND SUBuRnAN-Generai Grants tomo
visited by many thousands; sermons on the deaa
warrior by Robert Laird Collier and Dr. Mac
Arthur - Canadian editors entertained. -
Riot at a picnic OH Long Island.
Tur WrArHER.--Iribune local observations indi-
cate slightly warmer, fair or partly condy weather
Temperature Yesterday: Highest. 790; lowest
$50 average. 7O7so.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
"GOOD NIGHT"

A FORGOTTEN INCIDENT IN THE CAREER or GRANT,
Tho rebel lay wrapped In seep, the bvouac nrss
burned low,
The sentinel with barrel bright paced YEARLY to and FROG
cOurser's name;
"Shal this night aud while they sleep rush
down upon the plain
them down,
Or like the swift tornado that brushes away atown.
Fer break of day the sod red that b fresh and
green
And struggling bands OF bleeding would haunt the
forest
They wearIcd with tho long, long march. their feet
are bruised and bare;
They dreaming Of homes they've left. Of faces
fond and fair;
Here are boys whose strength is half MANS and
in lifes decline
Shall fall upon them while they rest this rough and
ragged liIei
"our bands are resh and high their heart their weap
ons keen and sure;
No host all Gods living world their onset could
dure;
But OH this ridge OF BATTLE say who would bid them ride
Down their brethren wrapped in sleep upon yon val
ley's sidei
'They deem their a fair one-thsn shall the agt
be fairj
Let the weary warriors rest this but hro the
ing air
Our bugles shall TO battle caour standards meet the
fight;
TIL then. to all our brethren, sweet slumber and good
night"
He doed his plumed sombrero and sprang into his seat
tear was his dusky cheek, he waved his hand 70
greet
The silent tents beneath his eye and in that night
he kept
faithful watch with boodless b,ade them while
they slept
Men praise him the battle the Cheftain that priz
The spirit that was unbroken the word that
wise,
But they tell in voice that falters how he stayed his
sword of might.
And bade his brethren the plain "sweet slumber and
good night"
From Florida to misty Maine, between each oceans
shore,
The States that by vaorous I'd united stand once
Shall breathe the prayer he uttered, "Now rest thee
from the fight!
o clement Victor, Conrade kind, sweet sumber aad
good night"
Troy ". Y. W. f. WILSON
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10

postmaster-G General, the burly successor OF
Malcolm Hay, who is guaranteed not 10 pioa~
down in making removals, is entirely able W
direct the business. judging from the long n'.
of most Office changes which he brought aDou'
last week. By the time the Democratic Sta'e
Convention meets it will doubtless be apparent
that this patronage was distributed where IL
would do the most gOod-to defeat Hill
On another page OF this issue we print
letter relating to st. Lawrence County politics.
II comes to us from leading Republican OF
old st. Lawrence who is in position 10 vo
thoroughly well informed inS regard 10 tho
poltical probabilities OF his section. Never
theless we venture to trust that In this Instance
our friend is mistaken. No two members OF
the last Legislature made better record ioi
integrity. industry and efficiency than Senator
Gilbert and Assemblyman Curtis, so that 1t Is
ipcomprehensible that any serious oppOsit'on
should be made to their return. Ihe hep"o-
licans of his State have very much at stake
this year, and as we all know ill-advised nom
nations TO the Legislature are sure to hand'cap
the State ticket. ST. Lawrence is the banner
Republican county, and we feel confident tha'
she will meet the best expectations by placing
true and tried men in the field and rewardins
good and faithful service.
When Mr.. Blaine speaks he has something 10
saw. and saws it well. His ora.lon regarding the
character and services of ex-President Grant
was of the same philosophical tone and
elevated spirit as the memorable Grafton ne
delivered after the death of President Garfield
Among all the addresses and speeches winch
have appeared since the ccath OF General
Grant, no other has pointed out more clearly
the precise qualities which rendered MIN
singularly successful as a leader, and 1t was
fitting that in defining these qualities Mr.
Blaine quoted the words of Napoleon, the
greatest military conqueror of modern times.
aNothing is so difficult as to decide SAID
NAPOLEON, and it is true, as Mr.. Blaine urged,
that ready and swift decision was always the
most marked characteristic of General Grant.
In singular degree, too, he possessed what
Napoleon called "two-O'clock- in -the-morning
courage the self-reliance ami answering
directness of purpose which is not found unpre
pared by any unexpected emergency. Mr'
Blainc's remarks will undoubtedly be com
mended as eminently fair and just.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
PERSONAL.

The serious illness OF Ii euenant Grcely exctes the
gravest apprehensions the part OF his friends His
projected trip to Europe has been entirely given up
Nine. Nilsson is presently to make a tour through
Sweden and Norway.
One day last week. reports 7he Lerison Journal Sem
at r Frye gave sailing party thirty Squirrel Island
people They went out 10 Sesuin In large yacht The
brownest and sailor like person the boat was
Senator Frye. When no arrived ut Segun he was the
busiest person there well the brownest Captain
Day the faithful old keeper OF the lighthouse who was
delighted usual to mainland folks, got WIN Il
OF the fact that Frye was in the party 80 ne
accosted "a bronZcd man with a watermelon Ill conh-
Frye TO me e. Yes sir 1 WILL" said the Dronzod man
with the watermelon. :" My name Is Frye. Ho" are
you T.
Il IA quite fair Karl Blind writes to The Pau Ad
Ga.,tye that you should charge ME with asserting
that Victor Hugo came from the German stock Soon
after his DEATH The PIH Mall Gdsfe itself stated that
historical fact than that tho great French poet
was fully aware that his not a French one
He called it Ny Saxon name (,n Sdronl Years
aso no often said that he OF German blood on tho
fathers side. As to the square skull which he had,
I never wrote that the French attribute 1t to the
Alsatians Lorraners. and Baieners." wrote ana
other Germans" The Df history made the Hugo
family-a race OF handcraitsnen. once emincntly
patriotic I'm the German sellse-ciJzens OF france
However. Victor Hugo said: III were mt French.
man | would like TO DC a sou OF Germany. that sacred
and OF all thinkers. Mazarin aud Napoleon were
OF Italian Necker ani Marat or Swiss, Grimm and H0-
bach of German Lime OF Swedish your tiroie OF Ger
man. our Chamsso OF French dos;cnt. May be pcr-
mitted to state that which Victor Hugo himself knew
and said about his oSn ancestry
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
DINNERS AND COLLEGIATE POTE

DINNERS And COLLEGTATE POWERS
President White. in his last annual report to the
trustees OF Cornell University. made happy
sIggest,on on the means of electing aud maintain
ng n proper condition OF feeling between the
trustees the faculty aud the alumni of that nstiu-
ton The proposed plan is applicable to all
collegiate powers where alumni arc Interested
factors and where they not. eyenif they be not
electors of trus.ecsi Dr. Whites scheme Is simply
that the alumni should have hall OF their own on
the university grounds and should "moet the
trustees and faculty In it at m annual collation.
where views regarding tho policy and prospects oil
the university can bc gem discussed
Tho word genially" is proba Ily superiiuous. for
such m occasion is bound TO no iowingly fccitous
Dr. Whites habit Of attending the annual dinners
of tho Cornell alumni in this city is proof Of this
besides there are always several trustees present
and the trustees aud alumni whatever their feelings
nj the start. invariably faicrnize before morning
Harvard and Yale Brown and Columbia, Princeton
and Dowdoin know the genial power OF the annual
dinner
Now. then when reca lcitrant alumni. bursting
with new ideas. determined TO shake up tho dry
bones of trustees aud professors. find themselves
AZ table with these scf-same conservative gcntlcs
men when they observe how humanity gastronomic
they ara. how they liquidate tho bountcous
blessings Of Providence. how their countcnances
exrand under the influence of one good square
annual meai-thcn 1t is that these alumni forget
their scalping knives while life loses its acerbites
aud they fain would throw their arms about the
nccks Of these venerated trustees and professors.
Verify, they would not only table but they would
pnt under the table their factous opposition.
No wonder tiat DIR. White says that an ANIMAL
dinner will do more to promote proper under
standing between trustees faculty and alumni than
.yer would standing apart and firing pamphlets,
newspaper articles and speeches to aud fro Tho
dinner. the dinner is the thing To clinch the idea
and make it wholly effective. let the trustees ana
the faculty promptly foot the bill.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
HIS WICKED PARTNERS.

Here we have more prOtestatiOns Of virtuOus
regard for Civil Service reform, and more acts
in hostility to that reform. Hero are more
empty words to dclude the people, and at the
same time more vicious deeds to dcbase the
service to the uses of disloyal party. For
what can be more dislOyal than to strive to de-
feat a law while charged with its enforcement
and pretending to enfOrccitf The latest pretence
is that Mr.. Cleveland does not want "a clean
sweep" and would not desire if he could to put
his partisans into the Offices, because he sees
that it would not pay. 1t would help the Re-
publicans, we are told, more than the Demo
Gratis. That is the truth, but it would be found
impossible to put that idea into Democratic
head, even by surgical operation.
So this President is wise and wants to do
well, but he has wicked partners. He is max
ing removals only where he comes across q
srascal or an offensive partisan" That is
the pretence. What ace the factsf Take only
those mentioned in the dispatches of IA single
day or two. In Mississippi two Postmastcrs
have just been appointed. Holmes at Natchez
is rewarded for robbing l,4O0 voters in one
county of their rights, and thus defeating Mr..
Lynch for Congress. Shannon, an editor at
Meridian. is known only to the public for the
vile abuse of General Grant which is found in
his sheet. These are partisans Of the most
offensive sort, and they are rewarded for it be-
fore all the world. Decent and experienced
men are removed, and the only pretcnce is that
they were par,isans. So in Ohio, where the
daily sweeping out Of competent and worthy
Republican officials goes on. and uplifts the
hopes Of Democratic politicians, and just this
use of power to help that party was promised
weeks ago by Cleveland to Hoadly. Yet these
things, We dre told, are the work of Post
master General Villas; not of President Clcvc-
land. Villas is partisan, and he wants to put
his partisans in power. In short, he is the
wicked partner. Mr.. Cleveland, poor man,
cannot help himself.
SO Secretary Manning puts in creatures like
Pillsbury, who is rewarded for stealing the
State of Maine. and like Higgins. who is re-
warded for vote.swindllng in Maryland. lie
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10

III the President ever wrote such letter as that
recently printed and said to have been directed to
a prominent Democrat. dcnouncing him for recon-
nendine an unit man for Office he ought
TO have it printed IN circular form and
sent TO members of Congress. as was done
by the Postmastcr-General in the case of
his offensive partisan" letter The need for 1t
Is sadly apparent in the following, among other
facts, related by The Boston Journal: "ln one
New-England State the keepers OF four rum shops
have been appointed to the railway postal service.
and one man who is under indictment as second
IN prize fight IS postal clerk. In Maine man
who rs Democratic deputy postmaster dcfrauded
the revenue of several hundred dollars by bogus
sales of stamps has actually been appointed post
master lie cannot accept the Office now, for the
reason that he Is serving out sentence in the jail
IN Portland"
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
CONTRIBUTES NOW!

rom Inc HdTvoTu toufu"I
The Grant Monument Committee, appointed by tue
Mayor OF New-York with exPro,ient Arthur as chair
man. soics contributions from the people OF the enure
country for the OF suitable memorial IN honor
of General Grlut There should be hearty ana Sener
response from ent OF the country 70 the other wnc
would resut IN providing worthy National monumens
for the Nations before he Is laid 10 rest The tmo
to give for this object s now Taere VIII DO no ohet
time when the hearts OF the whoio people will be 50
deeply Interested In the object
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
LET HIM REsT IN PEACE.

FROM Inc tHuTtcSto" osUs o"" 'Ve'
The clanUr that has been raised py rival ctes Ss,
Citations and new spapers In regard tne place OK ue
cral Grants burial rises above the voice OF the sv
weeping and sounds rudey and harshly snongs a.
csncy and propristy II nothing more. should cnmp,.
respectful silence NJ least on the part OF sso" so
of those sincerely MOURN by useless qua'ro'
tho waiting grave.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
HAVE ONE IN WASHINGTON, TOO.

But this will not prevent the building OF
monuments at other places. Bald one at Washington.
the Nations capital to which the Nation shall con-
tribute Three nun irei Thousand 0 the Grand
Army will contribute Of their mites. and at 10 tst sil
miliou OF dollars he raised from tnis source Bn.
another ,sids Of washinstons equal to
"A grandeur.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
LET THEN BE ARTISTIC.

Wherever the tomb ot Grant may be- his
monument should be IN Washington, n would De wca
neuorial out Amcrics IN MARBLE But the Grant mon.
,Imeut should 30 production OF the uortpary soh0
eDeiicr no granite marble embodiment VI presenting
incababty shonld be the great work OF great artist
IL should be thing to be admired by foreign nau"ns
and the next age,
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
PETTY JEALOUSY.

FTObt iLOuHy @fIDuS
New York City ia still the object OF attack Dy
journals In othcr ticnerni Grants ro
n,aiLs are 10 be burei there No coatempn!e ex
hibtion OF petty jealousy eould he SHOWN. IroS
Journals insult memory OF tue deal by opposing th
wishes OF hs family. who have the best rgat " ~
xnerA the General Is 70 be hurried.
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10
cpANTa ruyERAL CREDTTABLE TO NEw'YOsh'
Irnnl rhe Balfnaors Nees. a. ..

New.York took upon herself 90 kIyc enpso p. rnsscs
nations sorrOw aud did IL well-spasea no xprthv
OF the man aud the Republic Her people with IN s.ssr M
IMMUNITY operated with her authorized ~ essss
snSlv the National sentnont aud 70 give An outws3
aud ysible Testimony of ; countrys rcyeres1S S.css
esteem. And did It well. Her WORK was inc eonS'A
New-York tribune., 1885-08-10

"a sswsSs ssss sss Ssse sS.ssss e:
1t Is found that Mr. Carpenter. Chattanoop juwdsai
had and the telegraph sayS he haA nsthsr hno
nor family Had he been the proprietor Of home ~
family. he probably would never have had ~ o2esooa
Sing o song Of mercury
Lots i1 Of fsany nm 1sassi
when tho heat Of summer
On the liquid fell,
me way mysterious
begins to swell
Sporting man ct rsoe4rack
Pocket full Of cash
Betting on tho horsee-
Very, very rash
When the rscs was ended,
Wallet but shell,
That's che kind Of .hsat" thas
Doesn't always swell
Other man At seaside,
Driving Death away;
Lots Of heat above him
ALI tho blessed day
When no came 70 settle,
He hunted for tho swell
And found It In tho ocean
-[Coiumbus Dispa4uA.
Among Chicagos latest eooentrioites tina appoint
Of committee OF Democrats by Mayor Harrison \
ascertain whether the water supplied from tho lake W.
pure not
First Boy: "They say you arc q coward. . liar, a.
Second Boy: "Do You know what they call youi"
Second Boy: "TKoy don't call they just whistle"-
lTexas Siftings.
A largo quantity of whiskey. was dropped into the
Cumberland at Nashville tue other day. II was inside
OF the citizens, however, did noe get Wo&
louisville Courier Journal.